The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-22 00:00:00

God's earth, and abused and injured his creatures ?
Mark well these words ! commit them to memory,
and let them be for ever upon your lips. You now
see what Conservatism means : it is Ancient Rights
and Prescriptive Authority against Law and REA-
SON I I This is the literal expression of the words,
without any contortion, and it is borne out by the
context in which they are placed. If, therefore, a can-
didate comes before you professing an adherence, even
in the slightest degree, to that Cabinet which has
thus declared itself openly and avowedly through its
official head--if such a candidate come before you
—and it behoves you to search every candidate well,
and be sure that the corruption does not lurk within
him unseen—put this question to him, " Are you
for ancient rights and prescriptive authority, against
reason and justice ?" If he answer, " No," then ask
him whether he is not a creature of the party which
has officially declared that such is their principle ?
Bear in mind that whatever of freedom, of relief,
of any other good—by what name soever it may be
called—ye enjoy in any one respect, ye owe it to
reason and justice ; and if you have to endure a
state evil of any kind—be it what it may—that evil
has arisen form, and forms a part of ancient right and
prescriptive authority ! These two words, which are
the gods of Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues,
and on whose unholy and unseemly altars they are
to sacrifice reason and justice, embody in them every
species of corruption and abuse which is to be found
within the four eras ; and while they are the creed of
the Ministry, it is as vain for the people to hope for
any one reform, as it would be to hope for ice in the
African desert, or pine apples upon the rocks of Spitz-
bergen. Those " ancient rights" are, one and all of
them, " modern wrongs"—that rubbish of the dark
ages—that offal of the days of despots and desperadoes
which the spirit of this age has outgrown, and which it is
impossible for honest men to look upon with any feeling
save that of utter detestation and abhorrence. The
" prescriptive authority," again, which is the other
idol, or joss, or whatever else it may be called, of the
Honourable Baronet, means all the established abuses
in Church, in Corporation, or in any thing else ; and
for the conservation of each and all of these abuses,
it is expressly declared that "reason and justice" are,
upon all occasions, to be cast aside I After this, it
matters but little what Sir Robert says upon indivi-
dual points. He says he will not—that is, imme-
diately—repeal the Reform Bill ; and that he con-
siders that Bill as " a-final and irrevocable settlement
of a great constitutional question." If we did
,not
" know our man," we), should ask what, in the name
of wonder, this jargon can mean? But, knowing him,
we know the import of this otherwise most unintel-
ligible language. It is simply this, that the Reform Bill
shall be, in all time coming, a mere form ; and that the
members sent into the Commons House by the people,
shall be as much the slaves of the Minister as were the
nominees of the proprietors of rotten boroughs. The
Bill is not, in itself, the settlement of any great mea-
sure :itis a means for an end--..a powerful means
certainly, but still only a means. In virtue of that
Bill, the representatives of the people are sent to
Parliament ; but they are sent there to be—not the
servile tools of Sir Robert Peel, or of any other
Minister, but to do their duty honestly by their con-
stituents—not to be the instruments of faction—
far from it ; for the people of England know nothing
of faction except what they may unfortunately observe
in those at Court—but to watch over those interests
of the greatest people upon earth, which no Ministry
can know ; and which are, in great part, indeed in
whole, in diametrical opposition to the whole policy of
Sir Robert and his colleagues. We shall return to
this subject to-morrow.—Morning Advertiser.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT, DEC, 20.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. BATEMAN.

Sir C. WETHERELL, for Mr. Campbell observed it was
obvious a great part of his client's case was already antici-
pated ; but on some points it stood on different grounds
from that of the trustees. Suppose it made out that the
number of the trustees may be increased and new powers
given to them. Campbell is not affected with that. The
only point of contact between them and him is whether they
have made out such a case of misconduct as in this infor-
mation, and this stage of the information, will warrant an
injunction against his preaching in the chapel. From the
death of Wilks till this unfortunate dissension, he performed
his duties in such a manner that there was the most inti-
mate feelings of cordiality between him and the congrega-
tion. Mr. Wilks, the Member for Boston, did not become
a manager till a year after the confirmation of Campbell's
title ; for whatever might be his legal footing, title he had,
which a Court of Equity would not take from him.
It had been the good fortune of these societies, by
a domestic amicable go*ernment, in which the Court
of Chancery had participated, that this was the first
information concerning them. _ However, by a singu-

lar coincidence his Majesty's late Attorney-General, Sir
John Campbell, on the 21st of November last, during a
sort of interregnum filed this information against his name-
sake, John Campbell, for an object not easily ascertained.
By the plan that was sketched and pencilled, with its mar-
ginal notes, this quatuor decemvirate was to be made vi-
sitors, baying before no visitorial authority, and was to be
endowed with a plenary authority of appointing and dis-
missing larger than belongs to any officer in the Church of
England. Mr. Campbell did not like the plan, and he
should have done injustice to himself, his successors, and
the congregation if he had not resisted this glaring innova-
tion. His letter then, a conditional departure if future
things are to be done, is considered a resignation. In a
play lately acted in Latin, a man cries out " Peru interii,"
" I have died." The person who pronounces it has been
dead ; this is the prmter-perfect tense. His grammar
will make out the man is no longer in existence, he is no
longer a living man, he is fitnetus naturei .—( Laughter.) It
is scarcely necessary to remind his Honour of a very learned
treatise in Dr. Clark's " Homer," upon " Is, and has, and
shall be," where the learned writer lays down the rule,
" Temporum in sermonis contextu rationent in universum
tum constare cum inter se respondeant Tempera, non qua'
iisdem forte nominibus sint a graninzaticis definita sed Tice
apto conne.ru et apposite ad seribentis mentent expromendam
coheereant." But no, said his learned friends, you must
not look at the context or mind of the writer. Suppose a
man writes in Edinburgh to his friend in London, " If you
will not accept a bill for me on the Ist of January, I ton a
bankrupt." " Bless me, what a bankrupt already ? You
are a bankrupt ?" And no doubt a fiat might issue against
him in analogy to the fiat issued ky the trustees against thir
bankrupt minister.—(Laughter.) Then they have re-
moved him. It is denied they have the powers but it is
sufficient to say the promoters of this information have not a
vestige of right for such a procedure. As to the allegation
of misconduct since the amotion, it were enough to say it
has nothing to do with the present question, It cannot
ex post facto justify an unjust amotion. That logic and
and their grammar would come from the same parent stock
of accuracy. But, for the sake of Campbell's personal cha-
racter, what is the allegation of misconduct ? He is charged
with using the expression "liar," a very strong expression.
But what led to this expression ? That he was charged
with bringing into the chapel " Cornish fighting men and
wrestlers" when he entered, accompanied by some officers
of the chapel. And after all the studied insults put upon
him, all the malversation he has practised is, that, in retalia-
tion, from his lips did fall the expressions alluded to. But is
it to become the practice that they are to call in policemen
and constables to their assistance in the chapel ? When Mr.
Campbell walks up with some of the leading members of the
congregation,pbe is he to be met with Sergeant Davis, letter
F, No, 29, of the Moorfields division and his comrades
(Laughter.) If a contest had taken place he strongly sus-
pected the introduction of these police ofßecrs would, in the
eye of a Jury, have been a disturbance on the part of the
trustees. The Learned Counsel concluded with hoping
this rash attempt would not succeed, and that the parties
would among themselves come to those terms of harmonious
arrangement which the Court could not give.
Mr. KINDERSLEY followed Sir Charles Wetherell, and
criticised the construction of the information.
Although it was past the usual time at which the Court
rises, the VinEsCuastemzeit said he would finish the case
that evening.

Mr. Cmiro wished for a little delay, as he was unexpect..
edly called upon to reply, in consequence of Mr. Knight's
illness, and the absence of Sir Edward Sugden, who had
been with him originally.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR was aware of the situation in
which Mr. Ching was placed, but if the Learned Counsel
would be ready to reply on Monday whenever his Honour
assented
could return from the King's Bench, where he was obliged
to attend,
might
to standthat
arrangement
Mr. c
His HONOUR hoped the scenes which had taken place
on gement.
former Sundays in interruption of public worship would
theN G ease
not lIP r9P€1444 on the VgM cla., and that !natters would
be lot to rest as they were till the question was decided on
Monday, as far 43 he had power. Indeed he would go so
far as to make it a personal request to Mr. Campbell if he
was in Court not to enter the Chapel on that day.
Mr. KINDUSI,EY pledged himself that Mr. Campbell,