The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-22 00:00:00

for admittance, the door is partially opened for the ex-
pression of a refusal, much after the fashion observed
by the door keepers of salons in St. James'-street.
Is this in cvn formity with the spirit of the Christian
Religion ? is it indeed within the scope of human
knowledge to divine the moment after which man may
not bend in adoration before the altar of his God ?

If the laboure r who entered the vineyard at the eleventh
hour was rewarded with a penny, as well as
those who Thad endured the toil and heat of the
day, why :is it that the humble applicant for
a place for Prostration before the throne of his
Creator is sp urned, because he has had the misfortune
to present himself for admittance after the more " ri-
gidly righteous "—in form at least—have taken their
seats in the wnctuary ? But, considered with an eye
to the inspirations of a Holy Spirit, such conduct is
culpable in the highest degree. Who, for example,
can foresee the injury which the sinner may sustain
spurned at the threshold of the House of
by being
GoD, on perhaps the first repentant moment that
has varied years spent in the commission of
every crime of which perverted reason and abused
faculties were capable ? Perhaps the creature claim-
ing communion with .Heaven at the close of the ser-
vice has not cast a shadow across a church doer from

the pure morning of infancy to the hour in which, moved
by an inward monitor, he seeks to find balm for
his wounded spirit in the congregation of the
faithful. Now to drive away the poor peni-
tent at such a . moment, may be to extinguish
in his heart the sparks of a holy fire ere he
has felt its sacred warmth--to bury for ever in his own
bosom the first resolVe to change a life of misery and
guilt,„
for one of repentant sorrow.
The only reason which we have ever heard as-
signed for closing churches after the service is
commenced, is the_ propriety of preventing those
who attend early from being disturbed in
their devotions, by the entrance of those who
come late. Now we cannot conceive in
what consists the piety of those who could suffer any
inconvenience from the thronging, at any hour, of

fellow-creatures anxious to hear the word of GOD.
By the really religious we believe there is nothing
less thought of than the comforts of ease and
non-interruption from a throng of worshippers
at church. We know there are those who make church-
going as much a matter of business as any
other concern of the week, but ought the ministers
commissioned to bear the glad tidings of salvation to
the poor, to sanction their indolent practices ?

The Examiner of yesterday has another fierce at-
tack on the LORD CRAWCELLOR. On this occasion
our contemporary brings all his well-disciplined forces
into the Add of action, knowing well that as his cause
is a weak one, so will it need his utmost shrewdness,
sarcasm, wit, and sophistry to support it. Yet though
he wields these various weapons with the skill and
ease of a master, dazzling us with the incessant rapier-

play of his wit, and surprising and delighting us with
the exuberance of his powers of illustration, his article
is anything but convincing. This, however, is not the
fault of our contemporary, but of the cause which he
espouses, which is weak and rotten to a degree. The
very utmost he has to allege against Lord BROUGHAM
is, that he was guilty the other day, at Aberdeen and
Dundee, of uttering a few hasty observations with re-
spect to the two Houses of Parliament. These obser-
vations (which, when taken in connection with the
speeches wherein they occur, involve not one atom of
inconsistency), our contemporary adroitly tears-from the
context ; fixes his own interpretation upon them, giving
a latitude to their meaning which they were never meant
to possess ; and.--;-by the aid of sarcasm, anecdote,
analogy, and quotation—those invaluable instruments
in setting off a weak cause—succeeds in furbishing up
what at first sight may appear a rather formidable state-
ment. An attentive perusal, however, will convince
any one that the great strength of our contemporary's
article lies, not in the matter, but in the manner.

Materiem superat opus. It is a clever sample of the
great-cry-and-little-wool school of reasoning. There
is a prodigious flourish of trumpets, and then—enter

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But admitting, for argument's sake, that there may
be some slight show of justice in the Examiner's charges
against Lord BROUGHAM—admitting that in some
one or two of his, numerous Scotch speeches (tor we
find that in many places he was under the necessity of
speaking at least half-a-dozen times a day) ke may
not have been quite so measured and formal, so strictly
within the limits of conventional etiquette, as he should
have been, do such trifling escapades of language jus-
tify the unmeasured abuse that has been heaped upon
him ? Are the-few careless lapses of an idle hour to
be allowed to outweigh the thirty years of constant,

deliberate attention which Lord BROUGHAM has de-
voted to the public service ? Common sense would
say—no. Fact says otherwise. The truth is, Lord
BROUGHAM'S enemies fear and respect his talents too
much not to deem him worthy of the honour of their
most unmitigated hatred. Hence nothing he says or
does gives them satisfaction. If he proposes to urge
forward Reform, he is called " revolutionary ;" if he
proposes to halt a little, and wait the effect of what
has been already done, he is called " conservative."
" Conservative" and 64 Revolutionary I" Such are
the terms which the Examiner applies to Lord
BROUGHAM, and for no other reason that we can
see, than from its desire to make a point.