The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-05 00:00:00

discovered the error-iii the .printed statement of Con-
servative objections sustained, which wee made to be
104, while the Times stated them at 59 only, the
Standard' would have found that both of us were in
error. With respect to any-calculations of the Morn-
tug Chronicle, as to the election returns.of. 1834-5, we
cannot see the relevancy of that subject to the ques-
tion of party gains in the last Registration. We always
foretold, and truly, the certain downfall of Sir Robert
Peel from any Reformed Parliament. The Standard
predicted the contrary, and prophesied the stability
of his crazy structure of .Ultra Toryism and mock Li-
beralism. The artful Premier had his " fair trial,"
and was condemned. The greater the gain claimed by
the Standard for the Tories at the last general elec-
tion, the lower the fall of Toryism and the more hope-
less its recovery. The Standard constantly comments
on the small Ministerial majority in the Commons,
and selects the Irish Church question as the test.
We deny the test. The appropriation principle is
only one question. On what other important ques-
tion has Sir Robert Peel counted a formidable mi-
'nority ? What was the number of his Tory fol-
lowers in his divisions on the Corporation Bill?
',What will be his minority on Irish Corporation Re--
'fain, and on the Dissenters' Bills of next Session ?
'What was the puling cry of the Standard on Monday
night, but the admission of the hopelessness of Con-
servative supremacy, and the expediency of a Coali7
tion ? What was its sage counsel to the Tories on
Saturday last, but " not to run their heads against a
'wall in the coming municipal elections ?" How will
the. Tories relish Municipal Reform next Christmas,
when the self-elected corps of Corporators will be dis-
:banded—when the Noble Recorders will be dispensed
with—when an elective system of municipal govern-
ment will be established; affecting the seats of 265
MeMbers of Parliament in,England and Wales ?. Will
'that be no gain to' be Reformers, no loss to 'the
Tories ? Will their pet:nide& favourable. Registra-
tion counterbalance :Corporatfori Reform ? Will ,the
coming Town COuncils '.allow the ,Tories to bribe,
treat, and otherwise corrupt with impunity ? We
think not ; and whenever a Dissolution or Parliament
shall be deemed expedient—whether advised qty, the
present Ministry, adventured 'by the Tories, or risked
by Tory minions.of the Court—we confidently put our
trust in Corporation Reform, and the present Regis-
, . iration.—Morning Chronicle. •
This day being the anniversary of the attempt made
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'by aPopish party to destroy Protestant ascendancy in
England, it may not be mal apropos to remark that,
notwithstanding the lapse of more than two centuries,
Popery still assumes the same restless character and
desire for supremacy. The engines used at the pre-
sent day for depriving Protestants of the advantages
derived from the Reformation are well understood.
Persons who have watched with anxiety the progress
of agitation, which has been working in England and
Scotland during some months past, are satisfied that
the object of the agitators is frustrated. Happily
for the Protestant people of these realms there
never was a period when the public mind was less
disposed to turbulence. The shafts of falsehood and
sedition have fallen harmless, and the agitators, who
calculated upon the worst feelings of human nature,
may now retire with the assurance that their plan for
the subversion of the Protestant Government will
fail. The people have seen through the Romish ma-
noeuvres, and have rejected them with silent scorn. It
was a wild scheme which led the Popish Head and
Tail to imagine for a moment that the Protestants of
England, Scotland, and Ireland would abandon their
religion, and destroy the frame of a Constitution which
has worked better than any other upon earth, to coun-
tenance the dominion of the Church of Rome and the
vilest democratic tyranny. The Roman Catholic party
in Ireland are deceived. They have no chance of over-
turning that pure Christianity that-Alisdains the false
worship of the Church from which Protestants dissent
They commenced their attack by political excite-
ment, conceiving that the destruction of the great
institutions of Protestant Government would crush
in their fall those barriers which have hitherto kept
the Papists from making serious inroads upon reli-
gious freedom. Upon the ruins of the Protestant
Church they would re-establish the power, oppres-
sion, and supremacy of the Pope. Common expe-
rience might have told them the project is illusory ;
but they cakulated upon the lukewarm feelings of
many ungrateful members of the Reformed Church,
and a class of factious Destructives, without religion,
who, in the perpetration of mischief, would igno-
rantly destroy the fonndation of their own safety.
They, perhaps, imagined . that the people of England
and Scotland were influenced by the same spirit as
the unfortunate Priest ridden classes in Ireland, but
they were egregiously wrong. The Protestants of the
British empire may be dissatisfied with the law as it
stands with respect to tithes, and with some dispro-
portion in the payment of the Clergy, but in general
they would rather die than submit to the change Ro-
man Catholics would introduce. In Ireland the
Catholic populaticn has been long discontented, and
• opposed to Protestant rule. The Pope is consi-
dered above every earthly power, consequently the
allegiance due to a Protestant monarch is superseded.
From the reign of
,Elizabeth to the present time, they
have been discontented subjects. The mild Govern-
ment of James the Firotsould not prevent a project
for the re-establishment of-popery, which, were it not
a fact known to all the world,' could scarcely be cre-
dited by posterity. " This was the gunpowder plot,
than which," says the historian, " a more terrible
scheme never entered into the human heart to conceive,
and which shows at once the most determined courage
may be united with the most execrable intentions." If
the plot of the sth of November, 1605, had suc-
ceeded, England," in the words of Lord Coke,
would have
.been left without a King or Parliament."
If the designs of the Papists of the sth of Novem=
her, 1835, were to succeed, the United Kingdom
would be under the sway of Daniel O'Connell, and a
Roman Catholic Legislature.—Morning Post.
The more favourable view which the Government
of .Louis Phillippe takes of the politics and position of
the Madrid Xinistry than it did some time ago, may
be accounterfof by what our Parisian Correspondent
stated yesterday of the " juggle" which is now going
on to deceive the Spanish people, and gratify the
despot of the Tuileries, and which we here repeat in
his own words, that the public who have pecuniary in-
' terests at stake . may be on their guard. Our Cor-
respondent says, " The return of the Spanish Govern-
ment to the juste milieu system has become so obscry-
- able to the Ultra-Liberals of France; that it may be
warranted it will not be long overlooked by those of
Spain, so that, unless skilfully managed, the redoubt-
able provincial Juntas may be expected once more to
spring to life and bring about another crisis." Now,'
we say, whether it be skilfully managed or not, an
attempt by the new Ministry to govern Spain accord-
ing to the wretched, no-principle, juste Milieu system
of the knavish Doctrinaires, will eventually result in a
worse state of political discord and confusion than that
which, by deceitful promises of an honest and liberal
Government, has been superficially tranquilised for the
thornent. The friendship of the treacherous Louis
Phillippe can only be gained by falsifying the pro-
mises of good government made to the Spanish people,
and bringing ruin upon the heads of those who sacri-
fice'the interests of Spain to him who has destroyed
the liberties of France.—Morning Herald.
Among the hacknied objections which are made
frOrn day to day against inquiries into, and exposures
of, the conduq of
.Irish Roman Catholic clergy, is
oneWhi, .ch must be briefly noticed. The duty which
has. of late been cast upon us in the production of
evidenee as to the acts' of that body of persons, has
more than once been called "an attack upon the
ROmishTreligion." According to our 'understanding
orthe word religion, it is an unfounded charge. A
lnan's religion is the sense he entertains of his relation
to the Almighty. With that sentiment or opinion in
the roind of a Roman Catholic, need we disavow, for
xlie 'hundredth time, all right or pretension to meddle
on tic' part of any human authority, so far as it is a
mere Opinion confined. Within his own breast ? But
the Consequences flowing fiClms that opinion, and. the.
impulses and actions originating in it, spay be of such.
practical mischief to society, that on the score of Self-
;preservation they ought to be interfered' with, their
progress checked, and their instruments diaarined, if
*sible, of the further power to injure. 3n coinpanns