The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-23 00:00:00

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ON t: SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU-
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peso history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
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KA POLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often,
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regret of every liberal-minded man who, though he
may wish well to the Church, is by no means of opinon
that it is but another term for religion. While such is
the spirit that actuates our Episcopal Dignitaries—and
by which, as a matter of course, their clerical subordi-
nates inu,t in a great degree be influenced—we
despair of seeing a system of national education
established on a sound, enlightened basis ; and can
only offer up our humble supplications to Providence,
that—to quote the impressive words of the Litany—
it will please him to endow the heads of our Church
" with grace, wisdom, and understanding." But to
turn to a less ungracious theme. Speaking of the
Tractarian heresy, the Right Rev. Prelate observes—
" Having three years ago deemed it my duty to de-
clare my condemnation of certain recent publications
coming from the reputed leaders of a section in the
Church, I have now to state that my sentiments have
undergone no change whatever since. On the con-
trary, everything has tended to confirm my opinion
that the tendency of those writings is to Rornanism."
It gives us sincere satisfaction to see the Bishop of
GLOUCESTER thus speaking out boldly on the subject
of Puseyism, and expressing his strong, heart-felt
conviction, of its injurious tendency. It is, indeed,
an "old friend with a new face"—that is to say,
Popery under the disguise of earnest Protestantism.
It wears a specious and imposing aspect, but it is all
hollowness within, like the apples of the Dead Sea,
which are goodly to the eye, but dust and ashes to
the taste. For the essence of religion it substitutes
the form—the empty shadow for the solid substance.
It makes its appeal exclusively to the imagination,
but leaves the heart and the understanding altogether
untouched. Its language is all unaffected benevo-
lence and humility, but the instincts of its nature are
narrow, arbitrary, and ostentatious. In a word, it is
a mere revival of the spirit of LAUD ; and should it
ever, by any malign series of contingencies, take deep
root in England, farewell from that moment—fare-
well for ever—to independence of thought and liberty
of conscience !

A correspondent in the Times of this morning,
who signs himself " Politicus," observes, in the course
of some desultory reflections suggested by the late
Parliamentary campaign, that Sir Ronnar PEEL has
completely got the better of the Conservatives, and
neutralised the opposition of the Whigs by consenting
to grant them almost everything they demand. There
is some truth in this remark, but it is a truth, we sus-
pect, which is not very palateable to the Whigs, for it
makes the probability of their regaining place more
remote than ever, and compels them to put up with
empty praise in lieu of solid pudding. Why should
the country evince any desire to reinstate Lord
Jour; RUSSELL and his friends in power, when
Sir ROBERT PEEL does his best to conduct the
business of legislation on their principles, and
makes, all things considered, as good a Whig as
the best of them ? If Whig principles be the
order of the day in the REEL Cabinet, it is clear
that any change of Ministry is superfluous ;
and thus the ill-starred advocates of Whiggery on
the Opposition bench find the ground completely cut
from under their feet, and their restoration to the
sunny realms of office, a land flowing with milk and
honey, postponed to that very indefinite and embarrass-
ing period, the Greek Kalends. The fate of the Whigs
is certainly a hard one, for they are first despoiled of
their principles by the unceremonious leader of the
Conservatives, and then ironically condoled with
on their ill-luck. But stern as is their
destiny, they have none but themselves to blame
for it. When they had it in their power
to turn the key of Downing-street on Sir ROBERT
PEEL, by bringing boldly forward such comprehen-
sive remedial measures, as might enlist the sympa-
thies of the great body of the people in their behalf,
and thereby arm them with irresistible influence
in Parliament;—when, we say, the opportunity
served for their acting in this manner, the Whigs
wilfully neglected it, and by their halting, shilly-
shally system of policy, ruined themselves, and paved
the way for all the after triumphs of the Conserva-
tives, and their Coryphmus, the Tamworth doctor.
Our Contemporary's Correspondent goes on to ob-
serve :—" Thus we have at last that dream of
philosophers, a Government without party.
Sir ROBERT has broken the neck of fac-
tion. Noble achievement ! Yet one may tremble to
think how short an experience we have had of this
benefit. England has never yet been without party
spirit. The conflict of parties elicits much honour,
much virtue. It trains men for patriotism." GOD
help the man who has been trained for patriotism in
the school of party, whether Whig, Tory, or
Radical ! With the best intentions he will be liable
to constant blundering, as people always are whose
range of vision is limited and imperfect. A political
partisan invariably sees but a portion of the truth,
and that but the smallest portion. Of independence
he has not—and cannot possibly have—an atom.
He must see with other eyes—hear with other
ears—and decide with other judgments—than
his own. The selfish interests of a sect, and
not the more enlarged interests of a nation, must be
the guide and prompter of his conduct. The conse-
quence is, that his views gradually become more and
more limited in their range and petty in their cha-
racter, and he becomes as effectually disqualified for
playing the lofty, magnanimous, comprehensive part
of a patriot, as the Bishop of EXETER is for consider-
ing impartially any question that has the slightest
reference to the rich rectory of Stanhope. A man
can never be a patriot, in the true sense of the term,
till he I-as raised himself from the slough of party,
cast aside its debasing shackles, and learned to think,
act, and decide, in reference only to the good of his
country.

The public subscription now in progress at Man-
chester for the formation of parks and walks for the
use of the labouring classes already amounts, we un-
derstand, to upwards of nine thousand two hundred
pounds, and it is confidently expected that before long
three or four times that sum will be raised. " This,"
says the Liverpool Tithes, " is the best, because the
most practical and conclusive, answer that could be
given to the charges of selfishness and indifference to
the interests of the poor, which have been so often
directed against the manufacturers of Manchester by
monopolist orators and journalists." It is, indeed, a
conclusive answer—the best that could posiibly have
been made to Mr. Thymus and those other great
landholders who, in common with him, are constantly
inveighing against the tyranny and hard-heartedness
of the Lancashire cotton-spinners. Of all people in
the world, the monopolists are about the last who
should indulge in sneers against the manufacturing
system and the selfishness it engenders ; for they
themselves, speaking of them as a body—though we
admit that there are many favourable exceptions—
are notoriously regardless of the sufferings of their
poor and humble dependents, and seem to think that
the whole duty of life consists in a rigorous exaction
of rent, and under the specious forms of law, filching
from the oppressed peasantry, now a slice of com-
mon-land, and now a right of way across a green field
or a heath, whenever opportunity serves. With less
parade of liberality, the manufacturers are far more
liberal towards their dependents, and the parks and
pleasure walks which they are now proposing to form
in the over-peopled neighbourhood of Manchester
will remain a proud monument of their well-applied
munificence ages after the existing generation are
naught but dust and ashes. We hope and trust that/
ere many years have elapsed, the whole of our great
cities and towns, whether manufacturing or other-
wise, will have spacious public walks attached to
them, for to say nothing of them as matters of orna-
ment—though this, by-the•bye, is no trifling consi-
deration—they will have a more direct, beneficial
effect on the health of the labouring portion of the
community, than any other scheme that could be
devised. Besides this, they will tend in no slight
degree gradually to refine and elevate the moral
tone of the operative classes, who, when they find,
after the day's toil is at an end, that they have
close at hand cool, verdant, and picturesque
pleasure-grounds to resort to, where they may
snatch a mouthful of fresh air, without the
chance of being warned off as trespassers, or
threatened with the unceremonious attentions of
steel-traps and spring-guns, will assuredly be no
longer in a hurry to visit the beer-shop or the
gin-palace, for the purpose of gaining a false stimulus
by means of_ ardent and adulterated spirits, whose
only ultimate effect is to increase the mental
and physical debility which for the moment they
appear to remove. If a large portion of the labour-
ing classes are at present in a gross state of demorali-

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SECOND EDITION.