The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE-It was not without curiosity we waited
to see how Lord Ellenborough would complete his
cycle of contradictions it word and action ; and it is
not without amusement we read the last exertion of
his lungs military. Those who remember Lord Ellen-
borough's speech at the London Tavern, before leav-
ing England, and the extraordinary warmth of the
expressions it contained of sympathy with the people
6: India—those who remember (and who can forget?)
hie first proclamations of policy when arrived at
hi seat of empire—may sigh or smile, according to
their respective temperaments, at the thorough and
t .tel contrast of this last flourish of drums and trum-
Fes. According to Lord Ellenborough's prologue,
nis whole soul was turned to the arts of peace, and
his whole energies were to be devoted to pacific im-
peovements ; according to his epilogue, his whole soul
i. devoted to camps and cantonments, and his whole
reer-ret in leaving India, is that of being separated
from the army. A French Jacobin exclaimed "Mon
am,; est sans-culotte !" Lord Ellenborough's soul is
Sepoy. The hundred millions have vanished from
the view of the Brummagem Napoleon ; and all
that is not military is, in his estimate, merely Pekin.
By the way, talking of Pekin, is is a new light to
ti:e British public, that it has to thank Lord Ellen-
leerough for the conduct of the Chinese war, and the
1- :ice of Nankin. We are bold to say, this was un-
.own before. It was unknown that the Chinese war
wes not that of the British arms and councils, but of
the Ex-Governor-General of India. If this had
sterner transpired, it might have spared Britain a
monster ingratitude. It was erroneously imagined
tilt Lord Ellenborough's achievements were Sinde
and Gwalior—the former fertile of additional bur-
Wens, and provoked mutinies of his dear Sepoys—the
latter, where- crudeness of conception was betrayed
h abortiveness of result. These are Lord Ellenbo-
rough's trophies : let him not clutch at those won for
us by the commenced operations of the late Govern-
ment, and their successful close under the present.
If it be pleaded that the total revolution in the tone of
this eccentric ex-functionary, who swaggered in all
civil, and swaggers out, as we have seen, all military
—is fairly chargeable only on his improved insight
into the attributes of our power; we can only say, that
a sense of imperfect initiation should have made him
more modest at first ; that a sense of former miscon-
ception should have rendered him now more cautious.
Thit, if he was wrong before, he has now mistaken for
right merely the reverse of that wrong. If he was
wrong in his ostentatious announcement that swords
were to be turned into pruning-hooks, he is not
les.; wrong in his equally ostentatious announcement
that our main stay is the sword. A wise man would
have blurted out neither the one nor the other un-
called-for sentiment. If he must needs make the bases
of our power matter of speech, which belong better to
action—if he must needs favour our attentive enemies
with his fleeting and personal impressions of what we
nthght, would, should, or should not have done—and
what we may, can, or shall do—he should, at least,
have sought to embrace his whole subject better. If
the ruler of India was to put forth review articles on
our Indian policy, he should have tried to write
them like those ascribed to Mr. Macaulay. If he
was resolved to furnish food for Eastern fancy to
chew the cud upon, about the prestige of
our power, and so forth—his Lordship should
have given himself the trouble to present a
lea crude and more complete idea of that great
teeral ascendancy. lie began by believing that the
prestige " of Ellenborough and his fortunes was to
bear everything before it ; he ends with the mere
physical-force charter of Sepoy swords. And he is
the Governor, under whom these very Sepoys have
Leen made naturally mutinous by demands of uncon-
t reeted-for service beyond that very Indus whose boun-
d ley he had himself designated as our ne plus ultra.
Yes, we can well believe Lord Ellenborough now sees
reason to hold other views of the posture of eivi-
Eed power, girt by semi-barbarians. Notwithstand-
ng this exclusively martial flourish of his—which
iThws naturally from the smart which he feels from
the civilian rod which has beaten him out of India—
e will hope to see him come hack among us a sad-
der and wiser man. Like Napoleon, after taking
feeewell of his Old Guard, he seeks refuge in Eng-
l.:l. The Brummagem Napoleon, however, is a
ehele safer company than the actual one.
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle of this
d sy, in a long article replying to the observations of
e Times and Morning Post upon Lord Wharn-
speech, asserts that " the Standard shrinks
fren either publishing or praising the speech."
Oer answer to the first part of this charge is, that
e e published the speech at length on Saturday
lest ; and to the second part we reply, that in
(!e•hnding the principle clearly enounced in Lord
‘Vflarncliffe's address, we imagine we did more
to serve the speaker's purpose than we
edd have done by applying the commonplaces
ef eulogy to what was plainly intended as a simple
o yelorned statement of the view of the noble speaker
a:1 his colleagues. We published the speech, we re-
p ,t it, on Saturday. The -Ilorning Chronicle did not
publish it until Tuesday ; nor the Times until yester-
dy. To which of us can the charge of shrinking be
In iet properly applied ? We gave the speech as soon
as we got it, and defended it as soon as it was at-
tc eked. 'What more could we do? But why should
see elarink from repeating our avowal of acquiescence
i principles which we have avowed since
tee very first establishment of this journal, and which
Co: writer of these lines has always maintained ? We
L :ve ever held that it is the duty of the State to
peovide the means of education for all who are not
ado to provide these means for themselves. For
ti e Church we claim this right, in common with
all other denominations of Christians ; and claim
) that whatever provision may he made for
I )issenters shall not be made in a manner insulting,
or otherwise derogatory, to the just social
claims_ of the Church, or in a manner to in-
j ire the interests of that pure religion of which she is
the guardian. Subject to these qualifications, which '
surely are not unreasonable, the most ample provi-
sions that can be made for the education of the people
w 11 be the best for the Church and for the country.
We remember that when Lord Brougham first com-
trenced his noble task of promoting the education of
t I-le poor, many good but mistaken men expressed alarm
t the danger that, as the proposition came from a dis-
t:nguished leader in the latitudinarian Whig party,
its effect must correspond with its suspected purpose
hi undermining the religious principles of the humbler
c' asses. Lord Brougham has otherwise honourably
indicated himself from these unjust suspicions; and the
result of his labours has been gloriously opposite to
Viat which was feared from them. In proportion
se: education has extended, the religious feeling of
I:.e population has advanced ; and not only have
the mass become better Christians, they have
become more attached Churchmen. It is quite true
that in the rural districts the people have always pre-
"rverl their religious feeling, without the aid of read-
ing and writing, so long as they adhered to the do-
toestic hearth, and were provided with the teaching
of a faithful parish minister ; and it was this happy
y-ew of rustic life which startled many at the pros-
pect of a change. But, in the rural districts, re-
ligious knowledge was, like much ether useful
thlewledge, traditional- derived from the oral com-
munication of beloved parents, and a respected
ministry. They know little of history who suppose
reading and writing the only means of instruction.
The analogy of the general rustic life of England is,
1:o wever, wholly misapplied to the state of social
I fie that has grown up in the last fifty years in
cur manufacturing districts, and been permitted to
grow up in too many of our great towns, and
in some of our unprovided and neglected country
perishes. Men exposed to the corruptions and dis-
tractions and the gaol fever of the soul, that is sure
to be generated where multitudes are crowded to-
gether without any moral preservative, must become
more and more depraved—ultimately depraved to the
point of loathing instruction, unless it come in
some very attractive form. It is only by the
agency of letters that you can effectually and
peemanently operate upon the minds of such persons,
even to the point of bringing them to listen to their
religious teachers; and, therefore, a knowledge of
reading and writing is a necessary for a great por-
tion of our people, if they are to be preserved
from a state of utter corruption fatally infectious
to the whole community. With such a danger
threatening neither the Church nor Church-
men would withhold the remedy on slight consi-
derations. They would leave it to the sectarian oppo-
nents of Sir J. Graham's Bill of last year, to oppose
the saving blessing upon selfish grounds—trusting
to him who inspired the wisdom of Solomon, to give
back the children, whom the dishonest claimants
would willing permit to perish, to the real parent,
who proved parental love by even the most painful
sacrifice. This, we are confident, is the almost uni-
versal feeling of Churchmen—we know that it has
always been ours. Let all the people be educated by
the Church by all means, if they will accept educa-
tion from the Church; but in any case let all the
people be educated.

TUB COTTON CROP.—THE DROUTH.—We regret
much, says the Caddo Gazette of the 14th inst., to hear
(rum almost every quarter, of the great damage which is
being done to the crops by the extraordinary drouth.
()n many plantations, as we understand, where it has
been usual to make as much as could be gathered, there
hill not be made the present year more than 4001bs. of
cotton to the acre. Picking has been commenced for
some time, and a fair day's work is made, but it is feared
that there will be but little left to open after the first
picking. The weed is often found drying up from the
root to the top.—Savannah Georgian.
The Animals' Friend Society, of 18, Strand, yes_
turd the driver of the cab 853, badge 640, to be
4api,Mr, Cottingham, for furiously driving and
pit-wirpifingpuilitorse, the case having been proved
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