The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1844.

The Times of this morning, in an-able article on
the subject of the mysticism and indefiniteness which
its opponents object to in " Young England," ob-
serves with considerable truth and force :—" A school
of opinions may be very good and sound, and preg-
nant with great results, without being as perfectly
producible as so many pounds, shillings, and pence,
in answer to a pecuniary demand. Some projects
there have been, and.are now,
_which a man can put
into your hand at once, without their being neces-
sarily all the better for it. Socialism and Chartism
glory in their explicitness. Religious dogmas, true
or false, are of course meant to be clear. But
when you come to schools of opinion, they
must start with :broad principles or preferences.
Time works them into shape, and gives them their
actual objects. But no school, no party whatever,
will stand the test of a scrntiny pushed as far as hos-
tility or suspicion may choose to push it. No school
can at first say what it will do, or what ,it will be."
Yet, " Young England" has already said what it
will do—or rather what it will attempt to do—when
circumstances and occasion are favourable. It will
oppose to the utmost of its power that system of poli-
tical expediency, which is the-grave of all lofty emo-
tion and sterling ;patriotism ; which last session was
carried out to a most demoralising extent in
the House of Commons ; and which scores of
cunning Members pleaded in justification of the most
flagrant inconsistencies. Indeed, the expediency
system—first brought into methodical action by that
wily tactician, Sir R. PEEL —seems to have been de-
vised with no other view than-,to palliate the sayings
and doings of trimmers and downright apostates,
and to serve as a cloak] to conceal their deformity
Against this debasing principle of action, " Young
England" will never cease to:enter its strenuous pro
test, fully convinced, as it is, that honesty in the
Legislative body, like honesty in individuals, is not
only the best policy as regards themselves, but as re-
gards also the country entrusted to their charge.
Again, " Young England" will use all the means at
its command—and its means are steadily on the in-
crease—to foster the growth of a better understanding
between the middle and lower classes:; to induce the one
to lower its pretensions, and the other to lay aside
its distrust, so that both parties may be equal gainers
by the change of sentiment. Moreover, " Young
England" will never lose sight of the interests of the
neglected masses of the community; but will bear
constantly in mind the important fact—so long kept
in the back-ground both by Whigs and Tories—that
the poor man's claims on the favourable consideration
of the Legislature are quite as imperative as those of
the rich man's. Such will he the course of con-
duct —at least we infer so from the late
speeches at Manchester and Bingley that
" Young England will pursue both within
and without the walls of Parliament. The party
may possibly have other more flighty and extravagant
views which it does not at present deem it expedient
to put forward ; but with these we have nothing to
do; we shall censure or praise them, just as they may
appear to '
us to deserve blame or commendation • our- businessjust now is solely with the declarations that
46 young England" has already made known to the
world ; and of these declarations we unhesitatingly
say, that they are sound in thought, generous and
elevated in feeling, by no means difficult of
practice, comprehensive in their application, com-
bining common sense with enthusiasm in a re-