The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM TEE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—" Pitt's Friends"—for that is the original
title from which is derived the Apostolic succession of
orthodox Conservative Ministerialism—Pitt's Friends,
since Pitt's death, have described the whole circle
of opinions with regard to Irish Roman Catholicism,
and now appear just arriving at the very point from
which their leader first was prevented from starting.
It seldom, however, happens that nearly a half cen-
tury can elapse—the intermediate space having (by
Pitt's Friends) been filled with the bitterest contro-
versy)—and that the same course can be smoothly re-
entered, which might have smoothly been taken at first.
When Pitt went out in 1801, because George the Third
(the royal ear having secretly been pre-occupied by
some lay and some clerical alarmists) refused his
sanction to the Roman Catholic measures he laid before
him, as the implied promises, and essential comple-
ments of the union with Ireland—no political Pro-
testant party existed amongst English politicians. That
was an Irish growth ; and even such a champion of
things established as Burke had become latterly, was
to the last adverse to the political Protestant pretexts of
the Irish local oligarchy. George the Third had the
equivocal honour of creating out of nothing (at least,
out of political nonentities) a party which assumed Pro-
testantism as its watchword)—and such'became the party
of" Pitt's Friends." It is curious and amusing to read, in
the Diary of Lord Malmsbury, the expressions of indig-
nation of that " Pitt's Friend," when Pitt first re-
nignedjand to contrast that indignation at the closet-ear-
wiggings which alarmed the royal mind, with his own
.subsequent eagerness to renew precisely the same sytem
of intrigue, and work on precisly the same royal weakness
xi 1807. The only difference was, that Pitt was in-
trigued out of office in 1801—and with him " Pitt's
Friends;" whereas, in 1807, the point was to intrigue
out of office the surviving members of the Fox and Gren-
ville Ministry—whereby " Pitt's Friends" would return
to power. Apostolic succession is everything to political
'Protestantism. This doctrine sufficiently vindicates the
nine party, in all its changing phases. For the point
is not mere notional consistency—mere matter of
opinion. The point is, whose opinions have the stamp
of official orthodoxy—who can trace the unbroken
links of succession from Pitt. And of course these are
" Pitt's Friends." While there was a " good old King,"
who fancied his crown in question, " Pitt's Friends"
stood by him with devoted loyalty—loyalty devoted to
places and pensions, which Percevals, Westmorelands,
Vansittarts, could scarcely havemerited otherwise. When
an elderly Monarch succeeded, not so good, and not quite
50 obstinate, the junior partners of " Pitt's Friends"
saw the expediency of forcing his hand a little. Times
have gone on, still changing ; and " Pitt's Friends"
have gone on, changing likewise. They have changed
everything—except their claim to apostolic succession
and Conservative orthodoxy. A doubt may intrude on
minds not thoroughly imbued with political reli-
gion, whether the course of this party, since the
commencement of this century, has not been
rather selfish and mischievous, as regards Irish Roman
Catholicism. Whether politicians are quite at
liberty to take God's name in vain, whenever atrectation
of the highest motives can compass the lowest objects.
And finally, whether diving into John Bull's pockets
for the endowment of a faith* which John Bull thinks
(justly in our mind) deeply tinged with superstitions
—is the amende most decent and effectual to the holders
of that faith for all the injustice which the personal in-
terests of " Pitt's Friends" inflicted on them civilly and
politically.

STANDARD.—" We ought not to halloo before we
are out of the wood," says the proverb ; but keeping the
sage maxim still in view, we must at present anticipate
a short, as the Ministers hitherto have had an easy,
session of Parliament. The circumstances that ren-
dered necessary an early consideration of financial
questions, concurring with an unusually early Easter,
have caused an anticipation of what has hitherto
been not merely the dead weight of the Parlia-
mentary year's work, but also the means of
inviting a multitude of other tedious discussions. In
fact, looking back to former years, we find nearly the
first half of every session consumed in debates upon
the most trumpery questions, apparently because the
House of Commons had nothing useful to do, and it must
do something. Another cause of the probable dispatch
of business in the present session is the universal consci-
ousness that the eirambe recocta of anti-corn-law speeches,
and the like, will no longer go down. The country
is sick of such stuff, and moreover the country is
prosperous and contented. The more prudent of the
Whig party are well aware of this, and therefore they
prudently court an obscurity which protects thoir mea-
sures from a contrast with the measures of the present
Government. On the side of Government, we know of
no measure that it has in contemplation which is likely
to meet even a slight opposition, except the plan for
the Irish colleges, and the enlargement of the Maynooth
grant, and to these scarcely a formidable opposition
can be anticipated. It is true that some of the men (Dis-
senters), most active in promoting the grant of power to
the Irish Roman Catholics, are now clamorous against
the adoption of the only means by which that power
can be diverted from implacable hostility to Protestant
institutions. But the very fact that these bitter enemies
of the Established Church are foremost in the cry
against the enlargement of the Maynooth grant will at
litißt cause Churchmen to pause, and listen to the reasons
which the Minister has to offer, before condemning the
measure. As to principle, the principle of that measure
Ma been for fifty years recognised, by the grant of nine
thousand pounds a year. And let us add, a much worse
principle has been introduced more recently in the ap-
pointment of Roman Catholic chaplains to prisons and
workhouses. The battle, therefore, cannot be fought on
the ground of principle ; and upon a question
of mere expediency it is vain to pretend high grounds of
objection. They who think that the Irish Roman
Catholic priests will be more obstinately bigotted, more
bitterly hostile to England, if better educated, will do
well to oppose the augmentation of the grant. They
who hold the opposite opinion in both respects, to which
number we confess ourselves to belong, will look with com-
placency upon an experiment, the worst effect of which
will be, merely to throw away some money; for worse than
it is the system of education among the Roman Catholic
clergy cannot be ; while the accompanying establish-
ment of open colleges, of which the enlarged grant to
Maynooth is, perhaps, a necessary auxiliary, can pro-
duce nothing but unmixed good. This is a subject,
however, to which we must again refer. Upon a fair
view of the prospects of the session, there is no reason
why it may not terminate in July or even in June; and
this though many useful measures of legislature be com-
pleted in the interval—a most useful return to ancient
practice.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 25, 1345.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint J.
H. D. Hay, Esq., to be her Majesty's Agent and Consul-
General in the dominions of the Emperor of Morocco.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
W. Wiltshire, Esq , to be her Majesty's Consul at Ad-
rianople.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to ap-
point Robert Grigg, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at
Mobile.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 25.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. D
Ippolito Garrow, as Vice-Consul at Malta for his Ma-
jesty the King of the Two Sicilies.
DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 22.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Chas. William
Warner, Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-General for
the island of Trinidad.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 24.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev.
Charles Kinnear Greenhill to the church and pariah of
Roberton, .in the presbytery and county of Selkirk,
vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Alexander Nivison,
late minister thereof.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MARCH 24.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Captain and Brevet Major
W. R. Ord to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Thompson, re-
tired on half-pay; Second Captain W. B. Marlow to be
Captain, vice Ord; First Lieutenant R. S. Beatson to be
Second Captain; First Lieutenant S. Freeth to be Se-
cond Captain, vice Marlow; Second Lieutenant J. M.
Grant to be First Lieutenant, vice Freeth, March 18.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
John Pritchard, builder, Lillishall, Shropshire.
BANKRUPTS.
Min Chrisp, wine and spirit broker, Great Tower.
to surrender, April 4 and May 9, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official
assignee, Birchin -lane ; Treherne and White, Barge-
yerti-chambers, Bucklersbury.
William Hodges, hide and akin dealer, King's Head-
yard, Duke street, Bloomsbury, April 1, at one, and May
2, as eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand,
official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ; Dale, Furnival's
Inn.

Samuel May, watch manufacturer, Myddleton-street,
Carkenwell, April 11, at one, and May 6, at half-past
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official as-
signee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Thwaites,
Lyon's Inn, Strand.
Thomas Overend, maltster, Walcot-square, Surrey,
April 4, at two, and May 7, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings ; Milne and Co., Temple.
William Elworthy Jarman, confectioner, Exeter,
April 4, at one, and May 1, at eleven, at the Exeter
District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ;
Stogdon, Exeter; Keddell and Co., Lime-street, London.
Charles Martyn, linen draper, Durham, April 10 and
May 8, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District
Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne;
Abbott, Charlotte street, Bedford-square, London;
Thompson, Durham; Bennett, Manchester.
James Jones, fellmonger, Chester, April 3 and May
1, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and Blake, Lon-
don-wall, London ; Dodge, or Grocott, Liverpool.
Matthew Coffee, victualler, Liverpool, April 4, and
May 2, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird,
official assignee, Liverpool ; Ilolme and Co., London ;
Booker, Liverpool.
John Riky, merchant, Liverpool, April 11, at eleven,
and May 9, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridge and Blake,
London-wall, London; Dodge, Liverpool.
William Lediard, coach-proprietor, Wellington Sa-
lop, April 11, at eleven, and May 9, at half-past eleven,
at the Birmingham District; Court. Valpy, official
assignee, Birmingham ; Harrison and Smith, Birming-
ham.

Benjamin Robinson, draper, Barton•upon-Trent, Staf-
fordshire, April 5, at half-past eleven, and May 9, at
eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee, Birmingham; Richardson, Burton-
upon-Trent.

DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
G. Newton, hosier, Seaham-harbour, Durham—first
and final div. of Bi. 10d. in the pound, any Saturday after
March 24, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.