The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-23 00:00:00

OtTvnias 2"ate,

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1844.

In the last number of the Edinburgh Review there
is an article entitled "The Results of Tory Rule,"
which is penned in a moderate and—considering that
the writer is a partisan of the Whigs—an impartial
spirit, giving all due credit to the Ministry where
credit is due, and pointing out their numerous errors
frankly and boldly, without, however, indulging in
the slightest exaggeration or acrimony. In the
course of this article, the Reviewer makes one or ta 0
remarks, which, at the present crisis, are worthy of
particular attention. " The growing inattention,"
he observes, " manifested by both Houses to the
performance of their functions, is, we know,
daily more and more complained of ; an,i
this subject is of infinitely greater moment
than it is generally considered to be. T.
re-pect and confidence which the public have been ac-
customed to feel for the deliberations 2nd decision:;
of Parliament are, indeed, lamentably diminished.
The keen interest which its proceedings formerly ex
cited, exists no longer. Even the ambition to obtain
a seat in Parliament is lessened ; the difficulty of in-
ducing well-qualified candidates to come forward
complained of; and the whole relations between the
public and both !louses are, we grieve to say, altered
for the worse. The tone in which public affairs are
discussed, is lowered, and a languid Indifference is,
by degrees, extending its chilling influence over
the representatives of the people and the people
themselves." Disheartening as is the tone 0!
these remarks, no one can deny that they have
their foundation in truth. The deep interest with
which the public used to regard the proceedings of
their representatives in Parliament has of late—that
is to say, since the accession of the Tory party to
office—given place to a sort of phlegmatic indiffer-
ence, which is one of the most dangerous symptoms
that the popular mind can possibly exhibit. Through-
out the last session, this indifference on the part f
the re )ple was specially marked, aad towards the
close, men atemed to think no more of what was doing
in Parliament than if there had been no such institu-
tion in existence. A slight stir, indeed, was create.]
by Sir ROBERT PEEL'S announcement of his intention
to pr pare, during the reees=, seine remedial
measures for the benefit of Ireland, for which
he was paid in advance by the applaus,
of the Liberals ; but if we except this
momentary excitement, nothing could be more
humiliating nothing more decided than the
general indifference which existed when the House
of Commons closed its labours for the year.
There must be some cause for this apathy on the part
of the people, and that cause may, we think, be found
in the conduct which our Conservative Government
has thought fit to pursue since it first established it-
self in snug quarters in Downing-street. Instead of
steering its course by the steady light of principle, it
has allowed itself to be led out of the right track by
the irk/at/us of expediency. It was placed in office
by the ,thergeti ,effr:4-ktc„the Monopolists, under a
firm ciinviction which bigoted and weak-minded
raep,,,,entertaine4 • 1114,,A would do their bid-
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ding promptly, cheerfully, and successfully. In-
stead of this, however, no sooner was it fairly
installed in power, than it began to look
coolly on its supporters, and even attempted
to kick down the ladder by which it had risen. The
principles it professed on the hustings were all for-
gotten. The measures which it had scouted in oppo-
sition, were fostered the instant it had taken up its
position on the right hand of the Speaker's chair.
From having been the partizan of Monopoly, Govern-
ment became all at once an advocate for " free trade
in the abstract." It had previously lent a willing ear
to the sophistries of Mr. BANRES. It now listened
with deference to the suggestions of Mr. COBDEN.
By such equivocal—such shuffling conduct
it succeeded in alienating one large portion
of the community—namely, the Monopolists,
while it failed in securing the confidence of
another numerous body—viz., the Free-traders. Both
equally felt that it was making a tool of them
countenancing or discountenancing them, just accord-
ing as it suited its own interested views; consequently,
both hold it in distrust, and despairing just at present
of obtaining a change of administration, have fallen
into a state of calm indifference from which
we see no immediate prospect of their
being roused. The equivocal proceedings of
Government are, we contend, :the chief cause of the
existing apathy of the people, and this apathy bids
fair to continue so long as Sir ROBERT PEW. sees fit
to legislate on what he calls, the " expediency
system." Expediency! We contemn and abhor
the phrase. It is in direct antagonism to principle,
and is in too many instances the pretext put forth by
knaves to justify their most indefensible practices.

The two besetting sins, and most characteristic
distinctions of our days, are, certainly, cant and cox-
combry. A meddling patronage jobbing Prelate is
the type of the one—a ceremonial-loving, priestcraft-
preaching parson of the other. Of such Prelates, the
" Church-multiplying-principle" Bishop of LONDON—
and of such parsons, the Puseyite crotchetty Vicar of
Ware, are about the most obtrusive examples that
occur to us. Tho readers of The Sun cannot have
forgotten the account we gave some months ago, of
the rise and progress of the parochial polemics which
had then involved, and have ever since retained, the
contumacious vicar and his offended parishioners in
terms of mutual but most unseemly dissatisfaction
with one another. The Bishop, being appealed to by
the men of Ware, did interpose, to some extent, be-
tween them and their pastor ; but so reluctantly and
ungraciously, that, like a certain other peace-maker,
his intervention did but " worse embroil the fray."
Die churchwardens addressed a respectful letter to his
Lordship. The Right Reverend Father snubbed the
churchwardens in reply, with no more of forbearance
or meekness than one of his prelatical predecessors
would have exhibited to a body of disputatious lay-
men in the palmiest days of the Popedom. The
churchwardens renewed their representations ; but
brought down only a rude and ill-bred notice from
the Right Reverend " CHARLES JAMES'S" secretary,
haughtily intimating—if we rightly remember—
that the churchwardens, having thought fit to publish
their correspondence with that gentle Bishop, with-
out previous permission obtained from him, his spi-
ritual Lordship declined to favour them with (the or-
ainary civility of) an answer. Therefore the church-
wardens and the parishioners, who were of the Esta-
blished Church, left to their own remedy, and finding
the vicar inflexible in his resolution to uphold the
literal injunctions of the Rubric, even as to those ob-
servances which they deemed most offensive to the
opinions of the great bulk of the Church in the pre-
sent day, and utterly opposed to the practice of its
ministers during the last century and a half, had re-
course to other modes of proceeding. They required
that, having declared himself bound by the letter of
the Rubric in all things, he should in all things con-
form his official deportment to it, and, inter alia, pub •
licly catechise the children of the parishioners after
the second lesson. This observance the vicar could
not well escape from, and therefore complied with,
until almost a month ago, when he discontinued it, on
an alleged pretext which will be found to form the
main subject of a further correspondence, terminating
only a few days ago, that we print in another
column.

From this last correspondence it will be seen that,
notwithstanding the lofty pretensions of indefeasible
religious dug and solemn convictions, operating with
the Fuser' -fear to follow the letter or the Rubric
"even t. of his being enjoined to the con-
rary" by his spiritual Lordship, they have not been
sufficiently founded in the good faith of primitive
Christianity, or the stern truthfulness of a pure mo-
rality, to induce the Rev. Gentleman to redeem his
own pledge to his parishioners (as to his concurring
in the certain conciliatory " arrangement" referred to
in Mr. COBHAM'S letter to the Bishop), or to with-
hold him from starting, at the eleventh hour, a pe-
cuniary difficulty, of his own suggestion, as the flimsy
plea for his departure from his reverend word. This
`act supplies "le mot d'enigme." Nothing can exceed
the Lord Bishop of LONDON'S disinterested anxiety to
multiply new churches within his diocese, except—
his interested anxiety to secure the presentation pa-
tronage which they give him. So this reverend
vicar, Mr. CODDINGTON'S, enthusiastic reverence for
the Rubric commentary on a discipline and doctrine of
which the ritual enjoins, among other things, a lowly
and charitable bearing on the part of the minister to
his flock—is to be moved from the inflexible ad-
hesion of a Puseyite "purist" to the letter—of his
own undertaking, by a "pecuniary difficulty." We
are really disgusted with the disgraceful exhibitions
which this fashionable purism—this "favourite fancy"
of fanatical incumbents and ambitious prelates, whose
bowels yearn for the re-installation of Romish power,
with Romish forms, in the ministers of the altar—
this vain and insidious Puseyism, in short, is con-
stantly tempting our Protestant Churchmen to make
of themselves. The evils it works to the cause of the
" Reformed Church as by law established"—an
epithet of constitutional modification which your
Puseyites naturally detest—are incalculable. Whole
congregations desert her service, and are forgetting
her communion. In another town of Hertfordshire,
not long since, the offended parishioners fitted up a
Dissenting meeting-house, we are told, for the cele-
bration of the form of worship which should have been
presided over by their minister ; but he had become
tainted with this spiritual coxcombry—(we know no
better designation for it). And when the Church at
large finds its own Prelates abetting the mischief—
like our sleek Bishop, in his correspondence with Mr.
ConitAm, as representative of the churchwardens of
Ware—it will soon begin to doubt how fur its alle-
giance can be tendered to a hierarchy of which some
leading members so ill discharge the reciprocal duties
of protecting it from vain and schismatic innovations,
whether of ceremony or of doctrine ; and of meek
and Christian patience and gentleness in communing
with their flocks. Does the Bishop of LONDON prefer
to aid the peace of the Church or the progress of
Puseyism ? Do his notions of pastoral love and epis-
copal responsibility attach the stronger claims upon
his countenance and favour to the respectful but
earnest remonstrances of a congregation, devoted to
the religion, and the modes of worship, adopted by
them, after their forefathers, for many past generations ;
—or to the fussy mummery of a Pusey-struck vicar ?
Does the Right Rev. Prelate opine that the Church
was instituted for the people, or for its bishops ?
Does he hold it better, wiser, more Christian-like, to
vindicate the freaks of this Mr. CODDINOTON, or to
cut off from the Church the congregation she has
hitherto possessed at Ware ? Will he have Puseyism
or Protestantism ?

The Paris journals, for want of a better subject,
still keep up the war with each other about the result
of LOUIS PHILIPPE'S visit to England. The Globe
thus attacks certain ill- natured comments in Queen
CHRISTINA'S journal the Presse, and with some effect.
These malignant war journals vainly claim the merit
of representing tho feeling of universal France :
" The LORD MAYOR of London, in having done to-
wards the King of the FRENCH what has never been
done for any Sovereign, by going out of the City,
and carrying to Windsor the expression of
the sympathies of the great capital towards his
Majesty of FRANCE, has, in the opinion of the
Presse, done nothing more than an act of com-
mon politeness, which established no distinction
between the visit to Eu and the visit to Windsor ;
and exclaims—' Acknowledgments for such a trifle !
Can any one think of it !' But might not England have
left undone what she has done? If the LORD MAYOR, for
example, had chosen not to disturb himself; if he had con- ,

fined himself within his city, we should have had war pro-
claimed against all England to teach him his duty.
The Debats considers that the shouts of Vive la
Reined' Angleterre, uttered by the French squadron,
was the faithful expression of the sentiments of
France. No ! that is false ! replies the Presse, and
attempts, as follows, to prove it so. At the discussion
of the next address, it says, the Ministry will not
again talk of the entente cordiale, or if it does the
Chamber will modify the paragraph more essentially
than last year. What other answer can be given to
this than that the Ministry will again talk of the
entente cordiale , and that the Chamber would not
modify the paragraph more essentially than last year.
What will the Presse say then ? Why, if that hap-
pens, as we do not doubt it will, the Presse will say
that the manifestation of the Chambers is not the
sense of the nation, as it now says of the manifesta-
tion by the squadron. The KING, the Ministry, the
officers of our squadron, or the Chambers, neither
of them represent, neither of them compre-
hend the national sentiments. Messrs. DE GI-
RAEDIN and DUJARRIER alone represent and
comprehend it. Is not the Presse the representative
of the nation, at the rate of 48f. a year a head ?"
The reconstruction of the Polytechnic School, which
excited considerable interest throughout France, has
not yet been finally decided. We may infer, how-
ever, from the following remarks of the Journal des
Debate, that the severity with which the ardent
spirits of that establishment was threatened will be
greatly mitigated, and perhaps a general amnesty
granted. The youths of the Polytechnic had a hand
in the days of July, and were the foremost in every
attack upon despotism :
" Several journals have announced that the commission
aapointed to re-organise tho Polytechnic School proposes
to exclude a certain number of the pupils sent away in
August last, some saying 70, others 20 or 30. We do
not believe this news to be exact : we do not think the
commission has had any occasion to make a proposition
of the kind, and we are of opinion that a partial exclu-
sion would be but little just, and not handsomely done.
The Polytechnic School is not to be decimated : deci-
mation is not the custom of our time. The fault, for we
acknowledge that some existed, was common to all ; the
measure of exclusion ought therefore to be general. But
that would, in truth, be to punish with a rigour which
belongs neither to our epoch nor our Government. It is
just to add besides, that except the passing infringement
of discipline, of which the pupils were not perhaps the
most culpable, the conduct of these young men was ad-
mirable. We persist, therefore, in believing that the
school will be re-opened to all. If there are to be any
changes to make either in discipline or in the system of
studies, let them be made ; that will be good and useful,
whereas it would be unjust to make some bear the fault
of all, and cruel to punish 300 families and 300 young
men full of promise, for a moment's error. If the school
needs an amnesty, never will an amnesty have been more
happily applied. A journal makes this remark, and we
willingly adopt it."
The Consithitionne/ contains the following biogra-
phical and political details of the new Austrian Am-
bassador to the Court of St. James. Whatever sub-
ject this journal writes upon, England is sure to be
mixed up with it in an invidious sense :
" Count Maurice Dietrichstein, who has just been ap-
pointed Ambassador from the Court of Vienna to that
of London, belongs to one of the highest families of the
Austrian empire. Ilis father, at one time Minister of
Francis IL, was the Governor of the Duke of Reich-
stadt, and with w;lom the new Ambassador passed the
days of his youth. Count Maurice is still young for the
eminent post to which he is called, being only forty
years old at the utmost. He for several years was
Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of King Leopold, who re-
ceived him into his intimacy. His nomination may be
taken as a symptom of the decline of the influence of
Prince Metternich at the Court of Vienna. The father
of Count Maurice is, in fact, on the line of aspirers to
the political succession of the Prince Chancellor, with
whom he, in a measure, stands in rivalry, since the
Prince has refused to give one of his daughters in mar-
riage to the new Ambassador. For a long time Austria
has had no Ambassador at the Court of Queen Victoria.
The policy of England, whether the Tories or the Whigs
be in power, will always be to give checkmate to France,
by opposing to her the fasces of the great European
powers. Austria is at this time making advances to the
British Cabinet, of which it will not fail to take advant-
age, in spite of all the cordialities of Windsor."

The Siecle gives the following statements respecting
the new French loan :

"It appears the Minister of Finance is determined to
dispose immediately of the second series of the loan,
and that it is to be made by a creation of Three per
Cent. Stock. The sole question to be determined is—
whether the amount of the loan is to be 150 or 300
millions. That will depend, probably, on the courage of
the contractors. The immediate conclusion of the loan
will have the unpleasant consequence of adjourning
the conversion of the Five per Cents. for two or three
years. We deplore this bitterly. The immediate re-
mission of 80,000,000 Dutch Rents in Two-and-a-Half
per Cent. Stock is anuouncnd. I.lctween French and
Dutch Stock- Ike btock-Ex.ch.tr.F,u—ls about to have au
harvest, which will no doubt calm the senseless
taste which has arisen for new shares, or promises of
new shares."

The Madrid mail of the 15th, had not reached
Paris at the usual hour of post. Some attributed
this to bad weather, and others to a rising of the
Carlists. Letters from Perpignan state that Generals
AMETTLER and SANTA CRUZ, together with five
Captains of the Progesista party, had been arrested
by the French Douaniers just as they were about to
enter Spain.

THE BOURSE-.-MONDAY, OCT. 21.

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