The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-02 00:00:00

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STANDARD.—The circumstances of the times
impose upon us a new and a perplexing, and even
painful task. 'We have the greatest possible objec-
tion to making newspapers the vehicle of theological
or quasi theological controversy; but topics more or
less nearly connected with this most awful class of
subjects are daily pressed upon us by respected and
manifestly able and honest correspondents, with an
earnestness and unequivocal sincerity wholly beyond
our power or resist. Thus we are constantly forced to
act in opposition to our own deliberate judgment, and,
what adds to the vexation, compelled by the variety
of communications sent to us to be for ever weighing
in what degree we shall act against our judgment—
an exercise that they who have proved it often, must
know to be nearly the most distressing in which the
mind can be engaged. In all this there is, no doubt,
one great consolation. The interest so universally
taken in theological questions proves that the minds
of the people are seriously set upon religious sub-
jects. Forty years ago innovations either in doc-
trine or in order would have been much less re-
garded, but though we gratefully acknowledge this
consolation, we cannot forget that while the public
divide it equally among them, a very undue share
of the heavy price falls upon our class, who, amid
perpetual doubts of the propriety of our conduct (if
we are conscientious), must keep aline the controversy.
Our own clear conviction as to the main questions
in dispute can be no secret to any of our readers.
We stand, as to doctrine, upon the Articles of the
Church of England honestly interpreted, and as
they are commonly understood by Protestants; and
as to order, upon the usage of the Church, as it
has been known for nearly two centuries, and emi-
nently blessed with success within the time of
nearly all men living. It is not, however, in
dealing with the men who openly impugn those
doctrines, or violently invade this order—with
the Nevvmans, Puseys, Wards, or the other Ro-
man hits —or yet with the fribble church milliners,
like Mr. Oakeley, that we have any difficulty.
We know these sectarians, and we may say it
without unduly boasting, that we alone knew
them from the first—as poor imposters, who
had filched a character for talent by retailing
tawdry paradoxes, such as any unscrupulous
blockhead might prepare ; a character for learn-
ing by quoting—and not always correctly
—books which the good sense, let us add the real
piety, of true scholars, had caused to be left unread
or kept in the background. These men had their day;
but it was not our fault that they had it, for we
always advised to treat them with disregard and con-
tempt; and surely this was the proper treatment for
them. The very morning on which we write fur-
nishes, we think, a clear proof that it was : one of
their number, a Mr. Ward, of Balliol College, Ox-
ford, has lately published a Popish tract, under the title
" The Ideal ofa Christian Church" (whoever wishes to
see this Popish tract fully exposed, would do well to
read " Oxford, No. 90, A Practical Sugg►estion by
the Rev. W. Simcox Bricknell.") Mr. Ward's tract
claimed the attention of those who had any know-
ledge of the man and his party, and its undis-
guised Popery fully justified their anticipations.
The learned and pious Dean of Christchurch_a man
honoured throughout Europe, and wherever else
learning and piety command respect—formally com-
plained of this work to the University authorities,
and these authorities acted promptly and resolutely
upon the Dean's complaint. After the Dean had
complained and the authoritieshad taken their reso-
ceshfrom bishops came
lution, a number of remono
in, requiring that the muatrair_sarould be seriously
taken up. Accordingly
Ward was summoned

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
rRONI THB EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAI.
GLOBE.—The Government organ seems to be
bent upon signalising itself upon the sugar question,
in the only direction left open to it by its very
limited ability to deal with the subject. This morn-
ing we are told that the cargo of Venezuelan sugar,
recently entered at Liverpool, amounts only to " a
few bags," and that they " doubt whether the whole
of Columbia could send us a cargo ;" and, further
on, the Herald's estimate of the quantity ad-
mitted, growing " fine by degrees, and beautifully
less," is reduced to " a few spoonsful." What
miserable trifling! Is this a specimen of Con-
servative ethics ? Is the adherence to or the infrac-
tion of a principle to be measured by the hundred-
weight ? It is, however, admitted, that whatever the
quantity, whether "a few bags" or "a few spoonsful,"
it is of a very doubtful character. We learn that
" the bags were unaccompanied with certificates of
origin," and that " there is not the least evidence of
the character of the sugar." And all that is ven-
tured to be asserted is,, that the " inference "
that it is slave-grown " does not necessarily follow."
We are told, that " whether slavery exists in
Venezuela appears to be doubtful ;" and all the aid
that is offered us in solving the doubt is the informa-
tion that Mr. M`Culloch, in his " Geographical Dic-
tionary," is " silent upon it !" But we would remind
the Herald of one point which in the mazes of its
random assertions and counter assertions it seems to
have forgotten, but which those most interested in
this discussion have not forgotten, and are not likely
to forget. The Government, by its professions and
declarations made on the introduction of the Act
in question (7 and 8 Vic., c. 28), stands pledged to
the exclusion of slave-grown sugar from home
consumption. The material question is—has it
redeemed—nay, has it left itself power to redeem
that pledge ? Foreign sugar (no matter how much
for the present) has, within three weeks of the Act
coming into operation, entered the market for home
consumption. It comes from a slave-owning
State—a near neighbour of slave-trading States,
" unaccompanied with certificates of origin,"
and without "the least evidence" of its character
in reference to slave labour. An imputation is
cast upon the honour—the good faith—of the
Ministry. The facts upon which the imputation
is based are admitted. The evidence, what-
ever else may be said of it, is at least all against
the Government; and, if left as it is, is, in our opinion,
quite strong enough. The imputation of " the ruin
of the West India Islands"—and a resolution "to
complete that ruin by maintaining slavery in Cuba
and Brazil"—to those who object to the late measure,
involves such a confusion of ideas that it is impos-
sible to answer it. As to its most obvious mean-
ing we can only remark, that we take no more
advanced ground in favour of a free competition
between slave labour and free labour than that
occupied by that large section of the Anti-Slavery
Party whose views have been so ably expounded by
Mr. Beldam ; and that we advocate the gradual
bringing about of such competition only because we
believe that in a fair and full development of the capa-
bilities of free labour we shall find the only effectual
cure for the evils of slavery throughout the world.
We are told that the population of Venezuela is only
900,000—therefore it is not likely to send us much
sugar. A return made to the House of Commons
during the last few years states the coloured popu-
lation of Jamaica as 322,421. Mr. Martin states
the entire population to be only 361,490; and the
return already referred to states that of the whole of
our West India colonies to be only 798,769. This
for the information of the Herald. Will it now abide
by its estimate on the basis of population ? There is
plenty more of the same sort of argument in the ar-
ticle we refer to, or, to use the words of the Herald,
its " monstrous inconsistencies do not stop here." We
cannot, however, at present devote further time to its
" inconsistencies," and so we will conclude with em-
ploying the Herald's own words in declaring our de-
cided opinion that " the whole history of Peel and
Gladstone-ism—record of continuous meannesses
though it be—may be ransacked in vain for anything
more despicable than this see-saw advocacy ;it is the
ne plus ultra of thimble-riggery.