The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1844.

The Times of yesterday, in an able article on
the subject of the mysticism and indefiniteness whicl,
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 perfectl.
producible as so many pounds, shillings, and pence
in answer to a pecuniary demand. Some project::
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 Chartists
glory in their explicitness. Religious dogmas, trot
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 int) shape, and gives them their
actual objects. But no school, no party whatever.
will stand the test of a scrutiny pushed as far as hos-
tility_ or suspicion may choose to push it. No schoo'
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
fl-*grant 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 saying,
and doings of trimmers and downright aposta'es,
and to serve as -a
cloak to conceal their deformity.
Against this debasing principle of action, " Your.g
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 (,f d better understanding
between the middle and lower classes.; to induce theone
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 lVhigs and TorieS=triat
the poor man's claims on the favourable consideration
of the Legislature are quite as imperative as those of
the rich' roan's-. Such will be the course of con-
duct at leatt 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 p:!?,?,ly h:L'e., other more flighty and extravagant
views h,it, does not at present deem it expedient
to put forward ; but wi h these we have nothing to
do; we,,e.isall censure or praise them, just as they may
appear t4..u.s to deserve blame or commendation ; our
business-ptstnow is solely with the declarations that
"Yount, Kngland" has already made known to the
world :4414 of these declarations we unhesitatingly
4, it,
say, thit;t4Pqy are sound in thought, generous and
elevatcd,..36;.teeling, by no means difficult of
practicehensive in their application, com-
bining gullet'. sense with enthusiasm in a re-
enarkablaiiiegree, and holding out a brighter promise
of genetit good.to the -community than any scheme
of sociat'atitt.Thlitical reform that we have ever read
or beartg.."...ol;Cmgae the Conservative Herald can- ,
not see•the Matterin this light, and; accordingly, our
Contemporarrtaants Young England " with being
fantastiCVd tulintelligible in its views. "What the
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