The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

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GLOBE.—The Times of this morning has the fol ;
lowing diatribe against the tendencies the age we
live in :-" For legislating upon utilitarian principles,
—for embodying in public enactments, made for the
benefit (!) • not of the law-uivers- but of others,—
the '.detestable morality of Hobbes and Hume and -
Gibbon ;—fdr.realising in practice that species of poli-
tical morality which holds that man is no more than
an impersonation of capital—a mere representative of
so- much labour,'—that charity is only a falsifica-
tion of economy,—and that that benefit of the
governed,' which it is universally conceded ought to
be the object of every Government,—is nothing else
than the highest possible state of productiveness' to
which the aforesaid subject multitude may be
brought;—for legislation of this sort, we say, give us
the days of king William and Qaeen Victoria, for
certainly never before, since England Was a nation, has
this sort of thing been more consistently carried out
within the walls of Parliament." Would that
any spark of the dry light of intellect of
Hobbes or of Hume—would that .any vestige of the
painful and diligent research of Gibbon—wero in-
deed, as the Times mo-t monstrously alleges, " con-
sistently,carried out within the walls of Parliament."
Of course- we have nothing to say of the religious
scepticism of these highly distinguished men—no-
-thing 'except what-Bacon, perhaps, in igitt- have said—
that they had better have left religion unreasoned
about—have left faith in possession of her rights, and
reasoned
.where reason could hope to arrive at
.posi-
five and practical conclu ions. But that a slap-dash
piece-work plasterer of diurnalism should flatter hirn-:
self that he can smear over the great names of Hume
and Gibbon—that he, it his Puseyite muddle-headed-
tress, can obscure all their genius has enlightened—
that he con consign to reprobation all that distin-
guishes modern times from the middle ages—is truly
to concentrate a whole revived Order of Jesuits in
his own little person !
Vite, vite, morbleu!
Eteignons les lumiares—
Et.rallumons le feu!

It is very true that neither Hume nor Gibbon, nor
any close thinker, nor conscientious researcher of
the last century, traded in clap-trap sentiments. The
fitter prototype of Times newspaper philanthropy was
the hollow-hearted, selfish, canting Rousseau—the
caricaturist, by dint of exaggeration, of every exalted
sentiment—the exemplar of every human depravation
which (self-induced) cerebral deracgement alone could
excuse. Bat when the Times was "pitching into" the-
direction impresSed on legislative intellect in these our
degenerate days by the still surviving influence of the
great minds of the last Cent uty, why had it no word
of abuse for Turgot ? Because there are names
which even the Times dare not desecrate. Because
the Times, in the thickest haze of its recent High '
Church inspirations, has probably a sort of glimmering
idea that in Turgot it would fall foul of a statesman
who demonstrated practically, in twelve years of unoh-
trusive provincial administration, the wisdom of the
modern economical principle of " promoting the highest
possible productiveness" by admitting the utmost pos-
sible freedom- of industrial and commercial transactions.
No, -no !—it . has not been philosophical scepticism
(dangerous as we allow that is, when pushed into re-
gions where positive truth cannot be arrived at by
process of mere reasoning)—it is not philosophical
scepticism that makes legislative inroads on social
abundance and happiness. We wish our legislators
had some of- the wholesome scepticism of Turgot—
some: of his :aversion • for allepresumptuous dogma-
tism,. whether philosophical or priestly. The name
of Turgot will be ever identified with all the ra-
tional conquests of the spirit of modern impeove
lia.ent. In his own days he stood aloof, on well con-
sidered and high principle, frOM nil those clique and
coterie influences on which les-•er men lean so instinc-
tively. Turgot was a man of no. party, and no,philo-
sophical sect. The men of sects and rarties of course.
.took -this exceedingly ill in him y;. and could not undere.
stand'how any one could be amongst them, and not of
them; His friends amongst the philosophes reproached
him for not being of their mind : - and he reproached
them• in turn With the foolish attempt to impose a com-
munity of opinions, and thus assume responsibility for
those of each other. He detested all. esprit de corps
(philosophical; not less than priestly), because he
found, says his congenial biographer, Dupont de
Nemours, that even amongst men otherwise estimable,
the sort of fanaticism inseparable from that spirit
seldom fails to alloy the love of truth and justice which
Turgot preferred to everything. The morality of
sects the most scrupulous is never so good as that of
honeet individuals ! In this spirit of clique - and
coterie Turgot besides found this serious inconvenience
—that it tet.ded to excite animosity and prejudice in
society at large agai rat those little exclusive sects and
societies which form themselves in its bosom, and thus
retarded the success of the good intentions of those
‘e horn their zeal excited to form these confederations.
" It is the spirit of sect,' he said, " that provokes the
spirit of pereecution." It is certainly true that neither
Hume,'nor Gibbon, nor Turgot, would have told the
labouring population that law- could get them twelve
tours' wages for ten hours' work. Turgot never would
have admitted into• our cosmic colonial Arrangements
a fifth quarter of the globe as it were (if we may use
the Iricism), and char-ged our colonial estimates with
grants now for South or West Australia—and now
for New Zealand—at the very time of declaring we
will not take the corn our colonies can send us !
STANDARD.—The zeal with which the opposi-
tion journals pursue the misrepresentation first started
by the Dublin Evening Mail, proves that the letter,
imputed falsely to Sir Re)bert Peel by the Irish jour-
-nal, possesses more than a local interest.. We shall
be excused, therefore, by those least interested in
Irish affairs, if we return to the subject. The utter
falsehood of theDublinEvening Maid's story is proved
by a passage in the Dublin Statesman of Wednesday
the 4th inst., which the Dublin L', vening Mail of the
following Friday has not ventured to contradict.
The Statesman- is a journal of nearly the same
political character as the Mail, hut the fact that the
Mail has not ventured to deny that its- " appalling
communication' was a hoax, or to contradict the
assertion that its friend and prompter, Mr. Frederick
Shaw, had denounced the utter falsehood of that com-
munication, is decisive. We repeat what we said; on
the 22d of March, " There was not one woe of
truth. in it." The purpose of the falsehood, -by
1
whomsoever invented, is apparent by a passage . f a
later number of the Dublin Evening Mail (March 29).
The falsehood, then, was invented for the purpose of
damaging the Ministry—a purpose which men may
think legitimate or not, but which certainly does not
justify to moralists the use of falsehood sis a means,
and will scarcely justify to politicians of enlarged and
patriotic views the formation of an anti. Saxon alli • '
ante in Ireland, the arrangement which the falsehood
was intended to promote. As we a--e speaking of
a resort to illegitimate means, it may be proper
to note a very irreverent and disgusting parody
.1
which the Dublin Evening Mail •of . Friday has
thought fit to publish with ' • reference to the
matter of which we are speaking. The Mail
does not, as we hate said, venture directly
to support the veracity of its " appalling com-
munication" of Alarch 20, but it presents a
parody of the . third chapter of Daniel, in which
Sir Robert Peel nets the part- of Nebuchad
nezzar, and the Archbishop of Armagh (Lord
John •Beresford), and other prAths and cler-
gymen are made to represent, Shadrach, Meshech,
and Abednego. We feel scarcely at ease in shortly
describing such a thing—and we hope that it is as
disagreeable to the most Reverend Archbishop as
it is to us. About twenty-seven years ago Mr.
Hone was prosecuted for publiehing some paro-
dies upon the Liturgy, and -none of them was so
offensive in form as this—none of them could be
so indecent as a Pain(ir upon the Holy' Scrip-
tures themselves. ' The Liturgy, beautiful as it is, is
still but the words of man, but the Holy Scriptures
are not the words of man. We certainly welild->not
wish to see prosecutions like that of whichr.
Hone was the object repeated; we much prefer tr st-
ing to the effect of
public opinion for the preventing
of such offences as his, and we have little doubt-
that public opinion will prevent a repetition of the
error of which the Mail has been guilty in this par-
ticular. - es