The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-28 00:00:00

TROTTING IVIATCII.

Mr.
lirosl,),o au bia tare Music, undertook to trot eight miles
iri Lit,
nit hour, on tile Essex road, yesterday morning. The
sofitch was made over the bottle the preceding evening, and was
for 200 govereigni. The mare performed the first two miles in
seven minutes and three seconds, the second in seven ndnutee
3.1 X second., the third in seven minutes four • seconds, sod the
fourth in seven minutes five fee{)ll4, winliiiie cloy, with two
ViNtre•

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It gives us unspeakable pain to announce, on the
authority of papers and letters from the north of Eng-
land, that the situation of the poor weavers is little, if
at all, amended ; and that no distinct prospect can I*
alleged of any favourable change in their conditioo
either front better wages for those Who are employed,
or from a general demand for labour. Those of our
readers who recollect our reasonings upon the subject,
will acknowledge that we have assigned a sufficient
Cause for the continued idleness of the poor English
journeymen in. those circumstances which. have trans-
ferred to the continents of Europe and of America ,
considerable proportion of the cotton manufacture of
this country; and we have yet heard of nothing in the
domestic policy of Great Britain which should lead a
sober-minded man to presume that the lost manufac-
ture is speedily about to be restored. A total repeal
of the Corn Laws, and a large reduction in the price
of bread, to be further effected by a straight-forward
and 'Wholesale retrenchment of our corrupt expenditure
—these are the ,Only human means whereby . the dis-
missed weavers of Lancashire can be recalled to their
long-.suspended labours. With this conviction acting
irresistibly upon us, we would fain yield to. the same
comfortable delusion, which so many others, humanely
in Most instances, indulge, aml which, enables them
to speculate quite at their ease about the revived acti-
vity of our manufactures. To those, however, who
agree with us in sentiment, the present condition of
the distressed weavers and theirfamilies, is only a mat-
ter of so much the more concern, because we do not
see with clearness any path by which they can emerge
from it. The misery of the case is this—that an im-
mense stimulus was for the course of more than 25
years given to marriages throughout the empire, by
the demands of war, and of manufacturing industry,
both of which furnished means of subsistence to the
multitudes whom they called into being. So long as
the title was at the full, every thing was buoyed up by
it ; the population, in its almost preternatural increase
raf laborious numbers, floated on the surface :of this
deceitful stream ; but the day of reckoning could not
be postponed for evers—the ebb followed, the waters
receded,. and myriais of living creatures were deserted
by the element which had hitherto sustained them.
}or us, we make to truth a grievous and repugnant
sacrifice, in stating that there appears to our judgment
no remedy for the sufferings of the unemployed poor,
but such as will not be adopted, until after an extre-
mity,of evil, beyond the, imagination of any man who
draws only upon history for a standard by which to
govern his imagination. The poor men who now toil for
a wretched pittance, which -leaves the involuntary idler
himself small room for envy of their happiness—these
half-fed labourers, worn out with foil and privation,
are pursuing in many places (and who can be sur-
prised ?) steps; which' they hope to render conducive,
in some degree to their relief. They have held, very
recently, a meeting at Bolton, to consider about the
means of procuring redress far their alleged grievances,
and have passed a number of resolutions, in two of
which it is declared,: that;at the actual rate, to which
wages have been reduced,--' in the first place, by persons
of inferior character, eager for inordinate profits ; and
in the next; by more respectable Manufacturers lower-
ing wages in self-defence to save themselves 'from
being undersold by the former,---the journeymen can-
not, pay 'any more rents,: and are in absolute peril or
starving, with their families, throughout the ensuing
winter. The remedy they seek is an .equalization
of
wages. This, as a legal cure, we think, for reasons
stated, already can never !le. advantageous to the parties
who petitioit for it ; but we is!ge satisfaction in stating,
that not a seditious or reprehens;Ne word was uttered
by any One. of the speakers.— nmes. .
in uSliering into notiee the late Charge delivers by
the Bishop of London to his Clergy, a writer in a
Sunday Paper commences his remarks by describing
the present time as, " a moment when the Constitu-
tion, in Church and State, is Ihreatened ors all sides
by the Siniultaneinis exertions of Sectarists, Radicals,
and Liberals." This ()illy reminds us of the boy in
the fable, who: cried " Wolf" so long, that when the
wolf really did come, nobody heeded hint. We do
not say that there is any period when those who have
the care, of our interests, both in Church and Statei
should he off their guard, or lulled into a quiescent
state of security.; but we are quite sure that this is not
a period which ~ calls for this byperbole of alarm, and
that had the " nee Deus intersit" occurred to the
classicabnind of this writer, he would have furnished
a stronger proof of good sense and good taste. Of
the Bishop of London's charge it is impossible to
speak too highly. As a composition, it brings tei
back to that period when our language Was divested of
those pruriericies Sul deformities which some among
the most popular of our present writers are but too
apt to fall 'into t while the way which the subjects
are treated exhibit that sense, divernment, cahnness,
and charify,,whieli ought to be, but wbich are
,not al-
` ways,-the characteristics of a Christian Divine., But
admitting for a moment what, to a certain degree at
least, cannot be denied, that the Church has some
formidable opponents to contend with, is the Bishop
of Louth:in, or are his eulogists, quite sure that all, or
even the 'principal of those dangers are to be appres
betide& from without ? It is easy enough to talk of
Sectarists, Radicals, and Liberals," and to go off at
score through the whole gamut of imaginary danger ;
but &the disease be in the house itself, the owner will
not look abroad for the pestilence ; if the danger: be
that of civil war, the cotintry need not look for protec-
tion against Cowie invasion. This we firmly believe to
be the case. And we would ask the Bishop of London,
for instance, with ti.A most unfeigned respect both
for his piety and talents', whether the unseemly broils
which have lately arisen, ;tea have attracted so
much observation and disgust is prie parish in Ida own
diocese (St. °lave, Hart-street), are not calculated
to do more real harm to religion, and to the Esta-
blished Church in partieular, than the joint ,ed:wp of
and. Liberals" can eirect
Sevtarists, 'Radicals,
twice the period ? Whether this is a schism which
the Bishop of London might riot have put au end to,
and whether.the of the parties does not use liisi Lord,
I
ship's name as his support, arc matters we do not
i .
mean to discuss ; hut this we are sure of, that wnl e
such scenes as have been here exhibited exist, it is „,
alto
aer being geter
fain dan
to talk of the Church's ,
those who' fearh so
external. Again, we would ask
much danger from • without, wit ether they think the
' such as
moral and religious state of the Universnws, _
.
can be conducive to the c hurch of
weir-being of fire
En ? Disguise and gloss their deformities over-
observa
as they will, no man of common feeling and ,
wie
tion eaillook at the real state of these e'sw m .s i
)3"1"1 leltrialig' and religious education," and not
know that the, latter appellation beeomes in effect the
most gross imposture which was ever attempted t 9
bey
pilmea•upon the COMMOn: VIM of infUlkUld. Yet
Nye are to he assailed forsooth`with the .cant of Alma
Mater, and be taught to suppose that profligacy be-

comes excusable, and sin hallowed in certain situa-
tions. This is one of the. species of libeadism from
which the Church is in danger. To its many other
dangers from within, space will, not now permit us to
allude ; to some of them we have indeed, under the
Jicad of Visitations, recently drawn the public atten-
4ion. We are not insensible to the dangers from with-
out, nor, on the other hand, will we silently consent
to see them magnified, as in the instance which has
led to these observations. If there is any precept of
religion more obvious and important than another, it
is that which teaches us to look to " the mote in our
own eye." Let those who have the charge of our
spiritual concerns but keep this principle in mind,
they may rest assured, that while reforming our in-
ternal defects, they will be furnishing the most effec-
tual security against external danger.--Morning
Herald.

We have a better opinion of human nature, than to
believe that men are disposed to do mischief merely
for mischief's sake ; or that, except in cases were self-
interest: may incline the. balance in favour:of them--
selves, they, take a pleasure in injustice. There are,
it is true,, moral as well as physical monsters—men of
so malevolent a disposition, that they are gratified by
mischief, and delighted with injustice ; but exceptions
do :not destroy, the rule. The Courier, hOwever,
wOuld either seem to have a worse opinion of human
nature, or a worse opinion of us than of mankind in
general ; fir he very charitably attributes to us a dis-
position to incite the Landholders to plunder—
" Aged men, who have advanced the savings of a life, devoted
to honourable industry for the service of the Government—poor
widows, whose husbands have in this way made some small pro-
:vision for their future comfort--and helpless orphans, who have
only the dividends assigned for their maintenance between them
and beggary."
Nay, our ContemPorary would seem to think there
is something so perversely wicked in us, that in order
to be gratified with this wholesale robbery of the aged,
the widow, and the orphan, we should not hesitate to
lend our aid to a project for involving the - whole
country in confusion ; and this metropolis, more par-
ticularly, in a state of distress, from which no man
could promise himself an exemption.
'! The real object of the article" (an article in The chronicle
of yesterday), says our contemporary, " is pretty successfully dis-
guised ; which, however, we have no hesitation in saying, is to
familiarize the public mind with the idea of breaking faith with
the National Creditor, though censure of such a proceeding is
breathed with all the sincerity of Mrs. candour, when that good
lady reproves scandal ; and with all the earnestness of Mr. O'Con-
nell, while preaching loyalty, to inflame disaffection."
Our yeprobation of all plans of confiscation, how-
ever disguised and however christened—as'equitable
adjustments, or what not—is not new. When' a dis-
poSition was manifested during the period of agricul-;
tural distress, to invade the public creditor, at several
county meetings (and we may particularise Norfolk),
we.- expressed our detestation of it in terms of which the
sincerity was never questioned. What has happened
in the interval to induce us to change our sentiments ?
We ere not conscious of having ever had any particular
taste for convulsions ; and though we do not think so
ill of human nature as to attribute to them a disposi-
tion to do mischief gratnitously, we do nqt think so
well of it as to wish to see ourselves at the mercy of a
revolutionary mob. The ameliorations to which
we look forward are those which must must ne-

cessarily result from the diffusion of intelligence.—
The Courier does us great injustice if he supposes
us so Wood-thirsty as to wish to civilize him and
other loyal men of his kidney, a la lauterne, or to
head a party entering a breach in one of the King's
eagles. We agree with our contemporary, that an
attempt against the Funds would be very wicked on
the part of the Country Ci'entlemen ; but we fear a
number of them have taken it into their heads, that it
would be for their interest to plunder the public cre-
ditor rather than the mechanic and the labourer; and
our contemporary may remember the Poet's observation,
that

"When kalif the wavering balance

It'a rarely right adjusted."
It is praiseworthy, therefore, in our contemporary
to' expto.l so much of his wisdom on them, and to
endeavour to show that an invasion of the national
creditor would be Its fOP4SII as it is evidently wicked.
This is all as it should be ; but why must his kindness
towards the Gentry be mixed up with such cruel hn-
putations against ourselves ? In imputing to us
wickedness without an object, we trust our contem-
porary has not arrived at that conclusion by looking
inwardly; for though we can well believe he has
sagacity enough to know on which side his bread
is buttered, we are unwilling to thing him one
of those who would be gratuitously wicked, and
therefore judges others to be so from self-knowledge.
The Courier says of us, that we have " pretty suc-
cessfully disguised the object" of our article, which
object he will yet hardly contend could promote our
interest. If he has, been informed that we hold large

landed estates, and supposes that we may in consequence
conceive'onrselyes interested in robbing the fundholder,
we are sorry to inform him, that he has been misin-
foraed. We cannot even conceive ourselves to have an
interest. eeparate from the rest of the community on this
point. We are too much in the habit of speaking our
sentiments without disguise, for truth to be a " success,
ful disguise "in our case. Our contemporary may be
able to derive a success from truth as a disguise ; we
must renounce the hope of that advantage. We will,
in conclusion, give our contemporary a piece of advice
—if he be so unfortunate as be)ieve an universal
unshicerity, to avoid giving expression to the belief,
lest it lead to a suspicion unfavourable to himself.
Besides, if he wish well to a cause, it strikes. us that
it is not the best way to advance it to say—every one
who advocates it is insincere as myself. If James and
John profess an abhorrence of any interference with the
national creditor, do not believe them ; they mean the
reverse of what they say—they, have successfully dis-
guised their objects This manner of arisingf tends to
produce an impression
.that them must rte some con-
cealed advantages, of which the person is .awore who
can see AO well through the successful disguise.-
Morning Ch. ronide.