The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-17 00:00:00

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CANNING, BURDETT,_ PEEL and TIERNEY ?

If both Messrs. CANNING and PEEL ►ere
standing* for Oxford, there is no doubt that the en-
lightened -Electors -there would be justified in voting
for one or other, according to the particular opinion
which each. had formed on the very difficult quesi n
of Catholic Emancipation-- fOreither Candidate would
confer honour even on Oxford. But suppose that
Mr. CANNING were to stand for Liverpool, and Mr.
PEEL for Oxford, :against some trumpery antagonists,
would not. a 'conscientious and rational man, having a
vote in each place, give it for both these -men,
though, of course, he could not agree with both on
that question, about which he might have completely

made up his`' own mind? Would he be consulting
the interest and dignity of those places, by giving even
one of his votes to the first fellow, picked up out of a
ditch, who agreed with him (probably) on one point
only, whereas the other disagreed only on one--
whilst the rest of his conduct commanded .his highest
esteem and veneration ?

Decided opinions of our own are quite consistent
with toleration for those of others, and the want of
that toleration is in most cases a proof of ignorance.
The man of real learning has reached that eminence
by a tedious journey, in which he may have been
quently obliged to abandon strong, holds,whieh he for.'
merly held to be impregnable, and will not forget this
when judging of others.
We shall only repeat that we hope the people of
England will look to the real character and qualifica-
tions of the Candidates, and will only give weight to
their opinions on particular points when there is some-
thing like an equality in the general merits of the rivals.

Of all the schemes with which interested individuals I
have pandered to that appetite for novelty which has
of late been raging • amongst us, we verily believe
that there is but one from Which the public may be
expected to derive any great or permanent advantage,
And that one is the London University. Not that
we entertain the most distant hopes that an establish-
ment will ever be formed wherein the ingenuous fouth
of thii.Metropolis shall sit at the feet of OCTAVIUS
GILCIInIST. We are not sanguine ;we confess that
we have - not the slightest expectation ever to behold
the very worthy Doctor BIRKBECK, presiding in
scarlet at the Fellows' table, in any of the learned
and religious foundations of the London University.
'Neither do we ever expect to behold .the time when
sound learning and religious instruction shall flourish
imongit us, under the especial patronage and protec-
tion CUM/411Y BROUCHAMi Esq. M.P.' . •
WC shall never, we fear, be able to congratulate
our fellow-citizens on the acquisition of an. Institution,
for giving to our..youth &smattering of abstract know-,
ledge;' free from all perniciOns admixture of Christian
Doctrine. It will not be
.in our. pow* (anal we re-
gret it), to tell them where a Collegiate education may
'be obtained, on liberal principles, free frorn the dead-
eninginfluenceof all moral restrietion,—vfbere a de-
gree may be taken in unbelief, and 'pure morality
drained drop by droplttohf.nr.eogMEwdetal.tsiliebianyfir,gltinioindgyoe-stuB;bot,riebeohfoldit'
infi-
delity. We utterly despair:--bubble after bubble has
burst before our eyes,. .until the conviction has gra-
dually and unwillingly grown upon. us, that it is
physically necessary every bubble should burst.
Independently of this conviction, we perceive about
the project all the symptoms of a mortal.decay. A
death-like silence pervades,' where its praises were
wont heretofore to be re
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