The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-04 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock.

Sir ROBERT PEEL is fast becoming unpopular
throughout the empire. He has deceived the
hopes of the commercial and manufacturing
classes. The agricUltural classes are very gene-
rally offended by the results of his measures.
The worrying Income-tax, almost before any
portion of it has been levied, is rousing against
him the bulk of those who live comparatively at
ease. He has done nothing whatever to soothe
the irritation of the lower classes, who hate him,
and hate his party from old recollections, per-
haps even more than they now hate the Whigs.
His Government: rests no longer on the hopes
or on the satisfaction of any of the great pro-
dueing interests, or on the bulk of the people.
It is neither loved nor respected ; it is borne
with, because at present those who hate and
despise it cannot change it for a better.
The choice lies betwixt him and the Whigs ;
and great as may be his present unpopularity,
contemptible and hateful as may be his Govern-
ment to the majority of the people, it is still
less unpopular—less contemptible—and less hate-
ful than that of the Whigs. His faction is
shielded by their still greater failure. Neither
has, for the bulk of the community, any char-
acter of goodness; but his Government is, as
yet, less bad than theirs. It is not his own virtue
but their demerit which keeps him in office.
The country owes him nothing for an increase
of prosperity since his accession to power, but
it cannot forget that its decay and its.sufferings
began before he was,,Prime Minister. It has
been deceived petty, paltry, Meddling
commercial alterations (they do not deserve the
name of reforms), but it has no faith in the
changes proposed by the Whigs. It seems to
• need other measures, and other Men to execute.
them ; it cannot yet find these, and therefore it
endures PEEL. ,

If the public complain of the Income-tax, the
answer is, that the wasteful expenditure of the
Whigs has made it necessary ; and were they to
return to power, it is doubtful whether they
could or would abolish it. When the farmers
"dont" and "drat " Sir ROBERT, they are re-
minded that he is their friend, and that. the mea-
sures of the Whigs would inflict on them a still
greater injury. If the manufacturers say he has
done very little for them, they are told that the
Whigs were ten years in office, and never at-
tempted to set trade free till they had lost the
power to carry such a resolve into effect. When
the Chartists complain .of the prosecutions of
1842, they are reminded of those of 1838 and
1839. The Whig journals are trying hard
to make out a 'ease against Sir JAMES GRAEAM,
because HOLBERRY died in prison; but the Char-
tists—and they are a very numerous body--•
reply, that the Whigs put him there. They
k now from Lord JonN RUSSELL'S repeated de-
claration, that they have nothing to hope from
his finality principle; the Tories are their open
and declared enemies, who never beguiled nor
deceived them. The Tories never said other-
wise than that they were determined to be the
masters. They never toasted " the sovereignty of
the people." If the Chartists hate the Tories
more, they perhaps despise the Whigs more,
and will have none of them. There is no great
interest in the country which looks with con-
fidence to the Whigs, or they might soon oust
their now unpopular opponents ; and therefbre
all submit, with grumbling, to the Tories.
If these remarks are a pretty fair representa-
tion of the feelings and opinions of the majority
of the community, it appears that the Whigs
" are now severely punished for their short-corn-
ing and injudicious proceedings. It is for them
a sad thing to be regarded by the public as worse
than the Tories. Though we do not agree With
the public as to the degree, we coincide with it
in looking at both parties with mistrust. Both
have contributed to bring on the present con-
dition of England. The policy of both has been
erroneous. Neither has ever thought of doing

justice to the people. Both have gone on in a
career of extravagance, disregarding the welfare
of the masses, till great difficuties have conic
upon us. The community has ceased to place
unlimited confidence in either party, and has
ceased to he Whig or Tory. The Whigs per-
ceive that they do not gather strength as their
adversaries become weak ; and they begin to rail
against the neutrals, or men of neither party, be-
cause they stand aloof, and will not again place
them in a situation to break all their promises
and deceive all the hopes of the people. We
hail with pleasure the unexampled rapid in-
crease of a party which is neither Whig nor
Tory, which looks to the interest of the commu-
nity, and which will, we hope, ere long become
the most numerous in the country, and then it
will be the most influential in the Government.
At the same time it is not. satisfactory to find
the leading politicians of both parties objects of
general distrust. Both are condemned by faces.
The want of prosperity, which is a reproach to
both, is the source of the want of confidence. It
is too palpable to be concealed or denied that
both have failed. The policy of neither is adapted
to the circumstances of the times, and the wants
of the community. The nation is in a peculiar
condition. It is without leaders whom it loves
and respects, and without a system of policy in.
which it has a lively faith. It must, therefore'
work out its safety on some other plan, and
under other.gnides.

The present is probably the most remarkable
age on record since the Reformation for innova-
tions in religious rites and ceremonies, taking
their rise not from any wish or feeling whatever
in this respect among the people, but planned
and carried out by the priesthood. The
worst feature in the general movement
is the little regard paid to the truths
and doctrines of Christianity, and the vast
importance attached to outward forms and
symbols, hitherto regarded by Protestants as
little better than Catholic mummeries. These
follies are not confined to this country, but
are exhibited in still greater pethetion among
our lively
to look upon them with contempt and derision.
neighbours, so long accustomed
LOUIS PHILLIPPE being anxious to establish the
Catholic religiOn in Algiers, appointed a Bishop
for that Purpose,
as well as to minister to the
religious wants of his own people. The prelate,
on arriving at his deStination, found the task,
it would appear, rather irksome, as the
-land was polluted by
and a.'device, and resolved to go in quest of the Paganism, and there
was no sacred spot fur erecting a Cathedral, to
whiehworshippers might look with veneration
we';''''rn remedy these evils he hit upon a
noblen
bones of, ST. AVGUIITIN9I, who was a native o
Africa. f'
The Saint had died in Italy, and no one
could say.exactly where he had been buried; but
this di fficul ty was easily overcome. ThePishopaud
his assistants resorted to the most likely
spot
after digging
for recovering Abe veneratt d bones, and,
great delight, the precious treasure fully
carefully, at last beheld, to their
identified by a gold ring on one of the Saint's
fingers. They were collected, placed in
a sarcophagus, and brought in triumph
to Toulon. A grand procession by torch-light
crossed the town, with the Bishop of ALGIERS at
its head, accompanied by the Archbishop of
BORDEAUX, six
Bishops, the entire Clergy
of Toulon and the vicinity. The Government,
tooi patronized the scheme, for the sacred relics
are to be conveyed to Bona •in a war steamer.
escorted by
mockeries like these increase the respect of the
two ships of the Royal navy. Will
French fur Mother Church? Will they not, on
the contrary, he viewed in the same ligh as the