The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

PUSEYISM.

TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD, HIS GRACE
THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, PRIMATE
OF ALL ENGLAND AND METROPOLITAN.

We, the subscribed, lay inhabitants of Cheltenham
and devoted Episcopalians, regarding with dismay the
recent development of the views inculcated by the
authors of the " Tracts for the Times," venture to ad-
dress your Grace, as the chief ecclesiastical guardian of
the Church of Christ in England, persuaded that many
of their writings are utterly repugnant to the Word of
God, at variance with the plain meaning of the Arti-
cles, Liturgy, and Homilies of the Church of England,
and contain the essence of many of the most fatal errors
of the Church of Rome.

We therefore humbly entreat your Grace to take such
measures as to your Grace may seem most advisable
for the Episcopal Bench to declare, authoritatively,
their united disapprobation of those opinions, which
have already been separately condemned by many of the
Bishops at their triennial visitations, as we doubt not
they would have been by the remainder, bad similar oc-
casions presented themselves.
We do not presume to dictate to your Grace, but
present our request in solemn earnestness, as to one to
whom the charge and oversight of the flock of Christ
in this realm has been committed by the Chief Shep-
herd and Bishop of our souls.
We, the subscribed, with every sentiment of respect,
humbly beg to declare ourselves your Grace's most
obedient and faithful servants.

Lambeth, Dec. 24, 1841.

GENTLEMEN—I have to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 23d of this month, accompanied by
an address very numerously signed by many of the
laity of Cheltenham, and I beg to assure you, that in
compliance with the wish expressed by the petitioners,
I shall give my grave consideration to this document.

- I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant,
John Lewis, Esq., &c. W. CANTUAR.

CORN-LAW SIMULTANEOUS
MEETINGS.
TO THE EMTOR OF THE SUN.
have been a constant reader of your raper for
some years, and very much approve of the able manner
in which you advocate the abolition of the unrighteous
Corn-laws. I was particularly gratified by your expose
on Monday last, of Mr. Christopher's plan for altering
the present law, and giving us one still more stringent
and iniquitous. I sincerely hope that his miserable
quibbles and subterfuges, worthy of his great leader,
may be seen through by all true Reformers and Re-
pealers.
Parliament meet on the 3d of next month ; would it
not be desirable to have a simultaneous meeting on the
same day of all the parishes of London, or even England,
Scotland, and Ireland, to petition against these unjust
and iniquitous laws ?
The meetings should be held, say at seven in the
evening, to enale men of business and working men to
attend. Union in a good cause is strength, and must
and will be irresistible.

Two objects would be obtained by these meetings ;
first, we could in the course of a few hours, obtain more
than a million of signatures to the petitions ; and,
secondly, the meetings could not be materially interrupted
by the misguided Chartists.
I do not use the language of the Tory Times, and call
these men "a set of unprincipled scoundrels," though I
cannot but consider them as misguided, and acting most
wickedly and cruelly towards their suffering fellow-
labourers. In London, a few hundred of these men in-
terrupt the proceedings of public meetings, as they will
go from Lambeth to Marylebone for this avowed pur-
pose ; but if meetings be held simultaneously in all
parishes, their interruption would be comparatively
feeble and harmless. Will you offer this suggestion to
your fellow-labourers in the Liberal cause ?—Your
obedient servant, A WIIIG REFORMER.
Maryleboue, Jan. 1, 1842.

DEATH OF MR. HOWARD.—We are sorry
to announce the sudden death, by apoplexy, of the popu-
lar and distinguished writer, Mr. Edward Howard, the
author of " Madill the Reefer," " The Old Commodore,"
"Outward Bound," "Jack Ashore," the "Life of Sir
Sydney Smith," and many other works of distinguished
merit. Mr. Howard was one of our most prolific and
successful contributors to our higher branches of peri-
odical literature. In his temper he was cheerful ; in his
habits, temperate ; and in his domestic life, mild and
affectionate. As a husband and a father he was much
beloved ; he was esteemed as a friend ; and much ad-
mired in society, of which, however, he had latterly been
deprived by his total deafness. In convivial association
he had always displayed fancy, wit, humour, and urbanity,
but latterly his absolute deafness prevented any ore!
coutmutheatiou.

GLOBE.—When a Cabinet Minister delivers a set
speech to his constituents, and makes the position and
policy of the Government of which he is a member the
subject-matters of his speech, such a production claims
attention from the press, no less from the responsible
station of its author, than from the interest which the
public has in the intimations it gives of the intentions of
the Government with respect to the measures it. de-
signs to submit to the Legislature for placing the great
interests of the country on a basis calculated to pre-
serve them from injury, and to secure their advancement.
Tots would hold good with respect to any individual
member of the Cabinet at any time. But when tho
public feeling is wrought up to en extraordinary pitch
of painful excitement by commercial embarrassments,
involving widely-spread privations and su'erings
throughout every branch ofi our national manufactures,
and when the previously hermetically-sealed intentions
of the Government, as to the required changes in our
system of commercial policy, to which, in a conseJe-
rabic degree, those embarrassments and sufferings are
referred, have produced a craving after information as
to the plans the new Government designs to propose
for meeting the deficiency in the revenue and for re-
lieving the national distress, a speech from Sir James
Graham to his assembled constituents will be regarded
as little less than oracular. He has, in former days,
written and spoken much and well on the " insane and
cruel policy " of the Corn-laws. Those very laws which
in Corn and Currency, he had denounced as fraught
with all imaginable mischiefs to the country, in his
speech to his constituents last auterna were eulo-
gised as the ne plus ultra of human wisdom, the per-
fection of legislation, to touch which would endanger
the very sustenance of the people. Agitated as the
country is ea this vital question—a question which in-
volves the existence of the Government, and, what is
of greater importance, the revival of its trade and com-
merce and the supply of food, as the reward of labour,
to millions of its people, it is the only natural result of
Sir J. Graham's reputation as a political economist, and
of his position as a member of the Government, which
has obtained office by defeating the late Ministers
on the questions of Free Trade as opposed to existing
monopolies, that his speech at Dorchester, at such a
time, should be regarded by all parties with deep
earnestness. Such was the feeling with which we ap-
plied ourselves to the perusal of the Right Honourable
Baronet's address. If we assert that the production is
anything but calculated to realise the expectations
created by its pretensions, we do so with regret.
We wish, for the sake of the Right Honourable
Baronet himself, and especially for the sake of the
public, which has been deluded into the indulgence of
hopes which have proved fallacies, that it had been
otherwise ; that, instead of being a vague, frothy, un-
meaning effusion—a string of sentences uttered with a
manifest intention of concealing, instead of revealing,
the designs of the Government with respect to its fiscal
and financial schemes, it had given some specific inti-
mation of its policy—some glimpse of hope amid the
pressure of national calamity—some ray of light from
the Treasury, by which the public, long left under the
dominion of those fears which darkness is calculated to
engender, and the perplexity and doubt which uncer-
tainty produces, might shape its course of opinion and
of act, or at least be sustained until the Premier shall
be pleased to reveal the grand Ministerial remedy for
the deeply seated and widely-spread calamities of the
country. Instead of this, however, we find Sir James
Graham copying the bad example of his Chief. Sir
Robert Peel at Tamworth is the copy which Sir James
Graham at Dorchester strives to imitate.

STANDARD.—The speech of Sir James Graham,
at Dorchester, is naturally enough made the subject of
ill-natured comments by the Opposition journals. The
Right Honourable Baronet could scarcely anticipate
that it would escape, and on the whole he has reason
to be satisfied that his unfriendly critics can find so little
in his address upon which to fix even plausible reproach.
To be taxed with inconsistency through the whole of
one's life, is a debt that must be paid by every man
who does not sell himself absolutely to party, if it
has been his misfortune to set out in bad company.
No proof that he has always maintained his princi-
ples inviolate, and that it is in the maintenance of his
original principles he has been separated from his first
associates, will acquit a man, so circumstanced,
of a seeming tergiversation : his enemies will say,
and the vulgar will be too ready to believe, that be is
always a deserter who is not always found in the
same ranks. This is the fate of all men who
act with the integrity and courage with which
Sir James Graham has acted ; and doubtless the
Right Honourable Baronet made up his mind
to undergo this fate seven years ago. It is curious,
however, and it is a circumstance of which Sir James
may well be proud, that in seven years, during which
he has been the object of constant attack on the score
of inconsistency, a single charge of dereliction of
principle has not been substantiated, or, as far as we
can remember, even advanced against him. All that,
roaligners can allege is, that he has not followed in the
tortuous serpentine path of Lords Melbourne and John
Russell—now resisting reform, now proposing it—now
defending the Corn-laws as what it would be madness
even to think of disturbing, now calling for a repeal
of these same laws—now denouncing Mr. Daniel
O'Connell as the public enemy, now licking the
feet of that individual as the bulwark of the Go-
vernment, and the Throne itself. This path Sir
James could not keep, because he chose to walk
in a straight one, and, therefore, he inevitably fell
out of the ranks of his early associates. Sir
James began a Reformer ; aided in carrying
the great measure to which he was committed from
his outset in life ; and having aided in carrying reform,
he properly took his place with those by whom reform
is defended from its Saturnian parents—Saturnian in
every sense—who would destroy it. There is no real
inconsistency in this ; the inconsistency lies with those
who propose an opposite course. We have ..said so
much upon this point, because, in fact, -nine-tenths of
the comments upon Sir James Graham's speech resolve
themselves into attacks upon the personal consistency
of the speaker.
CO U RIE R.—We are daily assured by the dogmatic
dolts of the Anti-Corn law League that the unrestricted
admission of the corn of foreign States would be met
by the unrestricted right of entry of cottons and wool-
lens into those States in return. The Smiths and the
Cobdens answer for foreign States with an assurance
and stolidity as imperturbable as if facultated with ple-
nary powers to conclude in their behalf, and with orders
in their pockets for super calicoes and broad cloths as re-
turning cargo, on the moment that, through the surpassing
effect of their eloquence, the Legislature should, to use
a Scotch phrase, be concussed into a surrender of the
Corn-laws. If, however, we come to ask for a sight of
these powers, all that we can arrive at is, that Smith has
the word of Bowring for the fact, whilst Cobden—proud
of more direct associations—acquaints us that his au-
thority derives from certain understrappers of the Foreign-
office at Berlin, whom he used casually to meet at some
cheap sailer kraut eating-house in that capital when on
his travels ; for Cobden is a traveFed calico printer, if
not legislator ; and although as innocent as the babe
unborn of any acquaintance with foreign idioms, and
but scurvily conversant with his own, yet be con-
trived, by a simple process of his own, to penetrate the
mysteries of Cabinets, if he is to be believed, so
as to be able to predicate their intentions in a given
case. From his unhesitating confidence of speech
and manner we should be inclined to suspect that
all the wisdom of Sussex was concentrated in this
same Mr. Cobden, who acquaints us that in that county
he dates his birth and traces his lineage,
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home in the regions of cotton waste and the Hillgate
than in the more enlightened land of his nativity, where
probably he was regarded in the rightful character of a
bore, if tut the boor he is anxious to pus for.

DEAFNESS.—Sound Magnifiers, and Invisible
Operative Voice Conductors, to enable persons at an advanced
age, and of old standing extreme deafness, to join in general
conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant low speaker
at a publie assembly; they are the size of a very small gold
seven shilling piece, and when in the cavity of the ears, they
are not in the least perceptible nor more uncomfortable than
having a small piece of fine wool in its place ; they are composed
of a metal to collect sound, peculiar to the Messrs. S. and B.
Solomons themselves ; and although they are so extremely small
yet they enable those afflicted with extreme deafness, and
those who arc only slightly dull of hearing to hear in every
respect equal to those of most acute hearing. Messrs. S. and
B. Solomons, 39, Albemarle.street, Piccadilly, opposite the
York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, City. Newly-Invented
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clear and distinct, so that the most aged defective eye-sight be-
comes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural
and original state. These valuable inventions have gained the
patronage of the Royal Family, and the unqualified approbation of
above 400 of the principal members of the medical profession, and
numerous individuals of high distinction, who have been greatly
benefited by their use. To be had only at 39, Alberesiie-street,
Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William-street
City.— No connex ion with persons of the same name.
STATE OF TRADE.—We regret to state that
the trade in this town is as dull as ever. Go where we
will we are assailed on all sides with complaints as to the
slackness of business. The shopkeepers, in particular,
suffer severely. Nor is the slate trade, the staple produce
of the country, that which gives employment to so many
thousands of our taow•countrymen, and on which so
many depend for their daily bread, in a more flourish-
ing condition. The freight, we understand, which
owners of vessels now obtain for a cargo hence to Lon-
don, is only 13s. per ton, and, at the coinmesame neement of
the year just closed it was '2os. for
Does not this fact speak volumes ?—Carnarron H weight.
erald
the .
DEATH OF LORD POLWARTH.—It IS with
ountr gentlemen
deepan othreergoreftotuhramt Novset
hhiagvhelj,ietssttchemeaerdd
cof th)e demise of
--the venerable Lord Polwarth, which melancholy event,
took place at Atertoun House, on Tuesday evening, at
eight o'clock. Lord Polwarth had. attained the advanced
age of 83, and is succeeded in his titles and estates by his
p
eldest son, the Hon. Henry Francis pe ln'n Scott, now
Lord Polwarth,--Kdo