The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS..

On the motion of the Mat quis of Londonderry in
the House of Lords on Thursday night, a select Com-
mittee was appointed to take into consideration the
state of the coal-trade in the United Kingdom, to-
gether with the duties of all descriptions, and charges
affecting the same, as well in the port of London as
in the several other ports of the United Kingdom.
The names of the Peers composing the Committee
are—the Lord President, Lord Privy Seel, Duke of
Wellington ; Earls Eldon, Longford, Rosslvn,y Grey,
Lonsdale, Vane, Dudley, and Cawdor ; Viscount
Goderich ; Lord Bishop of Durham ; Lords Clifden,
Oriel, Ravensworth, Bexley, Wharncliffe, Durham,
and Skelmerstlale. The Committee meet on Mon-
day next. We must express our strongest hope
that this Committee will effect some great and per-
manent good in the reduction of the price of coals
to the consumer. If our population be doomed to
suffer from exclusion of foreign corn, coals—a
native production, of which the best kinds are to
be found in England—should not Also be added, by
their extravagant price, to the list of prohibited, or
almost prohibited, articles. If bread be the staff of
life, coals are its clothing. It is inconceivable how
much comfort and content might be produced were
Souls more easily attainable.—Timex.
The Brunswickers have become quite desperate,
and are running a tilt at whatever comes near them.
One day there is the Duke of Wellington and his
plot for establishing a military regency,—next day
there is the conditional forfeiture of the Crown by
the reigning House of Brunswick. On both occa-
sions we see a direct adoption of the chimeras of
1793, 1794, and 1795 ; a levelling of all ranks and
all authorities in the nation ; the levelling principle
in its very worst form, for it is a leVelling of moral
distinctions—of independence with servility—of
liberality with bigotry—of reason with zeal—of
knowledge with ignorance, added to the old ones of
property with poverty, and of the respectable classes
with the mob. This new spirit, manifested in the
ancient vicklers of aristocracy, was well touched off
by Sir James Mackintosh. in his speech on pre-
senting the Edinburgh petition last Thursday even-
ing to the House of Commons. The Right Hon.
Gentleman hardly seemed to know whether he could
venture to call the illustrious body whose sentiments
he so eloquently and powerfully de.:vered, by their
once appropriate title of the more " respectable"
inhabitants of Edinburgh. Ye among that
list were enumerated the eminent names of
Scott (no longer an anti-Catholic), Moncrieff,
Chalmers,--men far above that ignoble herd who
audaciously term themselves the people of England,
and would interpose their miserable prejudices as
barriers to arrest the union of two great nations ap-
prox4rzating with the rapidity of light itself. The
shameful arts of some of the petitioners against Ca-
tholic relief were exposed in both Houses of Farlia-
ment. Rev. Gentlemen, it appears (but we respect
the cloth toe much to name them), were not satis-
fied with a single signature to a single petition, their
sworn duty to the supreme power of intolerance
was not so easily discharged. One of these indivi.
duals signed in three places to the same number of
petitions, and thus passed with the Muster-Nlaster-
General, Lord Eldon, fix. being, the " most worthy
and respectable" clergymen, coming forward to sup-
port our sacred Protestant establishments. This
rererend person, indeed, realized the somewhat
difficult hypothesis of Mrs. Malaprop, of being
like Cerbertts, three gentlemen at once'" So
the placards noticed by Lord Lyttleton were not
bad specimens of Brunswick dexterity and honour.
Nor leer* the Scotch placards a great deal better.
It is so very aivious that the whole Bench and the
whole Legislatusse must within a few months be
Aliei by Catholics, thee,: being, perhaps two or three
Catholic lawyers in Englawl, and perhaps not
iuite so weeny in Scotland, who ever can dream of
sufficient eminence in the profession to qualify them
at candidates for the Bench, while at this moment
erwrs is scarcely a Catholic, with the exception of
the Duke of :Norfolk alone, whe has the means of
returnisese at his own pleasure Members to Parlia-
ment. Not many weeks ago a friend of ours was
asked by a y4ang lady, a pupil in a most distinguish-
ed school, kept by an exemplary woman, what "the
ladies meant by Cain:lie emancipation—whether it
was true that we must all turn Papists, and go to
ms,,s and worship images, whatker we liked it or
not ?" This is a positive fact ; the individual who
put the question was a fine intelligent girl of four-
teen ; and such are the wicked perversions of truth
in aid of which so many thousands of our country-
reett and women have been thrust forward
co exercise the constitutional right of petition
Xs) wonder such a cause should fall.—lbid.
The catholic Relief Bill has now but one stage
to pass through;—it will be read a third time on
Mon:lay, when one more, but that the last, ineffec-
tual struggle of intolerance against justice—of inn.
policy against svisdorse—evill probably take place.
The division last night was, as usual, excellent;
but we expect that the viciory on Monday will be
distinguished by a much more triumphant majority.
The passage of the Bill through the Lards will
scarcely occupy more than ten or twelve days ; and
e;;e. solemn festival of Easter will witness a spectacle
worthy of its sacred institution, when those who,
according to the beautiful expression of Sir George
Murrav," place their reliance on the same Re-
deemer," may begin to hail each other as fellow-
freemen as well as fellow-Christians.—lbid.

Our neighbours the French have for a long time
been notoriously crazy on the subject of Jesuits.—
Whether it is, that their infidelity has not yet
taken sufficient root, and that they have doubts of
its being able for some time to stand the competi-
tion of its antagonist without s.omething like the
nrotection which is bestowed ors manufactures
in their :::fancy, we know not ; but thin w.e know,
that their eter.:
al declamations against the Jesn;ts
betray a want of t:nfidence an the part of the Li-
beials in the goodness
their cause, or their. own
ability to defend it, ham.; less discreditable to
-
them than the cowardly exclamit:.ions
s,tand their
cutors and fanatics, that they canna, of our perse
aidi of
ground against the Catholics without ti::
penal laws. The French, it is clear, are ltr:e all
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parvenus, little in doubt whether they have not
over-estimated their power of resisting temptation.
—The existence of passion in behalf of any set of
opinions, is, in fact, always an evidence of imper-
fect conyietioa; for whenever certainty is attained the
is at ease, as we see every day in mathematics,
If the 1-7;•7ich had more confidence in the principles
they hive es;'oused, they would, we suspect, be
less intolerant tow.:
rds the Jesuits, or those whom
they call Jesuits; that we believe, all whom in
this country we should cat: Evangelical or Metho-
distical. Be this, however, as tr, may, we arc, we
own, not a little astonished that the 1,.:0p1e of this
country, who have their fair share of dOrnet,-;ie in-
sanity, should inoculate themselves with the in-
sanity of their neighbours on the subject of Jesuits.
%%hat can be more amusing than to hear Mr. Hus-
kisson—a man whose energies we thought had been
exclusively devoted to coin, and iron, and silks, and
shipping, and Custom-house regulations, and Com-
bination Laws—launching out into declamations
nesunst the Jesuits, not unworthy of the best days
of Port Royal ! Were we not aware of the pru-
dence of oor late Colonial Secretary, we should be
almost tempted to suppose him under the influence
of some black-eyed Jansenist mistress. With all
deference to Mr. Huskizson and Mr. Peel, and the
other senators who have entered the field against
the Jesuits, we cannot help thinking this warfare
mean and ungenerous in the extreme. An
Englishlegislating Parliament against Jesuits !
How, in God's name, can we be affected
by Jesuits ? We will undertake to so,. that if
Ignatius Loyola himself were to come to life, and
make his appearance in this country, he would be I
no match for Johanna Southcot or Huntington, or
the leaders of the Ranters, or the Generals of the
Jumpers, in Wales. All the subtleties of the Je-
suits—their ingenious casuistry, their nice distinc-
tions, their probabilism, &c. are too fine spun for
our lower orders. and would be utterly thrown