The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-28 00:00:00

PTISZIC OPINION:

The Post renews its attacks on the manufacturing
system in the following terms :—" The modern manu-
facturing system of this country has pauperised and
brutalised a fearful proportion of the labouring classes.
While the policy of England was purely agricultural,
the whole community was incomparably more happy and
prosperous than it has ever been since. Under the in-
fluence of our old agricultural plicy, not only did the
labouring classes find abundance of profitable employ-
ment, but their spiritual wants were faitufully minis-
tered to. This fact is indirectly proved by the enemies
of the Church. These men are in the habit of alleging
that the spiritual destitution of the manufacturing dis-
tricts ought to be provided for out of the noble endow-
ments of the Church herself 1 Yes ; the endowments of
the Church of England are noble ! They are evidences
of the piety of the territorial aristocracy of England
under the influence of a purely agricultural po!icy. But
why should these endowments be expected to provide
for the spiritual destitution of a population which, ac-
cording to the boast of our free trade manufacturers, a
manufacturing policy has created ? Let our 'Liberal'
manufacturers—our champions of free trade, and of
cheap production'—let the men who boast that the
machine-owning capitalists 'could buy up the Peerage'
—let these men provide for the spiritual destitution of
those masses of human beings who have been made
paupers, in order that the Cobdens, the BrothemotiF, and
Gregg's, and Strutts, may claim to be the equals of
Peers !"

In reference to the Report of Mr. Roebuck's Election
Committee, the Advet tiser says—" As was to have
been expected, the heals of the Tory and IVhig Press
have aimed at what they can do to quash and to neu-
tralise the effect of the late Committee on Elections.
Deny the statements or the It port they dare not ; but
evade, deride, choke them as far as they coul , they have
endeavoured to do. The public, of course, may repro-
i bate, but will not be surprised at it. The Whig party,
in the name of Sir John Cam Hobt-.ouse. and the Tory,
in that 'of Mr. John Walter, are both so implicated in
the facts which have transpired, that there can be no
astonishment relative to the manner in which they each
resolve either to give an erroneous impression of the cir-
cumstances, or to pass them off as if they were of no
moment. They are both, too, interested in the
maintenance of a corrupt system ; they both see in it
a way for themselves and their adherebts into
the House. One an acknowledged organ of the
ex-Whig Administration ; and the other, whether
the avowed or otherwise, yet the notorious re-
ceiver of a bribe to an enormous extent., for a change in
the tenour of its political advocacy, both sides of the
daily Whig and Tory Press are, therefore, literally the
interested, as they may be considered, suspected media of
opinion on this grave topic. Their aim, of course, is to
cloak over the now revealed state of the representative
question, if they can. As they cannot annul the facts,
their most earnest endeavour is either to put a wrong
face on them, or to drive them away into the oblivion of
neglect and silence as quickly as possible. But if there
is an honest party in the country it. will not let such at-
tempts have effect. And it is to this party the country
must look if it wish for truth on a subject really the most
vital that can be discussed. And the most alarming part
of the facts which the Election Committee have disclosed
are, by far, those relating to the compromises. It is this
compromise question which really betrays a more corrupt
state of the representative principle than even the bribery.
It may be safely said that the annals of political corrup-
tion exhibit no parallel to it.
The Chronicle observes, in allusion to the Mines and
Collieries Bill—" No unimportant good will be accom-
plished by the measure. It will stop many horrible
scenes of cruelty and immorality. For numbers of
children it will create months and years of light and
sunshine, and afford opportunities of instruction that
may spread a blessing over their lives. Thousands of
women will be spared the degradation to which they are
now exposed, and raised to the decencies of their sex,
and its more befitting occupations. Some check will be
interposed to frightful and fatal accidents ; and by the
withdrawal from this section of the labour market of
those who never ought to have been in it, either the value
of labour will be enhanced, or an opening will be afforded
for the competition of men who are at present unable to
obtain any employment whatever. We call this philan-
thropic legislation—a bright spot in the history of the
session ; and a benefit for conferring which Lord Ashley
deserves the thanks and blessings of thousands of grate-
ful hearts, as well as the applause of all who rejoice in the
contemplation of honourable and beneficent achievements."
The Herald says—" A man like Lori John Russell
may be a fit leader for the Whig party coming into office,
but we believe him to be too upright a man to be a
fitting leader for it on its exit. For such a purpose it
requires a man far more conscious and far more knowing
—a man used to the convivial and forgiving temper of
the times. Lord John Russell, cold and frigid—reserved
in personal intercourse—his mind bent upon matters of
state, election, or debate—rarely seen—not cultivating-,
flattering, overawing, seducing the varied dispositions of
the motly crew congregated under the banner of reform
—cann 4be expected to hold his ground when any man
possessed of such qualifications as those in which he is
wanting chooses to come forward. The late Foreign
Secretary to all those qualities which we have enume-
rated, joins many others. He gives himself trouble ;
can fascinate when he chooses; and he is master of all the,
social amenities ; and to Parliamentary tact, oratorical
powers, facility of exposition, aptitude of sarcasm, he
adds the unbounded influence of select hospitality. Ile
is the very fountain of knowledge of, and intercourse
with, the world without this little island. Facts, affairs,
men, nobles, senates, princes—all that reside north, east,
south, west of England—all that influences it from with-
out, possessed in his single mind, must be to the mem-
bers of manufacturing districts, as well as counties, a
source of delight when he chooses to communicate, and
of confidence when he chooses to withhold:"

The Times contains the following We to-day re-
sume our remarks on Mr. Roebuck's Election Com-
mittee. We observed on Monday that the report was
worded in a manner very diffvrent from those fiery
speeches with which he opened the trenches against the
accused Members. From what cause this proceeds of
course we cannot pretend to say. Whether the line
which Mr. Roebuck in that paper adopts is the offspring
of a genuine suavity of disposition, or whether he found
on looking over the reports of his late speeches, with all
their energetic disclaimers of all personal or vindictive
motives, that it would be impossible, with any preten-
sions to sincerity or consistency,. to emit a personal
tirade .against any one or all of those whom he visited
• with his inquisition ; or whether he was obliged to re-
sign himself, whether he would or no, to the impossibility
of substantiating a tangible charge of corruption against
any candidates or Members of Parliament, and so con-
sidered it wise totake with a good grace that more quiet
tone which circumstances imptoratively demanded ; or
whether, finally, the Report is not his but the Com-
mittee's ;—whether any, or all, or which of these.
reasons operated to produce that more guarded language.
in which the much-expected Report is couched, we, of
cours.3, cannot pretend to say. Nor, indeed, if the truth
be told, do we very much care. It is sufficient that the

Report is very studiedly unobjectionable ; and we are
glad to finsi it so, witilotit invettigating bm'scrup4lon,'y
the eauset 1% hich may have combined tu 'make it wl.at
it is."
MONIrt--Wlilic76#E—CowzrazacE.
The sum deposited in We Tyrone Saving, Bank is
428,9611., which is a larger inveStorent than appears in
any other town for Ireland, Dublin excepted,
Upwards di` hiiie hundred and sixty,Ove thousand
persons travelled by the various steam-boats on the rivet';
plying to and from Greenwich, Gravesend, and Wool-
wich on Sunday.
Upwards Or 100,000 quarters of foreign Wheat from
the north of &dupe have been imported into London
within the last fortnight.
NAVAL AND VinitIPARY.
By a Parliamentary return of all mates of the Royal
Navy, it appears that the total number who have passed
their examination for Lieutenants, up to the 3d of March
of the present year, is 387.
LAW AND PO =CM
At the Antrim Assizes Judge Perrin sentenced two
sisters to be hanged for the murder of the illegitimate
infant of one of them.

Tuesdiy, at Greenwich, two little boys named Howe
and Smith, who had come from Uxbridge in searca of
employment, were committed to prison fur three months
on a charge of breaking a public lamp on the Greenwich-
road. It appeared that one of the prisoners had been
before the same Magistrate on a similar charge, aLid that
in the course of a fortnight lamps had bean broken in
that neighbourhood to the amount of 21. I4s.
The third adjourned meeting of the creditors of
Messrs. Acraman, Morgan, and Co, of Bristol, took place
on Tuesday. Nothing of public interest occurred, and /he
meeting was adjourned till Thursday.