The Sun. — 1847-08-20 (London, England)

LON )')N, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1847.  Among so many revelations of horror and so many causes of heart-burning--while the circumstances of bloodshed connected with the duel between M.BEAUVALLON and M. DI:JARRIER, and those of the fatal rencontre between Lieutenant MuNew and Colonel FAWCETT are being simultaneously revived in the Criminal Courts of London and Paris—while the imagination is revolted at the details of brutality elicited day after day in the witness-box of the Old Bailey, or appalled by the intelligence of the murder of the daughter of Marshal SEBASTIANI, in a bedchamber of her own hotel at the French metropolis— while we are stunned in one direction by the broils and recriminations of the electioneering antagonists, and in another filled with abhorrence by the disclosures of many infamous occurrences—it is pleasant to consider the generous and ennobling sentiments just uttered by Sir ROBERT PEEL to the more reflective portion of his Tamworth constituents. After the more barren topics of political controversy and party contention, it is agreeable to examine the speech delivered by the ex-Prime Minister upon the possible extension of happiness among our fellow-creatures by the further diffusion of the knowledge of Christianity. In the abstract, there is nothing for which we have imbibed a greater loathing than those meetings of mock-philanthropists, in which there is a pretence of benevolence can, a pretence only. The counterfeits of can, however, he very readily detected. They can be detected as easily as though the proposition were to send a supply of pocket handkerchiefs to the Ashantees, instead of disseminating the and ignorant fellowScriptures among our more indigent countrymen. For ourselves we would as lief follow the Godly example of DANIEL QUILP, by frequenting Little Bethel, or emulate TONY WELLER, by attending the Brick-lane Branch of the Ebenezer Temperance Association, as we would think of becoming subscribers at the vast majority of the meetings convened for the distribution of books and brochures for the regeneration of the poorer classes. And our repugnance arises principally from a conviction that there is a great deal more of relig ion in a pound of good beef, or a basket of sound potatoes—when the question is the aid of the humbler members of the community—than in a stereotyped tract or a sermon printed upon vellum. Sir ROBERT is, however,is a privileged supporter of Bible associations. H Parliamentary. and Ministerial career is the guarantee of his sincerity He is none of your agricultural SAINT BERNARDS, who label their electioneering banners like of ointment, with e these many boxes friend ."' 50.A.„D.50, The ex-Premier, instead ee el:: bo ir snman'gs his virtues in sarcenet, has aspired to the moreamode si glory of bettering the condition of the labouring classes, by the removal of unjust imposts. Instead of distinguishing himself as " Good Sir ROBERT, the poor man's friend," by becoming a genteel purveyor of homilies to the million, he has contented himself with such obscurer labours as that of destroying a system whereby the more opulent divisions of society were protected, and the more indigent were burdened with the incubus of indirect taxation. Hence it is that Sir ROBERT PEEL is a sort of privileged advocate for the more intellectual and spiritual kinds of benevolence; hence it is that his name is in itself a ouarantee for the integrity of the motives of such descriptions of typographical philanthropy, Those who have been l Right Hon. Baronet is a iPtely persisting that the -Papists—a sort of JesuitTh in tihse gused emissary of the National Family—will i 'The distressed at the decisiverefutation otfh theese Ta s as me r .-. -tions contained in his speech as chairman .wa/th Bible Society. A declaration #dox Protestantism could not be desiredof by rtehenrmthons; estrestieust. , • onists of Dr. Pusev. The whole :amt.: 'eg e `4 atic with the Thirty-nine Ahritsicles. ,-- S. ;flit 7RT'ilot only repudiates Popery b i tandiii4-&e chairman at the annual asysembratgAof the Tarim vrth Bible Society, but he in.... quotes r .. 0\,.....--,..,. . ~....