The Sun. — 1840-05-02 (London, England)

PUBLIC JOURNALS.  FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. ( From the Morning Chronicle.) Because a homicide was perpetrated in Tipperary, and a seditious ballad was chaunted in the streets of Kilkenny, Lord Stanley proposed to establish the horrors of mai tiallaw, and domiciliary visits over all Ireland. Because thCre are found upon the register a few fictitious votes, and the names of trine electors departed this life have not yet been struck out of the lists, the same cool-headed statesmen propounds a measure rendering the acquisition of the elective franchise, with the very best conceivable qualification, a process as tardy and vexatious, as precarious and expensive as an action of ejectment, or a suit in Chancery. As in the ease of the Coercion Act, Whitefoot outrages were but the pretexts for destroying the constitutional tribunals and all the muniments of public liberty, so in the Case of the Registration Bill, now before us, the personation and perjury alleged to exist under the present system are nothing but pretences, and very shallow ones, for wreaking the vengeance of a beaten faction upon the rights of a victorious people.  (From the Times.) There was an assertion some days ago in the Ministerial newspapers, not less untrue than several others which those authorities are went to make—namely, that the Conservatives were crying out for war, and declaring that the country ought long ago to have been at war in many quarters." We repeat that such an accusation was both untrue and impudent. The real complaint of the Conservative party was, that Lord Palmerston pursued a policy which must, without some special and remarkable interposition of Providence, force us into war with other nations, or into dishonourable means of avoiding such an issue. And this, surely, was no unreasonable ground of charge against the Queen's Government, provided the fact was capable of proof. Teen let us ask, had our wish been for war, would it not have been abundantly gratified by all that has transpired within the last ten days ? (From the Morning Post ) We abhor theological differences. The Church teaches unity and charity, and does not teach controversy. Let us have faith and confidence in some one guidance—let us have some certain source of mental peace and quiet. This is what the Church affords, until pestilent schismatics, heretics, and infidels come to create disturbance, and make turbid the clear waters. And as if this were not bad enough, we have a Government which welcomes and cherishes such dist;:rbcrs, instead of repelling them and ket ping the peace; Verily these disturbers. and the Government which countenances them, shall have their reward. (From the Morning Herald.) Would a repeal of the Corn-laws prevent, in all time to come, the recurrence of bad seasons ? No : a repeal of the Corn-laws would do none of these things 1 But a repeal of the Corn-laws would deprive the British labourer of his widest and surest field of occupation—and would annihilate, or divert to other channels, all that mass of agricultural capital, which now maintains the greater number of British labourers, when they are employed, and which is taxed, moreover, for the labourer's benefit, when he is overtaken by age, disease, or privation of employ ment. It the Corn-laws were repealed, the British labourer would possess no security against a rise after an ungenial season in the price of the four-pound loaf from fourpence to nincpence halfpenny; but atter a repeal of the Corn-laws, the British labourer would be deprived of the means of buying a sufficiency of bread, even at times when bread should be the cheapest.