The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-27 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Globe of last evening thus alludes to Lord Lynd-
hurst's anti- Ministerial diatribe in the House of Lords
bit Friday night When Lord Lyndhurst poiuttd
with so triumphant a tone to the mai:gled retuduns of
Government measures which he had dragged at his
chariot-wheels by the power he is enabled to exercise in
the House of Peers, was his Lordship so intoxicated with
his success as to be altogether indifferent to the probable
effects which his self.laudatory oration would have on the
people ? When his Lordship gloried over the expecta
tions of the great bulk of the Irish population--again de-
ferred, although not defeated—of obtaining an equality of
civil rights with the other parts of the empire of which
they are an integral part in name, but from the consti-
tutional benefits of which they have been long shut out
in fact by barriers the House of Lords now alone at-
tempts to perpetuate—did Lord Lyndhurst imagine
that his speech, so full of taunts on Ministers for their
inability to give municipal rights to Ireland, would tend
to propitiate the regards of t e Irish people toward
Toryism, or cause them to forgot or forgive the
insult which his Lordship hurled upon them, when
in a former oration delivered in the wantonness of
triumphant exultation at the injustice the Peers
allowed him to perpetrate in their name, and by their
power, he designated the Irish people a nation of
" aliens ?" Or does his Lordship imagine that were the
aspirations and aims of the opposition to Ministers,
which he wields so despotically in the Upper House, to
be crowned with success, there is any incantation he
could use that would lay the unquiet spirit of Ireland,
or induce a peaceable acquiescence with Tory rule ?
The announcement that the present Government was
about to give place to one of which Lord Lyndhurst
would be a member, would operate as by enchantment
to call up the remembrance of past oppressions and
present insults."

The Courier, speaking of the wrongs of Ireland,
says :—" The Chartists of England have unquestionably
their grievances—trying, heavy, and most aggravating
grievances, long borne, and yet long and keenly to be
suffered ; but see, amidst the violence and the crime
of which tney are guilty, under the colour of po-
litical agitation, and the perversion of a wise reso-
lution to obtain redress—see to what wrong, what
oppression, what cruel and almost crushing perse-
cution the peaceful and loyal population of
Ireland are even now exposed ! See what Tory land-
lords in Ireland will yet venture to do, and what tenants,
who are not utterly debased and prostrate in spirit,
are yet liable to suffer. Ireland is most nobly avenged
for many of the heartless and wanton injuries that
have been, through hopeless years, inflicted upon her—
avenged, in the honourable contrast which she presents
to our eyes, as we turn from threats and turbulence
here to the comparatively tranquil and confiding spirit
which animates that once misruled and miserable
country."

The Standard alludes, in the following terms, to Lord
Lyndhurst's tirade on Friday night :—" Lord Mel-
bourne appeared to felicitate himself and his col-
leagues on Friday evening, on the fact that Lord
Lyndhurst had founded no specific motion directly
affecting the stability of the Government, on his
unrivalled exposition of the Ministerial offences
of the Session ; and declared that, howevt r
his Lordship might degrade her Majesty's Mi-
nisters, he would add nothing to the strength of
his own party by his exercitation.' We differ from
his Lordship in this opinion ; and repeat our belief that
Lord Lyndhurst's narrative of the sins of omission and
commission of the Government during the Parliamen-
tary Session, will have an effect ' out of doors' which
will eventually prove of more service to the Conserva-
tive cause than half-a-dozen motions involving more
specific results."