The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-18 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

we will strengthen his hands and his heart; he shall be
our leader still "—( Continued cheers.)
And all this must Sir Robert quietly take, without
lien daring to crack the old joke of the fat knight, " Call
you this backing your friends ? A plague upon such
backing, say I." No ; he naust take any backing he can
get. His function is thankfully to receive it, and pocket
the accompanying insult. Like the Roman Emperor (who
was, nevertheless, a very different sort of " Imperial
purple" man) with his filthy tax, he must swear that it
smells as sweetly as if it were raised more decently. He
must be grateful for having credit as a knave, while he
is shown up as a traitor. No. I 3 will pardon a single
treason, on the condition of his making it a double one.
(
All that is needful is the iteration of Peel into repeal.
i We need not call on Ireland to note these signs of Tory
times. The outcry of war upon a nation cannot pass
unheeded, though it be only raised by a faction. So
imuch of chance as there is for the success of Sir Robert
1 Peel, so much of peril is there for the civil rights of the
tCatholics of Ireland. We believe not in their peculiar
creed ; we sympathise not in their peculiar forms ; but
tve hold their political rights sacred, and know that any
invnzion of them would sacrifice the liberties of the em-
pire. All the bigotry of this country is enlisted under
;he Tory leader, on the express or implied condition that
he shall revoke the religious liberty of Ireland. His
foot:all must be on the Emancipation Act in his pas-
sage to Downing-street. Let the Irish mark well
these Tory proceedings. They have ample forewarn-
ing. To them the question is one of life and death.
j Even before the knife is grasped, their freedom is pro-
f claimed for the first sacrifice. With the common over-
' .ight of the crafty. those who have stimulated the ht-
getry of the few thousands have forgotten the awful re-
.-oil of the many millions. They exult in the crack of
the pop-gun, which may perhaps bring down the ztv-
;,:nehe. War with civil and religious liberty—to this
it must come. English Dissent may hate Irish Catho-
licism ; but their political existence is bound up toge-
ther. The associations which are organising them.
selves against Church-rates do well ; but the restora-
yen of Toryism would be a much more tremendous
eril that. the continuance of the rate. It would
perpetuate, it would aggravate, all ezistini religious
disparities. Thy pgo
ties by whose clamour, corrup-
tion and violenceit would be effected, would effect
it for that very purpose. Sir Robert Peel is no
longer in a condition to become the Minister of the Mo-
derates. He is no longer the tool of Tory toleration.
Violence has " marked him for her own." He bears
the brand like an- obedient galley-slave. It is boasted
that he shall drive the present Ministry from their seats
immediately on the meeting of Parliament ; and yet
ftere is actually at the present moment no set of mea-
sures, no one single measure, for the sake of which his
victory is anticipated by his own party, but the abroga-
t:en of the civil rights of Roman Catholics. The repeal
or the Emancipation: Act is the sum and substance of
Tory policy. It is Tory policy ; the faction has no
other. That is the sole purpose ; but how fearfully
fraught with consequences affecting the peace and the
rights of all classes of the community ! After all, the
bigots wi.l find they have tough work to do, and with a
slippery subject. The game has appeared to go on
smoothly in their own hands. They have sounded their
war-cry, and mustered their strength. The one-sided
wcark is over, and the reaction is coming.
(From the Morning Herald.)

The damages awarded to Stockdale in the action
which he brought against Messrs. Hansard, as Printers
of the House of Commons, were quietly paid to the
Sheriff on Monday night—the sale of Messrs. Han-
sard's effects having been announced to take place on
the following day. Why, let us ask, has the public
bee❑ regaled with such an exhibition of desire to resist
the law ? Why were not the damages in question paid
quietly, and at once ? Sir John Campbell, and his
colleague have, in truth, been baffled in their attempt
to intimidate the Sheriff, as they were previously baffled
in their attempt to overawe the judges of the land.
May such ever be the fate of the efforts of our " philo-
losophic Liberals " to supersede the law, and the institu-
tions of England ! There is of course, still some talk
amongst " Reformers," of an intention on the part of the
House of Commons to vindicate the" privileges " of that
august body. The august body in question will we feel as-
sureil, take the matter very quietly ; they will, (to bor.
ro ,v Sir Robert Inglis's phrase) " eat their leek)"—
although they may, by possibility, brandish at the same
1 tune a very inoffensive cudgel. The House of Commons
j is in the position of a discomfited bully ; and the more I
submissively it shall sneak out of the affair, the better
will it be for the small remains of its moral influence

' over the community ! The late attempt of the House
of Commons to supersede the law of the land is only
1 part of the system of government, which it is the ten-
dency of " Liberalism" to establish in England. But a
few years ago, the majority of the House of Commons
sought to disparage, by every mode, the authority of
the House of Lords ; nay, that majority did not disdain
to sanction O'Connell's " crusade" against the Upper
( House—a crusade conducted in a spirit of vulgar ruf-
fianism, such as, perhaps, only O'Connell could have
'brought to the task. The House of Lords, how-
, ever, has not alone, of the co-ordinate branches
of the Legislature, been subjected to the savage
assaults of " philosophic Liberalism." If we revert to
i Jim era of the Reform Bill, we shall find the preroga-
tive of the Monarch vilified, with no less bitterness
than the privileges of the Peers. Yes :—the loyal, the
excksively—loyal Whigs of 1839, could in 1831 men-
, tiou familiarly the name of the Queen in connection
with the scaffold. 'The " Liberals" have not, more-
( over, confined themselves to attempts to overawe the
Monarch, the Peers, the Judges. They have sought j
to cicroach upon the constitutional privileges of every
order of British subjects. The Liberals have long de-
(sired to deprive the country gentlemen of Englan of
all magisterial authority. Preparatory, therefore, to
the establishment of a rural police, and the transference
to Home-office stipendiaries, of that influence which
• had been exercised for centuries by the gentry of the
kingdinn, there was poured forth by the Liberal
Newspapers a stream of the foulest calumny against
al: " unpaid Magistrates." Calumny is, in fact, the in-
sirtunent by which " philosophic Liberals" seek to attain
their ,ods. When the New Poor-law, was about to be
pissed, the labourers of England were stigmatised
ate' idle, dissolute, and dishonest." When the " cen-
tralised " system (if administering justice was contem-
plated, the " great unpaid were the theme of unre-
t, mittiog scur.-ility. So, we repeat, have the Monarch,
Pie Peers, and the Judges been, in like manner, vilified
by the organs of " Liberalism," and by the " Liberal "
-;4-ity in the House of Commons. To Lord Den-
i„ ad to his learned and venerable brethren, all who

...., _ _
i 1„.,. the ancient institutions of England, are under the
4 deepest oll'igations. The Judges of the Queen's Bench
1 ,;:iive nobly indicu.'ed the supremacy of LAW against the
et,,,!roachments of our tyrant " liberals.' Shall we be
1 'OlO that the law of lib el is bad, and requires amend-
:
1, mant.? So be it ; but until the law shall be amended,
it must be enforced against a majority of the House of
Cominon, as rigidly as against the least powerful vio-
) lator of its spirit and provisions. To this great consti-
-1 tutional truth Lord Denman and his brethren have
t given practical effect.
(From the .3/)rning Post.)
1 ,A. General Court of Proprietors of Eat India Stock
ime its to-day in Leadenhall-street, at which... interesting
discc,
As:ons on several important subjects may be ex-
A motion stands in the paper, of w.hich notice
pecteci.
was
given.
.at the last Court by Sir C. Forb,v, having
for its obje.lt to elicit information as to the application
50,0001., with respect to which no
of a sum ex.lek. ding
account has i N
..
-et ~'ven rendered to the proprietors, nor
the intention of ren. lerlng
any been manifested, except
i that this large amount has i:Ten expended in pursuance
; of resolutions of the Seeilet ,;ommittee. The Secret
1 Committee, it should be understl Nod, consists of the two
' Chairs and the senior Director, an 4 is under the abso-
-1 lute controul of the President of the India Board.
There is, it must be admitted, s, arnething of an
oriental character in this sweeping a 'ode of dispos
ing of other people's money. That the cash in
this instance has been honestly laid ou •t there can-
not, of course, be aay doubt ; but yet we should not
be mach surprised if a considerable porti 7n of the
proprietors of East India Stock were of opini ~a that it
s Would be as well for them to know something a bout the
.aantier in which this 50,0001. and.upwards , le their
j i.."‘",'Y has been spent. At present all that is known
' 'and"thatas",ooo/. has evaporated from their trei. tsCrY,
1 zi,,,,,. • t_,lii.obody has the slightest idea where it can ha%:e
t. .• .
.‘ e have heard that it is intended to elud.t. the
,nq_,u:tsitiNreness of the East India i rietors by an inti-
rz..,,0n that the money h Pre Pin
I eaatern frontier oftheir as been spe.n.t . the north-
this evaion be attempted
t
why money should Asiatic dominions. Should
ait will very natorally be asked
been drawn from ,the treasury
of Leaclenhall-street, toanbde expended at tl. Ne extremity
ordinary cours, " of remit-
tanceof India, the natural
being, not from En
to England. It would England to India, but , 'rom India
seem a ire
about way of transacting business,
for
sem. 7 round
money
from Calcutta to Leadenhall,streesest,
cathbe , ourphsee
of sending it from Leadenhall-street to" 001.
matter ought to be thoroughly sifted,
or there '
will be persons unreasonable enough to think e
t.e
,t
Leadenhall-street has been drained to re
secret-service chest of some of the offices abouotrWbi '°-
ball, in order to exonerate the latter from Parliament. guy
s
responsibility, This would be hard upon the proprieta•—
,of East India stock, and, what is much worse, it would

supply the Administration with an easy means (3f _
iuding and corrupting the people of Great Britait w.
That no such system of accommodation exists. ought t 4
be clearly proved in the only way in which it can be
proved—by giving a distinct and satisfactory reply to
the question, " What has become of the
.50,0001. ?,
But the above is not the only interesting business to '
be brought before the Court of Proprietors to•day.
That Court is to he called upon to follow the example
set them by the Court of Directors on Wednesday last,
y passing a vote of thanks to Lord Auckland, Sir
John Keane, and the general, field, and other officers of
the Anglo-Indian Army, on account of their services in
, r about the late expedition to Affghanistan. These i
no 'ices' we:apprehend, will not pass unanimously, for they
,
did n 9t pass unanimously at the Court of Directors held a
week it,go.ft will very naturally and properly be asked what