The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-30 00:00:00

dared not. Were Peel and his party inflicted upon the
country by the division of to-morrow night, would they
dare to call back our ships from the Spanish 'coast, or
carry back our arms from the Spanish arsenal ? Lord
Lyndhurst may flatter a Doctrinaire coterie in the
salons of Paris by the anticipation of such a policy ;
but he knows that no Minister of the King of Eng-

land dare adopt it. This country cannot look on an
indifferent spectator of the progress of a contest in
which she has so much at stake as in the Peninsula.
Bound to interfere, it is the highest eulogium of her
Government that their object is accomplished at the
least possible expenditure of blood and treasure.—
Morning Chronicle.
A prospectus of the King's speech is given from
authority in a weekly paper. It contains, as is usual.
with the Whigs, a solemn specification of the measures
to be brought forward by the Melbourne Cabinet dur-
ing the session, in the confidence that they wall never
pass into laws, but with the generous hoixt that the
kind-hearted people of England wily exact from
Ministers of the Crown no duty beycald that of mak-
ing abortive propositions to Parliament, and from the
Legislature nothing save intermierable speeches, both
being consistent with the retention of large salaries
by men in office, who leave behind them no visible re-
cord of their services but the receipt of each quarter-
clay. It appears that the dead-lock" system is not
to be abandoned ; that wee are to have the same sham
catalogue of wooden-basked books as in elle former
session ; the same pa w'ted battery of Quaker guns as
have bristled from bowning-street since Lord Mel-
bourne made prize eel that important citadel ; a mock
municipal bill for 'lreland ; a mock stability bill for the
Irish church ; 70111 of pains and penalties for famished
Irishmen, unehrr the name of a poor law ; a bill of
dilapidation for the churches of England, under the
plea of
.prretecting Dissenters from a church-rate ; a
bill of nstlemnito to Lord Viscount Cupid, for the
appalling murders he has committed in Spain, and for
the lawless outrages which his contemptible policy
bras, entailed on the national flag of England in the
east of Europe. It is just possible that the minority of
English members who give a discreditable support to
the Whig Ministers may be so reinforced by Popish
enemies to the name of England, as to obtain for
Ministers a scanty majority in one House of Parlia-
ment in favour of even their most ruinous and dis-
graceful acts. But we prophesy that the day of
retribution approaches. The Conservatives of Eng-
land will stand by their colours. They will not suf-
fer the Protestant clergy to be starved. They will
not suffer 'Protestant corporations to be superseded
by a Popish monopoly of similar powers. They
will not suffer a factitious poor law to be palmed
upon the Irish peasant as a measure of re-
lief and consolation. They will not hear of permit-
ting the sacred edifices of England to be dilapidated,
as a sop to the seditious minority of the Dissenters.
They will not spread a mantle of grace or oblivion,
much less of public recompense and distinction, over
the dishonoured shoulders of Lord Palmerston, for the
bloOd of an unoffending people, which he has com-
pelled the brave soldiers of Great Britain to spill on
the neutral soil of Spain ; nor will the Conservatives,
who are in this case the whole British nation, see
without just resentment an imbecile Minister involve
the reputation of their warlike and victorious country
in the shame of having her flag wantonly insulted, or
the commercial rights and interests of her subjects
violated, by an aggressive Power which for a series of
years has been trying experiments on the forbearance
of Great Britain. But we shall know something more
of all this before to-morrow night.—Times.
To us who were among the first to inculcate, as we
have been among the most zealous and unremitting in
endeavouring to promote union among all classes of
Reformers, it must be no small satisfaction to sec our
advice and exertions seconded by so veteran and able.
an auxiliary in the cause of Reform as the F.din-
burgh Review. In the nuluber just published there is
an article under the head of " The Approaching Ses-
sion of Parliament," is which the writer urges, in ener-
getic language, a close and cordial union among all
grades of the Liberals, as essential to the very exist-
ence of a party which can act even as a check on the
Tory faction. He shows, as we have repeatedly don::
before, that the necessary consequence of a split among
the Reformers would not only he the overthrow of the
Melbourne Ministry—but the return of the Conserva-
tives to power. We would deeply regret—as we know
the country would deeply regret—the dissolution of
the present Government, at a time when they are
straining every nerve to cairy into effect measures of
vital moment to the community. But, great as would
he that calamity, that of the re,:mmption of office Lv
the Tories would be still 17.i-eater. Have the handful of
disaffected -Radicals who have of late been so busy on
seeking
,to alienate the affections of the people from
Lord Melbourne's Administration, and to interpose
every possible obstacle to their successful prosecution
of that course of policy which they deem most condu-
cive to the public interests—have these marplots, we
say, ever snatched a moment from the time they devote
to their destructive enterprises, to ask themselves what
will be inevitable results of the accession of a Tory
AFnistry at the present juncture ? The first of these
would bea civil war in Ireland ; and the next, the ob-
struction of all measures of reform in this country.
h o Edinburgh Reviewer forcibly calls the attention
of the Tory Radicals to these frightful circumstances,
as the inevitable consequences of a successful pursuit
of their present line of conduct. The Reviewer then
admonishes them in terms which are almost word for
word such as we ourselves employed ten or twelve days
since, that in the event of a disunion taking place
among Reformers, and a Tory Government being the
result, they will be held responsible by the country for
the consequences which may follow. The writer,
in conclusion, glances at the certain effects which are
sure to follow the continued resistance of the Peers to
liberal and enlightened measures. We quote the pas
sage with much pleasure :
" On the other hand, let us take the more pleasing and
probable alternative, and suppose that such a majority of
the Radicals remains faithful to the present Government
as will enable it to carry on the public service in the
House of Commons. In this ease it is high time for the
House of Lords to be upon its guard. It is as its
friends that we say so. We beseech it to look to the
dangers which it will accumulate upon itself, and upon the
Constitution, by intemperate perseverance in the spirit and
conduct which it has recently displayed. To our minds, it
is clear as the sun at noon, that it is vain to think of go-
verning Ireland in peace, prosperity, and honour, except
Ireland be governed on the same principles of common
sense, equality, and justice, both in Church and State, which
have succeeded so well, and which alone could by possi-
bility have succeeded, in the kindred realms of England
and Scotland. To take issue on the distinction between
Roman Catholic and Protestant communities, they may
rest assured, will never do. If the House of Lords
continue to recognise Lord Lyndhurst for their leader,
the House of Lords by so doing proclaims itself the
enemy of the Irish people—that people whom he has de-
nounced aliens in blood, language, and religion. If the
House of Lords persist to keep itself, whether under the
same or any guidance, in an attitude of hostility to a popu-
larly elected House of Commons, it will soon become ut-
terly impossible for those who are, and wish to continue
warm friends of the institution, successfully to defend it.
A determined severance of itself from the common inte-
rests of the State, on the part of any one of its constituent
Members, can only end in revolution. In whatever form,
and from whatever quarter it may come, such a revolution
will be much more extensive and much more fatal than any
thing comprised in the complete establishment of all the
hundred organic changes which the most fertile Radical in-
vention has hitherto devised."
This is a passage which we specially commend to
the attention of the Tory Lords. If they are wise
for themselves—putting tire interests of the country out
of the question—they will adopt the salutary counsel
here tendered to them. Whether they will do so or
not is a question which a few weeks will suffice to de-
cide. If they do not alter their course before a month
or two elapse, they may then find it will be too late.—
Morning Advertiser.

The typhus or malignant fever, attended with a sore
throat, is very prevalent in Chesterfield and its neighbour-
hood. Four females of one Emily, of the name of San-
dars, of Stainsby, fell victims to the malady in the short
space of fourteen days.
Such has been the extraordinary influence of ma-
chinery upon manufactures, that the same quantity of frame
net which twenty-five years ago cost 215., and could find
its way exclusively but to the affluent circles, is now to
be had. retail at the humblest town in the kingdom for
the odd Is. !