The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-15 00:00:00

NOTICE.

very Full and Impartial Report of the Debates on
Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Motion, and Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S Amendment, will he given
in the Morning Sun, which may be had as
early as Five o'Clock in the Morning.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
The Public is respectfully informed, that the
PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE
WITH THIS SEASON ;
The following Programme is therefore given of its final ar-
rangements :
The Standard Plays, as brought out at this Theatre, will
itsch be performed once snore, viz. :
LING LEAR, MACBETH, OTHELLO,
HAMLET, CORIOLANUS, lON,
THE TWO FOSCARI, WERNER, and VIRGINIUS.
HTHIS EVENING, Aran- 1L
WRICHELIEU,
ill be performed theO R New'l PE
la
Cy,
ONSPIRACY,in Five Acts, called
Written by Sir E. Lytton Bulwer, Bart.
The Characters by
Mr. Elton, Mr. Diddear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. An-
dersen, Mr. Vining. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben-
nett, Mr. Here, Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Var.
seeld, Mr. W. la. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, )Jr. Bender.
Mr. Paulo, Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur-
dot, Mr. smith. Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Wal-
dron, Mr. Ayliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss
Vandenboff, Miss Charles, Mesdames Reed, Corder, Lee,
Valanduke, Mathews, Mew, and Morgan.

After which,
FRA DIAVOLO.
Marquis San Carlos, Mr. Frazer ; Lorenzo, Mr. Burnett ;
2erlina, Miss Rainforth.
To-Morrow, King Lear, with The Quaker.
On Wedneedap, Richelieu, with The Marriage of Figaro.

LONDON :
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1139.

The Amendment is now before the country, and we
give Sir ROBERT PEEL credit in part for the frankness
of his proceeding. The words, almost taut disguise
or subterfuge, avow the principles of the Tory Govern•
ment, which, if sanctioned by the House of Commons,
they would establish ; they administer a foretaste of the
bitter drug of humiliation and indignity which the
people must swallow under the regimen of Tory ad-
visers. The Amendment is a specimen, a rehearsal, a
sort of programme of the practical change in the dis-
tribution of power which the Tories would substitute
for the system always contemplated by our Constitution,
and recently and happily canonized and confirmed by the
Reform Bill. The people, instead of being paramount
through their representatives, and forming, though only
a third estate, the most efficient order of the whole,
may learn, from the position assigned to their represen-
tatives in the notable adjustment of parts, devised by
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S motion, the line and the predica-
ment in which they are hereafter to range themselves
under their subtle and precarious patterns and masters,
the Orange Nobility of England. The Commons aro
to dwindle to nothing, the Lords are to lead the way
as Lawgivers, Statesmen, and Judges. If new
statutes are required, Lords and not Commons
shall ascertain the necessity and devise the provi-
sions of the new law. If wrongs are to be re-
dressed, the Upper House, and not the Commons, hi-
therto the great inquest of the nation, are to find the
wrong and apply the remedy ! The people, forsooth I
may esteem themselves fortunate if allowed, through
the House of Commons, to lash their small attendant
bark to the gorgeous vessel which precedes them—
" To share the triumph and partake the gale."

We do not believe that the people of England arc pre-
pared for such humiliation. Let their representatives
beware of consenting to the infliction of it. They are
no longer mere nominees of titled boroughmongers.
Let them show that they are as little humble fol-
lowers, sycophants, or slaves of an Aristocracy. To a
branch, and to a pitiless branch, of that Aristocracy,
they deliver the supreme power of the State, if
they condescend to enlist themselves under Sir ROBERT
ReEL.'s banner this day. They confer on the sole
judges of State delinquencies the character and
functions of accusers they encourage the most
vindictive portion of the Nobility, the Orange
Lords of Ireland, to frown down the blessed prerogative
cf rneroy—and they virtually transfer from their own
body, the right of advising the Crown, or the choice of
its Ministers to an incroaching, arbitrary, and irrespon-
sible oligarchy. Let them, we repeat it, beware. It is
not a mere knot of politicians, a slender band of Radi-
cals, but large chives of the community—it is their
constituency that is watching them, and if they swerve
on this trying occasion, and if the General Election en-
sue, as ensue it must, they will rue the consequences of
voting to replace a Tory Ministry in power,—for such,
•nd such only, is the practical effect of Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S resolutions.

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