The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-01 00:00:00

procedure. In short, his re-election is a wece of pure
good luck ; and as such he pours out his honest Irish
heart in a libation of the lowliest gratitude that
any proud-minded man could submit to. And how
does his Lordship requite this favour? 'Why, by let-
ting the Tivertonians into a profound state secret,
which is unknown to any other constituency in the
empire. To their ektreme astonishment and delight,
the eoble Lord informs them confidentially that " the
recent elections give the Reformers a decided and sure
nadority in the House of Commons, frilly seicient
to secure the ascendancy of those principles of go-
vernment on which they desire to see the affairs of the
country administered." There is here a good deal of
diplomatic precision truly. The previous announce-
ments to the same purpose by his Lordship's evening
oracle had been universally regarded as mere empty
vapouriiig. But now, it seems, they are formally ra-
t:fled by her Majesty's Foreign-office, though not
without the usual protocolic caution for which that
department is supposed to be distinguished. Observe,
it is not the Whig Ministers that have got a majority ;
it is only " the Reformers ;" in other words, his
Lordship discloses, rather unguardedly we fear, the
important fact that fully 600 members of the new
House of Commons are decidedly favourable to Reform.
Whether they are all favourable to the reform pre-
tences of Lord Palmerston and his fellow stipendiaries,
is a question which his Lordship finds it convenient
to shirk. But that there is a majority "ully siffi-
cient" for the main purpose of the Noble Lord, he
makes no scruple to declare. Now, all the world knows
that his Lordship's purpose is simply to remain in office.
To suppose that he has any hope or care to effect the
enactment of any one measure formerly brought for-
ward by his colleagues, except as indispensable to their
prolongation of power and pay, is what no experienced
person will allege : and as there is no compromise,
abatement, or accommodation which the Whigs will
refuse to make in order to carry their main point, his
Lordship presents us by implication with a satisfactory
solution of the enigma, that whereas the Whig majo-
rity in the last House of Commons was not half suf-
ficient to achieve any revolutionary measure, it is
" fully sufficient" in the present more Conservative
Parliament to work out the tame proposals which, in
case bolder ones should threaten their expulsion from
office, will be submitted for adoption. But even this
insinuation is not hazarded by the Noble Lord
without a suitable proviso. There are certaln ifs
indispensable to its realization. " If the Refor-
mers remain united—if they will persevere against
difficulties—and, above all, if they will be patient
under temporary delays, they will insure the steady
progress of Whig ascendancy and legislative improve-
ment." Mark the stress which his Lordship
lays upon the anticipated " difficulties and temporary
delays." Whence, we ask, are these to arise ? Lord
Palmerston tells us that the Reformers will have a
" fully sufficient" majority. Of course they will be
able to carry out their projects without either difficulty
or delay. That the Whigs will resort to their old
averment, that they have not had time to concoct and
carry their plans, is hardly credible. That they will
venture to blame the House of Lords for retarding
measures which have never passed its threshold, is
equally beyond belief. To what cause, then, are these
difficulties and delays to be ascribed ? To this cause,
and to no other—that the Whig majority in the new
Parliament is not fully sufficient to expedite the pass-
ing of Whig measures ; and that if even ten righteous
men shall be found unwilling to remain implicated in
Whig iniquity, the country will yet be saved, in spite
of Lord Palmerston and his accomplices. What a
veracious and able calculator is his Lordship ! So
much for his sure and decided majority ! What his •
Lordship means by promising a " public amusement"
to the good folks of Tiverton, who have been the in-
struments of his " good fortune," we cannot, of course,
conjecture. But this we know,- that let him give the
most splendid ball and supper he can produce, graced
by all the Miss Figginses in the town, and enlivened
with the best buffoonery that Devonshire can afford,
his efforts at hospitality, considered as " a public •
amusement," will fall very far short indeed of the letter
which so ludicrously announces it.—Times.
Having failed to excite any feeling of discontent or
dissatisfaction against our youthful Queen and her il-
lustrious mother, by their scurrilous abuse and invective
—which, coming from such a source, served only to
concentrate around these distinguished ladies a more
fervid feeling of respect and devotion—the Tories
seem now to have changed their tactics, and labour to
attach, by their eulogy and approbation, that obloquy
which their slanderous invective failed to cast upon
the elevated objects of their calumny. A most Je-
suitical specimen of this eulogistic inculpation, or in-
culpatory eulogy, was exhibited in the Times of yes-
terday, wherein the leviathan of apostacy, merging for
the nonce all alarm about the " Kent-Coburg Mi-
nistry," the " back-stairs tyranny," and the " sordid
female foreign tyranny," which on her Majesty's ac-
cession were so strongly and abusively denounced, now
discovers that the visit of her Majesty's uncle, the
King of Belgium, is both " natural and seasonable,"
that his presence is likely to render essential service
both to the Queen and the country," that the " time
of the visit is singularly judicious," and that he will
" suggest important lessons for her Majesty's guidance."
To make these announcements the more imposing, the
usual falsehoods of Toryism are put in requisition
—and the reception of King Leopold, at Ramsgate,
which, though respectful, was far from enthusiastic—
the manifestations of ordinary courtesy being for the
most part confined to the Liberals, the Ramsgate To-
ries not having at the time received instructions from
the oracle of Printing-house-square—this reception is
represented as most strongly expressive of national
feeling—whereas the fact was, the few Liberals desirous
of giving a cheer to the Royal visitors were restrained
by the lowering aspect of the Tories, which threatened
to interrupt any extraordinary warmth of acclamation.
It is highly ludicrous to hear the Times describe "the
delicacy wherewith his Grace (of Wellington) has-
tily withdrew, in order to leave the King and Queen
of I3elgium in sole and undivided possession of
the approbation of the public." We should have
premised that previously to this sensitive shrinking
from applause—this maiden • modeety of the bash ful
and retiring Duke, " the decorum of the well- dressed
multitude," as the Times states, " gave place to deaf-
ening shouts of exultation." " Never was that il-
lustrious Conservative more enthusiastically hailed."
To all this we cannot give a more suitable reply than
that of our old friend Sir William Burchell, in the
Vicar of Wakefield—" Fudge ! Fudge! I" The
Times infers that the sole object of this visit is to
persuade the Queen that the feeling of the country
is " Conservative," and to advise her Majesty to cone
form to the wishes of her people. When the wolf
lies down in amity with the lamb, or the lamb seeks
the protection of the wolf, the feeling of the British
people will be Tory, but not before. We perfectly
concur in the propriety of the Timci observations
when it observes—" Of course all negociations and
proposals touching her Majesty's personal happiness
arc at present entirely out of our view. We take it
for granted that the Royal visitant will have more
judgment and consideration than to meddle with any
such matter. Nay, we assume that he will evens e
the propriety of withholding his interference, as well
in regard to specific questions of policy, as with re-
ference to the persons who ought, or
,ought not, to
conduct the Government of this empire. ' This is all
perfectly correct, for though we consider that her Ma-
jesty's personal feelings should have all due weight in
the disposal of her hand,•yet it would certainly be more
desirable for the nation to form an alliance with a party
whose existing portion would increase the national in-
fluence, nothing to
the country, upon its bounty.—taming
save a claim
than with those who would bring
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Every body recollects the declaration of the Whig
upon.coming into office that they were to govern with-
, out patronage, and everybody sees that they are more
profuse and shameless in governing by patronage than
any Government that ever went before thew. Their
multiplication of commissions for the purpose of pro-
viding for their connections and dependents, and pur-
chasing Parliamentary support, has afforded a very
etseeee nractical illustration of the 44 !arena-anent" to
which they were pledged, by saddling the country with
additional and unnecessary expenditure—unnecessary,
at feast, for all purposes but those of political corrup-
tion. Their unscrurlous mode of rewar.4ip I.hor
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