The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-25 00:00:00

ening, or stilling to strengthen, his interest
with the outrageous Radicals of the county of
Durham, he was effectually straitening his quar-
ters in the country at large, and weakening his
hold over the favourable sentiments of all who re-
quired in a statesman that he should be independent
and unshackled. Lord Durham thus threw inci-
dentally a light upon his own position, which shows
it to he scarcely tellable under any Circumstances
which are likely to befall the empire. After laying
down, as already mentioned, his own adherence
.to
three measures which both Conservatives and Wh'gs
have long since emphatically rejected, the Noble Lord
blazons it forth as if his audience could have for-
eottun a fact so mortifying to his self-love, that " He
wrs nod connected with the Queen's Government, and
knew nothing more of their intentions than all the
world might know ; hut that, indeed, he should he
very much disappointed if 'ne did not see in the en-
suing session of Parliament a course pursued by Go-
vernment which would gain for it the respect, esteem,
and confidence of all classes of Reformers, be their
opinions what they might." Hete, then, is a
p:11 for my Lord Melbourne, who twice, be it re•
membered—that is, on the two occasions whereon
the Noble Viscount had been commanded to
form a. "Liberal" Ministry by King William—was
guiliy towards Lord Durham of the grave offence of
pointedly- excluding him from every Cabinet office.
ficre, we say, therefore, is a pill to be swallowed by
Lcrd Melbourne. The Earl of Durham has not for-
given (nor do we think he is to be blamed on that
score) the insult thus repeatedly passed upon him, con-
sidering what the persons are whom the present head
of the Queen's Government preferred to that Noble Earl
—individuals who, with respect to talent or attainment,
are not fit to wipe the dirt from Lord Durham's boots.
Now, therefore, his Lordship has, involuntarily per-
haps, bound himself to a severe act of vengeance upon
the author of those successive outrages. He pays that
sort of anticipated compliment to Lord Melbourne,
which may, or may not, for anything we know, be a
sneer, but which in the guise of a hope lays the foun-
dation of a disappointment, and binds Lord Durham
to declare and act upon that disappointment, by
opposing Lord Melbourne's _Ministry. Indeed, after
first avowing himself an extended suffrage-man, a short-
Parliament man, and above all, a ballot-monger, and
next professing to take for granted that Lord Mel-
bourne and his colleagues must pursue such a policy
as " will gain them the esteem and confidence of all
Reformers," of whatever kind, or that he, Lord
Durham, will be grievously disappointed, what course
is it practicable for that Noble Lord to follow, but one
of determined opposition to a Minister who fails to
gain the confidence'of Reformers, such as Lord Dur-
ham himself, by realizing his Lordship's anticipations?
Now, it is our own decided belief that Lord Melbourne
will do nothing whatever to secure the confidence of
the Noble Earl, or of other Radicals who resemble
him in their ballot-loving propensities. We have a
sort of instinctive persuasion that the Melbourne Cabi-
net—a considerable portion of it, at any rate—will be
disposed to bring the Noble Earl's political pluck
to the test, and to see whether his Lordship will make
good his implied threat by standing up manfully
in defence of his ultra-Radical doctrines, and in di-
rect reprobation of the sneaking, peddling, half-and-
half Conservatism which Lord Melbourne himself
(there is not the shadow of a doubt) feels at this mo-
ment the urgent expediency of substituting for the pre-
vious system of practical, though disclaimed O'Connel-
lism. That Lord Durham will be withheld from such a
demonstration of the sincerity of his recent speech by
any feeling of personal deference or kindness towards
Lord Melbourne, nobody at all acquainted with the
relative sentiments of the parties can for an instant
suppose. The Noble Earl, by putting himself at the
head of a Radical opposition, in league or rivalry with
Lord John Russell, may find more abundant food for
vanity as well as vengeance than in sitting below the
salt on the Ministerial benches, and voting,' by sig-
nal of the man who has so often insulted him, for
measures which the Duke of 'Wellington and Lord
Lyndhurst consider it their duty to support. To con-
clude : Lord Durham has all to begin over again. He
is no further advanced than when he first started—
nay, worse ; he has declined in years, and become re-
trograde in political connections. The speech at Dur-
ham—a supplication to Radicalisin—was itself an ef-
fort, and an evidence of despair. Lord Melbourne
may dislike, and make wry faces at it ; but even he
cannot fear it.—Times.

The Tories are just now pretty much in the same
predicament as that to which the little rogue in the
fable eventually brought himself. The mischievous
urchin had been so much in the habit of falsely say-
ing that the wolf was approaching, that when the ani-
mal did actually make his appearance the good people
could not be made to believe the fact. It is a bad
habit that of trafficking in fibs ; the parties who do
deal in so worthless a commodity arc sure to be them-
selves, sooner or later, punished for their went of prin-
ciple. What could afford a more forcible illustration
of this than the present position of the Tories ? Time
after time have they falsely pretended to have become
Reformers. It was under the mask of Reform that
Sir Robert Peel and his awkward squad entered office
in 1834. That mask was soon torn off their visages ;
or rather, they soon put it aside themselves. Since
then the Tories have repeatedly set up pretended claims
to the character of Reformers ; but some how or other
some fortunate circumstance has always turned up
which has completely exposed the libllowness of their
pretensions. They are now once more at their old
game. The Times pronounces the Tories extinct, and
declares that those who belonged to that party are now
good Reformers and true. The Post proceeds a step
farther, and broadly hints, if it do not actually say in
so many terms, that its patrons, the quondam Tories,
have made a leap from Toryism to Republicanism
itself. Possibly the thundering Times, and the wordy
Post, may.think this is all marvellously clever on their
part, 'and that it cannot fail to gull the public. We
have just only one remark to make in answer to this—
and that is, that even though it were all true, the peo-
ple of England would not believe it. They remember
the story of the boy and the wolf already referred to,
and they recollect the singularly striking exemplifica-
tion of that story afforded by the conduct of the To-
ries since the passing of the Reform Bill. No, no ;
the trick of hoisting Reform colours is too stale to suc-
ceed now. To be sure they may still deceive them-
selves, by supposing that they will deceive the coun-
try ; but the people arc not to be deceived. The Tories
are with the nation what certain, well-known charac-
ters are at the Police-offices. They are known as old
offenders, and as a party in whom no confidence is to
be placed. The grzat secret when the Tories are
getting up anew ',iteir pretended claims to the character
of Reformers, is because the unpleasant conviction is
forced on, them, that as Tories there is not the re-
inote.:A probability of their ever again crossing the
threshold of office. This, by the way, is a tacit ad-
mission of the popularity of Reform principles in the
country, and is rather inconveniently at variance with
their late boasted re-action. But, to do the Tories
justice, in conformity with the principle of giving
a cerAtilil personage, who shall be nameless, his due,
we. hare no doubt that rather than be for ever excluded
from Downing-street, they would become Reformers in
practice, though secretly retaining their Toryism prin-
ciple in all its wonted rampancy. This, however, will not
suit the geniuk of the English nation. They are an honest
and open-minded people themselves, and love the same
titialities in others. Forced Reformers will not do for
them ; they must have men who are Reformers at
heart—men whose Conduct is the result of principle.
In the present Ministry they have such men ; and to
them they will adhere with on unvarying and undying
eonsta.!;,ey, so long as they act up to the principles in
wkiCli they came into office.—Morning Advertiser.
In commenting yesterday upon the speech deli-
Verecl by Lord Durham at a meeting of the Durhamite
41 Reform Association," we could not avoid re-
marking upon the curious character of the Noble
Lord's radicalism, which flatters democracy in Eng-
land, and fawns upon despotism in Russia. But a
little consideration will satisfy every reflecting person
that, as each of those forms of Government is but a
tyranny in a different shape, the admiration of both
by the same person is not so self-conflicting a feeling
as may at first view be supposed. The Standard of
last night puts this subject in the proper light when it
says--" Aristotle said no more than the truth—a