The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-30 00:00:00

" I have the good fortune to represent" are as unob-
jectionable. Lord Palmerston's representation of Ti-
verton is Mr. Kennedy's good fortune, not his Lord-
ship's, for Air. Kennedy got a place thereby, being
bought off by his Lordship, after the pure "liberal"
fashion of course—that is to say, at the expense of the
public. So much for the clumsiness and the common-
place of the first paragraph of this important document.
The second runs thus
The result of the general election has been to give to
the Reformers a decided and sure majority in the House of
Commons, fully sufficient to secure the ascendancy of those
principles of government which you profess, and according
to which you desire to see the affairs of the country ad-
ministered."

If Lord Palmerston had not happened to be an
Irishman, as well as a placeman of 30 years' standing,
he never could have mustered impudence enough for
such a statement as this. By " Reformers" he means
his own party, and in stating that the election has
given to that party " a decided and sure majority in the
House of Commons," he asserts that which every man
who can read knows to be at variance with the fact.
And that he himself is well aware of the deception he
thus attempts to practise is manifest from the sentence
with which he follows up this "rhetorical artifice," as
Mr. Sheil would call it, though plain-spoken men
would describe it by a better-known monosyllable :
" It will undoubtedly be necessary for the Reformers to
remain united ; for by union among themselves, by perse-
verance against difficulties, and by patience under tempe-
rary delays, the Reformers of the three United Kingdoms
will insure the steady progress of legislative improvement."

The meaning of this is, that if every man who de•
sires to reform clearly ascertained abuses will support
the destructive measures which Ministers must bring
forward to pacify their Popish allies, then, but only
then, the " decided and sure majority" is apparent. In
other words, there is no such majority—for " Reform-
ers" will not unite with " Revolutionists." Lord
Palmerston's use of the word " Reformers" has become
so well understood that it can deceive no one now—

though for a while it proved a mighty successful
stalking-•horse as well for the Whigs as for the Radi-
cals. Let us proceed a little farther with this address,
and the exposure of Cupid's wiles will b• still more
complete. He. says—
" Ireland is the part of the empire whore the greatest
abuses prevail, and where the remedies are most urgently
required for existing evils ; and the people of Ireland hare
unequivocally demonstrated, by their present choice of re-
presentatives, what their opinion is of the relative merits
•f the two opposite systems of government upon which op-
posing candidates have recently taken up their stand."

This, doubtless, is the passage in which the
Grunticle finds " the course which the Government
intends to pursue." It supposes that the Government
will renew its measures for giving a " heavy blow and
a great discouragement to Protestantism in Ireland,"
and for establishing " normal schools of agitation" in
that part of the empire. Suppose the Government
does this ; still, upon the showing of Cupid himself,
there will be no " decided and sure majority" for it,
unless the Reformers unite with the D:'structives. Can
Cupid himself calculate upon this We cannot sup-
pose even him to have grown sufficiently stupid to
make so false a reckoning. We need hardly remind
our readers, that on Monday our correspondent " M.
W." clearly demonstrated that the Government would

be in a minority en the Irish Church Bill, and tha'
we have over anal over again proved, that if the Go.
vernment could not carry its Irish measures in the las

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Parliament, a fortiori it cannot carry them in this.
But we have bestowed much more notice upon this
address to the electors of Tiverton than it deserves, fo.
it is the most foolish and the most impudent Ministerial
declaration that our attention has been called to since

Lord John Russell compared himself and his col -
lea:eiee to Luther and the other religious Reformers
of Luther's time—ay', instituted a comparison between
those who would 110 W give " a heavy blow and a
great discouragement to Protestantism," and those who
by establishing Protestantism then gave to Popery that
heavy blow and. great discouragement, from which it
has never yet recovered, and, we trust in God, never
notwithstanding the attempt of the Protestant
Whigs of Great Britain to extinguish Protestantism
in IrLland, that they may continue in the possession
of place and the receipt of pay. Their fate was
sealed at the moment in which Lord Melbourne so
frankly admitted in his place in the House of Lords,
that the Irish Church Bill would give " a heavy blow
and a ereat riiscouralement to Protestantism." The
vast majority of the Protestants of these realms had
been early taught to renounce " the Devil and all his
works." They then saw the necessity of determining
to renounce " the Devil and all his 41/uks" too; nor
will that determination, we think, he weal:ened by the
recent revelation of the disgusting fact that the young
and innocent Queen, who occupies the throne—that
illustrious lady whom Lord Durham describes as " in
education, in mind, and in heart, a true and thorough
Englishwoman"—has been degraded to the perform-
ance of the un-English, the unwomanly, and the ir-
religious task of writing election squibs for Popish
demagogues in Ireland ':--Times.
Like men tilling and sowing the land in the vicinity
of a volcano, while above and below and around tf.em
appear indications of a catastrophe threatening des-
truction alike to their labours and their hopes, so do
the Tories pursue their occupation, stir up the preju-
dices of fanaticism, and (Effuse their pernicious doc-
trines, in the hope of their bringing forth, in due sea-
son, thc fruits of corruption, while there is an electric
influence permeating the heights and depths of society,
which, at any moment, even in that of their anticipated
enjoyment, may cause an irruption utterly overwhelm.
ing their cherished prospects, and threatening to leave
scarcely a record of their existence but in the history
of the past. But while destruction thus hangs immi-
nent over the enemies of the people, it is necessary to
watch closely the position and prospects of the people
themselves. It is advisable to inquire whether they are
likely to sustain detriment from the power which is
likely to annihilate their opponents, or if the political
soil will become enriched and more fertile, and the frui-
tion of its products accelerated by that crisis of which the
general aspect of affairs demonstrates the advent.
Upon the exertion of the people themselves, upon the
nature and intensity of the pressure without must de-
pend the solution of this problem. It is desirable to
look calmly to the actual position of parties, and not
attempt to buoy up public expectation with hopes
which, unless proper means be adopted to secure their
realization, would serve only to make the ultimate dis-
appointment more bitter. A mere majority in •the
House of Commons, as has been twice proved, is not
sufficient to give legislative effect to the wishes of the
people. Since these failures of the representative
power have occurred, however, other influences have
been called into action. Instead of a sovereign worn
down by age and infirmity, and surrounded by the
leaven of a most corrupt and intriguing court, conti-
nually marring all his better desires for the welfare of
his people, we have a young, enlightened, interesting,
and high-minded Queen, pledged by the very first act
of her Sovereignty to carry into operation those
measures of political amelioration which, though her
predecessor approved, he failed, from doubts excited by
evil counsellors and the want of vigour and decision,
to enrol on the statute-book. This is in itself an im-
mense accession to the popular cause, and more than
equivalent to one hundred votes in the House of Com-
mons. It is, in fact, the entire gain of one of the tri-
partite powers of the State, and in the estimation of
the most ardent admirer of constitutional balances
must be counted as two to one in favour of the inte-
rests of Reform. Still, even with this advantage, and
that of Ministers adhering, as we 'have repeatedly an-
nounced their intention of doing, in spirit and truth,
to the principles which hitherto have constituted the
basis of their Government—the cause of the people,
and the progress of national regeneration, will not de-
rive the least advantage from these favourable symp-
toms, unless there be on the part of the public a corn•
bined and determined manifestation to enforce respect
to the wishes of the Sovereign, the Ministry, and a
majority of the House of Commons. The mode
and object of this manifestation should therefore be
now the first object of general consideration.—Morn-
ing Advertiser.

It is a source of grievous annoyance to the Whigs
that while they are endeavouring to induce the world
to believe that their government is as secure as ever,
their allies, the Radicals, are openly proclaiming the
contrary, and candidly avowing that the late general
election has been a Conservative triumph. This Mr.