The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-22 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION%

and enough of energy in the revolted sense o! this great
country to meet and to ovel-bear it."---(Cheers.) " NV'
join heartily," said Dr. Wardlaw, " in this denunciation
but we apply the principle nearer home, and in a some-
what different way."—( Loud cheers.) The estatilish-
meat ot. any religion by State endowment was injurious
to ftith—(Hear, hear;—anti it asked what was the
Province of the civil ruler in matters of religion, the re-
ply should be that the civil ruler had no province at all
—(Checrs.)--,that, in the language of the Scriptures,
6, render unto eveLar the things that arc Cuasar's, and
unto God the things that are God's."—(Loud cheering.)

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Morning Herald of this day, speaking of FridaY
night's division, and the Ministerial majority in the House
of Commons, says —" The time was when the Whigs'
if they wanted a resolution of the Commons to overawe the
House of Lords, hat only to put forward the accommodat-
ing Lord Ebrington with some high-sounding and menac-
ing proposition aimed at the independence of the aristei
cratic branch' of the Legislature, and instantly a wiority 0
a hundred and fifty and two hundred were at their hack,
like Robin Hood's men, brought by the shrill call of his
Lordship's whistle to the rescue. What a change tll,l
Whiggcry or public opinion undergone since
tithe, that a Whig Ministry, gasping for life-;
screaming to the Representatives of the People
to support its struggle for existence, can only, incluaine
its own votes, obtain a majority of twenty-two! And this
is the majority with which Lord John Russell was to Pre"
duce a moral impression on the country, and intimidate'
from the independent and constitutional exercise
its high functions, the House of Lords ! Lord Jur.
Russell might as well attempt to stop the course of the
Thames by himself, and his miserable majority, Putting
their backs against the stream, as to arrest the mig.htY
current of Conservative opinion continually swel'irg Int°
a volume and strength which will sweet:, away Whiggwebrie
in its resistless progress, while itself unspent."
" mighty current of Conservative opinion," which is bar
;
so grandiloquently alluded to, is just now little better then
a stagnant pool, without ower to sweep away a straw's_
the events of the last week hare shown. It will tabs
long time yet to make a Niagara out of a Conservative
current.
The Times, in the course of a leading article suggest
by Friday night's memorable division in the House of Co
mons, urges the following remarks :—" Suppose the -be-
tested and undisputed facts laid by the Committee of
House of Lords to be such that no jury on their 0at,,D9,,
without the manifest guilt of perjury, could fail to IT
that the laws have not been actively enforced in Irelliau;
that the prerogative of mercy has been abused inteLe sia
encouragement of crime; that justice has not
righteously administered ; 'that Magistrates have nothyea
appointed for their willingness to repress political outra:
but to encourage sedition, or to foster a spirit a .1
obedience to the laws, as well as of disaffection telf,
the British Government, as was the case with
Daniel O'Connell—suppose, we say, that the facbt
the attested—irresistible—acknowledged facts, bronit,
out on oath by a variety of respectable uvi
nesses before the Lords Committee, should be 500" Ty
to compel a Report on the subject more or less inculpate, s
of the late Lord Lieutenant and his officers, and in whr.i.
predicament will the House of Commons have Plaee:bik
self, by pledging its own authority to a general aPPr" of
tion of Lord Normanby, without a tittle of evidence or a
Whs t
shadow of inquiry to palliate such a decision ?"
have i 0
better " evidence" could the House of Commons have
better " evidence' could the House of Commons
the Marquis of Normanby's admirable administration
Ireland than the unanimous testimony of that cotintryh.
favour of it ? Were the late simultaneous meetings th,Niiirse
out its entire length and breadth no " evidence?' op
there no " evidence" in the great Dublin Aggrefield
Meetine. ?—the most influential and important ever, all
in Ireland—where people of all ranks and (their
shades in politics, vied with each other in ilfbt,
eagerness to bear testimony to Lord Normanby's annbe
ened system of policy ? Was there no " evidence
elf
charges of the Judges of Assize who spoke, with seer-dr
an exception, to the progressive tranquillity of Irelal:cilip
If these things be not " evidence "—and of the west late
tinct ar d positive character, too,—in favour of the 001
Irish Viceroy's Administration, we know not what is•
the House of Commons, with such satisfactory "evitivenids/
before it, come to any other decision than it did on 'fpe.
night, it would have shown itself, not merely devoid en; s
litical sagacity, but incompetent even to legislate -
Turnpike Act. a.
The. Morning Chronicle contains the following e-h
fC the
tions, in reference to the late important discussion inkisb •
House of Commons—" Now that the debate on the
~er.
Government has terminated, we can be at no lose Op.
ceive the reason of the strong objection to Lord John felt
sell's resolution entertained by the Tories. Had bey old
their case against Lord Normanby to be sound, they viat fs•
have hailed that resolution as affording them a °fors of
vourable opportunity for exposingthe crimes and he"; and
his Administration before the Commons of Englan•P sod
nt the face of the Empire. Knowing it to be rotten, the
built on nothing more substantial than exaggeratinan 0'-
most daring, and falsehoods the basest and most 50%11
gent, they naturally shrunk from a discussion which n,sfoted
of the slightest rectitude of principle would have C'isiflif
with avidity. The result of five nights' debate eV e 00•
we say, the instinctive repugnance of the Tories to in
the'
tion that gave rise to it. A case never broke down
roughly—so miserably—so contemptibly I"