The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-30 00:00:00

the sycophant, or the Times attempts to effect by
eulogy what it failed to accomplish by abuse, it is a
clear indication of despair. The Times, in a tone of
assumed confidence and authority, exclaims, and we
repeat the exclamation—" We tell Lord Melbourne
that by the death of William his own position is en-
.tirely changed. He is no longer the servant of a
Prince of mature aae—watching—reprehending—
sometimes controlling his official Councillors, and ca-
pable of guarding his own prerogatives from assault.
Lord Melbourne has now—not in law, but substance,
an innocent and inexperienced child for his Sovereign.
He is the guardian of her who, in her extreme youth,
can have no power of intellectual or nioral controul
over his actions. He is her trustee—he is, as it were—
and meaning no irreverence towards our common
Queen=.in loco parentis to Victoria. We say, then,
that his responsibility is increased a thousandfold."
Yes I in all this we concur, but not in the conclusion
of the Times :—" That, however he may in King
William's time have played with Liberals and
coquetted with democracy, he is now—he must now
be—a prerogative Minister—a Protestant Minister—
a Church-and-King Minister—to his unprotected
Sovereign ; or a man so lost, that this generation,
and posterity to all ages, will consign his name and
memory to dishonour." No ! no ! Lord Melbourne
must now be not a Church-and-King Minister, but
a Queen-and-People Minister; to be otherwise
would damn his name to eternal dishonour. For
great and favourable as is the occasion for effecting
those reforms with which his Government is identified,
proportionately is the immensity of the responsibility
of allowint,a. to escape such an auspicious opportunity
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of harmonising and consolidating the interests of the
country, by the full and fair application of the prin-
ciples recognised in the Reform Act, and ingrafted in
the hearts of the British people.—Morning Advertiser.
Nobody one meets with attempts to deny, that on
this impending election hangs the preservation of the
British monarchy from immediate ruin. It is true
that under a Parliament of the best and happiest
composition, under events the most favourable, and a
policy the most enlightened, the demons of demo-
cracy may still carry on their machinations, and
prepare the seeds of destruction for sonic future
day, but meanwhile we should be for the present
safe, and the powers and principles which protect
the Constitution would be hourly consolidating their
rightful ascendancy over the elements of evil. There
are circumstances, too, attending the election which
we now are on the eve of, separating it in a re-
markable manner from all of those which have pre-
ceded it for many years. It is the only election
during the last 12 or 14 years which can be said to
promise any lengthened enjoyment of those honours,
privileges, and legislative rights, which supply motives
to candidates for the sacrifices entailed on them by the
canvass, the poll, and the subsequent obligations con-
nected with Parliamentary duty. The infirm health,
advanced age, and precarious life, of the two last So-
vereigns of England, rendered it a matter of doubtful
prudence for any man who had private affairs or
worldly interests on a large scale to engage him, to
break the course of his domestic arrangements, and
for the sake of being in Parliament during, perhaps,
a single Session, to enter on a new career of occupa-
tions, which he might again perhaps be called upon
abruptly to relinquish without having been enabled by
them to effect any positive good. Such a state of things
was eminently fitted to repel men of useful habits,
independent fortune, and established character, from
Parliament, and to pour into the House of Commons
a' deluge of adventurers, living from hand to month,
shifting their speculations from day to day, according
to the emergencies of the political market, and destitute
of any solid stake in the country, or any moral one
in the estimation of society. A short life and a daring
one is the motto of such men as we have now de- ,
scribed. Their means and tempers are alike ill-adapted
to sober pursuits, and steady but slow advancement for
themselves or the community. They may gain much
by violent and extensive change,; they have little '
chance of emerging from poverty and insignificance
without it ; many individuals of that troublesome or-
der will occur to the public on reading the above re-
marks, as filling those seats which men better fitted
for legislative functions both by character and fortune
felt inclined, because of the clouds which hung round
the tenure. of the existing Parliament, to shrink from
and to yield to their inferiors without a strugge. The
ensuing Parliament holds out the prospect of a less
fleeting duration. There is a young Queen who, with the
blessing of Providence, is likely to enjoy a long reign,
and in that most important respect the inducements for
men of distinguished station, of a large stake in the
well-being of the commonwealth, and with qualifica-
tions which fit them for the exclusive business of legis-
lators, to offer themselves to the elective body as its re-
presentatives, are incomparably greater than during any
portion of the period since (we might he correct in
saying) the year 1822, which followed the persecution
of Queen Caroline, and exhibited to all mankind the
broken-up condition of George IV. Men of inde-
pendent fortune, who now stand forward as candidates,
who hope by entering the Legislature to accomplish
salutary reforms in the State— to reform the mind of
the country, by eradicating from it the pernicious ten-
dency to accept any and every crude innovation as a
benefit, and to substitute for it a return to the old
popular prepossession of Englishmen in favour of sta-
bility, as being itself the prima facie source and gua-
rantee of innumerable blessings—men, we say, thus
qualified, and thus actuated, will find in the season,
and in the circumstances amidst which the approach-
ing Parliament is summoned, a rational prospect of
being members of it long enough to ree ripened and
fully realized the fruits of their patriotic exertions, and
thence a substantial justification of the motives
which prompt them to exchange their domestic
sphere' of action for a wider one, in the n'asonable
security offered to them that their good work will
not be rudely interrupted in its progress, or its