The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-16 00:00:00

EIPMIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The first. Parliament of the reign of Queen Victoria
opened yesterday, and the Right Hon—Tamest Aber-
cromby was re-appointed Speaker of the House of
Commons, not only without opposition, but with the
uitarsimous approbation of the whole assembly. The
fuse was very full, and the Tories mustered in great
rnumbets, but, as Sir Robert Peel admitted, even had
he wished to resist the nomination by the Queen's
Ministers, he could not have hoped to succeed—there
must have been a maority against him. So much for
the paltry and peevish attempt of the Times, a day
or two ago, to set up some rival for the honours of
the chair. "If indeed,'' said or worthy and respected
contemnerary, " the Conservatives should be disposed
to giae battle at the earliest moment, they cannot
avant a pretext for it upon the choice of a Speaker."
They were not " disposed to grive battle" yesterday ;
they knew better. Sit Robert Peel was a more cau-
tions, and experienced tactician than thus to run his
head against a wall, notwithstanding the Times would
fain have persuaded him that there was a soft place in
it. The " pretext" pointed out by the nines was the
wonderful discovery—mark it well, for it should never
be forgotten—that on one occasion, and that not spe-
cified, the Right Hon. James Ahercromby had read
" and" for "or" This fact was to disqualify him for
again serving an office so dignified and so responsible.
With such a substantial ground for objection—such an
cahibition of total unfitness—we are astonished that
the Tories refrained from proposing an amendment to
the motion ; and we can feel for the chagrin and dis-
appointment of the Times that its advice was rejected,
and rejected, too, without the slightest notice or ac-
knowledgment. This shows that our very consistent
and much-admired contemporary is vastly in the se-
crets and confidence of the Tories : it threatens
opposition ; it affords a " pretext ;" it writes a long
article to prove that the Right Hon. James Aber-
cromby ought not to be re-elected to the Presidency
of the House of Commons, because he once read
" and" for " or," and vet not one of the whole Tory
party will give the Times the countenance of uttering
a word of objection to him. On the contrary, Sir
Robert Peel joins in the general expression of the
• House, that no fitter Member could be pointed out.
This must indeed have been highly flattering and sa-
tisfactory to the Times. It has abandoned the straight
course of virtue and honour ; it has prostituted itself
to the party, and, according to the usual course of
things, when it most wants their aid, they turn their
backs upon it, and deny all previous acquaintance.
They puff the prostitute away."
Not even Peter Borthwick, nor Benjamin D'lsraeli
(both bound in gratitude) came to its assistance.
We may now—as in the opening of the Session
of 1835—judge of the future progress from the
happy commencement. Sir Robert Peel was in
power, and could carry the Speakership. He
soon yielded to the majority against him, and re-
tired front office. He is now out of power—as the
Whip were, when they first triumphantly placed
Mr. Whigs
in the Chair, and yet, if he would,
Sir Robert Peel dares not offer any resistance to the
re-appointment of the Right lion. Gentleman. This
certainly looks like amazing strength on the part of
the Tories. The state of things at this moment differs
so far from that in 1835, that the Tories then had
possession of the Treasury, hut could not name their
Speaker ; while the Whigs now have possession of
the Treasury, and nemine dissentiente they reinstate
their Speaker. The conclusion is, of course, inevi-
table : the Whigs must instantly make way for the
Tories, because, forsooth, the Tories are so prodigi-
ously strong, that, on a question which three years ago
in effect turned them out of office, they do not now
make even a show of resistance. What an excess of
forbearance ! There was nothing farther worthy of
remark in the proceeding of yesterday, excepting the
testimony which not only the mover and seconder of Mr.
Abererom`.)y's nomination, Mr. Shaw Lefevre and Mr.
Strut t, but Sir R. Peel, and the whole House by its cheers,
bore to the ability, impel tiality, and diligence with which
the Right Hon. Gentleman had hitherto discharged the
onorous and delicate duties of his situation. It was
agreed on all hands that some immediate and im-
portant change must take place in the manner of dis-
posing of private business, which had of late fears so
much accumulated ; and Sir Robert Peel bore willing
testimony to the high and peculiar qualifications of Mr.
Ahercromby for giving assistance in making any new
arrangement on the subject. The Right Hon. Gen-
tleman both on the floor, and after he had been for-
mally replaced in the chair, very feelingly and grace-
fully expressed his acknowledgments for the honour
thus a second time conferred upon him, and while he
intreated the indulgence, he solicited the support of the
House in the discharge of his arduous and difficult
task, without which support his own individual efforts
could, he said, be of little avail in the preservation of
order, and in securing the regularity of debate. All
that was said and done must have been highly grati-
fying to the Right Hon. Gentleman who. was the sole
subject of discussion.—Morning Chronicle.
Mr. Daniel O'Connell once more insults the people
of England, and pollutes her soil, by his presence
here. He has been making a speech after a one-and-
sixocnnv dinner at Stockport to a congregation of mi-
serable gudgeons, whom he crammed with more than
the usual dose of whining hypocrisy and flagitious
falsehood. The 700 years of bloody misgovernment
by English savages over civilized and enlightened Mi-
lesians was put, of course, in front of the oattle ; then
the terrible calamity was insisted on of ever again hav-
ing Tory Ministers in office, which would send the
patronage of Ireland into different hands from those who
for these two or three years past have been gorging the
enemy of the British Crown with power, place, and
nationa; plunder. Next, this liar has the impudence to
assure the people of Stockport, that they (English as
they are) and the Popish agitators in Ireland " have
a common cause"—not that we should think of a re-
peal of the Union. He proceeds to exclaim " against
the fell spirit of religious bigotry !" He, the priests'
journeyman and jackal!, O'Connell, harangues upon
" religious bigotry," and on the necessity of making
" the pulpit the vehicle of peace, benevolence, and
mutual affection !" " Know ye not," asks this
transcendent impostor, " that the pulpit has become
the instrument of a political party, thus staining the
service of God by the profaneness of man—staining
with the worst passions the place where the brightest
virtues ought to be found ?" Amazing juggler Yes,
we all know by whom the pulpit has been desecrated
and the altar defiled for the promotion of lawless tu-
mult—of villainous persecution—of brutal tyranny—
of un-Christian intolerance, violence, and bloodshed.
We know it all. The records of every mass-house in
Ireland—of every election—of every Tithe Court—of
every gaol—demonstrate sufficiently who are the au-
thors of such unholy abominations—who the actors
in them—who their victims ; and, with the blessing
of God, we shall, before many months expire, have
the
'means of satisfying the world that justice is
not wholly banished out of it ; but that, degenerate
as are the days we live in, vengeance yet follows crime.
The Ambassador of Irish treason 1;(*s on if ',ell about
- the wonderful hardship of refusing t Ireland the same
Muniri-pal Institutions as exist .11 Great Britain. The
plain answer, if an ar.-_,wer he wanting is, that the
" same munieipal institutions" could not, by the wit of
man, be created in Ireland and here. The mere em-
ployment of ;:ne same names will not assimilate things
which are essentially 11
Enaatishman with A clause constituting an
- Iq'tica.lification a burgess, and a
si. -Irishman a buargess. also will not make the same
description of burgess in the two countries ; for the
English burgess will be a self-dependent civilized, and
loyal subject to the Crown of England, while the Irish
burgess ivdl 'ue a credulous, blind, and abject vassal of
a 4wless power paying allegiance to a foreign domina-
tion, disaffected to the British Government, and enaaaed
in a perennial plot to subvert the established laws of
the realm, and the settlement and security of Church
bud State, Let Mr. Daniel O'Connell therefore
bellow as best pleases him about justice to Ireland re-
quiring the same municipal provisions, the broad, pal-
pable fact, must strike all intelligent beings—namely,
that to constitute similarity, and still more, identity
of legislatior, , it is necessary that there should be ana-
logous materials wherewith to build, and parallel results
from their operation. If then in England the municipal
material consist of men actuated by common sym-
pathies, and steady affections towards the State, while