The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-02 00:00:00

List on a more satisfactory basis than that on which
it has. hitherto rested; and, on the other hand, that
there never was a more insignificant display of
speakers, or, more properly, a display of more in-
significant speakers, than appeared to favour of the
measure recommended by Ministers in the Royal
' Remoter!. In the Lords it was Lord Grey—the
oldest and most consistent, as well as the most elo-
quent Whig in the House—who moved the amend-
ment, and opposed the course pursued by the Go-
vernment; and had he stood alone in the contest,
the mere weight of his name must have cast a
strong shade of doubt on the propriety of the conduct
which was advocated by others. But he had a host
of supporters, not equally celebrated, indeed, with
himself, but more celebrated in every respect for ta-
lent, for worth, and for constitutional knowledge than
their opponents. They were Lords Harrowby,
Winchilsea, Goderich, the Duke of Richmond, the
vlarquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of London-
derry, Lord Radnor, Lord Mansfield, Lord Wham-
elle, and last, but not least, the venerable Earl of
Eldon ; and opposed to them were the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Lords Ellenborough, Normand, 'Wick-
low, anti the Duke of Buckingham. Prot pudor!
what a falling off is here I Only think of a Cabinet
composed of the materials in the first, and another
of those in the second list, and how speedily would
the latter kick the beam, in the estimation of all'
wise and good men! The Duke succeeded, of
course, in defeating the object of his opponents;
but though the division was against the latter, the
moral triumph remains unparalleled and uncontested.
In the Commons the battle went still harder against
the Ministry, and the actual, as well as moral,
triumph was complete. The majority' in favour. of.
Government was only 46 out of a House composed
of 320 Members ; and when it is considered that
certain Honourable Gentlemen deem it a matter of
duty and loyalty invariably to vote with the powers
that be, we think it will be apparent that the in-
dependent sense of the House was decidedly in fa-
vour of procrastination, and opposed, in every point
.of view, to the unnecessary haste, and determined
want of foresight, on the part of the Ministers.
Anti there, too, there is a strange contrast between
the talent displayed on the one side, and that
which was manifested on the other. The movers
and supporters on the Treasury Bench were Sir
Robert Peel—the Right Honourable Henry Goul-
buro and a few more spirits of congenial &satin
mould; and the opponents were Mr. Brougham
—Sir C. Wetherell—Lords Palmerston and Mil.
ton—Mr. Huskisson—Mr. Bright, and Lord John
Russell The contest, indeed, was one of pigmies
and giants-of intellect and eloquence, on the one
bend, and insignificance and imbecility on the
other—of eloquent reasoning, and vapid and inane
declamation, of which a schoolboy,' on such an im-
portant occit4ion, would have been ashamed. But
we should be doing injustice to the. debate were we
not to notice that Earl Grey, on the one hand, pro-
nounced a thorough condemnation of the existing
Government, as not only inefficient, but incapable
of even managing the' business in the two Houses
of Parliament; and that while Mr. Brougham de-
nounced its supporters as
," mean, fawning para.,
sites," Mr. HUskisson declared the Parliament itself
to be " condemned !" • These words, from these
men, are not likely to fall lightly on the ear of the
country; and we trust the day is not far distant,
when there will be such a change of men and of
measures, as the state of the country, and the
proved inefficiency of the present Administration,
so imperiously demand.—Aforning Adverliser.