The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-29 00:00:00

Robert Peel) would take an opportunity of fully
explaining the course it was intended to adopt NI ith
respect to the proceedings of the House. This in-
formation was given in consequence of a question
put by Mr. Brougham to the Right lion. Secretary,
with the view of ascertaining in the present state of
things, what Parliamentary arrangements Ministers
contemplated. Mr. Brougham afterwards took oc-
casion to allude to what had fallen from him on
Saturday relative to the Lord Steward. He said he
had deprecated the conduct of that individual for
what he then considered to be an act of great dis-
respect to the Members of the :House. He had
since understood that the circumstances complained
of had not occurred intentionally, nor could be con-
sidered in arty way indicative of disrespect for the
House, but had arisen from unavoidable circum-
stances. For our own part we should like to
know what those unavoidable circumstances Were
which prevented the Lord Steward from exe-
cuting with the requisite carefulness and promp-
titude, so essential a part of his duty as attending
the House of Commons on the occasion of swear-
ing the Members in time to prevent any delay of
public business. Mr. Brougham said that it was at
all times necessary, but more especially highly im-
portant at the commencement of a new reign, that
the officers of the Government should be reminded
of the dignity of the House, and brought to a pro-
per sense of the respect due to it. So it is, and
Mr. Brougham only did his duty in strongly ani-
madverting, as he did, on the apparent neglect of
an officer of the Household, whose conduct, while
unexplained, appeared exceedingly reprehensible.
And what is the explanation given ? Sir R. Peel
stated that the Lord Steward was in personal atten-
dance on his late Majesty at the time of his demise,
at a little after three o'clock in the morning; and
his duties, as Constable of the Castle, required his
attendance at four o'clock the same morning. What -
does this prove ? The impropriety of multiplying
offices incompatible with each other in the same -
hands. Why is the same person Lord Steward and
Constable of Windsor Castle, if in the former ca-'
it is necessary that he should wait upon the
House of Commons, whets in the latter he must be
in attendance at Windsor ? If the double duties
!are inconsistent, why should he enjoy the double •
salary ? Does the House of Commons maintain

its dignity, and assert its privileges, by allowing
such an excuse as this ? Very properly did
Mr. Wynn, even after this explanation was given,
complain of the great inconvenience experienced
by Members, in being obliged to await the
arrival of a subordinate officer of the Crown
before they could proceed to business. He stated
that he had, about 18 or 19 years ago, brought in a
Bill to dispense with the form of taking oaths be-
fore the Lord Steward; but the Bill had been re-
jected in another place. He, however, took the
present opportunity of giving notice, that he would
very shortly submit a motion for dispensing with
this form. We agree with him that it is time to
'get rid of this form, when the Lord Steward, in
his passion for plurality of office, takes an appoint-
ment which detains him at Windsor when he should
be at Westminster, and thus converts that form

into a serious obstacle to business. The form then
serves neither the purpose of ornament nor use as
connected with the proceedings of the House, and
ought to be dispensed with; or else the House
ought to address the Crown to require that the
Lord Steward should not be eligible to the office of
Constable of Windsor. A humble individual would
find it a very serious thing to get into a construc-
tive contempt of the House of Commons—and if,
after a humble apology, he escaped with only a re-
primand at the bar, would have reason to think
himself very leniently treated.—Morning Herald.
The public grief at the loss of one of the best
and most populist Monarchs that ever swayed the
Sceptre of Britain, continues to be manifested in a
manner that does honour not only to our national
character but to the best feelings of our nature.
Every one seems to contemplate the event that has
deprived us of so good and excellent a King at once
as a public bereavement and a private affliction.—
Time, the infallible corrector of all vulgar prejudices,
has long since rendered due justice to a once moat
infamously calumniated Prince, whose wisdom and
goodness have shone forth with a lustre unparalleled
perhaps in the annals of the country. All, there-
fore, in the purest feelings of human nature, view
in the calamitous occurrence now so deeply deplored
not only the loss of a good King, but of a careful
parent, a friendly brother—an invaluable member,
and a splendid ornament of society—one of whom it
may with truth and justice be said, that he was—
" By all who knew his worth revered,
" By all who knew his heart beloved."

To the successor of this truly illustrious and la-
mented Sovereign we cannot, we are persuaded,
pay a more grateful tribute than by observing that
his just admiration of his beloved predecessor, and
his avowed resolution to follow his glorious example,
renders him every way worthy of his proud inherit-
ance. In his magnanimous and becoming declara-
tion (as officially given in our Paper of yesterday),
on his being proclaimed the lawful successor to the
Throne, William the Fourth affords the nation the
following gratifying assurance :
" I am convinced (says the new Monarch) that you
will fully participate in the affliction which I am suffering
on account of the loss of a Sovereign, under whose auspices,
as Regent and as King, this country has maintained'
during war its ancient reputation and glory—has en-
'oyed a long period of happiness and internal peace—
and has possessed the friendship, respect, and confidence
of Foreign Powers. After having passed ray life in the
service of my country, and having, I trust, uniformly acted
as the moat faithful subject and servant of the King, I am
now called upon, under the dispensation of Almighty God,
to administer the Government of this great Empire.

am fully sensible of the difficulties which I have to en-
counter ; but I possess the advantage of having witnessed
the conduct of my revered father, and lamented ands,
beloved brother; and I rely with confidence upon the
advice and assistance of Parliament, and upon its zealous
co-operation in my anxious endeavours, under the blessing;
of Divine Providence, to maintain the Reformed Reli-
gion established by law, to protect the rights and liber-
ties, and to promote the prosperity and happiness, of all
classes of my people."

The -first two days after the decease of our late
lamented Sovereign, and the transfer of the Crown
to his illustrious brother and successor, might with
great propriety and advantage have been devoted
to ether subjects of contemplation than the intrigues
of party, or the vain speculations, the inipatient
curiosity, or the morbid excitement, on the part of
the community to which they naturally give rise.
Upon the eager expectations of ambitious states-,
men, or the indecent haste with which they are
displayed upon this melancholy occasion, we fee],
however, compelled to say a few words. This
task, at the present moment, has no attractions
for us, and we will endeavour to perform it as
briefly as we can. Those expectations are de-
stined, we have little doubt, to a steady and
well-merited disappointment—to a disappointment
the severity of which will be enhanced in pro-
portion to the indecent alacrity and vehemence
with which the public has been called upon to
witness them in their full-blown but premature
exhibition. We have, indeed, the strongest rea-
son to believe that the idea of any important
change, either in the policy of the State or in the
persons by whose assistance the Government has
been conducted during the latter years of his late
Majesty's reign, has never for a single moment been
in the contemplations of the present Sovereign. Nor,
apart from any more distinct and authoritative in-
formation, are there wanting symptoms in the con-
duct and language of the illustrious Dispenser of
political power, or in those of the impetuous and
illjudging
aspirants to his Royal favour, sufficient
to impress upon the public mind the same cheering
and salutary conviction. The language of bis Ma-
jesty King William the Fourth, in the gracious de-.
claration made by him to his
.Privy Councl, is plainly
and wholly irreconcileablewith the. supposition that
the King has ever entertained the intention of call-
ing to his Councils a party to whose assistance or
advice his revered Father never resorted without
the utmost repugnance, and never resorted at