The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-10 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1837.
THE KING'S HEALTH.

S UN-OFFICE, nree o' Clock.
EXPRESS

FROM

WINDSOR.
We regret to learn that the accounts just received
from Windsor arc that—

" No favourable improvement has taken place in
His MAJESTY'S health.
" The oppression at the chest still remains unabated."
Should any further account be received we shall
announce it in a Second Edition.

The Tory faction—every other chance of a return to
office lost—are now,o as a last resource, throwing themselves
on the mercy of the Chapter of Accidents. 'Phis is now
their sheet-anchor. Public. opinion is against them, but
circumstances, they hope, may still give them a lift. Ac-
cordingly they arc all for procrastination, as is natural with
men who see the hour of their annihilation as a party fast
approaching. Lord LYNDHURST'S proposal in the House
of Lords last night to adjourn the consideration of the Irish
Municipal Reform Bill to the 3d of July, can be looked on
in no other light, than as the expression of a fervent wish
to postpone the extinction of his faction to as remote a date
as possible. Not one single argument did the Noble and
Learned Lord adduce in justification of his amendment ;
from first to last his speech was guiltless even of the most
distant acquaintance with reasoning ; and in point of spirit
was more offensive, if possible, than the one he delivered
last Session, wherein he designated the whole of Catholic
Ireland by a term of reproach more wantonly insult-
ing, and more premeditatedly false, than ever yet fell
from the lips of an English Statesman. " I do not,"
said he, " wish to recur to the arguments used in the last
Session of Parliament, but I may be permitted to say that
I still retain the opinions to which I then gave utterance."
People of Ireland hear this! Lord LYNDHURST last year
designated you as " aliens," and so far from being ashamed
of ha%ing so styled you, he now deliberately states that he
retains the same prejudice against you. " Aliens" you
always were ; " aliens" you shall always continue to be in
his opinion. He will not bate a jot on this point, for be
still retains the "opinions" to which last Session he " gave
utterance." Were his Lordship here recording merely his
own individual sentiments, the circumstance would scarcely
be worth a moment's consideration ; but he is speaking
the language of a party—of a party remarkable for notl.ing
so much as its inveterate animosity towards Ireland.
Hence his opinions assume an importance to which other-
wise they would not be entitled ; and being so, we say to Ire-
land, resent them—resent them in the warmest terms that
the Constitution permits you to use. Teach this " Whig-
and something more" apostate, who has boxed the political
compass, that neither he nor his shall insult you with im-
punity. It is evident that the Tory faction is presuming
on the present tranquillity of Ireland, wherefore it becomes
the bounden duty of the National Association, as diligent
watchers over the interests of that country, to show them
that their assumption is ill-founded. A little wholesome
agitation will go a great way to remove the scales from the
eyes of the Tories ;, and to convince them that in following
the counsels of Lord LYNDHURST-of him whose praise is
contamination, and whose censure is compliment ; who com-
menced his political career as an extreme Whig, and con-
cludes it as an extreme Tory ; who is consistent only in incon-
sistency, and whose whole public career has been one uniform
sacrifice of honourable feeling on the shrine of faction—a
little wholesome agitation, we repeat, on the part of Ire-
land, will go far to convince the Tories that in following
the counsels of this noble-by-courtesy Statesman, they have
been following a will-o'-the-wisp, which mast assuredly lead
them into difficulties whence there can be no possibility
of extricating themselves.
Viscount MELBOURNE'S reply to Lord LYNDHURST was
one of the most stinging, caustic philippics ever delivered in
the House of Incorrigibles. "In the course of that in-
vective," said the Noble Viscount, "in which his Lordship
has thought proper to indulge, he has observed that those
who composed the Conservati‘c mcetings are the friends of
the KING and Constitution ; while we, the Ministers, are
supported by none but the enemies of the Constitution.
What right has he to make that assertion ? What
right has he to make that charge ? Be they Ca-
tholics, or be they Dissenters, by what right does he assume
that superiority of character ? Is his character so high ?
Is his character so far above theirs, as to justify him
in setting himself up as the censor of others—as the
censor and condemner of large masses of his fellow-
subjects? I mean to speak nothing but what is respectful
of the Noble and Learned Lord ; I have always expressed
a great respect for his abilities, and I repeat what I have
more than once stated, that I confine my respect strictly
to his abilities ?" After this cutting retort Lord LYND-
HURST, we suspect, will be in no hurry again to measure
lances with the Noble Viscount.

But to revert to the point with which we set out. The