The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-07 00:00:00

that the production cannot exacly lay claim to the
character which we deemed ourselves warranted in be-

stowing upon it." Ministers " will not abandon- one
of the principl2s to which they pledged themselves :
the writer of the Pamphlet has allowed himself to give
expression to sentiments not exactly in accordance
ze;th this firm and decided conduct." Another, more
brief, but equally peremptmy, speaks thus :—" Let.us
take the opportunity of saying that the author has
' formed a very incorrect notion of what the future policy
of Ministers is likely to be—so incorrect, that we fed
confident in asserting that his work does not deserve
the wairant qf authority which has been hastily and
unidVisedly ascribed to it." So perish all who en-
(11-.nger the official existence of the Whigs. But we
hope they will he generous enough to remember how
the writer has allowed hi►nslf to be sacrificed in their
cause. It is very well to disclaim their agent, but they
must not forget to reward him. Will they make him
a Commissioner of something ? Or has l►e made sure
of his recompense beforehand ?

Of all the many iniquitous and various attempts
made to shake the stability of Ministers, there is none
more calculated to impair their hold on public con-
fidence than the insidious insinuation made even by
parties whom we supposed to possess more honesty
and good sense, that they intend, in the next Session (f
Parliament, to pare and prune down their measures
to the stunted standard of Toryism. This is the most
dangerous suggestion of all ; and whether made through
folly, ignorance, or malevolence, cannot be too strongly
repudiated on the part of Ministers, nor too strongly
and indignantly denounced on the part of the public.
The enemies of Ilinisters are ingenious, active, and
inveterate ; but they have no foe more dire and dan-
gerous than he who would advise their adoption of,
or insinuate their intention of pursuing a policy less
liberal, and consequently less congenial to popular
feeling than that wi►ich they have hitherto maintained.
In defiance of a pamphlet attempted, under false
pretences, to be foisted on the public as stamped with
a demi-official authority, we stated, and reiterated our
firm conviction, that Lord Melbourne would immovably
adhere to the principles with which his Government iys
so honourably and patriotically associated. Other
Journalists wavered, and, to adopt a simile of the
greatest modern poet—" like a wave about to break,"
seemed to hang pausing •on the " curl" of apostacy.
But the breath which ruffled their consistency and in-

tegrity has already died away, the semi-official pam-
phlet is discovered, upon further inquiry, to be of ra-
ther an anti-official character. The speculation on our
" domestic prospects," proves to be what in the lan-
guage of the craft is termed " no go," and those
creatures who tucked up their cuffs and slit a fresh
pen in preparation for the performance of any dirty
work which circumstances might place before them,
find that they have no better chance than to abide by
the cause of the people—that honesty is the best po-
licy—and that tergiversation from Reform promises to
be neither a productive nor profitable concern. Not
to speak of the solemn obligations which bind Mini-
sters to the amelioration of the national institutions
—not to allude to the repeated proofs given by Lord
Melbourne of his unswerving determination to stand
or fall with the principles upon which his Govern-
ment was originally based—not to dwell upon the
experience which, from Lord grey's Government down
even to the present time, proves that doubts on the
part of the Liberals beget confidence on the part of
their opponents, that forbearance provokes aggression,
and that the less the people or their advocates be dis-
posed to ask, the less their opponents feel inclined to
give—not enforcing these considerations, we would
ask, is-it possible, in the present state of public feeling,
that any Ministry could he so demented as to hope to
hold office in defiance of the national desire for Re-
form ? Knowing the great difficulties against which
Ministers have had to contend, we are unwilling to ad-
vert too strongly to the efforts which, on some occa-
sions, they have made to conciliate their Tory oppo-
nents. But we think it advisable to keep constantly
before the public and the Ministers the fact that con-
cession to Toryism was the bane of Lord Grey's Mi-
nistry, aid that since that partial acknowledgment of
popular rights, the Reform Act, every concession or
tendency to concede to Tory iniquities has encouraged
additional encroachments on the part of the faction,
damped the ardour of the Liberals, and decreased the
Ministerial majority. The impolicy of the conciliatory
system being thus so cogently manifested, and the
time for its application being long since passed, when-
ever we hear the pretended or unreflecting friends of
Ministers recommend their adoption of a less exten
*sive Reform policy, we cannot hesitate to pronounce
such recommendation to emanate either from the most
rank stupidity, or the most abandoned knavery.—
Morning Advertiser.

In the various remarks to which the composition of
the new House of Commons has given rise, little or no
reference has been made to the fact, that the utmost
majority claimed by ministers falls considerably short
of the actual number of official persons connected with
the Administration who have seats. This, in former
tunes, the W gigs would have considered a virtual defeat;
and in the columns of more than one of their present
defenders would if diligently smelled, be found, we
have no doubt, many long and animated tirades against
the absurdity and unconstitutional tendency of a Mi-
nister presuming to carry on the affairs of the country
with a majority of the House of Commons composed
solely and entirely of his own creatures. Lord Mel-
bourne's position as regards a House of Commons elected
under all the weight and influence of his own administra-
tion is doubly unusual and objectionable. Not one op-
posed vote can he hope to carry in that House, but, on
the one hand, by the vigilant whipping-in of his own
official dependents, or, on the other, by means of the auto-
mata whose motions arc dictated by his Popish master,
whe holds the wires. Taking one of these bands at
20, and the other at 30, which may very fairly and
safely be done, and in what a woeful minority without
them would the Queen's Ministers be found in a
House of Commons called under every advantage to
them, and of the contrary to their opponents ! How-
ever carefully and sedulously these facts are concealed
or glossed over by the Ministerial press, it is impossible
that Lord Melbourne himself can be blind to a state
of things unparalleled in the history of any Administra-
tion that has ever preceded him. To suppose that such
a state of things can last, or that the affairs of the
country could go o;i under such circumstances, even
with a House of Peers favourable to the Minister,
would be to assume an anomaly unknown to the Con-
stitution ; but when, in addition to a House of Com-
mons in which no one favourable vote can be expected
but through the means and channel which we have
pointed out, the Prime Minister finds himself occupy-
ing a seat in an assembly of which two-thirds, at least,
are opposed to all the leading measures ef his Go-
vernment, what wi!l history say of a man who, at the
head of a popular Government, attempts to govern in
the very teeth of public opinion so unequivocally and
decidedly expressed as it has been by the results of the
uninfluenced part of the constituency ? Urged on
and backed by the needy persons by whom he is sur-
rounded, Lord Melbourne may attempt to do this;
but the hardihood and hopelessness of the attempt will
only the more speedily work his own downfall.--
Morning Herald.

Some new apologue is necessary to illustrate the
peculiar perverseness of discontent and eross-grained-
ness which distinguishes the Radical Dissenters of the
present day. Hitherto " the dog in
type of has
been considered a sufficiently strong of gir
stupid ill-nature ; but the discontented Dissenters are
much more perverse than the dog in the manger. That
truly Whig-Radical quadruped merely usurped a place
iii which he conk! do no good for himself or anybody
else, and snarled and snapped at all who, with a rea-
sonable claim, and for a reasonable purpose, ap.
proached the position he had preposterously taken up.
But the Radical Dissenters having been granted that
for which they growled, now growl again, because the
world takes some slight notice that they have what they
asked for. For example, so long as they were by law
cempelled to marry in Church, like those who were
not Dissenters, or to remain unmarried, they growled
most grievously, and made even the honeymoon
hitter with their complainings, In consequence of
Ocir complain s the law wis altered—we think most
unwisely 6.4 red, because any concession of this kind
to Dissenters is merely annoying ourselves, without
satisfying them—but it.nri altered? and now the Dis-