The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-14 00:00:00

those with whom he acted for the best years of his
life ; and therefore he has no reason to complain that
the measure he meted out to others, has been meted
out to him in return. His defeat will have a most
beneficial influence on the cause of Reform. In the
first place, it will keep out of mischief one of the most
active and unscrupulous of apostates ; and, secondly,
it will read a fine moral lesson to all those who may
cherish a lurking disposition to turn their coats at the
first specious opportunity. Henceforth, when a man
feels within himself an inclination to desert the prin-
ciples of Reform for the antagonist ones of Toryism,
he will think of Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and most pro-
bably forego his purpose. The Right Hon. Baronet
goes on to say, " The charge against me is, that I
relinquished office, and left my friends in power, he-
Zause on a great principle I differed from them." Not
so, Sir JAMES. The charge is anything but this, as
you yourself know quite as well as we can tell you. It
is, that you first deserted your friends, and then abused
them, not in accordance with principle, but in violation
of principle ; and that, not content with this unjustifiable
act of desertion, you, on every occasion that presented
itself, endeavoured to get up the old worn-out cry of
" Church in Danger," and so mystify and pervert the
judgment of all who thought it worth their while to
pay attention to your remarks. Thus you acted, even
on such a question as Irish Municipal Reform, which
you roundly asserted was fraught with danger to the
Protestant Establishment, and opposed on this con-
viction, though none but the veriest bigot, and most
obtuse Tory would ever have dreamed of venturing on
such an irrelevant line of argument. It is for this per-
verse—this sophistical and reckless course of conduct,
persevered in without abatement throughout the past
Session—that the East Cumberland electors have
turned out Sir J. GRAHAM. They do not quarrel
with him for having differed from Ministers on, what
he speciously calls, " a great principle," but for hav-
ing become as uncompromising an anti-Reformer on
all great questions of State policy, as he once was
the reverse—in short, for having betrayed the inte-
rests of a people, in order to promote those of a faction.
The closing passage of the Right Hon. Baronet's
Address is a fine sample of mingled despondency and
effrontery. " If," says he, " we are doomed to encoun-
ter dangers, my prayer at parting is that my gloomy
forebodings may not be realized, and that you may
never regret the day, when, by your present decision,
you advanced the rapid progress of democratic innova-
tion." Of a verity this is the ne plus ultra of self-assur-
ance ! So, then, Sir J. GRAHAM was the only states-
man capable of opposing the " rapid progress" of demo-
cracy ; and now that East Cumberland by its "present
decision," has removed him from public life, the last
chance the country had of salvation is gone ; the great
breakwater is torn up from the foundation, and we shall
all be forthwith overwhelmed by the advancing billows
of " democratic innovation." Men of East Cumber-
land, what have you not to answer for ? You might
have saved an empire by returning Sir JAMES
GRAHAM ; you have rejected him, and henceforth we
are a doomed nation !

The Government is now reaping the rich harvest of
the liberal, equalizing, and enlightened policy pursued
by the Whigs towards Ireland since the passing of the
Reform Bill. Good deeds have fructified an hundred
fold, and good intentions have produced realities ex-
ceeding the most sanguine hopes of those who commit-
ted them to that most genial of foils for the growth of
gratitude—the hearts of Irishmen. In the words of
TONI STEEL'S address to the noble-minded and pa-
triotic electors of Clare on Monday last,—" Ireland is

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGITST 14, 1837

as tranquil as if there was not an enemy within half
the circumference of the globe of them. A letter of
the sth from that capital, which will be found in
another column, details the public events which then
engrossed the attention of the Cortes and the Go-
vernment.

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