The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-07 00:00:00

LONDON :
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1639.

The Peers met yesterday evening ; but the Earl of
RipoN's motion eoncerning Malta having been post-
poned at the request of the Marquis of NORMA NEI',
their Lordships did nothing but receive petitions.

An amusing illustration was given, in the Commons,
of the doctrine maintained by the Bishop of ENE-,
TER in the House of Lords on Monday evening. With
him it was once a priest, always a priest ; with those
who burlesqued his extravagance in the Commons, it was
once a Church always a Church. The London
Bridge Approaches Bill, though moved by Mr. HER,
ltzEs, a good and true Tory, was opposed by Sir R.
Iliutas, Viscount DuNGANNoN, and others, because it
Would destroy the Church of St. Bartholomew, Ex-
change. It was consecrated ground, said the Hon.
Baronet, and though it was wanted for the general
convenience, he thought that the sprinkling of holy
Water over it by some forgotten Catholic priest should
have more weight with the Legislature than the con-
►enience of the present and all future generations. The
Rouse of Commons was happily of a different opinion,
and the Bill was passed by a majority of 82 to 33.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL made an arrangement for the
business of the House, which looks very like a deter-
Inination to bring the Session as speedily as possible to
a close.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL declined to produce the corre-
Vondence between her MAJESTY and Sir R. PEEL,
and then Mr. WAKLEY gave notice of a motion on the
subject.

As to Irish Railways, Lord JOHN RUSSELL could
laY nothing, from which it is to be inferred that no-
thing will be done.
Sir ROBERT Irtaras, whose minute intellect and acute
1016-Catholic perceptions always excite our astonishment,
brought the infraction of the law by JOHN APHALE,
.a signing himself Archbishop of TUAM, before the
House, and had the proud satisfaction of proving that
was better acquainted with the Catholic Emanci-
pation Act than Mr. (1 -'-ONNELL. He took nothing
else by his motion.
dicethe notices we are happy to see one by
• ViLLIEns to bring the timber duties under the no-
Lice of the House'
The principal business of the evening was passing the
Controverted Elections Bill through Committee,
which needs no comment.
The House adjourned about One o'Clock.

Mr. MACAULAY has been returned for Edin-
burgh without opposition. The Tories never
thought of starting a candidate, and Mr. SHAR.
RAN CRAWFORD, who had been suggested by
the Radicals, declined the honour. He was, in
fact, nominated by a Mr. FRASER, but against the
declared wish of his principal friend Mr. AYTOUN.
It is not surprising therefore that even the
show of hands was in his favour. On that cir-
cumstance, however, insignificant as it is, the
Scotsman founds an assertion, that the public mind
1.4 Edinburgh is in a sound state. " The Chart-
-ISts," it says, " were signally beaten on their own
battle ground." At the same time, in the report of
the proceedings at the election we find Mr.
I.ltAsEn, a Chartist, pitted against the LORD
PROVOST and a whole host of Mr. MA-
CAULAY'S friends, and, what is more, by
hts influence with the mob, he procured
a hearing for Mr. MACAULAY. Now, when we
remember what Edinburgh is, the abode of persons
connected with the administration of the law, pro-
fessors, teachers, and literary men, and, like Bath or
Cheltenham, a very genteel town, having scarcely
ally other manufactures than those connected with

literature, we see in the influence of Mr. FRAZER,
and the opposition afforded by the mob to
Mr. MACAULAY, one of the most strik-
i"g proofs that has yet fallen under
our notice of the progess and influence of the
Chartists. One year ago this party was hardly
known, and had not a name ; it is only within a
very few years that the decided separation has taken
Place between the middle and lower classes—be-
tween the Reformers and the Chartists ; and the
latter have already made such progress that the
Scotsman thinks it proper to boast that, when
they had no regular candidate, the show
of hands was not in their favour. With
all deference to our very respectable Contem-
porary, whose opinion on such a point is of great va-
lue, we venture to assert, whether the public mind
be sound or not, that the indications he supplies
of its state in Edinburgh are such as no wise Go-
Yernment ought to neglect.
On almost all other topics than the extension of
the suffrage Mr. MACAULAY'S opinions seem not
to have displeased the Chartists. " His opinions
on the suffrage," says the Scottish Pilot, " coun-
terbalance, by their narrowness, all his liberality on
those other points, and are calculated to check
Whatever sympathy with him these might have
created. In respect to the suffrage, he is a Final-
ist : Lord JOHN RUSSELL could not be more so.''
On that point Mr. MAcAuLA/ was severely at-
tacked, and on that point the principal part of all
his speeches subsequent to the first have turned.
On that point, therefore, we find the Radicals of
Edinburgh completely agreein with us in the re-
marks we made on Saturday on Mr. MACAULAY'S
eloquent speech. At the same time, it is the one
essential point in the present condition of
the working classes. They complain very
justly of having no part in making the
laws by which their lives and property arc disposed
of, as well as protected. Nor is it of less vital
importance, because the middle and enfranchised
classes, the holders of capital, with which labour,
and the unenfranchised classes are unfortunately
too often in conflict, are averse from ex-
tending the suffrage, and would oppose any