The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-29 00:00:00

Will best promote their individual and collective late-
rests.
Mr. Brougham, Lord Chancellor, is a victory s.
vast, that. do min could
,rationally hope for
achievement. Who could have supposed that the
great patron of education, the promoter of the Lon-
don University, the first advocate of Mechanics' In-
stitutions and schools for all, would have obtained
the highest patronage of the Church, anti haye the
conscience of the King committed to his.care ? It
seems, scarcely credible that so great an event has
occurred; and when we reflect upon the good that
will arise from it, we are unable to estimate the full
extent of the benefits that must necessarily result
from the operation of those measures of which Mr.
Brougham has been the distinguished patron. With
such individual claims to the gratitude and adtni
ration of society, as Mr. Brougham possesses, it is
of little consequence whether his ancestry were ex-
alted or obscure, whether he have sprung front the
lowest of the plebeian class, or whether his - fore-
fathers ranked bight amongst .the Nobility of Eng-
land ; it is his own merits, his own acts, upon which
is founded his fitness to the title that he holds; and
if Henry Brougham were unable to trace his anew,-
try beyond the last generation, he of all men living
is the best suited to be :Lord High Chancellor of
England. But Mr. Brougham is, on the contrary,
of a very ancient family ; his progenitors held
Burghem Castle, in 'Westmoreland, in the reign of
King , Stephen ; anti he ,whose ancestors were the
Lords de Burghem seven and eightcenturies backi,
certainly cannot feel that he has is .station superior
to his birth, when he takes his seat with the Jetts
kinsons and the Eldon' of the British Peerage; nor
can the 'Talbot,, the Stanleys, or the Howurds tom-
Orlin, if a Lord of Burghem preside in their
deliberations, and direct the order of their discussions.
To us at Coventry, the Administration must needs
seem a good one, which numbers in its, ranks our
enlightened and excellent Representative, Mr. Ellice.
We know his principles and integrity, and we know
he will compromise neither; and therefore we know,
that so long as he is in the Administration, those
measures will be pursued, and those alone, that ate
for the benefit of the people. We rejoice in the ap-
pointment of Mr. Ellice, because we know that in
him the public have obtained a most valuable; ser-
vant, and he himself has acquired a station, all the hos
flours and emoluments of which he more than merits.:
The change in public uifeirs is wonderful We
have been accustomed to find the most enlightened
systems of policy opposed by the Government and
the Legislature, and when they did make progress,
and one ray of light was found to break into the
thick ciinmerian darkness of Ministerial bigotry and
prejudice, it was an occurrence that excited surprise,
A wise and liberal policy was never expected to ex.
tend beyond .the pages of the Edinburgh Review
and similar publiestione, or occasionally, perhaps, to
be found in a small minority of the House of Com-
mons; and now we find the moat able and_ highly
gifted of British Statesmen are appointed to office,
to bring into complete operation those very princi-
ples which have hitherto been opposed by all the in-
fluence the Government and the holdersof the boroughs
could exert against them. A happy, a most felici-
tous change,in deed, for theßritish people has occurred.
It must have frequently happened to every man,
to inquire how it is the people of England are not
prosperous and happy ? They have more energy,
more industry, and more talent to direct their exer-
tions than other men, and yet they are poor and dis-
tressed. Such a people could not be poor, if left'
free to exercise their industry; it is impossible they
should, and the cause is to be found in that perni-
cious system of laws which controuls their exertions,
limits their enterprise, and renders their labour
abortive. The people, as a body, do not understand
how the monopolies and restrictions of trade impo-
verish the country; but the Whigs do: the present
Administration know how to restore Great Britain
to a state of prosperity, greater than any it has, be•
fore attained to; and they will do it, if the people
support them as they should. And here a question
of the greatest importance occurs : Will the people
support them ? for it is only by the support of the
people that they will be able to continue in office.--
All dealers in boroughs, all monopolists, all who
thrive in the abuses that exist in Church or State,
will oppose the present Ministry with uncompro-
mising malignity and unrelaxing assiduity. We
scarcely think the Whigs are popular; in intelligence
and liberality they are always far in advance of the
age, and will, in consequence, always bnve the pre-
judices of society arrayed against them. The benefits
to arise from their system will be expectetl to arrive
on the instant. The country is now distressed ; it
will be anticipated that by Christmas Lord Grey's
Administration will spread happiness and abundance
through the land; and as years, and perhaps a long
course of them, will he requisite to remove existing
evils, and restore the country to a healthy state,
there will be abundance of time to work upon the
uninformed feelings of the populace, and it is not itn.
possible but a clamour may be excited by those who
fatten upon the miseries of the people, and who,
like leeches, often perish from the effects of their
own rapacity. The people have now the means of
restoration in their own hands, and if they take ad-
vantage
of the unhoped-for blessing which has been
bestowed upon them, Great Britain will become the
happiest us she is now the greatest amongst the
nations. No natural cause exists why the impels-'
tion should not go on increasing, and, as it increases,
becoming more and still more wealth), and prospe-
rous. A brilliant prospect is now afforded to the
people, and it is only through their apathy or error
that it can be marred.