The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-27 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Courier of last evening, speaking of Lord Mel-
bourne, with reference to his Lordship's appointmen of
Mr. Macaulay as a Cabinet Minister, says :—" B :fore
this step, it was in his power to repudiate the char e of
being likely to be induced to carry forward the ob-
jects of the extreme Radical party ; but now his Lord-
ship is fixed. He has proclaimed himself and his Govern-
ment to the world, as henceforward a Government ready
and determined not only to take part with those whose
design is to keep the people in a state of continual
excitement and restless desire for all sorts of experimen-
tal innovation, but as a Government formed with that
avowed object ; and relying for its support not, on the
intelligence and wealth of the country, nor on tne confi-
dence of the House of Commons, nor on the general esti-
mation of the country, but plainly and broadly on the
fermentation which it may be able to keep up in the
minds of the masses, made discontented by its maladmi-
nistration, and to be made use of as a bugbear to frighten
the timid into a submission to a continuance of its
evil domination. The question is now fairly brought
to issue : on the one side is Lord Melbourne and his
Ministry in close alliance and at the head of the party
of the movement ; backed by Mr. O'Connell, and
cheered on by all those who, having nothing to lose,
hope that in a general revolutionary scramble they may
possibly catch something ; and on the other side the
intelligence and the wealth of the nation ; all the lovers
of order ; all those who deprecate violent and sudden
changes ; all the friends of good government ; in short,
the vast majority of the strength, and, we firmly believe,
even the vast numerical majority of the nation. Can
there be any doubt as to the result ?"
The Globe, in a leading article on the subject of
Spanish affairs, remarks as follows :—" There is no
question of national policy with respect to which it is
more easy to pen fallacies than that of intervention in
the domestic affairs of Foreign States. Party spirit has
availed itself of the facilities afforded by the subject to
introduce and misrepresent every exception which the
general rule supplies, and has converted it into an
engine of attack on the policy of the British
Government. Carefully concealing those different
considerations which justify the course adopted,
on the principles both of international law and of
expediency, and putting forth those only which suit the
purpose of the moment, they endeavour to show that
the British Government has been inconsistent with its
own declared principles of non-intervention ; that Don
Carlos has fallen a victim, not to his want of support
from the Spanish nation in his attempt on the Throne,
but to the interference of Britain in a contest from
which we were bound to keep aloof, and thus leave
the contending parties to decide the controversy by
their own unaided strength. We think we have put—
we certainly meant to do so—the question fairly
as between the Ministry and its accusers. We rea-
dily admit the principle of not wantonly meddling in
the affairs of our neighbour, as one essential to the

well-being of society. The man or the government
which proclaimed a contrary doctrine would be a public
nuisance. The Whigs on coming into office in 1830
laid down this principle of non-inter vention in the affairs
of other countries. But did any reasonable man see in
the declaration of that general principle a denial that
the time might come, or circumstances might arise,
when it would be both for the honour and interests of
England to adopt any of the various modes by which
one country may interfere in the affairs of another, when
the direction which those affairs are taking threatens its
own prosperity or safety ?"
The Standard puts forth the following absurd state-
ment :—" We have heard, although we cannot vouch
for the correctness of the rumour, that the Duke of
Devonshire, disgusted with the profligate compact which
is known to exist between Lord Melbourne's Govern-
ment and Mr. O'Connell, and disapproving of the sys-
tem on which national education is hereafter to be
conducted in this country, and the shameless disre
gard of public opinion they have manifested on
this subject, is about, if he have not already done so, to
separate himself from Ministers. Whether the unplea-
sant feeling which is said to have arisen between Lord
Grey and Lord Melbourne, in reference to his Lord-
ship's behaviour to Lord Howick, may or may not have
anything to do with this determination, we are unable
to say. It is said that the Duke of Devonshire's deci-
sion has not been formed without due consideration."

The Times of this morning, in the course of a leading
article which seems to have been penned during some
strong convulsive paroxysm, thus speaks of the prospects
of the Ministers :—" We pronounce that Lord Nor-
manby will not stand as Secretary for the Home De-
partment. The first stormy debate will blow him over,
and the first debate will be a stormy one. He might ar-
rive at his proper euthanasia as Lord Chamberlain of
the Household, or Lord of the Bedchamber, and flou-
rish as in his native soil. But would his Lordship like
an exchange from 5,000/. per annum, as Secretary of
State, to 2,0001. in the former case, or 1,0001. in the
latter ? We know that Lord Vulture would not.
Again, can the Ministry, as a whole, meet Parliament ?
We say they cannot. We say they dare not. They
will never outlive the division on another address, and
Lord Melbourne is as well convinced of it as we are.
What then ? Appeal to the country l Oh, yes, by
all means—if the Queen insists! But whether she
does or does not, out he goes. The very trash with
which he has filled up the recent shot-holes in his Cabi-
net proves his consciousness that the ship is sinking."
The Morning Post, speaking of Mr. O'Connell's late
address on the subject of National Registration, says :
—" The address of O'Connell to the people of Eng-
land can be considered in no other light than as a public
declaration of war against the English Constitution.
Hitherto we have heard of plots and conspiracies, of
marches and countermarches, amongst the enemy's
troops ; but this is throwing the mask aside—it is
hoisting the standard of revolt, and it is invoking the
whole English nation to desert their principles, which
placed the house of Hanover on the throne, Hence-
forth the people of England will be marshalled under
three denominations—the Protestants ; the Papists,
and those who care for neither ; the Neutrals or
Liberals."

The Morning Herald thus alludes to O'Connell's
Letter to the Dublin Trades' Union :—" Mr. O'Con-
nell has addressed a letter to the Trades' Union' of
Dublin, on the subject of a repeal of the Union. After
a great deal of that epistolary swaggering which cha-
racterises Daniel, he pledges himself; as he has done at
least one hundred times before, to live, henceforward,
only for the sake of repeal. This mendacious impostor
is really becoming as stupid as he is dishonest. Only
a week ago, he deprecated the slightest allusion to re-
peal : now, repeal is his only theme. He has not the
most remote intention, all the while, of ever making a
single movement in the way of attempting to procure a
repeal of the Legislative Union. He uses the topic, for
the sake of swelling the ' Rint' and for the sake of
maintaining some portion of his mob popularity."
The Morning Chronicle says, with reference to
O'Connli's Repeal Manifesto :—" The Irish have
always been treated as a conquered people. The
Church supported by them is not their Church, but the
Church of the people of England. The Church must
always remind them of their bondage ; and the people
of England and Scotland have only to ask themselves
how they would like to support Churches not their own
to understand how an Irishman must feel under such an
insult. What the people of England may concede, in
the view of averting the great evil of Repeal, we know
not ; but this we know, that consent they never will
to have Ireland under a separate Legislature. Repeal,
therefore, means civil war. It is very easy to say that
a separation of the Legislatures does not mean a sepa-
ration from the Crown of Great Britain. It might
happen that on vital questions the Legislatures of Ire-
land and Britain arrived at different conclusions, and
the safety of this country be thereby endangered. The
fear of this will always make the people of England turn
a deaf ear to any proposition of Repeal."

The Conservative, an ably conducted Tory paper,
controverts some of our statements on the Corn laws ;
but as it controverts at the same time one of the general
facts of the natural history of man, namely, that popu-
lation at all times presses on the means of subsistence,
we are afraid that we entertain no principles in common
with that journal on which we can carry on a contro-
versy. How can a blind man dispute with one who
sees concerning visible objects. We cannot see as our
Contemporary sees, and cannot therefore dispute with
him.

L' Anti du Peuple of Wednesday speaks of a
contagious disease which has broken out in the parish of
Point Claire, Island of Montreal, and carried off twenty-
two persons in the course of last week. It begins with a
bloody flux, and the patient gets black in the face. A case
is said to have occurred at Montreal, which was cured by
Dr. Sewel.— Quebec Gazette.

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The Sacred Harmonic Society have announced
Judas Maccabcus for performance early next month. It
was revived by the Society last year, and the enthusiasm
with which it was received fully justifies their selection of
it to commence their winter season.
THE TRADE WITH SPAIN.—The flight of
Don Carlos has already begun to have its effect upon the
commercial prospects of Spain, and to give confidence to
the mercantile interests of that country. During the
present week several Spanish merchants have visited
Halifax, and have, we hear, given orders for a considerable
quantity of goods.--Halifax Express.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 25.—The Dutch Journals,
which are well informed on the subject, announce that
Prince Joseph de Chimarg will go in a few days to the
Hague, to enter on the exercise of his functions as Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Belgium at
the Court of the Netherlands. We know that the Baron
de Faick will come to Brussels immediately afterwards, to
represent his Court in the same capacity.
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