The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-12 00:00:00

the injury of the taxed Press, as well as to the seri-
ous detriment of the revenue. It is also our wish
that there should be a distinct stamp for each news-
paper, in order to prevent the public from
.bring de-
ceived, in regard to both the positive and relative

circulation of newsparr, as represented upon
fac. of Parliamentary •returns. Now, in referei,
to a matter rather personal -between the Chancelio.
of the Exchequer and the parties who signed the
petition to Parliament on behalf of the Time,;, Post,
Standard, and Herald, let us say a word or two,
explanatory of our own part in that transaction. We
expressed our astonishment the other day, on finding
that the Right Hon. Gentleman had stated in substance
that those parties, and mir,:elves of course, had beep •
frequent communication with him respecting
posed measure, and tkl.t. t:e change of the 112,7517,
size, from the dimension.-; a curtain Ministerial Pape.
to 1,530 superficial was adopted with their and
our privity and concurrence. On our part we distinctly
and unequivocally denied that statement ; and to that
denial we still adhere. In fact, a measure so ob-
viously detrimental to our own interests we could not
have assented to, without being totally bereft of under-
standing. But while we repeat that the specific modifi-
cation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's plan concern-
ing the maximum size of newspapers was not adopted with
our concurrence or privity, we feel ourselves bound to
acquit the Chancellor of the Exchequer of any inten-
tion to mislead Parliament or the public on that sub-
ject. An explanation has taken place which satisfies
us that the apparent misrepresentation was the result
of mistake—a mistake for which the Right Hon.,Gen-
tleman is not responsible. Avoiding any more de-
tailed statement, unless it should become necessary,
and being now convinced that the whole of this unplea-
sant affair originated in misconception, we hasten to
render this act of justice to the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. Of his financial plans and political prin-
ciples our opinion is unchanged ; but no political con-
siderations would ever induce us for a moment to
allow any public man's personal character to suffer
from an imputation which we believed him not to
deserve.—Morning Herald.
All must sympathise deeply with the sufferings of
those of our brave countrymen who have been wounded
in the recent assault of the Carlist works at St. Sebas-
tian, and with the affliction of those families who have
to mourn their lost relatives among the slain. Still,
• for the nation collectively, there is the redeeming conso-
lation that a battle has been fought by our brethren as
Britons are wont to fight—gallantly—nobly—trium-
phantly. The loss was dreadful. In the Legion
only, the amount of killed, wounded, and missing, will
not turn out, we understand, to have been short of
1,000 officers and men—a full fifth, if not more, of
the entire British force at St. Sebastian. The
Spaniards, itwould appear from General Evans's letter,
behaved most resolutely, and from other accounts we
learn that they suffered an equal loss. So that the
Carlists must have made an obstinate defence, putting
hors du combat in a single day about 2,000 of their
enemies. This, however, but enhances the merit of
the troops, who defeated them in the face of such
tremendous carnage, and drove them from so formidable
a position. Fears, however, have reached us that
little positive has been gained beyond the field of battle.
It is said that Colonel Considine, one of the best
officers in the British or any other service, has on
this occasion been dangerously wounded. The main
point is, will General Evans be enabled henceforth to
command from certain quarters a more harmonious
and absolute co-operation than he is said to have ex-
perienced hitherto ? Without perfect union, the
Queen's troops may now and then wrest a military
trophy from the Carlists, but will hardly drive the Pre-
tender out of Spain.—Times.
No act of the House of Lords, within our recollec-
tion, has created so strong a feeling of hatred against
the Tory section of that assembly, as their denial of
municipal reform to Ireland. The opposition in the
Upper House to Parliamentary Reform and English
municipal reform, did that branch of the Legislature
considerable detriment ; it forced the people to think
that in the hereditary Peerage consisted the sturdiest
foe of their rights and privileges, and produced a very
general feeling that public liberty could not be secure,
while the House of Lords continued unreformed.
Still, though the acts of the Peers were condemned,
the motives of the majority were not impugned.
How different the case now ! The last pernicious act
of the Tory Peers has not only estranged from their
House the affections of the great body of the people,
but it has removed all doubt with respect to the mo-
tives by which their Lordships were indueed to adopt
a different course on the two former occasions. The
universal remark now is, that the Peers yielded to fear
alone when they conceded .those reforms in her insti-
tutions which Great Britain demanded, and that they
now play the Bobadil, under the impression that they
are safe this bout ; in short, that they evince the
cruelty of cowards towards Ireland, conceiving that
impunity is secured to them by the want of a cordial
sympathy between the people of England and their
Irish fellow-subjects. Can a more favourable con-
struction be put upon their Lordships' conduct ? The
dunces who feed upon their favour will deny the appli-
cability of this charge to the Tory Lords, and the pro-
fligate bravos who are hired to pander to their pas-
sions, and to defend their vices, will swear it is flat
blasphemy. Unfortunately the deed is recorded, and
the circumstances leave no room to doubt the unwor-
thiness of feeling that gave it birth. The Tory Peers
have laid their ruthless hands upon the Irish Mu-
nicipal Bill, and destroyed that wholesome mea-
sure, because they loved injustice, and flattered.
themselves with the- notion that England would
not espouse, the cause of freedom in the sister
country, and resent their malversation. Their
hope has told them a flattering tale. Events will
shortly bring conviction to their minds, if they
are not so panoplied in bigotry and pride as
to be impervious to the light of reason or the force of
facts, that Englishmen cherish the principle of liberty,
and abhor cheats, cowards, and oppressors, and will
not, consequently, be parties tacitly assenting to the
infliction of wrong, by a junta of titled factionists, upon
any portion of their fellow-subjects. Moderation
itself has been shocked by this outrageous proceeding
of the destructive patricians. Men who in the warm-
est periods of party warfare have preserved a cool
temper and a calm demeanor, are roused into indigna-
tion by the denial of equal rights and equal laws to
eight millions of people, and by the flagitious reasons
that have been assigned for the contumelious refusal.
The truth of our assertion is instanced in the petition
of Sir John Newport, which will be found in another
part of this clay's Morning Chronicle. Than the
Right Hon. Baronet—venerable alike for his years,
his patriotism, and his virtues—the empire never pos-
sessed a more 'prudent, discreet public character.
For thirty years Sir John Newport had a seat in
the House of Commons, and during that long
period—the prolific sotirce of mighty events—he con-
trived invariably to retain the confidence and esteem
of his own party, without for a moment forfeiting the
respect. of his political opponents. Covered with ho-
nours arid with years, even he is forced once more into
the field. He raises his voice against the foul injus-
tice which the Tory majority in the House of Lords
are doing to his native land, and against the felon
blows they arc striking at the ligature which keeps the
two islands in connection. Will the destructive Peers
—these worst foes of the integrity and happiness of
the empire—will they hearken to the warning and sup-
plicating voice of one who has never exhibited violence
in his long political career, and who cannot now be
suspected of wiworthy- motives ? We fear they are
too much the creatures of passion, too much the
victims of fatuity, and too much the instruments
of infamous renegades and reckless charlatans, to
listen to the solemn voice of reason, and recal,
while yet there is time, an Act that threatens,
if persisted in, to lead to the prostration of
their own House, and the dismemberment of
the United Kingdom. In that House there are,
and at all times have been, men whose wisdom, whose
talents, whose varied acquirements, and enlarged and
dignitydada
benefitrk t contrast n-torans the
Peerage, andmankind.
Benlightened views, have cosnlivgfielnraartel
the picture,
andand
presented. There There we behold those whom the Consti-
tution has invested with immense and extraordinary
power for the good of the mass, shamefully abusing
their sacred trust, glaringly perverting their privileges,

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