The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-08 00:00:00

the guise of being Reformers. The trick will not
answer. The people are for " The Bill, the whole
Bill, and nothing but the Bill;" and we, who have
some notion of the intrigues which are going on,
trust that we have sense enough not to unsettle the
public mind upon a subject respecting which it is
unanimous, but which, if distracted, might seriously
affect the success of the best measure that ever came
under the consideration of Parliament. There may
be matters in the Bill which it would be wise to
alter; but if we and our cotemporaries advocated
any alteration, the Tory party would immediately
lay hold of it as a handle to upset the whole Bill ;
and we therefore say, let the Bill itself be first passed.
and then, with an independent Parliament, we
shall think of, and discuss, the necessary alterations.
This is our policy; and therefore, gentlemen of the
Anti• Reform interest, you need send us no more
pamphlets or circulars against the Bill. Our mind
is made up. We do not object to amendments in the
details; but as to any alteration in the principles, we
will have none of them !—Morning Advertiser.

Prince Leopold, as we ventured in the first in-
stance to predict, has prudently refused the prof-
fered Crown of Belgium. The ostensible ground of
this refusal is the becoming deference of his Royal
Highness to the decision of the Five Great Powers,
as expressed in the conference bell on Monday,
against the unjust pretensions of the Belgian Go•
ernment to the district of Limburg, in manifest in-
justice to the King of Holland. All this is highly
plausible, and looks well in a political view, shewieg
as it does a just sense of the iniquity and folly of the
wretched faction to whose gross misrule alone can
be attributed die present ruinous state of Belgium.
But the real fset is, that prudential, more than po-
litical considerations, have wisely governed the de-
cision of his Royal Highness. He well knows how
to distinguish between an ample comfortable settle-
ment in England and the precarious situation
in which he would find himself as the head
of a revolted State and a people incapable of duly
appreciating the benefits of good and safe govern-
ment; and has therefore prudently determined to
enjoy what he quietly and safely possesses rather
than risk the consequences (fearful necessarily in
their nature) of assuming a weak insignificant So-
vereignty under the most precarious and degrading
tenure. The obstinate folly of the Belgic Govern-
ment will cause the English and French Ministers
to be immediately recalled from Brussels ; and if
this necessary proceeding does not serve to convince
the mi,rulers of Belgium of their errors, they will
soon experience the natural consequences of their
temerity. Despatches announcing the determina-
tion to this effect were yesterday sent off to Lord
Ponsonby at Brussels. The Belgic Deputation has
not yet reached London.—Morning Post.

Not the least dangerous part of the sweeping Re-
form Bill is the needless complication of machinery
—its wanton hacking and hewing of our whole re-
presentative system. In fact, the perilous principles
of the measure are one thing—their clumsy applica-
tion to the clauses of the Bill another. We are
sati,fied that any six men of common acquirements,
who, for the sake of an experiment, should admit
the justice and policy of the objects which the
Bill pretends to effect, could work out severally,
in the course of two hours, six new Constitutions
which should tally bona fide with the Bill's prin-
ciples, as declared by Lord John Russell, yet carry
each of those principles into effect, by simpler
means, with less disturbance of existing privileges,
with far less spirit therefore of general subversion,
yet probably each with as fair a promise of working
well for the country.—Morning Post.