The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-21 00:00:00

,;PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

it Twelve boroughs were last night doomed to Par-
onentary extinction, amidst the groans and wail_
rigs of the relations and friends of the unfortunate
.lecetoed. It may be sad of each of these ho-
oighs, that nothing in their lives became them like
he ending. of them. Some decent eulogies were
;uttered over several of the defunct, and though we
i.annot compere Mr. G. Boikes with ,Flechier, nor
Mr. W. Bankes with Bossuet, yet their " oraisong
ruttebres" were quite worthy of the occasion and of
•he departed. In short, it was shown, to the corn-
plete satisfaction of the demonstrators, and to the
le•xpressible surprise of every body else, that these
!mrougiLs, which all the a orld had supposed to be
oocr, decayed, corrupt, and contemptible places,
were the most virtuous, the most intelligent, the
Most disinterested, and, what must stagger even
Malthus, the most populous of towns. Calling,ton,
the pretty innocent, did not even know the colour of
money. Loo-Choo was not more immaculate
'hag this pure Member of the Cornish family, ren-
lered pure, no doubt, by the custom of the country
of which it forms so precious an ornament ; and
oife Castle is, if we may believe its patron, scarcely
less vigorous and flourishing than Manchester,
though the former had but eleven houses of and
above ten pounds value, and the latter about twelve
thousand of and above the same limit of rent. The
hobbling and wrinkled Lord Oglely is pronounced
by his faithful Canton to he " An absolute chicken
—a mere buy." In the eye of the boronghmonger
there is no discrimination between a dilapidated
street, with its few desolate inhabitants, and the
splendid edifices of a crowded city. His half.
dozen thatched cottages outweigh, in his mind,
the importance of a thousand ware!iouses, and the
poor half-dozen inhabitants whom he drives to
the poll are as independent, forsooth, as the
opulent inhabitants of Finsbury or M-tryiebom-.
Upon the whole, the debate was carried on with
tolerable good humour : Sir Edward Sugden seemed -
to be the only Member who lust his temper. Some
fan'aitic pedantry, poured forth by Sir Charles
Wetherell in praise of the obsolete right by bur-
gage leisure, was annihilated by the manly sense of
Lord Althorp. Does Sir Charles really think that,
this petty description of property in its origin had
the most distant connection with representation, or
dues he hope to persuade any man with a particle
of reason in his composition, that the rights which
belong to the present advanced state of socie!y are
to be denied, in order to suppott the paltry privi-
leges bestowed on a few towns eight centuries ago
by the caprice of a few Saxon Lords? This is to
cheat the grown man of the right to his estate, by
offering him the cup and corals which amused his
infancy.--Times.

We heartily wish that Members of the Commons
would lay aside the mawkish humbug of daubing
over their antagonists with courtly epithets, when
they better deserve to be thoroughly lashed and ex- .
posed for qualities the very opposite of the virtues
ascribed to them. 'We have been perfectly sickened
with praises of Sir R. Peel's liberality, temper, can-
dour, &e. &c., in the course of some lute disenssion4.
Sir R Peel's liberality ! Sir R. Peel's temper !! Sic..
It. Peel's candour!!! Why, the gentleman has for
the last eight months been all but bursting with ani-
mosity towards the Liberals, and with rage at their
success throughout the land. There is nobody who,
so far as party politics are concerned, can crouch,
or twist, or turn his back upon himself and his pro.
fessions, more skilfully than can the existing Tory
leader. He can laugh on calculation, and look
grave in joke; yet we will venture to affirm that
no gravity was ever put to so severe is test as
that of the Right *Honourable Tory Baronet, when
some of the soft ones about the Treasury bench
began to butter him on his "liberality" and " can-
dour." Why don't they pin him to his liberality ?
by don't they fling his pledge in his face, when
the Tory understrappers, night after night, renew
their nonsense respecting this and that crazy borough,
which, if Sir Robert Peel meant any thing " candid"
by his pledge, were to be looked upon as included
under the principle of the Bill, and finally disposed
of by the second reading. But Sir It. Peel has,
since Tuesday last, if we are not misinformed,
entered upon an office which will afford fresh scope
for that political " straightforwardness" in which his
nature se exceedingly rejo'ces, 'What happened—
we should like to ask one of the initiated—what
happened at the Chautlos meeting of the Anti-Re-
formers on the day referred to? Was it the oppo-
sition in bulk, or the bit-and-bit opposition, that
carried the majority of voices ? Was the thing to
be effected by assault or sap ? What duties (duties !)
were allotted to the Committee of 15,—the Green-
parlour chieftains of the new rotten borough bank ?
—and who was installed chairman of that secret
committee ? le not the appointed business of " Sir
Candour" and his 'fourteen colleagues, to hatch every
morning a fresh brood of stratagems for the ensuing
night's debate, that so the credulous Ministers may
be confounded by an endless diversity of those oft`-
' hand and extempore artifices prepared by the Pal/-
mall Committee of Tuesday, and delivered out daily
to the troops next on the list for service, as mecha-
nically as ammunition to a piquet ? We have rea-
son to know that the kind of warfare in which the
self-complacent Mr. Praed became the harbinger .
three or four days ago, is to be systematically per.
severed in,—the plan of trick—and shuffiee--and
pretences—that delay for its own sake will be as
eagerly caught at as even a week's postponement
of a trial at the Old Bailey, where a criminal ex-
pects to be condemned, and all the while that the
most solemn disavowals will be offered of any
such unworthy purpose as procrastination,—in like
meareer as affidavits are not wanting to satisfy
a Judge that the day of trial is to be put off in
the name of justice, not humanity; and that the
prisoner has not the least objection to be hanged, but
only, for the sake of precedent, that he should not
be hanged prematurely. We confess—for why
should Sir Robert have all the praise of candour to
himself ,we do confess that Lord Althorn has more
than once put us a little cut of patience by treating
the public enemy with so much unmerited con-
sideration. Lord Althorp, if he be leader of the.
House of commons, ought to lead, not merely the
proceedings of the House, but the sentiments and.
judgments of the majority. Ills Lordship ought,
therefore, to keep up a more lively spirit in his
camp, by not being satisfied with dull defensive war :
he ought to carry the fight into the adverse quarters.
He ought never te, repulse the boroughmonger craw,
without atteeng them in torn, Why not meet at
ten c!c:ock in the morning 11 Why nut friree the
disfranchisement of noraitaition boroughS in the lump,
instead of stranglin; ehe reptiles by the tedious and
troublesome access of succession ? The mejority,
if he will, but' blood them a little, by closing instead
of always skirmishing, are with him to any Consti-
tutional extent he pleases. The country is with
him, —are Press is with l'",—whet does ,is Lord-
ship fear ? Times,
! -

L*Or'utlidA:lPo
From the spirit orineed 1.-a some quarters respect-.
ing Mr. Long Weiksiey's committal by the Lord
ChanceUN fora gross and daring contempt of his
jurisdiction over a ward of his Court, it
w
very much surprise us if Mr. Wynn's
Committee of Privileges were to report in the pri-
soner's favour, and to recommend a formal requisi-
tion to the, Chancellor on behalf of the House of
Commons, demanding the surrender of Air. Wel-.
lesley's person. \V are nevertheless inclined to
hope that no such attack upon the established prac-
tice of the Court of Chancery will proceed from so
high a quarter. • All the bankrupts in the kingdom
and their estates are under the controul and direction
lof the Chancellor. All the trusts and executory
rit. Or all minms, male and female, throughout.
, •
Chancellorof England is
duties of the kingdom are amenable to his autho-
rity.
rue realm, the Lord
disregrds the injuncti
Stvspoge a trustee
the acknowledged
and vaults over every
thel Court of Chancery,
for the benefit of by interposed .
safeguard there
and the se of principal
the trust estate,
- 4 let us ask what a condition the affairs C partw_, and paramount. yrote%tiosr.—of