The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-28 00:00:00

punished with death. The foregoing accounts
from Cracow receive some countenance from the
Vienna Papers ; but the picture which the latter
draws of the prospects of the patriots is much less
glowing. The Austrian Observer of September 14
says—" Some friends of the Poles assert, however
(which seems rather improbable), that the army
will join to it the garrisons of Modlin and Zamosc,
march to Volhynia, and at the worst proceed thence
through Moldavia to Turkey, and seek the protec-
tion of the Porte. That the Polish agents sent to
Constantinople really contemplated the possibility of
leading the Polish army to Turkey, in case all other
means of escape should fail, appears from various
conversations which they held with several influen-
tial persons there." May we hope that, from the
midst of these jarring statements, some assurance
may be elicited that Polish independence and Polish
honour will not be entirely disregarded. It would
appear from these papers that the cholera is
making frightful progress in Austria. The Paris
papers, which we have since our last further re-
ceived to the date of Monday, contain no politi-
cal news of any importance. Prussia seems to have
given some fresh grounds for uneasiness, by new
warlike movements in its Rhenish provinces. The
Carlists were making some disturbances in the
south of France, and the news of the fall of War-
saw had produced generally a sensation of lively re-
gret; in many of the country towns the people put
themselves into mourning. The debates in the De-
puties were not of any importance. In a debate on
a petition from some military officers, the Minister
of Foreign Affairs took an opportunity of declaring
that France was determined to keep at peace; that
being, he said, the true interest of all countries, at
all times.—Morning Herald.

The Marquis of Westminster appears ready to
act the part of an English Montmorenci in the work
of Revolution. On presenting the petition of
(nominally) the inhabitants of Westminster, agreed
to at the thinnest and most paltry meeting on record,
the Noble Marquis adopted, we regret to say, much
of the violent language common among the pot-
house radicals, and in one of his arguments decidedly
out-did the most extravagant of his new allies.
" If," said he, "the House of Commons are de-
sirous of reforming themselves, why should the
House of Lords interfere ?" Thus, accord-
ing to the Noble Marquis, the question of Re-
form affects the House of Commons only;
it is an affair of their own, and the House of

Lords have no more concern in it, and ought no
more to interfere, than if the question were a Re-
form in the Turkish Divan. A more extraordinary
assertion than this was never ventured in any de-
liberative assembly; indeed, we are utterly unable
to account for such apparent obtuseness of com-
prehension. Truly, were all the Members of the
House of Lords on a level with the Noble Mar-
quis, in their reasoning powers, were there
no Peer more capable of understanding the
subject on which he speaks than the Noble Mar-
quis. we should hesitate in the answer to be made
to the Radical proposition, " What is the use of
a House of Lords ?" Fortunately, however, the
Marquis of Westminster is not a fair sample of that
illustrious assembly to which the people of England
have been accustomed to look up with respect and
veneration. The Noble Marquis of course did
not forget the argument, the sole argument of the
Reformers. " The popular voice is loud and fa-
vourable. Whet ever the voice of the people has
been heard, that voice has been in favour of Re-
form" (of the Reform Bill). Facts are the best an-
swer to this eternally reiterated statement. Look
to the triumphant return of Anti-Ministerialists
in all the popular elections since the meeting of
Parliament. Look to the miserable failures in the
attempts to get up Reform and intimidation meet-
ings. Is it because the same rabble, the same
mendici,minire, balatrones, assemble in various parts
of the metropolis to listen to nearly the same orators,
and to agree each time to the same resolutions—is
it because this expedient is adopted that the Lords
are to abdicate their legislative functions and out-
rage their consciences ? No; the appeal is in vain
made to their fears; nor will they be influenced by
the vague generalities of the Reformers. They will
inquire—lst, " What are the evils of the present
system ?" 2dly, " What are the benefits, unat-
tainable at present, which you expect to derive from
the Reform measure?"—Morning Post.