The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-18 00:00:00

peaving the uneasiness, which 'mule journalists Lave not
hesitated to express, respecting the reported conversation
of Lord Grey with the members of the deputation that
waited on him. We are not much in the habit of com-
plimenting Ministers, but we will do Lord Grey and his
colleagues the justice to say that we never suspected theta
of any thing so base as the substitution of a mock Reform
for the real Reform which they offered to the country
we never suspected them of such a profligate disregard and
contradiction of their own assertions, so recently made in
both Houses of Parliament, as to attach the slightest im-
portance to the fears which have been openly avowed upon
this subject. We thought it much snore likely that the
deputation would turn out to be clumsy reporters, than
that the Ministry should be so destitute of principle and
common sense. The letter of Lord Grey will, we hope,
satisfy all parties that no doable dealing is intended, and
will justify us in eongratulating our contemporaries on a
deliverance from the morbid influence of their own irna-
ginations.—Morraing Herald.
It is one of the happiest characteristics of the present
reign that the regal dignity is shared with an amiable and
virtuous Queen, whose conduct and example have restored
the tone of morals and manners at the British Court,
which, since the demise of the consort of George the
Third, had greatly suffered in the eyes of the nation and
the world by that sort of unfortunate female influence
which it is not necessary, in this place, snore particulatly
to describe. This is a Reform of no small importance—
a moral Reform, which must have a most beneficial effect
upon the lives and conduct of the higher classes of society,
who find that title, rank, and opulence are no longer ac-
eepted assn equivalent for a spotless Lone, and that levity
of morals i. no longer -a passport to favour and pre-emi-
nence at the British Court. Yet it is melancholy to ob-
serve that the illustrious female, whose example of domes-
tic worth and genuine virtue has produced this great Reform,
cannot escape the shafts of malevolence and misrepresenta-
tion, aimed continually at her peace. It would seem as if
the very purity of her character, and the innocency of her
life, only stimulated the ingenuity, an excited the perse-
verance of detraction. Well may we say with the dra-
matic bard—

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Are sanctified and holy traitors to her."
It is true the calumny is ■ot open and direct ; it takes
the safe cow se •f oblique attack—the convenient shape of
insinuation. It frequently strikes a meaner mark, so as
to rebound against the more illustrious victim. But
though the arrow wounds by refection from some oti,er
subject, the Laud that draws the how is not directed by a
less malignant intention. Time wastage only fails, but the
;italice is steady to its purpose. The latest etiott of this
sort has come in the shape of an attack upon two Ladies
of the Bedchamber, whose husbands are not friendly to
the Reform Bill. But Lord Hill, who is in command of
the army, and thereby wields CA. most powerful arm of the
executive, is no friend to Me Bill t yet the Ministry do
not seem to take any objection to his Lordship's conti-
nuance in that most important office, at this very eventful
time. Then there is Lord Palmerston, who never opened
his lips in support of the Bill during its progress through
the House of Commons; yet time writers, who pry into
Bedchamber politics, and make war upon old ladies, or
upon yoang ones, we don't know which, neither cry out.
for the removal of Lord Hill from the command of the,
force►, nor for the dismissal of Lord Palmerston from
the Cabinet ; though if he were out of office to-morrow
they would most probably discover, by a sort of retrospec-
tive sagacity, his incompetency fur the situation to which
a Whig Mini.t►y appointed him. We can hardly bedeve
that either of the two Ladies of the I3edchamber, to
whom exception is so seriously taken, can do as much
mischief in their depirtuzent as he has effected in the one
so unfortunately confided to his cars. Surely there err
many old ladies who could have made equally voluminous
protocols touching Belgic affairs, and bare delivered at
least as energetic remonstranoes relative to the criminal
outrages of the Northern Autocrat against Lmasnanity and
Poland. There is only one step more that remains to our
sagacious eontemporariese who show their respect for the
King by vilifying his amiable :tad iseloved consort. Having
insisted that she shall have no Ladies of the Bedchamber
of her own cho sing, lest her Majesty may enter into,
conspiracy fatal to the State, they may, perhaps, by look-
ing. further into household matters, discover that time
Royal wasitertonman has a taint in her polities, and that
the laundry can only It reformed by her dismissal.—
Morning Herald,

We refer our readers, with the greatest satisfaction, to
the speeches of Lords Grey and Brougham, last night in
the House of Lords—the one referring to the Westminster
deputation and the prorogation of Parliament, the other
to the foul lies lately propagated by the Tory press, res-
pecting dissentions in the Cabinet, and particularly res-
pecting a supposed difference of opinion between Lords
Grey and Brougham. • On both subjects the speeches of
these Noble Lords will be found highly satisfactory. There
never Las been any disagreement between them on the sub-
ject of the Reform Bill, nor is there any disagreement now
respecting the period of prorogation. On the latter topic
both the Noble Lords make a feeling appeal to the public,
principally grounded on the arduous duties which they
have had to perform, and the consequent exhawstion of
their frames, to which it is impossible not to submit. It
might appear silly in us to say that we have ourselves
felt it—that we are worn out, and that we have need
of repose; but If we who labour in an humbler sphere
begin to be sensible of the physical exhaustion, consequent
e
on anxious business and late hours, how is it to be supposed,
that those whose minds are distracted by mere important
concerns, should not also be worn out ? We readily, not-
withstanding our remarks yesterday, agree therefore to a
prory.aation for a month, or even for six weeks ; but be-
yond that period, there cannot well exist a valid reason
for further time. As to the new Bill, Lord Grey declared
that it should in no respect differ in principle from that
which has already received the sanction of the country ;
ar.d we think, alter having been a Reformer all his days,
his word may be safely relied on. We are given to under-
st Ind, indeed, that the new Bill will be in every respect
more satisfactory, and more aimplo and intelligible, than
that which has been rejected,....Aforning Advertiser.
It has been asserted in Parliament, as well as in the
uewspapers of the day, that the majority of lay Peers upon
the division on the second reading of the Reform Bill is to
be attributed to the preponderating Tory influence in the
House of Lords created during the Administration of Mr.
Pitt and the succeeding Tory Governments; and an ar-
gument has been founded upon this presumption in
favour of the proposition that the present Whig Ministry
ought to have recourse to a corresponding exercise of
the Royal Prerogative to meet the recent majority, and
thus carry " the whole Bill." The following statement will
show at once the fallacy e f the assertion and of the argu-
ment aateinptad to be founded upon it :—Since the year
MO the aggregate number of Peerages created, and now
existing, amounts to one hundred and seaway-three ,
of this notuber three Peerages are vested in females,,
four in minors, and twenty-one in Peers who took no
part in the recent division, either personally or by proxy.
The number, therefore, who actually voted was reduced to
one hundred and forty ;dive ; and at this reduced 'imam
seventy-one actually voted with Ministers, and seventy-fonr
against the second reading, making a difference of three
only in favour of the Opposition. In pursuing this in-
quiry it appears that the Whig Administration of 1806
crested, during about six months of official power, eight
Peerageat sow existing ; and the menial Government, in

the apace of less than twelve MUM% has created twenty—
jive Peerages, making, ia the whole, thirty-three,
or nearly one-fifth of the aggregate created since
the period ahoyo referred to. If, therefore, thirty-
three he deducted from the whole number created since

1789, it will be seen that the Tary Administrations (in-
cluding the mixed Government of Mr. Canning), dining
thirty-nine years of mice, created upon an average less
thanfoar Peerages annual'y. A word more as to the eir-
ctunstanc,ec under which there Immure have been c ts-
feried. During the Administration of Mr. Pitt and suc-
ceeding Tory Governments, of the 140 Peerages so cre-
ated twenty-two have been conferred as the immediate
reward for Ain) or military services, ten for diplomatic,
service; three upon retired Speakers of the House of
Commons, and fourteen upon legal characters. And of
the 33 Peerages created by the Whig Governments of
1806 and 1830-1, are only (the gallant De SAumarez)
ius been Advanced to the dignity f.,r arcs' services ; and
tica, vis. Lords Erskine and Brmaghans, upon becoming
Chancellors.—Morning

The Skive)! Zoological Gardens are progress-
ing with unexampled success; the annual subscribirs al-
ready amount to five hundred, and several days hit week
from eight hundred to a thouaasd persons visited the
Gardens,

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