The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-08 00:00:00

reigns we are to have we know not ; but, at all
events, we think it well that the meeting was pre-
vented—riot because it was treasonable, but because
it was dangerous to the public Htr.
The projected meeting at White Conduit-house
did net take place, and yesterday passed over with-
' out any interruption to peace and order. It is very
gratifyitt to learn, that in all the parishes of the
metropolis, the inhabitant householders, high and
low, came forward with the utmost promptitude to
he sworn in as special constables. The calami•y of
Bristol has taught the inhabitants of every other
place an important lesson, to check in the first be-
ginnings all attempt to produce confusion. If any
persons hereafter, under cover of meetings of any
class of the population, conceive the ressibility of
producing confusion with 0 view to piofit by it,
they will find the i!thar,',itants of the metropolis pre-
pared to met titem. It is of the utmost importance
that Y.etormers should carefully distinguish between
meetings of the people for the futherance of the
great object which all good men have at !malt, and
meetings called for objects calculated to fill the
possessors of property with apprehension. What
has hitherto rallied the nation round the standard of
Reform, is the conviction that without it we can
have no seculity for property. Whatever the people
possess, they h&c' at the discretion of the borough-
mongers. Tin the great question with the bo-
roughmongers is settled, we may expect that the
two classes of robbers, from a sympathy not diffi-
cult to be undf rstood, will play into the hands of
each other. The robber ltt a coach and the robber
who goes a-foot have equally an interest that pro-
perty 7!hotild be unprotec'ed, and are equally anxious
that the mass of property should not have its fair
influence. Reform alone will extinguish the hopes
of both. The insolent boroughmonger will be com-
pelled to rely solely on the influence to which the
legitimate use of his property and his good conduct
entitle him; and the justice of a Government really
responsible to the people, arid not to a rapacious
oligarchy, will in time destroy the business of the
panderer to the passions and prejudices of the
rabble.—Morning Chronicle.

We give in this day's Paper another specimen of
the glorious "re-action" which is taking place
throughout the country ! Verily it would seem as
if the "re-action" would never have an end. fires
acqurit eundo ! It is to be met with every where,
and instead of being weakened, seems only to in-
crease in vigour and intensity, in proportion as it
spreads. The specimen of re-action to which we
refer, is to be found in the great meeting of the
county of Worcester—a meeting characterized
above almost all others, by the presence of the
~Tentry and Nobility of the county—by the una-
nimity of its sentiments on the subject of Reform—
and by the eloquence of the speeches. We com-
mend all of them to the perusal of our readers, and
more especially the speech of Lord Lyttleton to
those of them who are in search of re-action. It is
a splendid specimen of the alleged repentance of the
Reform Peers !—Morning Advertiser.

The outcry; pretty loud throughout the nation,
and pretty general, against the enormity of some
200 Peers exercising an unresisted dominion over
the King and Commons, and a very large minority
of the Peers themselves, backed by the whole body
of the people of England, except those individuals
who have, for reasons good, become the sworn tools
of the Anti-Reforming portion of the Peerage,—the
burst of national indignation against that monstrous
and hardly conceivable enormity, has been met by a
low whine from the borough interest to this effect :
—" May not the Lords vote as they think fit ? Are
they not an independent branch of the British Le-
gislature ?" Admitted : they are so. But when the
people come to ask why the Crown has not created
a sufficient number of Peers, not merely to carry the
question through a House the existing majority of
which has been sedulously, skilfully, and notoriously
packed for the maintenance of the borough faction
iii the seat of power, but likewise a sufficient
number to satisfy the doubting and anxious people
of this country, that Ministers have not a second
time miscalculated their own strength, and will not
subject themselves and the empire to the risk—the
fatal risk,—of a second overthrow of a measure by
which both " must stand or fall,"—when such a
question is asked, and such a proposition implied by
it, nothing can equal the horror of your constitutional
Tories. " 'What!" they cry, " make Peers for the
sake of procuring a Ministerial majority? Didany one
ever hear of such an abomination ? What! drown the
old aristocracy in such a plebeian deluge ! Why,
we'd impeach Lord Grey if he attempts it." Soft
ye now. If it be the prerogative of the Peers to
vote Bills or reject tl-,em, it is no less the preroga-
tive of the King to create Peers, or summon them.
If the Peers may so vote as to inflime the nation,
and without timely interference entail on it the cer-
tainty of a violent, and we acknowledge most de-
plorable attack upon the Peerage,—all this, too,
without suffering an argument to be raised touching
their right to perpetrate such a heinous abuse of
power,—is it too much to demand on behalf of the
Sovereign, that he may be permitted to exercise his
undisputed prerogative, in such a manner as to allay
he national ferment, and to avert that convulsion,
in the imminent hazard of which the refractory
Lords have, in their anointed madness, threatened to
in vol veat once themselves,the throne, and the people?
Thus we see the value of constitutional theory, as
preached in the Tory schools. With them it is treason
to deny that the Peers may embroil the country, or
to affirm that the King may tranquillize it. But the
present Government is not to create Peers who
may happen to agree with them in opinion that the
people of England are justifiable in their eagerness
fur Reform. What, then, is the history of the Peer-
age for the last half century, but that of hundreds
of creations from among men who were ever after-
wards most conspicious throughout the kingdom for
their zealous support of Tory Ministers, and their
antipathy to Reform ? Is it fair play that a parti-
cular faction shall not only, while in office, exhibit on
all sides such a broad and sweeping exercise of the
prerogative as tends to perpetuate its own dominion,
and to close the doers of Government, and the Royal
ear, against all Statesmen of other principles, but
shall, even when expelled from power by the unani-
mous effort of 22,000,000 of men, have the impu-
dence to denounce as unconstitutional a far less ex-
tensive application of the same prerogative, though
grounded on a general conviction throughout the
empire, that there exists at present no adequate
counterpoise to the ascendancy of the borough-be-
gotten Peers manufactured since 1760; and that
without a fresh infusion of wholesome blood into
that assembly, a Government inclined to legislate
for the people, as contradistinguished from the rotten
borough interest, must be hourly perplexed, and
finally overpowered, by this ermined faction, at
whose mercy the abused prerogative of 70 years has
placed the King and country ? The deprecatory
clamour against creating Peers is but another say
of importuning Ministers not to do any thing that
may fortify themselves in office, or impede the re-
turn of our old task-masters, the Tories. But this
modest counsel, we hope and trust, will pass un-
heeded by his Majesty's Ministers. They may not
care for office, but they are condemned to infamy if
they abandon the Bill, and they do abandon the
Bill if they omit any exercise of constitutional power
by which their own tenure of office may be con-
firmed, on which depends the passing of the Bill.
We have not dwelt so much as we might have been
disposed to do upon the plain justice of restoring
the House of Lords to its equilibrium, nor touched
at all upon those details in the analysis of the mo-
dern Peerage which expose the precise nature,
depth, and magnitude, of the evil to be cured,
because this has been done with great dili-
gence and success in a little pamphlet of which
we now present a few short extracts. It is in the
form of a letter to Lord Grey, on the " adjustment
of the House of Peers." That the Peers have riot
usefully reconsidered their opinions on the Reform
Bill, so as to ensure a reception for that measure more
palatable to the nation than the last, has within these
few days become a matter of widely-diffused ettapH