The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-16 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1836.

The Committee appointed to draw up reasons for
disagreeing to the Lords' amendments on the Irish
Corporation Bill, will most probably make their report
to the House of Commons this evening, when a com-
munication of those reasons, through the medium of a
" conference" will be made to the other House.
This, we believe, is the order of the ceremony in
such cases made and provided. How the hereditary
Incurables may take it into their eccentric noddles to
act on this occasion, it is not for us to say. Their
Lordships pursue a path so irregular, that it baffles
all calculation. Within the last fortnight we have
seen them at the two extremes of the political orbit—
sweeping away with a revolutionary phrenzy those in-
stitutions—older than themselves—which they had but
the other day declared to be the landmarks of the Con-
stitution—and guarding, from the rude assault of the
Lo rtD CHANCELLOR, those glaring and monstrous
abuses in the administration of justice which are felt as
a national calamity, and against which the nation has
been so long crying out. It is clearly impossible to say
beforehand how a body, endowed with such irregular
principles of action, may act in any givon circum-
stances. The Lords may, in a moment of returning
reason—a lucid interval, we believe, is the professional
phrase—see the necessity of a quiet submission to the
will of the people, unequivocally expressed as that
will has been, both in and out of Parliament, and thus
procure for themselves a vegetative sub silentio sort of
existence a few years longer. Or they may, in a
paroxysm of excitement, break through the restraints of
prudence and decency, setting the people and their re-
presentatives at defiance, and rushing headlong on
their own destruction. One or other of these
courses they must follow, and, everything considered,
the latter would perhaps be the more desirable. The
question of a reform of the House of Lords would then
be brought to a speedier issue. It would be settled by a
more summary process, and ill a more practical way.
The men of Birmingham, who, we are delighted
to perceive are already on the move--together with
the other English and Scotch Reformers--would lend
a helping-hand to their countrymen on the ether side
of the Channel. There would be a long pull, a strong
pull, and a pull all together ; and the Lords would
then feel, if they do not now see, the effects of
;showing the people how to abolish ancient institutions.

We have received, by extraordinary express, papers
an i letters from Madrid of to the 9th inst.
1 'he Gazette of the 7th contains the following de-
cree, . .eiative to the conversion of the Passive Debt
into Ac tive, which is to take place on the 15th inst.
This a: v-iaf the new Ministry shows that it intends to
do justfcltto, the foreign creditors, by putting in execu-
tion t:',lii,;:. i, measures of ..M. MENDIZABAL'S Admi-
nistra 'O4C 1 -Iverything`was quiet in the capital and the
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provincesoo
.rnany changes were talked of in. the Mi
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nistry. Among others, that the present Ministry is
about to be dissolved, and a new Administration to be
formed under ARGUELLES, with MENDIZABAL Mi-
nister of Finance, and IsTurtlz for Foreign Affairs :