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London, England, 1836-12-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LON‘DON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1836.

to fight to the very last for corruption. Sir Robert
Peel had retired to Tamworth, but the freaks of his
Noble and Learned Friend brought him to town ; and
it is most true that the nation is greatly indebted to
the Right Hon. Gentleman for the moderation and good
sense he displayed on that critical occasion. In fact,
Sir Robert in the Commons contributed mainly to the
defeat of Lord Lyndhurst in the Peers. So completely
was his Lordship disconcerted by thidapparently suc-
cessful attempt to crush his ambition, that he was for
some time a pitiful spectacle to behold ; and Lord
Brougham, believing his Lordship fairly down, and
anxious that his political death might be accompanied
with as little pain as possible, volunteered _a com-
plimentary speech to set the Noble and Learned
Lord right with his own party. The sum and sub-
stance of Lord Brougham's compliment was, that
hough Lord Lyndhurst
,could not possibly have dc.
Feated the people of England, yet that it must be ad.
mitted he had done all that learning and talents conic
do in making the attempt. We had' our misgivings a
the time as to the prudence of Lord Brougham hold
inn out a hand to a sinking enemy ; but there can be
no doubt that Lord Brougham's motives were kindness
and commiseration. So much for the harmony and
excellent understanding between Sir Robert and Lord
Lyndhurst. But the shock, however severe—and
Lord Lyndhurst, bold as he unquestionably is, ap-
peared to sink under it—did not utterly paralyze his
Lordship. The Irish Corporation Bill held out another
chance for supremacy. Again he appealed to the
more desperate and reckless of the party, and again
they were tempted by his proffers. Intoxicated by the
applause of the frantic Tories, lie forgot himself so far
as to denounce one-third of the subjects of the United
Kingdom as aliens in language, in religion, and in
blood ; and the consequence is that the Irish have
struck him to the earth. The attachment of the
Tories to Lord Lyndhurst is, of course, selfish ; and
the same selfish feeling will lead them to abandon the
stricken deer. The Tories have already found out
their mistake in the ground they took in opposing the
Irish Corporation Bill, and it is understood they mean
to recant. Lord Lyndhurst was everything while they
thought he was hallooing them on to victory ; but,
smarting under defeat and mortification, they will make
a scape-goat of his Lordship. It is the fate of all
bold parvenu projectors to be cast off without com-
punction when fortune ceases to favour them. How
can there be any thing like harmony and a good un-
derstanding between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Lynd-
hurst ? Sir Robert Peel has always dissuaded the
Tories from fighting the battles of the Constitution in
the Lords. He warned them not to strain too much
the power they possessed in the Lords. But Lord
Lyndhurst, and those whom he leads in the Lords,
utterly disregard the public voice of the nation as ex-
pressed through its Representatives in the Commons.
They are reckless and desperate in every sense of the
word. The defiance thrown out to our gallant and
high-hearted countrymen of the Sister Isle is a proof
of their utter unfitness for the -functions of Govern-
ment. The party in the House of Commons corre-
sponding to the party of Lord Lyndhurst in the Lords
is, headed by Colonel Sibthorp and Mr. Lechmere
Charlton, and not by Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stan-
ley. Such is Tory harmony I We do not believe
that Sir Robert Peel's dislike to Lord Lyndhurst is
altogether, or even principally, to he ascribed to the
success of his Lordship with the majority of the Peers.
In fact, the Right Hon. Baronet sees all his plans for
hoodwinking the nation fairly frustrated by the bold
and audacious manner in which Lord Lyndhurst goes
to work. His Lordship does not varnish over Toryism
with any of the plausibilities of which Sir Robert has
so great a store. He presents himself to the nation as
a brazen-faced Mephistophiles, who laughs to scorn all
that Englishmen consider sacred and hold in regard.
Sir Robert Peel may now be obliged to vail
his bonnet to Lord Lyndhurst ; but he is undeniable
to a Tory party, and Lord Lyndhurst is not ; and we,
therefore, anticipate the speedy ascendancy of the
Right Honourable Baronet. His are lasting quali-
ties. We wish we could be sure of the permanency
of Lord Lyndhurst's triumph, because his Lordship,
from his recklessness, would soon involve the Tories
in difficulties from which escape would be impossible.
On the other hand, the wily and cautious Baronet
looks beyond the day ; he does not hazard all the
chances of the Tories on one die ; and in all their
extremities the Tories can only look to him. Were
Sir Robert out of the way, who would think of calling
on the nation to trust Lord Lyndhurst ? Sir Robert,
therefore, is the key-stone of the Tory arch. With-
out him they could not make a Ministry which could
face the nation a- single day.—Morning Chronicle..
A very foolish morning print, as a set-off against
the notorious schisms and distractions of its own pa-
trons, enlightened the public yesterday with an assu-
rance that Sir R. Peel and Lord Lyndhurst were all
to pieces, and that we ourselves, bumble as we are,
had eschewed the Right Hon. Baronet—clinging like
leaches to the Learned Baron. • It did, however, so
happen, that at the very moment wherein our benevo-
lent Contemporary was volunteering to " blow the
Coals" after this fashion, we were actually blowing our
trumpet in honest and earnest triumph at the honours
paid to Sir R. Peel by the inhabitants of Edinburgh •
and, moreover, while the coal-blower was sending
round among the snobs of the pot-houses (his almost
only readers) queer tales about the mortal strife be-
tween the above Conservative chieftains, it was and
is notorious in all other circles of society, that Lord
Lyndhurst has been prevented from going down to
Drayton to meet the Duke of Wellington and a large
party of friends, no otherwise than by engagements
made at Paris previously to Sir Robert Peel's invita.-
tion.— Times.
It would be an endless task to expose all the con-
tradictions, calumnies, and falsehoods which the Tory
journals daily hash up for their readers ; but it may
not be altogether unamusing or uninstructive to give a
short analysis of a feW of their favourite messes.
Whatever ingenuity may have been exercised in the
selection, there is exhibited but little skill in the com-
bination of the ingredients, for in the same dish we
find things the most opposite mixed up in.. such alisor-
der as must be disgusting to any but the most depraved
appetite. The assertions that O'Connell designs to
dismember the empire and make Ireland a Popish
principality—that sixteen millions of people in Eng-
land and Scotland are prepared to reconquer seven
millions of their fellow-subjects in Ireland, may " go
down" with some bedlamites who are ready to swallow
anything put before them—but when, in the same
breath are introduced the statements that O'Connell
has no intention of seeking a repeal of the Union,
which he uses only as a " trick," and that the Dissen-
ters of England and Scotland, the majority of the popu-
lation, are " seditious,' rancorous rebels," cc-operating
with the Papists of Ireland, we are surprised that even a
bedlamite can be found to digest such a farrago of contra-
dictions. The assertion of Lord Lyndhurst that the peo-
ple of Ireland are " aliens in blood, aliens in language,
and aliens in religion," is. attempted to be explained
vocation that the language
away by the insidious eqn:
of the Noble incendiary was not intended to apply to
the people of Ireland, but to Mr. O'Connell, his fol-
lowers and supporters. But does this explanation al-
ter time character of the insult ? Who are the followers
and supporters of Mr. O'Connell ? Will any one be
so reckless of truth and lost to shame as to assert.that
tiic
People of Ireland and thefollowers and supporters
O'Connell
)(, are not identical ? If ever one man
could be
considered the representative and delegate of
aof Mr'
whole people,
and delegate of I Connell is how the representative
rcland. The very pliancy—com-
plained of by
°opinion,which
the varying. phases public indisputably.rlerecent
; e
ers:
tablislies with his his id3sEsit—y of—
eournsoluti„n unanimously passed at the General Asso-
ciation in Dublin, proves ,
that tne people are, at all
events, not
so alien to the feelings of national honour
as to allow the insult to pass unresented. That resolu-
tion fearlessly and truly declared "Lord L
yndhurst
to be an eneinY to
.the peace of I to the sta-
bility of her connexion with Great. Britain--ta the li-
berty of the people, and to the safety of the Throne,"
But perhaps it Will be alleged that the General
Association does not embody the public opinion
of Ireland. We should recommend this allegation not
to be urged to the proof. It may not be altogether
safe to force an Association—comprising members
from every class of society, in every part of the king-
dom—so perfectly, organised that at the direction of

the central body, in one moment millions of people
would be ready to attest and verify its powers. No!
It may not be safe to force an Association of this de-
scription to produce its credentials. Let us take it for
granted that an Association receiving subscriptions
every week to the amount of hundreds of pounds, is
not altogether destitute of the public confidence. The
insulting slander of .Lord Lyndhurst might be de-
spised and suffered to sink into oblivion, were it not
that the taunting cheers which hailed its expression in

the House of Lords showed how perfectly that assem-
bly participated in the sentiment. Let the people of
Ireland bear this in tnemory=and it will serve to keep
their indignation alive until the British Legislature

atone for the wrong which the hereditary portion of it
has committed. Let the Dissenters of England and
Scotland also bear in mind that the same party who
have insulted Ireland, have also, through their leading
organ, stigmatised them as " seditious and rancorous
rebels ;" and let a community of wrong and insult
unite the people in all parts of .the empire for the re-
, dress of their common grievances—and let the force of
this combination be first directed on the citadel of the
common oppressors-the House of Peers.—Morning
Advertiser.

If the Spanish Government and Cortes are wholly
deficient in ability to plan, and energy to execute, any

great and wise measures to retrieve their falling cause
they are not wanting in that ferocity of disposition and
truculence of purpose which superficial observers not
unfrequently mistake for vigour and determination.
We speak of the Cortes as the mere creature of
the Government, for it .was chosen in a season of
terror and intimidation, Nvhen none but the emis-
saries aed tools of the Government dare appear either
as candidates or voters, unless at the risk of being
preferred to a share in the honours of mob-mar-
tyrology. If, through the process of such a " scull-
and-cross-bones" election as that which followed the
revolution of La Granja and the murders of Madrid,
some three or four independent men may have found
their way into the Spanish Chamber of Deputies, they
are as many of that class as, under all the circum-
stances, could be expected to obtain admission there,
or eves to seek it. At the same time, we are quite con-
vinced of this, of which indeed there is no want of his-
torical examples, that if the present Government of
Spain really falls out of favour with the democratic
party in the nation which has raised it into power, a
large proportion of its own creatures in the Cortes,
and brought in there for the purpose of voting " black
is white" in its support, will not only abandon it to its
fate, but join in the popular cry for its dismissal or pu-
nishment. Of this there have been some symptoms
already, but not of a sufficiently decided nature to pro-
duce any important practical result. But let us sup-
pose for a moment that the cause of the revolutionists,
for we can no longer with truth call it Christina's
cause, is the just and really patriotic cause, which
ought, if good fortune always waited upon merit, to
be the victorious one, what are the Government and
the Cortes doing to retrieve the errors of the past, and
to ensure success for the future ? The former are
calling foielaws mote stringent and tyrannical, to enable
them to strangle whatever independence of the Press
still exists, and to dispose of political opponents,
not Carlists, but Liberal opponents, by arbitrary incar-
ceration and banishment, without incurring any legal
responsibility. These designs, and the carrying on the
disgraceful financial juggle which has already assumed
so many forms of fraud as to disgust all Europe, besides
plundering a considerable portion of it, seem to occupy
all the time of the Calatrava Administration. As to
the Cortes, they have been engaged in discussing the
propriety of establishing a political inquisition, ;hose
tribunals of terror and death should be distributed all
over the country wherever the nominal power of the
" innocent Isabel" is recognised, to murder, under
mock forms of justice, every person denounced as a
political heretic by its spies and informers. In any
country such tribunals would be bad and bloody enough
—but in a country so demoralised as Spain, it is im-
possible to calculate to what atrocious extent the sys-
tem of civil massacre, under legalised forms, would be
carried on. Perhaps Ministers themselves, had they
not retracted their original approval of the scheme,
from fear it is said, of the effect on foreign Powers,
might have soon been numbered among the victims of
their own exceptional tribunals, as Philip LEga/ite, Ro-
bespierre, Denton, and other leading French jacobins,
perished by the favourite machine of their liberal policy,
the guillotine. What is the next great project which we
find these wise and virtuous legislators engaged upon ?
Any great extensive and judicious plans for retrieving the
affairs of the Queen's Government ?—inspiring confi-
dence into her subjects ?—regenerating and re-organiz-
ing her dispirited and demoralized armies ? and mar-
shalling, if there be the materials for it, a really national
opposition to Don Carlos, instead of raising, the craven
cry for foreign intervention ? Nothing. of the sort.
The French official Paper, the Moniteur, has informed
Europe, as our readers might have seen in our columns
of yesterday, that the Cortes were engaged so lately as
the 26th in voting the forfeiture of Don Carlos's
rights, titles, &c., as Prince of Spain ; and, that in a
few days from that date they were to occupy themselves
with discussing a proposition, the object of which is to
prescribe the mode in which that Prince is to be exe-
cuted whenever he shall be made prisoner I- Thus,
while complete shipwreck is making of their power_.
while the reins of empire are slipping from their grasp,
the last thoughts that linger in the minds of these Libe-
rals, connected with the exercise of legislative authority,
are thoughts of ferocious revenge—studied barbarity
and blood I There is something ludicrous, as well as
melancholy in the exhibition of such savage imbecility
of conduct in men who would fain make the world be-
lieve that they have the control of the destinies of a great
nation. But they who have neither taste nor talent
for the proper business of Statesmen and Legislators
may be very accompli:died executioners. Since the
prediction of one of our Whig Journals, that Colonel
Evans would march to the head-quarters of Don
Carlos, and hang him up, has not been realised, the
Spanish Liberals must perform that operation them-
selves, with this qualification—When they can. We are
not told whether, by legislative enactment, he is to be
cut in pieces alive, as the unfortunate Quesada—too
faithful to the faithless Regent—was, or whether
cannibal rites, similar to those performed over the
mangled remains of the brave O'Donnell, are to be
performed over the mutilated body of the ill-fated
Prince ; but we dare say the directors for the consum-
mation of this grand work of liberalism will be suffi-
ciently particular and minute, to show how well the
" science" of cold-blooded cruelty is understood by the
Liberals of Spain, where no other science except that
of ingeniously extracting money from the pockets of
credulous foreigners, appears to meet with favourable
cultivation. Here is a Senate sitting under the shadow
of a flag of liberty, and cherishing sentiments of re-
publicanism that is worthy to lackey the heels and de-
vise the appropriate daily recreation of a Nero or Do-
mitian, in the most corrupt and barbarous period of
cruel and imbecile despotism If Don Carlos comes
to Madrid a prisoner, he knows what he has to ex-
pect—if he comes there in any other character, we
hope and trust that he will not imitate the example of
the Liberals, or retaliate their own brutal decrees upon
themselves. We trust he will exercise that clemency
which gives to victory
tiltlsei:mobalgesntaitiriompiltiyieso—f bright-
estittisleeon
radiance, and makes the calamities of even civil
_Lortrtz,.. in
Herald.
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Despatches dated September 10, were received yes-
terday morning from the Governor of the Mauritius ; and,
dated Oct. G, from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
Despatches, dated November 9, were received yes-
terday morning at the Foreign Department from Lord Pon-
sonby, at Constantinople.
LIE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " VI-
VIAN GREY."—" We loVe al love stories; but this of Mr.
Tveli's is among the very choicest. Henrietta Temple'
already ocAuvies a niche in the sclectest corner of memory's
sanctum. A love Agri it is in the truest sense of such a
description ; but it is also a story cif Many passions, of va-
ripus characters, of natural yet marvel!ohs contradictions,
-
and of swl4o reconcilements of what seems conflicting, not
more more strange thq,n truth herself continually prodnecs.
In short, this story, haying quite as many brilliant and pictu
resque exhibitions of the in-doorAmbits and conventional
characteristics of society as it is, has something of a deeper,
truer, and more mature colouring diffused over its portrai-
tures of that Proteus, the heart, than any of the preceding
works of its accomplished author."--.0014rt c7Offrrig6,

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, AV G. 8.
The King has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to
appoint Thomas Blewitt, Esq., late 86th Regiment, one of his
Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice C. R.
Coxwell.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 1.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Phillips Tyarke, of
Helstone, in the County of Cornwall, Gent., to be a Master Extra-
ordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

WHITEHALL, Dre. 2.
The Lord Chancellor has appoioted Edward Reddish, of Stock-
port, in the County of Chcsta, Gent., to be a Master Extraordi-
nary in the High Court of Chancery. -