The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-19 00:00:00

so, in the same ratio, is he bound to prove the sincerity
Of his professions by the earnestness with which he
enforces them. The Ballot is no indifferent or milk-
and-water change. Lord John Russell has laboured,
successfully, to convince us that it drags great
changes after it. A. measure which is but prefatory to
Universal Suffrage, as the Noble Lord has shown,
:must be one which he deeply dreads and reprobates,
and to the discountenance of which and of its sup-
porters he is bound by every pledge of honour,
conscience, and regard for his country's good. Then,
we ask, how comes it that Lord John Russell, a
Cabinet Minister, with so decided, and, we must add,
not unnatural, lead among his twelve or thirteen col-
leagues—how comes it that, taking the prominent part
which he has done in the Ministerial resistance to Mr.
Grote, he has suffered himself to be bearded in a man-
ne; so offensive by subordinate placemen Bolding
diet: at his will, who dare to divide against him, their
chief, on a question vital to the Monarchy ? Will Sir
Hussey Vivian be dismissed or not ? Has Sir Hussey
Vivian, or has he not, been yet dismissed ?—for it is
full time that he should have been ; or, if not, that
Lord John Russell himself, and Sir John Hobhouse,
who are both as individuals men of spirit and honour,
should wipe out the insult offered to each of them by
the unpunished contumacy of the Master-General of
the Ordnawle. Having seen, however, what all have
seen for some yl'ars past, the paltry bargains in the
way of selfish and trickling compromise, by which the
Melbourne Cabinet has prolonged to this hour its
rickety existence, we confess that we have not given
much attention to the rumours of resignations, dismis-
sals, &c., which since the night of Thursday have been
zurrent.every where. Should the four Vivians prove
too formidable to be exasperated against a mean and
tottering Cabinet, to which the whisper of the bold Sir
Hussey has no doubt been carefully transmitted—" They
durst not turn me out, there are Jour of us,"—no ob-
server of what 'Whigs in their extremity will submit
to can be at all surprised. Should the Cabinet this
evening give its full support to the covert scheme of
Universal Suffrage—disguised as an attack upon the
rate-paving clauses of the Reform Bill—no man in
his senses can be surprised. Should Sir William
Alolesivorth, after threatening so largely, listen to the
plausible equivocations of Mr. Edward Ellice, and
after being smonthed down by that meddling person,
relinquish at the last hour his much-vaunted exposure
of the imbecile worthlessness of our Colonial-Office,
no man who has witnessed the accomodating pliancy
of Radicals, when properly appealed to by the gen-
tlemen of Downing-street, need be in the least sur-
prised. For our parts, we shall wonder at nothing,
but at the conscientious or upright discharge of any
one public duty by Whigs or Radicals ; nor shall we
consider any thing worth a moment's exultation but
the rescue of the Queen and Crown of England from
the revolutionary fierceness of one faction, and the
sordid feebleness of another.—Times.

The Ballot project is alleged by the Whig-Radi-
cal Journals to be growing in favour with the public.
The ground, on which this allegation rests, is the
gradual increase of the minorities in the House of
Commons, when divisions on the questions occur.
That the Ballot is demanded with greater pertinacity,
now, than formerly, by the most noisy portion of the
present constituencies, is true ; but it is equally true,
that the vast majority of the public regard the Ballot
scheme with regularly increasing dislike. The Ballot
is one of the instruments, with which the sect of " po-
litical philosophers"—the Benthams and Ricardos—
has sought to work out its particular ends. And what
are the ends of the party, of whom these men have
been the organs, and by whom they are recognised as
law-givers ? The great end of the party in question
is the establishment of the supremacy of capital. The
desire of the men who compose the party, is to regu-
late all the movements of society, by a reference to
the operations of money-power. These men treat a
religious establishment, simply, as an affair of money.
They regard the Crown, as a bauble that " costs" a
great deal. They look upon an Aristocracy—loaded
it may be, with the honours of a thousand years—sim-
ply as a congregation of men who absorb the rents of
land, and who overshadow the pretensions of mercan-
tile wealth. They treat the poor, simply, as machines
designed by nature to be worked as hard, and to be
sustained upon as little, as possible. The champions
of the money-power are, in short, engaged in a deadly
war against the privileges of every other class—against
all institutions that have their foundation in high moral
or religious feeling—against every influence which mi-
litates against the despotism of Mammon. The cham-
pions of the money-power labour, night and day, to
cheapen religion, to cheapen Government, to cheapen
labour—to render the honours of Aristocracy, and the ,
prerogative of majesty "cheap" in the eyes of the mass
of mankind. The champions of the money-power ;—a
section of the middle classes, limited in number, but en-
ergetic, subtle, watchful ; these are the only advocates of
the Ballot ; and they advocate the Ballot, only as the
means of enabling them to give effect to their conspi-
racy against the Aristocracy, on the one hand, and
against the vast body of labourers, on the orher. The
labouring masses regard the Ballot with abhorrence.
They complain, and with justice, that the Aristocracy
of the country has abandoned them on many occasions;
but they are willing, nevertheless, to support the
Aristocracy, at all imaginable hazards, against the
Malthusians and Marnmonites—the deadly enemies.
at once, of Aristocracy and of labour. The Malthu-
sian money-worshippers are gradually getting the whole
power of the country into their hands. The increasing
majorities on the Ballot are merely one out of ten
thousand indications of the fact. Nothing in truth,
can arrest the progress of the party, except a cordial
union betwixt the landed Aristocracy and the labour-
ing classes. If the landed Aristocracy will consent to
save the labouring poor from new Poor Law Bills, and
from all the other schemes for beating down the price
of labour, the labouring poor will, in requital, preserve
to the Aristocracy their honours and their lands. The
bargain would be a fair one. If the Aristocracy shall
refuse to enter into it—the consequences of the refusal
will recoil upon themselves.—Morning Herald.
Our able and destructive contemporary the Spectator
has a very pointed and powerful article in his number
of yesterday, headed " The Disinterested Opposition."
As a consistent political polemic, the Spectator may
be pardoned for professing to disbelieve the fact of a
disinterestedness of which the annals of old-fashioned
or of new-fangled Whiggery present no parallel ; and
the obvious and undeniable existence of which in the
Conservative Opposition in the severest satire on the
unprincipled conspiracy which occasioned the resigna-
tion of Sir Robert Peel and his friends, as well as on
the hungry and servile spirit which leads nineteen-
twentieths of the so-called Liberals to yoke them-
selves to the triumphal car of Lord John Russell,
whom they distrust as a Minister and despise as a man,
and by whom, in return, they arc feared and scorned,
and favoured and fed, as dirty, discreditable, and
dangerous auxiliaries. The Radical expectants
who support the Administration and batten on the
contempt of the Whig oligarchs, must he blind in-
deed if they perceive not that they are considered
by their 'Whig allies as mere Parliamentary utensils,
to be used when necessary and discarded as soon as
the wants of their employers will permit. Some
few, whose sense' or whose sensibility is more acute,
have made the mortifying discovery, and denounce
the detected cheat accordingly ; but the mass, too
hungry to be fastidious, and too contemptible
to be impatient of contempt, follow him still, and,
hound-like, receive with equal complacency his
kicks and his victuals. This omnivorous appetite
for all the garbage of personal and political humilia-
tion seems to us as disgusting as it is characteristic,
and not less calculated to call forth the indignant
scorn of every honest independent Radical than
is " the disinterested Opposition of the Tories to
excite that incredulous wonder which is the un-
conscious expression of involuntary praise." But
political idiosvncracies are as unaccountable as indi-
vidual tastes. " Non omnibus unum est quod placet ;
hie spines colligit ills rosas." At the call of duty
the thorny seat of " the disinterested Opposition
is as welcome to an honest "fort' as the rose-
covered benches of the Treasury to a trimming \V big
or a needy Radical. " Tousles gouts sont dans
la nature, ceux qu'on a sont les tneilleurs. How-
ever, without resting our explanation of the enigma
which has so puzzled our contemporary on " wise
saws and modern instances," we shall gm such a