The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-20 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

It will be seen from our Parliamentary Report, that
the Bill " for the destruction of Municipal Institu-
tions, and the perpetuation of discontent in Ireland,"
framed by Baron Lyndhurst, and passed by the Tory
majority in the House of Lords was read a first time
in the
,Lower House last night, and ordered to be
printed, upon the motion of Lord John Russell, and
after one of the most interesting and animated debates
that has taken place this session. To the friends of
Reform—to all those who desire the establishment of
peace in Ireland—to every man who wishes to see that
country prosperous, and a source of strength to the
empire, the magnificent speech of the Secretary of
State for the Home Department must afford a large
share of real satisfaction. After declaring his anxiety
and his determination to examine the new Bill with
calmness, and with a disposition to avoid, if possible,
a collision with the Upper House, the Noble Lord
Continued:—
" But I trust the House will do me the justice to sup-
pose that I must remain free from the imputation of being
a participator in depriving the people of Ireland altogether
of Municipal Government, and thereby inflicting on them a
mark of distinction which cannot but be considered as a
stigma and degradation.—( Loud cheers.) It is our desire
as well as interest to unite the people of the sister kingdom
in one common bond of affection with the people of Eng-
land. If six, out of eight millions of the inhabitants of that
country, differing in language, differing in religion, were only
anxious for an opportunity to shake off a Government which
they considered tyrannical and oppressive, then, perhaps, I
might be prepared to deprive the people of Ireland altoge-
ther of free institutions, and to look to the sword alone as
the means of maintaining our empire. But, having no such
belief, entertaining no such opinion, but wishing that the
people of Ireland should be firmly united to this coun-
try, and convinced that if they are treated—l will not
say with indulgence, I will not say with kindness, I will
not say with generosity, but I will say with justice—
(Much cheering)—with that justice with which English-
men should he prepared, and I believe are prepared, to
treat their fellow-subjects—(llear, hear)—in that spirit, in
the spirit of the concession made in 1793, in the spirit
of the concession called Catholic Emancipation, and in
the spirit with which, since that date, the penal laws
have been relaxed, I shall be ready to argue, that unless
you ehraose to go back and to change your policy altogether
(whatever may be our views with respect to some of the
amendments, and the particular bearing of certain of the
provisions of the Bill), this House will not consent to de-
prive Ireland altogether of the hope of municipal govern-
ment.—(Cheers from all sides.) If it should do so, this.
House would not only be striking a blow at the union with
Ireland ; it would not merely be actin:l7 partially and un-
justly on an Irish question, but it would be inflicting a
wound on the spirit of free government itself.—(Cheers.)"
There is not in Great Britain an individual who
does not happen to be steeped to the chin in
ignorance and bigotry, that will not cordially
concur in the wisdom, the justice, the prudence,
and the good policy of this declaration of Lord
John Russell, which cannot fail to be produc-
tive of the best effects in Ireland, at a time when
the insult and degradation atteinnted to he heaped
upon the people by the hereditary chamber may
be expected to sink deep into their minds. There
cannot remain a shadow of doubt any loneer (Il)on the
the public as to the certain fate which awaits the Cop-
ley scheme. That measure will be hurled back upon
its authors with that ignominy which they have SO
richly earned by their cowardly proceedings, so eacr-
!retically denonucea in the speech of Lord Clements.
Far the delinquencies of the Tory Peers there were
not, however, wanting apologists. The pious Baro-
nets who obtained. the representation of Caithness and
Cumberland tinder a false pretence, appositely enough
stood forward as the vindicators and eulogists of the
mischief-makers in the Upper House. Sir George
Sinclair has sinned so grievously against principle,
consistency, and his constituents, that lie cannot for-
give Ministers for introducing those salutary mernur;•s
which established his own worthlessness as a politi-
To any one afflicted with the blue devils, this
sanctimonious gentleman's panegyric upon the Peers
Kill prove an infallible atuidote. 'Happy Peers to have
an advocate so worthy of them 1 We leave them both
in the hands of Mr. 'Hume, and pass on to the Cum-
berland Baronet. That Rialit Honourable Member
tallied a deal of nonsense about " revolution," and
" fatal concession," and " rapid movements in a down-
ward path"—the winding up of all which was, that as
the Catholics of Ireland were not perfectly contented
under the domination of Orange Lodges and Orange
Corporations, and fleecing parsons, after being loosed
from the most galling fetters imposed by the penal
code, no further concession of liberty and justice ought
to be made in their favour l .And why, let us inquire,

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are the Irish Catholics still discontented ? "It is not

because," as the Chancellor of the Exchequer well ob-
served, " it is not because much has been given, but
because more has been withheld." The Tories, as
has been already remarked in this journal, sowed the
whirlwind, and they now reap the storm. They planted
the dragon's teeth in Ireland ; and because a crop of
armed men has sprung up, they resolve to extend
tyranny, and perpetuate discontent. In this purpose
they shall be baffled. In the attempt to wound the
people of Ireland, and to injure the reforming Govern-
ment, they will find out, to their sorrow, that they have
plunged a poignard into the very core of hereditary lc-
gislation.—Morninff Chronicle.
The Irish Corporation Bill, as amended by the
House of Lords, was last night sent back to the
House of Commons. On this occasion several
speeches were made, some of them of great import-
ance on account of the talent, the respectability, and
the weight of the speakers; others of considerable im-
portance on account of the political station of the
speakers. Under the former description we will be
understood at once to refer to the observations of Sir
James Graham, Mr. Shaw, and Sir Henry Hardinge ;
under the latter, to those of the two Cabinet Minis-
ters who addressed the House upon the occasion, viz.,
Lord John Russell and Mr. Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. Of the small fry of Radicalism, the Mem-
ber for Middlesex, for instance, and some joints of the
O'Connell tail, who shed what illumination they-could
upon the question, we need not say that organic
changes in the Constitution are their ready remedy
for what they deem the evil of a House of Lords that
will not implicitly and invariably adopt whatever
measures are sent up to them from Mr. O'Connell's
House of Commons. The public will, probably,
be of opinion that before these gentlemen can
he entitled to much respect as Members of a Constitu-
tional Legislature, a considerable organic change must
be effected in their own moral and intellectual consti-
tutions. We do not mean to say more than we have
spoke already of the merits of the various speeches
delivered upon this occasion. This was a little re-
hearsal of what it is, we suppose, intended to get up
more perfectly by-and-by. But a more complete fai-
lure, than this rehearsal unfortunately turned out, was
never witnessed. The House, when at the fullest, did
not contain fifty members; and the moment the discus-
sion on the Lords' amendments was at an end, the
House was compelled to adjourn, from the deplorable
circumstance that no more than thirty-six members
were present. This does not look well for the cause
of agitation, or for the prospect of reforming
the ;House of Lords. We have in another ar-
ticle referred to Mr. O'Connell's letter on the sub-
ject of an organic change in the construction of
the House of Lords. We have also inserted the
letter, because frequent reference was made to it in
the discussion of the Irish Corporation Bill in the
House of Commons. We wish that the letter should
be read, and carefully compared with the speech of the
Ministerial Leader of the House of Commons. It
will be found, we think, that there are such points of
resemblance between them as can scarcely be quite ac-
cidental. Ministers do not yet, however, quite adopt the
O'Connell project, of superseding the present House of
Lords by an elective assembly. They are manifestly
feeling their way, and will probably by the beginning
of June, to which time the discussion of the Lords'
amendments on the Irish Corporations Bill is post-
poned,
have made up their minds, whether they will
employ their official .;nfluence in promoting the success
of the meditated O'Co.'incll revolution, or endeavour to
dispense for the future vt ith the Parliamentary influence
of Mr. O'Connell. One or other it becomes more
and more evident they moot do. They will do, no
doubt, what seems most conducive to their own inte-
rest, leaving the interests of Ireland and of Great
Britain to take their chance. If Mr. O'Connell should
succeed before June 1,11 getting 93 apowerful agitation,

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t will have the' Ministers with- him. If he should
fail in this (whichwe take to be far from improbable,)
Ministers will avail themselves of the safe opportunity
to show to the world how very independent they can
be. With respect to reforming the House of Lords,
the Ministers, who receive their instructions from
Mr. O'Connell, apparently do not know very well
what course to pursue. Mr. O'Connell and his friends
in the Ministry should, however, take the pains to 're-
fleet that, perhaps, the House of Lords may not
choose to be reformed according to their recipe ; and
that no reform can be forced upon their Lordships'
House without a direct and visible overthrow of the
Constitution.—Morning Post.
We desire to be understood, in terms 'the most dis-
tinct and emphatic which the English language ad-
mits of, as repeating our authorized contradiction of
the rumour attempted to be revived by certain of our
Contemporaries, as to the intended retirement of the
able and popular head of the Reform Administration.
With a persevering baseness which apostates .only
practise, we are again assured that even in the Cabi-
net a strong feeling exists of the necessity of such a
step. To this we reply, that.. the assertion is, like all
those that have proceeded from the same source and
on the same subject, utterly and absolutely false—
without a shadow of foundation at the present or any
former time—without even the usual qualification of
fraudulent mendacity, the intermixture of a scanty
portion of truth—it is a lie, naked, absolute, and
unmitigated. The abandoned clique with whom the
unprincipled falsehood originated, could not have
selected a more appropriate channel for the dissemi-
nation of their exploded slander. We have very re-
cently pledged ourselves to exhibit at the proper time,
without disguise and without circumlocution, the prime
movers of this infamous intrigue, and that pledge shall
be redeemed to the letter. At present we shall confine
ourselves to certain details, perfectly authentic, and
which, should any indiscreet activity on the part of
the injudicious friends of the parties implicated render
it necessary, we arc prepared to substantiate. The
mischievous garrulity of certain dandies and dowagers
who infest the purlieus of St. James's, had given a
sort of spurious currency to some obsolete scandal, re-
vived for the laudable purpose of annoying a political'
adversary. The story, with the usual embellishments
and exaggerations, found its way to the diplomatic sa-
loons of Paris; and the prolific brain of a veteran in-
triguante, perfectly acquainted with English Tory so-
ciety, at once conceived and acted upon the idea of
converting this piece of apochrypal personal malice
into a political engine.. An English coadjutor
was indispensable to the successful issue of the
foreign machination, and the abdicated Empress of the
regions of fashion was applied to, and at once cor-
dially assented. The discarded slanders of former
times were resuscitated ; the half-forgotten and wholly
untrue anecdotes, originally manufactured by some
bitter old women of quality, were once more put in
requisition, and the dowagers of both sexes eagerly
swallowed, or affected to swallow, the fabrications.
It is quite true that the less corrupted hearts and wiser
heads of the Conservatives at once repudiated the
silly and infmnous proceedina—but unfortunately for
the reputation of the party, they amount to be a mise-
rable minority ; and in defiance of public and private
decency, the daily organs of the faction received and
acted upon their oriinal instructions, to give every

which their limited circulation and dal-
mn!ed character permitted, to the nefarious false--
hood. Of the pertinacity with which certain of
these satellites persist in the face of truth, and
even of probability-, to re-iterate their refuted fal-
lacies, every day affords a fresh example—and we are
even gravely assured by one of our Contemporaries, this
they " know" that certain members of the Cabinet
participate in the feelings of virtuous indignation which
fill the bosom of our gifted brother—hut, has our fel-
low-labourer forgotten that apostacv is at best but an
indifferent passport to an already abused confidence ;
and that joined to discovered perfidy, it opposes an in-
superable barrier ? Does he suppose that the people
of England, who once dwelt with pleasure upon his
able mid eloquent eulogies of the Reform Ministry,
will swallow the calumnies with which he now endea-
vours to load them ? If he does, he has formed a
most erroneous estimate of his readers and of himself
—the former will never hazard another betrayal of their
abused favour, and the latter must console himself with
the tardy remorse of an ancient deserter—

Cesaris armiq
Illustris Labients erat, nuns transfuga vilis,
—Morning Advertiser.

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock-.

THE LONDON GAZET FE

THIS EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 20.
The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Samuel Gardner,
Esq. to be his Majesty's Consul at Jassy.

FROWN OFFICE, MAY 20.
MEMBER Rr.TIRNED TO SERVE IN TIIE PRESENT PARLIAMENT,

City of Kilkenny—Daniel O'Connell, Esq., in the room of
Richard Sullivan, Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

WHITEHALL, MAY 16.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Birch, of Rochester,
in the county of Kent, Gent. to be Master Extraordinary in the
High Court of Chancery.

WHITEHALL, MAY 17.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Goodwin Wagstaffe,
of Grantham, in the county of Lincoln, Gent., to be a illasttr
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

WAR OFFICE, MAY 20.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—M. Pipon, Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Watson, who retires, May 20.
Scots Vusileers--Brevet Colonel E. Bowater to he Lieutenant-
Colonel by purchase, vice Keate, who wetires ; Captain
and Lieutenant-Colonel John Aitcheson, to be Major, with
the rank of Colonel, by purchase, vice Bowater ; Lieutenant
and Captain G. Dixon to be Captain and Lient.-Colonel
by purchase, vice Aitchison; Ensign and Lieutenant E. Gage to
be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Dixon ; C. V. Le-
vinge, Gent. to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gage,
May 20.
6th Regiment of Foot—Ensign M. Hall to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, Vice Walker, deceased, March 18 ; C. N. North,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hall, May 20.
11th Foot—Lieutenant H. Elliott, from the half-pay of the 31
Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Benson, appointed Paymaster of
the 28th Regiment of Foot, May 20.
16th Foot—Ensign R. A. Sparkes, from the half-pay of the
York Chasseurs, to be Ensign, vice Brabazon, deceased, May 20.
20th Foot—Lieut. W. Murray, froM the 55th Regiment of
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hutchinson, who exchanges, Jan. 9.
28th Fo3t=lient. G. T. Benson, from the 11th Regiment of
Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Hilliard, appointed to the 68th Regi-
ment of Foot, May 20.
31st Foot—Lieut. S. 0. Goodwin to be Captain, without pur-
chace, vice Greene, deceased ; Ens. W. Maule to be Lieutenant,
vice Goodwin, Dec. 22 ; Ens. F. J. Thomas to be Lieutenant,
vice Maule, whose promotion of 29th Dec., 1835, has not taken
place; G. Douglas, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Thomas, May 20.
40th Foot—Ens. W. A. Fryers to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Elton, who retires ; F. Rinsell, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Fyers, May 20.
55th Foot—Lieut. G. Hutchinson, from the 20th Regiment of
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Murray, who exchanges, Jan. 9.
56th Foot—Major G. M. Eden to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by
purchase, vice Prichard, who retires, May 20.
Captain F. 0. Leighton to be Major, by purchase, vice Eden ;
Lieut. J. Wegg to be Captain, by purchase, vice Leighton ; En-
sign W. A. Conran, to be Lient., by purchase, vice Wegg; D.
Lucas, Gentleman, to be Ensign., by purchase, vice Conran, May 20.
62dFoot—Captain H. Astier, from half-pay Unattached, to ba
Captain, vice C. F. Neyoe, who exchanges, May 21.
66th Foot—Captain T. H. Johnston to be Major, by purchase,
vice Daniell, who retires ; Li eutenant T. G. Armstrong to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Johnston ; Ensign C. M'Carty b be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Armstrong ; Hon. E. A. F. H.
Lambart to be Ensign, by purchase, vice M'Carty, May 20.
68th Foot--Lieutenant \V. F. V. Graham to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Vivian, who • retires ; Ensign J. M. Napier to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Graham ; L. C. Elwes, -Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Napier, May 20.
71st Foot—Capt. C. Stewart, to be Major, by purchase, vice
Napier, who retires ; Lieut. H. T. Beresford to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Stewart, Ensiign W. Wilkinson, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Beresford .• Sholto John Lord Aberdour, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Wi; kinson, May 20.
76th Foot--Paymaster M. Collins, from the 2d West India Re-
giment, to be Paymaster, vi, -e Kennedy, appointed to the 22d
Foot, May 20.

Royal African Colonial Cor, 3s—Major J. Hingston to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, without purci ease ; Lieut. J. Mac Donnell to be
Captain, without purchase ; E 3 is. T. Smales to be Lieutenant, vice
Macdonnell ; W. St. Leger ,Angelo, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Smales, May 20.

IJNAT•TACIIED.
Licut. 11. Astier, from the Ist Regiment of Foot, to be Cap-
tain, Without purchase, Ma).• 20.
ME [ORA NDU.M.
The date of Dr. J. F. CI. trke's appointment, to full pay as As-
sistant-Inspector of Hospitals, is May 2, 13.35.

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