The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-03 00:00:00

sagacious',_........ subtle, comprehensive intellect, that is re-
quired in the House of Lords, far more than his vote.
His mere vote did little or nothing last Session—his
statesman-like astuteness every thing. Had it not
been for him; where would have been the Municipal
Reform Biil ? He -,yas the very life and soul of the
measure; and in a similar intrepid, high-minded spirit,
wc trust he will supp‘ rt Ministers throughout the fiery
ordeal which they are now about to undergo. No
inan stands higher in the opinion of his countrymen
than Lord BRouutt AM ; and from no man is more
expected. Faction, it is true, has as sailed him ;
party spite has poured forth its utmost venom on his
head ; but he still stands foremost in the eyes of the
people, their surest and ablest defender from the
caprices and prejudices of all irresponsible House of
Lords.

The Reform Members are hastening up to town
from all quarters.; and so, we understand, are the Con-
servatives. But what a difference between the two
parties ! The former are hurrying forward to achieve a
victory ; the latter to witness a defeat. Provided the
i-Zfiirmers are true to themselves—true to the pledges
they made on the hustings, and which they have re-
peated at the public dinners since given to them by
their Constituents, there cannot be the slightest doubt
of the triumph of their cause. They have a secured,
though perhaps a small, majority ; but which, small as
it is, is irresistible, inasmuch as it speaks the voice
of the people. As for the Conservatives, they
are a mere faction, nothing more. They may have
wealth, but they have no moral influence. They may
have talent, but they have no principle. Experience in
Parliamentary tactics, but not the slightest acquaintance
with the real feelings and interests of the community.
The famous Tamworth Manifesto sets this beyond a
doubt ; and right well do the people know, that, were
LUC runes, by some under-hand manceuvring,
wriggle themselves into place—which, by the bye, is
scarcely within the range of possibility—they would
persevere in the same juggling system so ingeniously
developed in the " Voice" from Tamworth. It is from
our full and perfect conviction that the Tories would
so continue to act, that we have been, throughout the
struggle between the two parties, so desirous to see
them trampled on, and, if possible, extinguished. But
this can only be accomplished by a cordial union
among all classes of Reformers, which accordingly we
have ever been among the foremost to insist upon.
Fortunately our remonstrances have not been unavail-
ing, as will be proved beyond the possibility of denial,
before the week is three days older.

In all commercial pursuits, whatsoever, withou
diminishing enterprise and curtailing speculation,
abridges a waste of time, and saves an unprofitable
expenditure of money, increases public wealth, and
places the comforts of life more within the reach of
all classes of society. A mercantile people should
always bear in mind, that time, money, industry, and
integrity go to form the body and soul of commerce ;
and that the legitimate action of these several elements
reproduce each other, and vice versa. If the proper
use of any of them be neglected by the people of one
country, the inhabitants of every other, with natural
resources equally favourable, who extract from each all
the advantages of which it is capable, will monopolize
the trade of that country, and so impoverish its
merchants, and beggar its artizans. In the application of
all discoveries in the arts and sciences, which go to les-
sen the amount of human toil, and perfect the products
of human industry, the wisest nations have always
striven to take precedence of all others. Time, in such
cases, was considered of the utmost importance ; and
to the credit of England be it spoken, she has never
been the last to adopt whatever promised to enhance
her people. Now, one of the grateSt"discaeiiesoi
modern times—a discovery which will produce a total
revolution in the commercial world—is that of Rail
ways. No time should be lost in adopting it by Eng.
land, if she would retain her present position as a corn.
. mercial nation. The project is not one of those schem
which may be carried into effect at any convenie
time with nearly an equal amount of advantage.
known on the Continent—it is patronized by every
commercial Government in Europe. In our foreign cor-
respondence of this day may be seen a paragraph
stating that a Railway between Berlin and Potsdam is
about to receive the sanction of the King of PRUS-
SIA ; and in France, Belgium, and Holland, such na-
tional undertakings are in a state of progress which
promise an early completion. Now, were Railways
to be successfully established in these countries, it
would be in vain for England—without such modes of
locomotion--to attempt to compete with them in a fo-
reign market, or even in her own. The Railway is to
the Canal what the Spinning-Jenny was to the rock-
and-spindle—that most precious and storied legacy—
now only to be sought for in old wood-cuts, which our
wise and industrious female ancestry exercised for the
enrobing of mankind.
But the principle of Railways has already obtained
the sanction of the Government, and the support of
the first commercialists in the country. The opposi-
tion now made to it arises wholly from an apprehension
of individual suffering. Fortunately even this opposi-
tion is not in any case insurmountable ; as the indivi-
duals who entertain fears on the subject of their per-
sonal interests, are too enlightened not to perceive the
absolute necessity of establishing such improved modes
of locomotion, to maintain our position as a mercantile
people.
Among the projects for establishing new lines of
Railroad for connecting the great leading towns of
England with each other which have been recently
submitted to us, we know of none more worthy of sup-
port than one for carrying such a line between Man-
chester and Leeds. It will .be seen by the Report—
in another part of The Sun—of a public meeting
which was held in Manchester on the subject, and
which was attended by Mr. POTTER, M.P., Mr
PHILIPS, M.P., and above two hundred of the most'
influential men residing in that part of England, that
the greatest unanimity of opinion prevailed as to the
importance, and, in the present state of trade, the
necessity of such au undertaking. Some of the
speeches made upon this occasion were exceedingly
luminous, and well worthy of the attention of those
Members of Parliament who may be called upon to
decide upon the practicability of such public works.
The speech of Mr. SHARP on the principle of the
proposed undertaking is particularly good ; and those
of Messrs. CHEETHANI, GARNETT, and TAYLOR,
detailing and specifying the advantages of the new line,
fully adequate to the greatness of the occasion. Mr.
GARNETT well observed that such a line of railway
would, when completed, traverse the whole of Eng-
land, and connect, as it were, the German Ocean and
the Irish Sea, by the link of a few hours—for here we
must measure all distances by time only. This would
give a new impulse, or rather a renewed vitality to the
manufactures of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Hull,
and the whole of the country adjacent to these empo-
riums of commercial )
indus r t , .
When the subject of this line of Railway is brought
before Parliament, the measure shall have all the sup-
port that we can give to it. We consider the early esta-
blishment of such works as matters of the first impor-
tance lii national point of view. Delays--,-dangerous
upon most oecase;:is, and here fatal to us as comma,
. .