The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The deputation which left Edinburgh on Tuesday
last to present to Lord Brougham congratulations on
his restoration to health, and to request his company
to a public dinner, returned from Brougham Hall on
Thursday afternoon. We are glad to learn that the
deputation felt perfectly convinced that his Lordship
will be enabled at the meeting of Parliament to resume
the discharge of his duties in the House of Lords.
We have extracted from the Scotch papers an account
Pf the reception of the deputation, with a copy of the
address to his Lordship, and his answer, stating his
reasons for not accepting the invitation. The address
is ably written. After complimenting his Lordship
,for his long and eminent services to the public cause,
the citizens of Edinburgh tell the Noble and Learned
Lord that, looking to " the threatening aspect of
public qffiiirs, we feel that it is high time the nation
were bestirring itself. We alike demand justice to
the Dissenters, justice to Ireland, and the speedy
removal those ascertained impediments which check
the free working of the Reform Bill. We all alike
desire law reform and short Parliaments, but, more than
all. we earnestly demand the immediate adoption of
such measures as :may remove the present obstacles to
good governmeut and to sound and liberal legislation.'
his is firm and decided language. The measures
which may remove the present obstacles to good go-
veroment are sufficiently obvious, though not speci-
fically mentioned. Lord Brougham manifestly had a
difficuh' part in answering the deputation. His lan-
guage is exceedingly guarded. But the real friends
of the Noieie and Learned Lord, who dwell with fond-
ness on the invaluable services which he rendered to
the cause of hum:tnity and iwurovement,and who, there-
fore, wish to see 11;,n stand Arm :nd erect in the ranks
of the Reformers, will rejoice to creeive from this
answer that he disappoints the hopes o: the Tories,
who too plainly began to chuckle at the pt:.'spect of
his uniting with the ultra-Radicals in their mis'lke"
opposition to the present Government—an oppositio2
ich, instead of advancing the cause of Reform,
couf,'l only tend to advance the cause of the Tories,
and to defeat all plans of improvement, or at least pre-
vent effeit being given to them till the progress of na-
tional discintent should, at the hazard of the peace of
society, again drive the Tories from power. We are
pleased with the anxiety shown in this address for
union among all (Josses of Reformers. We are the
more pleased, because, from the tone of the article in
Tait's Magazine in v+ hick the subject was first
broached, we were led to infer that a policy less favour-
able to' Ministers had actuated the originators of the
address.—Morning Chronicle.
The Scotch revolutionists have been at infinite pains
to get up a sort of fool's festival at Edinburgh, of
which Lord Brougham was to be the nominal hero,
but really the tool and victim. It was to be a solemn
investiture of the ex-learned Lord with the insignia of
ultra-Radicalism, of which illustrious order his Lord-
ship would doubtless have been declared Grand Mas-
ter, had he proved green enough to bite. But Lord
Brougham was not to be so easily caught. The ex-
Chancellor can smell consequences now and then, es-
pecially rank ones, like those which would be sure to
follow his incorporation with the ultra-Radical party.
Some, therefore, of the top-sawyers of the Jacobins are
grievously disappointed at Lord Brougham's posi-
tive rofusal to dine. It was cried up by those
fussy political scullions as a " grand event "—this
same Edinurgh dinner. Great things were to have
grown out of it. Incalculable were to have been the
fruits of immeasurable speeches. Lord Brougham
was to have pledge,4 himself to the Radicals. He was
to have been, by virt,le of his (absence from) office,
the winning card played off against the recreant Whigs,
and thus to have forced upon the Melbourne Minis-
try, now he has ceased to be Lord Chancellor, that
very series of organic changes, of violent, extravagant,
senseless absurdities, under the i:ame of the " carry-
out" system, which a little more Wan two years ago
the fantastic Baron took such pains tt.' scout, and was
therefore so obstreporously worried by L ord Durham,
then (at that time) advocate of all ulterie'r measures
of miscalled reform. Lord Brougham, howe'ver, de-
clares that he will not dine ; so the " great L'vent"
is no event at all, and Lord Brougham leaves it
open to the best guesser to ascertain which party
of " Reformers" he is to unite with—whether
with Messrs. Joseph Hume, Tait, and Henry
Bulwer, or with Messrs. O'Connell, Melbourne, and
Rice; or whether, finally, he is to wait upon Pro-
vidence, and be knocked down to the best bidder. To
us, who have never before uttered a syllable upon the
subject of this new manoeuvre of the Scotch Destruc-
tives, the issue of it appeared not worth a thought ; but
so much we will now say—viz., that Lord Brougham's
answer, and flat rejection of the proffered clap-trap, sa-
vours of nothing less than downright sanity, and leads
us even to believe that he may hereafter be found now
and then voting on the side of the Duke of Wellington
and Lord Lyndhurst. His Lordship prudently ab-
stains, in the reply to his expectant entertainers of
Edinburgh, from indicating, even by the most oblique
or ambiguous hint, what are his real intentions towards
the Minister who has already treated him with such
coarse and unfeeling scorn.—Tinzes.
The Whigs and Radicals are resolved to " make
the gruel thick and slab." Almost every post furnishes
us w:th some new ingredient for this notable mess.
additicen to the numerous cases that have lately trans-
pired we now find that the cauldron has beenboilino-
over at :Newcastle. And of this new ebullition nu
other than the youngest of all imaginable Baronets—
Sir Wm. Molesworth—has been the teterrima causa.
The Neweasit'c Journal informs us that a set of peo-
ple occasionally congregate in that borough, under the
name, style, and t.'tle of the " Reform Association."
The Reform Associction has lately held a meeting, at
which it was proposed by the Radical section to invite
Sir W. Molesworth to become a candidate for New-
castle in the event of a vac:alley. The Whig party—
for at Newcastle, as elsewhere, there is " in the lowest
depth a lower still"—the Whip objected to this motion.
Sir William has of late spoken oiet rather too plainly
for them. Need we go on ? A row wes the consequence.
A friend of Sir W. Moleswortth adopted the vigorous
course of forcibly ejecting the Chairman from his seat,
and, when called upon for an apology, declared that
the whole proceeding was a joke. Facetious fellow !
The conclusion of the matter is, that a public meeting
of the " Reform Association" has been called for a
future day, to consider with due deliberation whether
Newcastle shall take the leavings of Cornwall. This,
to be sure, is not in itself especially interesting to the
public ; but it shows nevertheless one thing that ids
worthy of attention. It 'moves that the " Reformers,
as they delight to call themselves, are not only- disa-
greed as to the nature of the reforms they want, but th3t
they cannot even make up their minds as to the-per-
sons by whose agency these reforms are to be effected
We say nothing about the vulgar ruffianism with
which the affair was debated ; if the thing had been
otherwise done wbeen e should have disappointed.—
Morning Post.

It will he seen by a letter from Lord Brougham to
the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, that his Lordship has
declined the invitation to a public dinner, which he
had received from the citizens of Edinburgh. The
letter, however, both bY its tone and manner, makes
ample amends for the disappointment of his non-at-
tendance at the dinner. Lord Brougham in the first
place, announces that his health,—" broken by the
labours of the session of 1835, when the legislative
proceedings of the year were. crowded into six weeks,
:s now restored." This is a most gratifying announce-
ment ; and most sincerely do we cong:atulate his Lord-
ship, and the people, of whose cause he has been for so
many years the most powerful champiol;; on the
restoration of his health. His Lordship ii: the
course of his letter, makes two avowals, which wii;
be hailed with scarcely less satisfaction by all the
friends of popular rights and political improve-
ment. He intimates that he shall resume his post
at
.the ' recommence»zent of the Parliamentary
business;" and that his resolntion to avoid all
• . . hance of a relapse in the intervening period, is, in
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• t -,,,„ w-citizens. With regard to the present position of
.2' . .-Jub ic affairs, he recommends a “ hearty union" and
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p,Atocribes this course for them, his Lordship at the
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