The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-01 00:00:00

passing in the country :—the millions of voices
call-
ing for Reform,—the millions of signatures auached
to petitions with the same demand, and sent down
to that House! All England wants Reform : who
are they that oppose it ? But to reduce the ques-
tion to a mere Ministerial and Opposition question
—will not Lord Grey dissolve the Parliament unless
the motion for Reform be carried ? To be sure he
will, or else Lord Grey is acting treacherously, and
the Ministers, his colleagues, are all acting trea-
cherously: they are playing into the hands of the
anti-Reformists, and never meant to carry their own '
measure. Their resignation would not merely be
pusillanimous, it would be downright knavery for
the resignation can only have in view the direct pre-
vention of Reform. If Lord Grey and the present
Ministry res.gn because they cannot carry the ques-
tion of Reform to-night, it will be the resignation,
and not the previous division, that will balk, for a
short interval, the just demand of the nation.
Let Ministers, if the question of Reform be
not clearly carried,
GO their duty by at once
dissolving the Parliament, and England will do her
duty at the new elections. In truth, we know
that Parliament will be dissolved if the question of
Reform be not carried ! But it may be thought
that a superior poker may interfere between the
supposed decision of a majority and the dissolution.
In questions relating to the Executive merely, the
Executive must be spoken of; and there, also, we
are safe. Indeed, respect being had to the unani-
mous wish of the people of England for Reform, it
should appear to be little short of treason to say
seats in the House to sell, is in total oppo-
thattnhoe King, who has no corrupt boroughs to sup-
port,sition to all his subjects. But his Majesty has con-
sidered the question of Reform, he has communi-
cated his sentiments at large upon it, and has
measure with every other upright English-
man.expressedf himself equally sensible of the necessity.
He has warmly and decisively, not only
o the
orally, but in elaborate and well-digested written
language, declared himself zealously anxious for the
success of the cause of Parliamentary Reform.
Littera scripta manet ; and what the intriguer who
denied this means, we know not ; but he is an alien,
in all his babilt, manners, and ideas, to the people
of England.—Times.

d, And thrice he slew the slain." This has been
said of one amongst the most eminent murderers of
antiquity. But we think wv can overmatch him in
modern times by a hero who, instead of performing
the like ceremony upon others, has not thrice only,
but three times thrice accomplished the cutting of
his own throat. What shall we do with this hun-
dred times decapitated, but still hissing and pesti-
lential Hydra ? Ruined in Dublin, he hoped to
rally here. Only last night he was to have assailed the
iris!' Government in its representative—Mr. Stanley.
Last night only, the agitator was to have wrung the
withers of those who had " persecuted and op-
pressed " him. What, then, did the agitator do ?
WhY, foolishly grappling with Mr. Stanley, he sunk
under the weight of his nervous and unflinching
narrative : from depth to depth of disgrace and ridi-
cule, he was plunged by an adversary who had
nothing but truth and good sense, and the pro-
per spirit of a gentleman conscious of a right
cause, and of manly principles to support him;
tmw in h
and so Daniel O'Connell sought his fate, and
perished. We have
against im
he did actually beseech the Irish Government to
iomucion the prosecution Hour own, words, that
and in return,
ari(l as tile price of such forgiveness, he offered to
?ig'tate for the repeal of the Union no more ! This,
iu one line, is the sum and substance of the whole
busu'ess• " Forgive me," says he—and be dictated
tie later to his son, and sent it through his friend
and confidant, Mr. Bennett—" Oh forgive me !
drop your prosecution, that is my tine qua 1:oty--
drop your prosecution, for without that you do
nothing. Nothing that you can do for Ireland will
be worth one straw to me, unless you stop my
prosecution ; but do that, and I promise to be
a good boy, and the repeal of the Union
may go to the d—l for aught I care !" But
read the debate,—read Mr. O'Connell's question
to Mr. Stanley,—that question which admitted no