The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It has been observed that an insult is more keenly
felt than an injury. A recent resolution of, one may
say, the people of Ireland—for the Genet al Associa-
tion and the Irish people are now convertible terms—
seems to confirm the truth of this remark. No people
under heaven have endured more injury and wrong
than the Irish, and none have so often exhibited so
cordial a willingness to forgive and rorget. e have
always considered this proneness to forget past injury
in the hope of redress as one of the most important
traits in the Irish national character. A more stern
disposition would,. we have no doubt, have rescued
our fellow-subjects on the other side of the channel
from much of that injury and insult which it has
been their lot to endure. Had they confided less
in professions, and been more cautious in analysing
the motives and objects of those in whose words
they have trusted—had their resentment of injury,
too, been less evanescent—their hopes would not
have been so often blasted, nor would they have
felt the pressure of so vast an accumulation of
wrong. That the Irish people are themselves pretty
much of this opinuct.ion
Thew
is, wresolvede think,
never showagain
n by
their recent cond They have
to hope for justice from a Tory Administration ; and,
quickened by a sense of insult, more intolerable than
Injury. itself, they have solemnly recorded their resolu-
tion not to endure a Minitry of which Baron Lynd.
burst shall be a member. The importance of this re.
solution induces us to republish it :
That John Lord Lyndhurst having
asserted, in his
place as a Member of Parliament, that the people of Ire-
land were ' aliens in blood, aliens in language, and aliens in
religion' to the British nation, we do deem it our solemn
Linty to declare, in the face of the whole British people,
that the said Lord Lyndhurst is an enemy to the peace of
Ireland, to the stability of the connection between these coun-
tries, to the liberty of the people, and to the safety of the
throne."
This resolution was proposed by Mr. Boyse, of Ban-
now, a Protestant gentleman of 'good fortune, fine ta-
lents, a highly cultivated mind, and the head of a
family which had been conspicuous at one period of
Irish history for the violence of its hostility to Catholic
emancipation ; and the reporters say—
" We do not remember to have heard_ any resolution on
any occasion, more rapturously .received, nor any mover to
have been more enthusiastically cheered, than was-the pa-
triotic and eloquent Mr. Boyse while speaking, and after he
sat down."
It will have been observed that this resolution did
not emanate from Mr. O'Connell, or from any Catholic
member of the General Association. Neither was it
the result of any sudden impulse. The injurious and
insulting speech which has forced the people of Ireland
to denounce Baron Lyndhurst as " an enemy to the
peace of Ireland, and to the stability of the connec-
tion between the two countries," was delivered nearly
half a year ago. The " aliens"—so the Learned Lord
four times a Judge, and now a Peer of the Parlia-
ment of the United Kingdom, characterised a third of
the King's subjects, the constituents of a large portion
of the Members of the House of Commons I—the
" aliens," we say, treasured up
.that speech. Its in-
sulting language has burned an indelible impression-in
their hearts, and they now coolly and deliberately
record their unalterable feelings. It matters not,
then, who shall be Prime Minister of England,
Baron Lyndhurst's official career is closed. The
King will never insult a generous and loyal people
by restoring their traducer, " the enemy of the
peace of Ireland, and of the stability of the connec-
tion between the two countries," to his councils ; and
no Minister, whatever the complexion of his politics,
will purchase Baron Lyndhurst's disastrous services at
the price of an open rupture with Ireland. A reforming
Ministry will not, of course, defile themselves by an
association with " the bold Baron ;" and there are
abundant evidences to prove that a conforming Admi-
nistration, with Sir Robert Peel at its head, would not
risk the loss of one vote in the House of Commons by
taking into its Cabinet him who has "boxed the whole
compass of party right through," and inflicted irre-
trievable injury upon the party in whose livery lie has
last exhibited. Denied it cannot be, except by daring
and unscrupulous effrontery, that the Tory party are
split in two. Two factions now constitute that once
united party. Both these factions aim at one end—
piace, and the preservation of corruption. But their
view's as to the means for accomplishing this one dear
object, the only connecting link between them, are wide
as the poles asunder. And this difference of views of
the two factions is precisely indicated by the characters
of their two leaders. The thoroughgoing corrup-
tionists, who insist upon maintaining every abuse in its
present shape, izave chosen Baron Lyndhurst as their
General-in-Chief. The other party, who love abuse
in their inmost hearts, but feel that a little must be
abandoned if the mass is to be preserved, and think
that plausibility and hypocritical professions may cheat
the Reformers, all these—a,-ul they comprise all that
is worth naming in the corruptionist phalanx—look
up to Sir Robert Peel as their orafle. In the Church
these factions are also severally represented. The
Lyndhurstites are represented jiy the ?hillpotts, the
Martins, M'Ghees, and O'Sullivans ; while the
Peelers arc denoted by the Boytons and their abettors.
Among the public journals, too, each faction has its
peculiar organs. The Tamworth Baronet is upheld
by the Morning Post, while the violence and tergi-
versation of the bold Baron find a peculiarly befitting
vehicle in the unscrupulous pageS of the apostate
Times. It is not a fortnight since we had occasion
to advert to the glaring division of the Tory pafty
upon a most important question—that of Irish
national education. We then exhibitedthe clerical cham-
pions of the two Tory chieftains in fierce collision.
More recent events show us their respective newspaper
organs in opposition. When the University of Glasgow
elected Sir Robert Peel its Lord Rector, and flung
Lord Lyndhurst aside, the Morning Post was vocife-
rous in its congratulation—the Times preserved a sul-
len silence. NOw the tables are turned. The Morn-
ing Post has received.with stoical serenit,, the resolu-
tion of the General Association against Lord Lynd-
hurst—the Times raves and roars like a beldam. And
this is the united party ! These are the people who
taunt the, Reformers upon the different shades of their
political opinions! Fierce dissension tears them' to
pieces—violent hatred towards each other devours them
at the core, and they presume to talk of the rixa. radi-
cales The Peel section is the largest ; but it is still
nothing without the Lyndhurst cabal. The resolution
of the Irish people is a perpetual bar to the entrance of
the latter into office, and Baron Lyndhurst's life gives
the lie direct to the thought that he will give his un-
hired support to any man or any party. We leave the
corruptionists to their meditations.—Morning Citron.
The march of Conservatism throughout the coun-
try is so rapid, and the space which it occupies so vast,
that it is scarcely possible for the utmost exertions of
the press to overtake, or adequately to represent,
it. Since our last notice of the subject we have to re-
fer our "readers to the reports of no less than three
great meetings in
the West of England— ' viz. one for
West SornerSetshire, held at Ilminster last Thursday ;
one for West Cornwall, at Truro, on p •
rli ay ; and on
the same day, one of the Conservative Associations of
taken
Bradford, who gave a dinner to Mr. Hardy.
We must
add to these, the fact of a meeting
not less
inimportantfg a
than any of the others (perhaps more so) having
place at Edinburgh on the same auspicious Friday,
being called together by those Conservative gentlemen,
who had subscribed the invitation to Sir Robert
Peel to accept a public dinner in the metropolis of
Scotland, on the occasion of his approaching visit
to that country. Of this meeting, which was one
merely of a preliminary nature to announce thc ob-
ject of the parties, and to settle their future p-
ro
ceedings, it is enough to state a single circumstance,
announced by Lord Ramsay, who took the chair—
viz., that within three days of the first proposal to in-
vite Sir Robert Peel being started, the list of sub-
scribers to the invitation contained 1,750 names,
comprising by far the larger portion of the most re-
spectable inhabitants of Edinburgh. What will." plain
John Campbell" say to this ? To what shade of blue
will the complexion of that learned villifier of the
House of Lords approximate ? The proceedings
ended by the selection of three delegates—namely,
Lord Ramsay, Sir John S. Forbes, and Mr. Lear-
month, who were to wait upon) Sir Robert Peel, and
convey in person to that Right Hon. Baronet the
wishes of the Edinburgh Conservatives. It is no less
curious than gratifying, that a single week—nay, the