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MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1838.

In another part of The Sun will be found Lord
DURHAM'S answer to the deputation of the West-
minster Reform Association ; the letter which the
Chairman of that deputation has thought it his duty
to write to Lo►d DURHA M this day, and the authorised
speech with which the Chairman, who at the public
meeting moved the address, introduced it to the meet-
ing. Although Lord DURHAM seems rather to have
acted against precedent in taking his impression of
the objects of the Association, from the mischievous
remarks of some persons present, instead of con-
sulting only the address and the constitution
of the Association, and should, perhaps, have
accepted the address, protesting against those
remarks, we are bound to say that we admire the
frank and manly spirit of his Lordship's answer,
and are happy to see him take the earliest opportunity
of separating himself from the party and principles of
which Dr. WADE sets himself up as the organ. We
must also add, that the Deputation, by their amicable
and sensible conduct, have shown that they prefer the
public good to any private feelings, and have firmly
suppressed any expression of disappointment, in order
to promote the union of all true Reformers.

No correspondent called our attention to the Spectator
of yesterday, as the Spectator says called its attention
our article of last Monday ; we looked for a notice
:and a reply, and found both. The Spectator repro-
duces its articles of September Bth and September 15th,
and then adds the following remarks :
The reader sees that the doctrines and the advice contained
in the above article, is perfectly consistent with what we wrote
last week. It is coDsistent with the entire course of the Spec-
tator on this subject. When it was attempted to turn the
Chartists aside from the announced object of their meeting,
by the introduction of the Corn-law question, in such a way as
to make the two subjects clash, we said to the working men—
"Do not be diverted from the pursuit of the franchise ; dis-
cuss the Corn-law question when it is fairly brought before you,
but not at a meeting to petition for Universal Suffrage." When,
lat a meeting for establishing an Anti-Corn-Law Association,
the Chartists, with their political dogmas, broke in upon the
persons intent upon attacking the landowners' monopoly, we
reprobated the proceeding. We desire fair play for br h ques-
tions, not that they should jostle against each other. Let the
Universalists exert themselves to extend the franchise, and the
abolition of the Corn-laws also ; but we address the middle
classes on that subject particularly, not so much because their
inc.r est:in it is of the largest amount (for we do not underrate the
suffering which the Corn-laws cause to the labouring popula-
tion) as because they have the power to abolish the monopoly,
througi: their Representatives in Parliament, which the work-
men without the pale have not. Such have been our doc-
trines, maintained with a perseverance which might be tire-
some to idlers and provoking to adverse interests, but with a
consistency and sincerity which, we may be allowed to say,
have never been exceeded in the press of this country.
It is difficult to imagine what motive The Sun could have
for a misrepresentation so palpable, that the mere juxtaposi-
tion of its article with ours exposes its grossness. The hack
-who did the dirty work must be as silly as base.
In the reproduced articles of the Spectator are the
fcllCwing passages:—

Til'ere is an attempt on the part of the Ministerial Press t
divert ti,se attention of the working classes from political
changes overthrow of the Corn-laws." The fact is that
the
desperate yYlligs throw the Anti-Corn law cry among the
people as a tub to the whale. They live on pretences from day
to day."---Sept. 8.
" The Sun denies that :be Corn•law agitation is the child
of Whig and Ministerial intrigues. We never said that it was.
It is the child of scarcity and proicibitory duties. But it may
nevertheless be used for the Ministeria: purposes of the day as
,ao many other popular efforts have been before it. And when
',lie article complained of was written we had not seen The Sun ;
bu't unless our memory fails the Morning Chronicle had re-
contmended that at next Monday's meeting resolutions for a
Tepee! of the Corn-laws should be moved by way of amend-
ment to the people's charter. We have read some of The
Sun's clever Articles on the subject this week, and mutt say
that however honestly intended, they seem calculated to serve
the dishonest purposes of the Whigs."
The Spectator had been labouring, most success-
fully we admit, aided as it was by the conduct of
Ministers, to make them unpopular and objects of in-
tense suspicion, particularly to the working classes.
After having done this, it stigmatised the Corn-law
agitation as a Whig trick. The Chartists adopted its
views and its language, and also stigmatised Corn-law
agitation in September as a Whig trick. It is true
that the Spectator also stated that the agitation was
the child of high prices and prohibitory duties ; and that
the Whig Nobles would not go along with any at-
tetont to repeal the Corn-laws. It knew, therefore,
and -
expressly stated that it was not a Whig trick, and
and yet it so described it. Not only did it so describe
it, but it said of our articles that they were calculated
to serve the despicable purposes of the Whigs. In
complete ignorance even of the course of the dis-
cussion, for the merely Ministerial Journals had
taken only a small part in it, and we had put
ourselves promineatly forward, it ascribed our sugges-
tions to move an amendment at the Palace-yard to
the merely Ministerial Chronicle, and thus even mis-
represented facts to make the Corn-law agitation un-
popular in September, by associating it with the name
of the Ministers whom it had done its utmu'st to make
objects of suspicion and hatred. Now, as the Sp;ectator
is a friend to the abolition, we must repeat, that to 'le-
scribe the agitation of the question as a Whig Ma.
nceuvre, in order to discredit it, was in our opinion,
ss we said last Monday, the " very rabidness of fac-
tion." We do not know that we should have
gone so far, had we not found a warrant for our
language in the words of the Spectator. In Septem-
ber it deprecated the Corn-law agitation below the
level of a claim for Universal Suffrage, by the lan-
guage we have quoted. On Saturday week it sneered
at those who now do at Birmingham what it recom-
mended at London in September. In the same paper
which contained the passage above quoted, which as-
serts the undeviating pursuit of the same object be-
tween September and the present moment, it is said
in the languge we quoted last week—
" In Birmingham it is resolved to postpone agitation on the
sa:ieet (the Abolition of the Corn-laws) till Universal Suf-
frage be achieved. Some wise men whom the Birmingham
Radicals follow, have adopted the principle that such a
small matter as the Corn-laws, can well wait for adjustment
sill they have carried Universal Suffrage. Had they not bet-
ter leave principle out of the question as well as common
_sense?"

In September the Spectator recommended the post-
pvement of the Corn-laws to the Chartists, in order

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