The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-25 00:00:00

in Tics-don 133 established ? Attornies, who are
Members of the House of Commons, may set all
the tribunals of Weattninstet-hall at defiance. Does
Mr. Seljeant. Wilde, who has the advantage of h
more intimate knowledge of solicitors than most of
the gentlemen of the long robe, desire that Parlia-
ment should exempt all such solicitors as may find
their way within its walls from the wholesome
punishment with which tile law and usage of the
courts visit fraud, prevarication, and other species of
dishonourable practices, that are cognizable by no
other jurisdiction ?-111orning Chronicle.
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Sir Robert Peel talks of the " menaces" which
are held out against him by the Press, and of the
" total disregard" with which he treats them. Sir
Robert Peel, in fact, has been spoiled by the Press,
and like other spoiled children, he has been petted
till he wants correction, but when the hour of cor-
rection comes, cannot submit to the,slightest rebuke.
A. long as the Press humoured arid flatter rd, arid
cried up Sir Robert Peel, it was " the people's best
instructor;" but now that the Right Hon. Baronet
is. doomed to hear a few wholesome, but unpalate-
able truths, from the same quarter, nothing can be
half so bad or mischievous as the Press. But what
Sir Robert Peel means by " menaces" we do not
at all understand. If any thing of the kind has
been exhibited, it must have been in a part of the
Press which has never come within the reach of our
observation. The truth is, though the Press has
lately beet, under the necessity of telling the worthy
Baronet a few home truths, which are calculated to
take down h's self importance " a pc! or two," yet
both, as far as we are concerned, or have seen, cor-
rection has been inflicted with a sparing hand, and
in a temper partaking much more of kindness
than of " menace." The truth is, Sir Robert
Peel has, from want of foresight, placed him-
self in a false position. This the Press
has discovered and pointed out; but this Sir Ro-
bert Peel, puffed up by its former praise, cannot
bring his mind to endure, or even take in good
part, but winces under the lash, however gently
applied, calling advice calumny, and rebuke menace.
The most extraordinary thing, after all, is—what
Sir Robert Peel, blinded by flattery, seems uncon-
scious of—that the part of the Press which still
lauds him occasionally to the skies is the organ of
the only real bitterness against him which, in fact,
exists. The high Tories and Anti-Reformers are
the persons who really hate Sir Robert Peel from
the bottom of their hearts. They never can for-
give his versatile conduct on the Catholic question.
They find it convenient, nevertheless, in an hour of
emergency like this to retain him in their ranks at
any price, arid to lay the most flattering unction to
his soul, though gall and bitterness is ill their cup
and in their palate. All this the Hon. Baronet takes
con amore, while the wholesome reproofs of those
who have no sinister object in what they say is not, es
he would have us believe, disregarded, but looked
upon as menace and intimidation.—Morn. Herald.
The Reforming Ministers, with their trained band
of pledged Members, seem extremely anxious to con-
vince mankind that an asset-111;1y may be no jot the
less a deliberative body although a larger proportion
than usual of its Members are expres.ly bound not
to exercise the faculty of deliberation. II ,d this
very reasonable proposition been announced during
the prevalence of the Reform mania it would proba-
bly have been accepted by the mob, to whom of
course it is exclusively addressed, with all imaginable
alacrity. But the time for such extravagancies has
gone by. They are nauseous even to the lowest
vulgar. We shall next no doubt be told that the
best possible legislature for the British Empire
would be a single body, consisting exclusively of
men not only chosen by, but sworn implicitly,
and from day to day, to obey, the voters of
particular towns and districts sin Great Britain
and Ireland. This is the naked proposition which
Ministers must intend to establish when they
attempted to defend the conduct of Mr. Alderman
Thompson and that portion of his constituents be-
fore whom he was reduced the other day to whine,
and cry, and prevaricate, and fib, and protest. And
to what does this proposition lead ? So clearly and
inevitably to unirersal suffrage, and to the admission
of all the inhabitants of the British Colonies to their
full share of the representation, or to their release
I from their allegiance, that no man with the least
'pretension to sense and honesty can attempt to main-
tain the proposition and elude the consequence.
That Aldermen or other popular delegates, when
reduced to the lamentable condition of the City Mem-
ber, should excite the lively sympathy of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, can excite no surprise ; for have
not the latter been themselves reduced in like
manner upon the occasion of their hale-yearly rent
clause to whine, and cry, and prevaricate, and fib, arid
protest, before their masters of the Revolutionary
tress. The cases are as nearly parallel as may be.
The foolish Aldermen only wished that Appleby
should have a fair hearing, not that there can be a bias
towards any thing fair in the mind of a pledged and
predetermined man, but because he ltad some kindly
affinity or other to the devoted borough. The re-
volutionary Ministry only wished to subtract some-
thing from the power they had promised to MM.
bers, in order to subtract less than they had
threatened from the influence of property; not, that
there can be any leaning towards public s•ifety in the
minds of a revolutionary Ministry, but because the
Ministers as individuals have each some affinity or
other to the cause of property. Thus far the parallel
is pretty close, and it may be pursued to the end.
The Alderman and the Ministers have been alike
compelled to crouch beneath the lash of the tyrants
whom they had respectively contributed to enthrone.
Arid are they not tyrants, those voters especially,
who, being entrusted by the Constitution with the
power of selecting representatives for themselves
and the whole of their fellow subjects, for the beggar
who sweeps the crossings in front of their shops,
for the Indian who weaves the silk, for the negro
who cultivates the sugar in which they traffic, for
the colonial proprietor, for the merchant and the
ship-owner; for the !manufacturer, for the workman,
whose capital in money or in toil creates or conveys
the stock which they live by retailing, as much us
for themselves, employ the power so confided to
them as an instrument of usurpation, and instead of
a national representative send to Parliament a per-
sonal delegate, a bound and fettered slave of their
own, a creature incapacitated for argument or thought,
the opprobrium and the obstruction of an as-
sembly which is deliberative or nothing ? Yet
this its what the. voters of London have done,
this is what their Members have abetted, this is
what his Majesty's Ministers have supported and ap-
plauded. There is reason also to fear that the Menu-
bens sent by the city of London to the present House
of Commons are not the only persons by many in
that assembly who, if closely pressed, would be com-
pelled to confess that they are not free to vote upon
subjects of the highest importance from the consci-
entious convictions cf their own mind, but are, on
the contrary, as much as Alderman Thompson, and
the other Aldermen, the blind tools and abject slaves
of those who have no legal or constitutional right
wlostever to introduce such commodities of their own
into the Farliament of the United Kingdoms.—
Morning Post.
An Evening Cotemporary has expressed his este,
niehment at the excess of ire and indignation be-
trayed towards the Press by such persons as Peel,
Hunt, Valletort, et id genus 97?ine—but for our part
we see wining astonishing in the matter. It is quite
as natural that these parties should endeavour to
vilify the Press, as a convict irs the hulks the ads.
ministration of the law ; fer what the law has
preyed to the sore in matters of fact, the Press has
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