The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-20 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1536.

The CoMmittee of the Reform Association have
issued a Circular, in which they remind Reformers of
the duties which they owe to their country, and to the
great cause with which the prosperity of that country
has been proved to he inseparably connected—.the
cause of Reform. 'While the Committee refer with
a just pride to the experience of the past year, in proof
of the gratifying fact, that " Reformers are able, by
union and vigilance, to defeat every attempt on the
part of the Tories to tamper with the constituency of
the country, and thereby to regain that power, which,
for so many years, they Rad experienced and abused,"
they are careful to guard the public against placing
too much reliance on the effect of past exertions. The
necessity of continued energy must never for a moment
be lost sight of, until we have procured " a full, fair,
and honest registration of all persons qualified by
law to be electors of Great Britain." This ought
now to be the object of every Reformer in the king-
dom. To this all-important point the whole strength
of the reforming interest should be directed. The 20th
of July is not far off, and then the die is cast. Let
the interval be turned to account. Let the Reformers
" give neither sleep to their eyes nor slumber to their
eyelids" until they have put the register on a safe
footing ; for they may be assured that to that register,
after all, will the final appeal be made. It must de-
cide the question, whether our Irish brethren are
henceforth to be treated as " aliens in blood, aliens in
language, and aliens in religion."

The Morning Post of this day contains a long
and singularly dull and dismal article on the subject
of the present House of Commons, which, together
with its Ministerial Leaders, it pronounces to be the
the most refractory and incompetent of any that ever
yet assembled to legislate on the affairs of the nation.
The House," says our Contemporary, " has been
very laboriously idle, and loquaciously unargumenta-
tive. It has done an immensity to no purpose what-
ever, and talked an infinite deal of nothing." No doubt
this is true to a certain extent ; but whose fault is it ?
The Conservatives', most assuredly. This is the party,
and none other which, from the first day of Parliament's
assembling, has been " loquaciously unargumentative,"
and " talked an infinite deal of nothing." Look at the
infinity of nothings comprised in the speeches of SHAW,
GOULBURN, Twiss, JACKSON, and that " young
Astyanax" of forlorn Toryism, Sir WM. FOLLETT
Look, too, at the unargumentative loquacity of Mr.
HARDY, who, for nearly a whole week, engrossed the
attention of the House with the discussion of a question—
Carlow to wit—on which it was wholly impossible there
could be two rational opinions—a question which had
not a leg to stand on ; and on which, moreover, the
country had fully made up its mind months before it
was brought—for factious purposes—under the notice
of Parliament. If there have been delays, and irrele-
vant speechifyings in the House—and that there have
been, is undeniable—to the Tories must these be attri-
buted. They have contributed all the dulness, all the
flummery, and no small portion of the bitterness and
flippancy to the session.

This evening the House of Commons wil 1 be called
upon to redeem the hustings pledges of a majority of
its Members on the question of cheap knowledge. We
shall keep our eyes steadily fixed upon that House—
we shall carefully attend to its mode of dealing with
a measure of vital moment to the country—and be the
result what it may, we shall not fail to note those
honourable gentlemen, who, fearful of offending their
constituentcies, either absent themselves on the plea of
illness, or give the motion a lukewarm or grudged