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

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eply. Next read Mr. Stanley's killing, annihilating
--bur to th elm and
philosophical spirit of Danis!
swisfactory"—answer ; then the ccnfession
of -Pe motiblend revolutionist himself; and finally,
Mr. Stanlcy's eotornent on that confession ; and if
the mere echo of that night's debate do not blow
the roof off the " Abbey of Derrinane," why then
immortal Jack Falstqf, thou art a " soused garnet!'
indeed, Never was there such an exhibition. The
crave moral, however, to be drawn front this man's
final and irreparable extinction, tied from Lord Dun-
e,meion's triumph over the O'Cerinel faction in
Kilkenny, is, that agitation in Ireland is rapidly fail-
lug into the " sear and velum leaf," that common
tense and public tranquillity ate about to resume
their lost dominion, and that if the King's Ministers,
in their struggle for Reform, Are forced to make a
constitutional appeal to the people, it may be made
in Ireland with no disadvantage, and without the
!east serious risk of compromising the peace of the
community.—Tintes.
This is the first of March; and a day more im-
portant in every respect for the freedom, the peace,
and tranquillity of the country never- -dawned upon.
it. At six o'clock this evening, the topic which
above all others engrosses the attention of the Bri-
tish public will be brought forward in the House of
Commons by Lord John Russell ; according
as it may or may not meet the views of the British
public,
• will the Ministry, of which he forms a part,
stand or fall. In this matter there can be no com-
promise—there can be no explanation—between the
public and his Majesty's Ministers. The Reform
must be efficient and sweeping—it must . leave 1.0
evil untouched in the corrupt state of the repre,set;-
ration which it is possible to remedy—the " intel-
ligence" of the country must be represented, and
no leaning exhibited towards the overgrown,
ill-used, and beggarly influence of the aristo-
cracy—else, ere twelve months more pass over our
heads, this country, we fear, will be the scene of
greater disturbances than those by which the Con-
tinent is now coavulsed, and which, however they
may be suppressed by an overwhelming military
force, will again break out afresh, and carry with
them the greater desolation in proportion as they are
attempted to be repressed. The cry for Reform
is universal ; and we say again, that for the sake
of the Constitution—for the sake of the monarchy,
the aristocracy, and the people—we fervently and
solemnly hope, that it may be effectual and satis-
factory. We are fully aware of the difficulties with
which his Majesty's Ministers have to contend ; but
a great and awful responsibility rests upon them,
and they must stick at no half measures in order to
discharge themselves thoroughly of it. To the
people it is of no consequence, whether their plan
of Reform be efficient and satisfactory, or the re-
verse; for Reform must come sooner er later, and
though the interval, or delay, of a few months, might
endanger the security of the monopoliits of repre-
sentative power, it could do no harm to any others.
The people never die, and when they will reform,
Reform must take place, or something which we
shall not now name, even mere unpa'atable to the
ears of aristocrats. At the same time, while we
express our hopes thus fervently, tl-at the plan of
Reform which is to be submitted this evening to the
House of Commons, will be in every respect satis-
factnry, we are frank to own that we should not be
inclined to quarrel with it. or OftitifirgtetiAn-E7*'l.
thing-must have a beginning, and
ceded now, may be forced,on ,theAeigglature at the
next general elettion. letipii'y4herefore, take what
we can get at preseist*iluVrri.the same time, let us
not relax in our endeavours to obtain more until the
principle of representation has been fully adopted,
and every evil connected with it done away with,
except that moral corruption which no legislation
can reach.—. Morning Advertiser.
That there is no good without its attendant share
of evil is a remark not less trite than true, and is
not less applicable to the press than to many of
those numberless blessings and advantages of which
it is the powerful inculcator. Great and acknow-
ledged as the benefits are which a free press confers
upon the community, nothing can be more mis-
chievous than the press when its power is employed
in perverting the truth, in giving false colourings to
facts, for the purpose of serving mere factious or
personal ends. Of this abuse of its powers we are
at present witnessing but too many striking instances.
That the present Administration has, to a certain
decree, disappointed the expectations of the country
we admit; but the motives of those who are thereupon
endeavouring to hunt them down are quite as intel-
ligible and much more to be condemned. No one
can misunderstand the charitable, the patriotic
motives which prompt the conduct of those who in-
fluence that part of the press which is taking the
part we allude to. Reform and retrenchment not
only do not produce friends, but almost of necessity
convert each person to whom they attach into a
bitter enemy. Look only to the Pension List and
see what rankling its publication must have pro-
duced in the hundreds of worthless beings who have
been hitherto basking in silence within its corrupt
atmosphere. Look at Lord Brougham's plan of
Chancery Reform, and count the swarms who must
hate and execrate his name. Look, in short, at
every head of Reform and retrenchment which the
Government has announced, er may be expected
to announce, and then who can wonder that the
whole pack of ousted, disappointed locusts are open-
mouthed on the occasion, or are ready to devour,
and in every possible way oppose and annoy, these
disturbers of their peace and profit ? But in pre-
portion as their measures render Ministers un-
popular with those whose ill-gotten emoluments
they are about to cancel or retrench, so ought their
conduct to be favourably viewed and upheld by the
country in general. For every enemy which
their honest endeavours to break through the
old systems of abuse may create, a hundred
grateful hearts should arise to foster and protect
them. Viewing then their conduct, and that' of
their opponents, in this light, we hesitate not to
say that their errors are as mere chaff to the sound
and wholesmile corn which remains behind ; and
that the country never was so strongly called upon
to lose sight of trifling defects in the prospect of
the great and permanent good which Ministers are
likely to effect if duly supported. Away then with
the cant that Reform and Revolution mean the
same thing. If Reform comes upon the country
rat an unseemly hour, who have we to thank for
' that but those enemies to all Reform, who might, by
a contrary line of conduct, have rendered- that unne-
cessary which we must now encounter ? That
Reform is not without peril we readily admit; but
that no Reform is ten thousand times more perilous,
cannot be denied. Nor can
,we, therefore, look
without feelings of the most' awful apprehension
should any untoward event throw the Government
back into the hands of those who are pledged to
resist that which the almost unanimous voice of the
country calls for; and which the state of affairs,
both abroad and at home, will no longer admit of
being safely postponed.—Morning Herald.

We have reason to believe that the Lord Ad-
vocate is now employed in London on a plan of Wforns
for Scotland. The general principle of t 1 .e measure eras
settled some time ago, but in what regards this division o!
the island, we may readily imagine that there is much in
the details which would be best arranged by oral commu-
nication between the Ministers will the first officer of
SCOtlll4...Scitiemorn.