The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-01 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.

SCR,—The facts relating to the yeomanry cavalry in
Kent, stated in the Chronicle of this day, deserve more
serious attention than you appear to he aware of. Ru-
mours of a most sinister kind have recently been put forth
by some Members of the Opposition party, and it is con-
fidently boasted among them that they can, on very short
notice as'emble forty thousand men, well armed, to sup-
port their cause. I was disposed to think this a vain
threat., until your paper of this morning reminded me of
the general temper of the yeomanry cavalry throughout the
country. Let net Ministers slumber in vain security, and
leave in the power of their enemies the government of
public fortresses and the command of armed bodies of
men that can be soon assembled in one point, and let them
nu longer trust the Lord Lieutenants of counties in the hands
of persons decidedly hostile to their measures. If, regardless
of what they owe to the country and themselves, Ministers
slumber over the dangers which menace them, or are
cajoled by the bland speeches of the Opposition into supine
inactivity, they may awake some morning peeping
through the grated windows of the Tower, and learn
that their names are placarded on the City wall as
traitors—" a mighty man, stronger than themselves, has
bound them." That some coup d'etat of a most im-
portant character is intended, I solemnly believe. Hints
have been given of a Parliament to lie assembled in a
remote part of the kingdom. The great body of the
clergy are supposed to be with the Anti-Reformers, a
great part of the Magistracy, and the Lord Lieutenants
of counties. A great portion, too, of the aristocracy and
the sons of the aristocracy, commanding regiments.
These, with a force of thirty or forty thousand well-
armed men, which the Anti-Reformers boast of, would
for a while entirely bear down the people, deprived of their
leaders. We have seen a near relation of Sir R. Peel
boasting in the House of Commons that he can wield a
sword, and many have declared they will die in the last
ditch rather than give up the power of taking money from
the people without their consent. What single advantage
has been gained by ti;e long delay respecting schedule
A? IF all the boroughs had been disfranchised by
one division, how much mispent time would have been
saved. Suppose a case of hardship with respect to any
particular borough could have been made out, it might
have been rectified by a reformed Parliament. 'When so
great a substantive good can be obtained as is offered by
the Bill, it ought to pass at once: to prevent the possi-
bility of defeat, by unknown causes which may arise. No
measure of Reform, founded partly on property and partly
on population, can be made completely perfect were we to
delay and discws it for twenty years. Let us then unite
in " one long pull, one strong pull, and one pull alto-
gether," and say the Reform Bill shall pass without delay.
By such a resolution, we can alone defeat the machina-
tions of those who, like the whirlwind, at present are
4` hushed in grim repose," but are nevertheless confident
of " seizing their evening prey."—Yours, &c.

FOREWARNED FOREARMED.
The Boroughmongers are, we verily believe, ca-
pable of desperate thing. It is difficult for the
middle classes, who all their lives are compelled to
act with caution, and to proceed on calculation, to
form any idea of the foolhardiness of men who all
their lives have been exempted from the cares and
difficulties of life. It by no means follows, because
a design is monstrously wicked and monstrously rash,
that it is not entertained by Boroughmongers.
On Saturday all the Boroughs in Schedule B were
disposed of but Totness and Sudbury. The follow-
ing paragraph in the John Bull of yesterday, would
seem to indicate that the Opposition look to derive
some advantage from the Coronation :
" A serious difficulty arises as to the performance of the
ceremony of Coronation during the sitting of Parliament ;
the special reasons for this difficulty we do not think it
right to refer to more distinctly at the moment. An ad-
journment will not sufficiently neutralize the House ; a
prorogation puts an end to the Reform Bill. Much more
depends upon this difficulty than may be imagined by those
not aware of ALL the circumstances."—Morn. Chron.
The amended Bill for the extension and promo-
tion of public works in Ireland is now in course of
distribution. We allow to the present Ministers
the merit of good intention towards that unfortu-
nate country, and we recognize in this Bill an at-
tempt to stimulate the dormant spirit of industry by
means which are likely to be attended with some
success. The advance of money by the Govern-
ment, upon good security, towards the furtherance
of such works, is a principle which, having been
successfully adopted in former instances, is naturally
again referred to, in the hope of a similar result.
We trust thet the consequence will realize such ex-
pectation. But let neither the Ministers nor the
people deceive themselves into the belief that such
expedients can afford any thing like an adequate re-
medy to the existing evils of Ireland. The advance
of 500,000/, may, and no doubt will, excite to many
new, and, if judiciously expended, to many success-
ful and useful undertakings ; but, while absenteeism
continues—while the curse of a non-resident gentry
weighs down upon the industry of Ireland—it will
be in vain to seek a counterpoise for that disadvan-
tage in any artificial, confined, or temporary source of
excitement. Until the proprietors of the soil be-
come so far interested in the promotion of their
country's welfare as to set heartily about devising
means for the employment of the labouring
classes, and to keep that object constantly in
view, we shall have done little more than tem.
porize with distress. The way to inspire the
hiepwroe-
prietors of the soil with the interest of w
speak will be to make it imperative on them to sup.
port their own poor, instead of leaving Ireland, like
other charitable foundations, to be supported by vo-
luntary contributions from this country. Let this
step be once taken, and we shall soon see the most

careless and indolent of the ttish Aristocracy seized
with a passion for improvement, and endeavouring
by every means to encourage industry amongst the
people for their own sakes. We do not recommend
poor laws on the model of those inflicted upon this
country, but we do recomMend a compulsory provi-
ion iu sortie shape, if it were only to prevent Ire-
land fro;;; coming to this country with her periodi-
cal 'claim of famine for a casual supply or food. We
again repeat that we give .Ire. present Ministers due
credit for good !Mention with respect to Ireland,
and we ts.ltow that the present Bill is calculated to
pltauce some benefit, but it is only as the forerun-
ner of a more comprehensive plan that we can con-
sider it entitled to rank amongst national advantages.
—Morning Herald.
We received last night from our correspondent at
Antwerp a letter, to which we find the following
ominous posts,Tipt attached—" I have just seen a
letter from Leipsic, written b': person worthy of
credit, which states that the Russians, irresistible
in their advance upon 'Warsaw along the left bank
of the `istnla, had already reached the outskirts of
the devoted capital, and were, when this account
left, actually bombarding it. The greatest conster-
nation prevailed in the place, and the poor inhabi-
tants were flying from it, in the opposite direction,
real objects of pity." We sincerely hope this news
is not true; and we believe its announcement must
be premature. No dates are given. The latest ac-
counts in the German Papers only stated that the
Russians were advancing upon all sides towards
Warsaw, and that the Polish army was slowly re-
treating before them ; but a great stand was to be
made before the capital. Besides, there are not, we
believe, any works upon that side, except those very
lately thrown up, and these cannot he supposed ca-
pable of resisting an impetuous aitack, or to require
a bombardment. It is certain that a great battle
has taken place before this, but we will not suffer
ourselves to believe that it has ended in the disas-
trous way which our correspondent found reported
in the letter from Leipsic. The next arrival may,
perhaps, put an end to this painful state of suspense.
_ _

—Aforning, Herald,
The Ministry, finding that the mixture of absur-
dity and injustice which they denominate a Reform
Bill cannot be forced through the House of Com-
mons without a thorough exposure of its character
and their!—finding too, which is still more disagree-
able, that this complete exposure has already dissi-
pated in a great degree, and must ere long dins pate
altogether that popular delusion upon the subject
which has hitherto supported them in office, not-
withstanding all their blunders and delinquencies,
are evidently getting, as is natural to me►n banded
together in a bad and a falling cause, out of hu-
mour with each other. They are falling into
knots and factions, and are already arrived
at that penultimate stage of jealousy and ha-
tred at which official Colleagues, apparently
political friends, but really rivals and enemies if they
happen to be men without either honour or princi-
ple, always set at work their unacknowledged, but
not on that account their less subservient, agents to
undermine the influence and stab the reputation of
each other. That there is jealousy and discord among
the Members of the Cabinet is an inference which it
would be scarcely possible to avoid when we find
the Minister whose station, if not the highest, is
unquestionably at the present rnomPnt the most con-
spicuous and important of any, the Ministerial Leader
of the House of Commons, held up to the scorn
and derision of the community by a Journal which
is known to echo the sentiments of some of his
colleagues, with which some of those colleagues
are known to maintain an habitual intercourse, and
which proclaimed itself to the world as the Minis-
terial organ on the first day of the present Session
of Parliament, by presenting an exclusive and ver-
batim anticipation of the King's Speech. The con-
clusion that the Administration is split into fac-
tions inveterately hostile to each other is, we say,
the only rational one, from the circumstances above
stated, even if it were not corroborated by the
general experience of mankind, which abundantly
attests the difficulty, not to say the impossibility,
of firm cohesion or cordial co-operation for any
considerable period among men whose original
bond of union was sordid selfishness—who
never thought alike upon the leading subject of dis-
cussion until they found themselves together in
office—who, before they could act together at all
upon a question of paramount importance and en-
grossing exclusive attention, must have begun by
becoming hypocrites, eacli man to himself, each man
to every other, and all to an abused and insulted
community. We copy the following passage from
the Times of Saturday, without stopping to inquire
whether the wretched slang by which it is disfigured
is to be imputed to the taste and habitual associa-
tions of the writer, or is merely a dexterous artifice
to withdraw suspicion from the elevated and official
source of the attack :
" It must, however, be confessed that Lord Althorp's
unfortunate, though possibly very amiable, habit of suffer-
ing the shrewd old hands on the opposite bench to soap
him by extolling his Lordship's candour, his good temper,
his liberality, Sze. &c. appears more than once to have
distracted his Lordship's attention from the one thing
needful—" the Bill, and nothing but the Bill." The
country witnesses. with contempt these combings-down
across the table ; should it find them invariably followed
by a grant of some further delay, contempt would he
swallowed up in indignation. We are satisfied that the
best friends of the Administration look with sorrow at

these complaisances of the Leader of the House of Com-
mons, whose own good sense and uprightness should teach
him that whatever concession he makes is at the expence
of the people, who watch with jealousy such inroads on
their right. To be defeated fairly would be bad enough,
but to he duped is insupportable."
That L'rd Althorp is an imbecile, nobody doubts;
but that the organ of his revolutionary colleagues,
‘.vlio in proportion as they are less imbecile must be
more wicked and desperate than himself, should tell
him so, is a little too bad. And after all, imbecile
as the Times has been instructed to describe the
Noble Lord, it can scarcely be doubted that he is
aware, as fully even as his more clever colleagues, that
delay in passing their revolutionary Bill, or any ade-
quate discussion of its merits, must be fatal alike to
it and to them. But how, we ask, is Lord Al-
thorp to prevent delay or discussion ? or how
could he have done more than he has done to shew
his fear and hatred of both ? It is notyet a prin-
ciple of the British Constitution that the Minis-
terial Leader of the House of Commons is, virtute
officii, the supreme and absolute dictator in that
assembly, authorised and empowered to prescribe
to its Members how much or how little they shall
speak upon any question according to his high dis-
cretion. For such display of official vigour our
reforming contemporary, as well as the dissatisfied
colleagues of Lord Althorp, whose sentiments and
wishes he expounds, must be content to wait until
they get such a one-sided House of Commons as the
Bill is intended to give them. No treatment half
so bad as that which Lord Althorp is now enduring
at the hands of his colleagues and their friends
was ever before inflicted upon any public mace
in England by the party to which he belonged,
and the Noble Lord deserves and will receive

just the same kind of pity which is bestowed
upon any more humble culprit who has the misfor-
tune to be inveigled and punished by the treachery
of his not less guilty accomplices. The instances
are not unfrequent of desperate enterprises which
have terminated in much the same way, and in such
cases no feeling of sympathy for the suffering indi-
vidual is ever permitted for a moment to weaken
the gratifying perception of public advantage. The
opponents of revolution will rejoice to find that the
revolutionists have already selected from among
their number him whom they intended to be the
victim of their abortive design, and by the sacrifice
of whom the vainly hope, in an event which they
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the general body of the disgraced and discomfited
confederacy.—Morning Post.
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_n the temple of Diana at Aricia, near Rome,
whoever killed the chief priest Was entitled tl become his
successur—a most unaccountable privilege!

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 30.

At Two o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR, Earl of
SHAFTESBURY, and the Duke of RICHMOND took their
sats as his Majesty's Commissioners, when they
summoned the House of Commons to hear the Royal
Assent given to various Mils which hid passed both
Houses.

The SPEAKER appeared, attended by upwards of eighty
Members, among whom were Sir J. GRAHAM, Mr. STAN-
LEY, Lord NUGENT, and others of the Ministry.
The Royal Assent was given to the Abolition of Oaths
before the Lord Steward's Bill ; the Reduction of Salary
of the Master of the Mint's Bill—the Customs and Excise
abolition (.; •th Bill—Widows of Writers to the Signet of
Scotland's Bill ; Bolton and Leigh Railway Bill; South-
ampton Pier Bill ; Ferrybridge Commons Inclosure Bill ;
and upwards of fifty other public and private Bills.
The Queen's Dowry Bill was then read a third time,
and passed.
Mr. BERNAL and others brought up five private Bills,
which were read a first time.

Viscount DUNCANNON brought up the Dean Forests'
Bill, and General Steam Navigations and Corporations'
Bill. _ _

Mr. DUNDAS brought up the Edinburgh Improvement
Bill.
Lord ANNANDALE having made good his claim to the
Peerage, took the oaths and his seat.
The House then adjourned to Tuesday.