The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATritDAYS DVCVNIBER 1d,1836.

are, capable of entertaining so supterntly ridiediOns a
notion as that Ould Mounts H should ever lie liOisted
into Parliament on the ACiilders of Rtiy c'cinsitdeney
in Greet Potaih, thutih itts that of Lambeth.
And who are the mighty engines to accomplish this
extraordinary feat ? We find in the chair a person
of the name of KEIIBLE,, who, we believe, keeps,
or lately kept, a coffee-shop in Philpot-lane, hi partner-
ship with a brother or relative denominated ritANk
who got a little notoriety a few years ago by parading
himself on the hustings at Guildhall as a candidate for
the representation of the City of London, bless the
mark—but who knew he had no mo:c chance of suc-
ceeding in that object than he had of being able to
utter a mouthful of common sense on any political
question, if he had succeeded in slipping into the
House of Commons.
Let it not be supposed that we undervalue the pur-
suits of industry, however humble. The industrious
class is the salt of the earth ; but when we see one
whose natural position is on the side of the people,
taking part against the people, doing all he can (how-
ever little that may be) to oppose their interest, and to
further that of their enemies—giving himself, moreover,
sundry aristocratic airs, as if the blood of all the
Howards ran in his veins—we feel it our duty to re-
mind him, that his father wore a butcher's apron in
Honeylane-market, and that his grandfather hawked
muffins in Swindon.
Then comes Noodle SCARLETT, who seems to
have been brought there for no other purpose than to
take upon himself the representation of the Conserva-
tive Members of the House of Commons, in whose
name he addressed to the patriots of Lambeth, as-
sembled at the Horns, such a speech as might have
been expected from a gentleman, whose head and
tongue represent a bell and clapper infinitely better
than he himself does the people of Norwich.
The other pillars of Toryism at this guzzle were a
Mr. LETT, who broke in upon the conviviality of the
meeting by a most unprecedented breach of decorum in
stopping the bottle to propose a dry, long-winded re-
solution about the Knight of KERRY ; a Mr.
URQUHART, who, if we ars not mistaken, is a
furniture-broker in Lambeth Marsh, and who told
his worthy compeers that there could be no stronger
ground for their electing the Knight than that
he was educated at Harrow ; and though last not
least a Mr. RAINBOW, a gentleman whose presence
did not seem to give much satisfaction, whether from
the somewhat natural association of his singular name
with the extraordinary humidity of the season, or from
the contrast between the brilliancy of his name and
the dullness of his nature, we cannot presume to
conjecture.
As to what fell from the superannuated gentleman
who was the lion of the scene, we need hardly say
that, with the exception of the Monday articles in our
venerable Contemporary of Shoe-lane, we have never
seen such pure unadulterated drivel as that which issued
from the mouth of the rejected of Kerry. Blundering
inconsistency, wilful misrepresentation, mortified va•
nity, and emasculated virulence, strive for the mastery
n this contemptible effusion.

At a Meeting of the General Association which took
place in Dublin on Thursday last, and for a report of
which we are again indebted to our contemporary, the
Morning Advertiser, Mr. O'CoNNELL remarked on the
" Tory Radicals"—as he not inappositely styled them
—in condemning Ministers for not showing more zeal
and activity in furthering the progress of Reform. The
Hon. and Learned Gentleman said, that if the people
wished Government to stir, they must stir themselves,
by getting up petitions and public meetings ; and so
showing that they arc really in earnest in their wishes.
Mr. O'CoNNELL's remark is perfectly just. If the.
Ballot be necessary—if the repeal of the Septennial
Act—the extension of the suffrage—and a variety of
other Reforms be necessary—such necessity must be
made apparent by the people themselves, through the
medium of petitions and addresses to the Legislature.
How otherwise are the Ministers to know what is
wanted ? We trust the country will take heed of Mr.
O'CONNELL'S hint, and show itself as unanimous
and as resolute to obtain all requisite Reforms, as Ire-
land is at the present moment to obtain " equal justice"
from England.

The Tories of Buckinghamshire, it appears, held
their annual carousal yesterday at Aylesbury. A
motley crew assembled on this occasion ; the staple of
-the meeting, however, consisted of the fifty-pounders.
They are indebted for their existence to the Marquis
of CITANDOS, and, like good Christians, they feel it
their first and greatest duty to attend upon and worship

,heir creator.

The presiding genius of the meeting was a chip 01
nobility, labelled the Earl of ORKNEY, an equivoca
sort of personage in some respects, who, if prizes were
established for talking nonsense, would bear away the
palm from every competitor. This simple Lordling
did nothing but proclaim the glorious deeds of his an-
cestors, as if he were entirely unconscious that the
noble actions of the ancestors of the few Tory Peers
who have any, are the most damning proofs of
the degeneracy of the present race.
The Marquis of C tin NDOS did not say much. In
fact, he did not enter into the spirit of the thing.
Seeing, no doubt, that all the efforts, great as they
have been, of the faction with which he is connected
have as yet produced not the slightest effect, either on
the public mind, or, which is still more galling, on the
stability of the MELBOURNE Administration, and that
they must soon finally terminate in smoke, the Noble
Marquis, depressed and crest-fallen, left _the task of
,speechifying to others, under the pretenCe that. " he
had often before addressed them in that county."
Sir W. YOUNG signalized himself by a singular
talent for misrepresentation, and a remarkable obtuse-
ness of understanding. For instance, he makes Lord
MELBOURNE say that the appropriation clause
" would deal a heavy blow to the Protestant
religion," whereas Lord MELBOURNE'S expression
was, " to Protestant ascendancy," which are not al-
together identical propositions. Sir WILLIAM eulo-
gised the Lords, and could not see the least possible
objection to hereditary legislation, because there are
lawyers, divines, and warriors, of the first water, in
the hereditary chamber !
Mr. T. B. PRAED did not, it would appear, say
anything worth reporting, except that " he fully con-
curred in all the sentiments which had been so ably
expressed by his Hon. Colleague.
If, however, the junior County Member's speech
was deficient in length, that cannot be predicated of
the oration pronounced by the gentleman who followed
him. Mr. BENJAMIN DISRAELI spouted out a
whole column of the Morning Post, and if it pro-
duced the same effect upon his auditors as it did upon
us in reading it, they must have been all fast asleep
long before the orator had half done. The burden of
the affair was the House of Lords and Mr. O'CON-
NELL. The praises of hereditary legislation were
never before chaunted in such a strain, except
in the letters of one Runnymede in the " leading jour-
nal," from which the speaker—we mean no offence—
borrowed without stint or scruple. According to this
utterer of empty bombast, the House of Lords is infect a
House of Gods. There is no excellence or perfectiOn
which is not possessed by this august assembly, nor is
there any blessing which is not derived from this hal-
lowed source. Even the House of Commons itself, is
indebted for its very existence to. the Lords. True,
Mr. Turncoat, in a certain sense, just as we are in-
debted to a disease for a remedy—to Parliamentary
corruption
for Parliamentary reionn.