The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-25 00:00:00

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 1851.

Earl GREY'S speech last night in the House of
Lords, in reply to some absurd remarks put forth
by the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, of " this is
really taro bad" memory, on the subject of Reform,
will give sincere gratification to all the advocates of
that great patriotic measure. " The Noble Marquis
says," observed the Noble Earl, " that threats of
dissolution have been thrown out, and he calls upon
me to make a declaration on the subject. I shall make
no such declaration ; but, at the same time, I have
no objection to say that I consider myself completely
committed by, and identified with the measure, and
by this measure I shall stand or fall. That in so com-
plicated a scheme, formed upon such a large and exten- '
sive subject, something may not require to be altered,
is certainly more than I can undertake to assert; but
this I will say, that, as far as depends upon me, I
will suffer no alteration to be made that will detract
from its efficiency. As an efficient measure, I will
stand or fall by it; and without throwing out any
threat of dissolution, I have no objection to say
that in order to support and carry into effect this
measure, as an efficient measure, there are no means
sanctioned by the principles and practice of the Con-
stitution, and by a devoted sense of public duty, from
the employment of which I will shrink.—(Hear.)"
This is manly, this is explicit, and just such as
might have been expected from the Noble Lord, than
whom no public man stands higher in the country,
or is held in more general respect—we might almost
say reverence—whether for the sagacity of his
views, the energy of his disposition, or the long-
tried, uncompromising integrity of his character.—
Earl GREY is a Statesman, in the most enlarged
sense of the word. He is the Ullimus Romanorum,
one of the very few remaining relics of those days
when there were giants in the land. He has never
truckled to power. He has never sacrificed con-
science to ambition. He is no whining, pompous
sycophant, with the professions of candour, of dis-
interestedness for ever on his lips, and treachery at
his heart. He has never wearied his hearers with
praises of himself. He has never, night after
night, prosed by the hour about his indifference
to office, while at the same time he was
stirring Heaven and earth to sneak, no matter by
what means, into place. He has never done this.
He possesses far too lofty, too generous a mind.
He leaves it to the Joseph Surfaces, the Bliflts of
politics, to pursue their mean course of trickery and
falsehood. He is above such degradation. The
principles he has professed, he has always practised;
therefore is he worthy—most northy of a nation's
confidence.

Equally satisfactory were the observations of
Lord ALTHORP in the Lower House. After Mr.
STANLEY had introduced the subject, by mov-
ing for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the repre-
sentation, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
stated that Government had made up their minds
irrevocably "to persevere in the proposition for
cutting off 60 boroughs. They would listen to no
compromise; they considered the disfranchisement
of rotten boroughs essential 'to the public welfare,
and trusted that the House and country would stand
by them in carrying it into effect." What the
House may do we know not : from a sink of cor-
ruption no fragrance can be expected ; from a
factious corporation no public disinterestedness.
This, however, we do know,—and this, too, the
House itself will ere long discover—namely, that the
country will stand by its KING and its Ministers to a
man. It will cheer them in their struggles ; it will
fight side by side with them in their conflicts. As
for the borough mongers, their day of power is past,
that of reckoning is at hand. Never more shall
they trample on the necks of their countrymen ;
never more inundate every province with paupers,
felons, and Church pluralists ; never more insult the
high national sense of morality and decorum by
shamelessly and publicly providing for their
slaves and mistresses out of the national funds.
Thanks to our patriot Monarch and his noble-
minded Ministry„ these days of extravagance—of
licentiousness—of despotism—are fast passing away
for ever. Not an hour elap es but it brings the bo-
roughmongers nearer to their end. We shal have
no more CRoxEßs—no inlre HORACE TWISSES
_no more SCARLETTS in Parliaments. Impu-
dence—arrogance, and apostacy, have at length found
their level. For this, let the country be grateful.

Thcre is little or no fresh intelligence from Po-
land ; what little, however, there is, is cheering to
the cause of the patriots. The express from Paris
mentions that same agitation prevailed in that city on
the subject of the New Political Association, which
General I,AmAttrwE, it seems, had joined.
The following are the prices of the French Funds
of Wednesday : .

PKKO; STOCK EXCHANGE, MAUCH per Cents, Slf. 70c.
75c. 85c. 90c. 85c. Sic. 85c. 90c. 85c. 75c. SOc. 75c. Ssc. Sec. 75c.
70c. 60c. 65c. 55c. 50c. 60c. 50c. ; Three per Cents, 5211 70c. 65c.
,ve, 60c. 70c. 75c. SOc. 55c. • Bank Actions, 1,400 f. ; Rente de
Naples, 581. 20c. 25c. 9.0 c. goc. 65c. 59f. 58f. SOc. 75c. 65e. 75c. ;
Rente d'Espagne, 13 14 1441,4 1,4 14 13y, ; Royal Spanish Loan,
63 631,4 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 7f. 44 4414 ;
klaytian Loan, 2701 Exchange on London, one month, paper,
25f. 20c. ; money, 25f. 15e. ; three months, paper, 25f. ; money, 25t:

The Austrian Observer says—" We have receive]
by expresi the news that the vanguard of the Lnj eria,

troops entered Modena on tb• 9tb, where they were
received, as well as his Royal Highness the Duke,
with the loud acclamations of the people."

Our Portsmouth Correspondent informs us that

the following ships are now at anchor, ready and
waiting for orders, at Spithead. We have little
doubt their destination is for the Scheldt :—Ariadne,
28 ; Sapphire, 28 ; Samarang, 28 ; Despatch, 18 ;
Savage, 10; Nautilus, 10. The Pearl, from Cork,
and the Warrior from the Note, are also ordered to
Portsmouth.