The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-16 00:00:00

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SPILUT 07 TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Times, we understand, complains of the attacks
mule against its honesty, consistency, and so forth.
This, it is observed, might be a fair ground for attack
if a claim for honour or onesty were advanced. The
Times possesses the character suitcd to its trade, and that
amount of honesty which is even indispensable to the
vocation of the thief or the bravo. There may not be one
public man who has not praised at one period by
the Times for the very conduct for which he was abused
at another. But the bravo does not scruple to earn his
reward by directing his steel against the bosom of him
,who may have beep before his employer. The only
question in such a case, it
The is said,
instrument is, bment must
as the
pulated -work been done ? •
be adapted for the work ; and the .opponents of
the ,Times render it great service by proclaiming
Yo those who require unscrupulous tools where
Way are readily to be found. Men who needed
the a'(l or Ikev Solomons did not applyto the High
Priest ford
character of him. The beautiful lady for
poverful intercession was made at the time
whom such 4was in trouble, did not owe her
M. Ernest de Mire/ 211 r.
influence with the aristo:ra9 to the frequency of her
attendance at church or chap2l.
•It is said of a well-
known character, that when, on his s-.lcceeding in trac-
ing some foul practices to the author, he w"." orged to
expose and punish him, he answered, " 0 no ; he is
now in my power, and I will use him." No Orson of
our times possesses more knowledge of the world than
Lord Lyndhurst. His knowledge is not the
but practical. It has been said of his Lordship, that
from experience he could draw " each scene of many-
coloured life." In no one respect, perhaps, does the
Noble and Learned Lord display his knowledge of hu-
man nature more than in the selection of his instru-
ments. Sir Robert Walpole used to say, that some
Yuen were so awkward that they would offer to bribe
an old miser with a fine woman, and a young rake
with a sum of money. Lord Lyndhurst knows his
men, and his men know him. No person in our alay
has been so eulogised by the Times as Lord Lynt
burst. Another ex-Chancellor was long the idol of
our Contemporary of Printing-house-square. But the
present god of the idolatry of the Times has, both di-
rectly and indirectly, through Runnymede D'lsraeli,
been placed on the very highest pedestal in fame's
temple. His Lordship and the Times have a perfect
understanding of each other. That understanding is
not of yesterday. When the Duke of Wellington of-
fered to give
destructionh of the Constitution, Lord Lyndhurst
was not the man to fail him, for a mere matter of prin-
ciple ; but, as is well known, disgrace was all that the
party reaped on that first endeavour to conform. On
that occasion the Noble and Learned Lord requited his
obligation .to the Times in the following manner
His Majesty requested me to invite my Noble Friend
to call on him on Saturday ; I did so ; and thus my mis-
sion terminated.—(Great cheering.). It is for this, my
Lords, of which I have now given you a full and faithful
narration, that I have been traduced, maligned, and ca-
lumniated.—(Clieers.) It is for this I have been traduced
and vilified by the periodical press, which now reigns para-
mount throughout the land, unrestrained by Government.
(Great cheering.) My Lords, I should be ashamed to be
a Minister of the Crown one hour, and suffer the Times
newspaper to go unprosecuted.—(Continued cheering.) I
should conceive that I had been guilty of treason to my
Sovereign if I overlooked its flagrant abuse of majesty and
of your Lordships.—(Great cheering.) I should feel that
Iliad forgotten what I owe to your Lordships, and to a
Sovereign, and a free Constitution.—(Continued cheering.)
As far as relates to myself, I despise these publications.-
- (Enthusiastic cheering.) They may wound me, and
wound me deeply too, through connections which are dear
to me ; but, as far as I am myself concerned, I meet them
with ineffable contempt."—(Loud and continued cheering.)
Good man—he cared nothing for himself—but the
flagrant abuse of majesty—that was quite another
affair. Treason to his Sovereign I Not for the world
would he have overlooked it. His Lordship's loyalty
was then quite rampant ; but abuse of himself had, of
course, no influence on the acuteness ,of his feelings
for wronged majesty. It is Jonathan Wild who says
that wickedness is too valuable to be thrown away ;
and, if we are not mistaken, the great author of
Jonathan Wild ridicules the idea of sacrificing con-
venience to unprofitable indignation. The flagrant
abuse of ingjesty was a recommendation of the
Times to the Noble and Learned Lord. He did
not require a mealy-mouthed instrument. We can
• conceive Lord Lyndhurst, and the writer in the
Times, stretching out the band of forgiveness to
each other—" Brother, brother, we are both in
the wrong." Lord Lyndhurst 's opinion of the Times
is the same as ever, and the Times has not changed
its opinion of his Lordship. It is because they know
each other well, that they now treat each other so
lovingly. But
" This hour we meet in rapture sweet,
Wi' mutual love, an' a' that ;
But for sae lang's the flee may stang,
Let inclination law that."
The time may come when the loving friends will be
sworn enemies—when the Times will remember the
former confidence only to betray it, and when Lord
Lyndhurst will be added to the long list of those whose
secrets have been turned to good account. His Lord-
• ship, however, may have so far benefited by experi-
• ence as, at the proper time, to be ready to exclaim,
" I'm Yorkshire too'."—Morning Chronicle.
The Whig-Radical Administration of Ireland has
already exhibited itself under the several forms of a
partisan Administration, a wasteful Administration, a
corrupt and profligate Administration, an irreligious
Administration, an un-English and disloyal Amini-
stration,‘ enslaved by the public enemies of the Pro-
testant Church, and of the British Crown and people.
There is, we grieve to say, more than one example of
the same Government having obtained a still further
title to the national esteem and confidence, by the dis-
play of its talents as a persecuting and tyrannical
power—" Set a WHig-Radical on horseback, and he
will ride to—," &c. Our notice has been called more
particularly to this last characteristic of the Mulgrave
and Morpeth twin brotherhood, by a number of the
Kerry Evening Post which has been sent to us,
containing a catalogue of charges' which were
brought forward by a paid servant of the Castle,
a certain chief constable M'Donagh, of the Kerry
district, against three gentlemen—magistrates who
had presided at the petty sessions of Listowel-L-for.
no intelligible reason, that we can discover, but be-
cause those magistrates had already preferred grave
accusations against the said chief constable for gross
misconduct in his office. It would appear from ac-
seen, although the formal de-
counts which we have
us, that the magistrates have
tails are not now before
been completely and triumphantly acquitted, and that
the whole proceeding against them is regarded by all
respectable men throughout the Country as one of the
most unprincipled and nefarious attemitde
,t:.rliri
nreg,co orfdtitioe
bolster up the contumacy of a hiretl i
Whigs, and to crush the independent administration
of justice by its unpaid ministers. A Government is
in a hopeful way when it can no otherwise suplmrt
it-
self, but by running a-muck at every individual erbodv
which is not dependent on its own licentious awl
which is especially given to snarl and bite at men of
property wherever it can find them. We have never
yet read a list of complaints' against men occupying the
judicial seat more frivolous, vexatious, or shameful on
the face of them, than the eleven denunciations of
Mr. Constable M‘Donaoh against Messrs. Raymond
and Cashel.—Times.

We give elsewhere a condensed report from the
Clare Journal of a public meeting, held in Ennis on
the 3d instant, to take into consideration the distressed
state of the county, and the necessity of petitioning
Parliament in favour of Poor-laws. The chief
speakers were the Chairman, John O'Brien, Esq.,
High Sheriff of the County, and Thomas Steele,
Esq., whose integrity of purpose and purity of patrio-
tism mark him as the most disinterested 'advocate of
the liberty of his country, and the.general liberty of
man. After the passing. of several resolutions, ex-
pressive of the great distress of the county, and the
inadequacy.of the funds of the House of Industry to
meet the exigencies of the current year, it was resolved—

That this country can never enjoy peace, nor progress
in civilization, till every man is made to know that he has a
right to support from the soil on which he stands a freeman."
The principle embodied in this resolution—the "right
of each man to support- from the soil on which he
stands a freeman"—is considered to involve the neces-
sity of poor-laws, and on it was based a most eloquent