The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

. . A ptiblic Stipper? it seems, was lately given in
Hanover, at which Puke of Cumberland attended,
M'ade. a speech, whith we have copied from the,
Germail P'oreirs: We have not read foe some time a
Royal oration, did a Warsaw perhaps excepted,
which has given us so much Mth-faction as this con-
V.ifidl harangue. In vino veritas. The man spoke
Withotit reserve, displaying his intimate
heart t 8 aiiciielice His wife, he said, is a Hano-
verian ; he is half a Hanoverian in blood, and
a whole one in principle, dtitli his' son is Hanoverian in
every respect. He loves the pc* That are to be.
They love their King that is to be. }Taffy Prince I
Thrice happy people I They are worthy of each other,
and seem destined to exhibit, at a future day, to the
world a picture of patriarchal life, surpassing; even the
felicity of the primitive ages. Hanover, inSeect's is to
be envied for the good fortune that awaits it—a• for-
tune which it ought not to put to hazard by suffering
the 'heir to their Crown to expatriate himself again,
even for a dAy. We zre sure that our good friends
of Hanover will be glad to hear that, in case they
should resolve to detain their amongst them-
selves, we should not perhaps go to war with them
upon that account. We think we might spare him.
We have Lord Kenyon still, and Lord Wnyford,
and Lord Roden, and Colonel or Captain Fairman.
These personages will console us for the absence of his
Royal Highness. To be sure, the edifying example
of the numerous virtues and talents, and of the incom-
parable wisdom by which he is distinguished, will be
seriously missed here in these degenerate days. The mi-
litary men will lament the absence of his mustachios—
the Lords will feel the loss of his eloquence—the
ladies of Kew and its neighbourhood will mourn over
the exile of that chivalrous demeanour, by which the.
Hanoverian and his horses have been at all times sig-
nalised. But notwithstanding all these drawbacks,
when we consider how very much the climate of this
country has disagreed with his Royal Highness since
the Reform Bill was carried, we do think, upon the
whole, that he may remain in what he seems to con-
sider his own country. Englishmen, we are sure, have
too much politeness to insist upon his coming over,
even for the next Session of Parliament. If he have
need of a dispensation, we shall endeavour to procure
it for him ; and if, after a year or two, he should get
tired of Hanover, and should have a fancy for a trip to
Petersburg, or Pekin, to " Nova Zembla, or the Lord
knows where," we think-that we may promise him a
writ of exert, provided only that it be not returnable.
Morning Chronicle:

The speech of Lord Sandon, delivered on Tuesday
evening at the Tradesmen's Conservative Association
Of Liverpool, will be read with pleasure by the friends
of the British Constitution, and may help to instri;:t
its enemies. The general spirit of the Noble Lord's
speech cannot be thought unseasonable at a period
which is none of the best, ,and while men who rank
among the worst that have yet disturbed the repose or
well-being of the empire push themselves into a pro-
minence and a notoriety which capacitate them for.
accomplishing the most pernicious objects. The rest-
less character of what is called the " movement" in.
this country seems to be understood by the numerous
intelligent and industrious class of citizens who con-
stitute the Tradesmen's Association of LiVerpool, and
who recognize in the experimental nature and inter-
minable succession of the changes for which the
" movement" party appears to be insatiably thirsting,
a principle of disturbance to all order, and of
destruction to every branch of peaceful pros-
perity, which requires to be effectually resisted.
A sagacious observer of the progress and the
affairs of nations beholds with instinctive circumspec-
tion and distrust, each and every change which iS re-
commended in the ancient laws and institutions of a.
state. He does not, indeed, pertinaciously refuse to
hear or consider the arguments by which new schemes
of government are- supported, or to give way when
satisfied of the preference due to them, over the objec-
tions whereby they are met ; but the bias, the predis-
position, of a sound statesman is and ought to be ad-
verse to innovation. It is his nature to demand proof
of the preponderance of evil in that which exists,
before he destroys it, and of the efficacy of the cure in
that which is desired, before he resorts to it ; whereas
it is the nature of " movement" to throw the onus on
him who declares his satisfaction with the system. in-
herited from his forefathers. The innovator withholds
his faith or approval from the results of experiments
already tried, and eagerly gives his confidence to those
which never have been. He contemns facts, and
idolizes projects. It is manifest that such a temper as
this, when brought into play upon the incessant action
and the multiplied interests of large masses of men, will
often jump to conclusions which a patient search into
circumstances would compel it gravely to repudiate.
There is nothing, again, more certain than that such a
movement once begun will not sink into quiescence at
the mandate of its authors. Firouz Schab, of the
Arabian Nights, when he mounted the infernal steed,
could impel, but was unable td restrain him. It need
scarcely now he stated that the Conservative power of this
country is not one which reprobates the correction of
'abuses, but which, with Sir Robert Peel, the great
leader of Conservatism in the House of Commons,
calls for, and anxiously prepares, and organizes that
correction, as the most solid guarantee of those insti-
tutions round which abuse has crept, and which have
been overgrown and encumbered by it. We should
like to know what one class of grievances the Right
Hon. Baronet has excluded from the catalogue of
those which in his Tamworth letter, and by his sub-
sequent votes last session, he pledged himself tho-
roughly to redress ? The commutation of tithe, the re-
lief of the Dissenters, the internal reform of the church,
the municipal reform (for which in principle and in
most of its details he voted)—what is there, we, ask,
'in the nature, and bearing any semblance of reform,
of which the people of the United Kingdom are
not more assured from Sir Robert Pei than from
that motley, unquiet, and imbecile crew of which Lord
Melbourne is the nominal chief, and O'Connell essen-
tially' the tvrant Is it a disqualification of Sir R.
Peel and his Conservative supporters, that the Duke
of Wellington and the peerage give them their cordial
support, and the King his frank and cheerful confi-
&nee ? Is it any honour to Lord Melbourne-and the
rump, that the King, who proved himself a stanch
Reformer, when he bravely cheered on Lord Grey in
1832, now treats that offal- Ministry, which was aban-
doned by Lord Grey, with a degree of coldness indi-
cative of disapprobation and disgust ? Is it no ground
of suspicion against these Ministers, that in proportion
as his Majesty has withdrawn from them, Mr. Daniel
O'Connell has shed the lurid light of his countenance
upon them—Mr. Daniel O'Connell, who has declared
the Protestant Church to be an intolerable nuisance—
who has denounced the House of Lords, after the
fashion of the king killing Parliament, as an intole-
rable nuisance—who has even within these six days
proclaimed himself anew the unrelenting champion
of " Repeal of the Union "—who has never dis-
avowed, because he durst not, the execution of a formal
league and covenant referred to by Mr. Sheil, as the
work of Lichfield-house—and who has assigned em-
phatically as his justification for his upholding this
Government of the quondam, base, and bloody Whigs,
that he had not approximated towards the Whigs,
but still remained what he. ever had been—that
it was the Whigs who had come over to him, being no
longer the Whigs of four years ago—that is, Whibs-,
`
of the stamp of Lords Grey and Stanley—but move-
merit Whigs, lit confederates of Derrynane and May-'
nouth ? With these things before their eyes, -is it ex-
traordinary that the intelligent and soberminded trades-
men of this country. should begin to form Conservative
or Anti-rump, that is, anti-ruinous, Associations ?
Associations ? Is it accountable that, they should
have hailed Lord Sandon with shouts of applause
and exultation when ire talked to them of this their
native country, which placed no harriersbetween the
highest nobility and the humblest artisan, but made the
most illustrious offices of Church and State-:--the throne
itself (through a policy sanctioned by the profoundest
wisdom) excepted—open to the Englishman of hum-
blest parentage, and owing least to any human suc,,
cour but that of his own personal. deserts ? Nor in
hisimplied warning against the visitations of extreme
democracy did Lord. Sandon meet a less discerning or
less cordial. acceptance from his hearers, the Liverpool
triOsesmen, Here, on English ground, however extra-