The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-03 00:00:00

the last session of Parliament, which, if we had not our
eyes open, and our heads clear, would have foisted on us
principles which we had rejected in the early part of the
session, and made us pass measures to which we had
shortly before given our dissent.—(Cries of " Hear,
hear.") I assert, therefore, that these things were done by
him for a factious purpose—to bring the House of Lords
into disrepute with the people.—(Cheers.) The House of
Lords are ready, and to the Attorney-General's bill of in-
dictment I plead in their name " not guilty." I stand on
our deliverance."—(Cheers.) There is no denying the fact
that a majority in the House of Lords is opposed to a ma-
jority in the House of Commons. I ask you to examine
the composition of the latter majority. It is not the ma-
jority of England and Scotland, but a majority turned by a
man whose trade is agitation in Ireland, and who advocates
in England the vote by ballot, triennial Parliaments, uni-
versal suffrage, and the destruction of the Protestant esta-
blishment in his own country.—(Hear, hear.) The de-
struction of the Protestant church in Ireland must be the
setting up of the Catholic. Those who are most ardent
for that end do not avow it. They know that it would
be unpopular in England, and that it would give of-
fence to the Dissenters. I have had some experience
in political life, and I will say that the House of
Lords are powerless unless supported by the people.
Unless their decisions be respected, the sooner you try the
tyranny of a republic the better.—( Hear.) But the House of
Lords is threatened by them. Oh, little do they know what
they say when they threaten us—little do they know of us
when they thing that we will be intimidated into a change of
our principles.—(Cheers.) The Peers know that they pos-
sess one great right over the fellow-countrymen, that of he-
reditary legislation ; but remove that right, and I will ven-
ture to say there is not a Peer in England who would be
without the power. Their threats of reform or annihilation
" Pass us like the idle wind." We fear them not ; and I
will tell them that the House of Lords will not suffer itself
to be reformed or annihilated. I tell them, moreover, that
if they are bent upon it, they cannot attain their object with-
out a revolution. I thank God, however, that things have
passed since the last Session of Parliament which plainly
tell me that there is as yet no danger of that extremity.
But, though the country is safe for the present, I entreat
you to be watchful, earnest, and active, for your enemy is
at hand. The people of this country should consider well
whom they elect, and they should bestir themselves in the
business. If they do not—if they are determined to have a de-
mocratic constitution, and mob tyranny, without the inter-
mediation of the House of Lords, then, in God's name, let
them elect those who will effect those ends, and have done
altogether with a question so irritating ; but if, on the con-
trary, as I firmly believe, they are attached to the Constitu-
tion under which they had gone on and prospered, then
they will not doubt or delay following the advice I now
give them. As to the Peers themselves, let them look at
them as nothing in their consideration of the question. If
to-morrow the right of hereditary legislation were abo-
lished, I have the means, derived from my property and my
position in society, and I hope my character—(Cheers)—
which I hold in despite of all they may do—l have the
means, I say, and appeal to the county of York and you,
whether, if I were not a Peer to-morrow, I should be with-
out the natural influence arising from these circumstances ?
—(Cheers.) Such is the feeling which I only share in
common with all the other Peers in the kingdom ; and
therefore, as I had said before, the threats of men who
would reform or annihilate our hereditary rights " pass as
the idle wind." I shall now conclude with a toast which I
know will be pleasing to you all—" Prosperity to the town
of Halifax."
Several other toasts were then given, and the company
separated, highly gratified, about one o'clock.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

The young man who has compromised himself at
Strasburg, and given such strong grounds to justify
the suspicions entertained by Louis Philippe of the
several members of his family, is a Captain of Artil-
lery, in the service of Switzerland. He seems to have
selected the fortress of Strasburg for the commence-
ment of some more extensive plot from its vicinity to
the nursery of rebellion for all Europe, and from the
influence which the parent society has acquired there
lately. This emanation from La Jeune Suisse leaves
no longer any doubt of the objects of the assceiations
which have until now been tolerated in that country,
and the whole of Europe is called on to take defen-
sive measures against them. The nephews of Napo-
leon are gradually disclosing their ultimate designs.
Without the talent of the chief of their family they
have all his ambition. Two of them are at this mo-
ment under sentence in the Papal States, and another
was suspected of being the grand mover of the insur-
rection at Lyons the year before last, when 7,000
lives were lost, and the Royal authority deposed
for several days. A wounded man, exclaiming in the
hospital against the degenerate Buonaparte, who in-
duced others to fight, but did not show himself in the
hour of battle, first gave the suspicion that one of the
family was implicated ; but no proof was obtained,
and the matter still rests in doubt. The King of the
French seems to be well informed of the intentions of
this family, and is determined to keep it at arm's
length. It is only •by considerations of that nature
that the extreme strictness of his policy can be under-
stood. His refusal to admit even the young Prince of
Beauharnais, brother of the Duchess of Braganza and
the Princess (Near, of Sweden, though very illiberally
done, is a part of the same system. The truth is—
and we fear that ere long some more formidable proof
of the justice of our assertion will be given—the state
of public opinion among the lower classes in the large
towns of France is most alarming. A dark, deep-
rooted, hostility to the present King is daily gaining
ground, of which he personally seems to be aware,
and of which the haggard looks and sinking frame of
of the Princess Adelaide, and the general inquietude
of the other members of his family, attest the full
consciousness.—Morning Post.

The speech of the Queen Regent, is, from the ex-
isting state of the Spanish nation, a document deeply
interesting to the great Powers of Europe, and in an
especial degree to ourselves ; for it will be seen on a
perusal of the speech, that the Spanish Ministry have
not thought proper to follow the- prudent example set
Lord Palmerston. That noble person carefully ab-
stained from all allusion to the share taken by himself
in the name of Great Britain in the Spanish struggle.
Not so the Government at Madrid. Her Majesty is
made to speak to the following effect :—" To the va-
luable assistance for which we are already indebted to
the generosity of his Britannic Majesty, has been since
added the support given to the operations of our army
of the North, by means of the naval force which took
such a part in the glory acquired before St. Sebastian on
the sth of May last, and the supply of 100,000 mus-
kets, so important to us in our present situation."
Our " non-intervention " Secretary will be puzzled to
explain what " valuable assistance" his Britannic Ma-
jesty gave to the Queen of Spain, before orders were
issued to Lord John Hay and his Marines to second
thtoperations of the Legion. Are we to understand
that, through the medium of the Queen-Regent, the
Spanish Ministers are giving thanks to the British
Government for sending out a force under General
Evans ?—a force all connection with which Lord Pal-
merston, on his own behalf and on that of his col-
leagues (for his Lordship declared the Cabinet to be
entirely agreed upon the point), publicly disclaimed in
his place in Parliament ? Again, in a subsequent para-
graph of her Ma;esty's speech, the Queen-Regent,
alluding to the National Guard, thus expresses her-
self :—" If from want of arms it has not yet been able
to present such a respectable aspect as properly belongs
to it, now that the battalions of the National Guard are
supplied with the arms which, as I already said, have
been furnished by the British Government, they will
he equally to be feared from their complete armament,
as from their heroic decision, &c. &c." Poor Lord
Palmerston I—his pretty little plot—" a good plot as
n
ever was laid" by the instrumentality of protocols—is
baredter ve to the laughter of all Europe, by the Marplot.
of Madrid. Never was man so unfortunate in non-
intervention.pro
Who tclaimin
that witnessed
"reform,es
sedthe stern
trresetnochicimsmen,
oft
Earl Grey when
and non-intervention," as the motto of his Ministerial
banner, would have anticipated that the last of these
magic words was to be interpreted by the foolish,
frivolous, undecided, and dastardly pottering of the Fo-
quarter in which his petty in-
reign Secretary in every
cienuity could frame an excuse to intermeddle ? To
limit ourselves to this particular case of Spain, let us
ask, for the hundredth time, what we, the people of
England, have to do with the disputed succession now
distracting the Spanish nation ? The only assignable
ground for any interest which we, as a nation, can feel
in this question, is a desire, natural to a free people,
that a Constitutional Government should ensure to
Spaniards the blessings of regulated freedom. But this
wish in no degree commits us active interference, in
the settlement of the succession to the Crown of Spain.