The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 14, 1847.

Those who are curious as to the position likely to
be assumed by the newly-elected representatives on
the re-assembling of Parliament will be rejoiced to
have all their conjectures reduced to a certainty. The
benches of the House of Commons are already ar-
ranged in respective divisions for the reception of the
different classes of politicisns. The Liberals are to
occupy an elevated place analogous to the Mountain
of the National Convention ; while the Protectionits ,
are to bP grouped in a lower range, like the mem-
bers of the Rain in the same memorable assembly.
For, be it understood, henceforth, the Liberals are
Jacobins, the Protectionists are Constitutionalists,
and the Peelites are Girondists. Sir ROBERT PEEL'
is the new VERGNIAIJD, and RICHARD COBDEN is
only another MAXIMILIAN ROBESPIERRE. Such are the
sapient discoveries announced in the columns of a
Contemporary, and announced, too, with a gravity
worthy of DESCARTES or TOSCANELLI. The visionary
who endeavours to impress the minds of his fellow-
countrymen with a sense of the magnanimity of tie
Protectionists—the weakness, if not the pusillani-
mity of the Peelites—and the disguised blood-thirsti-
ness and inherent atrocity of the Liberals and Radi-
cals, draws his deductions—not from the experiences
of common sense, that would be beneath his philoso-
phy I—but from the poetic history or M. A LPtiONSE DE
LANIIRTINE. It is something odd, we must acknow-
ledge, to find a disciple of the good old school of
Toryism quoting one of the most eloquent and im-
passioned Radicals of the age, and referring espe-
cially to the pages of a work which is, in its way,
the very text-book of republicanism. We con-
gratulate this Conservative theorist on the exquisite
obtuseness of judgment which he evinces raising a
Tory hypothesis out of the suggestionsnce of inhas demo-
cratic narrative. To say the least of them,
ments are as extravagant, but scarcely as indelcenartgu_
those which yesterday prompted another of ourias
Con-
temporaries to compare one of the greatest statesmen
in the world to a notorious concubine.

S% hen we find, however, the avowed organs or
Conservatism tracing analogies between the bloodiest
demons of the French Revolution and the pacific
at least, esti-
mate of Free Trade, r.rmay,
political bigotry,
mate the ex tent of their
hatred.
'and- the violence of their P political
When we find them quoting
mber for the
the " History of tilt,
Girondists" to show that the Hon.
West Riding of Yorkshire, and for the borougliof
Stockport, is in disposition, as well as in
akin to those ferocious monsters who were the
principle,
despots of the Reign of Terror, we may conceive to
ourselves the degree of animosity with which the
popular representatives are regarded by the lovers of
Conservatism. This chapter of nonsense about the elec-
tions of France in 1793, and of England in 1847, is in
itself a sufficient token of the sentiments entertained
by the Country Party, and the rationality with which
those senti.nenta are. enunciated. It is the straw
showing which way the wind blows, and inasmuch as
the straw is v4luable as a kind of extemporaneous

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