The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-27 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

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Owing to the length of the debate on Thursday, we
were compelled to omit the following extracts from the
Evening Papers :
(From the Globe.)
Attila was not the destined " scourge of God" more
emphatically than Mr. Sheil the minister of special
and contihn chastisement to Sir James Graham. One
would have thought the heavy baronet must have felt
difficulty in his unwieldy turnings, sufficient at least to
make him remember them, and avoid provoking that
remembrance in others. Yet Sir James Graham unac-
countably imagines he can twit the Ministry with Lord
J. Russell's letter to the Stroud electors, contrasted with
their policy in opening the ballot, &c., and has wholly
forgotten, or fancies no one else remembers, the days
when he himself, this Anti-Ballot Sir James Graham,
was member of a Committee of the Grey Ministry, for
framing the provisions of the Reform Act, which Com-
mittee agreed in favour of Ballot. He has also forgotten
his cool comparison of swamping the House of Lords
with the submersion of the Royal George,—to say nothing
of his eaeber fondness for measures approaching national
bankruptcy. Another of Sir J. Graham's topics of affected
alarm last night was, that, within a week after tne re-
turn to office (the year before last) of the present Ad-
ministrafon, " a supporter of the Government, the
Member for Preston (Sir H. Fleetwood), made a motion
te the effect that a 101. occupation franchise should be
extended to the counties of England." Further Sir
James Graham stated that he bad read the speech of the
Right Hon. Gentleman, the Member for Edinburgh,
on his election. " When the Right Hon. Gentleman
was elected, he announced distinctly to his constituents
that he was a decided advocate for the extension of
the 101. occupation franchise to the counties of
England and Scotland, and the Right. Hon. Gentleman
was admitted into the Cabinet avowing those opinions."
Sir James Graham proceeded presently to say he had
'Tad with infinite satisfaction the Noble Lord (J. Rus-
sell'.) addreeeto his constituents at Stroud. Yet in
that very address he might have found that s ery opi-
nion, which he magnifies into a bugbear, when coming
from Mr. Macaulay—not, indeed, put forth by Lord
J. Russell as his spontaneous sentiment, but us, strictly
seeakin?, a logical consequence from adopting the
Crandos tenant•at-will clause.
(From the Standard.)
Lord Bacon has borne testimony to the efficacy of
boldness in the affairs of politics, and experience
justifies the great philosopher in ascribing extraor-
dinary power to this quality. Whatever of cv:l has
been inflicted upon men, in all. that concerns the
instautions of Government, may be without difficol y
tr aed to the boldness, call it impudence, call it
audacity, of the guides to whom they have sub-
mitted themselves. The reason will not be long a
secret to any one who relents upon the process
by which the multitude are led astray. In that
process there must he at least a pretence of reason-
ing ; and it is clwaye more easy to persuade men into
extravagant paradoxes than to lead them to more modi-
fie I opinions. The paradox startles and confounds, and if
it can be made for a moment plausible, it suggests to
those ca bed to decide upon it not merely a rejection
of argon eats formerly respected, but a distrust of their
wild. preceding habit of thinking ; they are brought to
cast away their old logic wtta their old convictions. Then
all who may be disposed to resist the new doctrine or the
new project arc forced to the most difficult of all tasks—
the defence of first principles, the demonstration, as it
were, of axioms. They must take up the argument from
the beginning ; and this is what men who fancy them-
seiv s to have mae..e a progress in political knowledge will
not patiently, still less favourably, listen to. The Bill
of Lord Morptth is a desperate experiment upon the
all-sufficiercy of impudence (to call things by their right
names)—a trial whether men cannot be brought by a
bell experiment to sacrifice the Constitution of the
greatest empire on the face of the earth by way of
inftena'o.

(From the Courier.)
Mr. Charl ,z Buller knows on which side his bread
is to be buttered, if at all, that is clear, and inelve from
the occurrence lat. ly in the Gazette, or elsewhere, of
some brotherly looking limes tacked to snug office t, we
suspect he hesi been already taking one instalment of
his txi ectethans at the hands of Mr. Daniel O'Connell.
We have the woful warning vision, first conjured before
the cles of the Dublin rabble repealcrs by the pa-
triotic Mr. John O'Concell, next iettoduced with the
met weary pomp of petty historical notes about
Admiral Dancer. and the Texel fleet by the
Larced Mr. MacAulay in his yesterday's diesett .t' on,
of the tremulous :t ite of our foreign relations thus re-
ferred to in what Mr. Buller conceived, doubtless,
to be most ominous and effective style—" Now let
him ask—though he hardly knew how to touch the
topic—whether the present state of our foreign relations
was not such as to suggest great caution and concilia-
tion in ceiling with our own people? He saw with
horror the intimations of a rupture that had appeared.
He could not shut his eyes to the fact that there was a
greater feeling in France against this country than there
had been since 1815. There was growing up rapiely
in the United States of America a feeling similar to that
which ted to the last war." The irresistible conclusion,
according to this jumping legislator, being that, to con-
ciliate " the greatest of men which the world e'er saw,"
in the pro!hund conception of the Member for Liskeard,
we must abrogate the Irish Reform Bill, proclaim Uni-
versil Suffrage, and cut up the Constitution root and
branch, or, mark the inevitable sequitur. Mr. Daniel
O'Connell will sign treaties of allience, offensive and
defensive, with France and the United States, and Mr.
John O'Connell " hoist the standard of ' Ripale' "
on Vinegar Hill or elsewhere, whilst John M'Hale
" beats the drum ecclesiastic" at Tuam. If legislation
is really to be carried on under threats and in prospect
of pikes, pistols, and powder, why it were letter at once
to turn out the House in Cromwell style, and replace
the Members with a regiment of Irish traopers. These
far worn and much abused clap-traps had not even the
usuel success of Mr. Charles Buller's oratory, for they
did not succeed even in raising a laugh in the House.
PROM THE RVKNINO PAPERS ..P YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
Like the benevolent gentleman, who to roast his own
eggs set fire to his neighbour's house, the Tories, to obtain
office, and keep themselves in—when in, are wiling to sct
Ireland in a flame. To strengthen themselves, they
would weaken the empire; and this at a time, as Mr. C.
Buller well said, " when there is only an armed peace in
Eurnpe." Lord Stanley's machinations against the Irish con-
stituencies have been foiled. Whatever may be the fate
of Lord Morpeth's Bill—however much Tory ingenuity
may be taxed to impair its virility, or to limit its
sphere of operation—even though the Lords strangle
it, as they have strangled other measures which termed
to pia: e Ire 1 tnd on a level with the other portions if
the empire! if which she is nominally an integral part--
stilt there is abundant cause for c negratulation. Tr c
majority if five has:eiled the doom cf Lord Stanley's Bill;
wee eC iesed the Irish people from the infliction of a mea-
sure wide h would have delivere t item over, bound hand and
foot, to the tender mercies of o:algeism; or have left them
to the dangerous alternative of carrying constitutional re-
sistance t" its enactment to the utmost verge, wt ich, in
the excitement of justly-kindled indignation, would, proba-
bly, have assumed a form before which even Stanley must
have succumbed. Sir James Graham prudently abstained
from touching this part of Mr. C. Buller's speech, to
which he professed to reply. To have openly dared the Irish
people to resistance, and to have prockiened the inde-
pendenci of England of their aid in any contest in
which she might become involved with a foreign power,
would have been worthy of the noble author of the ob-
noxious measure, but would have become no one else.
The Right Hon. Baronet therefore wisely a! irked thst
with wktch he feared to grapple. The Tories, throughout
their opposition to Lord Morpeth's confuundeu two
things essentially diff,ront. They assumed that the effect
of toe Bel would be to augment the I constituencies
-the result of its operation will be to prevent their dimi-
;
eution.
(From the Standard.)
The character of the disision gives full assurance that
the Bill Hill never
pass evenr thruough, the House of
Commons with the Ui ivers a sffa clause, and
in truth, it is manifest
that it was never intended
to pays. Will Lord Melbourne
'bourne act upon his own
or, an
precedent in the case
ofe .
ry a gre the Jamaica questiat constAutiond
al
re,ign, because he cm ar
no
greeter majority than
change over the first stage by
fire? Ireland is surely as important a part of the empire
as Jamaica; and a Bill for changing the Constitut'on
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of the United Kingdom is an affair of as much weight
as a bill for temporarily suspending the
constitu'ion f
sugar Hand? Lord Melte:mime is indeed bound to resign
wt.
l nee e
Ymoa the authority of his own precedet • but he
He too welt knows that a re,ienation now coul I not be
safely resorted to as a feint. He has, morecv,r, another
precedent, weizli he hesfellewed inthistraesaction tvithsue:
exact Wiry, as he prove that it has been all along
In h's eoatemplation, and to show claiely what his per-
ptee is—the precedent of the frOli THAI Bill. He
wished to centime the t the agertioa f.r party pur-
poses, and therefore he retarded the settlement of
the tithe -question • for three whole years, by
tacking the appropriation clause to it ; he now
wishes to protect the corrupt system of the Irish registra-
tion, in which he has a deep direct interest, and which he
may hope to make the occasion cf an agitation for Univer-
sal Suffrage that shall extend to England; and therefore
he tacks the repeal of the Reform nil, and the subver-
sion of the Constitution if 1832, tt a tnea,ure which ;
Fri), ought to be merelyF arnewure of order and regulation.
( Prom the Courier.)
Ministers are safe, that is cle,,r the ,ks t ► tl e el--
mortal majority if five; for how tong easy b.: hllott:er
quosticr. Bet if they can only cant,iv to throw ever the
Commi,tre on the Irish Repeal and Revolution Bill to
the commencement of the Easter holidays, or evon to
past twelve o'clock of Lady-day, one more quar:er-
day's exi-tence will be secured, to tee infinite delight,ainong
e, - many others, cif Mr. She il, whose iofani hie raptures on has
first nomination to the Vice Chair of the Beard e f Trade are
still remembered amrrg a certain circle of quidnuncs some-
where about Piccadilly fir the unwonted diversion at-
joked. The Ministerial Journals e?ill woefully di
• Nonce:tea with the same result of all their proeieic.us
lours, and those far more Herculean of Mr. O'Con-
"us dating the recess and sire- tee commencement of
this '..storm incipient S • •and
ession—parturtunt monies, •
a genie at elees. Let them take courage ; they lace
before rem divided bylof
the rule three,
and wilt again
before Wily they are bowled from little -Vines sprine.,, out. What great evert{
of the philosopher, ethr may well be the exclamation
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