The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-18 00:00:00

work is wanted out of infant limbs. A little more
misery—a little more deformity—a little more de-
moralization, if you please. What a notion this
dives one of compromise. Is it not like saying,
" I intended to have knocked your brains out, but
I'll compromise the matter with you by breaking
your neck ?" And does Mr. Wilson Patten, and
do those (if there be any) who take the same view
of the subject, think they can persuade the Legisla-
ture to pause, when the Legislature must know that
to pause in such a case is to perpetrate, or at least
to countenance, the perpetration of crime ? That
Mr. Patten has been imposed upon we have no
doubt. That there are certain principles of politi-
cal economy which are calculated to assist in the
imposture, is evident from what has already passed
both in and out of Parliament. But we have had
enough of that philosophy which violates common
feeling, and would sacrifice to a pedantic cruelty
the best affections of the heart. Away, then, with
that guihy affectation of wisdom which would pre-
tend to make us wiser by making us worse, and
would presume to offer us the boon of a pecuniary
saving, or even of a scientific truth, as a recompense
for the sacrifice, and the loss of humanity.—
ilforning Herald.
On a former occasion we expressed our regret
that Government scented to have abandoned the
idea of introducing some system of poor laws into
Ireland. We did so under a conviction which every
day's experience tends to confirm, that, without
some provision of the kind, the attempt at remedial
measures must end in disappointment, as far as re-
gards the great object proposed—namely, the train-
qu llization of the country. It is with sincere plea-
sure that we now hail the prospect which has since
opened to our view, of a change in the intention of
Ministers, who,if they do not bring forward a system
of poor laws themselves, have at least expressed their
readiness to favour any reasonable proposition to is at
effect which may proceed from other quarters. The
petition recently announced as having been set on
foot in Dublin by the Duke of Leinster, and other
influential persons, pra)ing that some legislative
provision may be made for the poor of Ireland—
a petition not the less welcome for being less ex-
pected—furnishes an additional ground of hope that
the desperation of want, that most powerful of all
incitements to crime and disorder, will be mitigated,
if not removed. The reluctance of Irish landlords
to favour any experiment of compulsory rr-lief has
been hitherto the chief obs'acle to its adoption. We
rejoice that they ere at length beginning to open
their eyes to their own true interests, and to see
that without poor laws they cannot expect to have
peace. It is easy—arid under certain circumstances
it is right—to pass severe laws for the suppression
of outrage ; but until power has learned to subdue
the cravings of nature, it cannot succeed in pro-
duc.ng qwet in Ireland or any where else, without
some att. mpt at affording relief. That must be a
strong hand, indeed, which can yoke two such ill-
matched companions together as tranquillity and
famine, and make them draw pleasarvly in the same
harness. And yet this is what the great majority
of Irish landlords have been all their lives attempting
—as if famine could be taught discretion—as if
de-pair could be coerced. Why bravery itself does
not feel half the contempt which despair feels for
coercion. Bravery may despise death—but despair
loves, welcomes, and enjoys it. The introduction
of poor laws into Ireland, by providing another
ri-glum for the destitute than the ditch and the road
s, le, will pave the way for a better state of feeling
between the rich and the poor—will give the poor
man a greater regard for his own life, which is an
important step towards regarding the lives of others;
and will check that horrid process of clearing estates
—that is, sweeping off the human beings who en-
cumber it ; a process which has made an assassin
and an incendiary of the peasant, arid threatens, if
persisted in, to change the whole aspect of society
into a scene of violence and blood.—Morn. Herald.

The nomination scene at Marylebone on Saturday
must have been a sufficient evidence to the Whig
party the they have utterly forfeited the confidence
of all who were but lately their warmest adherents.
Will it be believed in Downing-street, that even
that much•courted idol of the Whigs, the mob, re•
fused to hear one word from the Ministerial nom,-
nee on Saturday; that Radicals, Ultra-Radicals,
Repr:blicans, in fact all the creators of Whig power,
bespattered without mercy the Cabinet candidate,
and displayed in tire most unequivocal mariner
the contempt with which the imbecility of Go-
vernment is regarded even by the loweq grade
of society ? This is the just punishment of
a desperate faction, which has long been the
fomenter of revolution in other countries, arid
has at last, by some hapless destiny, been
permitted with parricidal hand to foster it in
our own. As a party, the Whigs are on the eve of
dissolution ; men of character hitherto professing
their tenets shrink from them, because they see tle
existence of society endangered not less by their
weakness than by their partial fits of dangerous
despotism. The more unprincipled portion have
abandoned them and joined the Radicals, pos-
sessmg sagacity sufficient to see that the timidity
and feeble-mindedness of the Ministry must throw
them into the arms of this latter party, or compel
them to abandon a power which they have shown
themselves incompetent to wield. Were it not for
" Westminster's Pride"and his Hon. Colleague, and
that inexplicable politician the city Key, and some
half dozen other weathercock ex-Radicals, who
have joined the party their lives have heretofore
been spent in ridiculing, and voted for measures
they were specially sent in to oppose—were it not
for these renegadoes, who will have to render a
strict account to their constituents, anti in all pro-
bability never be in a situation to apo-tutize again,
the knot of Ministerialists in the Reformed House
of Parliament would have been completely pros-
trated. There is something melancholy in the con-
, templation of a once noble party, although opposed
to us in sentiments, surviving the forfeiture of cha-
racter, and struggling through the dregs of poli Ical
existent e amidst the pi•y even of their enemie ; to
see the miserable fragment clinging with tenacity to
that place they affect to despise, although every suc-
ceeding day but heaps upon them increase of ridi-
cule and of d'shonour. The Whigs have destroyed
themselves, but, worse than this, they have de-
stroyed their country. They have betrayed the
Thermopy'sean pass of the Constitution, and this
has been followed by an irruption of anarchists, the
result of whose inroad it is impossible to foresee.—
.illorning Post.
Lord Durham, under the plea of ill-health has
resigned the office of Privy Seal, and his seat in the
Cabinet. That his Lordship has been for some time
labouring under the effects of indisposition there is
no doubt, but we are assured that other reasons for
his resignation might be adduced. It is well known
that from the commencement of the present session
of Parliament, he has differed with tine majority of
his colleagues in the Cabinet on many itnpoi taut
porn s—and on none more, than on the hish Coer-
cive Bill, the immediate cause of his retirement. To
the policy of Mr. Stanley, and his mode of govern-
ing Ireland, he is directly opposed; the influence of
the Irish Secretary has, however, prevailed, and
Lord Durham retires. It is said that out of com-
pliment to Lord Grey, he has been created an
E rl.—News.

Earl GREY, some few years back, prepared
for publication an exceedingly ing nious and v, ry Blab rate
"Es•ay on the Author of the Letters of JUNIUS," attri-
buting them to an individual of rank and con-ideration.
The manuscript was for some time in the hands of Lard
not.LAND, who afterwards returned it to the Noble Au
thor with his full approbation. It is said this work
appear shortly.

DEATH BY BURNING.—On Friday an in-
quest was held at St. George's Hospital, on the body of
ANNE MORRIS, aged eight. The mother of thedeceased,
who lives in Russell's-gardens, Kensington, being confined
to her bed, the deceased was permitted to go o a neigh-
bour's house to play with the children. While standing
on the fender to reach something fiom the shelf her clothes
caught fire, and she was so burnt that she died in three
hours after.—Verdict, Accidental Death.