The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 22, 1846.

We thought there had been quite enough of per-
sonal invective within the walls of Parliament for one
session. We should have conceived that the salient
discussions which grew out of the charge preferred
by Lord GEORGE BENTINCK against Sir ROBERT
PEEL, with respect to his political conduct towards
Mr. CANNING, would have satiated any ordinary ap-
petite for aspersion and defamation. Considering,
too, the triumphant and memorable reply which was
given by the late Premier to the vituperative attack
—a reply which, for its very completeness, drew forth
from Lord JOHN Russnnn a most honourable enco-
mium—it might have been expected that a little pru-
dence would have dictated to Lord G. BENTINCE the
policy of not making a similar exhibition of himself,
certainly not during the same session. It seems,
however, that his Lordship's appetite for calumny is
not easily appeased, and no doubt Mr. WAKLEY will
one day take leave to inform the aspiring statesman
that he has not the phrenological bump of caution
largely developed.

Lord GEORGE BENTINCIE made a rigmarole state-
ment a few nights since, that Lord LYNDHURST per-
petrated, or rather participated in, "a job " when Mr.
331Avin PoLLocx was appointed Chief Justice of
Bombay, with the view of providing for his late
secretary, Mr. PERRY, who has recently been made
Chief Commissioner of Bankruptcy at Liverpool; and
that Lord RIPON had facilitated Mr. PoLLocx's
elevation to the Indian bench, in consequence of the
ex-Chancellor's having exercised his patronage of the
valuable living of Nocton in favour of his nominee.
The manner and the matter of this charge elicited
from Lord LYNDHURST, in the House of Lords, on
Thursday, a most luminous statement of the facts
followed up by a most vehement philippic against
Lord GEORGE BENTINCR, such as in
seldom tickles the ears of the Legislature. It is a
serious business to charge a late Minister, who filled
the office of the highest judge of the realm, with con-
duct which might justify the imputation of his having
been actuated by selfish and sordid motives. Little
do we wonder, then, that Lord LYNDHURST poured
forth his indignation in the withering terms he did.
" I do not know how to justify the conduct of the Noble
Lord, unless that perhaps he thinks that everything is fair
in party tactics, and that he is therefore justified in en-
deavouring to blacken and traduce the characters of his
political opponents by every means in his power. Perhaps
he acted on that principle, or perhaps his earlier associations
and habits—(Laughter)—have had the effect of inducing
him to form so low an opinion of the principles on which
mankind acts, that he believes every man, in all the transac-
tions of public life, is actuated by a base, selfish, and sordid
motive.—(Cheers.) In looking at the charges which he
made, I cannot attribute his conduct to any other principle.
It has been said, and said justly, that to be praised by a per-
son who is himself the subject of praise, adds tenfold to the
eulogy—( Hear, hear)—and the same principle applies to
calumny, for the best antidote against calumny is often found
in the character of the calumniator.—(Cheers and laughter.)
NT.; , w iiiisct to the Noble Lord's slander, if it is not, as the
-`• poetiarri•sharp as the point of the sword, it is not from want
,of indbuditn, but from want of power. If his tongue does
not 4 outieveAsom all the worms of Nile,' it is not from want
, a-thew& let from want of ability to instil the poison. A
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