The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-26 00:00:00

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 26, 1846.

"My son, you know not with how little wisdom
the affairs of nations are managed," was the ad-
dress of a celebrated Chancellor of the olden time to
his son. The adage appears to have sunk deeply into
the mind of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, who has so
fully convinced himself of its truth, that he begins to
fancy himself a statesman to whom the destinies of a
mighty 'kingdom might safely be entrusted.
Acting on this principle, there is no question
of foreign or domestic policy, nothing interesting
to the public, on which the Noble Lord does not con-
ceive himself qualified to take a lead, and bound to
enlighten the Legislature with his lucubrations.
His Lordship also is anxious to let slip no opportunity
of impugning the character of the late occupants of
the Ministerial benches, and no matter how slight the
foundation may be, although built upon the merest
surmise, the supposition, perhaps, of some anonymous
scribbler or unknown speculator, it is quite
sufficient to warrant his Lordship in bring.
ing forward the most reckless charges, the weightiest
accusations. That somebody should have said some-
thing somewhere that implied a doubt of the vera-
city of one of the obnoxious Ministry, amply suffices
to induce his Lordship forthwith to rise in his place,
and assert or imply his belief, that a wanton,
wicked, and gratuitous falsehood had been uttered,
that a distingui_•hed Member of that or the other
House of Parliament had made totally unfounded
statements, the want of truth of which must,
nevertheless, be publicly known in a few short
weeks. Neither rank, age, character, nor posi-
tion protects the possessor from the onslaught.
Tho various circumstances that would avert the
attack of a high- minded man are lost sight of in the
blind fury of his malignity ; and the more signal his
defeat, the more perfect and decisive his overthrow
from the complete refutation' of his assertions, with
so much the greater virulence does he return to the
attack, and repeat his firm belief in the truth of the

exploded calumny, or bring forward new and still
more unjustifiable accusations. Like the fabled giant,
each prostration appears to give him increased
strength, and he arises from the embrace
of his mother earth with sevenfold vigour.
No sooner has he been floored by Lord
LYNDHURST, and fbiled in every thrust, than he turns
on Sir ROBERT PEEL with the infuriated frenzy of a

Malay running►-a-muck, and after repeating the state
ment of the late Premier on the 29th of June last

4 that the first packet had taken out an offer of medi-
ation on the part of this country to the United
States," he seeks to discredit that statement, and to
make it be believed that Sir ROBERT had been guilty
of a wilful falsehood. And on what authority ?
Simply because the New York Journal of Commerce
of the 20th of July, had a paragraph from which
to use the very words of the Noble Lord, " it appeared
that this astounding fact of the late Premier's de-
claration in the House of Commons had arrived in the
United States, but it was there discredited ; and not
only was that the case, but it appeared also, from a
statement in the Washington Union, the official organ
of the Government of the United States, that no such
offer of mediation on the part of this country had
come out, and that no such offer of mediation had