The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Extracts from Lord Durham's speech at Dundee on
the occasion of his receiving the freedom of that
burgh, will be found in another part of our paper.
The speech does not present much new matter calling
for obServation. It is, we should say, a mere enlarge-
ment on that lately delivered at Edinburgh, and we
think it would be unfair to institute any comparison.
The followino. compliment to the Noble Earl's consis-
tency and liberal feeling was paid by Bailie Christie :
—" Others have changed their minds, but he has not
done so. At the gathering in Edinburgh the other
day I was never so electrified as at heariner the reply
of his Lordship to an individual who pleaded hard
for the do-as-little-as-possible system—and I will
only refer at preSent to the crowning remark in his Lord-
ship's speech on that occasion. I regret every hour
which passes over acknowledged and yet unreformed
abuses.' " This is the sentiment which we knew had gone
home to the hearts of all, and the Bailie observes—" This
declaration has taken hold of every memory, and will
descend to posterity as a marked saving of the first Earl
of Durham." We will only further draw the attention
of our readers to the Noble Earl's bold and manly re-
ply to the members of a Political Union, who pressed
themselves on his notice. His total difference of opi-
nion with them—his dissent to their wild dogmas, he
plainly avows. How different a course is adopted by
some selfish demagogues we could name ! It is a
reply which we trust may convince some of his timid,
though conscientious opponents, that his Lordship,
though willing to ameliorate and amend, will not con-
sent to destroy. The following passage, addressed
also to the Political Unionists, is Well deserving of the
attention of all those deluded men who are upon join-
ing such confederacies, too apt to pin their faith on
the boldness of the assertions of their ignorant leaders
than to inquire into their truth. Well has it been ob-
served— .

" Nam cum magna maim superest audacia causm
Creditur a multis fiducia."
His Lordship says—" I ask you of the working
classes, who are the sinews of the State, what would
be the consequence of any system calculated to pro-
duce confusion ? lam not aware of any class that
would suffer more from such a state than the opera-
tives. Anything which tends to derange the laws
which regulate the employment of capital and labour,
must necessarily tend to destroy the mercantile and
agricultural prosperity of the country ; and.if you take
my advice, you will take care that when you ameliorate
you do not destroy." While expressing our approval
of the above, we must not omit to reply to more.
than one correspondent, who has charged us with
inconsistency "in adopting Lord Durham," and
asking us whether we have "so soon forgotten
his tyrannical prosecution of the Press ?" In reply,
we would merely state that we have not forgotten
it, or our condemnation of his Lordship on the
occasion. But we have good reason to believe
that there is no human being in existence who more
regrets the Hasty irritability of temper which drove his
Lordship into that unfortunate measure than the Noble
Earl himself. All that has passed cannot have passed
in vain for his Lordship, and maturer age may, we
trust, have pointed out to him the absolute necessity of
some concession either to the waywardness, or even ig-
norance of others, and of the controlling too great a
warmth of temper. And without exactly charging his
Lordship with being yet gray-headed, we should bear
in mind that,
" Lcnit albescens animus capillus,
Litium et riaw cupidos protervw ;"
and we do not hesitate, therefore, again to express our
hope, and it is one in which we are sure a large por-
tion of the country join us, that life and health may
be spared to his Lordship to carry iuto effect those
principles which he has on both occasions so ably sup-
ported.—Morning Herald.
Lord Brougham has got a formidable rival in the
mountebank line. Lord Durham is actively engaged
upon his circuit, has already got his burgess-ticket at
Dundee, and is to have a dinner at Glasgow. In his
entry to ;Dundee, at which place a sort of wooden
stage was erected in the street for his porformance, he
was attended by Lord Camperdown, so created by
Lord Grey, and Lord Kinnaird, made an English
Peer as Baron Rosse by the same minister ; and ho-
noured by the presence (at a distant window) of the
" excellent patriot " Lord Panmure, another of the
pitchforks of the late Government. So accompanied,
so supported, so patronized, Lord Durham received the
honour of the ticket, an honour for which he returned
thanks in a speech very nearly verbatim thesame as that
which he repeated at Lord Grey's break-down at Edin-
burgh. His Lordship made a great parade of his own me-
rits and virtues, and laid particular stress upon the can-
dour which characterized all his actions ; nevertheless, lie
never once alluded to the break-up of the Ministry, the
ill-treatment of his father-in-law, or the share. Lord
Brougham had in expelling both that venerable person
and himself from the Cabinet. At the conclusion of
the exhibition, his Lordship withdrew, and the people
expressed their satisfaction and loyalty, their good
sense, and their good feeling, in the following manner
(we quote the. words from the Dundee Chronicle) :
".His Lordship then withdrew, after which the Meet-
ing gave three times three cheers for his Lordship,
and one cheer more ; three for the Earl of Camper-
down, three for Lord Panmure, three for Lord Kin-
naird, three, for the King, and three for Provost Kay."
The respectful, loyal, and decent manner in which our
Sovereign was cheered=--second of the three last K.'s—
needs no comment. The Dundee Paper then reports some
sort of quarrel between Lord Camperdown and Bailie
Christie, and adds immediately afterwards that " Lady
Camperdown and the other Ladies present seemed
highly delighted." The celebrated yacht the Louisa
was in the river, conspicuously dressed in a variety of
flags to do honour .to its owner ! At Glasgow the
dinner tickets have been fixed at half-a-guinea, which
threatens to " thin the company," Lord Durham's
partizans not being of the class likely to waste their
money to such an extent. However, it is generally
expected that his Lordship will give his followers an
adequate remuneration in the way of exposing and
bullying the Chancellor. It must be for the sake of
getting something out of him that the Radicals of
Glasgow have engaged him ; for neither do his Lord-
ship's public services nor his private character entitle
him to any such mark of genuine or disinterested respect.
What his temper and condition are in society his de-
feat at Winchester last year, after he had ordered h;s
boat's crew to break down and root up a Gen-
tleman's posts and gates at Cowes, may pretty well
show. His caution and accuracy may be equally well
displayed by his statements, we believe affidavits, when
he prosecuted the Press, the freedom of which it is
his boast to maintain, for remarking upon his " family
fag." His domestic excellence is also proverbial, and
the sweetness of his disposition has often been spoken
to by his Noble father-in-law, and will be vouched for
even at the present moment by the Lord High Chan-
cellor of England. His public services are briefly
told. After sitting in Parliament by his own personal
influence, and making a few dull speeches, he accepted
a barony from the Duke of Wellington's Ministry.
When that Ministry resigned he was, because he was
" one of the tribe of fortune," and had married Lord
Grey's daughter, created by that Noble Lord's Govern-
ment a- Viscount and an Earl ; and for the very
same reason, and no other upon earth, he received the
appointment of Keeper of the Privy Seal, which sine-
cure, so admirably filled at present by Lord Mulgrave,
his Lordship patriotically and disinterestedly held until
it was taken from him. These, we think, are the prin-
Cipal claims of Lord Durham upon public gratitude ;
because we believe as a coal merchant his prices are as
high as those of his neighbours. And for these the
Corporation of Dundee make him a burgess, and the
Radicals of Glasgow give him a banquet. We trust
that the excellent patriot (as Lord Durham calls him),
,Lord Panmure will be in the chair. If he should, that
' worthy nobleman and excellent parent will no doubt
prolong the sitting to the latest hour, and take care if
the wine and whiskey are included in the price of ad-
mission,that ever tinker present shall have his ten shil-
lings and sixpence worth for his half-guinea.—Morn-
ing Post.
Mr. O'Connell has produced a second letter to Mr.
Sharman Crawford on the subject of Irish tithes, in
which he sums up what he calls the " developement
of his plan" for extinguishing not merely tithe itself,
but the Protestant Church, for which that source of