The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-22 00:00:00

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 11134.

Lord BROUGHAM has closed his short but brilliant
career in the Court of Chancery. He now retires into
private life, after having set an example which all futute
Judges shall deem it the highest honour to imitate.
Justice slept not while the administration thereof was
in his hands ; and we have now to announce what
never before happened in this country—namely, that
his Lordship retires from the Court of Chancery,
without leaving a single case unheard and undecided !
Surrounded by hosts of hollow friends and open ene-
mies—hated by the Oligarchy whom he made bite the
dust—detested by the rookery of legal sinecurists
whom he put to flight by his wholesome reforms
in the law—viewed with aversion by a Court
whose prerogatives he had clipped, and hollowness
exposed, Lord BROUGHAM bore himself loftily,
firmly, and nobly, above all opposition, and in
the performance of his highest functions never
forgot the meanest claimant on his attention. No Peer
ever had so many fierce and furious assailants to combat
with as Lord BROUGHAM. In the House of Peers
he included in himself all that was objectionable in the
Ministry; and whenever a Borough was to be pro-
tected, or a Church Reform Bill opposed, the happy
moment was seized with a kind of demoniac pleasure
by all the leading orators among the Tory Peers, for
the purpose of spitting their venom at the " Noble and
Learned Lord on the Woolsack." The very rabidness
with which the Peers attacked him, night after night,
is one of the best proofs that can be offered of his
immense power, and of the fear and hatred with which
they regarded him. The gew-gaws of rank, with
which the Peers hoped to bribe him to betray the
cause of the people, at the moment he was honoured
with their highest advocacy, were too flimsy to blind
his judgment—and too insignificant to be prized by
him at more than a nation's acknowledgment of his
great services in the cause of liberty. The bold,
straightforward, unbending course which marked
Lord BROUGHAM'S conduct at the Bar, and in
the Commons' House of Parliament, has distinguished
his brilliant career in the House of Lords, and in the
high Court over which he presided. His ambition
was not to appear at the dinner parties of the No-
bility, and to be found in the saloons of the Aristo-
cracy, but to serve the people. And he has served
them, and they will remember his services.
The retirement of Lord BaouGHA M from the Court
of Chancery will not, it is to be hoped, lead to his
withdrawal from public life. We sincerely trust, in
common with every friend to the extension of liberty,
and the progress of education in this empire, that Lord
BROUGHAM will devote every power of his great and
energetic mind to the completion of those reforms which
he himself has already commenced. In the House of
Peers the Tories will find him more powerful than
ever lie was ; for the people are now for him, and lie
will rise in the House backed by the whole moral
power of the Reformers of the United Kingdom.

" What will the DUKE (10 ?" This is the question
that every one asks, and no one can answer—not even
the DUKE himself, as to particular measures. This,
however, is certain—THE DUKE WILL DO ALL THAT

IN HIM LIES TO STOP THE PROGRESS AND
CHECK THE SPIRIT OF REFORM. This is as sure
as if it were confirmed by " proof of holy writ ;" and let
the Reformers bear it mind—let them write it on the
posts of their houses, and on their gates. To this
conclusion every sane man must come, who has
watched his career, and is capable of appreciating his
character. For no other earthly purpose has he
been placed in his present situation, and his ap-
pointment 'may therefore be looked upon as a
declaration of war against the people. The Duke
of WELLINGTON is not merely a proud Aristo-
crat ; he is by nature, as well as by habit, , a
despot. Hatred of popular institutions—contempt for
the,
people—and a special disrelish of every thing that
tends to elevate and give them power, are feelings by
no means peculiar to him ; he has theth in common
with the rest of that pestilent faction of which he is the
head ; but in most others of the Tory tribe these feel-
ings arise out of prejudices which may be, in some
degree, abated ; in him they are instincts__ part and
parcel of his nature, of which he can no more
divest himself than he earl cast off his skin. That all
men are bound to do as they are bid—to yield an im-
plicit obedience to the commands of their superiors, is