The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-21 00:00:00

not be applied to sueh unworthy purposes. That majo-
rity now keeps the Ministers in place, in the honest be-
lief that they intend to use the power so vested in them
for the maintenance of true liberal principles, and the
steady prosecution of real measures of reformation and
improvement. If we are to judge of their intentions by
the language of the Globe, they are of a very different
tendency—the baseness of which can only be equalled by
their treacherous nature. Let us hope that these feelers
proceed only from that portion of the Ministry, who would
fain redeem their abandonment of the Tory ranks three
years ago, by as signal a return to them the moment they
conceive the fitting occasion presents itself. We will take
leave to inform these plotters that their attempt will be
fruitless. There are those in the Administration who
will ' frustrate their knavish tricks'— and, above all, there
is a spirit in the constituent body and their representatives
in Parliament, which will, when called forth, speedily
annihilate these petty and ignorant intriguers, and prove
to them that they must not mistake the forbearance under
which they have been suffered to remain a part of a Libe-
ral Administration, for acquiescence in their principles or
encouragement of their schemes.—Morning Chronicle,
Thursday.
We yesterday reluctantly directed the attention of the
public to certain recent suspicious and Conservative para-
graphs in the Globe, which we know to have been highly
injurious of late to the Whig Administration, and to have
begotten a suspicion that some portion of the Government
was better affected to Toryism than to liberal principles.
We did this with regret, because the Globe was formerly
the propagandist of every enlightened opinion and of the
most liberal policy. But the nervous system of our con-
temporary has been recently strangely affected, and his demi
official character has greatly puzzled and chagrined the sup-
porters of Government. We have seen repeated instances
of misconception of the intentions of the Ministry extracted
from the columns of the Globe, and severely commented
upon by the country papers ; and we have one instancebefore
us of a Northern Provincial paper so late as last week. We
ardently hope that the Government has been misrepresented
through this organ of public communication, because the
tenor of some of the conservative effusions of the Globe
has been strangely at variance with the professed opi-
nions of the liberal part of the Ministry. Lord Brougham's
Bill, the Dl:fusion of Knowledge, the Abuses of City
Companies, Church Reform, the Law of Libel, and
various pending subjects of legislation, have been at times
most ambiguously treated ; and the ballot, formerly so
favourite an article of faith with our contemporary, has been
lately denounced as the type of destructive opinions, and
fallacies against its efficacy put forth, which none so ably
refuted in former times as the Globe " of old." But we
will give its own defence and extenuation of these back-
slidings.
" A writer in the Morning Chronicle puzzles himself to
know from what part of the Ministry the article in this paper
on the vote for an inquiry into the conduct of the Irish Judge
proceeded. This may be a very fit question to be propounded
and argued by a person of the taste and manners which are
displayed by the Chronicle's correspondent ; but to any man of
sense and honesty it must beobvious that the article in question
does not proceed from the Ministry, or from any part of it, as
it is directed against them and their conduct in the matter in
question.
" The paragraph in this paper, or rather the two para.
graphs, express the opinion of the writer of them formed on the
first reading of the debate, and in this opinion he is happy to
observe that many persons of all parties concur. The remarks
were made with reluctance, because they were necessarily
directed against the Ministers, and those amongst the Ministers
whose conduct and talents we deem most useful to the country;
but our general support of the Administration makes it the
more incumbent on us to express our opinion of any mistake
which involves a constitutional principle, or a vital question of
public policy.
" It would be ridiculous to pretend that in a paper, the ar-
ticles of which are written from time to time, as those of every
journal must be, by different persons, and by persons who
frankly express their own opinions, every paragraph is consist.
ent in tenor and reasoning with every other. But we do not
believe that there has been anything in this paper inconsistent
with the opinion as to which the writer of the strictures in
question has certainly never entertained and expressed a doubt,
viz.—that, in the management of Irish affairs (difficult as they
are), the worst policy is to truckle to the agitators, and that
the worst kind of truckling is to sacrifice to them any principle
or any loyal man, of whatever party. The indiscretion of Sir
W. Smith may have obscured the matter, but it was not neces-
sary to defend his taste or discretion."
All this may be very subtle and self-deceiving, but it
will not delude the public. The Globe, in November,
boldly denounced the conduct of Baron Smith, and will
be mistaken to-morrow night if it calculates that Minis-
ters will rescind their vote. But we believe that we have
done some injustice to Ministers, or, at least, to the majo.
rity, for we are confidently assured that this approxima-
tion towards the Tories is not the official impulse of sup-
posed patrons. Certain we are that it has latterly proved
most injurious to the Cabinet, and frequently impregnated
the public mind with suspicion and mistrust. We shall
hail the return of our evening contemporary to his former
consistent and able advocacy of those popular opinions
which constitute the sole basis of the present and any fu-
ture Governments of this country under the " revolu-
tion" made in our representative system.—Morning
Chronicle.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

THIS EVENING.

WHITEHALL, FEL 21, 1831.
The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, for granting the dignity of a
Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
to Sir John Bayley, of Bedford-square, in the county of Mid-
dlesex, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.