The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-25 00:00:00

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but we repeat that the system of perversion
adopted by the John Bull, and other London
Journals, is disgraceful and degrades the British
Press. We do not believe that it finds favour
with men of character in any party. Certain
we are that the Tory Journalists are le-
velling the authority of Government and the
station of the King; anti in their attempts to
" run down" the character of certain noblemen,
they are rapidly undermining the whole body of
the aristocracy. We believe that the class of
thinking persons of any political party, desirous
of upsetting the present Ministry, is extremely
small. Who and where are the public men to
succeed them ? The Tories preserved their
power and monopolies to the last possible mo-
ment. On the verge of a revolution, and
encompassed with difficulties, Lord Grey was
placed in office by the King. All the Tory
predictions of the consequences of the Reform
Bills have been signally falsified. Even Sir
Robert Peel must laugh in his sleeve at his
solemn and ludicrous predictions, and too well
understands the real effect of the amendment of
the representation, to dream of " leading" a
reformed House of Commons. However good
an actor on the boards of Parliament, he has
too much shrewdness to covet or accept the
management. Are the Tories, then, recklessly
resolved to destroy all public character by libels
and calumny ; or does Mr. John Wilson Croker
conceit himself that he can recall into existence
the " decayed boroughs" of the Marquis of
Hertford, by the tirades and political exaggera-
tions of an article in a Quarterly Review ? If
these writers and newly raised commoners really
respected the monarchy and constitution of
their country, we should discern in their publi-
cations more respect for private and public
character.— Morning Chronicle.
It has been for some time rumoured that Lord
Durham will be Premier before the opening of
the next session of Parliament. What truth
there may be in the rumour we know not, and
therefore we pretend not to know. But it is
rumoured. At one time we are told that the
people are clamorous for such a consummation ;
at another that his Majesty the King coincides
with the opinion, and sympathises with the
wishes of the nation. The Examiner has
heard the matter whispered, although it consi-
ders the story "too good to be true ;" the
Observer has treated the project as a serious one,
though it admits that " Lord Durham's ill

temper in public and deceitful conduct in private
have alienated the affections of the very few
friends he ever possessed." As we before
stated, we neither know nor pretend to know
the origin of the report. We have no private
door in Downing-street, no back stairs in White-

hall. •We do not laugh at Lord Brougham's
jests nor intrude on Mr. Charles Grant's slum-
bers. But setting aside the truth or falsehood
of the report, we think the existence of

that report in itself a fearful sign. Lord
Durham's appointment may or may not
have been contemplated. That it has
been thought certain by a few is pitiful ;
that it has been considered probable by many
is yet more sad ; that it seems to none of us

impossible is as strong a proof as we can anti-
cipate of the perilous position in which at this
time the nation is placed. We have been re-
buked by some of our friends as attaching too
much importance to the sayings and doings of
this weiti. We ore told that ne has 'wither die
courage nor the capacity of a Cromwell. We
admit it. But circumstances sometimes give to
ignorance and to imbecility the power which ij
commonly wielded by knowledge and by strength.
The feeblest favourite, when the King is blind,
may destroy a monarchy ; the shallowest dema-
gogue, when the populace is mad, may head
a revolution. It is under this conviction that
we hold it useful to watch the proceedings, to
test the professions, to confound the mis-
statements, and to expose the misrepre-
sentations of men who seem born to make
treason uninteresting by the meanness of their
intellect, and rebellion contemptible by the
weakness of their nerves. Our preface has been
too long for the matter it introduces. Lord
Durham, at the dinner to which he was invited
at Sunderland, thought it necessary to apologise
to the friends who surrounded him for having
taken to himself the superfluous honours of the
peerage. He told them that, sorely against his
will, he consented to wear a coronet; he sub-
mitted to be called " My Lord" because it
seemed to him that he could more effectually

promote the people's cause in the Upper House
than in the Lower. Lord Durham means his
hearers to believe that he accepted a peerage, in
spite of his contempt for rank, and his hatred
of title, in order that he might advance with
greater effect the principles he is now supporting
—the principles of the Reform Act, the prin-
ciples of republicanism. He was made a
peer by the Duke of Wellington's Admini-
stration. Did he step into the House of Lords
prepared, a; he is now prepared, to " go the whole
length of democracy ?' or did he emerge from
the commonalty ready to support the Duke of
Wellington in his opposition to Reform, as he
had before supported Mr. Canning in his oppo-
sition to Reform ? Let not his friends think
to extricate him from this dilemma by prating
of no conditions annexed to his patent of nobi-
lity, of no pledges give❑ for his political fealty.
The opinions of the Duke of Wellington were
distinctly expressed ; the policy of the Duke of
Wellington was clearly foreseen. No honourable
man could have accepted from the Duke of
Wellington a Peerage, holding at the time of its
acceptation the principles which Lord Durham
now holds. Did Lord Durham explain cor-
rectly or incorrectly to the people of Sunderland

the reasons which induced him to take a Peer-
age ? In the one case he deceived the Ministers
who gave him a title. In the other case he de-
ceived the dupes who gave him a dinner.
Whether the one interpretation or the other be
adopted, he stands convicted upon his own
statement of duplicity, which, to more healthy
times, it would not have been worth while to
expose.—Morning Post.

We have given a copious, and what may be
called a dry, but certainly cannot be called an uninterest-
io_; account of the Inquiry by the Commissioners into the
affairs of the Corporation of Shrewsbury. When his
our Corporation
b4lyiajtytehsea'sd,Cie:momfi"soi"irbBclayrrtrivotudnthederet,he high horse,—
denied the authority of the Commissioners, and refos d
their attendance. But they dismounted from their high
horse—and as the Commissioners did not attend at the
temporary Guildhall, the Corporation followed the
Commissioners to the large room at the Lion Hotel. We
solicit the attention of the burgesses of Shrewsbury to the
evidence given. At presort we will make no comment at
all upon this affiir, because it is probab'e we shall be
compelled to do so at another thoe. We shall therefore
pronounce over the Corporation of Shrewsbury the ora-
tion of a Qu iker at the funeral of his :%larrha—
While thou wert, alive I knew no good of thee ; and now
thou art. dead I will speak no ill of thee."--...S'hrewsbury
Chronicle.