The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-18 00:00:00

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1833.

There was "great cry and little wool" among
the Tories last night in the House of Lords.
The " great cry" was on the subject of the Po-
litical Unions, the heinous enormity of which
their Lordships vouchsafed to insist upon with
incredible powers of face and lungs ; the " little
wool" was illustrated by their opposition to the
Local Jurisdiction Bill, from which (after having
boldly mustered all their forces, and what little
sagacity it has pleased Providence to endow
them with) they shrunk back with a precipita-
tion which has no parallel except in that immor-
tal campaign of the King of FRANCE, who, it
may be remembered,

-- i. With twenty thousand men
Marched up the hill, and then—marched down again."

The Earl of, WINCHILSEA led the van. He
denounced the political unions as pregnant
with ail sorts of disastrous consequences, and
was followed by that man of tears, Lord ELDON
who seemed to have risen for no other purpose
tha❑ to afford Lord MELBOURNE an opportu-
nity of demolishing him. Not one of the
good Earl's statements but was overthrown ; not
one of his arguments lout was triumphantly
shown to tell against himself. The Marquis of
LONDONDERRY flew to the assistance of his
venerable friend, but was only just in time to
share his overthrow. The Noble Marquis was
unusually epigrammatic in his phillippics against
Ministers. He condensed the accumulated
choler of months into one stinging sentence.
Our readers may be curious to see this
pungent diatribe. Here it is. " The most
sensible part of the conduct of his Majesty's
Ministers is the contempt with which they treat
the Political Unions." Oh, this satirical Marquis!
What a JUNIUS it is ! Think of the exquisite
consistency of the man's joining in an attack on
Ministers for befriending the very institutions
which he declares it is their highest, indeed their
only, praise that they treat with contempt'.
It is always with extreme delight that we read
the speeches of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY.
There is such an agreeable confusion of ideas
in them—such a scornful contempt for all logic, as
beneath the dignity of a patrician intellect—such
a sportive incoherence of metaphor—such a dis-
dain for the ignoble trammels of grammar—such
airy nonsense—together with clusters of such
irresistible non-sequiturs,: that we :feel morally
convinced the mantle of the late lamented Mar-
quis has descended upon the shoulders of his
successor. Wherever a " mare's nest" is to be
discovered, there will this bright Peer be always
found lurking in the neighbourhood. By this
time he must have secured a stud.

When the subject of the Political Unions was
disposed of—Lord GREY having previously as-
sured the House that he meant to introduce no
new laws respecting them—the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR brought forward his proposal for the
establishment of Local Jurisdiction Courts. It
is superfluous to state that the Noble and
Learned Lord fully made out his case—that
he showed the absolute necessity for making
law cheap, and justice expeditious, so that
both might be within the reach of the
humblest, member of the community—since
the faction, however willing, were unable
to refute any one of his arguments. Lord
LYNDHURST, indeed, attempted something
like an opposition ; but it was a sad busi-
ness—a long tissue of hollow, uninteresting
sophistry, unredeemed by the slightest show of
reasoning. If
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of her immortality in the speeches of the Tory
Ex-Chancellor.

We make no mention of the reply of Lord
BROUGHAM, for its sarcasm—its energy—its
weight and power of argument, were felt by the
whole House. The giant made sad havoc
among the pigmies. Gulliver himself never
i
enacted more marvels n Ldhput. The Tories,
to a man, were panic-stricken. Even the pre-
sence of eight Bishops faded to impart consola-
tion to their afflicted souls. They set forth
as bullies only to sneak back as dastards.
From the result of last night's debate, we are
inclined to augur favourably for the good cause.
We think we detect symptoms of doubt, dis-
trust, and Tories, as if there
wasaul
of breaking up their
idea dismay,among
th amongtie
encampment—quitting the field of action—in a
word, of taking the King of FRANCE as their
model. We may be mistaken, perhaps, but

unquestionably, appearances, just now, are in
our favour. The Tories may rely on it, that
the country will never again submit without a
struggle to their domination. So many years
of suffering—so many humiliating recollections
—such odious ideas of misrule and despotism—
of intolerant priestcraft and profligate extrava-
gance, are mixed up in the popular mind with
Toryism, that the very word is a spell to raise
the devil with. Besides the country does not—how
can it ever?—cease to remember that your true
Ultra never forgets or forgives ; and that as it is
just now in his black books, having sinned be-
yond hope of pardon, so it must expect to be
visited with a proportionate vengeance.
Again, then, we warn our countrymen to be
on their guard. Let them hope for the best,
but let them also fear for the worst, so that
when that worst comes—if come it ever should,
which we doubt—it may not find them unpre-
pared.

Since the above was written, we have learned
that a compromise has been effected (or is on
the eve of being effected), between the Tory
party and the Ministers, and that the Irish
Church Bill will, in consequence, be permitted
to pass the Upper House. We congratulate
the Tory Lords on this flattering symptom
of their return to common sense. It does
credit to their discernment, which, we are
pleased to perceive, is not quite at so low
an ebb as circumstances had induced us to
suppose. They had it in their power to effect
a world of mischief; they might have crippled,
for a season, the commercial energies of the
country, and paralyzed all public confidence,
but they have chosen to play a more sensible
game, and to become good citizens, instead of
continuing factious aristocrats.

The Factories Regulation Bill was last night
read a second time, Lord ALTHORP admitting
his concurrence in its principle, but saying that
it was not carried far enough in the Bill. We
are satisfied that the only effectual remedy for
the distress, which drives parents to the horrid
practice of working their children at the
tender age of seven, eight, and nine years, for
eleven or twelve hours per day, is the repeal of the
Corn Laws ; because that is the only course which
can materially quicken the demand for labour,
and at the same time increase the supply of food,
for it must never be forgotten that the present
shocking state of the children in factories arises
from a want of food. If, however, we are to
attempt palliatives—if we are to drive off the real
remedy, let the substitute be real and efficient.
We are happy to see that this is the principle
upon which the Factory Commissioners have
proceeded, and is that which his Majesty's
Ministers have sanctioned. They accordingly
say, that no child under 14 years of age ought to
be allowed to work more than eight hours in the
day. The Commissioners consider, we pre-
sume, that only working eight hours per day up
to 14 years of age, the constitutio❑ of children
must have become fixed, and that they are, to a
certain extent, free agents. The result of the
Commission having been to recommend the
reduction of the work of children, not under
ten, but under fourteen years of age—not to
ten but to eight hours—must be somewhat mor-
tifying to the Conservatives, who bellowed egainst
it as intended to defeat the Bill. The Herald,
even so late as yesterday morning, run-a-muck
upon This subject and published nearly two weary
columns to prove that no inquiry was requisite,
that inquiry was intended to defeat the Ten Hour
Bill, and that nothing but the Ten flour Bill—
the Tory Ten Hour Bill—could properly protect
the children. The dispute, if there be any,
will turn upon the modifications to be made in
the Bill in Committee. We wonder how
long our Contemporary and his Conservative
clique will be in discovering that something else
besides the Ten Hour Bill will answer the tem-
porary purpose had in view. We say temporary,
for the attempt permanently to relieve hunger,
except by furnishing a permanent supply of food,
is a farce which cannot long be played.

The Church Temporalities (Ireland) Bill it
will be seen made progress last night, some
twenty clauses having been agreed to, and among
them several of the most important. It ap-
pears by the debate that the Tories, after some
vapouring, gave up opposition as hopeless. If
no unforeseen impediment arises, we presume
the Bill will be in the Lords by Monday.

German and Hamburg Papers have been re-
ceived.' They state that the report of the Eng-
lish and French fleet demanding an entrance into
the Dardanelles was unfounded. The Emperor
of RUSSIA has issued another of his equivocal
amnesties to the poor Poles—clogged with the
usual exceptions.

That remnant of arbitrary power, the libel
law, met with a shock yesterday in the Court of
King's Bench, from which it will not readily
recover. The Duke of BEAUFORT took it into
his wise head to move the Court of King's
Bench for a criminal information against the
Spectator, for a libel. The main object of our
Contemporary's article—of course a spirited one
—was to expose the abuses of the borough-
mongering system, and how it happened
that, by some marvellous accident, all the
connections of certain persons able to return
Members to the House of Commons had such
wonderful talents as to make their engagement in
the public service indispensable. The Somer-
set family is one of those which have long been
celebrated for hereditary wisdom ; so that when
it was set about on the late Duke's death, that
he had merely left his heir to pay his eleven
younger children annuities till they could be
provided for in the public service, it appeared so
natural, that few for a moment thought of
doubting the fact. For the Noble Duke to
have doubted the qualifications of his children
to fill all imaginable offices in the church, in the
colonies, in the army, or any department of the
public service, would have been casting a slur upon
the character of his Duchess ; it would have almost
amounted to a denial of their legitimacy. Still less
was it possible to imagine that so much un-
doubted merit as was implied in the very name
of SOMERSET would go unrewarded. The re-
ported expectations of the late Duke being then
so natural, and their fulfilment being manifest to
the whole world, the Editor of the Spectator
could not even have dreamed of a criminal inkr-
[nation in just incidentally glancing at the report.
His Grace the present Duke, however, took the
matter in dudgeon, and the result was the pro-
ceedings of yesterday. The verdict will sicken
more than his Grace, and, we should hope, lessen
the fierceness of the opposition to time proposed
change in the law of libel, which will do away
with the tyrannical powers with which it was
thus endeavoured to coerce our contemporary.