The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-31 00:00:00

statement of Lord Althorp. According to his
Lordship, the moment Ministers heard
that the late Speaker was in the field.
they saw what a valuable acquisition he would
he, and lost no time in securing him. Accord-
ingly they would never have thought of the late
Speaker but for the notable project of Mr.
Hume, who, jealous of the Conservative inva-
sion of his favoured territory of cheap govern.
ment, had determined to take the lead in pro-
posing Mr. Sutton. The Times claims for
Ministers the merit of throwing aside all false
pride, and though somewhat tardily, propos-
ing a gentleman whom they had not before
thought of, merely to baffle the Conservatives
and Mr. Hume. No man who knows any thing
of Mr. Hume, would for a moment attribute to
him the Machiavelian policy,of first proposing Mr.
Sutton from motives of economy, and then propos-
ing Mr. Littleton, because the ball was taken
out of his hands. If Ministers really allowed
themselves to believe that Mr. Hume was about
to try his hand as a party intriguer, and had no
better motive for their determination than to out-
inanceuvre the Honourable Member for Middle-
sex, they must have a way of reading character
peculiar to themselves. If there is one man in
the House more than another distinguished for
straight-forward conduct and unsuspecting single.-
ness of purpose, it is the Member for Middle-
sex. His very oversights have their origin in
this source. It must haVe been some im-
mensely cunning man—some man so very cun-
ning, that he discovers deep laid schemes in
everything—that first fell upon this intrigue of
the Honourable Member for Middlesex. The
reason of the animosity borne towards Mr.
Home is, that his singleness of purpose and
straight-forward conduct are more than a match
for the dexterity of intriguers. Nothing discon-
certs a cunning man so much as straight-forward
conduct. The authority which Mr. Hume pos-
sessess with the people of England cannot be
destroyed by sarcasm or inuendo ; it rests on a
rooted conviction of his sincerity, and uncom-
promising honesty. It is, however, nothing
more than what is due to Mr. Hume by the
Times, to name any one man, woman, or
child, to whom he ever stated, that it was his
intention to propose Mr. Manners Sutton as
Speaker, or that he would support that gentle-
man by his vote. The whole story is pure in-
vention.—Morning Chronicle.
The hope of the Conservative party is in the
disunion of its adversaries. If all whom the
lists of the new House of Commons designate
as Reformers shall continue to reform upon the
same principles—if Lord Althorp shall support
Mr. Roebuck's Bills, and Mr. Stanley second
Mr. Cobbett's motions—then, indeed, it will be
time for argument to be silent, and for reason to
retire from the struggle. We should almost re-
gret to see the wisdom and energy of those by
whom our cause has hitherto been maintained
exerted in a most idle strife, in which their
prowess could have no effect but that of
demonstrating how much of persuasion a fool
can withstand, how much of virtue a knave
can overthrow. But in the manifest dissen-
sions of its adversaries the Conservative party
has hope—hope, not that its leaders may
share among their nephews and cousins the
spoils of the Plunkets and 'the Greys, but
that tits honest and honourable support may
enable such of their opponents as are least ena-
moured of ruin to dispense with the aid of Dr.
Carpue, to disband the levies of the Unions, to
protect the privileges of the Lords, to establish
the prerogative of the Crown, and, finally, to
save from destruction those blessings for whose
preservation alone the privileges of the Lords
and the prerogative of the Crown are valuable—
the integrity of our law, and the sanctity of our
religion. If any stand is to be made against the
onward march of revolution, there must not
only be disunion among its friends, there must
be union among its enemies. Let the friends of
the Constitution be upon their guard against
the efforts which will be made to set patriot
against patriot, and friend against friend. Un-
fortunately, most unfortunately, there are many
topics which the insidious malice of our ene-
mies may successfully urge. There are causes
of quarrel in our recollection of the past;
there are subjects of difference in our
anticipation of what is to come. With
all the earnest sincerity which this fearful
crisis inspires, we entreat all who desire to main-
tain good order and stable government in Bri-
tain that they will not, now, in the hour of our
most pressing need, sacrifice the land's welfare
to their own prejudice or pride—that they will
not be remembering bygone dispute, or predict-
ing future discord, when the mischief which is
impending to-day is common to us all. On many
matters of foreign and domestic policy the wisest
may differ. But while the war is for the insti-
tutions which our forefathers have bequeathed
to us, for the institutions, to whose ex-

cellence we attribute our security against
foreign conquest and our immunity from
internal commotion, we may all contend in
the same ranks, for we are all influenced by the
same devotion. It is the easier for the chiefs
of the Conservative minority to act with
cordiality and concert, because it is at this
time impossible to contemplate the forma-
tion of a Tory Cabinet as a prospect of
immediate probability. When the various
sections of an opposition are expecting to share
the duties and responsibilities of office, every
petty difference upon minute points becomes an
affair of grave importance. To be strong on any
question a Ministry must be united on all. It is
not so with the leaders of an Opposition, who
expect nothing but to remain for many days
leaders of an Opposition. Their want of sym-
pathy on one subject will seldom affect the cor-
diality of their co-operation on another. The
strength which the Conservative party would
acquire from a perfect alliance among the illus-
trious men of whom it is composed is under-
stood not less distinctly by our adversaries
than by ourselves. Hence the daily efforts which
are made to create suspicion and distrust in our
camp, by rumours which are as ludicrously false
as they are wickedly malignant. One of these
rumours insinuates that it has been in contem-
plation to introduce Sir Robert Peel into the
Government. We know not how many strange
arrangements have been suggested for this pur-
pose by the wit of ingenious romancers. One
schemer sent him to the Home office, an-
other to the Exchequer; to-day he was
embarking for Dublin, to-morrow he was
sailing for India : we wonder that he has
not been whispered into the Woolsack,
nor recommended for the next mitre. The
tenour of our argument has led us to notice
these idle stories, which otherwise we should
have passed over in silence. They are too
laughably untrue to deserve a contradiction, but
it happens that we are able to contradict them.
Neither directly nor indirectly has any commu-
nication passed between Sir R.Peel and any iVlem-