The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-18 00:00:00

motive which determines them ; those who vote
against him, are hooted down with just as little
discrimination. This is the only way in which
the supervision here contended for can be exer-
cised by the public. Dictation of votes, and
tyranny over private conscience, are the only
purpose which such interference can be made to
serve ; and we detest this odious function hardly
less in the hands of the public than in those of
the landlord. All this pretended responsibility
on the part of the electors towards the public is
a mischievous phantom—a compound of trea-
chery and error. The only security for good
voting is the interest which the electors them-
selves have in it ; merely taking care that they
shall be left to themselves, free to follow their
own spontaneous preferences. Confiding, as we
are willing to do, in the constituency created by
the Reform Bill, we demand the ballot as the
only means of shielding them against those ex-
ternal enemies who now deter them from voting
according to their conscience. We ask for no
stronger guarantee, nor shall we rest contented
with a weaker.—Morning Chronicle.

Lord Lauderdale and his new allies, the
Tories, have had a triumph at Holyrood-house.
They have had their election as well as the people,
and, just as the people had finished theirs by
the return of Whigs and Liberals, to the almost
total exclusion of Tories, the Noble Lord and
his new allies, as if to show by what gentle
bonds of sympathy they are united to the mass
of their fellow-countrymen, have contrived to get
tke aristocracy represented by Tories alone, so
that Scotland, like the man with two voices, will
run the risk of producing some discords in the
forthcoming performances at Westminster. We,
who are of no party, can smile at all this ; for,
though the strength of the Lauderdale faction
may prove very annoying to our Whig Ministers
in the House of Lords, it is a great error to
suppose that, because they may hamper an Ad-
ministration, they can impede the course of those
liberal measures which may be said to be already
in progress. The voice of Scotland spoke from
the counties and the towns, and not from the
chambers and galleries of Holyrood. We have
no apprehension, when we look at the House
of Commons, constituted as it is at present, that
any influence of any party in the other House
of Parliament can deprive the people of the ad-
vantages which they have a right to expect from
reform. The relation between cause and effect
is not more necessary than that which exists
between the reform that is accomplished, and
the various reforms that must be accomplished
before the country can be satisfied. It would
be as ridiculous to think of interposing between
cause and effect as between a reformed House of
Commons and the reformation of other institu-
tions upon which it will he required to legislate,
and upon which it must legislate, in the spirit of
its own improvement. But though we should
have no apprehension of the result in one sense,
we should be sorry in another to see the experi-
ment tried of checking and controlling the de-
termination to further Reform by means of a
dominating Tory party in the House of Lords.
We wish well enough to the aristocracy, and to
that branch of the legislation in which t hey are
represented, to hope that the counsels of such
violent men as Lords Lauderdale and Carnar-
von, the two deserters from the Whig camp,
will have but little influence on their proceedings.
It is the interest of both Houses to go hand in
hand towards the completion of those moderate
and reasonable Reforms which ought not to he
refused to weakness, and which cannot be with-
held from strength. Ministers, we hope, intend
it. The people and their representatives, we
are sure, intend it ; and we believe, if the truth
were known, that Ministers are more in danger
from the party who are for going forward with
an accelerated pace, than from those who wish
to stand still in the hope that at length they may
have an opportunity of walking backwards.
Lord Lauderdale may be chuckling at the suc-
cess of his scheme; and it is natural that the
Tories should feel gratified at the only triumph
they have experienced since the passing of the
Bill, but we do not see what practical advantage
they are likely to derive from the display at Ho•
lyrood, when, excepting in the House of Lords,
it is known that their weakness is proverbial
every where else.—Morning Herald.
The public, who take a deep interest in the
affairs of Ireland, are anxious to know what is
the standard of outrage in that devoted country
fixed upon Government ere the arm of the law
is to be stretched forth to arrest the march of
murder, and put down that system of denounce-
ment which has caused each man to hold his
life as it were by sufferance. Ireland, in point
of fact, is not at the present moment under the
sway of England or of English law. She is
ruled by that arch agitator, through whose in-
cendiary machinations those desperate bands
have been formed, by whom terror, desolation,
and death have been borne through the land.
There is in this beggared country a power be-
yond that of the Monarch's, and far above that
of the law—a power bidding defiance to the
Government, and issuing its mandates with
an audacious confidence that they will be im-
plicitly obeyed, which can proceed only from a
perfect knowledge of the monstrous, despotic,
and sanguinary Influence it possesses. Whether
under the name of " Captain Rock," of" White-
boys," of " Volunteers," or of " the Liberator,"
this authority is alike potent ; and the secrecy of
its organization only renders more alarming the
sudden and evidently combined mode in which
at different places it, at the same moment, displays
its barbarity. This many-named tyranny may be
divided into two classes—the one, that of the
orators who inflame by their maddening speeches
tile worst passions of the deluded multitude,
and who boldly take their stand on the very verge
of treason ; the other, that of the midnight as-
sassins who immolate the victims denounced in
the inflammatory harangues of the former. These
form one body, having one aim in view, and
that aim the extinction of all remnant of autho-
rity possessed by England over that portion of
the empire. But are the Ministry calmly to
look on and see thus rent away without
resistance one of the most important mem-
bers of the kingdom ? Are they to deliver
up the loyal portion of the Irish commu-
nity, with their possessions, to the infuriated
sway of the ruthless hordes by whom they are
at this moment assailed ? Or ought they not
energetically and at once to put in mull force the
powers with which they are intrusted, and put
down with a vigour proportioned to the emer-
gency of the case those who have set themselves
above the common feelings of humanity? It is
time the reign of terror and of blood should end,
and, if the laws as now framed are too weak to
combat with time Nlachiavelian antagonists they
are brought to cope with, let them be strength-
ened until the educated incendiary is made to
pay for the double guilt of instilling treason for
the purpose of 'engendering murder. Let this
be done, and quickly too, or men will turn from