The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Nothing afflicts the Tory Journals so much as the
support which has been given, without interruption, by
Dlr. O'Connell to Lord Melbourne's Government,
since the period of its recal. Sir Robert Peel erected
his airy speculations as to the revival of Tory domina-
tion, upon the arlsumption, to him indisputable, that
the differences which unfortunately, at one time, sepa-
rated the Irish Liberals from the Whig Ministry,
would remain for ever irreconcileable. The basis upon
which those hopes were founded was speedily disco-
vered, to his dismay, to have been the delusion of his
own fancy. lie was compelled to acknowledge that,
against the Wrol!rs, aided by O'Connell, he could not
continue to carry on ;;he Government. Everybody re-
members the arts, the pro;risesp the assurances, the
fears, and menaces of all sorts, „:.11ich were then made
use of, for the purpose of inducing !lie Whigs to
coalesce with what were called the " moderate 'Tories
—the Peels, the Stanleys, and the Grahams—not that
the party who sought to accomplish that amalgama-
tion believed, or wished, that it could be permanent.
No ; their sole object was to destroy the Whigs in
Public esteem, by seducing them into a coalition which
would have outraged common decency, and to have
rendered it impossible for them to ,fall back upon the
co-operation of O'Connell. The dream of ruling in
spite of the Whigs, through his hostility to that party,
or in unison with them for a season by means of
a treacherous compromise, having been effectually dis-
pelled by the sagacity which enabled him to penetrate
and baffle all the designs of the common enemy of our
liberties, a new course of action is now laid down for
the journals of the Opposition. The whole aim of
the party at this moment is to represent every expres-
sion and movement of that gentleman as treasonable
in the highest degree, offensive to the King, incon-
sistent with the union of the two countries, and indeed
with the peace of society. He is to be exhibited to
the people of England as the most horrid of all mon-
sters—a Papist—a " mere Irishman "—a culprit fit
only for the hulks—a man devoid of the ordinary dis-
positions of the human heart—a violator of his word
—a perfidious friend—and a most relentless enemy. No
epithets are to be spared, however foul in language or
infamous in tendency, which can serve to vilify him
in the eyes of the nation. Is there any body so blind
as not to see that all this torrent of abuse, which
is constantly rolling forth before our eyes from the
most polluted sources, has for its ultimate end the
restoration of a Peel Government ? The point to
be achieved is to prevail upon the King, his Mi-
nisters, and the country, to believe that O'Connell
has projects in view, which render it impossible
for a faithful servant of the Crown to accept of his po-
litical support, or even to associate with him in the
common civilities and intercourse of life. To get him
insulted, or by some means or other .maltreated by the
members of the. Government, or some one of them, so
as to alienate him from the course of policy which he
pursued during the whole of the late Session, is the
grand aim of the party. They flatter themselves
with the hope that, by separating O'Connell and his
friends from the Government, they can once more be
enabled to seize upon the Cabinet, and control the
House of Commons. The scheme is too transparent
to deceive the intelligent people of these kingdoms
for one moment. They perfectly well know that
they owe a very large measure of gratitude to
Mr. O'Connell for the assistance which he has
rendered to liberty, by his support of the Re-
form Bill, for which, but for that support, they
might have been still contending. They will not re-
fuse to acknowledge the value of his exertions in be-
half of religious freedom, not for the Catholic alone,
but also for the Dissenter of every denomination. They
are not ignorant that his tact and powers as a debater
have seldom, if ever, been surpassed, and that he has
never indulged in mere. " clap-trap" phrases, but
always proceeded directly towards his object. His
style of address may at times appear too vehement ;
but allowance ought to be made for his keen sense
of the wrongs of his native land. They will not,
at the parrot cry of the Tory brawlers, weigh in
too nice a scale every word that falls from the lips
of a man whose conduct has greatly benefitted
Ireland, and promoted the freedom of Great Bri-
tain ; and from his past history they feel assured
that however extravagant his phrases may some-
times be, his influence in the senate has never
been exercised but for the rights of the people.
If we were to measure the language of Mr.
O'Connell's assailants by the rule which they apply
to his prejudice, we should find in it more unchari-
tableness, more atrocity, more contempt for every rule
of propriety and taste, than could be discovered in the
most disgraceful haunts of the most wretched creatures
upon earth. A dictionary fit only for the use of beings
condemned to live apart from society, ignorant of re-
ligion, and tortured by the recollections of former
years spent in every species of crime, might be framed
from the ravings of that literary Lucifer, the Tinies,
during the last month or two, upon the subject of Mr.
O'Connell. Let the apostate go on with his filthy
trade. The result of his animosity is already becom-
ing apparent in the increasing respect with which Mr.
O'Connell is everywhere received amongst his own
countrymen—those who differed from him the most
being now proud to have the opportunity of recovering
his friendship, and acknowledging the services which
lie has rendered to the cause or freedom.—Morning
Chronicle.

We have much pleasure in informing our readers
that the most favourable accounts continue to be re-
ceived from all parts of the country respecting the pro-
gress of the registrations. , The number of reformers
who have this year claimed, and whose claims have
been admitted by the Revising Barristers, is much
greater than last year, whilst that of the Conservatives
is but very slightly increased. Of course, in the
barely possible contingency of another general elec-
tion, the ranks of the Reformers would be materially
strengthened in the House of Commons. The West-
minster Reform Association have carefully analysed
the returns in all parts of the country, so far as they
have been received ; and it is on the results at which
they have arrived that we ground the above satis-
factory statement. One-third of the returns yet
remain, we understand, to be made ; but there can
be no question, from the districts of the country in
which the Revising Barristers are still sitting, and the
progress which has been made in deciding on the ob-
jections to claims, that in these cases the results will
be as gratifying as in the other. In several places
where Conservatives were returned at the last election,
the registry is so satisfactory as to justify the most
confident expectation that they will be displaced by
staunch Reformers, in the event of another election
taking place before this time twelve months. In
Scotland this is especially the case. If that part of
the country immortalized itself by its triumphant exer-
tions in favour of liberal principles at the last election,
it is now in a condition, should a general election take
place, to prepare fresh laurels for itself. The Tories
are too shrewd not to see the real condition of mat-
ters ; and they will hardly be foolish enough to make
bad worse, by a repetition of the tricks of last Nevem-
hen—Mornzng Advertiser.
Our readers are aware that the King of Denmark
lately surprised his subjects, and not a few other. per-
sons besides, by making known to the former that he
had made up his mind to grant them a Constitution.
The King of _Denmark was, to say the truth, among
the last Sovereign'
in the world who might be consi-
dered bound to such an act towards his subjects.
Being the successor to a Dictatorship formally placed
in the hands of one of his anC4stors 175 years ago,
he might have waited quietly, or left jt to some one of
his descendants to surrender the extra powers derived
from the will of the people, only when a wish was ex-
pressed by them that he should do so. His Majesty,
however, has not chosen that any such call should
come from that quarter, and not a few have been
the conjectures formed as to the motives of his
determination. In general, he is supposed to have
been actuated by a mere desire that a nation so
ripe for liberal institutions as that over which he go-
verns, should no longer be deprived of the benefit
of their enjoyment. The King of Denmark is, in
fact, an enlightened Monarch. He has, during his
long reign and co-regency, always governed in a spirit
js,krality, impartiality, and justice rarely met with
absolute despots. But it is not the

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