The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-10 00:00:00

835.

viction, we are more and more satisfied, is shared
by Sir Robert Peel, and the majority of his col-
leagues ; their carrying that contiletion into action is
the hinge of their political life ; their resistance tift it
would be a practical paradox ; it might produce a ter-
rible revolution in England, but of that revolution the
first victims would be the maniacs who h!td caused it,
Meantime, as we stated .at the beginning of this article,
we see no reason, in spite of the metropolitan returns, to
suppose that the cause of constitutional liberty is lost.
There is time enough to redeem those failtiFes, Whin hate
hitherto been owing to inordinate confidence, and a conse-
quent want of exertion in the opponents of the ultra-Radi-
cals. To such person§ We redorilmend ine.addreis 6f Mr:
Sergeant Spankie to the electors of Finsbury, distinguished
as it is by excellent temper and excellent sense. He ex-
poses, with pointed but not harsh rehnke, those in-door
friends of what they proclaim to be the sacred cause of the
constitution, who; from indolence or timidity, shrink from
an open support of, their ottnl phoßfm ehompion. The re-
MOnStraned may stilt be useful in other plug !--=
" I may be permitted to say a word to another class of my well-
wishers, whose good intentions (and I believe they were sincere)
brought forth nit frliit! Owl h!44.1/4 t„ },a visited by the winds
Of helVen too roughly. The first day of polling, was
very cold bleak: at I experienced at seven in the morning, aft&
my-bivouac of the night. Some were gone to their fields and
some to their merchandise, and they were everywhere but where
they ought to have been, not for my sake, but for the cause which
they feel and acknowledge to be the cause of the constitution, and
of the order of society under which they enjoy that ease and com-
fort of which they will not sacrifice a particle to the discharge of a
e,seentiial to the public and to themselves.
ig Thd eleCtiail in the sit of the three Conservative candidates
(for nothing shall induce me to tigS the foolish, mischievous nick-
names of Whig and Tory) was entirely lost through the sluggish-
ness, indolence, and supineness of those Conservatives who wished
well and did nothing. The termination of that contest has had a
very bad effect in Finsbury and other places, and the City Conser-
iqiiiVeg ilVattistl their doty deserve to be cursed with the curse
of Meroz."
The joy which Mr. H. Hohhouse expresses on the terniis
nation of this contest will, we suspect, after a week or two.
be a matter of some surprise to himself. Meantime, there
is a sort of magnanimous ambition in his showing that
Finsbury as well as Athens has its AristideS, who can re-
joice that its precincts contain a man whose wisdom and
talents aft flreitllttl a,« en to his own.—Times.
It has no doubt been observed toy that lifflited portion of
the public who read a paper called the Morning Chronicle ,
that whatever collateral and desultory topics may find their
way into the columns of that some-years-ago respectable
journal, the main and standing Siiliktt; that to which every
other is but an introduction or a mask, has for five of AIX
months past been no other than wanton, milignant, virulent
virulent abuse of the Times newspaper. Whose pay it
Vag In Non the Mtlialdlleettient of 411;s dirty practice, on
whose speculation it was purchased, for whose pergollal ends
the adventure was embarked in, could not be unknown to
ilfit be.eatise it Was no secret among a certain clique, whose
digcretioti pot lids their pnritr, Now we never
went an inch out of our way to notice that paper, whether
for good or evil. It might have twaddled absurdi-
ties by the German mile, without taking the trou-
ble to laugh at or censure them. But we leave it to any
tißttlrf of Joblier Journal to say whether a single
number has made its appeaiauce for ThOnflir, without its
thrusting under his nose the garbage and of-scourings 61
every pothouse in every alley of London for materials of
abuse against the Times. What would be said of two
shopkeepers, one of whom covered every dead wall of the
t 31411 ill which they both eartied nn I?toutiqks, with slan-
derous and defamatory placards against hiS heighli6tif;
while the other tradesman moved on quietly in his own
course without. ever vouchsafing a reply? What would be
said or thought about the relative honesty or probable
prosperity of tttB physlelans, one of rbom was eter-
nally advertising the number of patients iihtt bad
swallowed his pills, the succession of shop-boys,
or hackney-coachmen, or omnibus-cads, who had
declared their preference of his nasty nostrums
VI tot thipllal littlerlinitur3 of the other, while the
latter person did his own business, tliid itt0.14161
with nobody else's, being least of all desirous to ex-
change syringes of filthy liquid with his offensive assailant ?
f thtl`e two !Tonicl. men who knew the world be
called the safe and upright practitioner, and Chit+ the
worthless and rapacious quack ? When the Chronicle or
any other member of the public press attacks our. argu-
gitrit§ alit) Pad thrir fanny). he is welcome to do so. He
exercises his undoubted privilege, and possibly io our ito.
provement as well as for the public good. But if he
makes it his daily and almost exclusive object to fling
dirt open 0...—t0 rati tiq " ahando,Red," and " profligate,"
• ,
and "unprincipled," and " corrupt,' he dal Matt no jour-
nalist has a right to attempt with another. He knows
nothing of our opinions but that we differ from him.
He knows, and can by possibility know nething of our
tootiVe§ I and itlwo he dat'as fn charge them, as he does
every hour, because of our mete 116iitlefil opinions,
with dishonesty, we retaliate too quietly when we chtlfge
him with malignant impudence and falsehood. His
paper yesterday, the contents of which were retailed at
tt3tt by, an erFttitiff joornahtrading pretty much on
the same bottom, had for its design to cciniß't ti§ of hi-
consistency, because we now make war upon the Ultra
Radicals, " whereas we took their part," or words to that
effect. against Lord Grey. Now, there is not a shadow of
trUtli Ili this fdpfe§enfai•ioti: never allied ourselves
with the Ultra-Radicals ; the name of " DeSirtletiVe§" was
first applied to them by us ; they were always the objects of
our political fear and animosity. Our occasional quarrels
with Lord Grey were not for his refusal to act upon
tiottrinesr tins for his tardiness, hesitation,
and feebleness, in executing his otiqi avowed plans
of policy and fulfilling his own repeated pro-
mises. It is true, we told Lord Grey he had
nothing to rely upon but the " people ;" and so
We tell Sir Robert Peel. But as O'Connell is
not, though he professes to be, " the people of Ireland," so
the ultra-Radicals and " Destructives" of this country are
not the British " people." So we leave their respectable
charlatan to the use of his penny trumpet in puffing his
own shop. He need not meddle with ours, which we flatter
ourselves we can manage independent of his neighbourly
assistance. We ought to beg pardon of our readers for
expending so many words on the worthless brawlers to
whom we have referred : we may, however,
,take credit for
no common quantity of forbearance in having let them rave
at us so long and so uninterruptedly we believe that this
is only the second time we have condescended to turn upon
them ; but the finest tempered horse, though it disdains the
mongrel curs barking at his heels, may at last be moved to
bestow a gentle salute on the jaws of the yelpers, and send
them whining and howling away in complaint of the blow
which their own brutal impertinence provoked.—Times.
We have but to record triumphs—most gratifying tri-
umphs—in the cause of Liberalism. The metropolis has
justified its high character for spirit, intelligence, and libe-
rality, and set an example to the country which it will be
in haste to follow, and will do itself honour by following.
Finsbury has returned two Reformers, and sent Spankie to
find a seat elsewhere than on its shoulders. The Tower
Hamlets come within the same circle, having returned
Lushington and Clay, and got rid of Burton. Westminster
remains true to the character for liberal and Reform prin-
ciples which it has sustained for years past—and Green-
wich, Brighton, and Manchester, with many others, have
to be added to the list. But the state of the polls, and the
list of returned Members, furnish the most conclusive an-
swer to the false assertions of the Tory press, of the people
having lost their affection for Reform, and of a re-action in
favour of their party having taken place in their minds.—
Morning Advertiser.
Sir John Campbell, the late Attorney-General, in his
speech to the electors of Edinburgh (a speech which the
Whigs have since thought of importance enough to pub-
lish in the shape of a pamphlet), has promulgated some
doctrines which, notwithstanding his high and deserved
rank in his profession, we must make bold to canvass the
correctness of. Sir John Campbell, while he speaks of the
King in terms very different from the Learned Civilian o:

the Tower Hamlets, is exceedingly angry with his Majesty
both for dismissing the Ministry and dissolving the Par-
liament. After asserting a truism, which nobody disputes
—viz. that " the prerogative has been given to the Crown
that it may be exercised for the good of the people, and
whenever it is exercised the public good ought alone to be
considered," he goes on to apply this maxim to the present
case, in the following terms Look," says Sir John,
"at the prerogative by which an Administration is to
be dismissed ; one of the most important and delicate
prerogatives which is lodged in the Crown. It is not
to be exercised unless there be a vote of Parliament against
the existing Administration, unless there be petitions front
the public, or unless the Sovereign does complain of the con-
duct of his servants ;" all which conditions the Learned
Gentleman goes on to assert were wanting on the late oc-
casion. As to the importanceof this branch of the prero-
gative there can be but one opinion. It is in fact the only
act which the Crown is called upon to perform in the ne-
cessary absence of any responsible adviser ; but we wholly
dissent from the idea that it requires either of the prelimi-
naries here set out. We deny that the dismissal of a
Ministry need be preceded by any vote of Parliament,
by any petition from the people, or by any expressed dissa-
tisfaction on the part of the King. Were such either
the letter or spirit of the Constitution, we know of no
securer ground for keeping bad Ministers in office
than the way in which each of these preliminaries to
their dismissal might be evaded. But the best proof
that these are not indispensable preliminaries to this
exercise of the prerogative is that furnished by the very in-
stance which has just occurred—viz., the King's conviction
that his Ministers were incapable of carrying on the busi-
ness of the Government. That this was no capricious opi-
nion on the part of the Sovereign, is proved by the unde-
niable fact of its being that of a large proportion of his