The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-26 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 11135.

We are sorry to see Lord STANLEY pursue a course
which, if persisted in, may to a certain extent impede the
progress of the great cause of Reform, and which will
assuredly prevent him from ever attaining that eminence as
a statesman which we believe to be the great object of his
ambition. It is in vain for him to suppose—it is dero-
gatory to his understanding, as well as discreditable
to his principles, if he suppose that a trimmer in politics
can ever acquire the confidence of the people of England.
This passport to greatness, the Noble Lord may rest as-
sured, can be obtained only by an open, manly, and con-
sistent adherence to those principles of reform which the
people have adopted, and which they are determined to
carry into effect.
It is quite clear that, if their wishes are consulted, nei-
ther the PEELS nor the WELLINGTONS, nor any who enlist
under their banners, will ever be called upon to under-
take the administration of public affairs. We would, there-
fore, earnestly recommend to the Noble Lord to consider
well, whether he is not placing a bar that may
prove insuperable between himself and the object
he has most at heart. He is evidently in an
unnatural position. His character is ardent, impetuous,
and decisive ; his present policy is timid, hesitating, and
inconsistent. When he says that lie has no confidence in
the present Ministers, and asserts at the same time that
he will do his utmost to obtain a trial for them,
he involves himself in a contradiction passable enough
in the RIPONS and other politicians of the third or
fourth class ; but quite unworthy of any man who
has more than an idea and a half in his head. The
Noble Lord pretends to disapprove of the concentra-
tion of the whole powers of the Government in the hands
of the Duke of WELLINGTON for a period of three or four
weeks, which he pronounces a great violation of the Con-
stitution ; but objects to go farther in condemning it than to
protest against its being drawn into a precedent! Again,
he declines supporting the Amendment upon the Address,
because, if carried, it would have the effect of turning out
the Ministers, whom he thinks the only persons capable of
carrying on the Government in the present state of parties ;
yet he declares he would have voted for it, if it had been
confined to one topic—namely, Corporation Reform ! !
We regret to be obliged to notice what appears to us
to be a departure
_from the straight-forward course that lay
before the Noble Lord ; nor can we help contrasting his
conduct with that of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who, in last
night's debate, nobly upheld those liberal principles which
have ever distinguished the house of RUSSELL. This
speech is worthy of him who enjoyed the immortal honour
of introducing into the Commons' House of Parliament the
New Charter of British freedom.

In the House of Commons last night, a conversation
ensued as to the most convenient mode of conducting the
business of the House, when, after some little discussion, it
was arranged that public business should commence at four
o'clock, except on occasions of importance, when it should
commence at three. The twelve o'clock sittings will,
therefore, in future be dispensed with. The debate on the
Address was then resumed, and at a late hour adjourned on
the motion of Mr. HUME.

No one who has read the debates in the House of Lords
on Tuesday night with even moderate attention, can have
failed to remark the immense superiority, in point of talent
and argument, on the side of Reform. Had no other
speech than that of Lord BROUGHAM been delivered,
what, we ask, is there on the other side, even when it is
all put together, that can bear the most distant com-
parison with that masterly oration ? The Noble Lord seems
to have entered the political arena like a giant refreshed.
What a pitiful, contemptible figure, does the ill-mannered,
ill-tempered, and captious effusion of the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR make, when put in comparison with the address of
his rival—replete as that address is with the highest
and rarest qualities of oratory. With what promptitude
of resource he seizes upon the Royal Speech, and, on the