The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-13 00:00:00

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cud Eve dart for " having a part of a deer in his
possession T.' Something must be done to secure
rural magistrates in their field sports, without
giving them the wanton privilege of imprisoning
so many of the king's subjects for a hare or a
pheasant. The expense at which they purchase
their double monopoly of game and justice, is
the sacrifice of liberty to 1,000 of their fellow•
creatures, who are now confined in the gaols of
England and Wales for transgressing their laws !

We regret perceiving, by the communica-
tions from the Council-office received yester-
day, that there is reason to fear that the cholera
has at length found its way into Rotherhithe
and Limehouse. We fear that the preparations
to meet this scourge are by no means so good
in the metropolis as they are in Edinburgh.
Places ought to be prepared for the reception of
individualsattacked by the disease, to which they
may be instantly conveyed in covered carriages.
With respect to one description of persons, who
are supposed to contribute greatly to the spread
of the disease, beggars and vagrants, there is
absolutely no attention whatever paid to them in
the metropolis ! Why is this ? Why should
we, in a country in which there is a provision for
every destitute person, be afflicted with hosts of
beggars and vagrants ? The new police, upon
the whole, works well we believe ; but it is sadly
contradicted by the old women, who are called
Police Magistrates. These men are jealous be-
yond measure of the new police, and do all that
they can to counteract them and impair their
efficiency. We call for the rigorous execution
of the law against vagrants and beggars. The
whole country is annoyed by swarms of mendi-
cants, but the metropolis and its vicinity in a
more especial manner. Surely, with our pre-
sent highly effective police, we may be freed from
this scourge. If' there are obstacles to the giving
effect to the law, let them be known, that means
may be adopted for having them removed.—
Morning Chronicle.
The Committee have now arrived at the 62d
clause in the Bill, and from the nature of the
remaining clauses, we may hope the Committee
will have terminated its labours in two more sit-
Sings. The period, therefore, rapidly approaches
when the battle will have again to he fought
where the enemy is the strongest—the House of
Peers. To attempt to carry the Bill through
that House without a strong reinforcement of
liberal Peers, would of course be a mockery of
the people, and we will not anticipate any such
mockery. This creation of Peers is the point
on which all depends. Against this measure the
enemy directs all his efforts. It decides the ques-
tion of Reform or No Reform. The observa-
tions in the house of Commons on Friday night
have drawn the following remarks from our con-
:temporary, the Standard:—
"One gentleman proposed a creation of 40 Peer/t—
-aw:her a creation of 61, and Mr. O'Connell suggested a
reinforcement to the corps of ennobled Whigs and Radical,
of no le,s than 122. There is no man of sense, who
rightly views these respective prepositions, who must not
see that they will all stand or fall by the same principle—and
that a King who should create 122 Peers, or 1,200 Peers,
tr carry effectually a particular object, would be in no re-
spect more criminal, and would he a great deal wiser, than
the King who should attempt the same object, without
rtertainty of success, by the creation of 40, 20, 10, or
esen 1. The Constitution has not given to the King the
prerogative of creating Peers, for the purpose of absorbin
the power of the House of Lord.; and any King wise
uses that power for such a purpose, is so far an usurper
and a violator of his compact with the people, as well as of
his Coronation Oath. Such a King, William IV.—such
King any descendant of George 111. never will be."
It is very well in the Anti-Reformers to hold
this language ; but every Reformer knows that
there must be means to an end, and that when
the end is to withdraw the House of Commons
front its subjection to the Peers, who have al-
ready by a majority of 41 determined to perpe-
tuate that subjection, it is absurd to suppose,
that without an alteration of the composition of
the House of Peers the end can now be attained.
—Morning Chronicle.
The Reform Bill has made some progress
during the last week, and there seems to be
hut little doubt that a few weeks more will be
sufficient to conclude its progress in the Com-
mons. As almost all the important clauses are
already disposed of, the completion of the sche-
dules is the operation in which delay may be ex-
pected to show itself in future. But it can
scarcely hold out for any length of time, even
under the judicious management of the Oppo-
sition, who can play the game of cross purposes
with such admirable skill. A few weeks, there-
fore, at farthest, will bring us again to that
anxious crisis in the history of the measure when
the decision of the Lords will be looked to by
the whole country with a degree of eagerness
which has not been, and is not likely to be,
abated by time. Whether a batch of Peers
s to be created, for the purpose of en- I
Fusing the concurrence of their Lordships'
House, is a question, the difficulty of
which is not removed by the positive and in-
fallible tone in which both parties have already
answered it. Our hope is that there may
he no necessity for having recourse to a proceed-
ing so objectionable in principle, and we derive
more confidence in support of that hope froin
;the general probabilities against the rejection of
the measure on the second reading, than from
ail that has been said in the shape of authority
on the subject. That their Lordships will not
throw out the Bill on the second reading we
consider probable, because they would, by that
means, cut off all opportunity of compromise.
That they will try what can he done in the Com-
mittee to remove or palliate the objections urged
against it is the course which would seem to
offer the best chance of accomplishing their own
end. But the time is not far distant when specu-
lation will be superseded by certainty. Until
then let us hope that there is reason and good
feeling enough upon both sides to insure the
success of a beneficial measure, without any
violence to the principles of the Constitution,
and that the long discussions which have already
taken place have produced, in reality, some effect
beyond the mere delay of hopes to be again
consigned to disappointment.—. Morn. Herald.
An attempt was made the other night in the
House of Commons, by two or three of the
most ardent of the revolutionary party, to obtain
from that assembly some indication of a feeling
fat, ourable to the tyrannical and unconstitutional
expedient of packing the House of Lords, for
the purpose of depriving this branch of the Le-
gislature of the power to exercise an independent
judgment upon the projected new Constitution
of Great Britain. The attempt, we rejoice to
say, was singularly unsuccessful. We think,
when we have mentioned the names of the only
Members of the House of Commons who, when
thus openly challenged, could be brought to ac-
knowledge any feeling in favour of the despotic
and fraudulent project of packing, we shall have
said nearly enough to shew that the scheme is
not more iniquitous and unprincipled in conceit.
tion than it will prove impracticable or abortive,
should an attempt be made to put it in execution.