The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-04 00:00:00

SPIRY] OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

With attention, eager, deep, and undiverted,
vill every eye, and ear, and heart, be fixed upon
his day's proceedings in the Upper House of
Parliament, when the Reform Bill is to be sul -
nit ed to their Lordships for its third and fin:
reading. It is not to be denied that the very
nagnitude of the object which seems thus placed
xithin our grasp has filled many minds even
now with a nervous incredulity, not sanctioned
by reason, and has created some morbid fear
that the English nation is never destined to en-
joy a blessing so vast and glorious. But these
are shadows,—the progeny of an overwrought
and throbbing spirit, which a few hours will
dispel. In conversation, and we believe in print,
such topics have been suggested as the possibi-
lity of the Anti-Reform faction attempting a
rally at the last hour, and throwing out the Bill !
The defeated garrison of ancient Carthage set
fire to the temple of their tutelar deity, and,
flinging their wives and children into the
flames; desperately perished with them. Still
more frantic would be the tremendous act antici-
pated by some of our timid and unreflecting
brethren, as among the possibilities of this day and
night ; for never was " tower or temple" so TA-
vaned by consuming fire, as would be the whole
edifice of hereditary nobility in Great Britain by
such a coup d'etat against the people. No ;
the mere political consequences of a tricky over-
throw of the Reform Bill, to the perpetrators of
such a manoeuvre, would themselves put the
thing out of the question. But it is sufficient
to say that promises exist against any further ef-
fectual resistance to the measure, so binding in
all honour and integrity, that, without the least
regard to party or political effects, the private ho-
nour of the Noble Lords referred to is an ample
guarantee to the King and the country that they
would contemplate the supposed step as a breach
of faith abhorrent to their feelings as gentle-
men. No ! We have stood up manfully
against the Duke of Wellington and his am-
bitious but unworthy project, for seizing the
Government on one pretence, and holding pos-
session of it on another ; but when it comes
to a question of direct and specific engage-
ment, in his individual character as a gentle-
man, nobody can repose more confidence in
his Grace than we do. We repeat, without a
moment's hesitation, therefore, that the third
reading of the Reform Bill is secure.—Timcs.
It is said by the organs of the conservative
faction, that in the Queen's answer to a cus-
tomary address from the Bishops on King Wil-
liam's birthday, her Majesty complained in
strong terms of being " cruelly and undeserved-
ly insulted and calumniated upon many occa-
sions." If the Queen of England, or any female
of far humbler degree, has been " undeservedly
insulted," more shame for those who have offered

the insult, and for whose duty it was lawfully to
protect the injured, provided they have failed so
to do. With regard to the Queen of England,
we do not believe that any Queen Consort who
ever sat upon a British throne has been more
respectfully, more affectionately, nay, more ido-
latrously treated by all classes of Englishmen,
than her present Majesty was, from the auspi-
cious hour of her Royal husband's accession,
down to the fatal one in which it became gene-
rally understood, and, so far as the case would
bear, tacitly acknowledged, that she had taken a
decided part against what the great bulk of the
people of England considered to be their own
cause and that of their country, in rela-
tion to the question of Reform. If the Queen,

from being popular, has become the reverse, if,
instead of being the subject of panegyric in
every quarter, her name has been coupled with
epithets expressive of public alienation, and cal-
culated to wound her Majesty's sensibility—
whose fault is it ? Not, as we have shown, the
original fault of the English people, who all
but worshipped the ground she trod upon. It
was, and is, the fault of those wretched confi-
dants—those selfish, sordid, cunning, but infatu-
ated partisans of the corrupt system of Govern
ment which is now on the point of being swept
away for ever—who flattered themselves that
after the nation and the House of Commons,
aye, and the King too, had declared themselves
for a correction of abuses and a redress of griev-
ances;there was still one card left in the possi-
bility of working upon the mind of a foreigner,
an intelligent Princess, but brought up in those
notions of divine right and autocracy which in-
fest all the petty courts of the continent, and of
necessity drawing whatever knowledge she
could acquire of England, from the persons
immediately about her,—working,—we say,
—upon her mind, so as to render her Ma-
jesty, even from the most virtuous and upright
motives, a powerful instrument of the pis alter
expedient of the conservatives,—viz. their scheme
of tormenting the King into a distrust of his
liberal Ministers, and a retractation of all his
avowed sentiments and assurances in favour of
Reform. That her Majesty may long since
have detected the purpose of those evil counsel-
lors, who so abused the right of access with
which she honoured them, there is little room

to doubt. It was an intrigue of the ante-
chamber, well enough fitted for those halcyon
days of female influence, when a " little cocked
nose" could set all Europe on fire. But such
small machinery is out of date in England.
When nations have once " taken counsel
together," the glory of Lord Chamberlains and
state-trumpeters is gone. His Majesty, our
gracious Monarch, in proceeding to the House
on Wednesday or Thursday next, to affix
the Royal fiat to the great charter of 1832, will
hear, in the grateful plaudits of a million of his
subjects, an echo of that noble rebuke which he
himself has given to the insidious advice of those
who would dissuade him from going down in
person to his Parliament. That such advice
has been tendered to his Majesty, we are well
apprized. That there exists in the very bosom
of his own Court a venomous faction—a rival
party to the " King's party,"—we know as well
as they do who compose it. They abuse another
illustrious name, which they disgrace by as-
' suming it as the designation of a party which
would make a prey of both King and Queen,
under the title of "Queen's party." fleir dread.
is that William IV. should be too much beloved by
the people of England. They sneer at his popu-
larity, and exclaim, " Oh, you wish to make the
King popular, do' you ! We'll take care of
that ! If this hint be insufficient to put
honest men upon their guard, we can give a
few others. But we repeat, that the heartfelt
greetings prepared for our gracious Monarch,
when he goes to ratify this immortal compact
with his people, will repay him for an age of
anxiety and mental agitation.—Tintes.

The Press is the most desperate and bitter
object of complaint with the Tories and borough-
mongers ; they hourly revile it, and curse its
righteous labours. They inwardly know that
they cannot live with it ; that they must either
put down" ' this artillery of the people and

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