The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-06 00:00:00

of dealing with this fact? We cannot annihilate the
people, we cannot induce them to become Protestant.,
yet they are our fellow-subjects, and it is our duty, as
well as our interest, to live with them on terms vf con-
cord. Is it not the most proper course, then, to ac-
cept the state of things as we find it, after a prolonged
and painful experiment of three centuries to produce
another state, or rather one the reverse of that which

now exists ? We now admit that a religion prevails in
Ireland which cannot now be subverted by any. means

which we can .use. Let us, therefore, no longer war
against it. Let us, on the contrary, treat with it in a
friendly manner, and allow that the rising generations
must be educated in such a way as to ensure the future
peace of that unhappy country. Let the word religion
be enshrined in our temples, and consecrated in our
hearts ; but it is quite time that it should no longer be
the watchword of political parties in our Legislature,
or the symbol of animosities amongst the members of
an enlightipil community. Morning Chronicle.

The country is nobly realising our confident antici-
pation. It is assuming an aspect which must speedily
cause the confederated enemies of the altar and the
throne to shrink into their proper insignificance. The
address to Sir Robert Peel from the merchants, ban-
kers, and traders of the city of London, will, we be-
lieve, be presented this day, conveying to that able
and upright Minister of the Crown the opinion of
nearly nine thousand of the most respectable inhabi-
tants of the metropolis that the welfare and safety of the
State at the present crisis are essentially dependent
upon the permanency of his Administration. The
respectable inhabitants of Liverpool have taken, it ap-
pears, precisely the same view of the actual position of
public affairs, and formed the same estimate of the cha-
racter of the Administration and of its antagonists. No
sooner was the factious and sacriligious majority of
Thursday night in the House of Commons known, in
that important seat of British commerce, than an address
to Sir R. Peel, of similar import to that which he will
this day receive from the city of London, was set on
foot, and in the course of a few hours received about
2,000 signatures. Manifestations of a similar cha-
racter, either in the form of addresses to the Sovereign
or to the eminent statesman whom he has chosen to
preside over his councils, or to both, have been offered
or are preparing in every quarter of London, and in
every town and district in the country, each vieing with
the rest in promptitude, energy, and zeal. The great
misrepresented borough of Marylebone is in motion,
and among the multitude of its inhabitants who have
subscribed their names, in testimony of the approbation
and . confidence with which the Government of Sir
Robert Peel has inspired them, there are, we under-
stand, not a few who, so short a time as three months
ago, thought it their duty to
.vote for Sir Samuel
Whalley and Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer. West-
minster moves to-day ; a meeting of the friends of
property, order, religion, and the British Constitution—
by which all these great interests of mankind are
maintained and secured—having been summoned to
assemble at 'Willis's Rooms, at two o'clock. If we be
not greatly misinformed there will be present at this
meeting hundreds of respectable men whom the reckless
and unprincipled conduct of the Opposition in the
House of Commons has constrained now, for the first
time in their lives, to fall into the Conservative ranks.
The East Riding of York has spoken out in language
not to be misunderstood, as will be seen on referring to
the address of its inhabitants to the King in . another
part of our paper. The populous parish of Stone, in
the county of Worcester, has adopted the same method
of expressing those feelings of just alarm which the
conduct of the Commons' House of Parliament has
inspired, and its determination to support the just and
constitutional prerogatives of the Crown against their
selfish, disappointed, and infuriated assailants. In less
than a week the whole of Great Britain, from its centre
to every point of its wide circumference, will be up and
stirring in the good cause ; determined to show to Mr.
O'Connell, his new allies, the venal and profligate
Whigs, and his old allies, the fierce and cunning bi-
gots of the Rornish Church, that it will not permit
them, without a firm and strenuous resistance, to re-
duce the King of England to the condition of their
obsequious bondsman, or, in the ruin of the ecclesias-
tical institutions of the land, to find the recompense
and the prey of their seditious and wicked confederacy.
—Morning Post.
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Lord John Russell and his compeers begin, appa-
rently, to be somewhat frightened at their own work.
The first question was, naturally enough with such
people, how shall we so shape our motions as to in-
sure a majority against the Ministers ? The second
question, and by far the most serious of the two, is,. to
what use shall we turn our majority now that we have
got it ? A school-boy asks himself " how shall I
secure that bird's nest above there ?" so up he climbs
and counts the eggs. But " how shall I get down
again ?" is not quite so easily answered. Now, we
do apprehend that the noble leader of the Opposition
feels a little like the said urchin perched high—upon-
the tree, and is in no inconsiderable alarm as to
the possibility of preserving both his neck and
his plunder—that is, of reaching his longed-for seat
upon the Treasury bench, and holding it without a
certain prospect of destruction to himself and his
party. Can it have escaped the most stupid or careless
looker-on, that if the Whig-Radicals durst have en-

countered the consequence Of a motion for stopping
the supplies, or for addressing the King to dismiss his
Ministers, they would have done so long before this
6th day of April, 1835—more than 40 days after the
opening of this Session, within the first week of which
they had previously boasted their resolution to " hurl"
Sir R,. Peel and his colleagues from office ? If the
truth must he told, the Whigs are i❑ a double quan-

dary. If they risk a straightforward question, the
effect of which when carried would be to make it im-
possible for Ministers to retain the Government, or, in
other words, to force them to resign, they would com-
pel a large number, of individuals to vote against the
motion,—individuals who have seen from the very first
glance they gave at the composition of the new Parli-
ament, and the state of parties, that nothing could be
more ruinous to the country than a dismissal of the
Conservative Ministers, while there are absolutely 'no
materials in existence, or worse than none, out of which
another Government could be formed. L3l‘si Howick,
in an auspicious manner for his own reputation, and
for the credit which he could not fail to derive from a
supposed community of sentiment with his noble father,
declared that he was much averse to a change of Mi-
nistry, under the actual circumstances of the kingdom ;
and hoped that a majority, however adverse to the
Right Hon. Baronet, would not induce him to resign.
It is understood, or rather indeed quite notorious, that
many gentlemen, besides Lord Howick, usually counted
among the ranks of the Opposition, would shudder at
an immediate return of the Whigs to office, with the
Radical and Repeal mill-stones tied about their necks.
The first fear, therefore, of the Whig leaders from any
motion expressly calculated to turn out the Ministers
would be, that of being left in a minority, and of having
it noised throughout the couotry that the Government
had beaten them on such a vital question. But there
is a second terror operating upon the Whig leaders,
and lying in wait for them if the first should prove
groundless--namely, the dread of succeeding in such a
motion, and being thereby pushed " willy-nilly into
• power, for which consequence of a victory they are as
scantily prepared as their worst enemies could wish them.
To us it is manifest that, with all their blustering and
cringing, there is no fate so terrible in the eyes of the
Whigs as that of being saddled with Mr. O'Connell
and his gang as partners in the Government. "'They
cannot forget the daily torment suffered by Lord Al-
thorp from that barbarous and unforgiving incendiary,
while he•sat by the Conservatives, with his whole tail
deployed upon the Opposition bench,' though little
allied in spirit Or character to those whose neigbour-
hood he infested. The Whigs cannot forgot, and
ought not, the volumes of abuse which were rolled out
against them by this their odious persecutor, for not
governing Ireland upon repeal principles—for not be-
stowing the King's patronage upon the enemies of his
Crown and dignity—the instinctive haters of our
British blood and lineage—the sworn conspirators
against that fundamental law which holds the empire
together ; but for making a choice of legal and other
functionaries independent of the O'Connell sway, and
capable of administering the laws of Ireland from other
motives than the base ones of fear, or fraud, or vengeance.
If Lord Duneannon—though as fro© from unmanly
resentment as any body.-if his Lordship, we say, ever