The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-16 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1835.

The unprecedented burst of national feeling dis-
played by the warm-hearted inhabitants of the Sister
Island, on the arrival of Lord MULGRAVE among
them, as the messenger of conciliation and peace, has
proved anything but agreeable to the Orange faction
on both sides the of water. The plan of Government
adopted by these selfish bigots has always been
to look to their own interests alone—to act as
if Ireland and everything Irish were made exclusively
for their advantage, and consequently to oppress the
people to the uttermost of their power. They have,
therefore, succeeded most completely in gaining the
detestation of the Irish people, who have not failed
to express the feeling they entertained whenever
a proper opportunity occurred. Any expression
of a contrary feeling towards a Liberal Govern-
ment—any indication of the popularity of the ruling
power—is both a condemnation of their prin-
ciples, and a sore mortification to their vanity.
They are, therefore, ready to burst with anger, envy,
malice, hatred, and all uncharitableness, because a
Lord Lieutenant, coming with justice and the redress
of grievances inscribed upon his banner, has met with
a cordial welcome. The manifestation of the
Christian feelings we have just mentioned will
be found in the proceedings which took place in the
House of Lords last night. It will be seen that Lord
WICKLOW and the Marquis of LONDONDERRY made
themselves conspicuous by attacking the Govern-
ment, for allowing the people of Ireland to testify
their approbation of the principles of that Go-
vernment. The charge was not that the im-
mense multitude who escorted Lord MULGRAVE
into Dublin had been guilty of any breach of tie
peace—that any proceedings of a tumultuary character
had taken place. No, there was the sting. The pro-
ceedings were characterized by the greatest decency
and order. The people went in procession—as they
do in London sometimes—and they had banners too !
" Was ever such a thing heard of," exclaim the Noble
Lords ? " Was ever such an indecency permitted by a
Lord Lieutenant, or allowed to pass with impunity by
a Government ? The Noble Lords never put the
question to themselves, how it was to be prevented.
If they had done this, they might perhaps have
avoided the ridiculous position in which they last
night placed themselves. As to the inscrip-
tions on some of the banners, if such were
actually exhibited, as_ they have described, there
can be no manner of doubt that they owed their exist-
ence to the Orangemen and their hirelings.
With regard to the Marquis WELLESLEY'S resig-

nation of the Chamberlainship, we think the Noble
Marquis took nothing by his motion but what, poor
man, he is too much accustomed to take—disappointment
and defeat ; and that not only to himself, but to the
whole faction. So far from the Marquis WELLES-
LEY'S resignation springing out of any disapprobation
of the course pursued towards Ireland, or of the late
proceedings in that country, as the Tories have asserted
through their usual organs, it is now proved on the
testimony of Lords MELBOURNE and BROUGHAM
that it had not the most distant reference to either of
thosecauses. Lord MELBOURNE farther stated that

the Noble Marquis entirely agreed with his MA-
JESTY'S Ministers, on the subject of their Irish
policy, and Lord BROUGHAM said that he knew of
Lord WELLESLEY'S intention to resign, as far back
as Saturday last, two days before Lord MuL-
GRAVE'S triumphant entry into Dublin. Should the
Marquis of LONDONDERRY think of betaking himself
to some other than his present calling, we would advise
him not to attempt that of a reporter. Fidelity is,
above all things, requisite in that profession.

We direct particular attention to the admirable
speech of Lord BROUGHAM, on presenting the peti-

tion of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common
Council of the City of London, praying for the
abolition of the stamp duties on newspapers, and
the reduction of the duty on paper. As we have
so often advocated the reduction or abolition of

these duties, we shall only at present say that we
cordially concur in the sentiments and arguments so
forcibly put forth by the Noble and Learned Lord.
It is evident that if knowledge be useful at all, the
more universally and freely it is diffused the better.

Mr. WILLIAM MILES presented a petition last
night in the House of Commons from the Bishop and
Clergy of Bath, praying that a clause might be intro-
duced into the 'Western Railway Bill to prevent tra-
velling on Sundays. We wish the Bath Clergy would
confine themselves to the discharge of their own apos-
tolical duties, and not take upon themselves the office
of Inquisitors. What is it to them how the people
travel on Sundays, provided they do so peaceably ?
What saint's devotions are disturbed, what sinner's
iniquity is made blacker, by such a practise ? We have
no patience with such maudlin cant. Yet absurd—
ruinous even to the healthy tone of public spirit—as it
is, its spread, we regret to say, is daily on the in-
crease. Last year, for instance, we were told that to
eat a hot joint, or take an airing on the Sabbath, was
tantamount to a confession of close intimacy with
Satan. This year, we are told that to travel by a
railroad is an equally-impious acknowledgment. Next
year, we suppose, an attempt will be made to prevent
us from swallowing anything more digestible than a
long sermon on Sundays ; and so the canting influenza
continue to spread and spread, until at length,
having fairly worn itself out, society is restored to its
original healthy condition. But in the interim, what
mischiefs may not ensue from these vexatious attempts
on the part of our AGNEWS and OSWALDS, to acce-
lerate the march of cant among us? Talk of the dan-
gerous ravings of the Democrat and Republican 1 They
are harmless compared with those of the Fanatic; for the
inere common sense of the people may operate as a
check on the one class of visionaries ; but the other
appeals to their diseased imaginations and sensibilities,
against which no process of logic can make head—for,
this simple reason, that the first and most obvious ten-
dency of -fanaticism is to confound all the distinctions
between right and wrong. We object, therefore, in
toto, to all puritanical interference with the Sabbath
occupations of the people. The law, as it already
stands, is quite strong enough to enforce social order ;
and we know of nothing beyond this, that our Le-
gislators have a right to insist on. If the people
prefer hot joints to cold on Sundays, in'Heaven's name,
let them have therrh If, instead of walking on

foot, they prefer riding in a carriage, let them
ride. If they even go the length 'of preferring
a rail-road to a high-road, let them have their rail-
road. The Sunday will not be desecrated by such pre-
ferences, nor will the great cause of religion suffer by
them. There is quite as much piety in a happy coun-
tenance as in a gloomy one ; nor do we see that Sir
ANDREW AGNEW is a whit more virtuous for his
frowns, than Mr. O'CONNELL for his smiles. The
eyes that are perpetually cast up to Heaven, are not
always those that look with the least contempt on
earthly matters.

At a public Meeting of the friends of negro eman-
cipation, which took place at Exeter Hall yesterday,
Lord BROUGHAM, after some admirable remarks on
the inconsistent conduct of the Americans in allowing
slaves still to exist among them, while they themselves
made such a parade of their own liberty, observed, " it
was a foolish notion of some of the statesmen of the
modern school to think that standing eternally
aloof from the people, was either a just or a
prudent line of conduct to adopt ; for his own
part, he thought that to appear often before
the people, to study their sentiments, to antici-
pate their wishes, and in doing so, to earn their
approbation, was the highest honour that could be
arrived at—the proudest feeling that ought to be en-
tertained by any public man, in or out of office, whe-
ther armed with power, or, what was much better,
supported by influence from without." In these few
pregnant words, Lord BROUGHAM has exactly de-
fined the course of conduct which it behoves a states-
man to pursue, who desires to win the respect, and con-
ciliate the affections of his countrymen. The days
are gone, never to return, when rank was venerated
for its own sake. We now venerate it, solely as it is
accompanied by good sense, and generous feeling on the
part of its possessor. A Peer, viewed simply as a
Peer, is a mere non-entity, not worthy even the honour
of a stare ; but as a man of influence, and who exerts
that influence in an enlightened spirit—to befriend not to
oppress—to conciliate not to overawe—he is entitled
to our respect. Who cares one jot for Earl GREY,
the Nobleman ? Who does not venerate Earl GREY,
the Reformer ? The ermine robe has long lost its
dazzle in the eyes of the multitude. It is the heart
that beats beneath it that now engrosses their
attention. Alluding to the calumnies so lavishly
heaped on his head last autumn—especially that
monstrous one respecting his intrigues to oust Earl
GREY from power—Lord BROUGHAM said, he
" had a right to call Earl GREY his esteemed
and beloved friend, for he did more to keep him in
office than all the rest of his colleagues." What new
lies will the Ex-Chancellor's enemies now invent?
The old stock being exhausted, it is time that they
should lay in a new one.,

The Paris Papers of Thursday, which have just
been received, are enriched with another instance of
the chivalrous devotion of the Peers of France to the
will of the Citizen Sovereign. We h'ad thought that
our own country could boast of a Peerage as tractable
as any in Europe ; but we now find that the impres-
sion was a mistaken o ne. The Peers of France are
not merely passive age! Its of the Royal will—they may
boast of being actively mischievous when such is the
pleasure of their Royal Master. Our Readers will find
in another part of The Sun the copy of a message
from the Peers to the Ch,lmber of Deputies, demanding
the authority of the Cha)pber to proceed againvt such

of the Deputies as signed the letter in the Tribune, '
which was commented upon in this Journal on Thurs-
day. This is a bold proceeding—bolder than any yet
carried on by the Chamber of Peers. The President
read the message, and it was ordered to be printed for
the consideration of the regular Committees. We
know not what the Deputies may do with the message ;
but if they do their duty to themselves they will at
once vote it a breach of privilege, and compel the
Peers to withdraw it, after making a suitable apology.
The act complained of by the Peers refers to them in
their judicial capacity, and, as judges, they are alto-
gether severed from the Chamber of Deputies, and are
denied all redress, save through the channel of crimi-
nal prosecution in the inferior Courts. Neither can
they demand offenders against their jurisdiction, ex-
cept where the offenders are guilty of high treason,
to be delivered up to them ; they not being, con-
stitutionally, the judges in cases of minor delin-
quency. The message is therefore unconstitutional
in the first place ; and, in the next, it is a breach
of the privileges of the Chamber of Deputies,
to which the Peers are not entitled to send any mes-
sage which bears no reference to the legislative func-
tions and privileges of their Lordships.
But even presuming the Chamber of Deputies weak
enough to be swayed by the ravings of the Bobadil
Duke of MONTEBELLO, and so give up the Depu-
ties, what, in the name of common sense, can the
Peers do with them ? Punish them they cannot, for
the offence cannot be construed into high treason, nei-

then does it come within the legal interpretation of a
contempt of Court, being committed beyond the limits
of judicial jurisdiction. In whatever way they pro-
ceed with them, the accused will have the right of de-
fence ; and as they are all men of great intellect, the
Government has cause to tremble for the results. To
prosecute five of the advocates involves a greater risk
han the proFiccution of five hundred of the poor silk
weavers of Lyons.
Prince TALLEYRAND has arrived in Paris. He
will set out for his estates in the North in three or four
days. The Messager states that several subaltern
officers of the regiment in garrison at Courbevoie have
been put under arrest, for having written at the head of
their report, on the day that the regiment was on duty
at Luxembourg, " Service extraordinaire dii proces-

monstre."

The recent sittings of the Chamber of Deputies
Lave been engaged in voting thc Estimates. The op-
osition offered to the passing of the several items is