The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-17 00:00:00

Mr,;,Abercromby has not suffered from the assaultS
of liisenemies alone, but has been irretrievably dis-
graced by the nature of the support which has been
tendered to him, and by the quarters whence it comes.
It is. to us almost inconceivable how the active interfe-
renee of the. Irish agitator and his tools, in the prepa-
ratory'mov`ements towards an election for the Speaker=
ship, ha,s not effectually disgusted both the Right Hon.
'Gengfirrian orb whose behalf such canvassers pretend to
interest themselves, and the whole party of English no-
bkmen_ana gentlemen whose more ostensible represen-
tative he is considered. Already they find .O'Connell
•gettingithe,upper hand of them all, announcing from
intVnded journey hither, to direct the plan
OriVel'atioiirfdr the whole combined opposition—
'cleserihihg the next Ministry which he will permit to
.bcappoilited,, and specifying the precise majority of
`RAdicals oven Whigs to be exhibited in the Cabinet of
.which •He —will condescend to form part ! Can it,
'then, be said that any English party is not deeply de-
graded by .'Stieh, an admixture—nay, such a prepon-
'der:ince of the leaven of Irish hotility towards Great
!Britain; in 'the' very Government to which the Whig
-party }ropes intends to supersede the Conservative
Cahrnet? to pretend that O'Connell and
inllower,,v,vithhave no power to push their, or ra•
his,.pecultiar tobjects by means of the restoration
nornirtal.,'Whig but in substance a revolutionary
-d)vernnletit'; of *Mich he is to be a member. Is he al-
tOgettier sSo'iiiir* :So generous,—nay, so philosophi •
cal a poliziciatr,7 as to give away power gratis ?
_Does any Man,. not a candidate for Bedlam, be-
lieve that 'O'Connell will throw the sixty votes
'Which the' last „report from . Dublin ..states that
he has at his orders, into the scale of the Whig
Speaker, Mr) ..41tercrombr, earal"exact nothing , in
return ? Mr. Finn, a near connexion of O'Connell,
Whom
who attempted to -.'pe'i-secri:te foi.glYing
an` adektidelit yiate to the COnseryati,ye..candidate,for
Carlow, begins, a ~pamphlet against the' vindictive
'tyrant by quoting the character drawn for birn by a
Catholic cler,g3,;naati. of Carlow,
,the' Rev.: .Andrew
Fitzgerald, which is— as follows O'Connell is a
knave in politics, and a hypocrite in religion." The
question, then, for the Whig Statesmen is, Ought they
on any conditions to make an alliance with this man,
who has never observed the obligations of his part of a
contract since he was born, nor budged a step to right
or left without exacting, in a tenfold shape, tenfold
the value of every calculated movement ? If the
Whigs have no scruple about recovering the posses-
sion of office through O'Connell's co-operation, while
he at the same moment beards them, by threatening
that he will make their return to the Government his
chosen engine for breaking up of the empire, they in
reality pledge themselves to at least an acquiescence, if
not an absolute participation, in that nefarious and
treasonable scheme ; nor can they afterwards, as fair
dealing men, dismiss O'Connell from any place, in or
under their Ministry, for promoting by all the means
which his official rank and influence may afford him,
that especial project, though it be for the dissolution
of'the United Kingdom, which he publicly annbunced
to them that he was preparing before they accepted his
aid. In fact, then, this does become not an English
party, question as to which set of men shall be in power;
but it is, as has been demonstrated by an able evening
Contemporary, a renewal of the old national question in
another form from that which it formerly assumed ;
viz., whether Ireland shall or shall not continue under
the; sway of the British sceptre ? Nay, O'Connell
hiniself has affixed this character to the present ques-
tion'.' He says the cause is that of the people of Ire-
land 'against the Irish Orangemen. We know whom
he means by " the people." It is no more nor less
than Daniel O'Connell himself. The better and truer
description of the questipn therefore is, that of one side
between the British nation, including the Protestants
of 'lreland, and on the other side, the Agitator and his
ignorant and servile banditti. With this conviction
stronuty impressed upon us, can we be otherwise than
astonished at the indifference of the old English
Whigs to the consequencee of their actual impolicy ?
Otber errors, and no mean ones,
:in their present
condrict, have been often already pointed at : the
factious inconsistency, for example, with which they
have turned round upon Sir C. Manners Sutton, no
more than two years ago the subject of their extrava-
gant eulogies, and the glaring injustice with which
they "have
:holstered up a charge against him, improba-
ble at l!east, if not upon the. face of it impossible,
while they treat him exactly upon the same principle
as they, do Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues—ca.
balling.and pledging themselves against the -Speaker,
before-they hear his defence, as they are for turning
out the Ministers without waiting for the announce-
ment -of,their measures. It will be seen, however, that
even Irish Catholics have more candour and more wisdom
belnig,to English Whigs. Our correspondent under
the title' of an "Irish Catholic," condemns the iniquity of
refusing a fair trial to the King's Ministers, anddeclares
the sense of, his well informed brethren of the same
persuasion, to be, that the election of Mr. Abercromby
to the Chair of the House will be the exclusive triumph
of inoniiell and his faction, and a first step towards
destroying the " integrity of the British Empire." In
they mean' time, there is reason to believe that the
catie which O'Connell protects begins to be infected
with some of the rottenness of its patron. The " un-
donbted .majority" of the Whig-Radical force is melt-
ing gradually, as the battle approaches. In truth, the'
"triumph of O'Connell," in the Speakership at least,
is talked about, but Sir C. M. Sutton's election it at
this moinent,more than safe.—Times.

T:pa_sg_ nip talk or write about the Speakership
Wri4olod;_talk. without
,knowledge, if they mean, by
writing and talking to assure the public that Sir
C,harlamers Sutton is to be the Speaker. of a
Refol;nied,' and Liberal House of Commons. We
ktrowlhe-reverse to be the fact. The poll at the pre-
sdritA6ment is 294 to 315—the Tories having gained
somewhat by the last arrivals of intelligence ; but so
litile`doubti entertained of the result, that no one
cares about the question, except as a question of prin-
ciple.
.„,TJiat question is settled—Manners Sutton is
defeated; and gees to the House of Peers, as will be
seen by the, vote on Thursday next, if the question
shall .C. 41 e et a vote—and the principle of Reform
triumphant-ever the spirit of Conservatism.—Mornink
Advertiser.

It eifri.SearCely be necessary to remind the Members
of dier.HOuse-of Commons that Thursday next, the
19th,instali4 is the day of meeting, and that shortly
afterAwelve o'clock on that day the House will proceed
to the: question upon which there exists so much pub-
lie .anxiety at
,the present moment—, he election of a
Speaker. ThOe who are desirous of supporting the
the exercise of an undoubted prerogative—
those who are desirous of defeating a factious Opposi-
tion, and of insuring to the-Administration chosen by
tris7Majesty " a'fair trial," which is all that is asked
behalf, *not fail to see the importance of an
early muster„ preparatory to the division by which
those inportain considerations are to be decided. In
the name of the .people of England, therefore, we can
upon'llie' friend's of the Constitution to be at their
post, lest by surprise or by accident the character of
Pat!lamentitself should be compromised at the first
step: Of its advance. Never was a personal coritest
more reprobated than this will be when the passions in
which it originated have had time to cool, and the
people-to itefleet ppon the aim and object of the whole
proeeeding.-31,9rning Herald.

We'are'not surprised that journals which endeavour
to-influence:ifie inknds of the people of Great Britain
in favour: of the Whig-Radical candidate for the
Speakership :hotild labour strenuously to efface the
impression which the Irish harangues of Mr. O'Con-
nell, corroboratedand confirmed by the whole train and
sequen of 'circuin" stances has produced, that Mr.
Abercromby in aspiring to the Speaker's chair is
merely.an, instrument.in the hands of Mr. O'Connell,
and that the succeSS:of Mr. Abercromby, if such a
thing *ere; pOssible;' could not fail to increase the.
power, encourage the audacity, and further the ,oWieets'
of thelrish, agitator and rebel. All parties: seem 'to
agree thai the, junction of the names of
.Abercrorriby
and O'Connell'must of necessity be fatal to 'the former
in .the, estimation of the people of England, and of all,
thoSe MernbeiS of Parliament who feel in common
with that people..:Hene,e vehement disclaimeii in oppo-
sition to irresistible evidence ; hence the of ctation of