The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-25 00:00:00

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rr....Anv last, a gentleman aged
MARRIAGF.—On (c A+,
85 was married in Scotland. It.' is thus annouu—•Miss
Saltcoats, this morning, Boyd Reid, Esr., aged 85 ncc,
to
of ohs
Ewing, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Ewing,
—Relief Body."

Mr. O'Connell's progress hitherto throughout Scot.
land has been quite at otatiod. The pool& ttitnedout
every where in thottsa.iitis, with bands and insia,2
o.,ia, on
the line between Edint,,,,-3.
....—.6 ,i and Glasgow, and he was
detained three long hours beyond the thne at which he
had expected to be in the last mentioned city. We
have not been disappointed in our expectations. We
know that little of the old bigotry adheres to the ex-
isting generation. The old traditions and remains of
superstition are fast disappearing from the remotest
, glens
• and, as the late Dr. M'Cree observed, the Scotch
of the present day are more anxious to improve the poli-
tical institutions of the country, than to embark in Sec-
tarian quarrels. In short, they have learnt to be on their
guard against men who make religion a stalking-horse
for temporal objects, who, affecting a zeal for the
spiritual welfare of others, are all the while trying
at their pockets. It is said that animals perviwa on
trees, on discovering certain gerpents beneath arc un-
able to look on any other object, and at last, in a state
of stupor, drop down on them; and become their
prey. Mr. O'Connell seems to have had some such
power of fascinating the Tory Peers. If their object
had been to furnish him with an irrefragable proof,
during his tour throughout the island, that wisdom
is not inherited, like land, they could not have im-
proved upon their conduct last Session. It was ab-
solute fatuity to proclaim aloud that their principle of
action was opposition to measures, not because they
were good or bad in themselves, but because they had
received the support of Mr. O'Connell. This was at
once condemning themselves, and justifying O'Connell
in proclaiming their utter incapacity to legislate f-2,-; finis
great empire. Their Lordships wererry indignant at
being called a mob, and one of the most ungovernable
mobs he had ever seen, by Lord Brougham. It is
characteristic of a mob that the most furious and head-
strong generally obtain the ascendancy. In this respect
the Peers were quite in character. It was no secret
that the Duke of Wellington was regularly obliged to
yield to the violent counsels of a Newcastle, a Win-
chelsea, and a Roden. But this is only what was to
have been expected. When the Duke of Wellington
had a crib for his asses, they were naturally obedient ;
but in this case they were left to the guidance of their
own perverse dispositions. Neither influenced by a wish
to stand well with constituents, by a dread to encounter
them, nor by the stimulus of loaves and fishes, they
were left to their hereditary qualities, and in the state of
mind which the Germans call schwaermen, from, the
swarming of bees, the ft enzy is in the inverse ratio of the
strength of the intellect. Mr. O'Connell has paid the
Peers in full, principal and interest. At every place
lie has been at great pains to impress on the people
the truth, that a Reform of the Peers must precede all
other reforms, because till they are reformed no bene-
ficial measure can be obtained. The people have every-
where greedily devoured his lessons. If their Lordships
imagine that the harvest, from the seed which has been
sown, will not be abundant, they greatly deceive them-
selves. Mr. O'Connell is powerful becaust he is the in-
terpreter of the spirit of the age. By that spirit the
House of. Peers in its present state is condemned ; and
the moment that a suitable plan is announced in the
proper quarter, it will be received with acclamation by
the nation. The people now thoroughly understand
why the Lords and the Commons acted in concert be-
fore the passing of the Reform Bill, and why they do
not now act in concert. " The House of Commons,
as was well observed by Mr. O'Connell, were the nomi-
nees of the House of Lords, and did its dirty work.
To keep their masters free, the House of Commons
took the spoiling of the people, they themselves get-
ting a share of the spoil. The lion does not quarrel
with the jackal. The Peers quarrel with the Com-
mons because they dare no longer, if they would, do
their dirty work. The people see that the Reform, to
be effective, must include the House of Lords. They
wish the benefit of double deliberation, but they do
not wish that hereditary incapacity should, by op-
posing every beneficial measure, fairly lock the wheels
of the Legislature. Various plans have been pro-
posed. Among others, Mr. O'Connell has also his.
" 1 am (he says) for altering the House of Lords ;
but I am content that 120 of them should be tried as
an experiment. Let the King retain his prerogative
of raising men to that rank and station to which they
may be eligible. Let every 200,000 men in Britain
and Ireland select one Lord—that will give 120 for
the 24,000,000 ; let them be re-eligible every three or
five years, and youiwill have a steady Chamber. Hove
is a practical system." The idea that Peers\ are ex-
empted from the common lot of hinnanit‘—that they
suck wisdom from their nurses--furnishes naturally
enough a theme for much merriment. Peers are, of
course, like other men, only having fewer motives for
exertion than the mass of men, in circumstances which
free them from the necessity of bodily labour; and
mental acquirements being only obtained by labour,
the presumption is, that in a given number of Peers,
there will be an unusually large proportion of weak-
minded persons. When Fletcher of Saltoun, by way
of joke, alluded to a hereditary professor of divinity
at Hamburgh, he did not utter any thing more
absurd than we have realized among ourselves, ex-
cept we are prepared to say that skill in legislation is
easier acquired than skill in divinity, and that it iR '
easier to find 300 skilled hereditary Legislators 'Chan'
one hereditary Divine. But if the Peers are made
responsible to the nation, the ablest and most inde-
pendent in circumstances will inturally be chosen as
Legislators, and this will greatly tend to raise the cha-
racter of the whole body, When a man can obtain
an object without lahour, he will be idle; but when
distitiCt44 On alone be obtained by exertion, Peers
will naturally exert themselves. Indeed the indispo-
sition of the present age to recognise any other pass-
port to honours than merit, has not been without ef-
fect on the Peers. We are bound in justice, to the
body to say, that though there are some- Veil distin-
guished fools in the body, yet there never was a pe-
riod in which that body contained so many accom-
plished individuals as at present. The Peers may
1 become a valuable institution by being placed in har-
many with the spirit of the age.—Morning Chronicle.

We believe it may be laid down as an axiom, that
those who are friends of the people have the Tories
for their enemies, and that those who are especially
befriended by the Tories may
.be pronounced enemies
of the people. When we see, therefore, all the evil
passions in the worst form of malignity, hatred, per-
secution, and depreciation, set in mischievous activity
by the Sbirri of the Conservative Oligarchs against
any individual, or individuals, we have a prinuz:facie
evidence in_ his or their favour, that they are friends
of the people. Such, as we have lately had occasion
to observe, is the position of Mr. O'Connell. His
notoriety—his popularity—his present triumphal pro-
gress through Scotland speak the same language.
What chiefly gives him that elevated position ? The
rabid attempt by the whole pack of Conservatives to
run him down. If there were no other proof, that
would furnish sufficient conviction to the people, that
an individual who provokes so much ill will from
their sworn enemies, must have some especial title to
their favour. Such is the position of a still greater
man than O'Connell, and who may be ectiwiaered
as one of the two links which commt4 sho past and
the present cycles of political men—and who is deci-
dedly in the present intellectual age, one of its fore-
-lAlP,s.t spirits---1-we mean Lord Brougham. Never, per-
haps, had any public man to encounter so inveterate
and incessant a series of attacks on his public and
even his private conduct, as was made on him during
the last year. The inveteracy of those attacks dPi-
..on-
strated the fear that was entertained of vast ability,
anti 91 honest exertions tie great cause of public
liberty. What " pains the eyes and grieves the heart"
of the Tories is to secyqilrlk the Lower House,
I,ord lironoliaM in the Upper—both supporting

" But the death,
Great hero, of thy Spartan friends, revives
The hopes of Persia. Thy unshaken arm
Maintains the conflict still. Against thy shield
The various weapons shiver, and thy feet
With glittering paints surround. The Persian sword,
The Lydian dagger, leave their shattered hilts ;
Bent is the Caspian seymttar. The axe,
The lance, the club, the arrow, all combine
Their fruitless efforts."
Never was a more illustrious exhibition of the predo-
minance of talent ; and we must bear in mind under
what circumstances this intellectual display of vigour
night after night in the House of Lords took place, '
after his Lordship had sat, morning by morning, from
ten to four, in the laborious and exhausting duty of
heariwr appeals. Here then was talent not only pre-
eminent in its walk, but corroborated beyond all pro-
portion by its proved di".!interestedness, embarked frankly
and entirely in be3*.ialf of that popular cause to which
his Lordship tias consecrated an entire consistent life.
Here wa9, enough to account for and explain the hatred,
the malice, the misinterpretation, the ruthless perti-
nacity of his Conservative maligners. Through him
a blow is aimed at the people ; but the people will
know how to estimate the real drift of attacks levelled
at their truest and great friend. It is but duty to
themselves to support him on every occasion, with all
their heart and strength, and at every attempt made to
deduct from the honour which belongs to him, to ho-
nour him the more.—Morning Advertiser.
Daniel's exhibition at Glasgow came off on Mon-
day, and it would seem, not a little reluctantly on his
part. Monday was clearly the b-est day that could
have been selected, for from time immemorial, it has
ever been the idling day blackguards. Accordingly,
there was a mighty '.s."‘rong muster of that part of the
Glasgow cominii:„ily on the Public Green, where the
hustings `4 re erected, and the " Trades marched out
to n 07.1 Old Bruin to the stake with all the honours.
Jtat Dan'was not to be found, and the " Trades "
marched back again to kick their heels upon the Green.
There, however, they were not entirely thrown upon
their own resources (whistling and chuck-farthing)
for Dr., Bowring enlightened them with Ms views
of political affairs, and bored them after his ac-
customed fashion, with an account of his travels.
The respectability of his audience was capitally il-
lustrated by the fact, that in the midst of his discourse
his pocket was picked of " a new silk pocket hand-
kerchief." No doubt the Glasgow Liberal who
stole it thought that a gentleman whose hands are so
constantly employed in the operation of blowing his
own trumpet could have no opportunity of blowing his
nose, and therefore appropriated the surplus article:
or he may have thought that wearing a pocket hand-
kerchief was a piece of aristocracy not to be endured
on such an occasion, in an out-and-out Radical lily,
the Doctor. These agreeable pastimes were ir:ter-
rupted by. the appearance of Daniel himselt, who
mounting the hustings, apologized for keeping the
audience waiting, in a story no part of which we
venture to predict, will be found to contain one word of
truth. He told them that the people on the road
had " tinned out in thousands, "with bands and
insignia, and detained him, for three long hours be-
-vond the time he had calculated upon." We verily
believe that nothing of the sort occurred, though it
is not unlikely Daniel may have made a long-
winded speech ,to some spore of star-gazers on the
road in order to gain time, and avoid being brought
into the town in the projected mode : for we know
that he is mortified to the last degree at finding that
there is not a single respectable man who does not
avoid him, and that they who called him into Scotland
are merely making a show of him. Still his apology
was the' most sneaking and the most slavish that eve:,
man humbled himself to make, and must have satisfied
the " Majesty of the people," even if his said
'High-
ness had been as exacting as the Grand Tuik. This
episode concluded, Daniel repeas!td the: principal pas-
sages of his speeches at Ms.neheter, Newcastle, and
Edinburgh, with almost yearbal accuracy, and with great
applause, and then retired to the Tontine Hotel. It
is not recorded that his pocket was picked. Probably
Dr. Bowring had informed him how useful buttons
are among the " tin ies " at Glasgow. The second
part of the 'performances consisted of what is face-
ti^l..-;:iy called a soiree, but which was in fact a
" Free and Easy," given at the Bazaar, by " the
Trades." The tickets were 3s. each, and for this
each person got " a cup of tea or coffee, one slice of
bread, and a bottle of whisky punch." We should
have thought it would have required more than one
bottle of whisky punch to make even such an assent-