The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-13 00:00:00

Me. Duncombe, Lord Ebrington, Mr. °Ton- i.
itell, and Mr. James, were the high constitutional
authorities who stood forward to volunteer the i
sanction of their eminent names to the degrada-
tion
and virtual destruction of the House of!
Lords— four persons, the manifestation of whose
hostility can certainly have no other effect than
that of making the Upper House of Parliament
feel somewhat more secure than it was before. If
the names of these four champions of packing
should, however, not be deemed sufficient to dis-
credit the contrivance which they only of all the
House of Commons have been courageous
enough to support, we feel that we may confi-
dently
appeal to their arguments upon the sub-
ject as a final completion to the task which their
well-known characters had so auspiciously begun.
Mr. Duncombe will have Earl Grey to pack the
House of Lords by the introduction of a hun-
dred menials of the Administration (less than
this we assure him will not do, and nobody
knows it better than Earl Grey), first, because
the Earl of Oxford packed the House of Lords
in the reign of Queen Anne by the introduction 1
of twelve menials of his Administration ; se-
condly, because the Earl of Oxford was im-
peached by the unpacked House of Commons
of that day for advising this abuse of the prero-
gative ; and, thirdly, because having to be tried
by the tribunal which he had previously packed,.
the arl of Oxford escaped the punish-
ment which every body now, Reformers in-
cluded, admits he richly deserved. Lord
Ebrington is of opinion that Earl Grey
will prove himself a patriot by doing precisely
the same thing for doing which he the said
Lord Ebrington thinks the Earl of Oxford was
a traitor ; first, because the present Premier
would not have been justified in bringing the
Reform Bill a second time before Parliament
unless he was determined to carry it per fas et
nefas ; and, secondly, because he (Lord
Ebrington), who is a high authority in such mat-
ters, happens to like the Reform Bill, and
happens also to be one of that order in intellect
and morals who would always get what they like
per fas et nyas. Mr. O'Connell ;vas for a
large, and, indeed, an unlimited creation of
Peers, because, first, the petition to the King,
which gave rise to the conversation, praying his
Majesty not thus to abuse and prostitute his pre-
rogative, was signed by the possessors of property in
a single English county to the amount of ten mil-
lions of money, a proof; by Hibernian and Rockite
logic, that the country is unanimous in favour
of such a creation ; and, secondly, the silence of
the Gazette satisfied him that, in urging the
King to pack the House of Lords, Ministers
would outrage the feelings of the Sovereign and
offend the dignity of the Throne. Mr. O'Con-
nel: has no belief in the disposition of the Mo-
narch to pack, degrade, annihilate the House of
Lords, neither have we. He thinks this the
best of all possible reasons why the King's Mi-
nister should insist upon the packing, degrada-
tion, annihilation. IA e think differently. Each
is consistent with himself, and each infinitely
more respectable than the Minister of the King,
who willingly permits ambiguity to exist upon
such a subject for an hour. Mr. James, the
last of the packing Committee of four, sail
that the weavers of Carlisle were strongly in fa-
vour of the manufacture of Peers, and he, their
suitable representative, approved of it also
upon this occasion, heeause he felt convinced
that the Reform Bill being once passed,
the Sovereign would never more dare to
create any Peers whatever, except in obedi-
ence
to the wishes of a Reformed House of
Commons. After these strong arguments in its
favour, and the great weight of personal respec-
' tability and political wisdom and honesty by
' which they were advanced, the new batch of Re-
' form Peers will appear in the next Gazette, or
we suppose Earl Grey must reckon upon losing
the support of Mr. Duncombe, Lord Ebrington,
Mr. O'Connell, and Mr. James. Great losses
unquestionably to such an Administration as the
present. But others unfortunately, as well as
these distinguished four, expressed either by
words, or by a silence equally expressive, their
sentiments upon the subject. The Whig and
Reformer, Mr. Bvng, was called upon to say
something upon personal matters connected with
the petition, but not a word in favour of pack-
ing the House of Lords escaped from him.
Ire, although a Whig and a Reformer, hap-
pens by some strange chance to be a man
who has a character to lose. Mr. Fane, also
a Reformer, intimated in express words that
any attempt to pack the House of 1_ ords
would alienate him from the cause of Re-
form. To deny that there are many who have
voted in favour of the Bill, who yet feel as Mr.
Fine feels, would be in effect to affirm that the
Bill has been supported exclusively by unprin-
Icipled revolutionists. And if there be one in
four, time exact proportion which this conversation
exhibited, who voted for the Bill, and who are
actuated nevertheless by the same honourable
and constitutional feelings with this gentleman,
it is arithmetically certain that an attempt to pack
the House of Lords would leave the Bill in a mi-
nority in the House of Commons. Why does
not Earl, Grey bring forward his menial Peers
' We confidently and triumphantly dare him to
Gazette the twenty-five demanded by Mr. O'Con-
nell for a beginning, being less than one-fourth
the number he kno:vs he will require. Hypocrisy
and delusion have lasted long enough. Let the
country, we say, at length know what it is about,
and upon what footing it stands.—Morning Post.

A great sensation has been excited at Ilan-
dovery and its neighbourhood, by a discovery which came
to light under the following singular circtunstancea
Monday the 30th ult. as the sexton of Llandingan church
was digging a grave in a spot where it was traditionally
reported that an eminent attorney of the above town had
been buried about 80 years ago, when he had proceeded to
a certain depth, he discovered the bones of a dead body
in a considerable state of decay, and about the chest he
perceived small white sparkling globules intermixed with
the decomposed remains of the stomach ; on disturbing
these, his surprise was great when be found they were
liquid, and that they readily united together, forming a fluid
not the least affected by the earth through which it passed.
The sextrn suspecting it to be quicksilver, immediately
went and informed a few respectable individuals, ssho,
upon arriving at the grave, were decidedly of the same
opinion. Upon a closer exarninati n more of it Was dis-
covered, and it was concluded that the quantity observed
may have been about the weight of three or four pounds.
Curiosity bring now rife, many visited the grave, and still
more numerous were the inquiries as to the original cause
why the mercury should have been found in such a silua-
tion. Soule concluded that the attorney, in whose le
mains it was found, must have met his death by poison;
whilst others were of opinion that it might have been ad-
ministered to him medicinally, it being formerly con-
sidered a remedy for intestinal obstructions.
There
can
be hut little doubt of the i entity of the body, from the
situation in which it was found. All that is known of
the manner of his death is, that some old people have been
heard to say that one night, having ate his supper as
lanai in perfect health, lie retired to bed, and next morn-
ing was found a corpse. We give the above as a true and
circumstantial account, as several marvellous stories have
been in circulation on the subject. Sorue of the quick-
silver and earth yet remain in the possession of one or two
persons at Lldndovery.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.