The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-27 00:00:00

The sword must be sharpened, the scabbard
thrown away. "No quarter, no surrender," the
word. To save our own lives we must take
those of the enemy, and the same hand which
strikes to mutilate the Bill must cut down its
wretched authors. The proverb says, " Give a
Whig rope and he will hang himself." Our
Ministers have verified it. Who now reposes
confidence in them ? The Unions ? No. The
Irish ? No. Cobbett himself gives them up.
Why then should the Peers not give them at
once the coup de grike? To spare them now
is to justify their policy and perpetuate their
misrule. Earl Grey feels deeply, and he has
expressed with becoming earnestness, his sense
of ministerial responsibility. We do not wish
to lighten his load, but light it is, and lighter
still will it appear in the eyes of all his country-
men, compared with that which the Noble Lords
already named will incur if they lengthen,
aye by a single hour, the political existence
of their enemy. He acts for the best accord-
ing to the measure of light vouchsafed to
him. He thinks a democracy and monarchy
compatible. He fears not ten-pound house-
holders ; no, not he ; they are the best of legis-
lators ; nor Political Unions, they are the best
of counsellors; nor mobs and Rotundas, they
are safety-valves to popular ebullitions. He
anticipates no danger to Protestant interests from
one hundred Popish Parliamentary delegates.
They must swear not to injure the Church, and
Papists never quibble about an oath, not they.
To him O'Connell's late explanation of its
meaning in the Irish Political Union was doubt-
less satisfactory, an augury of the blessed re-
pose which we shall enjoy from Popish aggres-
sion in a reformed Parliament. To him
the visits of Mr. Place, the tailor, are a pleasing
diversity, and pledge of popular favour. To him
the persecution of ancient Allies and the support
of mushroom revolutionary Governments is a
policy both peaceful and honourable. To
him, in short, a Whig Administration is a
" twice blessed." "It blesseth him that gives,
and him that takes"—the country and the
family. But you, my Lords, think none of
these things ! you see not with his eyes, nor
hear with his ears ; nor will you be judged by
his conscience, but by your own. Wide as the
• Poles asunder are your views, your feelings,
hopes, and interests ; and his friendship is yet
more dangerous than his hatred. There is death
in the cup which he has mixed. Without your
support his Government must fall. To us, the
people, as contradistinguished from the mob,
you are responsible for all the mischief which its
continuance may occasion. That mischief you
estimate as clearly as ourselves ; you de-
plore it, you deprecate it, you can avert
it, and dare you hesitate ? No, my Lords ;
they slander you who impugn your courage, your
wisdom, or your zeal. To all such base detrac-
tors you will give the lie by actions as honour-
able as your motives ; tamper no more with the
enemy who mocks you, but pursue him to the
death.—Morning Post.

" Save me from my friends," is a prayer
which Ireland ought to put up every day and
hour of her existence ; for whether she suffers
most from her open enemies, or her pretended
friends, is a question which it is not easy to
solve. The injuries inflicted by the former are
indeed the most apparent ; but those which the
killing kindness of' the latter bring upon her,
though more disguised, are not the less real.
Thus, for example, there are few national bene-
fits of which Ireland stands more in need, than
a more extensive and improved system of edu-
cation than that which she enjoys at present ;
yet now that Government has proposed a plan
which is evidently a great improvement upon
the present defective system, or rather no sys-
tem—which does not trench upon the freedom
of the Catholic's conscience, any more than
it is any part of its object to convert the Protest-
ant into a Catholic—a species of ballot ad in-
terneeionenz is proclaimed against it, as if it had
not only both these objects in view, but also
that of unchristianizing the whole community !
To defend Government against such a charge
would be needless ; for only the veriest helots
in religion and politics would give credence to it;
but we cannot help expressing a regret, in which
all the sincere friends of Ireland will join, that
to the unnatural evils under which she labours
should be added that of every plan for their re-
moval being thwarted by party prejudice, or de-
feated by a iiertinacious bigotry not less repre-
hensible.—Atorning Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

IILANSION-HOUSE.

A decision of considerable importance respecting
the construction of the Act of Parliament relating
to unstamped publications, was given yesterday by
the sitting magistrate, Alderman S:r CHAPMAN
MARSHALL.

Two persons, named Thurgood and BarneB, were
charged with obstructing the foot-pavement by offer-
ing for sale certain unstamped publications. They
had been remanded by the Lord Mayor for the
purpose of having the City Solicitor's opinion, whe-
ther a magistrate had power to punish under the 60th
Geo. 111. for selling such publications.

Mr. David Wire, on the part of the defendants,
stated to Sir Chapman, that at Bow-street the ma-
gistrates had decided, after hearing the arguments of
Mr. Adolphus., that they had no jurisdiction over the
offence, unless preferred by the solicitor for stamps,
and also that Mr. Broughton, of Worship-street,
feeling the force of this objection, had dismissed a
case similar to those now present.
Mr. Newman, the City Solicitor, said his opinion
of the construction of the act was in favour of the
jurisdiction of the magistrate, where punishment for
the offence was what was sought. He admitted
that an information would be necessary to be laid by
the Attorney-General or the Solicitor for the Stamp-
office where fine or forfeiture was contemplated ; but
the Magistrate had still the power to deal summarily
with it as a punishable offence.
Mr. Wire said there was a forfeiture in this case
of an extensive nature,—the forfeiture of the liberty
of the person.
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL said he felt it to be his
duty to act upon the opinion expressed by the law•
officers of the corporation; and therefore, as the
offence had been clearly proved, and the men still
persisted in declaring their determination to continue
their conduct, he should direct that they be impri-
soned for the space of one month each.