The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-26 00:00:00

Al', AUG UST 26, 1,935.

extinction as an independent branch of the Le-
gislature, unless they amend their ways and con-
sult more the interests of the people, from whom
they derive, and by whom they are suffered to re-
tain
their pwcr, than those which, through an
ignorant and blind infatuation, they imagine to be ex-'
elusively their own. There was a time when that
House was denominated the Upper House—when it
was not only respected, but, we may add, in some
measure, revered and 1
w--- ny the people; but these •
Luc days in which it acted upon liberal and liopu-
• lar principles—when it did lint make war upon the
peopll,
,the l3et olet, fights:n:4llH, iiii
it spoke with the same voice that the latter did, and,
unfettered by prejudice, or party object, or anti-.
popular bias, drew no line of distinction between
its own interests and those of the " coffee of all
legitimate power." Happy would it have been for
the Lords, and happy for the country, had this course
been persevered in---=and this fediiig nidiiit4iiicct ; but
a eletid lids Zoine over the spirit of the Lords—the
veil has been rent in twain, and instead of finding in
their Lordships the friends and protectors of the
people's rights, we find more than two-thirds of their
body bent upon the most arrogant and selfish objects,
and determined upon drawing a line of distinction
between themselves and the unprivileged classes, which
will leave no alternative to the latter but of putting an
end to it, by the extinction of its authors. Nay, they
have drawn the line of distinction—they have sepa-
rated themselves from the people—they declared war
against them—and on them be the evils which must
result from the contest I The people have not pro-
voked it. They have been as patient as they have been
firm—as mild as they have been determined. They
have sought for nothing but that to which they are
justly entitled, and they have sought for that in the
most peaceable manner ; but if their quiet remon-
strances—their peaceful meetingstheir humble pe-
titions, fail of effect, it is not impossible that either
through. their representatives, or by themselves, they
may have recourse to those effectual measures of re-
dress, which, however painful, have in all cases given
the victory to the people.—Moiwing Advertiser.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

(Before Lord BROUGHAM and other Peers.)

APPEALS.-LIEUT. COL. GORDON V. ANDERSON AND OTHERS.

Testerday morning, Dr. LUSHINGTON was heard in re-
ply, and in the course of his argument adverted to the opi-
nions entertained by some of the Judges of the Court of
Session, a judgment delivered by Lord Eldon in a case of
appeal to this House, analogous in principle to the present
one, and in which judgment the Learned Judge had ex-
premed a feeling of dissent.
Lord BROUGHAM, in the course of his observations on
the case, expressed his great surprize at the opinions which
the Learned Counsel had stated as entertained by Judges
of the Scottish Courts in opposition to those of so learned
and excellent a Judge as Lord Eldon, adding, that there
never was a more able Judge, and never were the appeal
cases more anxiously considered, than at the time when his
Learned and Venerable Friend sat on the Woolsack. He
concluded by stating, that he should take time to consider
the present ease further ere he gave his decision on it.
The judgment in the case of Warrender v. Warrender
was postponed till Thursday.