The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-26 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

•The Rev. Dr. Causton, from the Hanover Hotel, Hanover-
square. for his seat, Turweston House, Brackley, Northampton ;
Colonel Salway, from ditto, for Egham-park, Surrey ; Byam Mar-
tin, Esq., from ditto, for Tunbridge Wells • Earl and Countess of
Cadogan, from the Green-park Hotel, Piccadilly,: for Queensberry
House.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The discussion was resumed last night. The speakers in support of
the address, were Mr. Robinson, Lord Stormont, Lord Stanley; Mr.
Praed, Colonel Chatterton, Colonel Pereeval, Mr. Goulburn, and Mr.
Baring; those who spoke in favour of the amendment, were Mr. Ward,
Captain Berkeley, Dr. Lushington, Mr. Sheil, Mr. H. Grattan, Lord
J. Russell, and Mr. D. W. Harvey. We direct attention to the speech
of Lord John Russell, who made an attempt to persuade the House
that there existed no difference of opinion among the members of the
Melbourne Cabinet on the question of Irish Church Reform, but the
noble Lord was unlucky enough to state the nature of his own opinion
on that subject, and Mr. Goulburn immediately demonstrated from the
reported speeches of members of the Melbourne Cabinet, especially from
one of Lord Brougham, that Lord John Russell's opinion was at variance
with that of some of his late colleagues. Mr. Goulburn, too, exposed the
weakness and the disingenuousness of the whole harangue, in framing
which, the chief end of the ',me Lord anneara to have been to obtain
the " sweet voices" of his new allies and former opponents. We ihall,
if we have room, notice the debate to.morrow at greater length.—
Times.

The second night's debate on the Address to the Throne in answer
to his Majesty's Speech proceeded most triumphantly for the cause of
good government, and social security and peace, in Great Britain, which
the public indeed must know from the momeirt that we have mentioned
the names of Mr. Secretary Goulburn, Mr. Baring, and Mr. Praed, as
among its advocates. These distinguished senators proved themselves
to be the fit and worthy auxiliaries of Sir Robert Peel, not merely by
overthrowing the arguments of their opponents, which was comparatively
an easy task, but by encountering what may be considered the greatest
difficulty by which the talent of an orator can be tried, and achieving in
this hazardous encounter the most splendid success—the difficulty, we
mean, of following upon the same subject a consummate master
of the art. Of the magnificent oration of the Premier on the
first night of the debate it is impossible to speak in terms of
adequate praise. It has produced upon the temper, feelings, and
opinions of society, the greatest and most immediate effect that, per.
haps, ever flawed from any single effort; and has literally left
the Whigs without the shadow of an apology, or pretext for the .fac.
tious, disloyal, and reckless course upon which they have entered. It
is impossible, we will venture to say, for any man to have read that
speech without being convinced of these three propositions :—First,
that the present Government mean to bring and to urge forward with
promptitude, sincerity, and zeal every measure of improvement in the
institutions of the country that is necessary for its welfare, or capable
of being carried into effect in the present state of the public mind
without such a struggle between conflicting portions of society as
would produce evils more than equiponderant with any benefit which
the most sanguine advocates of these changes can affect to anticipate from
[heir immediate adoption. Secondly, that the present Government pos-
sesses in a greater degree than any other that can be constituted the neces-
sary influence and authority to secure the willing acceptance of the re.
forms it has determined to propose by the three branches of the legislature.
And, thirdly, that the banded confederates of the Opposition are, from
the essential contrariety of their principles, and from the mutual opi-
nions of and feelings towards each other which they entertain, and
have recently expressed, in a state of moral and political incapacity to
furnish the materials of a consistent and harmonious Government, to
replace that which it is their common purpose, the single purpose which
they have in common, to overthrow. These propositions have, we af.
firm, been established by the unanswered and unanswerable speech of
Sir Robert Peel in a manner which may defy refutation, and which
cannot fail to set the mind of the nation completely at rest upon the
whole of them. The effect upon the national mind is already manifest,
and it is now universally acknowledged by moderate and reflecting
men of the most opposite political and party predilections that the main.
tenance of the existing Administration and the defeat of its factious and
spiteful assailants have become a public interest of the most vital im.
portance.—Morning Post.

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—Yesterday morning
as the House of Commons was about to adjourn, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer presented, by command of his
Majesty, copies of the report of the Lords of the Council upon
the evidence taken respecting the destruction by fire of the
two Houses of Parliament ; and of the evidence taken there-
upon. They were ordered to be printed. These proceedings
were not heard in the gallery, owing to the noise made by
Members quitting the House. The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer at the same time intimated that on Monday next he
should move the appointment of a Committee respecting
" New Houses" of Parliament. The houses taken in Parlia-
ment-street, Great George-street, &c., for offices for the
House of Commons are engaged for three years certain,
within which time it is hoped that new houses and offices may
be provided.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland arrived, on Tues-
day, at two o'clock, at his house in Berkeley-square, from
Dublin. His Lordship left the Castle, at Dublin, on Satur-
day, shortly after the arrival of the mail, with the result of the
division on the choice of the Speaker of the House of Corn-
nr:ons. His Lordship had a most dangerous and tempestuous
passage across the Irish Channel, which materially delayed his
arrival in London. It was the intention of his Lordship to
have visited his Majesty previous to the delivery of his Speech
to the two Houses of Parliament; but with the utmost dispatch
in travelling, he only reached London at the instant the King
was entering the House of Lords. His Lordship was in ex-
cellent health.

THE STRANGER IN AMERICA.—The writer of
these volumes is the editor of the " Encyclopedia Americana,"
and is probably the person most fitted to perform the task of
being commentator on the political institutions and social state
of America, of all those who have figured in that character.
Besides being a man of high talent, of most extensive general
information, and of habits of philosophic investigation, he has
acquired extensive experience as a traveller in Europe. In
truth, we have read no work but one on the same subject in
which there is so much interesting matter. It is presented to
us in the form of letters, which, if not so methodical as those
of Washington Irving, contain an equal quantity of matter,
with rather more variety, and are written in a style vet more
vivacious, and abounding in illustration.---Morning
A melancholy accident recently occurred at a village
in the North of France. A countrywoman returning home
about half-past six in the evening, was stopped near her own
house by a figure dressed in white and disguised by a mask,
who stretched out his arms to impede her progress. The poor
creature, frightened to death, cried out for help and ran away
as fast as she could. She reached her own door, but was im-
mediately seized with the pains of labour, and shortly gave
birth to a child, perfectly black, from the fright which too
mother experienced. The unfortunate woman died alrest im-
mediately, leaving a family of six young children.