The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-02 00:00:00

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LONDON:
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 131511.

The want of temper, and the undignified demeanour,
displayed by the Lon DCItANC EL L R, in his attempt to
reply to the overwhelming speech of Lord BROUGHAM
on the Amendment to the Address, have been very
conveniently slurred over by the Tory Journals. Some
of these fair-trial bellowers have had the fairness to
leave out of their report altogether the . expressions-
used by Lord LYNDirtntsT, thinking them dero-
gatory to the _high station which that Noble and
Learned and moral Lord has been called to fill,
while they have given a prominent place to what
these indecent personalities called forth 4rom Lord
BROUGHAM in reply. This answers a double
purpose : it supports the character of a Tory Lord,
though at the expense of truth, a trifle' for such
an object, and it makes Lord BROUGHAM appear
warm without any adequate cause. We are not at all
surprised at this one-handed distribution of justice in
such quarters. We_ have not forgotten how Lord
BROUGHAM was . lately assailed by those -honourably-
minded persons who never failed to make, if they could
not find, an opportunity of attacking him. We remember
well how the. Noble and Learned Lord was reviled, if a
hasty expression- now and then escapekhim towards
the STANHOPgS, ELL ENBOROUGIS, the LON-
DONDERRIES, and others of that high class of states-
men, when they used to club together their intellectual
resources for the purpose of annoying him. They
seemed altogether to forget, that when flies come buzz-
ing about the lion's head, he brushes them away with a
shake of his mane, or that when a pert snarler will persist
in yelping in his face after due notice, a gentle pat with
the paw is the approved method of abating the nui-
sance. But dropping metaphor,- we beg to ask the
most virulent detractor of Lord BROUGHAM, if he can
say that even under the greatest and most studied pro-
vocations, the Noble and Learned Lord ever carried
his want of courtesy so far—ever so far lost sight of
what was due to the dignity of the seat which he occu-
pied, and of the assembly which he addressed, as to
call any of the Peers a liar.
Yet what does Lord LYNDHURST say on the occa-
sion to which we have referred ? • He declares that
Lord BROUGHAM uttered an UNTRUTH. That is
the happy word selected by the present cool and
courteous occupant of the Woolsack, and 'applied to
his predecessor in office. Is this, we beg to be in-
formed, courtesy at Common Law, or in equity ?

It was a most unfortunate exhibition of temper.
Lord LYNDHURST'S ears were shut against what
Lord BROUGHAM did say, and open only to what he
ought to have said. The Noble and Learned Lord's
conscience told him that the conduct to which Lord
BROUGHAM alluded so mercifully, afforded an in-
stance of the basest, the most hardened, and the most
disgusting profligacy, ever recorded in the annals of po-
litical prostitution.

When the Tories shall have recovered from their
present exasperation, they may begin to see what is
plainly manifest to every other man in Britain, that as
a party they are destroyed for ever. Sir ROBERT
PEEL himself already apprehends it ; his subdued tone
in announcing to the House that it was not his inten-
tion to attempt the subversion of the preceding night's
decision, contrasted with the wild cry to his adherents
on the memorable occasion' of his second defeat, to be
at their posts in order that the attempt might be made,
sufficiently acknowledges it. This humiliating decla-
ration that, so far from the division being accidental, it
was a fair intimation that the sense of the House is
against him, was unaccompanied by a high-minded
resignation ; he may be compelled to make one or two
more attempts probably to save the men, but the party,
as such, is utterly and irretrievably ruined, and in his
heart he cannot doubt it.

There remains only one other resource to protract
their exit from the political stage—a fresh appeal to
the country ; but what can they expect, if not from