The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-19 00:00:00

SPlltirf OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Am-Aber damning charge brought against Mr.
O'Cr Amen by the renegade Journal which makes such
mu' ving appeals to the "high-minded gentry, and right-
tb:inking people of England," is abuse of the Peers.
'Yes, the former lampooner of the Duke of Cumber-
land, and present Cumberland apologist, dares to bring,
.as a charge against Mr. O'Connell, abuse of the
Peers. The Times, taking the Peerage of England
cinder its protection, and sitting as judge upon the un-
lucky wights who may happen to apply intemperate
language to the Peers I Why this, is, of anything,
worse than the Cumberland business ; for, revolting
as were the calumnies and insinuations indulged in by.
the Times against the Duke of Cumberland, their at-
tacks upon him were made only by fits and starts, inci-
dentally and occasionally happening; whereas against
the Peers the thunders of Printing-house-square were
for years assiduously and unremittingly directed.
In shoWering abusive epithets on their Lordships,
The Tinies ransacked its well-furnished treasury of
choi test Billingsgate, and the combinations which
language affords seemed insufficient to express the
indignation and contempt with which the op-
-position offered by the Tory Peers to the Church
Corporate, and Legal Reforms, were regarded by that
Journal. Then the " Tory portion of the House
of Lords" was held up to public odium as
a " GREAT DEPOT OF CORRUPTION AND PUBLIC
BOB:SERY." " THE OLD FACTION which had for
so ulany years held possession of the Government by
the; single tenure of abuse of all the national institu-
ti ons ;" the practice of whose Government was de-
cribed as having been " A REGULAR SCHEME OF
FRAUD AND PLUNDER," and who were said to have
" used the product of the taxes as a landlord does the
rents of his own freehold estate," " emptying the
Treasury to find unearned incomes for their unpro-
vided and expensive families," and " pinching the
public service in many important branches, that these
.swarms of patrician locusts might be multiplied and
gorged." No later than in June, 1833, the Tories
-.were held up by the Times as " an isolated and hated
coterie. THE PUBLIC ENEMY—THE OLD AND
SC.OTCILED AND WRITHING DRAGONS OF THE
OLIGARCHY, in whose eyes office was valuable only
as affording them " a monopoly of dominion over
the spoils of the United Empire ;" and in June, 1834,
LAST SUMMER! the Tory Peers are threatened—
" If the LORDS can be no otherwise brought to their senses
than by unmasking the mighty power which they injure
and offend, and proving to their Lordships that they can no
longer defeat their King and country's service with impu-
nity ; we do affirm that it is the bounden and imperative
duty of a Minister to tell them, SINCE I CANNOT DEAL
WITH YOU, THE COUNTRY SHALL. Since your perseverance
in your actual course is incompatible with all good govern-
ment,—in other words, with the paramount interest of the
nation,—THE NATION SHALL TA}tE YOU INTO ITS OWN
HANDS, and teach you that great moral and political lesson
of which I know, from sad experience, that you are blindly
and profoundly ignorant."
We suppose this meant something like a reform or
remodelling of the obnoxious Chamber. Perhaps the
Times will inform us what is meant by " the nation
taking the Peers into its own hands, and teaching
them a great moral and political lesson ;" and will
further explain, what it has never yet condescended
to do, how it comes to give • its support to those
" old and scotched and writhing dragons of the
oligarchy," who are now metamorphosed into " high-
minded gentry and right-thinking people ;" and
who were formerly said to desire office only as
affording " a monopoly of dominion over the spoils
of the United Empire ;" their previous govern-
ment being, according to its own showing, nothing
but one " regular scheme of fraud and plunder." Per-
haps the Times will also be so good as to explain
away—nay, to soften down into complimentary lan-
guage, the simple and expressive term applied to their
Lordships, of constituting " a great depot of corrup-
tiGn and public robbery." When these trifling tasks
arc completed, then, and not till then, we think, the
Times may indulge its virtuous indignation in rebuking
Mr. O'Connell for abuse of the Peers. In the mean
time, we recommend the following article to its espe-
cial attention :

[From the Times of July 15, 1833:1

It is not long ago since this journal apprised the country
that the Duke of Wellington had formally and finally taken
the command of the Opposition Peers, and that the
phalanx so directed was prepared for all political extremi-
ties with the House of Commons and the nation. That

:statement was literally true, and before the end of the pre-
sent week, unless the enemy's councils shall have undergone
some change, the truth of it will be demonstrated by the
rejection of a measure on which the whole people of the
United Kingdom have staked their hopes, and Lord Grey's
Administration its existence.

There is no use in addressing one's-self to the judg-
ment of politicians who are drunk with confidence in their
own power, incredulous of all virtue in public men, inve.
terately distrustful of the people of England, and reckless
of every human object but the resumption of a 'despotism
over the persons and properties of their fellow-subjects,
which they have already too long abused, to the scandal of
our much-boasted British liberty, and to the lasting detri-
ment of the State. The close brotherhood of such indi-
viduals as Bishop Philpott's, the Duke of Cumberland,
and Lord Lyndhurst, all acting as lieutenants under the
hero of anti-Reform, is enough to stamp the character of
the present Opposition. THAT OPPOSITION MUST BE
CRUSHED, OR IT WILL DESTROY THE COUNTRY. The
alternative is obviously, not whether the persons compo-
sing the Ministry shall be changed, but whether Lord
Grey, Lord Brougham, and practical Reform—or Mr.
Manners Sutton, with the myrmidons of a military Duke
and inevitable revolution, shall be the lot assigned to or.
That question, as we have said, is now on the point of
being settled.
The Church Temporalities Bill is to be thrown out—
thrown out, as is generally anticipated, on the second
reading. But if that course be too straightforward for
the revolutionists, the Bill will be cut to pieces in com-
mittee ; and, thus mutilated and thus deformed, will be
:sent- down once more to the House of Commons, for that
assembly to register the edict of the oligarchs, and its
own humiliation. Such a game, however, will not be
played with success.
. The designs of the TORY REVOLUTIONISTS need only
be understood to be counteracted effectually. The first
defeat of the Government in the House of Lords—no mat-
ter how apparently trivial the question—ought to be the
signal for a peremptory resignation of office, a delay of even
24 hours would be construed into a readiness to undergo
fresh insults for the mere love of place. That is a consi-
deration which affects the honour of the Ministry ; but there
is another, suggested by the known tactics of the Tories,
and it is of immense importance.

THE FACTION OP THE OLIGARCHY does not wish to
assume the Government at present : its object is to expose
the weakness of the Whigs, by inflicting on them a series
of severe, though not immediately fatal, mortification: ; to

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take advantage of what is conceived to be their
progressive decline in public respect and confidence ; and,
when they are ripe and ready for the gathering, to shake
them to the ground. The Tories are well apprised that
they could not govern England at this moment, nor do
they count on much positive advance in favour with their
countrymen. They know that a profound and impassable
gulf divides the political principles of the English nation
from those by which the corrupt rule of Toryism has hi-
therto been upheld, and that if they ever come in at all, it
must be after the services of Lord Grey's Government, and
the misdeeds of former ones, shall have been obscured or
forgotten.
Now, the best method of frustrating such a scheme, is
to go out on the first proof which can be laid before his
Majesty that the House of Lords, as at present constitu-
ted, is too powerful an enemy for his official servants to
contend with. If the Crown and its Ministers, with the
House of Commons at their back, be unable to carry those
measures which all three concur in regarding as indispen-
sable to the safety of Church and State, what remains but
that Crown, Ministers, and people should surrender, and
SUCCUMB TO THE ORDINANCES OF THE CONSERVATIVE

CLUB-HOUSE, or that the liberal portion of the Peers
should be reinforced, and made a match for their oligarch
opponents ? If Lord Grey resigns at once, be disconcerts
the plan of Tory operations, by forcing the faction to ac-
cept that government which they are avowedly unprepared
to exercise. The Sutton or Narcissus Cabinet have then
but one alternative—either it must go to on with the actual
House of Commons, of which at least five parts out of six
are diametrically opposed to them, or they must risk a new
election, with a constituency incensed almost to madness
through the repeated disappointments of its best founded
hopes, inflicted upon it by the same Tory Ministers who
demand from it a fresh choice of representatives. Neither
then of such attempts can, in all human probability, be
successful. Sir John Wrottesley's motion on Thursday
next may, indeed, determine the whole point at issue, with-
out rendering it necessary, in honour of sound policy, for
Ministers to do more than submit the amount of the ma-
jority on that motion to the King, and take the Royal
pleasure as to the expediency of suffering so grave a collision