The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-29 00:00:00

Middlesex being different to what it is in any other part '
of England" is beneath reply. In what part of England,
except in London and Middlesex, are a million and a
half of human beings huddled together P In London,
in the accursed dens or tern nation, no one is known ;
in the country every bil4l frequenting such places would
at once be ascertained, and their character (their only
property) for ever 19§t, Lord Brougham evidently
knows as
about the customs of the sound part of
, or he
E''''..nct as he, tIM tthout the law of eq u t
would 14451 i to utter such frothy no; ;,sense. Thoks
to tht Rouse of Lords, the tendency of Met*S. Vlume
and Co.'s mischievous concodl'aS was fully appre-
ciated, and the mem itself flung to the dogs. The
Irish mountebank, who had a natural liking for " bear-
d-fidale legislation, has abused the Lords for re-
.jetting this Bill : this was a matter of course : but all
• men of common sense and moral principle will see in
the rejection another motive for respecting this calum-
niated branch of the Legislature.— Tunes.

If the intention of the Irish Agitator in making his
Northern tour of democratic and Popish sedition were
to place beyond all doubt the fact that the stipulated
price of his services in keeping the Ministers in power,
is to have their co-operation in return in the great
work of destroying the Protestant Constitution of Eng-
land, he has admirably succeeded in that object, That
man must in, zed be incurably blind who does not now
see in working of the unholy alliance between the
Wil:igs and Popery, the threatened subversion of all
those institutions which the champion of the intolerant
Church of Rome seeks to destroy, because they stand
in the way of the re-establishment of that Papal su-
premacy which his inordinate vanity, his inflated am-
bition, aided by priestly encouragement, make him be-
lieve that he is commissioned to accomplish. This is
what Daniel means by styling himself " a mis-
sionary," and " an instrument in the hand of Heaven."
But it must be more owing to the criminal apathy of
Protestants, or to their moral cowardice, than to his
own courage or capacity, if ever the brawling dema-
gogue be enabled to enthrone the " scarlet lady" of
the seven-billed city upon the ruins of the Protestant
Constitution of England. We have seen that a num-
ber of his eonlitrymen located in Scotland, and styling
themselves the Society of " United Irishmen," pre.
sentl::Cl the Agitator with a silver cup, or something of
that sort, accompanied by an appropriate address.
Now, when it is recollected that this was the style and
title assumed by the affiliated political bodies that or-
ganized the rebellion of 1798 in Ireland, we can be at
no loss for an exposition of the genuine principles of a
set of men who ostentatiously assume a title identified
with the rebellion, and hail in Mr. O'Connell their
leader and their champion. Should it indeed ultimately
come to fighting, those " United Irishmen" must look
out for another leader. Mr. O'Connell will give them
tongue, enough—but, like all brawling disturbers of the
public peace, he is one of the very last men in the
world to share the dangers which he would stimulate
the passions of others to disregard and despise. Cham-
pion of the Romish Church as he is, he certainly
does not aspire to the honours of martyrdom. When-
ever, therefore, " the boys" are really prepared to
go to work," Dan, rather than be at their head, would
prefer constituting the very lowest joint (pardon the
bull) of his own tail ! At Glasgow he received an
address from a large portion of the populace calling,
themselves the " Operatives, and non-franchised inha-
bitants of Glasgow and its vicinity." In that address
the House of Lords is described as representing
"all that is vicious, violent, and absurd among man-
kind," and it is plainly stated that it " must be
cut down as a rotten incumbrance." There is no
room for doubting here—the non-franchised of Glas-
gow, with O'Connell at their head, demand that the
170 tyrants, as the Agitator styles the House of Lords,
may be disposed of by some summary process of poli-
tical annihilation, resembling the chopping away the
rotten branch of a tree. The hereditary Peerage
being cut off, the next thing would be to demand the
lopping away of the hereditary Crown—a work of
" radical reform " which would be then very easily ac-
complished. The trunk being thus stripped of its
proudest and noblest branches, the democratic stump
of the Constitution, which had been so long the envy
and admiration of the world, would alone remain.
Then, instead of hereditary legislation, controlling and
regulating the impulses of a popular assembly, we
should have the supreme happiness of living under the
rule of his Majesty the mob, dispensing all the mani-
fold blessings of the " Lynch law "—of which the
makers are also the executioners, as in the thrice-happy
and slave-culturing democracy of North America I
That there might be no mistake, Mr. O'Connell said
to the unwashed, we mean the unfranchised of Glas-
gow, "we understand our position—the friends of na-
tional liberty "are headed by the King's Ministers—
hurrah ! for the King's Ministers." Does any man
now doubt at what price Lord Melbourne has secured
the services of the " forty joints of the tail ?''—Morn-
ing Herald.
The members of Codgers' Hall and of the Lumber
Troop, with their several allies in the neighbourhood
of Duke's-place and Field-lane, have been exerting
every energy for some time past to place one of their
own men in the office of Chief Magistrate of the city
of London. The Alderman next in rotation to fill the
civic chair is Mr. Alderman Copeland, but it is feared
by the Whig-Radical clique which now pervades the
Common Council that it is possible the worthy Alder-
man may commit the shocking offence of daring to
think for himself, as on several occasions his worthy
predecessor has done, and in that case he would not
do, by any means, for the liberal persons who, to
the disgrace of the city of London, have, for a
considerable period, been lords of the ascendant.
The old associations connected with the office of
Lord Mayor of London are, unsullied probity and
honour, extensive dealings as a British merchant,
considerable wealth, and good station in society.
The absence of these requisites in the senior
Alderman who had not already passed the civic
chair, would be a very good reason for electing
the Alderman next in rotation ; but this fair way of
proceeding would not at present suit the vulgar rabble
of the City. In addition to Alderman Copeland, six
or seven other Gentlemen are, we find, to be passed by,
in order to make way for Mr. Alderman Harmer, whose
claim is founded in part upon his violent politics, but
more especially upon the handsome and abundant jeed
he gave during the summer to the leaders of the fac-
tion at his country house near Gravesend. Alderman
Harmer has been all his life engaged in a department
of the profession to whiph he belongs which is not
generally deemed the most respectable, however im-
portant it may be to that particular portion of society
with which the City Radicals may be supposed to have
the greatest sympathy ; and, granting that thieves must
have a ready legal defender—that, when property to a
large amount is stolen, a negotiator, friendly to
both parties, is often desirable—yet we own it
appears to us that the qualifications which best
fit a man for these offices, however important and
meritorious, are not precisely such as are best
calculated to shed lustre on the station of Chief
Magistrate of the metropolis of England. But, set-
ting these considerations aside, we must be permitted
to ask a very serious question. There is a weekly
newspaper published in London, which is celebrated
only for its rank sedition, its outrages upon, every de-
cent feeling of society, and its villanous and black-
guard attacks on all that is high and honourable in the
land ; and this newspaper is generally believed to be
the property of the man who is selected not merely as
a fit person to fill the office of Chief Magistrate, but
as a person of such pre-eminent merit, that his claims
ought to supersede those of several other Aldermen
who have priority to him in the -customary order of ro-
tation. It would be a strange spectacle to behold at
the table of the Lord Mayor exalted persons, to whom
honour and reverence are due, but upen whom, on the
preceding Sunday, the whole vocabulary of vulgar ri-
baldry had been exhausted, either by the Lord Mayor
himself, or by persons whom he pays to do his dirty
work. Who would be the guest at such a table ? Cer-
tainly not any man who, whatever might be his politics,
had the smallest share of self-respect. The office of
Chief Magistrate of the City of London cannot surely
be thus degraded. Had Mr. Alderman Harmer been
presented to the citizens in the usual course, it might
have been a question whether, being the proprietor of