The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-19 00:00:00

inerston have su seduously sought to cultivate the
friendship of the present Government of France—
viten we view it in combination with their facility
in accepting explanations of other transactions of
that Government of a nature the most suspicious
and threatening, we may safely conclude that these
Noblemen are very incompetent judges of men and
of things, and very unfit protectors of the honour
and interests of Great Britain. Fortunately M.
Casimir Perier is not France any more than Earl
Grey and Lord Palmerston are England, so that the
duplicity of the former, and the sycophancy of the
two latter, may, for any thing which yet appears,
have left the honour and the ititeregs of these two
noble nations, worthy as they are of the friendship,
worthy as they are when occasion shall require of
the arms of each other, essentially unimpaired.
France when she koows it wi l scorn and detest the
falsehoods which her Minister has uttered,
as England scorns and detests the truckling and
time-• erring servil.ty of her S atesmen, who
have professed to hold in honour and con-
fidence the Statesman whom they /.new to have
been guilty of these falsehood,. Of the progress
of political morality to be expected from the per-
manent ascendancy of the democratic party in Eng-
land we catch a glimpse in the kind of apology put
forward by the most ingenious of their number for
the falsehoods, deceptive and fraudulent as regards
the people of France, calumnious as regards the
Allies of France, of .% hich the French Minister
is convicted. " Surely a French Minister speaking
ad eaptandem may be excused, &c." We are not
of the democratic party, hut, nevertheless, we hold
that no Minister can be excused in speaking ad eap•
tandem at all; for whatever those who daily flatter
the people may think, it seems to us an error
and a crime to treat a nation as a body of fools
or an assembly e,f children who are to be
amused and played with and tickled to keep
them in good humour. We are, above all, not
among the supporters of the present Administra-
tion of Great Britain, and therefore we are free
from the temptation. which seems too powerful for
the understanding and the principles of their adhe-
rents, to struggle in behalf of falsehood, to maintain
that Ministers may excusably promulgate informa-
tion which they know to be untrue, or introduce
measures which they know to be mischievous, and
do not wish to complete, ad captandum vulgus ; in
other words, to maintain themselves a few weeks
or months longer in place. It is a vet)" curious cir-
cumstance indeed that the apology offered by Mini-
sterial writers for M. Casimir Perier's stat ement, " con-
trary to the fact" with respect to Belgium, is pre-
cisely the apology which, if it were good for any
thing in this case, would serve just as well for Earl
Grey in the event of its turning out :hat his R ,form
Bill was intended merely as a temporary means of
exciting and propitiating the vulgar.—]horn. Post.
The third reading of the Reform Bill is tixed for
this evening in the House of Commons, and it is
almost unnecessary, to observe, that although it be
certain of passing by a large majority, it is of the
utmost importance that that majority shou'd, if pos-
sible, surpass all the previous majorities in its favour,
and that the first, the last, as well as only retnaining
duty towards the Bill, of those Members who were
returned to Parliament under distinct pledges to
maintain its principles inviolate, is to prove their con-
tinued adhesion to them, by attending every night in
their places until the Speaker has declared that it has
passed. What the tactics may be of the anti-reform
crew on this occasion—whether it be their intention
to suffer the Bill to pass unmolested to that House in
which its flee is to be sealed once more—or whether
they are to treat us to a repetition of all the hack-
, ney. d verbasities and non-entities about Constitu-
tion, pillars of the State, utility of rotten boroughs,
necessity of corruption and non-representation, agri-
cultural interest, &c., with which they have so com-
pletely tired out the pat'ence of the public—we do
not know; but we augur that, in despite of being un-
able to show their hared in any otherform, they will
again have recourse to their old game of delay,
and endeavour to spin out a little longer existence,
as the only boon which it is now in their power to
obtain. For their loneiloquises, however, there is a
simple, and not very inefficient, remedy within the
power both of the reforming Members and of the
Reform Press; and that is, on the part of the former,
to make no reply, and on the part of the latter, to
observe a well-studied brevity in reporting their
speeches. These means have succeeded before, and
if unanimously applied now, may prove not less suc-
cessful. But however this matter may turn out, let
no Reform Mt mber be absent from his post. The
third reading of the Bill is not only its hour of trial
and judgment, but by the presence or absence of the
Reform Members on this momentous occasion will
the public judge, and justly judge, the fitness of
their present to be their future representatives.
Their eyes are now most intently fixed upon them ;
and it shall rt,t be our fault if the excellent arrange-
ments which have been made to ascertain their fide-

lity to their constituents, be not successful, so far as
our influence extends, in informing them accurately
upon the subject. Let those who doubt that there
has been any re-action in the public mind look at the
conduct of the people of Liverpool towards Lord
Sandon—let them go forth and inquire for themselves,
instead of being content with such information as
the club-houses afford, and they will find that in all
quarters, and among all classes and descriptions of
his Majesty's subjects, the same anxiety exists upon
the subject—that the same zeal which was formerly
evinced continues to be manifest, and that were they
at this final moment either to retire from the hardly-
contested-field, or even to pair off with Members on
the opposition benches, the public indignation
against them would know no bounds—nay, that it
would be even more full and overflowing towards
them than towards them e ho have, on all occasions,
exerted themselves so uniformly to defeat the hopes
and wishes of the people. To your posts, there-
fore, we say, representatives of the people—stand
to them until you have fulfilled the pledges which
you gave to a generous and confiding public—and
prove to those in the other House that a people who
deserve their freedom have only to will it in order
to obtain it against all obstacles and all opposi-
tion.—Morning Adverti4erfr
The Anti-reformers, contrary to expectation, ex-
hibited no show of fight on bringing up the report
of the Reform Bill on Wednesday last ; with the
exception of the Tory Member for Lincoln—Colo-
nel Sibthorp—who made a feeble attempt to have a
second night's debate on the-subject. All is there-
fore accomplished in the Commons but the third
reading, and passing of the Bill, which come on to-
morrow. We suppose for appearance's sake, two
days will be consumed in these matters—so that on,
or about, Thursday, we may expect the Bill to be in
the Upper House. The treatment it is likely to meet
with there is well described in the excellent addrsss
from The National Union, which will be found in
our present number. " Unchanged as to opinions—
unchanged as to numbers," how can any reasonable
being expect a different result from the fate of the la-t
Bill ? We are, however, desired to confide in Lord
Grey's management of the Lords, although it is upon
record that lie has allowed himself to be deceived
by them once already. The question as argued now
by the papers in the seeming confidence of Mi-
nisters, is not, however, whether new Peers will be
made—that they must be made to carry the Bill, is
admitted on all hands—but at what period or stage
of the Bill they should be made. If the new crea-
tions are to come out of the Common's !louse,
Lord Grey unquestionably stands justified in riot
having made them hitherto, as it would. be impo-
litic to weaken his majority oil the thud reading by
any material diminution of the numbers of the
friends of the Bill. But this argument will lose
its face the instant the Bill is in the Lords. lii
our opinion, no time should then be lost, but such
a demonstration be made as must convice the
noble corruptionists that yam will be their endea-
vours to arrest the progress of the Bill. If the Pres
mier thus act, he will at once re-establish himself in
the confidence of the Reformers, as to whom, it can-
not be denied he has of late, sailed somewhat to the
northward in good opinion.—News.