The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-25 00:00:00

without the aid of traitors, incendiaries, or as-
sassins. The battle of Waterloo is a separate
cause of enmity to the Duke of Wellington,
which is not forgotten by the Whigs, whose sel-
fish hopes that great national triumph blasted.
whose unpatriotic wishes and predictions it
mocked. Neither is Sir Robert Peel without
his peculiar claims to the hatred of the present
Government. As Secretary for Ireland, it is re-
membered, with all the resentment this reminis-
cence naturally excites, he was more popular in
Dublin than Mr. Stanley is at the present mo-
' ment, although he did not permit the law to be
set at defiance with impunity, nor send the Pro-
testant Clergy, after leaving them to be robbed
by those whom he had vainly sought to convert
into his own partisans, for compensation to
the tax-payers of Great Britain. Waterloo
and Ireland are, in 'Whig estimation, blots
not easy to be obliterated from the es-
cutcheons of the Duke of Wellington and Sir
Robert Peel. But these are trifles in compari-
son with the great blot of all, the more re-
cent blot, which the British nation, recovering
from the temporary delusion which Whig drugs
have produced, begins to regard as glorious dis-
tinctions, that under their Government the ma-
jesty of the law was respected, the dignity of Go-
vernment sustained, the people rapidly relieved
from taxes, without derangement to the finances
or danger to public credit, important practical
improvements introduced and accomplished,
without any threats of coups d'etat, or any sus-
pension of social order. Having thus explained
the true grounds of the bitter hatred of the Whig
Government and their underlings to the Duke
of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, it is scarcely
necessary to allude to the shallow pretences by
which it is vainly attempted to conceal them.
The pretences are not only shallow indeed, but
so contradictory that they mutually destroy each
other. The Duke of Wellington would have
formed an Administration in obedience to the

command of the King upon the principle of car-
rying an - extensive Reform ;—therefore he is

reviled by the Whigs, who hate him for Water-
loo, and hate him still more because the country
knows him to have been a much more able, pa-
triotic, and disinterested Prime Minister than
Earl Grey. Sir Robert Peel would not assist
the Duke of Wellingion in forming an Admi-
nistration upon this principle ;—therefore he is
reviled by the Whigs, who hate him for having
governed Ireland much better than Mr. Stanley
can govern that country, and hate him
still more because now in the House of
Commons he is universally regarded by both
sides of the House as the true leader whenever

Government dare oppose itself to the revolu-
tionary party, and completely eclipses their chief
and only tolerable speaker, Mr. Stanley, upon
every question upon which they differ. That
the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel,
in the independent exercise of their respective
judgments, adopted different courses in an
emergency of great difficulty and danger, which
offered only two courses for selection, is a fact.
But the abuse indiscriminately heaped upon both
by the Whigs o❑ the occasion which should at
least have exempted one is a proof of nothing
but that the Whigs are utterly destitute of prin-
ciple, and regard the two distinguished States-
men as equally formidable to their party. The
Duke of Wellington, however, will not suffer
in the general estimation of mankind by the ad-
mission that he was ready to sacrifice his own
previous opinions as to the necessity of Reform
rather than leave the King in unwilling thraldom •
to a set of Ministers who had wilfully, and for
the sake of place, brought the country to the
verge of a sanguinary revolution. Sir Robert
Peel, on the other hand, can well sustain what-
ever obloquy may attach to his determination
that it was better, upon the whole, to let the
Reform Ministers complete a change which
could no longer be avoided than that other and
better men should relieve them of any share of
the responsibility of that measure. The prac-
tical difference between these two Statesmen
amounted in fact only to this—whether the Mi-
nisters whose strength was based on incendiarism
and treason should or should not, to use a vul-
gar adage, have a little more rope.—Morning
Post.

Mr. TOM CooKE, the composer, has two
sons, one a mid,,hipman, the other a horn-player. The
former once taunted the latter with his superiority, as be-
ing in his Majesty's service. " Hold your tongue," said
CooKE, " I've brought you both up to wind instruments
—he to a horn, and you to a ship."

The approaching elections now engross a large
share of the people's attention. In the West Riding, at
Leeds, Bradtord, and Hudder►field, candidates have ap-
peared personally in the field, declaring their principles
and stating their pretensions,—at Wakefield and Halifax,
addresses from candidates and committees have merely
issued—while constituents are examining pretensions and
canvassing principles : and it is now seen that the ordeal
which the candidates will have to pass through, is likely
to he more severe than it used to be under the old system.
This is well; it convinces us that the electors evidently
consider the election of a Member of Parliament as an
important—nay, as a serious and responsible duty, that
they have been taught to value the benefits to he derived
from " purity of election,"—and that they contemn from
their inmost souls the disgraceful proceedings of by-
gonetime, when the man who created the greatest
share of debauchery, and patronized bribery and
corruption the must openly, was almost certain of
being the successful candidate: Common sense has
luckily kept pace with the advance of popular rights;
and a nobler commodity is required at the hands of repre-
sentatives by their constituents. Not satisfied with gene-
tat declarations, they demand of the aspirants to Parlia-
mentary honours an unreserved statement of the nature as
well as the extent of their political creed, and distinct and
unequivocal pledges as to their intended conduct on all the
great and leading questions of foreign and domestic policy.
Peace abroad, retrenchment at home, the reform of all
administrative abuses, and the extension as well as purifi-
cation of our institutions, are loudly demanded ; and those
who manage the affairs of State must in future be the no-
minees of the nation, identified with its interests, and of
approved skill and honesty. Our future rulers must act
under a sense of thorough responsibility.—
" From this time forth,
The few must know their service to the many,"

National happiness must now become the aim of Govern-
ment, not a bonus held out to the people to allure them
to serve its private purposes. The people are aware of
this, and, in prc spect of the next election, they look to
principles, not to men. Accordingly, the candidates
who bave addressed the new constituencies are, with
but few exceptions, men of liberal principles ; and
who, to an intimate knowledge of the wants and
the wishes, the feelings and the sentiments of their
neighbourhoods, add the higher recommendations
of a❑ ardent attachment to their country, and a firm de-
termination to discharge with fidelity the duties of the dis-
tinguished stations which they seek. When we look
around us, either to Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax,
Leeds, Sheffield, or Bradford, the Tories do not appear to
have the least possible chance of returning a single Mem-
ber. Whether Pontefract will catch the spirit of the age,
or, moved by an innate love of corruption, still grovel on-
ward in its hoary-beaded sinfulness, remains to be seen.
Yet we have hopes even of Pontefract, with the new ex•
awples which will be shown her in every quartet• of the
kingdom. Driven from their snug seats, where (inquires
a. writer in a weekly contemporary) will the Tories now
refuge themselves? The bulk of them will stand no chant,
if they should even appeal to popular constituencies, while
the mere mentio❑ of the names of not a few would rouse
the indignation of the newly enfranchised householders,
whose characters they have maligned, and whose right,.
they have intercepted. Few of these men will dare to
show their faces on the hustings of the kingdom ; and
fewer still will obtain the suffrages of the electors.—
Wuke4field Journal.