The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-19 00:00:00

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 19, 1835.

All the clauses in the Municipal Reform Bill were
got through last night in Committee in the House of
Lords, with the exception of a few which remain over
for further consideration ; and we may expect, there-
fore, that in the course of a few days it will be returned
to the Commons, for their approbation. This, how-
ever, it is impossible can be granted. The only mea-
sure they can consistently sanction, is the one which
left them, a few days since, in a high state of health
and animation ; they cannot sanction it in its present
forlorn condition ; nay, they will not even be able to
recognize it, when they find it brought back to them,
a 3 it will shortly be, like a corpse on a shutter, sense-
less, motionless, and disfigured with wounds and
bruises. Our liberal Representatives have, therefore,
but one safe course to pursue—and that is, to insist on
its being passed in all its pristine efficiency. There must
be no compromise; rio attempt to meet the Lords half-
way ; they must be treated in their ovi n cavalier style- _
drenched, like an unwilling child, with physic the
people must hold their nose, the Commons wrench
open their jaws, and Ministers cram down t'oeir throat
the nauseous, but reviving draught. 'lain will be
all other means to bring them to a sell-se of what they
owe to themselves and the country , Coercion is the
only logic they can understand .; the only appeal to
which they are accessible ; as they proved to
demonstration, by the a-pt and ready spirit in
which—a few Session's since—they received and
passed, unmutilated, the Irish Coercion Bill. Mr.
O'CONNELL, who well understands their Lordships'
temper, gave the people good advice on this head, at
the greet Meet;,ng which took place last night in
Marylebone. " England," said the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman," must continue to agitate, until the House
of Lords is visited by the force of public opinion."
Yes, and the sooner this agitation is set afloat, the bet-
ter ; for, once fairly in action, not a day but will pro-
duce its good effect. At present, their Lordships are
experimentalizing on public patience. They labour
under the flattering delusion that the people are not
fully in earnest in their remonstrances. They think
that the Whig and Radical factir,ll only is at work ; it
remains, therefore, to convince them that the movement
is not partial, but general ; not the stir of a sect, but
of a nation.

The Commons wnt into Committee last night on
the Bill brought In by Lord Alm/TETIr for re-mo-
delling the Constabulary Force in Ireland. This I3ill
introduces an important change in the constitution of
that body. Instead of the four inspectors, -;$:ho. are at
present at its head, each independent oc, the other, and
each residing in a different distr.tet, there is to be
one officer having control over the whole force,
and residing in Dublin. A deputy-inspector is to
be appointed in ea ,'fl county, with a salary varying
from 500/. to -?..17..,01. a year, according to the extent
and populs‘ion of the county. No person is to be
admi4ed into this force without taking an oath, that
" he does not now belong to, and will not join, any
secret or political society whatever." This regula-
tion, which we consider as one of the best and
wisest that could have been framed, has excited
the ire of the Orange party, who, through
their pro tempore mouth-piece, Colonel PER-
eEvAL, protested against such an interference with
their privileges. This sapient senator also discovered
that another provision of the Bill, by which the ap-
pointment to offices in the constabulary force is trans-
ferred from the Magistrates to. the local_ government,
was nothing less than casting a slur upon the magic-