The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1835.

and encourage, nay, command, us to rescue him from
the danger which impends alike over the altar, the
throne, and the cottage—a danger which, if not r.e-
sisted with zeal, energy, and determination, must be
followed by a ruin terrible in its nature, unbounded
in its extent—a, ruin which will involve the destruction
of all that, as subjects, we respect, as Englishmen we
love, as Christians we revere.—Morning Post.
The wind is not more inconstant than the Times.
In one thing alone it may be said to be consistent—
the arrogance with which it expresses its opinions,
though they are seldom for twenty-four hours the same.
Of late this characteristic inconsistency of our contem-
porary has been pushed to an excess which must be
felt as a very great inconvenience by the dolts who still
take their opinions from it. Their heads must be ab-
solutely giddy with the rapid evolutions which are ex-
hibited to them. In the Times of July I, 1834, the
Protestants of Ireland are distinctly told that they are
themselves the authors of the destruction of the Irish
Church, and that they cannot bear their faculties too
meekly towards the Catholics :
" The sober-minded Protestants (quoth our Contemporary)
are one and all well assured, by this time, that were there
nothing but political wisdom at stake, they cannot bear their
faculties too meekly, or show too much regard for the feelings
of that immense majority of the Irish people from whose exas-
peration they have, ere now, so deeply suffered, and have still,
if it be needlessly provoked, such serious evils to anticipate.
The putting down the Orange and Ascendancy system arose from
the insolence of th Protestants themselves, and has been fol-
lowed by a great deal of Ua',l_oli- insolence. The Orangemen,
for that humiliation, have none to blame but themselves. The
extinction of the Tithe-system, and the iir.-.-ainent danger
which threatens the Established Church of Ireland total
subversion, are owing to the pertinacity, and blind and bigoted
arrogance, of those who directed the measures of the Irish
Clergy, or rather of those lay Oligarchs who considered the
Church to be their proper prey. We repeat that the present
almost hopeless condition of the Church of Ireland, as a
temporal establishment, is chargeable, in the first instance,
to the account of the Church itself—to the senseless obsti-
nacy and rampant violence of those who have been calling
themselves its protectors, but who have been, in fact, its
plunderers."
In the Times of yesterday, the possibility of conci-
liating the Catholics—towards whom, in the above
passage, the Protekants are told they cannot bear
themselves too meekly—is indignantly scouted. The
men- who, on the Ist July, were termed the destroyers
of the Protestant Church, were yesterday eulogized for
their success in hitherto baffling O'Connell. " Any
aggressor," says the Times of yesterday,
" Who proposes to inflict on his neighbour some grievous
wrong, and threatens to quarrel with him if he resists the in-
justice, may unquestionably, quoad hoc, be pacified by the
cowardice of the injured party, in submitting. quietly to be
bullied. The matter stands thus:—The Papist party, with
O'Connell for its chief, has long placarded, through speech
and writing, a thirst for the overthrow of the Protestant
Church, and the confiscation of its property, as well as that of
the whole of the Protestant community, to other (that is, to
Popish) uses, which ends, it is obvious, can never be so easily
achieved as through a repeal of the Union. The repeal of
the Union is therefore the avowed and distinctive policy of
Mr. Daniel O'Connell ; so that there is nothing more
intelligible than the advice of the Whig Radicals to the
new Cabinet—we will add nothing of more ominous im-
portance to the English nation, if the counsel should he
given with a previous understanding that it will be acted
on, for it amounts to this—that the policy of the Melbourne
Administration is to be that which will most effectually con-
ciliate O'Connell and his clique, by favouring the subversion
of the PrOtestant Church, and the separation of Ireland from
Great Britain 1 It is little wonder, therefore, that the Agi-
tator has given his eager assistance to the defeat of the Con-
servative Government, or that the infancy at least of the
Whig-Radical power will have his strenuous support. He
likes, of course, the men who have hitherto baffled him some-
what less than those whom he flatters himself that he can
make the blind instruments of his most daring projects ; and
this is the ' pure,'the liberal.' the ' disinterested' gentleman,
who makes no terms '—not he —for himself! but only that
Protestant Ireland shall be flung at his feet, to be spurned at
his pleasure."
Every one who ,has looked into the Times during
the late discussion on the Tithe question, must be
aware that it strenuously combatted the appropriation
of any part of the revenue of the Irish Protestant
Church to other than strictly ecclesiastical purposos.
It is, however, now on another tack—all for appro-
priation.
" Let nobody (says our consistent Contemporary) bring the
dishonest charge against us, that, in struggling for the exist-
ence of the Protestant Establishment, and for the protection of
our brethren of the same faith, we mean to say a single word
in defence of ecclesiastical abuses, or of oppressions,.civil or
ecclesiastical, from which those not Protestants may have suf-
fered. We have over and over again pledged ourselves to the
obligation of turning to more useful objects any income which
may on full inquiry be found unnecessary to the Church.
If there be not Protestants to demand spiritual help from a
pastor, it becomes self-evident that subsistence for such a
pastor is not needed."
What mote did Lord John Russell demand than
this ? The Times seems to be determined that the
Whigs shall neither have the aid of Mr. O'Connell,
nor do without it. It first thundered against the Whigs,
on the supposition that they were about to employ
him. But when told that Mr. O'Connell had declined

office,—
" Then we say (quoth the Times) that such a Government
cannot be composed of last year's Whigs, inasmuch, if they
be not the most fickle of the human race (an accusation of
fickleness from the Times ! !) and the most prone to an aban-
donment of all their own measures and opinions' they will act
on the same public principles as those which they professed
last summer ; and therefore, so far from doing justice to Ire-
land,' they must entail on themselves fresh volleys of execra-
tions from Derrynane Abbey."
The Times has been labouring hard to promote an
alliance between the Tories, and Whigs. On the 12th
of July last, the possibility of such a union was treated
with scorn and indignation
The. inconvenience of a Cabinet not united (said our
Contemporary) with regard to many important questions,
must have been deeply impressed upon Lord Melbourne
within the last twelve months. But the Grey Cabinet,
even at the worst, was a mild form of heterogeneous—that
is of noxious—mixture, when compared with that against
the introduction of which into the Government, if current
opinions be correct, Lord Melbourne' has had to struggle,
or is at this moment struggling,—we mean the infusion of
some avowed and leading Anti-Liberals into the new Ad-
ministration. It is plainly impossible that such a Cabinet
could work together for a single week, without being de-
stroyed by its own internal friction. The elements of what
was happily termed by the Standard spontaneous combustion,
would be a thousand times more active and irresistible in such
a Cabinet than in the Grey Ministry, which yet it is certain
was destroyed by them. We • take it for granted, therefore,
that as the issue of such an experiment must be obviosjs, not
only to Lord Melbourne, but to any politician who has his
eyes and ears about him, it will not be made at present--at
least by a liberal or a Whig Statesman. Then what happens?
If the Court should think otherwise, Lord Melbourne, or who-
ever is co-operating with the Noble Viscount for the formation
of a Ministry, must throw up the game, and leave the King to
seek advice from other quarters. His Majesty, of course, will
not apply, in the first instance, to any pu!-,lic man more liberal
than the acting Secretary for the Home Department ( Lord
Melbourne.) The alternative is, that his Majesty resorts to the
Tories. But the Tories, with all their infatuated arrogance,
understand the people of England well enough to know that
their accession to office would now be premature. The Duke
of Wellington's rude, unfeeling, and vindictive reply to Earl
Grey on Wednesday evening, showed pretty broadly where the
shoe pinched him. His Grace was out of temper because
Lord Grey had virtually broke up his Ministry, be-
fore it suited his Grace's convenience, and that of his
party to succeed. Months ago, we warned the Ministers
and the nation of the game of which both were to be the vic-
tims. We told them that the Tories waited only until the
session of Parliament should be near expiring, to oust the
Whigs, and play such gambols during the seven months' va-
cation (perhaps kick up a general war for one of them) as might
enable them to divert the spirit of the country, to throw an un-
natural share of power into their own hands, and turn a dis-
solution to the credit side of their account with fortune. We
told the Whig Ministry not to wait for the opening of such
machinations. It was our prayer to them to resign at that
very hour—to tell the Sovereign that they could not carry on
the Government for his honour or for the national well-being
without more enlarged powers, or with so extensive an adulte-
ration of anti-reform spirit as then existed among them ; it
was, as the event proved, a reasonable and friendly prayer,
though, perhaps, not so regarded. Had they listened to us,
they would have been enabled to defeat all the schemes of
the Conservatives; the latter would have confessed themselves
unprepared to govern England; and the Liberal Ministers
must have had carte blanche from the Crown."
The only thing the Times did not tell the Whigs in
the above article was, that when the Tories should
come to play their gambols during the seven months'
vacation, and to turn a dissolution to the credit side of
their account with the Times would, cm its
part, astonish the country with its gambols, and take
under its protection the very Tories 1,41c.ni it is so
loudly abusing. But our Contemporary seems to be
preparing for fresh gambols. A light is evidently
breaking on our contemporary, that the Whigs will
again be in power, and it is preparing for a move.
yesterday, speaking of Church and Corporation Re-
forms, our ConteMporary observes—" However, as we
are convinced that such salutary reforms would have
met with no foul treatmen tfrom Sir Robert Peel,
so we are now desirous c:1 ascertaining that they will
be fairly dealt with by those who are about to succeed
him." When our Contemporary begins to move, it

moves fast. We should not wonder if another week
do not pass before the Tories are termed dolts and
boobies, and the Duke of Wellington proved to be the
same narrow-minded man he was last autumn, before
he was summoned from Strathfieldsey to form a Mi-
nistry. The Times serves all by turns, and betrays
all by turns.—Morning Chronicle.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 15.

At half-past four Lord BROUGHAM commenced giving
judgment in the Scotch Appeal of " Anstruther v. Anstru-
ther," remitting the case back to the Court of Session.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at
five o'clock.
The Duke of GORDON presented a petition from St.
Nicholas, Aberdeen, in favour of the Established Church in
Scotland.

After some petitions being presented,
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that last night he had
given notice that he should this day move the adjournment of
the House to the 30th of April, but finding that it would
not be convenient to his Majesty service that the House should
adjourn this day, he begged leave to postpone his motion till
to-morrow.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM, under the particular cir-
cumstances, thought he might be excused for asking his
Noble Friend to what period he meant to move the adjourn-
ment of the House ?
The Duke of WELLINGTON said he intended origi-
ginally to move that the House should adjourn to the 30th ; but
he was not aware, from the communications he had received,
that it would be convenient he should make that specific mo-
tion to-day.—( Loud cries of hear, hear.) The motion he
should make to-morrow would be, that the House should ad-
journ over the Holidays.
Lord BROUGHAM said the usual course was that the
House adjourn over Passion Week and Easter Week.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND thought that their Lord-
ships should not adjourn fcr a longer period than the House of
Commons. _ _ .

The-Duke of WELLINGTON ha,l ro desire to move
the adjournment for a longer period than v,as convenient
for the public service. It was desirable that the House should
not adjourn until to-morrow,
On the motion of the Noble Duke the House then adjourned
until to-morrow.