The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-23 00:00:00

' commissions instituted punish high-treason,
and creating, in athlition to those already existiot.,
in tisbott and Oporto, new tribunals armed.witß
unlimited powers to take the lives of the people
iat their free pleasure in all those places where mili-
tary governors rest, thus covering the whole
kingdom with these odious and barbarous political
inquisitions ! At the si;he time a large ship is
getting ready tf.,, convey to the inhospitable shores
of Africa upwards of 400 unhappy exiles, fresh
'victims to their honour and loyalty. The
wickedness of this petty tyrant is so emboldened
by the success of his deceit and hypocrisy, that
in his attempts to impose upon mankind, he
does not endeavour to keep clear of the most
glaring inconsistencies.—Timr.s.
The accounts ft-om all parts of the country
afford a striking evidence of the intense eager-
ness with which the eyes of the people are now
turned towards Parliament.

" On Sunday last (says the Seaman), at two o'clock,
the most splendid turn-out of the citizens that ever took
place since the Royal visit, was witnessed at the Post-
office, awaiting the arrival of the mail, which was expected
to bring the division of the Lords upon the " People's
Bill." From the r;egister-office to the Calton stairs, the
street We.e ocupied by a dense mass of persons, all belong-
ing to the respectable classes of society, and a considerable
number of ladies and gentlemen took up their stations on
the Calton-hill. The weather was genial, with bright
sunshine ; and the appearance of so vast a multitude, con-
gregated tcsg-Alrel. by feelings of common anxiety for the
nation's fate, was redolent of moral beauty, and in scenic
Meet highly imposing. We should think from 12 to
15,000 individuals awaited the mail curricle, and besides
the two bridges were crowded with passengers, who lin-
gered on their way to church, until the post came in."
At Glasgow, Paisley, and the other towns in
Scotland, the utmost enthusiasm was displayed
on the arrival of the account of the second read-
ing. But along with the joy there is mixed up
much apprehension. At Leeds the inhabitants
have already met, and voted an address to his
Majesty, recommending the creation of Peers.
This promptitude is highly honourable to the
inhabitants of that enlightened town. We learn
from the Scotsman that measures have been taken
in that city for a meeting of the inhabitants :

" Yesterday evening (Tuesday)," says that Journal,
" a special meeting of the inhabitants' Reform Committee
was held in the Waterloo Rooms, Th,bert Hunter, Esq.
Advocate, in the Chair. It was resolved to convene a
public meeting of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, to draw
up a petition to the House of Lords, praying that the Re-
form Bill may speedily pass into a law, without mutila-
tion, or any departure from the effective principles of the
Bill. It was agreed, after some discussion, that the meet-
ing is to he held in the open air. This resolution having
been adopted in a meeting composed of meml ers from the
various committees appointed by different bodies of the in-
habitants who have separately advocated the cause of Re-
form, we rejoice to think that their union will inure the
largest and most respectable meeting that ever took place
in Edinburgh for the purpose of strengthening the hands
of the Ministry. The meeting is to be held on Tuesday;
the place and hour will be duly advertised. We have
heard that it is the general intention to shut up the shops
for two hours during the my eting."

The inhabitants of Edinburgh are only to pe-
tition the Lords to pass the Bill without mu-
tilation. But if there was only a majority of
two present for reading the Bill a second time,
the Lords will not pass the Bill unmutilated
without a creation of Peers. If the people pe7
tition, therefore, they ought to petition to some
purpose. The people of Leeds have set an
example which will, we trust, be extensively fol-
lowed throughout the country. In England
there is but one opinion on the subject, that
Peers must be created in sufficient numbers, or
the Bill will be very much mutilated. In Scot-
land the language of the journals is, if anything,
more decided than in England. The Glasgow
Chronicle observes—
" The-general impression respecting the Reform Bill is
that it never was in greater jeopardy. Lords Wharncliffe
and Hirrowhy, in virtue of their corps of waverera, corn •
mand the House of Peers ; and in compelling the Premier
to defer the Committee till after Easter, they show a reso-
lute design to rule with a high hand. Unless counteracted
by a large creation of liberal Peers, they are sure to ex-
punge from the Bill every thing of popular value. The
question, therefore, now more than ever, is, whether that
creation will take place—or whether the country, injured
and insulted, by getting stones when they were promised
bread, will be driven upon recovering their rights in
another way?"

Considerable indignation is felt that Ministers
should have interposed so long a delay as the ad-
journment amounts to. The Scotsman observes,
bluntly, " This delay of a fortnight at a time
when the country is suffering so much from the
long suspension of the measure, is an evil of no
trifling magnitude ; and it is incurred without
any cause.' Is there any man so dull as not to
understand these signs of the times ? Will a
nation which has so clear a perception of the
nature of the measure, is to sensitive with regard
to any alteration by which it may be changed for
the worse, put tamely up with the mutilation oh
which some Noble Lords speculate with so much
'complacency ? Assuredly it will not. The
people will feel the indignity as they ought to
feel it. They will avail themselves of the new
power to extort that justice which Noble Lords,
in their pitiful policy, now wish to withhold from
them. It is the interest of the Lords, if they
only understood it, to yield with a good grace
that which they cannot possibly withhold long ;
for if the people are willing to allow the present
Biil to be a final measure, and we believe the
people would not attempt to disturb the present
Bill if it pass without mutilation, it is not surely
for the Lords to do that which must, of neces-
sity, perpetuate the agitation. That left-handed
cunning which would endeavour to crib some-
thing from the Bill, will lead to results of which
the authors do not dream. The Duke of Wel-
lington, with his speeches and protests, has
greatly lowered himself throughout the country.
People are quite astonished that he should know
so little of what is passing as to state that the
property of the country is against the Reform
Bill. Every step his Grace has taken since his
blunder respecting Reform, which drove him
from the Ministry, has been only a deeper plunge
in absurdity. It is impossible not to perceive
the spirit of Reform is much more fervent in
the North than in this part of England.—Morn-
ing Chronicle.
There is nothing in which successive Ad-
ministrations and Parliaments have, of late years,
shown such a total want of prudence and com-
mon sense, to say nothing of taste, as in the
manner in which they have allowed the public
money to be thrown away upon useless build-
ings, and have withheld it upon such as are
really wanting. In the front, and as the most
striking instance of public folly, and of some-
thing worse, stands Buckingham Palace, which
is, beyond all question, such a satire upon, and
disgrace to, our age and country, that, enor-
mous as the cost has been, we are inclined to
believe that, were its continuance or extinction,
put to the vote, the majority would be for razing
tt from the face of the earth, that the scandal
and the eyesore it occasions might be in time
forgotten. But at present we would deal with
humbler matters—at least subjects of humbler
amount. Most people are aware that, six or
eight years ago, a purchase was made, and very
prcperly made, with the public money, of the
small but valuable collection of pictures of the
late Mr. A ngerstein, as the groundwork for form-
ing what has long been a desideratum among us--