The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-29 00:00:00

NF•II{IT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Morning Post, with that scrupulous regard to
-veracity which usually characterises its lucubrations
when dealing with a political adversary, charges the
Melbourne Administration with having entered into
an. arrangement with Mr. O'Connell for the temporary
suspension of the agitation of the Repeal question ; and
hints that it is merely kept in reserve, to be hereafter
brought forward, should Ministers at any time stand in
need of " a flapper " to keep "up the steam, ' of po.
pular excitement, which Our excellent Conteinporary—
very erroneously, in our opinion—conceives to be es-
sential to the existence of a Liberal Ministry. As to
that part of the subject which relates to the keeping alive
of popular excitement, we may just, en passant, observe
that the wrongheadedness of the House of Lords, and
the long catalogue of grievances and corruptions whieh
Tory misrule has succeeded in inflicting upon
the nation, promises, for many a year to n tome, to
fv rnish ample materials to any agitation-loving Mi-
aiis ry who may deem it advantageow; to employ them
—without ever having recourse to the Repeal of the
Union—a topic, by the way, not very likely to enlist
the feelings and prejudices of the British public. The
Post, however, is well aware that the Melbourne Ad-
ministration is as strongly opposed to this chimerical
project as it can be ; but it seems to forget that there
is another party, and a most unprincipled one it is
(we allude to the Irish Orangemen), who have, upon
more than one occasion, created the greatest embar-
rassment to the Government, by their advocacy and
support of this measure. " Can none remember ?
Sure we know all must," when the repeal mania
raged throughout Ireland, and that Lord An-
glesea, during a visit to Cork, was hurried,
by that irritable temperament which is the cha-
racteristic of the bold and unsuspecting sol-
dier, into an unseemly dialogue with Doc-
tor Baldwin, that the Rev. Charles Boyton, the
Magnus Apollo, and fieservedly so of the Irish Orange-
men ( Why has he deserted the 0' Mulligans ?) de-
livered an inflammatory speech, in which he ridiculed
the arguments of the Viceroy, and stated numerous in-
stances where the jealousy of England prevented the
introduction of manufactures into Ireland. About the
same time Dean Dawson (the brother of the " re-
jected of Devonport," whose name is now so credita-
bly mixed up with the Breakwater job) was in the
habit of pestering the Conservative Society daily vv-,0,1
motions, exposing the baneful effects of the T,:nion.
And the Dublin Evening Mail—the thick-and-thin
. organ of Irish Orangeism—besought a faction who, as
it never yet was governed by principle, can conveniently
take any side upon an emergency, to rally round the stan-
dard of Repeal. It was, therefore., not the Whig Minis-
ters that were the allies of Mr.. O'Connell in his cru-
sade in favour of Repeal, brit Irish Conservatives and
Orange Corporators. If ever the day should arrive
when a Minister of the. Crown shall seek to procure
office, or prolong his 'tenure of it, by means which, in
a moral point of -view, would place him in the scale
beneath a prores,sed swindler, Lord Melbourne, we
fearlessly assert, will not be that man. No ; that de-
graded sitt:ation, we prophesy, will be filled by some
wily and 747sprincl:pled conformer—by a character who
will ele•ep.te himself to power through the prostitution
of the. -press, and who will recruit his adherents from a
class of persons between whom and himself there is no
community of sentiment upon any of those questions
which may have placed them in a position to support
feint and betray—so far as a breaking of solemn
pledges that were never intended to be binding—their
constituents.—Morning Chronicle.
The stupid and malignant falsehoods against the
House of Lords, which constitute now the stock in
trade of the Ministerial press and the mountebank
" missionary," are, after all, attended with some good
effects. In reply to wholesale calumnies we refer to
matters of fact, and then try them by the best test in 1
the world—that of common sense ; and we invariably
find that " good cometh out of evil." Which of the
retained Ministelial hacks—whether the ranting booby
who yells in the morning, or the prim pedant who
drivels in the evening—can impugn the wisdom of
the House of Lords, in their dealing with the Impri-
sonment for Debt Bill, and the Sale of Bread Bill,
which we have before alluded to ? We now take
the trouble of flinging in their faces a few observa-
tions on the rejection of the Music and Dancing
Bill—a Bill that may be said to have been almost
smuggled through the House of Commons, as very
few persons paid the least attention to it, or, in
fact, scarcely ever heard any thing at all about it. This
Bill was intended to annul the existing.laws respecting
the allowance of music and dancing in unlicensed
places. It was introduced into the House of Com-
mons by Mr. Joseph Hume, who admits himself to
be a goose. Mr. Hume's coadjutor was Mr. Richard
:Potter—the Solon of Wigan, and a very harmless
person to boot ; who, having lost the confidence of the
Radicals in Lancashire by courting the Whigs, doubt-
less congratulated 'nimself with the idea, that although
Mr. Doherty and the tail at Manchester despised
him, and would cause him to look very queer at
Wigan on the next election, yet he might secure
the friendship of those worthy people who may be
traced in nearly a direct line from Tothill-fields through
St. Giles's and Saffron-hill, until they are altogether
lost sight of in the classic regions of Wapping.
Now, let us see if the House of Lords cannot
fairly put in another claim to the gratitude of the coun-
try, in at once kicking out this ridiculous Bill. By
the 25th of George 11., c. 36, made perpetual by 28th
George 11., c. 19, all places of public amusement and
dancing, or other public entertainment of the like
kind, in the cities of London and Westminster, or
within twenty miles thereof, must be annually licensed
at the Michaelmas Quarter Sessions. Under this Act
all the minor theatres,. Vauxhall, &c., are annually li-
censed, and have an efficient control exercised over
them, it being at the discretion of the magistrates to
withhold the license in case of improper management.
The above mentioned Acts were introduced in conse-
quence of the speech of his Majesty King George 11.
at the opening of the Session, earnestly calling the
attention of the two Housed of Parliament to the ir-
TegularitieB then prevailing.— Vide Hansard's Parlia-
mentary Debates, vol. 14, page 1,234, and the Jour-
nals of the House of Commons, vol. 26, folio 507. We
apprehend there are few fathers of families—few
masters, who ought to consider themselves conscien-
tiously responsible to a certain extent for the moral con-
durzt of their apprentices—few persons who of neces-
sity employ servants of both sexes, but who must at
the first glance feel convinced of the wisdom which
propounded the acts of George 11. Not so, however,
with our modern " march of intellect" moralists and le-
gislators of the Joseph school. These profound and
learned persons laugh immoderately at the caution and
wisdom of our ancestors, and would at once establish the
means of seducing young persons into the midst of temp-
tation, instead of pursuing the old-fashioned doctrine of
teaching them that "evil communications corrupt good
manners." In plain fact, the bill sought to be intro-
duced by those great moralists, Joseph and Co., was
intended at once to repeal the sound and wholesome
enactments of George 11. Should this precious Mu-
sic and Dancing Bill have passed the House of Lords,
. what floodgates of profligacy would have been opened
—what scenes of temptation would have presented
themselves I Fleet-street would have had a double sup-
ply of peripatetic misery, and Newgate of reckless
crime. How this Bill crept through the Commons,
scarcely any one can tell. When it arrived at the second
reading in the Lords, the following is all that seems to
'been said about it :—" Lord Brougham briefly adverted
to the nature of the Music and Dancing Bill, which had
passed through the other House of Parliament with very
little opposition. The alteration in the law was much
called for, and the object of the Bill was to make that
the law with respect to London and Middlesex which
was the law all over the rest of England." The Bill
was then read a second time. A few evenings after-
wards it was at first referred to a select committee ; and
then, on motion, it was ordered to be read a third time
that day three months. Such trash is really sickening.
Lord Brougham says " the alteration in the law was
nicel‘ called for." •We ask, by whom ? Who are
;I'. i"*illie peV-sons that call for a measure that can only by
-(7;;-: any possibility have for its effect to increase the ob•
r 4-4, _:-,lieets of viq\and real misery, which pain every manly
I-- '.: 4l\ 1111 d-feeling jjeart in traversing the streets of this great
G< a,\--1,141,,p01i5..._; The stuff about " the law in London and