The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-26 00:00:00

very marked improveirsent of these matters themselves.
The book of the presaut day is certainly not, upon the
whole, better then it was a century ago ; but it is very
different with the newspaper. That is actually a crea-
tion of yesterday as- it were ; and yet, rapid as has been
the progress of libcality in public opinion, the news-
paper has kept, and still keeps, a• head of it. Nor
need we wonder th at :should be the case—the news-
paper spreads over the, country like the light of
Cie Sun ; and, like that luminary, it shines equally •
upon " the just rend the unjust," showing the
beauty of the one a.:; id the deformity of the other.
When the vital invartance of , the newspaper press
is considered, it is really monstrous to think that
a newspaper should be one of the most heavily
taxed of all productions. The tax is, as Lord Brougham
justly remarked, 200 per rent. ; • and for this heavy tax
there can be no pl,m, save that of a wish to stifle the
truth. The objectionable publications arc all un-
stamped ; bccause„. as his Lordship well observed,
" when a man can brace his nerves to preach murder
and arson, he, requires 'out little additional courage to
brave the stamp laws." There is nobody understands
the subject better than Lord. Brougham► ; there is no
one who is better able to plead its cause ; and, there-
fore, now that he has -leisure to attend to such matters,
we hope he 'will not confine his exertions to the mak-
ing of a speech, 'however brilliant -and to the purpose,
on the presenting of a petition, but press the matter
home to the busLitess and bosoms- of the public.—
Morning Advertiser.

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Last night in thte House of -Commons the Premier
put a very prOper 'question to Lord John Russell, to
which lie received. - an answer, not conveying the in-
formation sought, but imparting, with somewhat more
than Lhe noble respondent's usual distinctness, im-
portant information of a very different kind. The
Right Hon. Baronet wished to know if the Noble
Lord would be :prepared on Friday to state to the '
House the outline s of the resolution he meant to 'pro-
pose on Monday -next. The answer seems to us so
very remarkable, considering all the circumstances of
the case, that we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of
transcribing it here:-- i
" Lord Jobn Russell said that all he could then answer was
that he could give no answer to the
,-...ht Hon. Baronet's
question—( Hear, and u laugh)—as he - . not expect such .a
question from him. Ile could not tell wat the resolutions
might be.—( Hear, bear, from ' the Ministerial benches.)
However, he would be prepared to give an answer on Friday."
It is certainly odd that Lord John Russell should
not only be unable now to give an outline of resolu-
tions of which his metice has been on the paper of the
House for a fortnight or thereabouts ; which are to
come on in five days from the present time ; and which
are to be of so much importance, we are told, that their
fate must decide that of-the Administration ; but that
the Noble Lord should be unable so much as to say
whether it is likely he shall have it in his power on
Friday next, being, only three days prior to that on
which these redoubtable resolutions are to be moved,
to state what w ill be their general character. Lord
John cannot, as it seems to us, have any very definite
idea as to what he intends to
.move on Monday next,
or any very fixed purpose to move anything whatever.
We have' bad repeated instances during the present
Session to prove that the prospective paper of the House
of Commons is a very unmeaning document, but no-
thing has yet occurred to cast so much ridicule upon
this senatorial catalogue of announcements as this
indirect confession of the leader of the Opposition
that he has put down a notice of his intention to
move something or other, on a given day, upon a
subject of so much interest as the Irish ChCrch, in the
fond hope that during the interval some inspiration
might be imparted to him to fix his wavering and un-
settled mind as to what that something should be.
The desired inspiration, it appears, has not yet de-
scended, and there is much probability, after all, that
we may be left without resolutions of any kind on
Monday. The reply of the leader of the Opposition.
indicates on his part a happy vacancy of mind, which
must be in the highest degree satisfactory to such of
his followers as perform the task or enjoy the privilege
of prompting him. The Noble Lord, after this pub-
lic acknowledgment that he is. still quite open to the
suggestions of his friends, will probably have prompters
, enough - and we own we should not be much b
sur-
prised if they were to prompt so clamorously, and at
the same time so discordantly, that the Noble leader
' should, between this and Monday evening next, be
compelled once more to betake himself to the refuge
of a general meeting at Lord Lichfield's. The idea
of another rendezvous in St." James's-square will, we"
know, terrify our Whig and Radical contemporaries.
But such an occurrence, attended with consequences
as before, is very probable nevertheless.—Morning
Post.