The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1835.

marks on the duty of attendance. He strongly
observes, that " the man who stays away is worse
than the man who votes badly ; and -the skulker
should have the treatment of an enemy. After',
stating that Ireland would send over at the least
sixty-three opponents of a Tory Speaker, he pro-
ceeds in this spirited and just course of remark :—;
" No one is more ready to admit than I am the endearing!
ties, for no man has more reason personally to be delighted!
with ties of, a domestic circle than I am ; no man will more'
readily admit the necessity for the attendance of a husband to,
his wife in sickness, or his children in disease: but the time
has arrived when that man must be considered a traitor to his
country, who would attend to any domestic concerns until he
had fulfilled his public duty.—( Hear, hear.) I say it is no
excuse to have a sick family. If .the person were a physician,
there might be some reason in his wishing to attend them. I
say, then, there is no excuse. If; on the morning of the battle
of Waterloo, one of the. soldiers were to say, ' I have a sick
child or wife, and cannot go to the field offight,' would he not
be shot as a traitor ?—( Hear, hear.) We have come to a mo-
ral Waterloo—( Cheers)—and the men who hare Enlisted
themselves in the ranks of freedom are not to look to their per-
sonal convenience, their personal gratification, or their domes-
tic duties. They have duties of a more imperative nature and
higher order to perform. The question is, whether we shall
give the first staggering blow to this.' most fatal Administra-
tion ; so fatal, that it not only threatens the peace of the
country, but the very security of the Crown, for neither can
ba safe if they continue in office."
Mr. O'Connell moved—

" That the Secretary (of the' Anti-Tory Association) do
write to-Mr. Cobbett, who has expressed his determination to
vote against Mr. Abercromby. He has stated that he will not
vote for Mr. Abercromby. We will not press him to that,
provided he votes against Sir Charles Manners Sutton.—
( Hear.) He will be proposed as Speaker, and Abercrortk
will be proposed as the amendment. The moment Sir
Charles Manners Sutton is proposed, somebody will move as
an amendment that all the words after " that" be left out, and
that the words proposed to be left Otjt." tio-staila'iiirt of- the,
quest:jou: We theli vote against 'Sir Charles Manners. Sutton.;
and if we carry tbe,.atuentftment, Mrt:Cobbett will be at liberty
to get up and opppse, Mr.
,Aburcromby? an,l•jprtiposy in his.
place anybody`p „.
At tlie. firgtilieetitratr.'thi',lleforinea. Parliament,
.
.Mr. C 45bgeCoiVe:the strongest' and most unalterable
reasons for reststing`thd ilection-of.Sir C. !Tit.'SuttOn.
His speech -puts tlid'-question‘ on its true 'grounds ;
.• •
and ik-e.haiee dieat lifea6re in reprmem a. o it, asbrief'
and'inianwerable argument, beyond which a is unne-
cessary to go. The statement of the feeling of the
country is as just as that of the merits of the clues.
tion

Mr. COBBETT.—" I am convinced that the whole country
will condemn the re-election of the Right Honourable Gentle-
man. The Right Honourable Gentleman said that he had
been Speaker of this House for a period of sixteen years. But
for that service he received a salary of 6,0001. a-year, and a
retiring pension of 4,0001. But he had also held some public
office before he became Speaker. Indeed, almost from his in-
fancy he had been receiving money in some shape or other out
of the public purse. This, then, is the man whom the House
is determined to elect as its Speaker. It is a saying of farmers,
Such as the sample, such is the sack ; and what a sack must
that be of which the Right Honourable Gentleman is the sam-
ple ! Such as the Right Honourable Gentleman is the whole
of the Representatives of their breeches pockets will be found,
all of them putting their hands in the people's pockets. as
they did in the old unreformed Parliament, and taking from
them as much money as they can get. Is such conduct to be
tolerated by those who are, or at least ought to be, the Repre-
sentatives of the People? IN SHORT, IF MR. MANNERS SUT-
TON IS RE-CHOSEN TO FILL THE CHAIR OF THIS HOUSE, HE
WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE COUNTRY AS A FAIR SPECIMEN
OF THE HOUSE ITSELF. THE HOUSE, THEREFORE, BY ITS
VOTE ON THIS MOTION, WILL DETERMINE ITS OWN CHARACTER
WITH THE PEOPLE. I shall, then, oppose the motion ; although
my opposition may be, and probably will be, unavailing."—
Morning Chronicle.