The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-25 00:00:00

which l• s
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ntimately connected with his profes
sional pursuits, and in which his professional
knowledge cannot fail to he eminently useful.—
The subject is the reduction of the present great
and unnecessary number of the army ; an in
crease of which took place on the present Mi•
nistry coming into office, on account of the
disturbed state of the conntry, but for the con-
tinuance of which no valid plea is now to be
found. Quiet reigns at home and peace abroad;
and why, therefore, let us ask, should an army
be kept on foot which would not even be insig
nificant in case of the breaking out of a war?
What ground also, let us ask, does there exist
for maintaining and clothing so many regiments
of household troops as are now to be und in
the army list, and at such an enormous cost to
the country ? If the Reform Bill be destined
to be of any other use to the country than that
of having rid it of the rotten borough system,
and given to it a more extended and independent
constituency, one of its first fruits must be a
reduction of the public expenditure, and espe-
cially of that branch of it which concerns the
army and the colonies. The latter, it is well
known, have never paid a farthing into the Ex-
chequer in payment for the protection which
they have received—nay, they have never even
made up enough to defray the actual outlay on
their behalf; while, with regard to the former it
is equally notorious that although many officers
of distinction and merit have found their way into
it, it has always been considered, along with the
colonies, as more valuable on account of the pa-
tronage which it conferred, and the consequent fa-
cility which it afforded of procuring Parliamentary
votes by providing for the sons, connexions, and
dependents of Parliamentary men, than of its use in
any other respect. Both have, in fact, been treated
as a sort of common, in which the friends of Mi-
nisters have pastured at will—and hence, o i the
one hand, the enormous salaries of the gover-
nors and secretaries, and other public function-
aries in the colonies—the enormous military
establishments kept up in them—the unnecessa-
rily large number of the army, and the constant
endeavours of every successive Ministry, either
to maintain it at its former complement, or to
raise it to a higher amount. With a Reformed
Parliament this corrupt system, which attained
its manhood under the Pitts, Melvilles, and
Dundases, must be swept away root and branch;
but there is no reason why that which is about
to be dissolved should not set an example, in
its dying moments, to the former, by making a
beginning at least, in clearing away the rubbish
which it has suffered and helped to collect.
Colonel Evans's motion, as we have already
observed, does not go to the root of the evil ;
but, temperate as it is, no inconsiderable benefit
would result to the country from its being carried.
—Morning Advertiser.

There are few things which have afforded us
greater gratification than the spiteful, malicious,
rancorous attacks which are daily made on the
Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel by
the hireling Journals of the W hig Ministry.
We gather from the brutal and senseless fury, or
silly affectation of fury, which the Whig writers
of all sorts exhibit towards these eminent men,
and which they evidently consider as the most
acceptable offering in their power to Earl Grey,
Lord Brougham, and the rest of their high-
minded patrons, not that the objects of this
feeling or of this pretence are honourable, loyal,
able, and patriotic Statesmen, for this we knew
without any such test ; not that they are in all
essential points of character the antipodes of the
present set of Ministers, for this their uniform
conduct has proved them to be ; but the agreeable
certainty that they are deemed especially formi-
dable as political antagonists—that an instructive
dread of their honest influence, their exalted

talent, and their spotless reputation pervades,
agitates, and agonizes the whole organized mass
of Whiggery from its heart to its extremities.
The evidence of this terror is most cheering to
all honest men and good subjects ; that it is as
full and conclusive as could be desired any one
may satisfy himself in an hour who has resolu-
tion and fortitude enough to turn over the files
of the Times, the Morning Chronicle, and the
Globe for the last three or four weeks. Why

the crew of agitators who at present rule over
this country fear and hate the Duke of Welling-
ton and Sir Robert Peel is as plain as the proofs
of that terror and malevolence are incontestible.
The people of England are evidently awakening
from that delusion and recovering from that
excitement into which theoretic changes, in-
vented for the purpose, had thrown them. The
practical advantages of good government are
once more about to be required by the nation,
as the only satisfactory proof of the capacity and
integrity of its rulers. It will he necessary
for Earl Grey, it is already plainly seen, to have
something more solid to show in evidence of his
Ministerial qualifications than his Reform Bill,
and something more manifestly profitable to the
country than the munificent gift within eighteeen
months of some thirty places, of the annual
value of 100,000/., to his own most needy and
most incapable relations. It will be required of
Lord Brougham to work hard in the Court of
Chancery, and to decide upon principles, and
with reference to precedents which he has yet
to learn, a continually increasing number of dif-
ficult and complicated cases, instead of jobbing
in the destruction of old and the. creation of new
Courts of Justice, to no other end than to baffle

the suitors and increase his own patronage. It
will be required of Lord Althorp to relieve the
people progressively of some of the more one-
rous of their burdens, without again attempting
to rob some classes, for the purpose of deluding
some others with a delusive prospect of relief.--
It will be required of Lord Melbourne that he
shall find means of protecting property and life
in Ireland, instead of sacrificing both to rabble
popularity, and the electioneering influence of
popish demagogues and priests. This Noble
Lord will have also to learn so much of the
state of Ireland as to be able to en-
counter a debate in the House of Lords upon
the subject without the assistance of the Irish
Chancellor. It will be required of the collec-
tive crew of Whig Statesmen to constitute hence-
forth a mild and paternal Government without
affording every incendiary, assassin, and traitor
opportunity of appealing to their language
and correspondence as the stimulus and apology
tiie
of his crime. That the Whigs cannot sustain the
ordeal to which they are now about to be exposed,
for the first time, since they became Ministers of
the
the Crown,
they have an acute and intolerable con-
s . They already smart under the anti-
cipated infliction of that disgrace which they and
all their party know they have always deserved,
b which, by throning incense to the rabble,
andut flattering the hopes of revolutionists, they
have hitherto contrived to elude. Hence their
malignant jealousy and rabid hatred of the Duke
of Wellington and Sir R. Peel. These dis-

tinguished_ Statesmen are guilty of one crime in
common, which the Wings never can forgive,
that of being known to the nation as men who
are capable of holding the reins of Government