The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-19 00:00:00

post to do his duty: A 9 it was, iitth, was done, and th.•t
ii.tle was not well done. Sii Robert Peel was the prin.
(-nal actor fit) the vre ision. He .petrit..l to exert

t•, desnonetrate the ju,tice of that famooi Spitoikh prove. •
wbieh con•idere fat: Ill's as rn.bre (Lowetous than enemies,

He exhausted his not very rich vocabobtry of phrases
expre,s his irtd4tntot rtj,ction of the Fupposition that I
could have degraded Ithnteil by I).cotnitor t wry to ant
arrangement for carrying that Bill which he had for
eighteon months reptatedly denounced, but which thost
who had denounced it with etptal vehemence were rePi,
to support. He then, wilt more profusion th tu
poured out his adulatory oil on the wounds wlich he him-
self had made ; thus still fui titer atine, airll comet.-
s,ending patronage those whom he had vir ually pronounced
SA shut out of the pale of honourable or even decent associa-
tion. The solution of this problem is, perhaps, not very
difficult. Our own firm conviction is, that notwithstand-
ing the fanatical bellowing of the ultra,t, and the cunningly

devised arzornents and incessant intrigues of the mote
sattac,ous Tories, the opponents of the Bill are quite as
anxious for its speedy success as its most ardent friends.
His Grace of Wellington, and the Tamworth Baronet. ab-
solutely pant wilt anxie,y to " have it all over." They
are both in a false position, and every day sees them de•
scentlinz with accelerated force into the gulf of public in-
difference or disgust. How ardently do they wish that

they had been able to discern the signs of the time,--tbat
they had possessed the honesty to confess, or the courage
to redeem, their error in due season. It is the just punish-
ment of faction, to be deprived of common perspicacity.
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In blindness it begins its courhe, in blindness it pursues
its crooked and dirty way, and in blindness it walks into
a pitfall, which is ohvious even to the most stupid and
unobserving. We wish not to exult over the defeated in-
fatu ition of the unfortunate Duke and his foolish friends,—
we allude to them rather as exhibiting (in the words of hip.
Grace) a " great moral lesson,"—at once objects of pit}
and instruments of instruction. " .Triste eritandumque
bidental !" Times.

The announcement made by Earl Grey in the House of
Lords last night of the result of the communications
which have passed between his Majesty and his Ministers
will diffuse a general feeling of satisfaction throughout the
country. There is no person who has not the bid taste,
or the bad ambition, to be enamoured of public discord,
turbulence, and agitation, who will not he rejoiced to find
that there is at length a prospect of putting a speedy ter-
mination to the contentions and stormy excitement which
has attended the protracted discussion of the Reform Bill.
There is no one who has the interests of England at heart,
who wishes to see her internal embarrassments relieved,
and her name raised once more among the nations—who
will not he glad of the approaching settlement of a Tie,-
lion the long agitation of which has aggravated all the difi-
culties under which the country previously laboured, by
causing a stagnation of industry and commerce, and fetter-
ing her energies at home and abroad The announce-
ment of the Noble Earl was made in the following

words :—" My Lords, I have now the satisfaction to in
form you that those communications (between the King
and him) have be-n brought to this result—that in
consequence of his Majesty's desire, mo-t gra-
ciously expressed to me—in consequence of my seeing
now that the grounds of confidence exist to enable me to
redeem the pledges I gave the country and your Lordships
of not continuing in Administration unless I hail a confi-
dent security of passing the Reform Bill on the table un-
imp rired in its principles—in consequence of finding my.
self well grounded in that confident expectation, and hav-
ing received his Majesty's commands most graciously ex-
pressed to that effect, his Maj'sty's present Ministers con-
tinue in their places." Certainly this communication could
have been more clearly expressed in fewer words, and
reducing it to a simpler statement, it inforrns us of the
important fact that " his Majesty's Ministers continue in
their places, with a confident security of being able to re-
deem their pledge of carrying the Reform Bill without
mutilation." There is no information given here as to
whether the success of the Bill is to be insured ly a
creation of Peers or by the withdrawal of the Oppo.i-
tion—we presume the latter. At all events, Earl Grey
stands now pledged, not only to the essential provisions
of the Bill, but to the actual capability of carrying it
with all those provisions unimpaired. We are, there-
fore, to abandon all apprehension, if there be faith in
man, of having the measure impeded, during the remainder
of its course, by any obat .cle of human contrivance. The
pilot is once more at the helm—he has the compass be-
neath his eye —the chart in his hand—he professes to
know how to steer a certain and safe (-out se for the future,
and to bring the vessel of Reform into the desired haven.
Trusting to a well-grounded confidence on his part, we are
not to anticipate for the future that it will get among shoals
and quicksands, or strike upon one of those sunken rocks
on which it bad, more than once bd., ire, almost suffered
total wreck. It may not be amiss for us to revert here to
the excessively imprudent and foolish language which
several of the less respectable, but not the less self-important
of the spouters at public meetings addressed to their
auditors during the list few days. Though a political
revolution was only predicted, one would have thought
that a revolution of the English language had actually
taken place. It was in the style only of French oratory
-luring the first revolution, to derive all the spirit-stir.
ring images of eloquence from the block .4rid_ the axe.
C tnstant allusions were male to the appilling and bar-
;•arous occupation of the executioner, and yoang and
fiery patriots resorted for inspiration to the shambles ie
sattguinary law. The most approved figures of rhetoric
were the flowers of tee guillotine. The French, greatlj
to their honour, have become ashamed of that sort of do•
quence. The progress of France in civiliz ttion, since tin
first revolution, has so irnproeed their moral perceptions
as to disgust them as much with real as they have always
peen with scenic exhibitions of blood. At the last revo-
lution they allowed a dethroned Monarch, who hat.
plunged Paris for three days into all the calamities or
civil war, to depart the country in peace; and they sent
Polignac and his coadju.ors not to expiate their offences or,
..he block, but to meditate in the fortress of Ham, upon the
Lutability of human grandeur. In this humane and
Christian country the oratory of the last week partook
very much of the spirit and imagery of that style which thi
French have abandoned. Constant allusions were made
to the '• block," to M air Antoinette (whose cruel fat.
reflected the deepest disgra-e on the manhood as well ;t-
-ate humanity of France) and to Coarles I. To the cre
dit of the people in general, such coarse and Bangui
nary allusions did not originate with them. They mermen
determined, indeed, to carry Reform, but to carry it
Peaceably and constitutionally. But there were no,
wanting persons who seemed willing to deprive the
people—the sober, honest, consideme English peop!e--ol
all the glory of a moral victory, by giving the cause or
Reform a debasing connexion with ruffianly violence.
From what passed in the House of Lords on Thursday
night it was evident that the King, so far from abandon-
ing the cause of Reform, had not authorised any Admini-
stration to be formed but on the ground of supporting an
ectensice Refrrm, his only objection he,ng to the eteation
Peers to carry the 1311.--and certainly the creation at
Peers in this way is a great evil, and cannot be justified
try any thing but the last necessity. And here we must
again observe, that the Papers which profess to be the or-
gans of the Government bad made people believe that Earl