The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-27 00:00:00

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, I US.

SECOND DEFEAT

OF THE

TORY MINISTRY.

We heartily congratulate our readers and the country at
large on the important victory obtained this morning, by
the representatives of the people in the House of Com-
mons over the enemies of Reform. Notwithstanding the
defection from the popular cause of the milk-and-Water
party—falsely calling themselves • Whigs headed by
the recreant heir of the House _of Derby, the anti-
national Administration has been again defeated. How
much more battering they have made up their minds to
stand, it is not for us to say—it is, we believe, utterly be-
yond the power of man to calculate. The present
Ministerial body differs so much from every, other in the
eccentricity of its orbit, and the irregularity of its
motions, that not even a probable guess can be formed
as to what course it will take next. A tithe of
what the Tory Ministers have already suffered would
have sufficed to make men, possessed of the least deli-
cacy of feeling—to say nothing of public principle—retire
at once, and ever after hide their heads in obscurity, where
they might have leisure to reflect on their misdeeds, and to
repent of the evil course they have been tempted to pur-
sue—thankful, at the same time, for the providential arrest
of that course, before the awful calamities which it would

have entailed on the nation had been experienced.
The majority for the amendment on the Address was
SEVEN--not a large majority, we may readily admit, if its
mere numerical quantity be tbe only point taken into con-
side: ation ; but large, when regard is had to the unexampled
efforts employed to wheedle, to beguile, and to corrupt.
We hear there is to be another division to-night on
on the bringing up of the Report. No stone is to be left un-
turned to undo what has been done. Let Honourable
Members be at their posts, ready to maintain the ground
they have won.. To draw back now would be a pitch of
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baseness unparalleled in the history of political transactions.
Let them remember that Sir ROBERT PEEL, the
Prime Minister, thus addressed his friends after their
defeat ATTEND IN YOUR PLACES TO-
MORROW, AND SEE WHETHER WE CAN-
NOT TURN THE MINORITY OF TO-NIGHT
INTO A MAJORITY THEN."

From the first promulgation of the Peel Manifesto,
couched in the form of an Address to the electors of Tam-
worth, until its re-appearance in all the tinselled garniture
of a Royal Speech, we uniformly denounced it as a piece
of specious sophistry—a stringing together of empty phrases
—a jingle of mere sounds—for the purpose of first ca-
joling, and next betraying the people. When some of our
contemporaries, either more credulous, or more time-
serving than ourselves, expressed themselves favourably of
this Jesuitical document, we called upon them to-point
out any specific pledge which it contained on
any one great question occupying the attention
of the public,—and demanding- the consideration of -
the Government. We saw at a glance the whole drift of the
Tory proceeoling—that while there were abundant pledges
for making enquiries, there was not so much as one, for a
performance of any kind. The entire document, as far as
it related to public measures; might be summed up lnthe
colloquial phrase with which a troublesome complainant is
dismissed—" I shall see about it—at all events I shaltmake
some enquiry as soon as convenient." Most triumphantly
has the correctness of our opinion as to the original pur-
port of the Peel Manifesto—its poverty in all but idle
words—its hollowness, its humbug, and its sophistry—been
borne out by the debate in the House of Lords, on moving
"the Address to the Throne. The cutting sarcasm of Lord
BROUGHAM, was too much for either the patience or the
prudence of the LORD CHANCELLOR. The sight of such
deformity—as the Ex-Chanceller raised the mask of
Tory apostacy—was too horrible to be contemplated even
by the Noble Lord on the Woolsack ; and hence, in his
anxiety to prove the likeness not his own, he at once be-
came the expounder of the important document, which his
friends in the other House were endeavouring to make out
contained a specific remedy for every evil.
Lord LYNDHURST repelled, with the most scornful in-
dignation, the charge of having deserted his former prin-
ciples, and referred to the KING'S Speech in justification
of his own character, and the consistency of his colleagues.
The present Administration," observed the Noble and
Learned Lord, in answer to the luminous speech of Lord
BROUGHAM, " were told that they were acting inconsis-
tently with their former profescions.—(Hear, hear.) He
would ask Noble Lords to look at his MAJESTY'S Speech,
and then say whether anything was advanced that showed
their inconsistency ?—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) With