The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-13 00:00:00

OF THE PUBLiC JOURNALS.

The Tory papers are making.a great outcry about
tthe very simple fact of .Mr. O'Connell's having had
the honour. of an invitation to dinner from the Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland. We can easily understand the
ineaninr, of all this fury. The fortunes of the Tory
Party are known to depend upon the now slender
chap ces of a split among Reformers. If, therefore,
they could excite jealousies on -the part of the more
tiecided Liberals against- the Whig members of the
Government ; or, acting upon a contrary tack, could
(excite the prejudices of the Whig Aristocracy against
the " English andlrish Radicals," it would be a grand
step towards restoring the 'fallen fortunes of this now
desperate faction. Mr. O'Connell has long been made
the butt for their pointless ridicule and foul abuse,
and every indiscreet or intemperate remark of- the
lionourrble and Learned Gentleman furnishes volumes
of comments for the hired retainers and hangers-on of
Torx.;ism. How great must be their mortification,
therefore, to perceive that their poor spite is altogether
thrown away, and that the union between Reformers
of every shade, is as firm and as cordial as ever. If a
Single passionate or abusive speech were to preclude a
-man from enjoying the advantages which his talents and
-political influence would naturally entitle him to expect,
-where -would be the prominent members and leading
'debaters of the Tory party ? Has there been no un-
founded abuse on the other side ? Have there been no
taunting and unmerited epithets applied by Tory
writers and speakers against 'Mr. O'Connell and his
liberal friends ? How ridiculous, therefore, is .this
hypocritical clamour for the rigorous punishment of
delinquencies of which the whole Tory party is more
or less culpable. We have frankly expressed our sen-
timents respecting the language held by Mr. O'Con-
nell upon one particular occasion. With equal frank-
. ness we hesitate not to say, that we rejoice to see that
the talents and acquirements of the Hon. and Learned
Member for Dublin, and his acknowledged influence
over the minds of his countrymen; have been duly ap.-
preciated by his Majesty's representative, and that the,
'first lawyer and orator of Ireland has not been excluded.
from the festivities of the Castle of Dublin.—Mornipg
Chronicle.
The " distinguished individual," as the Government
papers were desired to call O'Connell, has fallen under
the censure even of the sycophants who so nick-
named him, and the ground of their censure is the
malicious and senseless insult he thought fit to pass
upon the Duke of Wellington. -We should be glad
if we could believe that this proceeds with all of them,
as we know it does with some, from sincerity and sight
feeling ; but we are sorry to say that the past conduct
of more than one of these " public instructors" jus-
tifies us in attributing to fear—to fear of the just in-
dignation of that portion of the public that supports
them, and not to their own sense of the atrocity of the
offence, the rebuke they have brought theMselves to ad-
minister to the friend and ally of the Government and the
guest of Lord Mulgrave. For instance, when it was pro-
posed to celebrate the anniversary of the Reformation,
the proposition was indecently sneered at once or twice ;
but speedily the scoffers changed their note, and waxed
as sober and as serious in favour of that solemnity as
though they had really attached either interest or im-
portance to it. It was clear, however, to every care-
ful observer, that the change was operated by the
indignant remonstrances of their Protestant readers ;
and it was manifest, moreover, that the language first
used upon the subject, was the language of sincerity
—that last employed the language .of 'affection. So
here appearances are to .be preserved for a time, by
a pretended shock at the foul 'attack_ upon the Duke
of Wellington ; but at the same time, and as further
evidence that their fears, and not their feelings influence
them, one of these high-minded personages, in a Mi-
nisterial evening print, actually justifies the calling the
Duke of 'Cumberland " a mighty great liar." But,
supposing that all these writers have, as we ad-
mit some of them have, decency enough to shudder
at O'Connell's brutality, and courage enough to de-
nounce it as it deserves, still, is that all the case re-.
quires at their hands ? In our opinion it most cer-
tainly is not. We repeat, that this is no question of
politics, but one that has reference only to society,
whose laws arc daily outraged and trampled under foot
by a rabid. slanderer that shelters himsseff from -the
chastisement his, conduct deserves under a vow that
he will :do his best.to preserve a whole skin. - Is this
to be endured—are remonstrance and rebuke sufficient
in the case of such a man.? Again we answer—
No. If the bonds that hold society together, and
that constitute the line of demarcation between the
savage and the civilized ' state,' are to be pre-
served, the conduct of O'Connell must not be
passed over so lightly. No village alehouse club—
nay, not even the frequenters of any tap-room in
Wapping, would tolerate such a person among them ;
and if in any higher circle Q.C.onnell be admitted, his
convenient example will be sure to spread until Eng-
• lish society is stained with all _iliC.coarserress, .but re-
lieved by none of the courage, which characterize the
social intercourse of barbarians. But whatever the
organs of the Ministers may think or say upon this
subject, the Ministers themselves cannot, as public
men, they cannot,- consistently with their duty to the
- Crown and to the country, allow the matter to stop
here: The disgrace of having entertained such a per-
son as O'Connell at the Vice-regal Lodge must be
repaired : and, even if the bond of union between the
Ministry and O'Connell were personal and private,
as well as political—and this would be such unspeak-.
able-degradation that it is not for a moment to be
supposed—still the Government could not avoid ta-
king such a course as will effectually relieve them froM
any permanent share in the stigma which must for ever
attach to the modern Thersites.—Times.
Our Ambassador to the Court of St. Petersburg
seems to be made happy
..by the hollow Smiles and
treacherous hospitality of the representative of the
Russian Autocrat at Constantinople, while his Sove-
reign and his- country. are grossly insulted by the
_ex-
clusion of the British flag from the .Black Sea, in obe-
dience to. Russian dictation. It may be very pleasing
to the weak vanity of Lord Durham to be feasted,
danced, fopdled, and most agreeably befooled by the
wily diplomatists of Russia, but the insults which he
has allowed to be put upon the British flag will not be
very gratifying to the national pride .of:the people who
were not long ago the rulers of the ocean. What burn=
ing shame would be stamped upon the brows of Rodney
and of Nelson, if they had lived to see the humiliation
which, under our Whig Government, has been in-
flicted upon the " meteor flag of England"—the once
glorious ensign of that great country whose thunders
they bore over they subject seas, until no enemy re--
mauled to dispute the sceptre of naval supremacy with

" Whose march is o'er the mountain waves,
Whose hope is on the deep."
The first insult that Lord Durham, as representative
of the Majesty of England, had to endure, was on the
part of the Porte, in not giving orders to return the
salute fired by the Barham until remonstrances had
taken place and six hours had elapsed. As to the poor
imbecile Sultan being completely in the hands of the
Russian functionaries, he neither offers insults nor
shows civilities to British Authorities now, but just as
those Russian functionaries are pleased to direct.
Stolid indeed must Lord Durham be if he is not sen-
sible of this. Yet though insulted in the first instance
by the Turkish vassal of Russia, his first act was to
hasten, with servile alacrity, to partake of the festivities
of M. Bouteneif, who was celebrating the anniversary
of the coronation of the Imperial Destroyer of Poland
For this obsequious homage to the Autocrat, he was
rewarded by being prohibited from sailing in the Bar-
ham frigate through the Bosphorus into the'Black
Sea, and being left the alternative of returning home as
lie came, or transferring himself into the Pluto steamer,
to prove to all the world that a British vessel of
war dare not enter the Black Sea any more than
if it were a Russian lake—the midisputed property
of the barbarian " protector" of Turkey. Well
might the Russian Ambassador afford to give a ball
in honour of Lord Durham, while the flag under
which he sailed to Constantinople was thus dishonoured;
but here again occurred an instance of even Turkish
contempt for his Lordship, for although 20 Pachas
were invited, only one condescended to grace the ball
with his presence. Had ,Lord Durham sailed up the
Dardanelles, and through the Bosphorus in a British
threedecker, proudly maintaining the dignity of the