The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-03 00:00:00

the advisers of the Crown be once fairly before the
Legislature, and we shall soon find the quacks and
political profligates, the Radical pensioners and dis-
loyal ex-Attorney-Generals, the Bowrings, the Gillons,
the Abercrombys, and the Campbells reduced to their
proper level. With regard to Ireland, the reply is of
a more complicated and delicate nature. We believe,
nay we know, that were the unbiassed and free judg-
ment of the electors in our unfortunate sister country
fully exercised, a,very large majority would be found
ranged on the side of order and good government. It
is a fact, notorious as the sun at noon-day, that the
rank, intellect, and wealth of Ireland are, with
scarcely an exception, attached to the British connec-
tion, and anxious to maintain it unimpaired and invio-
lable—and that they are aware that for the purpose of
securing the permanence of such union, the defence of
the laws, ecclesiastical and civil, is indispensable.
But against this body are embarked all that Ireland has
of folly, mischief, worthlessness, and ignorance acting
upon each other, and tending to strengthen the galling
yoke of tyranny and superstition. Are the Conserva-
tives heading the poll at Dublin, Tralee, or Belfast—
the myrmidons, lay and clerical, of the arch dema-
gogue and bully are prepared to excite against the well
disposed electors not merely odium and abuse, but the
physical elements of civil warfare, the knife, the brand,
and the dagger. Is the Knight of Kerry likely to
succeed for his native county, that county in which he
has done more good than would be effected by ten ge-
nerations of O'Connells—all his exertions to pro-
cure for his Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen
an equality of civil rights are basely forgotten, or,
if remembered, remembered only to be cast in his
teeth. The engines of falsehood and intimidation arc
set at work—Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald is beaten.
Dublin appears likely to burst the disgraceful chains.
Again, no misrepresentation is unemployed, no agita-
tion spared. The cause of order is again defeated by
a small majority. There is one circumstance to be es-
pecially noticed as connected with the recent elections
in Ireland, that during the first two days' poll the Con-
servatives headed almost invariably their opponents,
and the hopes of loyalty were proportionably raised.
No sooner, however, (lid the maim who wrings from the
hard hands of a starving peasantry a disgraceful and
discreditable revenue perceive the probable overthrow
of his schemes, than he scruples not to employ all the
means which deceit, imposture, and ignorance have
largely provided for his use, and the cause of order and
peace undergoes a reverse. Sursly some remedy should
be provided for this evil, which increases daily and hourly
its alarming extent. We have never been able to dis-
cover the reason why the time fixed for the duration of
the poll in Ireland was by She defunct Administration
protracted to a longer period than that allowed in
ngland and Scotland, save that it afforded opportu-
nity for intimidation, and thus assisted the mock op-
ponent but real supporter of the Whig-Radical
Ministry in his nefarious and atrocious schemes.
Such, then, are the princii,al causes which have ren-
dered our triumphs in Scotland and Ireland less in
number, but not inferior in importance, to those in
England. With regard to behind, indeed, there is
every reason to believe that many of the demagogues
in that country, and especially D.,diniel O'Connell 1-7im-
self, will be unseated by the resolutions of Parliamen-
tary Committees, their majorities being merely fictitious
and colourable. Be the result of these inquiries what
they may, our confidence is strong, our hopes high.
Truth will in the end prevail, and the empire of im-
posture be overthrown ; the dominion of the laws tri-
umphantly vindicated ; the majesty of justice, order,
and good government again seated on a firm, solid,
and immoveable throne.—Morning Post.
The Tories are evidently in great perplexity on ac-
count of the determination of the Reformers to pro-
pose, and consequently to carry, Mr. Abercromby for
the Speakership of the new House of Commons, in
opposition to the man whom the Duke of Cumberland
thought the fittest of all men to head a Tory Ministry
—Sir Charles Manners Sutton. From the known re-
luctance of Mr. Abercromby to undertake the duties of
that office—a reluctance which was only overcome by
the conviction that a public principle was involved in the
question—the Tories had for some weeks been buoying
themselves up with the idea that they should have met
with no opposition to their nomination of the late
Speaker, whose services in the dismissal of thc Mel-
bourne Ministry, and the formation of the present, gave
him such strong claims on their support. We find in
the Standard of last night a sample of the usual tac-
tics displayed on such occasions. The peerage which
it is understood Sir Charles is to receive as the price of
his intrigues for the dismissal of the late Ministry, and
the active part he took in the formation of the present,
is dexterously brought forward, and Mr. Abercrombv's
eyes are directed to the prospect which this speedy ele-
vation must open to him. " Lord John Russell," says
the Standard, " is a very silly person ; but he knows
that Mr. Abercromby has as little chance of being
elected Speaker in the present case as he has of
gaining the electoral crown of Poland. Even self-
flattery, intoxicating as it is, does not seduce Mr.
Abercromby himself into this expectation, though
he cunningly avails himself of the opportunity
to lay the foundation of an ulterior chance, when Sir
C. Manners Sutton shall be, as we trust he will soon
le, promoted according to his deserts." This hint
will not do; Mr. Abercromby, our contemporary may
be assured, will be both proposed and carried; but as
one good turn deserves another, we may just hint to
our contemporary, that if Sir Charles Sutton wishes
to be Lord Lexington, of which we believe there is no
doubt, his object will not be greatly forwarded by the
approaching contest. His would-be Lordship must
know, that every reformer, at all deserving of the name,
must vote for Mr. Abercromby ; and Sir Robert Peel
—after a vote of the House of Commons—may have
doubts whether it would be quite suitable to -follow
up the discomfiture by a Peerage. We give the
Standard great credit for the dexterity shown in con-
verting the question into an issue of criminal justice ;
but, after all, they must be sad waverers who are to be
caught by this artifice. " The question is now (says
our contemporary) put out of the category of politics,
and brought to an issue of criminal justice, in deciding
which none but the basest and most unprincipled can
allow personal or political feeling to have the slightest
influence. When a gentleman is told that lie is to be
put aside for a flagrant abuse of his high duty,' how-
ever anxious be might otherwise be to retire, 'every
sequin-lent of honourable pride commands his perseve-
rance in the contest. Again—when the House of
Commons is told that the late Speaker has rendered
himself unworthy of their trust by ' a flagrant
abuse of high duty, which he owed to the former
House, the Members of the House of Commons must
feel as men empannelled upon a penal trial, whose very
first duty must be to dismiss all personal and political
considerations." They must be more than waverers—
they must be tolerably well inclined to Toryism, who
will suffer themselves to be bullied into a support of
the Speaker, because nothing worse can be proved
against him than that he did all he could to break up
the late Ministry, and, consequently, to dissolve a Par-
liament too much of a Reforming cast for Tories.
There is nothing, however, like audacity : but our
contemporary will find that the Reformers are not to
be bullied.—Morning Chronicle.

ROLLS' COURT.