The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-18 00:00:00

sions and waste of the public money, but we are confi-
dent that to all those Reformers, among whom we
reckon ourselves, who are not prepared for party pur-
poses to vote " black is white," the appeal which is
made to their calm reason, their good sense, and their
good feeling, will not be made in vain.—Morn. Herald.
The people of England perceive very clearly that
the junction of the O'Connell and the Whig-Radical
factions, for the purpose of placing their nominee in
the Chair of the House of Commons, is a political
alliance like that of which the fable speaks between the
lion and the other beasts of the forest ; and that in the
very improbable event of their hunting down their
prey, the Irish Agitator and the English place-hunters
will divide between them the political power of which
both are in quest in similar proportions to those which
the nursery fable has rendered familiar to us. That
Mr. O'Connell in this common chase fills the place of
the lion, while Lord John Russell and his adherents
occupy that of the inferior brutes, is a proposition 'Mr.
O'Connell openly advances, and which no section 01
his confederates have yet had the courage distinctly to
deny. Nobody will be convinced by the pretence that
the union of Mr. O'Connell with the Whig-Radical
party in England, upon the question of the Speaker-
ship, bears any resemblance to the ordinary junctions
of political parties in favour of a vote in which
each feels a common interest. Mr. O'Connell
upon this occasion distinctly avows purposes
which his confederates think it their interest
or their duty to disclaim, and he makes this
avowal in the consciousness that if victory be
obtained, he and his party shall reap not only
the first fruits, but the bulk of its produce. He votes
with the Members of the ex-Ministry while he rudely
sets them at defiance. He declares that he will vote
for Mr. Abercromby as a means of promoting the
Repeal of the Union. He manifests in the whole
proceeding a vigour and audacity which is not to be
found in the language or conduct of his confederates.
He is, in a word, and knows himself to be, the lion
hunting with brutes of a lower order. Nothing can
be more preposterous than to compare the, chase in
which Mr. O'Connell unites with such men as Lord
John Russell and the English Whigs, and Messrs.
Hume, Warburton, and the other English Radicals,
to the fair pursuit of a common prey by equal and
equitable sportsmen. Mr. O'Connell will do what he
deems his share of the work, but he will insist, and he
makes no scruple of saying so much, that the.. whole
profit of the common toil shall be exclusively his own.
A more extravagant idea never certainly entered
into the mind of man than that Mr. O'Connell would
consent to pull in harness with such puny animals as
Lord John Russell, Mr. Hume, and Mr. Duncombe,
unless upon the well understood condition that he
should be the forehorse of the team, and have the ab-
solute guidance of all the rest. It is said that the
Repeal of the Union is not involved in the question of
the Speakership, and that, after carrying the latter ob-
ject together, the O'Connell and Russell factions will
not be bound to proceed further in unison. Nothing
is more easily said than this. But Mr. O'Connell
proclaims that his purpose is to obtain the Repeal of
the Union and nothing else ; and it is surely to pay
him no very extravagant compliment to suppose that
he knows at least as well what he is about as the best
of his British allies know the objects and meaning of
their own projects. All that is really important for the
British people to know and to recollect is, that Mr.
O'Connell supports Mr. Abercromby avowedly because
he wishes the downfal of the present Administration,
as a preliminary step to the Repeal of the Union ;
that he is the ally of Lord John Russell and his
party avowedly because he thinks he can always con-
troul them ; that the latter opinion is founded upon
an experience of which the whole British nation has
been the disgusted witnesses in times past ; that in
every former instance Mr. O'Connell, whether in con-
flict or in combination with the Whigs, has invariably
been their master ; that by thus blending the present
with the past, an irrefragable proof is obtained that
the Abercromby question is in fact no other than an
O'Connell or Repeal question. Nothing can be more
idle than to say that because the Whigs scouted the
proposition for a Repeal of the Union during the
last session of Parliament, they will now successfully
or even sincerely withstand Mr. O'Connell upon
that question. The last Parliament was their Parlia-
ment ; the present is much more Mr. O'Connell's than
their's. Then Mr. O'Connell was their declared anta-
gonist, now he professes to be their Mend. They
were then in place and cautious ; they are now out of
place and desperate. They were then acting upon a
policy which assumed that the property and intelli-
gence of Great Britain might be brought over to their
political cause ; they have now discovered that the
property and intelligence of Great Britain must always
despise them and their ways. Notwithstanding all the
powerful motives above described to repel and resist
the influence and authority of Mr. O'Connell, the
Whigs then bent and truckled to the agitator of Ire-
land. How far—and this is the single question for
the British people—may it then be expected that
they will be ready to carry their subserviency, now that
he has soared and that they have sunk ?—Morning
Post.

We should have been glad to have left the appoin

ment of the Marquis of Londonderry to the e-rribassy
of Petersburgh in the hands of the Times, as our
worthy contemporary had promised to deal with it in a
befitting manner. "Itis an appointment," said that
journal, " against which the whole country will pro-
test." The conduct of the Noble Marquis, while he
represented our Sovereign at Vienna, ought to have
been of itself sufficient, according to the opinion of the
Times, to disqualify him from ever holding again an
office of that, or indeed of any other description.
When the wealthy brother of Lord Castlereagh re-
turned home from the Austrian Court, after the ter-
mination of a mission which has but few paral-
lels in the records of scandal and extravagance, he
had the courage to solicit a retiring pension from
Lord Liverpool. The answer of the Premier to
this application has • since passed into a proverb,
to which we now usually resort whenever we wish to
describe, with peculiar indignation, a demand, wanton,
unjust, and rapacious, on the part of him who makes
it, and scarcely differing from an attempt at extortion
as against the party to whom it is made. " This,"

said-Lord Liverpool, flinging the letter on the floor,

" this is too bad !" These significant words he even
minuted on the back of the letter. " This," exclaimed

the Times, when the new appointment of the Noble
Marquis was first announced, " is, indeed, too bad !"
" We are willing," it added, or seemed to add, " to
serve the Duke of Wellington, to sustain his
Ministry by all the means within our reach—for
his Grace we are prepared to abandon the people
of England, to desert our former friends, to betray
and to denounce them from day to day, to sacri-
fice all the high and generous and manly principles
which we have advocated for fifteen years, to discover
matchless talents for Government in those whom we
have hitherto laughed at as dolts—but with all our for-
getfulness of what we have been, turn-coats as we are,
apostates as we are resolved to be, we cannot brand
our breasts with the ignominy of this promotion of
Lord Londonderry. Our foreheads already bear the
marks of shame ; but we are not as yet, at least, quite
so base, so steeped in infamy, as to approve of this
most extraordinary nomination. In the language of
Lord Liverpool, we must declare, again and again,
This is too bad I' " We expected, of course, that
the Times would have followed up the game which it
had started, and have fairly hunted it down. We con-
fined ourselves, in consequence, to a few occasional
observations on the subject, lest we might di-

vert our contemporary from his purpose. But we
now find that the subject has been dropped—it is ta-
booed within the precincts of Printing-house-square.
An instruction from the Foreign-office declared all no-
tice of the affair to be injurious to his Majesty's ser-
vice, and inconsistent with Conservative principle.
The padlock has been completely fixed on the mouth
of our contemporary ; and as it must henceforth
only speak out when and how the Duke of Wellington
Aloes, we may feel assured that Lord Londonderry's
name has passed away for ever from the columns of
the Times. To what pitiable situation has this vic-
tim of political seduction been thus Pchlcedl With
the appearance, at least, of virtue, she has forfeited
everything like freedom of action, or even the sem-
blance of integrity. But the country, nevertheless,