The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-18 00:00:00

ciples, Parliament should have met full two months
ago. The remark attributed to a high quarter, that
men of all parties seem to care more for the good
things of the State than for the State itself, appearS
to be but too well founded; to which many will be
inclined to add, that some, at least, of those who
have aspired to high stations, evince but little gra-
titude or respect towards the hand which raised
them to stations, the duties of which they so unac-
countably shrink from when the moment of real re-
sponsibility arrived. His Majesty, we are convinc-
ed, requires no sacrifice of principle merely to meet
his own ease or convenience; but, when a liberal
master has made personal sacrifices to accommo-
date the views of his servants, he has a right to ex-
pect, in his turn, some little of the same spirit of ac-
commodation 011 their part. It was the duty of the
late Government to have met Parliament openly
and fairly, at all hazards ; and to have said—
" This is the account we have to render—
approve or disapprove of it as you please :"
and to have taken the judgment of Parliament
upon their conduct. Had that judgment been un-
favourable, Lord Goderich might have retired from
the Government in an open and dignified manner;
or had the judgment of Parliament been favourable
to him, and his Lordship yet found the fatigues,
the anxieties, the disunions, the bickerings, and
responsibilities of office too trying, for his mental or
bodily faculties to undergo, he might then have
retired from office with the consciousness of having
shrunk from responsibility, and have avoided em-
barrassing both his Majesty and the country at a
period so peculiarly ill chosen as that which he has
adopted. It is no small aggravation to consider hoW
much of the time of Parliament, when it does
assemble, will be taken up in personal explanations,
if not in mutual taunts and recriminations. The
former, at least, must take place ; and gladly shall
we see that the other does not : and we know no
better way of recommending its avoidance to men
of all parties than by reminding them that personal
invective seldom indicates any but personal objects;
and that, if they do not wish to show that they
care more for the good things of the State than for
the State itself, they will abstain from giving so
powerful a handle as this would do to the many, un-
fortunately, who entertain that opinion, more or less
of all public men.—lbid.

We have given in a preceding column a report of
what are termed the simultaneous meetings in Ire-
land, upon which we shall take an early opportunity
of offering some particular comments. For the
present we must content ourselves with the expres-
sion of our happiness at observing that the Catholic
Demagogues and their associates unite their voices
with those of the Radical faction in England, in la-
mentation upon the prospect of the appointment of
a genuine Tory Administration. It is fit that par-
ties who seek one common object, the subversion of
the Constitution, and by means too not wholly dis-
similar, should thus give simultaneous vent to their
disappointment and their rage, on finding their hopes
so suddenly extinguished. We hail these denuncia-
tions as unequivocal symptoms of the strength
which the new Administration will possess. The
friendship of the two kindred factions we have men-
tioned would be sufficient to sink any Ministry, as
it has mainly contributed to sink the last. Their
enmity will always rally round the Administration
which is favoured by it—all the rational, the vir-
tuous, the patriotic, who happily still constitute
an' immense majority of the community.— Morning
Post.

We were not aware, when discussing the question
of public slaughtering houses, the day before yes-
terday, of all the benefits derivable by the City of
London from the present system. We were quite
mistaken, it seems, in imagining that the filth and
corruption of these dens of Caucus, where the pa-
tient. ox, the harmless sheep, the simple calf, and the
innocent lamb, are nightly Murdered, were injurious,
by their effluvia, to.the:humaa animals who resided
in their
ineighbourhood. Their stench, it now ap-
pears,'is a good, honest medical stench, as sovereign
" as parmacitty for an inward bruise;" and to that
no doubt are owing the.rosy gills of those who are
the principal actors in the deeds of darkness that
are perpetrated in them. Patients in a consump-
tion, said a gentleman-butcher at the Meeting that
took place yesterday at Freemasons' Hall, for the
purpose of calling up the abettors of abbatoirs—
yes, patients in a consumption have visited the
slaughter houses, and been much benefitted byin-
haling, for a month or two, the steam arising from
the bodies of slaughtered oxen !—New Times.