The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1845.

The death of Earl SPENCER, better known as the
good and honest Lord ALTROEP, apart from his private
worth and consistent political conduct, can excite no in-
terest throughout the country. His relatives, however,
and personal friends, cannot fail to lament the loss of
one so upright and fair in his dealing=, and so calcu-
lated, by his kind manner, honesty of purpose, and un-
assuming conduct, to make a favourable impression on
all who came within the circle of his acquaintance. The
time was, too, when the people of the United Kingdom
would have lamented his death as a great public calamity,
and many would have regarded with despair the progress
of that great measure of Parliamentary Reform which ex-
cited such universal interest, and of which Lord ALTHORp
was the great champion. Earl GREY, and Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, and the Earl of DURHAM, were, perhaps, more
active agents in constructing the plan, but the great—the
difficult, and peculiarly delicate task of carrying it through
the House of Commons, and bringing it to a successful
issue, fell to the lot of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, and nobly did he perform his duty. His personal
character, his position in society, and consistency were
all that could be desired. The most rebid Tory could
find no fault with the leader of the Treasury bench and
the majority of the representatives of the people. His
integrity was above suspicion, his manner was of the
most affable and conciliatory kind, his temper was
never ruffled; no violent attacks from the most
sarcastic of the boronghmongers—the most un-
scrupulous of that faction, who were to be stripped
of their unjust privileges, could disturb the
serenity of his mind, or make him forget for one mo-
ment that he had only one paramount duty to perform
—to march straight forward, regardless of all interrup-
tions, to the goal so ardently desired by nine-tenths of
the population. Neither the taunts and unfounded
statements of JOHN WILSON CROKER, nor the bois-
terous and frensied declamations of -Sir CHARLES
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ETHERELL, nor the cautious, deep, calm, insidious, and
plausible policy of Sir ROBERT PEEL, turned him from his
purpose. Perhaps in no period of Parliamentary
history have we such instances of excited orators,
as
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the smallest possible measure of reform. When these
and more grievous charges were made night after night,
and aggravated at every repetition, hopes were enter-

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