The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-08 00:00:00

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1829.

The discussion last night in the House of Lords
on the subject of the Committal of the Roman
Catholic Relief Bill was unusually interesting and
animated. Lord ELooN, annoyed by a teasing gout,
as he indirectly observed, launched his sarcasms
right and left in a style wholly inconsistent with his
usual equanimity. One of these invectives directed
at a Right Rev. Prelate was replied to by him with
unanswerable effect, and must have given a keen
edge, we suspect, to the surprise more than the
satisfaction of the venerable and lachrymose Ex-
Chancellor. Meanwhile, the Relief Bill is making
a triumphant progress through the House, even
though the logical faculties of Lord TENTEDEN are
opposed to it, and his Grace of NORFOLK, whose
ancestors figure in almost every page of our history,
will soon take his seat in that House from which he
has been so long ungenerously excluded. One great
reason for the extraordinary success of the Bill, inde-
pendently of the general conviction of its justice,
may undoubtedly be found in the lamentable imbe-
cility of its opponents. There has been no union—
no consistency among them. One has announced
himself a Reformer in the evident sense of the
term : another has declared his hostility to any
thing like Reform ; a third has voted for the Bill,
even though he confessed himself opposed to it on
principle ; in short, the whole brotherhood have
been smitten with a paralysis of judgment. Such
are usually the symptoms which herald the downfall
of any great leading faction. United in prosperity,
and while all goes on swimmingly with them, they
hang together like bees in a honey-comb; but the
first touch of adversity sunders them, temper gets
the better of discretion, and they form a striking
illustration of that just old adage, " gum Deus
vult perdere, Arius de►nentat." The Ultra Tories
are now at the last stage of political decrepi-
tude. Even in their corporate capacity they
are impotent, as individuals they are the object of
general derision. The Catholic Question, that
strange resistless influence,6s proved their downfall,
in the same way that years since it ensured the dis-
solution of the Whig Administration. Both parties
have in turn been equally the victims of its power.

The French Papers announce the elevation of
Cardinal CASTIGLIONE to the Popedom. His Holi-
ness has assumed the name of Plus VIII.; he is
68 years of age, and has been a member of the Sacred
College since the year 1816; he was born at Cin-
goli, Nov. 20, 1761. The Ambassador of France,
it is reported, endeavoured to procure the election
of Cardinal ZURLA, who did not obtain a single rote.
There is a rumour very generally prevalent at Paris
that M. nn CHATEAUBRIAND, the well-known
author, is to be made Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

We have received the Allgemeine Zeilung to the
2d instant, from which the following is an extract :
ANCONA, MARCH 14.—The political horizon seems to
become rtire s7,loomy, and the good not to be fulfilled which
accompanied the presentation of the Powers to the Porte.
Not only is the war with Russia continued, but letters from
Constantinople, said to have been received at Corfu, are
reported to ipeak of the possibility of a breach with France,
because hostilities are continued on the reel:. continent,
almost in sight of the French troops, so that the agreement
of the 16th November is not observed ; and the Porte be-
gins to consider the French expedition sot as exclusively
intended fur the protection of the Morea, but as a direct
hostile proceeciin, tswards itself. Letters from Corfu add,
that it is entirely owing to the English Govrnment if the
Porte does not suffer itself to be 'carried away by the first
impression that this proceeding makes on it. Sir K. Main
vraised for ba'ving used his influence with the
Tyriii4l Pqpit.lF,(:er.!: in Liyadia and Albania, on having,
throqh their Mewls, viptilieht from any i:reel-
pitate step which iirOulti ligyp plgFea 690 and the
French Ministry in a very critieat situation, The inter,
view of the Lord High Commissioner with the present
Grand Vizier excites new apprehensions, because various
a7e in circulation which announce a change in the
sentiments of the FA,e and even connect the removal of
Redschid Paella with:it, I;ho'notw,th;,taidi.77, his military
character, is considered as very mild, and'a friend to peace,
and who might probably adopt a more moderate system in
the affairs of Preece, than would correspond with the