The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT .OF roar° Jountcxo.

The calm which has bea.tibtned in Ireland;
even Jay the change of Men on Mr. Canning's,
accession to power,' 'Nag not been duly appre-I
dated. It is the '‘Aature of things, that calms,•
however valuaM;', make leSs impression than an.
opposite &tat'', of the elements, either in the phy-.
tocal or ):,olitical world. It would, however, be
treache,,y to the national interest, did we not call
publ;.c attention to the nature of that suspense
in. which Ireland is now held: The mere exdu-,
lion of their inveterate enemies from power has.
wrou.ht • a .sort of revolution in Irish feelings.
That generous and confiding people seem to re-
pose nth satisTaction on the intentions of their
natural friends and allies, however remote may
,be the realization of their hopes. Faction has,
been not only disCouraged, but put down ; the
reign of law is resumed, and somewhat of the
same buoyant and confiding temper which ac-
companied the gracious visit of 'her Sovereign
pervades and elevates the public mind. 'That
which the Legislature could not effect has been
wrought by the magic touch of concilation.
But what lurks under the surface of this smooth-
ness and peace? What can any reflecting per-
-son contemplate as the effect of re-action in
the system ? What the movement of the ,
'lrish 'Mind on a restoration of the avowed
enemy to power, if such a case were supposable?
The sensation, even on the contingency of Mr.
'Canning's death, is described to us by an eye-
witness as like the awful silent movement pre-
ceding an earthquake. We do not wish to dwell
.on these topicsit is sufficient to touch them.'
We now rather allude to their connection with
great national purposes, whether of domestic r-
trenchment or foreign politics., Reinstate „ faction
in Ireland in lieu of Ins Majesty's r caul s
of beneficence, police, Peelers,. onto, 'O./range-.
men, Popish Associations
Away with reduc-:
tion and economy ; i'.l.stoad of laying down idle.
cavalry, we must 'auent even that force. What'
said the Dr.'" Wellington
of in 1822 ?
~" If
the Tilt which then pervaded a few counties
extended to the remainder, Ireland alone would'
reriuire 150,000 men to keep it." AS to our
nrjole projects of foreign policy, and provident
zeal on the independence of Europe, with Ire-:
land convulsed, our enemies, and those of li
berty, would point to us with malignant con-i.
'tempt, reproaching the Sovereign power of
England with treachery, and the English nation'
which endured it with obsequious and ignomi
nious tameness.—Times.

The Committee on the increase of, Crime, to
whose valuable labours we have already adverted,;
point out the Game Laws to be, in characters
as legible as " the dread hand-writing on the
.wall," one main source of crime and general de-'
moralization among the peasantry. In this, °pi-,
nion Chief-Justice Best, in his Charge to the
Somersetsbire Grand Jury, coincides, though
his Lordship reiterates, the opinion we have so'
often advanced, that it is less to the laws them.
selves,. in the abstract, that the. evil is owing,
than to the foolish preserves and senseless battus,
which certain poor, enervated, indolent Cockney
landowners, have promoted. One great recom-
mendation of the Game Laws, if seeing their
fearful consequences they can now be said to
haVe any, is, that by preserving the game for the
amusement of the landowner, they afford a
strong inducement to-him to reside upon his
estate, and inure both the body and mind to
arduous undertakings, which tend very far to fit
men for still more active and more useful pur-
-Wits. But this beneficial influence is lost upon.
the lazy drone who sallies forth to shoot in a
preserve. . He knows nothing of the delights
which accompany the finding and pursuit of
game; which couples F,hooting with the still
nobler pursuit of hunting. He becomes a mere
Crockford upon his estate—rendering' his
domain itself a' Hell, -and the frequenters of it
mere gamblers, intent upon bagging all they can,
careless of the consequences. And when we
talk of shooting fairly pursued as allied with
hunting, we must add that it is no small aggra-
. vation of the
.evil of, this new system, that it is,
fast destroying that hitter source of courage, ani-
ination,.and honour among English Gentlethen.
It is a notorious fact, that where these preserves
exist, hunting is fast disappearing. The selfish
preserver, whose silly ambition it is to see his
pheasants as numerous as barn-door fowls, hates
A fox still more than he does a poacher. Every
fox, therefore, is .carefully. extirpated from his
estate, .a»d instead of pursuing these amuse-.
. meats jointly, as his ancestor's,' or rather
we should say, his predecessors did (for it
is a new race of war-made landowners who
have principally introduced, and who en-,
courage this system), he turns. shooting,
into a mere rivalry with
,that which he has heard
of at the. Red House or the Old Hats, and fox-
hounds arc necessarily given up, in countries
where the possibility of sport is thus denied
them. But we are not without hopes, that that
which neither taste nor any feeling can accom-
plish, interest still may. The destruction of
corn and other produce on. many estates begins
at length to reach the pockets of the owners ; not
that such heartless animals care, were a famine to
ensue from their selfish and inhuman aggrandise-
, inent ; but when they find their rents 'fail, and
their tenants no longer able to contend against
this, in addition to their other difficidties, • self-
interest at length opens their eyes to
:thy stepi-,
• dity of their previous proceedings.' That this is
not imaginary we are -credibly informed, and in-
deed could name whole districts which have
been on the eve of being thrown,up, ..and be-
coming untenanted from this cause ; and we
could name landlords whose hearts have been
callous to the pauperism, crime, and misery,
which their game preserves have produced, but
who are fast relenting, now that the rent-roll be-
gins to share the fate:of 'the crops. Do we say
this to raise a prejudice against a highly useful
and honourable class . of the community ? No
such thing. The feeling, is raised--prejudice it
is not. We do it to distinguish the honourable.
from the dishonourable ; and to add, if possible;
the sense of shame to the stronger influence
which is at length acting • upon some of their
minds. How little do too many of the land-
owners of Enaland know of the powerful influ-
ence their situation gives them in the State ;
How little do they consider what happiness and
prosperity--=what smiles and comfort they might
produce, in exchange for the vice, the crime, an
squalid wretchedness, which a recklessness to
these objects has produced ! Let them carefully
reflect upon the facts contained in the Report of
the Committee, composed of members of their
Own body; let such of them as are old enough
rerneeab, and reflect. too, upon what an English
peasantry once was; let them see what has nroi•
diced the change,
and such of them as avi
hearts and understandings will speedily sugges
the remedY,---Mornin, Herald.
We .are '.reluetantlyb
compelled to allude to 41
circumstance connected with the Ministerial atie
rangements, which. has somewhat interrupted the

harmony that previously prevailed. That
cir-
cumstance was,. the invitation irom
his
Majesty,
personally, to. Mr. Berries, to accept the offer
of Chancellor of the Exaiever. The nomina-.
tion did credit to. his Mhjesty's judgment, in so'
far as regards the talents for . business of Mr.
Berries, and afforded another striking proof of
his 'anxious wish to obtain" for the. management
Of the affairs of the nation the .mon best qualified'
for that object. It was not to be' wondered at
that his Majesty should not hetVe been acquainted
with .particulars, independent: of Official ability,
which might more than neutralize it. We have
only to refer to a paragraph, %Which. we have
copied from the Morning Herald, with respect.
to the generally prevailing report of the particu-
lar intimacy of Mr. Berries with a certain indi-
vidual, who may 'be said to be the arbiter of the j
Exchanges of Europe, and with which report
his Majesty cannot be supposed to have been in
the least acquainted, as alone furnishing an un- •
answerable objection to the nomination of Mr.
Berries to an office', which, whoeker fills, ought
not only to be pure, but, like . Caesar's wife,
free even from suspicion. We should not, our-
selves, have alluded to the report, or to the
inferences which were drawn-from, the intimacy
in the City, had not our contemporary of
The Herald called attention to it ; but without
wishing to injure the good name of Mr. Ber-
ries, we have no hesitation in saying, th;,‘,., the
high reputation which the Cabine.t.
Chun-
try (the only Cabinet in
Iv this COUn.
been even touched 1- IA latt has nevet
a.i.wAyss illain-
tained for tb-
AnVlOlabit Rdtllty ,C-f the Members
towards
4 41141 Other, in alt Matters requiring' strict
tttty) oterellt trot to be exposed to hazard by a
questionable nomination. Were Mr. Berries to
be Chancellor of the Exchequer, it is possible
that the secrets of the Cabinet might be as secure
I with him as the most upright Statesman in the
kingdom ; but the public would not, believe that
the former friend of the Minister did not still
enjoy his unreserved tnnfidence, And thus the
most unhappy consequences might be the result.
Ills Majesty has too much penetration and good
sense not to see the force of the circumstances in
the way of objection, to- which the Herald has
enabled us to allude ; and we have no doubt,
that on the return of Mr. Huskisson, till when
matters must remain in statif quo, all things will
be' satisfactorily -arranged. There is but one
opinion among the members of Administration,
as to the insurmountable nature of the objections
to Mr. Berries. With regard to the Whigs,
who have been glanced at by some of our con-
temporaries, they have throughout shown any
thing rather than a wish to dictate to their Sove-
reign, or to impede the arrangements by unne-
cessary scruples or difficulties. They cheerfully
acquiesced in the appointment of Lord Goderich
to the Premiership; and have not shown any
disposition to put themselves forward: But There
are points which cannot with safety be passed.—
Morning Chronicle.
The principal Ministerial Paper, sounded yes-
terday the first note of the retreat from Office of
the Whig Ministers, in the following very intel-
ligible terms:— _ _ •

7" If any circumstances have occurred, calculated or in-
tended to degrade them (the Whigs) in popular estimation,
and to weaken, or rather extinguish, their means of con-
tributing to the nation that service to render which was
the sole object of their accession to the King's Government,
then, indeed, the whole kingdom would applaud the virtu-
ous and generous motives of their retreat, and sec in it an-
other proof of that honourable and upright feeling which
dictated their acceptance of power, and has directed them
during their possession of it."
From the language thus assumed by the prime,
champion of the new order of things, it is evi-
dent that the Whig Members, who deserted their
principles for the sweets and perquisites of office,
having no longer the sustaining:.influences of
Mr. Canning, their places totter under them ;
and ere long therefore we hope to have the hap-
piness of congratulating the country on their de-
cided retreat. They crept into office under an
able leader—hence the humility of their preten-
sions ; but, as their party would share in the good
things of this world, and could not obtain the
desired prizes fast enough, their Ministerial
Brethren were forced into the assertion of domi-
nation, and they have to all appearance been most
signally defeated. They affected to court
the return of the Duke of Wellington to
the situation of Commander-in-Chief without a
Seat in the Cabinet—and whether they had or
had not done so, the voice of the people and
the wishes of the country would, as they now
have, restored him to the important situation
for which he is so eminently qualified. This
first • act of the King—approved too by Lord
Goderich, speaks more intelligible language
than has been written by all the Trea-
sury Journals for the last three months. By.
the way, it will not be the least curious part of
the affair to see how these gentlemen will desig-
nate this expulsion of their party. We shall
have them no doubt lauding to the skies the he-
roic self-devotion and disinterestedness of their
conduct—first, in humbly sneaking into place—
and next, for being kicked out of it—as every
sensible man thinks they ought to have been
before. 'We shall not at present say more ; we
are unwilling at any time to lay much stress
.upon mere report ; but in the present case, the
retreat of the Whigs seems to be so necessary
to the good government of the country, that it
excites no wonder, unless indeed that it has not
long since occurred. Their coalition with their
most bitter opponent, was unprincipled—unatu-
rid ; the compound was made up of such dis-
cordant
elements, that we confess we anticipated
the speedier diSsolution of so ill-assorted a Mi-
nistry. However, the interposition of Provi-
dence' has led to this happy change ; and the
sooner it is fully consummated, .the better for
the interests of the nation.—Morning Post.
We regret
to find that one of our contem-
poraries, who has for a considerable time fought
with us the battles of the country, should have
suffered itself to be betrayed yesterday into the
expresion of sentiments which may afford a
hold to those whom it has hitherto so zealously
combatted, and assist them in preventing that
Complete union of parties which they dread to
contemplate, because they know that it must
prove fatal to their political existence. When
the conduct of the individuals who have joined
his Majesty's Councils at the hour of necessity,
has evinced nothing but moderation and disin-
terestedness, it is surely imprudent for one of
their professed supporters to enter into the dis-
cussion of matters which may create an idea that
the spirit' by which they have been actuated is
inclined to change its nature. Nay, it is more
than imprudent—it is, we believe, decidedly un-
just. It is an aspersion upon their sincerity and
their hohour, to which nothing that they have
done has rendered them obnoxious. We called
upon the country, at the time when the late mi-
nisterial arrangements were made, to appreciate
duly the forbearance displayed by those indil
viduals, who sacrificed - every view of personal
advancement or party ambition, • lest they shoulci
endanger the existence of that policy which they

felt could alone sei^ ire .tie prOspirity of the
State. We 'adinitteil and even put forward their
claiinsio national gratitude.on that account, and
we cannot look upon any attempt to disprove the
validity of those claims, as made with a friendly
intention towards them, or towards the country.
Were such an attempt wiceessful it must injure
both. It must lower their character in the
.pub-
lie estimation, or, by- creating distrnsti.it MO!
introduce division, and deprii. the State of that
harmonious combination of views, 'principles,
mid exertions, by which its interests are now
likely to be effectually promoted. 'We, there-
fore, trust that from whatever quarter the "evil in"-
spiration may have ,come, it will, fi fame, be
resisted and 'ovefedfne./Vetc Times.