The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIT LONDON JOURNALS.

The Catholic Relief Bill was read a third time
and passed this morning by a majority of 104 The
Disfranchisement Bill was then passed without a
division. We have no room at present for com-
ment ; but we congratulate the nation on the glo-
rious triumph of reason and justice. We congra-
tulate also the Prime Minister on his great achieve-
ment. He has now acquired a double crown—

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No less renowned than war."
With what delight must our benevolent Sovereign
bestow his fiat on a measure, approved by immense
majorities of both Houses of Parliament, and wait-
ing only his ratifying nod to diffuse pence, and
prosperity, and power, through every part of the
United Empire.—Tintes.
We do not know what fruits the ex-Chancellor
Eldon can promise himself, from his repeated and
rather troublesome visits to the King. Does the
mortified veteran fancy that his undesired presence
will have more effect aeon his Majesty, than the
remembrance of his own Royal resolutions, decla-
rations, and pledges, the notoriety of the state o'
Ireland, and the recorded majorities in both Houses
of Parliament, amounting io the Commons to above
two to one, and in the Lords to nearly the same
amount, in favour of the Catholic Relief Bill ?
There has been, all through these attempts upon the
firmness of his Majesty, an ab,ence of taste, a want
of judgment, a disregard of experience, a forgetful-
tW:ia of character, and a contempt for Parliament,
whieb, in a mind so trammelled by forms as that of
Lord Eldon has long shown itself, scent to indicate
no infatuation only to be accounted for by the im-
becility of a superannuated understanding. The
Learned Lord's exhibition in the House last night
was suite worth/ of the last Windsor visit.—lbid.

The procession-petition yesterday was too trivial
a concern to deserve any further censure. After an
abortive attempt to raise a mob at Hyde Park-
corner, the petitioners, Mr. Stockdale, Mr. Hol-
comb:, and the Rev. Mr. Isaacson (who, we fear, is
really a clergyman), with a few others, coached it
to Windsor. At the Palace gates they were met
by Townsend. " What did they want ?" An-
t;wer—" To present a petition to the King." He
would inquire what was to be done : they were
shown into a waiting-room. Thither Mr. Peel
came, "by his Majesty's order," to receive their
petition, awl they were told that the answer to it
would be conveyed in the usual way. Exeunt
canes. The whole was a farce, and the farce, in
theatrical language, has been " damned."—lbid,
The grand procession to Windsor must have been
gall mid wormwood to the partizans of the Protes-
tant Constitution of 1688. The day was most pro-
pitious. Rat, alas, for Protestant zeal ! It has all
oozed out by this time, it would seem. The country,
as Lord Eldon ohzerved, is dreadfully agitated ; and
in proof of it, we refer our readers to our report of
the procession. On the very eve, too, of the de-
struction of the Protestant Constitution ! Where
wew the 113,000 householders of London and
w„tinnster ready to stew! or fall by the Protes-
tant Constitution Had there been a battle be-
twee„ two do,smen or an exhibition of Punch at
Hyde Park-corner, the assemblage would have been
ten times more respectable.—Morning Chronicle.

Lord Eldon was at his post last night in the
House of Lords. Having disappointed expectation
in his exertions in the Committee, he rallied last
night, at the twelfth hour, and indeed delivered
himself of a sort of funeral oration over the remains
of she Protestant Constitution of 1586, the pathos
j which was ludicrous in the extreme. With the
menu: 7 of the blows he received from the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Plunkett, and the Bishops of
Oxford sad Landaff, still fresh, he endeavoured to
pluck up a little by commencing with an attack on
the deed, and fastened on the late Mr. Carmine..
Two petitions had been presented from Liverpool,
one by hie Lordship, and another by Lord Gude-
ria. Lord Goderich having inferred from the cir-
eateetance that Mr. Canning's advocation of conces-
sion, while Member for Liverpool, had never lost him
the confidence of his constituents, that the people of
Liverpool were not generally oppotati to concession;
this furnished an opportunity to Lord Eldon fm• fas-
tening ou what he considered the vulnerable points of
.11r. Canning. " He had always (he said) a high re-
;pact for Mr. Canning, who had always professed that
he would not grant this measure without full seen-
eity. The present Bill provided no security, and its
flamers could not be called security-mongers. Al-
though no man had done more to promote the Ca-
tholic cause than Mr. Canning-, with respect to the
Dissenters almost the last declaration that he made
was that he would oppose them. How he was
to reconcile the opposition to the Dissenters with
the support of the Catholics, he did not know."
The future historian will not certainly dwell on the
declarations of Mr. Camiiiig and MA', Huskisson
against the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts,
as the parts of their political lives which most en-,
title them to general approbation. On principle, in
fact, the declaration is not defensible. The question
Which drew from Mr. Cunning the declaration was
pat to him with a view to place him between two
tires—the hostility to the High Church Party if the
answer siaould be one way, and the hostility of the
Dissenters if another. Considerations of expediency
determined him to declare against the Dissenters.
But there is something mean in Lord Eldon's fasten-
ins with so much bitterness on this vulnerable part
of Canning's histoty, the more especially as Mr.
Canning's motives could be no secret to any one;
and we hare little doubt that the question was ori-
ginally eeggested by his Lordship, as a means of 401-
harraesinK bim, at a time when he had to make head
against all mariner of difficulties. The debate was
conducted last night in a very lukewarm manner on
the whole. The House, in fact, are by this time as
sick of the business as the eountry is. Lord Elkus
wished his speech of last night to be considered in
the light of a swan's song. This life, he said, would
bave no longer any attractions for him, now that in-
tolersoce is no longer established by
A short conversation took place on the subject of
Ihe expected motion respecting the Silk Trade on
Monday night. Mr. Yesey Fitzgerald said " that
his statement would, of course, be a consequent of
the motiosa of the Hon. Member; and h .e:opted
that course because he knew it was of importance
there should be as little delay as possible in making
known the intentions of the Government. What-
ever measures he had to propose could not, as a
matter of course, be rendered efe.cutal until the ex-
piration of the holidays; but he was aw;re of the
greet anxiety which prevailed on the subject, end it
was to satisfy that anxiety that he consented,
although somewhat prematurely, to explain the in-
tentions and views of the Government." Mr.
Waithnsan complained of the statements of the pub-
lic mess, which he thought tattled very much to
mislead the House upon this question. Mr.
Waithinan undertakes to set the House right, as he
himself, being forty years in the Silk Tiede, cannot
be. wrong,—/bid.

Yesterday morning, about three o'clock, the
families of Messrs- RATIMONE and COWDROT, the pawn-
brokers, in Frederick's-place, No. 16, Borough-road, were
awakened by a noise in the front room on the first floor,
which is used as a depository for unredeemed pledges. One
of the pirtuers immediately proceeded down stairs, and on
entering the room saw a man, who sprang towards the
window, and throwing up the sash let himself down into
;he street. A watchman, who happened to be near the
spot, ran underneath the window just as the fellow was in
the act of dropping from it, and caught him in his arms ; a
scuffle ensued between them, and after a straggle the thief
got away, leaving his hat behind. It appeared that the
thief had obtained an entrance into the house by cutting
through one of the window-shutters with a centre-bit. It
is a matter of surprise how the entrance could have been
effected without the knowledge of the " guardian of the
night," whose box is close at hand.