The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-15 00:00:00

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Some alarm has been.exeited in this city' Within the
lust few days by the burning of the tffigies of the Duke of
Wellington and Mr. Peel, at our Mat ket-cricts,-otiVonday
and Tuesday nights last. About eight o'clock on Monday
night a large bodynf persons, principally weavers, inartilted,
from Cildeavgnto to the Market-place, carrying an effigy of
the Duke of Wellington mounted upon a ptile,Aretween
lighted torches. They marched round the Cross, and then
placing the Ale), upon the lamp-irons set fire to it ; and,
as it was metre.' with straw and smeared with coal tar,
it burned very rapidly, casting a brilliant light all around.
Whilst burning, a copy of the King's Speech was thrown into
the flames amidst much cheering. Three cheers each were
then given for Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Duple, and Radical Re.
firtu, and in a few minutes the procession returned quietly
intoCaldewg Ike, and immediately dispersed. The maneeuvre
was perfectly unexpected, but the noise soon cellecte.l a
vat number of persons as spectators. On Tu,sday night,
about the same hour, a similar scene was enacted—with
the difference that the object of popular indignation was
Mr. Peel, whose effigy wits treated in a similar manner to
that of the Duke. Oa this night the procession marched
into Dotehergate, and thence back to the Cross, where the
effigy was burned amidst shouts of applause nod execra-
tion. 'f he burning finished, the procession stria returned
to Caldewgate, and dispersed quietly. The number of
persons collected was much more numt roue than on the
first night ; we should suppose that about five thousand
people were present.— Carlisle Journal.

COMPLETION OF THE POLAR VOYAGES.—
Captain Ilsecooty, R.N. is about to publish his voyage t f
discovery in the remotest parts of the South Seas, unfit r-
taken by authority, with a view of meeting and co-operat-
ing with the lend expedition to the North PuJe under the
command of Captains Faxnstute and Natty'. The dis-
coveries made by C..'iptain BEECHICY are we understand to
the I.et degree important to navigators, while his perilous
adVelitUreg in unexplored and frozen regions are said to be
calculated to tlx irveslstibly the mind of the reader. This
will o opiate the series deeeriptive of voyages to the North
Po e undertaken by command of the British:Government.
There is no doubt that the great body or the
middle classes are now anxious for a temperate and Con•
etitutional reform, which shall check the crying evils of
the Borough system, from a thorough conviction that
without such reform, no measures fur the permanent
benefit of the country can b. carried into effect ; and ir is
equally certain, that no Minister can long withstand the
force of public opinion, when once fairly directed to a
Constitutional object. We may therefore hope that the
demoralizing borough system—the bane of English pros-
perity—drawe towards tts chew.— Weal Briton.
CHANGE IN THE MINISTRY.--The debate
on the Civil List his certainly added to the unpopularity
of the Duke of WeLratiorao's Atlmiuistration, and the
opinion that there must be a change, is hourly gaining
ground. Indeed, nearly the only difference which exists
upon the question relates to time. Even his Grace**
friends—and he has many friends-.-say that he is dis-
gusted with office, and will certainly resign as soon us 11,,
can do so without the appearance of hieing bullied out of
power. o.hets, however, ;welt that we may daily ex-
pect an announcement of an entire change in the Cabinet,
and it was confidently said on Saturday afternoon, by per-
sons who profess to he well-informed, that the Duke of
Wet.t.tuerrou is now virtually out of office..—Aforning
Herold.

VERPOOLNLITiCALUNION.--APolitical
Union, similar to the one in nirmingham, has been re-
cently established in this town. The society has published
a list of the objects which are saualit tier by it, and if it
could only find them, it would indeed be productive a►f
good. The main purpose of the Union !seems to be a
radical reform in the Commons' House trf Perliameut ; hot
this it seeks to effect by legal anal constitutional means only.
In its genial philanthropy, however, it sloes not overlook
local grievances, and individual delinquency; for it pro-
mises " to bring to trial any individual, in whatever eta-
- don, who n►ay be found to have acted from criminal and
corrupt motives," and ts to prevent and redress, as far es
practicable, all local and public Wrongs." The number of
members, we are assured, has greatly increased, and may
grow into greater importance, if they can get a gentle-
man of character, like Mr. Arrwoun, to direct them.
The " leaders" in Birmingham are in the habit of .de-
livering lectures on political science for the benefit of the
members : could not the same thing be done here with
advent ige ?—Liverpool Journal.
Notwithstanding the declaration of the Duke
of Werhtivocosr, there mm be little doubt, unless the cry
of revolution is raised, that reftirm of sott►e sect must take
place, sod that speedily. If his Grace fails to alarm the
high Tories and Whig Noblemen into 4 coalition etraiust
the democratic onset, he must yield, as hu did in the case
of the Catholics, to the popular wish. Reform is no
longer a partial or a vulgar question ; it is entertained by
every man who dares avow his sentiments, and is under-
stood, and its necessity admitted, by the poor and the
wealthy. The Press—that literary reflection of the public
mind—is almost unanimous in its advocacy ; and, although
some clamour for annual elections and vote by ballot, and
others seek only a more moderate alteration, no one denies►
the necessity of a change. Events on the continent are
full of te6tptation ; men, desperate from circotnstance•,
may contemplate them in a dangerous spirit, and although
there is an abundant safeguard in the good sense of this
people, a wise Government will seek to interrupt the
spree(' of dangerous principles by such concessions as Mat
deprive the disaffected of popular diseases to operate upon.
--Liverpool Journal.
Tire DUKE OP WELLINGTON AND RE-
ronat.---In matters of domestic policy the difference be-
tween the Government and the country is even more re-
markable. The Duke of Wata.mortot has avowed him-
self the determined enemy of a Reform in Parliament, and
has even gone so far its to stake his power upon the sue-
eras of that question. In the present situation of the
country this avowal was highly impolitic and injudieracia.
Giving the Noble Duke every credit fir the sincerity uf.
his convictions, we must, at the same time, set him down
as utterly ignorant of the spirit of the times. Was his
Grace so ill informed of what Waa pulsing around
as not to be able to distinguish between the hoarse brawl-
legs of the Radical Reformers and the matured opinion's
of enlightened and conscientious men ? Did ho forget that
five-sevenths of the members returned to the present
Parliament have declared themwelveg favourable to a
modified species of Reform? Or did be suppose
that, in commanding the enormous patronage of Govern-
ment, end in the wavering and vacillating conduct
of his opponents, he ran no risk of a coalition lieisig
formed to carry the question through Parliament? If the
Duke argued in this manner, we apprehend that be has
calculated too much upon the strength of iris position.
And, in fact, the unpopularity he hag recently met with in
the metropolis, is mainly to be attributed to the indigna-
lion whirls his ill-timed declaration has occaaiotted. The
people bad set their hearts upon some kind of reform; and
them irritation and disgust are naturally proportioned to
the unexpected defeat of their hopes. Now that all re-
forms have been denounced, the Apostles of universal SUL=
fringe may expect to reap a richer harvest of proselytes t him
they have hitherto done. Where nothing will be conceded
on one side, every thing will be &mended on the other
fur the obvious injustice in the or►e case countenanets iced
encourages the extreme claim of the opposite
flaliflaz Journal.

The present Ministry are a set of imbeciles,
utterly incapable of appreciating the importance of the
great events that are in progress around their. They ate
like men blindfolded and groping their way in the midat
at a blase ()flight; they are at once weak and wicked—

with ti.o teintirititopflt aril without the rootage to rate-

Cute it. They put into the KiNu's mouth word* mum»
mount to a declaration of war against the Belgians; and

they endeavoured to explain *way their meaning by saying
they meant not war but negotiation. They next declarewhen they SW a
their hostility to reform, and speak of it as if unconscirus
strong feeling inanifeeted ageism this,
that the question had ever been entertained by the people ;
and when they find popular indignation roused against
them by thin declaration, they seek shelter from ire tiOnfte~
quenees by the trick of representing to the world..
for diet is the effect of their net, whatever May
he their professions about their brlief in the loyalty
of the nation—that hie MAJVATT is prevented
from mixing with the people, lest treaxon and
sedition should compels his life and that of his Alinistere
and servants 1 The petition in which they now stand is
this—if they continue to conduct theetfairs of this couutry,
they must do so, after having forfeited, by their pusillani.
wily end weakness, the confidence of every man in the
country ; it they resign their places, they do so with the
stigma upon their character of haviug by their folly
thrown the vessel of the State upon the rock., and then
abandoned her in the hour of her greatest petit. Amt lf,
to save themselves from the consequences of their own
folly, they Attempt to stapt ad the Halms Coque. Art, or
revive the power of Imprisonment Dill, we tom tell them
they will be 'Maio! from onto end of the kingdom to the
Carlisle Jourtsals

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