The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-25 00:00:00

on them in the name of freedom, they formed a
large standing army. Under the pretext of pro-
tecting the people from foreign enemies, they made
them pay for the instrument which they basely em-
ployed to make slaves of them at home.
The Aristocracy and the Church united are the
enemies of freedom and the oppressors of the people.
Now, for- the very first time since the Revolu-
tion, we have that Church at war with the section
of the Aristocracy which leans for support on
the people. Now, which is more singular, we
have the Clown cordially united with that section,
and both from interest and position, as well as the
personal feeling of a premeditated insult, hostile to
the predominant party of the Aristocracy, and not
peculiarly friendly to its ally the Church. The
heir presumptive to the Crown is at once the ab•
horrence of the people and the idol of the Church
and the Tories. Thus the Whigs and her MA-
JESTY are both, from position and inclination,
close friends, and are allied with the people and
at open war with the Tories. Let us cherish the
alliance and make our first watchword—Hurrah
"for the QUEEN !" and next, hurrah " for the
Whigs!"

But modern experience has demonstrated that
one branch of the Aristocracy, having about as
many followers amongst the middle classes as the

other, cannot effect much without the lower classes,

Against the bulk of the priesthood and the most
numerous section of the Aristocracy, the. Crown, the
Whigs, and their supporters of the middle classes
will not succeed. Then let our next rallying cry be
" Hurrah for the people." The few empty talkers
who hare at present too much influence over the
working classes will be heard of no more when the
Liberals of the middle classes avow themselves
friendly to a great extension of the suf-
frage. And why should they not be ?
Would they like to be wholly excluded from all
share in law-making ? Would they like that the
(landowners or the Peers should be exclusively the
legislators ? IT for one moment the middle classes
will make the case of the mass of the working
people, wholly excluded from any legal means
of influencing the Legislature, and believing,
in common with almost all men, that their
condition is in a great measure determined by
the laws—if the middle classes will make the
excluded nine pounders their own, they will at once
perceive that many of the demands of the working
&asses are founded in justice. Experience, too,
ha 3 shown, by 'the example of Mt. HUNT and
COBBETT, that the greatest demagogues gain
no power in Parliament. Twenty or thirty
HuNTs or COBBETTS would scarcely alter the
character of that assembly. Moreover, laws, as
Lord JOHN RUSSELL says, require time to pro-
duce any effect, and the habits of the people could
not be suddenly changed by any statutes, nor any
power to make statutes.

Further, we must insist, notwithstanding the
mouthing tirades of some violent men, that the bulk
of the Conventionists or Chartists have distin-
guished themselves by their orderly behaviour.
Not one riot have they commenced, except that at
Llanidloes, and there they had heavy provocation.
On all these accounts, it is now plainly the duty of
the middle classes to attend to the demands of the
working classes, voluntarily to do them justice, and
make their next rallying cry, " Hurrah for the
People !"
And what should the unrepresented now do P
What have they gained by their proceedings since
this time last year ? Not one advantage ! On the
contrary, they have procured an additional Legis-
lative sanction to the Legislative crime of
Corn-law starvation. The law, which they
themselves respect, has been brought in to
operation against them ; the middle classes
are alarmed, and ready to coalesce with the priest-
hood and the Tory section of the Aristocracy, in
order to keep the working classes in check ; terror
is gaining the upper hand, and under its influence
both sides will commit numerous crimes. 'What
the people demand may be abstractedly just, but it
has never bee❑ the custom ; and the bulk of the
community, whether Aristocrats or Democrats,
judge and decide, and act from habit, not from ab-
straction. The Chartists cannot by reasoning,
efface from the mind the practical deductions de-
rived from the past state of society, and all
those—political feelings ,we may call them—
represent their de.nands as unjust. Mode-
ration, then, should be the watch-word of the un-
represented. If the working classes rally to this
cry they will cement a union betwixt them and the
middle classes, the Whigs and the QUEEN, and
put an end to the hypocrisy of the Church and the
tyranny of the Aristocracy, which have been ruinous
alike to the dignity of the Throne and the pros-
perity of the people.
'I he summary of our present duties then is—
Hurrah for the QUEEN Hurrah for the Whigs I
Hurrah for the people and Hurrah !—thrice
Hurrah ! for moderation I

The Tory Journals are amazingly chary of the
fame of their candidate for the Speakership. They
scarcely ever mention the name of Mr. GOULB Uli N,
and they carefully leave the conception of his vir-
tues to the imagination of their readers. His
merits are not even obscurely hinted at ; and even
the Standard, which once compared him to a

kangaroo or a tobacconists sign, has not
repainted and gilded him for the new
office the Tories destine him to fill. Their
silence must not, however, lead his opponents astray.
Mr. GOULBURN will be the more strenuously
supported by the Tories as his deserts are small.
They understand the art of making all the riff-raff
of their party sensible of their zeal, by being
always ready to sacrifice justice to serve a
partizan. The Liberals must take care to be all
in the House on Monday, and any man who will
not, in the person of Mr. GOULBURN, honour the
most narrow-minded Tory bigotry, must vote for
Mr. LEFEVRE. We have no doubt, however, that
every Liberal Member will be in his place on Mon-
day, and ready to defeat the party who made a point
of insulting the QUEEN.
The Times, we are happy to say, seems ashamed
of its own party. It cannot do otherwise, as it al-
ways fishes in troubled water, than attack the Mi-
nisters. But never being great at eulogy, it has
cautiously abstained from praising Sir R. PEEL,
since be sacrificed office to the terrible chimera of a
Bedchamber lady, who had actually resigned. The
Times is obviously ashamed of a leader who has made
himself and the party which trusts him the laughing
stock of Europe. Like the Duke of WELLING.-
TON, that journal is convinced that no man with a
drop of genteel blood in his veins would have of-
fended the QUEEN, as Sir ROBERT PEEL did, and
it has never since the failure mentioned the great
Conservative Statesman with approbation. The
Tories must look out for a nen► Leader, for the
Times has laid Sir ROBERT PEEL on the shelf.

We learn with satisfaction that the Common
Council is to meet on Thursday next to consider
the propriety of addressing her MAJESTY, and
requesting her to call to her councils only those
statesmen who will preserve the liberties and fran-
chises of the people, and maintain equal civil
rights without any distinction of sect. The requi-
sition presented to the LORD MAYOR to summon a
Common Hall had eighty-two signatures, which
will ensure the r, quisitionists success, though a
strong opposition is announced. The City of
London could not stop behind at this time, and we
should have been surprised had it not expressed its
opinion on a matter on which ocher towns have

already addressed her Majesty. Never behind in