The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-30 00:00:00

" Everywhere the prospects appear most encouraging t 0.,.:
the Conservative party ; even in Ireland they will contest ''
Newry, .Armagh, the county of Antrim, Coleraine, Lon-,*
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Lon-
donderry, the county of Galway, the city of Cork, the
county of Roscommon, Youghal, Westmeath, Waterford, f,
Tralce, Limerick, Monaghan, Carlow, &c., against their:
present Whig-Radical or wavering Members ; while, on the'
other hand, the only places where the General Association,
has a chance are Dublin, Cork County, Drogheda, Queen'st'
County, Athlone, and Longford ; in all the other places,
they threatened, Cavan, Donegal, &c., the registration has
annihilated their hopes. I have no doubt 'B. D.' is a very
sincere Conservative, but he seems sadly mistaken to be'—
, croaking when the brightest prospects are opening to hi ~
party.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant."
The editor of the Times could probably answer as'.
easily for both B. D. and M. W. as the puppet show- '•
man can for Punch and Judy. He knows best the,:
people he has to deal with. Each of these correspon-'
dents may have done good service. B. D. may havA4
opened the purse-strings of the affluent, while M. W.*
cheers them with the promise that the money will not '-
be thrown away. What a pity the Times should not
have put forward a correspondent when it read such a ',. $ll
lecture to the Conservatives a year or two ago, on ac-e-,
count of their base desertion of Sir Robert Peel aG.."I
his utmost need, for the hells and places still worse J;
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that we dare not name. All the authority and credit of
the Times newspaper (and that we leave its admirers to 4
estimate) were thus given to a statement, according to 4
which our unfortunate Protestant Constitution is com-F';:'..
mitted to the guardianship of men from whom respect44''
able persons, attentive to their reputation and characte4,4
ought to keep at a respectful distance. Where was
B. D. or M. \V. in thos,.! days ? It grieved all truet,,:i
friends of the Constitution and of the Protestant Es-A
tablishment to think that, with the exception of S4l
Robert Peel, they had no champions but rake-hells
and scrape-graces, who, according to the Times, might
he found anywhere rather than in the Church. Whenr4
the Times, in its own character, varied in a single day
from one extreme of the political compass to another,,
there were people who did not scruple to repeat after:
the Poet— rag:,
" Trothless, unruly, bent on self-applause,
It. blunders, and betrays its patron's cause ;" lot
but this new device will enable it to feel the pulse of
the public, and thus escape the necessity of changing,
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more than once in forty-eight hours or so in its edito-7%,
vial capacity. By the bye, if Lord Melbourne really en-'-„,
tertain wicked designs against the Queen and the Ccn-;H:,
stitution, what a deep debt of gratitude the na-;-;.
tion must owe to the Times, for placing his Lord-
ship—as it were—in a cleft stick. The Times:,e
has already rescued the Queen from her parent.
It yesterday drew a circle around her, into which.,
no Pope, nor Popish Priest, shall enter—and it,:
warns her against her Ministers. " And who," says
the great oracle of Puddle-dock—" who sits on tiic.',:.
throne of England"—Ay, who, indeed ? Answer
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that poser, Lord Nlelhouilie—if you can ! " Whose'
throne is it ? The throne of Victoria, that mnocente
and unsuspecting Princess of eighteen"—(unsuspect-A 1
ing, however, she will not long remain if our Con-It',.
temporary can help it, for, in the brief space of ones
week, suspicion has been directed by our Contempo-
rary against all who either surround or can by possil.
bility approach her MajJsty)—" who has delegatecii.,
patronage, prerogative—all to Lord Melbourne—why‘
has placed unbounded confidence in his honour, who i,
has reposed upon his integrity and patriotism the fer4?l
tunes of Enc;land and her own fate. We ask Lord
Melbourne, therefore, not in anger, but in the spirit ino
which we should have put such a question twentqll
years ago to William Lamb, the Conservative (when ?),',74
the man who, though weak in judgment, was seanerf .
in honour, who then had, and still of course, iviiihcset '. ~
have, a f .ir reputation with the great )ands: of les4t
coat-111v nen—can he, dares lie, tetra .4:s.iiaTit,
sactid? ' Adjured so solerenly, Lord IN 0.40,414 "w 2
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