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

consequences nipped and blasted by a sudden' storm.
It is with such a view of the position of partiei and
of Parliament before us, that we urge anti press the
enlightened aristocracy of England to take instan'
measures for insuring a majority in this new House of
Commons, the first of Queen Victoria's reign, as a
sure instrument for prolonging that reign and for main-
taining those institutions with which the sovereignty
of the House of Brunswick, and its title to the crown
of the British empire, are indissolubly connected. Ins
plain language, it is now for the first time, at leas
since the Reform Bill, worth while for men of rank
and fortune to push for seats in the House of Com-
mons. It is now the first time that men of high and
noble ambition could propose to themselves any rational
expectation of becoming really and permanently service-
able to the State. We hope that the class to whom
we address ourselves are alive to that wholesome
conviction. We believe that the contests now
preparing throughout the kingdom afford sufficient
evidence of such a conviction having taken root
in the minds of the aristocracy and gentry o
Great Britain. If it have not yet, we warn the default-
ers—few we trust—that they are disobeying their most
urgent duties, and suffering their own gravest interests,
with those of the monarchy, to run into irretrievable
ruin. But few they are, according to the best infor-
mation that has reached us, who thus betray the na-
tional cause and safety at such a moment. If there
be any of the monied aristocracy among them, we con-
sider such to be of all the least excusable. Their ca-
pital is forthcoming ; they have it by them, close at
hand, and can avail themselves of it without difficulty.
Why do they (if any do) hold back ? Do they wait
to be reminded of their criminal apathy by a Radical
motion in the first Victoria Parliament for a tax on al?
capital beyond 5,0001., or an " equitable adjust-
nostrum, as a cure for
,the
" evils of accumulation" in some shape or oilier ?
Our correspondents are going on with their charges
of indifference, indolence, imbecility, or treachery, in
the professed Conservatives of the city of London.
We are incredulous as to the possibility of such accu-
sations being true. We do not think it conceivable
that the " City 'Conservative Association," or the
2,000 or 3,000 dining gentlemen, or the tens of thou-
sands among declared Conservatives, who could raise
millions of money if they pleased, can have so ex-
posed themselves to reprobation or to contemptuous
ridicule as our correspondent imagines. If they have,
then let the yoke be fixed upon their necks, and to
death let the slaves be ridden. They are past being
saved, and are unworthy of it. We have left our-
selves only time to point attention to the letter of Si,
Francis Burdett on taking leave of the electors of it
Westminster, in whose service the health of the noble-
minded Baronet has been worn out. None can blamel4l•
Sir Francis for now retiring. He has achieved a glop
rious victory, and has set an example which English.
men to the end of time may be proud to follow.—Times
The Times has so far profited by our strictures, thst,
instead of chcpping and changing continually in its
editorial character, answering one day the leading arti-
cle of the day before, and puzzling all the world t(
know what it really would be at, it has betaken itself '4
to the practice of assuming the guise of correspondents.l,
Thus, for instance, B. D., who made his appearance-
on Wednesday, with all the advantage of large type, a.
an accuser of the Conservative party, as lapped in
sensual indolence, and refusing to buy votes, thoug,l.'
offered them at a shamefully low price, is met in the
Times of yesterday by M.W., who-also struts in large
type, and gives a most flattering account of Conserva.
tive liberality and Conservative industry. Accordinl_
to M.W., the Conservative prospects never were st
flattering as at this moment, and B.P. is himself a mon
confirmed croaker than any of the party. The follow-
ing
is M.W.'s version of the Conservative doings :
" I sent you a list of 120, which was published in you;
paper yesterday, and since that list was made out I hart
heard and read of at least 30 more ; as, for instance, S::
11. B. Hepburn for Haddington, Sir 0. M. Thriepland fo, • ,
Perth, Sir C. P. Adams for Totnes, Lord Ingestrie f,)
South Staffordshire, Mr. Goddard for Cricklade, Mr ,f 4
Carter for Greenwich, Sir J. Cockburn and Capt. Black-
wood
for Plymouth, Mr. Escott for Winchester, beside:li
others for Durham, Southwark, Kilmarnock, &c. Nor is
the City of London idle : Mr. Lyall will probably start*,
there with others ; while in Hertfordshire and Worceste)
additional Conservative candidates will be started if a can-
vass justifies the proceeding. On looking over the
Radical journals I see, too; that many more than I named I:
before are retiring, and among theni are Mr. Dillwyn, from
Glamorganshire ; Mr. Scott, from Hunts ; Mr. Oliphant,
from Perth ; Mr. Roberta, from Maidstone ; Mr. Stewart,
from Lancaster ; Mr. Gordon, from Cricklade ; Mr. Phi- 4:
lips, from Kidderminster; Mr. Cookes, from Worcester-.t`•
shire, &c.