The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-13 00:00:00

TORIES

But, in the meanwhile, what does Sir Robert Peel
say and think of these outrageous proceedings of his
followers? Are they acting, under his direction as
feelers, to ascertain how far " the fixed principle po-
licy," recommended by the Quarterly, will be approved
of by the faction ? As yet " neither speech nor lan-
guage" e" has proceeded from him, and we can, therefore,
fug
only assume that " silence gives consent" to all that is
going forward. Dr. Mortimer O'Sullivan has pledged
him to the repeal of the Catholic Emancipation Act,
and now Mr. Bradshaw has hinted, that the party arc
for " the abdication," and yet he has said nothing to
deny his participation in these sentiments. Let him
listen to the voice which is everywhere heard at the
Tory feasts. Let him hear Mr. Bradshaw or Mr.
Escott. Let him hear the Ashon libeller of the Queen.
" We must," says Mr. Roby, " have no trimming,
no half measures; the enemy is not only in the gate,
the enemy is in the citadel ; Queen Victoria sits at her
Royal council with Popish advisers. What next? Will
you, Englishmen and Protestants, sit tamely by,saying—
• God help us 1' ? Will you, without an effort or a re-
monstrance, allow these profligate rulers thus to per-
petrate their blows against our Constitution in Church
and State ? Where are our leaders ? Where are they
who ought to have defied this profligate administra-
tion, and have dared them at their peril—av, have dared
them at their peril—to perpetrate their miscreant acts
against the very Constitution which they had sworn to up-
hold ? I hope that, in the next Sessio nof Parliament,
our Peels and our Wellingtons (and I wish they were
present to hear me) will say, with Major Bridgnorth, in
Sir Walter Scott's Pereril of the Peak,' •We may
forgive our own enemies ; but we dare not, we hold no
commission, to forgive the enemies of our country.'"
Such language as this must strike terror and dis-
may into the heart of Sir Robert Peel. It must t, 11
him, that his mastery over Toryism has departed from
him, and that he must, henceforth, be satisfied to be
its slave. It is beyond his power ever ass 'in to lay the
spirits whose services he has been too willing to employ.
He thought to make them his tools, and they have
become his tyrants. He must either go with them
or be cast off, like a worn-out hack, when he has
done his work. He is unable to ride upon the
whirlwind and direct the storm" which he has permitted
to be raised, it' he did not help to raise it hims* lf. He has
surrounded himself with difficulties which would never
have beset his path, had he pursued the even course
of an honest policy. But this is his own affair ;
and, if he now stands forth before the world
as " the biter bit," he has only himself to blame. He
should, from the first, have checked the violence of his
followers while they were still his followers, and he had
the power to stop them. It is now too late. His in-
fluence is gone. He must either march with the Brad-
shaws, Escotts, Rohys, and the Ashton detachment of
the " Conservative army," or he sent branded as a de-
serter, into the rear. His is a melancholy fall, ~rid
should be for ever a warning to all trimming politicians.
The once commander-in-chief of the faction is now
made a laughing-stock, by the very fellows who are not
yet promoted from the awkward squad. The lion stung
by the ant, was nothing compared with Sir Robert Peel
taunted by a Bradshaw or a Roby. This last is, in-
deed, a miserable spectacle—the once Premier of Eng-
land bullied by a banker's clerk !—Liverpool Albion.

FAILURE.—We are sorry to learn that the old
and respectable house of Walker and Son, mi.nufac-
turers, have this week stopped payment. The amount
of their debts is said to be about 600001.—Glasgow
paper of Saturday.
A very fine specimen of the falcon was shot near
Princes Risborough, on Tuesday last, supposed to have
come from the north, measuring two feet from the bill
to the extremity of the tail, and the wings when ex-
tended four feet eight inches ; the weight being 2i-lbs.
avoirdupois. It is now in the possession of Mr. Thos.
Whitnell, of Princes Risborough, who has prepared and
stuffed the same for the inspection of his friends and the
public.—Aylesbury News.