The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-27 00:00:00

yheir failure at Liverpool—for a failure it unquestion-
ably was, notwithstanding all their efforts to make it
appear otherwise—should teach the ultra-Radicals a
lesson of wholesome discretion ; and convince them
that by standing out, at the present period, for Uni-
versal Suffrage, they are separating themselves from
the rest of the community; seriously endangering the
cause of rational Reform ; and playing the game of
their worst enemies, the Tories. We deny not their
right to Universal Suffrage ; we grant that the measure
is one strictly in keeping with the Constitution ; but we
do earnestly contend that the present is not the
proper time tr 2 agitate for it. It should come
in its r:orn, not take precedence of those questions
w:l...tch are its legitimate precursors. It strengthens our
conviction of the inexpediency of agitating, under ex-
isting circumstances, for Universal Suffrage, when we
find such agitation so warmly insisted on by a man
like FEA EGUS O'CoNNon—a sort of itinerant Born-
bastes Furioso, who makes up by noise and bluster
for what he wants in common sense and discretion.
The ultra-Radicals may rely on it that they will do their
cause no good by allowing such a man to act as their
adviser, for it is notorious that he never holds the same
language, or inculcates the same sentiments, for two
days together; at one time indirectly recommending
the employment of physical force, at another depre-
cating any such notion ; now boasting that he has
" succeeded in putting down the aristocratic system in
Ireland," and now stating—in flat contradiction of this
boast—that " the serf of seven hundred years since
was not more a slave than the Irishman of the present
day I" We entertain no towards PEA RGUS.
We believe him to be sincere, and well-intentioned ;
but he is so utterly without ballast, so liable to
be led astray by the first ignis fatuus that flits
across his path, that it is impossible for any
person who really wishes well to the working-classes,
to pay the slighted respect to his dogmas. Well
may the Tories rejoice that such a man has put him-
self in the van of the ultra-Movement party I He is
just the sort of " talking-potatoe"—to quote old
CUMBERLAND'S apt description of Mr. CROKER—to
serve their purposes.

An abridged report of the proceedings at a great
Radical Meeting held in Sheffield on Tuesday, for
the purpose of co-operating with the working classes
of London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool,
Edinburgh, Glasgow, and all the other manufacturing,
districts of Great Britain, in a demand for an Ex-
tension of the Suffrage, a Repeal of the Corn-
laws, and a host of other grievances, will be found in
our columns of this day. EBENEZER ELLIOTT, the
Corn-law Rhymer, presided, and opened the business
of the meeting with a very clever speech, of which
we have taken care to preserve the essence. He
strongly recommended to the people a firm, but per-
fectly pacific line of conduct, and we are happy
to say that his example was carefully followed by
the speakers who succeeded him. All violence
was deprecated as not only wicked in itself, but
injurious to the promotion of the very objects
which the people are desirous of obtaining. How-
ever we may differ upon some points with the
ultra-Radicals, we are delighted to find that they
have at least come to comprehend, the O'CONNELL
lever, moral force,—and its application by means of
passive resistance. While they allow not their pas-
sions to be moved by appeals to the influence of brute
force, we shall not despair of seeing them correct
every error in the theory of their political views,

By the arrival of the Linnet packet at Falmouth,
lrom South America, we have received advices from
Vera Cruz of the 30th of July, Tampico of the 6th,
and Havannah of the 23d of August, inclusive. The
Linnet has on freight a million of dollars, of which
more than one-third is in gold, with upwards of a hun-
dred and thirty serons oficochineal. The blockade of
the Mexican coast was then so effective that no vessel
could venture to break it. About fifteen days before
the sailing of the Linnet, the Peru from Liverpool,
and the Sarah from London, had attempted to break
the blockade, but being warned off by one of the
French frigates, they did not dare to attempt a land-
ing. Notwithstanding the suffering and loss inflicted
upon the Mexicans by the blockade, the Government
appeared determined to brave the worst rather than
yield to the demands of France. It was, however, be-
lieved that the people would not support the Govern-
ment in the event of the French proceeding to active
hostilities, and such were expected to follow the arriva
of a re-inforcement of the blockading squadron from

Europe.
The accounts from Valparaiso are of the 30th of
June, and are comprised in the following extract from a
letter published by a Morning Contemporary :

" Valparaiso, June 30, 1838.

" Since my last the Government has been continuiag its
preparation for a second expedition against the coasts of Peru ;
and, contrary to the opinion of many, it is now being realised
the President and his Ministers are actually here dispatching
it. A part of the troops embarked yesterday, and others
which have been shipped in the port of San Antonio will ren-
dezvous in Coquimbo. The expedition will consist of about
5,500 men, under the command of General Bulnes, accom-
panied by Don Victoreno Garrido, a Spaniard, as a kind of
dry nurse, but under the title of ' Intendente of the Army.'
" If any reliance can be placed upon the information
I have received from Peru, the issue of this expedition
Tarn be something similar to that under the" command of
General Blanco. In fact, when it is recollected that the
Peruvians have a thorough contempt for the Chilians
from old times, it will prove, I suspect, something like
the interference of third parties in matrimonial discords ; that
is to say, that both friends and enemies of General Santa
Cruz will join to turn out the expeditionary force.
" Tke blockade declared by this Government of the ports
of Callao, Ancon, and Chorillos has not been allowed, owing
to an insufficiency of force, and it remains to be seen whether
the one notified by General Santa Cruz of the port of Val-
paraiso, will be put into effect or not.
" Although distressing to see these countries so infa-
tuated as to be throwing away their resources in foreign
wars, the results rather of passion than interest, yet I cannot
withhold from you that the great outlays made by this
Government for the maintenance of nearly seven thousand
men, many ships of war and transports, have been obtained
by only small anticipations on the ordinary resources of re-
venue."

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their lives in the cause, that hardly any change, how-
ever fatal to the QUEEN'S authority, with one excep-
tion perhaps, would excite more than a passing
thought in the minds of the British public. Both
dynasties have been fairly tried—the one in the person
of the " Beloved FERDINAND," and the other under
the present QUEEN : they have been found alike
wanting ; and were the people, in a fit of despair, to
repudiate both, and with them the incubus of a grasp-
ing and meddling priesthood, they would meet
with the sympathy of every Reformer in this country,
and of not a few in the kingdom of Louis PuiLiPpE,
who has so grossly betrayed their cause. We mav at-
tribute the present posture of affairs in a great measure
to the worse than lukewarm co-operation of the King
of the FRENCH with our Government in the liberal
cause. Independent of other considerations, the
doubts of ultimate success which his conduct has
almost confirmed, have destroyed the credit of the
QUEEN'S Government. While Don CARLOS is sup-
ported by all the absolute monarchs of Europe, and
thereby
finds ample resources to keep up an army fully
equal to that under thecommanndof the Dictator Es-
TARTER() the QUEEN cannot raise a penny on
the credit of her Government in any capital in