The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-13 00:00:00

reckoning will come, and the laughter of these jocund
days will Plat then be forgotten.—Morning Post.
We were th ':first, some two or three weeks ago, to
announce to our readers that the Irish Municipal Bill
would be rejected by the House of Lords, and that
the consequence of that rejection would be, either the
resignation of the Melbourne Cabinet, or the dissolu-

' tionof the present Parliament. We still _adhere to
the accuracy of our information on that subject, not-
withstanding some rumours of a contrary character—
rumours which give credit to the Tories for having
originated the report, but which, at this time of day,
and under existing circumstances, they would be the
last to circulate. The agony of apprehension which
the prospect of an appeal to the various constituencies
excites in the Conservative faction, shows at once a
consciousness of well-merited unpopularity, and an an-
ticipation of impending defeat; nor are their terrors
merely imaginary. We have seen a list, prepared by or-
der of the Carlton Club, and professing extreme accuracy,
which is anything but consolatory to the clique for
whose information it has been got up. The circulation of
this document is, as much as possible, confined to the
parties at whose instance it was originally prepared.
That it underrates the amount of loss which they are
sure to sustain in the event of a dissolution, is per-
fectly certain. It is equally so, that its concoctors
have been absurdly sanguine in their estimate of the
accession they look to, from quarters where they as-
sert a Tory re-action to have taken place ; but even
on their own showing their cause is so hopeless, and
their prospects so discouraging, that we shall for the
present take the statement on their own terms. It is

to be carefully borne in mind that this Carlton voucher
does not profess to extend beyond England, and it is
perfectly well known that the increasing unpopularity of
Conservative sentiments is at least equally prevalent in
Ireland and Scotland. The wiseacres of the Carlton Club
admit that a dissolution must entail a loss of no less than
thirty-seven seats in the boroughs at present repre-
sented by Memhers of their party, but they console
themselves by asserting that they are snre of defeating
thirteen of the present Liberal county Members. We
have already cautioned our readers that this statement,
coming from a deeply-interested party, must be received
with extreme suspicion ; but let us for the moment ad-
mit it to be correct, and see how it will affect the nu-
merical strength of the respective parties. The thirty-
seven Members lost to the Tories are, by the same
operation, transferred to the Liberals. A very simple
arithmetical process will satisfy the most sceptical that
this operates in two ways, and must swell the majority
in a double ratio—that is, by no less than seventy four
votes. Admitting, then, for the sake of argument, that
the Tory augmentation in the counties is correctly esti-
mated (on which point we have already intimated our
doubt) it will, by a parity of reasoning, give them
an addition of twenty-six, which leaves a clear ba-
lance of forty-eight in favour of the Liberals. Now,
although we could state many sufficient reasons for
believing that the Tories have at once exaggerated
their expected gain and diminished their probable
loss, we are satisfied, as we before said, to take

the matter for the moment on their own showing., The
accession to the present strength of the Government,
which even their adversaries admit to be inevitable, is
quite sufficient to justify the despondence of the Tories
—but it will do something more for the cause of judi-
cious and progressive Reform, by enabling the Admi-
nistration to send up measures to the House of Lords,
carried by such overwhelming majorities, as will make
their Lordships reflect upon their position more seri-
ously than they have latterly done. These majorities
will not impart wisdom to a Londonderry, or liberality
to an Eldon, or candour to a Lyndhurst; but they
will teach them in language not to be gainsaid, that
the voice of the people orEngland, solemnly and con-
stitutionally expressed, must not be defeated by con-
tumacious resistance, nor frittered away by plausible,
but dishonest sophistry.—Morning Advertiser.