The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1536:

demanded—that the eloquence or the arguments of the
various speakers owe any considerable portion of their
power or effect to the sympathetic feelings of the re-
porter. Here there can be no misrepresentation, or
none, at least, in favour of the Conservative cause. It
is evident, even on the showing of their own friend
and advocate, that at Devonport—a town which
owes much of its importance to the circumstance
that it is the seat of a great Government establish-
ment—the present Ministers of the Crown and their
Radical allies cannot keep down the expression of a
feeling which has become nearly universal among
the respectable and educated classes of the British
people. The conviction spreads, wide and fast, that
the country and its institutions are not and cannot be
in a state of assured safety or of healthy repose, so
long as they are committed to the guardianship of men
who cultivate the alliance of undisguised Revolution-
ists, owe their official existence to the bitter enemies
and most active disturbers of the public peace, and are
content to find the only safeguard and guarantee of
their political power in the desperate and impious array
which marches onward with menacing yells and impre-
cations to assail, and if possible to destroy, the Aristo-
cracy, the Church, and the Throne. The persuasion
is rapidly gaining ground in every part of the country,
that neither the naval power, nor the military greatness,
nor the financial resources, nor the flourishing com-
merce of Great Britain, can protect her from the dan-
ger with which she is now threatened ; that her safety
must be found in the firm resolves, the steady princi-
ples, and the active patriotism of her citizens, and that
the time is come when it behoves the nation to pro-
claim, as with a single voice, its determination no longer
to be ruled by politicians so dastardly that they dare
not, or so base and mercenary that they will not, refuse
to treat the avowed enemies of the British Constitution
as their friends. Such are the convictions and the feelings
which give birth to the Conservative Associations now
starting on every side of us into sudden, but yet ma-
ture and vigorous existence. Of this the Conservative
Association of Devonport is a striking and a glorious
example. Here the Conservatives have to encounter
the various powers and elements of destruction, if not
in their closest, at least in their most visible, union.
They behold the Ministerial influence which the
King's dockyard and arsenal create systematically em-
ployed to secure the seat in the House of Commons
of an individual who is notoriously and conspicuously
destitute of every qualification for a legislator, and
whose sole merit consists in the zeal with which he
promotes every revolutionary project, by whomsoever
it may be suggested. Sir E. Codrington is a kind of
connecting link in the chain of Radical existence be-
tween Lord Melbourne and Mr. O'Connell, and his
Parliamentary position harmonises perfectly with his
political character. He no longer represents in the
House of Commons anything at Devonport but the
dockyard and the lowest and most furious class of Ra-
dicals—the Ministers of the King, and the open ene-
mies of all authority—those who are swarn to protect
the Constitution, and those who daily declare their
determination to destroy it. When these two classes
can cordially join in the interest of any common
representative it may, without rashness, be inferred
that the difference between them is not very wide—and
hence the people of Devonport, who retain some af-
fection and respect for the Constitution of England,
seeing before their eyes the constant proof of a combi-
nation the most unnatural, pernicious, and disgusting
for its overthrow, thought it high time for them to
form a Conservative Association for its defence ; and
hence the first festival of that new-born association
was attended by five hundred of the most respectable
inhabitants of the town. Upon the occasion of this
inauguration dinner Mr. Dawson, the competitor of
Admiral Codrington at the last election for Devonport,
visited the town by invitation. We need scarcely say
what kind of reception Irb experienced from the Con-
servative Association, or from the great body of the
respectable inhabitants. It was such as might natu-
rally have been expected, considering the feelings pro-
duced by the alliance, more visible at Devonport than
elsewhere, between the King's Ministers and the ene-
mies of his Majesty's crown and dignity—it was such
as the friends of the British Constitution would wish
to be given to one of the most able, honourable, and
zealous of their own body—it was such as leaves little
doubt that at the very first opportunity the loyal elec-
tors of Devonport will gain a representative, and that
the Ministers, and Destructives in that town, will lose
one.—Morning Post.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE CHANCELLORS' COURT, Nov. 5.
FARQUHARSON V. BALFOUR.

Mr. STUART appeared in support of the petition of Mr.
Robertson, the consignee of West Indian estates which
were the subject of this suit. The object of the petition
was to obtain payment out of the compensation money
awarded for slaves in respect of those estates of a very
large balance of above 3,000!., which was due to the con-
signee on account of his advances. The consignee, it was
contended, had a lien not only on the produce of the
estates, but also on the corpus. This claim was para-
mount to that of all other claimants ; and no injustice
would be done to any party by refunding to him out of the
money in Court the amount be had been obliged to advance.
Mr. JACOB appeared for the Right Hon. Edward Ellice,
Sir Thomas Neave, and other incumbrancers on the estate,
to resist the application.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR said there was nothing what-
ever to justify the petition ; and as it was altogether un-
precedented, and as it tended to establish a very incon-
venient mode of proceeding, it must be dismissed, with costs.