The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-31 00:00:00

be out of office, and consequently under the necessity
of getting up dinners. This is the only sense in which
there is anything extraordinary in the matter. That
the Tories, when out of office, should get up politi-
cal dinners, or do anything to effect their return to
power, is a circumstance in which we can see nothing
extraordinary. It would indeed be an " extraordinary
sign of the times," if they did not, situated as they
now are, adopt the course they are at present pursuing.
In other words, the grand object of the Tories in all
their recent dinners, and in those they are now getting
up in all parts of the country, is once more to seize the
reins of government. They propose to accomplish this
object in two ways. First, by strengthening the hands
of the Peers to such a degree as will encourage them
to interpose new obstructions to all popular measures.
Their second plan, for the accomplishment of their
object of paving the way to their own return to office,
is to endeavour to persuade the King that he may
safely dismiss his present Ministers. Such are the
tactics of the Tories at this moment. Such is the
grand secret of all their country feeds. It is high time
that the people should be told that there is danger to
the popular cause in their remaining silent and inactive,
while the adverse party are straining every nerve to
supplant the Administration of Lord Melbourne.
There is nothing more dangerous to any cause than
that of under-estimating the strength of the opposite
party. Power does not consist in mere numerical
force. If it did, the cause of the people would be
perfectly safe. But what is lacking in numbers may
be easily made up by superior tactics and greater
activity. That the Tories are skilful tacticians we
have before proved ; that they are active to the greatest
possible extent is sufficiently proved by the number
of political dinners which are taking place in all parts
of the country, and by the party zeal with which their
speeches at those dinners arc so redolent. How, then,
are the Tories to he defeated in their schemes for sup-
planting the Melbourne Ministry ? There is only
one way in which that can be done ; and that way is
by the people getting up counter-meetings in all parts
of the kingdom. We must raise our voices to such
a pitch as will completely drown the voices of the
Conservatives. The people must not only meet every-
where, but they must at the same time assemble in large
numbers. They must do still more : they must assume
a tone of energy and decision which will convince the
Tories that they, to wit, the people of this great empire,
are determined that they shall never again submit, not
even for one short moment, to be domineered over by
a despotic faction—that, in other words, as that faction
has been expelled by the popular voice from the Coun-
cils of the King, so the same popular voice will keep
them in perpetual banishment from the precincts of
Downing-street. It is only by a decided demonstra-
tion of public opinion that the Ministry of Lord Mel-
bourne can be maintained in office. They can only be
supported by the same power—the power of public
opinion—which raised them to the offices they how fill.
It is unreasonable to expect that they can give us
liberal measures, or successfully grapple with the ad-
verse faction, unless backed with all the moral energies
of the people. But though of themselves they can do
nothing, with the people they can do everything. It
is our duty to take the lead : let us do this, and we
pledge ourselves that Lord Melbourne will follow. His
Lordship, we repeat, cannot be expected to bring for -
xeard great reforms, unless called on by the people to
do so. If he did, it would be with the certainty of
defeat. Let us demand in loud and energetic tones
those measures of reform which the present crisis
demands, and not only will his Lordship bring them
forward, but lie will do it with success.--Morning;
Advertiser.
We have given, in another column, the observa-
tions of the London Mercury on the O'Connell-
Condv-Costelloe farce. The incidents, and even the
draw:as personte, are still imperfect. Why do not
Mr. Potter and the millowners for whom he is said to
have acted come forward, and say what was their
share in the transaction ? Why is it that, up to this
moment, nobody has the courage to meet the matter
in front ? We know why nobody dares to say that Mr.
O'Connell did not make a turn unusally sharp, and
wholly unanticipated on the Factory Bill. It is diet
there are his recorded speeches up almost to the minute
of the vote, and the recorded vote, in utter contradic-
tion to the speeches, to put the O'Connell advocates
to utter shame, if they had the hardihood to meddle
with this part of the case. Impudent and unprin-
cipled as the O'Conuell advocates are, and as the ad-
vocates of such a man must be, this part of the case
beats them. The ces triplex even of the great Agitator
himself, is not sufficient for this. He whirled round
in a moment, and, intrepid as he is, he does not ven-
ture to deny it. As to the bribe which it is said the Agi-
tator received for this service to the mill-owners, there
is some obscurity. The English gentlemen, who are
reported to have paid it, seem unaccountably back-
ward to minglein the controversy. Perhaps they
have tender consciences. Or perhaps they cannot
quite trust each other. Or, as tney are persons who
differ from the Irish Achilles and his mymidons in
in this, that they have some character to lose, perhaps
they think it necessary to be very deliberate in their
public assertions. The charge against Mr. O'Connell
is, that, for his service to the millowners, and his
treacherous disservice to the factory children, he re -
ceived a bribe of 1,0001. Mr. O'Connell says it is
an impossible lie. Mr. Condy, a friend of Mr. O'Con-
nell, who suffered the accusation to rest, upon his
authority, uncontradicted for a considerable period,
denies tardily, and upon Mr. O'Connell's application,
that he ever authorised the statement. Mr. Costelloe,
the law agent of Mr. O'Connell, for fear Mr. Condv
should not be as ready as was needful to disavow the
story of the 1,0001. bribe, given to the world upon
his authority, and said to be originally derived from
Mr. Costelloe himself, posts from Dublin to Manches-
ter with his military friend and his case of pistols, and
finds that Mr. Condy has already given the necessary de-
nial. Here we have a great deal of fuss and very little
satisfaction. Mr. O'Connell and his partisans assert
that it is a lie to say that he took a bribe of 1,0001. to
vote against the cause which up to the day of his vote
he had strenuously supported. It may be a lie. But
Mr. O'Connell and his partisans assert, further, that
it is an extravagant and an impossible lie. Now we
take leave to say, after all we have heard and read, that
it is not an impossible lie. And, if we know anything
of the opinion of the public, it is, that the lie, if lie it
be, is any thing but an extravagant one. Why did
Mr. O'Connell vote at night upon the factory question
differently from what, in the morning of the same day,
he said and everybody expected he would vote ? What-
were the facts or arguments brought forward in the
debate which effected this sudden change of opinion ?
Why, as the London Mercury well inquires, does not
Mr. O'Connell describe the causes and process of his
instantaneous conversion ? Were he to do so, the
Short Hours' Committee could explain to the world
whether the facts and arguments, which were so cogent
and rapid in their operation, had not been made fami-
liar to Mr. O'Connell, and whether he had not pre-
viously prepared himself to meet and overpower them
by antagonist facts and arguments. But what are
either facts or arguments to Mr. O'Connell when
placed in the balance against 1,0001. ?—Morn. Post.

The Bordeaux papers announce the arrival of M.
de Peyronnet at his seat of Monaferrant on the 21st.
A failure of some importance in the city in the
cotton import trade has lately taken place ; an offer of ten
shillings in the pound has, however, been made, and is not un-
likely to be accepted.
Yarmouth is full of bustle, in consequence of the
almost unprecedented large take of herrings at this early
period. On Saturday week above 300 lasts were brought in,
and the average is already estimated at fifteen lasts each boat.
The fish are of fine quality.
When the Luxor obelisk was raised, some scorpions
were perceived to have dropped from it upon the stone.
They, no doubt, were bred in the wood-work, whilst it was
in Egypt. The animals were taken up, and brought to the
passports.
The ; no doubt because they were
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The New York papers state that Joseph Bonaparte,
who went from that port to England in the packet ship
Philadelphia, presented to Captain Morgan, in token of
satisfaction with his kindness and attention, the backgammon
board used by the Emperor Napoleon to diversify the weary
hours on his voyage to St. Helena, and a coffee-pot with
own name engraved on it.
On Tuesday morning last a large otter was shot in
the garden of Mr. J. Wheeler, of
Claremont-cottage,
Leighton Buzzard, measuring 4 feet 6 inches in length, and
weighing upwards of 281bs.