The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-22 00:00:00

moderate their expectations of a speedy accession to
office—whether they have awoke from their dream of
delusion, and discovered that the odds are greatly
against a party who hold no principles in common
either with the SOVEREIGN or the people—we cannot
tell ; but certain it is, that a wonderful change has
taken place both in the outward and visible
manifestations of Toryism, and in the tone of
its principal organs. Instead of the confident
anticipation of the speedy occupation of Downing-
street, which used to form the favourite subject of spe-
culation in the Times, and other Tory Journals, we
now find that, however certain such an event may be,
this is not the time—" the pear," we are told, " is
not ripe yet"—that pear, be it observed, which last
year was ripe even to rottenness ; and, instead of the
festive meetings which used to be the order of the day,
or rather of the night, it is now a matter of extreme
difficulty to get get up even an anniversary meeting in
those towns in which a Tory Association had
been formed, which was to draw in the bulk of the

population.
Such a meeting has, it seems, been held at Liver-
pool, after exertions of no ordinary kind had been used
to make it appear respectable in numbers at least, if
not in any other way. After all, it was a most paltry
affair. The dinner party consisted of a few tradesmen,
the toad-eaters of the GLADSTONES, and other red-
hot Tories in Liverpool, who last year moulded them
into an " Association," to serve their own political
purposes. When we say that the principal speakers
were Lord SANDON, CRESSWELL CRESWELL, E,q.,
M.P., and a spitfire parson of the name of CAMP-
BELL, our readers may easily conjecture what sort of
stuff was uttered at this guzzling match.

Several county meetings for tile total extinction of
tithes have been held in Ireland since the close of the
Session, and two more are announced for this week at
the suggestion of several Peers, many Members of the
House of Commons, and a large number of Magis-
trates. This is one of the main objects of the " Pre-
curssor Association ;" it is a favourite theme for Mr.
O'CoNNELL, and now that the landlords have to pay
the tithe and a considerable portion of the new Poor-
rate out of their own pockets, it will be the great sub-
ject for agitation till the obnoxious impost is abo-
lished. No man of common sense can be surprised
at the symptoms manifested in almost every part of
Ireland since the passing of the Tithe and Poor Law
Bills, and every day confirms the observation of Lord
HOWICK, that no final settlement of the affairs
of that country can be expected till a large portion
of the tithes be appropriated to other purposes than
the support of an immense Church Establishment for
the benefit of a small minority of Episcopal Prot.l.s-
tants. This grievance will assist Mr. O'CONNELL
at every election ; the Catholic landords to a man, and
most of the Protestants, will leave no means untried,
to rid themselves of one at least of two burdens, which
they are taught to believe were provided against by
the grant of lands and tithes to the Catholic Church.
The poorer classes, too, notwithstanding the late Act,
retain all their antipathy to the tax, so that, whether
Whigs or Tories rule Ireland, they may reckon not upon
the resistance of one class as formerly, but of nearly
the whole of the community, to this absurd and grievous
enactment. It requires no spirit of prophecy to foretel

that Sir ROBERT PEEL, and even Lord STANLEY,
will be compelled to swallow the Appropriation Clause,
or give up for ever what now might be retained for
useful purposes. The Irish landlords rejoice at the
obstinate blindness of the High Church party. Had
the plan proposed by the Government in 1835 been
adopted, that body must have been saddled with a per-
petual tax for the moral and religious education of the
people, and now they consider themselves in a fair way
of having the tithes abolished, and pocketing some
80,0001. a year.

With the exception of the Morning Post our
Morning Contemporaries, as will be seen by our ex-
tra:-!ts from their City communications, censure the
management of the currency by the Bank of England.
Although there are discrepancies in their opinions,
they may he held to signify that an almost general
dissatisfaction now exists in the City on the conduct of
the Bank. We cannot exactly appreciate the influence
of the mercantile and monied classes over the Bank,
hut as it has a sort of popular government, the
Directors being selected from the merchants and
bankers, it seems likely that this dissatisfaction in ay
urge the Bank to some extraordinary measures. It
would not surprise us, therefore, to learn, though
an extension of the circulation at this period is
contrary to its general policy, that it has given
way to the opinion of the City, and has increased
the circulation by unusual methods. To take steps
now, however, which would tend to raise or keep up
prices during the winter, by increasing the quantity of
money, and particularly if it kept up the price of
bread, might be attended with disastrous results. We
refer our readers to the extracts from our Morning
Contemporaries.

We are clad to see, by an advertisement in another
part of our Paper, that the Church-rate Abolition So-
ciety is as active as ever. By the resolutions agreed
to on last Friday it appears that the number of peti-
tions presented to the House of Commons for
the extinction of Church-rates during the last Ses-
sion, was two thousand three hundred and twenty-
eight, bearing six hundred and seventy-four thou-
sand seven hundred and nineteen signatures. The
Society continues to afford gratuitous legal in-
formation and advice to the opponents of Church-
rates; and there is every reason to hope that its exer-
tions, backing the determination of a large body of the
people, will induce the Legislature to put an end to
this iniquitous impost. It is necessary, however, that
the people should bestir themselves, as they have done
at Wolverhampton ; and if they send next Session of
Parliament half a million of petitions signed by two
million names to the House of Commons the impost
will certainly be put an end to.

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improved
Sir GEORGE will not find anything by his
absence. The new Cabinet is a sort of life-111-death
affair, of whose efficiency its very supporters despair.
How long it will survive the attacks of the Carlists,
the jealousy of the ultra-Liberals, and the apathy of
the Camarilla, is more than we can predict ; though
some of the Spanish journals refuse to extend its pos-
sible duration to a week at the very utmost. The
Duke DE FRIAS can scarcely be said to have bad
time to know his own place at the Council'Board of
the Cabinet, and yet, in the course of his very brief
Ministerial career he has managed to incur the marked
displeasure of the British Legation. This will not
tend to prolong his Ministerial existence.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Friday and Saturday. They bring an account of the
final settlement of the Swiss question, which will be
found in another column. The conduct of the French
Cabinet with respect to Spain, is the subject of an ex-
cellent article in the Courrier Francais. The com-
mencement is remarkably significant :
The Marquis dr, Miraflores, who has just arrived in
Paris with the official title of Ambassador of Spain, was
r-eceived on Thursday by the K,117,.
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fereh pomp Of his reception. 'fire state carriag,-* r,,li;nt ; tho grind liveries were put on ; the
most rigi
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