The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-27 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Tories have been greatly benefiting the cause
of reform, by repeatedly insulting the people with de-
clarations at their feeds, in different places, that a re-
action, chiefly among the working classes, had taken
place in their favour. In the journals devoted to the
support of Toryism, the utmost contempt used to be
manifested for the working-classes, and a favourite
phrase of our Evening Contemporary, the Standard,
adopted from it by Fraser's Ma,azine, " the beer-
washed tables," at which they obtained' their political
intelligence, conveys a measure of the distaste of the
Tories for whatever was connected with the classes in
question. It is a great victory on the part of the
people that the Tories have been forced to mend their
manners. To show an anxiety to stand well with
the working classes is an homage to their power
and importance. The leading article of Black-
wood's Magazine for October, which we have more
than once noticed, indulges, indeed, in the grossest
abuse of the Whigs for their condescension to-
wards the people ; but Blackwood will be taught to
dissemble respect, whether he feel it or not. As
to re-action in favour of the Tories, the very idea is
absurd. The people'perfectly well understand the mo-
tives of their old enemies. They understand perfectly
well why the Tories affect to court them. The loaves
and fishes can only now be obtained through the con-
sent of the people ; and to serve themselves, they are
forced to exert themselves to deceive those whom they
used to treat with contempt. It has often been ob-
served, that men never resort to fraud till they find
themselves unable to gain their ends by force. The
Turk effects his object by the bastinado, the stake,
and the bow-string. The Tories of England are
obliged to coax those whom they wish to plunder by
feeds. As Blackwood says, they have been driven from
one stronghold to another, till now they are without
defensive works ; and it is true, as he says, that the
waves of liberalism, after every ebb, have flowed with
more irresistible force, and driven the Tories farther from
their original position. We cannot give a better proof of
the groundlessness of the claims of the Tories to popu-
lar re-action in their favour, than the dinner at Wor-
cester on Monday last, of which we :this day give a
report. There was a Conservative feed in that city,
at which the speakers boasted of the re-action among
the operative classes in their favour. Their triumph
has been of short duration. The reform operatives,
to the number of between 1,500 and 1,600, with Mr.
Arrowsmith, an operative, in the chair, by far the
largest party that ever assembled in Worcester, gave
the lie to the boasts of the Tories. It was stated by
the Chairman that applications had been made for up-
wards of two thousand tickets, but that it had been ne-
cessary to refuse five or six hundred of the applicants.
The boasting of the Tories has thus had the effect of
stimulating the spirited Reformers of Worcester to
affOrd a proof how little they merited the calumny of
their opponents. The Tories will soon find, to their
mortification, that the example set at Worcester will
he extensively followed throughout the kingdom. The
people have too much esteem for themselves to allow
the Tories to represent them as ready to abandon their
principles for a mess of pottage, and to lend their hands
to forge the chains with which their old enemies would
wish to manacle them. The inconsistencies of the
Tory organs are often exceedingly amusing. With an
effrontery seldom equalled, the Times tells us yester-
day that—
.' When Lord Melbourne confessed in the House of
Commons, with a mixture of sulk and humiliation, that the
Peerage —the untitled A ristocracy —the Gentry—the
learned professions—the Universities—the banking- interest
—and the upper class of the commercial interest, were his
political enemies ; when Lord Brougham stated broadly
that almost every man in the kingdom having 300/. a-year
to live upon, was a Conservative, each of these Noble Lords
admitted in fact, that so far as the property, the education,
the intelligence, the independence, and whatever constitutes
the mind of the nation went, it was not represented by the
policy or character of its rulers."
We may here observe, by the bye, that Lord Mel-
bourne never allowed that the intelligence and the pro•
party of the country were against him, for it was only
by the property and the intelligence of the country
that lie could hope to stand his ground against the
enemies of both. But this misrepresentation has been
already sufficiently refuted. The Times proceeds then
to inform us that " Conservative tradesmen's' asso-
ciations, Conservative operatives' associations, have
been organised in various parts of England, and
have cconmenced a series of vigorous and decisive
proceedings in cordial alliance with the Conserva-
tive aristocracy of their respective neilibourhocls,
whom they alternately support and Lan upon, and
with whom they maintain an encouraging intercourse
of festive meetings and political discussion." The
Tories, according to the Times, had always " the
property, the education, the intelligence, the inde-
pendence, and whatever constitutes the mind of the
nation ;" they have, too, the poor, deficient tenantry-
at-will of the Tory squirearchy—for the Times tells
us that " the agricultural population is all safe ;" and
now they have " the urban population itself, through
whose eager and unanimous assistance the cause of
Conservatism was to have been effectually crushed."
The Tories having thus all—both rich and poor—
what have the Reformers ? Out of what holes did
the 1,600 reform operatives of Worcester creep ? To
what non-descript class of beings did the great ga-
thering of West Somerset belong Who were the
men of Surrey who met the other day in such num-
bers ? Did Sir John Campbell address himself to
Conservatives at the Waterloo Hotel, or at Cupar ?
Who were they who gave a dinner to Earl Minto at
Hawick, a place in the midst of the Duke of Buc-
cleugh's wide domains ? Did Mr. Fox Maule
show any reluctance to meet his Perthshire consti-
tuents ? Can the Tories really believe that there
are any persons in England so grossly stupid as to
be the -dupes of this foolish vapouring of their organs ?
The Reformers have their differences. At Worcester,
for instance, Mr. Robinson was not supported because
all his votes gave satisfaction to his constituents, or
because they shared all his opinions. On the contrary,
at the Town Council dinner he was not so favourably
received, on account of some of his votes and opinions,
as he had been heretofore, but met with a few ugly
interruptions. When we consider that Mr. Robinson's
views are not always indicative of absolute wisdom,
we can make allowance for the dissatifaction he encoun-
tered. But the different grades of Reformers became
generally convinced of the expediency of concurring in
the support of the Hon. Member, on whom the pre-
vious manifestation of feeling will not be lost ; and
he was therefore favourably received on Monday last.
In other places Reformers have their differences ; but
the example of Newcastle has not been lost on them.
The Tories will find that, whenever, trusting to these
family quarrels, they put out their hands to grasp at
power, the Reformers will show that they have both
intelligence and spirit sufficient to baffle them. Let
them consult their agents at the Registration Courts,
and they will learn from them how little reason they
have to plume themselves en any desertion of Refor-
mers to their ranks. The people laugh at their feeds,
and despise those who are foolish enough to suppose
the people are to be gulled by such threadbare de-
vices.
We give them Worcester to digest.---Morning
Chronicle.
We yesterday adverted to a report of a Reform Din-
ner at Worcester on Monday, which up to the hour of
going to press we had expected to give in yesterday's
publication ; but owing to an accidental occurrence the
account did not reach us in time. We now present
our readers with a full report of the proceedings to
which we attach the .greater importance from the cir-
cumstance of the dinner being entirely got up by the
Operatives, for the purpose of putting to shame the
Tory fiction of a reaction amongst that class of the
community. The whole proceeding, as will be seen by
the report, was of the most gratifying character. A
company of 1,500 Operatives, dined together, and 500
more applied for tickets, but it was found impossible to
accommodate a larger number. An Operative presided
in the chair, and gave eloquent expression to senti-
ments and feelings that showed a mind imbued with
the truest spirit of Reform, all of which were cordially
responded to by the company. The notion of reaction
was treated with perfect ridicule. Mr. Robinson, the
consistent Reform Member of the city, gave a full ac-
count of his stewardship, which was received with
great approbation. Colonel Davis, the late Reform
Member, was also well received, and was assured that

on the next election the triumph over the Tories would
be complete, and he should be reinstated in the post of
honour. The three Liberal County Members were
also highly applauded. A considerable number of in-
fluential gentlemen, both of the county and city, at-
tended the dinner, to express their hearty concurrence
in the opinions and feelings of the Operatives on the
great question of carrying out the objects of the Reform
Act.—Morning Advertiser.
It was with some feeling of ankiety that we made
some observations yesterday in reference to the case of
the forged power of attorney, which the Recorder of
London was to report to the King the same evening.
We now allude to the same case with a degree of satis-
faction which the contents of the Recorder's report
will explain. We have now to add to the many in-
stances of Royal clemency which have distinguished
the reign of our paternal Sovereign, and given a pure
and imperishable lustre to the crown of William IV.,
the merciful mitigation of the sentence of a criminal,
who, under the Lansdowne exception to the reformed
law of forgery, was sentenced to die on the scoffold.
It is now impossible that there can ever be another
execution for forgery—and therefore the capital ex-
ceptions of the Forgery Act should be repealed. Pro-
perty derives small protection from impracticable laws.
In the year 1786, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who
reformed the criminal code, and abolished the penalty
of death in his dominions, thus expressed himself in
reference to the result of that alteration of the laws :
" With the utmost satisfaction to our paternal feelings
we have at length perceived that the mitigation of
punishment, joined to a most scrupulous attention to
prevent crimes, and also a great despatch in the trials,
together with a certainty of punishment to real delin-
quents, has, instead of increasing the number of crimes,
considerably diminished that of smaller ones, and ren-
dered those of an atrocious nature very rare." The
authentic records of crime in this country prove that
the clemency of William IV. does not work less bene-
ficially than that of the Tuscan Sovereign for the inte-
rests of society.—Morning Herald.
Our columns are again enriched with the reports of
festive meetings of Conservatives, assembled to proclaim
their sentiments to the world, to inculcate the political
principles which they deem essential to the welfare and
salvation of their country, and, surrounded by the appro-
priate circumstances of social enjoyment, to interchange
with each other those expressions of delight and exul-
tation which are natural to honest men engaged in a
good cause, and witnessing its irresistible and trium-
phant progress. The splendid Conservative manifes-
tations which we this day record will, no doubt, as
other similar occurrences have done before, compel the
Whig-Radical organs of the Melbourne-O'Connell
Government to disguise their alarm, their envy, and
their malice under the thin disguise of a sneer. These
Conservative dinners are cruel affairs after all. It
is downright barbarity to compel men in the me-
lancholy situation of our Ministerial Contem-
poraries to assume, in the very sadness of their
hearts, the light airs of gaiety and humour, to mimic the
tones of mirth while their spirits are sinking, to " grill
horribly a ghastly smile" in the painful and fruitless
endeavour to conceal their anguish and despair. We
sincerely hope, nevertheless, that the Conservatives in
every part of the country will gratify themselves, as
well as all their loyal and constitutional fellow-country-
men who hear or read of their proceedings, by a social
meeting, such as those in Essex and Yorkshire. The
Conservatives have a right to rejoice in the position
and prospects of their glorious cause ; and this right
is certainly not impaired by the fact, however clearly es-
tablished, that their festive celebrations are a source of
mortification and annoyance to the friends and sup-
porters of a destructive Administration. This cir-
cumstance might fairly be referred to in vindication of
sorb meetings, if vindication were required. It is a
tolerably conclusive proof that we are doing what is
wise and good when our proceedings excite the
manifest displeasure and alarm of the eeeemy. But
no Conservative meeting has vet been held in any
part of the kingdom the proceedings of which did
not carry with them a nobler and more exalted yin •
dication than this. We invite our readers to peruse
the vigorous, manly, and sensible address delivered by
Sir John Beckett to his constituents at the Leeds
dinner—we invite them to peruse the speeches of the
several Conservative Members of the House of Com-
mons who met their constituents at Maldon—and then
to pronounce whether such assemblages be not in the
highest degree useful and profitable to the good cause
—whether they be not eminently calculated to display
and to increase the predominance of sound constitu-
tionalprieciples—whether they do not afford advanta, • -
ous opportunities to strengthen the convictions, to fan
the zeal, to stimulate the exertions, and to cement the
union of Conservatives—whether they have not a
direct tendency to discredit, to discourage, and to en-
feeble the enemies and assailants of those invaluable
national institutions which the Conservative party
are determined to rescue from threatened destruction.
Of the speech of Sir John Beckett it is impossible
to speak in terms of excessive eulogy. It is a
plain, clear, and eloquent exposition of the character
and objects of the Conservative party, a full and com-
prehensive vindication of the conduct which its leaders
have consistently pursued, a complete demonstration of
the importance of continued and augmented exertions
on the part of its members. It would far exceed our
limits to do justice here to the numerous passages of
this excellent address, which attest at once the power
of the speaker and the merit of his cause ; for to do
this adequately we must be under the necessity of
transcribing the whole oration. The justification of
the Conservatives, who identify Mr. O'Connell with
the Melbourne Government, is perhaps that part of
the Right Hon. Gentleman's speech will make the
deepest and most general impression. The " Lion
and Lamb Government" will, we foresee, become a
familiar household phrase, unless Conservatives, un-
willing to disparage an animal which, although a beast
of prey, possesses some noble qualities, should deem
" the wolf and lamb" a fitter emblem of the O'Con-
nell-Melbourne confederacy.—Morning Post.

BURKE'S HISTORY OE THE LANDED GENTRY.
—We are glad to observe, by the announcement of the
13th part, which is to appear with the Magazines on the Ist
of November, that this important and truly national work
draws towards its completion. This 13th part, we are in
formed, will contain, among numerous other eminent fami
lies, accounts of the following :
Hulton of Hulton
Long of Rowde Ashton and,
Peeshaw
Trenchard of Stanton
Phillips of Garrendon Park
Taylor of Clifton
Fulford of Fulford Park
Creyke of Marton
Gordon of Pitlurg
Barneby of Brockhampton
Northey Hopkins of Oving
House
Bodenham of Rotherwas

Peploe of Garnston
Kemey4 Tinte of Halsewell
Heber of Hodnet

Hopton of Canon Frome
Leslie of Glaslough
Leslie of Ballybay and Leslie
Hous•
Heneage of Hainton
Entwisle of Foxholes

Greaves of Irlam Hall
Hankey of Fetcham Park
Phillips of Longworth
Willyames of Carnanton
Lloyd of Croghan
Lucas of Castle Shane
Fortescue of Ravensdale Park
Bainbridge of Lockington
Canyon of Tregrehan
Johnes of Dolecothy
Estcourt of Estcourt
St. Aubyn of Alfoxton
Mulloy of Oak Port

Nicolas of Eastlooe
Calley of Burdeross Park
The Knight of Glyn
._

Bullock of Shepden Hall
Ilbert of Bowringsleigh
Bernard of Palace Anne
Spens of Lathallan
Mainwaring of Oteley Park
Whitgreave o f Mosley Hall

Ashby of Quenby
Fane of Wormsley

Monck of Coley Park
Ward of Salhouse, &c.

Last week, a young child, left alone in a room on
the third story, in the Rue du Faubourg St. Martin, Paris,
climbed up to the window, fell upon the pavement, and was
killed. On the same day an optician, in the same street,
went out, and on his return found his son, four years old,
rolling on the ground in the most frightful agonies. The
poor child had reached a phial of sulphuric acid, and drunk
its contents. He died very shortly after.
THE DIARY OF A DESENNUYEE.—The tirades
launched against this work, on account of the freedom of its
opinions on Fashionable Society, appear to have had the effect
which was predicted. They have increased the celebrity of
one of the cleverest books that has been produced for a
long period, and, accordingly, a second edition is just pub-
lished, revised by the author, with additions. This is a
book which may be read after Trollope with highly benefi-
cial effect.
A buxom widow at Paris, aged 52, wished to assume
again the delightful chains of matrimony, but her papa and
mama conceiving that she had not yet reached the years of
discretion, opposed the union. The Civil Tribunal was re-
sorted to, and pronounced that the would-be bride was old
enough to choose for herself. An appeal was made by the
parents to the Royal Court, which, a few days since, con-
firmed the judgment of the Tribunal.