The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-05 00:00:00

horn till the setting in of better weather enables them to
receive considerable reinforcements.
AUCSBURG, itctt 29.—We do not find, in thy.
Prussian State Gazette, any news from Poland. The
Journal of Maude and Speller has, among other accounts
from the Poli-h frontiers, the following art;cle:—" Oar
accounts from Warsaw ate to the 21st March, and, as
might be expected, contain no news of military events.
It may easily be supposed that the present state of tran-
quillity in Warsaw is made use of to spread all kinds of
reports unfavourable to the Russians. Sometimes diseases
prevail in the Russian army, sometimes it is obliged to re-
treat at all points, and sometimes it is going to entrench
itself in Brzesc-Litewski, &c. The superior officers', how
ever, seem to have other information, as they are taking
all possible measures which indicate an expected attack on
Warsaw itself."

The account of the grand entertainment given
yesterday by the LORD MAYOR to his Royal High-
ness the Duke of SUSSEX, and his MAJESTY'S Mi-
nisters, will be perused with feelings of pride and
satisfaction by all the advocates of the Ministeial
Reform Bill. They will there see that tie declara-
tions of Government on the subject tee decided
and explicit. The measure has the full and perfect
approbation of his MAJESTY, who is as cordially dis-
posed towards it as the staunchest Reformer could
desire, and who, above all, places the most un-
bounded and unflinching confidence in his minis-
terial advisers. On this last point the observe-
tions of Lord BROUGHAM are full of encouragement.
" Tnete was one thing which was to him a source of
great consolation ; and it was this—that he and his
colleagues continued to enjoy the confidence, the
steady and unflinching confidence and support, of a
moat gracious Master.—(Loud cheers.)—This he
knew. He believed, also, that they possessed the
confidence of the people of this country.—(Reite-
rated cheers.)—He had then no anxiety—no fears;
and he could assure them whom he had the honour
to address, that the Ministers who were so backed,
accepted, and so supported, would do their duty
faithfully to that gracious SOVEREIGN and that
people.—(Continued cheering.)"

It gives us pleasure to be able to state that the
Reform Candidate (Mr. MAvEtEw), at the pending
Colchester election, has already obtained an almost
overwhelming majority of votes over his opponent,
Sir W. CURTIS, though the latter is backed by great
wealth, great connection, and immense city influence.

At the County Anti-Reform Meeting held on
Tuesday last at Elgin, a Major CummlNG, in refe-
rence to the discussion of the Reform question by
the Pre,e, thought tit to say;--" I cannot refrain

from alluding to the tone lately assumed in its
advocacy of the proposed measure by the Press,
even at our doors. This tone has in wany other
places long been one of threat and intimidation
against those who are conscientiously opposed to
it. It is not, Sir, that I value such threats at

a pin's point. Those anonymous blusterers who

figure in the columns of The Sun, and the Times,
and the Chronicle, are in general far too cowardly

:o venture on the execution of the wickedness which

they do not hesitate to recommend. I only notice
them as illustrative of the tendency to violence and
convulsion, which those who use them instinctively
feel to be inherent in the measure itself !" To this.
charge
.we reply, that 'so' far from having ever
held out threats or intimidation against those
who, conscientiously or otherwise, are opposed to
Reform, we have always made a point of avoiding
any thing of the sort. We desire not to persuade
by bluster, but by reason. True, we have warned,
and that in direct terms, the anti-reformers, of the
mischief they would infallibly entail upon the country
and themselves, should they succeed in their frantic
attempt to oppose or thwart the great Question,
from which the people will not suffer their at-
tention for an instant to be diverted, even by
the long speech of Major CUMMING; true, we
have warned the self-interested boroughmongers
to forbear all further thoughts of opposition, least
they might rouse the spirit of the people, pull down
the pillars of the Constitution, and bury themselves
and all their dependants beneath the ruins : true,
we have put forth these warnings; but why ? in the
hope that they might be the means of averting
bloodshed, anarchy, and revolution. Major Cum-
RING, however,—who, from the tenour of his rc-
marks, would seem to have no very definite notion
of the force and meaning of the English language; to
be, in short, but a very military orator—clearly con-
founds the word " intimidation" with that of" %lam-
ing." To warn, he thinks,is to intimidate, whereas no
two meanings were ever more distinct—evir more in
contradiction to each other. To warn, is the part ofa
friend—to intimidate, that ofa bully. We warned the
boroughmongers of the evils they were likely to en-
tail on themselves by persevering in their unconstitu-
tional hostility to Reform, in a spirit of the most
perfect amity ; nothing was ever further from our
thoughts than :ray attempt to intimidate, though,
had we even ventured so far, we should not
have been altogether without our justification.
We have but one word to add. Whe►► next Major
CUMMING puts forth charges against the Press,
we hope he will study his terms well, and show a
better and more extensive acquaintance with the
English Dictionary, than on this occasio❑ ire appears
to have shown. Surely it is as e:1:y to excommuni-
cate in an orthographical spirit, as to confound words
and meanings at every sentence of one's fulmination.
With respect to the charge of cowardice, it is really
so far, so very far beneath contempt, that we stud
not condescend to reply to it.

We fear Major Ct-mmING, despite his oratoiy,
will have little chance of figuring in a Reformed
Parliament.

EDUCATION !—A tutor charged his pupil
yest A-day, in College street Office, with having assaulted
him. The pupil in his defence stated that the tutor had
swindled him out of 175/. at backgammon ! The magis-
trate dismissed the complaint of the tutor.—Dublin Paper.
HERNE BAY PIER.-The great and attrac-
tive undertaking of constructing a hob lc pier, to extend
3,000 feet over the sands and sea, is immediately to be
commenced, an Act of Parliament having been obtained
for incorporating a Company for this purpose, with a
capital of 50,0001. This fine bay abuts directly on the
open sea, and is situated four miles on the western or
London side of the Reculver.4, and within seven milts of
Canterbury, between which city and the bay new turn-
pike roads have been made. The town is admirably situ-
ated, surrounded by beautiful country ; the shore is free
from weeds and mud, and the sands extend nearly half a
mile into the sea, inunedia'cly fronting the town.

THE INDICTMENT AGAINST COBBETT.-
The indictment. apinst COBBETT, to which he has given
bail, will come on during the approaching Old Bailey
Sessions. It was thought that he would have removed it
by a writ of certiorari into the Court of King'. Bench ;
that not having been the case, it will he tried before the
RECORDER and one of the Judges, in the Old Court, prc-
bahly during the present week.