The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-26 00:00:00

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WITH WHICH
THE 4, TRUE SUN" IS NOW

INCORPORATED.

LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1838.

Since the Ministers have been in town they have
held several Cabinet Councils, and appear to have
been very diligent in preparing their plans for the en-
suing Parliamentary campaign. The Tories have not
yet come to London, but whenever they arrive they
will no doubt hold their Cabinet meetings, and form
their plans to counteract and turn out their rivals.
But besides the Ministers and the Tories, there is,
we regret the division, a third party, composed of
Liberals and Radicals, who stand aloof from the Mi-
nisters, who, they think, by their declarations at the
commencement of last Session, and by their opposition
to the Ballot, have suddenly stopped short in their
career of Reform. This third party or section of the
Liberals is growing in influence and strength, and it adds
very considerably to its present importance, that on it
the Ministers must in many cases rely for their Par-
liamentary majority. On this party the country at
large mainly depends to urge the Ministers forward in
a liberal course, and to rally continually the great masses
of the population round the banner of Reform which
is never again to be struck.

At the beginning of last Session of Parliament it
was a general complaint that the chiefs of this party
took no measures to form a combined plan of opera-
tions, and to organize public opinion in favour of some
definite and certain measures. They were advised to
do so, but they neglected the advice, and the consequence
was that the Ministers hotly pressed by the Tories ir.
every part of the country, and only feebly and ineffi-
ciently supported by the disjointed Liberals, and a
wavering public opinion, found in those circumstances
a sort of justification of their unpopular and inauspi-
cious declarations, and of not boldly pursuing those
principles and plans of Reform to carry out which they
had been placed in office. The strength of the Libe-
ral party was fretted away by its own friction, and the
public good was in a manner sacrificed by the want of
energy and combination in our leaders. A repetition
of such proceedings will be fatal—the country will
look on the Liberals generally as impracticable
politicians, and they will sink into insignificance
and obscurity. To avoid that we venture to
call their attention at once and in good time to
the necessity of immediately forming a plan of opera-
tions, which will make them formidable to both the
other parties, and insure for them public support.
They must begin, we think, by imitating the Mini-
sters and the Tories. They must hold Cabinet Coun-
cils, and meet at their Clubs. To such meetings some
of all classes and ranks should be invited. If Lord
DURHAM, when he returns, or Lord BROUGHAM,
who is with us, should wish to be present, his com-
pany should be regarded as acceptable. The Member
for all Ireland should of course there expose his plans
for his country, and the Members for the metropolis,
nearly all of whom are Liberals, should explain what
will serve, and may hope for support from, the fifteenth
part of the empire which they represent. Such leading
and trusted men as Messrs. HUME and WARBURTON
should not be absent, and there are many influential
persons, not Members of Parliament, who ought to be
consulted. At present the Editors of Newspapers ex-
ercise no inconsiderable influence over public opinion,
and it would be wise to enlist their sympathies in
favour of any plan to be adopted, by previously con-
sulting some of them, both metropolitan and pro-
vincial. Moreover, such men as Mr. LOVETT and
Mr. HETHERINGTON, and other moderate and in-
fluential leaders of the Chartists, should not be ex-
cluded ; but their opinion should be consulted as to
the best means for uniting the bulk of the people they
influence, and the leading Members of the Liberal party
in attaining one common object. Such a meeting, or some
such meetings might possibly lead to an organisation of the
whole Liberal party, so as to unite their exertions and
secure immediate practical Reforms, while they ensured
hereafter those more comprehensive Reforms which
far-seeing men know are indispensable to the public

safety.
The first object to be sought is a plan of operations.
The first question to. be answered is, what ought the
Liberals first to seek ? One will answer, the Ballot ;
another, the abolition of Church-rates; a third, the
abolition of the Corn-laws ; a fourth, Universal Suf-
frage; a fifth, the abolition of the House of Peers;
and so on. But all these objects—admitting them all
to be good—cannot be obtained at once ; and surely
it is absurd in the Members of the Liberal party, who
perhaps agree in thinking that they all ought to be ac-
complished, to quarrel about - which should first be
achieved, and so postpone the whole indefinitely. Let
them, then, select which of all the measures they advocate
they will first lend their exertions to promote. Let
them choose that which is most likely to be successful ;
let them ascertain which of all these projects have the
1...,...,....,`-lt-i-r.k. most supporters ; and let them, whether it be the Ballot
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