The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-04 00:00:00

thinned ranks, nay, of empty benches, when, even
without contemplating a division, it was most im-
portant to show a strong attendance and hearty con-
, currence on the part of the body whose sentiments
the Right Hon. Baronet was understood to speak, and
which but for him would have found no efficient pro-
tector. If the bulk of the Conservatives had mani-
' fested any proper degree of gratitude or justieer..if
they had been influenced steadily by a feeling of manly,
or generous pride, they would have scorned to owe
their safety to an individual who had nothing to gain
from the services he rendered them, -without at least
resolving to make the only return in their power, by
zealously fulfilling their own subordinate and far less
obnoxious duty—that merely of being present with
their acknowledged chief, when he combats for them,
acting under his guidance, and attesting their sense of
the powerful and indefatigable exertions by which he
upholds their cause. It is a matter of notoriety that
' Sir R. Peel has never been very cordially supported by
some of the more lordly aristocrats of England, be-
cause he is a novus homo—because he has sprung
more directly from the people than themselves—as im-
, mediately, for instance, as the greater number of
their ancestors did in the last or the preceding century;
'and that the sting which vexes them is the more se-
vere by reason of the Right Hon. Baronet's possessing
in an eminent degree the great feature of that rival aris-
tocracy of which the thing called "birth" is naturally,
but meanly and absurdly, jealous—viz., the aristocracy
of wealth. If Sir Robert Peel was a poor man, as
was Mr. Fox, who, besides being very poor, was with-
in one generation of positive plebeianism, he too might
escape the jealousy of high-born but low-minded fools,
and have nothing to complain of in the shape of \cold,
sullen, or fitful service, from those whose battle he
was bravely fighting. But Sir R. Peel is not less by
fortune than by character among the most independent
men in England. He can be no more bribed than
trampled on. He cannot be flattered into a separation
of himself from the vast body of the people of Eng-
land. He has declared that he will not wear a coronet
—that he will not suffer to be effaced from, his brow
the manly record, that he has been the artisan of his
own high political station—and that the sole external
'facility to his ascent has been provided for him by. the
sagacity and probity of a parent. Now, the Conser-
vatives, young and old, who sit in Parliament, are
bound to consider that Sir Robert Peel can do ex-
tremely well without their assistance ; but that with-
out him they can do nothing for themselves. We,
therefore, once more appeal to their discretion and self-
love, even more earnestly than to their sense of obliga-
tion and honour, conjuring them to recollect that their
own future welfare as a class of the community, no less
than as a party in the State, depends on the success
of his Parliamentary measurss throughout the ap-
proaching session ; of which success a necessary ele-
ment must be their strict and business-like attendance;
nor must this attendance be confined to the first day,
or week, or month, of the Session of Parliament. If.
the fine gentlemen Conservatives want a real distinc-
tion, which shall in their own eyes be respectable, they
must evince tenacity as well as courage. They must
never absent themselves without leave, until the King
prorogues-them. Are the sportsmen among our Con-
servatives to be reminded that bottom is the highest at-
tribute of blood ? It may be looked upon as a harsh
policy to enforce many calls of the House, and some-
what ungracious to recommend it ; but, if nothing else
will do,' it is our anxious desire that the skulkers and
shirkers of the Conservative corps may be brought into
the ranks by that ultima ratio, an overhanging :order
for a call of, the House ; and let' those who don't relish
it resign their seats, that the people may have effective
Representatives, and the Monarchy be no longer •
trusting to frail and rotten timbers. It is the more
urgent that such considerations should take effect in-
stanter, because many of the patrician or semi-patri-
cian Members are even now, within five weeks of the '
meeting of Parliament, in the remotest parts of Europe,
nor must the ,object be permitted to sleep.—Times.

If a Ministerial
Henry Bethune, a British officer, who has
guished himself in supporting the British interests in
Persia, was ordered to leave Kalisch during the late
reviews by a peremptory mandate,of the Russian Au-
tocrat, it affords another instance in addition to the
'many already given of the intense and undisguised
hatred the Czar entertains towards the British name,
and the contempt which he feels for the Govern-
ment of Great Britain. The immediate cause of the
expulsion of the distinguished Englishman is thus
stated :—" The Emperor observed him speaking to
some Persian troops in their own language, and is-
sued his mandate that he should leave the town at
six o'clock the next morning." The manner of enfor-
cing that insolent order is thus described :—" Per-
sons were. sent to the house where he slept‘ before
the appointed hour to assist him.in making the neces-
sary preparations, and to see him set off. We wonder
that instead of " assisting him to set off," they
did not take him 9,tfas unceremoniously as possible to a
Russian fortress, or to the mines of Siberia—he being
convicted of two great crimes by our magnanimous
Russian " ally"—one that he was an Englishman who.
had served the interests of his own country.in a foreign
land—the other, that he, not being a Russianized
Englishman, had dared to speak in their own language
to some Persian soldiers. These were certainly two
unforgivable offences in the eyes of the destroyer of
Poland—the " Protector" of Turkey and the subju-
gator of Persia I We- suppose the Persian soldiers
were natives of that portion of the Persian dominions
which has been incorporated with the Russian terri-
tories to enjoy the blessings :of the paternal government
whose reign of terror and artillery has lately been
thundered forth to the world in a " voice from War-
saw." It is, we believe, very certain that during the
recent civil war in Persia, consequent upOn the death
of the late Shah, the Russian influence would have
taken the lead, as it has done in Turkey, to the prejudice
of England, if it had not been for the prompt, skilful, and
successful exertions of Sir Henry Bethune to maintain
the influence of his own country. The plan of the Au-
tocrat was to take the Government of Persia, like that
of Turkey, under his exclusive protection. If the lawful
heir .to the Crown had been left entirely dependent
upon Russian assistance against his rivals, as the
Sultan was, the object of Russia would have been
secured, and British connection and influence in Persia
would have been utterly extinguished. Who can
wonder that the Englishman who acted in such a
manner as to defeat that plot, has incurred the bitter
hostility of the Muscovite tyrant ? Nicholas can,
when he pleases, control the natural savageness of his
disposition, and lavish hollow courtesies and treacher-
ous civilities upon Englishmen, who, like Lord Dur-
ham,
or Lord Palmerston, think it a high honour to
receive the deceitful :smiles of the Imperial Barbarian,
but he cannot disguise the real sentiments of hatred
which he entertains to all Englishmen who are the
steady, determined, and uncompromising supporters of
their country's interests. Englishmen whom his subtle
arts cannot cajole to his purposes, are sure, if they
come in his way, to suffer from his vindictive inso-
solence.—Morning Herald.

stating that Sir

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We cannot too often impress upon the public mind
the triumph which Reform has achieved in the results
of the municipal elections. As far as the returns can

at present be estimated the grand total of Town Colin-
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cillors may be divided as follows :

Reformers
Tories .....

1445
453

Glorious majority... 992
This proves at a glance the stability of the Ministry,
and the fraud, folly, and falsehood of those who would
delude themselves, and others, with the absurd infa-
tuation that a reaction had taken place in favour of
Conservatism. The Tories have fallen into what may
be called a galloping consumption, and it is a charac-
teristic of that malady to entertain illusory hopes,
and fancy recovery at hand eves at the moment
of dissolution. In the election of their Councillors
the great body of the British nation has signed the
death-warrant of the marauding faction. Not only
will the consequence be felt in the event of an' elec-
tion, but the calm decision with which this veidiet has
been pronounced will exercise a predominant in-
fluence, as well on the feelings of the Court as on the
votes of the 'present House of Commons itself. The
spurious and hypocritical Reform Members, who cal-
culate with fastidious precision how little they may
yield to liberalism, without forfeiture of their seats,