The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

having insinuated its doubts of the adherence of the
Liberals to the Reform cause, upon the ground
that one section is inclined to vote upon particular
questions in one way, and one in another—noticing
the repeal of the Union, and the anxiety of a foolish
portion of Radicals to let the Tories in, in order that
they may drive them out again, with a few other
things of the same kind equally threatening to the
cause of progressive Reform, an invocatory of the tri-
umph of Conservatism—what do our readers think is
the conclusion of the writer in the Times p Why, that
notwithstanding the alleged mutiny in the crew of the
good ship " Reform"—notwithstanding the desertions
which are expected to take place—the shoals and the
quicksands which she must encounter in traversing. the
occaa of political strife—the headlands, the reefs, and
the breakers which she has to weather, there will
after all be no shipwreck into
port, ;—the vessel will get nto
port, and clear every storm and danger by which she
may La assailed. "'They are reckless adventurers,
tl.ese Whigs (says it) and offer lavish bounties to
recruit their numbers ; but nobody enlists with them,
and their old muster.
u roll no margin
If they are saved—and not positivelyfor pronouncecasualties.
that they will be wrecked—they ought to build a
temple to Fortune, or rather Luck, and send public
principle to a treadmill or an union workhouse.' Most
lame and truculent conclusion ! Reckless " adven-
turers," and yet cannot be beaten ! Verily, this is a
hard case. They must have some mittle in them to
get over all their alleged difficulties, and not be ship-
wrecked, as the Tories were a few years ago upon the
third onslaught of the Liberals. " Buccaniers" they
may be, as some of the Tory journals denominate
them ; but their courage is evidently of that in-
domitable cast which even their opponents must re-
spect. The Post, in a strain becoming the exalted
position of Lady's Maid, is more flippant, as well as
more rancorous and more certain that her supporters
are perfectly right, and that any one questioning her
supreme gentility, or her certainty of conquest, must
be out of their senses ; but, poor girl, she foi*ets
that the rose has faded, and that artificial
blushes must paint its leaves and petals. With
rep: d to the Standard, we scarcely know how to
characterise its misty ingredients of action. Its con-
tents look very like the play of " She would and she
would not"—enacted since the days of Adam and Eve ;
—and, on the other hand, its warfare reminds us strongly
of the attack apon Acre by Commodore Napier, who
buried his opponents in so dense a smoke by his inces-
sant fire, that having taken a false aim at first, they
never could take a true one afterwards. It does not
like Lord E!lcnborough and his policy—it hates him as
a Prime Minister in posse—it denounces others in the
same vein—it does not like Wliiggism—and yet after
all it says that the present Government is the best I
We might proceed farther thus, but it is needless.
No change of Ministry is contemplated. The most san-
guine Tories do not dream of it. Tile external policy
of the Government is approved by every Conservative
in the country ; and, with regard to domestic concerns,
there is no fair question which the Opposition could
propose, except a revision of the Corn-laws, which they
will neither propose nor accede to. So mach for a change
of Ministry I At the same time we warn the Reformers
that no remissness nor disunion characterises their Con-
servative adversaries. They have not the work of pre-
paration to begin—it is, on the contrary, all but com-
pleted, as the former will find to their cost whenever the
campaign shall have fairly commenced, unless they bestir
themselves without a moment's longer delay. Are the
Liberals aware of the importance of the stake which has
to be played for? Are they alive to the fact that the
struggle will not now be as it was a few years ago, for a
temporary, say a few months', occupation of office ? Then
there was no chance of the Tories retaining power, even
had they succeeded in capturing Downing-street. Tbeease
is altered now. If they succeed, as they did in 1835, in
displacing the Melbourne Ministry, and only contrive to
retain office for three or four months, their tenure of it
may be prolonged to an indefinite period. Let no
Liberal deceive himself by imagining, that because we
hear less at present than we were wont to do at this
season of the year of Tory dinners and Tory demonstra-
tions, the Tories are indifferent or inactive ; on the con-
trary, the very fact of our hearing of no such dinners,
and witnessing no such demonstrations, is one of the
most ominous indications of what we may expect from
Tory opposition to Ministers and Liberalism in the
coming Session. The more silently they are working,
the more formidable will be the character of their pre-
parations for the conflict. They are working silently
and invisibly now, because they have discovered the
error of their former policy in making a flourish of trum-
pets before they were fully equipped for the battle, and
by that means stirring up the Liberals to prepare to
meet them. We are aware that they can and will be
beaten—but as " the quarter of an hour beforehand"
was the means, according to his statement of gaining
all his battles, so we say to the Liberals be up and
ready for the contest.

(From the Globe.)
We have seen a gentleman who has arrived from the

scene of election excitement at Walsall, where he has
been actively engaged concerning the election through-
out the past week, and we are happy to have his
assurance that there is a most reasonable prospect of
defeating Mr. Gladstone under all the disadvan-
tages of the recent change of candidates, &c. It is
represented to us that a section of the more moderate
portion of the Liberal electors demur against rallying
round Mr. Smith, in consequence of the proceeding
of the Anti• Corn-law League towards Mr. Lyttelton.
Whatever opinions may be held regarding the pro-
ceeding referred to, now that Mr. Lyttelton is out of
the field, it would be madness in any Reformer to suffer
his personal displeasure with the League to promote
the election of Mr. Gladstone. We are told that Mr.
Smith commands support which had been denied to
Mr. Lyttelton. If this be true, the particular friends
of the latter gentleman, have only to add their support
also to obtain for the present Liberal candidate a greater
amount of aid against Gladstone than they could have
brought against him under their original candidate.
The election is too important to be frittered away by
differences concerning the past. Let by-gones be by-
gones, we would say to our friends, and unite heart and
s,ul to prevent the return of another vote for Lord
Stanley's Disfranchisement Bill. Although we may
not fully coincide with Mr. Smith's opinions upon all
points, we are well convinced that he is upon the whole
a goal Reformer, and one who, from his station, talents,
and pursuits, is well suited to the representation of a
manufacturing borough like Walsall.

(From the Standard )
Who are the members of the Conservative demo-
cracy ? Orangemen ? Doubtless, for they are men of
tried faith, loyalty, and patriotism. Persons who at-
tend Exeter Hall meetings ? Doubtless, again, for they
are generally zealous Christians ; but the Conservative
democracy comprehends more than these—it compre-
hends all who value the blessings of the British consti-
tution in Church and State, and who will defend these
blessings and transmit them unimpaired to pos-
terity. Ali who will maintain existing institu-
tions as necessary to the constitution in Church and
Sate, who will maintain existing interests as neces-
sary to justice. These are the Conservative de
mocracy, and we will tell the Globe where to find them.
It might be too much to ask a Whig-Radical to attend
Conservative meetings, still harder to invite Lim to our
crowded churches ; but no objection can be offered to
an invitation to the hustings. A majority of the repre-
sentatives of Great Britain are Conservatives, Conser-
vatives returned by reformed constituencies. By whom
are they returned ? By the Conservative democracy,
End by the Conservatise democracy alone acting upon
its own independent principles. At elections
we now hear nothing from Conservative candi-
dates of this party or the other party, of
this statesman or the other statesman. No, we
hear professions of attachment to the constitution in
Church and State, of promises to maintain all men in
their rights ; and in proportion as these professions and
promises are strong, unequivocal,, and held to be trust-
worthy, is the success of the candidate. True, proles-
sions and promises made at the hustings have not
been always respected in the House of Commons, but
tile fault here lies with the traitor, not with the be-
trayed, unless we bestow confidence a second time
upon the unworthy. Tiae next general election, how-
evc r, we suspect, will acquit the Conservative democracy
of such trafficking with treason.

(From the Courier.)
The Walsall election is a cup of bitterness overflow•
ing far the Chronicle. Its friends of the Anti-Corn.
law League, worked up to desperation by Chronicle Anti

Corn-la; articles, and excited by
naeiotoicsie applause of
the lucky hit, entered into a solemn
v
some time
since, it; run their own particular cattle covenant soma
e
rough in the event of a general election, or wehryer boo- a
' casuai vacancy should occur, unless the windycoursers
who should chance to start in the Whig interestwould
enter into pledges, too stringent for backsliding, go
to
in Anti-Corn-law harness, and :with despera-
tion so reckless, as, in case of Whig recusancy,
to help to upset the Ministerial omnibus. The va-
cancy for Walsall is, we believe, the first open field
presented to the leaguers for the trial of the covenant,
and the Hon. Mr. Lyttelton having announced himself
a candidate on the Whig, with Mr. J. N. Gladstone on
the Conservative side, a trio of Anti-Corn-law
trampers was despatched from Manchester to catechise
Lath, and to save the good people of the borough the
troubla of thinking and deciding for themselves by
taking k'Tg the nomination into their own hands exclu-
Y.
T‘hc,
.test was first put to the juvenile represen-
tative of v niggery, who, with something of a disposi-
tion to stretch a point, could strain conscience no fur-
ther than a
the Corn-laws;
to " vote for an inquiry into
a promise, of course, not at all
to the satisfaction
who would hang first
Lyttelton got his your c; gi; the whole hog" men,
and try the case after. So Mr.
much more despatc'httchargei
his entrance. fjP", Which
furious
sd
amndadferohthisy evwxiittuw::
the
the chronicle waxed tall"
League as if itself non-cognizant and non-approver or
the covenant beforehand ;prooflogic in effect being, as
seen now when put to the
Qt;sthat the Corn-law ques-
tion—that question of questi at question of life
and death is its eternal veri),;a""
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