The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, .SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1834

promising a prelude. If ..the Tories were teachable,
this would be a lesson to them to stick to their holes
and corners. As long as they work under ground
with the moles, or flit about in the twilight among the
bats, they may escape exposure. But when they
venture into daylight, detection and mortification is
their inevitable fate. We hope they will take in good
part what we have now said.

We are not of the number of those who would in-
dulge a barbarous triumph over blighted hopes .and
ruined prospects. We would not insult distress by
affected commiseration, nor aggravate remorse by
awakening unavailing regrets. On the contrary, were
it in our power, we would administer comfort even to
the Tories ; arid, in this spirit, we beg to assure them,
(may the assurance prove consolatory,) that bad as their
condition is, it is
.not yet at the worst.

The French Papers of Thursday have been all re-
ceived. On Monday night, his Excellency Prince
TALL EYRAND fell suddenly ill, and great doubts are
entertained of his recovery. The Prince has been in
a declining state for several months past ; and though
a short interval of repose from the fatigues attendant
on official life was prescribed by his Physicians, as a
means of recovering his health, it is now generally be-
lieved that " his glass is run." The Prince will be
succeeded as Ambassador at this Court, by the Duke
de BROGLIE, unless something happen to overturn
the Thiers Administration. These Journals contain
no other domestic intelligence of any importance. On
Thursday, being Christmas Day, there was no busi-
ness transacted on the Bourse, and the Legislative
Chambers had adjourned their sittings over that day.
We shall not have any full account of the Christmas
festivities in Paris before Monday.
There are no accounts worth notice from the North
of Spain.

We have just received a copy of a small pamphlet
published by RIDGWAY, and entitled " The Peers or
the People ?" which, in the most manly and energetic
terms, calls upon the Electors throughout:the kingdom
to do their duty in the great struggle that is approach-
ing. The writer well observes, that in the event of
the Tories triumphing at the elections, " they will soon
exert it to rob you of the very essence of that measure
for which you so gloriously fought and conquered two
years ago. There will be no direct attempt to repeal
the great charter of your rights. Your enemies are
too crafty to aim at their object by so blundering a
stroke as that. But mark me. Before two Sessions
pass, the 101. freeholders will be disfranchised."

NATIONAL BANK OF IRELAND.

We observe with satisfaction the progress the Na-
tional Bank of Ireland is making in that country,
convinced as we have always been that a proper sys-
tem of banking is intimately connected with the real
progress of industry and civilization. It is acknow-
ledged that the Provincial Bank has done much for
Ireland, as well as having proved profitable to its pro-
prietors ; but as Mr. Roe (the intelligent member for
Cashel) well observes, the resources of banking in
Ireland are on so limited a system of policy, as not to
be sufficient for the smallest barony in it. 'We refer
our readers to the proceedings at Tipperary in another
column.