The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-27 00:00:00

still it is no answer to the advantage which a tota 1
silence gives to his Grace's opponents—a silence
which, as far as prudence will permit, cannot too soon
be broken. It has been suggested that this object
might be effected through the King's answer to one
or more of the Addresses which are in the course of
presentation, in reference to the present important
crisis. But to these etiquette, we believe, precludes
any answer being given, except to the very few which
his Majesty is bound to receive upon the throne. Mere
etiquette has no great claim to our respect at any time.
At all events, it should not stand in the way of an ob-
ject of so much importance as that of enlightening
the people as to the future policy of the Government,
and that especially on an occasion when the absence of
that information is taken advantage of by its opponents
in the way we are witnessing.—Morning Herald.
It would be idle to tell our readers, after the fashion
of some of our contemporaries, that no Ministry has
yet been formed—that almost all the great offices of
state are in the hands of one man—and that nothing
will be done until Sir R. Peel has returned, which, we
have been informed, will take place on Sunday week.
The present Government, if Government it may be
called, is allowed, even by its most strenuous advocates,
to be merely provisional; and provisional, in every
sense of the word, it will, we doubt not, prove. If we
have not wholly mistaken our man, Sir R. Peel will
see enough in the present state of the country to com-
mand, not only his usual caution in the acceptance of
office, but to deter him from having any thing to do
with it. Long odds have been already offered,
but not accepted, even by those who possess the
greatest confidence in the versatile talents •of the
Right Honourable Baronet ; and we doubt not
that, when our Sunday contemporaries have pour-
ed their broadside of honest and independent fire
into the fragile timbers to which he might have been
inclined to trust the last chances of Toryism, he will
see good reason to allow the bark to drift at the will of
wind and wave, knowing that nothing can bring it into
port except one of those extraordinary visitations which
do some times occur, but which, at the present mo-
ment, there is not the slightest reason to apprehend.
The ground on which the Tories took office, and
hoped to retain it, has, as we stated yesterday, been
cut from under their feet—there is no division among
reformers—there is no disunion—there is no opening by
their differences of opinion upon matters of reform
for Tory intrigue to work additional misrule and
additional mischief—to stop the wheel of reform—or
paralyse the progressive march of public opinion upon
all necessary public reforms. No, not the slightest—
from one end of the kingdom to the other, whether it
be in Scotland or in Ireland—in the manufacturing or
in the agricultural districts—there is but one voice, in

which all other voices are hushed—but one sentiment,
to which all others are subordinate. That voice calls
for the suppression of all the differences of opinion
upon points of reform, whatever may be their excellence
in theory, or their importance in a political point of
view—and that sentiment is union. The Tories see
and feel that sueli is the case, and they are, as well
as an exalted personage, greatly disappointed, if not
mortified, and outrageous against what they term an
invasion of the prerogative of the Crown. Now we
most sincerely respect the prerogative of the Crown, as
a just and proper right bestowed upon it by the
people for their benefit—but we do equally re-
spect the original power from which it sprung,
as well as the right of the people—the mil-
lions against the one—to express their opinion
upon its exercise. The Tories deny that the pre-
rogative has been exercised, because no Ministry has
been formed ; but is it not apparent to all that Lord
Melbourne, not having resigned, or having signified a
wish to resign, either on his own part, or on that of
his colleagues, the body and life of the intended fUture
Ministry is fully shadowed forth in the appointment of
the most staunch and determined anti-Reformer of the
age to fill nearly all the offices of Government, until a
person of similar principles, and equally entitled to
public confidence, has returned to his native land, and
been welcomed with the warm reception which awaits
him ? We throw out this hint for the benefit of a
Magistrate whose intellects, we understand, have been
so clouded by Tory mist, as to prevent him from seeing
that those who confer a right are not unlikely to retain
some rights for themselves, as well as to exercise them ;
and who, if we are rightly informed, will, on the first
mention of prerogative, or dismissal of his Majesty's
Ministers, take up his mace—(not his bed)—and walk
away. A certain popular assembly is, however, pre-
pared, we hope, to act upon the defensive, and to make
known its opinions, whether the mace be present or
absent.—Morning Advertiser.

Bristol has taken a noble step in the cause of pa-
triotism. The promised meeting of its Association for
the Support of the Established Church—that is, for
the maintenance of the Protestant religion in these
realms—was held yesterday, and the resolutions
adopted afford a just specimen of the sentiments which
are strongly felt in every quarter of the country, and
require only such an example to bring them into full
and vigorous action. 'Without an inconvenient delay
of our publication it is impossible for us to present
to-day a detailed report of the proceedings ; but we
cannot for a single day omit to mention that so gene-
rally was the desire felt by the respectable inhabitants
of Bristol and its vicinity to attend the meeting,
that hundreds of applications for tickets were left
unsatisfied. Adopting the usual mode of calcula
tion, it was supposed that the building in which the
meeting was appointed to be held would contain
about 1,500 persons ; but so immense and urgent
were the solicitations for admission that a fresh ar-
rangement was devised, and with the exercise of much
ingenuity accommodation was contrived for 2,000.
These facts speak volumes. But the resolutions
which were passed are still more decisive. They ap-
pear in another column ; and we hope every one who
reads them—and that will be a great majority of the
people of the United Kingdom—will contrast the
ardent, generous, and devoted zeal and loyalty which
they embody with the low discontent, anti-religious
rancour, and base self-I:literested trickery, which
pervade the attempts of the enemies of religion to
overthrow the Established . Church. They contain
no one sentiment that is not based upon truth,
wisdom, and virtue ; nor one but what is expressed
with that manly and fervid eloquence, which the high
importance and pressing nature of the subject demands.
But again we refer our readers to the resolutions them-
selves. They will speak better their own lofty merits
than any language we can hope to employ. Considered
in itself this meeting is of great importance, but its
value is doubled when we regard it as an example to
the rest of the country. It conveys a powerful ex-
pression of the spirit of the great mass of the intellect
and respectability of the second city in the kingdom ;
and presents it in such a way as must produce in every
grade of society, from the Prince to the peasant,
wherever loyalty and religion have existence, the high-
est gratification and the warmest sympathy.—Morning
Post.

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Mr. Littleton has by this time quitted Ireland,
never to return—a circumstance which no human being
can possibly regret ; no, not even the Right Hon.
Gentleman himself. No man can continue to like an
office, his incapacity for which every day and every
hour must proclaim, not only to others but to himself.
The state of Ireland tells a dreadful story of misrule
and mismanagement, and we hear that the state of Mr.
Littleton's office affords an equally striking exhibition
of idleness, incompetency, and inattention. A more
difficult or important situation, in times like the pre-
sent, does not exist than the Irish Secretaryship. Who-
ever accepts it will have an arduous task to perform.
He must be clear in head, brave in heart, and firm in
principle ; and yet, all this being requisite, we think
there is as little difficulty in pointing out who is the
fittest man to fill it in the new Government as there
was in deciding who. was the worst qualified for it in
the old one.—Morning Post.
The Lord Mayor has been pleased to reject the
prayer ,^f the
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requisition presented to him by a depu-
,!immo n a Common Hall, for con-
tation of citizens
to be adopted in
sidering the measures which ,7v a fair
the present situation of the country. ~A_
and reasonable cause has been ruined by indiscreet
supporters,
,and as we have not time to mince our
phraseology, we must be excused for saying that his
Lordship's act is that of a shortsighted simpleton.
Without affecting to argue the constitutional right of