The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-25 00:00:00

pockets, Atheists, and bludgeon-men, led on by sedi-
tious knaves ? Nay, not so ! but good and loyal citizens
dragged from their business by a great necessity, and
excited into action by the most crying law of nature—
the law of ,elf-preservation ! having for leaders such
men as Mr. "Merchant" CRAWFORD, Mr. " Banker"
GROTE, Mr. " Ship-owner" CLAY, and other " re-
spectable" abettors. Yes—crisis or no crisis—such
men have at last been brought to see the expediency of
forsaking for a season the quiet of their counting-houses,
and of actively intermingling among, and making com-
mon cause, with the people to force from the KING'S
councils the mob of Tories that now seek to wiisper
treason against the people to the Royal ear.
Yes, face to face they met, but not a blow was
struck ; this was a species of rabble for which the To-
ries were not at all prepared, for he had been a bold
man among them who durst say that the honour, or in-
dependence, or property of the citizens of London
was not in safe keeping when represented by the dis-
concerted Triad just named. The Tory leaders, we
are sure, in their deepest fit of political hostility, would
never countenance a doubt of it ; they knew that these
were not the men to give blows, or to whom blows were
to be offered. Their hopesfell still-born to the ground—
not " a row" took place.
A few broken heads, or half a dozen black eyes,
judiciously distributed among the " Constitutionalists,"
would have been worth to them and their cause a
goodly price indeed ; nothing could have better exhi-
bited the rabble rout of the Liberals. But the Libe-
rals, inoculated with a little of the Tory virus-cunning,
saw that a slice of ruffianism was requested at their
hands, in order to martyrdise the Tory cause. The
hint corresponded neither with their habits nor their
intentions, and therefore was not understood. Words,
not blows, are the respectable weapons with which
Liberals propose to achieve their triumph ; none other
must be used.

We trust that the people will be warned of the
shallow tricks that form a part of Tory warfare, For
instance ; the same paper that gave this P;:ntle hint,
insinuated also another, less broad Ir.::naps, but equally
forcible. " Nothing," it u ays, "we state frankly
would be to us 102, surprising than that the anti-
Royalists whq threaten to intrude upon this day's
meeting 'L'itould mean to employ the weapons of cla-
mour, violence, and, very possibly, even personal out-
rage, rather than permit an assembly of which wealth,
intelligence, and character, &c." We need not quote
the rest. The sly rogue !—how much is wrapped up
in this little sentence. 'With what frankness (these
are the times of frankness, " 'We thank thee, Jew, for that
word") he points out the very weapons, which it might
not have occurred to the dull brains of the Liberals, were
best to be employed. With what true womanly shrewd
ness are the decried means particularised, lest wits not
equally sharp should fail to suggest them ! AN TI-
ItOYA LISTS, too; what a glorious revival! how animat-
ed are the scenes which spring up freshly to the imagi-
nation at that name ;—insurgents, rebel forces, King's
troopers' skirmishes, all in fine meMe. And that is to
be the cry is it ? Anti-rogalists ! Can the people
be so addled as to pervert or misunderstand the inten-
tion of this revived epithet ? No, no, most Loyal
Thunderer, it will not do the device was shrewd, but
it will not answer, be. assured. The people will not
fight ; there is no occasion for it at all ! It will be
quite sufficient to talk the Tories down.

The retirement of Mr. WILLIAM BROUGHAM
from the representation of the borough of Southwark,
has, sve are happy to find, led to the invitation of Mr.
D. W. HARVEY, by a large and influential deputa-
tion of the electors, to offer himself a candidate for a
seat for that constituency in the ensuing Parliament.
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I' regretting, as we do, the retirement of such a
tried reformer as Mr. BROUGHAM, it is no common
cause of gratulation to us to see his seat, in the re-
formed House of Commons, likely to be occupied by
so able, so intelligent, and in every respect so stsr-
thy a successor. Mr. HARVEY'S principles are
well known. He is a bold, uncompromising, out-
and-out radical Reformer, with a proper respect for
the Institutions, and a veneration for the Constitution
of the country. His fearless exposure of the tricks
of the Tories, with respect to the noble Pauper List,
and his avowed determination to support the reform of
the municipal Corporations throughout the kingdom,
have leagued against him the Conservatives of Col-
chester, from the representation of which he now retires,
rather than contest his re-election with a party ready
to resort to the grossest bribery and corruption for the
Purpose of unseating him. We confess lye shall not
regret the ingratitude of the electors of Colchester,
if it lead to the return of Mr. D W. HARVEY for
one of the metropolitan boroughs. We have been
long of opinion, that Reform suffered greatly from
many of the ablest advocates of liberal principles, being,
it were, partially lost to the country, by representing
obscure boroughs in Parliament, instead of being at the
head of large. intelligent constituencies. For this rea-
Son we deem it very fortunate that Mr. HAR-
VEY is about to be returned by the elec-
tors of- Southwark as their Representative. He
is an active business man, intimately acquainted
with all the great questions which interest
a metropolitan, constituency, and just the person to
stand boldly and firmly at their head, in case of any
great unforeseen emergency. As an able lawyer, he is
intima.iely acquainted with those reforms which are
nee' zsary to the sound constitution of our courts
O justice, and which were advocated by Lord
IinoUGHASI during his Chancellorship. That he
may be able with every facility to attend to his
new constituents, Mr. HARVEY has taken up his
residence among them, where he will be found on
the spot, ready to consult them, and be consulted
by them on all occasions. This was wisely
determined ; for we do not entertain the least
doubt of the certainty of his being elected. Of the
value of such an acquisition to the Reformers of the.
Metropolis, as the services of Mr. HARVEY, we should
say more, were it not, in a great measure, counterba-
lanced by the unexpected and lamented retirement of
Mr. WILLIAM BROUGHAM.

It will be seen by the list of those who have been
returned for the several City Wards, that the Tory
party has nothing like the strength or influence that
was imagined, in the City. More than two-thirds
of the newly elected Common Councilmen are Re-
formers, though it was confidently predicted it would
have been otherwise.

We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday, in
Which we find several long and able comments on Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S address to the constituency of Tam-
Worth. The French journalists are almost wholly
agreed that a Tory Cabinet cannot stand—even the
minister:alists do not hesitate to declare that the citizen