The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-26 00:00:00

Extretets frotri tltt± 'Times of June 14, 15 :

" We are hound to express our fears that the Tories, if they
persist, may force out the existing Administration before
another fortnight. What comes next, ? A total cbange of
policy, the dissolution of some foreign alliances, and the forma-
tion of others ; the abandonment of some of the most im-
portant measures of home policy, and the substitution of
others ; the whole of our political system will undergo a fun-
damental change—a change towards Toryism 1 But will the
nation bear such a, course—the nation which now exclaims
against the Whigs for incomplete and halting WhigAism ? If
so, it is a stupid beast of a nation. But the thing is' impossi-
ble."— Times, June 13, 1833.
‘, The country is now forewarned of the projects of the Tory
conspirators—it is not a return to office only, which could at
this moment fulfil the ambition or stimulate the violence of the
Tory Chiefs---it is the purposes to which official power might,
in their hands, according to their hopes, be converted. The
work of reaction and destruction—the dissolution of all the yet
unfinished labours of the friends of free and upright govern-
ment—the suffocation in their cradle of those numerous, some
of them excellent, measures which have just seen the light,
and which are deemed by the public enemy (the old and
scotched and writhing dragons of the oligarchy), so 'rally
clinchers of their own everlasting exclusion from that which
alone gives value to office in their eyes—a monopoly of domi-
nion over the spoils of the entire empire—the hitherto sacred
abuses of close corporations exposed, and on the point of being
signally punished—the Church of both countries., that rich
storehouse for the destitute scions of aristocracy---tat mass of
perversions of whatever is best and holiest to the meanest and
vilest use, the Church itself—about to be cleansed of its im-
purities I Why, all these together are enough to drive To-
ryism mad ; and to nothing short of madness has the Tory
faction been at length exasperated. They reason rightly as
to the end, but their premises bespeak deplorable infatuation.
They do not err in believing that the accomplishment of the
great measures alone glanced at would be absolutely and for
ever inconsistent with those views which constitute the moving
power of politicians of their clique, or in resolving to deck, if
they can, and extinguish such schemes of public good in their
infancy ; but their error, their frenzy, lies in their imagin-
ing that they possess, or can ever attain to such preternatural
power. The Tories might as well dream of uprooting this
island from her ocean seat as of crushing the seeds
of universal reform, which have sprung up every
where from a congenial soil, and cover every spot
within her boundaries. The whole band of conservatives have
stood aloof from the people of England and to this hour know
them not. They keep down the nation ! They reimpose the
`j., cast off shattered yoke where are their means?—where
their resources ?—where their hundreds of thousands of armed
men ?—where their hold over the affections of a people,
amongst whom they are but an isolated and hated coterie?
What can any sane mind pronounce upon the issue of such an
enterprise—upon the result of a Tory government in this coun-
try—but political convulsion, civil war, and, above all, the
final and total annihilation of those who have wickedly or
blindly caused them? Every step of these Tory tyrants is a
direct step towards revolution. Let them move onwards ;we
cannot prevent them—nothing can prevent them ; they are
galloping full tilt at the precipice, and the abyss yawns for
them below. They can produce a change of Ministers within
the next twenty.four hours, and a change we doubt not they
will produce within a little longer period. But will they go-
vern without a House of Commons, or in spite of it ? Will
there be a Parliament of Peers at York, and a Commons
House of Parliament in London ? What times were they ?
and in what did they terminate ? Whither would these ma-
niacs drive their unhappy country ? Times, June 14, 1833.
We have reason to apprehend that the leaders of the so
called conservative faction meditate a direct war upon the na-
tion. We do not mean a war of words or sentiments, or le-
gislative measures, but literally a war of the bayonet and
the sabre. We assert it from a knowledge of facts,
there is nothing figurative in the statement, all is li-
teral, all is true. The subject has been well discussed
in the Conservative Council. The army is described
to be " staunch to a man." The military faction and the
Court faction are besotted enough to imagine, that if certain
persons were once in power the battle might yet be restored
and the day be won. They are the most ignorant, the most
infatuated, the most unteachable of human beings, who so
judge of the people of this country. Within three months of
such an attempt being made, not a vestige of conservatism
would be left throughout the kingdom. In the mean time
every city, county, borough, and parish in the island ought to
be in readiness for whatever, even the worst, that may happen.
Petitions, remonstrances, declarations of distrust in a conserva-
tive ministry ought to be prepared, in case of necessity. In
our opinion no crisis ever arose in Great Britain more preg-
nant with grave alarms than that on the eve of which we at
this moment stand. As for a dissolution of the existing Par-
liament, one man, and one man only, among the conservatives
can be blind enough to plunge into such an experiment—it is
He who made the grand blunder of denouncing, and thereby
of producing a reform of Parliament.— Times, June 15,1834.
The above extracts are moderate in their tone in compa-
rison with other articles of the some month, but their striking
applicability to the present crisis, and the forcible and im-
pressive language in which they are conveyed have induced
me to give them the preference over the more violent pas-
sages which I might have selected, and which your readers
may ascertain by turning to the Times of June, 1833.
If, then, these things were true of the Tories only last
I year, are they less so now ? Can the Ethiopian change his
skin, or the leopard his spots? What miracle has since
occurred which can have wrought a change so incredible as
the conversion of the Tories to liberal principles? Would
the prostitute journal I have quoted have us say,
Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis? A.

The ORANGE TORY MEETING at BRISTOL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—A meeting is to be held in Bristol on Wednesday
the 26th instant, avowedly in support of the Protestant
Church of Ireland ; and though, under ordinary circum-
stances, it might have been left to perish in its insignifi-
cance, I think, in the present position of affairs, that it is
well to place the country on its guard, as doubtless attempts
will be made by the Tory press and the adherents to Tory
misgovernment to give to it a character and a bearing
which.l can easily show by no means belong to it.
The plan of this meeting was agitated some time before
the rather sudden consummation of the plot for driving a
Liberal Administration from office, to make way for the
patrons of ancient abuses : it was broached among the rabid
section of the High Church party in this city—a section
which has given several proselytes to the Irving mania ;
and it was discountenanced by some of the most sensible
friends of the Church—by men whose Toryism and attach-
ment to the Establishment cannot be questioned. The