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London, England, 1834-12-30 00:00:00

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING will be presented
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.
Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farren ; Joseph Surface, Mr. Vandenhoff;
Charles Surface, Mr. Cooper.
Lady Teazle, Miss E. Tree; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Glover.
After which the New Grand Chivalric Entertainment, called
KING ARTHUR and the KNIGHTS of the ROUND TABLE.
In which Mr. Ducrow's magnificent Stud of Horses will be introduced,

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING will be presented
ROB ROY.
Rob Roy, Mr. Warde; Francis Osbaldiston, Mr. Templeton; Bailie
Nicol Jarvie, Mr. Harley.
Diana Vernon, Miss Betts; Helen Macgregor, Mrs. Faueit.
After which the New Grand Comic Pantomime, called
HARLEQUIN AND QUEEN MAB ; OR, THE THREE GLASS
DISTAFFS.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1834.

that the Reform Act is now as integral a part of con-
stitutional law as Magna Charta itself; by this decla-
ration they tacitly acknowledge that as by the voice of
*the people it was acquired, in despite of Tory opposi-
tion, so Reform is the nation's desire, and its principles
their rule of action. The Tory Peers were com-
pelled to forsake their duty, that the Reform Bill should
pass the Upper House ; they durst not maintain, what
as good and honest senators no earthly power, not even
threatened annihilation, should have prevented them
maintaining, their opposition ; they abandoned their
seats, and allowed the supposed pollution which they
had the power to prevent. And now, we have in office
some of those very men whom compulsion forced into
a sin of omission, deluding themselves with the belief
that they can, under any circumstances, be acceptable
to the great majority of the people. Their repugnance
to that measure was founded upon just and sincere
grounds—we have their own words for believing it ;
can it, then, by any stretch of the wildest imagination,
be conceived that if official power be conceded to them,
they will not deem themselves morally bound to coun •
teract, by every imaginable means, the influences of a
measure they must necessarily consider pernicious ?
We exhort the people to be as energetic in their re-
sistance of Tory domination as the Tories are to main-
tail' it. A Tory victory now would only be provocative
of a series of angry collisions that must necessarily occur
in times to come—an endless strife tha‘will continue to
agitate and disturb the tranquillity of the country, until
that rapacious faction be wholly deposed. A signal
defeat in the elections to ensue would be their death-
blow ; for mercy and for justice' sake may it be their's.
The Tories, to be vanquished, must be met with stern
and unrelenting courage ; to be beaten with any good
effect, no leniency must be shown—they must be put
thoroughly hors de combat. The consequence of any
generous or weak-minded pity—of any act of conciliation
—are visible enough in the gratitude of Tories to
Whig kind-heartedness ; never more surely did the
viper sting the bosom that warmed it back to life, than
Tories will abuse the clemency that may be granted to
them. As they hate so will they resist Reform, and as
they despise, so will they trample upon Reformers—if
they can. The approaching battle to be decisive, must
be one of extermination. Men of England, if you do
not now crush the Tories, the Tories will crush you, as
surely as there is a Sun in Heaven I

A Conservative Meeting was held yesterday at the
City of London Tavern, for the purpose of promoting
the return of Messrs. WARD, WILSON, and LYALL.
The speeches delivered at this Meeting were worthy
of the occasion, especially Mr. WARD'S, who seemed
to ground his claims to the confidence of his consti-
tuency, on the fact of his having " opposed the Roman
Catholic Relief Bill, and other measures of the WEL-
LINGTON Administration." And yet this very Admi-
nistration which was too liberal for the worthy candi-
date in 1829, he discovers to be all that it should be
in 1834, notwithstanding that its professions of libe-
rality are far more comprehensive than when he op-
posed it, from a groundless apprehension that it was
becoming too enlightened ! Possibly, however, Mr.
WARD calculates on its falling back—whatever it
may profess to the contrary—on its old favou-
rite system of intolerance ; and truly, if such
be his expectation, we think he stands a very
fair chance of seeing it realized. At any rate,
there is nothing in Sir ROBERT PEEL'S manifesto
that need occasion him any uneasiness. All there is
as cheering to the cause of Toryism, as the .most inve-
terate Tory could desire. Intolerance blazes out in
every line of it, while Reform is seen only through a
dusky twilight. Even Lord STORMONT is satisfied
with this juggling production I What cause then can
Mr. WARD have for apprehension ? Yet he is evi-
dently desponding, and makes as many wry faces at the
Reform Bill, as a school-boy makes at a dose of
physic. "No Government," he observed, " could
be so strong as it used to be before the passing of the
-Reform Bill. That measure prevents it." Not so,
Mr. WARD. That measure so far from preventing,
lends strength to an enlightened Administration. It
embarrasses only an intolerant one. There is nothing
in the speeches of either of the other candidates that
calls for the slightest comment. Mr. WILSON'S was
the perfection .of twaddle ; and Mr. LYA Les was an
ambitious attempt to equal it.

It must be truly gratifying to the Reformers of the
United Kingdom, to witness the noble efforts that are
being made by their friends in every district of the
Metropolis, to set them the example of delivering the
country out of the deadly grasp of Toryism. In
the heart of the City, in Marylebone, in Finsbury, in
Southwark, and in every part of Middlesex, the Re-
formers are at their posts, resolved to strain
every nerve, and to make every sacrifice in defence
of the rights, liberties, and privileges of themselves and
their fellow-countrymen, which can only be preserved
by ousting the old Corruptionists, who first robbed, and
afterwards enslaved, the British Empire. Among the
people of all classes in the metropolis who derive
no gain from the mal-administration of justice,
who have no personal interest in the corruption and
extravagance of a Government, and who have no secret
desire to sell their country for a pension or a riband—

there is an universal determination never to entrust the
Government of England, to persons who would have a
Parliament composed of the representatives of old
ditches, brakes, and hedges, rather than of the bold and
brave Yeomanry of. Great Britain. The adherents of
the Tories are tax-eaters, not tax-payers—men who
enrich themselves by Government Contracts, and flou-
rish, like weeds, on the poverty of all around them.
But, thank Heaven, the fate of England depends
not upon such men. The electors are the
real arbiters of the continuance of the Tories in
power ; and as far as the metropolis is concerned they
are determined to do their dtity manfully, fearlessly,
and effectually. At the great meeting of the Middle-
sex Reformers, held yesterday, at Lieutenant Hall's
Riding School, which was attended by the Sheriffs
of the County, and at which several gentle-
men of great influence, including Mr. HUME,
attended, it was resolved that the people were
constitutionally entitled to Triennial Parliaments,
vote by ballot, and household suffrage—a di-
rect blow at the very root of Toryism. In the
borough of SouthWark, the electors have unani-
mously declared for Mr. D. W. HARVEY, whose ad-
dress to the people, at a public meeting held there yes-
terday, was received with acclamation, and will be
read with interest in every part of the country. In
Finsbury, meetings are daily held, at which resolutions
are passed, declaring the people's want of confidence
in a Tory Administration. Every thing goes on
well, and in the most admirable order. The ex-
ample of. London is spreading fast throughout the
country. In Dublin the Liberal party are com-

pletely in the ascendant ; in Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Birmingham, the Tories are unable
to make any head against the Whigs ; and
North of. the Tweed the Conservatives, are
still in a more helpless plight. Let our
metropolitan friends only persevere a little longer
—we know them too well to doubt their zeal—and
they may rely upon it that thay will soon hear the
sound of the Conservative retreat from Downing-street.

We have received German Papers of the 18th inst.,
with the Frankfort Mail of the 23d. They contain
no intelligence of any moment, except that the Mar-
quis Of FICALHO and Viscount BERNARDO DE LA
BANDRIRA, Peers of Portugal, are on their way to
Munich, to meet the Duke de LEUCHTENBERG, by
whom they are expected to make arrangements for his
Highness's journey to Lisbon.

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We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday. The
following, from the Courrier Francais, is the only in-

telligence worth giving

" It seems certain that since the resignation of Marshal
Gerard, the King has been negotiating without interruption
with Marshal Soult. The Marshal's habits of military disci-
pline are perfectly adapted to the views of the King respecting
the direction of the Cabinet. Marshal Soult is a kind of Major-
General of the Council, willingly obliginr, the Master, provided
that the Master leaves to him the command of the others. Once
more, this is what the King wants to complete the constitutional
fiction as he understands it. A president of the civil order will
never suit his Majesty Louis Philippe. These men have two enor-
mous political defects ; they understand government too well,
and do not sufficiently understvid obedience. It must not,
however, be supposed that Marsnal Soult makes ne condition.
On the contrary, perceiving how necessary he is to the King,
he requires that about half of the Council shall be changed.
What is curious is, that M. Thiers takes part with the Mar-
shal. The treaty is signed at the expense of M. Guizot and
the Doctrinaires. M. Guizot knows this, and hence the
despondency which has been observed in him for some days
past."