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

people, they will play their last and most desperate card.
The Rhenish Provinces of Russia are within forty-eight
hours' march of the Texel, and thirty thousand Huns could
be thrown upon the shores of England in four-and-twenty
hours !! Ponder deeply, we intreat you, on this identifi-
cation of the Boroughmongers, with their brethren of the
sword abroad, as developed in the simultaneous activity of
their Powers and Principalities ; it is the most emphatic
commentary on the character of the Government you are
now to live under—if you please ! !
(From the Glasgow Argus.)

The Duke of Wellington's rule must be for evil. It is
neither in him nor in his associates to do good. Their object
is to strengthen the Oligarchy, to re-conquer their sinecures
and needless offices, to trample on the consciences of men,
to throw back Europe into the hands of the despots, to
prevent the growth of intellectual and commercial inter-
course among the nations lest men should grow too wise—
too well aware of their own interests. These, let him make
What fair pretexts he will, are the Duke's objects, and he is
not a man to undertake a task without calculating his re-
sources. He is far-sighted, capable of making the most
complex combinations, cool, so as to " bide his time," and
as the lightning when the opportunity of striking offers.
He is not a man to be troubled with nervous scruples—he
will cut his way to his object through every human tie. He
has intrenched himself in office as he did in the lines 'of
Torres Vedras. If we do not drive him from his position,
his advance will be resistless when it commences. There
is one task at present incumbent upon Reformers, and that
is, superseding every other object, to drive the Duke of
Wellington from office.

D UMFRIES.
(From the Dumfries Courier.)
But the grand query remains behind—what line of policy
will the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel pursue?
At the very outset the former seems to have secured the co-
operation of the Times newspaper, and accordingly that
wonderfully plastic Journal tells us that he intends to make
the Reform Bill the compass of his Government, and out-
bid even the Whigs in the market of popularity. This will
be strange news, if true, and as the Times cannot give us
absolute warrandice, we must pause before we rush into the
snare or " sprynges to catch woodcocks," so cunningly et
for the people of Britain. What ! turn to the right about
with all the alacrity of the Times itself, become an, ultra-
Whig and Reformer, and thus stultify and set at nought all
the opinions and actions of his public life. The bare idea
of a change so radical appears to us to be ludicrous and ex-
travagant ; and we are sure the Duke of Wellington is too
straightforward a man to avail himself of the knave's plea,
necessity. The effect of such a wheel would prove tre-
mendously demoralizing—destroy all confidence in public
men—induce the people to believe that there is something
in politics that saps the foundations of moral rectitude, and
furnish apologies for the blackest apostacy. Lord Durham
remarked on this in his spirited speech at the Newcastle
dinner ; and viewing the question, not so much on political
as on moral grounds, it is impossible to conceive a single
event that would be more thoroughly revolting and deroga-
tory to the dignity of human nature.

PROBABLE RESULT of a GENER.
IN IRELAND.

(PROW OUR OWN CORRESPON

Antrim County

Belfast
Carrickfergus
Armagh County
Armagh Town
Athlone
Carlow County
Carlow Town
Cavan County
Clare County

Ennis
Cork County
Cork City
Mallow
Youghall
Kinsale
Bandon
Drogheda
Down County
Downpatrick
Lisburn
Newry
Dublin County
Dublin City
Dublin University
Fermanagh County
Inniskillen
Galway County
Galway Town
Kerry County
Tralee
Kildare County •••,
Kilkenny County
Kilkenny City
King's County
Leitrim County
Limerick County
Limerick City
Londonderry County
Londonderry City
Coleraine
Longford County
Louth County
Dundalk
Mayo County
Meath County
Monaghan County
Queen's County
Portarlington
Roscommon County
Sligo County
Sligo Town
Tipperary County
Clonmel
Cashel
Tyrone County
Dungannon
Donegal County .. .
Waterord County
Waterford City
Dungarvan
Westmeath County
Wexford County
Wexford 'town
New Ross
Wicklow County .

Refor.
mere.

Tories.

Doubt-
ful.

I think it may be relied upon, that there will 1,,b a majo-
rity from Ireland against the Autocrat, of forty at least.
Our expectations will be much disappointed if it do not
mount up very near to fifty. Of those which I have re-
turned as doubtful, there are several whom a less cautious
calculator would set down, without hesitation, as assured
friends of Reform. The constituencies of eight of them
have the power, and are not wit the will, to assist the
good cause. Of the other nine, there are six who went
into the last Parlienent as Reformers, and voted as such.
But five of ttem have ratted to the enemy since then, and
the ei.:lth is doubtful. The other three might be ousted by
a vigorous effort ; but it is not very likely that they will.
Let England, however, acquit herself as well as Ireland,
and the triumph of the Tories will soon be brought to an
end. Mr. O'Connell's wise abandonment of the Repeal
Pledge will " confound the politics and frustrate the
knavish tricks" of the intriguers. _ _

It was a sad instance of forgetfulness in my Lord Strang-
ford, to step forth for the purpose of vindicating the dignity
and honour of the peerage. He is, perhaps, of all who sit
in that Upper House, the one who has the least reason to
brag of the conservatism which resides in an hereditary
assembly. The Lord Strangford who was before him was
expelled from the Irish House of Lords after a solemn trial
and investigation, wherein he was convicted of having soli-
cited a bribe of a hundred pounds from a party who had
an appeal from the Court of Chancery before the House.
The then Lord Strangford offered, for the moderate dou-
ceur I have mentioned, to go down to the House, contrary
to his wont, and adjudicate in favour of the appellP-.A.
There was not much of the Vox Dei in that ; an'', it cer-
tainly looks odd for the immediate deseen!!‘ant of such a
peer to provoke reminiscences by clamlng superiority over
the people for his Order! It *7;fould not be easy to bring
forward, from all Parlionentary history, a case more de-
monstrative of thc!, absurdity of an hereditary legislature,
than the caw:, of that Lord Strangford. Why should the
descenants of such a man inherit, with his blood, the right
to make laws for a free and virtuous people ?

CONSERVATIVE MEETING at PORTSMOUTH.

(FROM A CONSERVATIVE CORRESPONDENT.)
A very numerous and highly-respectable meeting of the
friends and supporters of John Fleming, Esq., was held on
Tuesday evening, the 25th inst., at the Committee-room,
Old Rope-walk, Portsea, Captain Smith, R.N., in the
Chair, when resolutions were unanimously passed, expres-
sive of the gratification which the meeting had experienced
at the recent change which had taken place in his Majesty's
councils, and of their firm determination to support such
candidates only, in case of an election, as were known to
Possess aafe constitutional principles. With this view the
meeting pledged themselves to use their best exertions to
promote and secure tj,::. -retarn, for the Southern Division
of the C,-- my of Hants, of their tried and valued friend,
John Fleming, Esq., and of such other candidate as should
be known to entertain the same Conservative principles.
At the same meeting an Address to his Majesty was
unanimously adopted, and is now lying for signature) in va-
rious parts of the town,