The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-22 00:00:00

servatives, who put him forward to fight their battles.
We can conceive him, however improbable, deserting
the Conservatives, inspired by more enlightened views,
and throwing himself into the ranks of the
Reformers ; For the hardest hearts, the most seared
consciences, are occasionally penetrated by truth ; and
were " His Highness" to cry " peccavi, recant the
abominable doctrines uttered by him against Parlia-
mentary Reform, the people would receive him, as such
sinners ought to be received, with justifiable distrust ;
but still they would receive him on trial. But " His
Highness" takes office as a Conservative,—as a
Conservative alone be has the confidence of the Court
party ; and were he to act on any other than Con-
servative views, he would justly be held in execra-
tion as a traitor by the Tories, who would instantly
abandon him. Their principle is that the people arc
their property—that Government should be carried
on for the benefit of the few, at the expense of
the many—that the people have nothing to do with
the laws but to obey them—that abuses in the Church,
and abuses in the State, are essential to•the existence
of an oligarchy. They put f6rward " His Highness"
as a man not likely to be turned aside from his pur-_
pose, by any delicate scruples or conipunctious visit-
ings. They have less faith in his discernment, than
in his decision of character. They have always said
that he committed a capital plunder when he
conceded Catholic Emancipation ; for so long
as that outwork was held, the grand citadel of
corruption—the Borough system—could not be
approached ; while the confession that he yielded
to fear, emboldened the Reformers with hopes
of success. But they think that he will not
fall into the same snare twice, and that if he once
be firmly seated, there is no danger of his again
erring on the side of liberality. They have no objec-
tion to the interested misrepresentations of the Times;
and they will rejoice to perceive that a writer, who
hardly yields to the Times in the effrontery with which
he takes up and abandons principles, to suit his pur-
poses, the notorious Cobbett, is labouring in the
same vocation with that journal. Cobbett is quite
overjoyed at what he calls " the turning out of the
Whigs," protests against all attempts to thwart his
Majesty in the free exercise of his prerogative, and
proffers his valuable support to " His Highness," if
he will give us complete security for the maintenance
of the rights of the poor according to our English
taws—that is, we suppose, repeal the Poor-law
Amendment Bill which his Dictatorship supported.
" What would have been the lot of the people of this
kingdom," exclaims Cobbett, "if there had been
neither King nor Lords 1" All this, however, will not
do. The Conservatives may find from the accounts
of the proceedings in this metropolis and in every part
of the country, that the people understand the crisis,
and will not be the dupes of profligate or unprin-
cipled writers. The observations of Lord Durham
on the dismissal, and on the prospects of the nation
from the Government of the Conservatives, are indeed
admirable.

(For other extracts see the Morning Advatiser.)
" The fact is, that for a long period of time, in former
days, in the days of George 111. and George IV., the Sove-
reign of this country was entirely in the hands of a faction.
He was in fact a mere puppet, to be moved accor.ding to their
wishes ; and all power and all honours were wielded extirely
or the benefit of the faction itself. The Reform Bill, they
said, gave them a death-blow, and now they are about to try
a last struggle to endeavour to regain that power which it
wrested from them. After we had destroyed their strong-
holds, after their fortresses had fallen successively, they have
pitched upon a great military commander, who is to come for-
ward and arrest the progress of that reform under whose ex-
terminating hand the corporation abuses, the church abuses,
and all other abuses in the institutions of the country, were
about to be swept away. I confess to you that this great mi-
litary commander whom they have selected will find it to have
been much easier to take Badajos and Ciudad Rodrigo than
to retake the liberties and independence of the people..
( Great cheering.) I say that in my opinion ho will utterly
fail in such an attempt."

His Lordship then alludes to the course which he
supposes •' His Highness the Dictator" will pursue in
this anti-constitutional war :

" I suppose that if he takes upon himself the conduct of
affairs, he and his party will open with a plan of their cam-
paign. It is possible enough that, finding that the temper of
the country will not admit of a restriction of reform, this party
may appear in another and a new character. They may, per-
haps, put themselves forward as Liberals and Reformers.—( A
laugh.) Now I will only say that I cannot conceive anything
that would be more disgusting or disgraceful than such an
abandonment of principles, by one whom I have heard over and
over again oppose reform in the House of Lords, and whom
I have heard with astonishment declare before reform was
carried, that if he were called. upon to frame a consti-
tution, he could not frame a more perfect one than that
which then existed. It is possible that the Tories may there-
fore appear before us like wolves in sheep's clothing—(A laugh)
--but I think you will agree with me, that if ever such a
thing should take place, it would be most disgusting to-be-
hold such a disgraceful abandonment of principle, and I
am sure that such a step, if it should be taken, would be cal-
culated to destroy the character of public men in the eyes of
the people—( Hear.) No, if we are to have a Tory Govern-
ment, in God's name let it be a downright honest, high church,
anti-reforming, Tory administration. Such a government
would be an intelligible one. We should know how to deal
with it. But let us have no mongrel one. Let us not have
a Government calling itself Tory, and professing reform prin-
ciples, merely for the sake of Downing-street and quarter-day."
We say with his Lordship, let " our rallying. cries
be Reform, Liberty, and the Constitution. Let us
throw aside all party differences, and be prepared for
the coining struggle. Let us form associations in
every town, in every village of the empire." We can
have now but one struggle—and it must end in the
destruction of the Tories, and the establishment of
Reform on a foundation from which it cannot be here-
after assailed. The battle is, as Durham well says,
between the Court and the Peers, and the Com-
mons and the People. The principle of the Re-
form Bill has been inoperative, because the Court
and the Peers neutralized the Commons. But vic-
tory must be followed by the annihilation of all
power not strictly in accordance with the Constitu-
tion. Ministers having free scope, will be enabled to
give effect to intentions, without having to dread court
intrigues and majorities of interested Peers. We have
again and again demonstrated that the majority of the
Peers are paupers, who subsist only by abuses, and
who always will be opposed to good Government. It
is our cause, therefore that is to be fought. Bribery
and intimidation, and every detestable practice will be
resorted to ; but let this constantly animate good citie
zens—that if they fight the good fight manfully once
more, all future struggles will be light. Toryism will
receive its death-blow, and Reform will henceforth bid
defiance to all its enemies.—Morning Chronicle.
How much the Times must presume upon the gul-
libility of its readers I Old CoDbett is constant in.his
praise and abuse compared with his foul-mouthed
rival of Printing House-square. It would-be curious•
to place in parallel columns, the foul abuse and ful-
some praise lavished at different times in that journal
oil the same individual. The Duke of Wellington
has been abused, praised, and abused again, with the
most shameful disregard of consistency.- Yesterday
our contemporary would have the people of this
country to rely on the Duke of Wellington being a
Reformer, as " his Grace is too sagacious not to see
that an Anti-Reform Cabinet cannot long exist," and
we are in Like manner told that " with his clear under-
standing" he would pursue that .course- his deviation
from which would lead to his .exelnsion from
power, i. e., that he would reform all abuSes. On
the 23d of June last this sagacious, this clear-
sighted Statesman, was then, according to our
contemporary, staking his existence upon -an experi-
ment of the most desperate kind—" namely, upon the
affirmation of the question whether the High Church
frenzy of Oxford does or does not prevail throughout
the majority of the English nation." He was " cele-
brated as a Minister for his ignorance of public opi-
nion ;" " he was honestly and profoundly in the dark
as to almost every thing that men thought and felt
throughout the larger portion of educated society."
These are only a few of the flowers from our contem-
porary's nosegay on the above day. Our contempo-
rary, so late as the Bth of September last, abused. the
Lancashire Conservatives in good set terms, observing
that " the thing that most strikes us is the prudence of
the Duke of Wellington in keeping aloof from it."
This reminds us of Cobbett describing it as rather un-
usual to find a Lord with sense enough not to tumble
into a gravel-pit. The Conservatives were then all
that is odious and contemptible. One of the speakers
had alluded to the great struggle which was approach-
ing. On this our contemporary remarks—" Further
to show the people that the Conservatives are their
best friends? he stated that the .gyet of their meetill