The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-24 00:00:00

tude, zeal, and energy on so glorious an occa•

The dinner at the Mansion House was
too insignificant an affair to be further noticed. It
was, in fact, a congregating of the Tory chiefi, in-
tended to celebrate a triumph, which turned out to be a
gathering of mourners to witness the last struggles of
departing despotism. The country has now all that it
wanted to make it firm to a man against the New Go-
vernment—the glorious example of the City of London.

SlOll.

The people cannot fail to have discovered that the
great ground of support taken up by the friends of the
new Administration, is that of its constructive excel-
lence. Everything that is good and proper to be done,
and nothing that is otherwise, must be the consequence
of their proceedings, necessarily. The country is to
be tranquillised, its commerce improved, its laws well
administered, religious asperities soothed, abuses
(when discovered) gently corrected or modified ; in
short, all the blessings of the most perfect system of
government are to be inevitable, because the Tories
have jockied the 'Whigs from their seats, and sit therein
themselves. Even their old enemies seem under a
strange fascination of faculties. Instead of the fierce
denouncements which might have been expected, had
they dared to stretch forth their little finger towards
place, we now hear placid ejaculations, and cool pre-
cautions—wait, pause, don't rashly condemn—see what
they do before you blame—and so on. What new
light could have broken out upon the Tories, or around
_ their approvers —has their nature undergone a change ?
No political party was ever more sensitively alarmed
at any thing in the shape of theory or hypothesis than.
the Tories. The very moment any departure from the
old track was proposed, who so loud in their impreca-
tions against innovation ? " Wild schemes" were ever
their aversion—is it likely, then, that the Reform Bill
scheme will be the delight of their hearts, because they
have it under their thumbs ? Sir ROBERT says, very
pompously, that no friend to the peace and welfare of
this country would attempt to disturb, either by direct
or by insidious means, the settlement of the great
constitutional question which it effected ; and he is
very much :to be thanked for such a piece of observa-
tion. But will not cae Tories frustrate, by every
means they possess, the attempts of the country to
effectuate those salutary reforms which the Bill, as be-
ing a means to an end, was to enable them to accom-
plish. Like a timid mother with her child, they will
give it the gilt scabbard, and put away the sword it-
self, lest it should cut its dear little fingers.
Much as the renegade portion of the Press has done,
to prejudice the public mind in favour of the fair-trial
askers, there has been an antidote from time to time ad-
ministered that more than neutralised the attempt : a dose
of wholesome truth. Facts, not theories, have been
held up to general view, and reasoned upon in lan-
guage there could be no mistaking. We gave in our
Monday's edition extracts from Mr. GIsBoRNE's
address to the electors of North Derbyshire, and it is
gratifying to find, that such views as he entertains are
manifested in intelligible words, that admit of no mis-
understanding by even the dullest. Thus should
courage always attend upon truth. To think cor-
rectly, and to dare to give utterance to our thoughts, is
the best prerogative after all. Even the Tories cannot
stand against it.

In another part of The Sun our readers will find an
abridged report of a speech delivered by Mr. O'CON-
NELL, at the Dublin Anti-Tory Association Meeting,
on Saturday last. The subject is Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S late Manifesto, and the new Ministry, to both
of which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman vows the
most uncompromising hostility. His remarks on the
appointment of Mr. GOULBURN to the Home Office
—who it may be remembered gave the people to un-
derstand that he should consider his son contaminated
by meeting with dissenters at the University—are made
in a just, manly, and indignant spirit, and will
be responded to by every honest dissenter through-
out the kingdom. Equally energetic are Mr.
O'CONNELL'S observations on the tithe system, and
the policy which the new Cabinet intend to pursue
with regard to that complicated question. " Here,"
says he, " is Sir ROBERT PEEL'S declaration in sup-
port of tithes ; and here"—alluding to a communica-
tion respecting the late sanguinary affray at Rathcor-
mac, which the speaker held in his hand—" here is
the postscript to the letter, written in the blood of
this ill-fated country." Alluding to this tithe affray,
Mr. O'CONNELL says—" If the statement contained
in the letter I have just read be true, I have
no hesitation in saying, as a lawyer, that a more
unmitigated murder has never been committed.
The parties that went there had no right to
break into the field to distrain—their doing so was
a direct trespass. Here were eleven fathers of
families slain for a demand of 5/. in tithes"—that is to
say, human life assessed at a rate of little more than
eight shillings the individual I And this is the equi-
table and Christian system that Sir ROBERT PEEL
announces his intention to bolster up I Well may Mr.
O'CONNELL observe, " by the blood of those eleven
victims, I conjure every honest man in Ireland to rally
with me against this Administration."

The Committee of the Stock Exchange have this
day come to a resolution to permit the Cortes Loan to
be quoted in the official list ; thereby recognising the
transaction, which will have a favourable effect on
Spanish credit.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday, to-
gether with intelligence from Bayonne, of the 18th
inst. The Parisian journals contain no domestic in-
telligence of any importance. In the Chamber of
Deputies the only proceedings going forward were
reports on private bills, and discussions on questions
purely local. The Bayonne papers contain several
accounts of the defeat of the Spanish insurgents in
Navarre. The Carlists are said to be reduced to the
last extremities. For the particulars we refer to our
extracts from the French papers.

By the arrival of the New York Papers, to the 2d
Dec., we have a letter from Washington, anticipating
the PRESIDENT'S Message, which was to be deli-
vered on the 2d of Dec., which states as follows
" The question is often asked, What will the PRESI-
DENT'S Message contain ? The French treaty will
occupy a prominent part of it, and measures hostile
but not warlike, will, I think, be recommended. The
Bank of the United States will receive a new blow of
some kind ; probably a recommendation to sell the
Government Stock, and the Senate will have to bear
the blame of all curtailment in mail facilities, because
they would not make appropriations to pay tiv aebts
of the Department."

The celLiorated Lord Burleigh is recorded to have
vita, "never trust any man not of sound religion, for he that
14 false to God can never be true to man."