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

manner, did not like it—his name was omitted in the
list of toasts, and the grin went round that he would
yield his office to the Duke of Wellington ; he, how-
ever, made a bold speech—which it will be our busi-
ness to analyze to-morrow. It is a pity it was so dif-
fuse—it is a pity also that Lord Lyndhurst and the
Duke of Wellington did not relish it. At the dinner
were many—including the venerable and most worthy
Bishop of London—who did not applaud the toasts,
but, on the contrary, stuck fast to their chairs.—Morn-
ing Advertiser.

We refer our readers,
,with great pleasure, to our
report of the public meetings that were yesterday held
in the city. The Tories ought now to be quite satis-
fied that the Reformers ate not to be deceived by the
wily representations of Sir Robert and his colleagues.
To the glory of the citizens of London the Conserva-
tives were compelled to retreat from the field in which
they had intended to erect the standard of bigotry and
oppression. For once they have been beaten, in spite
of their tactics ; and now that they have failed to fa-
ther upon the merchants, bankers, shipowners, and
traders of the City of London, their narrow and
despotic notions, they have the effrontery to tell us
they called a private meeting, though they intended
to hold it in the Great Room at the City of London
Tavern. But they are fallen, and so utterly disgraced,
that when their victorious opponents retired to
their own camp to record their triumphs, there was not
sufficient courage left among them to return to the
scene of their defeat. The reform meeting held in
the great room of the London Tavern was as nume-
rously attended as that which was held on Friday last,
and was characterized by the same moderate and de-
termined course of action. The Times, and the party
it has joined, will probably tell us that the violent ex-
pression of public feeling which destroyed the hopes
of the Tories, was the voice of a mob—a term by which
that journal has latterly been pleased to designate every
assembly that is not quite satisfied with the Dictator,
and Sir Robert Peel. This assertion, however, is most
triumphantly denied by the character and action of the
reform meeting. It evinced but one feeling, a deter-
mined opposition to the Conservative administration—
a feeling warranted by the perfect assurance that in its
hands the Reform Bill would be defaced and muti-
lated, and the liberties of the country curtailed. Its
doom is already determined, but a continued unity of
action is still necessary ; and should the Dictator suc-
ceed in his wish to dissolve the present Parliament,
London will set an example which Englishmen will
follow with pride. The continuation of abuses, or re-
form and liberty, must be the result of the next appeal
to the people. Reformers ! be firm and active, and
thus immediately secure the results which necessarily
belong to the charter we have wrested from the aris-
tocracy ; and bestow upon posterity a regenerated con-
stitution, that shall add glory to its birthright, and
renewed and continued prosperity to our country.—
Morning Advertiser.
We should refrain from any comment upon the in-
teresting and important speeches delivered yesterday at
the hospitable table of the Lord Mayor, even if we
were not deprived of the pleasure of expressing the
sentiments they are so well calculated to inspire by the
lateness of the hour at which the very full report,
which will be found in another part of our paper, was
completed. And this forbearance we should exercise
in the persuasion that our readers would be but little
disposed to endure our comparatively feeble and worth-
less reflections on the same day on which they are
presented with these luminous displays of eloquence
and wisdom. His Majesty's Ministers have
now, in the presence of the elite of the metro-
polis, pledged themselves collectively and indivi-
dually to the constitutional principles of Conservative
reformation, to the views of sound and practical wisdom,
to the feelings of loyalty, patriotism, and honour which
pervade every line of the address of Sir Robert Peel
to the Electors of Tamworth, as they breathe in every
word of the manly, fervent, eloquent, yet discreet,
moderate, conciliatory, and statesmanlike speech which
was delivered at the Mansion House last night by the
Prime Minister of Great Britain. We are deeply
grateful to the Lord Mayor for the opportunity he has
afforded to the Members of the King's Government to
proclaim their sentiments and intentions, and to mani-
fest their cordial unanimity in the presence of the most
honourable and intelligent of their fellow-subjects ; for
we are persuaded that the more the respectable and
enlightened
classes of the community know of the cha-
racter, feelings, and purposes of the present Adminis-
tration, the higher place will they accord to it in their
esteem, confidence, and affection.—Morning Post.
We may now confidently appeal to our readers whe-
ther the Times of yesterday did not predict, most cor-
rectly, and most minutely, what afterwards took place
at the City of London Tavern. The gentlemen who
summoned the meeting for the especial purpose of ap-
proving, and signing, an address declaratory of certain
definite opinions, acted liberally and not unwisely, in
opening to all the world a meeting, the object of which
pre-supposed an entire correspondence of opinion
amongst those who should attend it. The conse-
quence was what we had expressly anticipated,—
clamour, violence, fury, brutality,—the apartment
stormed by a ruffian, unlistening, unreasoning mob,—
a refusal to hear a single speaker, not even those
who were of their own kidney in politics ; but in-
stead of the attention to be looked for from civi-

ized beings, when spoken to by their fellow-citizens

upon great national concerns, yells, hootings, and
savage execrations, during the prevalence of which
(and they were incessant) not one word could be dis-
tinguished of that which the Chairman or other gen-
tlemen strove to utter, but every sound, save those of
these brutal ranters, was stifled ; and so far as related
to the business of the " open" meeting, the proceed-
ings were neutralized, and nothing was done. Here,
then, was a regular " Destructive" triumph. 'Here
was the natural return to be expected from such person
for the free admission of those who called themselves
" Reformers" to a place from which they might, with
all propriety, have been excluded. And this is what
in the language of their placards we are to understand
by a " signal defeat of the Tories." Thus, it is the
" defeat" of an argument, when you will not hear it
—the defeat of a motion, when you will not' suffer it
to be put—the refutation of a fact, when you out-
I roar the man who states it—the overthrow of
a meeting, when you assail it by a mob. On
the conduct of individuals we are loth to ani-
madvert. That of Mr. Grote has been differently
represented, in the diverse reports which have been
submitted to us ; and as, where direct testimonies are
at variance, it is but charitable to judge by the previous
character of the parties, we will give the Hon. Gen-
tleman credit for a less obvious departute from dignity
and delicacy than some of the spectators have ascribed
to him. For particulars, we refer to the several ac-
counts detailed in other columns; but as a general
conclusion from the whole scene, we beg to notice
the observation of the Chairman, Mr. Ward, when
acknowledging the vote of thanks unanimously passed
to him by the Committee—viz., that " He trusted all
present would be warned by the scene which had just
taken place, as to the sort of hands which the country
must fall into, if they did not strenuously support the
I—..(ent Ministers." A fair trial being thus afforded the
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justice of the Destructive crew, the exposure
already hinted, be
rnweditfhltihemselves can not, as we have
proved themselves on this as on Public benefit. benefit. They have
other occasions alike
void of decency, principle, and sense. Tile.Y would
hear nothing, and, therefore, could learn nothing ; _!
their " opinion" was expressed by the war-whoop of
vindictive savages. However, the counteractino power
has begun to show itself. We pointed out yesterday,
that after demonstrating the futility of any thing in the
shape of an open meeting, the respectable classes of
men who had authorized the advertisement, and who
approved the address, had still left to them the unambi-
guous resource of a publication of their sentiments, at-
tested by their names and descriptions. This has been
done, or is, while we write, in progress of accomplish-
ment. At five o'clock yesterday we are informed that
they amounted to nearly 5,000 names, with the address
remem-
bered of each annexed to it. No exhibition of political feeling
so extensively pervading the hig.leiesrucplpasossees,
b of men
o
business in the metropolis can, we
by the oldest individual among them, and the
moral effect throughout the kingdom will keep pace
with it. The struggle is not one between the Reform
principle and that of no Reform—there never was a