The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-24 00:00:00

LONDON WEEKLY PRESS,.

For the gratification of our country readers, we in-
sert below a few extracts from the London weekly
press. Our weekly contemporaries have come for-
ward with a spirit and talent which cannot be too
much praised, and we regret only that our space does
not enable us to give larger or more numerous (rota-
tions. " Union" is, as it ought to be, the universal
motto of Reformers :
( From the Examiner.)
The woodcutter asked the trees for a helve to his hatchet—
like the Duke, he bad nothing hut the iron at his command,
which is no instrument without a purchase. He told the trees
that his object was merely to prune them, and cut array the
brambles and underwood which inconvenienced their trunks.
The trees, having only wooden heads, were such dupes as to
comply with his request, in consideration of such fine promises ;
and no sooner bad the man the handle to his hatchet, than
he laid it to the trunk of one of the noblest oaks, which
groaned, as lEsop tells us, in its fall, that it was rightly
served for listening to the promises of a woodcutter, a pro-
fessed enemy of trees, and giving a handle to an enemy.
Now, if the people of England have such wooden heads
as to listen to the promises of our man of the hatchet, and
to give him a handle, they will soon see him cutting
away at the tree of liberty which they have so lately
gloried in planting as the ornament and security of the
country. Or, perhaps, for a yet apter illustration, we may
repeat a story which is no fable. Barrington, the famous
pickpocket, gave an order to a cutler for an instrument of a
very peculiar construction. The tradesman having finished it
at the appointed time, Barrington called, and asked the price,
the cutler demanded some guineas, which Barrington paid
without any hesitation ; charmed with the liberality of his
customer, the cutler pocketed the money, and begged, if it
might not be thought impertinent, to ask the uses of so extra-
ordinary an instrument ; Barrington, after amusing him with
some circumlocutions, during which time neither his hand nor
the instrument was idle, explained—" to tell you honestly, it
is for picking pockets," and, so saying, he left the shop. The
cutler was somewhat startled at finding the purposes to which
his art had ministered, but comforted himself by thinking of
the five guineas, and put his hand in his pocket for that feeling
of solid satisfaction which is produced by feeling money, but,
to his consternation, he discovered that it was gone, together
with much more good company which should have been found
in the same place. This is the sort of bargain which the
country has to consider. At the price of even four or five
millions will it give the Duke an instrument by which he may
repossess himself of the purchase-money, and as much more
to boot, as it is to be extracted from the pockets of the public?
In a word, will it for any gain sell the key of its strong box ?
For n remission of taxation, will it part with or imperil the only
security for permanent economy and just government? Once
let the Reform Bill be at the mercy of the Duke, backed by a
Tory majority, and the representive system will be debauched,
and we shall be thrown back to the position whence by im-
mense and costly exertion we extricated ourselves in those
years of struggle, '3l and '32. In the foregoing remarks
showing how " penny wise and pound foolish," it would be—
not to mention more important and exalted considerations—to
sell a majority to the Captain for a remission of taxes, it is far
from our purpose to impute extravagance to the Duke ; he
would use the power obtained only to reseat the oligarchy upon
the shoulders of the nation, and to hold out against efficient
reforms in church, municipalities, &c. ; but the Janissaries who
followed the Vizier would insist on their largesses, and, if do
nied, would soon put the bow-string round his neck, and set
up another chief who would gratify them, through a Tory ma-
jority in the House of Commons, with the pillage of the public
purse. Again, therefore, we say, as the only security against
every evil, stand by the Reform Bill, and return none but
those who may not only be believed devoted to its principle,
but pledged also to complete the measure where it has proved
defective—namely, to remove the restrictions ; and, further, to
vote for triennial Parliaments.

( From the Spectator.)
If the Duke of Wellington were really disposed, as his
friend the Times insinuates, to form an Administration on re-
form principles, he would naturally be in communication with
leading Reformers; but who are the worthies that flock around
his Grace ? They are Lord El!enborough; Lord Cowley,
Lord Maryborough, Lord Jersey, Sir Char►es Manners Sut-
ton, Lord Lyndhurst, &c.: highly respectable men, no doubt
_excellent guardians of the creed and morals of the land—
men of Me right Newcastle, Inglis, and Ilarrowby stamp, we
suppose ; but still, not distinguished as Reformers, with the
exception of Lord Ellenbcrough, who, when he fancied the
time was come, offered to carry even a larger, a more demo-
cratic measure of reform, than Lord Grey could digest. With
this honourable exception, the Duke gathers none but bitter
Anti-Reformers about him. Will the Times explain this
puzzle ?

(From the Satirist.)
And now let us turn to the Times—that most corrupt,
most venal, most profligate of all profligate journals, which
is again the slave of Wellington and Toryism ! On Satur-
day it held the intrigue which overthrew Lord Melbourne
in abhorrence. " The Queen has done it all I" On Sun-
day the Duke took George Croly's hint The Duke was
a " Liberal Tory," and on Monday the Times, changed its
tone. The Queen had not done it all I No, nor any part
of it. The Queen had not the slightest concern with the
revolution of the Cabinet. " The Queen is not capable of
any undue Intermeddling with public affairs, or of attempt-
ing—what we are sure she could not accomplish if she did—
to exercise any influence upon the mind of her Royal Con-
sort, in what relates to his sole authority as Sovereign."
We know better; but let that pass. Here is a journal—
the " Leading Journal of Europe"—whose consistency has
ever been, certainly, like that of a dial ; for as the hand when
it is twelve points to twelve, so the principles of the Times,
when Tories are in power, point to Toryism, and vice versa
as the time comes round—which, after having been for the
last four years strenuously upholding the cause of Reform—
supporting its advocates with all its power—quarrelling with
them only when they exhibited symptoms of a disinclination
to carry its principles into full effect, and ridiculing the idea
of the Tories ever again being permitted to rule the destinies
of England—no sooner finds that the Tories ARE again in
Power than, stimulated by Conservative liberality, it hurls
down its liberal flag and unfurls the standard of anti-reform.
It is of no use mincing the matter. The Times is no longer
the friend of Reform. It cannot serve a cause and the enemies
of that cause at one and the same time. The clap-trap of
" measures not men," is well where men have NOT been tried
—where measures can be ensured ; but we do not know these
men ? Do we not also know that the measures of these men
MUST—unless they utterly degrade themselves and disgust the
world by the formal abandonment of character and principle—
be decidedly inimical to improvement. The assumption of the
fallacy is a pretext—a mere mask for corruption. But the ve-
nality of the Times will live.

(From the New Bell's Weekly Messenger.)
It would appear, from the characters of the men who have
been in conference with the Duke during the week, that the
new Administration will be purely Tory. The Ellenboroughs,
the Lyndhursts, the Manners Suttons, the Herrieses, the
Arbuthnots, the Hardinges and the George Dawsons (1)
are not the men to sacrifice their much-vaunted " consist-
ency." It is quite ridiculous, then, to expect that the people
will obtain anything from the Tories. It is a bitter mockery
to talk of the Tories granting any sort of reform. They have
contrived, through a Court intrigue, to wrest the victory from
the hands of the people, and would now " cheat us with
a show of liberty," of which it is far from their intention
that we shall taste. But we will baffle them yet. We have
beaten the Waterloo hero without a Reform Act : it will be
strange indeed if we cannot beat him again, now that we are
possessed of that blessing. What can he do if he is refused
the supplies? Is the Times bribed to wheedle the Com-
mons ? We only make the inquiry. It is for the consti-
tuencies to look sharp after their representatives. The file of
the Times newspaper, for the last six days, ought to be burnt
by the common hangman. The utter abandonment of prin-
ciple, which has been displayed in the columns of that journal
within the period stated, is unprecedented in the annals of
public journalism. The coolness and arrogance, with which
this brazen display is made, is not the least remarkable part of
our contemporary's degradation. Never before was the press
so scandalized, so disgraced. And this is " the leading journal
of Europe 1" It is in the remembrance of our readers, that
the Times, once, not merely set its face against the Duke of
Wellington and his partisans, " but actually instigated the
people to the use of brickbats and bludgeons in their election
contests." The man, to prevent whose return to power, the
use of the brickbat and the bludgeon was so strongly recom-
mended, is now become the god of our contemporary's idolatry,
and the once Radical Times is become the most besotted wor-
shipper at the shrine of Toryism 1

(From Bell's Life in London.)
The meetings that have taken place in the metropolis have
been of incalculable importance to the cause of good govern-
ment, and they who originated them deserve the thanks of
their countrymen for their active zeal at such an importa-A
crisis. The country must speak out at once. It must tell the
Duke, and all his slavish sycophants, that the progress of
Reform shall not be stopped—that it shall not even be de-
layed. The Duke must be taught now, as he was taught
upon the Catholic question, that England's resources shall
not be wasted—that England's power shall not be disgrace-
fully put forth to perpetuate that most crying abuse, the Irish
Church, in its present state. Disguise it as they may, the
Tories know full well that the chief thing they dreaded was
a reform of that Church. It is the greatest abuse in the em-
pire, and, therefore, they cling to it the most fondly. The
reform of the Irish Church could hardly have occurred with-
out the application of the principle of that reform to the
C;ltirch of England. The Church, that is to say, the Tithes
Pluralities—the fat things of Ecclesiastical preferment
were threatened, and the whole class of tax and tithe-eaters
felt a mxtal anguish seize upon them. Slowly as the Whig
Ministers ,moved—delicately as they tried to deal with long
e
abuses—the Tories saw that they did deal
f
and the Tories moved earth and heaven—
atalbyli with them
thYemorY;

BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, Nos *2O.
Wheat, 62 lb.
Barley, imperial quarter '3O 0 32 0
Do. Grinding, 1:, lb.
Oats, 29 lb
0!d Beans, 6ti( lb
New ditto
New White Boiling Pease, 3 imp. bush.
Ditto Grey ditto

DEVIZES CORN IA R KET —Nov. 20.
Per Sack.. s. d a. d Per Quarter. 3. 41, a. d.
Best Wheat........ 24 oto 2, 0 Barley.. 25 0 to l'6 0
Second 24 0 22 0 Oats t'.o I) :8 0
1 birds l6 6 18 0 Beans (per sack)... 17 0 23 0
1079 Sacks of Wheat sold./ ~, . l' lour (per bag) ..... 34 0 38 0
at the average of . •-' Bread (per gall.) .. 1 1 44 0

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHA NOE 18.
WHEAT. I..nglish, White, tier 703).
Reit
.. 6 3 6

---- Seotclik VWiCh, and Manx
-- Irish. White 6 8 7 0
-------- Red
--- Foreign ......
OATS, English, Wel,h, anti Scotch, uer 451 h 3 9 4 0
---- Irish

Foreign
BARLEY,
EngEsh, Alaltini.t. per I nip. quarter `-,3 0 37 0
Scotch and Irish, per rallbs.
Feeding 3 10 3 11
BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4k 0 44 0
--- Irish, Acc. lO 0 40 '0
--j. Foreign
PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 44 0
--- Foreign 33 0 42 0
FLOUR, English, per 28011).
Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 24011 is .... 24 0 27 6
IN. lAN CORN, per 4401 h.
RYE, per Imperial quarter '32 0 S 6 0
MALT, per Imperial quarter '',2 0 62 0
IMPORT OP GRAIN for the Week ending Nov. 17
%Vheat. Oats. I Barley Flour. ()atilt-. 1.
Qrs• Qrs. Qrs. ' I
Foreign, SOL Irish,&c. scks I 1,0.'3
5,631 4,059 880 5,332 3,681