The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-16 00:00:00

be so far carried axay by their pique, because
they cannot instantly obtain all the changes they
want, as to turn round and support the men
who are opposed in their hearts to all improve-
ment whatever. A spoiled child, when baulked
of some one object, spurns at everything else.
This is emblematical of the ultra radicals. The
Reform Bill has opened the door to every con-
ceivable improvement. If a measure is now
rejected, it must he because the intelligent and
influential part of the community are not yet
prepared for it, or because it is disapproved of
as injurious to the community. There is no
particular class in the country sufficiently pow-
erful to prevent the success of a measure gene-
rally deemed beneficial to the country. Even
the corn laws must be altered the moment the
people themselves have made up their minds
that they shall be altered. And yet, because
the Reform Bill is not so perfect as they think
it ought to be, they turn with disdain from the
immense promise of good it affords, and are
determined to be pleased with nothing, or ra-
ther to be pleased only with those who would
have given no reform whatever, and conceded
no material improvement of our laws and insti-
tutions. We fear that the Church and King
mobs of this country are not so completely
extinct as sometimes we would fain believe.
Many of these ultra radicals are, we fear, the
legitimate successors of the Church and King
mobs, and are now just as much led by the nose
as their predecessors were. The name is, no
doubt, changed ; but, we fear, only the name.—
Morning Chronicle.
The Reformers at Leeds have acted with great
wisdom. They have had a conference on the
subject of the successor to Mr. Macaulay who
ought to be returned by them, at which it was
agreed that one of the different individuals
spoken of as candidates, who had the most votes
in his favour, should receive the support of all
the Reformers. Mr. Baines, senior, Dr. Bow.
ring, and Mr. Joshua Bower, were proposed,
and Mr. Baines having the most votes, it was
determined that he should be supported. This
is acting like sensible men. Individual vanity
and ambition ought never to stand in the way
of a cause. Mr. Baines has lived long in Leeds,
and is thoroughly acquainted with all the interests
of that important capital of the woollen manu-
facture. He is an able and enlightened man,
and is sufficiently independent in his circum-
stances to allow him to devote himself to the
public service. It is from men of his class that
the greatest good is to be expected. We are
glad to find that he has consented to stand, and,
we suppose, supported as he will be, his success
is certain.—Morning Chronicle.
Our readers will have seen, not, probably,
without some surprise, the extraordinary circular
transmitted in the name of Lord Althorp, as
Chancellor of the Exchequer, to all the church-
wardens of the kingdom, calling upon them to
return to him, not only the amount of the tithes
paid or payable in their respective-parishes, but
the number of acres in, and the rental of the
whole of each parish. Such a return as this
was, we believe, never before called for by any
authority whatever, still Icss by any one person
having no authority, that we know of to do so.
The commissioners of the property tax, though
armed with very inquisitorial powers by Parlia-
ment, never called, we believe, for any such sta-
tistical returns as these. If not satisfied with re-
turns of income made by parties they had the
power to surcharge, and then examine parties
who were dissatisfied ; but this, we believe, is
the first time, in the latter years of our history,
at least, that anything at all resembling this was
ever called for, and that from persons who, from
the nature of their office, have no better means
of knowing what they are asked to give an an-
swer to, than the parish clocks or parish consta-
bles. It is imagined, and we dare say very
truly, that the returns thus called for are prepa-
ratory to the measure which Ministers have it in
contemplation to bring before Parliament under
the head of Church Reform. But we thought
there had been an Ecclesiastical Commission
last year which had made the necessary inqui-
ries. If not, what becomes of the much-
vaunted boast that the plan of Ministers was
ready prepared, and had been already submitted to
the highest authorities, if they are only now, at
the eleventh hour, setting about an inquiry into
the facts on which that plan must necessarily be
founded ? We are well aware that to legislate
w•ithcut a full knowledge of the facts on which
any measure is to be grounded is preposterous.
But our objection in this instance lies to the
mode and the channels through which the infor-
mation is sought, to its far outstepping the object
it has in view, and to the precedent which such
a mode of proceeding creates in favour of any
other system of official Paul-Pryism which may
hereafter be established upon it. We may be
wrong. This mode of getting at statistical ac-
counts of the whole kingdom may be right, and
the mcde of doing it lawful and constitutional ;
but we must wait for better reasons than appear
upon the document in question before our
doubts upon its policy or legality can be satis-
fied.—Morning Herald.

We alluded the other day to a report of
orders having been received by the Russian
commanders in the Black Sea, to fit out and
prepare a squadron for sea with all possible
expedition ; and in the Berlin papers, received
last night, we find the report very amply con-
firmed, but without any explanation of the
object which it is proposed to accomplish by
That that object, however, has relation to the
affairs of Turkey, and, above all, to the right
closing the Dardanelles, at the pleasure of the
Autocrat of Russia, as arranged and settled by
the treaty into which the Ambassadors of his
imperia; Majesty so cunningly tricked the Sul-
tan, there con be no doubt, and we, in conse-
quence, rejoice to learn that our Government has
at length determined to act with that promptitude
and decision which the importance of the occa-
sion so imperatively demands. Our naval
force in the Mediterranean is to be immediately
augmented by the addition of the Ganges 84,
Bellerophon, 80, and President, 52, at Ports-
mouth ; the Calcutta, 84, Minden, 74, and
Portland, 52, at Plymouth. The Blenheim,
74, and Worcester, 52, at the eastward, are
also ordered to be rigged and filled with their
ground tiers of water, by the crews of the flag-
ships at their respective stations. Orders, it is
said, have also been received at Chatham to rig
the Camperdown, 106, and Hastings, 74, and
at Sheerness the Power/it!, 84. The Admirals
at these places are to assist the riggers with all
the men they can spare from the ships it,
commission. The customary proportion of
smaller vessels will also accompany this
powerful squadron, and be supplied not only
with all the material of war, but the usual
supply of medical officers, as in time of war.
That Russia is prepared for such a demon-
t ration on the part of England we do not