The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-27 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1 34.

We stated in The Sun yesterday, that the Procla.
mation for the Dissolution of Parliament would be
signed by the KING at Brighton this morning, and on
Monday or Tuesday next we expect the publication or
an Extraordinary Gazette, announcing the dissolu-
tion in the usual form. Now is the time for the Re-
formers of England, Scotland, and Ireland to prove
their sincerity in the great and good cause in which
the country is embarked. Now is the hour and the
moment for verifying their own predictions, and redeem-
ing those vows made on the altar of liberty, of which
an Empire has been the witness. The Tories are still
sufficiently powerful to cause apprehension ; but their
great strength is the divisions which they are sowing
amono. the Reformers themselves. It is not numbers
but discretion that is now required. To conquer tri-
umphantly, we must be " as wise as serpents, and as
harmless as doves." There must be no elbowing and
jostling, and intriguing, among the Reform leaders—
no recollection of old grudges—no petty rivalry

—no quadrupling of Liberal candidates—and above
all, no tampering with the Tories in any way what-
ever. Let it be the first care of every Constituency to
provide sound, liberal, and deliberative, temperate Re-
formers to represent them, and having found such
men, listen to the claims of none other, whatever may be
his pretensions. Enthusiasts and boasters are in ge-
neral little worth ; and we would advise the electors
not to put confidence in men who are ready to swallow
every pledge that may be propounded to them. We
are not for Universal Suffrage, the extinction of a
Church Establishment, or any other of the wild specu-
lations afloat in the world. We want reformed not
abolished institutions. We are advocates for Trien-
nial Parliaments, because we are persuaded they would
have a most salutary influence on the House of Come
mons ; and by the House of Commons in conjunction
with the other Estates, constitutionally established, do

we only desire to see reformed the institutions of the
British Empire.
In several parts of the country the Reformers are
certainly exerting themselves in the most praiseworthy
manner. We have received several letters from Bridg-
water and its vicinity, together with an excellent ad-
dress of Mr. J. TEMPLE LEADER to the electors of
that borough, which we trust will be followed by his
return for a seat in the ensuing Parliament. Mr.
LEADER says—

" I wish for strict economy in the expenditure of the public
money ; for the removal of the burthens of taxation, to the ut-
most possible extent from the middle and labouring classes;
and for the encouragement of moral and religious education.
" I am an advocate for the relief of Dissenters from all dis-
abilities and grievances on aecount of religious opinion ; for a
thorough and uncompromising Reform of an municipal Cor-
porations ; and for the abolitiods of all sinecures and unde-
served pensions."
This is quite enough; and from what we have heard
of Mr. LEADER, he is a gentleman who will Itleem
his pledges. The other papers which we received
with the address, go more into detail, and if we can
spare space we may refer to them, when the subject is
again before us. At present such is the crowded state
ofour columns, and the number of claims upon our
attention, that we can no more than glance at subjects
which are not of vital consequence.
In conjunction with the above address to the elec-
tors of Bridgewater, we have received the addresses of
Mr. E. L. BULIVER, and Mr. C. BEAUMONT PHIPps
to the electors of Lincoln. Of the merits of Mr.
, BuLwER as a most able and indefatigable Member of
Parliament it were needless to offer a single observa-
tion. In his address to constituents, he says :
" I have registered my name, as your Representative, against
the Irish Coercion Bill,--against the Impressment of Seamen,
—against the splendid pauperism of the Pension List,-,..-against
Sinecures, whether of Navy or Army, Church or State :
And for the Protection of the Ballot,—for the shortening the
duration of Parliament,—for the Rights of the Dissenters,—
for the Abolition of Slavery,—for the Removal of the Taxes
on. Knowledge,—for a revision of our Taxation generally, with
a view to put the burthen on the strongest shoulders ;—in a
word, for whatever seemed to be most calculated to procure for
all men the best Government on the fairest terms. Always
indeed, recollecting that we must be temperate as well as ac-
tive, that we must be practical even in our theories, that in
our desire for changes however valuable, we must not rashly
create disorder, risk property, ruin the farmer, plunder
the fundholder, or compromise that National Faith, the sanc-
tity of which has so much contributed to Establish our Na-
tional renown."

This is language worthy of a member of the first
deliberative assembly in the world ; and the address
of Mr. PHIPPS is equally explicit. Let the Reform-
ers examine their men, and then support them to the
last ; and let such tried men as Mr. BULWER leave
nothing undone to unite the Reform interest. Re-
member, that as union is strength, so likewise dis-
union is weakness.

Sir ROBERT PEEL might have spared himself con-
siderable pains-taking, if, instead of concocting his
Book of Sophistries, he had merely pointed to the
names that now adorn his 'Ministerial staff; that would

have misled none, for such a list defies misinterpreta-
tion. Such a simple act had also saved many branches
of a proud Aristocracy from the deep degradation of
civic feast—the shoulder-rubbing with " Common Hall
fools and factors' wives," so tainting to noble blood.
Perhaps in the hour of spinning his tough-yarn
manifesto, Sir ROBERT scarcely dreamed of the
MAHONS and STORMONTS, to whom desperation sub-
sequently pointed. It is quite clear that when he threw
the handkerchief to the " Heir of the House of Mans-
field," he either forgot his own expressions therein, or
the notable declaration of that excellent young man.
" Gentlemen," said he to the Norwichites, some fort-
night since, " I avow that I always had a violent dis-
like to the word Reform—there is much in a name,
and I have strong feelings against that name !" Excel-
lent young man, replies Sir ROBERT, come to my
bosom ; I need but place my hand upon your shoulder,
and who shall complain of ambiguity in my Tamworth
declaration ?

Will no kind friend of Sir ROBERT'S print of? a lis
of the Ministerial appointments at so much per thou
sand for general circulation ? The people then woul(
only have to " look upon this picture and on that,'
and all would be plain.

One of the shallowest attempts ever made to frighten
the Whigs from their propriety, appears in a morning
print. The fable of the Fox that once upon a time
lost his tail is thus ludicrously moralised.
Alarmed at the union of all classes of the Liberals,
and shrewdly foreseeing thereby the utter prostration
to which the Tory party must be inevitably brought, it
is seriously urged upon the Whigs---,, that party of
politicians of whom Lord GREY for more than 20
years preceding 1830, was in Parliament the acknow-
ledged chief, with Lords Holland and Lansdowne, the
Russells, Cavendishes, and their large circle of friends
and adherents, for supporters in both houses"—to
avoid the peril of an association with that desperado
faction the destructive mob. Is there not, he asks, a
much closer and real assimilation between the moderate
conservatives, (we suppose of course the Knatchbulls,
Mahons, Stormonts, Goulbourns, and that " sort of
people") and rational reformers, than between the
latter and revolutionists, who present only a portion of
its physical strength, and the whole of its dregs and
deleterious off-scourings and deposits ?
From our hearts we sincerely congratulate the
country that the unhappy Tories have at length be-
come sensible of the ruin which impends upon them.
Wretched, indeed, must be their plight, if, in their
death-throes, they are compelled to call upon their
fiercest foes for help I With whom have the Tories
been fighting, for the last quarter of a century, but
with the Whigs ? Throat to throat have they been
warring, and no sooner are they felled to the ground,
and the others' heels upon their necks, than away flies ]
their deadly enmity, and the vanquished crave a fra- i

ternal embrace, and a helping hand ! Such is Tory
bravery—such the nobleness of its soul in adversity !
Perverse conquerors ! (cry the Tories)—lll-fated
Whigs ! Why are ye not alive to the perils which
the Destructive mob is weaving about and about
ye ? See ye not that nothing short of a confedera-
tion between Whigs and Tories can save either from
the threatened desolation ? Hasten, then, and take
us to your bosoms, else—so great is the numerical force
of the " extreme Radicals "—we are both lost

The ruling passion, strong in death, is here, indeed,
displayed. Their cunning leaves them not even in their
dying agony : neither does their stupid obstinacy.
Wilful have they been in all their ways, and now they
arc most righteously receiving the fruit of the seed
they planted.

Base is the Tory heart that can descend to such deep
degradation—cowardl3 the men, who, even in their
last extremity, can cry aloud for mercy from such a
quarter ;—but ten times more base and cowardly would
the Whigs be, if they spurned not such recreants from
them.

UNION is the war-cry of the Liberals ; and, at that
word the Tories shallquake to their very centre. Their
days are numbered, and the sooner they make their

peace with the country, the more creditable will be

their exit.

Mr. CLAY has published an admirable address to
his constituents. If ever a constituency had cause to
be satisfied with a representative, the electors of the
Tower Hamlets have reason to be satisfied with Mr.
CLAY. He has during the course of his parliamen-
tary career, proved himself the enlightened and fear-
less advocate of popular rights, and the irreconcileable
enemy of abuse, wherever it is to be found, or by whom-
soever practised. He is a Reformer of the true stamp,
and the electors of the most populous and opulent
borough of the kingdom, may think themselves
eminently fortunate in having such a man to look to
at a crisis like the present—a man who has proved his
title to their confidence by his undeviating adherence
to principle and rectitude, in the execution of the most
important trust that can be committed to man by his
fellow men.

The whole of Mr. CLAY'S address is excellent ;
but we are particularly struck with the force and justice
of the observations contained in the following passage—
" To the present Government I shall, in the deep convic-
tion that its existence is incompatible with the well-being of
the empire, give a decided and uncompromising opposition:
The composition of the new Administration is now before the
public: in its anti-reform character it goes beyond my very
worst anticipations. The last appointments proclaim the de-
termination of the Ministers of the Crown to identify them-
selves with the Orange party in Ireland. I want words to
express my sense of the insane folly of such a determination.
The very names of the Members of the Government give us
a warning not to be misunderstood as to the policy which that
Government will pursue—a warning which should arouse, as
with a trumpet's voice, the Electors of England to do their

With such Ministers, to place a moment's reliance on ge-
neral professions of a disposition to reform, would argue the
most imbecile folly. General professions--vague under any
circumstances—must always derive their value and meaning
from the known characters and opinions of those by whom
they are used. What can be the value of professions of at-
tachment to reform interpreted by the most bigoted of Anti-
Reformers ? Give but to Ministers a Parliament in which
they should be sure of a majority, and I will defy the wit or
ingenuity of man to hold them, under the terms of their lead-
er's dextrous declaration, to one single measure of efficient or
practical reform."

Never was there a discomfiture more complete than
hat which the Tories experienced at their " grand
meeting" on Tuesday last. How severely they feel it,
how bitterly it has disappointed their hopes, may
easily be imagined from the known workings of poor
frail human nature, placed in such unhappy eircum
stances. But we could hardly have anticipated that it
would have thrown them into such ungovernable pa-
roxysms of rage, as, we lament to say, they have ever
since exhibited. They are in convulsions—absolutely
black in the face, and foaming at the mouth, each
fit being accompanied with copious evacuations of the
filthiest abuse imaginable. " Ruffians," " vindictive
savages," " subverters of the Monarchy," roars the
Morning preacher at Blackfriars. " Vagabonds !
thieves ! desperadoes I pickpockets I housebreakers I"
responds the Evening lecturer at the same place.
Such ebullitions of temper do no good. If the
case is bad, bad language only makes it worse,
and surely a little reflection, (were they in a state to
reflect), would convince them that such terms as those
above mentioned, when applied to bankers and Bank
Directors, as Messrs. NORMAN, GROTE, and PRES-
COTT are, or to men who stand so high in the mercan-
tile world as Mr. CLAY, Mr. CRAWFURD, Mr. TRA-
VERS, Mr. SOLLY, &c., cannot but disgust every per-
son who has the least respect for decency.
That the failure of the plot—so excellent a plot—
and at the very moment, too, when it seemed just ripe
for execution—that this is provoking, we do not mean
to deny. That it is very disastrous to Tory prospects,
not over bright before, we are quite ready to admit.
Nay, if it will avail any thing in the way of condolence,
we will even go so far as to state our persuasion, that,
in its effects, it may justly be compared to a smiting
under the fifth rib. But still, awful as the visitation
is, we think, that good policy, to say nothing of
Christian resignation, should dictate a different course
of action ; for they may rely upon it that no conclu-
sion is more natural than that he who hollows out has
been hit hard. Besides, they ought to consider that
if they have met with a grievous calamity, they have
brought it entirely on themselves ; though perhaps
we ought not to enforce that argument upon them,
as a ground of consolation, which generally adds so
much poignancy to suffering.
In the hope that they are about to return, we do
not say to reason, (for that is scarcely to be expected,)
but to that less distempered state of mind which may not
altogether prevent them from listening to reason, we
would, without the most remote intention of giving
offence, calmly put it to them, whether any other re-
sult could have been expected by any persons capable
of reflecting on what passes around them ? They
called, by public advertisement, a meeting of bankers,
merchants, traders, and others, for the purpose of ex-
pressing their loyalty and attachment to the Sovereign
on the late exercise of the Royal prerogative. Now
they ought to have known (if they know any thing)
that the vast majority of the mercantile classes, as of
all other classes, are reformers ; and as such, sincerely
attached to the KING. and to the national institutions.
How then could it be supposed that the Reformers
would refuse to obey the call thus made upon their
patriotism, at a moment of such peril to the constitu-
tion, when they saw the person of the Sovereign in a
state of constraint, in the hands of a faction desperately
bent on a course, by which all wise men clearly per-
ceived that the very existence of the Monarchy was en-
dangered ?
The Reformers could not absent themselves from
the meeting without incurring the charge of disloyalty,
and giving a colour—and something more than a co-
lour—to the calumnies so ingeniously invented, and
industriously circulated against them. They, therefore,
assembled, as they felt themselves in duty bound, out-
numbering their opponents ten to one. They were
then informed that the meeting was not for discussion,
but merely for signing an address already agreed upon.
When they had received this information, which they
could not credit, till they heard it from the mouth of the
Chairman,
manner, and held a meeting of their
own, which, for the regularity, propriety, and
they withdrew in the most orderly and
peaceable
dignity of its proceedings, has never been surpassed.
This is a brief statement of the affair, and what
is there in it to excite surprise ? Nothing in
the world. shall not dwell upon the ab-
surdityofthe pretence, that a public meeting
was called to sign an address, because it is evident
one that a simple notification that the
t to
addressvey
rlay for signature at a certain place, would
have
e answered the purpose of signing much
better. Nor shall we enlarge upon the want
of principle with which the Tories meant to represent
the mercantile community as favourable to the WEL-
LINGTON Administration. Our readers may easily
conjecture the use that would have been made of the
plot, had it succeeded. They may fancy with what a
hurrah the di4§olUtioo would Wvc teen Wiled after so