The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-20 00:00:00

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On this subject, a Morning Contemporary says,
" We have seen letters from Derby, Leicester, Not-
tingham, and many other towns, which assure us that the
determination to oppose a Tory Government, or a re-
turn to power of the Tories, under any pretence or de-
lusion whatever, is as strong as it was at any period
during the struggle for reform. It •is yet difficult,
however, to convince the people that the Duke of
WELLINGTON is in earnest." And no wonder
The experiment really looks very like a joke, and but
that the uniform obtuseness of the ducal intellect mili-
tates against any such supposition, we too might be
tempted to imagine that His Grace, not content with
his fame as a commander, was ambitious also of
achieving celebrity as a wag !

It seems that we are to have no Government till the
return of Sir R. PEEL from the Continent. Now
Sir ROBERT is a shrewd man—a close calculator of the
doctrine of chances—a nice observer of men arid
things--tea subtle speculator on times:and seasons—and
thus usefully accomplished, we question much
whether he will not feel disposed—bearing in mind
his votes on the Church question, and other
little embarrassing matters—to decline the perilous
honour of a front seat on the Treasury Bench.
If so, what will become of the " dear Duke" and his
subalterns ? All depends on the acquiescence of Sir IL
PEEL, and if he—looking to the inflamed condition
in which he will assuredly find the country on his re-
turn—whisper a reluctant " No," in the ducal ear,
it is clear that his Grace and his squad will have no-
thing left for it, but to pack up bag and baggage, and
make a handsome retreat.

But, after all, the whole matter rests with the
people. If they be true to themselves, the Tories
must succumb, and Liberal principles triumph. The
Reform Ministry has deposited in their hands a
power, which no faction—however crafty or resolute
—can deprive them of. Henceforth they, not a fac-
tion, are the Government.

The Paris papers of Tuesday have been received,
but they hardly contain a word of intelligence worth
giving. The Moniteur states that M. THIERS has
not yet re-entered upon the duties of his office, and
that the Royal mandate found the learned Ex-Mi-
nister resuming his historical studies. Who that reads
this will dare to say that France cannot boast of
Roman virtue ? CINCINNATus at the plough
will cut but a sorry figure beside M. THIERS,
in the pages of some future historian. The Journal
de Paris, in referring to the unsettled state of the
Ministry, says that
" On Monday evening, at six o'clock, M. Humann had
not arrived at Paris ; the state of the weather does not
admit bis answer to reach the capital by telegraph."

Beyond this nothing is yet known.
FRENCH FUNDS.—FARTS, Nov. 18.
Five per Cents., 105 f. 49c. 90e. 8.5 c.
Four per Cents. 92f. 75c.
Three per Centii., 77f 50c. 78f. Sc 77f. 95c.
Rente de Naples, 95f. 45c. 40c. 75..
Roman Five per Cents., 94N%
Ilente ri'Espagne. Five per Cents., 42%314.
Rente d'Fspagne, Three per Cents., 27 27%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 44ii 43 44%.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 99.

The latest accounts from Bayonne state that Don
CARLos is becoming every day more successful in
Navarre. We have a shrewd suspicion that
the expected changes in our home policy has a good
deal to do with these rumours. The Tories under-
stand these things better than any other party.

Another "sign of the times," strongly indicative of
the desperation of the Tory faction, and of their con-
viction that they must have recourse to all sorts of ad-
ventitious helps, appears among our advertisements in
this day's Sun, where our readers will see an an-
nouncement of a new number of the Quarterly Re-
view, though it is scarcely a month since the last was
published. No doubt the forthcoming one will teem
with disinterested eulogiunas on the Tory party, and
discover a thousand political excellencies in the "lead-
ing Journal of Europe !" which have been hitherto
invisible to Albemarle-street optics.

In the Patriot of last night we find the following
spirited observations. We hardly need inform our
readers that the Patriot is conducted and supported
by the Dissenters. It is, in fact, their great political
organ :

" With a promptitude and decision befitting the occa-
sion, the United Committee of the Metropolitan Dissenters
assembled yesterday, and passed the series of resolu-
tions which will be found in our advertising columns. The
signal will, we doubt not, be answered by the Dissenters
throughout the kingdom. We are glad that our friends in
London, who have sometimes been thought to lag be-
hind, are, n the present instance, the first in the field, as
they ought to be. We call upon all the friends of civil and
religious freedom to flock to the standard. Let no time be
lost in speculating what precise shape the Mitre and Sword
Administration may assume. The aim of its policy, what-
ever specious professions may be made, is, and must he, to
arrest the progress of the measures of reform—to turn back
the tide which was bearing the vessel of the Constitution
over the bar into port. There can be no mistake. The
Reform Government has fallen victim to the honest
determination to grapple with hideous abuses. The
friends of reform have but one resource ; and that
lies in the power which the Reform Bill has put
into their hands. Both the theory and the practice of the
Constitution vest the. legislative sovereignty in the Com-
mons of England ; and the verdict of an election must very
speedily decide the fate of the Military Cabinet. Let not
then a day's delay be allowed. There must not only be re-
solution, but actions. Protestant Dissenters ! you have
hitherto never wielded nor ascertained your strength, be-

cause, though religiously united, you are not a political
body ; and consequently your movements have been
those of an unorganized force.—Organization is strength.
In the pending contest, it will be every thing. The
compact columns of the enemy give them a great
advantage over our straggling numbers. - Let, then,
a Committee be instantly called together in every
town and borough where Dissenters form an influ-
ential portion of the constituency ; and let that Committee
put itself in confidential communication with their friends
at head-quarters. We are at their service with all our re-
sources. Should any body of constituents be at a loss for
suitable Representatives, we pledge ourselves to direct them
to eligible and trustworthy men. In return, we entreat
that we may be favoured with distinct information as
to the intentions and movements of our friends, the seats
that are open, or the parties for whom it is wished to obtain
them. Steps are already taken to enable us to fulfil the
office which the exigencies of the crisis impose upon us.
Take then the cause into your own hands, and you will
find the Patriot at his post."

We also copy the following excellent remarks from
the same paper (the Patriot), which seems to distri-
bute severe, but even-handed justice, to the misleading
journal for its unprincipled attempts to run down the
Whig, and to bolster up the Tory Administration. It
is evident that the ferocious attacks which " the
Times" has so perseveringly directed against Lord
BROUGHAM have not lowered him, however much it
has lowered itself in the opinion of the Dissenters :

" The Times, the honest, consistent, clean-handed, disin-
terested Times, the most gentlemanly of journals, the
most steady of politicians, has given in its adhesion
to the great Dictator. On Saturday, only on Saturday
last, its leading article contained the ominous and
daring words, " the queen has done it all? On Mon.
day, with Persian pliancy, it eats up its words, makes
what the Standard calls an honourable and just
amende, strikes the Melbourne flag, and " mounts
Wellington colours." Whether this is the result of
its venal calculation of chances, or of a diplomatic conven-
t;on between the Great Captain's envoy and the Fourth
Estate, we do not care to know. Tile fact is all we have ta
do with ; and a more disgusting and profligate instance of
po!itical pliancy was never exhibited. The Courier also, we
regret to find, has in like manner gone over to the enemy.
The Tories are fully aware of the importance of the pres,
and they will spare no cost in engaging and rewarding their
myrmidons. I'Ve will not now speak of the fault of the.
Whigs.
" The Radical papers are exulting over the fall of the
Liberal Administration, partly from the feeling ,of disap-
pointment at not having had their own way under the
Whigs, partly in the hope that the change will aid their pur-
pose by leading to commotion and mischief. This might be
expected. But the mean and malignant insults heaped upon
Lord Brougham by the renegade Times, and a scurrilous
writer in the Courier, are such as must rouse indignation in
the breast of every person of honourable feelings. To the
Chancellor, while in power, we never offered the incense of
adulation. We never attended his levees. Nay, our readers
will bear us witness, that we have not concealed our strong
dislike of some of his proceedings. 'We imagine that
we are as keen-eyed to the foibles of this extraordinary man
as those who once fawned upon him, and are now ready to
tear him in pieces. 'We admit that Henry Brougham, the
illustrious Commoner, was a greater man than Lord
Brougham, who, in the House of Peers, as in the Court of
Chancery, is out of his element. But, whatever he his defi-
ciencies or infirmities, of him it may be said, without fear
of contradiction even from his detractors,—that he is a
lawyer without avarice ; a politician, pure from all suspi-
cion of venality ; a man of strong attachments and kind-
liness of heart ; more fond of lame than of power ; de-
voting ali his energies to purposes of public utility, and
purchasing the gratification of his vanity at a cost of
intellectua exertion which would exhaust the resources of
an ordinary mind. He is a man who has never changed
his party, nor ever apostatized from his principles. His
eloquence has been uniformly given to the cause of freedom
and philanthropy, and will be still. Yes, his career is not
finished. The Ex-Chancellor will show some fight yet.
Now that he has thrown away that extinguisher of a wig,
Henry Brougham will be himself again. We honestly con-
fess we do not wish to see him fastened again to the Wool-
sack ; but his retiring pension will satisfy his modest wants,
and he will still wield, as the sworn antagonist of abuses, all
the substantial power which he derives from his gigantic
strength in debate, and the withering terrors of his sarcastic
vein of eloquence."

The unity of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S present
Administration may prove a useful example in future,
by showing how far the economy of government can be
carried. What need of such accumulated and com-
plicated official machinery, and at such an expense too,
if State affairs can be managed by one individual ?
His Grace has begun reform and retrenchment in the
right quarter. We hope he will next look to the
Pension and Civil List departments, for in both he
will find much to curtail and amend.

We beg to call the earnest attention of the benevo-
lent of all classes among our countrymen, to an ad-
vertisement in another column headed " Hurricane in
Dominica." The heart-rending details of the melan-
choly catastrophe to which it refers, appeared in
all the London papers some days since, and
must
be fresh in the memory of our readers, to whose
sympathies we then appealed in an article on the
subject. May we again beg to call the par-
ticular attention of the many excellent Societies, esta,
blished for charitable and other praiseworthy objects,
to this case of extreme suffering ? We are confident
we may, and that our call will be cheerfully re-
sponded to by all whose funds will admit of it. We
are sure our amiable and excellent countrywomen, ever
the first in acts of pure benevolence, will not read un-
moved this appeal to their best and tenderest feelings.
We would recommend a Meeting on the subject, if the
present mode of application be found to fail ; but we
cannot be persuaded that there will be a necessity for
adopting such a course. If, however, a public Meet-
Mg should be determined upon, we feel assured that the
result would be highly gratifying to every friend of the
wretched sufferers.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
THIS EVENING will be presented the Grand Dramatic Poem of

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat this morning at ten
o'clock.
...

Mr. TINNEY wished to know whether his Lordship was still
determined to hear to-day appeals of a pressing nature.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he did not yesterday state
positively that he would hear motions to-day, but he would
now state positively that it was his intention to hear no more
motions; his successor in the Court, whom his Lordship stated
he understood would also continue to hold the Chief Baron-
ship of the Exchequer, r.ad arranged to hear motions imme-
diately, and not take appeals or causes before Hilary Term.
His Lordship further observed, that upon retiring from that
Court he should only leave two cases unheard, and those were
set down before the vacation. From what his Lordship stated
with respect to his successor, all doubt is removed as to the
Great Seal being put in commission. There is a report cur-
rent that Mr. Justice Bosanquet will be one of the Commis-
sioners. _ _ _

The Court was very much crowded during the whole
morning, which seemed to be taken advantage of by pick-
pockets. A gentleman wanting to see M. le Marchant was
robbed of his watch.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)