The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-25 00:00:00

TilE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1834

people ; and on them depends the issue of the mighty
struggle which has agitated Europe, more or less, foi
the last three centuries. Let Union be the watchword.
Let every father of a family—every leading character
in a village club—every orator at public meetings,
repeat to their respective audiences the fable of the
bundle of sticks, which, when tied together, defied
every effort to break them. Let there be Union,
but let there be no Secret Societies—let there be
firmness and fixedness of resolve, but let there be no
midnight meetings—no ties which bind not honest
men in a great public cause. We want no assistance
which seeks the violation of the laws—we accept no
aid which sets at nought the sacred principles which
ought to direct our conduct as men and Christians.
Our language is that of the Poet—

" If we want oaths to join us,
Swift let us part from Pole to Pole asunder,
A cause like ours is its own sacrament ;
Truth, justice, reason, love, and liberty,
The eternal links that clasp the world arc in it,
And he who breaks their sanction breaks all law,
And infinite connection."

These are our sentiments on the present momentous
occasion. But we are too well convinced of the good
sense of our countrymen to fear aught either from
their violence, or their being betrayed into the com-
mission of any secret violation of the laws. They
have nothing to fear in public, and the acts which a
duty to themselves, their children, and their prin-
ciples calls upon them to perform, to be executed
effectively, must be performed in the face of the
United Kingdom. They are now in the grasp
of despotism. Let the Duke but once get fairly
into the saddle, and we. shall hear him answer all po-
pular threats with—

" Let 'em rise ; let 'em rise ; give me the bridle here,
And see if they can crack my girths "

A more powerful despot than the Duke would not long
sit. astride a saddle on the back of the British Constitu-
tion, but his fall would not be without involving others
in his ruin, and therefore the wisest way is in time to
prevent the evil. We should be sorry for his own sake
to see the Duke lose his balance, and we feel bound to
save ourselves from the necessity of assisting in his
overthrow. The Duke of WELLINGTON has ren-
dered his country important services, for which we are
as grateful as becomes free citizens, and the best proof
of gratitude we can give at present, is to hinder him
from cancelling our, and the Empire's, obligations to
him. We do not blame the Duke for the prin-
ciples he professes. They are natural to every
man who has passed thrOugh life in the same
way in which he has done. They are the prin-
ciples of a soldier, who knows no will but that of
his commanding officer, acknowledges no law but what
is administered under the inspection of the drum-
major, and sees in every person an enemy who ranges
under a different flag, and follows an opposite stan•
dard. But the people of England are no, political
machines—no puppets, to be pulled this way and that,-
at the will of any power. Such men as the Duke are
their instruments, not their masters--the directed, not
the directors—the employed, not the employing. Not
Co think, but to obey, is the duty of those who receive
hire, not of those who pay it ; and this is a distinction
which his Grace will find that the people comprehend
perfectly.
What then is to be. done ? We answer, let the
Reformers of the empire unito as one man—let them
meet and petition—and above all let them prepare
themselves for returning a House of Commons which
shall not disappoint them when the battle is to be
fought in Parliament. The Commons may and can
do every thing. If the Commons' House and the
people make common cause, they may laugh at all
their enemies were they twice as numerous, and as
powerful as the United Court and Aristocracy.
The taxes are the mainspring of the whole
machine, without which it could . not move
a moment, and of these the Commons
have the regulation. Let us not despair
then of a glorious triumph. It is impossible `nat this
mighty empire should cower at the feet of an in-
triguing despotical faction, whc.
'nave been for months
plotting the dissolutiv.
of the late Cabinet, and by
whom the wllOl, scheme by which that event took j
place was 'Contrived and managed. The contrary re-
port' previously circulated were all totally unfounded.
The Tories had designedly scattered themselves, and'
went out of England in expectation of the dissolution
of the MELBOURNE Ministry. The absence of Sir
It. PEEL is by no means accidental ; the wily Baronet
being desirous of learning the exact state of public feel-
ing with respect to the Duke's party before he commits
himself. We beseech the Reformers not to suffer
him to experience any disappointment - on this head.
The Earl of DURHAM is in the field—and although
the Conservatives of Dent, and some other places, are
revelling in the prospect of the re-commencement of
the good old times, when sinecures and pensions re-
warded the oppression of the people, thank Heaven
their cause only assumes a more desperate complexion.
How was it that we triumphed over the borough-
mongers ? Was it not because we were united in a
bond of co-operation, stronger than that which binds to-
gether the members of one family ? Let no one for-
get this who values his liberties at the worth of a
single farthing. Let us unite then in the common
cause—let us meet, petition, and do all in our power to
purify the House of Commons, and the victory is ours.

There are two late changes in the political world
which all the friends of freedom and fair dealing are
unanimous in condemning—the change of the
Ministry, and the change of the Times.. We class
these two events together, not because we think them
of equal importance, God forbid I but merely because
they are strictly contemporaneous. The former is .a
national calamity. It puts a complete stop, for the
present at least, to all those reforms that were in pro-
gress ; agitates the public mind ; throws the trading,
commercial, and manufacturing community into con.
fusion ; and, though we have no fears for the ultimate
triumph of order and liberty, may lead, in the mean-
time, to a state of things in which neither
order nor liberty will be regarded, and which those
who have produced it (whether directly, or otherwise,
we say not), will have the greatest cause to lament.
The latter event is quite of a different character. There
is nothing national involved in it, and if it can be said
to possess any public interest, it must be a subject of
congratulation, rather than of regret. The hypocrite un-
masked is like the viper when its fangs are drawn,
perfectly innocuous. The reptile continues to wriggle,
and hiss, and dart out its forky appendage, shewing
plainly enough that it still retains all its former ma-
lignity, though it can do no harm ; but nobody minds
it—people only laugh.

Bayonne Papers of the 19th inst., which have been
received, bring intelligence that on the 15th inst. a
party of the QUEEN'S troops fell in with four Bin-
cavan battalions at Dimas, belonging to the rebel

faction. The Carlists fought desperately for some
time, but in the end they were routed with great
slaughter, three hundred and twenty of their number
being either killed or desperately wounded, and as
many more made prisoners. The accounts further
state that Don CARLOs was present in the field, and
narrowly escaped being made prisoner.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
Admiral DUPERRE has been at last prevailed upon to
accept the Marine Department, and his appointment
is officially announced. He is a distinguished naval
officer, of the old school of French politicians, noto-
rious for their dislike of everything foreign, and their
jealousy of Great Britain. The accession of such
men to power is rather unfortunate at the present
period, and will not much advance the commercial
intercourse between England and France.

The French Journals bring intelligence from
Madrid up to the 15th instant. The debates
in the Chamber of Procuradores are confined to
discussions on the project of the law for regulating the
appointment, and .services of the Urban Militia, or
National Guard. General LLAUDER has been ap-
'pointed Minister of. War, and since his, accession to
office has addressed an official letter to MINA, in
which he states that he will render tht troops every
assistance in his power, and earnestly exhorts the
Viceroy not to relax in his efforts to put an end to
the wa: as expeditiously a*. possible. MINA has also
forwarded despatches to the Cabinet in Madrid,
which contain a full account of the state of the pro-
vinces, of which he has received the command. His
success has been very great, and his health is perfectly
restored.