The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-01 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 183:L

_
expressed
trtaintnent
The year 1832—the year of regeneration di-
sian Am- rectly to this country, and indirectly, we believe,
his Court '
fir rather hope we may say, to all Europe—
excepting 1 flaying just expired, it may not be amiss, per-
wever, re-,. 'aps, if we indulge, for a brief space, in a cur-
:Elder alone:.
my retrospect. It opened amid gloom and
e.
has been ncertainty, when even the sanguine were de-
assador ".
,ner by the 7 P; Pending, the timid had cast away hope, and
letely sec - ' bigot and the oppressor were buckling on
sh;ps ha.-' their armour for the fight. All classes of men, the
important
Peer in his palace, and the peasant in his hut,
the inter- 'the placeman at Court, and the workman at the
be Sultan loom, felt equally the excitement of the season ;
lons here ,-,
Ansa and pelt equally that the time was at hand when each
inted wit:t i'Ould be up and stirring. Our readers' recol-
whence ti,
Is of such ections will fully bear us out in this assertion ;
s also, that the Rational excitement had obtained
ay be ex- ,
',s climax in the never to be forgotten month of
morroa.,
.t the Go- `lay--at which epoch--we shudder while we revert
,!,000,000
O it—the Powers of Light and Darkness, sick to
which the.
.agary, 1,,,,, ti ,1 P.ath of moving:like two parallel lines, constantly
e Govern- ithrtetening, yet never approaching closer to each
in "'in" 'other, had at length, bid adieu to all further
al rescript :-anceuvring, and, drawn up in battle array, guns
ke, and V.
relative td' anted, bayonets bristling, swords flashing,
duction of ready, as it seemed at the time, for instant
uchies of ncounter. We allude, of course, to those ten
Vsniduerp alitnsdt '
li Csys in May, when freedom and oppression hung
e duchiesi. rembling in the balance, and every rising sun
utnstances, t 'ew not but it might set on a thousand battle-
s and ti: T, id
ised are to ' e " Fortunately for all parties this season of
and thew' fe and horror passed away; the thunder cloud
thus the ~s
scattered ere it could launch a single
nt mattei
reason to- ,lt, and all was peace and sunshine where, but
[sjesty be- moment before, all had been gloom and tem-
consiclera.
it. To drop further metaphor, the Reform
!' lill achieved a full and perfect triumph, and
e words " liberty" and " people" were ad-
, itted as orthodox and intelligible English, even
to the vocabularies of the Ultras. This great
vent closed the chief interest of the year,
qch will henceforth be sung by poets,
.!orded by historians, and dwelt upon by phi-
,., ,:ophers, as the great year of regeneration, in
,13 111,1, nich the ground-work was laid for the liberties
ALr-PAST ; England, and consequently of Europe, and
emely Still ye advocates of freedom and despotism came
variation. 'r the first time to an understanding
in 1832, * each
,347 on. , other's powers. But if the year
o Answer . at has
passed be one of regeneration, what
p all we say of
the infant stranger that has but
of stock. st come
of L among Us ? Say ? Why, that he is
le 'lope, the Hercules in the cradle, fit even
1 this state to
T grapple with monsters and subdue
hem. he Year 1833 •
will, we doubt not, go far
complete the building, the foundation of which
is predecessor has laid. He will not falter or daily
id: his :Ph, but go straight through with it in
workmanlike fashion. We have vast and
, nfident expectations from this year- It may
4ve•o
—, 5 Storttla and tempests, but assuredly it will
tki if, peace and sunshine, Society just now
s ill $ chrysalis state, that is to say, in a
change
tate ofand transition ; and as it cannot
trograde, it must of necessity advance. New
. ---
halms of thought in the world of science—of
corals—ofpolit
of politics
philosophy—are on the
discovery,
re Old systems have been
,roken ul3---old opinions laid aside—all
change and bustle and expectation, in the
bical, as well as in the political,
,iverse• Freedom
of thought has attained a
growth, ant'sacid will exert a giant's power.
he can no longer be chained down, like
ioniethens to his rock, by the interested,- com-
bed factions of ignorance and oppression. Re-
m has freed her from all such trammels.
euceforth she will roam freely abroad throughout
grope, whispering every where comfort to the
and thundering retribution in the ear
..i:Ptzsetl,
oppressor. Much as the despotic Powers
turope may detest the memory of 1832,
',), will yet have far more cause to execrate
successor
, for the former was at best
the 1833 ear of hope, while the latter will be
t of fu fihneat.

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lish and French Governments to allow the
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national debt, the amount of expenditure

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