The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-22 00:00:00

with the same conviction under which his Majesty
acted a few months sooner—namely, that the Mel-
bourne Cabinet was not framed to endure the slightest
shock from without, and possessed no element of life
or stability within it. Then, if there was no advice,
as there was confessedly no adviser, of -an act, which
the Constitution puts at the sole and personal discre-
tion of the Sovereign, for which no Minister is or
can be responsible—namely, an invitation from his
Majesty to one of his subjects to form a Govern-
ment in lieu of one which no longer exists—what,
let us ask, becomes of the famous conspiracy of
which that impossible " advice" is " conclusive evi-
dence," and whose object is to " subvert the now esta-
blished laws and constitution of the land"--..in plain
English, to repeal the Reorm Bill? The persons
who set their hands to such a resolution must be egre-
gious gobemouches ?or something worse. However,
they are not likely to carry things so trippingly and
cavalierly as they reckon. There is a power in the
city of London beyond and above these factious parti-
sans. An advertisement in this day's paper announces
a meeting for to-morrow at the City of London Ta-
vern. It is expected to unite, we believe we may say,
some thousands of the merchants, bankers, and ship-
owners of the metropolis, who are " desirous of ex-
pressing their assurance of loyalty and attachment to
their Sovereign on the occasion of the late exercise of
his Royal prerogative." We are told that the names
affixed to the requisition will be published. The
spirit and character of this proceeding a e obviously
anti-Destructive ; but they are as certainly favourable
to the cause of useful and high-principled reform as they
are the prevention of anarchy. The merchants of London,
as a body, are stanch and firm in their attachment to po-
pular rights. They know that the best safeguard of the
permanence and longevity of our institutions is diligently
to keep them in repair, to cleanse therm from impurities,
to scrape off incrustations, to cut away dry rot, to
hunt out vermin, to stop on every side the progress of
natural decay, but to recollect the inestimable uses for
which the ancient and noble edifice of our constitu-
tional Monarchy was erected, to maintain its true and
just preportions, to repel every threatened assault upon
its substance, and above all, to improve and 'profit by
that deep-seated sympathy between laws, usages, and
national characteristics, which forms the only imperish-
able cement of a State, but of which rude and unre-
flecting innovators cannot comprehend the value.
This movement of the property and political feeling
of London is well-timed, as it has been deliberative.
The merchants, bankers, &e., on whose sense and
spirit the fortunes of the country have so often hinged,
would not stir before the Administration was com-
pleted, nor until it had declared the principles of
its future policy. They find, as essential members of
that policy,. a strict adherence to public faith with all
nations, and its appropriate adjunct—peace with all.
They find a willingness to be guided at home by
the ascertained inclinations of the instructed classes
throughout the kingdom, as well in the redress of real
grievances, as in the opposition to rash, however
plausible, schemes, and the rebuke of false pretences ;
they further observe, that in the manifesto, for such it
ought to be termed, of Sir R. Peel, which, as he him-
self informs the public, is agreed to by all his colleague*
although the reverse has most indecently, we think,
been assumed by certain desperate newspapers, that no
one great section of the national interests will be pre-
ferred to another, and the public credit will be
scrupulously protected and upheld. To these views
of State policy the higher ranks of industrious English-
man inhabiting the metropolis—those by whom the in-
dustry of the mechanic and the labourer is mainly en-
couraged, and their families fed—now tome forward
and announce their adhesion. It is not the per-
sons of the Cabinet—Sir Robert Peel, or even
the Duke of Wellington—to whom the industrious
aristocracy of London adhere; it is a just and
prudent, and, in the best sense of the word,
Conservative—that is, a defensive, system of na-
tional policy which they sapport, in proud de-
defiance of the mania for inevitable revolution, which
appears to have afflicted some of their countrymen
with a restless wandering after change, and rendered
them inaccessible to the common remedy of reason.
We have no doubt of the salutary influence of this
great example upon the general mind of the people of
England. There is one suggestion, however, to which

we; would respectfully solicit the notice of the gentle-
men who have concurred in planning and calling for this
meeting. It is, that they will not be satisfied with
signing the requisition, useful as the publication of their
names may prove hereafter, but that they will consider
it a bounden duty to attend in person and maintain
their sentiments by their voices and their votes. The
trouble (is it not shocking that in such a case people
should thirik of trouble ?) is surely not worth mention-
ing. It is but once and away. Those who absent them-
selves will be sorry to read in the journals of Wednes-
day morning, that the 1,000 names of the requisition
were attested by such a scanty number of hands held
up, and that the Ultra-Radicals, or the tail of the
ousted Whigs, gaining the abandoned position, and
occupying it in irresistible force, have carried counter-
resolutions in the spirit, not of loyalty and constitu-
tional reform, but of disrespect tr the Crown,
and menace towards the relig;-
other institutions of the coy' id be .an
ill-judged proceeding on the t body to
whom we now appeal, and :,.asure so
salutary and patriotic will r to be de-
feated. If, indeed, the p. convoked
the meeting for to-morrow dolence or
negligence, suffer themselv. NI or out-
voted, they will not have rably in-
jured, the cause of wh;olt •
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for another day.—Times.
We shall this day do our be: t pledge
which, on last Friday, we gav, iers, that
we should examine calmly, and I, ..most atten-
tion, but at the same time honeay and fearlessly,
the Manifesto of Sir Robert Peel. This is a docu-
ment of more than ordinary importance, and it i 8
drawn up with more than ordinary art. Of impor-
tance, because it must be regarded as embodying the
principles and views of the whole of the Tories—that
is of the triumvirate, Wellington, Peel, and Lynd
hurst, and of all the lesser things which form their
train or tail. This is the right view of the Tory come
which has broken in to disturb the harmony of the sys-
tem of I.2rish society—at least it is so said by those
who are looked upon as the official organs of the party.
It is a most artful document, inasmuch as it is in-
tended, and no doubt expected, to deceive the whole
people of these three kingdoms, and even to cast dust
in the eyes of mankind oil over the world, in order that,
while they
.are so affected, they may be wheedled out
of their principles and their purses. We, therefore,
at the outset, in the political sense, and in that sense
only, raise the cry of " Stop thief !" having no doubt
that all honest men throughout the empire will take
up the response " Let the thief be stopped," and,
heart and hand, make the deed thoroughly correspon-
, dent to the word. This same address of Sir Robert's
is prettily written—smooth and flowing; as Theihn
says of Ancient Pistol, so may we say of this modern
blunderbuss, that he " speaks as prave 'ords, as you
shall see in a summer's day," but the people must,
in the language of Gower, " learn to know such
slanders of the age, or else they may be marvellous
mistook." For our own part we know well, that
"he is not the an that he would gladly make show to
the world he is," as will appear from a very short
analysis of his address ; indeed, on the slightest glance
at the address itself, John Bull will say, " I smell a
RAT, Sir Robert doth prevaricate." There are two
major points, which are keys to the spirit of the whole
address ; and to these we especially call the attention
of our readers. First, and chiefly, as it brings the
whole principles of the Tory party into full view, un-
changed even by all that has taken place in this coun-
try or in other countries, we have these words
" If by abandoning altogether that great aid of Govern.
ment—more powerful than either law or reason—de
respect for ancient rights, avid the deference to prescriptive
authority—if this be the spirit of the ltufprm Bill, I will
not undertake to adopt it."
Men of England I Electors of the United King,
dom ! Freemen throughout the world ! mark these
words ! Say ye if a more deadly poison to every
thing liberal could be extracted out of the charnel-
house of all the bygone despotisms that ever polluted