The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-24 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

(From the Limerick Chronicle.)
Yesterday evi:Ting Major-General Sir James Douglas de-
livered a lecture on military tactics, at the Limerick Institu-
tion, in which he introduced the battle of Austerlitz. The
lecture was most respectably attended.
The 94th Regiment, quartered in the Mediterranean since
1824, arrived at the Cove of Cork on Sunday in his Majesty's
ship yornney, from Malta. They have since marched to
Middleton I.::_racks:
froing to be entered into by the General
An arrangement
Hon. Board of Ordnance, for
Commanding-in- Chierwitn `l'ci%
a better regulation of Officers' arter.: throughout
touching
the king-
dom,eg
according to respective rank, and dim.
which will shortly be issued to Commanding Officers tint; Dar-
rackmasters.
The late General Murray, C. 8., who died at Killenure on
the sth instant, fell a victim to a cold caught on the morning
on which the two Officers of the Royals were drowned, re-
turning to Athlone from his house. He entered the 44th
Regiment as Ensign in 1796, was wounded desperately at the
Douro in 1804, and on the 22d July, 1833, was appointed a
Major-General.
Accounts from Ceylon have been received of an insurrec-
tion having broken out there, and that several lives had been
lost. The military at Ceylon are the 58th, 61st, 78th, and
97th regiments.
A large pension reverts to the Crown by the death of
Lieut.-General Quin John Freeman.

It is not generally known, that while the celebrated
Porson was employed in decyphering the inscription of the famed
Rosetta-stone, in the British Museum, which is black, that he
obtained the humorous designation of " Judge Blackstone."

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Mr. Wm. Bates, only son
of Joshua Bates, Esq., of Portland-place, had left home on
Thursday, the 18th, to pass the Christmas holidays at Tansor,
near Oundle, in the family of the Rev. Mr. Wheelwright,
who had for two years superintended his education. He ar-
rived at Tansor on Friday, and joined the happy circle of
friends who were anxiously expecting him. On Saturday he
went out with his young companions to meet one of the family
who was to join the party from Cambridge. They had gone
out with guns. In getting over a gate, a rifle, which had been
slung over the back of one of the party, went off, and the ball
took so fatal a direction that Mr. Bates, who was behind his
companion, fell, and instantly expired. The wound in the
neck was of such a nature that life must have been immediately
extinguished. The body was removed to the Rev. Mr. Sim-
monds's, at Elton, where an Inquest was held o Sunday
morning, at which the circumstances detailed proved the purely
accidental nature of the fatal calamity, and that no blame could
attach to any one. The deceased would have attained his
his 20th year in June,

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24. IU4.

Our readers would yesterday have been pleased to
observe that the exertions of The Sun were so very
successful in aid of the great cause of Reform, which
all true friends of liberty have so much at heart. Not-
withstanding the difficulties encountered, and the late-
ness of the hour, we were enabled to give, exclusively,
in our First Edition, a full, fair, and impartial
account of the proceedings at the memorable Meet-
ings in the City of London—meetings which in
their result must prove decisive of the fate of
the Ultra-Tory Administration professing mock Re-
form principles. The Sun of last night will create a
sensation throughout the country that cannot fail to
cement the bond of union more firmly between all
Reformers, while it must strike their enemies with fear
and trembling. Nothing is now wanted to ensure suc-
cess but unity of purpose and cordiality of zeal.
We have great pleasure in publishing the following
spontaneous testimony to our exertions yesterday, by
Gentlemen to whom we are personally unknown, but
for whose public character and approbation we enter-
tain the highest respect. We sincerely thank them
for their good opinion :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
London Tavern, Tuesday Evening,
Half-past Five o'clock,
Dec. 23, 1834.

DEAR SIR,—We have just received here The
Sun, containing a Report of the important proceedings
of the Meetings of this day.
We cannot but feel surprised at the fullness and
'accuracy of the Report, and we beg to convey to you,
and to the gentlemen engaged, the expression of our
thanks, as well as of our admiration, at what has been
accomplished for the country at large, in so short a
time as two hours and a half.

We are, dear Sir,
Your's obediently,
RICHARD TAYLOR. JOHN DILLON.
W. H. ASHURST. EFFINGHAM WILSON.
W. PRITCHARD. THOMAS PEWTRESS.
H. B. FEARON. MICHAEL SARSON.
W. J. FOX. ROBERT FRANKS.

The Citizens of London, ever true to their princi-
ples, and always foremost in the cause of freedom and
of their country, have earned for themselves a proud
and conspicuous place in the future annals of Eng-
land, by.their patriotic proceedings at the London
Tavern yesterday. They have taught the Aristocracy
of the United Kingdom a lesson which should be en-
graved on their hearts, and to which the mind's eye
should be for ever turned, when the subject of medita-
tion is the forraation of a Government. They have
withdrawn the veil in which Toryism enveloped itself,
and the worshippers of the idol, with feet of iron, and
toes of clay, now stand aghast, affrighted at the
paucity of their numbers, and the emptiness of their
boasts. The exposure of the Tory silliness yesterday
was a glorious achievement, and worthy the citizens of
London. We speak of it not so much on account of
it 4 4evelopement of the principles of the most respect-
able, and by fifty times the most numerous, class of the
citizens of London, as from the OW which it will

have throughout the country. It gave the death-blow
to the Tory Government. The smitten paramour of
the Queen of the Black Isles, for whom enchantment
could only work a breathing existence, was not in
worse plight than is the Tory Government, after the
defeat which it suffered yesterday. It may reel and
stagger on for a few weeks, but it has lost the use of
speech—it is shorn of its strength—it is " wounded
even unto death "—and neither the prostituted balm of
the apostate Press, nor the advice of its other hireling
supporters, can revivify it.
But it would be unjust towards the great cause of
Reform, were we to pass over the scandalous means to
which the Tories resorted for the purpose of getting
up the mock public meeting of yesterday, which ended
in the glorious triumph of liberal principles. We are
creditably informed by a gentleman of respectability in
the City, that most of the persons who attended to
cheer on the orators, belonged to a class of individuals
known in the city by the name of " Long Shorernen,"
or porters on the Thames, who let their services on
all such occasions for five shillings, when called upon
to act conformably with their conscience, and seven
and-sixpence when contrary to it I The leader of this
class of patriots called upon the gentleman above
alluded to, and proffered his services at the meeting,
stating that if not employed by the Reformers, himself
and his gang had been applied to by a Tory Alder-
man, who was in the habit of engaging them on
similar occasions. Of course he was dismissed with
orders to betake himself, and his confreres in corruption,
to the service of his old employers, which he accord-
ingly did, and yesterday, was among the most con-
spicuous in applauding the Tory Administration.
The Tories now see that as a body they are vir-
tually extinct. They cannot in the city of London,
including as it does most of the moveable wealth, rank,
and talent in the British empire, gather together as
many individuals, by their repeated invitations, as will
carry a single resolution expressive of confidence in
the representatives of their principles. They arc beaten
on their own ground, though backed by the presence
of the Duke Of WELLINGTON and Sir ROBERT
PEEL, who both dined in the city. But it was the
calm, peaceable, orderly, and constitutional conduct
of the Reformers of the City of London which
terrified the Tory chiefs. There was no demonstra-
tion of bad or destructive feeling among them. No
yelling.—no " down" with this person, or " away"
with that—was to be heard throughout the mighty
multitude. Every man looked and acted as if dis-
charging a solemn duty to himself and his country.
The conduct of the police was infamous ; but the
people were not to be goaded into a breach of the
public peace ; and having carried all before them, they
retired quietly to their homes, so that by four o'clock
not an individual of those who defeated the Tories was
to be found in the streets.
The effect of the Reform triumph at the London
Tavern, was visible in the countenances and speeches
of the Conservative leaders who figured yesterday
evening in the Mansion-House. Sir R. PEEL evi-
dently appeared to feel that he had lost his balance,
and was on the eve of being precipitated from the
eminence to which Court intrigue had blindly raised
him. The Tory dinner had been planned as a kind
of Mansion-House celebration of the Tory address,
and the dismay of the Conservative champions, as
they toasted their defeat and virtual extinction, was
visible in every countenance. To be convinced
that Sir ROBERT regards his Ministry at an end, we
need only refer to his speeeh, in which he declares it
as his conviction that no Government can stand
which has not the confidence of the country. "I am
convinced," said the Right Hon. Premier in the course
of his speech, " notwithstanding the prerogative of the
Crown—notwithstanding that it may be, as I believe
it is, the duty of public men, when impeded by no
principle, to enter into the service of the Crown, when
required to do so, that no Government—and no man
is more eonvineed of this than I am—that no
Government can stand unless it is supported by
public opinion, and unless it possesses the pub

lie confidence—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I do not
agree with those who are disposed to support the pre-
sent Government on the grounds that they look to mea-
sures, and not to men.—(Cheers.) I do not believe
that any Government can be stable in this country,
which has not the confidence of the country itself,
without reference to the abstract measures it may
propose. I do not believe that the country will be
satisfied by the introduction of particular enactments,
without looking to their authors—without reference
to the heads from which they emanate, and the hands
that direct their course. The principle is the same

in public as in private life ; the principle which is ap-
plied in the latter case, is equally applicable to every
department of the State." This is at once taking a
proper, and an honest view of the difficulties in the
way of an Administration. And, admitting the sound-
ness of this axiom of the Premier, what is to
become of the Tory Government, which wai: proved
yesterday for the hundredth time not to possess
the confidence of the country ? Sir ROBERT virtu-
ally proclaims the dissolution of the Conservative Ca-
binet. He boasts that it "possesses the entire confi-
dence of the Crown," and assures us that it will endea-
vour " to conciliate the confidence of the people." Now
how can it do this, if the past conduct of its Members
be the criterion by which the country judges of

its integrity ? Are they not all known, from Lord
KEEPER COPLEY down to the lowest Secretary at the
Council Board, to be either political apostates, or men
whose whole political lives have been spent in coercing
the public opinion of the British people ? If Sir
ROBERT PEEL and his Colleagues are now willing
to reform recognised abuses, how happened it that they
could discover no abuse to reform when the Whigs
were in office ? Are they patriots for pay, after the
fashion of the " Long Shore-men" of the Thames,
who will act conscientiously for one-third less
wages than they will the contrary, but who
without wages will do nothing ? SIR ROBERT
PEEL complains that he has not had time enough al-
lowed him to express his opinions on every subject
since his return from Rome. This may be true ; but
Sir ROBERT was not so long abroad as to have for-
gotten that there were such subjects as Church Reform,
and Corporation Reform, and Law Reform, and several

other Reforms all discussed in the last Session of
Parliament, and as he himself thinks that the country
acts rightly in judging of the future from examples
of the past, we have pleasure in reminding him
that the country is already in possession of his
opinions, and the opinions of his colleagues besides.
As we said before, the proceedings of the Re-
formers at the London Tavern have virtually extin-
guished the Tory Government. To the gentlemen
who opposed the humbug address to the KING
f9T tticic
too much praise caPt!9t be