The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-03 00:00:00

events, or the manifest signs of the times, can be lost
upon them. And it is in a full confidence that such
cannot be the case that we continue to exhort the
country to wait patiently till the new Administration
has been formed, and its views developed, ere
any attempts is made to impede the one, or to con-
demn before-hand the other. There is a remark in
Sir William Home's letter to the electors of Maryle-
bone, which, though it is stated to have been "received
with laughter and hisses," by some of the persons who
composed the recent meeting of the rate-payers of that
extensive and opulent parish, will, we have no doubt,
make a very different impression upon the calm good
sense of the country:—" I cannot bring myself to think
(says Sir W. Horne), that the great Constitutional
cause of Reform, after what we have already achieved,
is in danger of any attempt which may be meditated
by any set of Ministers against it ; and the past con-
duct of his Majesty seems to me to be a sure guarantee
to his subjects that no such scheme would for a mo-
ment meet with his countenance or support, but that
he would instantly, upon its being discovered, concur
with his people in defeating it." This is the language
of reason and common sense, and though it may not
fall in with the views of a few noisy demagogues
and their followers, either in Marylebone or else-
where, we have good reason to know that it speaks
the sentiments of by far the larger portion of the com-
munity of all classes. If enough is not already known
to establish the fact, we feel persuaded that whenever
the time shall come that the whole particulars shall be
developed, it will be found that the King's present
position, as well as that of the Duke of Wellington,
has been unavoidable and inevitable. That Lord
Melbourne's Administration, constituted as it was, on
the demise of Earl Spencer, might have lingered on
past another quarter• day, greatly to the satisfaction of
some of its members, is just possible ; but how the
King could with honour suffer it, or such a man as
Lord Melbourne submit to it, we cannot in any way
imagine. The absence of Sir Robert Peel and the
uncertainty of his return are, it must be admitted, un-
toward circumstances ; at the same time, however,
they furnish the best refutation of the alleged concert
and pre-arrangement which is said to have existed upon
the occasion. That must be a very singular species
of pre-arrangement, indeed, which does every thing
possible to involve itself in difficulty, delay, and di-
lemma.—Morning Herald.

" Appearances (says The Sun) would seem to justify
the rumour that has gained ground during the last
few days, intimating that a new election is on the
point of taking place. We find the agents and un-
derstrappers of the Tory Government busily occupied
in those preparations, which have always been con-
sidered symptomatic of a dissolution. This is per-
haps the surest sign that can be given of the feeling
that predominates at head quarters. Another reason
that weighs strongly with us, and leads us to believe
that a dissolution is at hand, is that the John Bull and
other hirelings, have been instructed to say that no such
step is in contemplation, and that it would be
the best policy to postpone an appeal to the coun-
try, until the new Ministers have tried the temper
of the old Parliament. This is, in all probability,
one of those fraudulent practices to which the enemies
of the people never scruple to resort, when they wish
to throw them off their guard, in order to gain an ad-
vantage over them." Under these circumstances, in-
dication unquestionably of an approaching dissolution,
we are not aware that we can do better, or more amply
fulfil our duty to the country, than quote the following
article from an Edinburgh paper. It is pithy and to
the point—it is sagacious and determined, and will as-
suredly not meet with less attention because it comes
from the North. "We conjure" says it, " the liberal
electors all over the kingdom to be on the alert. Let
nothing in the way of preparation be neglected, so that
when the time for action arrives, all may be ready to
fight the good fight. Much good advice and timely
warning have already been given by some of our contem-
poraries, which, we trust, will not be thrown away.
To the people generally, electors and non-electors, we
would say—Proceed in giving vent to your indignation
---1 alarm. Let your voices be raised calmly, but loudly
----ermerimnarely ; imucklnnetia
8 -e, if necessary, be sent to the Throne against the
einploymant of those who have hitherto professed
opinions in direct opposition to those of the mass of
the community. Sir Robert Peel is eminently wary,
and if he finds a storm of opposition ready to greet
his arrival, he will, in all probability, decline to take
a part in the Ministry ; and without Sir Robert Peel,
the Tories can do nothing. In that case, even the
Duke, the mighty Duke, who never sees any diffi-
culties in his path, must once more retire to Apsley
House to amuse himself in barricading his windows.
But if, in spite of the universally expressed opinion
of the country, the Tories should proceed in their
mad attempt to conduct the Government, why, then,
to the electors must we look to settle the dispute.
Let the electors return men who, like the Scottish
Parliament in Queen Anne's reign, will insist on dis-
cussing overtures of liberty' before they will listen
to overtures of subsidy.' Keep back the subsidy
until certain other matters are put on a footing satis-
factory to the country, and either the necessary reforms
will be speedily yielded, or the Tories one and all
quickly free Downing-street of their presence. Even
the Duke would find the want of a subsidy a serious
matter. The Duke, we are told, can do every thing ;
but there are two things without which he can, not-
withstanding, do nothing—namely, the assistance of
Sir Robert Peel and the trifling matter of a subsidy.
Let the watch-words at the ensuing election therefore
be liberty or subsidy.' "—Morning Advertiser.
Our readers will see by the report of yesterday's
meeting in Covent-garden what the state of revolu-
tionism and radicalism actually is in Westminster.
The scant attendance, the very dirty appearance of
the mob, the flatness and dullness of the proceedings,
all mark the public feeling too strongly to allow the
weakest man alive to be deceived into a notion that the
principles of the anarchists are at all in the ascendant.
It is not only because the Westminster meeting yes-
terday in itself was a decided failure—not only a
failure but a recoil—that we refer to it. We know
enough of a Covent-garden mob and a Guildhall Com-
mon Council to know that their movements are no
more indicative of the feelings of the country, than a
speech of Mr. Hume's is a proof of common sense or
common intelligence ; but why we delight in having to
refer to this most contemptible effort of the school
of rotten-cabbageism is because we have had it
under our own eyes ; aye, and under our own nose,
too. The people of London read in the Radical
county papers of Liberal meetings, and revolutionary
assemblies, and congregations of thick-stick patriots to
the amount of eighty and ninety thousand at a time,
who conveniently assemble in some meadow containing
two square acres, and they read of enthusiasm and
banners, and raw-heads and bloody-bones, and all the
paraphernalia of Republicanism, as if the cause were
triumphant. Test everything by facts ; judge from
what you see rather than from what you hear ; read
about Glasgow ; read about Manchester ; read about
Birmingham—thousands and tens of thousands of
brave citizens, with club-sticks, and tenpenny nails
driven into their heads ; read about the yells and
the groans ; but, having read, pray look at West-
minster—the most important city, not only in Eng-
land, but, taking its, wealth and extent together,
in the world. See what happens there, or rather
here ; for here we luckily are to see it ; and what do
you find ? Why, of a vast population, which, from
the diversity of interests by which it is actuated, is,
perhaps, more deeply and seriously involved in the
general welfare of the State than any other, you find
two or three hundred of its lowest members, attracted
more by curiosity than anything else, assembled to
listen to the speeches of certain broken-down practi-
tioners in that line ; the majority of which mob, small
as it is, end the holiday (which being Monday, they
most properly keep) by giving three cheers for the
Duke of Wellington. We say again " seeing is be- I
lieving," and, therefore, the moral we deduce from I
,pened yesterday is merely this--that people
deluded by reports from distant parts of
Nib the belief of the existence of a feeling
:nowledge and personal experience
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