The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-06 00:00:00

creatures of wonder and interest—all sparkle, bustle,
and novelty of movement ? Who cannot imagine how
bitter would have been the - disappointment of those
whose delight were proportioned to their interest, if a
cross-patch audience had called upon the manager to
drop the curtain upon the proposed mummery, and to
substitute something more accordant with the soberness
of reason ? Very analagous to this bitterness of
blighted hope must be the sensations of the Tories
about this time ; for the audience before whom they
were prepared to mime, seems marvellously indisposed
to accept the intended harlequinade. There are, to be
sure, a few cries of " go on " from the regions of the
dress-circle, but it is plain that the disposition of the
" House" is unfavourable.

In sooth, the Tories seem just waking out of a
bright and too flattering vision, to feel more keenly the
dullness of reality. Pleasant, indeed, must have been
that drcam—what changes and tricksy doings were
purposed—what conversions and transpositions—,what
alterations of scene—what cuffings and downfalls to
the clown multitude—what caperings from my jaunty
lady Columbine—what vaultings and semi-impossible
posturings of him of the black mask--what wonder-
working of that little sword at his side Unlucky
Tories ! after all this " getting up," to have your
piece damnified in the very first scene I The green
curtain has not indeed yet fallen ; but if the audience
be firm in its displeasure, be sure that the prompter
will send somebody forth from the side-scenes in a mi-
nute or two, to announce " most respectfully that the
manager, ever anxious," &c.—and the piece shall be
withdrawn. Heaven so speed it I

Unless the Conservative faction be wilfully blind,
unless their faculties be deadened -to all impression,
they cannot be insensible to the impatience of the
people at the threat of Tory domination. Let them
look at the meetings that have already taken place
throughout the country, and that are still taking place
every day and every hour : let them listen with impar-
, tial ears to the bold language uttered, not by common
political brawlers, but by men of quiet and order-loving
habits, haters of violence, and tremblers at anarchy—
, men who have a heavy stake in the social game, and
seek by temperate (but, if need be, by sterner) means
to protect it ; let them listen to the words of strong
deprecation and fearful import, of jealousy, distrust,
and condemnation, uttered by persons of no party bias,
who detest alike the turbulence of the Destructive, and
the outrage of the Conservative ; let them heed their
tempered but resolute addresses, their firm declarations
of resistance to further misrule ; let them hearken to
the emphatic hints and dark expressions of alarm—
which the very speakers seem to shudder at giving
utterance to—of kings dethroned and ministers im-
peached, of military domination and a people re-
bellious of tyranny—words that every true lover
of the Constitution is shocked should meet his
ear, and more shocked that need should call
them forth ; words not spoken to inflame—but
from reasonable men to reasonable men, to justify the
strong hostilities of a people roused to resist the mad
struggles of a faction that would oppress. Let them
mark the deep-throated responses of the people so ad-
dressed, not the unmeaning boisterousness of a besotted
mob, but the hearty assent of thinking and unflinching
men, feeling thrice-armed, because knowing their quar-
rel just. Let them hear—as we have lately heard—
these intelligible displays, and say if it be wise or just,
prudent or politic, to-defy the people's anger !
Such meetings may be despised by their party—af-
fected contempt is sometimes a part of good tactics--
upon the ground of their being but out-bursts of radical
violence and mob-oratory. 'We tell them they arc self-
deluded, and they know it. We tell them more—
that, general as these meetings are, and have been, but
for one consideration, they would be a hundre:l fold
more numerous, more expressive, and more imperative ;
the people feel that the Tories are powerless to do
the country any serious evil, and therefore fear
them not. They know that their return to power
might protract for a season the fingerings of anti-
reform--; but for the working out of any great con-
stitutional wrong, the people defy them. Confi-
dent in this belief, they have not allowed themselves
to be roused to the extremity of moral resist-
ance ; the present manifestations are but an ear-
nest of what they are prepared to assert, if need be!
But for this confidence, the most hard-headed Tory
sceptic would have comprehended his " mistake."
But because of this confidence, the people ought
not to sink into supineness. The tranquillity of the
country must not be disturbed by factious contentions,
or by wrong-headed politicians. These squabbles
about party ascendancy are offensive to the intelli-
gence of the nation, and ought to be quenched. Good
and cheap Government is all that England wants, and
England, by the force of her own moral strength, can
enforce it, if she will. The KING possesses an unde-
niable prerogative ; but the KING possesses no prero-
gative distinct from, and disconnected with, the happi-
ness of his people. If the KING has a duty to per-
form to his people, so likewise have the people a duty
to perform to their ICING, for the well-being of their
mutual existence ; the interests of the KING and the
people are common and inseparable ; each exists for
the other ; and if the KING, surrounded by an atmos-
phere of intrigue) have been deceived or miscounselled,
it is the duty of the people to approach the Monarch,
and in loyal, and respectful, and dutiful terms, to make
known their doubts and their wants, and the KING
will both hear and heed them. So will the people best
show their affection for their Sovereign—so will the
KING be best honoured, and the people made happy.

The Paris Papers of Thursday, which have been
,received, are almost wholly taken up with the pro-
ceedings in the Chamber of Deputies. They anti-
cipated a very spirited debate on Friday (yesterday),
when it was expected that M. DUPIN would ascend
the tribunal, and address the Chamber against the
Ministry. Independent of his public character, and
great talents, M. DUPIN, as President of the Cham-
ber,.possesses much influence with the Members. The
leading journals are, nevertheless, of opinion that how-
ever severely M. THIERS and his colleagues might be
mal-treated by their opponents still in case a division
should take place, they would obtain a majority suffi-
cientto enable them to carry on the Government of the
country for some months.

The students of the Ecole de Droit at Paris have
been guilty of a most gross and violent outrage on the
person of M. Rossi, an eminent Piedmontcse emi-
grant, naturalized in France, and recently appointed
Professor of Constitutional Law in this seminary. The
cause assigned for this scandalous conduct on- the part
of the students is, that the Professor is avowedly a
Doctrinaire, whereas his pupils are all violent Re-
publicans. On Tuesday last the learned 'Professor
entered the hall to lecture as usual, when the