The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-01 00:00:00

DISTAFFS.

Harlequin, Mr. Ellar ; Pantaloon, Mr. F. Sutton ; Clown, Mr. T.
Matthews; Whirligig, Mr. W. H. Payne. Columbine, Mi.. C. Reekic.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1835.

The union of the Reformers is carrying dismay into
the ranks of Toryism. Down with the Tories I down
with the enemies of Constitutional liberty I down with
the besotted crew who are attempting to stifle Reform !
is the universal cry among the friends of freedom and
free insti utions. Shades of speculative opinion, how-
ever diversified, sink into comparative insignificance be-
fore the one all-important practical duty of rallying round
that great charter, upon the maintenance of which de-
pends every thing that is valuable to civilized man.
For the Reform Act is not merely the bulwark of
British liberty ; it is the safeguard of human happiness,
and the ear nest of human improvement throughout the
world. It is, therefore, against the Reform Act that
the powers of darkness and corruption are now arrayed,
and the electors of Great Britain are, if possible, to be
made the instruments of its destruction. To accom-
plish this diabolical purpose, all the arts of the most
consummate hypocrisy are put in requisition. The
Arch-hypocrite, who acts as fugleman to the Ministe-
rial troop, now pretends to feel a sacred veneration for
an act which he has again and again denounced as
fatal to the existence of the Monarchy. He has pro-
mised that no unhallowed hand shall violate its sanc-
tity. Suppose him sincere in this declaration, and to sup-
pose this requires no mean effort of charity—can he ful-
fil his promise ? He cannot. Let the electors be once
prevailed upon, by false and delusive pretences of Re-
form, by bribery, by intimidation, or by any other mo-
tive, to return a subservient Parliament, and what
se-
curity is there for the Reform Act ? Oh I Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL'S word is pledged. Well, Sir ROBERT
keeps his word, but can he keep his place ? No I So
good an opportunity is not to be lost, merely to save
his honour. The puppet is pushed aside, having per-
forined its allotted part, and the prime mover steps
forward from the back ground, unfettered by pledges,
unhampered by scruples, and cheered on by a band of
associates as unfettered and as unscrupulous as him-
self. The Reform Act is then at his mercy. He will
not formally repeal it ; but can any man, in his sound

senses, doubt that he will adapt it to his own
views of representative perfection ? He has, in the
face of the nation, declared his conviction that the old
boroughmongering system, by which, under the name
of popular representation, and the disguise of popular
forms, all power was centered in a corrupt and rapa-
cious oligarchy—was a perfect pattern of a civil con-
stitution—the model after which he would construct
a representative edifice, should it be his lot to be
called upon to perform such a work. This is his
recorded opinion, and that it is conscientiously enter-
tained, he has demonstrated by the most unequivocal
proof, by a most determined and persevering opposi-
tion to the Reform Bill, and to everything allied to Re-
form. And this is the guardian to whose safe keeping
the people of England are invited to entrust the pre-
cious treasure, the acquisition of which is their pride
and their glory ! Are Englishmen capable of such
blind infatuation ? Will they consent to become an
object of pity, or a theme of derision to foreign na-
tations? Shall it ever be said that they wanted firm-
ness to preserve that which it cost them such efforts to
acquire ? We fearlessly answer No I The electors
of England, Scotland, and Ireland, are prepared to do
their duty to their country, and not to their country only,
but to mankind. They see the danger which threatens
the cause of freedom, and they are determined to avert
it by uniting, heart and hand, in one simultaneous ef-
fort to crush for ever that most pestilent faction, which
ever has been, and, while it exists, ever will be the ene-
my of liberty, and the bane of social improvement.

His Majesty's packet Sheldralre, Lieutenant PAS-
SINGHAM Commander, arrived at Falmouth from
Jamaica on the 30th of December, bringing about
75,000 dollars from the West India colonies. The
packet sailed from Crooked Island on the 19th of No
vember. The voyage was very favourable. When
the packet sailed tranquillity prevailed in every part of
the interior, with the exception of two plantations
where the negroes had refused to work, imagining that
the recent Act had given them liberty to do as
they pleased. The names of these plantations are
Old England and Green Valley. When the packet
sailed his Majesty's ships of war, Forte, Savage,
Pearl, Racer, Vestal, and Racehorse, and the steamer
Rhadamanthus, were lying at Port Royal. Among
the passengers on board the Sheldrake is Lord SUSSEX
LENNOX, the late Postmaster at Jamaica.

We have received the Paris Papers of Tuesday,
with accounts from Bayonne of the 26th of December.
The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday
was wholly taken up with the details of a bill for
granting 360,000 francs for the erection of a Court of
Justice adjoining the Chamber of Peers. The debate
was not closed when the Chamber rose, and its dull-

ness and tediousness was fully equal to its length.
There is no domestic news in any of these Journals
which call for particular observation. The pupils of
the Polytechnic School have addressed a letter to the
Minister,,for permisssion to be re-admitted to the insti-
tution, acknowledging that they had been guilty of a
breach of discipline. This request will be complied
with, and the refractory students re-admitted on the
sth January. For the other subjects treated of in
these papers, we refer to our extracts.
PARIS, Dxc. 30.—A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 18th
December, confirms what we have said of the financial negotiations
now carried on at Paris. According to this letter, the Russian
Cabinet begins to reckon on the success of its demands upon
France, in the name of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. There is
an active correspondence between St. Petersburg and Paris on tho
' subject. The Cabinet of the Tuileries (according to the Russian
Ministers) is willing enough to propose to the Chambers the pay-
ment of the claim, but only it would have a compromise to reduce
the amount. There is a difficulty on some points ; but as for the
question whether the Czar is the heir of the Grand Duchy of War-
saw, nobody disputes it. Exertions are therefore making at St.
Potersburgh and in Poland, for collecting all the necessary docu-
ments, in addition to those already sent to France, and it is hoped
that the affair will be brought into a regular train at the beginning
of next year.
The diplomatic relations between Russia and its chief Allies, are
very active. Persons well informed, see that the King of Holland,
the Duke of Wellington, and the Italian Courts, are urged to the
most extravagant demonstrations, and that if there are troubles,
foolish pretensions, and anti-revolutionary excesses, it is because
Russia will have it so. Her plans are fixed—her policy invariable.
The measures ordered in Poland are proceeding with activity, as
far as the penury of the treasury will allow ; and the same is the
case in the southern provinces. The Emperor is resolved to have
100,000 men on the side next to Prussia. At Berh they talk of
200,000. He is also resolved to have 50,000 in the provinces next
to Turkey ; besides, those in Asia, and the troops already on the
parts of the Black Sea.
Since the news of the death of Feth Ali Schuh, a great number
of official and secret agents have been sent to Persia. Superior
officers have also been sent to the army of the Caucasus and to the
Caspian Sea.—Messager, Dec. 30.
FRENCH FUNDS.—Pants, Dec. 30
Five per Cents., 106 E 40c. Sic. 50c.
Three. per Cents., 76f. 60c. 65c. 75c.
Bank Actions, 1,752 f. 5Cc.
Bente de Naples, 9,f. sc. 93f. 93E 10c.
Boman live per Cents., 04% %.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 41 411,1 4074.
Rentc d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 27 27.
Royal Spanish rm,
Hen to Perpet. d'Espagne. Five per Cents., 4244 %.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 98.
Portuguese Loan, Six per Cents., 95%.
Haytian Loan, 2751.

EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, pap: r, 25f. 30c. ; money, —f..—c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 17%c. ; money, —f..—c.

—Cours

lIALF-PAST 3 O'CLOCK.—Five per Cents. Rentes, 106 f. 60c.
Three per Cent. Rentes, 76f. 82ic. ; Five per Cent. Spanish, 4'21
Three per Cent. ditto, 27 ; Cortes, 41 ; Coupons, 24i ; Guebhar(l
; Differes, 131; Ducats, 93 10 ; Romans, 94a ; Bzigian, 93
Dutch, 54. 25.

Brussels Papers of the 31st ult. have been received,
but their contents possess little interest.
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BELGIAN FUNDS.-13nussm.s, DEC. ZO.
Actual Debt, 2 per cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per cent t 6
Loan of the City. 1832, 4 per cent 1'9.14
—Brussels Papers, Dec. 31.

It appears by the German Papers received to-day,
that little hope was entertained at Vienna that the
WELLINGTON-PEEL Administration could stand the
result of a new Election :

Vxxxxit, Dsc. 20.—Yesterday we received the news of the
formation of the Peel Administration, but it by no means produced
the expected favourable effect on the funds. The hopes of the
speculators on 'Change were it seems founded on the expectation
that Sir R. Peel would not accept office, unless he found matters
so situated that the stability of his Ministry might be foreseen.
without a dissolution of Parliament. But as all the letters say
that the dissolution is unavoidable, it is thought possible that in the
new elections the Opposition may obtain a majority, in which case
the Radicals might get into power. Thus it happened that the
Funds were inclined rather to fall than to rise.
Prince Esterliazy is preparing to return shortly to his post as
Ambassador to London.
In the month of February next, Princess Leontine of Metternich,
daughter of the Prince Chancellor, will be married to the Hunga-
rian Count Sandon.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 26.

Intelligence from Madrid, of the 24th December,
has been received. The only matter of any import-
ance contained in the Spanish Journals, is a copy of
the contract for the New Loan between M. ARDOIN
and the Queen's Government, which will be found in
another column. The price agreed upon is 60 per
cent., and 3 per cent. commission, the price to be raised
to 66 per cent., provided the loan sells for 661 for eight
days successively, on the Stock Exchange of London or
Paris, at any time between the 20th November and
the 20th February. The bargain is a hard one for
the Spanish Government, but being made in contempt
of every principle of justice, and in direct opposition to
the remonstrances of the Cortes Bondholders, we leave
our countrymen to judge whether they will be again
the dupes of a foolish confidence in Spanish honour
and integrity. Better that one guilty person should
suffer, than that hundreds of innocent persons should
be sacrificed. The public may depend upon it that
Spain neither can nor will perform her part of the con-
tract.

In the Chambers very little has been done for seve-
ral weeks past, which a British public can feel interest