The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-19 00:00:00

sonallv an utter stranger to the electors, who has no
intereat in the county of Perth, and whose only recom-
mendations, therefore, are his honourable character
and his well-known (we may say his hereditary) devo-
tion to the great principles of liberty and constitutional
Reform. Now there is in this so much of what we
can call by no other name than retributive justice, that
we cannot help selecting it from the mass of ordinary
occurrences, and regarding it as a very choice and spe-
cial mercy.

Little did the Gallant General think when, after the
division in which he so scandalously broke his plighted
faith with the Dissenters, he was welcomed, on his re-
entrance into the House by a general titter, that that
unequivocal expression of sentiment was only the pre-
lude to the still more galling sentence of condemna-
tion, which his constituents have now passed upon
him. Little did he then think that the men whom he
had insulted and betrayed would so soon have an
opportunity of saying to him, face to face, " Thus
didst thou."

From all we can learn, Lord WATERPARK and the
Hon. G. J. VERNON, the Liberal candidates for South
Derbyshire, stand every chance of being returned.
Their cause is popular throughout the country, pre-
cisely to the same extent that that of their opponents is
unpopular. But the electors must not relax in their ef-
forts on this account. They must act as if the chances
were still against them. They must persevere to the last
moment ; and not content themselves merely by re-
turning their favourite candidates, but resolve to return
them by an overwhelming majority. We are the more
solicitous to impress this on the minds of the Reformers
of South Derbyshire, because we happen to know that
the Tories are making the most desperate exertions in this
division, and have the hardihood to anticipate a triumph.
Abler—honestei men than Lord WATERPARK and
Mr. VERNON, it is impossible that the Derbyshire
electors can return as their representatives, to Parlia-
ment.

It is with no ordinary feelings of triumphant pride
that we refer our readers to the excellent speech deli-
vered by Mr. POULETT THONISON, the late President
of the Board of Trade, at a public dinner of the friends
of the Right Hon. Gentleman, given at Manchester
on the 12th inst. The subject of the speech may be
stated to be, the present position, and future prospects,
of the WELLINGTON Cabinet ; and truly never be-
fore were the claims of the Tory Government to the
confidence of the country more fairly discussed, or
more fully repudiated. The Right Hon. Gentleman
felt himself bound in honour and duty to deal
fairly and candidly by his constituents and the country.
He did not mince matters, or attempt to clothe his
language in the mystic phraseology of a sybil of the
Court. "We live in strange times," said the Right
Hon. Gentleman—

" We have seen strange events within the last two months.
We have seen a Ministry which had not been tried, but which
had received the confidence of the Sovereign, which,
I believe, possessed the confidence of the people--( Hear,
hear)—suddenly dismissed from power, and their situa-
tions occupied by those whose sole qualification for
holding office at all has been the possession of office until
the people drove them from it—(Hear)—and, since they
were ejected, an uncomprising opposition to all that
the people asked of them. We have seen a govern-
ment prepared, as it is notorious it was, to justify the con-
fidence which the people felt in it, with measures for the en-
suing session which the majority of the country, which all its
intelligence and public spirit, would have hailed with delight—
( Hear)—ejected from their official situation, and deprived of
the confidence of the King. We have seen them replaced by
a list which man who loves freedom and his country has only
to read, to turn from him with disgust."

All this is most true ; but happily there exists no
ground for any serious apprehension on the part of
the country. The KING will soon learn that the
exercise of the Royal prerogative requires a degree of
prudence, and a respect for the opinion of his people,
of which his Majesty took too little account when he
ejected the Reform Cabinet. The Tory Administra-
tion is already on the eve of expiring—the inde-
pendent electors of the United Kingdom have given it
the death-blow. The political character in which its
members attempt to clothe themselves is worn to very
rags ; and whichever way they turn, their nakedness
and apostacy is the theme of every tongue, and the
object at which every :finger is raised in derisive
mockery. They are neither trusted by the people, nor
do they trust each other ; they stumble at every
step ; and PEEL and WELLINGTON, like boys
playing at bo-peep, do nothing but watch each other,
lest by some blunder in the way of Ultra-Toryism on
the one side, or extreme Liberalism on the other, the
machine of Government be dashed to pieces by the
mutual alarm of the high Tories and the unflinching
Reformers. As there is no friendship among the
wicked, so there is no good faith among the politi-
cally apostate. What guarantee has the country in
the pledges of such men,—did they even pledge
themselves to give the people all that the Re-
formers sought from the late Government ? Are the
liberties of the people of so little consequence that
they may be entrusted to the keeping of men who
pawned their honour, and afterwards thought the
pledge not worth redeeming ? " When I was asked
whether I meant to oppose these men," observed Mr.
TIIONISON, " I stated that my opposition would be
uncompromising, because I could place no confidence
in the men themselves. When I was asked if I
would reject good measures if proposed by them, I
answered .that I could not consider a hypothetical
case of that description, which, in my opinion,
amounted to an impossibility. The battle, then, it is
clear, must be fought with the men. On the one side,
if measures of any value were to be proposed by them,
there must be a sacrifice of public character, of politi-
cal consistency, nay, even of honesty, which would
render men who were capable of it unfit to govern this
country ; or, on the other, if there be the consistency
which would lead to another course, there must be
that utter absence of all those good measures which
would lead every honest man, attached to the liberties
of his country, to endeavour to replace such a Govern-
ment by one more in unison with the kelings of the
people.—(Cheers.) I have little or no doubt of a
successful issue to the struggle which must ensue."

This is precisely the language of every straightfor-
ward honest reformer throughout the country—the
only language which we ever used with reference
to the WEL niCrioN-PEEL Administration. Men
who were prepared to On thor principles for the sweets
of office, we well knew would sell their PPlmtry whenever
it was their private interest so to do, at a still smalle,r
cost. Neither would we accept good measures from
the Tories, because thereby we wo.:1,1 be giving a
sanction to political profligacy which would at last
o all public vir-
terminate in the utter destruction f