The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-24 00:00:00

THE YEAR 1833.

What a miserable figure the Conservatives have cut ;n
the elections ! Of five hundred Members already returned,
four hundred and forty are Liberals or Whigs, and the
best of the joke is, that some of the candidates put 14-
ward by the Conservatives have turned round upon their
patrons, and declared themselves as liberal as those to
whom they were opposed.
Oh ! the year of 1833 ! We think we see Cobbett pull-
ing to pieces the poor Tory skeleton in the House of Corn_
coons (he is quite at home in the hone way), and crimp-
!ing the wires by which it was held; and Hume sticking
to the Whigs, and forcing them to be honest, whether
they would or not; and O'Connell and his Repealer%
throwing their weight into the Liberal scale, in the fond
but foolish hope of being able the sooner to have their
own way; and then the poor Bishops—there is " Can-
terbury" already packing up the Church plate, and " Lon-
don," half Whig—half Tory—half Destructive—half Con-
servative, cryiog, " Spare me, and I will vote against
my posterity." But it won't do. Untie the sack, Can-
terbury, and disgorge your spoil ; doff your mitre, Lon-
don, and retire from the Lords. Go to the green fields
and the lanes, beat up for aid among the poor whom you
have fed, and the sick whom you have relieved, and the
persecuted whom you have consoled. Oh, what a strong
and goodly muster you will make ! Falstaff, with his hun-
dred scarecrows, had a host compared with you. And
then the poor Curates, whom ye have starved! Must
your round bellies, " with good capon lined," lose their
proportions, and the breechless, bellyless Curate be clothed
and fed ? Must the mitred head bow low, and the head
of the humble be raised ? Even so. Ye have bad your
swing long enough, ye abominators of humility—ye
mongrel curs of the Church of Rome. Now let the work-.
ing Clergy have their turn. Lower than was ewe
Churchman bent shall ye be bowed down. Youz pm id,
shall have a fall, but in your fall shall not religion suffer--
the meek and the virtuous shall administer the laws which
you have defiled, and there shall be love and harmony be-
tween the pastors and their flocks.
Oh ! the year of 1833 ! There is a wind blowing from
Western India, and it brings with it the breath of negro
gratitude. The fetters of the slave have fallen off. God's
image, although in another colour than our own, is free.
The white man and the black man cultivate the Fame
field in peace—the same course of improvement is open to
both—they enjoy the blessings, as they acknowledge the
mercy, of the same God ! But there is a wind also from
the north of Europe—it brings a sound of gladness with
it. The white man also is emancipated. The Pole is
free. The Russian vulture is dead from feeding too
ravenously on its prey. The prisons are opened, and the
victims of persecution are liberated. The roads front
Siberia are throngedwith returning exiles, blessing the
spirit which has relieved them. Aud Portugal is free,
and Spain is happy.—Oh the year of 1833 !
And thousands gather round the seat of Parliament,
and honour the representatives of the netiou, and the
Peers, who are there, Justice has prevailed in the courts
of law ; the pour man obtains redress regainet the rink,
The illustrious chief of the law has cleansed the tribunals
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of their filth ; how like a god be looks after such a work !
And there are soldiers in the crowd, blessing the Minister
who has redeemed them from the moral. degradation of the
ootithae
!ask ; and peasants who enjoy the fruits of industry, whilst
the poor-houses are tenanted only by the aged and the lame,
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Church dominion—of oligarchical sway ;—the jubilee of
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virtue--the jubilee of right.
Oh ! the year of 1833 !-,Merle's TVeekly Register.

Mr. BULWER, the Author of " Pelham,"
and " Eugene Aram," intends, we usderstand, to cz,m-
mence in the January Number of the New Monthly
Magazine, a series of papers, under the title of " The
Nl,ltlern Platonist."