The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-14 00:00:00

BRAZIL PAPERS.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 18.—His Majesty the Emperor,
and his august a=sters, returned on the 15th, in the afternoon,
to the country seat of St. Christovao from Santa Cruz, where
they had passed some days. His Excellency Senhor Lima
accompanied the Imperial Family from Santa Cruz. His
Excellency Senhor Braulio, and the Minister of State, wentto
meet them.

An official letter from the Minister of War to the President
of the Province of Paratriba, who had sent an estimate of the
expenses of the Military Department of that ProvincQ, which
amounts to 47,726,800 reis, exclusive of a sum of 4 contos,
149,680 reis, for the purchase of 24 pieces 'f cannon, which
are required for the defence of the provinces, tells him that
he must not expend more than 28 contos of reis, which are
allotted for the military expenses of the r,,rovince, since the
laws fixing the amount of the budget wo did be illusory if the
sum determined could be arbitrarily exreeded.
Nov 21.—A circular letter from che Minister of Marine to
..
the Presidents of several province 4,
enjoins them to take the
greatest care to prevent the drAtruction of the forests, for it
appears from Tecent informal...inn that depredationg are carried

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1 4, , 1835.

The elections proceed favourably for the country.
There is already a majority of upwards of one hun-
dred in favour of Reform, and this majority will
unquestionably be greatly increased by the returns from
Ireland and Scotland, where the elections are only just
beginning. But, however auspicious this aspect
of the political horizon may appear to all
true patriots and good men, it furnishes no
reason for the relaxation of their efforts in defence of
the liberties of their country. Air the contest ap-
proaches to its termination, we may expect the strug-
gles of the Tories to become, if possible, more despe-
rate, and the reformers must be prepared to meet them
with corresponding energy. The great aim of the
boroughmongers (for that is still their true de-
signation) is now to diminish, by every means in
their power, the results of the victory gained
by the Reformers. They do not conceal their
hope, that, if they can keep down the ultimate ma-
jority against them to a manageable quantity, all will
not be lost. They are already calculating how
many of those already elected they can bribe ; how

many they can delude, and how many more they can
frighten into a desertion of the principles which they
have avowed on the hustings, and to which they owe
their election. How far they may succeed in their
object it is impossible to say, but we may rest assured
that their regard to principle will not stand in the way
of its accomplishment. Mr. HUME is now the
butt of their implacable enmity, and should
therefore, command the support of all who
love their country. Mr. HUME has done more than
any man alive to merit their hatred, and that ought to
his strongest recommendation to reformers of every
class and description. Could they, succeed in
throwing him out of the representation of the metro-
politan county, then indeed would they sing Io
Tilt um PHE !—then indeed would " RE-ACTION" re-
sound from the one end of the kingdom to the other.
This must not be. Great sums of money, it is said,
have been subscribed by the borough-mongering
faction, to procure. the return of " TONI Wow),"
as he is most significantly designated. Will the
electors of Middlesex fall down and worship this political
DAGON, set up by back-stairs' influence ? We are
confident they will not so degrade themselves. We
trust that all who are able will, without loss of time,
send their contributions' to Mr. HuME'S Committee,
who have appealed to the constituency for the means
of defraying the expenses necessarily attendant on an
electio❑ carried on under such circumstances. The
appeal, we are sure, will be nobly answered.

We have read Lord STANLEY'S speech with mingled
feelings of regret and pleasure—of regret, because his
Lordship evinces a disposition to make something posi-
tively good, out of a Manifesto which is studiously in-
tended to mean nothing—of pleasure, because he pro-
fesses himself a zealous Reformer, and is fully alive to
the conviction that Government, however disinclined
they may be, must move forward. Lord STANLEY
is an accomplished, dexterous politician, and we have
risen from the perusal of his speech to his Lancashire
constituents, with a far higher idea of his adroitness
and sagacity than we ever before entertained. We
trace throughout this clever effort, an elaborate attempt
on the part of the speaker to avoid any thing that may
compromise him, whether with Whig or Tory. He
will not combine with the one ; he will offer no fac-
tious opposition---a most convenient phrase, by the bye
—to the other. In short, he will steer clear of both
parties, yet not so far from either , but that
he may, in due season, be able to fall into
the track of whichever shall appear to •be making
the safest progress, and wearing the strongest
symptoms of durability. Should Toryism bid fair to
continue in the ascendant, there is nothing in Lord
STANLEY'S speech which should disqualify him from
enlisting under its banners. Should Whiggery be
triumphant, no matter ; he is equally unfettered—
equally eligible to a high Whig office. Now, there is
something in this dexterous manoeuvring, which we
must confess does not altogether satisfy us. There is
too much thought of self, and too little of the people,
in it. It looks like a leaf taken out of Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S book. It is ambiguous in the very parts
where it should be most explicit ; and, like the
oracular responses of the Pythian priestess, deals
largely in amphibology, so as to adapt itself.
either to a Whig or a Tory reader. Nevertheless,
it is far from being without its redeeming points. On
the subject of Church Reform, in particular, it is
more liberal than we should have expected. Lord
STANLEY is far too sagacious not to see that the Es-
tablishment must be subjected to a sweeping process of
purification. How, then, does he reconcile himself
to the spirit of Sir R. PEEL'S Manifesto ? The
Right Hon. Baronet avows only that he will consider
Church Reform. Lord STANLEY goes a step beyond
consideration ; with him that pteliminary part of the
business is past ; he has already considered ; and the
result is, that he is fully prepared to act. Is there no-
thing in this part of the Tory Manifesto—not to men-
tion its juggle about Municipal and other Reforms—
that should induce his Lordship to pause, ere lie gives
t his premeditated approbation ? Did his speech bear
marks of haste or intemperance, we should insist less
urgently on this point ; but it is studied and well-
digested throughout ; clever without candour—ani-
mated without decision. He must be a more than
ordinarily dexterous politician, who, in times like these,
can so express himself, as to please the Tories, with-
out absolutely committing himself with the Whigs.

The conduct of the mobs that have surrounded the
hustings upon several recent occasions, has been in-
stanced as an indication of the anarchy that must ine-
vitably result from investing barbarous ignorance with
the exercise of political power I When ignorant men
are permitted to congregate together in large masses,
passions easily roused never fail to be excited to an ex-
plosion. There may be wisdom in a multitude of
councillors, but wisdom, it is to be feared, seldom
abides among a multitude of fools or blackguards. We
have only to recur to the proceedings of a certain por-
tion of the mob collected at Brentford on Monday last
in support of the Tory " Tom Wood," to illustrate
how much the precept is in unison with the example.
The ruffians whom the Tories profess to hold in such
virtuous detestation, have on some occasions been found
to do very excellent service to the Tory cause. It is
only when the aid of such gentry is called into action,
that all this denounced violence, rioting, drunkenness,
and gross violation of the public peace, become most
glowingly displayed. We could name a few corporate
towns in England (the members of the Corporations
being, as, from some worthy motive, doubtless, they
are, back-bone Tories to a man), where the assistance
of the mob, armed with loaded bludgeons and spiked
finger-rings (to make the " punishment" of the fists
more pointedly severe), has stood in too good stead as
a Tory persuasive to be discarded practically, though
in theory such an abomination is indignantly declaimed
against.
Those who remember the Westminster elections
of some twenty or thirty years back, when it was
the fashion for the candidates, naval, military,
or civilian, to come forth of a morning, tricked
out in all but court costume, and to go home
again to dinner, mud-plastered, egg-bespattered, and
cabbage-stalk-pelted, and this for many successive days
together, need not be reminded that, of all English
ruffianism, the most brutal, riotous, and savage is Tory
ruffianism, and that the greatest adepts in such prac-
tices were in most requisition. Thanks to that excel-
lent bit of legislation, which forms a part of the Re-
form Bill, reducing the period for tendering votes to
two days only, these outrages are now deprived of
their day-by-day aggravation ; and it is to be hoped
that one day alone will, ere long, be considered quite
sufficient for the required purpose of an election.
Some means, perhaps, may at the same time be
devised for the prevention of these ebullitions of