The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-05 00:00:00

sincere Churchmen believe that such men will effect
those necessary reformslnow universally admitted to
be essential to, the safety of the Establishment ? Can
the Protestant Dissenter belieVe that by these men his
grievances will be redressed, or his just claims ad-
mitted ? Will any rights, Civil or Religious, be safe
in their hands ? Can the advocate of Negro Emanci-
pation trust to them for the:safe, the peaceable, and the
effectual completion of that great measure ? Can the
friend of Corporation reform trust to them the correc-
tion of the abuaes of that" municipal system, which
they have ever used for their own party purposes ?
Can the new constituency, who have received the
elective franchise, only through the Reform Bill, trust
to the professions of men, who violently opposed their
admission to that franchise ? Or can the people of
England trust in a party, whose confidence they have
never possessed, but to abuse it—who have .so fre-
quently plunged the country into bloody and ex-
pensive wars against the freedom of other nations—
who, at home, have supported abuses—opposed re-
forms—and who now feel and avow that they can only
ask for the confidence of the people by disclaiming all
their past opinions, and repudiating all their past
principles ?"

The answer to these questions is obvious to the
merest tyro in politics :—the Tories neither
can, nor will, do any of these things. It is
impossible that they could do any of them, and main-
tain their principles. " Can theo "Ethiopian change his
skin, or the leopard his spots ?" No, no : it will be
the study of the Tories—and they will only act on
• principle in so doing—to impede, and. if necessary,
resist all reform both in Church and State. With re-
spect to the Slave Emancipation Bill, we confess we
tremble for the consequences of committing its first
operation to the hands of its fierce and malignant
opponents. But with the Dissenters, who were the
great instruments of obtaining this redemption for
thousands of miserable enslaved human beings, must
now rest the decision, whether the good which they
have done, and the example which they have enabled
this mighty empire to set to every country in
the world, shall be indeed realized ; or whether
the whole affair of emancipating mankind shall be vir-
tually proclaimed a hollow and a heartless mockery
throughout the world. We say nothing of the claims
of the Dissenters themselves—such a powerful body
cannot have their rights withheld—but we point to the"
slaves, and leave it tc themselves to determine whether
as Christians and as Englishmen, they are, or arc not,
morally bound to protect the yct unredeemed objects of
their benevolence. The city of London is acting as
becomes the head and heart of a great and free nation
—let the constituencies in other parts of the United
Kingdom prove themselves—at least—worthy Mem-
bers.

We understand that the Reformers of Bristol—who,
;0 their honour be it said, have ever been among the
nost active and intelligent in the Kingdom—intend
his day to put Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE in nominatioi,
conjointly with Mr. BAILLIE. A better ,epmenta_
tive than the Worthy Baronet c031.L.-
not possibly have
been selected. He was br,in and educated in Bristol,
and holds consideral,ie property in the neighbourhood ;
and if he will but give his consent to stand, there can
be no doubt of his success. The Reformers of Not-
tingham will, we are sure, be the first to urge his sit-
ting for Bristol, in the event of a double return ; for
they are at all times strong enough to send to Parlia-
ment whom they please ; whereas Bristol is, to a cer-
tain extent, at the • mercy of a rotten Corpora-
tion, NI ho are making the most herculean efforts
to return Sir R. VYVYAN. The case is a desperate
one—so desperate, that unless Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE
be prevailed on to overcome his scruples as respects
Nottingham, the Tory Baronet will infallibly be re-
turned. Sir JoHN cannot but see this ; the Reformers
of Nottingham cannot but see it too ; and both, we are
percuaded, will combine their efforts to oust a man
who aspires to the representation of the third city in
the kingdom, solely on the strength of his opposition
to Triennial Parliaments--to a revision of the Pen-
sion List—to the Corn Laws—to every measure, in
short, that has common sense and justice to re-
commend it 1 What does S'ir It. VYVYAN
know about the interests of a vast mercantile consti-
tuency, like that of Bristol ? He is no man of busi-
ness. He has no head for anything but flashy tropes
and puerile Tory phillippics. Sir JOHN HosHousE,
on the contrary, is a practised statesman ; he has not
a name to make---he has made one already ; being well
known as a ready, clear-headed debater—a man of the
world—a man of business—and a man, of letters.
Reformers of Bristol, this is the sort of Member that
a city like your's should return to Parliament. As
for a VYVYAN—Pshaw I the bare idea of such a dri-
veller presuming to represent your interest, is an
absurdity I Away with him then to Cornwall, which
will not fail to treat him as he deserves, having twice
already laughed his pretensions to scorn.