The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-11 00:00:00

HANOVER-SQUARE. ROOMS.

THE Subscribers, Nobility, and Gentry arc re-
spectfully informed that, in conseywace of a Charity Ball
being announced at Willis's Boom on the night of the 18th, the
SECOND SUBSCRIPTION BALL will take place at these
Rooms on FRIDAY, the 15th Inst. _

Applications for .Ton-Subscribors' Tickets, are requested to be
addressed to Captain Marshall, Hanover-square Rooms.

HAMBURG, MAY 1815.
HEENTE BROTHERS, CONTRACTORS for
the STATE of HAMBURG'S GREAT LOTTERIES,
being requested to publish the Scheme of the approaching Sixty-
sixth Lottery in the English Papers, and to have Tickets on Sale,
with Agents in England. beg to state that neither can he done,
because it is illegal for the English Newspapers to publish Foreign
Lottery Schemes, and for ary Agelits in Ergland to sell Foreign
Lottery Tickets. On the other hand, they beg to state, as it is
NOT illegal for any person in England to PURCHASE Foreign
Lottery Tickets, that any person desirous to purchase, on addressing
them by mail, will receive a full Scheme, and any desirable infor-
mation on the subject (Gratis), by return of post.

HAMBURG, MAY, le*3s.
EI NE BROTHERS beg to inform all those
who have to remit to them Eight Pounds, that upon receipt
of a Ten Pound note, Two Pound will be returned in gold by re-
turn of mail.

HAMBURG, MAY, 1835.
ITEINE BROTHERS beg to state that the first,
cost of a Ticket of the Sixty-Sixth Hamburg Great Lottery
will be Eight Pound.

Thg publication of THE Sus NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 20 minutes past 3 o'clock.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1835.

To-morrow is the day on which the Parliament re-
sumes its legislative functions, after a long interrup-
tion of the public business, occasioned by the un-
constitutional resistance of the late Administration to
the national will, repeatedly declared through the na-
tional representatives. The patriotism of the Tories
has in this received a fresh elucidation. They have
added another to the many existing proofs, that they
regard themselves and their places far more than they
do the interests of their country. That the
public inconvenience has not been much greater
is no fault of their's. Of every obstacle which they
could throw in the way of the new Ministry, either by
secret intrigue and underhand plotting during its for-
mation, or by factious and unprincipled opposition to
the re-election of some of its Members, they have not

scrupled to avail themselves. With what success,
particularly in the latter mpde of embarrassment, it
might be cruel to remind them-7-we need not say more
than that out of twenty four elections they have
carried the astonishing number of ONE. This
we allow is a great deal more than they were entitled
to-..much more than they could ever have thought of
gaining with fair play ; for well do they know—aye
and bitterly do they feel, that were they not to resort
to the powers of darkness for help—were they to abstain
flum bribery, intimidation, calumny and all the other
unhallowedmeestalihich they use to influence the
mindaeof the electors--immood. of one vote in twensy-
lbur, they *fluid not have one in &hundred through-
out the country•

eumeasied
Cir as the KING'S Ministers now are, and

with so little of the Session of Parliament remaining,
their obvious policy is to bring in at once the two
great measures to which the country has long been
looking with the most anxious expectation. The
abatement of the Corporation nuisances, and the
purification of the Church, are really the only
subjects connected with Reform that at present
occupy the attention of the public—these completely
engross it ; and it cannot well be otherwise, because the
people are persuaded, and every day's observation rivets
the persuasion, that until these Reforms are
carried, it is utterly vain and futile to think
of remedying grievances, or correcting abuses,
which flow from these two ever-bubbling fountains
of corruption, as naturally as the stream flows
from its source. If the Members of the present Ad-
ministration ever entertained a doubt (which we do not
believe they ever did) as to the necessity of such a
searching reform in the institutions to which we have
alluded, as shall completely root out the abuses with
which they are over-run, and by which they are con-
verted into instruments of deadly mischief to the moral
character as well as to the civil liberty of the people,
we are sure that doubt has been removed, swept away,
eradicated, by the events of the last three weeks.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL has experienced the working of
the system among the Corporations, civil and ecclesi-
astical, in Devonshire—and there is no schoolmaster
whose lessons come home to the mind with half so
much effect as those of experience do. We may there-
fore expect—we hesitate not to say—sweeping mea-
sures of Corporation and Church Reform. None else,
we are quite sure, will satisfy the country, and none
else can save the Ministry.

The East Norfolk Conservatives have at length
mustered pluck enough to form an Association ; the
establishment of which they celebrated, on Friday last,
by a public dinner, in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich.
Considering the cause that bad brought them together
—that cause which they profess to have so much at
heart, and which they tell us is bottomed on justice and
common sense—it is surprising how little argument or
animation the speakers showed on this occasion. If
the dinner was no better than the declamation, it must
have been a miserable chop-house affair. Lord WODE-
HOUSE presided, and in returning thanks to the Meet-
ing for the honour they had clone him in drinking his
health—an honour for which of course he could never
be sufficiently grateful, and which had made Friday not
merely a Good-Friday, but the very best of all possible
Fridays, in short, " the proudest day of his life"—
disburthened himself of a lengthy Tory diatribe,
having Catholic Emanicipation for its head, and
O'CONNELL, ash necessary consequence, for its tail.
On these two grievances—especially the latter—his
Lordship declaimed in a feeble, whining, melancholy
spirit, that has both surprised and disappointed us.
We expected, at the very least, that he would have
indulged us with a droll burst of passion ; but—no ;
nothing of the sort ; instead of making us laugh by
its vehemence, his speech has only made us drowsy by
its dullness. A redeeming absurdity, however, peeps
out towards the close, where, after expressing the de-
spair he feels for the fortunes of his country, his
Lordship lakes comfort from the reflection—that " that
able young Nobleman, Lord STANLEY," is still left us.
This is rich, and might redeem even a duller speech
than Lord \VODEHOUSE'S ; for if there be one states-
man beyond another who at the present crisis, is utterly
without political influence, that one is the heir of the
House of Derby. Distrusted by the Tories, shunned
by the Whigs, laughed at by the Radicals, he is the
very Pariah of St. Stephens. Yet this is the states-
man who, according to Lord WODEHOUSE, is to raise
the fallen fortunes of the empire ! If the Tories really
think that such a straw can save them from drowning,
they are heartily welcome to it ; we would throw them
a dozen such with the greatest pleasure imaginable.
Lord WALPOLE followed Lord WOODHOUSE, just
as Noodle follows Doodle in the farce. He too la-
mented the state of his unhappy country ; indulged in
a rapturous recollection of his vote against " the tissue
of absurdity and impiety contained in Lord J. R us-
SELL'S motion ;" and trusted, with modest diffidence,
that England would yet be saved from the tyranny of
" Popish demagogues," by which we presume he
would delicately insinuate that Protestant bodies are
again to be roasted by Papist faggots at Smithfield !
This is sad stuff, and only worthy of notice, inasmuch
as it proves the desperate shifts to which the Tories
are driven for anything like an argument.
We forbear making any lengthened comment on
Lord STORMONT'S speech, for instead of being ra-
tional, it was simply metaphorical. 1-li3 Lordship was
especially figurative on the subject of Sir It. PEEL'S
resignation. " His sun," said he, "rose obscured
amidst clouds of faction, envy, and malice, but nothing
could be more beautifid than its setting." Now
we happened to have had the pleasure of seeing this
sun set—it was about six r.m. last Friday three weeks
in the House of Commons—,and must confess that we
never saw a more yellow, melancholy, bilious orb
drop down behind the chimney-tops of Palace-yard
in the thick of a November fog. It affected
to be sure, a blaze, but that blaze was no more than
the last faint flickering of a rushlight. One little
convulsive glimmer, and—out it went ! If this be a
" beautiful setting," Lord STORMONT must have
strange notions of the picturesque.
Mr. PRAED was more than usually flippant, and
quoted a passage in Shakspeare, the burden of which
was to prove that Lord JOHN RUSSELL was an ass.
It is a thousand pities that the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman did not bethink him of his
own ears, before he ventured to institute a comparison
like this. The taunt comes from him with peculiar
infelicity, seeing that his own repeated brays in the
House of Commons, have been to the full as genuine
as those of any animal that ever chewed the thistle.
We should apologise to our readers for the space
we have devoted to this Norfolk Conservative Associa-
tion, for it is as signal a failure as any in the re-
cords of Toryism. The Members may get up
one dinner ; but we doubt much whether they
will ever get up a second. Throughout the night the
spirits of the company seem to have been in the lowest
state of depression. They had not the heart to joke ;
they had not the pluck to be ferocious. Far different
was the character of the Reform Meeting which took
place last week in another part of the county. There,
all was cheerfulness and confidence ; and there too, as
in Devonshire, was raised that call for the Ballot which
no Government will henceforth have power to silence.

We have received the whole of the Paris papers of
Friday and Saturday. The Court of Peers did not
sit on Friday, in order that the Government might have
time to deliberate upon the safest course that could be
conveniently adopted to silence the refractory prisoners.
The KING was the first appealed to ; but his Majesty,
finding that the Peers are now so deeply implicated in
theseldisgraccful proceedings, that they cannot with-
draw themselves without compromising their dignity,
very graciously permitted them to use their own
discretion in an affair which most properly belong-
ed to them. The Peers of course expressed them-
selves highly gratified by thili gracious intimation ; but
there was no difficulty in perceiving, from the tone of
their deliberations immediately afterwards, that the
Royal courtesy, on this occasion, was gall and worm-
wood to their Lordships. They begin now to eee the