The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The leading article of the Times of yesterday must
have produced a prodigious sensation in the Tory cir-

des. Mr. O'Connell's attack on the Duke of Cum-

berland, his disparagement of the Duke of Wellington,
nay, even his entertainment at the Castle, are put aside
for a new horror—" Each-minute teems a new one."

A frightful discovery has been made—or is said to
have been made, at Tetsworth, a small village in Ox-
fordshire. An important office was vacant, no, less
than that of Postmaster to the village, and is alleged
by the Times, upon the authority of a correspondent,
that through the influence of Mr. O'Connell the place
has been given to the protege of a Catholic gentleman!
Stands England ?—stands Tetsworth where it did ?
11l as the Times has thought of the Government, it
confesses that it never dreamed of meeting in one of
our country villages with evidence of the successful in-
terference of Mr. O'Connell. Our contemporary (we
must give the his due) handles this subject
with much forbearance, and endeavours, indeed, to
compose the public mind, and inspire confidence in the
new postmaster of unhappy Tetsworth. Like iEneas,
curis ingentibus eecrer,
Spem vultu simulat, premit altum' conic dolorem.
" We hope (says the Times) that at all events the
Tetsworth nominee of these worthies will be
.found
competent to the post he has been appointed to fill"
the post being the Post-office, with all its weighty du-
ties, in a village with a population little under 500
souls ! But now we come to the most alarming fea-
ture in the case. The hope which the Tinges breathes
it soon damps by the announcement, " We understand
that he is a collar-maker." Think of that good
people I A collar-maker I The apprehensions ex-
cited by this circumstance are of the gravest
kind. Where could he who is " fitting for this isle a
yoke " find so apt an instrument as a collar-maker ?
The Times sees and states the danger with its usual
sagacity. " Now these operatives, collar-makers, are
precisely they whom Dan stands most in need of, and the
sort of people Romanists would naturally be inclined
io patronize." For smelling out a Popish Plot our
Contemporary has no equal—Oates and Bedloe were
boobies compared with him. Let the people of Tets-
worth look to it, and keep their necks out of collars
if they can. What follows, however, is of remarkable
Jiberality—" The man, however, will not necessarily
be a worse postmaster because he has been a collar-
maker." This is saying much—too much, considering
whose nominee he is alleged to be, and that he
is probably a cardinal in disguise. But other
important thoughts now occur to the Times.
But can he read and write, or has he only
just begun to take les-sons for the purpose of ac-
inking those accomplishments ? We pause for a
reply from some worthy of the village of Tetsworth."
All these circumstances will, of course, be sifted at the
meeting of Parliament. Sir Robert Peel will move
:for the papers relating to the appointment of the Tets-
worth postman, and the matter will be referred to a
Select Committee of Inquiry. The Tetsworth case will
doubtless be one of the great questions of the session ;
And certainly we shall not give our support to the Go-
-,vermnent, if we find that in the appointment of the
Tetsworth postman there has been a design to subvert
t7,:e -Established Church, and to re-establish Popery in
these realms, as our far-sighted Contemporary of the
Times would seem to intimate. The nation must not
be collared at Tetsworth, and subjugated to the Pope.
The proximity of Tetsworth to Oxford certainly gives
a very suspicious appearance to the affair. It looks as
if the Pope's collars were first to be fixed upon the
sages and divines of that orthodox University. But,
thanks to time Times, there is warning of the danger.—
Morning- ChronicL%
The Marquis of Chandos is not, it seems, the only
Conservative who dreams of a change of Ministry.
The Standard tells us that the present Ministry are
to be turned out of office " within a very few weeks."
We suppose the 15th of November is the day fixed
on for this coup d (lat. The success which attended
the last ,15th has no doubt endeared that day to the
Tories. For our part, we have heard nothing of all
this ; and we really supposed that Sir Robert Peel
and his friends had made up their minds to an exclu-
sion from office for some time. But we will not longer
withhold from our readers the announcement of our
Evening Contemporary :
" If the removal of the present men be an object of
great interest with any, the consolation is at hand ; that as
the country now plainly seeks good Government and safe
Government, the slaves of the incendiary mendicant can
govern no longer. Something of the kind they seem to
feel ; for there has been, during the last fortnight or three
weeks, a very extraordinary movement amongst all the Ca-
binet Ministers, and all who possess the confidence of the
Cabinet. We believe we are safe in saying, that one Ca-
binet Minister, at least, has distinctly avowed his conviction
that there will be a general election before Christmas ; and
several others are, at this moment, carrying on a secret
canvass in contemplation of such an event.
"We know not through what process a dissolution of
Parliament is anticipated to arrive.- Stupid as Ministers
are, however, we can scarcely suspect them of the folly of
dismissing the only majority that ever will support their
views. We, therefore, conjecture that they expect to be
turned out of office within a very few weeks ; and that they
calculate, probably erroneously, upon Sir R. Peel's turning
out their majority with them. Be this, however, as it may,
they are canvassing with very great industry."
Our readers are now as wise as we are. We sup-
pose the Standard wishes its friends, to make an effort
to seize the reins of power before the Magistracy of
the Reformed Municipal Corporations be filled up.
No, no, good Standard, the Tories, with all their
folly, will hardly venture on the freak of again agita-
ting the country this Christmas —Morning Chronicle.
A correspondent, who ought to have good means of
information on the subject, assures us that there has
been no clandestine or underhand transfer of artillery-
men from the service of his Majesty to the forces un-
der Colonel Evans. We shall be glad to find that
the report to which we alluded yesterday is not true.
At the same time, if it should turn out to be unfound-
ed, still we shall have nothing to reproach ourselves
with for having given currency to it. The case of the
officer of artillery which we substantiated by means of
an official letter, made it our duty not to smother a ru-
mour the truth of which that case rendered so probable.
—Times.

The result of the present Registry is admitted to be
nearly everywhere greatly in favour of the Conserva-
tives. This is what was generally expected to be the
case ; and the advantage thus gained will not, we ap-
prehend, stop here ; but will be followed up by the
conversion, whenever another election takes place, of
many to the side of the Constitution, whom the Radi-
cal agents have, with more zeal than actual knowledge,
now placed on the opposite side. A great proportion
of the voters now classed on the Radical side are so
placed for no other reason but because they so voted at
the last election. But has nothing occurred to disgust
hundred of such persons since ? As, for instance, can it
be supposed, Mr. O'Connell's connection with the Go-
vernment, coupled with ' his now undisguised objects,
had no effect in alarming multitudes of Reformers,
who, while they wish to see real abuses and defects
remedied, are not prepared to abolish the House of
Lords, extinguish the Protestant Church, and pave
the way for the re-establishment of Popery in its stead ?
Besides, to assume that because a man has once given
his vote for one person or on one side, he must therefore
do so always, is in itself an absurdity which defeats one
of the most favourite doctrines of the Whigs when out
oaf ofEce—" frequent appeals to the people." Instead
of annual, as called for by the Radicals, we might as
well; in such case, at once have perpetual Parliaments.
Happily, however, such cannot be the case. Every
fresh appeal to the people is in its very nature a call to
them to re-consider their own conduct, as well as that
of their late representatives, and it would be a mockery
of all fair judgment, and render such an appeal a nul-
lity, could either one side or the other take the list of
voters, and pronounce what each man's suffrage will
be, on an occasion which has not occurred, and which
may be influenced by circumstances which no one can
"etilge. Instead, therefore, of any thing like
' avy must, in the very nature of things, be
vr, at de
njecture attached to the result of any
i
futore electi ut, reasoning from probability and
from all we Pee hear around us, the present pros-
iect is, we coin tly anticipate, most favourable to
Wie triumph o onservative reform over the
ek pro-
- j -ts of those o cannot now be better described
tha n as dives." It remains then to be seen