The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-31 00:00:00

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114:, t ' marled of the Tories, that before any
3-...lh:Vi-TlO_,:to ght they have always the victory in their
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hind's; hilt, by some inexplicable legerdemain, it slips
from them. Br a happy dispensation, they enjoy the;r
triumphs before the event, and when the event gives
the triumph to the opposite side, the Tories have yet
the satisfaction of discovering that the world's at an
end. One day all i:,, gained by them, and the next all
is lost to society. To-day they have all the elements
of strength engaged in their cause, and to-morrow the
-whole social fabric is falling to cureless ruin. Now
the property and the bulk of the nation arc Conserva-
tive, and anon a reVolutionary multitude are carrying
all before them. They are always either in a fool's
paradise, or a fool's despair. Their hopes and their
terrors are alike illusory. At this instant they are
rejoicing in the Registration. They see a Vast
array of electors for them, as they last year saw a certain
majority of tht House of Commons, until the votes on
the Speakership and the Address dissipated their day
dreams. But how else can they have their . triumphs f
If they cannot have their triumphs upon the event,
Nv ha t better can they do than take them at the only
time when they can be boasted, namely, before the
event ? Before the battle they certainly do make
minced meat of their antagonists. The Registration
is then Tory, the Reformers low in n "pliers, lower in
vroperty, lowest in intelligence—" dogs wit I;;lutaints,'
as Hajji Baba would say—are swept away, sca,tered
.ike chaff before the wind; visions of commandhet,
Tory majorities then risain the rapturous speculations,
and Tory Ministries mount securely upon them. Then
comes a general election, down tumbles the whole pile
of castle-buildieg, and the ruins of it arc called the
ruins of the country. As the desert has its mirage,
so the barren waste of Tory politics has these illu-
sive appearances to cheat • the thirsty wanderers
on their way. -• When the fine prospect, the pro-
mise of all enjoyment vanishes, the disappointed
wretches fling themselves down, and launch into
all terrible forebodings. Like this appears to be
the illusion that mocks the wandering in the arid.
deserts of Opposition and Tory party off from the re-
freshing supplies they were so long accustomed to
draw from the public purse. At present, according to
their fond custom, they claim the Registration as their
own.; but when the matter comes to proof, this joy,
as usual, will change to wailing. We have stated the
oeneral remilt of the Registration from the sources of
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Information open to us, and the Tories, of course, meet
the statement with a denial, and a boast of success,
precisely as, at the last general election, they disputed
our calculation of the Liberal returns to the present
Parliament, and claimed the majority as their own, till
the matter was brought to the test of voting. For the
present, the confidence on the one side is balanced by
the confidence, real or affected, on the other ; but the
habit which the Tories have of reckoning without their
host will be remembered by the public, which will thence
know how to value their boasts. But besides this rea-
son for disbelieving the ever ready but never durable
boasts of the Tories, there is (notwithstanding what
the Standard says to the contrary) the inference to be
drawn from the grett number of claims objected to
by the Tories, which must be proportionate to the
greater number of claims made by Reformers. For
example, let us suppose that in a certain borough the
claims objected to by the,Tories were 300, while the
claims objected to by the Reformers were 30 ; the in-
ference from this is, that the proportion' of claims by
Reformers was to the proportion of claims by Tories
as 300 are to 30. We may then suppose that the
Tories have been, thanks to lawyercraft and all sorts of
shabby advantages, rather more successful than the
Reformers in their objections, and the Reformers would
yet have a majority out of their far greater number of
claimants. V,,is inference, which once stated is so
obvious, is worth mentioning ; though in possession of
more certain inforwation, we have no need of in-
ference.—Morning Chronicle.
The Paris Papers of TlTUroday, the whole of which
we have received by expressi are, as their preceding
numbers have been, chiefly filled with reports of prose-
cntions against the press. On Monday the Editor of the
Nouvelle Minerve was visited with a fine and imprison-
ment ; on Tuesday the Editor of the republican Rvibr -
nzateur was condemned ; on Wednesday three mor,!jour-
malists were dragged before the Assize Court of Paris.
The humorous Charivari published on the 27th of
.July last a number in red ink. -It contained, under
the title of " Catacombes Monarchiques," a catalogue
of various deeds of violence perpetrated by the Barri-
cado (government, the catalogue being nothing more
than a collection of extracts from other papers, includ-
ing the Moniteur and Ministerial prints. The Charivari
added a lithography, which it denominated a " Personi-
fication du system le plus doux et le plus humain." It
represented a man whose person was made up of dead
bodies and heads, swords and bayonets, and the
monster's cheeks were decked with a huge pair of
-whiskers. For this publication the Charivari was,
on Wednesday found guilty of exciting to the hatred
and contempt of Louis Philippe and his Government,
and its .ditor sentenced to an imprisonment of three
irontlis, and a fine of five thousand francs. Next
mane the prosecution of two other papers, in which
the French Govermneni met with a check. The Re-
publican Bon Sens, and Royalist Quotidienne, were
seized on the 10th of August, for inserting in their
columns, with, however, a considerable mitigation of
its harsher passages, an article of our evening contem•
porary, The Sun, animadverting upon the infamous
Bilis against the Press, which were converted into
Jaw on the 9th of September. On Wednesday both
editors were brought up. lii spite, • however, of
- the utmost efforts of Louis Phi;upe's Law Officers,
a condemnatory verdict could not be extorted from
the. Jury. Touched with the eloquent address of
the editor of the Bon Sens, whose Counsel reminded
-the Jury that he had been a confidant of the ci-decant
Duke of Orleans, had zealously assisted in his eleva-
tion to the throne, and since refused a pension of six
thousand francs, from the Barricado King, the Jury
aequ!tted both editors. On Thursday the Reforma-
teur was to be prosecuted once more, though that
republican print had announced the suspension of its
publication, in consequence of the heavy fines and
long periods of incarceration inflicted on its editors in
the course of a few months. On beholding such per-
severing animosity against the freedom- of Press,
the indignation excited in the Palais de Justice may
well be conceived, when the ultra liberal Minerve's
Counsel exclaimed :—" Pauvre '.Presse! sous la Re-
stauration e.C.ttait un jour solenmel one celui oti se
jugeiat un prat:63 de la Presse ; aujourd'hui les proc&;
de la Presse se heurtant a la porte de cettc enceinte, ii
faut qu'ils prennent tour d'inscription au rule--Pauvre
Presse !"—Morning Post.

The lucrative appointment of Chief Clerk of the
War- -ace Department has fallen vacant by the death of
Robert Lukin, Esq„ of Eaton-square—the salary is 1,4001.
per annum.

LIVERPCOL COTTON-MARKET, THURSDAY.—
We have had a very flat Cotton-market to-day. The
common qualities of America were easier to buy ; no
change in the better qualities. About 2,500 bales have
been sold, all to consumers for their immediate vants ; 100
Pernams, 12d. ; 60 Bahias, 10id. to 11d. ; 130 Maran-
Ilams. 11d. to 111 d. Remainder American, from Bcl.
to 10id.
THEATRE AT NEW ORLEANS.—The New Or-
leans correspondent of the Sunday Morning News speaks
thus of the New Mammoth Theatre, now being built by
Caldwell :—" It is a splendid affair ; the third tier if:, just
up, and the whole is really beautiful. Every box in the
dress circle and second tier has a drawing-room attached
to it ; each box has rich silk damask curtains in front,
which may be drawn to cover it. The ground saloon is
130 feet by 30 feet. The pit is arranged somewhat in the
style of the Opera-house in London, and wi9 accommodate
'750 persons, each having a chair to himself. The whole
house, as at present arranged, will contain 3,500 persrls ;
and if the rooms attached to the boxes were taken away,
6,000 persons could be seated. The stage is 80 by 00
feet. Your Bowry stage is, I think, 42feet wide. There
are five tiers, including the first boxes ; the whole front is
130 feet, including 24 feet for the arcade, and the depth
'of the house is 200 feet. The height to the square of the
walls is 86 feet, and to the top of the cupola, where is a
j,iris chandelier, which is of superb cut glass, is 130
Thevt. The colonade in front, which is 30 feet in height,
will be surmounted by statues of Apollo and the Nine
Muses;. each eight feet in height. I presume you might
put the whole Park Theatre upon the stage of this esta-
tlishment:,,And have room to spare."