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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EvENING, MAY 16, 1882.

EHII GREY is once again in office, and the tri-
umph of Reform and the people is secured. There
nerd be no further apprehensions entertained for
eithtr. Both henceforth are placed beyond reach of
the machinations of even their subtlest and most in-
defatigable enemies. Our readers will do us the
justice to bear in mind that we confidently predicted
this result. While we warned them of the desperate,
the frantic intrigues that were going forward to patch
up a Cabinet, compared to which, in the variety of its
hues and colours, the motley garb of Harlequin was
3 suit of sober quaker drab, we assured them at the
same time, that the thing would never do ; that the
moral sense of the country was against it ; and that
from ore extremity of the empire to the other a
spirit would come forth that should shiver the
power of WELLINGTON and his satellites to atoms.
Our prediction was a confident one, but experi-
,nce has proved its truth. We appealed to the
moral principles of our countrymen, and the appeal
has been electrically replied to. Strong, holiest
feeling often goes right home and to the point,
,when cold, tame calculation is staggered and sticks

Lord LYNDHURST'S motion was evidently the last
dying struggle of the Tories to regain their old un-
controlled possession of place and plunder. It was
• he resul., not of sound, healthy strength, but of sud-
den, desperate convulsion. The lamp of Tory life was
just flickering and going out; it flashed forth in one
last energetic blaze,and is now extinguished for ever.
Yes, that voracious shark—to which the faction

bears the closest possible resemblance—which ks
so long been the terror of the ship's crew, now • lies
helpless and bleeding upon deck. The last flourish
of its tail is over ; its last sob is drawn ; death, its
only tamer, has at length quenched its insatiable
appetite for prey.
The Teries thus extinguished, the people, we
trust, will promptly resume their old habits of oc de!
and sobriety. Their friends—their vigilant, un-
wearied friends—again preside at the helm, and
warned by the experience of the last week, wil•
never again permit themselves to be caught, like
PALINURUS, fast asleep at the mid. watch of night.
No, they will remember what is due to a great,
patriotic, a determined nation, and have all thel
eyes and wits about them. In the first place, Earl
GREY will carry the Reform Bill through the House
of Lards with more speed, more zeal, more determi-
nation than ever ; and in the next, he will bear in
mind that it is not delicacy, but stark-staring
moon-struck madness to tamper longer with those
who have behaved to him with such unexampled
perfidy. He will repay the faction in its own coin.
He will treat it as it deserves to be treated, and
thus in the end the country, so far from having been
injured, will even have gained by the events of las!
week.

And great indeed is this gain. It has taught the
people two great lessons of which they stood much
in need, and which they will never forget. It has
taught them the secret of their own strength ; that,
though helpless in a bad, they are irresistible in a
good cause; that unity—perseverance—unflinching
moral courage, may bid defiance to all the physical
force that despo.istn may array against them. A
tr,tion unanimous in its resolution to be free, never
yet failed. The triumph is achieved the in,tant the
determination is taken.

The next invaluable lesson that the people have
learned by the events of last week, is how to dis-
tinguish their friends from their foes. Hitherto
they have indulged in the delusion, so honourable
to human nature, that the Tory faction might
possibly relent ; might possibly warm in sym-
pathy towards them; might possibly have some
lingering spark of humanity left; but now, the
ma.k is stripped off, the curtain is raised,
the veil is rent asunder, and behold —a Franken-
skin From such a monver, which could de-
lude only while its hideousness was v&lrd
from human eye, what have the people to hope
Nothing, positively nothing ! How grateful then
ought they tobe that the faction has exposed itself
in just sufficient time to enable them to coun-
teract its power ! •
Henceforth no man will place corifidence in the
oaths and pledges of a Tory. The monster stands
exposed, beneath a glaring meridian sun, in all
his naked deformity. And this suicidal exposure
he has himself brought about ! Yes, the Tory him-
self, ravenous for place and plunder, and unable
longer to restrain himself, or even to preserve the
ordinary decencies of nature, has been the prime,
indeed the sole, mover of his own ruin. Thus guilt
ever defeats its own ends, and, by some strange,
but fortunate, fatality, is compelled to be the mini-
ter of its own destruction.

The triumph of Reform is now, we repeat, as
complete as the downfall of the Tories. Such
being the case, we entreat—we conjure the country,
to return forthwith to its good old habits of di,ci-
pline and decorum. Let us hear of no more
black flags in the West—no more Republican
standards in the North. Let the mighty heart of
Birmingham heave and throb no longer. The people
have now only to be peaceable, but vigilant, to secure
the full accomplishment of all their just demands.
But they must not forget the Bishops. No, no.
This were black ingratitude. They must insist on
these military Barons being reduced to their fitting
level, and compelled henceforth to confine them-
selves to their clerical duties. In a word, they
must insist on having no more spiritual politicians in
the House of Lords. The House of GOD is the only
fitting house for the display of episcopal abilities.

We observe that Mr. TENNYSON had an audi-
ence of his MAJESTY yesterday. However this in.
terview might have been occasioned, the uniform
and consistent conduct of the Right Honour-
able Gentleman as a public man, gives us
so perfect a confidence in hie principles, that
we are persuaded his only effort would he to
promote the grand object of a full and efficient Re-
form. This impression is confirmed by his subs(-
quent speech in the House of Commons, where he
expresses his conviction, that without a creation of
Peers, his MAJESTY would find the means of se-
curing the Bill, or one at least as beneficial to the
country. If so, of course we can have no
objection to avoid the nece,sity for so strong
a measure as that which the Government were
driven to recommend ; but we have yet to
see whether it may not become necessary. Mr.
TENNYSON says, that in the last extremity he would
not object to it, and we confess our fears that other
means will fail to produce the only result with which
either he or the country would be satisfied. If,
however, they can be found, we shall not regret the.
events of the last few days, which have formed one
of the most anxious and alarming epochs of British
history.

Next to the exultation on the glorious termination
of the struggle is our detestation of those men and
those women who have by wicked advice and by
foul means brought about a crisis which has cast a
shade on the name of our KING, and which 'say
embitter his days for life. But ten days ago,
WILLIAM IV. was the most popular Sovereign
on earth, and need we ask what change these
ten days have produced? The feelings expressed
in the metropolis—in the whole of England—and,
above all, in Scotland—but too sadly show that the
people are only loyal to a patriotic and virtuous
King. But ten days more, Leith a Wellington
Administration in power, no human being can say
where royalty might have been. And such a crisis
is the more to he regretted, because most of the
blame attached to his conduct we believe to be
totally undeserved. We believe the KING was
most anxious for Reform, and the Reform too of
Earl GRLY, and we believe that he has hitherto been
actuated by the purest feelings of love and attach-
ment to his people; but he was deceived, he was
told that all the property, all the learning of the
country was against it, and if he refused his consent
to create Peers, a few days would put the question
beyond doubt ; and beyond doubt it has been pu.
No sooner did the rejection of the Bill reach the
ears of the people, than they assembled in thousand.
and tens of thousands ; they arose from their peaceful
repose like a giant refreshed by wine, and spoke a
language which has rung in the ears of their Sove-
reign, and which will be heard to the uttermost parts
of the earth. There never was such a noble, such
an unanimous, such a patriotic burst of manly and
free feeling as that displayed by the people of this,
great country, and its effects are as consoling as the
manner in which it - has been displayed, is

honourable to the name of Briton. It hall
preserved the peace not of England but of the
whole world ; our joy is only alloyed by the bitter
reflection that the name of the SOVEREIGN, which
had hitherto been coupled with the Bill, should
run the risk of being dissociated from it by his own
enemies and the enemies of the people. Let the
people however reflect, that it was the KING'S
name which influenecd more than any thing
else the general election—that it was the
KING's name in fact which has brought the
Bill to its present stage, and that the ICING's
name will yet bring it to a glorious consummation.
There have been faults on both sides. The KING
has been deceived, and the people unnecessarily
irritated. Let there be mutual forgiveness,
and we despair not of seeing WILLIAM IV. again
the idol of a free, a br►ve, and a generous
people. Let the day on which his MAJESTY goes
down to Parliament to pass the Bill, arid crown a
nation's hopes, be observed as a holyday, a day of
feasting and rejoicing throughout the country, and
let the toasts be, " forgiveness, loyalty, and liberty."

We this day publish sotne further testimonials to
our exertions in diffusing by express the earliest
news of the alarming division in the House of Lords
on Lord LYNDHURST'S motion, and the consolatory
one in the Comtnons in favour of Ministers. This

day we, k the ominous majority of thirty-five
w•is known throughout the three kingdoms, and
now ►he happy restoration of Lord GREY'S Mi-
nistry is spreading joy and confidence throughout
the land

The Bristol Mercury, edited by Mr. SOMERTON,
has, with its usual spirit, given an Extraordinary
Edition, containing a full report of the great Reform
meeting just held in that city, which we have not
spce to give to-day :it will appear in The Sun to-
m )1-row.

SUN OFFICE, Half- past Three.
We have just received the following. What
next ?

" ilyformPrs, relax not in your efforts—your enemies
are only paralized, not dewroyed.
" Lord GREY is called upon, hut not yet accepted."
" Stand firm, be watchful."
St. James's, Wednesday, Half-past Three, p.m.