The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-22 00:00:00

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Ve know nothih: wholeti n
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editorial lire more hOnobrable to any Member of the
House of Commons than this decl • aration on the part
of Mr. Byng-m-nothins so just--nothing so deadly to
the existence of the Tory Government. It could not
have come with such good grace from 'any other
Member--it could not have told so forcibly from any
other quarter. If the Tories live after a such denun-
ciation—if
they will still cling to the •of reins power,
and defy public opinion by • renouncing all the send-
and principles which they have hitherto pro-
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that they are fit fog
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any thing and every thing, and that the -pone must
treat them after a very different fashion from that
which common courtesy has hitherto dictated.—
Morning Advertiser.
The unfavourable termination of the South Hants
election, by the exclusion of Lord Palmerston, is the
first real and substantial blow which the cause of Re.
form has sustained. The substitution of Mr. Compton
for Sir George Staunton, though much to be regretted,
is not of equal importance to the cause of. the people,
since the former, in his declaration, professed that he
considered the Reform Bill as part of the Constitution,
and that he would follow it out by the removal of every
abuse in Church and State. Not so Mr. Fleming,who
is a thorough-going Tory of the old school ; and to com-
pare either of the successful candidates—the bit-and-bit
Reformer, Mr. Compton, or the Church and State Con-
servative, Mr. Fleming,with two such individuals as Lord
Palmerston and Sir George Staunton in influence,
weight, station, or talents, would be an insult to good
sense. We have no doubt that when the results be-
come known, this transient victory over the people will
be found to be owing to party spirit, and not to public
principle. What new light may have broken in on the
electors since they freely invited Lord Palmerston and
Sir George Staunton to come forward, and freely re-
turned them by a large majority, we have yet to learn ;
though, " as we guees, ' the sterling arguments
resorted to most profusely during the election
by Conservative corruption, have not been spared
on this especial occasion. But good often springs
out of evil, and the loss properly employed
may prove a gain. It is a lesson which calls for
the exertion of renewed energy. Lei. the Reformers
work double tides to repair the reverse, and, rejecting
the supineness which too great a confidence in success
is apt to engender, adopt the axiom of the Roman
victor, and " think nothing done while aught remains
to do." That the Conservative party moved heaven
and earth, in order to exclude Lord Palmerston from
his certainty of again. superseding the Duke of Wel-
lington in the Foreign Office, by his return to Parlia-
ment, we have not a shadow of doubt. What corrupt
means were employed is pretty evident, from
the fact that the Sheriff was compelled to ad-
journ the second day's proceedings of the po'l
from Saturday to Monday, in consequence of
the desperate proceedings and illegal violence of
a Conservative mob. We admit, therefore, that the
cause of Reform has in this instance suffered a loss,
although it was doubly counterbalanced by the simul-
taneous announcement of the return of O'Connell for
the capital of Ireland, which was for a moment
doubtful, and the substitution of the new Reform
day-star, Mr. Fox Maule, for Sir George Murray,
the most talented of all the drum-head staff of the
Duke of Wellington. Let the Conservatives delude
themselves into a fool's paradise of unreal triumph, in
order that their fall, when they awake from their dream,
may be more bitter and complete. The Reformers can
afford to tell " the truth and shame the devil." They
can afford to admit one loss, amidst numerous gains ;
since the balance of profit to the cause of popular
right is infinitely in their favour. Morally, as well as
numerically, their cause is now safe. By their conduct
in the metropolitan districts they have, indeed, taken a
" bond of fate," and " made assurance doubly sure."
Well, then, the Reform cause has, we admit, suffered
one essential loss by the result of the South Hants
election. Now, let us see what the Conservative in-
terest has gained by that result. It has returned a
thorough-going ultra-Tory in the person of Mr.
Fleming. Let us look to the man, and then infer
what will be the real measures which he and
his allies and supporters represent. His jockey-
ship metaphors about steeds being thrown out and
horses slipping, may suit the Sfagnco of the
Southampton race-ground, hut will find no sym-
pathy beyond the narrow limits of his Conservative
coterie. The old proverb says—" One knows a man
by his companions; Let us see, then, what are the
opinions of this companion and supporter of Sir Ro-
bert Peel, and this opponent of Lord PahnerstOn.
The men are pledges for measures, as Sir Robert Peel
himself allows. What, then, are the measures of the
Conservative Government to be of which Mr. Fleming
and such men as he are the symbol, the earnest, and
the harbinger ? In the speech on the day of nomina-
tion, wherein he made a Lelaration of his views, he
charged his opponents with purposes of anarchy and
confusion. He said that they wanted a destructive se-
paration of Church and State. He asserted that they
wanted to destroy the House of Lords, or, to use his
own circuitous phraseology, the second branch of the
Legislature. He said, that they treasonably held op
" their gracious Sovereign as an object of scorn. '
Finally, he asserted that " their object went to the ex-
tinction of the Throne and the Church ;" and he
called upon his party to rally round their constitutional
monarchy, which, as he said, was thus endangered,
and "to shed the last drop of their blood in its de-
fence." These, then, are the' opinions and political
principles of the Hampshire allies and supporters of
Sir Robert Peel's Conservative Government. These

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are the men who every where declare their determina•
tion to go up to their knees in blood in support of al
the. abominations and abuses of Church and State

These are the men, and these are the measures,

with which the Conservative Government, if it last a

single day beyond the meeting of Parliament, must in
future be irrevocably allied. Let the people of
England look to it in time. Away with the (Jesui-
tical pretence of waiting for measures from such
men. Their acts and words—their act in dissolving

Parliament, and their words in the speeches of their
candidates—demonstrate beyond all shadow of doubt
what their measures must and will be—measures, like

the whole tenour of their lives, in either open or co
vert hostility to Reform. The people of England
henceforth know what they have to expect, they know
that an unsheathed and brandished sword—without

being gulled into the folly of waiting for the assault—
means an attack upon their properties, their liberties,
and their lives. " What," said Cicero to Tuber°,

when pleading the cause of Ligurius before Ccesar, in
burning language, which made the Dictator turn pale
upon the bench, and drop the official document of
sentence from big bands, " what was the meaning of
yur unsheathed sword at the battle of Pharsalia ?
What was its real purpose ? Against whose life,
cause, and triumph was that sword unsheathed' and di-

reeted ?"—The act speaks for itself, and demonstrates
the object.—Morning Advertiser.

Our readers will recollect our having brought the
question of medical reform before the public some time
ago, and we believe we may say with truth, that the
Morning Herald was the first non-medical publica-
tion that ever insisted upon the necessity and import-
ance of that species of reform, as bearing upon the
general interests of society—at least it was the first
that did so among the Daily Papers of the metropolis.
We will not refer to a late contested election and the

circumstances connected with it, because chat is TIOW

over, and we wish not to revive any unpleasant feelings
to which it gave rise. Our purpose was to deal with the
general principle, independently of all individual inte-
rests ; and we laid it down as a general truth applicable
to all such occasions, that the influence which nepotism
exercised W 44 highly detrimental to the great institu-
tions of medical charity, as long as they remained um e-
formed, by making the family claims of 4 f4n4idate for
a surgical or medical office superior to all the qualifica-.
tions which talent or experience could bring into the

field, We then took occasion to observe upon the abuses
of rrAical b)s!ittitigns in general ; for though it is a
great abuse tbat a medial of "ertation' and
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long standing in an hospital, or other c ariiable and
public in6titution, should have the power to bring in
any of his juvenile and inexperienced relatives, in pre-
ferenee to -..elaiuutnts for office who rely solely upon
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