The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-13 00:00:00

rational being, as to what was the cause of the
late Government's dismissal from office, this frank,
manly declaration of Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE will at
once remove. it. The Liberal Ministry was turned
out—cavalierly turned out—because it preferred the
interests of the people to those of a Court faction. Its
fault, in a certain high quarter, was not incapacity on
the right, but too much capacity on the wrong, side.
So long as it was vacillating and professional under
Lord GREY, it was tolerated ; but the instant it
showed symptoms of vigour under Lord MELBOURNE,
it was dismissed in a manner only less insulting to the
Cabinet itself, than to the nation at large. Electors,
read Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE'S speech with attention.
If rightly understood, it is one from which you can
draw but this one inference—namely, that as the Li-
beral Ministers were removed because they were be-
coming too earnest in your cause, so the Tory
Ministers have succeeded them, because they are dia-
metrically the reverse.

Judge, then, what real advantages you have to ex•
pect from a Government appointed under such cir-
cumstances ! Heed not what they tell you about
their zeal for Reform. It is not in our enemy's camp
we are to look for our best friends. The Tories, as
a party, are our sworn, immitigable opponents. Their
very existence depends on our ruin. Their creed is,
" Halt I" Ours, " Advance I" if they succeed, adieu
for ever to all hopes of enlightened reform, and welcome,
instead, the dark night of intolerance and corruption.

We have received the whole of the Paris papers of
Sunday, together with intelligence from Madrid of the
2d inst. If we may judge from the various rumours
and opinions now afloat in the French capital, the
Government will adopt measures to discharge the debt
owing to America, rather than engage in a war, the
success of which would be more than doubtful. In
the Chamber of Deputies the only allusion yet
made to the President's message, was in a discussion
which arose on Saturday on a petition from the
merchants of Havre, Marseilles and Nantes, proving
that a formal separation might take place between
Merchantmen and the Royal Fleet, in order to put an
end to the impressment of the former in the service of
the latter. The petition was rejected on the ground
of the expediency of making any change in the Naval
system "at a time when France might have to con-
tend with a great maritime power''—alluding to the
United States of America.

The Cour d'Assizes on Saturday sentenced the
Editor of the Tribune to pay a fine of 2000 francs,
and suffer six months' incarceration, for copying an
article from this Journal reflecting on the conduct of
the citizen Sovereign of France. This is not the way
to conciliate the London press.
M. THIERS and Marshal GERARD are both stated
to be confined from severe indisposition.
The arrivals from Spain are not important. Don
CARLOS employs his learned leisure in planning
the Reform of the Spanish Church, and
writing Proclamations, which are to be pro-
mulgated when he ascends the throne of his
mighty ancestors. We wonder has he as correct a
taste in embroidery as his late illustrious brother FER-

DINAND ? If so, why does lie not commence the
making an under garment for some thread-bare
Saint? Such an employment would be most worthy
of him.

[The following stood over since Friday for want of space.l
The Paris papers of Thursday, Friday, and Sa-
turday, have been received. The most important
news contained in them is the reagnation of
Prince TALLEYRAND, who has finally retired from
public life. General SEBASTIANI has been ap-
pointed to succeed the Prince, as Ambassador from
France at the British Court ; but the Moniteur,
which publishes in its official part the letter of the
Prince to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, ten-
dering his resignation, with the answer thereunto,
does not state when the newly appointed Diplo-
matist is expected to leave France for London.
Prince TALLEYRAND, in his letter to the
Minister, courteously abstains from giving any
direct opinion on the present policy pursued by
France ; but the tenor of the whole shows a leaning
towards the measures of resistance, of which the KING
is known to be the principal director. It would puz-
zle METTERNICH himself to divine the Prince's
meaning where he says, that " The path which Eng-
land seems inclined to follow, must lead her to prefer
a mind embued with traditions less ancient than mine."
The Prince's traditions are sufficiently many-coloured
to fill no party with any great alarm. England he
may conceive to be growing too liberal for
him ; but surely his appreciation of the sanctity
of the Episcopal character need not alarm the most
strenuous advocate for Church Reform. The follow..
ing is the Prince's letter, with Admiral DE RIGNY'S
answer. The date corresponds with the first rupture
in the Cabinet, and the long time which intervenes
before the KING has made up his mind to accept the
Prince's resignation, shows the difficulties which his
MAJESTY must have experienced in filling up the
vacancy caused by the Prince's retirement :

measured by the ordinary rules of conjecture. If the
Premier has yet recovered his prudence he will drop
his companions before they drop him, and at once
tell his Royal Master that, with such a display of
metropolitan opinion, and with such a Honse of Com-

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mons as is likely to be returned, he cannot possibly
carry on the KING'S Government. The grace and
the safety of a retreat lie in its being well timed. A

udicious General knows that the longer he remains in
,he field the severer will be his disaster. The defeat

cannot be questioned : will he sully his reputation as
a leader, by the wanton exposure of his forces to cer-

Lain destruction ? If they like to remain exposed to
;he fire of their enemies, that will be no fault of his—

we have no objections.

MEMBERS RETURNED.

ENGLAND AND WALES.—COUNTIES.
Derby, North Division, Jan. 12.—Hon. G. H. Cavendish and
T. Gisborne, Esq.
Gloucester, Western Division, Jan. 12..-,Marquis of Worcester
and the Hon. G. Berkeley.
Hants, North Division, Jan. 12.—C. Shaw Lefevre, Esq. and
J. W. Scott, Esq.
Nottingham, South Division, Jan. 12.—Earl of Lincoln and S.
E. Dennison, Esq., without opposition.
Somersetshire, Eastern Division, Jan. 12.—Colonel W. Gore
Lungton and W. Miles, Esq., without opposition.
Wiltshire, North Division, Jan. 13.—Paul Methuen, Esq. and
Walter Long, Esq.

IRELAND.
Carrickfergus, Jan. 10.—P. Kirke, Esq.
Kilkenny—Jan. 12.—R. Sullivan, Esq.
Mallow—Jan. B.—C. D. O. Jephson, Esq.

LETTER FROM PRINCE TALLEYRAND TO THE MINISTER FOR
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DATED VALENCAY, Nov. 13.
" Sir,—When the confidence of the King called me four
years ago to the Embassy of London, the very difficulties of
the mission induced me to obey. I believe I have accom-
plished, for the benefit of France and of the King, two ob-
jects of interest which I have always had in my mind, and
which I have always considered as closely connected. During
these four years, the maintenance of a general peace has ad-
mitted of all our relations being simplified. Our policy, iso-
lated as it was, has been mingled with that of the other na-
tions. It has been accepted, appreciated, and honoured by
the honest men of all countries. The co-operation we have
obtained from England has cost nothing to our independence
or to our national feelings : and such has been our respect for
the rights of all--such has been the candour of our proceedings,
that far from creating mistrust, it is our guarantee that has been
called for against that spirit of propagandism which disturbs the
old States of Europe. It is certainly to the exalted wisdom and
great abilities of the King that all these satisfactory results
must be attributed. I claim for myself no other merit than
that of having divined before all others the profound thoughts
of the King, and to have announced them to those who have
since been convinced of the truth of my words. Now all
Europe knows and admires the King, and thereby the prin-
cipal difficulties have been surmounted ; now that England
has perhaps an equal want with ourselves for a mutual alliance
between us, and that the path which she appears to be inclined to
follow must induce her to prefer a mind embued with traditions
less ancient than mine, I conceive I may, without failing in my
devoted duty to the King or to France, entreat, respectfully,
that his Majesty will accept my resignation, which I request
you, Sir, will lay before him. My great age, the infirmities
which are its natural consequence, the repose they counsel, the
reflection they suggest, render this step very simple, but too
fully justify it, and even render it a duty. I rely upon the
equity and goodness of the King to form the same judgment.
Accept, &c., " Prince DE TALLEYRAND."
The following is the answer of the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, which is only dated Wednesday last :
" Prince,-_I hare laid before the Kinc' the letter you ad-
dressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, by which you
entreat his Majesty to accept your resignation of the Embassy
at London. His Majesty for a long time hesitated to accept
it. In associating yourself with his sentiments and those of
his Government, you have so ably concurred in giving stability
to the new monarchy and grandeur to its policy, and in main-
taining the peace of Europe, that the King could not consent
to deprive France of your powerful services and vast experi-
ence. But his Majesty has felt that after so great and so long
a career, the attachment even, and the gratitude he bears
towards you, will not suffer him any longer to resist the desire
you have expressed to him, on account of your great age, to
retire into repose. Accept, &c., " RIGNY."
The French journalists entertain some doubts whe-
ther the Pill for the erection of the New Court will

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1835

be brought into the Chamber of Peers ; and several
public buildings are now named by Ministers as fully
applicable to such a purpose. This clearly reveals
the whole secret of the demanded grant on the part of
Ministers. The plot has failed—the Chamber of
Deputies made the grant without tacitly approving of
the trials—and hence the King cares not a rush more
about the business. The country, in all likeli-
hood, will be now saved the 360,000 francs, espe-
cially as the Deputies were wise enough to escape
the snare which the Ministers laid for them, and
left to the Peers the undivided responsibility—the un-
shared odium of the trials.

On Wednesday the discussion on the Tobacco Bill
was resumed in the Chamber of Deputies, and termi-
nated by the Chamber agreeing to continue the mono-
poly for five years, instead of ten, as was proposed by
M. HUMANN.

Twenty-eight days ago, Sir ROBERT PEEL ad-
dressed to the people of England his Tamworth Mani-
festo, which the people are now, as in courtesy bound,
answering by a counter Manifesto. It is by no means
improbable that their address will be, when concluded,
as unpalatable to the Premier as his was to them. He
must have inferred ere this, from the rough draft
which, so far as it yet goes, has been submitted to his
perusal, that he and they are in open rupture ; that
the twain can never again be united, or be brought
into any degree of association, without dishonour to
one or both. And whom but himself can the Right
Hon. Baronet' blame for this unhappy separation ?
By his own weakness alone he has been placed in this
sorry predicament. Five minutes occupied in impar-
tial reflection had satisfied him that the Ultra party,
with whom he is now indissolubly connected, despised
him in their hearts, and only tolerated him as a tool
to be handled for their own purposes ; and that iJ
they failed in their desperate adventure, he must in-
evitably become a political cast-away in public esti-
mation. Much as we hate, and are inclined to re-
probate the politics of that party, and their wicked
attempt to subvert the, Constitution they profess to
reverence, we censure him far more, for he possesses
more political sagacity than the whole herd put to-
gether, and he ought, therefore, to have been guiltless
of so unwise an act. How withering are sometimes
the effects of a reckless indulgence of personal vanity
His present position is an apt illustration of the
doctrines of the Tories, as applied to reform principles.
Are they, it is asked, to be for ever precluded from
official power, simply because they were hostile to a
measure which, being now a part of the Constitu

tional law, they are loyally prepared to recognize,
and very disinterestedly desirous to administer ?
What would be thought of Sir ROBERT PEEL if
the Radicals were in executive power, and he were to
justify the hope of a coalition with them by a similar
question ? As well and as sensibly might he say—
" True, gentlemen, I always politically despised you, and
left no means untried to prevent your ascendancy ; but
now that I find you in high places, and acknowledged
as very proper men by the exercise of a certain prero-
gative, surely you will not hold me precluded by
former hostilities from joining your ranks !" 'Would he

not be laughed at as a foolish man, or suspected as a
bad one ?

What course Sir ROBERT and the Tory powers
with whom he is now associated, intend to follow, with
the demonstration of popular feeling manifested by all
that is affluent, respectable, and intelligent in the
metropolitan boroughs, fresh before their vision, re-

mains to be seen—for Tory measures are not to be