The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-15 00:00:00

RE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1835.

promising appearance of the first day's poll, and may
be disposed to give up all for lost.
The friends of Mr. HUME and of constitutional
Reform, do not fight on equal terms with the Borough-
mongers. Their principles permit them not .to
resort to bribery, intimidation, or any other means not
sanctioned by that Constitution which they venerate,
and which it is their most anxious wish to uphold. It
is, therefore, the more incumbent upon all who value
principle to rally round and support Mr. HUME.

The electors of Middlesex have now an opportunity
of proving to the country and to the world, that they
are sincerely attached to Reform. Let them be as-
sured that such another opportunity will never again
occur. It is now or NEVER. If they act as England
expects them to act in this crisis of their country's
fate, they crown a series of hard-fought battles and
noble victories with a glorious triumph. If they quail
now, they can never in future hold up their heads
among freemen ; they will be objects for the finger
of scorn to point at—they will bring shame and dis-
grace upon themselves, and upon their posterity, to the
latest generation.

Those who flounder on the wrong side of an ar-
gument are not always the most discreet in its defence ;
and, in defeat, are very apt to quarrel lustily with
their friends for the inadequacy of their aid. It has
been over and over again stated that the Tory candi-
dates lost their election for London in consequence of
the lukewarmness of their friends ; and so, when and
wheresoever a Tory candidati,happens to be discomfited,
this assertion is taken for the apology. Well, suppose
we allow that there is some colour of truth in the com-
plaint, what does it go to prove, but that the Tory
electors arc shame-facedly " backing out ?" Opposi-
tion was never more violently displayed, nor unity of
purpose more thoroughly exemplified in opposition than
at this hour. The contest has not arisen on a question
of degree ; it has been signalised by the antagonism of
ultimate extremities. Black or white, A or Z, Tory or
anti-Tory--which shall have the ascendancy ? This
the Tories have unwisely forced. What, then, is
meant by the luke-warmness of their friends ? Does
it not bespeak the disposition of a very large nume-
rical portion of their forces to abandon the cause, when
they were most urgently required to support it, by an
energy exerted up to the very bursting point ? If any
one circumstance more than another could make ap-
parent to Tory leaders the wasting weakness of their
condition as a party, it were surely this defection of
their own troops at the very moment, beyond all others,
they are invoked by the shout of a last necessity.

The Tories, too, with great bitterness complain o.
;he unholy alliance of

CONSERVATIVE WHIGS,
RADICAL WHIGS,
RADICALS, and
REPUBLICANS,

to defeat the party who are characterized by no exple-
tive—themselves, the Tories I None than themselves
better understand tt e moral of ILsor's fable about the
bundle of sticks. Had they been able to sever the
bands which held in union the anti-Tories, easy had
been the fracture of each separate ingredient ; but the
bands were those of a great necessity, too tough in
their material, and too strongly clenched to admit of
Tory severance—and so they whine and grumble at
the necessary Confederacy.
When an advocate gets into a passion, it is sel-
dom that he reasons well or wisely. Tory wrath
seems specially to be excited by the Conservative
Whigs leaguing with the extreme Radicals for

the attainment of a common object : with vivid colours
a picture has been painted of the enormity of the asso-
ciation. What I the Conservative Whigs in fraternal
alliance with Republicans, Destructives, and--and—
Atheists, (but no—they have not yet thought of that
word of horrid reproach; let us help them to it in this
hour of dismay to a Church crammed with abuses) I
What ! the PATTISONS with the WAKLEYS, the
LLOYDS with the HARVEYS ?—monstrous combina-
tion I Now, it appears never to have occurred to these
precise reasoners—the Tories—that the very object
which themselves have all along affectedly professed,
—the very ground upon which they have sought.to esta-
blish their claim for support—namely, the desire to
do discreetly what others might do with rash violence,
have brought these Anti-Tory extremes in unison.

It is because such men as the GURNEYS and

GROTES, the LLOYDS and the PATTISONS,
have apprehended the jeopardy in which misrule would
place the nation, by the collision of extreme Toryism
with extreme Radicalism, that they have left the
quietude of their natural station in society, as private
commercial gentlemen, and thrown themselves into
the vortex of angry political contentions. It is be-
cause they see that the violence of one party is on an
exact parity of footing with the violence of the other,
that they have sacrificed the comforts of their own

character guarantee to the people. Well may the ar-
rogant Tories quail, and greatly may the country re-
joice that such men have wisely yielded to the necessity
of this combination.

But the Tories are at their last gasp—their sands
are nearly run. They have acted like a poor fool-hardy
patient, who, stubbornly resisting the excision of a
diseased limb, is content to die in slow and lingering
tortures, rather than be made whole at the expense of
a little pain—they are perishing from sheer obstinacy I

The election returns to-day continue favourable to
the good cause, a majority of nearly 120 may already
be reckoned on the side of Reform.

It gives us sincere pleasure to find that that able
and zealous Reformer, Mr. HALL, has been returned
for Monmouth, and this despite the immense efforts
that were made to secure his defeat by the two influen-

tial houses of BEAUFORT and TREDEGAR. His op-
ponent was so sure of being returned, that he was ac-
tually just preparing to return thanks to the electors,
when the seasonable arrival of four Reform voters com-
pelled him abruptly to change the tenor of his oration.
On a future occasion he will no doubt bear in mind
the good old adage—" Never shout before you are out
of the wood."

Although the feverish excitement that has for the
last week past pervaded every part of the Metropolis
in consequence of the elections, may terminate in a
great public good, yet it must have produced consider-
able private mischief. In the City, business appears
to have been wholly paralyzed ; the merchant and the
shopkeeper might as well have closed their trading-
houses altogether, for the people have been too eagerly

engaged in the now necessary squander of time upon
political bustle, to think of purchasing goods. Grcai
is this loss in London : among the provinces it wil

be more.

We are at all times rejoiced to witness the warm
manifestation of popular feeling ; but business is too
important a matter to be interrupted, and England too
commercial a nation to be injured, by a needlessly
lavish expenditure of time. None but the idle and
the vagabond take pleasure in such dangerous excite-
ment as that which has heretofore characterised our
elections. These occasions, great as they are, do not
require the idle noise and nonsense, the neglect of
business and unnecessary disquiet which now attend
upon them. This is so essentially a business nation,
that the great body of the people have really no time
to lose in clamouring about " destructiveness," and
similar bugbears, if they could be let alone. It is only
when they are disturbed by threats, and the fears of
bad legislation, that they take part in agitation : they
are quiet enough when they are satisfied with their
representatives. Look at those towns where the elec-
tors are contented with the men of their choice, and
not menaced by the introduction of some meddlesome
Tory, how smoothly and peacefully all things proceed :
an hour or two may be all the time that is lost, and
that only to a very few.
It is to be hoped that in the next Session of Parlia-
ment some measure will be devised, which shall have
for its object a shorter and less tedious mode of manag-
ing elections, than at present adopted. We want to
see a thinking and reasonable people acting upon cor-
rect principle—not a passionate display of party feel-
ing, at the sacrifice of health, and rest, time wasted,
and business injured. One day were quite sufficient
for the collection of every vote, in the largest local
constituency of either county or city. We shall ma-
nage these things better, when we have got rid of our
political dead-weights—the Tory clamourers and peace-
disturbers.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday,
with intelligence from Bayonne of the 9th inst. The
French Journals are destitute of all news of the
slightest public interest, and the accounts from Ma-
drid, which are to the 3d inst., are equally uninte-
resting. On Monday last Lord GRANVILLE waited
on the KING, and delivered to his Majesty his Lord-
ship's letters of recal from the French Court. The
interview lasted for a considerable time, but
no announcement of what passed on that occasion has
yet taken place. Of course the whole will transpire
in a few days.
In the north of Spain everything is in the same
stand-still position which it was towards the close of
last year. MINA continues too ill to fight ; and his
subordinates have not yet discovered the way to con-
quer without fighting. A Carlist plot was recently
discovered at Santillana-de-la-Mar, which led to ;the
seizure of 800 stand of arms, which were landed for
the use of the rebels. _

-- -
PARIS, JAN. 13.—The Moniteur of this morning publishes,
in its official part the following article, under the date of the
12th inst. :
" To-day, at one o'clock, his Excellency Lord Granville,
Ambassador of his Majesty the King of Great Britain, pre-
sented to the King and Queen the letters which recall him,
and put an end to the high mission which as ambassador be held
at the Court of his Majesty the King of the French. The
Minister for Foreign Affairs was present at this audience.
Lord Granville will leave Paris to-day or to-morrow, to re-
turn to London.

" Lord Cowley is not expected at Paris till after the elec-
tion. It would, in fact, be of no use for him to come to Paris,
if the Ministry should not be able to stand before the Parlia-
ment.

" A journal of this morning says, that confidential instruc-
tions have just been sent to the sea-ports and the great com-
mercial towns for the purpose of getting up petitions in favour
of the prompt adoption by the Chambers of the treaty with the
United States. We hope that nobody will be found in our
ports to ask any thing so contrary to the internal dignity.—
Messager, Jan. 13.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PA us, JAN. 13.
Five per Cents., 107 f. 25c. 15c. 20c.
Four per Cents., 93f. 40c.
Three per Cents., 77f. sc. 77E 77f. sc.
Bank Actions, 1,797 E 50c.
Reiite de Naples, 93f. 75c ne. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents., 95% %.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 43% % 14.
Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 28 2734.
Royal Spanish Loan, 44% %.
Bente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 45 44%3i. •
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents , 99.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., R. 1144.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 30e. ; money, —f. —c•
Three months, paper, 25f. 17:4c.; money, —f. —c.
—(bars Authentigne.

Bouitsr, HALF-PAST THREE.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 30c. ;
3 per Cents., 77f. 15c. ; 5 per Cent. Spanish, 401 ; 3 per Cent.
ditto, 27k ; Cortes, 43} ; Coupons, 241 ; Guebbard, 441 ; Dif•
Wes, 16k ; Ducats, 0 85 ; Romans, 95k ; Belgians, 99 ; Pedro'.
871. QUARTER TO FOUR.—Three per Cents., 77f. 10c.

Bogota papers of the 28th October, and Caraccas
papers to the 20th of November, have been received.
Their contents are not important. The protraction of
the war is ascribed to the jealousy of th• several
chiefs ; and the opinion was very generally entertained,
that ROCAFUERTE had designed the separation of
Guayaquil from the Equador for the purpose of esta-
blishing it an independent State, or, as some conjectured,
adding it as a province to Peru. General SANTAN-
DER had convoked the ordinary Congress for New
Granada, to assemble on the ht of March. These
papers contain long accounts of the war, but the de-
tails would not interest an English reader, as they are
full of exaggerations.