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the same time, he may be seized with a
sudden obliquity of vision, which enables him
only to catch the eye of the latter. This is a grievance,
and must be abated, especially when we find that the
individual to whom such infirmities may occur, is a
red-hot, uncompromising partizan. Let the Reformers
then summon all their forces and oppose him. They
cannot try their strength on a question better calculated
to increase their moral influence with the country. It
is one, not of partizanship, but of fair play ; and where
is the Englishman who will not take the right view of
it ? Lord STORMONT—as we perceive by a speech
of his, delivered at Hampstead on the occasion
of a dinner given to his pet, Tom Woou—
is full of confidence (or rather assurance) as re-
spects the strength of his party. He says they
will carry the Address by an overwhelming majority.
His Lordship must be a man of surprising powers of
face to volunteer such a statement at such a moment 1
That the Tories may succeed, is possible, but not
probable. But, gracious God 1 by what a sacrifice of
principle will their triumph be achieved 1 In the first
place, they must all, to a man, repudiate the Tam-
worth Manifesto ; secondly, they must consent, how-
ever ungraciously, to forget all the fine things they
have said against Reform, and become the mere blind,
passive tools of the Reformers. They know well they
cannot stand on their present footing. The ground is
undermined beneath them, and the first Liberal explo-
sion will blow them all into the air. The Tories are
fully aware of this, and the question with them now
is, not whether they shall rat—for that point is already
settledbut to what tent they shall rat. We shall
not lose sight of the question of the Speakership, for it
is one of vital importance to both parties.

Harlequin, Mr. Ellar ; Pantaloon, Mr. F. Sutton; Clown, Mr. T.
Matthews; Whirligig, Mr. W. H. Payne. Columbine, Miss C. Reekie

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the ticket, by return of mail ; on the other hand, those preferring
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The indolication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 30 minutes past 3 o'clock.

LONDON,
FRIDAY' EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1536.

Since writing the above, we have very great pleasure
in being able to lay the following letters before our

readers :

" Woburn Abbey, Jan. 27, 1835.

" My Dear Abercromby,

" I was very sorry to find from the different communica-
tions which I have had with you, that you were so unwilling
to comply with the desire of many Members of the House
of Commons, that you should be proposed for the Chair
at the meeting of the new Parliament.

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After you had declined, however, I should have been
myself reluctant to press on you a proposition which
I found personally unacceptable ; but when I tell you
that I have been urged from various quarters, and in the
strongest terms, to place before you the earnest wishes
and general concurrence of those with whom you have
been connected in public life, that you should allow your-
self to be put in nomination for the Chair, I trust
you will reconsider your decision. Above all, I think you
will be influenced by the argument I have to state—
that they view the present election of a Speaker as a
question not solely of individual preference, but of public
principle ; and they are convinced, that in order to try this
question with the utmost advantage, it is of great import-
ance that you should not decline this high honour, if the
House should be willing to confer it upon you.
" I remain ever, your's, most faithfully,

The first trial of strengh in the ensuing Session will,
we have every reason to believe, be made in the choice
of a Speaker. On this point the Reformers are una-
nimous. The gentleman whom it is most likely they
will propose is Mr. ABERCROMBY ; and without de-
siring to undervalue or disparage the claims of others,
we may say that there is no one better qualified, by his
tact, his experience, and the general courtesy of his
bearing, to preside over the debates in the House of
Commons, than this gentleman. As for Sir CHARLES
MANNERS SUTTON, the more we consider the ques-
tion, the more deeply impressed are we with a sense
of his ineligibility. He is no longer the temperate,
impartial man that he once was. A painful conviction
of the falling fortunes of the Tories, and that they
were never so much in need of help as during the last
few months, have roused in him all the slumbering
fires of partizanship. It is beyond a doubt that he,
who by virtue of his office should have been the last
man on earth to display the colours of either Tory or
Reformer—for we repudiate the claims of the Tories
as Reformers—was among the first to advise the dis-
solution of that very Parliament over which he pre-
sided, on the express understanding that he should pre-
serve a dignified impartiality. And having advised one
dissolution, what should prevent him from advising
another? Take but the first step—pass but the Ru-
bicon—and all the rest follows as a matter of course.
Is such a man, then, so sternly and we are sure
conscientiously, opposed to Reform, fitted to pre-
side over the debates of a Reformed House ?
It will be observed, that we here speak of Sir C. SuT.
TON, not as he was, but is ; and speaking of him in this
spirit, we say, that his re-election must be opposed.
The SPEAKER, though he takes no share in Parlia-
mentary discussions, has more influence over them than
is generally imagined. He has it in his power, indi-
rectly, perhaps, but most effectually, to discourage the
attempts of an able, but an unpractised debater, op-
posed to his, own party, and encourage those of a
blockhead, of his own way of thinking. When a Re-
former and a Tory rise to address the House at

"J. RUSSELL

The Right Hon. J. Abercromby."

" Fenton's Hotel, Jan. 29, 1835

" My Dear Lord John,

" My earnest desire to decline the honour of being pro-
posed as a candidate for the Chair on the meeting of the
new Parliament, has been so often and so strongly ex-
pressed to you and to others, that I was in hopes that it

" I remain, yours, very truly and faithfully,
" J. ABERCROMBY.
" To the Right Hon. Lord John Russell."

Russian claims. The Journal des Debats,
parti-
cular, a paper in the confidence of Ministe:s, has
given publicity to some strange disclosures, relitive to
the secret purposes of the Courts of Versailles and
Petersburgh, in the event of a balance being struck
against them at the final settlement of their respective
claims. After recommending to the two Governments
a formal renunciation of all pecuniary claims on each
other, the Debats subjoins the following cogent season
for giving such counsel Our motive is this first
of all, we are persuaded, that if Russia finds herself
a debtor at the casting up of the account, she
will
not pay an atom. And we are also as certain, that
should France be found to be indebted, there is not an
Administration nor a Minister who dare ask of a
Chamber of Deputies to pay one sous of indemnity to
Russia, as representative and as heir to Poland."
A better or more conclusive reason than this, for
recommending a reciprocal renunciation of
pecuniary
claims, could not, we are persuaded, be advanced by
SoLomort himself, were the question of the two Mo-
marchs submitted to him by way of second part of the
quarrel of the two harlots. The mere formality of
examining accounts, and balancing claims, may cer-
tainly be well dispensed with, where the parties are
previously resolved to pay nothing.
With respect to the intelligence from Spain, these jour-
nals are all at sixes and sevens—some representing the
QUEEN'S' affairs as flourishing, others as desperate. The
only point ascertained is, that the Spanish Chambers de-
precate all active interference on the part of France,
and that the present Governments of France and
England have avowed a determination of remaining
neutral. We are informed that when General ALAVA,
in his recent mission to Paris and London, reminded the
Duke of WELLINGTON of the treaty of quadruple alli-
ance, his Grace answered that no notice of the treaty
would be taken by England, but that the Government
would act in the same way as if it never had an existence.
The report of an engagement between the QUEEN'S
troops and the Carlists in the north will be found in
our extracts.

Our readers will find, by a speech delivered by
Mr. GORDON to his constituents at Cricklade, that it

was the intention of the MELBOURNE Administration
to have taken off a considerable portion of the
Malt Tax.

would have been acquiesced in.
" However painful it would have been to me to maintain
my own opinion in opposition to that of so many ofmy friends,
I should have adhered to it, if the approaching contest
had involved only a question of personal preference.
" As I am now aware that the governing motive of those
who wish me to alter my decision, is a desire to vindicate a
public principle, which they think it their duty as Members
of the House of Commons to maintain, I feel that the
indulgence of my own wishes, would subject me to the charge
of obstinacy, or of selfishness ; and therefore, if the choice
should fall on me, I shall be ready to perform the duties of
the office, to the best of my ability.

The accounts received this morning from Madrid
are wholly connected with the rebellion of the troops
on the 18th instant, the particulars of which appeared
in The Sun of yesterday. The revolt has caused the
greatest alarm in every part of Spain, and, coupled
with the motion only made the day previous in the
Chamber of Procuradores, for the dismissal of the Ca-
binet, has unquestionably a very ominous ap-
pearance. The moral shock which the allegiance
of the troops has received is an important
consideration in the present state of public affairs ;
nor do we believe that a more decidedly culpable course
could be adopted, than that of sending this handful of
rebels, against all order and Government, to join
the main body of the army in the North. The
Spanish Government is doing all it can to
escape the charge of pusillanimity in this transaction,
by declaring that the symptoms of revolt on the part of
the Urban militia could not be mistaken. If this be
correct, it only makes the matter a million of times
worse ; for it were certainly less a subject of national re-
gret, that the authorities were over-tender of the lives of
disorderly Spaniards, than that, an attempt to bring them
to condign punishment would peril the security of the
throne. Gen. LLAUDER is reported to have challenged
Senor CARASCO, in consequence of the recent attack
made upon his character as a Minister, by CARASCO,
in the Chamber of Procuradores. The QUEEN con-
tinues in good health, and loses no opportunity of ap-
pearing in public .

With the fate of Sir GEORGE MURRAY fresh
before their eyes, it is not very likely that the Reform
Members will desert principles, upon the faith of
which, as openly professed, they became returned as
Representatives of the independent portion of the
people of England. A dereliction of the duty, which
they owe alike to their own honour and their consti-
tuents, would inevitably lead to the same personal
consequences that followed upon the doings of Sir
GEORGE, as contrasted with his sayings.
Whatever may be the actual majority of the Anti-

Tories in the House over their adversaries--assuming
the " Moderates" of either party to neutralise each
other in numerical strength—there cannot be a doubt
that the Government must prepare itself for a
defeat. Whether they have determined upon a de-
parture from the rule of resignation, which has
hitherto guided an out-voted Administration, is
best known to themselves. It is not very unlikely,
however, from the obstinate adherence to office
which they display, in the teeth of returns pre-
ponderatingly adverse to Toryism, that such may be
the case. It will, of course, be their policy to fabricate
a King's Speech of somewhat more explicit vagueness
than usually characterises these productions, and upon
it to build hopes of a retention of power, by the tolera-
tion of those who, generously expectant of good, are
shunners of evil, only when it is close at their elbows.
Upon the waverers, in conjunction with their own
forces, the Tories evidently base their strongest re-
liance for an enduring existence, and from the vacillat-
ing uncertainty of that class, the country will have to
dread whatever there is to be dreaded. They may be
likened to a snail on a well-staircase, which can only
see one step at a time, and that not over-distinctly ;
they will creep on their bit-by-bit course, without any
defined notion of the advances they are making—un-
certain whether the progress be made in a straight or a
devious line, now going one way, now another, till
their " feelers" fall foul of a difficulty, at which, when
perceived, they may be expected to draw their puzzled
heads into the shell, and pause altogether. These are
the men who swell the vaunted lists of Conservative
Reformers, and whom the Tories already reckon as

Since the passing of the Septennial Act, the aye
rage duration of Parliaments has been four years and a half.

being their own.
The political imbecility of this party can only be
counteracted by the stern and rigorous adherence to
principle (by manifestations of practice) of those who
have the sagacity and the moral courage to dare.
Unmoved, therefore, by Tory opprobrium, flattery, or
insidiousness, or the respectable impotency of the
Doubtfuls, they must proceed unrelentingly—turning
neither to the right hand nor to the left—in the broad
path of duty which they have pledged themselves to
follow, and give their adversaries that unmistakeable
opposition which shall completely effect the overthrow
of a Tory dynasty, by the decision of a first vote.

The Paris papers of Wednesday, which have been
received, contain some curious observations on the late
debate in the Chamber of Deputies relative to the

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1835.

Count Pozzo DI BORGO has been appointed by
the Court of Petersburgh to take up his residence as
Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James's, for a short
time. His EXCELLENCY'S stay will be temporary ;
and he will be succeeded by Count WORONZOW, late
Governor of Odessa, whom the EAIPZROR has appointed
as the permanent Representative of the Imperial Court
of Russia in London. During the stay of Count
Pozzo DI BORGO at St. James's, the functions of
Russian Envoy at Paris will be committed to the
management of a Charge d'Affaires.

Dutch Papers of the 28th have been received. The
news of the recovery of his Royal Highness the
Prince of ORANGE is, we are happy to announce,
fully confirmed.

We invite attention to a decree of the King of DEN•
MARK, on the emancipation of the slaves in the colo-
nies of his Danish Majesty, which will be found in
another column. This decree may be said to have
emanated from our own late Government.

At the Court of East India Directors, on Wednes-
day next, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Fane, G. C. 8., will
be proposed as Commander-in-Chief of the Company's forces
in India.

During the Edinburgh City Election, Ramsay and
Learmonth's gorgeous standard waved from a window in
Prince's-street, and, whimsically enough, immediately below a
ticket intimated—" Two Flats to let for seven years, or such
other term as may be agreed upon."

Lord Mansfield used to say that nothing was so
difficult of proof as that which everybody knew.

Amongst the many facts which have been tiotieed
as so singularly characterizing the vegetable world at the pre-
sent season, it may not be undeserving of mention that a most
luxuriant and abundant crop of vetches is now being gathered
in a field in the London road, adjacent to this city.— Worces-
ter Herald.

The Parishioners of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
have commenced a subscription to present Mr. H. Simpson,
their Churchwarden, with a piece of plate for his meritorious
exertion in abolishing by law the Select Vestry ; that body
having usurped the power near 200 years.

The Ballyshannon Herald states, between fifty
and sixty fishing-boats were surprized in a snow-storm off' the
coast. Several empty boats were drifted in, and it is thought
the whole crew of these and the others, amounting to about 500
persons, are all lost.
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The Tory leaders have long been considered in a
state of derangement. They are now known to be quite be-
side themselves, at the prospect of being beaten by,a weapon
with which they intended to beat others. The high ecclesi-
astical authorities of the party entertain doubts of the infalli-
bility of the orthodox dogma, that " a joyful resurrection
follows dissolution." _

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" It is tough work," said Fuseli, the painter, to a
breeches-maker, who threatened to go home and read Para-
dise Lost, after he bad seen all the pictures in the Milton
gallery.—Monthly Repository.
RETORT.—A chimney-sweep was examined as a
witness in a cause before Lord Ellenborough, who asked him
why he did not wash and dress himself when he came into a
Court of Justice. " Dress myself, my. Lord," said the sweep,
lam dressed as much as, your Lordship.". " How is that,"
said the Judge. " Why, my Lord," replied the witness, it you
are in your working clothes, and so am I.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.
___A very good demand has been experienced for cotton to-day.
The sales are 5,000 bales, at the full prices of last week.—
viz., 400 Pernams, 121 d. to 14d. ; 200 Bahias, 111 d. to 120.;
150 Egyptian, 15d. to 18d. ; 400 Surat, sid. to 7cl. ; 300 Ma-
ranhams, 13id. ; remainder American, from 81d. to 100.
SUDDEN DEATII.—Last week, as Mrs. Bu man,
of Beverley, straw bonnet-maker, was eating her dinner, a piece
of bacon-rind stuck in her throat, and she was choked before
any medical assistance could be procured.... York Chronicle.

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