The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-09 00:00:00

with great vivacity, but with such an admixture of passion
as will by and by enable us to calculate much more cor-
rectly on which side the temporary inclinations of the peo-
ple are to be found, than where is the preponderancy of
their judgment. From times of such excitement, however,
such a defect in the character of the representation is inse-
parable. Zeal the most honest and disinterested does not
always infer an equal share of discretion. Among the me-
tropolitan representatives was numbered some days ago the
name of Mr. Whittle Harvey, and to-morrow it looks as if
that of Mr. Wakley was to be added as a member for
the important borough of Finsbury. We therefore
ask any thinking man to lay his hand upon his
heart, and answer, whether we have exaggerated the
fears which ought to be felt, or the mischief which must
inevitably follow the extensive prevalence of such a
spirit as that which could send two gentlemen of their
extreme politics to Parliament. Against Mr. Wakley, as
an. individual, we have not a word to say ; and as a
reformer of the medical profession, his services entitle him
to public gratitude ; but with reference to the political
creeds of both members, we put it to the common sense
and constitutional feeling of the people, whether the Bri-
tish Monarchy, with its attendant institutions, can be safely
intrusted to their keeping. They are both men of consi-
derable talent, gifted, or encumbered, with extreme
facility of speech ; and if words were synonymous with
wisdom or virtue, there probably would not be discovered,
among the representatives of the whole empire, two poli-
ticians more worthy of the national confidence. But
hearken to the sentiments which have fallen from the
lips of each of them, and consider the class of theories
and feelings of which they are respectively the organs,
and once more let the friends of the monarchy deter-
mine whether crown, or church, or constitutional freedom,
or prescriptive rights, or property in any form, would be
worth a twelvemonth's tenure if at the tender mercy of a
majority composed of such legislators ? It is to be hoped
that no sceptic will again inquire of us—" Where are these
ultra-Radicals—these clippers down of Royalty—these se-
parators of Church and State—these mob worshippers—
these assailers of the aristocracy of rank and wealth and ho-
nourable distinction, to be found? Can you point them
out to us ?" We have done so. But their name is " Le-
gion." In the country the choice of representative is pro-
ceeding favourably, as we understand, to the cause of ra-
tional reform, and therefore not disadvantageously to the
King's Government. Ultras on both sides have in many
instances failed—and Moderates, Liberal and Con-
servative, are gaining a preference over them.
Our own unfeigned desire is, that sober-minded and
independent men—friends to the steady and unhesitating
advancement of corrective Reform, contra-distinguished as
well from precipitate alteration as from stubborn and stupid
adherence to " recognised abuse"—should command the
great majority of suffrages. It is impossible that a well-
intentioned Minister should feel discomfited by the entrance
of such persons as these into the House of Commons, be-
cause the Government which they opposed or abandoned
would not deserve the support of any rational or public-
spirited people. If a Ministry be attacked by foul and
factious manoeuvres, for purposes exclusively selfish, at the
instigation and under the guidance of a party which has no
object but to trip up its heels and seize upon its vacated
employments, then, and only then, there might be ground
for anticipating that the extremity of base aggression may
be met by sinister methods of defence, and that the spirit
of the constitution and the peace of the kingdom may
eventually be sacrificed in the 13truggle. There is nothing
more certain than that factious violence begets its own
likeness. Should means for oversetting the new Govern-
ment be resorted to, which neither the usages of Parlia-
ment nor the dictates of justice, nor the taste and good
sense of the people approve, there are many who may
condemn, but few will wonder at, the recourse to whatever
retaliatory measures may be within the constitutional
reach of Ministers so maltreated. Thus are crises and
collisions produced, so often the materials of volu-
minous evil to nations, and thus are noxious prece-
dents established which lower for ages the standard
of political morality. There are symptoms, however,
becoming daily more hopeful, that the feelings of par-
tisans, or sympathy with the personal resentments of the
ex-Ministers, will not extend to any mischievous pitch, even
among the gentlemen who most strenuously supported in
the last Pailiament the Grey and Melbourne Administra-
tions. When the prospectus of the Ministerial policy shall
be laid before Parliament, as under the present circum-
stances of the country, of course, it will be, and that more
specifically than heretofore, at the opening of the Session,
the right sense and spirit of the nation will not endure from
its representatives the unprincipled expedient of a sweeping
vote against the Government, as a return for whatever
measures of a popular and reforming tendency the advisers
of the Crown may proffer. From independent Liberals
who are capable of the least forethought no such extrava-
gance is to be suspected. There are but two classes
of Members of Parliament who would be likely to plunge
into so profligate a course, viz., the subordinate par-
tisans and hangers-on of the late Administration, who have
lost the emoluments of office, and with them, that political
object which alone had value in their eyes, (for we acquit
their chiefs of any such degrading sentiment) ; and se-
condly, the Ultra-Radical party, heated by fanaticism, or
the eagerness of ambition, into fury ; and generally speak-
ing, we are ready to acknowledge, more goaded by the love
of power as an instrument of revolutionary change, than by
the sordid cupidity of their understrapper allies, which cal-
culates nothing but the quarter-day and its appendages.
If the muster of these confederates exceed that of the Mi-
and the men of character and political honour who
s„pporrtiicm for the sake of their measures only, the "cri-
sis" which we tailed of will speedily arrive, and what is to
be the solution of it wt; at least cannot answer. It is one
assuredly against which all pod Englishmen must be on
their guard.—Times.

THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEI:K.

Wheat. Barret. I Due. ,118. rea.e.
Per Quarter. 8. to s. s. s. s. to a. Is.to a. a. to E.
tllandrord 40 42 30 21 40
40 52 31 36 15 22 30 35
—3. t 30 22 —. 37 40
Chant 40 46 24 30 18 22 96 40 32 34
liuntingdon-- 42 50 26 31 21 25 37 40
Long Sotton--- 34 44 24 35 37
I,outh 38 45 23 32 18 21 34 40
1.3 34 49 26 32 23 24 32 31 32 34
Newark 36 44 25 33 17 26 36 41
40 45 31 36 22 26 35 42
t4acrlxn "'Bli 3) 40 28 35 18 25 36 42
Plymouth 40 RSU 30 34 , 20 ‘t.; .-'
- • 4S
ileafonl 65 70 1.86 38 22 28 41 43
-- 34 39 125 gg 120 30 36 46 ..-
Wlshech -- 45 -••— I ••- 20 33
LEWES 51A It KET.—Jan. G.
Per Quar cr. 8. d. to 8. d. 1 Per Quarter. s. 0. to s. d
IVhcat. White ... 41 0 48 01 data

Per Quar cr.
‘Vheat, White
Red
13arles

18.
d. to 8. d. Per Quart,
41 0 48 0 nate ,
33 0 40 0 Pease

d. to s. d
, l4 0 20 0
0 :36 0

26 0 Si 0 Oil Cake...l3

s. per I bousand.

I;uLL MARKET.—Jan. 6
Wheat, obi
-- Foreign --ii 5. —s ln bond... —s. —s —s.
Oats, Poland --s. 114 i. 21s Old 18;. 204 21s.
---- Small or Feed.... —s. lie. `2os
—. Foreign
Barley, Xtiff. le SW' ... 26s 130 s. 31s. Line. & Wold —s. 3ls 321.
-- Foreign
Beans aie. :fi, 3kii Foreign —s. —s —s.
Pease, White... —s 1..11i5. 41s trey —s 303 PAL
Tares —s —e. —s F0reign......... --s. —s. —s.
Ra;.eseed. in bond none