The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-10 00:00:00

St. Stephen's has here exceeded himself. Mark
his indignation at the effrontery of a mere com-
moner presuming to patronize a knight ! At
his ineffable audacity in daring to take a member
of the Corporation under his eleemosynary wings !
Sir CHARLES goes on to detail the great, the
cruel sacrifices he has made to preserve his
country from the contamination of Reform.
During the discussion of the question, this great
patriot, it seems, had not only abstained " from
Mayor's feasts," but " for weeks after werv,
and months after months, had not dined any
where." Can patriotic disinterestedness go
farther than this ? Imagine a statesman (and
a member of a Corporation to boot, which
makes the sacrifice more severe,) resisting,
" week after week, month after month," the
seductions of the calipash and calipee, of the
rich venison pasty, and the mantling Burgundy,
in his zeal to save his country from Reform !
We suspect it is this virtuous abstinence that has
caused Sir CHARLES'S present exacerbation.

His spleen looks much more like the result of
flatulence than principle ; in fact, it is neither
more nor less than an attack of dyspepsia, which
has taken a patriotic turn. On quitting the
party—which we should observe by the way was
a Reform one—Sir CHARLES accounted for his
presence at it, by stating that he was " an Eng-
lishman." We do not exactly understand the
force of this explanation ; however, we sup-
pose it means something. In another column
will be found the particulars of this " extraor-
dinary after-dinner scene." Sir CHARLES'S
speech and pantomime must have been much
more delightful than any song (however well
sung,) and we take for granted that they were
intended as substitutes. Could Lord LON-
DONDERRY have been prevailed on to contri-
bute his share to the merriment of the company,
the entertainment must have been perfect.

Jr. order that we might not be accused of un-
fairness, when we charge the Herald with being
ignorant of the principles of commerce, we have
thought it right to give in to-day's paper one of
the most elaborate pieces of mystification which
it has for a long time put forth. If any man
chooses to he deluded into thinking that the
jumble of facts and nonsense of which it consists
has really any thing in it except words, he must
do so, for he is past any thing we can say to him.
But those who are not disposed to receive, with-
out understanding it, all the Herald may say,
as gospel, we would beg to turn to the conclu-
sion to which the writer comes. It is neither
more nor less than this :—That the Bri-
tish capitalists, having lent certain sums
of money to the South American and
other States, they were, for the most part, im-
mediately spent at Birmingham and elsewhere,
f or arms, harness, &c., but now that no more such
sums are lent, and that, consequently, the South_
Americans can no longer pay for arms, &c.
our manufacturers are not only injured to the
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tohfet3h,
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this is illustrating the proverb of " have a cake
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and eat it" with a vengeance.

Those who take up a just principle of action
have always this consolation, that they are cer-
tain in the long run, whatever may be the occa-
sional depression of their cause, to see it tri-
umph. One of the first symptoms of approach-
ing success is, the wavering of a class of oppo-
nents whose desire to float with the stream is
strongly counteracted by their innate prejudices,
or a particular under-current affecting them-
selves only. They are a sort of political baro-
meter, but with this difference, that the changes
indicated by the barometer may be distant,
whereas their turning is a sign of altera-
tion i•nmediately to take place. Thus, all
unprejudiced men have for some time perceived
that voting by ballot, always desirable, has
now become inevitable. Our contemporary,
the Herald, which embraced the cause of

Reform with so ill a grace that we were con-
stantly at a loss to discover whether its articles
were in favour of or against the measure by
which alone Reform could be accomplished—
this paper begins now to advocate the Ballot, or
at least is preparing to do so. This morning's
Herald contains the preparatory turn to that side
of the question which the Tory leaven of the
paper has hitherto been against. It is consoling
to us, who have long been fighting the good
fight, at last to find the enemy either silenced,
like the Times, dying desperately, like the Post,
or coming over to us, like the Herald.
The latter makes no terms, unless we can
call the following clause such In the
abstract, we disapprove of concealment, be-
cause it looks like unmanly fear."—So, the
Herald has hitherto opposed that which is the
only protection of an honest vote, because
it looked like unmanly fear. This is even more
absurd than the hack argument that secret voting
showed a fear which ought not to be in the cha-
racter of Englishmen. It has not been the
creation, or acknowledgment of the existence of
the thing which the Herald has disliked, but the
look of it ! Well, then, to apply to the Herald
an argument of its own : Which has the worst
look, a man giving his vote in secret, without
being canvassed, without being threatened, with.
out being bribed—for the ballot will probably
annihilate them all, for what will be the use of
o,er-fly—or men going up by scores to the polling
places, voting against their consciences, to pre-
serve their families from ruin ? There cannot
be two answers to the question ; for, whatever
moralono
f aand
lid political degradation,
principle, involved in
the latter state of things.
may be the supposed evils of the ballot, they
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prostration ti

If the language of a certain portion of the
Commons would
Press were to be taken as expressive of the ge-
neral t
h feelings
the g'' of the
Housepeople,
o new much, should we
fear
ex-
hibit a scene but little creditable to the discern-
ment or gratitude of its electors. In reference

o that part of the Press to which we allude, the

Scotsman says :
" One journal speaks favourably of the Reform Bill, as
often as it has occasion to mention it, yet it takes every
opportunity of crying down the Ministers as incapables
and blunderers, to whom we are indebted for the boon.

What is the key to this singular course of conduct ?
Why—the journalist is at bottom a Conservative; he dare
not reprobate the Bill, because on this point the people are
unanimous ; but by way of indemnity he rails at its au-
thors, and does the best he can to drive them from power,
or at least to disable them from inflicting farther reforms
upon him, by undermining them in the confidence of
the people ! "
This is the fact ; and bearing it in mind, what

heed will our countrymen pay to such con-
formers ? Let them remember that although
now speaking the Bill fair, and abusing Ministers
upon other grounds, the Conservatives de-
nounced them during its progress as incapables
and blunderers, chiefly on account of having
brought in that measure of Reform. The people
must recollect how little they heeded the Con-
servative exhortations at that time—how firmly
they believed that Lords GREY, BROUGHAM,
and RUSSELL were sincere in their desire to
serve them, and not only that, but were clear of
head as well as stout of heart, and saw how they
were best to be served. Nothing has occured since,
as we shall presently show, to change the opi-
nions of the people with respect to either party.
The Ministers, we believe, still desire to serve
the country to its advantage, have similar views
of the changes which are required of them, and
are still therefore reviled by hollow friends and
open opponents of Reform. Will the people
heed such revilings, although backed up, as in
the case of Reform, by hundreds of bold asser-
tions and pretended proofs ? We think not.—
The Journal we have already quoted, referring
to another class of persons, whose conduct we
have more than once noticed, says—
" Another applauds the Bill sincerely and heartily, yet
he too declares the Ministers to be drivellers, men who are
inclined to spare abuses and palter with public feeling, and
whom it would be a meritorious act to expel from place !
How is this language to be accounted for? In more ways
than one. Perhaps, the paper hangs by the East India or
the West India interest, or some party that is opposed to
Government on grounds altogether distinct from the Re-
form Bill ; and the editor finds that he pleases his cus-
tomers by lessening Ministers in public estimation, what-
ever be the mode of attack."

The former class most hate Ministers for
what they have done ; that above described hate
Ministers most for what it fears they will do.
They tremble Lest increased activity should be
enforced in preparing the negroes for emancipa-
tion—lest we should cease paying a million of
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lest the iniquitous attempt to create an artificial
acfie dividends of ten per cent.—
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scarcity in the prime necessary of life should
be put a stop to—lest all private inte-
rests, real and imaginary, should be swept
away for the public good. Will the people,
the great body of the community, who
are borne down by the accumulated grievances
which the principles of the Government must
make it as anxious to remove as they made it its
duty to carry Reform,—will the people, we say,
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a Cabinet whose acts fall short of their
dreams, without thinking or caring about who
would succeed them. We ourselves would not
have been sorry to see the principle of the Re-
form Bill carried farther, but we were not only
willing to take it, like some of our contempo-
raries who now wish to turn the Ministry out,
but to see how the Ministry would use the
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do good which their freedom from the shackles
of the Boroughmongers will give them, none will
be more ready to vote for a Ministry who will do
so than ourselves. In the meantime, let all who
attack Ministers on any ground whatever recol-
lect that they have not been their own masters.
They have done all they could, and that that has
been little must be laid to the charge of those

who now attack them. Even in the case

of unhappy Ireland the measures they have per-
fected have been acknowledged beneficial. Their
p'an with respect to tithes is not completely in
operation, and therefore cannot be judged of.
When completed, its end and aim will be the
,‘ extinction of tithes;" that is, no man
will any longer come to the peasant, and de-
mand of him a tenth of his crop. This is
not all that certain landlords who wish to ap-
propriate tithes, which are public property, to
themselves as fair spoil, may hope ; but it is all
that any honest man can desire. Their plan of
education is almost the only one which Ministers
have completed, and in spite of the outcry raised
against it by particular parties, it is likely to
prove generally beneficial. What we would
say then to our fellow countrymen, both here
and in Ireland, is, heed no factious cries of any
set of men ; elect honest, enlightened, discreet
representatives, who will not desire to turn the Mi-
nistry out till they have a set of men ready to step
into their place, who will not cast away the sub-
stance for the shadow ; but who will support, till
proved unworthy, those, who by their previous
conduct, have shown themselves the most liberal,
the most firm advocates of the rights of the peo-
ple, that have ever yet been in power. They
need not fear doing so, for it is NOW zmpos-
sible for any Ministry to stand that does not
make common cause with the people.

Mr. ALEXANDER BARRY, the lecturer OD
chymistry at Guy's Hospital, who sustained a dreadful ac-
cident, died on Monday at his lodgings in Furnivars-inn,
after much acute pain. It will be recollected that this
gentleman, a few weeks since, was performing some chy-
mical experiments, in which gases formed part of the ma-
terials, when suddenly igniting, an explosion took place,
which broke the windows and sashes of his apartment,
destroyed part of his household furniture, and dreadfully
injured and disfigured him. Mr. BARRY, however, lin-
gered till Monday, when eath put a period to his sufferings.