The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
HERALD.—TeII it not in Gags! Publish it not in
tl le streets of Askalon! Aye, by our faith, but we
st ill, and that loudly, and never cease preelaitnieg it
ti '3l every comity in England rings with it. Eieer it,
m ,en of Britain—Mr. Cobden has said, and the Times
13 AS conferred upon his statement the slight authentica-
ti on which long years of falsehood and misrepresenta
tis )e have left in its power to bestow—" Henceforth the
to was are to rule broad England!!" Hear it, ye county
el actors, and tell us how you relish the boast! Prone
tlse sweltering cellars and steaming garrets of Alan-
&let ter sad Leeds are to issue forth in their rags and
then • squalidness—from the mine and the pit are toconse
in th eir swarthy nakedness—the men who are to suc-
ceed as rulers in England, the bold yeo-
man! y who have carried her banners, vie-
torim es by sea and land, from the snows of the
Arct: c regions to the swamps and forests of India,
and the sandy deserts of Arabia and Palestine. We
thint : we hear the shout of derision and scornful
laugl ater with which the descendants of the bowmen of
Foie viers and Agincourt salute the announcement. These
are :rite men weo have redeemed by their labour the
brow et heaths of .Nortlumberland and the Cheviots from
the heather and the brackenhush. There are the men
whose stalwart arms have beaten back the rough sea
from the Fens of Lincolnshire, and by whose aid—to
use the words of their worst enemy—the agriculture of
England had climbed the hill-tops, and spread happiness
and contentment abroad through the land. But these
and such as these are no longer to have is voice in the
Government of the country they have made so great.
Not they, forsooth—they are dullards and clods, more
stupid than the beasts they drive. So says Mr. Cobden,
and for once in his life he will have spoken the
thing which i 3, if they submit to his udacio, s
claim. Up, then, and be doing, yeomen of England.
Consider what mercy you can hope for if you give
way, and are faint-hearted. Where are you to look for
forbearance? From men who know not the word—from
the men who have whitened the plains of India with the
bones of the hand-loom weavers—who have laid waste
the fields of Ireland, and made a howling wilderness of
the once-flourishing plantations of Jamaica, Demerara,
and Trinidad—who have driven out thousands upon
thousands of the farmers and labourers of Ireland to
colonise or to die; and who will do as much to you, and
more also, in order to conceal for a time the failure of
their one-sided system of free trade, and further gratify a
cupidity which is as insatiable and as remorseless as the
sea. But these men of the loom and the
forge, the spinning-jenny and the steam-engine—
these new rulers of England—must have leaders.
Let ns examine who they are to be. One good
the present struggle will be productive of, even
if it give us no other, it will set the true Englishman
face to face with his enemy. There can be no halt'-
faced fellowship now. The men who wished to hold
hvvweiahtshitgtseh,reschhiitorhdu,nd and run with the hare—the bats, neither
politicaltohfe
associations,w arfare,h
heogwoenvee dr o
false,wn .
aThend
their shadowy reminiscences of 1688, are gone; neither
Popery nor democracy will have them. " The broken
tools that tyrants cast away" have perished Bat
where are the Peelites? Echo w
would almost seem as if we had arrived, " where?" It
know-
ing it, at the second phase of the veerds; without itGirondi
ets
earthhave disapp eared; their °nuatnal°e° hatshe English
from th. One perished
alone, that of Sir James
Graham, survives among the ruins of his party hat
form it pleases the Times to call Titanic. Be it so; it is
as huge as useless, and as isolated as one of the vast
blocks of Stonehenge—
" A brotherless hermit—the last of his race ;"
the sole survivor of an evil brotherhood, which almost
struck down honour and honesty amongst public men,
by proclaiming the fatal dogma—that a statesman might
be a deciever in his public capacity, and a man of inte-
grity in private life, and who by breaking up the ties of
party, made a chaos of the politics of England for seven
years. What can Sir James, thus isolated, now look to?
If we can believe his speeches at Carlisle, he must
seek to be the Danton of a new Jacobin conspiracy.
We trust there is enough of loyalty and religion
still left in England to disappoint his bad ambition.
The democrats of England's towns must look else-
where than to either of those broken factions. Stand
forth thou man of "unadorned eloquence," Richard
Cobden. He is not of the stuff of which the subduers
and tamers of wild revolutions are made. After all, the
people of England have a strong strain of aristocratic
tendency in their blood; and, if it tasked the energies
and talents of a Cromwell to induce them to submit to a
brewer, we do not fear that Cobden is the man to force
them to bow down before a bagman. But a sturdier
form, and far more dangerous man, stands behind him.
We own to a certain degree of respect for strong John
Bright—Friend Bright! From such friends good Lord
deliver us. He is of the communion of Fox—not
Charles James, of whom Tom Payne said, years ago,
that they had but one pursuit in life, money, but
that in following that their foot was as'steady as
that of time, and their appetite keen as death. The
records of the Commonwealth prove, that although the
qualities last mentioned are invariable, the object of
pursuit may change. Pym swore to have Strafford's
head, and after twenty years of unceasing and relentless
pursuit he triumphed. Such a man, in some respects,
we take John Bright to be. Hood tells us a story which,
perhaps, may account for the existence of this pugna-
cious man of peace. The humorist states that some
time since a member of the Society of Friends was re-
duced to the point of death by wasting fever and the
bleedings consequent thereon. The quackery of that
day was transfusion of blood, end a strong and healthy
rustic was induced to allow a portion of his vital stream
to be transferred to the empty veins of the expiring
Quaker. The man recovered, bat unfortunately
found that the new liquid circulating in his system
had been derived from the exuberant vessels of a
prize-fighter. The unfortunate man became so quarrel-
some that he was engaged in constant rows, and finally,
having broken the ring at Moulsey Hurst, and, in a
paroxysm of philomacby, severely beaten the winner in
a pugilistic contest—he was read out of meeting, and
history mentions him no more. Could this innocent
combatant have been an ancestor of sturdy John Bright?
As we are in the humour of story-telling, we wish to
a man for whom we have a far
heig.ser.
leagued.
than
record a fact which may be worth
higher
ehconsideradtionh ofn
for the meaner men with whom_e.lne g
informs us
ronce tore out the
private history of the Great
that an irresponsible Common:
tongue of a contumacious Quaker
the fact to prove
at the bar of the
House. "Absit omen," we only assembly may
to Mr. Bright and others that a popularrat despot—and
the worst be as savage and tyrannical as
tend to lower his ad-
perhaps the recital of the fact may
should
his researches
miration of the Long Parliament,
ht of history. But
have reached EO far back into the nl
scaldon, that we are to
mention
It
then appear from
the leaders are still. to seek.
the text we have been commerng
Democratic parties in
have a death struggle with th
however, two parties, and
of the English nation
otn)wwntichlonf athllewfiagrhs
these men depend for support is worth inquiry. Surely
thy from our naval
they do not expect much Y.
s niPa • •
ttihngerepoarrteio,
portions
driven into the service of Awe
repeal of the navigation-laws, they -
r
d
too well the
population, whom their politico•er ov mea iidod lnwf
et
hhdt
oheban
ioeenri
been
best
eyuhsaattshvts
oee
expatriate and reduce to the levesl
drinking Russians. Our soldier
liwomen and children of
tyranny they exercise over t
quar-
tered in their manufacturing towns, have
fa
agy
ner ed
knows
mostlye
machinery would
ofth otsheed ibsitlrliyct sr.olleTrhseyanad unprotectedrealso aware that the casualties
yearly furnish a list of lives lost and limbs mutilated
which might well be shown as competitor
thew enemies ofith a similar
report after a hard-fought action against
and surely the latter cannot expect the oEcnr ga
tl as nd . The soldiers ;
lahnadv,e lwi thtt
hloeen
whom they
respect
of
oo arert
to save
rhayaeivnemg
agricul-
turaltihitioe-
yeomanry of Eng
grind into the dust, to fight ano
mills of Manchester from an exasperated mob of over-
, worked and under-paid artisans. Perhaps it may be the
new militia that they depend upon to fight their battles
alas! as we showed before, we fear this body is likely to be
agricultural also. We shall conclude with a few words
from one of our ablest writers, to show the nature of
that spirit, which we would fain repress, and its certain
effects upon a nation's welfare. Speaking of the strange
fact that the national welfare of Rome survived the
fearful proscriptions of Marius and Sylla, and the mas-
sacres of Augustus and Lepidus, Mr. Crolly finally re-
marks—we quote from memory:--" Although
the
sword be a fearful instrument of polity, it still carries
with it some ennobling associations; but it is democra-
tic revolution with its endless meannesses and jealousies,
its ceaseless suspicions and its merciless scaffolds, which
extinguishes a national mind." May England escape
its influence I

STAMFORD ELECTION.
The borough of Stamford has been true to its old re:
putation, and has returned a couple of officialrPaerro
sonages. Mr. "Terries and Sir Frederick Theiscito
; rs of
the two gentlemen on whom the dependent 0;
of their
d with
Stamford have fixed to represent the opinioonsecto _
patron in Parliament. There is nothing 0
--Us for any the circumstances of the return which car_
Elio patron of
pecu-
liar comment. The Marquis of Exeeti?
his
power dis-
creet] borough—has, on the whole, usasot
b been maintained
erectly. The Marquis of Granby
a 1837. In 1838 Sir
in one seat by the patron
the other seat, and was
throughout Sir R. Peel's
George Clerk was nominated
general election of 1847. Le
left in undisturbed
Administration, until! the s
T., v dismissed by the Marquis
of
suniTrai-erries was substituted in his
was then
Exeter, and I_:,b.. was wanted elsewhere at the
place. Lord. Granby
i
and so a seat was comfortably
vacant ick Thesiger who had been
vacant for SirAbin,,don, and was at his wit's sent
present
end where
adrift from -for his foot. There is
to find restnothing to be
• st the Marquis or his
representatives, except
said against his representatives,
landowners they are and not the represen-
tatives -er
that
of
the
people.thus, if
s -
and
n edvtehre areqsuteostfietnhesheoeumld.
arise between the o
rounity, we should have the satisfaction of being made
aware of the Marquis of Exeter's sentiments by means of
his nominees in the House of Commons—but of nothing
else. Whatever advantage or ease it may be to a Go-
vernment that power such as this should be lodged in
private hands, a very different view of the question is
taken by that party in the country which would gladly
see our electoral arrangements modified to suit the cir-
cumstances of the time. If co, ruption and bribery
should be abolished surely the existence of nomination
boroughs equally militates against the theory of the
constitution. Stamford is not the only one, bat it is,
perhaps, the most notorious on the list, from the Let
that the Marquis of Exeter, instead of returning some
Lord Henry or Hon. John, has generally placed ono of
his two seats at the disposal of whatever member of the
Government he supported was the least able to please a
constituency.—Times.

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