The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-10 00:00:00

TO the ELECTORS of the CITY and COUNTY I Bence of a boastful and yet (comparatively speak-
of NORWICH, ing) powerless Administration. The majority
Gentleraen.
It devolves upon us, as the chosen Representatives of your good is, Consequently, on the other hand, of A
old city, to tender to you our most grateful thanks for the distin-
vished honour you have conferred upon us, and for for
proud and nature peculiarly auspicious, inasmuch as it en-
triumphant position in which you have placed our names upon the
ii. We claim not the victory from any personal merits of our own, courages by its magnitude the most sanguine anti-
but proudly hail it as a graceful homage to those great principles of cipations of her MAJESTY'S Opposition. A rapid
Civil, Religious, and Commercial Freedom upon which we solicited
ion of the two si
and have won your suffrages. Confident that the true and lasting but exact analysis of the posit des—as
interests of this great nation are best to be advanced by a steady
shown
onward progress in the path of every Reform tending to the improve- up to the latest moment before we write—will
moat and extension of the Elective Franchise —by a more equitable no doubt be satisfactory to the public, showing as it
adjusttnani of taxation, in lessening the burdens of the poor, and
transferring them, if necessary, to the wealthier portions of the cum- must do clearly enough, the advantages already se-
ll/unity—by removing all unwise restrictions which impede the de- cured by the Reformers.
velopment of our commerce, and cast obstacles in the way of social
improvement—and above all, by the exercise of a strict and rigid It has been observed that there are already col-
economy in every branch of the public expenditure—we will, from
our seats in Parliament, give to all theseimportantmeasures our most lected the names of 288 successful candidates returned
anxious consideration and undeviating support. By such means we bv various constituencies as their representatives
shall add to the dignity and security of the Throne—deepen the .
loyalty of the people to the person of the Sovereign—give scone for —some by polled majorities, and some without oppo-
expansion to the great principles of our Constitution—stahility to all
its wisest institutions—and diffuse over the whole nation the bless- Sakai. Out of these 288 new Members can be enu.
ings of domestic happiness. Thus we would endeavour to make
merated—
our beloved country the freest, happiest, and cheapest nation to live
In on the face of the earth. FOR THE OPPOSITION . .
To such of you, Gentlemen, who have personally extended to us
FOR THE GOYERNIVENT
your support we especially desire to express our grateful acknow-
ledgments ; and to those who, in the exercise of their honest principles,
have been opposed to our election, we desire respectfully to tender
our high sense of the kind, fair, and temperate manner in which that
opposition has been throughout conducted ; and to all of us it is a sub-
) ect of unmixed pleasure,that this great contest of principles, both on the
part of the respective candidates, and of the constituency at large,
has been brought to an issue with so much kindly feeling, and with
a purity and independence, honourable to the City of Norwich.
We have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your very Faithful Servants,
S. MORTON PET".
EDWARD WARNER.
Royal lintel, nth July, 1852,

MAJORITY FOR THE OPPOSITION.

In estimating the Opposition, we count, of course,
under the same head, Liberals, whether Whigs or
Radicals, and with those Liberals the important
party known as Liberal Conservatives. But even
setting aside the whole of the Liberal Conservatives
returned to the new Parliament (which out
of the 288 already catalogued do not ex-
ceed the aggregate 25), we still, have 180 in place
of 205 as the sum total of the Opposition ! And sub-
tracting the 83 Ministerial representatives from the
180 anti-Ministerialists constituting this restricted
Opposition, there is still left a clear majority of 97, or,
in other words, only three short of a clear majority
of a hundred out of 205—that clear majority of 97
composed exclusively of Whigs, or Radicals, or inde-
pendent Reformers.

THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION
of 1853.
WM. D IRGAN, Esq., has placed in the hands of a Committee of
Twenty-five Gentlemen the sum of 20,000/. for an INDUSTRIAL
EXHIBITION, to be held on the premises of the Royal Dublin So-
ciety, in 1853, and has nominated George Roe, Esq., to be Chairman,
Major Fairfield to be Deputy-Chairman, and Mr. C. P. Roney to be
Secretary of the said Committee.
At a meeting of the Committee held en Monday, the sth July,
1852, it was resolved—
That the Opening of the Exhibition shall take place in the First
Week of May, 1853.
The Committee invite conamtmications from Manufacturers, Ex-
hibitors, and others.

By order,

As to the respective gains and losses of the Minis-
terialists and anti-Ministerialists—those again may
be very readily particularised. After all the boasts
which were heard before the time of the dissolution,
about the certainty of the Cabinet securing a plen-
tiful collection of new seats wrested from the grasp
of the Opposition—we find the Opposition still
commands in this direction a very unmistakable majo-
rity over the Government. The fact, we take it, is
sufficiently significant. Contrasting the different
changes which have thus taken place, we find--
THE OPPOSITION GAINS
THE MINISTERIAL GAINS

.. 27

MAJORITY OF GAINS FOR THE OPPOSITION 7
In order that there may not be any doubt as to the
correctness of this calculation, we will enumerate first
the gains of the Government, and afterwards those
of the Opposition, with as much accuracy as is at all
practicable under the circumstances. The gains for
the Cabinet, therefore, are briefly as follows :
Barnstaple
..• •••
Cambridge
Canterbury
Chatham
Colchester
Devonport
Greenwich
Hastings
Horsham
Liverpool
Ludlow ..
Lymington
Macclesfield
Poole ...
Preston ..
Taunton .

..• ••• 1

Warwick
Windsor

_
Total ..
.. 1
Against these, however, must now be enumerate
the yet more remarkable gains of the Opposition
gains recorded in the subjoined catalogue :
Abingdon
Aylesbury • •
Berwick
Beverley
Be wdley
Blackburn
Bolton ...
Cardiff ...
Carlisle ...
Cirencester
Dorchester
Gloucester
Guildford
Halifax ...
Hertford
Kidderminster . . •••
...
Leeds ..
.••
Maidstone •••
Newark .. • • • •
Norwich • • ••
Reading ... •• •••
Scarborough • • •••
Stoke-on-Trent... ••4 ••• ••• 1
Stafford ••• ••• ••• ••• 9
Totnes
Wilton

. . . . • • I

•.. 1
• •
• • ... 1

••• 1
••• ••• 1

Total ••• ... 28
Instead of being enormously in favour of the
Ministry, the changes which have taken place in
the elections up to the present time, have
therefore, been actually to their disadvantage. If
twenty-one seats, hitherto occupied by Liberals, have
been within the last day or two transferred to Der-
byites—twenty-eight others have, on the contrary,
been wrested from the Tories by the candidates of

the Opposition.
From the calculations here given it will be manifest,
tations as the electioneering
we conceive, that our exul
movement advanced were by no means either
precipitate or extravagant.
We have watched too
keenly the progress of the contest to be carried
'way by merely idle predilections. We have weighed
the facts pro and con. repeatedly, as the returns
reached us from the different parts of the United
Kingdom—and, although our feelicgs have
fluctuated according to the chagrin or
pleasure inspired by; the intelligence, the
gist of the whole has so far agreeably influenced us
as Reformers, that we are filled with satisfaction as to
the past and with confidence as to the future. While
the Ministry will, of b course, materially improve their po-
sition y the number of candidates returned through the
various county constituencies, they will, on the other
hand, find that position marred by the amount more than proportionately
shortly be received fro of the returns which must
m the sister island. There is
a vengeance prepared for the Derby Adminis-
tration in that quarter against which all the energies
of the Government must, we feel assured, in the end
become paralyzed. Even nearer home
beds of protection,
will,: here and
, in the hot-
in the agricultural districts,
Ministerial candidates will find that the
the
favour of the constituencies
least expected, be strongly contented by
there,
of the Opposition.
candidates
At North
the
can
hire, for example, the pet constituency
Warwicks
monopolists, and one of the reputed
of the 0
of the DERBY Government, two
strongholds
Liberal candidates are coming forward in the place
we presum-P
N KING to endeavour by a
-of Mr. BOLTON
gallant venture to oust Mr. CHARLEs NEWDEGATE
II the
SFOONB , two last redoubtable
and Mr. Ricamtn
two Liberal candidates are
representatives, Those
reported to be Sir THOMAS SEIPWORTH and the
c AvEN—tbe latter,
Hon. FaxptiticK. KEPPEL a
brother to the Earl of CRAVEN, end in 1847 one of the St.
unsuccessful candidates for the representation of
hope
Albans. With activity like this, accompanied by
and determination, the advantages already secured
over the DERBY Government must inevitably tend
yet more remarkably to enhance the strength of
what' is, even now, certain, under ordinary cir-
cumstances, of proving a singularly formidable Op-
position.

Although a quarter of a century has elapsed since
the interesting and romantic struggle, which terrni-
nated in the final emancipation of Greece from Otto-
man tyranny, a struggle hallowed, not least of all, by
the devotion to the death of the greatest of modern
bards, the names of those patriotic warriors who took
a prominent part in that bloody and protracted con.
test still live in the remembrance of many. Of
this band Greece has just lost one of the noblest.
LAZARRE CONDOURIOTTI died on the 17th of last
month, in Hydra, his native island, at the advanced
age of eighty. He was, indisputably, one of the
greatest citizens of hi. country,,,to Wilo3o interests
nee
ever displayed s bighir or purer devotion. Over