The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-11 00:00:00

servative; and that the Hon. and worthy 'Alcinber who
now sits for it laughs at the puny efforts of any mon-
grel Papist to expel him. But, if the Protestant Earl
has come away unspotted, so hay.i not the disappointed
conspirators who planned this disgraceful bribe—so
have not the wicked Ministers whose names and autho-
rities were employed to sanction it, and without whom
it never could have been completed. Good Heavens!
How matchless is the guilt or folly of men who, v.ith
liberty and good government for ever in their mouths,
commit such atrocious outrages on both, and imagine
that they may do so with impunity I'• _Here arc a set
of adventurers who have bellowed themselves into office,
stunning the world with outcries against the corrup-
tion or intimidation of constituencies, against the
want of free-will in electors, against the interference of
Peers with the choice of Members in Parliament,
against the oppression practised upon innocent, un-
offending, loyal, liberal Papists—and whit have they
done in this single care out of 50 ? They offer to
buy up a whole Protestant constituency, like so many.
head of cattle for a sum of money. To render the
bribe more pungent, they throw in the prostitution of
the Peerage. To buy the votes of one House of Par-
liament they sell the honours of the other House. To
secu-e the freedom of election they suborn a Peer to
trample on and persecute the voters if they dispute his
will. But all this, we are told, is for the sake of
" good government," and is the method most euprovcd
by the framers of the Reform Bill " for carrying cut
its principles" and doing complete " justice to Ireland!'
Let a new Parliament assemble when it may, it will he
indelibly disgraceful that such proceedings should not
become the subject of a searching and unflinching in-
qu;ry. The proofs, we hear, are not difficult to be got
hold of, if no false point of honour should stand in the
way. By the Ministers, of course, no impediment can
be presented. The charge, if substantiated, and we
admit that some Roman Catholics have not been too
squeamish about oaths—but if the agents can be
made by the !aw of Parliament to inculpate those who
employed them, there is ground for impeachment 100
fathom deep.— Times.
A most imp9rt;int meeting of the electors of the
City was yesterday held at the London Tavern, for
the purpose of securing the re-election of the present
Liberal Representatives of The City of London. That
excellent man and universatiy7dsteemed citizen, John
Travers, presided, and a series of resolutions were
passed, expressive of gratification and satisfaction at
the declaration made by her Majesty in Privy Council,
in favour of the progressive improvement of our in•
stitutions, and also of approval of the conduct of the
present representatives, as well as of a determination
to merge all differences of opinion on minor topics,
and unite cordially in promoting the return' to the en-
suing Parliament of those gentlemen" whose attach-
ment," in the language of one of the resolutions, " to
the broad principles of national improvement are clear
and indisputable, it being by a general as to such
extended views, that the good order of society can be
best preserved, and onr liberties—both civil and reli-
gious—matured and perfected." In explaining the
object of the meeting—the more than noble—the
honest, liberal, patriotic, and enlightened Chai.-man
thus expressed Inmseif—
" There are those, as you know' in th,e city of London,
largely interested in its concerns, and extensively interested
in its welfare, who arc nevertheless not neglectful of the
popular interests—who look to these interests with partici].
lar regard—who are identified With then on most- occasion:,
and among whom I shall always be most happy to include
myself ; and we thought it of great importance on this oc-
casion, looking at our present position on the eve of a most
important election, that you should be called together to
express your sentiments thereupon, and that it should be
ascertained how far, and to what extent you are interested •
in that cause of Reform to which hitherto you had ex-
pressed so ardent an attachment—that you sho:fld ,declare
on this occasion whether you arc the same piends as yon
ever have been to the equal ;ights qf your
whatever creed, of whatever colour, whateve, country, or

whatever condition—whether also you arc determitird In
ca ry out those Reforms which rjou consider equally essen-
till 10 our imrdical, as they are to our social safety, and the
improvement if our political institutions—not being dig-
pu4rd (fur I am sure you arc not so disposed)
td destroy or ovettrrn any thing, but simply to
pNrify and amend, and whether in support of these pnnci-
isksion wotriti at this time send your f air Members to
Par!iament, who arc all men of liberal east and tendency,
who all of them, And without exception, carry out
those principles and practices as fast and so far as times
ani circumstances will permit. Gentlemen, it was de-
sirable to ascertain your sentiments on the subject ; b t

let we say to you that think you should not—that non
cannot hesitate as between two opinions, you must either
Itire lief:Liners or no Iltybrine.-s—you must have men
who are thoroughly and deeply imbued with the spirit of
Reform, who are really the repreentatives of the liberal in-
terests of this city ; but on the other hand you must not
be too overweening in your expectations of any manor any
set of men whatever."

This exposition of the question involved in the ap-
proaching election is as applicable to every constituency
in the empire as to that of London. There can be
no hesitation between two opinions—they must either
have Reformers or- no Reformers—they must either
have a safe antl steady progressive improvement in the
inst:tutions of the country, or, by stopping that int-
provenrmt, expose these institutions to the hazard of
de.itruction, and the country itself to. the chances of
revolution. As Mr. Travers observed, there is no
wish amongst the people to destroy or overturn, but
simply to purify and amend: If the people of theat
Britain entertained any destructive propensities, nay,

if they were not pre-eminently attaclieti to the preserva-
tion of social order, and ready to bear all manner of
oppression and insult rather than risk its violation,
tiny would never have so long submitted to the roup
of which the Tories endeavour to perpetuate the in-
fliction. If the Tories possessed one-half the influence
amongst the masses of the people that the Liberals do,
the country would have been long since plunged in
civil war; but the Tories know they are powerless
with the people, and by their fears only have they beat
restrained from. offaing violent resistance to the pro-
gress of Reform. No one who has read the after-
dinner speeches which they have made dur:n; the last
twelve morale:, can doubt that if their ability kent pace
with their inclination—if their fear of a collision with
the people were not greater than even their deeire to
perpetuate al,useS—they would have decided all the
more important questions which have (Kett discussed.
by am: appeal to violence. But the Tories well know
that little as is their moral influence, t!.eir physical ea-
pabnity is still less. Their strength inor,lly and jibe
sically is in fact prostrated bi:fore the intelligence
which pervades the great ltody of the British peep:c,
and fortunate for the country that it is so ; for wttrc it
otherwise, far different instruments, more atrocious awl
horrible, might be employed to decide the contest, then
.even the corrupt machinery of electioneering agen,s.
The Tories, if they dare, would appeal to the sword.
Witness the Orange conspiracies, and the attempt to
con upt the army front its allegiance, by the chefs of
that abhorred faction. It is from the recurrent e of
similar attempts that the electors of the empire are
now called upon to protect the country ; for though
the Tories should not gain an accession of strength in
the coming contest, if they escape utter discomfiture
their sanguinary machinations in one form or another
will inevitably be renewed. Their pretended alarm
about the Church emanates from the basest and most
disgusting hypocrisy. As was remarked by one of
the speakers at the City Reform intethot,'" in all
other countries they are the avowed supporters and
defenders of the most intolerant form of Romanim.
Look to their conduct in Spain and Portugal. Their
professed regard for Protestantism is troth:not' but an
excuse for advocating every form of bad government all
o'er the world." Who arc their allies ? Despots of
ail creeds and climes. Where was the M arquis of Lon-
donderry's a'ihorzence of Popery, when be evinced
such a deep sympathy in the cause of that V.ood-
stained rebel Don Carlos? Religion is but the pre-
tence of the whole tribe, while their object is to bold
their fellow-men subject to every spectres of tyranny
and oppression ; and every elector ivlio votes for Fory
in the ensuing election becomes a party to hi a s
own,
lItS country's, and the general ‘vrane .and pmccunon.
There was also a miserable US:ef of the Tories in the
city yesterday, more contemptible even than we ex-
pected. It appears the have already raised subscrip-
tions to the amount of 2,5001. towerds the promotion
of Conservative policy, that is, what the Standard
most appropriately terms, “ buyipg ;nen to their dam-
nation." But their prospects are hopeless, and Mr.
Palmer must have strong nerves, after contrasting the