The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-19 00:00:00

THE CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.

On several recent occasions the Tories of this town
have had recourse to open violence for the achievement
of their purposes. By the most abominable and un-
justifiable misconduct and outrage, they not long since
prevented the inhabitants of this extensive and impor-
tant place from conveying to their Sovereign their opi-
nions with respect to the selection of her Constitutional
advisers. At the close of the election in 1837, a violent
and savage attack was made upon the police station. In the
affrays which then took place, two clergymen of the
Establishment were seriously implicated, and great num-
bers of the inhabitants were obliged to have recourse to
the law in order to punish the various parties (some
calling themselves gentlemen) who had been guilty of
gross personal outrage. But the crowning glory of the
party is the ferocious and dastardly attack made at the
late election upon that venerable and highly respectable
gentleman, the elder Mr. Gunning.
Nor was this the only outrage that was committed—
windows were broken, and banners torn, by the victo-
noes party ; and, to grace the triumph of the Con-
servative cause, a ruffian, whose conduct could not even
be palliated by the poor excuse of drunkenness, made
a violent and unprovoked assault on the wife of a re-
spectable Whig voter.
The Reformers evinced their respect for the law,
and displayed the soundness of their principles, by a
total abstinence from all kinds of violence towards their
opponents.
e are greatly mistaken if the occurrences of the
late election do not tend greatly to augment the num-
bers of those who advocate the Ballot. They must lead
to the growth of the conviction, that, without some
strongly protective measure, freedom of election cannot
exist much longer in this count). On this point the
Tories, with their bribers and bludgeon-men, will ulti-
mately, if we mistake not, prove " the best possible in-
structors."—Cambridge Advertiser.

TRIAL OF THE VERNON WITH
THE BLENHEIM AND THE EDINBURGH.

The Vernon left Gravesend on Sunday morning, the
Bth instant, under canvass, and brought up in the Downs
at six in the afternoon ; wind blowing hard from the
westward, with a flood tide setting in. An opportunity
had now been afforded of ascertaining her sailing qualities
off and on the wind. No ship that ever left the port of
London could have worked better. On Monday she got
under weigh, with a fresh breeze blowing W.S.W.,
against which she worked as far as Dungeness, when the
breeze moderated to a two-knot breeze, at which time
the steam was applied. The steam had been put on but
a very short time, when the speed of the Vernon was in-
creased to seven knots an hour, she leaving behind her a
large fleet of shipping, which had weighed from the
Downs the same morning with her. After her arrival
at Portsmouth, until Sunday morning, the winds had
been so high from the South and East, and from the
South-South- West, that it was impossible to put to sea.
Indeed, even on Saturday, her Majesty's steamer Phce-
nix, after making the attempt, was obliged to return to
the harbour at Portsmouth, about half-past four P. M.,
and on her way she went upon the Hamilton flats, and
was shored up until the flood tide. The Gooderich, with
convicts, bound to Sydney, also put in, having that
morning, in a gale in the Channel, at two o'clock a.m.,
unfortunately run foul of the Sophia, bound for New
Zealand, and carried away the Sophia's bowsprit, fore
and mizen masts, and maintop masts, leaving her a
perfect wreck, certain of being cast on shore but for
the timely arrival of a Dublin steamer, which took her
in tow for London. _ .