The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-15 00:00:00

are to bind a man's life and property by the laws
they make." The Ballot, however, is a wide sub-
ject, and embraces many other topics than such
as we have here been able to touch upon ; but as it
must necssarily be early brought under discussion in
Parliament, we were anxious to take this opportunity,im-
mediately before the meeting of the two Houses, of
advertin, to a few of the more prominent points. We
do not believe that Members yet see how deeply they
are themselves pecuniarily interested in the adoption
of the Ballot. Let it be once fairly established and all
the tedious and expensive machinery of the Grenville
Act, which at this moment is threatened to be carried
into such vigorous operation, will be utterly useless.
Bribery, if practised at all, must be confined to very
narrow bounds. Corruption of a minor kind will be
unknown, and intimidation entirely at an end. Votes
could not be disputed when it could not be ascertained
which way they were given ; and when once they re-
gistration system is rendered consistent and uniform,
there will be no employment for Election Committees,
which are only rendered necessary by the present de-
fective state of the law relating to the election and re-
turn of Members to serve in Parliament.—Morning
Chronicle.

A more good-natured multitude than that which
assembled to witness the grand public spectacle on
Thursday last, we do not remember to have seen. To
call it a mob would be mere defamation. It was an
immense intermixture of respectable persons belonging
to the middle and operative classes, who, under cir-
cumstances of joyous excitement., had congregated
together from all parts of the metropolis ; and among
whom there prevailed throughout the utmost possible
decorum, which, when an unfortunate wight or a stray
cur happened to get shuffled out of their position on
the pathwa), was rather enlivened than interrupted
by jocularity and shouts of laughter. That a cre-
ditable feeling of loyalty was the principal cause which
drew the greater part of them from their homes
and occupations must have been manifest to every
observer ; but that the common principle of curio-
sity was largely mixed up with that feeling, no per-
son could doubt who witnessed the exertions of the
crowd to peer into the passing vehicles which contained
the chief personages in her Majesty's train. The
people wanted to see and know everybody whom they
thought worth seeing and knowing. Not a coach was
permitted to move past them without the most ob-
servant scrutiny ; and the extreme slowness of the
procession, as well as the numerous stoppages, gave
them every facility for gratifying their inquisitiveness.
Nor were some of the principal parties following the
Royal equipage at all unwilling to minister to the
curiosity of the populace. The Duke of Wellington,
indeed, who always avoids an ostentatious display of
himself, was no otherwise discoverable than by the
well-known livery of his servants. But with per-
sons of lesser note, who could scarcely afford to
disregard so favourable a chance for being regaled
with a little popular incense, the case was very
different. By the Whig Ministers especially, no op-
portunity was missed to exhibit themselves to public
admiration. For example, a certain feature of Lord
Morpeth's, which we suppose could not be conveni-
ently accommodated in an ordinary carriage, was pro-
truded out of the left window with most conspicuous
and complacent drollery. The portion of his Lordship
which we have respectfully alluded to was emphatically
recogniz..:d along the whole line. So was Sir John
Hobhouse, though certainly without an invidious par-
tiality for one part of the Hon. Baronet more than for
any other. Lord Glenelg, according to his custom of
an afternoon, was seen to be nodding in the inside of
his carriage with more than ordinary diligence. The
Cupid of the, Cabinet, albeit somewhat on the fade,
shot his arrows on every side, with an evident de-
sign upon the hearts of the susceptible concourse.
To short, with the exception of Lord John Russell,
who thought it more prudent to Inde himself, the
whole of the Whig Nfinisters did everything in their
po'wer to realize what a 'copular Government had a
right to expect—a triumphant reception from the as-
sembled multitudes, with the manage Lent of whose
public interests they happen at present to be intrusted.
Now, no man can deny that in ordinary circurn-
stances such a reception, on such an occasion, would
have been generously and enthusiastically given. The
people were not in the vein either to weigh over nicely
the claims of individual Ministers, or to tender their
oratulations with a nig.eerl throat, and still less in a
censorious temper. Apart from the mere possession
of high office, which of itself is always recognised as
a valid title to popular respect, the circumstantials of
the late procession were such as must naturally have
predisposed the spectators not to cease their cheerings
the umm2nt her Majesty had passed, hut to prolong
and extend them to the principal Officers of State,
under whose advice the gratifying pageant had been
fixed for the earliest possible day, ere the IVhigs retire
from office. But we appeal to the entire metropolitan
Press to say whether there ever were an occasion of a
similar kind on which the advisers of a British
Monarch, forming part of a great public procession,
were treated with such marked and con;umelious c
tempt. From the passing of the Royal Family till the
approach of the Duke of Wellington's carriage, the in-
tervening portion of the procession, occupied by her Ma-
jesty's Whig Ministers, could he compared to nothing
but a funereal solemnity. We protest that in tl
state rent we speak with the most sacred regard to truth;
and eve find, on inquiry, that the fact was remarked and
commented on at the time, throughout the greater pro-
portion of the whole line on both sides of the streets.
It was a sad lugubrious business, the doleful emphasis
of which was only aggravated by its striking contrast
with the tumultuous shouts that alternately died into
silence when? Whig carriage came up, and burst in o
exultation on the approach of the illustrious Conser-
vative chief. What ingenious explanations may be
put upon this circumstance by those who were galled
at its occurrence, we are little concerned to know. To
our thinking it affords no trival indication of the
manner in which immense masses of the people are
affected towards the general odour of O'Connell Whig-
gery. Among our most intelligent countrymen, of
whose sentiments the crowd of Thursday presented
a tolerably fair specimen, it is evidently regarded as
a rank political nuisance ; and if on that auspicious
day a preponderant sense of decorum deterred the pub-
lic from evincing their disgust at it in any other way
than by significantly withholding those audible plau-
dits which the Whigs have ventured to hope for,
their forbearance manifestly arose from a delicate and
well-timed solicitude, lest any expressions of popu-
lar indignation should by possibility be misconstrued
as applying in the slightest degree to the lovely
being whom the multitude had assembled to welcome.
That the reception given to the Whigs affords an
unequivocal intimation that they are not generally be-
lieved to be in possession of the Royal confidence,
must be apparent to every one. The loyalty of Eng-
lishmen, especially on great exciting occasions, is al-
most a passion. Never was there a Sovereign more
universally popular than our promising and engaging
young Queen. Nay, we are fully convinced that if
the people believed her Majesty to entertain any se-
rious predilection whatever, they would so far defer to
the Royal wishes and even caprices, as to seek every
opportunity to show their acquiescence in her Majesty's
choice. Here, then, was an opportunity made to
their hands. Like the late general election through-
out England, it presented a fair and favourable occa-
sion for evincing their approbation of the Whig Mi-
nisters, who are said to be the objects of the Queen's
especial preference. But no such approbation was
shown. Not a single cheer was bestowed on them.
On the contrary, all the cordial gratulations of the
public not immediately addressed to her Majesty and
the Royal family, were profusely lavished on their
great political opponent. What can we infer from
this but that the people entertain a strong and general
conviction that the Whigs are in reality no favourites
of the Queen, and that for this reason, among others,
they ought speedily to be removed.—Times.
Never again let it be said that Englishmen sympa-
thise not in the wrongs and miseries of Ireland. The
enthusiastic reception given to Mr. O'Connell at
Stockport, of which an account will be found else-
where, must prove to the conviction of the most scep-
tical, that the people of England are most sensitively
susceptible to ail appeals in behalf of their oppressed
neighbours. And it is but natural that they should
be so. The grievances of the two countries are the