The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-06 00:00:00

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1837.

We have given elsewhere the official statement of
ithe revenue, made up to the usual quarterly period,
:the sth of July. Notwithstanding the unprecedented
!amount of financial prosperity exhibited in the corre-
sponding statement of last year, and, we may add, the
'almost unprecedented causes of diminution which have
!since that time been at work, it is gratifying to find
that there is no decrease on the year, though there is
a considerable defalcation on the last quarter. The
yearly account as compared with the preceding one,
shows an increase of 116,9261.; the quarterly, on a
similar comparison, a decrease of 865,355/.
The Customs exhibit an increase of 123,478/. on
the year ; a decrease of 412,5021. on the quarter—
The Excise a decrease of 269,719/. on the year ; and
of 551,505/. on the quarter—The Stamps a decrease
of 139,131/. on the year ; and of 87,228/. on the
quarter—The Taxes an increase of 29,195/. on
the year ; and of 38,2591. on the quarter—The
Post-office an increase of 12,7371. on the year ;
Ind a decrease of 19,263/. on the quarter—The
Miscellaneous a decrease of 14,632/. on the year ; and
of 2,2471. on the quarter—lmprest and other monies
In increase of 374,9981. on the year; and of 169,131/.

on the quarter.
Such are the details of the financial account ; and if
.hey are not so favourable as could be wished, they are,
perhaps, less unfavourable than might, under all cir-
cumstances, have been expected.

Though the electots of East Cumberland have only
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.lone their duty in coining forward with such unani-
ashy and determination to oppose Sir JAMES GRA--
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I erAm, their conduct on this occasion, and after the
I late strange changes among political parties, cannot be
4, oo highly estimated by the friends of liberty and good
order. We can conceive nothing so contemptible as
t a constituency, and particularly a large constituency,
turning round with every turn of their Representative,
• . tnd voting, as some of the electors of Westminster did
m the late election, for a man whose political principles
• i ire directly opposed to those which he avowed at the
election but two years before. Sir JAMES GRAHAM
-tlthought he might treat the men of Cumberland with
'the same contempt, but he has calculated without his
;'lost, and his miserable whining—we may add, lying,
:.- tddress to the constituency—admits the fact. He
i/ inds that, though he professes not to have changed
, its opinions, .‘ many former supporters and per-
4onal friends " have no doubt about the matter, and
ve. lave determined to give a practical proof of their
'.; .onsection by ejecting from the county as an apostate.
•Aintemptible as he had rendered himself before by
iis tergiversation, be his bigotry and his junction with
i. party whom lie hail so often denounced, he stood
-,,aigh even then as compared with the condition to
,which he has reduced himself by this second address.
He begins with a pitiful lamentation for having been
-taken by surprise, and has the effrontery to complain
,• .hat he should have been so treated while endeavour-
', •ng to discharge his duties to them in Parliament,
when he knows well that the mode in which he had
' lischarged these doties had excited these very consti-
,e •uents and every honest man against him. Had he
i eonfined his remarks, however, to his own defence,
others would not have so much reason to complain,
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'iut, like all great criminals, he simply protests
liis own innocence, and fills up the rest of the
sddress with illiberal, and what is worse, un-
founded oharges against o.li C 1 3-and more parti-
cularly against that upright and consistent Re-
former Mr. JAMES, and her MAJESTY'S Ministers.
His attack ought to have been directed against Major
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AGLIONBY; but envy and jealousy of a consistent
Reformer, and the painful reflection from what a
height he had fallen, force him to give vent to his
sorrow by maligning men whose soundness of principle
and consistency of conduct form but a dismal contrast
•to his own vacillating and disgraceful conduct.
Against the Government he states what he knows—
unless blinded by rage and higotry—i, not the fact,
and charges the Whigs with deseninoe, the leading
principle of the Revolution of 1688—the maintenance
of the Reformed Protestant religion in every part of
the United Kingdom. He knows that the Whigs
'still maintain that principle, and that their wish to
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remove the abuses of the English and the Irish
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rChurches, is in perfect accordance with it. But bad
as these parts of his address are, they sre far surpassed
by the conclusion, which is so appropriate for a con-
victed renegade, that we should only spoil it by giving
it in any other words than his own. We therefore re-
commend to the attention of all electors and candidates
:: thoughout the country, the following expressive words:
; " I stand on my old ground : I-am an independent coun-
, fry gentleman, whose opinions are known, and whose prin-
'. iples have been tried. I ask only for one seat when two are
..., acant. I do not presume to say who should be my colleague;
t I ut I do say that I am not so unworthy as to merit absolute
: , %elusion, and to be forced out by an atte:opt to dictate to a