The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-30 00:00:00

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1 NEWARK ELECTION.

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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEWARK, DEC. 28, 1839.
The contest is still carried on with vigour, both par-
ties straining every nerve, and both confident of success.
The Solicitor-General arrived here on Thursday morn-
ing, and immediately commenced revisiting such of the
electors as, on his former canvass, were doubtful. The
1 result we are happy to say, has been most gratifying ; he
has succeeded in confirming the neutrality of a conside-
rable number, and in deciding the conduct of many of
the waverers. During his canvass on Friday morning
he was met by the Chartists of the town, who had as-
sembled in a body with the view of obtaining an inter-
view with the worthy candidate. 'We are assured by
I one of the Chartist leaders that the interview termina-
ted satisfactorily, the Sergeant replying to their objec-
tions with candour and liberality, and, on the other
hand, the Chartists admitting the soundness of many of
:.is observations, and resolving upon adding their number
'o his ranks. He was afterwards met by a body of
Weslyans, whose fears had been excited by the conduct
o; certain of their leaders respecting the education
3,ileme. Here again he triumphed, having in a lucid
statement exhibited the real nature of the Government
~elleme, and the factious nature of the opposition by
which its intentions were defeated.

Mr. Thesiger, too, arrived on Friday morning, and
;oat no time in following in the footsteps of his oppo-
:Jew, with what degree of success time alone can deter-
: miae. The bombastic assertions of his supporters, in

d eases destitute of proof—the frequency and duration
..1 their visits—their corruption, and the bold and un-
equivocal exercise of illegitimate influence—all bespeak
a want of confidence, almost amounting to a certainty
of defeat. Mr. Thesiger has, once or twice, acted the
part of the pot-house orator ; his ditty, however, was
and plainly showed the nature of his hopes. As
.:n example of the commodity chiefly employed in the
-.l,lnufacture of " speeches" on these occasions, we may
tate that a Mr. Brogden (who has made his appearance
urn nobody knows where, and whose object is every-
ty
knows what), in patriotic tones, denounced the
tteness of the Liberal candidate. who, he said, " is

• ,ing to Monmouth to hang the very men whose pro-
ceedings, until now, he has always sanctioned." The
i pie was too paipable to be swallowed, even by the To-
's, ard raised nothing but—a laugh !
A numerous party of the Liberals dined at the Castle
Id Falcon on Friday evening, when, in reply to a
,a3t, the Solicitor-General delivered an admirable ad-

rest on the nature of the present contest, the tactics
oppenents,and the duty of his supporters. His
~.tnarks were well timed, and produced a powerful
Feet. His language was such as became an honest
and unflinching Reformer, and manifested a confidence
of success which exceeded the hopes of his warmest
friends. We give such extracts as are likely to be
generally interesting.
Having at great length detailed the insults to which
Newark was so long subjected, and the painful struggles
which had been made for its redemption—" I turn
aside now from matters belonging individually to 3 our-
selves. I turn from these matters—matters important

and grave to you—to those of larger import. I now
ask, what are the principles in contest with regard to
Government upon the present occasion ? What are
the principles in which the nation is interested ? What
are the principles of Government of which you wish your
rrprescntative to be the advocate ? And what are those
which your opponents desire should be maintained by
any individual who is the Member of the borough of
Newark ? Gentlemen, I would not at this moment
descend to the discussion of any minor and particular

acts of this Government or of that : my object is to
present to you views of much wider extent. I ask you

bat are the principles upon which Church Government
rests ? I ask you that, because I wish to make an
observation with regard to the assumption of part of
our opponents—the assumption that they are the

only best and safe friends to the Constitution of
DT.,land. Without discussing the particular measures
of Whigs or Tories, is not the difference, in principle,
this :—Do not the Whigs profess that all Government
is for the general good and happiness of the people ?
(Hear, hear.) That the different parts of Government
ought to be constructed for the advancement of reli-
gion, for the place, prosperity, and general happiness
of the kingdom ? That Government being formed
with a view to that happiness, it ought, from time to
time, to be adapted—not to a by-gone state of things—
not to an age that has past, when individuals could
neither benefit by its advantages nor suffer by its
defeats, but to the existing population, impressed with
all the feelings to which the mind can be opened, and
equally susceptible of happiness and misery ? I
say that, as I understand, these are the principles of
this Government, for which reason I support them—for
which reason I join them.—(Cheers.) The principle is,
that all human institutions should be first directed
to the earrection of those frailties which impede man's
walk to a better state. That he should have his in-

irrnities relieved, his weaknesses sustained, by the con-
, stitution of the Government being directed to the great
objects of his creation. That these being answered, in
! the first instance, it should be for the liberty and pros-
perity of all, not for the advantage of the few, to which
troverament should be directed.—{Hear and cheers.)
These are the principles which the Whigs profess, and
t they are the principles by which, I believe, Ministers

. . . .
have bees directed. They may have been directed with
inferior force, with less energy, than some of their
4 frieuqs desire ; but it is a great thing to say, that men

are acting upon great and good principles, though they
may imperfectly carry them out. They are on the right
road, though they may not travel with the expedition
which human wants may require." After noticing the
conduct of the Tories relative to the Catholic Relief
Bin, and the cry of " Church in danger," which is

raised whenever an attempt is made to reform the
Church, and giving a specimen of the Whig Church
Reform, which is now looked upon by the Tories as ab-
solute sponation, but which, as he justly said, will, in a
few years, be looked upon as much too moderate, he
r Iferred to the use which is made of religion by the
11,ries in the following terms :—" Religion, which hap.

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pill for man, has relieved his distresses, comforted him
in affliction, elevated his hopes, and given to him a su-
perior place in the world. That same religion has been
made; the stalking-horse for selfishness, and the most
evil purposes. Every man who has had some dirty
purpose to answer, which could be accomplished only by
an appeal to ignorance and prejudice, has appealed to reli-
gion, frequently in order to blind those who would examine
and investigate his conduct. It follows them throughout.
There is not a department of the State in which the
game principles of Government are not acted upon by
tl,e Tories. The list time I met you here at an elec-
tion was when I was returned without opposition. What
was then the state of affairs? You had a Tory Ministry
who asked you to believe them to be a reforming Ali-

nI try 111:1011 credit ; you would not do so, and they were
4r114.d out. Now, can any set of men have shown
gr,'ster abhorrence of reform than they have done
iiucr ? nave they not opposed every measure which
human itv,•,ex,uity could devise ? I may say that the ma-
jority of the measures were of that character which has
even induced the friends of the Government to blame
them for their moderation ; moderate as they were, they
excited the utmost indignation and the warmest oppo-
sition from their Tory opponents." In his concluding
s 1; arks he thus alluded to his acceptance of office :
Although I felt it right to accept office, although I
cool,; ,not hale refused to do so without discredit to my-
self, I giv you my honour that I would much rather be
out of oftict than in. Office to me brings no emolu
meats ; it br:rigs a great increase of labour, no in.
e• um of emolument, and great responsibility. I
have, therefore, not accepted it from selfish motives.
Sometimes a man ,:ands in a peculiar situation, in which
he cannot go forward without regret, and cannot go
backward without dishonour. I have felt myself in that
'itnation. I have been placed in circumstances in which,
a, I before said, I could not have refused to accept office
witt, out dishonour to myself ; and I may say—and I
keow .t Agree with you in sentiment when I say so—that
I isnot dishonour myself without dishonouring Newark,
with whic!P J am so intimately connected."
The Hon': And Learned Gentleman left for Mon-
mouth this atierooen, and is to return at as early a
period as possible.. Mr. Thesiger is expected to leave
shortly.

ANTI-CORN-LAW DINNER.—The demand
f tic)wata to the dinncr -en the 18th January has been
so ;great, that, notwithskim:ing the enlarged accommo-
datiQn provided in the pay ;11.0n, the Council have not
only been compelled to cease .'applying tickets, lest they
encroach too far cn those reserved for invited guests,
delegases, and other friends frt. 'ln distant plsces, but
have been obliged to decline rec Living even the names
of applicants for the chance of futu.'t2 preference. Three
thousand tickets have been actually ,sold, leaving only
four hundred for the members, del'egates, and other
friends wlso have yet to apply. The oillery, which will
be appropriated for the ladies, will seat ,about 600 ; and
already gentlemen, disappointed of seatg.at the dinner,
are applying to have their names entered in; the chance
cf tickets to the gallery. Tickets are now ending ready
purchasers in the town at five shillings premium. We
have in former numbens given the names of fourteen
Menihers of the House of Commons who have accepted
the invitation to be present. To these we have now to
add, Thomas Gishorne, Esq. (..Carlow borough) ; Gene-
Yal Sir de Lacy Evans (Westmioster) ; Robert Hol-
land, Esq. (Hastings) ; James Stewart, Esq., (Honi-
ttn) ; William Ewart, Esq. (Wigan) ; Joseph Brother-
tan, Esq, (Salford) ; and N. A. 17,.;0r5, Esq. (Car-
low county.) We understand that 11-. Bowring has
also accepted the invitation to be present.-
DEPARTURE OF THE METROPOLITAN Po-
LICE FOR WALES.—On Saturday twenty constables of
the A division of the Metropolitan Police left town,
under the superintendence of Sergeant Chalk, for Mon-
mouth. The object of sending this body of the police
is to preserve order in the Court and the approaches
ereto on the days cf the trial of Frost and his confe-
!rates for high treason, sedition, &c.
RISTOL S UG A R-MA RKET.—We have nothing
week to report, the holidays having occasioned a
,ension of business.—Brtslol Mercury.

LONDON :
MONDAY, DRCEMEER 30, Js39•

We have great pleasure in directing the at-
tention of our readers to the Papal Bull for
the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which ap-
pears in another column. Our Tory Contem-
poraries will, of course, be infuriated to find
the Head of the Catholic Church in advance of
our English Hierarchy in advocating the rights of
the coloured rase, and doubtless discover that the
Bull itself is an equivalent offered to Great Britain
for the marriage of the QUEEN with a Papist.
We seriously recommend the Standard, the Post,
and the Herald to looi about them in time. As
for the Times it is already in league with the Pro-
paganda Society at Rome, and only awaits the ad-
mission of Bishop PRILPOTTS to the College of
Cardinals, to substitute for the Lion and Unicorn
the Triple Crown and Keys.

There is no end to the tergiversation of the To-
ries. They are ready to forego any principle, and
give up any opinion for the sake of office. To re-
tain power they knocked Protestant ascendancy on
the head, and to get back power they have for the
last three years been labouring to bring it again
to life. They now find that the monster cannot
be resuscitated—that the galvanic batteries of the
/11PNEILES, M`GLIEESI, and O'SULLivArrs
have only thrown it into hideous contortions, re-
sembling those of the operators, which terrify, not
invite; and they now declare that they never meant
to resuscitate it. Those voluntary operators merely
chose to exhibit their wonderful and scientific skill.
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Journals loudly declare that
he never wished to revive the sleeping mischevious
spirit, and reinvest it with all the lineaments and
powers of life. At the failure we are less
surprised, than at the lying audacity of the
Tories. Such a rabble of O's and Mac's,
are the genuine representatives of the wild Irish
papists, and their very names make them objects of
suspicion to English Protestants. The Tories,
willing to believe, insinuated that their operatic
skill was real inspiration, and they only disclaim
the object professed by their agent when the hideous
monster terrifies themselves. That they should first
destroy Protestant ascendancy, then try to revive it,
and, failing, deny that they ever made the attempt
or wished to make it, is strictly in accordance with
Tory astuteness and Tory dishonesty.
Up to the present moment the Tories have been
identified with the starvation laws. No person has
defended them more vigorously than Sir ROBERT
PEEL. He was guilty of most disgraceful special
pleading. much more worthy of a Nisi Prius or Old
Bailey lawyer than a statesman, to make out a case
for them last session. He headed the opposition
to the repeal ; and all his influence and power were
exerted -nn the side of the landed interest, with
which his own fortunes are now incorporated.
Now we have some reason to suppose that the
Right Honourable Baronet is preparing to veer
round on this point, and we shall state why.
His former conduct will prepare the world for any
change that may help him into power.
A few months before he brought forward his
measure for murdering Protestant ascendancy, he
professed a strong determination to resist the Ca-
tholics to the last gasp. At that time his relative
and man-of-all-work, the Right Hon. GEOROB
DAWSON, was equally violent against the Catho-
lics ; but just before the meeting of Parliament of
1829, the said Mr. DAwsoN sounded, for his dear
brother-in-law, the note of change at Londonderry,
and professed himself a convert to the necessity of
removing the restrictions on the Catholics. Since
then the Right Hon. Go-before has relapsed, like the
Baronet, into his original heresy, and was as vigor-
ously bawling'' No Popery" at DevQnport,in Novem-
ber as Mr. M'GHER himself. In the last speech he
made there,however, which has fallen under our notice,
contained in the West of England Conservative
Journal of the 25th instant, the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman, like his retiring relative, speaks as softly of
the Papists as if he were asking their votes. He
trusted, he said, to the good sense of the people
that they would support a religion which had been a
source of happiness to them and the safeguard of
their liberties. Why, we could say as much ourselves'
and such is now, generally, the courtly language
which the PEELITES, frightened by their own
FRANKENSTEIN, are generally beginning to use.
In these remarks we have closely identified the po-
licy of the two relatives, Mr. DAWSON being
shoved before, having no lack of assurance to pre-
pare the public for the opinions the other is to
profess.
Mr. DAwsoN, then, we have to announce, has
become a convert to the necessity of revising the
Corn-laws. According to the Journal above quoted,
he said :

" He had gone into houses where he had seen swarms
of children, and the mother had anxiously asked him

how she could feed them, that the father toiled from
morning till night but could iiot sufficieia,y y their
wants. He had found this in a great many instances,
and if he had any previous indisposition to the modifica-
tion of the Corn-laws, such a state of feeling would
remove it. Why it would be useless for him to attempt
to contest the borough under such a state of things.
* * * * He would go into Parliament with a
desire to modify the Corn-laws in such a manner, that
the objects he had named should be compassed ; and
let him add, that be considered a population, such as
that of this borough, were best entitled to demand some
modification of these laws. When he was in Parlia-
ment he supported the Corn-laws, but be did not re-
gard them either as Magna Charts, or the Bill of
Rights ; these were the foundations of the laws, and
were consequently immutable ; but he conceived that
if it were found that after ten years' operation, the Corn-
laws acted oppressively or inefficiently, then he should
say they were open to modification or even repeal."

The Right Hon. Go-before here distinctly de-
clares, in consistency with the conduct of the Right
Hon. Gentleman who shoves him on, that he is
ready to sacrifice the Corn-law for which he voted.
to get power. Sir R. PEEL is well aware that, let
him do what he will, the bulk of the landlords will
cling to him as the great man for conserving those
abuses which are the breath of their nostrils. They
know that their only chance of preventing the total
abolition of the Corn-laws would be to consent to a
modification of them if proposed by PEEL., and he
would know that by making such a proposition he
would disarm the hostility of the manufacturers if he
did not bring them over to his side. Thus from Mr.
DAWSON'S conduct we are inclined to believe that
Sir ROBERT PEEL is preparing to bid for popular
support by volunteering to revise the Corn•laws.
Let the Ministers be on their guard, or the cunning
fox will out-bid them.

We know this conduct is grossly dishonest, speak-
ng politically ; for that very reason we readily be-
lieve it of a Tory. The man who, for a mere
party purpose, kept the Devil's laws in existence
one session, knowing them to be injurious,
is more worthy to be hanged than half the
felons who expiate their crimes at the gal-
lows. But the Tories have always sacrificed the
national welfare to the lowest, most despicable, and
most paltry party motives ; and, therefore, we be-
lieve that Sir ROBERT PEEL is ready to revise the
Corn-laws, though he took a different course last
session, should that now serve his party purpose.
The honest men of Devonport, however, and the
honest women, whose sufferings, with those of their
children, have converted Mr. DAWSON, will never
place any confidence in a man who so basely avows
apostacy from a desire to gain votes. The electors
of Devonport will reject this thrice a turn-coat, and,
by rejecting him, convince Sir ROBERT PEEL that
the tergiversation, and the brutal policy of the To-
ries have deservedly brought on him and them the
scorn of all honest men. Men of Devenport ! read
the deceitful lying Tories a great moral lesson, by
rejecting the old apostate who has newly again
apostatised. He deceived his own countrymen and
he will sell you.

A large portion of the Press of this country, that
section, namely, which is supported by the " mini-
sters of peace," by those who have long boasted of
their loyalty to the throne, and by a considerable
number of the most ignorant and most bigotted of
our population, has succeeded in reviving those
fatal religious antipathies that have so often de-
luged Ireland with blood. Ever since the first ar-
rival of Lord Normanby in that country, and the
disgraceful defeat of that Government that patro-
nised Lord RODEN and the wild Orangemen of the
north, incessant attacks have been made on the
religion of the Irish—the grossest and most insult-
ing falsehoods have been uttered, day after day,
against the whole nation—their clergy have been
denounced as ruffians and demons—and the idol of
his countryman, O'CONNELL, has been stigma-
tised by every vile and degrading epithet that foul-
mouthed slander could invent, and all these abomi-
nations, too, committed, in the sacred name of reli-
gion. The heart sickens at the atrocity of those
monsters who incite two brave nations to embrue their
hands in each other's blood, not for the sake of good
government, or destroying the Catholic faith, which
they know is impossible, or for increasing the politi-
cal influence and the physical power of the United
Kingdom, which they know they weaken, but
solely for the wicked purpose of profiting by civil
discord, and by placing in dire hostility the worst
and most ungovernable passions of the human mind.
The sober-minded and virtuous Tories would do
well to look to the fearful crisis which their violent
and unprincipled leaders have been long striving to
create in this hitherto peaceful kingdom. The con-
fidence which the Irish nation, insulted and goaded
on as it has been to outrage, justly places in the
good intentions of their Sovereign and her Minis-
ters, alone prevents the outbreak of civil war. And
in what a condition is this country to meet such a
danger ? The same Press that libels the Queen
and eight millions of her faithful subjects, that
cheers on the M'GHEES and the O'SuLLIvA Ns
in their insults on their countrymen, and the
OASTLERs and STEPHENSES in arraying the
poorer classes against the law, has succeeded also,
by the same wicked means and for the same object,
in destroying mutual good will between England
and France, and creating a disposition in
both nations to take fire at every imaginary
insult ; the country is oppressed with debt—
and more than one half of the army belongs to
the nation, now so loyal, yet so grievously insulted.
A little more insult might drive them in despair to
join the Chartists, or the French, or any political
sect or foreign people that could assist them in sub-
duing a class that hates them with inextinguishable
hatred, and that would again reduce a high-spirited
people to the debased, condition of " hewers of
wood and drawers of water." It is fearful to look,
even in imagination, to the awful fire which some
unforseen accident may kindle ; and who are the
men that are now combined in a wicked conspiracy
to lay the train ? The enemies of eight millions of
people—the madmen who as it were, in short,
" cast firebrands, arrows, and death." The great
leader of these eight millions, however, is prepared
for the worst, and his countrymen will not be slack
to follow him. Let his words sink deep into the
heart of every friend of peace ; he uses a threat,
but it is a threat in which all but slaves and tyrants
will join
"lam a man of peace, approaching old age—l have
my children grown up men and women, and grand-
children to the number of more than twenty. I have
always declared that not one drop of blood should be
shed in the assertion of our liberties. I have struggled
through many contests firmly fixed in this- resolution ;
but I tell you what it is, Irishmen, that I for one am
now determined to die in the field rather than submit
to Tory domination.—(Loud cheering.)"

The Hon. Member for Greenock, Mr. WAL-
LACE, having, in conjunction with Mr. ROWLAND
HILL, effected the most signal reform in the Post-
office of the United Kingdom that was ever before
attempted in this department of the public service,
and thus merited for himself the gratitude of his
country, is now directing his energies to the im-
provement of prison discipline in Scotland. Mr.
WALLACE is already well known as a veteran
labourer in the brambly, uncleared field of
Scotch Law Reform ; and what he pro-
poses more immediately to accomplish will be
found in certain Resolutions addressed by him
to the Paisley and Glasgow newspapers, which
are inserted in another part of The Sun.
Having nothing more at heart than the im-
provement of the moral, physical, and social
condition of our fellow countrymen on both sides
of the Tweed, and believing that the reforms in the

letter and the administration of the law sought by
Mr. WALLACE, would greatly conduce to such
mprovement, we trust his labours will meet with