The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-20 00:00:00

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LONDON :
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1837.

The meeting of Parliament is now at hand, and it
becomes the Reformers to prepare themselves for se-
conding the efforts of their friends in the House of
Commons by energetic measures out of doors. The
enemies of public liberty have gained advantages at
the late election, of which, we may be assured, they
will not fail to make the most. A numerical ad-
dition to the anti-reform party in Parliament, though
obtained by the foulest means, will be em-
ployed as an additional argument for resist-
ing those improvements against which that party '
have so doggedly set their faces. There never,
therefore, was a time when any thing like apathy on
the part of the people was more calculated to injure
the popular cause. It would to a certainty be con-
strued into an acquiescence in that happy dispensation
which the Tories say they have in store for us—which
they boast is so near—and under which is to be esta-
blished the undisputed reign of bribery, intimidation,
coercion, perjury, and other influences of an equally
pure and virtuous character. If the people love
these things, let them be silent, and they will soon
have them to their heart's content ; if they detest
them, and really wish to see public morality fixed on
the pedestal of public liberty, its only safe foundation,
now is the time for them to speak out.
There are grievances enough, GOD knows, to afford
scope for the most unbounded agitation. The field is
ample. Abuses or defects swarm in every corner.
The state ecclesiastical, as at present constituted, is one
vast nuisance, which must be abated before we are
entitled to say that we are governed on rational prin-
ciples. Whether we regard the spiritual or the secular
imperiton which it so proudly maintains, as it were
to show the strength and durability of the chains in
which pricstcraft could bind the mind of man, it is
totally at variance with the spirit of the present age,
and an opprobrium to the civilisation of an intelligent
nation.

Among our civil institutions, although the marks
barbarism are not so striking, there is not one of whicl
it can be said that it has kept pace with the march o
mind, cr is in unison with the feelings and opinions o
the masscY. If, therefore, there be any difficult\
in selecting subjects for popular agitation, i

arises from the overflowing abundance of abuses to bc
reformed, and grievances to be redressed. There is,
however, one subject which takes precedence of all
the rest—one Reform so pre-eminently important,
that it must be the first claimed from the Le-
gislature, as it is the uppermost in the
thoughts of all men. Need we say that we
mean TIIG BALLOT ? It has—thanks to the un-
principled conduct of the Tories—been proved beyond
the poss:bility of cavil that, without the Ballot, cur
liberties rest upon a foundation of sand. The man
who pretends to say, after the experience of the late
election—to say nothing of former ones—that there is
any other effectual barrier against the inroads of undue
influence, is either a fool or a knave. Let the people,
then, with. one voice petition for the Ballot. Let
them, in the first instance, form themselves into Ballot
Associations every where throughout the country.
It is only by such means—by general co-operation,
and the manifestation of general and strong feeling, that
a public measure of such importance can ever be suc-
cessfully advocated. We are happy to find that the
people are beginning to see the necessity of this course.
Such Associations as we recommend are starting up in
various places. We have now before us a petition to
Parliament from the Cirencester Ballot Union, toge-
ther with the declaration of the Members, to which
we shall take another opportunity of calling public
attention.

In our columns of this clay will be found a report of
the proceedings at a public dinner, given by the stanch
Reformers of Ashton-under-Line, to their excellent
representative Mr. HINDLEY. Few Members of the
late House of Commons have better merited such a
mark of popular respect. Mr. HINDLEY discharged
his duty to his constituents with a fidelity and a zeal
which well entitle him to a continuation of their confi-
dence ; and though upon some questions our opi-
nions differ greatly from those which he supported by
his votes in Parliament, yet most readily do we ac-
knowledge that the Reform cause cannot boast of a
more truly honest advocate. His hostility to the Poor-
law Amendment Bill we know to be attributable solely
to a mistaken idea that it will operate to the injury of
the working classes. In this respect he differs from
a majority of the opponents of that great measure of
social reform, who are influenced by no charitable re-
gard for the sufferings of the poor—but merely by a
wish to embarrass the Government, by destroying the
confidence which the working classes repose in its good
intentions. Experience of the working of the new
law is therefore all that is required to make Mr.
HINDLEY one of its most valuable supporters. The
active part taken by Mr. HINDLEY in endeavouring
to promote the legislative protection of the poor factory
children reflects the highest credit upon his humanity,
and will long be remembered by those who supported
Lord ASHLEY'S Bill for effecting that object.

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i6Evy We are glad to find, that in declaring himself
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-,r, e of " measures, not men," Mr. HINDLEY
oe ~-, ...1 into the Tory-Radical error of supposing
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