The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-04 00:00:00

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.3, r emlit tire than they other vise theemed of, we shall
„le perfectly satisficd.--Mr» ning Advediser.
From the activity which prevails in Middlesex with
respect to securing proper representatives of the con-
- eevative interest of the county, we feel no doubt that
';its present members will not continue to represent it in
-,arliament. With regard to one of those members
.- (Mr. Home), we believe, that but one opinion prevails
smong the respectable classes of the metropolitan county.
['here is not a shadow of reasonableness in Mts. flume
I:ieing the representative of a county inhabited by the
• first gentry in the kingdom. [bore is no fitness or
'propriety in allowing such a man to continue the repre-
sentative of interests which, through political bigotry,
l' or want of knowledge of the teal wealth of the country,
he does all in his power to injure. No county is, for
its extent, more decisky interested than Middlesex in the
iprotection and encouragement of landed property and
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, 'igricultural pursuits. How it happens that Mr. Hume
- should be selected to sit in parliament for a constitu-
'- ency having such interests as those of Middlesex it should
' iaot be easy to say, without passing rather a severe
'udginent upon the electors. We suspect the truth to
lie that for some years the election has been decided by
, the votes more of those living in the suburbs of Lon-
don, than in the grazing and agricultural districts of
Middlesex. This is not consistent. with representative
• justice. The Reform Biil having provided a number
of metropolitan districts for constituting the represen-
tation of London, with reference to its model n exten-
t' siveress, the representation of the county of Middle-
', sex, ought to be exclusively a country affair, and the
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re "habitants of the streets of London ought (merely as
such) to have nothing to do with it. It is impossible,
sowever, to undo that which the technicalities of the
aw have done, and, since so great a number of the
votes for Middlesex arise out of the streets in the su-
ourbs of London, they who live in the country must
be the more on the alert to do everything which the
iaw allows to give the really country parts of Middlesex
i fair influence in the choice of its Members. We be-
ieve that, through the exertions of the Society which
1,,- 'vas charge of the Conservative electioneering interests
it- n the county, this alertness has of late been brought
• :o bear in an important degree, and it has been copse-
S: luently deemed advisable not only to strive for one
'Conservative Member, but to endeavour to seat two for
the metropolitan county. There are undoubtedly many
reasons which apply to Mr. Hume, and enforce his
ejection from the county seat, which do not apply to
• his colleague. Opposed as we are to Mr. Byng 's poli-
ss
.1;4 tics, we admit that, as a country gentleman, he is in
,all respects entitled to represent Middlesex ; but he
~' has, by coalescing with Mr. Hume, degraded his own
:ts pretensions to the level of that gentleman's unfitness,
c., and made it expedient that both should be attacked by
the shine adverse interest. In addition to this it must
be observed, that Mr. Byng gives his utmost aid to an
administration which certainly does nothing for the
'• landed interest. Closely connected, and ever identi-
fied, as that interest is, with the leading and most
permanent public institutions, and especially with the
- Church Establishment, it becomes the duty of all
who really wish well to the owners and occupiers of
Land to keep out of Parliament those who support the
present Administration. It is not to be supposed
.that Mr. Byng, or the other Proprietors, who
give their support to Ministers at present, can think
I with us that the interest of landholders is put in great
danger by the proceedings which Government are
obliged to countenance ; but it may be, nevertheless,
:.hat without thinking it, they are doing the very worst
,hey can for the permanency of their own property.
ss We cannot understand how a person of political ex-
, perience can see the Government proposing and sup-
! porting a scheme for taking the property of Ecclesias-
tical landowners out of their hands, and giving them a
• certain fixed amount of profit annually in lieu thereof.
, We cannot see how any landed proprietor can look on
s at this, and not reflect that, if such a proposition were
'' made law, his own turn might, and probably would, come
next. But, whatever may be ;aid against the policy of
leaving Mr. Byng in the representation of Middlesex,
that, and ten times more, may be said against Mr.
::. Hu.i e. Nothing short of the utmost amount of po-
litical folly, or determined devotedness to democracy,
at any expense, can excuse a country voter who gives
S. his voice for Mr. Hume. In addition to other rea-
s sons, we may, we believe, state with great confidence
that whoever votes for Mr. Hume in the coming con-
i',: test will be on the losing side. Since writing the
::Above we have seen with great pleasure that the elec-
tors are bestirring themselves, and that steps have been
taken to eject both Mr. Hume and Mr. Byng from
~, the representation of the county. We allude to the
it'. meeting, which was held last evening at the Freema-
V son's Hall, where two new candidates, of staunch
Freema-
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Conservative principles, Thomas Wood, jug., Esq.,
and Henry Pownall, Esq., were proposed and accepted
by a respectable body of electors. We rejoice to find
that Middlesex is at length awaking from its slum-
her, and about to assert those constitutional prin-
tl: ciples which are known to actuate the majority of the
''-: electors in that populous and wealthy county. But
`,.. with every disposition to augur well from so good a
.:. beginning, we must not conceal from ourselves that
. there are active enemies in the field, and that it will
require all the zeal amid all the vigilance of the well-
intentioned to counteract the restless perseverance of
.Ithose whose intentions are of another colour, or rather
Itsof any colour that will serve their present purposes.
I'''''lle men who take for their motto the convenient
';dogma that black is white, will require sometping more
':'than mere argument to
convince them that black and
-white are distinguishable characteristics. Let the
;'electors remember this. " Now or never" should be
their watchword. If they determine to do theiduty
the victory is secure.
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If they neglect it defeat, humi-
liation, and disgrace will be their' portion.—Morni sr ;7
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' Herald.
We continue to receive from every part of the eosin-
' 'try the most gratifying information as to the efforts
11which the friends of the Constitution arc making, and
aa to the success by which these seasonable and pa-
...s'ti iotic efforts seem likely to be crowned at the ap-
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Oproaching elections. That the exertions of the Con-
servatives of Great Britain are fully commensurate
1 with the importance of the occasion is 'more, perhaps,
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:r. tnan we can yet assert ; but they are at once vigorous
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'and diffused, concentrated and comprehensive ; and,
f,tiwhat is still better, they are acquiring fresh vigour,
Pand embracing new spheres of action, every day.
."- There are vet some seats, although they are but few,
lYto contest which we have not hoard of any Con-
'-e..,rvative candidates being in the Chid. While there
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"',i'is one such seat we shall not admit that all is done
it
'Awhich the crisis requires, or which the state of the
'7 public mind would fully warrant. The point to be
-Idetermined by the approaching election is whether,
' •Admiring the earlier years of the reign of our youthful
•"!Qiicen, the years which will in all probability deter-
,' inine the general character of a long and eventful
1 '`reign, her throne shall be surrounded, and her coun-
cils swayed, by the friends or the enemies of the
r.Constitution ; whether Englishmen shall be really
and truly her subjects and she their Sovereign, or
.*both alike shall be the slaves and victims of an inso-
lent, overbearing, anti-British, and anti-Protestant
tyranny. The alternative is simple and clear. The
.s'choice nose offered to the British people is free from
„seal! ambiguity ; and we trust they will reflect seriously
that the determination they may now adopt will, in all
I,,•''probability, be final and irrevocable. Will they protect
the Monarch and support the Monarchy ? Or will
"they abandon both to the care of those who, either
-Ifrom their principles or their position, must of nieces-
"'- shy be the enemies of both ? Will they live under
'the sceptre of Queen Victoria, the loyal, peaceful, and
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flourishing subjects of a constitutional Sovereign ?
0r do they prefer to condemn their Queens and them-
9selves to the arbitrary and unlimited dominion of
-,a disloyal and disorganizing faction ? When such
are the questions which the country is distinctly
4called upon to answer, not by words, but by facts
!and circumstances, of which the import is as little
subject to misconstruction, and as little capable
'of doubt, as the cleanest words, it would be in-
.J. . and offensive to time Queen, and to the UMOUS
s,community over which it is her constitutional right
..and duty to bear sway, to hesitate about the reply.
Yet wherever the battle is languidly, or feebly, or im-
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.'perfectly fought at the next election, these questions
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1 "isnitliar ect, have ieeeived an equivocal or a hes!.
. y ; as, wherever a Whig-Radical candidate
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;sfertisteals to assmne an nneantested seat in the
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