The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-20 00:00:00

ciples by too great a reliance on the superior numbers
of the Liberal party. What is the use of numbers if they
do not come forward to record their votes and assert
aieir principles ? Will it be any consolation to find,
When the constituency of London have by their care-
lessness allowed a Tory to smuggle himself into the
representation, that there was an overwhelming majo-
rity of Liberals on the register ? What a bitter satire
would this be on the electors I What a subject of ridi-
cule to their enemies ! What a source of mortification
to themselves ! No man must absent himself from
the polling-booth under the plea of his vote not
being wanted, and say to himself, " There is enough
to do the business without me." It is the bounden
duty of every sincere supporter of a cause to exert
himself in its defence when it is in jeopardy, and no
man has a right to expect from his neighbour greater
exertions than he is willing to make himself. Let it
be remembered, too, that in this election there will be
no possibility of making amends for inadvertency or
remissness. On former occasions the deficiencies of
the first day were remedied on the second ; note, THE
ELECTION LASTS ONLY ONE DAY, and " as the
tree falleth, so must it lie." The whole time that is
now allowed for taking the poll .is from eight o'clock
in the morning to four in the afternoon. We therefore
implore the electors to go to the poll early, and to
act, when there, as if each felt that on his vote de-
pended the fate of the realm.

The Tories of Oxford seem to be driven to great
extremity in the support of that apostate Mr. HUGHES,
whom they are trying to palm upon the electors of
that city. They pretended the other clay to be very
anxious that Mr. HUGHES should give a full
explanation of his conduct to the constituency, and
particularly to the friends of Mr. ERLE, the Liberal
candidate. But, lo and behold when Mr. HUGHES
had been patiently heard through a long and cau-
tiously-prepared speech, and when " the questions"
were about to be put to him, his friends set
up such a clamour that the gentleman—much to
his regret no doubt—was not able to make him-
self heard,. and therefore withdrew from the meeting
without satisfying a single Liberal that he was
anything but a Tory of the very worst stamp—a
renegade Liberal. As a matter of course the blame
of the proceeding is laid upon the Reformers. That
was in fact the object of the parties who proposed the

meeting.

It is gratifying to find that the courage of the To-
ries is cooling very rapidly. The country was told a
little while ago by the organs of the faction, that
there was to be a Tory opposition started in every
place where a Reforming candidate was to be found,
and sure enough a great number of addresses ap-
peared in the Tory newspapers, which answered the
purpose of bringing a little grist to these party mills.
Rut what has'become of the addressers ? Sir E. D.
SCOTT has retired from Lichfield ; the Hon. E. LAS-
CELLES from Northallerton, Mr. DUMMY BALFOUR
from Orkney and Shetland; a meditat onefugce warrant
has, we believe, been issued against Sir JAMES
GRAIIASI, and a great many more are on the wing ! ! !

The Tory gentlemen in Scotland, backed by the
Tory cler.;i y, have for some time been making every
exertion to stir up the religious feelings of the people
against the .Government, with a view to influence the
elections. England, they know, and they know also
by what means, returned more Tories than Whigs to
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Parliament, and, had Scotland
acted with the same spirit, their party, they say, would
again have been triumphant, and the Protestant Church
secured against the machinations of O'CONNELL and
the Popish priests. Now, though some sincere and
weak-minded men may be led away by such assertions,
and some effect may be produced on the old evang,e-
heal and hitherto Whig party, by the vagaries of Dr.
CHALMERS, yet we arc convinced the number is very
small, for the great body of the people have too
strong a sense of gratitude and justice to turn
against men who have been the greatest benefactors to
Scotland, both in a political and a religious point of
view. None of the three kingdoms owes half so much
to the Whigs as Scotland. When they came into
power that country was not at all represented—it was,
in fact, completely at the mercy of the Tories, and the
DUNDAS party could as certainly return three-fourths
of the representatives, without the consent of the
people, as the Marquis of HERTFORD, or Lord
MoNsoN, could return Members for Aldborough or
Gatton. But what, perhaps, was of more immediate
interest to the great body of the people, the burghs
were in the same wretched state. A few in-
dividuals monopolized the whole government of
towns and burghs, scarcely one of which is
not now overwhelmed with debt—they returned
Members at the nod of the Government, and
in return received appointments for their sons or
brothers—and were allowed to carry on a system of
jobbing and robbery to enrich themselves at the expense
of their fellow-citizens. To a religious people like
the Scotch the changes, however, wrought by the Whig
Governments in the representative system and in their
municipal institutions, are trifles compared with the
vast alteration made in the appointment of their pas-
tors. Till the boroughs were reformed the people,
with the exception of half a dozen parishes, had no
voice in the choice of their Ministers—many were
forced upon them—dissent was consequently increased,
and the security of the Established Church endan-
gered. Now, neither King, Ministry, nor private
patron can appoint a Clergyman to a living against the
will of the majority ; and the result has been increased
harmony between the pastor and his flock—the ad-
vancement of true religion, and additional security to
the Church. Yet the Tories hold up the men who
have done so much for Scotland as the enemies of the
people, and of the Presbyterian religion ! Can the
Scotch people hesitate between the two parties withou
the basest ingratitude ?

russia has not lust a moment in denying all parti-
cipation in the CUMBERLAND revocation of the Con-
stitution of Hanover. King ERNEST AUGUSTUS
and his advisers, the Tory Peers of England, are, by
implication, denounced by the Court of Berlin, as only
responsible for the consequences that may follow the
perpetration of such an act of unmitigated despo-
tism. This fact is authenticated by the extracts from
the German Papers, which we have given in
another part of The Sun. Of the light in which the
French Press views the Proclamation of the KING
at Hanover, a tolerably correct idea may be formed
from the perusal of an article headed " An English
Tory, KING of Hanover," which we have copied
from a Paris paper of Monday. We recommend it to
the especial notice of the Electoral body throughout
Great Britain and Ireland. No view of this question
could be more correct—none better adapted to promote
the triumph of just and liberal principles throughout
Europe.

By the packet ships, the South America and the
Garrick, which arrived at Liverpool yesterday, we
have received New York papers to the Ist inst. inclu-
sive. The Garrick has brought specie to the amount
of 20,0001. to meet the demands on the Liverpool
anasd LalosondoconnAsigmnemri:hartis houses.
s. The South America
amount was not ascertained of
when the board,heexre butssstarttehde
from Liverpool. In the United States money market
we regret to learn there has been very little improve-
ment since the date of the last arrivals. The hioh
prices offered for specie had the effect of unlocking