The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-09 00:00:00

not a sulky, solitary individual, here and there, that
enables a shopkeeper in any sensible degree to main-
tain his family by the profit accruing on the sale of
any description of articles to that single party. The
class which affords the greatest number of buyers is
the class which naturally exercises the most effective
influence over the free will of vendors. It would
seem to follow, therefore, from such premises, that a
large body of Irish purchasers were violent Tories, or
assuredly their influence would not be employed in
depriving Ministerial partisans of the tradesmen's votes.
But not so ; the champion of the Rump could not
afford to leave the question as he himself had stated it.
He turns to once more, and propounds new matter,
thus—The middle " classes of Ireland, to a man, are
with the Government. The Liberal aristocracy, pos-
sessing a vast preponderance of the wealth of Ireland,
is with the Government. The substantial house-
holders are with it. The representatives of the peo-
ple, in a majority of three to one, are with it. It is,
emphatically, the Government of the people, and wo
to the faction that would dare to usurp its place."
If then, as we are now informed, the middle classes,
the preponderance of the wealth of Ireland—the sub-
stantial householders of Ireland—and the people of
Ireland, be one and all with the Government—how
in the name of wonder, or by whom, have the trades-
men been frightened into voting against the Govern-
ment ?' If all the world be with O'Connell—all the
customers, or the bulk of them, must, on the face of
it, be in favour of the O'Connell candidates ; and the
talk about tradesmen voting through intimidation
against their own wishes,. after it has been proved so
satisfactorily that there were none to intimidate them,
amounts to a figure of speech extremely well known
in the Liberal dialect, and familiarly termed " fudge."
We speak our own firm and conscientious belief,
that disclosures will be laid before the public of a
nature the most frightful to every reflecting man in
England, and the most disgustin2- to every civilized
and honest mind, with regard to the means by which
many returns of Irish Ministerial members were
brought about at the last election. We believe that a
course of intimidation against voters was carried on
systematically and eminently by the Romish priest.
hood—the most corrupt, the most merciless, the most
blasphemons and flagitious, that ever was practised at
any time, or in any country—by which human laws
were trampled on, the divine law violated, men's poli-
tical opinions, principles, and rights all sacrificed by
and for the Ministers of an arbitrary despotism, whose
prime agent was a brutal superstitution, who threat-
ened persecution to the living and perdition to the
dying, wheresoever they mat with a shadow of repug-
nance towards their fien2e- and immoral mandates. It
is cur entire convictioa that, should the sums now
tn-oposed to be contributed throughout Great Britain
for obtainin, justice en behalf of the oppressed and
misrepresented Protestant people and loyal Roman Ca-
tholics in Ireland—should those sums not fall far short
of what may he requisite for that patriotic purpose, the
came of treason and fin:d revolution there will suffer
an irrevocable downfall. The loyal community of the
empire nay assure themselves that adequate funds are
the one Ming requilecl—that efficient measures, under
the ablest and most resonte counsels. are in steady
progress, and will be actively and skilfully "carried
out," for the punishment of guilt, where guilt
been substantially perpetrated, and for the restoration
of those citizens who were really the people's choice to
seats in Parliament, from which a fraudulent and scan-
dalous iurpation of their rights and ours does at thi,i
moment (but only for this moment) exclude them.—
Times.

With much gratification we direct attention to the
very interesting and important speeches' which were
made at a Dinner given in Doncaster, to celebrate the
'clectien of Lord Morpeth and Sir George Strickland
for the West Riding of Yorkshire. In stating that
the proceedings at the festival were worthy of the glo-
rious triumph which it was intended to record, we at
once sopereede the necessity of further compliment. In
rank, wealth, respectability; intelligence, and nu►n-
bere, the assembly was fully commensurate with what
might he expected on such an occasion in one of the
greatest electoral communities in the British empire,
and cheering must it be to the friends of Reform at a
time when calumny is exhausted iu their vilification,
when the state of public feeling and of public necessi-
ties is so vilely misrepresented—cheering it must be
to every friend of good and just government to wit-
ness such an important manifestation. A most im-
pressive and withering commentary on the foul libels
daily disseminated by the factious press against Minis-
ters and their supporters, will be found ►n the excel-
lent address of the venerable and patriotic Earl Fitz-
william. Avoiding, with becoming dignity, direct
allusion to the slanders he repelled; the Noble Earl
most triumphantly vindicated the policy of the pre-
sent Government. The contrast between the present
Administration and its Tory predecessors in office
could not perhaps be better or more vividly pourtrayed
than when, in allusion to Lord Morpeth being called
by the favour, or rather by the approbation of the
Crown, to one of the most important offices of the
State, the noble speaker observed that whereas in
other times to hold office was considered incompatible
with the representation of any liberal constituency, at
present the confidence of the greatest constituency of
England was reposed in an individual filling at the
same time a most responsible department in the Go-
vernment. The Noble Earl's testimony on the Poor
Law Amendment Act, as well from his Lordship's
universally-attested benevolence and philanthropy as
from his extensive experience of the working of the
old and the amended system of Poor-laws, merits the
utmost attention and deference. This amended admi-
nistration of the Poor-laws his Lordship described
" as the most beneficial legislative enactment that
ever proceeded from the British Parliament." This
high—and we may add merited—eulogy was bestowed,
not in consequence of the diminution of the rates—a
paltry consideration in compariso❑ to mitigating the
sufferings of the distressed, and the least of the advan-
tages which have accrued from the amended law ; but in
consequence of that law having made the idle industrious,
and enabled those formerly pensioned on the parish to
maintain thernielves by their own honest and indepen-
dent exertions. Such evidence, from such unim-
peachable authority, should outweigh volumes of fac-
tious declamation, founded on isolated, exaggerated, or
fictitious cases of hardship. The speech of Mr.
Baines will also be read with deep interest. The
Tories will find but little subject of congratulation in
in his observations on the present and past state of the
representation of Yorkshire. In the last Parliament,
said Mr. Baines, Yorkshire returned ten Reformers
and eight Tories, in the present Parliament no less
than
.finuteen of its representatives are Reformers, and
but, four Tories. This, too, we suppose is " a Papist
majority," returned by the agency of " Priests and
Ribbonmen." When such evidence of the progress
of the " conspiracy" against all abuses in Church
and State is thus brought home to our doors ; when
not Ireland nor Scotland only, but England, where
the Tories make a false parade of their power, can
muster in one county such an overwhelming majority
in favour of just and liberal institutions, it is indeed
time for the Tories to put their house—we mean, of
course, the House of Lords—in order, otherwise, it
may be roughly handled by the rude mechanics whom
the nation may put to work upon its renovation or re-
construction.—Morning Advertiser.

The registration is, as far as we can learn, every
where proceeding greatly to the advantage of the Con-
servative cause. Of this we have both positive and
negative evidence—the one, in the fact that the Con-
servative ohjection3 succeed in the proportion of ten
to on:on^ over those of the Radicals—the other, in the

Almost total silence of t.:ie Whig-Radical provincial
journals upon the subject. Never was the old adage,
that " silence gives assent," more strictly realized than
upon this; occasion. We know too well the zeal and

assiduity employed upon the occasion, not to be well
convinced that had the result been different, we should
have heard of it readily enough. Indeed, we know of
instances where reporters w ere employed, who, having
il,thing favourable to repo rt, their labours were ren-
dered useless. But this is no more than we long since
foreboded and expected. Enough of the spirit of the
country was elicited during the late election to show
which way the tide was turning ; and it would be in-
deed a satire upon the character of Englishmen to
suppose that they can do otherwise than repudiate
and resent with disdain the farther attempt of a