The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-07 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITIC AL
SUMMARY.

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The Globe of last evening closes an article on the
Tory
.bribery at Cambridge with the following just ob-
servations :—" The efficacy of Sir R. Peel's new election
tribunal 'will b 2 tested immediately the next Session of
Parliament shall commence. if its constitution be
sound, and its decisions just, it will make terrible havoc
with Toryism ; and will soon compel the agents of the
party to affect a virtue, the very appearance of which
they have long since abandoned. No wonder that the
Ballot is resisted with such unanimity by the entire
Party. when fraud and force are found to work so advan-
tageously under the system of open voting!"
The Courier combats, in the following fashion, the
statements of the Tory Journals about the recent suc-
cess of Conservative candidates for seats in Parliament :
--" But after all the vaunts that are daily made of
successes obtained by the Tories, and of their gaining
/ ground in the country, it has been noticed as a remark-
able fact, that the net result of four-and-twenty con-
tested elections that have taken place since the
opening of the recent Session of Parliament, leaves
the gains and losses of the contending parties even.
The Patriot sets this clear by specifying the seve-
ral scenes of contest, observing, ' If North Devon
has chosen a Tory in the place of Lord Ebrington, and
Ayrshire Lord Kelburne in the room of Sir J. Dunlop,
Tories have been displaced at Ludlow and Carlow.
Then Sir George Grey, Dr. Lushington, Hon. W.
Cowper, the Lord Advocate, and Mr. Baring have
each vacated his seat and been re elected. Lei-
cester, Richmond, Sandwich, Wigan, Wycombe,
Totnes, Kircudbright, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth,
el"rael, and Leitrim County, have each elected
new Members of Liberal politics in the place of
Libe-
ria. Buckingham County, Aylesbury, Ipswich, Car-
County, have replaced Tories with Tories ; for
Mr. Gibson was elected as a Conservative, as Mr.
Kinnaird was a professed Whig. Where, then, are
we to find the proof that the Whigs are declining and
the Tories arc gaining ground ?' Our Contempo-
rary adds--that the apparent decline of the Li-
beral party has arisen chic-fly from the violence
or treachery of the ultra-Radicals, who, having
failed to enlist the masses in favour of their crude
schemes and sinister objects, have but alarmed the
moderate Reformers, and are now joining with the
Tories in throwing upon the Ministers the reproach of
the political weakness which they have themselves con-
spired to produce. The seeming decline is assuredly
attributable in part to the cause assigned ; but it arises
also in a great degree from such Tory arts as Cam-
bridge has just been disgraced with. How sickening is
It to hear any honest thinking man, in the guise of a
Reformer, talking after this of taking the Ballot into
consideration, or hoping that it may not be found neces-
-4 earl to resort to it !"
r, The Standard, as a matter of course, denies that the
iories of Cambridge so much as contemplated the bribery
of the electors. "The largeness of Mr. Manners Sot-
' ton's majority, " argues our Contemporary, "over his
°PPeoent proves that there could have been no neces-
, guy for bribing, had any such course been contemplated.
The whole story will, we are assured, turn out to be a
' weak invention of the enemy ;' the straw which the
drowning Me. Gibson laid hold of in his last
Paroxysm of despair ; and which, although it may
have indicated the direction of the current, has
not enabled him to keep his head above water. Mr.
Gibson is singularly unfortunate ; so much so indeed,
that he would be an object of pity, could that sentiment
and contempt co-exist in the human breast at the same
n'oelent. He has played the part of a renegade with-
out having as yet received the wages of his apostacy.
Having remained in the Conservative camp during
the greater part of the last Session, as a spy rather
than a comrade, he has twice run the gauntlet for deser-
tion, amid the jeers and laughter of the most respect-
able and intelligent constituents in the country. He
hits been buffeted from pillar to post like a football.
Nt.‘body will have him. The brand of apostacy is
start, ued upon his forehead in imperishable letters ; fit
obje4 he for Scorn
" To point her slow unmoving finger at."
What is to be done with him ? for he will, we presume,
brave no i eurther Parliamentary defeat, It is shrewdly
suggested by the Times, that he should be made Com-
mander of th al Forces in Canada, in order that he may
sympathise an d advise with Mr. Poulett Thomson. He
is certainly as Os for that as anything else."

The Times of this morning has an article on the disso-
lution of the Precursor Society, in which, as a matter of
course, Mr. O'Connell is lavishly abused :—" A public
man," says the Times, " especially if he happen to be a
very ambitious one, should abstain from affronting large
denominations of people. The benefits conferred on an
aggregate body are never recognised by the members of it
as foutding a title to personal gratitude ; but an indignity,
to the clan s is sure to rouse the resentment of each indivi-
dual. Mr, O'Connell has either failed to perceive this im-
portant princiPet or else, by the force of the wild current
tibia sweeps hlrn .along, be has been driven to pass it by.
In truth, the exe.-cise of any kind of discretion in his
Putlished letters, or in his orations to his Irish mobs,
would hardly be compotible with the situation he holds.
If he were not indiscrimi'aately virulent—nay, frantic, in
his abuse, be would be noti.s'ng. But these habitual ex-
cesses tell back upon the starnina at last. Each succes-
sive insult adds a new band of enemies, and the cloud
blackens as it gathers. But of all his libels, the most in-
judicious and unlucky for himself has been his attack on the
Weuleyans. Their numbers, their inteiligence, their reli-
gious earnestness, and their moral character, make their
position impregnable to the modern league of Popery and
Socinianism, of which he would fain be accounted the
leader."
[We would venture a bet that the Westleyans would
rather be traduced by Mr. O'Connell than have their virtues
trumpeted forth in the Times ]
The chronicle expresses the conviction that the hosti-
lity of the Irish people to the Tories, will for ever prevent
their return to power :—" Were the Tories in power, Sir
Robert Peel knows, that whatever his own inclinations
might be, he must mix himself up with those, will, as
being„. the oppressors of the Irish people, are neces-
'
''IY odious to them, and could only maintain their
teound by the most monstrous system of cruelty.
Arrovidence so orders matters in this world, that a
'eParture from humanity and justice reacts against
Ina Perpetrators, The Anglo- Irish aristocracy have
de themselves so thoroughly odious by their con-
.ol.tict_in Ireland that they are now the great obstacles to
i_lory aristocracy in England, with whom they are
o• AflltileEout.lay of the Carlton Club, all the inti-
midation
salt than embarrassing
squirearchy, produce no other re-
' oPPressed sling Government in England. Ireland,
who. as One
manlreland, with her seven millions of Catholics,
odfenteeest the Tories,
t their return to will for ever be a bar
l as of the horrible co- Some reckless a.dveehntthuereart,tecmarpt
mi ght be attended, miginiste:iudences wit h whi
Ireland ; but no man who
isn
in
neaeviorueur to
rivet the chains of
circumstances to allow him
tolmsitate, would wish to load his soul with the guilt of
driving a gallant people to despair."
Th.,: Morning Post insults the pauper population of Ire-
land by attributing the miseries entailed upon them by bad
government—by religious persecution—and by penal laws
to the reckless habits
produced by the tyranny of their op-
pressors:—" No honest and unprejudicsd man can look
Upon the pauper condition of the Irish without perceiving
that their poverty and wretchedness are in a very great
degree their own faults. They are the result of a diTo-
sition at once indolent and reckless. The thrifty Scotch,
if placed in the very same circumstances with these Irish,
would soon became comfortable, decent, and independent.
But the Irish win not help themselves—they will not work,
nor save, for the sake of being comfortable. They love
;setter to idle about, to squander upon drink the gains
hick chance throws in their way, and to destroy in riot
vile at they have in their sober moments no taste for re.
paising."
the Morning Herald adduces the following as Mr.
O'Connell's motives fur dissolving the Precursor Society :
O'Connell has dissolved the Precursor Association'

in 11\1land for two reasons; the one, that, as a I; 0-11
getting. concern, it was a deci,led failure. The shillings
which it brought in fell sadly below what he had calculated
upon. The other r( ason is. that Ministers wish to cheat
the people of England into the notion, just now, that they
discountenadce all violent agitation in Ireland, and, as Mr.
O'Connell knows that when the Brd•chamber Cabinet
goes his. Irish patronage goes along with it, he very readily
obeys their hint to kick down the Precursor nuisance as
unceremoniously as he put it up."

HOLKHAM HALL-The Duke of Sussex and
Lady Cecilia Underwood are expected to arrive on a visit
to the Earl and Countess of Leicester, from the seat of
Mr. Thistlewayte, Southwick Park, Hants. The party at
Holkbam has bad abundant sport during the week on his
Lordship's preserves.
FEES ON POLICE SUMMONSES, &c.—The
cvmmissioners of the Metropolitan Police
have issued
ortie", founded, it is said, upon instructions received from
the Secretary of State's Office, that the exaction of 2s. each
for the service of warrants and summonses by the consta-
bles attached to the different police offices, shall cease for
the future.

CURE FOR THE FEAR OF DEATH. First ,
Ive aro to know that death is not the cessation of humann
being ; for the reasonable soul is the most tenacious of our
endowments, being a ray from the glory of Omnipotence,
over whose unbounded permanence extinction cannot pass,
and whose essential substance has no connexion with tho
events of space.
" He cannot die that lives by love divine ;
His name is in the book that lives for ever."
This has been established as a fundamental principle of
science by many convincing proofs, of which the following
cre all that suit the exigence of the present subject. First,
let a man suppose that one of his members, a finger, for in-
stance, is destroyed, his identity is thereby unaffected
next, ,let him in imagination withdraw some other mem-
ber, and so on till he has successively supposed the nega-
tion of eva ry limb he has ; and be will find his essence to
survive throvch every stage intact.—Asiatic Journal.
PARIS, SEPTEMBER 9.-The extraordinary
process of M. Peytel, the notary, for the murder of his
wife, has been concluded by a verdict of guilty, and be was
ordered for execution. No trial since that of Fualdes has
caused so great a sensation as this of Peytel, there being
none but circumstantial evidence. For the defence, soma'
witnesses were called to show that Peytel was a man of
great probity and humanity : and a long letter from the
.leel:brated poet Larnartine to the prioner, after his appre-
s'on, was read by -‘i3 Counsel to show how little be was
k•nsidered capable of a cr.':" Pf such magnitude. He
it,e4 rd. his sentence with great.cal "' fad showed little
„not kn when the crowd gave demonstrationsnii
fazti„. iat the verdict..of their sa-