The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-22 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Tories are leaving no stone unturned to accom-
plish their purposes at the next registration, and in one
of their organs yesterday their friends are most ear-
nestly exhorted " to be vigilant and active, particularly
during the few days, hours we had almost said, which
will intervene between the present moment and Friday
next, the 25th of August, the last day for delivering
notices of objections to persons registered or claiming,
and the last day also for claims on the part of those
who may have been omitted from the borough lists."
Mutatonomine—for Tories read Liberals—and we say
the same with quite as strong an emphasis. Let the Li-
berals at least not be behind their enemies in exertion
upon this important occasion ; or rather, let the Liberals
double their energies, well knowing what an artful and
insidious foe they have to deal with, and knowing,
too, how much at any future election will depend
upon what may be done in the way of registration
within the next three days. Let all the friends of the
Queen and of the Queen's Government look most
narrowly at the lists, to take care that their own
names are inserted, and that none arc included but
such as are entitled to vote. No claim of the right of
voting can be made by a Reformer, and no objection
can be taken to a Tory who may have no right of vot-
ing, but who would fain sneak into the register, after
the 25th instant. IVe therefore cannot be too urgent
in our recommendation that no true-hearted Liberal
will neglect this really sacred duty, a duty which he
owes to his Queen, to his cause, and to his country.
Few are aware of the extent to which the split-
ting of votes has already been carried by the
Tories in the different counties. Faggot votes
have been bundled together, not in hundreds but
in thousands, and hence (even they cannot deny
it) the degree of success they have met with among
the agricultural population. In boroughs the Tory
party have happily not been able to accomplish as
much ; but, depend upon it, what they can do they
will do : they will neglect no opportunity, and shrink
from no means of making a vote for themselves, or of
destroying one for their adversaries. Let the Liberals
be upon their guard against frauds and tricks of every
kind—for frauds and tricks of every kind will be at-
tempted by the Tories without scruple or remorse. As
we said the other day,.fils est ab hoste doceri, in order
that we may be alive to their artifices and contrivances;
but as far as vigilance, activity, energy, and determi-
nation go, let us ourselves set an example which our
enemies may be glad to imitate.—Morning Chronicle.
If the Whigs, in their clubs, or through their news-
papers, express any annoyance at the state of public
feeling in this island, of course it is not because they
have the least wish to remain, where they can so well
be spared, but simply by reason of the mortal injury
whieh the dislodgment of a Whig Administration
would inflict upon the cause of liberty and purity, not
only at home, but all over the world. The despots of
the Continent would get upon their stilts again and
stalk over the people. On the Tory triumph, says
one of our daily monitors, " the halls of the Czar will
resound with the voice of gladness."—" The palace
of Herrenhausen too will be illuminated, and the
budding hopes of the Hanoverians will he nipped at
once."—" If die Tories do triumph, it will be speedily,
we believe, to lament over the immense mischief their
example will produce throught the world, and then
to labour at undoing their own work." Who
would have thought, after reading the Whig news-
papers of but a month ago, that Toryism would by
this time be so tremendous an agent among the
powers of the world ? Why, a month ago the Tories
w,ge over—past—gone—the last spark of Toryism
was trodden out ; and yet now, from that spark, we
have not only a flambeau to illuminate the Palace of
Herrenhausen, but a flame to wrap the whole conti-
nent of Europe I We have the truest affection for the
infant liberties of wliclt Leopold and Louis Philippe
are the thy-nurses ; but, like many other very tine in-
fants, they are allowed to make more noise than is good
for them. We doubt they have suffered from injudi-
cious cramming, and would fare better if left more
to Nature. But, whatever be the regimen most whole-
some for them, we cannot see the reasonableness of
England's persevering in a course of stimulants by
way of experiment to encourage her neighbours ; for
experiment, says the Esculapian proverb, should be
made on a worthless body. For the passing hour
the stimulant seems to enliven and invigorate, and the
exhilirating effect seduces others to the same deceit-
ful draught. But lassitude and sickness super-
vene ; another and a stronger excitement is desperately
sought and swallowed, which increases the exhaustion
and the danger ; languor follows, then faintness, and
too frequently, at last, extinction. Great Britain, by
Heaven's mercy, is recovering from this inflammation
herself : and so far from renewing it for the further
betrayal of other States, let her rather rejoice that her
stamina have saved her, for the double blessing of re-
storation to herself and warning to her neighbours.
This country has of late been in a false position : she
is now resuming her proper one. For a century and a
half her Constitution was the subject of envy and
admiration to all Europe, except those few in each
State whose rights were their country's wrongs.
One after another the nations surrounding her
attempted to copy its outline, sometimes falling
short of the original, but oftener exaggerating
and monstering its features. Instead of content-
ing themselves to repair and uphold a Constitu-
tion thus confirmed by time and testimony, her own
wayward or treacherous sons went to work to deface it ;
her own rulers lent themselves to the disfigurement ;
and
m partly from her multifarious periodical press ad-
mitting and propagating every extravagance of the
most intemperate imagination, and still more from the
notorious alliance between the Ministry and the most
dangerous of the innovators, England had obtained
a new and very undesirable character upon the
Continent, and forfeited but too generally and too
justly her character for judgment and stability ; so
that English opinions had come to be regarded no
longer as the conclusions of thoughtful experience, but
as phrenological curiosities or interested deceptions. In
proportion, therefore, as the return of the people to safe
and sound principles is viewed with uneasiness
by those who would still use their fellow-subjects as
decoys to lead others astray, so is the gratification with
which we, on the other hand, behold this great nation
shaping its course back super vias antiquas. An
Englishman, with English feelings and understanding,
will disquiet himself but little from whatever lamp the
Northern Autocrats may " illuminate their'halls ;" but
he will rejoice to see British intelligence once more
concentrating usefully its scattered rays, no longer to
be gazed at as a dancing gleam upon a quagmire, but
fixed and placed aloft as a beacon to mankind. For
then his country will again hold her true and proud
position, fulfilling the destiny for which Providence,
by its high and special bounties, has marked her—to
enlighten and to save : " Then shall the Gentiles come
to her light, and Princes to the brightness of her ris-
ing."—Tiares.

Not a moment should be lost in attending to the
registries. Friday next is the last day on which notice
can be received, either of claims on the part of those
negligently or wilfully omitted from the lists, or of
objections against those fraudulently attempted to be
intruded thereupon. The numerous instances in the
last elections wherein the fair choice of Representatives
was stultified and prevented by the assistance which
the corruption and intimidation practised by the Tories
received from their previous vigilance and activity, in
regard to the registries, should rouse the Reformers
into similar vigilance and activity to counteract their
machinations. But for their unceasing exertions,
from the commencement to the close of last Parliament, '
to pack the registries after their own fashion, all the
infamous agencies of the Tories during the late contest
would have been comparatively inoperative. In almost
all the constituencies where they have been successful
they had their fictitious voters previously organised and
disciplined, and in the crisis of the engagement the
victory was decided by the mercenaries, and those

whom they forced by every species of undue influence
to desert their standard, and fight under false co-
lours. Seeing thus clearly the causes which have con-
tributed to the partial successes of the faction, every
good and honest citizen, every man who would pre-
serve the peace of the country, protect it from dis-
memberment, and accomplish by moral means tho,e
reforms which may otherwise be wrested by less legi-
mate agency, should spare no effort to render the