The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-10 00:00:00

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1837.

There was a mournful meeting held at the City of
London Tavern yesterday, by certain Tories in the
interest of JOHN HORSLEY PALMER, Esq. We call
it a mournful meeting, because its object was to con-
dole with the above-named gentleman on his late defeat
as a candidate for the representation of the Metropolis,
and because the company selected must have been
peculiarly qualified to sympathize with the sorrows
of the unfortunate Bank Director. Who, for example,
could cuter with more tender concern into the feelings
of a rejected candidate than Mr. PowN4LL, who has
now for the second time suffered the same martyrdom
himself ? Could a more appropriate comforter have
been found within the realm than Mr. Sergeant
ADAMS, whose bones are still aching with the cuffs
and kicks he received, first at Warwick, and then at
Stroud ? Or if the miseries of defeat arc to he alle-
viated by contrast or comparison, who so fit for this
delicate task as RICIIA RDS, the betrampled of
Southwark, or BALDWIN, the buffeted of Lambeth.
Ali these, and many more of the same description,
whom we have neither time, space, nor inclination to
enumerate, joined yesterday in one strain of doleful
harmony—in a united and, we doubt not, heartfelt
lamentation over the vicissitudes of fortune and the
uncertainty of the poll.
THOMAS BARING, Esc., M.P., presided over this
dismal congregation, and did all he could—which is
not a great deal—to dissipate the gloom which hung
on every countenance. It was all in vain. Settled
melancholy was the all-petratling character of the as-
sembly. Every attempt at a cheerful rally on the part
of the Chairman produced only a responsive groan ;
and every topic of consolation which he urged was the
immediate forerunner of an immeasurable elongation of
visage. When he told them that Mr. PA LNf ER'S coming
forward to be blackballed by the city of London " had
been of infinite benefit, not merely to that city, but to
the country at large," the tears stood in the unsuccess-
ful gentleman's eyes, and bore witness that it had at
least been of no benefit to him ; and when it was as-
serted by the same high authority that the " scrutiny"
would do something for them, there was a universal
shaking of heads, and some were heard to say that that
remedy would only make bad worse.
When the health of Mr. PALMIER was proposed,
that worthy gentleman made a speech of course, and
much as we dislike the man's slavish politics, we
cannot but admire the cutting irony with which he
tells the people who had dragged him forward to be a
spectacle of compassion to the world, and to add
triumph to the victor• of the Reformers, that 4' he
wanted words to express his feelings for these kind-

nesses."

Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, when it came to his turn to
speak, exhibited a good deal of excitement, as was, con-
sidering all circumstances, to have been expected. Mi-
nisters had no business, said this periwig. pated prater, to
say that the QUEEN was more on their side than on that
of the Tories. She found the present Ministers in,
and she kept them so—that was all. Will this learned
proser tell us, what the King of HANOVER would
have done if he had succeeded to the Thione of Great
Britain ? Would he have kept them in ? We trove not.
Mr. PowNALL was exceedingly well pleased and
extremely vexed—pleased above measure that hs had
been unsuccessful in Middlesex, and vexed that Mr.
HuNIE should have been returned for Kilkenny. "It
was a disgrace to Ireland to receive what Middlesex
had rejected." Good Mr. PowNALL, are you aware
what a disgrace Middlesex has escaped ? What,
according to your own showing, would have been her
degradation had she received the rejected of Finsbury
Where is the line to fathom such a disgrace ?

Sir JA NIES GRAHAM is out for East Cumberland,
This is a satisfactory set-off against the return of Sir
FRANCIS BURDETT for North Wilts—the more
especially as the most desperate efforts were made by
the Tory faction to insure the Lord of Netherby's
success. The LONSDA LES, and Heaven knows how
many other influential families in the district, exerted
their utmost strength ; the Parsons, as in Wilts, were
equally on the alert ; vet all was unavailing ; the
free and intelligent Cumberland electors would
neither :be duped, intimidated, nor coerced ;
and the consequence is, that the Tories have
lost one of their most active and unscrupulous sup-
porters in the House of Commons. We feel more
pleasure from the defeat of Sir JAMES GRAHAM;
than we felt pain from the triumph of Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT. Both are apostates ; both possess the
same starveling modicum of conscience ; but the one
is passe in his capacity to do mischief, while the other
is still in the full meridian of his powers. Honour,
therefore, to the enlightened, patriotic constituency
who have checked the Cumberland renegade in full-
career, and taught him this valuable moral lesson—
that flagrant political inconsistency is not a thing to be
passed by with indifference.
We have said—and frequently repeated the asser-
tion—that elsewhere, as in East Cumberland, the most
iniquitous practices have been resorted to by the To-
ries, in order to secure the returns of their adherents.
A proof of this is just now lying before us. At the
Flintshire nomination, letters were publicly read on the
hustings, from which it appeared that an influential
Tory landholder had given strict orders to his tenantry
to vote for the right man—that is, for the Tory can-
didate. Of course, if they did not obey these orders,