The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-24 00:00:00

RESULT OF THE ELECTIONS

(From the Hull Observer.)
The returns to Parliament are now complete, and we
publish the list of Members—classified according to their
presumed opinions—as it appears in the Morning Chronicle.
It is not to be expected that a list of this description can
be made out with perfect accuracy, but, having examined it
carefully, we think it may be considered very close to the
mark. The Chronicle estimates the majority of Members
" on whom Ministers may count with certainty," at thirty-
nine. There are, besides, nine Members who, not being of
the thorough-bred Tory class, are set apart as " doubtful."
They will, probably, swim with the stream.
At the last general election, we selected the returns from
the Spectator, a journal which has attained a high character
for diligence and judgment in furnishing political statistics.
Of late, it has given way so strikingly to antipathy to Lord
Melbourne's Goveinment, that we are unable to rely upon
its statements with our former confidence. According to
the Spectator, the Liberal majority elected to Peel's Par-
liament was 356 to 302—and the Liberal majority elected
to Melbourne's Parliament 337 to 321. If this calculation
be correct, the Ministerial majority amounts to no more
than sixteen.
But a close inspection of the Spectator's lists has con-
vinced us of their inaccuracy both as regards the late and
the approaching Parliament. We find, for instance, Mr.
Goring, M.P. for Shoreham, set down as a Liberal in
1835 and Tory in 1837 ; for what reason is not shown.
Mr. Goring voted for Lord John Russell's motion on the
Temporalities of the Irish Church. Mr. Long, of North
Wilts, who gave a similar vote, is marked Liberal for 1835
and Tory for 1837. Sir Charles Lemon is noted as a
Liberal in 1835 and as a Tory in 1837 ; there having been
no change in his votes or opinions. Lord Charles Churchill,
ex-member for Woodstock, is registered as a Liberal dis-
placed by a Tory, although he voted for Peel's Speaker and
Address, and against Lord John Russell's motion on the
Irish Church. Mr. Dottin, M.P. for Southampton, is
classed as a Tory in 1837 and as a Liberal in 1835----
he having been an out-and-out Tory from first to last.
The Spectator omits to notice as changes favourable to the
Ministry, the return of Mr. W. 0. Stanley for Anglesea,
in place of Sir R. Bulkeley, who was opposed to the
Irish Church question—the return of General Johnson for
Oldham, in place of Cobbett, or rather his Tory successor ;
and the substitution of Lord Fitzallan for Lord D. C.
Stuart, who voted against the Church-rates: Bill. In the
Spectator's list of Liberals for 1835 are the names of seve-
ral persons who were unseated on petition ; among others,
Mr. Villiers for Canterbury, and Sir J. De Beauvoir for
Windsor. These names ought to have been removed and
Tories substituted. In almost every case where there is
a doubt, our Radical contemporary gives the benefit of it
to the Tories. This really seems to be carrying " impar-
tiality" to an extreme.
The Spectator observes that " in looking closely at the
table of the Liberal loss, it will be found that of the sixty-
six Members put out of the House by Tories, not more
than ten can be called Radicals, namely—
Fellowes Elphinstone Gaskell
Bowring Hutt Trelawney
Beauclerk Thompson
Roebuck E wart

And to put against this Radical loss of ten, we have
gained—
Busfield Easthope Standish
S. Jervis Raikes Currie Davies
F. H. Berkeley Johnson Ellice, junior
Protheroe Earle F. Aglionby
Captain Ellice Palmer Ashton Yates
Duckworth Style
Seventeen—all pledged to the Ballot and the extension of
the Suffrage. This proves that the loss has been suffered
by mere Whigs, not by Radicals."
According to this table, Radicalism has gained and mere
Whiggism lost by the elections ; yet the Spectator, which
rejoices in its Radical orthodoxy and never misses an op-
portunity for assailing the Whigs, waxes desponding and
refuses to be comforted in the present prospect of affairs.
Would it have been a happier consummation had the Ra-
dical strength been diminished and the Ministerial force in-
creased by a clear majority of a hundred aristocratic
Whigs? What, then, would have become of the Ballot,
Short Parliaments, and Household Suffrage—questions
which may not be immediately carried, but which will
assuredly be more powerfully and earnestly supported
in the coming Parliament than they were in the last,
and which are indebted for the rapid progress they
have recently made in no slight degree to the elec-
tioneering reverses sustained by backward Reformers ?
Why, the Spectator itself is already speculating upon
a list of nearly two hundred independent votes fa-
vourable to th• Ballot in the new Parliament. This
does not indicate that "organic changes" are quite so alien
to the hopes and wishes of public me❑ as the Spectator, is
its melancholy mood, would have us believe. Let our Con-
temporary be ruled by us, and, eschewing weak tea and
moping melancholy, take to field sporti and an occasional
modicum of sack. By yielding to political hypochondria, it
runs the hazard of being assigned a position among the
" Doubtfuls." To our apprehension of affairs the new Par-
liament is a more premising assembly than its predecessor.
The " Doubtfuls," who in 1835 amounted to 51, are now
reduced to 9or 10. This fact, alone, proves the superiority
of the returns of 1837 as tests of principle. Even if nume-
rically weaker, the majority in the new House of Commons
will be more effective than the majority in the old, in
consequence of its superior compactness, arising out
of a general agreement in opinion. Unless Minis-
ters are dishonest or incompetent, or both, they
will study to increase this compactness by adopting a
course of policy which the great body of Liberals may
fairly regard as a reasonable centre of union, for consoli-
dating their own power and breaking that of the common
enemy. Lord Durham has wisely remarked that Re-
formers may, with honour, enter into a compromise with
each other, but never with the foe. It is the duty of Mi-
nisters—nor need it be a difficult one—to rally round them
the whole of the Liberal representatives, an,l if they cannot
always go as far as many of them may desire, they can, at
all events, avoid the disgrace of walking in the ways of To-
ryism, or being contaminated with its temporary alliance.
Let their motions, however slow, be always in the right di-
rection—let there be no official quibbling, no evasion of
principle, but let every measure bear the stamp of consis-
tency and plain dealing, and we do not fear the result, even
with a Parliament so nicely balanced as that just chosen.

Air. Butler arrived at Liverpool un Sunday, in the
St. Andrew. His lady (late Miss Fanny Kemble) was
awaiting his arrival at the Waterloo.

SURREY THEATRE.—During the performance on
Tuesday night, of the first act of The Law of the Land,
the gas lights gradually became dimmer and dimmer, which
excited no particular surprise at the moment in the minds
of the auditory, crowded almost to suffocation, the per-
formers still proceeding with their respective parts, as if
the gloom were necessary to the due representation of the
piece. At length the lights went completely out, and the
house was enveloped in complete darkness. Mr. Davidge
(judging from his voice, for his person was quite unseeo)
immediately addressed the audience, and begged their qui( t
indulgence for a few minutes, until the accident that had
occurred (which he had no doubt would prove but tempo-
rary) should be repaired. This was readily granted—the
performances were suspended—and the curtain dropped ; a
few candles being placed on the stage, to relieve the dismal
appearance of the scene. Conjectures, both numerous and
varied, were soon in circulation as to the cause of this very,
unexpected interruption, not one of which was probably
true ; however, they served to pass away the time. In the
course of a quarter of an hour the gas was relighted, and
assumed its usual brightness ; the performances were then
resumed, to the great delight of the immense numbers col-
lected together, and everything went off satisfactorily dur-
ing the remainder of the evening.

Yesterday an inquiry was instituted before Mr.
Stirling, Coroner, and a respectable Jury, on view of the
body of Alysius Last, aged 26, a classical teacher, who
destroyed himself by taking a large quantity of laudanum.
It appeared from the evidence that on Sunday evening last
deceased quitted the house of his father (a gentleman re-
siding in Portland-town) with theintention of going a short
distance into the country, and that on the following morn-
ing he was discovered by Mr. Fiulayson, of Newnliam-
street, Edgware-road, lying on a tomb-stone in Paddington
Church-yard. Information was immediately conveyed to
the police at the Hermitage-street station-house, when a
constable who was dispatched to the spot found the body,
although to all appearance lifeless, still warm, and, by di-
rection of the inspector, he conveyed it to the workhouse.
Mr. Girdwood, the parish surgeon, promptly attended, and,
having ascertained that in the pockets of the deceased were
two phials which had contained laudanum, applied the sto-
mach-pump, but without success. It further appeared
that the deceased, from what cause is not known, had lat-
terly been in a very depressed st4te of mind.—Verdict,
" Temporary insanity."