The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-12 00:00:00

The number of decided Reformers returned on
Thursday morning was
There bare been returned since

307

The number of decided Tories returned on Thursday
morning was
There have been since returned

295

There remain to be accounted for, from Scotlandi,
and from Ireland 39.

These may be distributed thus :

Reformers.

Tories.

From Scotland
From Irclanci

. 32

33 8
Thu number of decided Reformers may then be
taken at . . .....
The number of decided Tories at

342
308

Majority of decided Reformers over decided Tories . 34
The following gentlemen cannot be claimed by the
Tories. We are, therefore, justified in classing them
apart. The Members to whom we allude are—
Mr. P. Pusey,
Sir S. Spry,
Sir G. Crewe,
Sir G. Noel,
Mr. G. F. Young,
Sir E. Wilmot,
Lord Northland,
Lord Alexander.
And whenever these gentlernen vote with Ministers the
majority of 34 will be increased to 42, as in such cases
they are manifestly not only to be withdrawn from the
Tory numbers, but to be added to the list of the sup-
porters of Government. Whenever they are found
voting against Ministers it will of course reduce the

Ministerial majority to 26.—Morning Chronicle.

The chapter of lamentations over which the cha-
grined Whigs are now poring is a highly instructive
one. A fortnight ago, when Lord Melbourne dis-
solved the Peel Parliament with an abrupt and vindic-
tive impatience, he virtually declared, in the wanton-
ness of miscalculating pride, " By the strength of my
hand have I done this, and by my wisdom, for I am
prudent." At that giddy moment the Ministry on va-
rious accounts were mad with joy. Released from the
humiliating restraints imposed upon them by their late
Sovereign, they exulted in the conviction that the same
circumstance which had inevitably forced their poison
upon the young Queen, would, for a while at least,
enable them to practise successfully upon her Majesty's
facile and unsuspecting temper. To have got rid of a
veteran Monarch, whose revolted experience of their
O'Connellism scarcely surpassed his resolute ability to
keep it in check, was regarded by them as a political
Godsend of no ordinary magnitude: and simultaneously
with that favourable change in their Court-facilities,
they felt that the new accession afforded them a pretext
for suddenly dismissing a House of Commons whose
impatience of their ineptitude for public business was
perhaps more than equalled by their unpopularity out-
of-doors, which, in the absence of any redeeming
qualities of their own, they expected to allay by mere
artifice and plot. With the twofold object, therefore,
of escaping from embarrassments under which they
were ready to sink, and of trying what fortune might
do towards improving their Parliamentary condition,
which, as they conceived, no unpropitiousness of her's
could possibly render worse, forth comes the Royal fiat
for an appeal to the constituency of the empire. To
increase their chance of success, every species of the
ad caplandurn was unscrupulourly employed. Al-
though the prorogation of Parliament in person in-
volved an ordeal of excitement and fatigue which,
having frequently been shrunk from by Kings them-
selves, might well have entitled our virgin Queen to
the privilege of closing the Session by Commission;
her Majesty, in defiance of all propriety, was drawn
forth from the privacy and grief of a bereaved circle ;
was subjected to the gaze and glare of an uncongenial
pageantry ; and, though scarcely escaped from pupil-
lage, was paraded before a million of eyes, in the hope
that the Whig Cabinet who plotted this incongruous
display might, peradventure, come in for a share of the
admiration which the appearance of their illustrious
captive can never fail to excite. Hard upon this, we
had the memorable letters of Lord John Russell,
first to the electors of Stroud, and then to the Earl of
Mulgrave ; in both of which, by an unprecedented
abuse of trust, her Majesty was misrepresented to
the country as a keen political partisan, desirous of in-._
fluecing the general election in favour of the O'Con-
nell ascot:dancy. Lord Mulgrave's mean subserviency
to the Pa
pis,•:; had received, we were told, the em-
phatic approbath;:r of the Queen. The liberal Mi-
nistry, it was said, we, now in the unfettered command
of a liberal Court. Al; the revolutionary journals
h constituency, being
were in ecstacies. The Britilc
duly warned that, whether they W0i..71d or not, the reign
of democracy was begun, were invite, to swell the
triumph which they were almost defied to retard. At
the coining elections the Conservatives were to be
packed off to Hanover. In short, the Whigs, with
the accession of Lord Durham, whose published
epistle was meant to facilitate their designs, were to
have every thing their own way : and lest these various
expedients for Whiggifying the kingdom should prove
ineffectual, the utter impossibility of getting on with a
Peel Parliament was represented as alone sufficient
to insure in the nsw House of Commons an im-
mense Whig-Radical majority. Well, the appeal
having been made, and the elections being nearly
over, the issue, as far as the Whigs arc con-
cerned, is acknowledged to have disappointed their
expectations. We might even call it, with all pro-
priety, an ignominious failure. But, contenting our-
selves with viewing it only in a negative light, as hav-
ing effected no improvement in the Parliamentary con-
dition of Lord Melbourne's Ministry, we have more
than once broached the very natural question, ' What
is to be done r How is the business.of legislation
to be carried on ? Where are the resources in the new
Parliament to strengthen the inefficient rrajorities of
TWENTY-THREE and FIVE in the old ? If useful
and moderate measures could not formerly be proceeded
with, on account of the time pre-occupied by Minis-
ters in concocting, debating, modifying, and abandon-
ing extreme ones, it is pretty clear that, with the un-
diminished Opposition which is about to confront
them, the stand greatly in need of some ingenious
Ca-
suist to explain the particular devices whereby they
mean to enforce their policy, and prolong their ob-
structive procedure. Such a casuist, it scans, has at
length stepped forth to their assistance : and we are
now told, that there is a threefold remedy, which, with
a due regard to the retention of office, will enable them
to meet and overcome the embarrassments to which stro
have articled. 1. In the first place, their Morning orao
de informs us, that they arc to strengthen themselves by
a wise and judicious exercise of patronage," Now,
really if this were anything short of downright impu,
dence, we could almost be amused with its apparently
innocent and unconscious humour. Why, half a
dozen of years have scarcely elapsed since Lord Al-
thorp, speaking for Lord Melbourne and his other
colleagues, declared that " the time for governing this
country by patronage had come to an end." Phis,
be it observed, was the Whig doctrine of 1831. No
doubt, the professions then put forth were universally