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London, England, 1830-08-17 00:00:00

did during the last. But we may observe that the
expence of elections, to which Sir James so justly
objects, and the enormous sums of public money
shared by the Aristocracy, are closely connected.—
We may observe farther, that the great curse of this
country, that which tends more perhaps than any
thing else to debase the people—the immense
masses of property held by individuals—depends
chiefly on the power which the Aristocracy possess
of putting their hands into the pockets of the
people. An estate of a thousand a-year seldom goes
to the third generation, because a parent feels the
necessity of providing duly for all his children; and
the estate must either be mortgaged or conveyed to
trustees. The same changes would take place in
the estates of the Aristocracy, were it not for the
public money and the church dignities. In coun-
tries in which matters are left to take their free
course, families rise and fall, but large proper-
ties are never long in the possession of any one
family. A powerful Aristocracy can only remain so
by the oppression of the people—that is, by allotting
out of the public money sums for the support of
their younger children, far beyond the value of their
services, out of the public purse. The salaries are
enlarged to suit the rank of the receiver; and were
the evil to end with the higher classes, we might.
perhaps, rub on ; bat the whole mass of society
becomes infected with their extravagance, and
even clerks in public offices contrive by hook or
crook (we shall allude to instances ere long) to get
hold of enormous sums. An Aristocracy, preserved
by entails and primogeniture, influence elections
and degrade the people ; and, by commanding Par-
liament, are enabled to continue entails and primo-
geniture. Thus abuses support each other. On
the other hand, nothing is unimportant which dimi-
nishes, however slightly, the power of the Aristo-
cracy. We say at once the Aristocracy, because
the Duko of Wellington, or any other Duke, is
merely their tool, and cannot resist, if he would, the
demands of the body. Every defeat of the Squire-
archy, in a county election, by strengthening the
hands of the advocates of retrenchment, leads to
farther defeats. The depreciation of the currency
during the war has produced many evils, but it has
also produced some good. By buoying up the Aris-
tocracy with an idea of their being more wealthy
than they really were, it led them to contract
heavier debts, and give greater provisions to
their children. The change stranded many of
them, and affected most of them. We are now
feeling the benefit in their inability to expend money
during the late elections. For we must not dis •
guise from ourselves the fact, that the independence
of the yeomanry has, in many cases, been as much
caused by contempt for the poverty of the Squires
(for poverty in England is always despised), as by
their own virtue. Let advantage be taken of the
occasion to urge retrenchment, which will cripple
still further the Aristocracy, and increase tile power
of the people to complete their independence. The
day, perhaps, is riot far distant, when England will
he all that the most sanguine can desire.—Morning
Chronicle.

The result of the election for Cambridgeshire
has afforded another signal triumph of public senti-
ment over Ministerial influence. That county now
sends two independent Members to Parliament;
and, in achieving its own " emancipation," has
pretty strongly indicated the sense which it enter-
tains of the wisdom and virtues of the Ministry
which its ejected representative supported. It was
no moderate aversion to the principles of the Wel-
lington Administration that could so rouse the
energies of the county as to dislodge Lord Manners
from a seat which he fondly considered us his
inalienable possession, backed as he was by the
Ministerial credentials, and by the hereditary in-
fluence of the horse of Rutland. When it was first
understood that Mr. Adeane would offer ~himself to
the electors, the friends of the " family, compact"
studiously gave it out that hie corning forward
would endanger the seat of Lord Francis Osborne;
but, after a few days' contest, Lord Osborne re-
mained at the head of the poll, and the dominion
which the Rutland family exercised over the
county was signally and completely subverted.
It was gratifying to see this contest conducted,
on the popular side, without any manifesta-
tion of personal feeling, but entirely on the
ground of public principle. Nor was there
any thing like personal exultation at the expellee
of the beaten candidate; on the contrary, the manly
and honest electors, who, in vindication of a great
principle, and in the free exercise of their political
privilege, occasioned his overthrow, commiserated
his fate, and did justice to his private worth. But
the Government do not come as clean out of this
contest as Lord Manners. lle deserves credit for
not having vexatiously kept open the poll when he
found that he had no chance of ultimate success.
But how did the Government act ? Lord F. Os-
borne, if the report of his speech be correct, im-
peached thctn of interfering with the freedom of
election. He said, "ho had reason to know, for
lie had seen it in black and white, that the interest of
one great department of the Government had been
against him,,because he was not willing to support
the blundering Administration." The Administra-
tion, however, made an additional blunder by sup.
posing that their influence could turn the scale of
this election. They calculated with rather too
much confidence upon the venal obsequiousness of
the electors of Cambridgeshire—so did they mis.
calculate their strength in Norfolk, where Mr. Wode-
house was sent " to the right about ;" and in
Suffolk, where Sir Thomas Gooch bad hie twenty-
five years of Ministerial subserviency repaid by
being kindly relieved from the onerous duties of
representative of the county for the future. It is
true his devotion to the public service was so great
that he was not, like Cincinnati's, anxious to leave
the cares of Government and retire to his plough,
and therefore the electors found it necessary to use
some gentle compulsion in divesting him of the se-
natorial robe, in which, after some struggling on his
part, they happily succeeded. He may now return
to his fat wethers and his turnip.fields, and enjoy
the conscientious satisfaction of having contributed,
by the policy which lie supported, to raise the agri-
cultural and other great interests of the country to
that state of " unrivalled prosperity" which they
now present. Alas I for the ninety-three new Mem-
bers which the present elections were to give to
Ministers! We may well ask the " whipper-in"
wheal
j aro they to be found ? If Mr. Jolliffe, who
fins
, ust lost Surrey, be not more successful in
findingin the fox-hunting season, he had better for-
swear the sport that has qualified him for states-
manship altogether, and sit down and study the dia-
lectics of Aristotle I—Aforning Herald.

Mr. O'Connell, it will be seen, has been returned
for Waterford, hut in u manner which does him no
great credit. There appears to have been so much
management and trickery in the matter, that no one,
we think, but Mr. O'Commell, standing in Mr.
O'Connell') shoes, would have demeaned himself
so far as to have accepted part of the representation
of it county where a superior interest existed. 11
Mr. O'Connell, however, fulfil the promises which,
it will be seen, lie made to his new constituents, We
shall have reason to be grateful for his return—for
in future the 'Right Hon. Gentleman states his de-
termination to adjourn the House of Commons at
nine o'clock, or, ut all events, at eleven ! We wish
hint speed and success to his endeavours. The
change will be beneficial to all parties ; for, as Mr.
O'Connell very properly remarks, the lute hours
which have been lately kept by the House of Com-
mons are no hours for doing business ; while, let us
told, they are very unfit hours for enabling us to
give any satisfactory account of their proceedings.—
MO rn ing Adverliser.

CODONEUSIIIPOIt TUE COUNTY OF
ma:sta.—The death of Jouu Wittoirr UNWIN,
which took place on Sunday evening last, after a pro.
tracted illness, leaver a vacancy for the situation a one
of the Coroners for the county of Middlesex. Mr. UN wl:4
1173 filled the office for many years hi conjunction with
Mr. Sriat.ttio.