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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1831

larly well acquainted with the method of delusion which
can serve their purposes, have raised in England a cry
against the Poor-laws, and thereby endeavoured to inflame
the lower classes against the higher. Sir R. Peel and the
Duke of Wellington has e distinctly approved of the measure.
Tie ultra-Tories cannot admit it, because it may suit them
in their political agitation for electioneering purposes. In
this country, acting on the same principle of electioneering
agitation, they have touched the chord of your religious
feelings, and raised the cry of Church in danger.—(Cheers.)
Leaving this matter, I shall refer to the allegation that the
present Government is supported by the aid of Daniel
O'Connell. I may ask, however, in the first plate, who
gave this power to Mr. O'Connell ? It was the Tories.—
(Loud cheering.) By their refusing just government to Ire-
land, and governing by means of the Orange Lodges—( Loud
cheers)—which had not only called O'Connell into exist-
ence, but also endangered the union of the threw kingdoms.
The Tories had raised from mere nothing a giant which
they could not lay down again ; and they now censure
others for the results of their own conduct.— (Loud cheers.)
Lord STORMONT then stood for srd, amidst the most
uproarious hooting and hisses, witl ries of " Take him
down," " No Reform hater," " Take are of your thumbs,"
"No football," &c. The noise continued for some time,
and was so frequently renewed while he addressed the
people, that we will merely attempt a cursory outline of his
remarks. He began by requesting to be heard. He said
that this was not a personal contest, but one of principle.
He was not a Tory—(Loud cries of " You are," and hiss-
in.)—and would rather be considered a Whig of 1688.
He would not quarrel with them about a word, but that
was his opinion. The principles of the e'd Whigs were to
support the Constitution in Church and State, and parti-
cularly the Protestant interest. He came forward to sup-
port those principles in opposition to one of the Destruc-
lives of that interest.—( Hisses.) His opponent was allied
with those whose only object was to overturn the Protes-
tant religion. He oLs2rved Mr. Maule in the House of
Commons, day after day, and night after night, sitting cheek
by jowl with Daniel O'Connell.—(Great uproar and hoot-
. ing.) This was something extraordinary, and what was the
reason of it ? It was because there was a compact made
• betwee❑ Mr. O'Connell and the present Ministry._

Several questions were then asked of Lord Stormont,
after which a show of hands was taken, and having been
declared in favour of Mr. Maule, a poll was demanded.

SCOTLAND.

( Abridged from the Scotsman.)
The vaunting of the Tories about reaction l..ts been
nobly answered by the enlightened and truly independent
inhabitants of the towns of Scotland, who have decided by
twenty to one in favour of the Melbourne Administration,
and against the principles and policy of the Conservative
party. The burghs and towns of Scotland return twenty-
three members of Parliament. Of these two are returned
by Edinburgh, two by Glasgow ; Aberdeen, Paisley, Dun-
dee, Greenock, and Perth, return one each, making nine
members for the seven large towns. The remaining 14
members are returned by clusters of towns, each cluster of
from three to six towns returning one Member. The re-
sult of the elections in these towns and burghs we shall
now examine, beginning with a tabular view of the popula-
tion of such as have returned Liberal Members. Where
the Tories had a majority in any town forming part of a
cluster which returned a Liberal Member, we have printed
the name of the town in Italics, with the votes on both
sides. In all the other towns of the districts, the Refor-
mers had a majority. In the Ayr burghs the contest was
between two Refurincrs, and hence they are stated as hav-
ing had "no contest with the Tories. The towns and
districts are arranged according to their population, begin-
ning with the largest first.
Here follows a list of the towns and districts arranged
according to their population beginning with the large
first, from which it appears that the total burgh popula-
tion which has returned Reformers, is 841,902, and that
the total number of Members returned Reformers, is 22.
Having disposed of the burghs which have returned Re-
formers, our Contemporary states the fact that the Tories
have returned only one Member, and that disgrace belongs
to the Kilmarnock district of burghs !
. .

After entering into some further calculation, and giving
the details on both sides, the general results arc thus
stated :

GENERAL RESULTS.

The total amount of .the population of the large
towns, and of the districts which returned Reformers was
841,902, being one-third of the entire population of Scot-
land ; and the population of the single flistrict which re-
turned a Tory was 34,482, or about one-seventieth part of
the population of Scotland.
Giving the Tory party the benefit of the eight small
towns printed in italics, belonging to Liberal districts in
which they bad a majority, this will add 17,299 to their
numbers ; but on the same principle, deducting from the
Tory district Rutherglen and Renfrew, in which they were
the minority, and the half of Dumbarton, in which the
votes were equal, this will form a deduction of 9,385.
Hence the net result will be—population returning Re-
formers, 833,988 ; population returning Tories, 42,396, or
eelrly twenty to one !
In this Tory population of 42,396, there were only
705 Tory votes given, while there were 410 votes given for
Reformers, and the whole population of non-electors almost
to a man were in favour of the Reform candidates, as was
proved by every show of hands taken during the present
election. Hence the real comparative strength of the
Tory party in these Tory towns, may be ascertained pretty
nearly. by deducting the Tory voters and their families
(who may be assumed to be Tories) from the entire popula-
tion, and the remainder will give the strength of the Libe-
ral party. But in order to prevent all carping and cavilling
about numbers, let it be assumed that each Tory voter could
find a Tory non-elector in the same town (an assumption
which could not he realised in any of the towns of Scot-
land), and that each of these was likewise a member of a
family of five, all Tories—young and old, male and female—
this will give an actual Tory population of ten times 705,
or 7,050, which, deducted from the gross population, will
leave to the Liberal party in these Tory towns 35,346, or
five to one in favour of the Reformers! So much for Tory
re-acam. It should be noticed too, that the victory which
Tories obtained for their champion in the Kilmarnock
Burghs, was gained, not because of his politics, but because
of his religion. Dr. Bowring was rejected, not becluse he
was a Liberal, but because lie was a Unitarian ; and—tell
is not in Gath !—because he was the editor of the works of
Jeremy Bentham ! Mr. Colquhoun was elected, not
because he was a Tory, but because he was a Churchman ;
for he professed himself to be a Whig, and to differ with the
Melbourne Ministry only regarding the Irish Church ques-
tion, the English Church-rates, and the additional endow-
ments to the Scottish Clergy. In all strictly political ques-
tions he professed to approve of their policy. In Dr. Bow-
ring's case, the penal laws have practically been re-enacted,
and he has been punished fur his religious (pinions by a
sentence of banishment from Parliament, passed by the
Tories and High-Church bigots of Kilmarnock and
Port Glasgow, aided, we are sorry to say, by the in-
tolerance of many Dissenters and Liberal Churchmen ;
upwards of 150 of whom declined voting, although by
doing so they could have returned the Liberal candidate
by a majority of from seventy to eighty. Had Dr. Bow-
ring professed to belong to the Established Churches of
England or Scotland, or to any sect of evangelical Dis-
senters, his election would have been secure. But the Li-
beral electors are already ashamed of their conduct; the
days of Toryism are numbered, and Mr. Colquhoun will
never be returned again for the Kilmarnock district of
burghs.
From these facts, it is evident that a fatal blow has been
struck at Toryism in the Scotch towns and burghs, which,
happily for us, are, with a few exceptions, free from the
influence of the landed aristocracy, who, in the counties,
have been driving their tenants like beasts of burden to the
poll, to vote against the candidates of their choice. In
regard to the towns and burghs, the party may now ex-
claim in sorrow—Toryism is fallen, is fallen, and shall no
more arise ! Alas, alas! that great party, wherein were
made rich all that had ships in the sea, by reason of her
costliness ; for her merchants were the great meu of the
earth ! in one hour is she made desolate.

NARRATIVE OF THE LAST EXPEDITION INTO
CENTRAL AFRICA, BY MACGREGOR LAIRD AND R. A. K.
OLDFIELD, SURVIVING OFFICERS OF THE EXPEDITION.—At
length we have a book of real travels, embracing scenes of
danger, privation, hardship, death—full of novelty, variety,
character, and not less remarkable for the spirited determina-
tion with which the enterprise was carried through, so far as
natural obstacles permitted, than important for the information
gained as to the social and political condition of the interior of
Western Africa, and the commercial speculations which that
information suggests. As a picture of hair-breadth escapes
aid personal adventure, perhaps it is inferior to Park's first
Travels ; and the oft-pictured African river wants the lands-
cape novelty which characterised Denham's Journey across the
Sahara. But if inferior in such points to those first of modern
travels, the " Steam Expedition up the Niger" may be placed
el‘ saly next them, while it ranks above them in largeness of
view and importance of suggestion. In literary merit, it
equals, if it does not surpass, those productions.—Spectator.
On Sunday night the church of Burton Joyce was
broken into, and the black cloth hangings put up as mourning
for the late King were stolen from the place.—Nottinghant
Review.

Dr. Heurteloup having been invited by the Emperor
of Russia to visit St. Pet ersburgh arrived there in May last,
and proceeded to give public demonstrations of the lithotriptic
ppar,tion on cases of stone which bad been collected in the
hospital for the purpose of illustration, and the Russian sur-
geons were thus instrocted in the several stages of the process.
in the middle of June Pr. 4. PrPneecle4, by request of the
Emperov, to *scow, where thhty-fohr cases
.pr' stone were
collected by the authorities, and where the provincial surgepnp
were marshalled to receive the espego4