The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-25 00:00:00

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LOND ON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1937.

The
,election prospects of the country are most
cheering. The City of London has returned its for-
mer tried Representatives. The Tower Hamlets and
Southwark have done the same ; Finsbury is following
their example, the teo Liberal candidates being, at
the moment we are writing (one o'clock), nearly a
thousand a-head of PERCEVAL, the Poor Tory crea-
ture, who has been persuaded, as Mr. R tcll A RDs
was at Southwark, to make a fool of himself not for the
benefit but the disadvantage of his party. In Lambeth

the polling is proceeding with great spirit on the
Liberal side ; there Mr. BALDWIN is doomed by
a now irreversible decree, to share the fate of his fel-
low Tories, RICHARDS and PERCEVAL. Matters
do not proceed quite so triumphantly in Ma-
rylebone ; but there success is anticipated for
Sir S. WHALLEY (Mr. HALL being long since
secure), by the withdrawing of Sir WILLIAM
HORNE and Mr. YOUNG, now that their return is
proved to be utterly impossible, and by the union of
the reforming electors in favour of the two other
Liberals. This is the course which sincere friends of
the cause would pursue, and therefore it is expected of
the electors of Marylebone.
The electors of the Metropolitan districts are thus
doing their duty in gallant style. They are nobly ful-
filling the expectationss which their former achieve-
ments in the cause of Reform had excited in the
breasts of their countrymen. Need we inform the
electors throughout the country what it is their duty to
do ? Need we impress upon their minds that this is
the moment to he up and doing—that if they neglect
the present• opportunity of reinforcing the ranks of
Reform in the House of Commons, they will never be
able, by any future exertions, to make amends for their
present remissness ? This is the time, and the only
time, to show by their active zeal that they are sincere
well-wishers to the practical development of those prin-
ciples " which they profess. And what stronger
encouragements can any man require to do his
duty than now present themselves ? When. had
we a Sovereign educated in the school of Reform, and
spontaneously embracing those principles for which
the people have been so long contending ? Never.
Those liberal principles of government, by which all
sectarian distinctions are blotted out from the hook of
the Sovereign's remembrance, which guarantee equal
rights and privileges to every portion of the empire,
and which regard the amelioration of our dilapidated,
perverted, or abused institutions, as a necessary foun-
dation for the peace and happiness of the nation—
those are the very principles upon which the people
have been at issue with former Sovereigns, and now
we behold them with delight upon the throne, while
we see that throne itself surrounded—not merely
fronted, as it lately was—with those who are imbued
with kindred sentiments.
What then is the inference to be drawn from a
state of affairs, so full of promise—so bright with
hope ? h it that we are to sit dozing and dreaming,
and let our youthful QUEEN and her Ministers work out
our political salvation ? There is no man, we trust, so
utterly bereft of reason and sense as to suppose this—
none so stupid as not to see that, without the as-
sistance of a Reforming Parliament, the QUEEN and
her Ministers are perfectly powerless. The majority
in the House of Commons is the instrument with
which alone a reforming Queen and a reforming Admi-
nistration can advance the cause of the people—can
accelerate the progress of national improvement. Let
it be supplied by the electors of Great Britain. It is
their first duty to their country to spare no exertions to
shrink from no labour, to he deterred by no difficulties,
in order to accomplish this all-important object.

The Tories are straining every nerve to oust iVlnti
from the representation of Middlesex. They are, as a
matter of course, perfectly indifferent as.to the means
they employ for this purpose. To them falsehood is
every whit as acceptable a Weapon as truth—rather in-