The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-31 00:00:00

to him by the late Mr. Home, to a state of
They had effected a union with Ireland, but
not founded on correct principles, for it was not
based on the interests, feelings, and affections of the
people of both countries. It was union bought with
about e 00,0001„ and the distribution of honours,
titles, Bfc., certainly without much stint, in order to
purchase the Irish Parliament to abandon the rights
of their constituents, and not with the view of con-
ciliating the Irish people. Those were of the things
for which they had to thank Tory Governments."
These are a few of the blessings which the Tories
have bequeathed to us. Well may they afford to pur-
chase votes ! Eight hundred and
.fifty millions sterling
of debt they have laid on a population of twenty-four
millions, upwards of 331. a-head. The great portion
of this debt was contracted in expenditure not only
useless, but absolutely adverse to the public good, and
chiefly for Tory purposes—so that, if every man, wo-
man, and child in Great Britain had a vote, and the
Tories offered thirty pounds each for their purchase.
still in a pecuniary point of view, independently of
nobler impulses, it would, judging from the past, be
the interest of every elector to spurn the offer, and vote
for those who are desirous to alleviate the evils which
Toryism has inflicted on the State. Ponder on these
things, electors ! and save your children from inflic-
tions like those which your fathers, in the absence of
that intelligence which is happily diffused amongst
you, suffered faction to perpetrate against the general
good. The fault of your fathers may be palliated by
their lot having been cast in a less enlightened age, and
in a less advanced state of popular freedom ; but every
dereliction of public duty on your part, having no such
pleas to offer in excuse, will doom your names to the
unmitigated execration of your children's children.—
Morning Advertiser.
The Whigs, having no merits of their own to rely
upon in their appeal to the people, dishonestly and
delusively make use of the Queen's name in soliciting
the public suffrages, as ingenious impostors, in an-
other line of business, ask for charity by means of
forged signatures to a fraudulent petition. O'Connell,
identified with our Whig rulers in policy, adopts the
same tactics, and with the effrontery of a sturdy men-
dicant, exhibits the Queen's name upon the phylac-
teries of his trade. He has even christened his sedi-
tion-society anew with the title of the " Queen's
Friends." This is certainly the most comical piece
of impudence of which even that political mounte-
bank has yet been guilty. To call an anti-Protes-
tant and anti-English confederacy the " Ministers'
friends," is appropriate enough—inasmuch as those
ministers have signalised their misrule of the British
empire by a systematic hostility to the principles of
its glorious Constitution, and have admitted, through
the mouth of their nominal chief, that they are re-
solved to " inflict a heavy blow and great discourage.
ment upon Protestantism." Another amusing piece
of Whig fraud which is set at work at elections,
is the use made of the name of the King of
Hanover, in regard to the administration of the
affairs of his own kingdom. We think the King
of Hanover and his subjects may be well left to
settle their own affairs between themselves. The
Whigs profess the principle of non-intervention in the
affairs of other nations. A principle which they have
continually violated, as their disgraceful Anglo-Galli-
can convention against the King of Holland, and their
dishonest and murderous " buccaneering war" in
Spain, have shewn. We also profess the principle of
non-intervention, but we profess it honestly, and would
have it faithfully and rigidly acted upon in all cases ;
therefore, we say, let the King of Hanover and his
subjects be left to settle their own affairs. If
the Hanoverians complain not, what right have
we to complain of the measures of the Ha-
noverian Government ? We go with Mr. Oat-
ler, when he says " I fear Belgium more than
Hanover." In the present state of things, the in-
fluence of the son-in-law of Louis Philip, upon the
councils of Great Britain, is more to be feared than
that of the King of Hanover. The Whigs profess
"liberty" while they are covering the country all over
with their enormous bastiles, for the imprisonment of
the population who have claims upon the public
charity. This is as honest as their fraudulent use of
the Queen's name for the purposes of the elections.
—Morning Herald.
The elections proceed ; the honest and honourable
Conservatives beating the Whig-Radicals and the
Radicals proper, in their destructive alliance ; while
the latter maintain as heretofore in respect to talent,
integrity, and influence, their supertority over the
inconsistent and unprincipled Ministerial faction. Sir
Thomas Dyke Acland has recued one of the divisions
of Devonshire from the Whig-Radical dominion, by
which glorious rescue the Conservatives gain a vote in
the House of Commons. And in Scotland Dr. Bow-
ring is effectually taught that lie must not again aspire
to the honour of writing M.P. after his name until, by
some new Bill of Reform, the Tower of Babel is con-
verted into a Parliamentary borough. These, we be-
lieve, arc the only changes of importance which have
taken place in the representation since we last ad-
dressed our readers upon this interesting subject.
The coining week, however, is pregnant with im-
portent events, and of these the most important._ is
the election for the metropolitan county. Can af;-
body point out in Mr. Hume a single quality, moral
or intellectual,which entitles him to represent the county
of Middlesex ? As to Mr. Byng, we ask no ques-
tions. He pays the expenses, on condition that the
econom:cal and radical candidate shall take him iu
tow ; and he supports Ministers, notwithstanding that
lie holds their position and their conduct, as every
English gentleman must hold both, in contempt, be-
cause by supporting them be has got a Peerage for one
member of his family, a place for another, and the
prefix of Right Honourable for himself, and also
perhaps, in the expectation of getting for himself, or
those who are dear to him, still better things. The
county elections ought not to be subject to the kind
of influence which has decided those of Westminster
and Windsor. Middlesex, East Surrey, and the
two divisions of Kent, though within the range
of the influence of Whitehall, like the two close
boroughs we have mentioned, will show, we have
no doubt, that they possess enough of the vi-
gour of independence to repel the contagion of of-
ficial corruption. No more is required than that
the voters of these counties and divisions should fulfil
the promises they have given to secure the triumphant
return of the Conservative candidates in the whole of
them. That the pledges these voters have given will
be honoroubly redeemed we feel assured. They will
not have it said that they promised and did not per-
form, because they were threatened with the loss of
trade to their shops. They will not place themselves
upon the degraded level to which so many of the elec-
tors of Westminster, and Windsor, and other towns
within reach of Court and official influence, have permit-
ted themselves to be reduced. Men have a right,and it is
a right which we should never think, which no Conser-
vative would ever think, of narrowing, to vote for the can-
didate whom they conscientiously believe most likely to
render good service to the community in Parliament; but
they have not a right to promise their vote to a can-
didate, and, when the day of election comes, to give
it against him, or even to withhold it, merely because
they have been strongly canvassed to do so by a gentle-
man usher or an Under-Secretary. In conduct like this
there is not merely political error, which men may justly
think themselves bound to tolerate, but that degree
of moral and social vice which stains all who volun-
tarily suffer it to pass without punishment or rebuke.
Public morality, apart from all considerations of party
politics, requires that he who promises and does not
perform should be a marked, degraded, deserted, im-
poverished and ruined man. The bread baked by a
Radical baker may be good and wholesome bread ;
the bread of a. Whig baker, though this is less likely,
may also be good and wholesome ; but in eating the
bread of a baker who had "promised to vote for a can-
didate, and had not fulfilled his promise, we should
suspect poison. It, would stick in our throat, or, if
we swallowed it, the disgestive powers would instinc-
tively refuse their aid. We expect to be furnished
with a list of the Westminster tradesmen who pro-
mised to vote for Sir George Murray, some of whom
even signed the requisition calling upon him to come
forward, and who were either missing on the day of
election, or found voting for his Ministerial and Ra-
dical opponents. When we get this list, which we
doubt not we shall get, these honourable persons may