The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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, great saving of expenditure will tend so far to in-
-1,:•I crease the consumption of articles still subject to
ki taxation, as gradually to restore the surplus income
ass: to its level of 3,000,0001. per annum, recommended
r.) by the fourth report of the Finance Committee,
A and realised within the years 1828, 1820, to the
,g average extent of only 2,100,0001. The Duke of
~4 Wellington promises further reductions of expence,
rlfind the public will willingly give credit to one who
hue already done so much to disburden them, that
N. . what he deems it possible to execute he will not
i-,2 leave neuttempted. In pensions, superannuations,
IA Army, Navy, Ordnance, rind " miscellaneous," we
1...1 believe that a great deal may be done, the Duke him-
il self aeknowledgitig that out of the 101 millions which
: ' they cost the people of England yearly, there are but
L\., 11 millions which can be considered inacees-
PA sible. So, with regard to the colonies, there is
' ; au übyse of extravagance which must be probed and
r:leleatised, or the country will instruct Parliament to
pays a vote, condemning the colonial system as an
, oanteeable nuisance, The Civil List, we have
often and emphatically denounced as established on
.
1 a scale too gigantic for a limited monarchy ; and
the enorinous sums of money spent, as well (if re.
port speaks truth) as hoarded, by the late Sove-
reign, are proofs both of the mischief and the need-
lessuess or leaving so much to the irresponsible dis-1
thi
ilMosul of any English King. We hove less sus.
1 pinion of an unworthy use of riches being made ,by
1 his present Majesty than by most of his predeees.—
Hors on the throne. King William may be termed
, without offending him--a family man, in many per-
' ' ticulara of his life and history. Ile may have, and,
Ino doubt, will feel that he has, many claimants on
his heart and purse ; and even should he adn:it such
dailn# too freely, the public must have a fur diffe-
ts.,, rent impreasion of the motives under which William
7, IV. bestows his bounty on those who naturally
64 shore among them his best affections, than if he had
it, ,
.p squaodered the property of an industrious people on
isthe crawinga of licentious mid insatiable rapacity.
IN Nevertheleaa, William IV, ought, under one or
\,,, more Acts of Parliament, to furnish a better prece.
dent than any of Iris ancestors, and above all things
s•il less exceptionable than the late Sovereign has left
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(2, after him, of the regulations and restrictions by which
.' the use of the public money should henceforth be
controulled.---71mes.
,
It seems to be agreed on all bands, that the de-
" duration of Mr, flume on Wednesday night—that
1 the people of England have the power of returning
a majority of independent Members of Parliament,
4,., and they have themselves alone to blame if they do
t•
tiknot--wits, to say the least of it, a very ilyudged
one. Mr. Hume might as well have said, i every
man were to live within his income, no person need
~- be afraid of imprisonnieut for debt. 'nem is no
- doubt, diet if the people cif Englund choose to re.
~ turn u rnejosity of independent Members, they can
~. do so; but we know that the motives to exercise
IN, the franchise corruptly are in many ;daces too pow-
ij e;fol to be resisted; that lo other places they dare
.., not Crate conscientiously. It is well observed by a
eontemprorary (the Globe)" that titers is an error in
:'. Me, flume'e calculations. The right of suffrage is,
in many caw, solliciently extended; but where the
1, ' right of suffrage it extensive enough, the districts
.ire too small. All tile men who boil a pot in this
li-,; or diet borough vote at elections ; but the borough
~. in rpiestian is so small, that all the men who have
a pot to boil amount to one hundred or twp bun-
', dred persons. The fact that they are poor does
.tot of necessity make diem incorruptible. In fact,
'iii is the real cause of a great part of the compd.
Wily of Parhaments,thet the right of voting is in
the Itand.r of knots of indigent persons ,of persons
so low in forttine and intelligeece, that they look to
ftelxiuttareoceurreeansievs,o(orapnuetlieliclgtioen tie Ciao occasion
:it:lei iktejetsj.'°:l i t yiratti any e
roan 4 1 :ev lie:: to oalfecra2llo(ll.i 'tll
°lat:otilte°:l°ltllelY:leeeoliirif'.
of the twain for his Vote in nay ease, tins Offer, of
eit:eLlrio, wouldte %vvb°,ol: at rejectedit'le rjaerwcall:;:l,
4:CititjUoittlfitleitiirilliglttlotir‘Or°oll:.YpienDeuurns:
;l it
were
retv e 111 °a
s°pirou tr.1av44014: of a Scotch county 801,
eh:elate, and that the eon-
-1.; elituelite of the forty dependent Scotch Members
(fog' Mr. Hume reduced the number of independent
1. to five) would consider Any candidate who told
fy,- Clem, that if they elected him they need look t,
P.: nO favours throng!) his influenc:e with the Ministry
1,1 ,1,5 u very impertinent fellow, The leventy o•
s:' eighty freeholders for a Scotch county sell them-
.
~.,i yes to tne CarniiiintCB IA regillorly us the electnts
of u pot-walloping borough. 'tribe difference be-
: tween the cases is, that the number of dealers in
Scotland being smaller, they obtain each a larger
r,„ price, not paid in ready nioney,, but in shining pa-
-1 ,mirage with the Member. our contemporary (the
. i Times) well observes, with reaping to this power of
.•. rcturniug independent Membera:—
" 'Tice counties Ate particularly described by Mr. Hume
'i 4st being in possession of this enviable power. But will the
'.. , limb clentlemen affirm that Am English County Election.
I.:: asat pet,,,ent conducted, is likely to earl in the return of
T; the fittest foul most independent Afeml*r of parliament ?
Let the Hon. nentlernan lark at the frightful ezpense of
.
en election context for oily, but especially for a Isrge county,
and then say that a eourity is in general a less strict mo.
. neludy than tke closest borough. If by the words ' most
" independent,' the richea itolivido4 ht, meant, then ee,
street with the position of Mr. heart', that a County
Member will, in nine cues out of ten, he time richest per
-,, ',no, br Wittlier stone ono member of the riuheat family in
• the county for which he is delegated. llut is a County
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i fsmitcr, so tiecte4—narnely, through his faculty i (spend.,
tqr an immeotte sum of money, or rather through the
~. ,1110:in.0 re of Lis knot. f relatives utol frienth.--the MN O/1w
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turn? magnitude ttf die alliance A 4 which he Wel bill It,
Vy e 411, far froyn thinki ' 4
gcnersty. s/s do not all ; .1 434 "I.
. "h a member
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inta, we,,,„ womur tie, e:eray.--but ..he of A
, limo,
ho
navd
"t 3',
1 eles.te, prejudices, and instrue-
or le will ho abauthitted by them.
/^4,' no fiet is, dirt th,fr's ere kwa ear to
that the rentAilta nintyr the fink • contend
with'
and
,:, otde. The c„riatitueney ix twil'intrirm are
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too large for the pukka* tif any hut4ti 1i',4?„2:11:",C„e,,' a,intd
deter. Mould the conini(nener )10 ai4.„-,-417;17:n"'",
,
i expeare would ho incurred by she te •IA '-` ''
"" ' 4h" Yet with I
moth increase there hi no chants of en inth,vadient
ester..
er ' ice of the elective franchise." -
I:, There cannot well be conceived a greater blew,.
istettey than to speak of the power of returning in-
tit d
mepei.ili,tit Members, with Out first making it the
, terext of O r.k w etor,i to return illilvio-4Olitht Mem.
In I ,F. it is Ow hitt:test of the Marquis of StatTord