The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

The Grand Duke and Dss of Oldenburg had an
audience of the Queen yesterday at the new Palace in St.
James's Park.
Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening. Among
the company were the Marquis of Anglesey, Earl and
Countess of Albermarlc, Lord Russell, Lord Alfred Paget,
Lady M,►ry Paget, Right Hon. Robert Cutlar Fergusson,
Mrs. and Miss Cholmondeley, Lady Barham, Barones..,
Lthsen, Hon. M►sscs Cocks and Cavendish, Viscount
Falkland, Colonel and Mrs. Cavendish, Hon. W. Cowper,
and Colonel Buckley.
The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was
in attendance at the Palace during the evening.
The Queen left the Palace at half•past five o'clock yes-
terday afternoon in an open carriage and four, for a drive ►n
the Parks.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir
William J. Newton miniature painter in ordinary to her
Majesty.
Dr. Smith (from the Cape of Good Hope) had au inter-
view with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial office.
Sir Jolla Barrow had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchewier yesterday in Downing-street.
M. Hummelauer, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Howell had an interview with Viscount Melbourne
,yesterday in Downing-street.

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ARRIVALS.

Count' And Countess de Beaumont, at the Carlton Hotel,
from Paris ; Monsieur Bremont, at ditto, from
Regent-sWeet,
ditto; Mr. aod Mrs. Saunders, in Brook street, from the Isle
of Wight ; Mr. acid Mrs. Ward, from ditto; Lieut. Ross, at
Lane's Hotel, St. Alban's-place, from a tour ; Capt. Fraser,
at ditto ; the Rev. Gregory, at ditto, from a tour ; Col.
Gardiner, at ditto ; Capt, and Mrs. Dawson, at.Raggett's
Hotel. Dover-street, from Worthing ; Major Hay, at ditto,
from Cheltenham; Lord Bl000:fititl, at the Sackville Hotel,
Sackville-street; Rev. F. Dalton and Mrs. Dalton, at ditto;
Mr. and Airs. Drew e, at ditto, from Dublin ' • the Hon. Capt.
Blackwood, at ditto ; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, And daughters, at ditto,
from Germany.

DEPARTURES.
Lord and Lady Rossmore, from the S2ekville Hotel, Sack.
villa-street, for the Continent ; Mrs. Jones Burdett and fa-
mily, from ditto, for Twickenham ; Lord Bosse, from ditto,
for Brighton ; Earl Charleville, from ditto, for Ireland ; Mr.
and Mrs. Falkland and family, from ditto, for Italy ; B. B.
Williams, Esq., and Miss Williams. from Portland-place, for
Cheltenham ; Sir Compton and Lady Domville and family,
from Grosvenor.square, for their seat in Ireland ; Mr., Mrs.,
and Miss Patterson, from Connaught-square, for Buxton ; the
Duke of Norfolk, for his seat, Farnham, Bury St. Edmunds,
Suffolk ; the Earl and Countess of Falmouth, from St.
James's-square, for their seat, Woolhampton, Newbury, Barks;
Lord and Lady Suffield, from the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-
street, for their seat, Gunton Park, Norwick ; Captain and
Lawrell, from Lane's Hotel, St. Alban's-place, for Ja-
maica; Mrs. and Miss Barrington, from ditto, for Paris; A.
Amyatt, Esq., from ditto, for Devizes ; Colonel P. Burke,
from ditto, for Southampton ; Captain Fowler, from ditto, for
Barks ; H. Brownlow, Esq., from ditto, for Bath; Mrs. Er-
zington, from Queen-street, May-fair, for Clarendon Park,
Salisbury; the Hon. George Trevor, for Dynevor Castle;
the Rev, Sir Henry and Lady Rivers and family, from Ches-
ter-street, for Malyr Worthy, Hants ; Mr. and Lady Mary
Stanley, for Lancashire; Mr. and Lady Mary Townley, from
Arlington-street, for Townley Hall ; Lord and Lady Sefton
and family, for Stoke Farm ; Mr. Grenville, for Dropmora ;
%Captain Vyse, for Stoke Park ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Au-
Evstus Moreton. from Seamore-place, for the Isle of Wight;
Hoy. Mrf and Mrs. Denman, for the Continent.

Count Van Bruhl, Intendant-General of the Royal
Museum at Berlin, died in that city on the 9th instant,
after an illness of several weeks.
Lieutenant-General Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish
Ambassador to the British Court, arrived, with his family,
in Hamburgh on Moirday, the 14th inst.
Lady Lincoln, daugther of the Duke of Hamilton,
who for several years past has suffered from a severe ner-
vous complaint, has derived considerable benefit from the
attendance of Drs. Wolowski and Koreff, of Paris. Her
Ladyship is said to be convalescent.
M. Thiers is about to leave Florence. He will re-
turn through Switzerland, and, after a short tour through
the south of France, he will proceed to the Pyrenees, where
his lady has been recommended to try the waters for the
recovery of her health.
Loru and Lady De Grey, and Captain Henry, and
Lady Mary Vyner, have left St. James's-square, for Wrest
Park, Bedfordshire, of which county his Lordship is Lord
Lieutenant.
The Marquis of Douro has not left Apsley-house
to re-join his regiment. His Lordship has been on half-pay
since he obtained his Lieutenant-Culoneley.
Lord and Lady Chelsea, Lady Coventry, Lady
Soon Percy, and the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Wellesley, have
quitted Rome, where considerable and well-founded alarm
exists, owing to the prevalence of the cholera.
The Marquis of Hertford and his extensive suite
landed at Boulogne on Thursday, from the Britannia steam
vessel, on hii way to the south of France. His Lordship
invited a select party to accompany him on his tour, suffi-
cient to fill three carriages ; and as the party is to be enter-
tained along the route with his Lordship's usual hospitality,
it should become a matter of careful avoidance to other
travellers. Very few fot!eign inns can manage to feast and
lodge more than one family of this monopolising character.
The Duke of Sutherland has engaged a spacious
hotel in the Faubourg St. Honore, as it is the intention of
Lis Grace to pass the winter in Paris. 'File monument to
the memory of the late Duke, 75 feet high, at Benvragie,
erected by the tenantry of his Grace, will be completed by
the end of the year.-
' The Earl and Countess of Haddington have ar-
rived at their seat, 'l'ynningham House, Preston Kirk,
Scotland, where the Noble Earl and Countess will receive
a solect circle of friends.
Viscount and Viscountess Beresford have arrived at
at Buxton, Derbyshire, accompanied by the Hon. Alex-
ander Beresford Hope, on their way to Beresford Hall,
in Staffordshire.
Sir James Graham is entertaining a small party at
Netherby Hall. Thc game, especially grouse, is most
abundant on the moors ox' the Right lion. Baronet in Cum-
berland.
We regret to hear that the Earl of Sefton is dan-
gerously ill at Stoke Park, near Windsor. An express
Was sent to Lord Holland yesterday.
His Majesty the King of Saxony, according to the
latest accounts from Laibach, had so fir recovered that lie
was expected in a day or two to be able to drive out in his
carriage.
The Emperor of Russia has made a present of
50,000 rubles to Professor Jacobi, of Dorpat. to enable
Lim to complete his magnetic machine. His Majesty or-
dered at the same time that the Professor's salary should
be considerably raised.
The Duke of 'Wellington returned to town on
Thursday evening, and this morning departs for 'Palmer
Castle. Lord Charles Wellesley has joined his regiment
at Corfu.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant arrived on
Wednesday mornint, at the Vice-regal Lodge in the Phwnix
park, Dublin, from Carton, the beautiful seat of the Duke
of Leinster. The only persons who were present to re-
ceive his Excellency on his return were the Earl and
Countess of Miltown, Lord and Lady Cloncurry, the Baron
Robeck, &c.
The Duchess of Kent will accompany her Majesty
to Windsor Castle, and on her Majesty leaving that fa-
vourite royal residence in September, proceed to Brighton.
The Grand Duke and Duchess of Oldenburg, Ba-
roness de Scherrnhause, Lady of Honour, and Baron de
Rennet. hampff, Grand Chancellor, dined last evening with
bis Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, at Kensington
Palace,

The King of Wirtembero- and suite are expected to
return to the Clarendon to-day, from a short tour of the
great manufacturing towns in the north. The Queen of
Wit temberg has arrived at the baths of Toplitz from Stut-
gardt.
The prospect of an abundant harvest is general
througlii ut every part of the United Kingdom. The same
is also the case in France and other parts of the Continent.
The Countess of IN/Lily-aye has arrived at Mul-
grave Castle, where her Ladyship will be welcomed by the
neighbouring peasants, whose abodes she constantly visits
to administer to their wants, according to her Ladyship's
usual benevolent custom, in seeking objects deserving of
relief.
The Hon. Captain Cecil Forester, and other fa-
ahianahles, left town yesterday, for Scotland.
Lord and Lady Ingestrie are on their way to Eng-
land, from a tour in Greece.
The Hon. Charles and Lady Emmeline Stuart
Wortley have left Park Cottage in the Regent's Park, for
Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, where the Duke of Rutland
is entertaining a numerous sporting party.
Lord Frederick Fitzclarence has sold the lease and
furniture of his mansion in Eaton-square. The Earl of
Munster's house in Belgravo-square is to be let furnished.
Paganini, it is said, has refused the most pressing
tolicitations to play at a public concert in Paris, which he
Intends to quit in a few days for St. Petersburgli.
The Marquis of Chandos has left town for Scotland,
tor grouse shooting.
The magnificent ,gold bedstead, and silver chairs,
:sensed by one of the native Princes of India to his late
OMa.'estY. have been sent to Windsor. One of the ele-
leo is sent over by the same Potentate, is at present in the
ZooloLical Society's Gardens in the Regent's Park.

THE NEW PARLIAMENT

Those molted thus are New Members.

ENGLAND AND WALES.

LlberaV.

&wall, It.
•Stnnity, W.
Lushingtoli, C.
Hindley, C.

Tancred, It W.
ChiclicAcr, J. P. B,

Paget, P.
Rtossell, Lord C. J. F.

pa ey, Phsi p

Winnington, T.
Attwood, T.

Seboletield, J.
Tunter, %V.

Vivian, C. C.
Ainsworth, Peter
-Duke, Sir James
Lister, E C.
Zustleld, W.

Conservatives.

CITY OF DUBLIN REGISTRY.

TUkSDAY.

Liberals
Conservatives
Among the Tories there Were three freemen.
YESTERDAY.

THE SUN, LON liOIN", SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1837

Minute, Auc. 17.
THE ELECTIONS,---COUNTY —Barry and Roche
already have a majority of 250, and it is confidently anti.
cipated that this majority will be considerably increased by
the conclusion of this day's poll.
COUNTY SLIGO.—Up to Tuesday evening. every thing
looked well for the good cause. Jones at this period had
a majority of 16 on the gross poll. A correspondent of
the Dublin Evening Post writes from the scene of action on
Wednesday to the following effect Nobly are the men
of Sligo discharging their duty to the cause of Ireland and
the Queen. Never in the annals of contested elections,
was there displayed a greater enthusiasm, united to a more
self-denying disinterestedness, than during the progress of
this struggle has ehaeecterised the conduct of this once
Orange ridden county. All the chicanery of the knavish,
all the bullying of the oppressive, hie; been of no avail.
The people are doing their duty, and they must triumph,
for they deserve victory. Coopet has adheted to his pro-
mise of neutrality, publicly given in the face of the county,
with the panic faith of his party ; men are sent away from
his tally-room if they will not consent to Vote lot the ex-
Grand. Two of them yesterday gave plumpers for Jones.
Nothing can serve so effectively to contrast the good and
bad faith displayed on either side, as the simple fact that
even the O'Conor Don split with Cooper ; whilst the return
given is, that every individual who can he influenced by him-
self or his agents, gives his suffrage to Permd.. This has
had the ill consequence of making the contest lie between
Perceval and Jones ; whereas the Tory and the Orane•P-
tn-sufferedo
t toc: e
Igyh
the
hi
et outno bettyinffdag-
Yesterday a row wasj gotteniu.p by
,whenichthand'.
gmear nm
emni
the
v
, in
the effect of procuring for the f.:4ctio tb'eir
miserable
ma_
jority, and last night sevs:ziti
n friends were waylaid in
different parts ecobtei
qt. inwn,,,,loppily all escaped. Early
this 3
eey I,aeeur Res (..Aleletevei shuts were fired from a kous.e
of the Peweevai t le a
party 4-nun.street, and by which several
persons were ioivtiroly wonnded. I saw myself one man
ite4 lfjs 4rM peaorated with a pistol bullet, and ano-
ther tebe received a spent ball just over the heart, which
penetrated to the skin. The people at length retaliated,
inand
rf showers of stones Were poured on the enemy—then
te the pollee and military, and a frightful scene of
eallUtfre ensile,. t.have not heard that any were killed on
the spot, but hundreds are more or less mounded. You
would think the parties were hostile armies fighting for
military possession of the town, anti not merely electioneer-
ing rivals.
FIVE MINUTU TO FOOL—At this moment the Tories
have a majority of about 45 in one booth, whilst we have a
considerable advantage in the other. They are polling their last men. Old Wynne, of Hazlewood, has just passed,
under an escort of dragoons.
We look upon Sligo as lost for the present to the Liberal
returns, but the success of the faction will, we apprehend,
be as fleeting as their conduct has been disgraceful. Scenes
have been witnessed of which proof in all probability will
be furnished in Committee—that will eventually set the
election aside. A letter in the Dublin Evening Post details
acts which our contemporary thinks must vitiate the re-
turn. Mr. Browne, a stipendiary magistrate, stands
charged, in the communication referred to, "not only" with
partiality, but with gross impropriety, in letting loose the
dragoons on the people.
LONGFORD.—The following is abridged from the Free-
man's report of the proceedings :
TUESDAY, SECOND DAY.—The polling commenced this
morning at nine o'clock, at which hour the town presented
a most animated scene ; groups of -freeholders continued so
incessantly to pour in from all quarters of the county, its
would incline the supposition that nearly every elector it
contained was present in the town. Nothing could possibly
exceed the enthusiasm of the honest frieze coats for the
Whites ; or rather, as they say themselves, for the Queen
and Ireland. Nothinc, that legal quibble, that stratagem,
nay, even force couldattain, as appeared in the course of
the day's proceedings, was left untried by the fallen fac-
tion to foist themselves in to misrepresent the people.
All the oaths were put to all the electors polled on the Li-
beral side : and after that the most puerile, the most frivo-
lous and hair-splitting objections to their votes were sent
before the assessor. Peter Prunty, mounted on his pony,
wills Mrs. Prunty on her pillion behind him, was in early
to discharge his duty to his country. Nothing could ee-
ceed the enthusiasm with which the patriot was received on
recording his vote for his " soul and liberty" in the Long
ford booth, Mrs. Prunty at his elbow. In the course of
the morning an application on the part of Mr. Lefroy was
made to the Sheriff, for a party of military to guard in a
number of voters, tenants on the estate, and, poor fellows,
whose lives were in such peril from an infuriated mob, and
their principles S 3 exposed to the machinations of an inter-
meddling priesthood, whose influence might succeed in alie-
nating them from their natural protector (their landlord)
that it was found necessary to take them home to the pious
and hospitable mansion of Carriglass for the preservation of
their souls and bodies. The application was immediately
granted, and a troop of ths Sects' Greys were or-
dered off to escort the unfortunate men into the town.
It was not long afterwards when the Greys dashed up to
the Court House, with sabres drawn, and surrounding
a carriage, out of which alighted five of the sleekest
and best fed looking peasants that we think the county
Longford, or any other county in the kingdom, could boast
of. The unfortunate persecuted creatures evinced that
they had been rolling, as one of themselves expressed it,
in the " height of good usage." They really, to use a
vulgar expression, seemed " ready to burst in their skin,"
of indulgence in beef and mutton. They were ushered by
the godly tribe, with much show and formality, as if to
afford a good example to other tenants on the Carriglass
property, to the Longford booth, and were immediately
polled. The ruddy fat fellows voted to a man for the
Whites!! The amazement, the laughter, the quizzing of
the saintly guardians of their tenants' safety that followed,
would be impossible to describe. Mr. O'Brien, counsel
for the Messrs. White, applied for an order from the as-
sessor to bring up three electors named Farrell, Ward, am'
Corcoran, then confined against their will in Foxhall house,
and who expressed their determination, if brought into
Longford, to vote for the Messrs. White. In support of
his application, the Learned Gentleman read ;in affidavit.
Mr. LEFROY (the elder) sneeringly observed that these
persons might be brought up on a writ of habeas corpus.
The assessor, however, declared that should the booth in
which those electors were to vote, become exhausted be-
fore the close of the election, he could, on a proper appli-
cation. to the Sheriff, order their production. In the mean
time he would recommend Mr. O'Brien to send an agent
or some responsible person, to Foxhall, to speak with the
parties, and ascertain from them what their exact situation
was, when he would act accordingly.
Nothing can exceed the tranquillity that prevails here.
The streets of Longford were never remembered to pre-
sent a more quiet appearance on the evening of an ordinary
market day. Rumours of a pistol having been discovered
on the person of one individual, a gun in the possession of
another, and a whole cask of arms in the house of a third,
fly thick as chaff on all sides ; but on inquiry at the proper
sources of information, they have hitherto invariably proved
quite groundless. The only incident worth noticing in the
way of violence is that of a magistrate named Walker, at
whom a stone had, it is said, been thrown whilst presenting
a pistol at a young man, and threatening to shoot him if he
approached him. The matter, it is expected, will be in-
vestigated to-day.
TUESDAY Mortrittca.—Mr. Tiernan, the gentleman ap-
pninted by the Assessor to inquire after the electors incar-
cerated at Foxhall, has just returned. He saw a Mr.
Fleming, a magistrate of the county Cavan, and a friend of
Fox's. On explaining his mission, Fleming did not deny
that the men were there, but told him that he would not
permit him, or the flight Sheriff himself, with a troop of
dragoons at his back, to search the place for them. The
mother of one, and the wife of another of the prisoners
were there, but would not, no more than Mr. Tiernan, be
permitted to see them. They were rending the air with
lamentations:
A report prevailed here this morning, that a man had
been shot last night at Drumlish, within six miles of this
town. It turns out, however, to be a complete fabrication.
Several acres of unripe oats, the propert of Mr. Henry
Dopping, of Ernhead, in this county, were maliciously cut
down last (Tuesday) night.
Westmeath, as we stated yesterday, is won. The state
of the poll proves the desperate game played by the party
to disturb the country, when the fact is known that not a
single landlord or tenant were found voting on opposite sides.
COUNTY TIPPERARY.—The election is over, and the
Queen's candidates are chosen by a majority which will
teach Lady Donoughmore, and the Orangemen of Tippe-
rary, a lesson by which we hope they may profit hereafter.
The result of the elections down to this day may be thus
stated:—Reformers, 339 ; Tories, 309 ; Majority for Re-
form, THIRTY FOUR.

Liberals
cQnseryatives
HALF-PAT PATRIOTISM.—Captain (unattached) Stepney
St. George has just addressed a letter tO the .41faii adver-
tising an " immense ,
sacrifice," gs fraudlllent men-milli-
ners have it, It bpeies thus As a warm supporter of
tbP Protestant Ch-nrch, aml of the COnnexion bAween
England and Ireland, as established at tit?, Legislative
Union, I beg leave to forward, through you, the inclosed
Ider4atfyys)narAmlyes)s,rts,o,C!itlosoacinedtiCt oct.iillber 311. 7s. 11d. (being the
tiMcmnt of one quarter's half-pay as a pptlin in 11e.l. Ma-
grps4 of beii)g to enable 'i4:Aliseesr:rPsS: )n
Hamilton'on parnod.

West to petition the House of Commons cgainst the un-
fair return of Messrs. O'Connell and Hutton as Members
for the City of Dublin." The remaining portion of this
gentleman's epistolary effusion is composed of the usual
Stock-terms of the Ultra-Orangemen. Messrs. Hutton
and O'Connell are pointed at as " the Papist and the So-
cinian, assisted by the needy disciples of Tom Paine and
Voltaire."
The liberality of this individual is striking ; it proceeds
not only from his breeches-pocket, in donations to the de-
feated, but warms his heart towards the victors, producing
sentiments which reflect equal honour on the Captain and
the Christian.
Be it known to all men, that it is the intention of Lord
Cole, and the Orange Members of Parliament, to prefer a
bill of Paids and Penteties, on the opening of the new Parlia•
ment, against the Lord Lieutenant and the Irish Govern-
ment--for having abetted the Ribbon System, nr in other
words, because we have returned 74 (sellout Reformers, and
perhaps SO out of 105.--,-Dublin POetting Posi,
DoNtivanook PAIR.—The Lord Mayor having decided
that this fair is to commoite on next Monday, and to end
on Saturday, it is said that in consequence or the Queen's
proclamation respecting the observance of the Sabbath, the
police magistrates will allow no booths or tents to be open
on any part of next Sunday. Lord Morpeth's Spirit, ILe,„
Act prohibits also the sale of any seirm
Sunday.—Mail.
_. - ja -tooths on a

ORANGEISM.—DUring
Armagh, as a ver,-

.ne election for the borough of
, respectable elector—one of the most in-

OlFensi^

a or men, and who is now in the autumn of life--
was passing up College-street, a rush was made by the mob
towards him. He was knocked down, and brutally kicked ;
and, but for the interference of two females, who threw
themselves over him, he would have been murdered. This
is Orange courage. As the Hon. Mrs. Caulfield was pass-
ing up the same street, the unmanly dogs assailed her, tore
Ler shawl, and covered her dress with mud. This is Orange
gallantry. RADICALISM.—An old gentleman, wh• lived
next door to Mi. Curry's tally-room, was sent for to poll
against the popular candidate. The messengers were cor.-
ducted in safety to his door, through a crowd of about
2,000 men, strongly excited by-the brutal conduct of the
Orangemen, and their unmanly attack upon one of the best
of women. The messengers and the old gentleman were
taken over to the steps of the court-house by the people,
delivered up to vote against them, and not a soup indica-
tive of unfriendly feeling was uttered or heard, " Look on
this picture, and on that."—Newry Examiner.
SUICIDE IN BELFAST.--A lamentable case of suieide
was discovered in a Hotel in Waring-street on Sunday morn-
ing last. A gentleman, who proves to have been partner in,
and•traveller for, an English manufacturing house, had ar-
rived there on the preceding night by one of the evening
coaches from Dublin. After making some inquiries regard-
ing the sailing of the Liverpoolsteamers, he appeared greatly
agitated on being told that one of them had left the quay
only a few hours before, and was heard to exclaim,
that he would rather have lost 50/. than have missed the
vessel." He then ,called for a draught of porter ; but on
being told that it could only be had in bottle, be took a
drink of ale instead, and shortly afterwards retired to his
bed-room. On one of the waiters, a female, going to his
bed-room the next morning, about a quarter to ten o'clock,
she made some inquiry at the door, and not receiving any
answer, she pushed it open, when, to the horror of the poor
girl, she found the unhappy gentleman • suspended by a silk
muffling-handkerchief, from a clothes'-rack, quite cold am
lifeless !

STATE OF POLLS, AND NAMES OF
MEMBERS RETURNED.

CORK COUNTY, AUG. 16.
Barry 1,310 I Longfield ... . .
Roche 1,306 King .. ........ 846..................... 825
LONGFORD COUNTY, AuG..l6.
L. White 568 I Ilefroy .........
.................... 442
.....
H. White
......... .
SLIGO COUNTY , Am. .
441
16
Cooper
Perceval

One way of testing the enormous strength of
Ministers compared to that of the Tories, will
be allowed. by the most fastidious Tory to be quite un-
objectionable. On the supposition that the Tories had
a Majority of 40, and were to attempt to carry mea-
sures unpalatable to a minority in Parliament, returned
by 3 to 1 of the town population, what would he the
result ? Why, they would be driven from office with
ignominy. A majority in Parliament returned by te-
nantry-at-will electors in counties, and one-third of the
inhabitants of towns, would he forced to resign. But
a Ministry supported by three to one of the town po-
pulation in general, and by ten to one of the inhabi-
tants of the large towns, must always feel firm. The
utmost they ,can apprehend is an attempt on the part
of their adversaries to take them by surprise on a
chance vote, and that would amount to nothing, for
Ministers would immediately rally theirforces and defeat
their factisus opponents. It has been stated, we know, by
some ultra-Radicals, that of the Reformers hi. Parlia-
ment all are not exactly of the opinion of Ministers.
But those who may differ from Ministers diff's‘,r still
more from the Tories. In the case of the ballot, for
instance, Ministers may not tbe prepared to advo-
cate this mode of protecting voter; hut the Tories are
still less disposed to advocate it. In fact, public men
are, from prudential considerations, bound to propose,
not what abstractedly consiiiered is just, but what is
demanded by public opinion, and what can be carried.
When the ballot comes recommended to Ministers by
a Parliamentary majority they must propose it, or
abandon office, But it is absurd to take a case on
which Reformers are divided, as a test of the strength
of • Ministers in the House. On all questions on
which Ministers can be pressed by the Tories they are
secure of a majority; and should questions occur on
which the section of Reformers who go farther than
Ministers may outvote them, the Tories will hardly
oppose Ministers. But Were they to do so in both
Houses, the country would be no great loser by this
attempt of the Tories to outdo Ministers in liberality.
We are attached to Ministers merely because they are
more liberal than, the Tories; but we should not consid-r
ourselves battle to the charge of apostacy were we, on
finding, Sir R. Peel and his Tories joining a sestina of the

SEIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

The returns from England, Scotland, and Ireland
rnsv now be said to be completed, for the only places
from which they have not been received are the coun-
ties of Sligo, Cork, and Longford. With respect to
Cork and Longford there can be no uncertainty, but
Sligo is not so certain, Allowing Sligo to the Tories!
the number of Members on whom Ministers may count
with certainty is SO. There can be no cavil 43 to the
list of decided Reformers and decided Tories; but the
list of Members who cannot be claimed as Tories, a
amounting to 9, may furnish the Tory journals will:,
pretext for perplexing the amount, of the returrie. we
request out readers
.to keep in mind that we, claim a
majority of thirty-nine decided iteformerg,:and that all
eowroveriy with rope& to the elassifir-,,
berg must be.limited tO the nine • and
of Mom%
'gentlemen whom we
have entered ge neither Refrlmers nor Tories. • The
result, thtfefore, of air, statement of the Tories in
which they should clil'an any or even the whole of the
nine Member% 'w:hom we have excluded from the lists
o! ner-urr"::s and Tories cannot materially differ
-gym tl• Ott which we have given. Ministers, therefore,
".Vi meet Parliament- with a working ajority of '39.
Even by the admission of their opponents the mas
jority must exceed 30. But to appreciate the teal
strength of Ministers we must enter into a disssTtion
of the returns, by which we shall' show that their
majority really represents a far greater proportion of
the population than is indicated by the number of
Members. Our intelligent contemporary the Scots-
man sensibly remarks that " a very small majority
will give stability and force to a Ministry which
has the confidence of the independent and in-
telligent part of the community out cif doors ;
while
one which wants this external source of strength will
not he secure though it may' kiave a more numerous
band of supporters within the walls of Parliament."
Our contemporary has saved us much labour by a table
exhibiting the strength of the present Government, de-
monstrated by the English borough elections. With
respect to the Scotch and Irish elections there can he no
question. In both there is a large majority in favour of
Ministers. But confining ourselves to England, it will
astonish our readers to find how very small a portion of
the population returns the Tory Members. In the first
place, of the boroughs with a population of 100.0rs0
and upwards—namely, the Tower Hamlets, Finslyury,
Mary-la-bonne, Westminster, London.city, Lambeth, Southwark, . Liverpool, Manchester, Birreingham,
Leeds—the only one which returned Tori•es is Liver-
pool, and the analysis given by us y'ssterday suffi-
ciently accounts for the anomaly. The sense of the
householders was swamped by the freemen, so that in
reality all the towns of 100,000 and upwards really
support Ministers. But, giving Liverpool to the
Tories, we have of towns with 100,000 inhabitants
and upwards a population returning Reformers of
1,826,000, and only 133,000 returning Tories. De-
scending to the class of boroughs with a popu-
lation of from 50,000 to 10,000, and in the
case of towns which return one of each party
placing half the population to the account of the
Reformers and half to the account of the Tories, we
have Sheffield, Portsmouth, Greenwich, Norwich, Newcastle, Nottingham, Bristol, Bath, Wolver-
hampton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Salford. Of these
towns a population of 431,000 returns Reformers, and
only 275,000 Tories. Of the boroughs with a popu-
lation of from 20,000 to 50,000, Reformers are re-
turned by 739,00 inhabitants, and Tories by 309,700.
But when we descend to the smaller boroughs, of
which a part of the electors can he bribed or intimi-
dated, the case begins to alter. Of the boroughs with
a population of from 10,000 to 20,000, a populati on
of 331,000 returns Reformers, and 326,000 Tores.
Of the next class of boroughs with a population under
10,000, 305,100 inhabitants return Reformers, and
272,500 return Tor ies. The general result is, that a
population of 3,622.000 returns Reformers, and of
1,385,000 returns Tories. The most bigotted Tory
will not deny that there is more intelligence and inde-
pendence in the towns than in the counties, and more'"
in large towns than in small. Taken by this test,
Ministers have the support of an overwhelming', majority,
of the enlightened and independent inhabitants of Eng-
land. In, boroughs with 100,000 iehabitants and up-
wards, the Liberal is to the Tory population as 95 to
10. In boroughs with 50,000 inhabitants and up-
cards, the Liberal is to the Tory population as 48 to
10. In boroughs with 10,000 inhabitants ;ad up-
'bards, the Liberal is to the Tory population as 30 to
10. And in the whole boroughs collectivs-tv, the Li-
beral is to the Tory population as 26 to. 10: Minis-
ters have consequently a good works'ng majority in
Parliament, backed by three to one the town popula-
tion of England. The Tory minority represents,.
therefore, but a very small proportion of the town po-
pulation of •Englan-d, the on!yr population which can manifest independent opinion. The Scotsman, there-
fore, observes, with perfect truth that
" The 'strength of the Liberal party bears an exact pro-
portion to the numbers of the intelligent and independent
classes. In the great towns it is overwhelming : in those
of the first and second classes together it is 'nearly ns five
to one ; and faulty as the present system is in many re-
spects, it is etident that if the representation of England
were confined to towns with 10,000 inhabitants, and up-
wards, Ministers would themselves 'in a majority of very
nearly two to one.
"On the faith of this'analysis we say, therefore, with
perfect confidence, that the thinking, the best-in finrited, and
the most independent part of tile people of England have
pronounced by a vast majo, its in favour of 2.linisters, and
this as clearly .as if it we; e written in the skies.
" It is in vain to refer us to parts of thserepresentation
where Tory proprir.tors have the power to dictate to their
dependents, or to buy votes by the score. We are speak-
ing
of the eleethns as an index to the state of public opi-
nion, and it is idle to refer us to those classes of electors
who are ill-qualified to form an opinion, and incapacitated
by their dependent situation to give it utterance.
" The strength of the Tories lies, first, in the counties,
where the landholders can force their dependents to vote
according to their pleasure, and where the fecilit;es for
erening fictitious qualifications are almost unlimited ;
secondly, in the small burghs, where the influence of a
neighbouring proprietor predominates, or where the scale
can be turned by bribes given to thirty or forty elertors ;
and, thirdly, in such large burghs as Norwich and Liver-
pool, where the independent householders are swamped by
a horde of venal freemen.".

Liberals in the case of the ballot, to afford our support to
this strange coalition. It is open to the Tories, no doubt,
to steal the supporters of Ministers in this way ; but
we apprehend the country is not very apprehensive of
Ministers being outdone in liberality by the Tories.
Upon the subject of the Irish elections we have but
little to add to our observations of yesterday. The
Standard, as usual, finds it more convenient to indulge
in general declamation than to meet the very obvious
inference whieh we drew from our analysis of the
returns. Even with all his accustomed indifference to
truth, our Contemporary cannot question the improved
character of the representation, but whimsically enough
tells us that this "accession to the representation of
persons in a respectable rank can be looked upon only as
a symptom of danger ;" and upon the greund that
" these persons in a respectable rank" are the nominees
of " O'Connell, the Priests, and the Ribbonmen." It is
not very easy to please a man who is determined to be
out of humour, and we have as little hope as inclina-
tion of removing the disaffection of the Standard.
The cry attempted to be got up against the accession
to t 1 majority was first—it was " a Popish ma-
le
• • we showed that so far from this being
he fact—ans.! we cared not if it were—the number of
Roman Catholic Members has absolutely been dimi-
nished ! When, In this turns out to be " a symp-
tom of danger !" The next complaint was, that the
Irish majority was composed of men without rank, or
station, or property. We went over the list, taking
the names seriatim, and showing that the new repre-
sentatives are men of rank, of station, and of pro-
perty. This, again, is not denied, but it is " a
symptom of danger." A symptom of danger, in-
deed, to find the electors of Ireland send men to Par-
liament who are admitted to be men of high respec-
tability, of rank and property, possessed of the
strongest possible interest in the preservation of good
order, and of the connection between the two coun-
tries I We know an establishment in which, if a man
were beard to talk after this fashion, hiY keepers
would be disposed to regard it as a very strong " synTo
torn of danger." Oh, but these men in " a respectable
rank" are the creatures of O'Connell and the priests,
and the Ribbonmen. Supposing for a moment that
the dismemberment of the empire were the ulterior ob-
ject, as the Standard will have it, of Mr. O'Connell,
and that be had the representation as completely in
his hands as our Contemporary would have it be-
lieved, is it probable he would have selected such men
as his Representatives ? Is Lord Brabazon, who
succeeds Mr. Fitzsimon in the county of Dublin,
likely to abet any scheme for the dismemberment of
the empire ? Does the Standard think that Mr.
Pierce Mahony is likely to prove a very pliant instru-
ment in the hands of Mr. O'Connell, or that Lord
Belfast will be a less steady friend to British connec-
tion than his quondam Republican predecessor ? Is
the introduction of English Protestants, such as
Howard and Maule and Yates into the Irish popular
representation—is this another " symptom of dan-
ger," and an evidence of the perilous influence of " the
priests and the Ribbonmen ?" But we are weary of
unravelling such a tissue of absurdity, which can im-
pose upon no one, least of all upon the practised and
very unscrupulous casuist who puts its forward. We
conclude with observing that there never was a Ministry
stronger than that of Lord Melbourne in all that a Mi-
nistry ought to be ambitious to possess, the confidence of
the Sovereign and the support of the people. The majority
of 40 is worth a majority of three to one in a borough-
mongering Parliament. Representing as the Parlia-
mentary majority does, the great majority of the en-
lightened and independent inhabitants of England,
Scotland and Ireland, Ministers may well view with
indifference the success of the Tories in the counties
and small boroughs. The Tories cannot take from
Ministers the support of the nation by trick, or inti-
midation, or bribery. A majority obtained by frau-
dulent means may be insecure ; but Ministers can only
lose the support of public opinion by deserving to lcse
it. They may laugh to scorn the vapouring of the
Tories, as Lord Melbourne laughed at the lie told by
the Standard, that he would not consent to hold office
if ha had not a majority of English Members in his
favour. Ministers would, in fact, be traitors to the
country were they to abandon. office to a clique who
may have no hold of public opinion in England, Scot-
land, and Ireland. The people, the really indepen-
dent and enlightened people of England, are with
Ministers ; and they have only to act in such a man-
ner as to deserve their good opinion to obtain a con-
tinuance of it. The Tories are not supported by the
English people. They arc an anti-national party, and
all their efforts will never bring them one whit nearer
office.—Morning Chronicle.
Previously to the ascertained issue of the entire elec-
tions in Scotland, our readers will recollect that, ac-
cording to our political actuaryship, we calculated on
deriving from that country a positive gain to the Con-
servative cause of about five or six seats. It is need-
less to say that this opinion of ours was not sported at
random. On the contrary, we had made it a matter
of strict calculation ; neither overlooking the peculiar
character of the constituencies, nor forgetful of the or-
dinary influence of such disturbing forces as might
partially counteract our hopes, nor neglecting to make
the allowances and abatements which were essential to
an honest and cautious estimate. Well, it now turns
out, that though the changes effected in the northern
representation by the rejection of Dr. Bowring and
the remission of Mr. Fox Maule to his studies afford
abundant matter of congratulation, our anticipations in
other respects have not been fully realized. In short,
the moral advantages acquired by the Conservatives
in Scotland have not been accompanied by any ac-
cession of numerical strength. To all the purposes
of a Parliamentary division, parties remain very
nearly the same as when we had gained Renfrew
and Ross, immediately before the dissolution.
Now it appears that some of the Whig-Radical
prints are incontinently exulting at this. The fact that
we have only gained two Scotch counties in the course
of this year appears to be literally turning their heads.
They are bewitched with joy and surprise that our
progress is not absolutely overwhelming. Our posses-
sion of only 20 seats out of 53 is, on their part, the
theme of a solemn Te Dean,. To have been left with
anything that can be called existence is felt by them
to be overpowering ; and such is the tenderness of our
compassions, that instead of begrudging their ecstacies
any more than those of insensate infancy buoyant with
animal life, we quietly sit down to explain to them the
true reasons why our over-favourable anticipations of
the Scotch elections have not been practically made
good. Fi=st of all, when we counted on half-a-dozen
gains from Scotland, we were not aware either that
Mr. Balfour's purse was insufficient to contest Orkney,
or that his foolish Scotch pride was such as could
rather forfeit the scat pro temporc than give another
Conservative a favourable opportunity of supplanting
him. It is evident from Mr. Balfour's farewell ad-
dress, that he contemplates the probability of again
soliciting the suffrages of his late constituency. In
this case, he obviously concludes, that had he allowed
a Conservative to take possession, the delicacy and
difficulty of dislodging such a Member at a future elec-
tion would have been much more formidable than the
discomfiture of the Dundas family. Wherefore, Mr.
.Balfour having thought fit to choose a Whig warming-
pan rather than a Constitutional substitute, accounts,
very much to his own discredit, for the loss of one of
the seats on which we had reasonably calculated.
Anther of these was that of the St. Andrew's burghs.
Knowing, that among the three candidates, Mr. El-
lice was pledged to support Ministers on Church ques-
tions in a way which Mr. Andrew Johnston had de-
clined to do, the suspicion that the sly and sapient
e'snckew could have been guilty of the inconsistency
and treachery of withdrawing in favour of the candi-
date whose Church principles he disapproved of had
never once crossed our mind. Had he not taken in-
finite pains to correctour mistake, it is clear, that as Mr.
Maitland Makgill's minority, notwithstanding John-
ston's sneaking, was only 32, so had the whole three
the Conservative would have taken
stood the poll,
that place upon it which quoad St. Andrew's would
have amply verified our estimate. In like man-
:ner, as regards the county of Roxburgh, we confi-
dently reckoned on retaining it, simply because, with
all the known rapaciev of the Minto vampires, we
have them credit for a grade of political infamy consi-
derably less revolting than what they have just este-
lilished their title to. Of course, we could not foresee
hat the defeat of a Minto brother-in-law at 13er-

wick (Sir Rufane Donkin) would so sharpen their
appetite and claws in Roxburghshire, as to involve
their complete relinquishment of every sense of decency
and shame. Whether a forecastle gang had been sent
down by the Admiralty to endanger the lives of the
Conservative electors, we are not in a condition to say.
Certain it is, that a bludgeon mob were hired and paid
to interrupt and terrify the Constitutional voters.
Certain it is that Murray, the Whig Lord Advocate,
relived to allow the presence of the military, on the
application of the SherW: Outrages of the grossest
kind %, ere committed by the Minto mob, not only on
Mr. Berwick, an eminent brewer in Edinburgh, and
on Mr. Allan, of Glen, formerly Lord Provost of that
city, but on multitudes of brave, defenceless men,
whose courage emboldened them to record their
votes for Mr. Scott, even in spite of the perils
that beset the pollino. booths. Nay, it is a fact, that
the proceedings of the M into faction were so violent
and ferocious, that no fewer than eighteen of Con-
servative voters in one place positively declined to
leave the inn, and consequently their votes were lost.
All this we had foolishly supposed the Mintos to be
incapable of practising or sanctioning. Hence our
confidence that Roxburghshire would never be theirs
by fair means. But the people of their stamp are
never to be counted on. They have gained the seat.
In nearly the same way, though with some local va-
riations, might we account for the frustration of our
calculations in reference to the Haddington burghs, as
well as the counties of Banff and Argyle. Mr. Ro-
bert Steuart's carte blanche from the Treasury, to dis-
pose of Government situations to his more needy con-
stituents, has been filled up with a profusion and
profligacy which the poor Haddingtonians were unable
to resist. The unconstitutional conduct of the Earl
of Fife, as Lord-Lieutenant of Banffshire, had also
been as little anticipated on our part, as the shameful
manceuvres performed in Argyleshire by the new Whig
baronets and the old hacknied factors of Inverary-
; castle. Intimidation has been used to a monstrous
extent. Tenants in arrears of rent have been threat-
&f all, indirectly, to be " rouped out." No wonder
Mr. Ca.'llPbell of Monzis has failed.—Times.
perfect under the sun. Even the
There is ii:`thing p
boasted " progress of: enlightenment" is sometimes a
retrograde progress ; and " intellect," so long under
the marching orders of the Radicals, seems,mow and
then, to follow the advice of the Irish sergeant, and to
advance one step backwards. Wo have come to this
philosophical conclusion as a corollary from certain
discoveries which, since the close of the elections, have
been made by our erudite and cautious Whig-Radical
Contemporaries. The town constituencies have not,
upon the whole, done as well as these modest public
instructors expected. They have not, in the aggregate,
added to the majority of the " most enlightened Ad-
ministration that has for many a year governed this
country ;" but, then, these town constituencies are not
all " enlightened" themselves, and therefore the refusal
of their support to the best of Administrations is not
to he wondered at, and (if possible) not to be lamented.
But what has happened in the English elections ?
Why, according to the Ministerial papers, this—that,
" with hardly an exception, every enlightened town
constituency in the kingdom has returned Reformers."
Now unless in the last two or three Parliaments very
unenlightened town constituencies returned " Re-
formers, " a monstrosity which we only allude to for
the purpose of expressing our utter disbelief of any
thing so shocking, it is quite clear that " enlighten-
ment" has either quarrelled with her old companion,
the summer heat, and found out some uncouth cell—
Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings,
And the night raven sings ;"
or that she chooses to skip about like a " will-o'-the-
wisp," and very unlike that straightforward personage
which our wise Radicals have hitherto described her
to be. Will any man venture to say that it was an
unenlightened constituency which returned to Par-
liament two such luminaries as Mr. Hutt and Colonel
Thompson ? It is not to be thought of, much less
said. Hutt was the very darling of those who worshipped
"enlightenment." They were ready to exclaim, with the
enamoured enthusiast in the play, "0, thou, who look'st
so fair and smell'st so sweet," but now it is con-
demned by them as ugly and unsavoury. It is no
longer an " enlightened town constituency," though it
once was, for it has not returned what the Radicals are
pleased to call Reformers. From Liverpool, too, en-
lightenment has marched with Mr. Ewart. That great
town, the second in the world for commercial enterprise
and wealth, has become intellectually dark, so that the
merits of an Ewart, albeit of a shining quality, sufficient
to dissipate ordinary darkness, could no longer be per-
ceived by the majority of its electors. They are no
longer an enlightended constituency. Enlightenment
has flown from them across the sea, and sat down, with
other fluctuating and fallacious lights, in the bogs of
Ireland. And Bath, too—Bath, the flower of cities,
with its circusses and crescents, all glittering in purity
and whiteness—how could " enlightenment" desert so
fitting an abode ? Yet gone she is, unless the Minis-
terial journalists be false witnesses, and that is more
incredible than any other incredibility. Bath, Bath, how
bast thou disappointed the most philosophical among
the revolutionists I Unhappy is the Radical—
" Qui semper vacuam, semper amabilem
Sperat ; neseius auras
Fallacis Miseri quibus
Intentata rites."

But what is done is done : the fate of Bath is decided
—it has not returned Radical R eformers, and, of
course, it has immediately ceased to be an enlightened
constituency. Weymouth also—thou sometime plea-
santest of watering-places—foul is now thy fair poli-
tical reputation, for Fowell Buxton is driven away
from thee, as if he were no better than a common
goose. He sheds tears upon his own beer—for even
in his pathos Buxton always has an eye to business—
at the remembrance of the way you have used him.
But he has his consolation—revenge, of course, must
not be thong,ht of in connection with so mild and
modest a gentleman—he has his consolation in the
certainty that the constituency of Weymouth is no
longer an enlightened constituency. Wakefield must
be added to the dismal list from which enlightenment
has departed. This is a particularly shameful case, as.
the " West Riding" affords otherwise such a blaze of
Radical enlightenment. How the constituency will bear
up under such circumstances we cannot tell ; but cer-
tain it is, that, according to Ministerial discovery, it
'is no longer enlightened. And Sudbury, how doubly
dark it has become I How could it presume to return
two Conservative gentlemen to Parliament ? But its
doom is pronounced in the Ministerial Newspapers—
it is no longer an " enlightened constituency.' We re-
commend the scientific gentlemen who, in these days,
take such uncommon pains with everything to act upon
the discovery of the Which' Papers, and try to make
out the precise form which " enlightenment" assumes
at the moment of its " extrication" from a constitu-
ency. Let the exact moment be ascertained of the
close of the polls at which the rejection of former Ra-
dical Members by town constituencies was accom-
plished. At that moment, it seems, they ceased to be
enlightened. Enlightenment went out of them. Now,
if the registers of the observatories in their respective
neighbourhoods were examined by searching scien-
tific eyes, and similar appearances were found noted
down in several of them at the previously ascer-
tained hour, it would go far to confirm the physical
appearance of this same " enlightenment." No
doubt it would be found, like everything else that
is equally novel and interesting, to be closely con-
nected with " magnetic electricity." A rumour runs
that some one who was watching on the top of Mr.
Beckford's tower near Bath saw this enlightenment
flying away, in the shape of a rather shabby-looking
little man, with a long paper tail, composed of the
sheets of three pamphlets on the affairs of Canada_
but this rumour requires confirmation. We think a
commission of inquiry might be advantageously gat up
on this question, of which the two principal members
ought to be Doctors Birkbeck and Dionysius Lardner,
The former gentleman might certainly be much better
employed this way than in "taking up the question
of the turnpike laws of this kingdom, which it appears
by the police reports he has pledged himself to do,
in consequencehaving to pay " twopence
and costs for a toll that he was not suffered to
bilk. We must not dismiss this very important
subject without noticing a most this
class of
cases, which are distinctly separated from those 41.-
ready referred to. We mean such cases as those '
of York, Exeter, Gloucester, Brighton, and many

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAI, AUGUST 19,

others similarly circumstanced, of which the consti-
tuencies must be allowed to be enlightened, inasmuch
as they each return a Ministerialist ; but, on the other
hand, they must he condemned as unenlightened, in-
asmuch as they each return a decided opponent of the
present most enlightened Government. We beg to
trouble the Whig-Radical doctors for an opinion 0:1
these cases. We won't take Dr. Lushington's opi-
nion, because even in a public matter, such as the
burning of Indian women at their husbands' funerals,
he argues on whatever side he is paid for arguing upon;
but if any one less venal than he would resolve the
matter for us we would go to the extent of eighteen
pence in a public subscription for compensating his
trouble. N.B. We exclude Joseph Hume from the
competition, for he would immediately set to work,
even for the reward of our single subscription, and we
do not think his opinion on this, or any other subject
under heaven, worth -eighteen farthings, or even the
eighteenth part of that sum.—Morning Post.
Though the result of the elections, owing to the
most shameless interference of the Tories with the
free exercise of the franchise, is not so decisively
triumphant to the cause of Reform as was antici-
pated, yet there are certain indications in the political
vista which afford no less favourable promise to the
expectations of the country than would have done the
accession of those some eight or ten members who,
even under all the adverse influences brought to bear
against the free expression of opinion by the consti-
tuent body, it is expected would have—but have not—
been added to the Ministerial majority of last Session.
First amongst these cheering prognostics we hail the
early assembling of Parliament, which we may state
with some confidence will be summoned for Septem-
ber, and meet for the dispatch of business about the
middle of November. This readiness, we may say
eagerness, to meet the delegates of the nation, is
the best and most satisfactory refutation which the
Ministry could give to the slanderous insinuations of
the Tories, that they shrink from encountering the
newly elected House of Commons. It proves that,
however undue, adverse, and atrocious influences may
have impaired the support which they had reason
to expect from the House of Commons, they are willing
and anxious to submit their measures and policy to the
verdict of the country. And with confidence may they
do so, for with an exultation in which our readers will
participate, we announce that there will be no aban-
donment of the principles recognised in the measures
proposed last Parliament—no concessions to Toryism—
no hesitation in following up that policy which, how-
ever feebly supported in the Commons, and inveterately
opposed by the Lords, has the unequivocal approba-
tion of the whole honest and intelligent portion of the
community. While the country is with Ministers, it
is not a faction in the House of Commons, nor the
aggregate opposition of the Lords, that can give per-
manent opposition to the progress of Reform, nor en-
danger the stability of the Government. It would be
folly to suppose that the House of Commons, chosen
under the undue appliances whfch have effected the re-
turn of many of its Members, can fairly represent the
national sentiment. All that is of a Reform character in
that House is national, and may be safely considered
as elected either by the unbiassed wish of the electors,
or in defiance of Tory machinations ; all that is op-
posed to Reform is factious, and obtruded there by
practices which, though successful with individuals or
particular constituencies, are abhorrent to the feelings
of the nation. We state . our deliberate conviction,
that, unless to save the country from the derision of
being represented as a party to its own debasement, a
few votes on either side in the House of Commons
will have but little effect on the future policy of the
country. No, it is the exertion out of doors which
must decide our destiny. If the extention of popular
rights were dependent on the voluntary expression of
opinion in the House, the Reform Act itself would
never have been passed, as it could not have been ex-
pected that the rotten-borough representatives would
gratuitously pronounce a verdict of self-condemnation,
and become accessories to their own expulsion. It

was the gentle coe►eion from without that induced the
abandonment of the disgraceful system. We now have
need of a similarly persuasive power, and we rejoice to
perceive that the policy proposed to be pursued by Mi-
nisters is calculated, if necessary, to enlist in its behalf
the irresistible logic of a people's will. Let the Tories
boast ad libitum—to vaunt is not to vanquish ; and in
proportion to their prospects of temporary success will
be the 'power evoked for their utter discomfiture.—
Morning Advertiser.