The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-10 00:00:00

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thc the .O'colludl s 8 g're,dtly rp.noi7ted
fpf grfatAlei o't- their oatns. It is true
that the " great liar of the north," and the ,reat " phi-
losopher of the south,"
.have coinhined and conga-
teti.their C6ll§ettitistii
of tecrls: ft is lid denied tHt edit; Secretary of
Sate, the rjeetcd of the cotinty of Ve1;8;
trAcinaninious eleetorS bf streitid, itO nark.their
8f
another Secretary of State, the rejected of the county
of Flints, relics upon a similar burst of exalted pa-
trotism from that ttattniirThingly imptYrtont place,
the borough cif Tiveadd: lout, notwitlistarAlina' all
titfn portentutis suite of all these
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maintain that the Conservatives have a right to take
a high tone with respect to, the ensuing election.
We bare with us all that is leading ill tie
try—all that is looked up to when any matter more
within the ken of the persons concerned than political
tnattees Can he is required to be it-kludged with first,rate
ability and skill. It is said that the city of London is
against us; but how would the case be if the votes of

the wealthivst and most intelligent merghants on
'Change, and those of the most eminent barris'.crs and
solicitors residingin the inns of Court, were to decide
the election ? Who does not know that, if such votes

were to carry the election the representatives of Lon-
don would as certainly be Conservatives as the repre-
sentatives of Oxford University. In Westminster it

is said that we shall hut partially succeed ; but what
would the result be if the election lay with the first
men in Westminster Hall—in the College of Physi-
sians—in the University Clubs—and in the clubs
composed of officers in the army and navy ? We
do not say that persons of these ranks, in intelli-
gence and experience, ought to elect Members
of Parliament, to the exclusion of others ; but we do
say that such men have a right to lead in political
matters, as they do to all intents and purposes in
everything else, and we have a right to be proud that
they are with ua, and that our cause is their cause.
We have a right to take a high tone, because already
the majority of the representation of England is on
our side. We mean no disparagement to the other
kingdoms of the Union, but simply to state an unde-
niable fact, which is worthy of consideration, that
England takes the lead of the sister kingdoms, and
the majority of those who now represent England in
the House of Commons are with us. Are we likely

to lose any part of that preponderance ? The Admi-
nistration knows well that we are not, and therefore we
are twitted day after day with Ireland and Scotland. It is
certainly very fit that such a Ministry should seek for its
principal support in the quarters most distant from the
seat of Government and the scene of their exploits. It is
very fit that such Ministers of a Protestant Monarchy
—a Monarchy essentially and necessarily Protestant—
should place its chief reliance upon the votes of a
Papist population, the most bigotted in religion and
politics, the most degraded in physical circumstances,
and the most enslaved to their Priesthood of any popu-
lation in Europe. If the success of our cause de-
pended upon such support our anxiety about the elec-
tion would b 2 drowned in our shame for the degraded
position in which, whatever might be the result, the
election would exhibit us. If such support were what
we looked to we certainly should not be justified in
taking a high tone, though we were certain of a majo-
rity. We have never stooped so low—we have
never purchased success at the price of infamy. " I
stand here," said Sir Robert Peel, when he was
chief Minister—" I stand here as the Minister of
the Crown, in consequence of no dextrous combi-
nation with those to whose principles I have been
unfforntly opposed, and with whom I might frequently
have made, had I been so inclined, temporary alliance,
for the purpose of embarrassing the former Govern-
ment." When any man now a Minister of the Crown
can, with truth, say as much, we shall admit that he
may take a high tone too. As it is, the inferiority of
the talents of the Ministry and the baseness of their
spirit are equally level to the lowest arts. The railing
of their adherents seems gathered from the kennel,
and their own political aspirations reach no higher
than the half-doors of the 101. " shops or warehouses,"
or the " confession-boxes," where the unfortunate Irish
peasant is made subject to his political Priest.
Though the leaders of our party neither give away
places nor receive salary we think we may take a high
tone in comparison with such Monmouth-street traders
in politics as form the present Government party.
There are no two distinct and dissimilar paths of
duty as Ministers of the British Crown. There may
be shades of difference in the mode of arriving at the
common object, but that object should be to rally
round the Church, the Throne, the Legislature, and
the law all that is noblest and worthiest in the land, to
make usefulness and dignity unite together for the
service and the honour of the country, and to make the
Crown the head not of all that is worst, but of all that
is best in the nation. Of the life of a Minister it
may be said, " In eo colendo, sita vita est honestas
omnis, et in negligendo, turpitudo." With that neglect
we charge the present Ministry, and with the turpitude
which belongs to it. This is a charge more serious
than that of being anxious about an election, or talk-
ing loftily of our expectations of its result. One of
the results of the election will be, we doubt not, a vir-
tual corroboration of this charge by the voice of the
electors of England.—Morning Po.a.