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THEWESTMINSTER ELECTION.
. COAINIITTEE for CONDUCTING
Js the ELECTION of the REFORM CANDIDATE,
th T. LEADER, Esq., respectfully acquaint the Electors, that
_,el meet Daily at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street,
wnere all communications are to be addressed.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE ROOMS.
Stk. nA'eh:rtin's-in-the Fields—Slaughter Coffee House, St. Martin's-
St. G ,
8, eorge s, Outer Ward—Flask Hotel, Ebury-square.
L. George's, Inner Ward—Spread Eagle, Oxford-street ; Running
stßorse, Deke-street ; and Coach and Horses, Maddock-street.
8t 'Tit:flees—Crown, Broad-street, Golden-square.
stFro• arY-le-Stl•and, St. Clement Danes, and the Savoy—The
vrn and Anchor.
ahj,i°h,n,•, ar.nl St. Margaret's—Rose and Crown, Tufton-street,
SCA•4°'," Anchor, York-street.
St. irn 9.---Golden Lion, Wardour-street.
'l'l'4'e Covent- arden—Eastey's Hotel, Southampton-street,
Stra•Acl. ' g
AINS EVENING, at Eight ()'clock precisely, a PUBLIC
pi 'IING will be held at the Belgrave Hotel. Ebury-street,
~,inlico, GEORGE GROTE, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, at which
aueeting Mr. LEADER will attend.
By Order of the Committee,
WEST, Honorary Secretary.
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LONDON,
IVEDNESI.:AY EVENING, MAY 3,1837.

-bilk .1 m
r4y the Consolidated Fund
.was read a third time and passed. The Dublin Police
111 was read a second time, and the Recorders' Court Bill
. Ns read a first time •
Petitions on t.114e time,
subjects were presented : for
exerription to li•Juses of less value than ten pounds from Poor-
14to assessment; for the abolition of the punishment of death ;
faQR,k i n s,t the present system of national education in Ireland ;
- anu agr:inst the Church-rate Bill ; from the High Sheriffi
of Carlo..c, to be heard before his conduct at the late Carlow
eetiov:i should be condemned.
&,14°-ed BROUGHAM intimated to the Duke of WELLINGTON that
IT% facilities to the discussion on the Irish Municipal Corpora-
. ,),`'t!s Bill would be afforded by having the amendments which
LaidTliteded to propose printed. The Duke of WELLINGTON
that he did not know precisely what the amendments
°,lllcl be which he should ro ose.
:In the House of Commons several private Bills were ad-
tiejw'ed a stage. Petitions were presented for " the better ob-
ince of the Sabbath ;" for and against Church-rates ;
Iforf
th'e r:fduction of the duty on tobacco ; and for a total repe.a. o
26
2r•oorlo..vr
: Amendment Act. To the last-named petitions
14,:. 61(,) B.gnatures were attached. They were presented by
4reit ,141.t.EN, and led to a desultory discussion, taking up a
bine ur:-•al of time, and producing as a result no equivalent
mat whatever.
vi,,4ie• BoaTnwtex then brought forward his
motion for a re-
Noio the Convocation of the Clergy, to advise and assist
kralnent in matters ecclesiastical. . het i • flusii did not particularly object to a Convocation
Alerted, n any Bill on the subject a clause should certainly be In-
tl relieving the Bishops from further attendance in the
°,t4e of Lords k.ord j
the m • Russ*ELL opposed. the. motion, and observedf that
able embers for the Universities had shown how very
.avour-
tico. they were to the views of the Hon.- Mover, by leaving the
re. "3e since the debate opened. On a division the motion was
canted by 24 against 19. The House was soon afterwards
obeined out, whilst Mr. Prymo was proceeding to explain the
eul et of his motion for a Committee to consider the expedt-
eY of reducing the duties on tobacco and foreign spirits.
rot the last ten
that the years the Tory leaders have shown
lend y will consent to any measure, however vio-
y they might once have opposed it, provided they
clin retain place—of this fact history leaves no doubt.
4nd w
he supporters of their Leaders are going still furter, e should not be surprised to see Tory candidahtes
tn
Ilt,dvocating doctrines more approaChing to Radicalism,
an any ever advanced by the Whigs. If e c
can abandon their principles, and adopt those hiefs
of their
oPponenis, why may not their underlings follow
the
example ? In fact, the plan is in active operation.
ory candidates are now contending with Radicals for
1,
the sweet voices" of the non-electors ; and so far has
one of the organs of the party succeeded, that the Tory
;41candidate for Huddersfield is supported by that class
v?;l, the principle of universal suffrage. It would cer-
i:Pley fen ovel to see an ultra-Tory adopt the prin-
s UNT and CoußETT,•ancl hear him move for
toave to bring in a Bill to do away with all qualifications,
il
0111)ael ke the suffrage universal, and have Parliaments
du dl
at least once a year ; but in reality such con-
of et Would not be more inconsistent than the conduct
th Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. It would be only a
vviitaNing ef positions. The Tory would occupy
that
certain
the other had abandoned, and would amuse a
4tri:in, Class of the people as Sir FRANCIS long
lase
be
--' them, well knowing that his plan could never
hulul. The Tories are evidently inclined to
thtiPr° uecessf
best support in the selfish views of the aristo-
ktiovvY! and in the ignorance of the populace ; and
the Reform that the power given to their opponents by
th„ v'eforin Bill has sadly weakened the influence of
- iorole
the 11. r, they have no resource left but to appeal to
too, +ll,Bloided passions of the latter. Such a course,
safett:"eY are aware can be pursued with perfect
di place'' If thirty or forty Tory:•Radicals were to
S°f en a° equal number of Reformers in the House
°vert liam°lls, the present Government would be
ful tur•ned en, the first great division. These faith-
'l` • ribunes of the people would vote with the
orie,
Party
.°l.
,all questions of vital importance to the
toui ' -1.4 Keep up the appearance of advocating the
rit4exof the non-electors by bringing forward, like Sir
trava cis BURDETT every year, some motion so ex-
If eent that neither Whig nor Tory could support it.
It4di_etiors
tinder the 101. franchise, and inclined to
the c,a doctrines, can be deceived by these pretences,
,ii y ueserve onl • such
11°Y not the y contemptuous treatment. Have
Torie sense to see that the great object of the
taliee!, has been to keep them in the grossest igno-
ts , Have %Iles ~, they not learned by experience that the
"°0(1 out for the freemen.in the discussion on

the Reform Bill, not on the ground of iiittice, but be.
cause the greeter portion of tiia,t 'class were the mos
ignorant, and rhtA most easily bribed ; and that their
iLlOSii)ity to the appropriation clause and th(
Irish system of education arises from their apprehen-
' sion of the diffusion of knowledge in a part of the
country which is now rising every day into greater
importance ? For the same reason they encourag(
the outcry against the new Poorlaw, because
it is calculated to destroy servility, and raise a
portion of the lower and middle classes to
something like a state of independence. WEL-
LINGTON and PEEL, of course, disown any such
intentions; but let not the people deceive themselves—
let them judge of their leaders by the acts of the adhe-
rents, and 'not trust to professions which these men
have not the slightest intention of fulfilling. We have
too much confidence, however, in the good sense and
discernment of the great body of that class to whom
the Reform Bill extended the franchise, to suppose
them capable of committing an act of political suicide,
by playing into the hands of men who made such a de-
termined and hostile resistance to the rights and privi-
leges which they now enjoy.

In another part of The Sun will be found a highly
interesting Report of the proceedings which took
place at a meeting of the Westminster electors held

last night.
We said on Saturday that the letter of Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT to the electors of Westminster was an
appeal to the Tories for support against the Liberal
part of the constituency, by whom alone it has hitherto
been his pretended boast that he has been supported.
It is above all things important that the electors
should have a clear and perfect understanding of this
fact, and that they should -not be led away by the de-
lusion that Sir FRANCIS is still the advocate of the
the popular cause. No imposition could be more
unfounded, no mistake more fatal. He is in heart and
soul a Tory ; and those of the electors who do not so
regard him—who do not look upon him as. the most
dangerous enemy to their liberties, and oppose him with
as much zeal and energy as they formerly exerted in.his
behalf—will be guilty of a dereliction of principle as
glaring as his own. If there be any persons in West-
minster, or anywhere else, who entertain a particle of
doubt as to Sir FRANCIS BURDETT'S apostacy, let
them look at his late conduct, and then at the proceed-
ings of his new allies and friends, which are the best
exponents of it, and they will be convinced that to
indulge any hankering after him would be to play the
game of the Tories in the most effectual manner.
Sir FRANCIS, in the very letter in which he inti-
mates his intention of appealing to the electors, declares
`.hat he will do so, not as 'the Champion of Reform,

of as the advocate of those ameliorations in our ins

tutions which every rational man considers to be the
sole end and aim of Parliamentary Reform, but as the
determined foe to all such improvements, which he
contemptuously designates " new-fangled doctrines
and crude projects "I ! ! There's a wipe for you, free
and independent electors of Westminster—there's a
nice little cud for you to chew at your leisure. I You
have been flattering yourselves that the reform of abuses
in Church and State was all along an integral portion
of your political creed—the very thing which, above all
other things, gave you a paramount claim to "freedom "
and "independence." You have been fancying that this
freedom and independence would be best secured by
shortening the duration of Parliaments—by an extension
of the suffrage—by a system of voting which should enable
the voter to follow the dictates of his conscience and free
will—by municipal institutions, which should give the
inhabitants of towns in England, Ireland, and Scotland
the management of their own affairs—by placing men of
all persuasions in religion upon an equal footing in the
state, and suffering no religionist to pick the pocket of
another. All these things, and many more of the same
kind, you are now told by Sir F. BURDETT are
the wildest hallucinations that ever shot across the
chambers of the human brain. The former advocate
of Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, and Vote
by Ballot, now gravely pronounces any approximation
to such opinions " new fangled doctrines and crude
projects ;" and as if that were not enough, he tells
you in the same breath that he has not changed his
opinions, but that you have deserted yours !
Mark, too, how the Tories are chuckling at the -ac-
cession of the turn-coat Baronet to their ranks ! They
are preparing to make their convert the instrument
for inflicting a deep wound on the cause of Re-
form. Every man and mother's son of them in
Westminster will support him at the ensuing elec-
tion, and if they succeed—which they can do
only by the assistance of the Liberals—they
will immediately trumpet forth their success as a
proof of " re-action" not to be gainsaid. Sir
GEORGE MURRAY, who came forward the other
day, as the candidate in the Tory interest, has
already withdrawn his pretensions. And why ?
" Because," says the Tory candidate, " if I were
to place myself in competition with Sir FRANC.IS
BURDETT on the present occasion, I should seem to
discountenance in another those same principles upon
which I have rested my own claims to your support."
This is a testimonial in favour of Sir FRANCIS'S con-
version which cannot be impeached, and which we are
sure can require no corroboration ; but nevertheless it
is satisfactory to find that the Morning Post endorses
it by stating, that " the vote of every Conservative is
ready to be enrolled in the support of the high-spirited
Baronet."

They arc already in the field, moving Heaven and
Earth in a cause which they feel to be peculiarly their
own. Sir' GEORGE SINCLAIR, himself a renegade
from the principles which procured him the
Representation of Caithness—a traitor to Liberty
—and a wholesale manufacturer of paper qua-
lifications, is the Chairman of his Committee ; and
and in a few days will be exhibited to the eyes of the
electors of Westminster the grateful spectacle of their
once cherished idol, Sir FRANCIS BURLETT, nomi.=
nated on the hustings at Covent-Garden, by Sir
JAS. GRAHAM, another deserter from the ranks of the
people. Is there a Reformer in 'Westminster who, after
this can hesitate as to the course ite ought to pursue ?
If there be, he is one of those who " would not be per-
suaded though one rose from the dead."

'he whole of the Paris Journals of Monday have
,ecn received. The Paix contains a paragraph, stat-
ig that the PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL is so seri-
ously indisposed as to be unable to attend the debates
on the Secret Service Money Bill. This will have
the effect of delaying the passing of that measure ; in-
asmuch as no other Minister is presumed so well qua-
lified to defend its details, and repel the threatened at-
tacks of the Opposition. Monday being the KING'S
birth-day, the Chambers did not sit, and the Bourse
and Post-office were closed at noon. No review was
to take place, nor was it expected that the KING would
appear in public. The commutation of MEUNIER'S
punishment has encouraged several Journals to re-
commend, in energetic terms, an act of amnesty to-
wards all political prisoners convicted only of con-
spiracies against the Kingly Government, rather than
the person of the Sovereign. The Journals recom-
mending such a course of proceeding best consult the
stability of the French Throne.

COMA CANIPUSANO DE ItEcitEN, the Spanish
Ambassador at Paris, has addressed the following ❑o-
tice to the holders of Spanish Bonds :
" The holders of Spanish rentes are informed that the con-
version of coupons, due on the Istr- of November last, into
Treasury bonds, payable one-half on the Ist of May next, and
the other half on the Ist of November following, having been
effected but by a very small number of holders, the Spanish
Government, to give those who have delayed so doing time to
effect this conversion, prolong the period which had been fixed
for the Ist of May to the Ist of June. On that day the Trea-
sury bonds proceeding from this conversion will be paid. An
ulterior notice will be given to the holders, pointing out the
place of payment in Paris and London. In spite of the ex-
penses of a war sustained for the common cause of all consti-
tutional states, the Spanish Government confidently relies on
being able to give its creditors this fresh proof of the efforts
and sacrifices it is always ready to make for the religious ac-
complishment of its obligations. With regard to the coupons
of the half year ending the Ist of May next, their conversion
into Treasury bonds, at nine and fifteen months' date, viz., to
the Ist of February and Ist of August, 1838, will commence
on the Ist of July next.
(Signed) " Count CAMPUSANO DE RECHEN.
" Paris, April 30th."

Count de MA TUSZEWIC and the Marquis of LON-
DONDERRY have arrived in Paris from Prussia, on

:heir wad• to London. Lord LYNDHURST is also in
Paris.-

From the North of Spain we have no news of
later date, than the accounts published in this Journa
yesterday. Advices from Tolosa, of the 25th ult.,
state that the Pretender had not given up the pan o
passing the Ebro, and making a dash upon the capi
cal. The Northern Powers, by whom the civil war it
maintained, have remitted immense sums to Doi
CARLOs, to enable him to undertake so important an
expedition. Our own opinion is, that the Pretender
dare not send the requisite force out of the Basques,
without losing all his positions in those provinces.
Accounts have reached France that the island of
Santorin, with its inhabitants, was swallowed up in
the sea, during the convulsion occasioned by the late
earthquake.

The following are extracts from the Paris Papers of
Monday

Letters from Berlin, published in the Hanover Gazette,
mention M. Jordan, Ambassador at Dresden, as likely to be
entrusted provisionally with the functions of Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs; but the same letters also speak of Count Lo-
tbum as the probable successor of M. D'Ancillon.
The Gazette of Zara, of April 10, positively contradicts the
news that has been published respecting the appearance of the
plague on the frontiers of Dalmatia, and the formation of a sa-
nitary cordon on those frontiers. Bosnia, and the other adja-
cent countries, are also free from that disorder.
According to telegraphic orders from Paris, very great vi-
gilance is exercised on all the roads from the capital to Bor-
deaux ; the purpose was to arrest five persons of distinction
accused of corresponding with Don Carlos, and of intending
to go into Spain. If we render these facts public, it is be-
cause the ends of justice cannot suffer by it, as its vigilance
has been eluded.

However, the public conveyances are every where searched
by day as well as by night, the passports examined, and in the
journey from Paris to Bordeaux, a post-carriage has, it is said,
been examined two-and-twenty times.—Memorial Bordelais—
Journal du Commerce.

The Gazette du Midi has the following article :—" M.
Sautter, an eminent Member of the Consistory of Marseilles,
is lately gone to Algiers, where he is going to introduce the
doctrines of Calvin. Thus, while the creation of an episcopal
See has been put off for nearly seven years, Protestant Minis-
ters are going to establish themselves in a country where St.
Augustine preached the Catholic doctrines, and where it is
certainly high time that the faith should be revived.—Gazette
de France.

Mr. TnEssEmEa was replying when our reporter left.

HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, APRIL 2S.
,
Bills. Money,
Austrian Meta Piques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent. —
Die'_ ditto 3 per cent.
Litto Bank Shares 1342 1340
Anglo-Russian Loan loi% 105
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent. —
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th •
Series -
Ditto, Certificates
Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 46
Ditto, 3 per cent. 29
Dutch 2Y2 per Cants.
Ditto 5 per Cents —
Polish Bonds, 2 per cents.
New Tickets 151% 151%
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents 711,f, 71
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents.
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent 20% 29
Greek 4 per cents. 1533, guaranteed by France 93 92%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, APRIL 28.-13 11 % ; two months, 139%.
BERLIN, APRIL 15.—Three m•nths, 6. 25%.
VIENNA, APRIL. 13.—Two months, 10 3.
Sr. PETERSOURGII, APRIL I t —Three months, 107 i.
—liamlwrg Papers, April '2B.

Madrid Journals to the 24th ult. have been received.
In the sitting of the Cortes on the 23d—the 28th, 29th,
30th, and 31st Articles of the Constitution were
adopted—the three latter without opposition. In con-
sequence of the vote of the Cortes on the article of
the Constitution, which provides that the Colonies
shall not depute representatives to that Assembly, her
Majesty, the REGENT, 'has addressed the following
decree to her Captains-General, and other Governors
in the Spanish Colonies :
" The Cortes, in virtue of the powers vested in them, have
decided that the Constitution adopted for the Peninsula is not
applicable to the provinces belonging to Spain situated in
America and Asia, which shall be hereafter governed by spe-
cial laws suitable to their respective positions, and adapted to
their several wants. Consequently no deputy for these pro-
vinces can in future have a seat in the present Cortes.
(Signed) "The QUEEN REGENT."
The accounts received from the Provinces by the
Government up to the date of these Journals were, on
the whole, decidedly favourable. Beyond the Ebro
the Carlist bands only signalised themselves as robbers,
forced to fly at the approach of the QUEEN'S troops.
In the capital there was no manifestation of a wish to
disturb the public tranquillity.

TIM SUN, LoNDON, WEDNRSDAY, MAY 3, 1837

LONGFORD COUNTY ELECTION
COMMITTEE.-(THIS DAY.)

The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock.
This is the sixteenth day of the sitting of the Committee ;
and out of the gross majority of 96 for the sitting Member
:11r. White, fifty-seven totes have been struck off. Three
additional votes were also struck off this morning, upon the
;round of insufficiency of rpltw,

CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE
(THIS DAY.)

The Committee met this morning at 11 o'clock.
Mr. NIAULE said that when lie yesterday asked the indul-
,zence of the Committee for an adjournment till the morning,
he had every hope of the arrival of the assessor, Mr. Walsh, by
the mail this morning ; but that gentleman not having arrived,
he felt it his duty to proceed with the further consideration of
the case of Hugh Nowlan which had been so long under dis-
cussion. The Learned Counsel was proceeding, when
Mr. TIIESSIGER begged to ask his Learned Friend if he had
closed his case on this vote, or if he was now intending to
make his observations on the whole case ?
Mr. MAt,LE—The whole case on this vote. He then at
great length, and with great ability, contended that nothing
had been shown by his learned friends why the vote of Hugh
Nowlan, which was now off the poll, should be put upon it for
Mr. Bunbury. They were boUnd to show, not only that this
Hugh Nowlan had a right to vote, but that he did everything
in his power to exercise that right in a strictly legal manner.
His learned friends were also bound to prove the identity,
which they utterly failed to do. There were two persons of
the name of Hugh Nowlan—there were two places called
Newtown in two different baronies—namely, those of St. Mul-
lin's and Hydrone East, and he should he glad to know which
of those Nowlans, and out of which of those baronies, was the
person whose vote was sought to be placed on the poll ? Hugh
Nowlan, of St. Mullin's, went to the booth for Hydrone East,
and there tendered his certificate, which was rejected by the
Assessor, as it legally ought to have been. The production
of the certificate was the right to vote, although, if the certi-
ficate was lost, he might call upon the Clerk of the Peace for
his affidavit, and upon that he could vote ; but it would be mon-
strous for any man to say that he could vote upon both, and
for two different candidates.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY

DON V. LIPPMAN. -
The further arguments in this Scotch Appeal were resumed
to-day, and had not concluded when we left.
The Lords present were Lord Brougham, the Earl of Cam
perdown, and the Bishop of Salisbury.
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