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

REFORM TRIUMPHANT
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.

CAMBRIDGE.—SATURDA T.
Our County Election has passed off without opposition, and
the old Members are now at liberty to regime their seats.
Mr. Townley was proposed by the Rev. Mr. Peyton, and se-
conded by Mr. Pryme, Member for the town. Tke town
Tories, smarting under their recent defeat, would not allow
Mr. Pryme to be heard, for which the loyalists retaliated by
dooming to dumb show all that fell from the movers and se-
conders of the Tory candidates. If they had extended their
kindness to one of the latter, he would have taken it in good
part, for when he presented himself to the meeting he looked
and thought unutterable things, and seemed by no means in-
clined to speak charitably of poor Mr. O'Connell. However,
if the arch-Agitator (as he called him) has no more formi-
dable foes to deal with, he may quietly pursue his vocation.
Mr. Yorke's speech was remarkable for its moderation ; and
if the Tories expected an avowal of sentiments of uncompro-
mising hostility to the Ministry, they were grievously disap-
pointed. It may, perhaps, be the shadow of a coming event.
It is somewhat singular that this election should not have pro-
duced a contest, when it is considered that Mr. Adams, the
Chairman of the Sessions, if he had offered himself, would
unquestionably have been at the head of the poll.

NORTHERN DIVISION OF DEVON.
This election came on at Southmolton on Saturday the
29th. Lord Ebrington was re-elected, and Sir Thomas Dyke
Acland was chosen as his Lordship's colleague without oppo-
sition, the Hon. Norton Fellowes having declined to stand
again. The most enthusiastic feeling was manifested by the
Reformers, who rallied in immense force in the full expecta-
tion that a second Liberal candidate would be proposed, and
many and most of them were excessively mortified that one
seat in the county should be quietly surrendered to the Tories.
If a second good Reformer had stood, there is scarcely a
doubt that he would have been returned. But as it is, Sir
Thomas Acland is the least objectionable man the Tories could
have brought forward. He voted for Catholic Emancipation,
and for the second reading of the Reform Bill in 1831.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 27.
I took advantage yesterday of the short interval of leisure
afforded to me, to communicate to you in a few words the
glorious result which has transferred to the electors of Ply-
mouth the laurels which the Hanoverian conspirators have
plucked from the brows of our less fortunate brethren at
Liverpool. But as I could only give you the result of the
poll during the last hour from what took place at the booth in
which I was stationed, in the absence of the general return
from the other polling districts, my announcement of the final
result does not correspond with that which was declared by
the Mayor from the hustings yesterday. 1 hasten therefore to
give you the numbers as they were then declared :
Collier 7BO
Bewes .
Cockburn
Blackwood 466
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The Tories are mcst completely chop-fallen under this,
as they pretend, unexpected blow—and certainly if lying,
bull) ing, bribing, kidnapping, and intimidation could have
given triumph to a cause, they bad the best right to expect it.
Of the votes which they did obtain, they can boast of but two
that were given from honourable or conscientious motives—
the overwhelming majority of them having been gained by
perfidy and debauchery—debauchery of the lowest and most
demoralizing description. For the last fortnight, or more,
houses of the lowest description have been kept constantly
open, as in the paltniest days of Tory infamy, for the purpose
of corrupting the morals and depraving the habits of the lower
class of voters.