The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-25 00:00:00

form to lose its obligationas Boon as it ceased to sec-. e

►e turn of the disturbers ? We remember a half-wit-

ted hid, a sort of rogue too in his weak r ay, who, in
the days of our youth, used to gamb!,: with the village
children for nuts, by tossing up tt bent farthing-, which
he had hammered for- the purpose, and which he per-
suaded himself must bring him luck. When he wcti,
he was strict in exacting payment, and btAIA- ed with
all the composure of a prolessimal gamester; but if he
lost two or three thmws, lie would begin to mutter and
show his teeth, find fault with his own farthlbg, pro-
test there was something unfair in its `bias, and insist
on being allowed a fresh ilance with a brass button
which he had A knack of twirling. That varlet was
the type of our present Liberals. The coin was struck
after their own die: and, for the first chuck or two it

came down as they cried it, " Tail." But now fol-
lows a reverse. " Heed" happens to come uppermost
upon which they angrily refuse to abide by the event,
and bluster for a new way of setting up the game, by
a twirl of their B:rmingham button.—Times.
A distinguished authority has observed that when
the most solemn dictates have failed to make good
counsel respected, a precept may be effectively conveyed
in a parable or talc. Under sanction of this recom-
mendation, we would most earnestly direct the atten-
tion of the Tories to the fable of the " Three Warn-
ings." The supposed case of the old man who by
one excuse and another twice escaped the grasp of that
Prince of " Destructives," Death, and was on the
third occasion remorselessly smitten by the avenger, is
peculiarly applicable to the position of those who
have twice evaded and repelled the claims of a
people seeking rights as impossible to be per-
manently opposed as the mandates of the " fell
tyrant ' himself. For two sessions of Parlia-
ment the claims of the British people have been ur-
gently enforced upon the attention of the Legislature.
These claims have been put forward by inisters,
sanctioned by the Sovereign, supported by the almost
unanimous voice of the people, and contumeliously
rejected by a corrupt and decrepid faction. To the
result of the third "call " is the attention of the whole
empire now directed with an all-absorbing interest ;
and, like the old man in the fable, the Tories, by
a number of plausible devices, endeavour to flatter
themselves into a belief that they shall again be
able to put off the day of retribution. But the fiat
is gone forth. In the last two Sessions of Parliament
the demands of Reform were spurned by the Tories
with the most marked expression of abhorrence. In
the Commons attempts were made to give this igno-
minious treatment the semblance of a justification, but
in the Lords the sovereign will of hereditary law-
givers was esteemed in itself an irrefutable reason
against the concession of those rights which the people
so justly claim from their oppressors. Twice has this
outrage against the national feeling been perpetrated—
twice have the respect for existing institutions and the
hope of gradual concessions induced the people to re-
main tranquil under their aggravated wrongs, and now,
for the third time, they are preparing to knock for ad-
mission to the temple of the Constitution. They
make no claims which are not strictly consonant with
the spirit of our so much lauded Constitution—
they seek only to embody in practice that which
hitherto has existed only in name—they seek to con-
solidate the Union with Ireland on its only tenable
basis—the equalization of rights and reciproca-
tion of interests, and to wrest from monopolists
of every denomination those spoils which have
been plundered from the people. These are the pur-
poses for which the people are a third time preparing
to besiege the doors of Parliament ; and, without
meaning to imply any threat, we would calmly ask the
Tories if they consider it probable that the nation will
again quietly submit to see the legitimate expression of
its will quashed by the tyranny of a faction ? After
all the election villanies of the Tories, the people still
have a majority in the House of their Representatives.
To this majority an objection is attempted to he taken
on account of its being " exclusively Irish." One
Morning Contemporary involves itself in the most
elaborate absurdities, endeavouring to demonstrate that
Irish Members should not have the same influence in
the House of Commons as English Members. An-
other worthy Tery journalist swears to make it " re-
sound through the political world that the majority is
exclusively Irish." An " exclusively Irish majority"
seems something not to be tolerated amongst civilized
Legislators—it seems a thing not to be endured that
these " alien" Irish should become " exclusives," and
cut all Tory associations. The title is, however, an
appropriate one, and in future when we may find it
necessary to expose the " inevitability of a Conserva-
tive Government," we shall refer to the majority of
" Irish exclusives."—Morning Advertiser.
The investigations which the new Parliament will
be required to pursue, as the first of its duties after it
is called together, into the manner in which several of
its Members have been elected, or at least returned,
will, if we are rightly informed, lead to many instruc-
tive disclosures. They will, or we are much deceived,
completely open the eyes of the people at large to the
hollow insincerity of the pretension which the Whig-
Radicals so constantly and ostentatiously put forth to
a peculiar, if not exclusive, reverence for the freedom
and purity of election. It would be impossible for us
to mention a twentieth part of the instances which
have been supplied to us from what we cannot but be-
lieve authentic and faithful sources of information, of
coercive tyranny exercised by the partisans of the
Administration—of tricks and inameuvres of the
most disgraceful character, practised by zealous and
important Members of the Ministerial faction—of
bribery, unstinted and undisguised—of frauds pal-
pably illegal, as well as desperately wicked, which
they have not scrupled to commit in order to obtain
the fallacious appearance of a majority at the first
meeting of the House of Commons. We do not stop
now to remark on the kind of majority which they
have been able to obtain, even with all the aid they
could derive from the most unsparing and unscrupulous
employment of the means we have inadequately de-
scribed. Our purpose is to present one or two in-
stances out of the countless multitude which have been
brought to our knowledge of fraudulent impositions
upon returning officers, of such a nature as must ren-
der any election at which they were practised with
success a mere nullity. The first example we shall
select of the election management by which the Mi-
nisterial
patty have acquired the mighty majority of
which, they
boast is an Irish case. Having said this,
7,e need scarcely add that it is a case in which the
management was successful to the extent of ohtaining
the contested seat, and adding one to that effi-
cient Ministerial majority which the organs of the
Government on the other side of St. George's
Channel profess to think so much the more va-
luable that "it is exclusively Irish." We are
credibly informed, and have no doubt of the per-
fect accuracy of the statement, that the return
of Mr. Mahoney and the temporary rejection of Col.
Thomas at Kinsale were produced by the introduction
of fraudulent and fictitious voters. The Conservative
voters of that borough know that they have won the
election, although, in consequence of the admission of
fictitious voters to the poll, the O'Connell candidate,
Mr. Mahoney, has been returned. The legitimate
constituency are, indeed, so entirely convinced that on
the removal of the names of the fictitious vote's whom
the Roman Catholic priests sent to the poll, the seat
will be adjudged to their candidate, Colonel Thomas ;
that, although by no means a wealthy body, they have
subscribed among themselves a considerable sum to-
wards defraying the expense of a petition ; and have
earnestly appealed to all the friends of honest and
genuine election, to the enemies of perjury and fraud,
in the three kingdoms, to make up the necessary
amount. No doubt is entertained or pretended by
a single individual of any party at Kinsale as to
the means by which the return of Mr. Mahoney
was secured. The only hope upon which the O'Con-
nell party rely is, that money will not be found to defray
the cost of the investigation necessary to unseat their
Member. That thishope will fail them „there can
be no doubt, since it involves the supposition that the
Conservatives of the United Kingdoms are deficient in
the energy and zeal with which a cause like theirs
ought to be supported, The second example of dis-
graceful fraud which we shall take from the long file
before us occuried, we lament
in that part of it where the electionslosay, a
be not altogether independent of the in
influenceEngland,wed and
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the Earl of Durham_ derives from his large. and valu-