The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-03 00:00:00

“THE
SUN”

OF
THURSDAY, NINTH OF NOVEMBER,

WILL GIVE A VERY
FULL ACCOUNT
OF THE

ROYAL PROCESSION,
FESTIVITY, &c.. ON

LORD MAYOR'S DAY,
SO AS TO REACH ALL PARTS OF
ENGLAND ON THE FOLLOWING
MORNING, AND SCOTLAND AND
IRELAND THE NEXT.
N.8.-EARLY ORDERS SHOULD BE GIVEN.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 20 minutes past Three o' Clock. •

LOND ON :
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1837.

We copy from our enterprising and liberal Contem-
porary, the !Vest Briton, a report of a Reform dinner
which was given, on Monday last, at Bodmin, to Sir
WILLIAM TRELAWNY and Sir WILLIAM 'MOLES-
wonTu. The speeches made at this dinner, wLich
was attended by all the influential Liberals of the
neighbOurhood, are remarkable for their spirited and
sagacious character ; and will give—what, we giieve
to say, is much wanted—a vigorous stimulus to Re-
form throughout Cornwall. Sir WILLIAM TR,-
LAWNY, alluding to this subject, said—" In order
to promote a further Reform, I would recom-
mend you to agitate—agitate at all your meet-
ings, at your vestries, your markets, your ordina-
ries, in the fiAd, and by the fire-side ; struggle on
again for Reform in Parliament, for you have not
got it yet." This is true. We have got the shadow,
but we hare not yet got the substance. The Ballot
is still withheld from us— Triennial Parliaments are
still withheld from us—other equally important mea-
sures are still withheld from us; and while this is the
case, it cannot be said of us otherwise than that we
ate merely standing on the threshold of Reform. The
Ballot, in particular, is a question which, if not
promptly settled, will keep the country in an incessant
state of agitation, most detrimental to the cause
of all national improvement. "At the last election:*
says Sir W. MOLESWORTII, " nut of five-and-twenty
contests, the Liberal party was defeated in twenty-
three, and if the same causes of defeat continue to
exist, probably at the next general election, hardly a
single Reformer will ba returned for the agricultural
districts of Eni.t6n,L" An'l yet, notwithstanding this,
We are told to look on the Reform Bill as a merwdrf,‘
which has freed us for ever from Tory !
Why, th.a. t .• •
ucsprmsm pretty 11Zarlf as formida',le as
84'1 unless MiY.lsters actively bestir themselves,
andsympathize more with the people, and less with
the feelings of the aristocracy than they hare hitherto
done, they will assuredly be ousted from place, and a
Tory Caovemment wilt be unposed upon us, which
wilt render our prospects of Reform more precarious
Than ever. What then do we require Ministers to
40 1 Why, just this--to take up a bold position, and
Maintain it at all hazards, How can they justly corn-
VII 6) that, during the past elections, the people sue-
t umhed to the threats and manoeuvrings of their
landlords, when we find them giving way in pre-
tisely the same meek and submissive style to the
aristocracy ? Can the poor, dependant elector,
be blamed for yielding to the menaces- of his Rector,
when Lord JOHN RUSSELL blinks the question of a
thorough suhstantial Church Reform, from an equally
acute apprehension of the spiritualthunders of the
Episcopal Bench ? Let Ministers set the example of
manly independence, and they may rely on it that the
force of that example will not be lost. on the com-
munity. Well and boldly spoke Sir WILLIAM

Mot,EswoaTH, on the subject of the Ballot. "To
the party here assembled," he observed, " among tl:e
desired reforms, the Ballot must appear the most
ur-ent ; for von have just felt the undue influence and
unscrupulous intimidation exercised by Tory landlords.
You have witnessed how the aristocracy of this county
compelled whole bands of tenantry to vote against
their inclinations. The tenants were men fully as
intelligent in political affairs as their landlords ;
nevertheless they were forced to the poll, com-
pelled to look. upon the elective flanchise—the
highest privilege of a free man—fis a curse ; or to ex-
pose themselves and theit families to the malice of the
persons on whom they are dependent. I cannot con-
ceive how any just persons, after the recent elections,
can hesitate any longer on the que:.:tion of the Ballot."
Mr. LE IDER, in a speech full of statesmanlike saga-
city, alluding to the policy which Ministers ought
to pursue at the present crisis, said, " Let them relin-
quish the vain attempt to conciliate the Tories ;
let them take out of Tory hands the com-
mand of the army ; let them employ their
power in the State, and their patronage in the Church,
to weaken their enemies and to strengthen themselves
let them give to the people a free Press and a system
of National Education ; let them show a willingness
to admit the people to' a share in the selection of their
representatives, and to make the House of Commons
what it ought to be—let them do this, and they may
bid defiance to the Tories, and remain for many years
the most powerful and the most popular' Ministers
that ever ruled this country." So say we ; but then
in order that Ministers may be brought to adopt this
beneficial tone of conduct, it is necessary, above all
things, and before all things, that the people bestir
themselves. Let them not sit looking in each other's
faces, and crying out in tones of despondency, " What
can one man do ?" But let each and all put their
shoulders to the wheel, and by measures of mutual
instruction, by combination, by frequent intercourse
and communication of thought, do their utmost to en-
force what they consider to be their undoubted rights.
Let the people but act in this manner, and their just
triumph is certain. But let them continue in a state
of lethargy and indifference, and the Tories will be-
come their Task-masters, for a whole generation to
come.

We refer our readers to the accounts in another part
of our Paper, from Liverpool. The :IVlunicipal
election in that town has terminated in the return of
12 Liberals, and I Tories. This is a trumpet-
tongued comment on the late boast of Lord SAN-
DON, that he and his colleague were returned
by the unbiassed suffrages of the constituency
of Liverpool. The fact that these gentlemen owe
their scats exclusively to the corrupt freemen,
is, we think, now pretty clearly established. It is
some comfort to think that these degraded wretches
are rapidly rotting off. We are most happy to
find that in every other municipal contest of which
intelligence has reached town, the Liberal party hare
been victorious in spite of the most desperate efforts
on the part of the Tories.

We find in our respected Contemporary, the Oxford
Chronicle, a report of the proceedings at Wallingford,
last week, when the Reformers of that borough gave a
grand entertainment to THOMAS TEED, Esq., the
late candidate for their suffrages. About 150 staunch
friends of the good cause assembled on this occasion ;
and a great many more would have attended had they
been sufficiently independent to assert their genuine
sentiments. There is, however, here, as in other
places, a party of back-bone Tories opposed to all re-
form, and so inveterate are they in their political hos-
tilities--so little of the milk of human kindness, to say
nothing of Christian charity, do they possess—that
they do all in their power, to ruin every man in his
worldly circumstances, whom they even suspect of
libe-
ralism. The Reformers, however, have not only not
succumbed to these would-be tyrants of Wallingford
—these despots in a small way—but have fought the
battle with them so manfully as very nearly to have
gained the victory at the late election. It was to cele-
brate these noble exertions, and to pay a tribute of
respect to the high-spirited gentleman who led them on
against the hosts of corruption and intimidation, that
the festival to which we have alluded was held.

Mr. TEED made an excellent speech, in which he
drew a very just if not a very flattering picture of
Toryism, which he contrasted with its antagonist " pre-
sentment," in a happy strain of eloquence, displaying
powers eminently calculated to promote any cause in
which they may be exerted.
We arc much pleased with every patt of Mr. TEED'S
address ; but if there is one portion of it which delights
us above the rest, it is that in which he declares him-
self -an uncomprising Ballotist. He is one of the many
thousands who have been converted to the truth by
oxperience—;he schoolmaster whose lessons always
come home to the mind. Like multitudes of other
men, Mr. TEED was opposed to the Ballot, because
he had only looked at one side of the question-
-because while he saw some evils attending se-
cret votin,,, he had not sufficiently considered the
magnitude and the prevalence of the evils to which
it would put a stop. The " working" of the
Reform Bill, during the late election, has, how-
ever, swept away a host of doubts. and fears which
seemed to emharrass the minds of many truly liberal
and enlightened men. Such men were loath to relin-
quish the hope that the " Bill" would be found ade-
quate to the objects for which it was intended, without
the introduction of a mode of voting different from that
which custom has sanctioned. These hopes are now
no more. The conduct of the Tories in savagely
coercing every person within their power, in cor-
rupting those whom they could not intimidate, and in
fabricating votes ad libitum, has proved to the convic-
tion of all reasonable minds, that we must either have
recourse to the Ballot, or surrender our liberties to
the 'relies —to those men whose delight it is to foster
abuses, and whose business it would be to reduce
freedom to a minimum, not only here, but in every
quarter of the wodd where English influence could be
made available. Between these alternatives, there is
no room for hesitation in the breast of the most timid
politician in existence. And therefore it is that the
question of the Ballot has gained ground so amazingly
within the last few months. One hears no other poli-
tical topic listened to with patience. The universal
voice is " we must have the Ballot—there is no
remedy but the Ballot." On this all-engrossing topic
Mr. TEED thus addresses his friends at Wallingford.
We need not say that we ceartily jlin in the hope that
Ministers will take up this great question, for now is
the time to do so effectually,. both with advantage to
the country and to themselves :
There were other questions that must speedily come be-
fore Parliament, and one—of vital importance—impelled
forward by the force of events, and by the necessity created
by Tory intimidation. That question was the Ballot.—
(Cheers.) Before his (Mr. Teed's) coming to Wallingford,
he was not an advocate for the Ballot. lie became a con-
vert from his experience on that occasion.—(Hear, hear.)
That question had lately made more converts than any
other question ever made in the same length of time.—
(Hear, hear, hear.) He sincerely hoped that in the event
of another dissolution, the Ministry will appeal to the coun-
try on that subject, and be governed by the result.—
(Cheers.) Many objected to the Ballot forsooth, because
was un-English ! That cannot be un-English which
existed and still exists in many private and public societies
in England.—(Cheers.) In the East India House, in the
Bank of England, the Ballot prevails, and was the' only
mode of election.—( Hear, hear.) In many, nay, almost
all the clubs and societies of private gentlemen,- the Ballot
had been introduced.—(Hear, hear.) If then the Ballot

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