The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-26 00:00:00

nanner which is rather usual with him. " You avow, no
!oubt—l don't call on you-to disavow the same hostility to
,erip on you have ever avowed. Corruption! why, what
has this meeting to gain from corruption ? What possible
good could this meeting, which has assembled for the double
purpose of marking its esteem for me, and of confirming
and spreading the spirit which animates us--4 ask, what
lame& could you, the active and industrious citizens of
Glasgow derive from corruption ? Perhaps you think my
situation different from yours ; and although it might be
difficult to prove that corruption would benefit you, yet to
me, as a public man, corruption would be of great. 4449*
tage. Oh! I should like to ask what influence entlOption
could give me compared with this meeting Rubel
Peel's Speeds at the Glasgow Dinner, l:Jthian. 18J71 P„
58, Murray's Editionese-Now, I will take leave to say-, aid
to Sir-R. Peel personally, Ido not impute corrurg;cico, if
if it be asked, what has he to gain by corrup4or, in his in.
dividual capacity, I answer nothing. 13* 1,1. it be asked,
what has he to gain by outruption tu! fk 'party leader, rue
swer sverythinc I say so, beertuo tats ji the 10441, sir
party witlgh (!‘.);ald not subsist a rr.',,„,tiet but for corruption,
ulq °P.,"rruption In its widyo.`,, sense, In which I include, non,
..ierely bribery, but ntimAation and delusion—everythint,
11 short, by which oi..e exercise of the unbiassed judgtnrat
is diverted, wish not to be misunderstood, I make 'less
observations generally, to which, of c urs), there rimy be
numerous exceptions ; but as a general position, I affirm
that the Tory party owe -their success to bribery, intinde
dation, and delusion. Do I make this assertion rashly ?
—Do I say anything which 1 do not firmly believe !
No.—(Loud cheers.) And I shall, to show the grounds
of this belief, very shortly advert to the conslituencies, in
which, at this election, the Tories.have been most gene-
rally suceesscul, I shall quote from a list carefully pre-
pared, and which appeared in the Scotsman. " To obtain
a correct indesed the feelings of the country at large, wo
must fix en those burghs which unite numbers with into',
ligeace, and where the corrupt mass of freemen, natraer-
burgesses, and potwallopers are wanting." " The s•eturns
are instructive. In twenty-two of the chief twits admit-
ted to the franchise under. the Reform Act, the returns of
Reformers ere 35-to 9, or within a fraction. of 4to I._
( Hear.) In the large burghs, such as Finsbury, Lam-
beth, Marylebone, the Tower Hamlets, Manchester, and
Birmingham (we might add Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aber-
deen, Dundee, and Paisley), the Tories neither have now,
nor ever had a chance. In the second class of towns, such
as Leeds, Sheffield, Greenock, and Devonport, the chances
are three to one against them." In stnader towns, where
the constituency is mixed, and in some large towns, in
which there are a great mass of the old corruptible free-
men, their-success is more conspicuous. Hull, Liverpool,
Norwich, and Newcastle are specimens of these. Let us also
cast our memories back to the cases of corruatiou which 'nave
within these last few years- engaged the Attention of Par-
liament. Let us think of Hertford, lasw:ch, •Warw.ok—
in whose cause was corruption employed ? In that or the
Tories. If we try the matter by another test, by whom
have corrupt practices been most. prominently denounced ?
By whosel:xeetions have they been brought to light ? Un-
deniably by those of the Reformers.—( Loud cheers.) By
whom have they been palliated, and by whom have their
perpetrators been defended—by.whom has the inadequate
punishment, occasionally inflicted on them, been lamented,
and termed tyrannous and oppressive ? By the Tories.—
( Cheers.) 1 refer, among other instances, to the proceed-
ings respecting the burgh of Ipswich. I perfectly agree
with the Scotsman in the article before referred to. " A.s
a general law, we find that the success of the Tories de-
pends entirely on the degree in which the electors are ac-
cessible to fear or. corruption.". To prove, again, the gene-
ral purity or the new tea pound, constituency, we may reihr
to the result of the election in the Scotch, burghs. • Of
twenty-three, twenty-two•have returned deciled Reformers.
The Kilmarnock district can hardly be :said to be an ex-
ception. Dr. Bowring was not rejeeted because he was a
Liberal, but because he was a UrAarian ! His opponent
avowed himself an approver of the general policy of the
Government, except on the questions reating to the Church.
Many strenuous Liberals voted against Dr. liowring, on
account of his religious creed, quite independent of any ob-
jection to his Parliamentary conduct. Hence we may sate,
that in the newly-formed constituency of the Scottish
towns, Toryism is extinct ; as they do not in general pre-
sent materials on which its favourite means can overate in
a decisive manner. If we turn to the county representa-
tion, the picture exhibited is very different. There the in-
timidation of the landlord prevails. There 'clerical delu-
sion finds an ample field for successful exercise. Let us
look to Stirlingahire. - At the nomination it is said that
only one hand was held up for Mr. Foibes, yet he car-
ried the election by a small majority it is true. But he
carried it, proving that men who were ashamed to hold up
their hands for the Tory candidate, could be influenced to
vote for him. How has the Caithness election been car-
ried by Sir George Sinclair ? Look into the John O'Groat
Journal, a very spirited and independent Liberal paper, and
you will find that Sir George Sinclair owes his success to
fictitious votes, to broken pledges, and to most unstemly
clerical interference. But, Gentlemen, I cannot pursue
the subject further. lam sensible of the great length of
time which I have intruied on your indulgeoee. I have
exhausted your patience, I fear ; I am Awe I have ex-
hausted my own strength. Gratified. as I cannot but
feel with your invitation, gratified as I must feel for the
kindness shown me, I must again repeat my chief grati-
fication results from the interest you have evinced in the
cause of genuine liberty. and •progressive Reform. Gentle-
men, I again thank you far the distinguished manner in
which my health has been received by you ; and I espe-
cially thank you for the attention with which you have
listened to me during so long an address. Mr. Macleod
then proposed the health of the Chairman. He said it was
Lie agreeable duty to propose the health of .a .gentleman
who had rendered such important services to the cause of
reform ; and was so remarkable for the zeal, discretion,
and ability which he had evinced in forwarding it. He felt
it unnecessary longer to detain them from the pleasure they
would experienee in drinking the health of Captain Suther-
land with till the honours.

Tne CHAIRMAN returned thanks for theokinil manner in
which his health had been drunk. He took it for grouted
that none of floSe present credited his holding the extreme
political opinions attributed to him—opinions which ue never
either expressed or entertained. But it was nn,v 'the inva-
riable practice of Tories. clergymen as well as laymen, when
they saw any of their dearly cherished amises exposed, to
charge those insisting on their removal n4ll radicalism and
even infidelity, although aware that such charges were as
false as the propagation of them was inconsistent with that
true religion which they flatter themselves they exclusively
possess and are influenced by ; howeVer, the opinions upon
which be acted were the result of conviction, and he, there-
core utterly despised those foul imputations.—(Cheers.)
CHAIR-Mr. Henry Dunning Macleod, and may he
tread in the steps of his revered father.

Mr. H. D. AACLEOD begged leave to return his most
sincere and grateful thanks for the unexpected 'honour
which they had done him ; he asi•ured them that other►cise
he should not have presumed to intrude upon the notice of
so distinguished an assembly. At present ',le was engaged
in studying the history of the Ancients, but whilst he im-
bibed the maxims of liberty from the classic authors of
Greece and Rome, he traced with still deeper interest the
rise and progress of the constitutional monarchy of his own
country.—(Loud cheers.) Destined for an arduous profes-
sion, which would make him acquainted with all the in-
stitutions of this great empire, he trusted by a persevering
and indefatigable attention to that profession, and by fol-
lowing the advice of the worthy Chairman, at some future
period to render himself more worthy of their notice—
(Great cheering)—and to make himself, Perhaps, one day
not unworthy of aspiring to the Vonour of being their re-
presentative in Parliament.—(Loud and continued cheers.)
The festivities of the evening were prolonged to a late
hour, and all were delighted with the entertainment.