The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-26 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENT.

" Pauper," who writes to us from Bristol on the subject of the
Corn-laws, will find his numerous queries statistically answered
in " Potter's Population, Revenue, and Expenditure of the
United Kingdom," published by Charles Knight.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o'Clock.

LONDON :
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1838.

What with the hostility of one great party in the
State to the progress of Reform, the apathy of
another in the great cause that forced them into
power, and the little weight attached to the decisions
of those appointed to superintend the registration of
Parliamentary electors, the Reformers at no period
since the passing of the Reform Act took so little
interest as at present in the proceedings of the petty
Courts, over which they preside. Our Contemporaries,
and we take shame for having occasionally sinned also,
have given day after day column upon column full of
miserable details about Tory objections and Reform
objections, with long lists of figures setting forth
the numbers sustained, failed, withdrawn, or ad-
journed, not one word of which is read by one
in a thousand of the public. The Tories seem to
be a little inure alive ; but, possibly from policy, in order
not to excite the personal rather than the political feeling
of Reformers, they show great moderation also, and
we accordingly find this morning in the lists of objec-
tions, &c., given in some of the Papers, no less than
one-fourth of them marked We are much in-
clined (and we believe few of our readers would regret
the change), to treat the whole of this mockery of
revision in the same way. Owing to a want of any
fixed principle for decision, and consequently the dif-
ferent conclusions come to by inexperienced Barristers
in different parts of the country, the lists as made out
by them meet with little respect from the public, and
still less from the interested members of election com-
mittees. In the discussions which took place on the
subject last session there seemed to be but one opinion
as to the unsatisfactory mode of revising the lists, yet the
evil was allowed to remain with all its imperfections, en-
tailing an expense of some 50,0001. or 60,000/. a-year.
If some reform is not effected next Session we would
advise Mr. HUME, or some economical Member, to
move the suspension of the clause authorising the ap-
pointment of Revising-Barristers, in conformity with
the practise of suspending from year to year the ballot
for the militia. The electors would thereby suffer
little injury, the country would be saved many
thousand pounds, and the public would not be
annoyed daily, for the whole of the autumn, with two
or three columns of the most useless twaddle that ever
was inserted in a newspaper.

Mr. O'CONNELL, we perceive, is still labouring to
impress on the minds of his countrymen the fact that
" the people of England are bitterly hostile to them."
We have more than once denied this broad, sweeping
a n o
assertion of the Hon. and Learned Member, and we
here again repeat our denial--and in stronger terms
htloiasntile feelingsever.The
towards
peopleo f England" entertain
Ireland. On the contrary,
they sympathize—and have ever sympathized—with
them in their efforts to obt •am " equal justice," as every
Reform meeting shows, where the cause of Ireland has
ever been considered as the cause of the Reformers
generally. But even supposing, for the
argument's
sake, that England did really entertain this hostile
feeling towards the sister country, is Mr. O'Corr-
NELL going the right way to work to diminish it, by
endeavouring still more widely to sow the seeds of
hostility ? Does he imagine that by loading the
English Reformers with abuse, he will
be in-
creasing their good-will towards Ireland? Ought he
not rather to conciliate the friendship, than to provoke
the enmity, of the people whose:influence he confesses
is so powerful ? Ireland cannot stand alone. Unsup-
ported by the votes of the English Reform Members,
she can do nothing for herself—can stir neither hand
nor foot. Why, then, does not Mr. O'CoNNELL
court, rather than repel, the assistance of those
who feel every disposition to obtain equal jus-
tice for her ? Again and again we repeat
that England enters warmly into the question of Irish
grievances ; is fully prepared to co-operate with her in
effecting their removal ; and that to argue that she is
lukewarm, because her Representatives do not happen
to be all that the Hon. and Learned Member could de-
sire, is to argue upon a false hypothesis, as none knows
better than Mr. O'Co NN ELL himelf—who knows quite
well, and has a hundred times expressed himself to that
effect, that the people of England are by no means