The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-07 00:00:00

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

(Continued from The Sun of yesterday.)
HULL—The Reformers here appear to have been indiffer-
ent to results, and the municipal elections accordingly have
terminated in the return of ten Reformers and four Tories--
the latter party, for the first time these three elections, obtain-
ing the advantage, and that only in a small degree.
BEVERLEY.—We have here three Reformers, and three
Tories. The political complexion of the council is not affected
by this ; but we understand that the pasture question was made
a prominent subject, and the advocates for the pastures remain-
ing as they are succeeded in displacing Messrs J. D. Dawson
and Nutchey, two of the strongest asserters of the right of the
borough to this property,

STAasFO&D.-TlJe six Liberal candidates were defeated by
intimidation and base influence; and the Stanford Mercury
says that " prosecutions will arise from the proceedings of
Thursday last,"
BOSTON.-Both parties strained every nerve to bring their
friends up to the poll ; but the Reformers triumphed. In the
two wards, each of which returns three, there were three Re-
formers in one, and two in the other.

LINCOLN. —The Tories were beaten, though they fought
well. The five Liberal candidates had an average majority
over their opponents of about 70 votes.
GLASOOW..—The election of municipal officers for Glasgow
appears to excite considerable interest in that city. The
election not having taken place this year before yesterday, we
are not yet in possession of results. At Paisley, on the con-
trary, according to the Glasgow Chronicle, the elections this
year are creating comparatively little interest, from the general
understanding that the Reformers have it all their own way
with the constituency, and that they will be able to return
whoever they fix on. The Tories, after having been again
and again fairly defeated in every ward in the town, now turn
up their noses, like the fox at the sour grapes, and affect to
say, " Who would go into the Council ?"

The anniversary dinner of the East London Pension
Society was held on Monday, at the London Coffee-house,
Ludgate-bill. Upwards of fifty gentlemen were present, and
the venerable Member for the County, Mr. Byng, acted as
Chairman. This Society was founded in 1826, for the allow-
ance of pensions to the poor and aged of both sexes residing
within ten miles of London, whose only qualification is their
being of good reputation, and having attained the age of sixty
years, provided they have not been in the receipt of parochial
relief for twelve months. Since its formation the Society has
done considerable good, and well deserves encouragement.
On Saturday night a young woman was found lying
in a ditch near Chalk Farm in a state of extreme misery, from
starvation and the inclemency of the weather. It was with the
greatest difficulty that she could be revived. Being admitted
into St. Pancras workhouse, she stated her name to be Har-
riet Pulley, and that she had been in service at No. 226, Ox-
ford-street. She left her situation about three months ago
and had not since been able to obtain another. She had been
obliged to part with her clothes to procure food, and at length
when nearly naked, she became a homeless wanderer, and
her Miserable appearance preventing her application to those
parties she had formerly been acquainted with, she bad for
the last three or four days and ,nights wandered about the
fields. Inquiries will be made into her case.
STATE OF TRADE.—The demand is still tolera-
bly brisk, but the manufacturers find it difficult to realise the
advance upon yarns, Wools are more in request. Shipping
orders fer.spring goods are received, and it Is anticipated there
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LONDON :
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7,1836'

Nothing of late has given us more satisfactionot
to observe the honest and bold manner in which met
of different classes and opinions have come to speak of
the Corn-laws. The hearty language of Mr. PAVii
TON at Manchester, which was listened to with thn
ders of applause, and part of which we inserted 1:
our Journal of Monday, is an illustration of wha's We
mean. Nor do the advocates of the landowners 'minee
the matter. In fact, they never have minced the rsat,
ter, and always have stigmatized those who have
deavoured to remove the various monopolies vaii?;
check the growth of national prosperity, and infil
on society the evils of a stationary or retrograle;
condition, as being prompted by no other matilte
than envy or avarice, and as desiring only nt
get possession of the property of others. At present
the same arms are employed against them, and they sre
i.e
described, not as merely desiring to appropriate
property of others, but as having actually, and far
several years, most unjustly appropriated it. In at:
angry and querulous article attacking Mr. P.A.v"°d
which is a homage to his usefulness, the Herald
to-day says that the aim of the Anti-Corn-law faction"
including expressly the Association at Manchester"'
the avowed aim " is not merely to rob and ruin land°
owners and farmers, but, after having ruined their'
to convert their desperation into an instrument of
ruining every other class whose possessions or privileges
may remain to be a question of desire to Mr. PAUL;
TON'S paymasters." This brings the matter toed
short issue. The Corn-laws are no longer defend
e
as a means of securing national indtpendence, of Port,
moting agriculture, and of inr,:reasing employnle
se
we are no longer required to investigate the Preed
difference of the expenses of cultivation at home an
ps
abroad, no longer required to consider the burdens
fare said to weigh exclusively on landlords gee
farmers; the Corn-laws, or the tax which is the pro
of the Corn-laws, is their property, and to abolish the
laws is to rob the landowners and farmers. Theisit
of the consumers, the manufacturing and commercial
classes, assert that the Corn-laws rob and Plunder theme
and thus this important question, which has harms'
est
and perplexed the intellect of the most acute and r
et
men of the nation is reduced to a narrow cluest.`°"st
right and wrong. The landlords have no occasion woo
their scribes to work any longer to prove that
abolition of the Corn-laws would throw land outvo
of cultivation and labourers out of emploYmed
that it would first destroy the agriculturists 2.
Vie
next the manufacturers ; they may rest secure on
single high ground now taken for them by the Hera
Let them prove that the Corn-laws are their roper
tenty,
arid the respect for property is so strong that not ago
men in the country will be found publicly to irr'Ptol
their right. It is plainly impossible, after these leer,
accusations, that this question can be suffered CO sbese
or that it can be decided on other principles 'than
of morality, or of right or wrong ?
deePlY

Our Anti-Ministerial Contemporaries are - oh
distressed at finding that the people of Ireland, th°%•
otherwise a quick-witted race, cannot be wade 10 uf
°
derstand the excessive injury that the expeuditlonosd
loan of some five or six millions sterling in the re
tion of railroads, under the direction of the u'rethei
ment, would inflict upon that country. Possib./a the
small amount of the national, debt of Ireland, allA few,'
consequent inexperience of all but a favoured
among the resident Irish in the management (" ;joie
.upon an extensive scale, prevents them from entrerrierf
mg that horror of monopolies so characteristic 01 iv'
politicians on this side of the water. For the ob,tugseo
of Irish understandings upon this point may -°o7wed
reasons might be advanced. England has b°rrn on
and jobbed more extensively than any other oati°l-ohn
the earth, and, due allowance being made for n ji,
Bull's habit of grumbling, our° present ic-n to
tion, social, moral, and intellectual, is not such''
make us envious of the happiness of any of t" - It
to
countries in which the Governments were •zonten, to,
live within their income. We allude to tbis merely iiv,
excuse the dulness of such Irishmen as see nnthini"plo
our fate to deter them from following our exarnciaEo
Besides they may possibly suspect that there is a , n 0
of profitable and pleasurable vices which na,,ti°,,nps ell'
less than individuals, are always seeking to 'clie s;
tirely to themselves. Servants may loiter and tell
aring
but masters only cart assume the privilege of svve
_jot!
roundly, breaking the Sabbath, and publicly sa,corsoto;
decency..,,,
to 'pleasure. Loan-contracting
savou
bunt"'
strongly of independence. Jobbing, like
stag-
Tories Ilevef
is rol
- Imperial amusement. The mice,
trouble themselves about the miseries which ignm"
__ol,
compulsory idleness, and periodical famine, bring 7.0
-seqeo-
Ireland. They are never alarmed for the con . 'Pei
of the vices engendered by hunger and despag• , the
r,, failure 0'
can talk with the greatest apathy of the
_iiiioos
potatoe crop—of the sufferings of nearly two 01.0 or
f the finest cowl"'
of people, located in one o