The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-09 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF HAMPSHIRE.

FREEHOLDERS,
IF ever men did their duty by their country,
you have done yours; from henceforth you will cau'e
your opinions to be represented in the House of Commons
through organs of your own choice.
To the King's constitutional appeal to his people you
have given an intelligible answer, by rejecting those who
rejected Reform ; it is now for us to give effect, to the
best of our power, to your recorded desires. We feel ail
the weight of the engagement we have solemnly contracted
with you, but the confidence of such a body of constituents
is a host in itself,—it will give us strength and courage to
discharge our duty.
The King has done more than all his predecessiws since
the Revolution to give stability to the British Throne;
the people of they realms are instinctively attached to
the Monarchy ; but if there be a man jealous of the King's
prerogatives, in the late dissolution of Parliament, he will
find proofs sufficient that those prerogatives directly tend
to the protection of the people. The question has been,
and still is, whether an unnatural and unconstitutional
Power should be suffered to grow up within the Legislature
itself equally alarming to the just rights of King and
People, and utterly inconsistent with the good government
of a free country. It is because you desire to preserve
our institutions, that, in common with the great mass of
the British public, you have adopted the wise and well-
balanced measure propounded by the King's Ministers, and
by your favour we shall assist in the glorious work of
passing that measure into a law.
Gentlemen, with pride and gratitude,
We have the honour to be,
Your faithful and devoted servants,
JAMES MACDONALD,
CHAS. SHAW LEFEVRE.

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE

COUNTY OF SURREY.

GENTLEMEN AND BROTHER FREEHOLDERS,
ACCEPT my sincere congratulations on the
peaceful triumph you have just obtained in the re-
election of your late Representatives; which may justly
be attributed to the firm and cordial co-operation evinced
by the Friends of Reform in every part of your en-
lightened county.
I beg you to be assured of the grateful sense I entertain
of the high honour conferred on me individually by this
renewal of your confidence, and of tny constant endeavour
to serve you more acively and more efficiently : I feel I
could not do so more anxiously or more honestly.
I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and devoted servant,
Chertsey, May 6, 1831. JOHN IVATT BRISCOE.

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ELECTION.
THE Committee for conducting the Election
of WM. R. CARTNITRIGHT, Esq., and Sir
CHAS. KNIGHTLEY, Bart., sit daily at Morley's Hotel,
Coekspur-street, Charing-cross, where all Communications
are requested to be addreFsed.
The Hon. GEORGE GERMAINE in the Chair.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ELECTION.
THE Committee for conducting the Election
of Lords ALTIIORP and MILTON sit daily at
the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, where all Com-
munications are requested to be made.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1831.

Sir R. PEEL'S speech to the eleetors at Tam-
worth, which will be found in another column, is a
fine sample of what Lord BYRON" used to call
"rigmarole." It is full of pompous nothings, varied
here and there with a few glib commonplaces, and
petty, smiling insinuations. Sir ROBERT PEEL is
far too cautious a Statesman to speak out; he is of
the Lord BURLEIGII school (vide Critic) of politics ;
will just shake his head, " hint a fault and hesi-
tate dislike;" but not for the world, commit himself
by any foolish display of candour or boldness. No,
no, there is no getting on in business without pru.
dence. " Ntallum numen abest si sit prudentia."
This is Sir ROBERT'S maxim, and, therefore, he will
see which way the wind sits, before he ventures on
trimming his sail.
In his speech at Tamworth, he hinted that be
was averse to the Reform Bill, because it deprived
the lower orders of the representative rights which
they had enjoyed for so many generations. Indeed I
How wonderfully attentive to the interests of the
lower orders, the Right Hon. Baronet has become
on a sudden I Was he always so, or is this only a
new light that has just broken in on him ? He
went on to observe, that as the Constitution at pre-
sent stood, there was no class but what was repre-
sented in Parliament through the medium of some
town or other. Perhaps so; but where is the use
of. such representation, if it be merely a cypher?
What influence have the lower classes ever yet had
in the House of Commons ? When was their
voice ever heard in that den of corruption ? The
wealthy and the titled, whether fools, knaves, or a
luxuriant compound of both, have always found ad-
vocates in St. Stephen's Chapel; but the humble,
the wretched, the industrious, have invariably been
without a friend. They have suffered, and their
afflictions have been unheeded ; they hays starved,
and their deaths have been unlamented. From
time immemorial, the House has legislated on
the principle that the lower classes were animals
beneath contempt, whose interests could not be
too speedily or diligently forgotten. Not two years
since, this most exemplary House decided, after a
sham investigation, got up of course for the look Of
the thing, that there was no distress in the country;
or that if there were, it was merely partial, and
would be best remedied by patience. As for any

further remedy, it wits out of the question

The Ministers were strong in office ; the
Placemen kept their sinecures ; the Pension

list was full and flourishing ; there was no murmur-
ing about the Court; no complaints from the
boroughmongers : the churchmen ate, drank, and
were happy ; my Lord This, spent his thousands at
Newmarket ; my Lady That, flaunted in cashmeres
and diamonds at ALMACK'S ;—where, then, was the
distress ? It was impossible there could be any.
Such, not two years since, despite the prayers of
thousands of famine-stricken mechanics and labourers,
was the solemn: iccordcd conviction of a British

House of Commons ! lklark the upshot ! A few

Months afterwards came "Stving"—the awful Genius
of famine I—with seven others more wicked than
himself. Then, for the first time, did the
Legislature begin to discover that there might
Possibly be some slight distress in the country.

Then did the Placemen begin to tremble for
their sinecures, and the church for its plu-
ralities ; then, and the❑ only, did Honourable
Members, apprehensive of the loss of their seats,
begin to think it worth their while to affect some
commiseration for the people. The blazing rickf,
brought them to their senses.

to avert for ever the possibility of a
recurrence of such scenes, by the institution of
a House of Commons that must from its very nature
he foremost to sympathize with the people, that the
whole Empire now thunders for Reform. But,
hints Sir R. PEEL, I too am a Reformer. Reform
is the very thing I most desire. There is no going
on without it. The people demand it, they deserve
it, and they must have it. Countrymen, do not
allow yourselves to be humbugged for an instant by
such sophistry. It is all moonshine—a mere trick to
preserve character and gan tirre. What, will you
trust a man who, while in one sentence he dec'ares
himself a reformer, in the next says he has been a
close observer of experiments like these in other
countries, and never yet knew one that was either
satisfactory or permanent ? Will you trust a man
• who thus blows hot and cold at the same time ?
Above all, will you trust a man who thrice with;n
the last two years opposed himself to all, even the
most moderate species of, Reform; who refused,
first, the transfer of the East Rerford franchise to
Birmingham ; secondly, the representation to Man-
chester; and, thirdly, who objected even to Lord
BL.tNDFORD'S proposal, merely to take into conside-
ration the state of the representative system ? Will
you, countrymen, with all your wits about you,

trust a man like this? Why, the very weathercock
that shivers on the church steeple at Tamworth is
mere to be relied on for its stability !
But we do not confine our remarks to Sir
R. PEEL only, we apply them gene►ally to
all moderate Reformers. We say, countrymen, trust
not one of the squad. They will deceive you—aye
and laugh at you for your very simplicity. They are
the worst, because the most insidious, of your enemies.
Persevere then in your exertions. ,Keep your eyes
fixed constantly on the goals ; strain every nerve to
reach it. Fight, Scotland, as you did at Bannock-
burn ; Wales, remember your patriotic wars on
the Marches ; Ireland come forth against your enemy,
as wheny ott repulsed France, with your brave alliesby
your side, in the Peninsula. In a word, prove one
and all, that your moral is equal to your physical
energy.

Reform is every where triumphant. Yorkshire
has returned four Reformers; in Cumberland the
LOWTHERS are defeated; in Westmoreland they
have come to a compromise; Hertfordshire is se-
cured to the good cause; so are Warwickshire and
Worcestershire. In Cornwall, too, and in Essex, the
freeholders are doing their duty, and will doubtless
be successful. Even in Dublin, the head•quarters
of corruption and intoler ince, the Anti-Reformers
stand a fair chance of being beaten.

We understand that at Bedford, Huntingdon, and
other places near Cambridge, great stress has been
laid by the Anti-Reform party on the result of the
University election, as shewirg the opinion of the
well-educated part of the community on the ques-
tion. We call the attention of our readers to the
following analysis of the votes, which may be relied
on as nearly correct, and which at once shews by
whom this much-boasted victory has been obtained:—

Golliburn

Clergy.
570

Laity. I Total,
2:36 I 84

Peel
Cavendish
Palmerston

573 I 232 BO5
8'23 I 307 COQ
309 301 610

The list of voters will be published in a few days
in black and red. We are informed that the Judges
are not the only exalted persons who have exerted
the►nselves in opposition to the sense of the nation.
One Member, at least, of another dignified Bench
has not been idle.

We have this morning received accounts from
Warsaw of the 28th April, which are in the main
favourable to the cause of Poland and independence.
The cholera nzorbus was making dreadful ravages
among the Russian army, and had even been commu-
nicated to a portion of the Polish army; but the pre-
cautions adopted were expected to check its progress.
DIEBITSCH was concentrating his forces either for a
last desperate effort, or preparatory to a retreat. The
Polish Commander-in-Chief was alive to every
motion, and ready to take advantage of the enemy
whenever an opportunity presented 'itself. Should
the Russians be too strong for him, he was prepared
to retire and consolidate his forces near Warsaw
In Volhynia DWERNICKI was making great progress
—for there, as in Lithuania, the people were
rising and organising their strength. If DIEBITSCU
be defeated in a general battle, his retreat will as-
suredly be cut off by DWERNICKI, and the insurgents
in his rear, for the peasantry already goaded to re-
venge will be more than a match for a dispirited
and flying army, broke► in every direction :

WARSAW, Arai!. 28.—The Warsaw State Gazette
contains an official report of the Commander-inXhief,
dated Jaeulow, 22d inst., in which he gives an account
of the defeat of General Sierawski, which on the whole
agrees with the Russian account, only the loss of the
Poles is stated at 2,000 men ; General Sierawski is stated
to have drawn this disaster on himself by exceeding his
instructions, and advancing towards Lublin, where the
enemy had a very superior force. With respect to the
operations of the main army after the affair at Iganie, the
General-in-Chief says, " Siedlic might have been taken,
but the crowded hospitals, and the contagious disorders
prevailing in them, deterred me. This care was also in
vain, the disease had communicated itself to our troops.
On our meeting with the enemy on the 10th, we had
some hundreds ill of the cholera; the precautions instantly
taken will prevent the disorder from spreading, and from
assuming too dangerous a character." The report then
gives an account of some petty actions in which the ad-
vantage was generally, though not always successful.
Our State Gazette says also, " For some days past
our troops have been making retrograde movements to-
wards the Vistula, but no action of importance has taken
place, only some skirmishes have here and there li
occurred. The day before yesterday there was a pretty
smart action at our rear, the 3d Regiment of Hulans
especially distinguished itself in an attack on the Russian
Hussars. The wounded say that our troops took four
pieces of cannon. The whole population of thecountrygto
between the Luvier and the Vistula is now repairing
this side of the river. Yesterday and to-day long files of
women, old men, and children, have been passing through
the streets of Warsaw with their few effects, as they will
not expose themselves for the second time to the horrors
of war. General Krukouwiecki exerts the utmost activity
to afford assistance to the unfortunate people as they pass
through the capital. The day before yesterday sixteen
more French physicians arrived here.
The Warsaw Gazette says, "For these three days past
both our troops and the Russians have been in constant
motion. There are daily actions. The day before yesterday
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from these expressions he was preparing for new events and
making new plans, which are at this moment being carried
into effect. Nobody, therefore, will wonder that our
troops approach within a few miles of the capital. The
head-quarters of the General-in-Chief were
Milosna, but news has already been received that the Rus-
sian horse again retreated beyond Minsk." yesterday at
The TVarsaw Gazette says that General Toll has issued
at Lublin a printed proclamation to the Poles, in which
he indeed praises their valour, but shews that four millions
of people cannot permanently resist the power of-Russia.
The numerous complaints made by the inspectors of the

hospitals, of the negligence and hard-heartedness of the
surgeons, apothecaries, and others in the service of the hos-
pitals, have induced the Governor of the capital to declart
that any medical officer guilty of such negligence shall 13,
brought before a court-martial and severely punished. Hi
has already ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Srokowski to hi
tried by a military tribunal, because being appointed Di-
rector of the hospital for the patients ill of the cholera it
the army, he not only did not execute the orders given him.
hut spread terror among the younger officers in the hospi-
tal, so that the mortality has greatly increased through tin
negligence of the physicians.
General Krukowieeki has declared several persons ae-
cused of being spies to be innocent, and will set them at
lib.-rty unless other proofs are brought against them within
three days.
BERLIN, MAY I.—A letter from Memel of April 27,
says—" After the dispersion of the insurgents in and neat
Dorbian, the Russian troops had returned to their cami,
near Polangen, but did not remain the fo!lowing day, fiat
they have again occupied Knottingen, made the inhahi
tants again take the oath of allegiance to the Emperor—
driven the insurgents out of Schoden, and entirely cleared
the country between Polangen, Knottingen, and Dorbian.
The main bodies of the insurgents are said to have gon,
to Telt ellen and Rossienna in order to assemble there.
Meantime the Governor General Von Pah!en, has marched
from Mittan with 4,000 men, six c,innon, and 160 horses
towards Schawe, where he has probably by this time ar-
rived, having put to flight the insurgents on the way.
Part of the garrison of Polangen is already gone to join
him. The Russian General Schiemer is said to hay,
marched with 2,000 men from Dernaburg to Wilkomiski,
and to have defeated sonic detachments of the insurgents.

According to further accounts the first division of
Hulans of 6,000 men, under Prince Chilkow, is on its
march to Lithuania, and also 16 battalions of grenadiers
from the colonies. Some of the bodies of the insurgents
being distrusted by their own people, have been shot by
them, and there is every appearance that an insurrection
in Lithuania will be suppressed.
The Russian mail was brought this morning by the
steam-boat from Lebau, and the Captain said that a Rus-
sian brig of 16 guns had arrived there from Reval, the
Captain of which stated that a number of ships of war
were fitting out at Reval and Cronstadt, and expected only
the Emperor's orders to put to sea. Their destination
was unknown.

The Russian frontier custom-house at Polangen
re-established yesterday, and many travellers come and go
by that road, but the Russians have not yet occupied
Garsden.

A letter from Tilsit of 26th April says :—" A traveller
who has arrived here from Wilna says, that perfect tran-
quillity prevails in that place, and the Government took
vigorous measures to preserve it. but disturbances are
sail to have again broken cut in the circle of Troeky, be-
longing to the Government of Wilna. The above traveller
came from Wilna by way of Grodno and Lyck, and on the
road from beyond Grodno to the Prussian frontiers every-
where metuwith Russian troops. A few days ago there
was an action between 1,000 cuirassieurs, under General
Frieken, and a corps of insurgents, led by Peischeit, a
land-owner, near Mariampol. The insurgents are said to
have had at first a very advantageous po.ition in a forest,
but were induced by the manoeuvres of the Russian troops
to advance and leave their advantageous ground. The
whole corps of the insurgents was either destroyed or dis-
persed, and their leader escaped by flight into the forest.
We hear that much discontent prevails among the insur-
gents, and great unwillingness to fight, especially when
they are a whole day without brandy. Many of the
peasants want to go home, and are kept together only by
fear, as their leaders hang every man who does not take
part in the insurrection. This evening are seen several
columns of smoke along the frontier, from Georgenburgh
to Tauroggen, the cause is not yet known."
BERLIN, MAY 2. —By accounts from Stalbreponen we
learn further particulars of the defeat of the Lithuanian
insurgents at Al ariampol.
It seems that a Russian Colonel, with 800 infantry, 150
cossacks, and nine cannon, was encamped near that place,
and the insurgents intended to surprise this small corps,
especially to get po,session of the cannon, of which they
are entirely destitute, but the Russian Commander seems
to have had news of this expedition, and to have sent in-
formation to General Malinoff, who, with 500 infantry and
hulans, with other light cavalry, consisting of cossacks
and calmucks, was stationed at Kalvary. The insurgents
made several attacks, but were at length dispersed, and
very few reached their homes. Their entire force is said

to have been 8,000 men, of whom 2,500 were killed and
woundei, and 2,000 taken prisoners. General Malinoff,
with his troops, did not come up till after the
insurgents were entirely defeated, and could only join in
the pursuit. Among the prisoners is Mijor Schon, slightly
wound: d, who, according to these accounts, was shot on
the 24th. Another leader has also been taken and shot by
the Russians. The Russian troops were encamped at
Mariampol, and had provisions in abundance, having
taken considerable magazines formed by the insurgents in
the woods. General Malinof bad sent troops to clear the
forests of the insurgents ; peasants, citizens from the small
towns, and the frontier guards, have returned in great
numbers to their homes.

A letter from Lyck, of the 26th, says—" Here and in
Johannishurg a heavy cannonade was heard yesterday, but
nothing is known respecting the occasion of it. The Rus-
sian guards have again advanced from Augustowow, Ray-
grod, &c. to Loma wad the neighbourhood."
BERLIN, MAY 2.
St. Schuld Sch 4 per cent.
Prn:•sian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent. 9B
Ditto Ditto 1822, 5 per cent.
Ditto Ditto 1830, 4 per cent.
WARSAW, Aram 28.—The successes of General
Dwernicki in Volhynia have been followed by a general
rising, and the inhabitants are being rapidly organised into
light troops to harrass the rear of the enemy'sarmy. This
has prob ably oc.Asioned some uneasiness to the Russian
Field-Marshal, and induced him to rouse himself from his
late inaction. By bearing down en masse upon our right
wing he has forced Skrzynecki to make a retrograde
movement and fix his head-quarters at Milosna. No
s-rious engagement has taken place since the victory of the
10th. Many persons who believe themselves well in.
formed are convinced that the present demonstration of
Diebitsch is intended to make a retreat across the Bug.
The mortality in the Russian army is fearful. The cholera
morbus, I am sorry to say, has certainly broken out
here, but we are all in hopes that it will not be found so
destructive as it has been elsewhere. The zeal of our
medical men is exemplary, and on the first appearance of
infection they hasten to- afford every possible assi.tance;
cleanliness is most particularly enjoined as a preventive.
BERLIN, MAY 1.-I am sorry to be under the neces-
sity of incornsing you, 'that official intelligence has just
been received here that the cholera morbus has again
broken out in Moscow. On the 12th of April no less
than fourteen persons were sick, ten in the hospitals, and
four in private houses.
BORSEN-HALLE, MAY 3, FOUR P.m.—Funds in gene-
ral were in demand today, particularly for money, in con-
sequence of foreign orders to buy. Anglo-Russian for
money is 1 per cent. higher than for the end of the month.
Discount 24 per cent.
Anglo- Danish Loan, 3 per cent
Anglo-Russian Loan 86%
Hamburg-Russian Loan ... B6
Polish Bonds 92
Austrian Bank Shares lOlO
New Austrian 4 per cent. . 73
PETERSBURGII, Aram 21.—A supplement to the Pe-
tersburgh Journal gives a report of the operations of the
army of Count Diebitach to the 12th of April, which
does not contain any new particulars.
AMSTERDAM, MAY 6.
Actual Debt, 2% per cent. 3B to 384
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent. 635( to 64
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 50% to 51

Mr. CAVENDISH, the late Member for Cam-
bridge, will, it is said, he returned to Parliament for the
borough of Bandon-bridge.
ACCIDENT TO W. PETER, ESQ.—We re-
gret to state that this highly respected gentleman, met
with a severe accident on his way to the county meeting
yesterday. On descending Lanivet Hill, his horse fell,
and he was thrown with considerable violence; he was
removed to the house of Mr. ITASILEY, surgeon, at Bod-
min, without delay, where he was bled, and where he
still remains, having received several severe, though as we
are assured not dangerous, contusions.—Corn wall Ga-
zette of Saturday.
To-day the KING is expected to signify his
pleasure whether he will honour the City by accepting
their invitation to dinner on the 20th instant. We have
already informed our readers that some symptoms of an
attack of gout induced his MAJESTY to countermand,
and give
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company with invitation
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the Secretary for the Home Department, the no-
tification to the Loan MAYOR and Sheriffs to wait upon
his MAJESTY on Wednesday last, previously to the Levee,
of giving
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excellent health while reviewing the Guards and present-
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