The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-11 00:00:00

ST. ALBAN'S.

TUESDAY, MAY 10.—The Craven Stakes of 10 sous. each. The
last Mile.
Mr. Gardener's King William - - - - - 1
Mr. Sowerby's Coroner • 2
Mr. ltainsbottom's Zucharelli
The Hertfordshire Stakes of 10 sovs.• each, with 50 added.
Twice round.
Mr. W. Day's Auger
Mr. Sowerby's Paradox
The Newberries free Handicap of 15 sous, each. Once round,
and a distance.
Mr. Sowerby's Coroner
Mr. G. Bulkley's Bustle
The Ladies Plate of 50 sovs. Heats. Once round and a distance.
Mr. Theobald's Zucharelli - _ 3 0 0 1
Mr. Gardener's King William - 1 3 3 3 2
The Grove Stakes of lu sovs. each for Hunters. Heats. One
round and a distance.
Mr. Ougley's Foxcote _ _ 3 I I
Mr. Osbaldeston's Apuntador • 1 .2 2
Mr. Hungerford's Camillus . . - 23 3
Mr. Coleman's Lucifer

The route adopted by Mrs. Colonel ELWOOD
in her arduous journey to India overland, of which she has
recently published au ;account and which was never before
undertaken by a woman, was as follows :—viz, from Lon-
don to Paris, thence through Italy and :Sicily to Malta,
9awards to Egypt and across the desert to the Red Sea
where she embarked. The whole course of the journey
is described by the fair traveller's own pen.

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attmhastbirße4otly,
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where it has /seen lost Oro h inisn's i .
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contest. The return for Devonshire has actually
taken place, and Lords John Russell and Einington
are now representa.ives for that county. The
I Lygons and their wealth are perishing together iu
IWoicesterehire ; Messrs. Foley and Spencer are
I both considerably a-head of the Anti-Reform candi-
date. So Loid Norreys is by this time driven
away by the men of Oxford, as Mr. Mundy before
him had been rejected by the county of Derby.
Lord Edwin Somerset has made a precipitate re-
treat before the freeholders of Gloucestershire.
In Berkshire, two Reformers have been re-
turned, with triumphant unanimity. in Dorset-
shire hardly any friend of Mr. Bruises, rt. his
dares to show his face.. That old Tory
politics,
gentleman was all his life an oatentatieus preacher
tip of just so mod) candle-end cerreorny as no l'iii•
!lister cared much whether it should he prac ised or
not : but ample revenge wns taken by Mr. Bakes
upon the people in things of real inripor:atice. Ills
vote was never wanting when corruption on a grand
•eale was to he defended. It was never given
against prerogative,—never on behalf of any one
great principle dear to the peeple, or true to the
spirit of the Constitution. Weh Mr. 1k kes in
his just punishment, therefore, there will be none
to sympathize bet prerogat've-pairiata like him-
•elf. In Northamptonshire, Lord Milton, by the
last accounts, was more titan 200 above Mr. Cart-
wright on the pill ; and a speedy resignation ,$ the
two Tory candidates was expected. In Essex, the
Anti• Reformer is 500 below 'he Reformers, without
the slightest chance of success. We rejoice to
find that the consistent Return er Lord Nugent
has at length swung clear of the Tory who opposed
him, and that Lord Kirkwall, set up by the Duke
of Buckingham and his ultra son, to cru-h
if possible the political existence of a deserving
brother and uncle, Fos been foicsd to lay down be
arms. The Metropolitae county has well vindicated
the public spirit of the time, by returning, wi hoot
even the shadow of resistance, her former Members
Messrs. Byng and Hume The speech of Mr.-Ser-
jeant Pell at this meeting will amply repay the
readers. In short, wherever the voice of En_' sh-
men can be heard,—in counties, cities, in all but the
very chisest boroughs,—it is unaiiimotis: there is
no exception, but the disgraceful one of Bucking-
hamshire, to the return of representaiives devoted
to Reform. We have before refuted, and we again
do so, in language the most decided and peremptory,
the miserable calumny circulated by the Tories in
their despair, and referred to at the Middlesex elec-
tion,—that Ministers intended to postpone the in-
troduction of the Reform Bill. It is a base and
despicable falsehood. The Reform Pill will be pro-
posed to the new Parliament instanter, and pro-
posed,—and we flatter ourselves carried,—without
one atom of change or modification affecting the
great principles of the measure.—Times.
Reform continues triumphant. Lord Lowther,
the ablest, and perhaps the most popular man of the
Anti-Reform party, has been obliged to resign the
contest for Cumberland. This is the third member
taken from the Lowther family in this contest. Bur,
as Lord Lowther said, " Better late aßeforirer than
never." His Lordship possesses great good sense,
and knows that the opinion of the country on the
subject of Reform is too strong to be combated
with any chance of success. He must see that the
Tories, as a party, are annihilated; that they have
no longer any hold of the people of England : their
day is gone by. The support of bigotted High
Church parsons—sworn foes to all ameliorations in
Church and State—cannot enable any set of men
to dispense with the countenance and support of
the great body of the people—of those whose ta-
lents and industry give to England the high place
she holds among the nations. No Government can
hereafter be conducted in England on principles
which are not approved of by the intelligent and
respectable part of the population. The diffusion
of wealth and the diffusion of intelligence give a
substantive power to the people; and a Govern-
ment against which the power of a nation is arrayed
necessarily rests on an insecure foundation.. Lord
Lowther, being a clear-headed man, must see that
Government must possess the support of public opi-
nion, and that such displays as those of Cambridge
and Oxford, so far from aiding the Tories, serve only
to bring contempt both on Clergy and Tories. The
gentlemen of England will always possess influence if
they deserve to have it, but desert must accompany
the influence. The Reform Bill will sirengtheo the
influence of men of property, but it will strengthen
it in a way which will be beneficial to the people.
The principle of the Tories—of possessing an in-
fluence independent of popular opinion, is one
which will not be tolerated in an enlighted age.—
We foresaw, therefore, that the Tories would soon
go out in England, like the snuff of a candle.—
They have had their day. In Worcestershire Lord
Foley and Captain Spencer are both a-head of
Colonel Lygon. The spirit of the people in that
part of England is admiiable. Wherever there are
great towns there is knowledge, and the light
kindled in Birmingham has diffused itself over
Worcestershire. There are some men in Birming-
ham above all praise. Mr. Joseph Parkes is alone
a host. When on the subject of public opinion, we
may allude to its opt ration in a way for which the
Anti-Reformers were not prepared. They calcu-
la'ed that the out-voters resident in London and
other great towns would feel indignant •at being
disfranchised, and that the mere paltry personal
privilege of a vote once in seven years would, in
their eyes, be more precious than a Reform, which
would secure the whole nation astainst robbery and
pillage—that they would vkiliingly be accessary to
delivering over the people, bound neck and heel, to
the boroughmongers, rather than surrender the pri-
vilege of a trip to the country, in a hard.4run contest,
at the expense of the candidates. But;therforgot
that the out-voters were Englishmen, with the feel-
ings of Englishmen; that they could not live and
move in the metropolis ‘, ithout sharing the strong
opinions, the intense feelings, manifested its favour of
the Reform Bill. They circulated Mr. Ilunt's
speech and trashy pamphlets, blinking the real
merits of the question, but dwelling on the injustice
of disfianchising the out-voters and future geoeration
of potwallopers. They chuckled at their adroitness.
Judas Iscariot set up a characteristic whine, which
became the signal to the whole lace of tricksters.
The London out-voters felt indignant at i he insult to
their understandings implied in all this maeoeitvring.
Upon analysing the votes in many large towns, as
Ipswich, Dover, &e., is will be seen that there was
a majority of the London voters in favour of the
Reform candidates. The Iscariotists were . lost in
amazement. They had not sense enough to Ant ci-
pate the discovery thus forced on them—that it is
impossible fora small fractional part of a community
to remains unaffected by the feelings of the rest of
that community. Enthusiasm cannot prevail—and
a particular class escape its influence. Men do
not wish to be ill-thought of by their friends and
neighbours. At the elections in populous places this
was exemplified in the sneaking and timid manner
in which the poor devils who note forced by money
or influence to vote for the Anti-Reform candidates,
whispered, as it were, the names of the candidates
whom they supported. The voters for the Reform
candidates, on the other hand, held tip their hands,
and boldly and loudly pronounced t! e names of their
candidates. The Reformers would have been still more
successful in populous places, had candidates been in
readiness. But it is to be lamented that in several
places the inclinations of the electors were of no avad,
from having no choice. Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor,
;bsyßeformers with
hi
,
not owe his
irhe,isbeinedneocbistifitiinii,e.gdafiroer
the Durham away. Sudbury.balittiencnugrhe.t
sheatitatocii.ciTlVPigr '4l?-11 °l3Petr:tgre4lrlenisuch 'His ettn t''
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popularity a pine. ,
the poorer electois, er to his-

but to the electors being unable to tied any other'
candidate. In Northamptonshire, Lords Althorp
and Milton continue to gain on Mr. Cartwright.
The Tories are greatly enraged at losing one of the
seats in that county, and are even abusive. It will
require better evidence than that of either Mr. Cart-
wright, or Sir Charles Knightly, to persuade the
world that Lord Althorp, one of the most straight-
forward and candid of human beings, would inten-
tionally deceive, even for election purposes. In
Es4ex, Mr. Wellesley continues to gain ground, and
Colonel Tyrell has no chance whatever. Bucking-
hamshire affords the solitary exception of pseudo-
Reformer or Tory, under -Reform colours, for pur-
rmes of misleading, being at the bead of the poll.
But Buckinghamshire, according to our contempo-
rary (the Slandard), is worth more than all England
Had Buckinghamshire placed a Reformer at the head
of the poll, while all the other cennti'es returned
Anti-Reformers, our contemporary would have
deemed the loss of Buckinghamshire of more mo-
ment than the triumph in all the other counties.
The feeling of England is only to be ascertained in
Buckinghamshire. But let us hear how our inge-
nious contemporary arrives at his conclusion that
Buckingham is better than all England.
" This election, indeed, may be said to furnish an un-
vxceptionaLle test of what the feeling is throughout the
country upon the important question at issue ; for it is
impos-ible to point out any circumstances distinguishing
Bucks from the other counties of the kingdom, in which
it did not seem to furnish a more favourable field for the
revolutionists thin for their opponents.' The demand fur
/Worm has been said (and truly in some sense) to be the
consequence of the inattention of the Hou•e of Commons
to the petitions of the people. No county in England pe-
titioned more unanimously, or in stronger terms, than
Burkinghatnshire, against that Bill of 1829, which has
proved the fountain of all the distractions and calamities
of the country.
" Again, the cry for Reform is said (not without reason
either) to have been aggravated by the distresses of the
agricultural class : few counties have suffered more than
iuckingliarnshire, or felt mere keenly the general inflic-
tion; witness the unhappy scenes in the neighbourhood of
Wycomb in the v 'ry last autumn.
Lastly the King's name has been boldly abused to gild
the revolutionary scheme by the successors of those, who
something less than two centuries ago, in the same way as-
sumed the King's name for the destruction o 1 his throne.
Yet the King, as his father of blessed memory used to
write himself, is ' a Iluckinghamshire. Gentleman,' and
possesses, by the right of his high station and his popular
character, a commanding influence in the district extend-
ing almost to the town in which Lord Chandos was so tri-
umphantly elected. Thus has the good cause triumphed,
in spite of resentment, of suffering, and of the illusion of
Royal influence.

;' But it will be objected that we must overstate the
fact—that it seems impossible, when other counties have
in so many instances returned revolutionist Members, that
Buckinghamshire must not be an exception. We deny
the inference. No act of corruption has been alleged
against Lord Chandos. The possibility of his employing
any harsh or oppressive influence is proved by his charac-
ter, and confes4ed indeed by his opponents ;—thst, great as
the Buckingham and Chandos property may he, its influ •
ence is not paramount, has been acknowledged by the fact
that the county was contested. No; all the advantages
that Lord Chandos brought to the poll were his personal
virtues, his talents, and the popularity which these have
justly earned for him. The rest must be ascribed to the
identity of his political opinions with those of the men of
Buckinghamshire."
The people of Buckinghamshire were not, per-
haps, aware of their paramount importance—of the
space they are destined to occupy in the public eye.
Men of Yorkshire, Devonshire, Kent, Lancashire,
Somersetshire, Northumberland, Cumberland, Lin-
coln, what are ye to the men of Buckingham ? This
saered spot still preserves the fire of Toryism.
Alas for the rest of England. "It is impossible
to point out any circumstances distinguishing Bucks
from the other counties of the kingdom ;" and yet
there must be circumstances distinguishing the other
counties of the kingdom from Bucks, otherwise we
presume Tories would have been at the head of the
poll in them also. But if the other counties are dis-
tinguished from Bucks, Bucks, one should think,
must be distinguished from the other counties. The
Marquis of Chandos is, no doubt, personally po-
pular in Buckinghamshire, from his frankness and
affability, but still we are persuaded that these qua-
lities would not have gained him the head of the
poll or even his election, had proper arrangements
been made in time. But the truth is, Mr. John
Smith was invited by gentlemen, who did not think
of securing more than one candidate. Mr. Greaten
made his appearance only at the twelfth hour, and
as he would spend nothing, and local arrangements
could not be made for enabling the freeholders to
do the business themselves, as they have done in
Kent and Essex, the continuance of the contest
subjected Mr. Smith to a heavy expence, without
affording to Mr. Grenfell a chance of succeed-
ing. Under these circumstances it was not
the interest of the friends of Mr. Smith
to continue the contest, and Mr. Grenfell did well in
abandoning it. We are not sufficiently acquainted
with the county to be able to say what the exact
strength of the Reformers is; but we should think
that a few active gentlemen, had they commenced in
good time, could have secured two Reform candi-
dates. Middlesex yesterday returned, as was antici-
pated, two Reform candidates, Mr. Byng and Mr.
Hume. The latter, in answer to a question, made
the following important statement :—" He had no
doubt (indeed he knew) that suspicions were circu-
lated by the enemies of Reform, that delay and
alterations in the Bill were contemplated. It would
be the first thing, he was assured, which Ministers
would bring before the House on its treetieg. The
electors had seen him in the last House of Com-
mons do every thing which he could to assist Mi-
nisters, and to push forward the business of the
Session, in • order to enable them to appeal to the
country. If they should elect him now, he would
bring the matter before the House, should any delay
take place; but it was highly satisfactory to him to
say Mat a Cabinet Minister had assured him Mat
no delay or alteration had ever been intended, and
that the Bill would be brought before Parliament
forthwith."—(Great cheering.) Middlesex, as well
as well as Warwickshire, has returned Reformers
for all her places.—Morning Chronicle.
Whether the Clergy have acted wisely for them-
selves, in acting in direct opposition to the sense of
the nation, time will disclose. The voice of the
People has been unequivocally expressed in favour
of the whole measure of Reform. The panic of the
priests, in the instance of the University of Cam-
bridge, forms no exception ; for the opinion of the
people is not to be collected from any one class,
arid least of all from a class, the bulk of which is
always found arrayed against improvement, and
which, in this instance, was notoriously actua'ed by
what it blindly imagined interested considerations.
The total majority over Mr. Cavendish was 176
The majority of priests alone for Mr. Goulburn was
247: thus demonstrating t hat the result of the Cam-
bridge election was wholly attributable to the hos-
tility of the great body of the Clergy to Reform.
It would be unjust, however, not to observe, that
more than half of the supporters of Mr. Cavendish
and Lord Palmerston were clergymen, and distin-
feusisilteld by their superior intelligence, as is incon-
bevinced by the fact, that of the 18 Profes-
sors 13
voted in their favour. The large proportion
of the corrup6onists consisted of the Clergy of the
Isle of Ely, Suffolk,
and Essex : the latter of whom
are making strenuous unavailing ex-
ertions to involve that count_ya7irlythe disgrace they
have heaped upon their University.--211orning
Chronicle.

We have always advocated
the
arc utmost
glad to extent of
find
freedom in political discussion—we
the present Government acts upon that
The boundless license which the Tory principle.fihas
taken, in speaking of the Ministers and thre7r"
m
sures, affords an example of practical freedom ofde.a-
-'
cussion, which the Tories themselves, when in-
power, never allowed to their opponents. Who can
forget the battery of. ex-o.fficto informations which
Sir James Scarlett, in the pride of his Attorney-
Genrralship, and inspired with the " liberal" spirit
of the Wellington and Peel Administration, brought
to bear upon an Opposition Journal? Who can for-

get that, in one instance, he obtained a rule for a
criminal information for a libel on the then Lord
Chancellor; and, when he ascertained the nature of
the defence on which the alleged libeller intended to
rely, changed his mode of proceeding, abandoned his
criminal information, and filed an ex-qfficio, which
allowed him advantages over his opponent that his
original and less unconstitutional mode of prosecu-
tion would not permit him to wield for the destruc-
tion of his victim ? Such persecution of opinion was
unknown since the days when the Star-chamber
attempted to establish its odious tyranny over the
human mind by making all freedom of sentiment a
crime against authority. Let us now see with what
degree of decency and moderation of language the
party to whom Sir James Scarlett has attached him-
.elf, are supported by that portion of the Press which
they admire and patronize. In a recent number of
a Morning Paper, which has distinguished itself
by a wild and furious opposition to Reform worthy
of the cause it advocates, we find the following
passages :—" The King's Ministers are determined
there shall be no fair election in any county or
borough where the minds of the multitude can be
excited, and their hands armed against candidates
opposed to the Ministerial measure. For the first
time in the history of this country we behold the
ripening spectacle of a King's Government hallooing
on a ferocious rabble, to destroy, by physical force,
the existing institutions of the kingdom. This con-
junction of the powers appointed to administer the
law with a brute force, which is stirred up to sub-
vert the law, creates the most fearful crisis that
ever threatened that law—and all that it has hitherto
protected and sustained, for the happiness, tranquil-
lity, and glory of this great nation—with sweeping
destruction." Now if Sir James Scarlett and his
Anti-Reform friends were in power, and such lan-
guage, or any thing like it, were applied to them by
th • Press, would not the lightnings of ex-officio
vengeance be instantly directed against it, to intimi-
date or destroy ? What can be more atrocious,
in the way of political accusation, than to charge
a Government with "hallooing ou a savage rabble,
to destroy, by- physical force, the existing institu-
tions of the country ? " But we rejoice that Mi-
nisters have the good sense and magnanimity to
treat all such licentious aspersions with profound
disdain. When the bounds of good taste and de-
cency are so grievously violated by writers who,
not content with setting truth at defiance, use lan-
guage as coarse as the charges it conveys are out-
rageously unjust, the only mischief done is to the
Press itself, which is made the foul medium of
extravagant malice and incredible defamation.—
Mosning Herald.
A Sunday Paper, remarkable for not being always
over-scrupulous in the nature of its assertions, im-
putes, whimsically enough, to the Lord Chancellor,
his having influenced the late Cambridge election—
fl tat, by shutting up his Court to enable gentlemen
at the Bar to vote ; and, secondly, by having him-
self canvassed in favour of the two Ministerial can-
didates. Than this, the high Tory advocate could
not have made a more unfortunate or more ground-
less hit—the truth being, that Lord Brougham, in-
' stead of having been the friend, was (unintention-
ally enough, we admit) one of the most effectual
opponents of the candidates who, doubtless, had his
good wishes. And how, and why so ? Because
Lord Brougham, himself a zealous reformer, has
not only stripped his own hands of the tempting
means which his immediate predecessor had of in-
fluencing Cambridge voters, but, by his threatened
curtailment of patronage, has converted friends
into foes, besides having so bestowed his remain-
ing patronage as not even to have secured the
gratitude of common forbearance in return.
When the Cambridge poll comes to be published
(which it will be in a few drys) the nature of Lord
Brougham's support will be pretty clearly demon-
strated, as well as the motives—as well of gratitude
and resentment as of expectation—which influenced
many, to whom, at other times, the wishes of a'
Lord Chancellor would have been commands. It
will then be seen how many Commissioners of
Bankrupt, and their connections, voted not so much
against Lord Palmerston as against the hand which
threatens their worse than useless office with anni-
hilation—how many of the, few whom Lord
Brougham has served have recorded their gratitude;
but it cannot be seen how many clerical expectants
there are who would have voted differently to what
they have done had there been still a Chancellor
upon the Woolsack not so indifferent of his pa-
tronage as to hand it over to the Bishops.—Morn-
ing Herald.
The reign of terror continues with all the success
that the advocates of revolution hoped for and pre-
dicted. In very many places candidates hare been
deterred from coming forward on the day of elec-
tion, not only on considerations regarding themselves
personally, but for the sake of their friends, whose
lives as well as their own were endangered by the
ferocious determination of hired mobs; whilst, in
others, the friends of the Constitution, after a long
endurance of savage outrage, have been forced to
retire from the contest, from the impossib lity of the
electors in their favour being enabled to exercise
their right of suffrage. And yet, strange to say,
we are unblushingly told in certain journals
that these unexampled atrocities are no more than
might ordinarily be expected on the occasion of a
general election—atrocities so enormous, and so
utterly subversive of all elective rights and constitu-
tional privileges as we fearlessly assert never before
disgraced the character of Englishmen—and which
of course cannot fail to engage the earliest atten-
tion of the new Parliament. All the elections car-
ried by violence and outrage must be pronounced
void and invalid. As a specimen of the effects of
the system pursued by our revolutionists, we copy
the following official acknowledgement from the
London Gazette of last night :
" Crown• Office, May 9, 1831.
" County Borough of Carmarthen.
" The Sheriffs of the County of the said Borough have
returned the writ to them directed, and that from the up-
roar, tumult, and violence which prevailed at the election,
they have been unable to execute the said writ."
Of the infamous proceedings at Northampton we
yesterday received the following account :
" Northampton, Monday, Three o'clock.

" On our arrival at Kettering a well-dressed individual,
accompanied by a standard-bearer with a tri- coloured flag,
came up to the carriage, and having ascertained that we
were about to vote for Cartwright, immediately gave the
word to his companion, To your station ' The tri-
coloured standard-bearer then placed himself at the head of
a rabble of about two hundred, who marched out of the
town, and taking up their position on each side of the hill,
saluted us with a tremendous shower of stones. Provi-
dentially, by hiding our heads, we escaped with our lives,
but we are dreadfully bruised and the carriage destroyed.
An express is gone to Wedon for the military.
" All Lord Milton's voters have tri-coloured flags and
cockades. 'Damnation to all Parsons' is the cry that salutes
every black coat that appears in Oundle."—Morning Post.

A defeat has been sustained in Buckinghamshire
by the return of one Anti-Reform candida,e, and
a severe defeat it is, to all outward appearance ; but
on the other hand, the defeat is, in reality, at-
tributable not to the absence of Reform feeling on
the part of the people of Bucks, but to the ab-
sence of necessary liberali.y on the part of Mr.
Pascoe Grenfell, and to the circumstance of no
coalition having been formed between him and
Mr. Smith. The defeat was well deserved from
everything that we can learn on the subject ;
hut it, nevertheless, would not have proved a
defeat had Mr. Grenfell, or his Committee, had
the courage to keep the poll open to a later day.
Many of the freeholders who were prepared, and at
their own expense, to go down and vote for him,
are most
indignant at the conduct which he has
pursuedi
and where he, on the occurrence of a new
election, to stand the r, suit of a poll, we are confident
that he would stand much less chance than he did
twoqr daysquarter
rtheat
ag oof being returned. From every other
i-t
news most favourable. There is a
contest
Northampton,u but
the
tLords Althorp and
Milton are at the head
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