The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-23 00:00:00

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Members who wear a patron's liSq,i*leite,litive 'tines se,
chased their seats in rotten beroughi, as they might
pure •
hese a seat in a stage-coach,leive taunted and P,
twitted Alderman Thompson eissayeingi obliged to
he '
appear before his constituents fo piS filtsiriecl s\e„)
political declaration which he maAtityleen «i-hed
to secure his return for the fire •"b visire the world.
tlii '1.4
If Alderman Thompson has beeedblrged
.to cry
" peccavi," he brought that humiliiitiOrr orrehitztelf; •
but he may recover his " independence"sellY4esige_
irepresenting it ; but the duties must be taken along
afinidligahberettielo%roetpwretshearr:
angt i vheis beforeseat. he will The cri teyce‘irvi ell
with the dignity, or the elective franchise is a farce.:
—Morning Herald.
1.4,t night will be long memorable, as one of ex.,
tensive slaughter and unmitigated destruction,—note,
of men, women, or children, but of a less sensiti ye
species of animals ycleped rotten boroughs. It is
impossible to give an adequate description either of
the onslaught, or of the immediate effect of it. Still
less would it be to the purpose to attempt to give
an account of the demoniacal indifference, or, lather,
exultstion, with which the executioners cdrried the
sentence of the country into effect, against the " ve-
nerable props and bulwarks of the Constitution."
Such a scene—such carriage end destruction—was
never before witnessed in a British fleuse of Cote-
mons. The venerable age and grey hairs of the sup-
plicants " found no place for mercy,"—the axe of
the executioner once raised against them, and it fell • unerringly on the necks of the miserable victims, to
the utter deprivation of all future sense or life.
Some wailing; were heard in different • quarters of
the House, as it rose to smite-a few of the victims ;
but, on the whole, the lsmentaticar was not-" lriud
or deep." The victims tnay he said to have-fallen
without the manifestation of any very deep feeling
of regret, and to have rather kindly, than re-
luctantly, submitted to their fate. Let next week
but exhibit a similar slaughter, and the race will be extinct !--Morning Advertiser. . .
Ministers are making sad havoc with their own
majority, as well as with the principles of their Bill.
They voluntarily put themselves in a position on
Thursday night which reduced their majority to 30,
notwithstanding the unanimity of Ministers them-
selves upon the question at issue, of their house-
hold troops, and of their pledged supporters. And
for what ? Merely to humour the dog-iii-the-manger
disposition of the Esrl of Radnor, the present
holder of the burgage tenements of the borough of
Downton, who, knowing that no constituency can by
possibility be created in that town which would not
spurn at any candidate stained by his recommenda-
tion, was anxious that the disfranchisement in this
ca,e should be total. The Ministerial writers are
anxious to shew that the evanescent majority in this
instance ought not to be taken as evidence of any
diminution of the number or the zeal of the general
supporters of Ministers. We are willing for once At
to give these iegenious and va'uable advocates their
own way, provided they will tell us what the reduc-
tion of the boastedlliuisterial majority is a proof of.
Surely such a fact ought not to be wholly barren ;
but let our Ministerial Contemporaries only indulge
us with any little inference from it of their own
choosing, and we shall be content, Is the zeal and
strength of the Ministerial majority abated ? No,
say they. Then was the immediate proposition so
manifestly absurd and unjust that Ministers, with
undiminshed zeal and numbers on the part of those
who are disposed generally to support them, 'were
left nevertheless in this deserted position ? Or was
the result produced by the combined Operation of
the two causes ? As the vote must be explaMlin de in one or other of these modt s, the friends of
sters may claim fairly enough the
priviege of selec-
tion. The absurdity and injustice of putting Down-
ton into schedule A, and depriving it of the right of
representation altogether, when its population ap-
proaches, by the confession of the borough-slayers
themselves, the point at which it would have been
entitled, according to the principle of the Bill to two
Members Instead of one, is so clear to us, that we
can only account for the fact of Ministers having
any majority at all to bear them through this silly
fraud by the supposition that the pledged Members
do not trouble themselves with considering the
consegnences of their own votes (as indeed why
should- they ?), but are content to peruse the Bill in
the morning, and attend diligently, in pursuance of
their instructions, to vote blindly and indiscrimi-
nately for its various clauses at night. If the
new principle, first heard of in the case of Down ton,
is to be acknowledged—that which requires, for
the preservation of a borough, not only that it shall
contain the fixed number of inhabitants, but also
that it shall contain a certain number of ten-pound.
houses within its limits—the Ministerial schedule A
will turn out, comprehensive as it is, to be lamen-
tably defective. The new principle (if prineip/e
it may be called, which Ministers forced upon
their pledged men, the Inert who °cc-tip:: their seats
in the House upon the honourable engagement that
they will never reason, or reflect, or inquire) will
require in the case of Appleby several additions to
Qchedule A. And if the Government goes on slid-
ing in new principles whenever their immediate con-
venience in the debate upon any one of the con-
demned beereuglis may seem to require it, matter of
debate will be created to last not only to Septem-
, lser, 1831, but to September, 1832, on the proposal
of additions to the schedule, upon which every Mem-
ber will of course insist who has any regard to the
consistency of legislation. That Ministers are great
blunderers there can be no doubt, yet it requires
some charity to believe that they are merely blun-
derers when *lay introduced nsv principle; during
the propess of a measure which is very com-
plicated in its provisions, which is of the
highest importance in its results, which is re-
sisted by an Opposition formidable alike from its
numbers, zeal, activity, and talent, arid which the
Ministers themselves profess the utmost anxiety to
expedite. The course pursued by Niiiiisters is in-
telligible and even skilful if they intend to confuse,
to retard, and eventually to defeat the Bill. Can
this be so ? Or are Ministers really the blunderers
they appear ? We: strongly incline to the forener
supposition, fnl. ever since the introduction of the
famous Wiltatly rent clause, which, up tt: the pre-
ael2,,*, lime remains part of the Bill, have given
them the coedit of being afraid of their own mea-
sure, end being capable of any cµ every kind of ma-
nagement to strangle it if possible, without the loss
of those darling places, for the sake of which they ate
determined nevenheless to hazard of to sacrifice all
things.—Morn;ig Post.

• From the following Singular accounts which
appears in the Biographical Memoir attached to the collec-
tion of Mr. HusteissoN's speeches, which have been just
published. it would seem as if that lamented Statesin in
be,tl been fated to Income the victim of an accident :-
44 There are some persuas who are recorded never to have
gone into actior, without having been wounded. Mr.
IiCSKIS3QN seems to have laboured under a similar fatality
in re;a;iii to accidents, from his earlie,t infancy to that
;aid one which closed hie career. As a child, he
.rrae,
lured his arm; a few days before his marriage his horse
fell with him, aysmi ha was severely hurt ; soon after he
was knoekeil dawn by a pole of a carriage just at the en.
trpAcz of the Horse Guards; in the autumn
of 1801, being-
6hon in Scotland, at the Duke of Mitoes, he missed his
distance in attempting to leap tlle moat, and gave himself a
most violent sprain of 0.2,e ankle, accompanied with a con-
siderable laceration, of tome of the tendons and ligaments of
hie foot, and, was many weeks before he recovered suf.
ticientV So leave Scotland. Inctin:4l the effects of this acci-
e,-at were visible in hie luring the remainder of his
life. He afterwardstir4,:itured his arm by a fall from hi/
horse at Petworth, and again in 1811, i ha
.carrit7ie
I.eing overturned. He was consttatty encountering
anal tri,e i a
hera,
dents of minor importanre,•
injo.
ame enferb.'zd by the revere
cer
t some.
tnti
accithnl to
,:siutfairri
country, red ira hie
atter
g
his
may well be termed irreparable.
zzbs:3heate icupedrd him, which tnay under
fetich
ant, to the i,:bvate.pr erow6