The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-07 00:00:00

SPIRT T OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

43 we fore-
boded,ll)e renouncedUnil'ersi University
thef hCambridgeotour w•h'clhi asse:a s within her
reach. She has, by a majority of 200, returned two
Vlembers to Parliament, who say there ought to be
m such Reform as that which -the nation, cells
for. The cause of political Reform, •herefore, loses
•wo votes in Parliament ; but we are much rrt•tekett
f the cause of ecclesiastical Reform out of doors
Ines not gain more than a dozer, millions of voters.
('his return of Anti-deform Members for Cam-
bridge, in the present condition of the public mind
of England, does appear to us, we confess, the mo t
(luring defiance of a unanimous nation that ever eels
attempted by any body of men. However, th y
cannot say it is our fault,—we have done our best
to save them. In, the mean time we are, as usual
for some days past, in arrear with the triumphs of
Reform. The town of Monmouth has accomplished
(eir yesterday's prediction, and ousted the Marquis
of Worcester returning a staunch Reform Member
it Mr. Benjamin Hall. In Surrey the friends of Re•
norm have succeeded without trouble. Messrs.
Denison and Briscoe have been returned. In
Essex Colonel Tyreil is already defeated ;
Nlessrs. Western and Long Wellesley being about
3to 2 a-head of him. Mr. Hoy, the berongh-
monger candidate for Southampton, is 170 :below
the second of the reformers, and 179 below the first.
Here, as in everyinstance where a good organization
of die reformist force exists, common cause is made
between the popular candidates. In Hampshire
%Ir. Fleming has given up the ghost. That county,
the Duke of Wellington's county, is in all quar ers
manifesting pretty freely the difference of its poli•
deal opinions from those expressed by his Crac.e—
Huntiegdonshire has taken, rather tardily, a step
towards providing herself with one Reform Msneter,
And Mr. ,Rooper, of whom veie Spoke sari Wednesday,
buteArea few hours_ polled an hundred votes more
tleitneftVi,geount Mandeville. Had the reformers
been fictive, and .awure of .their strength, they
would have named a colleague to Mr. Rnotter,
and could easily have sca•ed, instead of the noble
Viscount, a 'ilecond advocate ~for Reform. Nor
has the independent spirit of the freeholdtrs -con-
fined itself to English counties; the Welshinea's;
blood is up, and they have resolved that their ancient
masters shall no longer trample on them as ith
impunity. The two Wyntis are about to be opposed
on Reform principles. In Derilighshire, spirited
address to the fret hollers has been circulated, de-
nouncing the Toryism of old Sir Watkins exhorting
the freeholders to come.fore ard in aid of the King
and his liberal Ministers, and giving notice that Mr.
Madocks, of Glanywern, was to be put in nomination
at Wrexham yesterday, in opposition to the mighty
Baronet. This intelligence it is highly desirable
should be known to all non-;-esideet freeholders of
the county of Denbigh. Sir Watkin Wynn is a fair
specimen of the kind of mat, whom a Tery Miniseer
delights to have in Parliament, and whom a roused
and instructed people deem as we less to all the
best purposes of a legislator. Ti e downfall of
the
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r‘oi:yustflatec•tityty
olonaisolitill be a terrible)vo,ve,,t.Th lo
The of
obiiw_fto the
oxof
Powie-castle must henceforth leekabout hint. Taun-
ton has re-elected unanimously its foam sr literal
Members ; and Mr. I3ainbridge, e hose address of
thanks, lies before us, pledges himself to support the
" King, in his wishes to reform the reere,entatite
system of the empire." Certain despairine ga.
zette-writers of the boroughmongers pretend to
frighten their readers by prophecies of the ruin
which is to overtake one great interest of the
empire after another, in consequence of the passing
of the Bill. Ireland is to be lost—then the English
agricediurists—then the Church—last the funds.
What next, worthy friend? Why, peradventure,
the millenium will follow. We have received a
brief advice from Northampton, that a certain cler-
gyman is thereabouts doing the work of an incen-
diary against the King's Government and the mea-
sure of Reform. Once more, let the established
clergy beware. The people of England, we repeat
to some mercenary meddlers, will not endure to
have the great interests of the country vexed and
thwarted for the increase, nor even for the main-
tenance, of their selfish abuses.-7'imes.
The proceedings at the Cambridge election are
considered by the friends of the Church in the
City—and the Church has many friends there—as
calculated to do more injury to the cause of the
Establishment than any thing which has occurred
for a great number of years. The return of Messrs.
Peel and Goulhurn will confirm the opinion, note
too general, and we are afraid too well founded, that
the Clergy have no sympathy with the people; that,
as a body, they are friendly to the oligarchy, and
bitter enemies to all Reform, whether political or
ecclesiastical. The display, however, of this spirit
at this particular moment is as senseless as it is un-
reeling. The clerical electors of Cambridae cannot
by their opposition retard the accomplishment of
Reform one single moment, and their votes against
it are as harmlees as a hungry dog with a muzzle
on his nose. He may erin, but he cannot bite.
We believe that if the Clergy had divested them-
selves of that esprit de corps, that love of dictation
and worldly domination, and shown a proper sym-
pathy with the feelings of the people, they would
have found more advocates for the Church in
a reformed Parliament, than ever they did in
the unreformed one. But, as it is, this will most
assuredly not be the case. Whatever may be the
private opinions of Members of Parliament with
regard to the propriety of supporting the Church
Estalishment, the Clergy have rendered them-
selves so thoroughly unpopular that they will be
afraid to avow them. Far be it from us, however,
to insinuate that there are not good men in the
Church—men as liberal in their opinions as they are
generous and Christianhke in their feelings. We
speak only of the majority, and that the majority
should riot be liberal politicians is not wonderful,
seeing who lies had the dispensation of Church pre-
ferment for the last fifty years. We are not, we
must confess, amongst those who approve of the
manner in which the present excellent Lord Chan-
cellor has disposed of his Church patronage. From
the most amiable of motives, no doubt, he has, we
know, in more than one instance preferred Clergy-
men holding high Tory politics, while scarcely a
single Whig has been advanced in the Church.
Then, again, his Lordship has place the small liv-
ings at the disposal of the Bishops, who will take
care to appoint men after their own hearts, as re-
gards their political creed. Now, in our humble
opinion, this is neither just nor politic. It is not
just towards the conscientious Clergyman, who, in
the face of his own interest, has been labouring in
the cause of Reform, through all sorts of persecu-
tions and evil reports—it.is not just, we repeat, to
pass over such a man, and promote another of a
directly opposite description; yet we know that this
has been done in more instances than one. With
regard to the porecy of thus acting, we have no hesi-
tation in saying that if another course had been
adopted the result of the Cambridge election would.
have been very different. The fact is, the Tories
imagine that the Govern's-em fear them. No time
should be lost in proving to them that they are
mistaken. Let the Tory employees he all dis-
charged, and let friends to the rights of the people
be preferred both in Church and State.—Monting
Herald.

Having all esong had our misgivings on the sub-
led of tte Cambridge election, we were therefore

let unprepared for the result—r; result which places
:he majority of the members of that seat of learn-

ing in no very enviable light as citizens of a vast
and enlightened empire. By the opponents of-Re-
form it will of course be looked upon as no c -
mon Victory; and, as their_ only one, we ab0...._
unwilling to rob them of;.iii solitarrgiorie!,-V___' •
not (Inc to truth that th
ers sho 'the I.irctaglit, down to',
these non-referm
reMents and
proper level . n
arch of intellect it is, w' should think, no small
,ameandal on a literary body to repudiate two of their
• i I the se (16: -"esotr:letesad-iniintiPe:::::st
beneath them both in academic acqt,i
own most accomplished Member#, !or tWO so fa