The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-18 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE.

.....
This week the supplies of grain are only moderate. The trade
for Wheat is very dull, and the top price of Flour is now settled
at €Os. per sack. Barley meets few buyers, and appears to be
still declining in value. Beans and Pease remain unaltered.
Oats find a limited sale, and Monday's terms have been hardly
maintained.

ARRIVALS.
Barley. 1 Oats. Flour.
515 qrs. 4,770 qrs. 2,2losacks.
760
‘2•25 2,700

Wheat.
English
Irish
Foreign

•--. brls,

EAST RETFORD ELECTION AND THE

" STANDARD."

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The true believers who refresh their faith by libations
from the Standard may possibly now and then explore--if
only to ascertain the extent of the mischief—the columns
of The Sun. It may be unkind towards such devotees
to muddy their " Zena-zem ;" but it is due to others to
expose the " placebos" with which Anti-Reformers are
gulled by their physician.
The Standard of Sirday has served up to its readers,
and the faithful have swallowed, a squib from the Lincoln
Herald, inserted as a narrative of the proceedings at this
election, which has no better basis than the following

The result of the struggle, and the Newcastle discom-
fiture, having grieved some attorney's clerk " foredomm'il
his father's soul to cross," or other small-beer wit, and
the actual circumstances of the election having afforded
nothing whereon to ruminate but defeat and dismay, the
young }gentleman has, in the exercise of every man's
" right to do what he likes with his own," invented a
narrative which has the merit of being unmixed fiction
and pure fancy. In this task, in which he proposed
nothing more to himself than to shed venom and to spit
slander, wit has so little aided his malice, and invention
has been so dull, cramped, and barren, that nothing has
resulted from the aloption of poetic license but a tissue
of dull fal.ehoods,—noticeable only because they are false-
hoods. The muddy-hated scribbler has not had ingenuity
enough to conform to the truth in a fact necessarily noto-
rious—the state of the poll—and has committed the fur-
ther "saucherie" of exhibiting the Anti-Reform candi-
date as rejoicing alike in Clumber influence and popular
favour, and the supporters of Reform as shrinking frost
beneath the violent demonstrations of public displeasure!
The fiction is devoid of even those occasional truths
which adherence to probability in notorious facts prescribes
to all prudent t'abulists ; and the cloven foot, hidden by no
drapery, did not need exposing. But it did appear amusing
to point out to the readers of the Standard the estimate
in which they are held by the conductors of that paper.
Did the Standard believe a word of a fiction contradicted
in every public print in the kingdom? Not a syllable.
But the Standard, duly estimating the palates, stOmubs,
and digestions of its subscribers, thus caters foe them
pleasing falsehoods.

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It is not necessary to labour the proof that the Standard
was not imposed on, in preferring a report in an obscure
paper published in Lincolnshire to the accounts appearing
in the local papers, where the events occurred, and which
r+•port was contradicted by the general tide of informs-
tutu ; neither is is necessary further to point out how
perfectly the Standard appreciates the character of its
readers. But such a public manifestation of its contempt
for them is " too bad."

Extract of a letter from Liverpool, May 15 :
" As a friend of liberty, I congratulate you, Sir, on the
mighty change in the aspect of affairs. Nobly, indeed,
has Briateus responded to the call of Jupiter. I should
like to see the assembling of the new Parliament. I bar
that neither Mr. HUMS nor any Member favourably tbs-
poed towards the Bill, will take his station on the Oppo-
sition Benches, as he did in the last Parliament; but rather
that they will make such a demonstration of their strength
as may strike terror into their antagonists, and even induce
them to run away without coining to a contest, 88 many
of their caste have already done in the counties. The Press
has done its duty nobly."