The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-10 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 101.

We are given to understand that his MAJESTY'S
intended visit to Portsmouth early in June is for
the present postponed, without any time being fixed.

Despatches have been received at the Foreign-office
this morning, from Sweden, France, and Holland,

We have just received the following communica-
tion from Cambridge, which we request our readers
to peruse with attention :
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—Much as I regret the result of the Cambridge
election, I can but lament that you and other Editors,
equally ignorant of University affairs in general, and of this
election in particular, should send forth to the world what
is most unquestionably untrue, namely, that the Anti-
Reform Candidates were returned by the Clergy.
If you will take the trouble to look at a Cambridge
Calendar, you will see that little more than one-third of
the members of the Senate are Clergymen ; and if at the
publication of the poll on Wednesday you will examine
the votes, you will find, as I have reason to know is the
case, that the majority of voters for Goulburn and Peel
were laymen.
I wish your readers to know what is the intention of
Ministers with Tespect to the entire Bill. Lord Palmer-
ston expressly declared to many of his voters, in the
Senate-house, that the cry of " The Bill, the whole Bill,
and nothing but the Bill," had been raised by their
greatest enemies ; and that several points, and in particular
the 101. rental franchise, were quite open to any decision
to which the House might think fit to come. It was
this which made me, as well as many others, besides being
Your humble servant,
A VOTER FOR PALMERSTON AND CAVENDISH.
On this communication, we have one or two re-
marks to make. The writer asserts that it is most
unquestionably untrue that the Anti-Reform Candi-
dates were returned by the Clergy, for he has reason
to know that the majori y of their voters were lay-
men. In reply to this statement, we republish, from
The Sun of yesterday, an authentic list, extracted
from a morning contemporary, of the number of
votes given for all the four University Candidates,
by which it will be seen, that it was the Clergy who
supported and returned PEEL and GOULBURN, while
the majority of the laymen were in favour of PAL-
MERSTON and CAVENDISH.
Clergy. Laity. Total.
Goulburn 570 236 s,
Peel
Cavendish
Palmerston 309 301 610

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It is evident from this list that the Anti-Reformers
• would have signally failed, had not their ricketty
cause been propped up by the influence of the
Clergy, to whom, therefore, the diilgrace of their
return is wholly to be attributed. The Church,
however, will gain little by its triumph. The
people are indignant that an establishment, to
which they pay such vast sums, should have
been the first to set them an example of dis-
obedience to the Sovereign and his Government.
They are also maddened at the idea that henceforth
in cases of emergency they must look for no coun-
tenance, no support, from the Clergy, who,
judging from their present conduct, will always side
with that faction which shows itself most disposed
to oppress the people. With regard to our Corre-
spondent's statement of Lord PALIKERSTON'S decla-
ration on the subject of the 101. franchise, we are
convinced he is as much in error here as in his re-
mark upon the votes of the Clergy. The Noble
Lord could never have so committed himself.
What! state that the franchise was open to any
decision to which the House might think fit to come,
after Lord GREY in the Upper, and Lord ALTHoRp
in the Lower House, bad expressly declared that they
would not allow of the slightest alteration in the
principle of the Bill, on which their very political ex-
istence depended ? Impossible. Lord PAL➢tER-
STON could never have given utterance to an opinion
so wholly at variance with the recorded sentiments
of the heads of the Cabinet. The ten pound fran-
chise is the main prop and pillar of the Bill, remove
this, or raise the qualification, and the whole
measure would instantly bleak down. Besides,
the unanimous cry of the Reformers at every
county—city—town and borough election is, " the
whole Bill and nothing but the Bill ;" for this they
fight, this they have been taught to expect, and
this they will have. We have given publicity to
our Cortespondent's statement, solely for the pur-
pose of convincing him, and all who may happen
to think with him, that they are labouring under a
grievous delusion, and that the sooner they dismiss
it from their minds the better. One word more.
Our Correspondent shows himself nervously anxious
to serve the Church ; pray, what reply will he, or can
he, make to the statement put forth by Mr. HARVEY
at the Essex election, that dispatches had been for-
warded on Saturday niklit to the various clergymen
throughout the county, requesting them to employ
the pulpit as a place for issuing proclamations in
favour of the Tory Candidate Colonel TYRELL?
What reply, we repeat, will our Correspondent mak
to this statement ? None at all. It is wholly inde.
fensible. We cannot even conceive a grosser viola.