The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-02 00:00:00

CARNARVON.

In the last report it was stated, that the Reformers had a
decided majority in the Town-Council. On adding up the
poll, the return gave one Tory in the Large Ward, and the
whole six in the Small Ward. Two of the gentlemen in that
ward have since declared neutrality in that ward between the
contending parties ; and another, a solicitor, who always acted
on the Reform interest, has declared for the Tories.. This
has given the Tories a temporary—very temporary triumph,
and loud has been their rejoicing.
The coercion of Mr. Assheton Smith's agents has been con-
tinued since the election, and on the members of the Common
Council. Finding that the neutrality of the two gentlemen
before referred to did not serve them, all that threats could do
they have resorted to. Those gentlemen fill the highly re-
spectable situations of Manager and Cashier of the Common
Bank; ar.d the former is High Sheriff for the county. Mr.
Smith's chief receiving and electioneering agent, a Mr. Jo-
seph Jones, a great Radical of ancient days, but who, during
his service with Mr. Assheton Sinith, has been the Tory
bully, tried on that system rather extraordinarily on Wednes-
day, with the two Common-Councilmen employed at the
Bank. His rage and arrogance were such, that even the pre-
sence of the High Sheriff could not restrain him ; and in a
paroxysm which nothing but grievous disappointment could
produce, he struck Mr. Preece, the cashier, who immediately
claimed the protection of the High Sheriff. The representa-
tive of Majesty interfered, and with difficulty prevented the
accredited agent" going on further, with what Orator Hunt
was wont to desic-nate " constitution squeezes." Mr. Preece
is a highly respectable man—a preacher among the Wesleyans
—has served the highest elective municipal offices in the
borough of Carnarvom—and is esteemed by all classes of the
inhabitants. We suppose " the gentlemen of the long robe"
will get a job out of it. So much for Tory fair play, and the
constitutional tendency of the interference of Mr. Asshoton
Smith and his agents.
The election of Aldermen to-day, has resulted rather curi-
ously. The instructions to the Council are to elect six Alder-
men. Each party nominated six; and the result was nine
votes each for W. Lloyd Roberts, Esq., and R. Griffith, Esq.,
both out and out Reformers; eight votes each for Mr. Robert
Griffith, Mr. Peter Ellis, Mr. John Thomas, and R. M.
Preece, Esq., all Reformers ; and the' same number for Mr.
H. R. Williams, Captain Boileau, the aforesaid .Joseph Jones,
and Mr. G. Johnston, all Tories; and seven each for Mr.
Thomas Jones and Captain William Griffith, also Tories.
The two first are elected Aldermen ; and as the Act has pro-
vided no way of dealing with the double election, and as
neither party will give way, the Recorder kept them locked
up until midnight, when the day expired, and then they
separated.
The Tories are raging. Taking example by the pugilistic
propensities of Mr. Joseph Jones, the small fry have tried_ it
on all the day, but in some instances to their discomfiture.
They had taken possession of the door of the Guildhall, and
would not let any person go near it. A pugilistic barber was
particularly conspicuous; and enliibited a ludicrous spectacle,
with his coat torn to the neck, and displaying n breadth
of breach truly aldermanic.
The new Corporation begin well, as they alleviated their
confinement of twelve hours with the refreshing influence of a
round of beef, a ham, and a couple of bottles of whiskey.
The Reformers in the Council have stcod out threats and Ca-
jolry most gallantly.
To-morrow will give a reforming Mayor, W. Roberts,

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Popery" declamations—a t itinerant labours of fiis.
Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan—had utterly failed to
draw the attention of the people from Iteform---it
fairly gave up the Tory_ cause as lost, and ''intiAated
that the old corporators (who had returned the sup-
porters of Sir Robert Peel) were deservedly isejeeted
by their fellow-citizens, as the old irresponsitsle system
had been productive of • all manner of ,abuses. It ap-.
peared to us that the film was beginning to drop from
the eyes of our Contemporary, and that the stralsge
delusion in which it had been for upwards
twelve 'months, with regard to Conservatism, had-
either been dispelled or- was ahout to be rapidly
dispelled. We could, however, hiale allowances for
the Times, which is never much inclined to ad-
here pertinaciously to a ruined cause—but what
means the doleful accompaniment of Blackwood ?
" Supposing,
_says that Journal, in an article ou
the future,' supposing the most decided re-action to
take place in public feeling in the British dominions,
and the most -Conservative administration
.to be placed
at the helm, still the State is essentially revolutionized-
The great organic change has been made, and cannot
be Government is no - longer, and never
again will be, as long as a mixed Constitution lasts, a
free agent. It is impelled. by the inclinations of
twelve hundred thousand electors, in whom supreme
power is substantially vested." This is, at all events,
a frank admission. Down to the passing of the Re-
form Act, Government was free; that is to say, that
Parliament and the Government were one and the
same. The Ministry were the agents of the Borough-
mongers, and though the combinations might be Va-
ried new and then, yet that was a matter .which did
not concern the nation. But now that the House of
Commons does not consist of nominees, but of repre-
sentatives of independent constituencies, it is obvious
that Government, in order to lead, must follow--
that is, they must ascertain what measurer, are •ch,-
manded by the nation, and will prove acceptable to 'it.
The idea of considering Government as something ab-
stract,---as_independent of the .nation—of considering
the p-ople as having nothing to do with the laws but
to obey theirof• doing good to the people in spite of
themselves—)of gaging them with Si: Acts and
other measures a la Castlereagh--must be once and
for ever- abandoned. The most violent Tories—the
men that:hate the very name of Reform—must gra-
dually. resign themselves to the change. The Times
hastens to abandon the last hope of the Tories--the
Corporations.. But the Standard, equally aware of
the importance of the victory to the cause of Reform,
wishes to turn the Tory disaster in England to ac-
count in Ireland. Corporations, according to 9ur
evening Contemporary, might be beneficial in the
middle ages, as asylums in which the ireale might
by association protect themselves against feudal
tyrants, -and fellow industrious pursuits ; but
as the laws of the land are now equal to
the protection of all, Corporations, in so far .as
they possess powers or immunities, are detrimental-to
the community at large. And the conclusion at which
our Contemporary arrives is, that there ought to be no
corporations whatever in Ireland. We differ from our
Contemporary altogether with respect to corporations.
It is quite true that, to give to corporations in the pre-
sent day the powers held by them -in the middle ages,
would be anything but beneficial. Their arbitrary
taxation—their hostility to improvements in the arts—
their endeavours, by tire imposition of high premiums
on entry, and by throwing impediments in the way of
competition, to confine trade to a certain number
of • families, were found to be injurious to the respec-
tive communities, and the evil was corrected by the
settlement of industrious 'strangers beyond the
limits of the corporations. But these were 'evils

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not necesserny eeeeeeted with corporations.
evils resulted from neglecting to mothlY corpo-
rations according to the w'. of the age. Nay,
'Treat evils ha-,'e been experienced in most of the
manufacturing towns of England, from the want of
some municipal body invested with nuthority to. at-
tend to the police, the sanitary regulations, &c., of
those places. The defect was imperfectly supplied,
occasionally at a heavy expense, by local acts; but the
powers of the Commissioners under these ,local acts
were generally confined to a 'specillic object.", In' all
the new towns realses of unsightly hotels have, been
hastily reared on undmined ground, by individuals
who speculated.on the necessities of the labouring
classes; and it is now too late to remedy the evil. In
:Manchester there are as many as three hundred indi-
viduals livinc in hovels without yards attached to
them, and wall one necessary common to the whole.
Had a Municipality, with suitable powers, been
in existence, such nuisances would never have been
suffered. The i',letropolis is another instance.
The Corporation of the City of London 'is 'greatly
in need of Reform ; but. still how well ordered is
the City, compared to the vile quarters to the East and
North of it, where hundreds of thouiends
,of human
beings live in a state of the most squalid wretchedness.
Had any body, possessed authority in the quarter in
question, it would never have suffered so many filthy
hovels to be heaped together on undrained ground.
The wonder is how such neighbourhoods are riot the
constant abodes .of pestilence. As it is, you may pass
a thcusand men before you see one who is not dwarfish
and sallow. No, it is wrong to confound Corporations
with these abuses. Properly regulated, Corporations
serve to nourish public spirit, and to promote good or-
der and happiness in a community. We have no doubt
that England will greatly benefit from the Reformed
Municipahies which it has obtained ; and the people
of England will not be so unjust as to seek to withhold
from Ireland what they have benefited by themselves.—
Morning Chronicle.
A letter from " An Englishman" in this day's
Times will command, we are sure, very serious atten-
tion from every man, Constituent as well as Repre-
sentative, who thinks what remains of the British Mo 7
narchy worth protecting. The loyal and Constitu-
tional electors, indeed, thronghout the kingdom, arc
not they to whom, in the first instance, the rebuke of
our Correspondent need be addressed ; nor is it to them
that we are anxious to applv our own remonstrances or
censures. The parties aimed 'at—the offending par-
ties—the culprits in this 'case, are the Members of the
House of Commons, calling themselves Conservatives,
professing a solicitude to maintain the Constitution,
and to resist and frustrate the measures. of the Mel-
bourne Ministry, in so far as- they were manifestly
subservient to the nhemes of O'Connell and his gang,
for the subversion of the Protestant Church, and the
dissolution of the British empire. The recreant Con-
servative Members of whom we Speak are those
Who, during three-fourths of the last Session,
effeminately and shamefully betrayed their trust,
by absenting themselves from their duty' in Par-
liament on occasions when the constituents who had
sent them thither, and the political leaders to whom
they had pledged themselves as men of honour, de-
mantled their Most active and strenuous aid. It is on
the remembrance of the last session and its conse-
quences, that we would found
_our ,warnings for the
future. The session of 1835 began well. The ear-
lier divisions, if not affordingdirect majorities in favoUr
of the Conservative Government, came within a very
few votes of a maioritY, Mid if persevered in with a
manly' and steadfast spirit by
thoSe who had supported
,
Sir Robert Peel, would have sorely perplexed the
N'Vhig-Radical adventurers in their plane both of over-
turning the Conservative Ministry, and carrying on
their own O'Connell syetem of mis-government. But
the attendance of Conservatives soon became lax and
of Commons forbore to shame the unprofitable
worthless. The able -champion of Conservatism in the
House
servants to reflect upon the good-
uswhich they shame which it might
cacllh7cf
h their country,deserte or
have incurred through their indecent dereliction of
their duty. he thciefore felt on many occasions in-
duced to avoid dividing, when it might have been, on
other grounds, desirable to mark the sense he himself
entertained of the mischievous propositions brought
forward by the public enemy. Prom 310 or 312 the
Conservative minority dwindled down in a few weeks
to less by 100 members. Why was this? Because
the boyish impatience and fretfulness of many who
called themselves Conservatives, and who were certainly

not less so at the end of the session than at its opening,
would not brook the quiet labour of watching the
nightly course of the proceedings, or of assisting the
zealous and energetic chieftains under whom they had
sound themselves to act by the declaration of their sen-
timents, or even by their silent votes. We are aware
that these gentlemen had in no respect changed their
opinions—that even their anxiety for the success of the
cause they had embarked in had not cooled,—it was
only that they could not carry everything by storm, and
would not endure the slower, but mere essential, service
of blockades, or counter movements, with a dogged
enemy. Such men, we tell them fairly, are not fit to be
members of Parliament in times like these. If they be too
much absorbed by the habit of frivolous or criminal
indulgences to devote to their country a moderate por-
tion of that time and industry of which she is entitled
to the whole, from those who canvassed for her con-
fidence, and who obtained her suffrages on that sole
condition,—if they will prefer fox-hunnting at one
season, or dinners, balls, and other gaities, at all sea-
sons, or idleness in any and every form, while in Lon-
don, to the work of studying and comprehending
those questions which involve the dearest interests of
the realm,—if they will forego power for the sake of
pleasure, and honest distinction for personal insignifi-
cance, except in so far as they entail upon themselves a
notice exclusively reproachful,--if they will descend to
profit by a disgraceful' fraud, and usurp the name of
Representatives of the people, while they abjure the
functions implied by that name, we do tell them flatly that
they are contemptible pretenders—that they are burdens
instead of supports tothe public cause—that they betray
the Church, the Crown, and the Constitution—that they
are blots and plague-spots upon the Aristocracy to which
they boast of appertaining—and that, like the weak and
wretched creatures who bore the designation of French
noblesse in the early stages of the French Revolution,
they are guilty of delivering over their country in
chains to her and their own destroyers. There is no
use in trifling with the class of persons we now com-
plain of. If they will riot solemnly engage to fulfil
with scrupulous diligence their Parliamentary duties,
let them at once give up their seats to men more
trustworthy and honourable. We earnestly exhort
all members and professed supporters of the Conser-
vative party to be In town some days before the meet-
ing of Parliament. Let it, then, be their first act to
assemble and bind themselves by a formal declaration
to sacrifice every mere social or personal indulgence
to the one paramount duty of defending the
post which their constituents have assigned to
them, and to stand by their Parliamentary leaders,
not merely on the first day, or during the first week,
of the session, but throughout it, from February to
the end of July. This ought, we repeat, now,
erq the 4th of February, to he made the first grand
object of the Conservatives in the House of Commons.
A strict engagement ought to be unanimously under-
taken. It ought to be made the test of individual
character. It ought to be the test of party honour.
Idlers and absentees ought to be disgraced. A full and
cordial attendance of Conservatives from the 4th of
February onwards, through all the chances and changes
of the session, will infallibly destroy this loosely jointed
Ministry, and save England from inevitable ruin.
Let the Conservatives remark the constant and highly
creditable attendance of their enemies. Among them
there is no shirking. Among them' there is no
childish running after superfluous relaxation. There
they are on crowded benches—always at hand—al-
ways effective. Some attempts have been made, it is
true, to account for the close attention to business by
the Radicals, on the ground of their social position
being such, as to preclude them from more agreeable
occupation. Such exposure the class to which
these gentlemen belong, may be quite. founded-rj
but what then ? What have we to do with their ob-
scurity of station ? Where is the disgrace of being
poor ? The rank and file of the Roundheads were
poor, yet they. contrived to give the saucy cavaliers a
tolerable drubbing'. The Jacobins were poor, yet they
annihilated the fainjant noblesse of France. Let not
the Radicals be abused merely, or laughed at—it is
not the way to heat them ; they must be out-generalled
—they must be out-worked—they must be out- debated
--they must be out-voted. If our Conservative aris-
tocracy be not good for that, they are good for nothing.