The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-11 00:00:00

xhat he liked with his own. He knew little of
English history when he said he could do what he
liked with the rights of his countrymen. He, how-
ever, had been floored at last.—(Applause, and
laughter.) One of his Grace's boroughs, which had
sixty voters, returned two Members to Parliament.
Now, if the franchise of that place should be trans-
ferred to Birmingham, which contained 160,000
souls, and was the very bee-Live of industry,
wai that likely to produce a revolution ?
(Cheers.) It was only necessary to put the case
In this common sense point of view, in order to
eet rid of the gabble about the revolutionary ten-
dency of the Bill. The days of humbug were past,
and reason now held sway. By that test the Bill
had been tried, and approved of by the nation.
Colonel JONES said, that the last was a nine
months' Parliament, and had been attended with
a happy delivery. It bad produced a fine bantling,
which the people had adopted.—(A laugh.) But
they must not stop there ; they ought to superin-
tend the nursing of it until it arrived at maturity.
A gentleman moved the thanks of the meeting
to the Sheriffs, which was carried' unanimously.
Mr. HUME then proposed that the multitude
should sing " God save the King."
Mr. Serjeant Pell was requested to perform the
solo part, but was excused on the ground that he
was no vocalist. Mr. Hume also got off by declar-
ing that he did not know the difference between
" God save the King" and " Blue Bonnets." At
length a gentleman on the hustings sang the anthem,
and the crowd in front joined heartily in chorus.
Three times three cheers were given for the King,
and the same number for Reform and " the Bill."

The Members were afterwards chaired through the
town.

D 0 RCHES TER, Mar 9.

Here, as elsewhere, the mind of the people is en-
thusiastically in favour of Reform. On my road from
Salisbury to Dorchester, I had abundant proofs of it
in every village through which we passed. At Bland-
ford banners were displayed in' everal windows, with
inscriptions more or less flatteting to the reforming
candidates Portman and Calcraft. Not a shred of
silk was exhibited in favour of that enemy of educa-
tion, and that champion of antiquated abuses, the soi-
disant reformer, Mr. Bank, s. The coach in which I
travelled was supposed to be engaged in carrying that
gentleman's voters; and the consequence was, that a
mob of idle people surrounded it and hooted the pas-
sengers most unmercifully. One or two persons had
clubs in their hands. They flourished them above
their heads, and swore that they would give Mr.
Bankes' bludgeon-men a good drubbing to-morrow
if they dared to range themselves again in the neigh-
bourhood of the hustings. This feeling is, I under-
stand, prevalent throughout the county, so that I
shall be surprised if we have not some hostile colli-
sion between the two parties to-morrow. If such an
untoward event should occur, there can be no doubt,
from the popular indignation which their insolent and
ferocious conduct on Friday last has excited in all
quarters, that they will get another sound thrashing.
You may therefore, to use a vulgar but not inexpres-
sive phrase, be on the look out for squalls. The
Reformers are in high spirits, declaring that they
have with them the whole of the intelligence of
Dorsetshire, and that they are only opposed by an
oligarchy of squireens and parsons, whose passions
and prejudices will induce them, notwithstanding the
hopelessness of success, to fight the battle of this
veteran champion of their order, as long as the purse
of the Charles-street gang remains unexhausted, but
not one moment longer. They are using all kinds of
dirty tricks to intimidate the poorer voter,, but
hitherto in vain.

Dorchester is quite full. Beds are difficult to
procure, and none are to be had for less than half a
guinea a night.

CUMBERLAND ELECTION.

(FROM OUR CORRISPONDENT
ANOTHER VICTORY!

The LOWTHERS DRIVEN from CUMBERLAND.
COCKERMOUTH, MAY 9, 1831.

The election for this county closed this morning, and
Sir James Graham and William Blarßire, Esq., of Thack-
woodnook, were declared duly elected. On Saturday
Lord Lowther set off for Carlisle, for the purpose of can-
vassing the freeholders in that quarter. He received only
fourteen promises ! He returned to Cockermouth the
same night, and on Sunday afternoon sent off expresses to
the other candidates and to the High Sheriff, announcing
that he should decline continuing the contest. In the
course of the day, and this morning, hundreds of free-
holders arrived to vote for the Reform candidates, and had
the contest continued, at least nine-tenths of the freehol-
ders in the county, would have recorded their names in
favour of the Reformers. '

This morning the booths were opened, and a great
number of freeholders recorded their votes, but the num-
bers were not added to the poll. At eleven o'clock, the
Sheriff declared Sir J. R. G. Graham, and William Bla-
mire, Esq., duly elected, and the announcement was re-
ceived with great cheering. The freeholders dined toge-
ther with the Members in an open tent, at two o'clock,
and it four they are to be chaired.
Thus ends for ever the power of the Lowthers in Cum-
berland.

It is yet expected there will be a contest for Westmor-
land, the freeholders being much dissatisfied with the com-
promise. The election commences on Wednesday.

LEICESTER COUNTY ELECTION, MAY 10.

The election is over without opposition, and two Re-
formers, C. March PhiHipps, Esq., of Garetadon, and
Thomas Paget, Esq., of Humberstone, are returned, who
will both support the Bill to its full extent. Mr. Keck
announced his re•iknation immediately on the dissolution.
It is deserving of notice to praise the gentlemanly conduct
of Lord Robert Manners, who after finding, through
enquiry of his friends, that the freeholders were deter-
mined to support candidates only pledged to the Bill, that
he issued a most courteous and dignified address to the
electors declining to engage in a vexatious contest. This
was in every respect worthy of the house of Rutland, and
has secured to his Lordship the merited esteem of public
approbation. This noble example was unfortunately sullied
at the nomination last Friday, by Mr. Paget, who in the
mast unmanly, unprovoked, and ungentlemanly manner,
offered a gross personal insult to Sir Francis Burdett,
Bart., a considerable landowner in the county,—that
Pa►riarch of Reform, the companion and disciple of
Horne Tooke, of Cartwright, and of Bentham, and of
others who fought for the people in the cause of Reform,
when it was treason to dare to advocate the rights of the
people, and who has spent a princely fortune in the cause,
twice been imprisoned, and even risked the scaffold in
maintaining popular rights.
Sir Francis Burdett, whose presence does honour to
any political assembly, stated upon the hustings that he
came expressly to put Mr. Otway Cave in nomination,
but finding that two Reformers presented themselves to the
electors, and anxious to preserve harmony at the present
crisis, he had no hesitation in sacrificing his personal pre-
possession to the public cause, he should, therefore, decline
putting his friend, Mr. Otway Cave, in nomination.
This high-minded conduct was requited by the friends
of Mr. Paget, who appeared determined to silence by
clamour any attempt on the part of Sir Francis to address
the freeholders in explanation. Colonel De Lacy Evans,
11I.P. for Rye, a friend of Sir Francis Burdett and Mr.
Otway Cave, had the permission of the High Sheriff to
address the meeting, but was opposed by the friends of Mr.
Paget, and the confusion became so great that the Sheriff
took the sense of the meeting whether the Gallant Colonel
should be heard, which was decided almost unanimously
in the affirmative ; but, by an unintentional mistake of the
Sheriff, he gave an opposite decision. Colonel Evans
afterwards addressed the people from the Stag and
Pheasant Inn in the evening.
The triumph has been tarnished by this unwarrantable
personal contention on the part of Mr. Paget and his
friends, which would have provoked a just and severe
retribution on the part of Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Otway
Cave, and their friends, had a fair hearing been obtained.

The new Parliament will in all probability be
so short-lived that it is generally supposed there will be
very few petitions.
The result of the elections having rendered the
question of Reform quite irresistible, it is rumoured that
stlrne of its warmest opponents in the last Parliament are
beginning to beat about, with a view of finding some
colourable excuse for a convenient aline of opinion—in
other words, a sort of re-peal.

CARNAR VON, MAY 9.

(FROM A CORRESFONDENT•)

The agents of Lord Newborough are using the most unfair
means to compel his tenants to vote for Mr. Gore, and pre-
vent their voting for Sir Charles Paget. An immense
'lumber of quarrymen have bren brought to town for the
purpose of intimidation, and most of them are armed with
abort bludgeons—and in defence, if such a state of things
ontinues, Sir Charles's friends must arm also. Vot
who are tenants of Lord Newborough are locked up, and
in m iny instances almost positively forced to the hustings.
The boroughmongers srt off by every species of delay to
enable the fictitious batch of burgesses, made at Criccieth
about three years ago, to he brought forward in due form,
hut they are likely to have the tables turned upon them.._
Mr. Gore would not have stood a day's poll bad not the
most unfair influence been used. Lord Newborough has,
by letter, disclaimed any inclination or wish to influence
his tenants, but his agents go on as if his disinclination
was as chaff before their dicta. His Lordship must take
very decided measures if he ever intends to be for the
future considered as ranking in that class of society to
which his rank entitles him ; or if he wishes the world to
believe that he has either a will or property of his own.

STATE OF THE POLL.
Sir Charles Paget -
W. 0. Gore, Esq. -

ANOTHER JUDAS ISCARIOT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stit,Lßeingon:o7 those who have read your excellent
Newspaper for many years, and who feel bow much the
country is indebted to you for the zeal and ability with
which you second the friends of the Bill, the whole Bill,
and nothing short of the principle and full extent of the
Bill, I venture to trouble you with this communication,
to fix the public attention on the scandalous stratagem by
which a known tool of the boroughmongers has been foisted
on the electors in this neighbourhood. The principal actor
merits the reprobation of society, and the following lines
have been addressed to the fallen apostate, who, after hav-
ing, during a long period, received the most honourable
proofs of confidence from his tellow-subjects, has basely
deserted them, and betrayed the cause of his King and
country, on the day of trial. By a train of insidious de-
lays be contrived to time his final abandonment of the
cause to the last hour, so as to keep the electors in sus-
pense, and prevent their bringing forward a gentleman of
staunch independent principles, along with the Reform
candidate. He thus deprived them of the opportunity of
vindicating their own character, and rescuing this ancient
city from the disgraceful thraldom of a Noble Tory, sig-
nalized by his late outrageous attacks upon his Majesty's
Ministers, and his senseless opposition to Reform. By
this unprincipled collusion the deserter, in the words of
that able journal the Durham Chronicle (May 7), has
" gone far to tarnish all the lustre of his former life."
But I must say, it is the general opinion that he has gone
the whole way to effect his own political debasement, and
stooped so low as to become the ladder or footstool, which
enabled a plausible Anti-Reformer to become a Member
for, or rather a misrepresentative of, this city, against the
sense of the King and people. An open enemy is much
safer than an intriguing shuffier. who, so long as there
was no chance of effecting a Reform, affected to be a Re-
former, but now, when the King and the people are united
to carry that measure, deserts his colours, and covertly
plays in with the avowed tools of corruption and active
enemies of Reformation. Such double dealers ought to be
held up to public reprobation, for if they are permitted,
through a culpable false delicacy, to get off without a due
measure of censure and contempt, others may be encou-
raged, by their example and impunity, to inflict a similar
injury on the public. The following are the lines to which
I have adverted, and which are here in circulation :

Fly, base betrayer of thy country, fly,
From the keen scorn of every honest eye!
Fit tenant of some dark and loathsome den,
No longer dare pollute the haunts of men.
Where, when, and how the compromise was seal'd,
May rest in darkness, ever unreveal'd ;
But still the foul desertion of thy post,
When most relied on, and when wanted most;
That guilt, by which the foe a triumph gain'd,
With trumpet-tongue thy perfidy explain'd ;
Henceforth, be as the Northern Judas known,
O branded outcast, forced to dwell alone ;
Thy children's children shall abjure thy name
To 'scare the vile inheritance of shame,
And History shall record thy monstrous crime,
A black memento to the latest time."

This perfidy has not only rendered the deserter unpopu-
lar, but it has inflicted a wound on public confidence, and
in some degree unjustly brought the name of a professed
Reformer of great promise into unnecessary question, 64
if, to avoid the chances of a struggle, he too had a share
in the compromise. I merely notice this to express my
disbelief of the supposition. His short course in Parlia-
ment has been decidedly honest ; and such as entitles him
to every confidence. But, as he values public opinion, let
him beware of the hollow show of courtesy so fluently
proffered to him on the hustings by the tool of the bormugli-
mongers, who bad just gained his object. Political vice and
virtue cannot consmune together without insidious design
in the one, and discredit to the other. It will be no
ground for an increase of reliance on the popular candi-
date for him to become an intimate cr correspondent
of a petticoat-nominee, the creature of corruption. It
is notorious, from his rejection by the electors only a few
months ago, that the Tory candidate could have
had no hope, nor the smalle•t chance of success
from the electors, in a fair and open contest with
two Reform candidates. His rout was inevitable,
if the deserter had, either in a manly way on the day
after the dissolution of Parliament, publicly declared his
determination not to stand the election, or had stood his
ground and fulfilled the expectations of the public. The
Anti-Reformers coming so boldly forward, so immediately
after his recent rejection by the electors, is in itself a
sufficient proof that matters were previously arranged,
and that he well knew where and on whom to place his
confident reliance.
It is remarkable, also, that a certain titled lady, on the
day of election (whose beauty and perseverance in what-
ever she undertakes would render her invaluable in a good
cause), drove from a distance (supposed to be her mansion
near Seaham) to congratulate her nominee. The hour
at which she appeared in the balcony of the Waterloo
Hotel and shook hands with him before the public, leaves
little doubt she made the journey with a knowledge before
she left home that the eh ctors were juggled and the bust-
ing. given up to her friend, l.y private treaty. She did
not attend to condole with him on his former defeat. Nor
would she have made her public entry in her carriage and
four, in this latter instance, but that she was perfectly well
assured of the perfidy, which had ensured the return of the-
borouglomongers' tool and advocate. It is quite certain
that, if the deserter had stood his ground, the Tory tool
would have been a second time rejected by the electors
or obliged to resign, as Hart Davis, the Tory advocate, re-
signed in Bristol, as Sir Edward Knatchbull did in Kent,
and, as it is now stated, (if there be no juggle) Sir Henry
Hardinge has done, or is about to do, in this county.
When Davis, Knatchbull, Duncombe and many other re-
sident Tories of great property and connections, after hav-
ing been so often elected during a long course of years,
have been recently rejected in their own counties, by the
very men who had so often elected them, what chance
could this petticoat nominee have, who was a total
stranger here, only a few weeks ago, who possesses net a
shilling of property in this county, and who was so lately
rejected by the very city for which he is now returned ?
Let the deserter answer this. I have no personal feeling
against him. It is his recent misconduct which makes
me share in the general indignation. However, the petti-
coat candidate will not long enjoy the power of voting in
support of corruption, profligate expenditure, war, and
unlimited taxation, The Bill, the whole Bill, and no-
thing short of the Bill which assures the peace of the
country, will be triumphantly carried, and the electors
will be prepared with two independent friends of Reform,
before the day appointed for the next election.
Durham, May 7, 1831. CATO.

The late Sir JOSEPH YORKE, after attending
his own election at Reigate, had left town for the purpose
of giving his vote to Mr. lior, the unsuccessful candidate
at Southampton.

Some of the Papers have erroneously denomi-
nated the late Sir JOSEPH YoRKE a Baronet. The sons
of Earls never take Baronetages, they being by birth
fourteen degrees of rank above that title. All after the
eldest son of an Earl (who takes his father's second title)
are Honourable, and of the highest degree of that rank.
The deceased had the title of Sir, from his being a Knight
Commander of the Bath.

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