The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-26 00:00:00

,o better than the House of Lords! Electors of the
United Kingdom, be it your duty to set an exathplr
)f order, courtesy, good feel;ng, and sagacity to thi.
Ilustrious House, the first and highest Court of .Ju-
dicature in the realm,. We can assure you that it i,
ouch in want of such an example. There is ►r.or
:tan one Noble Peer who would be considerably
mproved, by taking a few lessons in good breeding
from the electors of Preston.

We come now to .another point. The borough-
nongers, it seems, are every where raising sub=crip-
ions. They have already, we learn, amassed con-
.iderable sums, arid are even now pouring, in addi-
,ional thousands and tens of thousands, for tie sole,
avowed object of defeating the efforts of the
Reformers. They dare, openly arid tinequivoCull),
to insult the people, by thinking that they are a,
base, as accessible to bribery as themselves. They
have already offered an affront to their KING,
who has resented it with the spirit of a man,
and the dignity of a Monarch ; and they now
dare to offer another to the people, who mils-
resent it with equal promptitude. The elect();
who accepts a bribe from the boroughinongers;
must be instantly marked out for public exe-
cration. lie must be rendered us odious to the
community as that poor, imbecile Blacking-man,
who calls himself a politician, and dreams that he
is a patriot. He must be shunned—scorned—
detested. If an honest man meet him in the
street, lie must turn aside cr run off, as if there
were pollution in his very look. But we are
anticipating matters. No elector, we are con-
vinced, will so far disgrace himself. Prtu!ence, if
not conscience, will keep him honest. lie will
think of what is due to his KING, his country, him-
self, his wife, his children, his friends, his posterity;
and despite the whispers, the lures, and the threats.
of the Reformers, will sternly do his duty.
But should we be too sanguine in our prognos-
tications; should there be found electors silly—mad
—wicked enough to accept a bribe from their bit-
terest enemies, we can tell them that they will very
shortly have to return it, if not in one shape, at
least in another. The boroughmongers having
once got into office by defeating the Reform
Bill, the very first thing they will do will
be to reimburse themselves for their present
electioneering expences. To this end a fresh load
of taxation will be laid on ; so that every individual
elector who has condescended to accept a bribe
from the boroughmongers, will, before the expiration
of two, or at most three years, have more than paid
back, in the shape of taxes, the sum for which he
sold his integrity

But let them subscribe their thousands, or even
their millions, it is impossible that the borough-
mongers should succeed. All the laws of reason,
common sense, and probability are against them. Fo-
every shilling they subscribe, the people will sub-
scribe a sovereign; for every sovereign, a hundred.
Committees, to receive these patriotic contribu-
tions, to facilitate the conveyance of VO•PrE to
their different polls, and to cover the other inci-
dental expences of elections, are at this very mo-
ment in active operation throughout the country.
To the Metropolitan Committee alone vast sums
have been already subscribed ; and the Bar, much
to its credit, collected yesterd,iy, in less Ulan half
an hour, upwards of five hundred pounds to pro-
mote the great cause! The same lofty, munificent
spirit is every where abroad. Associations are form-
ing in all our leading towns, for the purpose of re-
ceiving subscriptions from one sovereign to one
penny. The widow's mite will thus be respected
as much as the rich man's largess. Let every man
then do his best, and no matter how small his con-
tribution may be, it willgiveltim a claim on the
gratitude of his country.

The public illumination last night was necessarily
partial, owing to the extreme shortness of the no-
tice. To-motrow (Wednesday) night, it will b:1 en
a scale of extraordinary grandeur. The different
lamp-contractors at the east end of the metropolis,
have already received more orders than they cad
possibly execute within the time.

An intelligent Correspondent requests us to ask
what pretensions Mr. YATES PEEL has to the 112-
presentation of the Univcrsi.y of Cambridge ?
We really do not know. He is also desirous to be
informed, whether it is considered dignified and be-
comii in a great legal functionary, to mix himself
up with the petty squabbles of a Universi,y election.
—We should conceive not.

In another column will be found. another Ukase
or Manifesto of that blind, infatuated tyrant the
Emperor NICHOLAS. We thought his IMPERIAL
MAJESTY had already had qaite enough of mani-
festoes ; and would have been in no hurry to ful-
minate another. Ile threatens death in the most
summary Tartar fashion to all his revolted subj. cts.

The Allgemeine Zeitung contains some gratifying
accounts of the continued succes9eA of the Polish
Patriots, and their generous humanity to the Russian
prisot.ers. The following are extracts :

VIENNA, APRIL 14.—An Austrian officer, who was
sent to the bead-quarters of Field Marshal Diebitsch, re-
turned to this city last night. He left the Field-Marshal at
Ityki near Pulawy, and saw great preparations for passing
over to the left bank of the Vistula. According to his ac-
count the Russian army was in the beat condition, and in
no want of provisions, as has bet-ti generally affirmed.
The loss sustained in the retreat of Generals Geismar
and Rosen is stated to be inconsiderable, and not to have
caused the slightest lerangement in the plan pf the cam-
paign. The opinion prevailing at the Russian bead-tpar-
ters was, that all would be finished, and Warsaw taken,
within a fortnight.

AUGSBURG:APRIL 18.—Some Journals give the fob
lowing letter from Warsaw, dated April 3 :—" Salutes
from the captured Russian cannon e. now. heard from
the palace of the Kings of Poland. This city presents an
extraordinary scene of animation' ;.the streets are crowded
widi people, horses, and
eniegshbourhoo
waggons, conveying provisimis
stretwithstanding the
and ammunition to the
scarcityd of the
Russian
umtahgeazni
been taken, there is a
e yrof
, te,
thatarinilY
most ',leasing ciicuinstancerihnetileave :
tench
r eCait,
yo
tßhoi
ts'oins that tTh eh te.
who chave 7mstinutsmsdos far‘Pv tnaliesnh, brigade,r
shed
zhimosde,l'f:lie u
(forward,)nd e
andtail o
nu
in his a Polish
tri s atN lrz(
ur b‘r‘a'(%).red"
soldiers, N a
*rank of GHlenberraavle4ilP)
get to its, swain
glilaeisc.Titinxl,l%y,aciall,lrett,lm7tteit,ototltiheien
the
peiiii•sonnrSietar. kten him for the long
atieerldnssoftibieatvt'ei:tulaß.mnsareimnee,
expected General Excelmans.
The Russian prisoners come in troops, even
escorts, to Warsaw, the whole road from Afilosraiskliiiitni.'docl without
with them ; every prisoner has all his hags tie a
what is the Emperor's property is taken fram him ,11(
effects and clothes 'amain his own. It is truly sift:tidog
and delightful to s e the humanity of the Poles to theii
prisoners. Very often we have sten in one droschkoi a
Pole and a Russian sitting together, the Pole supportint,
the severely wounded enemy. The Russians are received
here in the kindest manner, and when they are sick treated in
the hospitals with the same care as our own soldiers. Our
women distinguish themselves in the care of the sick,
and even tidies of the highest rank take t'‘eir turn iu
attending on them for 24 hours. That the Russians
not expect such treatment is eviden from their emotion
and their gratitude. The number of cannon taken is con-
siderable, though all could not be brought in for want of
horses.
The standards taken are all placed at the foot of the
White Polish Eagle on the balcony of thy Seuate-house,