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

REFORMERS.

" This is the proudest and and the happiest day in the
:dstory of Liverpool. The faction is humbled in the dust,
,nd the character of the town has been nobly vindicated.
The freemen have proved that, whatever may have been
'heir past misdeeds, they are not indifferent to the fate of
'heir country, or insensible to their duties as Englishmen.
A.t the close of the poll, at seven o'clock this evening, the
numbers stood as follow :
Mr. William Ewart 1:18-1
Mr. John Evelyn Denison 1374
General Gascoyne
" The universal expectation is that the General will re-
tire
to-night. 'Whether he does so or not, the triumph of
Reform is certain. We congratulate our townsmen and
our fellow-countrymen on this glorious victory."
So that there is not one exception among our
,zreat towns—London, 'Westminster, Southwark,
Liverpool, Bristol, Hull, Norwich, Newcastle—all,
411 devoted to the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing
but the Bill. Messrs. Morrison and Wason, at Ips-
wich, have also triumphed. Mr. Tennyson has de-
feated the Marquis of Exeter, at Stamford. For a
hundred years the house of Burleigh has domineered
over Stamford. The first blow has been struck by
Mr Tennyson. This is something to be proud of.
Another great Lord has found, to his cost, that it is
somewhat dangerous even for a Ducal borough-
monger to avow too openly a property in human
beings. The Duke of Northumberland and Duke
of Newcastle, in avowing too openly that they
have a right to do what they will with their own,
lead men to inquire into the nature of the right of
these would-be white slave-holders. To Serjeant
t'ilde's talents and perseverance we owe the dis-
comfiture of his Grace in Newark. At his peril let
him attempt what he has already attempted As
a set-off against the success in every other quarter,
we find that at the close of the poll at Cambridge
yesterday, Mr. W. Y. Peel and Mr. Goulburn were
still a-head of Mr. Cavendish and Lord Palmerston.
The numbers were—

Peel. .... ... 661
Goulburn 657
Cavendish 482
Palmerston
Still we are told that strong hopes are entertained
by the committees of Mr. Cavendish and Lord Pal-
merston, from the number of voters they have yet
to poll, and the number remaining to their oppo-
nents, that they will make good their ground. For
the sake of the University of Cambridge, which is
now on trial with the country, we hope they will
yet avoid the disgrace of such representatives as
Peel and Goulburn, though the latter has, in the
announcement of services rendered by him to science,
and furnished by himself, no doubt, to our contem-
porary of the Morning Post, made a discovery
which escaped even Sir Humphry Davy (if we may
pin our faith to Dr. Paris's able account), namely, a
new application of bazar caustic to purposes of astro-
nomy.—Morning Chronicle.
We call the attention of our readers to our King's
Bench report, in which they will find a curious light
thrown on some recent proceedings in this metro-
polis. Cunning people are often caught in their
own snare; and we apprehend the case of the
Lord Mayor against a contemporary will furnish a
confirmation of this maxim. The Anti-Reformers,
who are great plotters, great intriguers, who in
their divans have the benefit of the veteran
plotters of 1807 and 1829, were overjoyed, it
seems, at the prospect of advantages which they
should derive from the illuminations of Wednesday
week. They had many strings to their bows.—
if the mob could be led to break the unillumi-
, nated windows, the Anti-Reformers could then have
the merit of displaying their firmness at the expense
of the hundred. The addition to the rates occasioned
by the heavy demands on this score would incense
tire householders against the Government. Then
came the finale, a pretended " placard," in which
the outraeeous conduct of the mob was countenanced
by the City Authorities. And then the war-whoop
against the future Marats, who, in their very outset,
were doing enough to give up London without pro-
teciion to a merciless mob. Cunning Isaacs! Sir
Robert Wilson, an old hand at partisan movements,
jumped a little too hastily (as he has all his life been
in the habit of doing) to a conclusion, for he con-
cluded, no doubt, that he should receive payment for
his broken windows, but, to his dismay, found that
Sir Robert Peel had cut off him, and the goodly band
in the same plight with hint, from all indemtefication
from the hundred. The glaziers' bills remain an
affair for delicate arrangement with the tradesmen,
so nothing more need be said on that score. But
the attempt to throw the blame on the City Autho-
rities is as complete a failure. Our contemporary
of the Post, for whom some allowance ought to be
made, as he no doubt calculated on anything rather
than a total loss in the case of his own windows,
gave vent to his indignation in a leading article of
Friday, against the liberal Lord Mayor, for alleged
connivance with the ruffians who paraded the streets
on Wednesday, and destroyed the property of its
most peaceful inhabitants—as Lord Londonderry
and Sir Robert Wilson for example. And then,
in justification, appears a notice, said to have boen
extensively circulated in the City previous to the
illumination, in which a pretty broad hint is thrown
out to the mobility, that if they feel inclined to break
windows, tire police have other matters on their
hands, and cannot prevent them. Unfortunately, the
hand-bill not only was not circulated by the Lord
Mayor, but he states on affidavit, that he had
caused every inquiry to be made that possibly- could
be made, and " was utterly unable to discover that
any such notice or hand-bill had been circulated or
stuck up on any wall, or published in any way ;
that he never saw or heard of such a notice, till he
saw it in the columns of the Aforning Post; and
that he was verily persuaded it was w atrocious for-
gery, got up for the purpose of calumniating him."
There is no such printer as Bourne (the name to
the alleged placard) at Clerkenwell-green. We are
far from supposing that the placard is the invention
of our contemporary ; but he has been made the
unconscious instrument for furthering a vile plot,
from all connexion with which it will be wen if
higher personages can clear themselves. Now what
is the end of all this plotting--all this competition
for broken widows—all this calumniation of the city
authorit es ? Do these wiseacres think his Majesty
so blind as to be the dupe of such clumsy trickery ?
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Yesterday was the day on which the Civic Au-
thorities were to have had the honour of waiting
upon the King, to invite his Majesty and the Queen
to dine with the Corporation of London on the 20th
instant, at Guildhall. When it transpired, as it did,
in the course of the evening, that the Lord Mayor
and Sheriffs had not proceeded to the Royal pre-
sence to execute this agreeable mission, the greatest
surprise and anxiety were expressed, and loyal antici-
pations were succeeded by the most painful conjec-
tures. It was soon reported that his Majesty had
changed his mind once more as to dining in the

City, and that this was communicated to the Civic
deputation previously to the day appointed for wait-
Mg on the King, to spare them the mortification of
an open refusal. We have inquired into the cir-
cumstances, and will lay before our readers such in-
formation as we have obtained. It is true that the
Civic authorities did not wait upon the King, and
that, consequently, no format invitation has yet been
given to their Majesties for the dinner on the 20th.
The reason is that the Lord Mayor received, as we
understand, on the previous evening, a communi-
cation from the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, informing his Lordship that the King
having lately experienced some symptoms of the re-
urn of gout, to which he is subject, it was doubt•
ful whether his health might not make it necessary
to postpone his intended visit to the City to another
day, and therefore it would be better for the present
to defer the invitation. The Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs, acting upon this communication, abstained,
of course, from seeking the interview with which
the Sovereign had previously signified his in-
tention of honouring them, and here the matter
rests for the present. But public rumour
will not let it rest here ; the fears of
some, and the malignant invention of others, will
be prolific of false reports relative to this unexpected,
but, we trust, only momentary obstacle to his Ma-
jesty's second intended visit to his faithful and
affectionate subjects the citizens of London. Severely
indeed would the disappointment he felt, if at the
present crisis, when his Majesty's popularity is
boundless, and when the inhabitants of this great
metropolis are most anxious to testify their heartfelt
gratitude for his manly and energetic conduct in dis-
solving a Parliament which counteracted the wishes
of the country, any thing should occur to deprive
theta of the expected opportunity of receiving him
with the honours, the gratulations, and the hospi-
tality which his personal and regal virtues so emi-
nently deserved. If such an event arose from indis-
position, it would, indeed, aect his subjects; for
never was the health of a Sovereign more precious
to his people ;—but, at the present moment as the
King is still able to hold levees, and to make the
jourueybetween London and Windsor, there appears
no serious cause of alarm as to his Majesty's health.
We cannot believe that any of the groundless and
malicious publications which have lately emanated
from a certain portion of the Press could have the
effect intended—that of intimidating the Royal
mind through the apprehension of tumults and
disorder. It is not for a Monarch who prides
himself in the name of a British sailor, and
who has been the friend and companion of the
immortal Nelson, to be so easily daunted, and
driven from his manly purpose, by the " weak
inventions of the enemy." When he acted upon
the advice which unfortunately induced him to
disappoint the loyal expectations of the citizens of
London last November, he was surrounded by an
incapable and unpopular Ministry, who felt that
they had provoked the expreesian of public dis-
pleasure, and dreaded to encounter it. They did
not wish the -Sovereign to see how strongly the
current of opinion had set in against them, and they
risked the King's popularity, in order to escape from
having it unpleasantly contrasted with the degree
of public odium they had brought upon themselves
in the face of his Majesty and the assembled inha-
bitants of London. How different now is the
King's situation With a popular Ministry, pledged
to the great measure of Reform, and a nation not
gloomy,
vdesponding, and discontented, but full of
joy at the present, and hope for the future, what
cause can there be fur his Majesty again withdraw-
ing from his engagement, and declining to renew
that sort of social and kindly intercourse which the
Kings of Great Britain, until of late years, always
made it a point to keep tip with the citizens of the
capital of their dominions ? Surely there can be nu
cause but that which we have stated—namely, indis-
position : but, unless that (which Heaven forbid !)
were more severe than circumstances can allow us
to believe, we are quite convinced it would not be
considered by the people in general as a sufficient ex-
planation of a second disappointment. The anti-Re-
form papers, which published a copy of a hand-bill in
the name of the Lord Mayor, stating that on the
night of the illuminations y"
the City Police had
orders to confine their care to keeping (he carriage-
ways free, and that, therefore, they could not be
expected to protect the premises of such persons as
shall be so disrespectful to public opinion as to form
an exception to tne general conduct expected from
free citizens," intended, rio doubt, to excite an un-
pleasant feeling in the King's mind towards the
Chief Magistrate of London, and to make him dis.
trust all those whose duty it was to protect the
peace; but it will be seen from our report of pro-
ceedings in the King's Bench yesterday, that this
hand-bill is sworn to be a false and fabricated docu-
ment. Whether the Papers that published it did
so knowingly, or were the dupes of some craftier
contrivers, remains to be seen. It appears, how-
ever, there is no such printer in Clerkenwell-green
as he whose name is affixed to it. We do not mean
to prejudge a case which is now about to undergo
the investigation of a Court of Jus6ce, and shall
leave it at present in hands that will do no doubt sa-
tisfectorily dispose of it. Before we conclude we
cannot avoid observing that if the King should, on
any other ground than such a degree of illness us
would make it Imprudent to go into company, post- •
pone again to some indefinite time his visit to Guild-
hall, it may have the tnost disastrous effect upon
the remaining elections. It may induce the people
to lend too ready an ear to those traducers of their
Sovereign, who even now do not hesitate to insinu•
ate that he is not sincerely friendly to the Reform
Bill! Such an impression would assuredly dis-
hearten the people, by making them suppose their
hopes of constitutional redress were lost. They
might suppose that the advocates of a corrupt and
venal system of representation had found out the
way of exercising some secret influence over the
Royal mind. But we have a firm confidence that
William IV. will be true to a cause on which depends
the happiness of his people anti the prosperity of his
empire.—Morning Herald.
The election for the city of Winchester, on Mon-
day, afforded a striking instance both of the fickle
nature of popular applause, and of the hazard of
trifling with so fragile a possession, Mr. Paulett
Mildmay having been the idol of the populace in the
morning, et noon polling every vote, yet, in the
evening being burnt in effigy before his own house.
This happened thus. The ancient city of Win-
chester, which boasts of being the oldest chartered
Corporation in the kingdom, has partaken for many
years of one peculiarity of age, that of rottenness—
its representative functions have been the joint pro-
perty of the Chandos and the Mildmay
Some few years ago his Grace of Buckingham made
a sly endeuvour to possess himself of the whole of
this highly constitutional privilege, but failed; since
which time a sort of hollow cordiality has been kept
up between the Capulets and Montagues cf Win-
chester, which Mr. Paulet Mildmay, with somewhat
too nice a sense of honour, seems to have evinced to
the last, and that unfortunately to his own cost.
The good people of Winchester have been for some
time rather restless under their state of vassalage, and
determined to make an effort to break their chains,
called in Mr. Bingham Baring to oppose the
Anti-Reform nominee of the Duke of Buckingham.
Some how or other it was suspected that Mr.
Mildmay had no great disinclination to see the old
opponents of his house discomforted, which was
well nigh being the case, therritdimfobrerms ar.t
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the poll being, for Mr. Mildmay, 69; for Mr. East
39;formerand
were returned duly
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for Mr. Mildmay, in returning thanks,
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deemedeit necessary to convince his old oppo.
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idea that lie had been instrumental in
bringing forward Mr. Baring, avowed that he had
himself given a plumper for Mr. East. This was
more than the populace or the electors would bear.
They had willingly given him their votes as a re-
former, and therefore did not expect to see him atul-.