The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-29 00:00:00

" TO THEIR HAVING VOTES A LONG TIME.

" Answer.—lf inconvenient, time and usage are net to
be considered with law-tnakere.

" Some Al,bots voted as anciently in Parliament as
Bishops, yet are taken away.
" That for the Bishops' certificate to plenary of benefice
and loyalty of marri,,ge, the Bill extends not to them.
" For the secular jurisdictions of the Dean of 'West.
minster, the Bishops of Durham and Ely, and Archbishop
of Yorke, which they are to execute in their own persons,
the former reasons show the inconveniences therein.

" For their temporall Courts and jurisdictions which
are executed by their temporall offices, the Bill cloth not
concern them."—Times.

In another column we have inserted a letter
signed " L.," which in so far pays a compliment to
the main body of Anti-Reformers as to show that
they are not mere talkers in favour of the present
system, either for fashion's sake or talking's sake.
In truth, although a great proportion of them have
never, we dare say, strung together a scholastic
syllogism in their lives, there are no better practical
logicians. They all know how much they, or their
immediate relatives, have gotten of the public money,
and through what private interests, and from what
private motives. They are equally conscious that
if a reformed Parliament were in existence, no such
motives nor interests would avail them a single
straw, and that no such creatures as themselves, or
their relations, would have a chance of being quar-
tered upon the public. It is, we assert, therefore,
right sound logic in the Tory placemen, pensioners,
and their dependents, to decry Parliamentary Re-
form as a measure which would clothe the people with
toe much power, seeing that the power to be vested
in the people must be transferred to them from
the hands of those very Tories. " Vague talkers,"
indeed! They are shrewd fellows, and capital
pleaders, these Tories. It ought to be added, that
Lord Chatham's numerous pensions and appoint-
ments, with those of his cousin, Lady Lucy Stanhope,
and her husband,a certain Mr. Taylor, are touched
upon by our correspondent. As for Lord Chatham,
the poor man is now in the extremity of weakness
and decrepitude, and we shall therefore say nothing
more of his enormous emoluments from the nation,
except as they are illustrative of that perversion of
all financial trust and honour, from which, happily,
we are about to be relieved. Lord Chatham was
Mr. Pit t's elder brother, and almost as bad a first
Lord of the Admiralty as England ever saw. Ile
was, when Lord Castlereagh had the Administra-
tion of the War Department, made commander of
that stupidly devised, disgracefully conducted, and
to the army most fatal, enterprise, the ac-
cursed Walcheren expedition ! These are the
public services of a being whose name, as re-
presented by our correspondent, has affixed to it
the several, though simultaneous sums of 4,0001.,
3,00 W., 5,0001., and I,oool.—ranking a total of
13,0001. per annum ! Be this no argument for
Reform ? With the herd of brilliant beggars who
dress, and hunt, and gamble, and lead lives of costly
frivolity or debauchery, on incomes drawn, like that
of Lord Chatham's from the plebeian poor, we
know well enough that examples of pensioned vice
or folly are so many incentives to perpetuate that
sort of Government from which alone merit such as
theirs could meet the base reward they thirst for.
But with the people of England generally let us
repeat, can any argument be conceived more con-
clusive and irresistible in favour of a thorough Re-
form than a catalogue of the frightful depreda-
tions which have been committed on our national
funds, for want of purity in the representatives of the
people, and of consequent responsibility in the Mi-
nisters of the Crown.—Times.

The cause of Reform wears a most favourable as-
pect in Cambridgeshire. At the close of the poll
yesterday, Mr. Townley had obtained a majority of
226 over his opponent, the numbers being—
For Mr. Townley 1 O,Bl
For Captain Yorke
This is as it should be. Let not the electors of
Cambridgeshire relax their exertions for a single mo-
ment, but persevere with constancy and courage,
and certain and speedy victory must be theirs.—

We promised yesterday to furnish our readers
with a copy of the rules and regulations of the
great Political Union which is to be formed on
Monday ; and we now redeem our pledge, by pre-
senting, in the first instance, the report of the Com-
mittee appointed to draw up the rules and regula-
tions; and, in the second, by giving the latter en-
tire. Our readers will thus be enabled to form a
calm and decided opinion upon a subject which, at
the present moment, is, of all others, the most lute-
resting and the most deeply important. In the
mean time we should be doing injustice to the sub-
ject were we not to copy also the. following obser-
vations, which are contained in a letter to the
Editor of the Leicester Chronicle from the Chair-
man of the Leicester Political Union. They ar,
well expressed, and worthy of the most mature
consideration.

" The influence and efficiency of the Birmingham
Union," says Mr. Biggs, the Chairman to whom we have
referred, " is matter of surprise almost to its members :
no parish abuses can be perpetrated without being quickly
reported to and corrected by the all-seeing, all-pervading
influence of the Union ; no meetings can be held without
being obliged to act in concert with the views of the

Onion, or without being altogether over-ruled and re-
versed by its orders and unity of action ; the political
power, the peace of Birmingham is in its hands; and
so simple is its government, and so united are its mem-
bers, that its movements are only like those of a single
individual.

" How highly, how essentially requisite, that a Union
of this kind should be formed amongst ourselves—how
desirable for purposes of mutual protection and general ad-
vantage—for resisting encrmtehments upon local liberties,
and correcting peculations upon public property—for se-
curing the re,urn of Members of Parliament—and for
making ourselves heard and attended to by the Legisla-
ture, upon whom, in conjunction with other Unions, we
should have a most salutary and powerful influence. To
the poor man I would say, where can you find that pro-
tection and defence which you will do under the shield of
the Union ?—to the rich man, where can you be more se-
cure in the hour of danger and convulsion thin in a cor-
dial union with the people ?—to the religious man how
can you better carry your principles into practical effect
than in concurring in general plans for general improve-
ment ? Next to our religion, our duty and interest is a
prompt and continued attention to public liberty, for the
ends of religion and liberty are the same—the diffusion of
knowledge and happiness. To each and all I would say,
co-operate in the great work of political regeneration, an:l
let it snot he said by other towns and after ages that Lei-
cester alone was careless of its interests, and refused to act
in concert with the country at large for the attainment of
our common rights and national independence."
The following is the Report of the Crown and
Anchor Committee, and also the rules and regula-
tions on which it has determined :