The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-02 00:00:00

rnaile the bulwaik of li;s pretensions—party politics
were excluded from his letter to the electorS-=and
gentleman known only by his scientific celebrity
was placed in the Chair of his Committee. Never:
theless a powerful party in the University still kept
aloof, unwilling hastily to confer so great a trust on
one of whose political sentiments so little was known.
It became accordingly necessary for Mr. Cavendish,
in wirier to obtain the support of this party, to'
make a more distinct avowal of his political senti-'
mews, and in hs second letter to the Members of
the Senate a pledge to the following effect was.
given :—" I take this opportunity of expressing my
gratitude for the success I have experienced in mgt'
canvass; and although the circumstances under which
I am a candidate for your favour preclude me from
any declaration of political opinion on particular
points, I can with truth assure you that I yield to
none in attachmen Ito our civil and ecclesiastical
talons, and in a sincere disposition to maintain them."
i seri, qitibus

Intentata rites.
Could it reasonably be anticipated by tho e to whom
this pledge was given, that immediately on his en-
trance into Parliament the person from whom it hail
beep received would become the dupe of a low and
extreme fde;ion, and evince his di-position to main-
tain cur civil and ecclesiastical institutions by sup-
port ing the Irish Vernry Act, vote by ballot, and ari
extension of the elective qualification to the occu-
pation of a house worth 10/. a year ? That Mr.
Cavendish gave this pledge with sincerity we be-
lieve; that he does nor consider it inconsistent with
his conduct we are willing to concede; but in return
we exact that those who accepted it with a different
understanding should b? altogether liberated from
their half of the obligation.—Morning Post.

The elections, up to the latest accounts, were
proceeding most prosperously for the cause of Re-
form. Of the opponents to Reform two have been
returned for the pocket-borough of Haslemere,
which belongs to Lord Lonsdale, and whose nomi-
trees lire the Right Hon. Sir .1. Beckett and Mr.
William Holmes, the well-known whipper-in of the
obedient Trea'uiy pack of three or four successive
Administrations, but which degrading °Mee, we
presume, will be dispensed with in a reformed
House of Commons; two others have been re.
turned for the pocket-borough of Amersham,
where Mr. Drake, who is the proprietor, is repre-
sented by himself and his brother; two more are no-
minally returned for the Corporation of Marlborough
—namely, T. H. Estcourt and W. 3. Bankes, but
really represent the Earl of Aylesburt, who is the
patron. The Duke of Rutland, who extends the
grateful protection of his aristocratic influence over•
the corporation of Cambridge, will have the image
of his lordly power reflected i❑ that pure mirror of
the Constitution which an unreformed House of
•Commons pre•tents to the eyes of the country. The
Marquis of Graham and Colonel Trench will, by,
their combined talents, integrity, and political senti-
ments, constitute his Parliamentary shadow and, in
such capacity, will endeavour to perpetuate this
" unreal mockery" of representation. Two other
anti-reformer:•—namely, Messrs. Abel and Samuel
Smith, of the family of the mock-Whig Lord Car-
rington, creep into Parliament for the paltry rotten
borough of Wendover, which we regret to see no
person had the spirit to try to throw open, although,
we believe, any two respectable candrdates offering
themselves on Reform principles would have put it
out of the power of the Messrs. Smith to en-
deavour to prop up in the new Parliament, us they
did in the last, the tumbling fabric of venality
arid corruption. These instances of the consti-
tuency of Anti• Reform representatives may suffice
for the present—though we should riot forget
Romney, where Sir E. C. Dering, Bart., the patron,
is represented by himself and Mr. Miles. Here we
have the majority of the Anti-Reform Members ye-.
returned, who, instead of representing any portion
of the people, are in reality, though not in form,only
the representatives of six individuals, who are the
Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Aylesbury, the Earl
of Lonsdale, Sir E. C. Dering, Mr. Drake, and
Lord Carrington, or one of his family, for it is said
he lately parted with the borough to one of the
Smiths. Yet this sort of aristocratic nomination is
called the " repwentafion of the people of _Eng-
land" by those who thrive upon the abuses of the
Constitution, and grow in corrupt power and in,
thierice in proportion as all the best inierests of the
country sink into decay. In the mean time,
wherever there is arty thing like a real constituency,
the principles of Reform triumph. The splendid
example which the City has given to • the empire
in the choice of four Members pledged to support
the Reform Pill will have its moral effects on the
country, and increase th4t ardPur for a full and un-
equivocal expression of public (pinion on that great
measure, in reply to his Majesty's gracious call, as
must have a resistless influence upon the elections,
and seal the dopm of the rotten-borough system for
ever. The promptitude with which Southwark dis-
missed its recreant Knight, who had long derived
not only his political consequence, but his very sub-
sis•ence fprn the bounty of his &ectors, who sub-
scribed munificentiy to pneehece him a pension when
his professional rank arid livelihood were tyraitnically
withdrawn, shall riot 14 forgotten in tire history of
pat;:iotie apostacy and its punishment. 0 shame to
chivalry ! that hp Oro peofes4ied himself a true
Knight, and seized his lance, and ruouritetl his poli.
tical charger armed and equipped at the public ex-
pense, and took a solemn vow to wage indefatigable
war upper the " monster of corruption," arid never
to doff his armoire until the patriot spoils were won
—that he should have turned the weapon; of the
people against the people's cause, and have placed
himself before the den of the affrighted monster only
to defend !t ip its agonies, is the most portentous
instance of recreancy that tb attpals of modern
Knighthood afford. But, notwithstanding suph aid,
corruption must die the death, for Reform triumphs
even at Newark, at Guilford, and Bristol I Let
the people be firm, but tepperafe, that their victory
may be without stain.—Aforning

The veriest scum of radicalism and jacobinism never
resorted tp language more disloyal, more vile, or
atrocious, than chat which is now constantly issuing
from the lips of those who, in thi, prospeep of a
reformed Parliament, foresee that, with Wolsey, they
must bid " a long farewell to all their lot mer great-
ness, which rari:ißly consisted in a monopoly of most
of the higher, and no small portion of evett the low-
est emoluments in church and State. We have
seen the exhibition of venom which some of these
persons displayed in the closing scene of the last
Parliament,—we have seen the coarseness and the
bitterness which are vented in their behalf through
the small portion of the Press which still devotes
itself to their seryiee ;.but these are nothing eorPr
pared to the angry reviiiiigs, the 'dislttyal turpitude,
and the almost revolutionary menaces, whiph they
are giving loose to in every place vt here they arid
their slandor find admission. Yet these are the
persons who talk of their reverence and attachment
to existing institutions, and who profess to rh•tprecate
Refu:m as a prelude to rcvolution. ph yes ! exist-
ing institutions sr: delightful things as long as they
shower their blessings op few ; and that, indeed,
will be an awful revolution which robs these
teres,ted souls of that which alone secures and is a
rest of their loy4ltv and attachment ! Hitherto party
zeal has seldom led its votaries beyond attacks upon
eget' other; but T,ory,anti-4eforrri violence, now
sumes a new and suicidal character; and the very pep..
sons, whose cant watchword hits hitherto • beep
" Church and King," now turn round upon tliem!,-
, selves, and actually assail the King with language
which, if less than treasonable, is more than sedi-
tious. It behoves thp people in general, however
I •
(and they seem alive to the Cali j, adore pile con-
duct of their patriot King,
just .114 proportion as his
and their enemies revile it. The loyalty of the
borotighmorgees, h is clear, consist of little else
than what, in common life, is called " cupboard
lqpe." They profess, it is true, to reverence the
throne "as the fountain of honour," but only as
they themselves held the key; and now that there
is a chalice of the door being thrown open, and of
that Which was intended for the many being no