The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-26 00:00:00

William Ponsonby, and Mr. Edward W. Pendarves. We
leave the public to judge from this list, whether, if any
argument at all is to be drawn from this case, if it does
not appear that awe was as much disposition on ono side
to procure a Committee favourable to the Lord Advocate,
as on the other to procure one unfavourable. But why
were not those gentlemen, who are so shamefully attacked,
struck off the list by the nominee of the Learned Lord ?
The reason is sufficiently obvious the Learned Lord knew
well, he had personal and professional knowledge of the
fact, that his election seat altogether illegal—that the case
was the rottenest possible, and must be decided against
him by any o:9nmittee. These gentlemen were therefore
left on the Committee, that the odium of turning the
Learned Lord out of Parliament might be upon them, and
not upon the badness of the cause, and that a handle ?night
he given for the scandalous calumny which we are now re-
futing. —Morning Post•.
The Whits may well exclaim, as a certain General in
an,,i2tt times—" Such another victory will be our ruin."
The numbers which have sWelted their list are in fact
composed of renegacPs and cowards, as heartily ashamed
of their net., 'cause as all genuine Reformers are of them.
hLie neuters, in their double way of steeling,
Are neither fish nor flesh, nor goed red herring—
A twilight monster, tree ,o neither cause,
With Tory wines att'cl 'Whiggish teeth and claws.
Wings, that is, to fly away from old professions; and
claws, to s'itatch the good things of office when they can
get tr!tern. Let not such men, however, lay to their souls
he flattering unction, that a vote, of tt•liich their con-
sciences disapprove, will propitiate the public. The Re-
forming Whigs. who wct upon decided principles, may be
respected at the same time that we denounce them as open
encrrl_es ; 'but the shuffling time•serving Tory Reformer,
t'vho speaks one way and votes anotlitr—who raises his
parricidal hand against the system which has nurtured
him—the man who pranises and dares not perform, and
who is bold_ on.!'y to betray—

Hic iiiger est, fiunc to Romane caveto.
We I.) not wish to be too personal in our observations.
Degrees of moral guilt in all those who more or less come
under this head there undot/itedly are. Some may be
young and silly, sod Others old and childish; and the
hearts of withy have as it were been hardened against
every thing but a sense of private interest. Still, on the
s 'A are some names once honoured and esteemed; and we
might in silence content ourselves with pitying their de-
gradation, unless we felt that, on a great occasion like
the present, private sentiments must give way to a sense
of public 'duty. If to their fine feelings the praise of the
.ifttnes and Chronicle he acceptable. they are most wel-
come to it ; hut they know full well the value of such
praise. Ind if the good opinion of the multitude be
momentarily theirs, they know how fleeting is all mob
popularity--tlsey know, and unless they be lost to all
sense or thame, they must feel—bitterly, deeply feel—
how low they have sunk in the estimation of the country's
true ft iends—how much they have sacrificed fur the cheers
of radicals, Papists, and demagogues. —Morning Post.
We request attention to a statement of the Lord Chan-
cellet, respecting the mode of disposing of church patron-
age
in the diocese of Ely. In the particular case com-
plained of the sin of yielding to the unconscionable ra-
pacity of the Bishep of Ely is imputable to Lord Eldon,
who troubled himself, it seems, less with the welfare of
future than with that of present Bishops. " The Crown
(said the Lord Chancellor) would have the three er four
nett turns at the expence of future Bishops of Ely. He,
IroweVer, was clear of blame ; but he could not help sespect-
ing that a person snaking these repeated applications at
the expence of his successors, was not in a sufficient
state of health and soundness of mind to enable him with
proper discrimination to dispose of church livings
and prebends, and that he was surrounded by per-
sons who abused his patronaee." On turning to the
Extraordinary Black Book, we find that the Bishop's care
for his family is a disease of some standing.
.‘ We shall (p. ‘.....2) give an instance of the manner of sharing
the loaves and fishes of the church among particular families,
from the example of Sparke, the present Bishop of Ely, who
owed his promotion to the circumstance of having been tutor to
the Duke of Rutland. This man and his family are provided for
as under : _ . _

.....
The Bishop's See of Ely, and dependencies, exclusive of
patronage £27,742
The Bishop's eldest son, the Rey. John Henry
Sparks, a Prebend in the Cathedral of Ely £4OO
Examining Chaplain to the Bishop
Register to the Diocese of Ely 2OO
Lay Rector of Littlebury
Chief Steward of Wi sbeach ,Bu rton,and other Manors 200
Rectory of Leverington, with the Chapelry of I'ar
son Drove 5OO

- 1,803
The Bishop's son-in-law, the Rev. Edward Fardell,
a Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral of Ely 440
Rectory of Bezwell 3OO
Feltwell, Rectory of St. Mary 4OO
Ditto, ditto of St. Nicholas
Vicarage of Waterbeach
- 2,100

.£3l
This is a worthy successor of the Apostles.—. Morning
Chronicle.

On the motion last night, of the order of the day, for
the House going into a Committee of Supply, Sir Robert
Pecl called the attention of the Noble Lord (Althorp) to a
motion of detail connected with the Reform Bill, which he
conceived to be a matter of considerable importance. He
would assume that the principle of the Bill was correct—
that it was expedient to disfranchise sixty boroughs; to
deprive forty-seven of one representative and to transfer
the franchise to populous places; but in the disfranchising
and giving the franchise, an uniformity of principle ought
to be the rule. He instanced some of the places disfran-
chised, and allowed to return representatives ; and observed
that the former' would not be disfranchised, if the popula-
tion el the parish in which the borough was situated were
taken, and the latter would he disfranchised if the population
of the borough, and not of the parish, were taken. "He
did not (lie said) believe that the Government would re-
sist, as had been said, any alteration in the Bill, which,
like those he had hinted at, seemed to be required by'
justice." Lord Althorp said, the Government never
meant to do any thing unjust, such as that alluded to by
the Right Hon. Gentleman ; and where any such case
was male out, the Government would not object to at-
tend to the suggestion. Lord John Russell admitted
" that there were some doubts as to the population of cer•
tain boroughs, and Malmesbury was one, and Buckingham
was another ; and there were about six in all. Having
admitted that, be could assure the Hon. Gentleman that
he had too much respect for the decision of the House of
Commons, which had permitted the second reading of the
Bill, not to make his stand upon that ground, and endea-
vour to carry the Bill to a successful and triumphant con-
clusion.—(Hear, hear.)" That Ministers will stand on
the principle of the Bill, that is the total and partial dis-
franchisement of the small boroughs, and the transference
of the franchise to counties and populous towns, may he
considered as fixed. The knowledge of their determina-
tion, and the popularity of the measure among all classes
of the people, is gradually producing its effects among
the opponents of the Bill. They are becoming more and
more convinced of the hopelessness of the opposition, and
of the inutility of all attempts to defeat the measure in a
Committee, while Ministers have the whole country at
their back, and by a dissolution could carry the Bill by
triumphant majorities. It ha! been accordingly signified by
several of those who opposed the second reading, that they no
longer wish to continue an unavailing opposition, which
would only put Members needlessly to the expense of an
election to do what might as well be done by the present
Parliament. Accordingly we find that Ministers are now
satisfied that the accession of strength will render a disso-
lution unnecessary. Should there be any relapse, Minis-
ters have always the remedy in their own hands. But as
the opponents of the Bill, are to speak familiarly, in a
cleft stick, they will hardly think of giving a vote which
would sentence them to dissolution. Every thing now,
therefore, wears a favourable appearance. The present
House will prove tractable, that its existence may now not
be brought to a premature close. We are glad to hear
that a wise determination like this has been taken in time
by many of the opponents of the Bill, for a prolongation of
the period of excitement would only expose them to the
charge of wantonly and mischievously sacrificing the well-
being of the country—not to their interest, for that would
he intelligible—but to their stupid and aimless obstinacy.
—Morning Chronicle.

Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm yesterday at the
meeting of the Merchants, Bankers, tcc., of the city of
London, in the Egyptian-hall. There are many corrupt
interests in London, and we are not astonished that an
address hostile to Reform should obtain signatures in it.
It was in London that the system of jobbing boroughs
was first organised ; it is in London that the East and
West India interests, and the possessors of great monopolies
hostile to the interest of the people, chiefly reside ; and we
need not remark, that the disfranchisement of the venal
boroughs will impose some difficulties in the way of those
who have interests diametrically at variance with those of
the people. Mr. John Smith alluded to the statement
by Burke, that the Nabob of Arcot had six Members in
the House. The small boroughs were a thrashing-floor,
on which all men might thrash their corn. London
being, therefore, the head-quarters of corruption, of all
the interests hostile to the people, must contain many
individuals who dread the lopping off of the rotten
boroughs. A candidate of a respectable place cannot well
proclaim—if you return me, I will endeavour to make you
pay millions every year for timber, that I may have larger
freights than I should otherwise have ; it will be neces-
sary for him to pledge himself to suffer no partial interests
to thrive at the expence of the people of England. In short,