The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-30 00:00:00

Kent, evevy_thing bode; well. Sir Edward Knatch-
hull must, we think, be disconifitted. Great
exertions, however, are made by the Anti-Re-
formers. In an address from Mr. Bentley, Chair-
!llan of the Kent Central Agricultural Committee,
to the occupiers cf land in Kent, the exertions of
the Anti-Reformers are described as very formidable.
" It is not to be expected," he says, " that the Hydra
of corruption is to be destroyed without a great struggle
for its existence. Placemen and pensioners, sinecurists
' and. boroughmongers, but, above a'l, those foes to your
peace and rosperity, the tithe-gatherers; men who un-
blushingly assert their title to the tenth of the produce of
your industry and capital to be as equitable as yours is to
the remaining nine-tenths these will conspire to de-
feat a Reform which threatens to destroy that system
ender which they have so long thriven, but which has
overwhelmed the country with debt and taxation. Funds
will not be wanting on their part to enable them to en-
deavour to perpetuate a system which has worked so well
for them. but so ill for you. It will he a matter of cal-
culation with them, as to how much should be sacri-
ficed to retain such vast advantages. You should also cal.
culate how profitably a little expence may now be in-
curred with the almost certainty of securing such an im-
portant result as getting rid of that system of misrule and
corruption which has reduced this country to its present
unhappy state. Let me then intreat you to adopt their
policy, and let your exertions be comnsensurate with the
important object to be attained. Institute a committee in
every parish ; your situation as occupiers gives
you much influence with the humble freeholders;
exert it to the utmost, for it is in a good cause. You
have also the power, by means of your horses and car-
riages, of conveying the voters to the hustings at a corn-
piptively moderate expence; no matter whether you are
freeholders or not, you are equally interested in the suc-

cess of this great measure."
Mr. Bentley's advice is excellent, and it ought to
be acted on in other places besides Kent. Ihe ap-
pearance of an Anti-Reform candidate in any place
calls forth a burst of popular indignation. The
Kent Herald of Thursday details several instances.
We trust that the people will abstain from personal
violence. Contempt for the hacks of the borough-
mongers they cannot avoid feeling; but let forbear.
ance be .shown even to enemies. " Mr. Grove
Price," says the paper alluded to, " had scarcely ar-
rived at Deal yesterday before he was compelled
abruptly to depart. The tide of popular fury was
indescribable. It appears that he found security at
the Walmer Castle Inn, where one of his fr:ends,
Mr. Curling, of Sandwich, endeavoured to conci-
liate the people, his efforts, however, were abso-
lutely useless. Mr. C.'s coat was torn to shreds,
and it was intimated to him that nothing short of
the instant departure of Mr. Price would satisfy the
people; meanwhile Mr. Price's carriage was (hogged
out, the horses harnessed, and a certain time allowed
him for quitting the place, which being complied
with, the populace quietly dispersed." We regret
to find that a Reform candidate has not vet been
found for Worcestershire. The subscriptions of
the Anti-Reformers ought not to deter the Re-
formers. They have a host in the people. It
never can be too often repeated, that money in a
great cause is not all in all. A whole people cannot
be bribed, and the whole people, except the cor-
ruptionists, are for Reform. It was reported last
night, that Mr. Tyrell had retired in Essex. We
know not whether there is any foundation for it.—
al &ming Chronicle.
All the election returns hither to show that dis-
loyalty and corruption have " ili luck." Hitherto
the Members actually returned to serve in the new
Parliament are all reformers. Dover nobly led the
way; the men of Kent, " which, in the Commen-
taries Crcsar writ, is termed the civilest place of all
this isle," laid aside ther civility, and kicked out
that fast friend of the boroughmongering faction,
Sir John Rae Reid. London and Southwark fol-
lowed, and put Mr. Ward and Sir Robert Wilson
on the shelf for ever. Lewes has d'scarded Sir
John Shelley ; and several other places have dis-
pensed with the proffered services of " the conser-
vatives," and chosen men who are pledged to Re-
form. Not a single anti-reformer has yet been re-
turned ; and though, as the matchless Member for
Preston-and-all-England said, the people are " mad,"
it must be confessed their madness has method in
it ; a method which, it is devoutly to be hoped,
will speedily cleanse the Constitution of that perilous
stuff which bay so long been depressing its energies,
and placing its very existence in jeopardy. Hitherto,
we repeat, not a single anti-reformer has been re-
turned we wait with anxious curiosity to record
the name of that place which shall first distinguish
itself by returning an opponent of the King, his Go-
vernment, and Reform.—Morning Herald.
We hope the energetic message of the French
Government to Don Miguel may not turn out, like
the memorable non-intervention manifesto of the
same Government, which Austria trampled under
foot in Italy, to be a mere brutum fulmen. The
country that betrays a want of spirit to vindicate its
own declared principles in one case provokes insult
in another. It may seem strange that the con-
temptible power of the Portuguese Usurper should
rather invite than deer. cite the hostility of France ;
but this modern Nero has seen the despotic Govern-
ments that secretly abet and comfort him act to-
wards France in a manner that showed neither re-
spect for her wisdom nor fear of her power, without
any other consequence following than that of the
French Ministers " eating their own words," and
solemnly protesting that their energetic declarations
against the infamous invasion of independent States
meant exactly nothing. This has, of course, em-
boldened the pigmy Autocrat of Portugal to ape the
insolent conduct of the more gigantic despots, who
overlook the flaw in his title on account of the kin-
dred vices of cruelty, fraud, and oppression which
constitute his " legitimate" claims to their especial
protection. Similar demonstrations of contempt for
revolutionised France has been made by Spain,
where preparations fur invading that country, and
restoring the ex-King, were openly made some time
ago, simultaneously with the great military equip.
ments of the chiefs of the " Holy Alliance." It is
certain, from the documents found at Warsaw,
which Lafayette produced in the Chamber of De-
puties, and from facts which constituted a strong
chain of circumstantial evidence, a that, if it had
not been for the unexpected insurrection of the
Poles, France would be at this moment fighting
for her existence against hosts of invaders on her
own soil. It was that insurrection which caused
the Autocrat of Russia to recognise the new
French dynasty, as he naturally wished France to re-
main quiet until he should have performed his
threat of erasing the very name of Poland from the
map of Europe. He could then easily pretend a
cause of quarrel with France, and ;stone for his
hypocritical recognition of a " revolutionary Go-
vernment" by sincerely attempting its utter over-
throw. Don Miguel, ignorant, perhaps, of the
checks which the armies of the Autocrat have re-
ceived tinder the walls of Warsaw, continues to in-
sult France with the mo't audacious perseverance.
The French, thinking, perhaps, that they could earn
a cheap reputation for spirit by demanding satisfac-
tion of this petty political culprit, have commis-
sioned their Consul to speak in a higher tone in Lis-
bon than their Ambassador dared to use in Viettna.
II it be true that Dun Miguel has treated his de-
mand with the most intrepid contempt, and refused
to deliver up two French subjects whom he had
most cruelly treated, and was about to transport to
Angola, the French Government will be eternally
disgraced if they do not instantly take the only
means that can bring the regal rebel to his senses.
It is said a Portuguese frigate is to convoy the ves-
sel that takes the prisoners to Angola. There are
French vessels of war in the Tagus. A French
frigate can settle the question very easily, as far as
the prisoners are concerned. But France ought not
to stop here.; she ought to hurl the perjured tyrant
from the throne which he has usurped to outrage the
rights of humanity and the law of nations. It W 5
said, not long since, that some English subjects were
shut up in his dungeons, charged with pretended
plots. We should like to know whether our Go-
vernment have inquired into the subject, and acted
in a manner that shows they are not to be trifled
with. The account of the brutal executions that