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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1836.

The result of the election of a Member of Parlia-
ment for East Cumberland, which took place at Car-
lisle on Friday last, is an admirable commentary on the
Tory text, which has been incessantly dinned in our
ears for months past. The universal cry of the hack-
ney scribblers employed by that faction, which stops
short at no means, however base, which it thinks can
forward its purposes, has of late been that a great re-
action in favour of Toryism has taken place in the
public mind.

In Warwick one Tory succeeds another—and that
oo by a pitiful majority of fifteen votes over the

liberal candidate--and this hair-breadth escape is mag-
nified into a « glorious victory." At Newcastle the
Reformers quarrel—to their shame be it spoken—and
a Tory gets in by bribing the :worthless freemen—a
class of voters whose want of principle the Tories
could rely on, and whom they therefore preserved from
destruction to help them at a pinch ; and the song of
triumph is raised and re-echoed by every rapscallion in

the pay, or expecting to be in the pay, of the anti-
national faction. The beauty of all this noise, falsehood,
and folly, is that it deceives none but Tories, and but
few of them. If we except the majority of the Lords.
and a few other old women who confine their reading
to the pages of the Times or the Herald, and know
nothing of what is going on in the world but what they
see there, there are not a dozen persons in the king-
dom who have so little sense as to believe in re-
action.

A single fact, such as the Cumberland election,
upsets the whole theory, and presents its supporters to
public view in the unenviable position of being con-
sidered either as rogues or fools. Most of them, indeed,
are well qualified, and justly entitled, to figure on the
pillory in both capacities at once.
But not to dwell on this consideration, we would
recommend the Tories to turn their attention to Cum-
berland, and seriously ponder over the late transactions
in that county. It will be extremely beneficial to
them in more respects- than one. They will perhaps
be a little surprised at the circumstance of no opposi-
tion having been made to the Liberal candidate in a
county, they having been given to understand that all
county voters were back-bone Tories to a man. It
may perhaps also contribute to their astonishment to
find that when Lord LOWTHER, who was said
to have perfectly annihilated the Liberal inte-
rest in that county, was applied to to set the
" hopposition bus" a-going, his Lordship, instead of
shaking his money-bags, like the great Lord BUR-
LEIGH only shook his head--we don't know that he
spoke even a single word—and if their amazement
after this be capable of further augmentation, we think
it will be at its height whe❑ we apprize them that Mr.
JAMES, the Member chosen by the constituency to
succeed Mr. BL AMIRE, is an unflinching Reformer, and
has declared from the hustings, amid the loudest cheers
from the electors of East Cumberland, that we never
can obtain justice until the Peers are reformed ; that
th,-; Protestant Church, not of but in Ireland, must
be put on the peace establishment; and that the Es-
tablished Church in England must be yet further tried
in the furnace of reform.

At a public dinner given on Wednesday last, by the
Mayor of Leeds to the Liberal Members for the West
Riding of Yorkshire, and at which Lord MORPETII
was present, Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND, in alluding
to the late vagaries of the Tory Peers, said, " It is not
unlikely that the question of a reform in the House of
Lords will be brought forward ; and I think it almost
certain that the proposed Reform will be, that the prin-
ciple of representation shall be applied to that House.
Now I must oppose any attempt to introduce election
into the House of Lords. It was the opinion of one
of the greatest philosophers and statesmen of antiquity,
CICERO, that of all forms of Government of which he.
knew, he thought the best would be established by a
w)ion of the three existing forms, the Kingly, the