The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-28 00:00:00

CONSTITUTION AL REFORM.

The following letter has been forwarded by a Corre-
spondent in reference to that addressed to Lord John
Russell on the subject, which appeared in The Sun of
the 19th inst. :

My Lord—There are some most important points studiously
concealed in the Letter which a Correspondent of The Sun
took the liberty of addressing to you last week.
Once adopt the system he has there laid down, and you ob-
tain a 51. qualification fur the whole kingdom. The taxes and
Poor-rates may be paid quarterly, and a receipt given on a piece
or pieces of zinc metal, on which might be stamped the num-
ber of the possessor's vote ; you thus at once sweep away all the
cumbrous, most expensive, and most vexatious machinery of
the Revising Courts.
Vote by ballot might be scattered to the winds, for only
once convince an Englishman that he has a direct and tangible
interest in the State, and you invest him with a consciousness
of political importance to which he has hitherto been a stranger.
You give birth to and call into action a spirit of manly hide-
pendeire, which, disdaining all undue control, and in the con-
sciousness of its own dignity, rises superior to the base and sor-
did influences of pelf; and glorying in the noble exercise of its
constitutional rights and privileges, sets its possessor forth in
all the majesty of man and of a free born Briton.
Old-fashioned Toryism, with all its blighting and repressive
influences, will be annihilated, and the pure principles of our
glorious Constitution in a purified Church and Reformed
state, Queen, Lords, and Commons, would be carried out
to their full extent. England, happy
England, would then
indeed become the envy of surrounding nations, and the admi-
ration of the world.
Liverpool, May 22, 1841.

• ----„,
JEM CROW IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—It may
be recollected that about a fortnight ago a carrion crow was ob-
served by one of the keepers to carry off a duck, or rather a
teal (for neither a carrion crow nor raven, taking weight for
weight into consideration, could possibly sustain a foil grown
duck in their flight through the air.) The above marauder
was eventually shot, and exp-sed on one of the grass slopes as
a earning to his predatory fraternity. The scare-crow, thus
exhibited, it would appear had no better effect than to operate
as an invite to others of his horny-feathered brethren, for in a
day or tw , afterwards two more of his " genus" took up ti,eir
stations in the lofty elms which are distributed throughout the
enelosura, 'I he keepers succeeded in shooting one of them,
and crippled the oilnar bi breaking his leg; the nether portion
f:arrying them
of the limb has since fallen off, jet this tiffillg intruder, shortly
after daybreak, daily contrives to harass the young brefids as
away as his quarry:
they are engaged in picking up insects on the banks of the lalt.e,
CORN-LAW
applied to him, owing to his hobbling He is very wary on the
a-Pproseh 4f the keepers, perhaps instinctively impressed with
and importance o 0 4' 41'
the sense of the old adage, ” Once bit, twice shy." They have
ground, the soubriquet of " Jem Crow.
kt when traversing the
hiam has seized upon every opportunity afforded him by
Ifie r*.i. of the House, to discuss it question to the worth
IN THE LORDS.—EarI Fitzwil.
NV /. ,elied
moved,
tocracy, both ToryWhi
awaked when the Aris-
ift which he lived and
;!ulyersation on Monday night was warm and intensely
intereking, and E
were fast locked in the ai'ms of Morpheus. The
do 'honour alike to his head and heart.-0! Si sie °met I
orl “aclnor uttered sentiments, which
—Nonconformist.