The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-20 00:00:00

and qualified allegiance.
CHRONICLE.—The Tories boast of their relative in-
crease at the polls in the late election. In many places where
the Reformers polled as many as at former clec:ions, the Tories
polled more than they ever did before. Putting the county
elections out of consideration, as there the voters trier* repre-
sent their respective landlords, the increase of the Tories in
towns is in a great measure to be ascribed to a better organ-
ization for the conducting of the registration. The battle to-
tween the parties, said Sir Robert Peel, is to be fought in the
registration courts. But the Tories, who cortelder the end of
Government the rondering the many subservient to the edema-
tage of the few, saw that if the business of registration was to
be well dune it must not be left to the people themselves. They
everywhere subscribed the money, and appointed agencies to
attend to the various details. The leading Reformers, on the
other hand, conscious of the purity of their principles, and the
honesty of their intentions, did not consider themselves
hound to attend to the registration of their neighbours.
If the people have been admitted to the franchise,
they said surely the least they can do is to take the trouble of
registering themselves. What reliance is to be placed on a
people who are so insen.ible to the value of the privilege con-
Trred on them as to be unwilling to put. themselves to the
trifling inconvenience of seeing that they are properly regis-
tered? This may be all very pretty, but it betrays great igno-
rance of human nature. We know that the mass of mankind,
except on extraordinary occasions, when their feelings are
strongly excited, will not give themselves the trouble which re-
gistration demands. We must take mankind as they are, and
be guided by experience in our expectations. We say, then,
it is the business of those who are possessed of property and,
leisure, and who attach importance to the political doctrines
,vhich they entertain, to contribute the necessary funds,
employ an efficient organization for managing the business
of registration. They must either abandon ell idsa of re-
sistance to the Tories, and succumb to their domination,
or adopt the only. means by which the resistance can
ue made effectual. . The battle must be fought in
the Registration Courts, and the rich must furnish the means
for carrying on the battle. It is useless now to lament the
perpetual recurrence of registration imposed by the Reform
Bill, and the trouble to which individuals are of:-.en subjected in
substantiating their claims. We must now take the Reform
Bill as it is, with all its inconveniences. As registration is ne-
cessary, registration must be attended to. The Reform party
cannot avail itself of events, if the business of the registration
be neglected. The Tories have proved that they better under-
;tend how to profit by the machinery of the Reform Bill than
.heir opponents. But the Reformers must take a leaf out of
the Tory book. They must not leave the business of registra-
tion to hap-hazard. The election has now given to the Tories
such a majority as will enable them to carry on the govern-
nent. The opposition will no doubt be strong in numbers,
and strong in moral power, while Sir Robert Peel and his ad-
herents have so bad a cause to maintain that ere long they must
sink under it. The Reformers owe it to themselves and their
cause to neglect nothing which shall enable them to profit by
the bad cause and the embarrassments of their opponents.
HERALD.—As the general election rapidly approaches its
close, it becomes an object of great importance to calculate not
merely its numerical results, in their bearing oil the relative
strength of the parties which divide the Legislature ; but the
elementary characteristics of the constituencies which have
made the returns. This latter consideration is so important
to the object of ascertaining the probable permanency of the
,e-action which is admitted, on all hands, to have taken place

in the political opinions of a vast majority of the electors of
Great Britain and Ireland, that we shall devote an article (in

to-morrow's Herald, probably) to a rapid analysis of the re-
turns,
so far as they haie yet been ascertained, for the various
boroughs and counties of the United Kingdom. The truth is
that the question of these elementary characteristics of the
constituencies is not only determined, already, by the signal
majority of. Conservatives candidates whom they have elected,
but that fact is felt in all its intensity by the Whig-Radical sec
tion of the community. Their accredited organs, accordingly, by
•he tone and manner of their reluctant confessions on this head,
demonsta.te the deep anxiety with which they regardsuch an evi-
dence of the predominating influence of the political opinion re-
presented by the agricultural community in this country, in
heir own favourite arithmetic of—numerical strength. It is not
to be denied that the opinions of constituencies which are irn-
.nodiately connected with the ownership and the cultivation
if the land,—with the pursuits of agriculture and industry,—
the raising of that produce which is the first necessary of life
and the primary element of subsistence demanded for the
highly civilised communities of western Europe—are of para-
mount importance in the Legislature itself. This superior in-
fluence is easily accounted for by reason (I) of the enormously
greater masses of the people employed by the landed interest,
(in the most extended sense of that designation,) than that
which is employed by the manufacturing or even the commer-
cial interest. (2) By reason of the superior intelligence and
observation which the farmer of land is now obliged to bring to

its cultivation, as necessary to the daily application of thosetin-
proved processes which our advances in the science, as well as
the practical arts of agriculture are constantly devising. In
these respects the farming tenantry of Enland and Scot-
land present a contrast to the same class in Ireland
and in the countries of. the Continent. Of course, the evi-
dence of their electoral choice is proportionably important, in
appreciating the probable merits of particular measures to the
consideration of which the existing Government have formally
announced their intention of calling the immediate attention
sf the coming Parliament. That there should have been so
large a preponderance of the English borough constituency,
also, recorded as voting in favour of Conservative candidates,
mad principles, we regard as one of the most auspicious auguries
for the coniieued well-being and stability of the British con-
stitu'ion and its establishments ishi h it was possible for any
political exigency at this moment to have elicited. It is the
.nost cheering proof of the salutary conviction entertained by
he town I'Vidcountry electors of the community of their in-
terests; a conviction which we shall fully establish, in the ana-
'lysis we propose to submit to the public in our next publication.
ADVERTISER—To-morrow will be the last day on
which the qualification for the franchise can be nerfected for
the ensuing year. Look, therefore, to the registries. Re-
formers, pay your rates due on the sth of last April, whether
demanded or not, without a moment's delay, and Ist all not
already enregistered, but otherwise qualified, immediately send
in their claim with their address, descriptive of their qualifica-
tion, and one shilling to tl:e overseer. Do this, and be ready
to repel the inroad which faction has in the late contest made
upon your independence. There is every probability of ann.
ther general election before the expiration of many months;
but there is also the certainty, in case of a change of the
Ministry, that every member selected for the new Cabinet
must again present himself for the approbation of the elec-
toral body who has chosen him for its representative, or
at least resign the trust reposed in him. If the Reformers
now exert themselves, they will, even in the new elections
caused by a change of Ministry, have abundant opportunity
.ff once more inclining the scales of the House of Commons to
,he side of popular interests. Such a change, partial though
it be, in the representative body, and inefficient in itself fur
all extensive ameliorations, may be expected to produce a
most sensible effect in expediting the progress of those reforms,
without which it iv folly to expect an intelligent people to rest
satisfied with the mockery of a representaiion which has for
years plundered them of their dearest possessions. Look,
therefore, to the registries, Reformers, as you value your poll •
tical rights and your individual welfare—as you abhor slavery
and starvation, the portion which the Tories are preparing for

you, look to the Registries
POST.—The accounts from Ireland which it is our painful
task to publish daily show to demonstration that Irish loyalty
has achieved the great and glorious triumphs we have re-
•orded, although it has not had fair play ; and that with fair
olay,ior anything approaching to it, Irish loyalty would have
achieved ten times as much. We purposely abstain here from
the revolting recapitulation of outrage, or any attempt to de-
velop the atrocious machinery of intimidation. The readers
of our, paper during the last few days must have been satiated
and disgusted by well-authenticated accounts of lay violence
and sacerdotal instigations and menaces directed to the com-
mon object of destrosing all freedom of election in Ireland,
and reducing- the franchise to a mere badge of abject
and irredeemable slavery to Mr. O'Connell and the
priests. But without rehearsing the offensive and brutal de-
tails, we may safely appeal to our British readers to say whether
they have not read more than enough to convince them that
'he time is come at which the demand of " justice to Ireland"
should spring with one accord from the lips and the heart of
every loyal Englishman. " Justice to Ireland" requires that,
for the sake of example, adequate punishment in due course of
law shall he inflicted upon those who, whether they be laymen
or ecclesiastics, have sought to defeat and annul the elective
franchise by means of violenceor intimidation. " Justice to Ire-
land" requires that, inasmuch as the state of society in that
country presents obstacles to the due administration of justice
in the case of atrocious offenders of the character to which we
refer, provision should instantly be made to remedy this great
evil, and to secure alike to the criminals and to the community,
whose dearest interests they have audaciously attacked, that
the law shall be effectually and vigorously administered without
fear or favour. Justice to Ireland" requires that, while the
State affords the fullest protection to every class of its stibjee. s
in the performance of religious observances according to their
several creeds, it should make manifest to all the world that it
will preserve the integrity of the law, secure the due admittistra;
lion of justice, protect the elective franchise at once from the
violence which would obstruct or prevent its exercise and the
frauds which se:-k to neutralise and defeat its effect. These
are objects of the highest importance, not to Ireland only, but
to the whole empire ; and, in reference to them, it is the inte-
rest and the duty of every subject of the British Crown, what-
ever part of the. British dominions he may inhabit, to join heart
and voice in the cry of "justice to Ireland."
GLOBE.—The Monopolists are too elate with their
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viewries at t joys to be damped
by calm reflection on. what would otherwise prepare
them for the change which is assuredly approaching ;
an 1 which rto combination of their forces in Parlian ent
will be sufficient to avert. They have invoked every bad
induelice at their command, and have thus set themselves
to oppose a change in the laws affecting the importation
. of food, and the free intercourse between ' our manufac-

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