The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

turns by leaving out of its list Beverley, Green-
wich, and Marylebone, where the Liberals have
gained three votes, thus giving a majority of
only seven in favour of Sir R. PEEL. We may
add to these South Shields, for which the Libe-
ral candidate, Mr. WAWN, has been to a cer-
tainty returned, and replaced Mr. IrwatAirt, the
'Dry. So that, taking into account the great
nprnber of rotten boroughs in possession of the
Tories, and Tory-Whig landlords, which have
returned Members without opposition, the mono-
polists have no cause to boast. The Goyernment
will lose some votes in the English counties, and
one or two, perhaps, in the Scotch counties,
while they may gain the only burgh op-
posed to them. Ireland, will, as usual; re-
turn her fair proportion, and something more
and, deducting the eight Liberals that ab-
sented themselves on the No-Confidence question,
from the majority which the Tories anticipated)
Sir ROBERT PEEL will find that he has gained
but little by the dissolution of Parliament. We
will wait, however, patiently for the result. What-
ever it may be, the great questions which agitate
the country must finally be carried, and carried
too by the Liberal party which introduced them.
Though from their slackness in pushing Reform
for the last few years they have disheartened
their followers, the public cannot forget the
beneficial changes which have taken place since
1832, and will soon contrast them with the deeds
of the monopolists who have burdened the coun-
try with an enormous debt, who have refused
every species of reform,) till it was forced from
them, and who are still determined to maintain
their character to the last.

The number of the Quarterly Review just pub-
lished calls the Reform Bill an enormous folly.
There can be no doubt, therefore, that the Tories;
whose organ the Quarterly is, will try to repair
that enormous folly. They will, V they can, re-
peal the Reform Act. They will try to destroy
this partial enfranchisement of the people with-
out enfranchising, one person in lieu of it.
Whether they will follow the covert and cowardly
scheme of Lord STANLEY, and disfranchise the
peOple on pretence of perjury—whether they will
sharpen the registration and so cut off the voters,
or whether they will have the courage to attempt,
openly, to force the country backward through
another revolution, we cannot say, but that they
will undo what they call an enormous folly, when
they have the power, there can be no doubt.
The Review, complains of the over-dose of
poison which has been administered of late by the
Press, to the people, On'the subject of the Corn-
law, "endangering the peace as well as the pros-
perity of the country." It attributes this to the
existence of " such a Ministry," and feels in
creased regret " that we must be subject for a
month longer to such shameless misrule. " The
Tories have long given a noble preference to the
Orange mode of government in use in Ireland,
and would employ the triangle or the pitch-cap
to repress those opinions which they regard as
poison. They live in joyous expectation of
their advent to power, when an end will be
at once put to the present freedom of discussion,
which the Reviewer calls misrule. He feels
that the landlords are too roughly assailed. He has
no objection to the Press discussing the burdens
borne by the land here and abroad, about
which neither he nor any one else has any ac-
curate information; he will allow us to write at
any length about the possible price at which
corn can be raised in different countries, about
which nothing is known; we may dilate end-
lessly concerning the fertility of Hungary, and the
sterility of the cold clay lands of England ; but
directly the press approaches the confines of mo-
ral science, and describes the landlords' tax as a
robbery and a wrong, then it maddens the peo-
ple, then it poisons them, and a dose of bayonet
and gaol is demanded to restrain the exhibitions
of the Press.

It is plain, that whenever the Tories come into
power, they will try to overthrow all the liber-
ties which, in modern times, have been wrung
from the aristocracy. As soon as they can, they
will take measures to protect the owners of the
bread-tax from being annoyed by the winged
words of the Press. They will suppress every
truth which is unpleasing to them. We know
from their own conduct that they have no ob-
jection to calumniate her MAJESTY, but to
speak in plain and honest terms of the aris-
tocracy is treason according to their law.
Their present views suggest an unfortu-
nate parallel. Nearly twelve years ago, a
Ministry .took office in France with a view
of undoing the few liberties the French had
achieved. They tried to put down the Press, and
they brought about the revolution of 1830. The
Tories would form a POLICNAC Ministry, but
thank P-OD they will not find on the throne a
bigot CHARLES X. to support fanatical attacks
on freedom, nor will they have to deal with a
people prone to take terrible and sudden ven-
geance. The English are experienced in putting
out Ministers without convulsing the empire.
Should the Tories carry out their POLIGNAC prin-
ciples, execration double-spotted will sink them
for ever. Withering scorn will palsy their hands
as they attempt to sign their arbitrary decrees,
and they will die away and disappear before the
national contempt and indignation.

The Overland Mail from India has arrived,
bringing general, but not very important news
from Canton, Bombay, Calcutta, the Scinde,
Alexandria, Constantinople, Candia, and Malta,
a complete summary of which will be found in-
another part of The Sun.

We see with great pleasure that Mr. W. ;ADAMS
SMITE( is announced as the Liberal Candidate for Dud-
ley, against Capt. HAWKES. The Dudley Reformers
may be assured that they have selected the right man ;
and we trust that the electors of that borough will imi-
tate the noble example of their Walsall neighbeurs,by de-
feating the old Tory mis-representative of Dudley. If
the constituency can resist the Parson and Intimidation
influences, the return of Mr. SMITH will be certain. We
understand that the borough is contested also with a
view to an ultimate inquiry in a Committee of the House
of Commons.

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We have received by express from Paris the Moniteur
of Wednesday, from which we copy the following tele-
graphic despatches :
" BAYONNE, JUNE 29.—1 n the sitting of the 25th the
Committee of the Senate proposed that tile guardianship
should be declared vacant by a majority of 3 votes to 2."
Our advices from Madrid of the 23d state, that the Govern-
ment was likely to obtain an advance of 30,000,000 of reels
from the capitalists on the mortgage of the proceeds of the
salt monopoly.
The military peace establishment would, it was expected, be
fixed at 100,000 men.

Our Paris correspondence of tuesday shows us that
some sensation has been produced in the French metro-
polis by the unequal manner in which it is said the ford-
fications are now being conducted. It was understood,
nominally that is to say, by the Chamber of Deputies,
that the works of the continuous line of wall with the
ditch, &c., should be carried on simultaneously with
those of the detached forts,—the Bastiles, as they live
been more properly called. Nobody, however, who
had any insight into the designs of the Court, or knew
the slippery character of Louis PHILIPPE'S tortuous po-
licy, was mistaken as to the anxiety of the KING to get
the law of the fortifications voted ; every one knew that
the detached fort system was a favourite scheme of the
KING; and many apprehended what has since been shown
to be the case, that the forts would be constructed ra-
pidly, and with much care, while the continuous
line would be left to get on as it could : in other
words, that the fortifications against the Parisians
would be terminated much sooner, and would be
much stronger than those against the imaginary enemy.
This turns out to be exactly the case ; the forts are
rising rapidly : one or two of them commanding the
more turbulent parts of the capital will be ready for ser-
vice in two or three months, whereas the continuous
wall will not be worthy of that name for two or three
years. The Parisians are beginning to find themselves
entrapped, but the horse will find that he has got a rider
on his back too late. Louis PHILIPPE with his forts
will keep firm on his back, and though the National, as
we see, recommends that the inhabitants should not pay
the taxes if they find them diverted in this manner from
their legitimate object, there is no doubt that the Govern-
ment has obtained, and will daily receive fresh acces-
sions of physical, if not moral, force, fromevery shovel-
full of earth heaped on to the bastions of the new bastiles.
The project, already commenced, of refortifying the
Chateau of Vincennes, seems to have disturbed the equa-
nimity of several of our Parisian contemporaries.
The measures taken by Marshal Sot= of sending