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LONDON:
SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1841.

We, among other journalists, very often blame
the Ministers for not going fast enough and far
enough; and certainly we have at times been
much chagrined and mortified, to see those
_whom we had supported for their anti-Tory
opinions, succumbing to their and our enemies.
Perhaps we have not made sufficient allowance

for the influence of Government over those who

wield it, and the influence of the classes who

block up all the avenues to the Throne.
For nearly fifty years prior to 1830, the Tories
were exclusively in possession of the Govern-

meat; during that time the wonderful inventions
of WATT and ARKWRIGHT, turned to an admi-
rable account by our ingenious and industrious

people, conferred boundless power and boundless

wealth on the nation. It cannot be denied that

great social progress co-existed with Tory domi-
nation, and the Tory Government became

associated in the public mind with a great in-
crease of wealth and power which it did not con_
tribute to produce, which it squandered in mis-
chievous profusion, and which it did its best to
destroy. It never was popular after the com-

meucement of the French revolution ; but, in the
minds of the upper, and many of the middle
classes, it was associated with great success and
great splendour, and they honoured it as if it
were a system of almost Divine appointment.
Against that prejudice the Whigs, aided by the

people, have had to contend; and we ought,'per-
haps, to be surprised that they have done so

much, rather than they have not done more.
In one of his speeches on Reform, Lord
BROUGHAM, after his accession to office, de-

scribed in his graphic manner the many re

straints and bonds he felt gradually extending
themselves over him, and fastening him into
the position of his predecessors. That was a
true description of every man -who has to admi-

nister a system ; he finds that it masters him;
and the longer he runs in it the more completely
does he becomes its slave. Now, when it is re-
membered that not only the form and the rou-
tine of the Government were completely Tory,

borough of Marylebone in Parliament, has had
vamped up and paraded, before the eyes and in
the houses of the electors, a list of all the money
he has given, during his life, to public institu-
tions. In one year he gave 101. to a musical
academy, and in another 25 guineas to a Lying-
in Hospital ; and now he is making the most of
his gifts, by lumping them altogether, in order to
charm the elector's out of their votes. He spreads
out his several puny donations till he makes a
great show, and then asks to be represented on
account of his wealth. The man and his friends
must be a set of sordid hunxes, and they must
suppose the electors of IVlarylebone to be as bad
as themselves.

and had long been Tory, but that all the subor-
dinate officers of the State were Tories, who
guided their several departments and places

on .Tory principles, it is not difficult to
conceive how the Whigs, as they re-
mained in office year after year, became
more and more hampered with the ancient Tory
system, and more and more obliged to move in

the ruts which it had worn. NVe find in these

If he had subscribed these sums out of genuine
charity, he would have taken care that his right

circumstances, when we remember what the

and. should not have known what his left hand

was performing—

" Who builds a church to God, and not to fame,
Will never mark the marble with his namo."

Mr. BOND CARRELL seems to have stamped
every guinea he ever gave in the cause of
charity with his own name, and now asks the
electors of Marylebone to reward him for his
thumping benevolence. The benefactor of the
poor, as he describes himself, never insults them
with a parade of his gifts. He who gives
much, and boasts of it, must extort much, as
some of those who are the most constant at
public prayers are the greatest sinners. POPE,
no bad judge of human nature, represents a
City Knight as soothing his conscience, after he
had cheated a customer, by giving alms and going
double tides to church. Let the electors eschew
devotees and money-grubbers.
What they want is, not a man to go to church,
or to subscribe to infirmaries, but a man who
will protect their rights—who equally ready
n the field and the senate ; who unites the
ities of the courageous warrior and the fear-
exposer of corruption. Such a man is
'IER. Free, independent, and honest elec-

qual
less
NAP

tors will vote for the Gallant Commodore; those
who are looking forward for a berth in an in-
firmary or an hospital, will support the puffing
gentleman whose great merit it i 3 to have sub-
sclibed a few hundred pounds, in the course of
his life, to some public institutions.

The time for talking and writing about the
elections is almost past, and the time for acting
and voting has arrived. He must be a recreant
Englishman who votes for a bread-taxer. lie
will be unworthy of woman's love or children's
affection, for he votes either to doom women to
barrenness, or their offspring to misery and pre-
mature death. All Tories are bread-taxers ;
they will not abate one farthing of their Moloch
impost. The Whigs would abate it, and, if the
anti-bread tax feeling be strong in the country,
would abolish it. Whoever, therefore, votes for
a Tory, votes to doom a large portion of our popu-
lation annually to a premature grave.

But there is no time to think or write much
more on the subject. The City election is
already appointed for Monday. Other elections
will immediately follow, and every voter must
be prepared to act like a true man, or be stigma-
tised as a recreant knave.

Whigs have done, an explanation, if not a justi-
fication, of their not having done more.
The Government being practically founded on
the principles of coercing the people into obe-
dience to a certain system, necessarily corrupts
to its own purposes all who are called on to ad-
minister it. It is not denied that the Whigs

In Southwark, Lambeth, and Finsbury—Mr.
TOOKE having, it is said, retired—there will be
no contests. Westminster is at length startled by
the voice of a Tory candidate. A Captain bus,
who may have been heard of on the waters, but
little on the land, has offered himself to be the
man of the Tories. They tried to start Sir R.
PEEL and Sir WILLOUGHBY COTTON, but the
former has run off for his pocket borough of
Tarnworth, and the latter has not turned up a
trump. In Westminster there is no fear of the
result, and Capt. Rous, R.N., will only rouse the
electors to demonstrate that their zeal in the good
cause of freedom knows no relaxation. Mr. LEAD-
ER and Sir DE LACY EVANS will be much in-
debted to the Captain for eliciting many proofs
of the attachment of their friends.

have used its coercive power with much mode

ration ; but, nevertheless, having been obliged
to use it, they have shared the unpopularity

which properly belongs to Tory institutions and
Tory laws. The difference between the two
parties is, that the Tories see in the Constitution
nothing but a system of coercion for
the people. The Whigs see in it also a
means of securing their liberties. They try to
reconcile the two ; the Tories think only how
they can make the system obeyed and respected.
They profess to despise popularity—to despise
the people and their opinions, and to care for
nothing but the preservation of the law. The
Whigs defer to the people; they admit the in-
fluence of their opinions; and they do not prefer
a system to popularity, or a theory to the public
good.
Whoever has the Government to administer,
must necessarily-be obnoxious to those who, like
the Chartists, demand great changes, which it is
supposed to 'be the duty of the Government to
resist. But the Whigs have administered it with
mildness, white the Tories would have carried it
out with terror, till they had kindled rebellion.
Though the Chartists-may not like the Whigs,
and the administrators of the Government,
they ought to hate the Tories ; and every Chartist
who votes for a Tory is false to the principles
.of
the Charter.
We had written so far when Mr. WADE'S
pamphlet, entitled " Reform Government," ab-
stracted from his " Glance at the Times," and
published by EFFINGHAM Wir.soN, reached us.
Mr. WADE justly states, that—,
Since 1830 England has undergone as many and as
great changes almost as it is possible for a nation to
undergo, not only in the form but' in the practical spirit
and administration of her institutions. There is no in-
stance perhaps of a country achieving so peaceably, yet
in the main so efficiently, a reform of old and inveterate
abuses, of effecting so radical a change in every depart-
ment of her domestic policy, without the risk and detri-
ment of a revolutionary convulsion.
In those remarks we agree, and the success of
the Whigs in accomplishing so much, should
readily make the people follow them in their
present endeavour to ,accomplish more. Agree-
rig, too, with Mr. WADE in most of the follow-
ng remarks, we have great pleasure in quoting
them :

From the City, where the contest will un-
doubtedly be severe, we hear the most favour-
able reports. The Tory candidates can say nc,-
thing against the Whig measures—they only ob-
ject to the time at Which they are brought for-
ward. They would support such measures, were
they proposed by Sir R. PEEL; but they will not
be allowed the chance of recovering their popu-
larity in office by a sacrifice of 'consistency.
We confidently expect that the success of the
four Reformers in the City will give an impulse
to the popular cause throughout the empire,
and ensure a majority of Liberals in the new
House of Commons.

Besides the ordinary French mail of Thursday,
bringing the Paris journals of that date, we have
received, by • Extraordinary ExpreSs the sub-
stance of the news in Friday's journals. The
Budget of receipts for the year 1842 was voted
in the Chamber of Peers on Thursday, by a ma-
jority of 105 votes against 10. This concluded
the business of the Session. On Friday all the
Members of the two Chambers in Paris assem-
bled, when the Chambers were prorogued by a
Royal Ordinance.

Not only M. de Saint John, the English Consul General at
Algiers, accredited to the Dey at the time of the conquest, but
the English Consuls or Consular Agents in the several towns
on the coast, most of whom have entered on the office since our
occupation, continue to exercise their official functions withou
having obtained, or even asked for, the exequatur of the Go-
vernment. How then can we credit promises to retain a con-
quest which we cannot get our allies to acknowledge or respect ?
—La Gazette de France. •

The Courrier du Bas Rhin, a Strasburg Journal, says.
" The German Journals repeat for some days past, with
what view we do not know, that the French Gosernment
are concentrating a force of forty thousand men about Stras-
burg. This assertion is entirely destitute.of foundation ; there
is no extraordinary movements of troops in Alsace, and the
garrisons of our fortresses are not more numerous than they
were a year ago. We are assured that Switzerland is negoti-
ating with France to remove and forward its Dutch corres.
pondence by way of Luneville, the postage charged in Ger-
many through which this correspondence now passes being
exorbitant.

It is sometimes said Ministers might have done more.
They might, but then they must have been bettersup
-
ported. Had they attempted more, with the power and
co-operation they possessed, they would have certainly
effected less. Much of what has been done, has been
done by concessions, by a sacrifice of their own better
sentiments. The default, in truth, has not been in
them, but—for we must speak out—in the apathy. and
divisions of the people, which emboldened the Conserva-
tives to defeat or mutilate the most efficient Ministerial
schemes.la- dhintdbeTeover, is undoubted—if the
havein
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be blind who does not
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with the present Administ •
ration, he is likely to have still
greater with the candidates for their places.
The claims of tiles'
it will now be fair to candidates to national confidence
notice, having set forth those of the
Whigs. One of the
Tories
is in first and greatest pretensions of the
the
and throughout fact that they have fearlessly
ughout opposed the Reform Government—have
to
perseveringly tried first frustrate entirely, and when
that was hopeless, to
del
sures of public amendmeantr or impair, the different mea-
passing of the Reform Bills enumerated above, from the
Parliament of Queen Victo •
to the dissolution of the first
So much for their past seri-INa;lee s
Of this the most recent testimonial* Next as to the future.
is their opposition to
the budget of the Chancellor c
th
The nature of the Ministerial sche Exchequer.
un-
folded. Its necessity has arisen froen ame
may be soon a
deficiency not accruing from wastefulideficient revenue,
expenditure--no
one accuses Ministers of that—but from concessions to
popular demands, chiefly the reduction
of the rate
of postage, of the stamp-duty on . newspapers, and
from the twenty millions borrowed to ab
Ne-
gro slavery. If wrong has been done in abolish
sh
ared
in of these measures, the wrong has been adop-
tionhared
in by a vast majority of the community ; if there
has been weakness, it has been a weakness on virtue's
side—on the side of too much indulgence--for which,
we feel well assured, the electors of thp empire will not
be disposed to subject the offenders to banishment or
even milder penal chastisement.
As to the principle on which the Ministerial budget is
based, it is not easy to conceive one more just,
apt, and
judicious--more consonant to sound economical science—
more generally beneficial—less oppressive to the
people—and more likely to relieve the pressure which
has long weighed on national industry. It is not
sought to increase public taxes, but to make the
wants of the Exchequer subservient to mercantile reform
—to the removal of a great legislative reproach—a
monstrous injustice, long perpetrated by the landed aris-
tocracy on every man, woman, and child in the kingdom.
The objects sought are twofold—to give cheaper bread to
the poor, and open a wider field to manufacturing skill
and commercial enterprise. Against this policy the
Tories are arrayed—prefer high rents for themselves to
cheap food for the people—monopoly to free trade—an
unemployed and starving community to a busy and well-
fed population. ,
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Mr. BOND CABBELL, who, we presume, must
be very rich, by his anxiety to get into Parlia-
ment through such a borough as St. Alban's, in
default of any legislative claims to represent the

The Andromede frigate, which is preparing to quit Toulon
for the Levant, is the thirdl vessel of that class lately ordered
to those seas. The Minerva and Didon have successively
sailed for that destination; the latter which sailed on the .f.,911i
of May, had on board Alessrs. Foy and Piscatory.--Le
Commerce.
MELANCHOLY AND AEFECTING.—A man named Durand,
of Juvisy, a contractor for carrying stone to face part of the
Paris fortifications, sent off the morning before last several
loads, and after a time followed them, accompanied by his
only child, a boy, 9 years old. 'l hey were proceedis.g on the
way, when the ears of Durand were assailed by a piercing cry.
and he found his son under the wheel of one of the cart, which
was still resting upon it, the horses having stopped. M. Du-
rand had sufficient resolution to back the vehicle, and, as soon
as the poor boy was relieved from its weight, he sprung up with
a dying effort, threw himself into hii father's arms, exclaiming
Kiss me, father, for 1 am tilled !" and instantly expired.
M. Gamier Pages, so long known as one of the leaders of
the Extreme Gauche in the Chamber of Deputies, died on
Wednesday evening at seven o'clock. He had been suffering
for some time under a phthisical complaint, which left his
friends but little hope. M. Gamier Pages was little more
than 40 years of age ; he sat for the departmentof the arthe,
and was much respected even by his political opponents.
The children of ill. Begis, a farmer, at C,ierecroy, near
Nogent-sur-Seine, a few days ago were about to convert an
old chest, which had many years stood useless in the yard, into
a rabbit hutch, when on pulling off a thick cloth with which it
was covered, a rouleau fell out. Believing it to be a cartridge
they put it aside, with the intention of converting it into
squibs and crackers. Immediately afterwards another roolean
tumbled out, and as its shape was irregular the children's
curiosity was excited. They therefore opened it, and found
fifty gold pieces, among which were several of 4t f. each, or
double Louis d'or, of the reigns of Louis XHI. and Louis XIV.
The first rouleau contained fifty single Louis. The chest had
been bought in 1514 of a broker at Nugent.
The French, Flemish, and Italian collections of pictures in
the Grand Gallery of the Louvre will be re-opened on Tues-
day next.
The Minister of Public Instruction has just received from
M. Mynas, who is charged with a scientific mission in Greece,
two marble bas-reliefs of fine workmanship : one represents
a man seated, offering an apple to a female; the other, a hunter
on horseback, piercing a wild boar. Orders have been given
for placing these relics of Greek art in the Louvre.
1%.1. Murat, brother of the ex-King of Naples, died a few
days ago at La Bastide, in the Lot, after a long and painful ill-
ness. He was .devoid of ambili• n, and while King Joachim
was surrounded with all the splendour of Royalty, contented
himself with the humble honours of player of his village, =-
firming till the end of his life to occupy himself in actions of
charity, and in promoting the welfare of all around him.
M. Villalongue, of Perpignan, has just invented anew kind
of. night-telegraph, the principle of which is white marks on
black grounds, exhibited by a strong reflecting lamp. . It is
raid to succeed perfectly well, and has the advantage of not re-
quiring to be placed oil aheight, but may be erected any where
from whence it can be seen.
The Viscount d'Arlincourt, on his way to Aix-7a-Chapelle
a few nights since, had a narrow escape from being killed on
the road. Between Bouillon and Dinant, in the Ardennes, the
iandonea
horses ran away with his carriage, and overturned it down a
slopeesec eos fromu,
tthehis • ondaf:. and 112 feet deep. The caleche was broken to
pieces, te horses
grand-daughter, hadits l
who
fractured,werea t
him,h
e
Viscount,
received only a few slight bruises. This happened at a lonely
spot, far from all assistance.
A man was
watsehrotby adjoining
apatrol, not long since, while fishing in
apiece
the royal park of Laeken, near
of
Brussels, A court-martial has just been held cn the office

THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1841.

commanding the patrol, and on one of the men who fired.
After two days' hearing, both the officer and the man have
been acquitted.
CATTUILE of " GAVIN SCOTT" AT MA asmuts. —The
police authorities of Paris this morning communicated to Mr.
Lawson (solicitor) of Paris, a telegraphic despatch from the
Prefect of the Douches du Rhone, announcing the capture at
Marseilles of Gavin Scott, for whose arrest Mr. Lawson had
made application, as having absconded with the sum of 8,6001.
in gold and notes belonging to his employers, who are emi-
ncrit cotton manufacturers in Glasgow. The delinquent was
travelling wish a passport in the assumed name of " Charles
Hamilton Douglas," and hope is entertained that the bulk of
the stolen property will be recovered, he having been closely
followed from Havre, where he landed with upwards of 4,0001.
in gold in his-portmanteau, to the great surprise of the Custom-
house• officers.
_ _

.iuprort( rs, out of existence. Their selfish conduct is
partly i he- consequence of that false Tery theory about
the St to subsisting the people, which the Quarterly
Review embraces and espouses, and the Times properly
repudiates. . .
PERJURED PAPISTS.—L-)rd Stanley, it appears. is
angry at having had the words " perjured Papists" at-
tributed to him, he having, as he says, never uttered
them. The Noble Lord, however, has brought in a Bill
to disfranchise the Papists, which is founded on no
better reason than the assertion of the Orangemen that
the Papists are perjurers. He embraces the doctrine,
therefore, he endeavours to profit by it, he turns it to a po-
litical account, and yet, because he may net have used
the word,. he seeks to obtain credit for not believing it.
The best criterion of a man's belief, according to our •
metaphysics, is his actions, and on this principle we must
beg leave to assert that Lord Stanley's anxiety to shake
' off, the responsibility of these words, proves that he is
mean as well as vituperative. We did not before believe
that he was cowardly, like all ill-natured malif nant.
people; but we must now add that low and slil4og
vice, to make up his character. Why should the_ man
who brands the Papists as perjurers by his actions, un-
less he be mean and cowardly, be anxious to make the
world sensible that he never called therri so?
ASTLEY'S THEATRE.—It appears from an advertise-
ment in another part of the paper, that upwards of 300
persons have been thrown out of employment by the
destruction of this favourite place of amusement, and
that a subscription has been commenced to furnish some
relief for them till the house is rebuilt. It is highly
honourable to men connected with the stage that they
have subscribed so generously on the occasion. Several
of them have given ten guineas each, some five ; one
house; the Strand Theatre, has paid in 19/. lls. to the,
Committee ; and Mr. Anderson gave a benefit for them
at the Adelphi, which produced 301. The first bankers
in town have offered to receive subscriptions, and we
confidently trust, from such a good beginning, that a
company which has afforded so much gratification both
to old and young will meet with liberal support during
their present distress.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LivEnron'. COTTON MARKET, JUNE 25.—The.trade this
week have purchased more freely and with a greater confidence
than for some time previous, influenced by an increased inquiry in
the Wlanehester Market, and a slight improvement in prices
yet in consequence of a large addition to the stock, which is
now the heaviest on record, and the pretty general anxiety on
the part of holders to reduce, they have been enabled to make
their selection upon as favourable terms in all descriptions as
at the close of the last week. Speculators have taken !;,000
bales, and exporters 400 bales American.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 25.—We have had an
increased business at the Stock Exchange to-day, but prices
have not improved f,:r any description of Railway Shares. Pre-
sent rates are : Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Half
Shares, :?-1; Grand Junction Half Shares, 101 ; Great West-
ern, Fifths, 10& ; Liverpool and Manchester Quarter Shares,
47; London and Birmingham, 15S; and South Western, 53.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JuNE- 25.—Our Mar-
ket is quiet, bat prices are steady. London and Birmingham,
158; Manchester and Leeds, 52; North Midland, 67 to 671 ;
North Midland, Thirds, 5u ; Lancaster and Preston, 28i 29i ;
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester, 20 20i; Bank
of Manchester, 6.

The quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of
the Bank of England have been published from March 30 to
June 22, 1841, both inclusive, from which it appears as
follows :
Circulation present time
Last time

More this time

Deposits last time
PI esent time

17,000