The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-14 00:00:00

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY

CHRONICLE.—The Reformers have not worked the re•
gistration machinery; the Tories have. The Reformers have
contented themselves with the votes obviously allotted to them ;
the Tories have experimented upon the numleer of votes that
could be found or made, in any property available for the pur-
pose. We are not beaten by change of opinion. There is no
reaction. Our ranks are not thinned. We are as numerous
and ready as when we were victorious. But the registries have
been crammed end packed. And unless we are content to Le
jockeyed in this dirty way out of all that is most precious in
political rights, and all that is most important to national pros-
perity, some effort must be made, and some expense in-
curred, to clear the registries of men of straw, and en-
sure a fair representation of the popular interest. Our
representative system is professedly based on property ;
and there is abundance of property in the hands of
Reformers to suffice, by the registration of its assigned
and proportionate votes, for protecting the country
against the permanent domination of a rapacious
faction. An article on "The Ensuing Registration" in the
Times of yesterday, affords strong corrob-ratios of the irevr we
have taken. With the usual blunder of unprincipletlnes, the
writer, in driving at one impression, forgets that he may be
producing another impression not so much in harmony with
his general object. His statements are by no means the less
valuable on that act ount. He says, " Lore] Morpeth has just
been turned out of tee West Riding mainly through the atten
lion paid to the registry by the Yorkshire Conservatives during
the last four years.' Again : "In London, between tee
his best candidate on the poll and the expelled Whigs, there
was but a difference of some 200 or 300 votes; a difference
e holly caused by the exertions of the City Conservative Asso-
ciation." And his genet alconclusion is, that "as our victories
have been the fruits of long and steadily-sustained efforts, so
must those efforts now be continued, or we shall speedily fall
back into the weakness of 1832." Such has always been our
own interpretation of what was fraudulently termed "re ac-
tion." 'I he trick has succeeded once; but the people must be
inert and doltish indeed for it ever to succeed again.. They
are likely to pay dear for its temporary triumph:
HERALD.—It is impossible to exaggerate the magnitude
of the victory which, on all hands, the Conservatives are new
achieving. It is impossible to over-rate, perhaps, the present
effect or ultimate value of the demonstration which they have
made of strength and organisation as little anticipated as wel-
come (it may be) in some quarters—whilst, in others it may
have...appeared more abruptly energetic than a lend political
experience had ever led them to anticipate. Next to the
extent of the effort which has been made, we prize most the
promptitude with which it has been put forth. In the vindi-
cation of great principles of national policy and domestic
legislation, this power of calling the elective franchise into
immediate action constitutes one of the most powerful as well
as the most constitutional resources of the subject against the
unprincipled exercise of official influence and Ministerial
authority. If we could only find reason to believe of the great
Conservative party which exists among us, that there is as in-
herent a degree of permanency as there is of in-
cidental facility of manifestation, in the vigilance they
have exerted on the present great occasion ; we should
feel perfectly tranquil as to the result of the next elec-
tion which we may be called upon to witness. What
may be the general reasons which induce us to con-
template the possibility of such an event at no very
distant period, we pause not, here, to recapitulate,
They have been too often discussed—too ostentatiously, of late,
brought under the notice of the public by those organs which
are' supposed to give expression to the views and opinions of
her geiesty's present Government—to need any further illus-
tration at our hands. Enough for us, that,—looking to the
desperate tenacity with which that Government clings to
office, after reiterated defeats, and a long and shameful series
of failures legislative and executive,—there results the more
than possibility of their attempting to elede the sentence
which they have challenged,—to demur to the jurisdiction,
which they have appealed to, There are not wanting instances'
in which some of the principal defendants to the heavy
charges of public delinquency and self-convicted incompe-
tency that have been solemnly preferred against the
existing Ministry,—have broadly announced the intention of
their colleagues to make a second appeal to the nation I This
second appeal has been seriously speculated upon as the certain
event of the returns, on the pending General Election proving
as unfavourable as, now, beyond all speculation, and on sober
and realised fact, they are. Nay, Lord Altsrpeth himself, a
nobleman undoubtedly of the very highest pretensions on the
score of personal character and honour, which any party in this
country can boast of, has told us as much. It would be a
grievous injustice, a flagrant want of generosity to a political
opponent, not to render to his deliberate assertions (arid the
more especially in the crisis of his defeat), the homage of our
unhesitating confidence. No political differences can so far
extinguish this personal respect as to permit us to doubt the
sincerity of a statement made, under such circumstances, by
Lord Morpeth. But the able speech delivered by him, on the
occasion of the returning officer's declaration of the numbers
polled at the election for the West Riding of Yorkshire on
Monday last, puts the matter beyond all doubt !
ADVERTISER.—WhiIst our cutemporaries are busily oc-
cupied in attempting to adjust with precision the amount of
Tory gains and Liberal loss, by the general election, it may
not be inopportune for us to direct attention to the chief causes
which have given the Tories a numerical majority of some for-
midable appearance in the new House of Commons. Great
is the exultation of the Tory organs over the "glorious re-
action" that has taken place in the public mind, and the " glo-
rious victories" which their faction has thereby achieved. If
the Tories are to be believed, the country has been Tecovered
from the mental delusion tinder which it laboured, when it forced
upon the Crown and aristocracy the Reform Bill of 1832, and the
other and numerous salutary reforms which followed in its wake,
and now looks back with regret and sorrow upon the wild and un-
seemly freak' it played during that long period of " unnatural
excitement." '1 he Reform Bill and its various adjuncts, fiscal,
legal, and social—including the opening o: the East India
trade, and the curtailment of the Bank monopoly ; the break-
ing up of the self-created and corrupt municipal corporations,
and the commutation of tithes in England and Ireland ; the
diminution of the number of Irish Bishops, and the reduction
of the incomes and secular power of the English Bishops • the
prohibition of spiritual pluralities, and the enforcement ofF Ec-
clesiastical residence ; the revision of the Bankruptcy and
Chancery Courts, and the simplification and economisieg of
civil and criminal jurisprudence ; the abolition of fines and re-
coveries, of imprisonment for debt, and of the punishment of
death for innumerable offences by no means commensurate with
the awful penalty attached to them ; the extinction of some
hundreds of sinecures, the re suction and consolidation of
numerous unnecessary offices, and the diminution of exces-
sive salaries, both at home and in the colonies, the abolition
of slavery in the West Indies, and the protection thrown
around the factory children in Er. gland and Scotland ; the
reduction of the duties on papers, newspapers, and advertise-
ments; the abolition of the house-tax and of various other
vexatious and oppressive taxes assessed for the Crown ; the re-
vision of the Pension-list, the restrictions placed on the Sove-
reign in the appropriation of the public moneys, and the con-
trol given to the House of Commons over the distribution of
the Royal bounty ; the reduction of the postage charges, and
the numerous improvements introduced into the Post-office
establishment, by which rapidity of communication amid eco-
nomy of expenditure are alike secured. All these, and a thou-
sand other and equally important measures affecting the political,
civil, and social condition—not of a class, but of society at large,
and in all parts of the British empire—are at length found out to be
of but doubtful value, if not of positively mischievous tendency ;
and the country is anxious to confess its errors, and make due
reparation for its folly in desiderating and accepting them at
the hands of the Whig Government, by dismissing that Go-
vernment from office, and elevating to power the faction which
has strenuously and uniformly resisted each successive step
taken towards a better course of policy, and obstinately de-
fended the old citadel of absolutism and corruption. Such is
the inter pretation which the Tories complacently put upon the
result of the general election ; and such is the spirit by which
their policy is to be enforced and directed I We greatly mis-
take, however, if many weeks are permitted to pass over Tory
heads before the film will be removed from their eyes, and the
veil be torn from their hearts. The problem of the apparent
growth of Toryism may be easily solved, without recourse to
any presumed re-action in favour of Tory policy having taken
place in the public mind.
POST.—The writhings and twistings of the Whig-Radical
Journals in their present circumstances of discomfiture are
most ludicrous. The Chronicle of yesterday quotes the new
number of the Edinburgh Review on " the grounds and ob-
jects of the Budget." The article it seems is " distinguished
for ability, candour, and liberality." But then we are told
that " the impression which it leaves on the mind of the reader
is gloomy in the extreme." Now, if there be really candour
in the article, we are not at all surprised that a Whig-Radical,
writing on " the grounds and objects of the Budget" should be
very considerably in the dismals, for truly a more melancholy
failure than this same Budget has proved, from beginning to
end, we believe no unfortune party ever before had to complain
of. Still we do not see very clearly the use of the Edinburgh
Review coming out to make its readers "gloomy in the extreme,"
for we fancy they have materials for gloom sufficiently abundant
at the 'present " crisis," without a dose of " blue and yellow"
bile to help them. The Chronicle further tells us that " the article
is chiefly devoted to to the sugar branch of the budget." In
other words, the author takes a sugar-stick for his theme.
Strange that an enlightened Whig should leave an impression
" gloomy in the extreme " when writing about a sugar-stick.
Swift, we remember, was merry in writing his meditations
upon a broom-stick. We imagine it would have been well for
the Edinburgh if it could have have kept its Broom-stick and
left the sugar-stick alone ; but even blue and yellow wisdom
will fail sometimes. In one column •of the Chronicle it
would seem as if nothing would please it. Even the
very grapes are sour. Not only does it growl with
the Edinburgh man over the sugar branch of the
Budget," but it makes a most singular as well as lugue
brious groaning over the dismissal of Lord Howick from
Northumberland. It says that, according to Sir Robert Peel,
the return of Lord Howick "ought to have been looked upon
as a gain to the Conservative party ;" and yet it growls and
howls because Lord Howick was not returned, hut kicked out,
poor man, with very little ceremony. How is this? Surely,
if the return of Lord Howick would have been a gain to the
Conservative party, the virtuous Chronicle ought to rejoice
'that he was not returned. We hope our contemporary is not
going to turn Conservative on our hands, in order to keep. in
with the Government party. A little further on the Chronicle
states, .with its accustomed decorum and respect for truth,
that—" The fact has been recorded undisguiseelv, however re-
gretfully, that, for the moment, the Queen and 'the people are
overborne by the Tory and monopolist oligarchy." Alas
how doleful t And yet we hope her Majesty enjoys
her accustomed cheerfulness, the rather, as when her Ma-
jesty appealed to the people, her good sense is likely to be
satisfied with her people's decision. Hew the people ate to be
overborne by the decision to which the people have come, we
leave enlightened Whig-Radicals to explain. But after all this
grief and grumbling, the Chronicle discovers in the next co-
lumn that nothing so bad for the Conservatives could have
happened as their success at the general election, and that
they are already in a very ticklish condition by reason of the
majority which they have gained ! We wonder what our
Contemporary would be at ? In the meantime these chang-
ing, or dissolving views, as exhibited by the Chronicler are
very amusing.
TlalES.—We have Purposely welted till the excitement of
the great political struggle in which the country has been en-
gaged should have in some degree subsided, before calling the
attention of our readers to the progress of a movement of a very
different character, on the part of those who are intrusted with
the government of the Church of England. It is generally
known that a plan for the estahlishment of additional 'isliopfecl
in the British epleniee has bpep fey spFlg tipp pact vindo
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