The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

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LONDON:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1841.

We present our readers this day with the most copious
and comprehensive Parliamentary List yet published.
It contains, alphabetically arranged, the names of the
Reformers and Tories in separate divisions, the state of
the polls, and the constituency for the counties and
boroughs, with the names of the successful and unsuc-
cessful candidates ; the designation of the Members as
published in the Gazette, on the authority of the Crown-
Office ; and concludes with interesting details of the
births, marriages, family connexions, and political opi-
nions of 656 representatives of the people.
Since the election two vacancies have taken place,
caused by the death of Mr. LISTER, elected for Wad-
ford, and Lord FAVERSHAM, who is succeeded by his
eldest son, the Hon. WILLIAM DUNCOMUE, elected for
the North Riding of Yorkshire. We have endeavoured
to give the lists with correctness and impartiality ; and
if any errors should have escaped our notice, our readers
will attribute them, not to neglect or inattention, but to
the great difficulty of arranging a Table comprehending
so many complicated and multifarious details.

By the Corn Returns published yesterday it appears
that the average price of wheat for the six weeks ending
August 13th was 675. 9d. It has therefore again
risen 2s. 5d., and the duty has consequently fallen to
18s. Bd. The average price of the week ending on the
• same day was 725. 5d., or a rise of 2s. sd. on the average
of !he present week. Unless the present fine weather
should cause a rapid fall in prices, which we do not im-
mediately anticipate, the average prices will continue to
rise, and speculators will look forward to a period when
the duty will be merely nominal, to make the largest
possible importations. At the expense of the revenue
they will do something to correct the mischief of the law,
and fill their own pockets.

Our readers, who remember the language commonly
used by the Tory Journals from twelve to twenty years
ago, will trace a remarkable coincidence between their
mode of then treating Parliamentary Reform and their
present mode of treating the repeal of the Corn-laws.
At that period they continually ridiculed the Reformers.
They never condescended to argue the question—
they made sport of its advocates. All the bad
jokes, from Mr. CANNING'S Red Lion to the imi-

Cation of little WADDINGTON'S Cockney-English,
were all on the Tory side. The Journalists
satirized day, after day, every person who spoke in favour
of Reform. As they waxed facetious, however, Reform
grew in strength ; and when, as far as words went, the
Hooxs and the CROKERS supposed the day was all their
own, Reform was achieved ; and since then they have
left off laughing at Reformers, and have cursed the Re-
form Act, though they could not undo it.

They have now adopted the same course as to the re-
peal of the Corn-laws. Mr. COBDEN, a man of great
talent and commanding energy, stands in the place of
rim or COBBETT, as a butt for the Tory wit. The Con-
ference of Ministers, nolile-minded men, who have left
their families and all their ordinary pursuits, and have
gathered together from all parts of the empire,
to give the public accurate information of the condi-
tion of the poor, is now for the Tories what the Radicals
were from 1820 to 1830—the daily mark of their calumny.
The Radicals, however, survived the intended annihila-
tion. Hum' and COBBETT both sat in Parliament ; and,
:rom the present ribaldry of the Tory press, we antici-
pate a like and a speedy triumph for the cause which the
energetic Manchester men and the enthusiastic Minis-
ters who have met at Manchester, are intent on promot-
ing. The subsistence of the people, their health and
lives, are of too much importance to be affected by
zhe buzzing of Tory flies. The struggling manufac-
turers will heed them no more than their own steam-
engines heed the insects that are daring enough to settle
on them, and find, though the engine intend it not, death
from their foolishness.

The Times of yesterday reminded us of that bird
which hides its head in the sands, and, seeing nothing
itself, fancies that it is itself unseen. Speaking of the
Corn-laws, our Contemporary said, " Not the less do we
consider it unjust to plunge, without long notice and
gradual preparation, even into that state of things which