The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-12 00:00:00

MR. PETER AIIsTWORTIT, M.P.

(FROM A O•RRESFONDENT.
Bolton, March 11.
Honour to the enlightened and independent Electors of
Bolton ! They have at last aroused themselves from their
lethargy, and are determined that their intentions shall be no
longer frustrated by a pretending liberal Representative and
nominal Reformer. A Requisition is in course of signature
calling upon Mr. Ainsworth to resign his trust, to which is
already attached upwards of 500 signatures, and probably be-
fore this communication reaches you it will be signed by a
majority of the constituency.
The first vote Mr. Ainsworth gave in the House of Com-
mons created considerable astonishment among his supporters,
being in favour of Mr. Manners Sutton for the Speakership.
Subsequently his political career has been of " such a ques-
tionable shape" as to entirely destroy the confidence of the
electors. His votes last Session in favour of the Weaver
Churches' Bill and Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill were
commented upon at the time with much bitterness, and his
conduct more recently, in voting with the Tories against a Bill
the object of which was to preserve the Reform Bill from being
neutralise'l in Ireland, and the defeat f which involved the
fate of a Liberal Administration, was such as to leave no other
alternative than to call upon him to relinquish a situation he
was so unworthy to occupy. He is pledged to conform to the
wishes of a majority of the electors; and the time is short that
precedes his political dissolution, when he must relinquish his
Parliamentary duties, and retire into that obscurity from which
he eu._;ht not to have emerged.
Mr. Ainsworth came out as a candidate for the representa-
tion of this borough at the last election, in opposition to Col-
Torrens, a gentleman of acknowledged talent, and a decided
Liberal—one to whom I feel proud in having this opportunity
of paying a just tribute of praise for his sterling worth, his
high character and attainmet.ts,,, his uniform constancy in the
advocacy of the people's rights, and who previously repre-
sented us with honour to himself and satisfaction to his sup-
porters, but was superseded by the mere force of prejudice to
a townsman.

It is probable that a meeting of the Electors will be called,
ere long, for the purpose of concerting measures to meet the
emergency.

CHURCH-RATES.

SECOND DEFEAT OF THE TORIES.

This day, after a second appeal to the parish within a fort-
night, the opponents to the unrighteous and unjust impost of
Church-rates have again triumphed, by a majority of 52,
There being against the Rate 370
. For the Rate *3lB
Majority
This result is highly creditable to the public-spirited inhabitants
of this town, particularly as bribery and threats of intimidation
were unscrupulously resorted by the friends of the Church as
by law established ; and which threats have been already car -
ried into execution, upon many of those whose consciences
would not allow them to swerve from their duty.
The rate was proposed by Mr. Lawrence, seconded by Air.
Osborne ' • and the amendment moved by T. E. Fisher, Esq.,
seconded by the Rev. J. K. Holland, in as excellent a speech
and argumentative an address as was ever delivered either with.
in or without the Chapel of St Stephen's.
Thus public spirit and principle have triumphed ; and may
the adversaries of peace and reform always meet with such a
reward. Honour to the St. Iveans, and may their example
be followed throughout the empire.
St. Ives, March 11, 1841.