The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-03 00:00:00

AIORNING SUN.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
HERALD.—We are not about to fatigue the public with
any more particular recurrence to the scenes of corruption,
bribery, intrigue, jobbing and intimidation, which have dis-
graced the administration of the public as well as parochial
business of Marylebone, from time to time, during the last
twelve years. We are not about to recur to the " scandalous
journal" of the adventures of vestrymen and guardians (! !)
or the possible uses and adaptations of poorhouses. Neither
shall we, on this occasion, repeat the catalogue of the inpertinent
mockeries of the electoral franchise which have been practised
in the borough, for some time previously to this election in the
balloting farce, and the Warren-street Convention Parlia-
ment ;---the interference with the Constitutional exercise of
that franchise to the detriment of two of the candidates
and the benefit of two of their antagonists ; —the au-
dacity of the scheme for deluding the electors, nor the
crafty simplicity of those who acquiesced in proceedings so
destructive of all claim on their part, to the character for in-
dependence of opinion, of feeling, or of action as candidates—
not, perhaps, without some remote conjecture of their resulting
- benefit to those who by the will of this self-constituted tribunal
were to be elected. All this is now matter of history. Yes-
terday afternoon, at four o'clock, the numbers at the close of
the poll left Sir James Hamilton (a Conservative candidate
whose return would have reflected honour on any constitu-
ency which had chosen him) and Mr. Bond Cabbell (on
whose noble benevolence it is impossible that any notice of
ours can confer additional honour)—were left in a lamentable
minority of—in round numbers—some 1,300 each ! The Whig
and the Radical candidates 'topped them by that score re-
s pectively, and Marylebone returned Sir Benjamin Hall
and Sir C. Napier. It is not our practice to conceal opinions
out o? respect for individuals or parties, when we hold that
then' expression is required by our duty to the public. We
shall not deviate into any such compromise of our opinions on
this occasion. Whether or not there be reason in the adage
that " truth is not always to be spoken," we shall speak it,
now, and with very unfeigned regret. We think, then, that
this unfortunate election, for we will not affect to undervalue
the importance of the stake because we have lost it), has been
forfeited, needlessly and recklessly, by the Conservative majo-
rity of Marylebone. That the majority of its constituency is
Conservative, we are as entirely satisfied, as we are unhap-
pily certain that they might have averted a catastrophe which
presents so humiliating a contrast to the cheering and trium-
phant results of the labours of their Conservative brethren in
so many of the English boroughs.
TIMES.—It is a cheering circumstance that Lancashire and
South Derbyshire are the only English counties in which the
Whigs so much as threaten to disturb the present Conservative
state of the representation ; and in these their threats are im-
potent, and their success morally. impossible. This being the
prospect of the coming week, it is impossible not to feel that
the public interest will be chiefly concentrated upon three of the
contests which we have enumerated :—those, viz., for North
Lincolnshire, North Cheshire, and the West Riding of York-
shire. In North Lincolnshire, the battle will be fought under
every disadvantage except that of principle, yet a glorious tri-
umph may be confidently anticipated. It is true that Lord
Worsley's father, the Earl of Yarborough, possesses a
vast estate in that county, and can influence a numerous
tenantry. It is true that he is supported by the
whole Anti-Corn-law party, with which he has recently al-
lied himself. It is true, also, that the Radicals remember with
gratitude his votes for the ballot, and that the political Dis-
senters and Romanists owe him a good turn for his uniform
hostility to the Established Church. We are also well
aware that he is straining every nerve to save himself, and
that means of the most questionable nature (as those :an
witness who know the extent to which treating has been
carried in the isle of Axholme alone) are resorted to on his
behalf. But all these circumstances ought to operate
only as so many additional stimulants to the zeal and
energy of the really free electors of Lindsey. It is in their
power to teach a lesson which shall long be remembered, to a
man who sneers at the idea of their advancing any pretension
to independence. Had Lord Worsley professed himself an ad-
vocate of the repeal of the Corn-laws—had he followed out
consistently the views which two years since induced him to
support Colonel Scale's motion for grinding foreign corn in
bond for exportation—he would have now occupied an intelli-
gible position, and one which, if he could have made it pala-
table to his constituents, he might have creditably maintained.
ADVERTISER.—To the metropolitan elections, as th 2
great beacon indicating the state of public opinion, and the
probable result of the contest, now being waged in the other
boroughs, have the Tory journals been lately directing public
• attention, with the most confident vauntings of anticipated tri-
umph. These elections are now over, and the result is, that
of sixteen Members the faction have succeeded in obtaining
only three representatives—two for London and one for West-
min,ter—the two for London being pledged to a modification
of the prohibitory duties, and elected more through personal
and private, than political considerations ; and the one
for Westminster intruded into the representation by
occult and insidious influences, of which the great
body of the electors had no intimation till at the
last moment, when taken by surprise, they were de-
feated solely by being unorganised and unprepared to meet an
attack for which all the subsidiary agencies of the enemy had
been for weeks in most active preparation. Yet for this, for
having gained less than one-fifth of the representation of the
metropolis and its suburban boroughs, the Tory organs pipe
their jubilate as vociferously as if theirs was a complete and un-
questionable triumph. They have gained in London two oppo-
nents of Ministers, not two supporters of monopoly, but, on the
contrary, two representatives who profess themselves ready to
support measures similar to those proposed by Ministers, if brought
forward by other men; and though, previous to the contest,
the election of four Tories in London was confidently pre-
dicted by the factious and false press, yet now, when only two
are elected, the same shameless scribes exclaim, " London has
even exceeded our anticipations"—" The metropolis has nobly
done its duty." Such attempts to delude the public are per-
fectly disgraceful, even to the Tory press. However opposed
in opinion! we respect our adversaries while they confine them-
selves to fair discussion and the open advocacy of their own
princip:es ; but when, failing in argument, they attempt to
prop up a bad cause by the falsification of facts, and the asser-
tion one day of what the next must prove to have been a gross
and wilful perversion of truth, our aversion to the cause is
merged in disgust and abhorrence of the gross duplicity and
imposture enlisted in its behalf.
GLOBE.—Lord John Russell's return for the city of
London is a distinct recognition of, and an indelible
testimony of approbation by the first commercial city
of the world, to the great measures for reforming our
fiscal and commercial policy, on which the Government,
sanctioned by the Sovereign, has appealed to the coun-
try. The Noble Lord was especially identified with
• those measures ; and disdained to enter the House of
Commons in any other capacity than as the chosen of
a constituency capable of appreciating their importance
and value to the commerce of the country. With
the boldness which conscious rectitude inspires in minds
of a superior order, , he entered the arena as their cham-
pion ; and sustained, as was to be expected, the brunt of
the contest ; having directed against him the special
energies of the powerful class interests which those
measures sought to deprive of privileges injurious to the
public weal, but which, by long-established possession,
they claimed as vested rights. The retainers and de-
pendents of those powerful corporations and confedera-
tions were up in zrms ; and all the influences
they could bring to bear in favour of their cherished
purpose were put in motion. Wealth, beyond any
amount ever before expended in an election contest in
the City of London, was subscribed and lavished, to
obtain the votes of a class of the Livery who regard
the franchise as a possession which is worth just what
it will fetch at elections, whether of the corporation, or
for Members of Parliament. This class, as the pub-
lished poll will prove, were remarkably unanimous in
their preference of the Monopolists' candidates. But,
malgre all the efforts of the City Tories—in spite of all
the aid they derived_ from the bigots in religion—from
the alarm of the worshippers of Mammon, trembling
for the safety of the idol of their adoration, on whose
altar they would offer up the life-blood of their country
_
—in spite of the sickening venality of the numerous
class of purchaseable voters, and of the intimidation and
coercion practised upon all over whom such influences
were likely to prevail—Lord John Russell is one of the
Members for the City of London. The champion of
Commercial Reform is one of the representatives of the
first commercial city in the world ; which has, by his
election, pronounced its fiat of approval upon the mea-
sures, and upon the Government which had discernment
to perceive the advantages they are calculated to confer
upon the country, and courage to face the combined op-
position of those who profit, or imagine they profit,
the monopolies these measures will destroy.
COUR-MR.—We shall have all the " large towns "
with us, sung the Ministerial prints, with stentorian ac-
cord, before the dissolution. How have all the " large
towns," so atrociously libelled by the imputed
kinship of opinion, ngly and the disgustingly profferred
embraces with ministerialism, responded to theini-
pudent fraternization ? The great metropolis, which
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was again to be floodebdy
cals, returned as before
and the personation of absent or dead men elec.
toss, has at the first ' heave cast off one half of the
night-mare by which it was ridden, and under whose visi-
tation it has been groaning, and we trust that Mr. Wol-
Nerley Attwood will not let the matter rest until he
have re-established himself in his proper place on the poll,
and relieved the abused and suffering constituency
from one other fourth at least of the incubus by
which it is oppressed. Westminster, another of the
4" large towns," as we
about the only apostateltAra'illi-ttadhiascalsbenyt to
the right
which .its re-
presentation was disgraced, and had another Conserva-
tive been started,would, with equal ease, have despatched
the more honest but mistaken Radical as a " co-mate in
exile" with the " blood-red knight" of Hernani—that is,
if he would have kept such company. Birmingham has
\nude a gallant struggle, but for the nonce in vain.
Leeds has divided its honours between a time-honoured
Conservative name, and a Radical of reputed integrity
of political sentiment, however deplorably ill advised
and ignorant in constitutional principle. But Leeds, any
Low, would neither tolerate longer the hypocritical trim-
mer and jobber who, by timely retirement, avoided an
ignominious rejection, nor contaminate itself by alliance
with the representative of that perjuring code of Greek
morality, the first avowed element of which is to swear
black te, be white, or white to be black, at the profitable
and '',,olitical conveniene,, of the affidavit-monger.
ISTANDARD.—We have still to continue our record
.of Conservative gains at the city and borough elections—
at Leeds one—at Barnstaple one—at Wigan two ; and
we doubt not that we shall have to make additions before '
our time of going to press. On the other side, the seat
for Marylebone, lately occupied by Lord Teignmouth
(the panegyrist of the No Poor-law), has been lost.
Various solutions of this loss have been offered ;
and it is difficult to account with certainty for a result in
this wealthy district so different from what has been seen
to follow similar contests in the adjacent cities of West-
minster and London. We think, however, that, without
imputing blame to the Conservative party in Maryle-
bone, their defeat may be explained by the mischief
of a succession of changes in their candidates, and by
the legacy of unpopularity which Lord Teignmouth be-
queathed in his uncalled-for eulogy upon the most odious of
all the odious measures of the Queen's present Ministers.
Lord Teignmouth was not elected as an admirer of the New
Poor-law, but as a member of aparty, the great majority of
whom are opposed to that law, and the electors of'
IN 1-: W 11 '.l itslpr•slebone might naturally enough' apprehend that
19,..-:.76ting for the Conservative candidates, they
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~ _- , -,:asiis Tap!! . will remain for some time with their
a• , '•-, • IQ** es. There is something capricious and peculiar
iitt araCter of metropolitan boroughs, which must
.._3,lrbi4 nder success in theirs extremely doubtful, except to
pi a,iis who are ready to follow all the fluctuations of