The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-04 00:00:00

STANLEY'S BILL.

(FROM A CORK CORRESPONDENT.)
The city of Cork, ever foremost in promoting measures
for the general good, will be found to have done its duty
on the all-absorbing question of Stanley's Registration Bill.
Cork has suffered a 100 in the death of one of its first
citizens, the ever-to-be-lamented William Crawford, and
this, and this alone, has prevented a public manifestation of
feelirg. Yet all seem anxious to do their duty, as will be
seen by the petition about to be presented to Parliament
from this city, by our Members, and which contains over
twenty thousand signatures. At the moment I write, in
the rallying point of Liberalism, the Chamber of Com-
merce of Cork, one of tho attendants of that institution is
uniting the detached sheets of names in one continuous
roll, which, containing four columns of signatures, extends
twice the length of this fine room, which may be estimated
at fifty feet., making io all ode hundred feet of paper.
If respect for the memory of Mr. Crawford had not
?revented a public meeting, it would be fully fifty thou-
sand; for never were the inhabitants of the south of Ire-
land so indignant as they are at the attempt to impose new
hurthens on them, which Stanley's vile Bill would surely
effect. Men have frequently to travel from thirty to forty
miles to register their votes, and are then met by paid Con-
servative agents, valuators, &c., all seeking to deprive
them of their constitutional rights.
Look at the Orange Secretary's (Mr. Nettle's) letter ;
that production throws some light on the intentions of the
party. Yet this is not a solitary instance of the relentless
persecution our fine country staffers from as base a set of
agents as ever disgraced any cause. To all this Lord
Stanley would add further power to the landlords and their
agents to cut up the registries, and worry the people out
of all patience, so that Lord Charleville, Lord G. So-
merset, Messrs. Jackson and Lytton may exclaim, " See
what the Fictitious Votes Committee have done for the
country by preparing so excellent a Bill for Ireland's
humbug friend, Lord Stanley I"
Be assured if this Bill passes, Ireland's tranquillity will
be endangered, which every good man should try to avert.
We are doing our duty here, and it will be satisfactory
to the Cork people to have an acknowledgment of their
exertions in one of the first Liberal papers in the Sister
Kingdom—The Sun. R.
Cork, May 1.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
A severe struggle is expected in the borough of Mary-
lebone at the present year's election of vestrymen and
auditors of accounts, which takes place this day. The
Tories, encouraged by their partial success in returning
Lord Teignmouth, are making the greatest exert:ons to
obtain an absolute control over the parochial elections;
well aware that success in the parish would be an im-
portant step towards the complete establishment of their
influence in the borough. The Tory newspapers for the
last three months have endeavoured by every means, direct
and indirect, to influence the result of the election, which
must •znd will—although the Tories, when it suited their
purposes, have always denied such an effect, and, indeed,
the result generally of freely elected vestrymen on Par-
liamentary elections—produce an important effect over the
next contest for Representatives for the borough. Under
these circumstances, we make no apology for calling in the
most urgent manner on all our Liberal friends, and po-
pular coadjutors in the borough of Marylcbone, to put
forth their best energies in the popular cause this day.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The veteran impostor has unfurled the banner of " re
peal," and summoned the Romish serfs to assist him in
severing the legislative connection with " the Saxon," be-
cause the British House of Commons has sanctioned the
principle of a Bill to extirpate the baneful systeß of fraud
and perjury which entwines itself with the elective fran-
chise. The cry for a repeal of the union is like all Mr.
O'Connell's political undertakings, false and fraudulent.
He knows that without civil war he can never establish his
little Iliberno-Romish Senate in College-green; and civil
war has perils which the Papincau of Ireland has toe much
prudence to encounter. We repeat it. The " repeal of
the Union," as a watchword of the impostor's new agitation,
is a political lie. He laughs in his sleeve when he tells
his dupes that ho " will die a repealer." Ho would rather
live a mendicant.

(From the Times.)
In the instructions from the Colonial-office to Captain
Hobson, dated the 14th of August, 1839, and published in
the Times of the 22d ult., the following passage ap-
pears Contemplating the future growth and extension
of a British colony in New Zealand, it is an object of the
first importance that the alienation of the unsettled
lands within its limits should be conducted from
its commencement upon that system of sale of
which experience has proved the wisdom, and the
disregard of which has been so fatal to other British in-
terests." The sly and unfounded insinuation measured out
in official phrase as above, in reference to the sale of land
in New Zealand, cannot be too much sifted. That the
sale of land to her Majesty's subjects is better than the gift
of so much land, surely required some proof. To bubble
projectors we admit it is just the thing, a clever invention,
doubtless, for procuring the wherewithal to commence at
once and hare offices in London and salaries, even before
the land has beet. seen at all ; but its merits, as compared
with a fair apportionment of waste land to emigrants, may
well be questioned. The very phraseology of grants by pur-
chase is liable to objection ; and no suit or service connected
with tenures of early dates and feudal times was ever half
so barbarous.

(From the .Vorning Chronicle.)

It is the common, stale trick of those wht, have the
worst side of an argument, to complain that their oppo-
nents deal in mere assertions, and to characterise the rea-
sonings which they find unanswerable as mere vapouring
and noisy declamations. This trumpery artifice is daily reit-
erated by the Times and Standard in their articles on
Lord Stanley's Bill to disfranchise Ireland. We have,
from time to time, discussed this daring measure through
all its details, and in all its bearings. We have
shown the malignant tendency of its chief provi-
'sioes_-we have thoroughly investigated the working of
its machinery, and shown that as it was purposely con-
trived, so it would most assuredly operate to the utter de-
ctruction of the elective franchise. We have demonstrated
the hypocrisy of its authors; we have exposed the fallacies
of its advocates; and, after all this, vie are told that we
trade in nothing but bare assertions, and oppose nothing
bnt idle clamour to sound argument. The truth is that
we were under no logical necessity to argue the case as we
have done. It was for the party proposing a measure like
this to prove that it was consistent with popular rights and
existing privileges, not subversive of them. The onus lay
on the Tories to show that in advancing a project to correct
the abuses of registration they were not covertly plotting
the ruin of the franchise. Have they done so? Have they
attempted to do so? On the contrary, have they not had
the assurance to avow that such was their design?