The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

?ROM THI MORNING TAPIRS or THIS DAY.
CHI: ONICLE.—The object of the Tory press in the
extravagant fictions which they so industriously circulate
about the prospects of Conservative gain at the coming
elections is apparent enough. They hope to catch a few
stray votes among those whose maxim it is to swim with
the stream, and swell the strongest side. It is just as
easy to claim a majority of 50 or 100, as to tell the truth
especially as the lie may do some good, and can do no
,e-reia harm if detected. As a specimen of the sort of in-
formation which the Times is in the habit of getting up,
we may refer to the list of candidates which it published
a few days ago, by way of demonstrating, as an indis-
putable fact, that the Tories could not gain less than 20
0r,20, and would probably gain 80 or 100. What the
number of candidates, without reference to the pro-
babilities of success or failure, has to do with the ques-
tion is not very easy to discover. However, if we are to
take this test, at least we have a right to expect that the
1,,,,, should be an accurate one. What the list of the
Times is may be judged of by the following specimens:—
NEW TORY CANDIDATES SAID TO BE COMING FOR-
WARD, ACCORDING TO THE STATEMENT OF THE
"TIMES,' BUT NOT ACCORDING TO FACT.
Armagh County Fox, C.
Brntiford Hardy, G.
Copiwall,E Fortescue, G.
Derby, N Arkwright
Durham, S Dungannon, Lord
Gall. ay City . Daly, J.
Cilz..-:,.:0w Monteith
t ,-,.., nwich Cochrane, Sir T.
fly,- - iiird County Baskerville
ll.rL..tord Farquhar, Sir M.
Kerry County Bentinck, G.
Londonderry Hamilton, Sir J.
Middlf.sex Sir H. Seymour, Pownall, G.
Monmouth Rolle
Nowcastle-upon-Tyne Chapman
Oldham Wilkins, G., Braidly, B.
•Vaisley Speirs
i'-nijn Be
;
resford, Sir J.
Satidwieh Douglas, Sir J.
SC. ..Man's Manners, Lord J.
ILee, E. (if true, must
oppose Mr. Praed, a
Tory).
Swci:l)ort Lloyd, J. H.
.i,till i Jones, D.
Taunt, }p,
Maude. ..
Qu.
Pennefather. 1 ?)
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.)%17. Hamlets Hanmer, Sir J.
11-1(,!..i!
‘ll-,!, lil 1 .aster Cotton, Sir W.
We \ .6),..d, County Loftus, Lord
i East, J. B. (hard upon J.
"i. Bennett, if true.)
Wuce,.-Ler Robinson, G.
Toni i; i RETIRING, NOT NOTICED IN THE " TIMES"
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STATEMENT.
Brifig,,water Courtenay, P.
Cireu,!eeter Cripps, J.
.1. atle Goddard, A.
(Atni,,n• ;and, W Irton, J.
1 ATI') i ire, S Crewe, Sir G., Hurt, J.
• I, Herries, J. C.
Burr, D. H. (Qu. ?)
14'11;1, Houstoun, G.
WIIJA RETIRING, ACCORDING TO THE STATEMENT OF
" TINES," BUT NOT ACCORDING TO FACT.
T 1 !1..t,
Acheson, Lord
.ern
Pryse Pryse
Yates, J. A.
(,:,?rk City O'Callaghan, D.
County Barry, G. S.
I :eiter City Phillpott, J.
(iitiMe)rd Wall, Baring
Ikre'ord County Hoskins, K.
.1-eng ,rd White, Luke
Standard has 'discovered another equally
inge-
method of proving that Ministers anticipate de-
"_lt is plainly shown," it says, "in the hurried
tau ement of many of the Ministers themselves from their
offices in Downing-street, to more permanent
tuations in the colonies and elsewhere." Perhaps in
it- next article the Standard will have the goodness to
r lite a few of the " permanent situations " into which
Members of the Government have so opportunely
We were not aware that the salaries of Mr.
Sir George Grey, Mr. More O'Ferrall, or Mr.
were at all more " permanent " in the situations
the'. have accepted, than in those which they recently
The only other change we have heard of is that
*,f' fr. Le Marchant, who, instead of accepting has aban-
a " permanent situation" of 1,5001. a year at
tl'i Board of Trade, in order to accept the Secrete-
of the Treasury, an office which, according to
ory statements, is not worth six weeks purchase.
hbc this look like anticipating defeat at the elections ?
fact is, as the Tories well know, though they
thin!: it more prudent to conceal it, the prospects of
.the Liberal cause are exceedingly good. The calcu-
lated gains of the Tories, when closely examined, turn
out tI:o be something of the same sort as their antici-
e,,t,el ictories in the City and Marylebone, which every
hod,' on the spot knows to be mere delusions. It is a
mit .2r almost of moral certainty that at the ensuing
;on not one single Tory will be returned for any dis-
, ,Ithe metropolis. At Manchester, Glasgow, Edin-
lutre!l. Dublin, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield, W01ver-
.,.,e,!,t.,n and with scarcely a single exception, all the
iarcil“ll!l,lf cities and great manufacturing towns and dis-
iyiei,-; ..: the kingdom, the success of the Liberal cause is
Against the few losses in the counties,
u hi.h are already in a great measure known and allowed
I've, pi si,ops the Committee of the Carlton Club will tell
rt., 'Nix their own private and confidential calculations
tiley !.,ink of their chances of loss or gain in the follow-
rt ices :—Bath, Belfast, Berwick, Blackburn, Bolton,
~,rater, Brighton, Bury, Caithness, Cambridge,
ca"t"rharY, Carlow (County), Carnarvon Boroughs,
Crick' ade, South Derbyshire, Falmouth, Flintshire, Glou-
cester, Greenwich, Harwich, Helston, Hereford, Hull,
pswie , Kerry, Kilmarnock, Kinsale, Lanarkshire, South
Lanearre, Lancaster, Leominster, Lewes, Liverpool,
Maryn ,hone, Middlesex, Newry, Norwich, Nottingham,
presto Radnorshire, Renfrewshire, Rve, Shoreham,
f4hrew t bury, Southampton, South Shields, Stockport,
Stoke, Tewkesbury, Totnes, Wakefield, Wareham,
Warrilgton, Weymouth, Winchester, and Wigtown-
shire. The same authority could, if it pleased, " a tale
' very different from that of the correspondent of
the ..s as to the prospects of the Conservative condi-
dat64 Al I io lead the forlorn hope in the City, Manchester,
Leeds, Birmingham, the West Riding
ofY sNht
Bradford, Salford, Halifax,
thanintole, Taunton, and other places Cheltenham, now in the posses-
sion 01. rhe Liberals. One amusing specimen of the con-
ol the Tories in the popularity of their cause, is
- fornished! by the numerous flittings to and fro of their
Mew-het-4 among the smaller boroughs, where money is
ec,p , •,1 to have no inconsiderable influence in carrying
• •.
des ,t,, . Messrs. D'lsraeli and_Fecto_ r run from Maid-
'Messrs. Tomline and Bailey from Sudbury, Mr.
Mr. Herries
• W. I Hines resigns his pretensions to representßerwick,
gentlemen intend
Courtenay does the same at Bri.dgewater,.
at -Norwich. Is it that these distin,guished
retie' into privaterlife that they abandon seats which,
elections afforded any :est of the fair, unbi,
• unbought suffrages of the electors, ought to be
? By no manner of means. We find them all, or
• •r• ri x. all, setting up for other places, where they will
1-,a% e "to stand doubtful contests. How, then, is the phe-
nomenon to be accounted for ? People do not usually
nbandon certain for uncertain seats without a re on.
r ends eitho reasonher on is simply th
credit.
o seat When the°Pulahrias been
_
yment, and
litained, as is commonly thecase, partly by pa
partly by promises to pay, those promises must be kept,
or ht the next election the representative whose return
was celebrated as a signal instance of the triumph of
Ctnservative principles must make way for some new
who enjoys the reputation of being likely to bleed
freely. Whether by such manceuvres as these the Tories
are likely to get the seats which, to use a technical
phrase, are in the market, once more upon credit, as they
did at the last general election, remains to be seen. But
even if they do, the Reformers have, as we have already
mown, ample means in their hands of beating them over
and over again, and returning a triumphant majority at
the 'ensuing election, by the exercise of a moderate de-
of energy, and resolution.
'PI NTES.—It is highly important that now, when the
con-rAtiencies of the United Kingdom are about to de-
aide betwen the claims to confidence of the present Mi-
nisters and of their opponents, the amount of misgovern-
ment and maladministration which has taken place un-
der o,:r Wing rulers should be plainly stated and clearly
Understood. Lord Stanley's expression, that they have
..erlitisled the energies of the country at home and
aiirouti," falls far short of the real truth. When they
retire from the offices which they have so unworthily
1111,4, they will bequeath to their successors the most
nte:earnpled complication of difficulties which brave and
virtuous statesmen were ever called upon to surmount.
There is nothing which their presumptuous incapacity
' lets .tice.'meddled with ; and " nihil tetigit quod non fceda-
rit .'t Even where they have begun wisely they have
ended ill ; while in most cases they have done nothing
but,evil from the -beginning. Were it not for the pres-
-' ruin which might follow from leaving
menthe task of extricating the British nation
in which they have involved
ts .
excused if he declined the for-
LSI; , of grovernment in so serious and
rpst. -
prtscak 10a4.1!a,nd worthlessness of the
.64 m;e:wilicli yip:tieularly manifested in
4teo on the,„„.„ -7 vrYinr., to Mike of the Royal
, • en,v4ect to the royal
_of rarliament. Such gross
gniy,andsomeani a