The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

electors of Leith to-day at two o'clock. 'I he Tories having
failed to induce Mr. Gladstone, of Church-building notoriety,
to came forward, his Lorthhip will walk over the course.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC jOli aNALS.

FROM THE DAILY P.&PERS or vEsTEariAir.
CHRONICLE.—To-morrow, Citizens of London, remena •
ber the duty of to-morrow ; its first and great duty, that
claims precedence of all others; the work of the day, to be
done at once; that of voting for Wood, Crawford, Pattisen,
and Russell. Let nothing induce you to delay it. In four-
teen-day, or in seven-day contests, electors might dally; even
the two days held out a temptation to procrastinate; but
with the single day's poll, promptness is everything,
and delay may be irretrievable. It will be time
enough to go to business afterwards; and thank
God es you go, that monopoly has not yet achieved its
great victory, and dept iced you of any business worth going to.
The first contest after the polling teas reduced to a single day,
was that in Westminster, in May, 1837, between Sir F. Bur-
dett, and Mr. Leader. On that cccasion, Sir Robert Peel was
said to be the first man that polled. Adopt his tactics while you
abjure his monopolist policy. Be first in the field. Hours lost
lee: elections ; and the loss of this election would be a bitter
loss to a ourselves and to the country. It would be the verdict
of the first of commercial cities against the only wise or safe
esmanercial policy. Hasten to the poll. The morning votes
have double worth. By the mode in which you win the vic-
tory you will make the victory tell more terribly on the mono-
poly and antienatienal party throughout the land. Let them
feel at once that the trade and manufacture which ha-e, con-
fessdly, been the aggrandizement of our country, are
not to he undermined and ruined for the gratification of
muek-worms. Make good your own ; uphold those rights
of free trade and profitable interchange which are as
much yours as titles and estates, if such there be, that have de-
mended from the Norman Conquest. The country locks to you.
A decisive blow will make the monopolist confederacy reel and
quail. There is nut a constituency, town or rural, but has its
eyes directed towards the metropolis, and its ears open for that
shout of triumph which we hope will be resounding, to-morrow
night, like the voice of many thunders. Give, not merely a
goad, but a spirit-stirs ing example. Do the work at once.
Demolish monopoly for a breakfast. The millions look to you.
Your position is in the breath, to defend the telling many from
the inroads of the rapacious few. Tell privileged classes that
the labourer shall have the bread which he earns in thesweat of
his brow. Hallow the day by its morning's work of charity and
justice. It will bring heaven's blessing on your other work and your
other days. What artisan or peasant istl hereafter cut his enlarged
and untaxed loaf for his eager little ones without a heartfelt bene-
diction on the citizens of London, that gave the death-blow to the
bread tax? Where will not mankind rejoice in your success?
It is the virtue of enfranchised trade to hi nefit both the buyer
and the seller. - Prom the seas of the chilly north to the inha-
bitants of sunny Brazil, from the lately emancipated slave to
the democratic American, all who have sense enough to see
that commercial interests are ever mutual, will also see that
you fight and win their battle together with your own. Mono-
po'y is the enemy of nations, the bane of humanity. The
Quern's speech is the Ministers', say the Tories. True ; but,
unfortunately for them, it also hapsens that the Ministers'
speech is the Queen's. The sympathy of her Majesty is no
secret; and her generous fervency of nature makes it
impressible. She asks her people to consent to the
untaxing of their bread, and of the hundred other im-
ports on which monopoly has laid its grasp. Citizens
of London, render no lagging answer to the appeal.
To the poll, the hour it opens. No sort of monopoly stands
sit: lily. Their name is legion ; and it is, come all, or, all be
banished. Strike down one, and you cripple the rest. It is
for a liberal commercial policy that you vote. The victory
establishes a principle that will pervade the entire policy of
the empire. You will save yourselves from taxation that has
already marked its objects, though it refuses to disclose them ;
from 01l the wretchedness that must needs attend a declining
state of trade ; from the rapacity of a faction made hungry for
place by ten years of opposition ; from starvation, popular
tumult, and perhaps an Irish war. The well-being of Britain
trembles in the balance. „Up to your duty, now is the hour."
The nomination to-day ; the poll to-morrow ; and Heaven
prosper the right.
TIMES.—The election for the City of London is now be-
gun. Many of our readers will scarcely have an opportunity
of perusing these lines until after their return from the nomina-
tion. Before we can again address them the contest will be
at its height, and to-morrow's Times will have little chance of
being even opened in the City of London until the issue of
the day shall have been decided. Hence, whatever we have to
address to the electors must be addressed to them not. And
that shall be dune in few words, and those of the plainest
and simplest. kind. We believe most entirely that victory—a
full and complete victory—is in the power of the Conser-
vatives. More than a sufficient number of promises have
been received by their Committee to carry the election
of the whole of their candidates. We pretend not to
speculate on the extent of their majority. Their own can-
vass, we believe, would male that majority amount to a num-
ber very considerably exceeding 1,000. But although such a
canvass may give a tolerably just idea of the strength of the
party making it, it can never accurately ascertain the numeri-
cal force of their opponents. This defect arises from a very
obvious cause, namely, that electors are always more ready to
plea'e the canvasser by an assurance of support, than to run
the risk of displeasing him by a negative reply. Hence the
parties canvassing can never accurately ascertain the exact dif-
ference between themselves and their opponents. They learn
their own numbers, but not fully these arrayed against them.
Again, therefore, we say, that we profess not to cal-
culate upon any very immense majority in this city
election, but we do calculate upon an entire success.
The number of the electors who can be brought to the
poll has been tolerably well ascertained ley past elections. Even
supposing that number to be considerably increased—en im-
probable thing, seeing that the register has suffered a deninu-
tion of mere than 600 votes—there are still pledges enough de-
posited in the Conservative Committee-room to carry the elec-
tion of the whole four candidates. We look upon this elec-
tion, then, as one which the Conservatives must win, if only
they shall use the necessary zeal and exertion. Half an hour's
more canvassing in any one district would have secured Mr.
Horsley Palmer's seat in 1837. The object has been larger
and more important on the present occasion, and a far greater
amount of zeal and energy has been put forth. The same zeal
and energy continued, and increased in intensity, for another
four-and-twenty hours, will conclude the struggle in the most
satisfactory and triumphant manner.
HERALD.—It happens, of course, as was anticipated by
all parties, that the predominant, not to say absorbing, inte-
rest of the whole contest centres in the election for the city of
London. For some years past, indeed, the elections of repre-
sentatives for the City have been marvellously dull matter-of-
fact affairs ; and even since the passing of the Reform Bill,
have not asserted that superior claim on the public attention
which a priori reasoning might have anticipated in relation
to the most opulent and powerful city of the civilised world.
But, on die present occasion, the contest for London isnot, even,
of that less ordinary character in which a candidate avowing
one set of political opinions is pitted against another candidate
whose avowed opiniors are in the strongest manner op-
posed to his antagonist's. It is rather, as we have before re-
marked, the conflict of the good and evil principle of po-
litical ethics, the latter presented, emphatically, in the person
of Lord John Russell, its expounder, its champion and its fa-
vourite. The measures of that Noble Lord in 1831-2 shook
the constitution of the empire (for lie acknowledges that this
country sustained a revolution in 1832)—and dealt, with more
than parricidal hand, the " heavy blow and grave discourage.
merit " to the Established Church, acknowledged by Lord
Melbourne, himself, to have been the effect—(if it was not the
object)--of the Ecclesiastical Revenues and Ecclesiastical
Benefices Bills, as these were carried,—and to whirls " heavy
blow," it is not his Lordship's fault that the appropriation
clause—Which he was beaten in the attempt to carry—did not
give redoubled and even mortal force. In Lord John Russell
the constituency of London will regard the chief
abettor, among the English Ministers of the Sovereign, of
the principle and working of that disturbing force—" the
movement,"—which is in incessant action to, subvert the exist-
ing institutions, not only of this country but of all the States
of Europe, where they are most intimately connected with
the security of monarchy and of religion. His hand has unbarred
the sluice-gates which have hitherto resisted the fiercest pres-
sure of the current of democracy ; and, whilst the tide of Irmo.
vation,—political and religious,—threatened to pour its col-
lected waters over the fair inheritance bequeathed to us,- of
rational freedom, domestic tranquillity, and a commercial pros-
perity hitherto unexampled; he babbled about urgent de-
mands for the adaptation of salutary changes, required by the
growth of those institutions and the increase of public intelli-
gence, forsooth ! He encouraged the democratic combinations
which reached their full development in the " Birmingham
Union."
POST.—The City of London nomination takes place to-
day, and the poll will be taken to-morrow. To the result of
this election all eyes are turned with an anxiety proportioned
to the influence which the example of the first city of the em-
pire may be expected to exercise over the other mercantile
constituencies of Great Britain. Although our confidence in
the result of this important struggle is unabated, we anxiously
exhort the Conservative electors to rush to the poll at the
earliest possible moment, and by a vigorous and determined
effort, to place victory beyond doubt from the very beginning
of the day. The citizens of London will not fully realise the
high expectations which have been formed of their zeal and
devotion in the good cause if they permit the contest to assume
the appearance ofadoubtful issue at any moment during the day,
or if they fail to return the Conservative candidates by such a
majority as will render the seats secure for many Parliaments
to come. It should be regarded by the electors of London
as a point of honour not merely to reject, but to reject
with every circumstance of disgrace the men who claim their
suffrages upon pretences which imply contempt for the under.
standings, end hostility to the interests, of the great bulk of the
constituent body. The ministerial candidates boast as their
highest title to the favour of the electors their hostility to the
interests of classes, expecting apparently the citizens of Lon-
don to forget that their great city is but an aggregation of
classes, and that the whole British empire itself is no more
than an aggregation of classes somewhat more extensive. If
to attack classes be a merit, as the Liberal candidates and their
advocates pretend—he must be the most meritorious who at-
tacks the greatest variety of classes, and that candidate should
be at the head of the poll who most warmly adopts, and most
vigorously pursues the object of " the greatest" injury " to the
grt west number."
G. LOBE.- The week has commenced in the course of
which a largeh propeate9n of the Members who will con-
stitute the New .Perliateent will be returned. That a
very considerable majority oftl~oePreturns will be of
the
i right sort—men pledged to support tho Government
in its struggle with monopoly—we know. returns
from every place in which there is anything worthy of
the name 'of an independent constituency, give assurance
of a decisive triumph to the candidates who have in-
scribed " Free Trade" upon their banners. Except in
very few instances, the Liberals of every grade appear
to have merged their differences of opinion on matters
of minor moment, or of a speculative nature, which they
on former occasions have suffered to occupy their
attention, to the waste of time and weakening of
their energies, and which their opponents knew well
how to improve to their own advantage : there is now
an unity of purpose and a combination of effort from
which the best results may be anticipated. It is only
when the Liberals have been false to themselves, by con-
tending with each other about questionS of at best
doubtful import, that there has appeared to be a di-
minution in their numerical or moral strength. There
has been no re-action in the public mind in favour of
Toryism ; but, unfortunately, those who have agreed
in their opposition to the common enemy, have allowed
that enemy to gain aft advantage by dividing into sec-
tions—for the purpose of demonstrating their consis-
tency ! Thus the time which ought to have been employed
in preparing for the contest, was wasted in discussions
which terminated in estrangement, if not in dissen-
sions ; and divided those who ought to have been bound
together in bonds of closest fellowship. The natural re-
sult was seen on the day of contest. Weakness and in-
decision led, as might have been foreseen, to defeat.
One of the encouraging and gratifying indications of suc-
cess to the Liberal cause in the pending contest is tine
oneness of opinion which characterises the great body of
the Liberal elector.:;. The Government Measures—by
which practical remedies will be applied to extensively
prevalent distress—have thrown into the shade the mere
theories from which only some thought those measures
could be rendered attainable. Those theories were con-