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

EVENING SUN

THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION.

We ;have to announce, and we do it _with much
sorrow, that Liverpool, the great western empo-
rium of commerce, has stultified itself in the .
eyes of the country and the world, by returning
two champions of monopoly and exclusion—the
great banes of commerce, as its representatives
in Parliament. Knowing well, however, the
materials of which a large proportion of the con-
stithency of Liverpool is composed, we must
confess that our mortification, deep as it is, is
mingled with a very slight feeling of disappoint-
ment. We felt a shadow of hope that there was
common sea* enough amongst the electors of
Liverpool to-.see that the measures proposed by
her Majesty's Government, and virulently op-
posed by Ate party to which their late and pre-
sent representatives belong,- were • -calculated
greatly tdipromote• the welfare and Prosperity
of the nation at -large, and of Liverpool in parti-
cular, anflthat they had common honesty% and
common prudence enough to prefer their own
permanent advantage and that of their
countrynien at large to any petty present
and teMporary benefit, in the shape either
of a bribe, or the retention of an un-
principfed and domineering customer. The
event has proved that we were greatly mistaken
in our estimate, and that so far as Liverpool is
concerned, the Reform Bill has been a dea-
letter. We have given the _official return elsed
where. It shows a majority, including the
tenders, of 1,330 for Lord Sandon over Sir Joshua
Walmsley, and of 1,546 over Lord Palmerston ;.
for Mr. Creswell a majority of 1,145 over Sir
Joshua. Walmsley, and of 1,361 over Lord Pal-
merston ; whilst at the last general election in
18!;s7 the majority of Lord Sandon over Mr. Ewart
was only 405, and that of Cresswell only 371.
It has not yet been ascertained what proportion
the old freemen bear to the household voters on
the poll, but as upwards of a thousand new free-
men have been admitted since the last election,
this may serve to account in some degree for the
increased majorities of the Tory candidates, and
we have little or no doubt that an examination
of the poll-book will show that in this, as in
every former instance, the householders have
declared for the Liberals, the freemen for the
Tories—so that, as we have already observed,
the freemen being notoriously purchaseable by
the highest bidder, the Reform Bill is a dead
letter here. It is their boast and pride, and no
little of their profit, that they can turn the scale
at any time, and decide the election. But
admitting the power 'and influence of the blue
jackets. as they are fond of styling themselves, it
would be idle to deny the credit, such as it is,
which is due to the black-coated gentlemen,
who, for some years past, have been exerting
themselves both in the pulpit and out of it, to
sow religious dissensions amongst the inhabitants
—to array one class against another—to blas-
pheme the name of God—and to debase Chris-
tianity by mingling them with the bribery, the
intimidation, the drunkenness and demoralization
which have long been the great and successful
weapons of the soi-disant pious, and God-fearing
Tories of Liverpool in election contests.
" You have now," said Lord Sandon, in an-
neuncieg the result of the contest on Wednesday.
evening, " you have now been reaping the har-
vest of that good seed which has been sown
among you for years past. It is not in vain that
the ministers of the gospel have been labouring
among you. It is not in vain they have been
teaching you that the good Protestant and the
good Churchman ought to be at the same time
the good politician, and that if he wishes to have
the institutions of his country preserved, he must
.support the men who are attached, morally
and religiously, to the Church themselves. No,
6.entlemen, this good seed has not been sown in
vain, and the fruits of it have been exhibited,
not only in the victory of to-day, but in the order
and the good behaviour of this great community,
which have been so signally evinced by your
conduct at the present election." Of the ir-
reverence of this perversion of the words of the
Redeemer—of the profanity which dares to ap-
ply expressions spoken of the progress of the
Gospel ;to the increase of Toryism an 4 bigotry
in their worst shape, we shall say nothing, for the
Tories seem to consider themselves privileged
per sons in such matters; but it is beyond all dis-
pute that fiont the seed, such as it is, sown by
Clerical firebrands, no small portion of the har-
vest of Toryism in this town has proceeded, and
to them the tribute paid in the exclamation " We
have the clergy to thank for it," which pro-
ceeded from the crowd, is justly due. The trans-
planting of Irish Orangeism into Liverpool—the
bloody feuds—the attacks on places of worship
—all in the names of " Church and Constitu-
tion," and " No-Popery," arc mere trifles in
Tory eyes, lay and clerical, teeing that the spirit
from which they pr or contributes mainly to
Tory triumph at ele:ztions. To this spirit and to
besotted, pitiable, ignorance of their own true
interests, we at"..ribute the fact, that on Wednes-
day last the poor and needy of both sexes,
and of all ages, might be seen in the
streets of Liverpool bedizened with Tory
coloura, which were freely distributed for
that purpose, and bawling " Sandon and
C* ;well for ever," an exclamation which,
so far as they are concerned, may be truly tran-
slated as meaning, " Hurrah for dear bread,
hurrah for dear sugar, and short employment !"
: Yet, another element of the Tory success, we
grieve to say, was the defection of many pro-
fessing Liberals, including not a few of those
who sissmed the requisitions to Lord Palmerston
and Sir Joshua Walmsley, and yet voted for
theke opponents. We are promised their names,
air.... if they writhe under the exposure of their
iv lamy, no man can deny that they deserve it.
The election being over, it would be useless
now to attempt any dissection of the " bald dis-
jointed chat" uttered by Lord Sandon and his
political disciple at the hustings on the day ofj
nomination, even if we had the requisite time
and space at our disposal. Having neither, we
sliest defer our comments on some of the un-
founded assertions, shuffling evasions, absurd fal-
lacies, and gross misrepresentations with which the
speech of Lord Sandon was liberally gar-
nished, to a future opportunity. For the present
we most content ourselves with observing that
the speeches of Lord Sandon and his double
were contemptible both in matter and manner,
and with referring our readers to the admirable
:Fix-eche:3 of Mr. Aiken and Sir Joshua Vire:lin§_
ley, which ars in the strongest possible rJontrast
with the Tory candidates. Our excellent towns-
man has lost no honour by his defeat. On the
contrary, the high character wh;..4" he has ob-
tained for talent, energy, in'austry, and zeal,
stands higher than ever it
before, and if the
time should ever come w:aen Liverpool can boast
of a purified constituerio, or when the electors
shall be allowed the,. free and conscientious ex-
ercise of their opAons, we have no doubt what-
ever that,-slisr:al. he again solicit the suffrages
of his fellew-townsmen, they will place him
triumpluratly at the head of the poll.—Liverpool
3fe rot? v.

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MEDICAL ATTENDANCE ON THE POOR.. --
We were glad to hear it stated by Mr. Guthrie, in the
course of the lectures - lately delivered by him at 14n-
colr.'s Inn-fields, that in consequence of the solicitations
e:ad representations of the -President and Council of the
College of Surgeons, the Poor-law Commissioners had
agreed to propose a clause to Lord John Russell, to be
introduced into the amended Poor-law Bill. preventing
the employment in the charge of the poor of any medi-
cal person who was not duly qualified as a physician, or
surgeon, or surgeon and apothecary, after March 1842,
except under very particular circumstances—a statement
of which must be annually laid before Parliament. If
this be faithfully carried into effect, we believe that
about seven hundred gentlemen now employed by the
different Union officers will be displaced at the next ap-
pointment. Mr. Guthrie also stated, that he had reason
to believe that a more just scale of remuneration, parti-
cularly for cases of operation, compound fractures, and
protracted labours, would be adopted. lie added, in
conclusion, that the President and Council would not fail
to attend to these points, when this Bill should be again
considered in Parliament —Medical Gazette.
LATEST FROM AMERICA.—There is a man
living not 160 miles from Niagara, so deep, that it makes
you giddy to look at him.—A band of music, the other
day, imitated a storm so well, that a young lady present
held up her umbrella, and some ale provided for the re-
freshment of the musicians turned sour.—A baker in
New York has an establishment with the usual inscrip-
tion, " Common Bakehouse ;" but a rival on the other
side of the strert has put up a sign, " Uncommon Bake-
house," and is carrying away all the other baker's cus-
tomers.—" I wonder," says a woman of humour, " why
my husband I quarrel so often, for we agree uniformly
ol!, one grand point—he wishes to be master, and so do
—A despairing swain, in a fit of desperation, recent y
declared to his unrelenting lady love, that it was his firm
determination to drown hiwself, or perish in the attempt.