The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-12 00:00:00

TI-IE ELECTIONS.

(BY EXPRESS.)
HERTFORDSHIRE ELECTION.

OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL.
The High Sheriff this morning proceeded to state
officially the number of votes 'polled for each candidate
at the recent election. He declared them to be as
follows.:—
Griinston 2,585
Ryder
Smith
Alston
and he declared the thrtu first-named gentlemen to be
duly elected to represent the county of Hertford in the
ensuing Parliament.
Loed GEDISTON then addressed the electors (the rain
at the time pouring down in torrents), and congratulated
them that they had fought the good fight, and had ob-
tained a victory; and he ttsurett them, that in his place
in Parliament he Riwtild only be actuated by a desire to
benefit all classes, and to make England what she for-
merly had been, great, glorious, and free.—(Cheers.)
Mr. RYDER then addressed them, and said that there
was no doubt that before many weeks the present in-
capable Administration would be replaund by good
honest Conservatives, who would consider the welfare
of the nation, and who, notwithstanding the difficulties
left them as alegttcy by the present Government, would,
he had no rtonbt, carry on the affairs of the State with
arivanoar4e and honour to the country.—(Cheers.)
Mr. SMITH briefly returned thanks.
Mr. ALSTON said he was not at all mortified at his
defeat. His friends had supported him nobly, but they
had been beaten ; still he felt it a source of great con-
gratulation that he had been honoured with the support
of upwards of fourteen hundred plumper votes, and to
those electors he returned his sincere thanks He ad-
mitted that the Government had not received thesupport of
the country, but he assured them that the country would
before long deeply regret that it had not supported the
present Administration, who would have raised the reve-
nue and resources of the country without at all in-
creasing the burden of taxation.

After: a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff, the electors
separated, and the Members afterwards were chaired.

WEXFORD, JULY 10.

ES monde..
Bourne ...
IUNSDALE.
IV. H. Watson, elected.

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TYRONE COUNTY.
Lord Hamilton and the Hon. H. Correy elected.
MONAGHAN COUNTY.
Westenra and Shirley elected without opposition.
QUERN'S COUNTY.
_ _ _

Sir Charles Croce and Hon. T. Vesey elected.
KILKENNY COUNTY.

Hon. P. Butler and George Bryan, Esq., elected.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THIS EV#NINH OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.--liii% Robert Peel's position, over the heads
of his party, reminds us rather strongly of a parrot's, hung
out In his solitary cage ; whose sole solace is self-ap-
plause, intermingled with oblique objurgations at the
vulgar crowds beneath him, and in reply to their upward
jibes. " Pretty Peel I Pretty Peel 1" alternates with "Foul
thief !" or "Foul witch 1" There is an edifying recipro-
city of obliging terms between the leader and his party.
Sir Robert, like his parrot-prototype, is determined
to give his own account of himself, and indignant that
any other should be taken to represent his sentiments.
He is imperturbable in his self-ascriptions ; and not by
any means particular in the phrases with which he re-
quites the tokens of from the Tory rabble. " Some
t'arcttiond" waving an Orange flag is not forgotten by
those concerned ; and the Standard is justly anxious
to have a large and thorough Tory majority to keep a
chief in order who has that way of talking of its prin
ciples. In the mean time, Sir Robert Peel continues
his solo of self-approval. " The principles I will ad-
here to," he says, " whether in opposition or in
power, are in perfect conformity with the prevail-
ing good sense, with the moderation, and with the
intelligence of the great body of the people of England."
It is a good deal to say for one's own principles, that
they are in perfect conformity with good sense, and mo-
deration and intelligence. The assumption of these is
softened by ascribing the same qualities to " the great
body of the people." Everybody who agrees with Sir
Robert Peel may henceforth rest satisfied that his
views are in perfect conformity with good sense, mode-
ration, and intelligence ; and it will save a world of
trouble to the good folks who have not many views of '
any sort, to take Sir Robert Peel's upon trust, as
the Right Hon. Baronet assures them that in so doing,
they will be sure to adhere to good sense, moderation, and
intelligence. They will also be saved the trouble of com-
paring those views with others, or weighing them too scru-
pulously on their own independent merits, as Sir R. Peel
studiously avoids subjecting them to comparisons (which
are proverbially odious) by too explicit and distinct state-
ments of them. In this, too, he has attained the parrot's art
of speaking without committing himself, and obtaining cre-
dit for " thinking the more" on points where he chooses to
say nothing. The British Critic has justly exposed the
offensive egotism of all this Peelotry. But perhnps it hardly
gives credit enough to the policy which suggests it.
That policy is one which is always, in a certain sense
and degree, successful. Every clever man surrounded
by foils for contrast—let his cause be bad, and his
party worse, and his relations with that party distasteful
mutually—can secure the suffrage of a large and good
easy part of the public, by ,making a skilful use of all
his manifold disadvantages, turning " his diseases to
commodity," and raising himself at the expense of his
party, and at the sacrifice of i:s prospects, or of its prede-
lections. The Standard is perfectly right in supposing
such a condition of its party possible, that the best thingits
leader can do for it is to betray its interests, while govern-
ing in its name ! We only differ from the Standard, in
believing that state of things real, not hypothetical. And
the conclusion we draw is, that' as it its party cannot,
in effect, at present govern at all, it would have continued
more wisely to acquiesce in the part of an Opposition.
COURIER—The querulous curiosity of the, Whig-
Radical press, as well as of Whig-Radical speakers, as to
the principles on which Sir Robert Peel is to conduct
his Government, and the measures which he is pre-
pared to propose for the alleviation or cure of the present
difficulties of the country is sufficiently amusing, al,
though more hypocritical and affected than real. Above
all they pretend to be most in the dark, or mast
puzzled, as to the mode in which he may deal with that
deplorable deficiency in the Treasury, which is the na-
tural climax of the foreign wars and financial waste
of the last ten years. In order to obtain a clue to
the enigma we are treated day by day with different
conjectures, or bold assumptions of facts, each varying
from the other, in order to provoke contradiction in some
quarter and to give a handle for attack. Thus one day
we have the Ministerial writers gloating over the sinis-
ter assurance that the first act of the Conservative Mi-
nister must be the imposition of fresh taxes to step
the Whig treasury gap ; whilst the next we are as
confidently reminded that his 'only remedy for the
provision of wanting, ways and means must be by
the levy of loans, or issue of Exchequer bills, and in-
crease of the national debt. The example of the pre-
sent provisional Government may be quoted in favour
of both these courses, for they have both imposed new
taxes and multiplied "deficiency bills," and, singularly
enough, both at the same time, so as more expe-
ditiously to burn out the Treasury taper by light-
ing it at both ends at once. The case of
the Whig-Radical ridden country is no doubt deplorable
enough, yat we do not opine it past the skill and mas-
tery of Sir Robert, who is not the man to apply despe-
rate and doubtful remedies upon the kill or cure-all sys-
tem of Whiff-Radical quackery, whilst the regular re-
sources and combinations of art, which to all but lerrned
and able practitioners are a sealed book, remain still un-
tried or unexhausted. Before he shall decide upon his
remedial resolves in last resort indeed, he will have to
ascertain the causes of disease by a searching inve.,ti-
gat
fANDARD,---And now that the battle has been
won, we must submit that a little discretion end a little
patience in our victorious host will be necessary to secure
all the fruits of victory. Already we have demands
made for some explicit declaration of. his purpose upon
certain points upon Sir Robert Peel. Sir Robert Peel
being at present neither more no less than the
bightopes of the country I I onou ra,blien
tryM ember for Tamworth, and,
although questionless the statesman upon whom the
h
Members of the House rest,o f
surely
isthe
going something' too fast. The Ministers are as yet
to be put out of office, and from all that has been seen
of 'them, it is not unreasonable to expect that they'
will make a hard struggle befOre they can be ejecte4.
It must be obvious, however, to every one, that by
ring, as it were, a programnie of his ptan of govern-
meal sir Robert reel would fuimish these meu with.