The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-18 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

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legislate on such a principle ; the principle of re-
presentation, properly and justly carried out, is
equality to all. The giving more or less in repre-
sentation, is in politics what protecting duties are

in commerce—the plunder of some, for the pre-

sumed benefit of others. Yet our Contemporary

adopts a just conclusion, when he advocates " the
voice of the British people, fairly and fully ex-

pressed in the Commons' House of Parliament.
To a majority thus obtained we are ready to defer;
and if it should be enamoured of the superficial
sophistry of a PEEL, and the iniquitous impost
of a bread-tax, why let the country have
the PEEL and the bread-tax that it loves." We
approve of that, because the community has at 110
time, and never can have, a greater security for
any of its rights than the assent and concurrence of
the majority of the population, and we would have

that openly adopted as the principle of our laws.
To this cor.clusion, however, the Globe objects,
and claims for the classes which have leisure and
calmness to study public questions more political
power than those who are busy with their hands,
and are supposed to be hurried away with passion.
It quotes the report of Mr. HICKSON, a Hand-
loom Weaver Commissioner, who appears to have
indited, under that name, a Treatise on Govern-
ment, to prove that universal suffrage would lead
to a variety of noxious laws. That is a mere sup+
position of the Globe and of Mr. HICKSON, while
the fact is that calm and reflecting landlords,
clergy who have little or nothing to do, and men
of letters who make it their business to enforce
the wisdom of those classes, have cursed this land
with a more onerous system of restriction and of
legal extortion than it is possible any system of unia
versal suffrage, in which, of course, the landlords
and the clergy would have their share, could pre-
duce. In fact, while the Globe and Mr. HicKseng•
under the dictates of their fancy, anticipate from
universal suffrage a system of restrictions in favour
of the working or commercial classes, the Leeds
Mercury, reasoning from the same faculty,
tries to
terrify men from demanding and from doing justice
by declaring that to extend the suffrage would alasthe power of the landlords predominant. Both these
fancies cannot be true ; we believe that neither is;
and we are sure that our present system is,
for the
bulk of the people, a complete and total denial ;
justice, now pregnant with the greatest danger'
the present Houses of Parliament would do justice
.
to the community we should not desire a change 'II
representation ; but their hardened perseverance in
a great and settled scheme, openly and avowedly to
plunder all the bread-eaters by law for the advantage
of one class, their deliberate organisation and delibee
rate sanction of a system of legal fraud, ending in tb
starvation of many thousands, and their denial, vallti.;
e.ni
asked, of all redress, have begun to make a mu
tude of persons, and ourselves amongst them, thin
the wildest system of universal suffrage that ever
was broached could not possibly be
so injurious to
phy
public morality, or so ruinous to the . • 1 wel-
faresea of the people, as the present or any similar
plan of limited and class representation. Without
being aware, or even pretending to conjecture, what
would actually be the results of universal suf
frage, we are convinced, from what takes place in the
United States, that it never could produce so much
misery to the bulk of the people as is now inflicte
ic
d
on them by laws made by our select and aristocrat
Government.

Hanover, about which so much was said eighteen
months ago, had passed completely into ob
li.
vion, when the Times yesterday, apparently for
of a u
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friend theics—reviv Kingedhe
therec ollection of our
of HANOVER and his kingdom, by a long leader
on the election tricks of the KING'S friends.
When the subject was formerly before the public
though unfortunately it never excited much
interest, one of the charges made against King
ERNEST and his Ministers was that they
had tampered with the freedom of election, and by
the influence of the Court compelled the Court
tradesman to vote for the Court candidate. Ai
that time the KING'S friends denied it, and treated
the charge with scorn, as something so much be.
neath his dignity, and the dignity of his Ministers,
that it could not possibly be true. The Times,
however, has now obtained, from a work published
at Jena by Dr. STUVE, in defence of the Magis-
trates of Hanover, a new light on the subject, and
the article which yesterday revived the recollection
of Hanover adopted the conclusion that KING Ea..
NEST'S Ministers had most unwarrantably tampered
uwoi with
r ; and threatened retaotemneackle sooumt a some
out
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VON DURING, a particular friendg The Times now admits and states that General
ERNEST, M. VON MALORTIE, his great butler,
Herr VON STEINBERG, the Captain of the Palace
(Schlosshauptman), did all severally soIicLANGE,
it votes
from the KING'S tradesmen, such as M.
the Court baker, M. W. AGNER, the Court hatter,
and a great number of other persons directly
or indirectly connected with the Court, and threaten
them with dismissal ors unishment, or loss of their
business, if they vote for the candidate of whom
the KING did not approve. To obtain such an
admission from the Times, the patron eighteen
months ago of KING ERNEST, and of his tyranny,
is of great public importance. It fully justifies
that opposition to his Government which the Ma-
gistrates and Deputies so nobly set on foot, thong h
the people were much too tame to suppOrt
them. But the Times probably has an obect in
view in now making this admission. It haj been
stated in Germany more than once that King
ERNEST knew how to ged rid of his tools Ater he
had used them. Is, then, the blame which the Yirnes
now casts on Herr VON SCHELE, Herr VON, Mit°
LORTIE, General VON DURING, and oche 11, the
forerunner of their dismissal ? They have . done
the KING'S dirty work, and new they are to be
first disgraced, by being convicted of having done
it, and then dismissed. So may the tools of ty ran"
be always served.

The French Journals of Wednesday haft Jill
been received. They are filled, as might be Cl--
pected, with accounts of the funeral of NAPOL,EON►'
of which an ample record appeared in The Soo
of yesterday. The following ludicrous mci dent,
reported by a Correspondent of the Times, is: tom
rich to be confined to the columns of one jour
It occurred at the entrance of the Invalides, az ►d
within sight of the statues of NAPOLEON and. t 1
thirty-two French heroes :
To keep themselves warm the spectators in.,
stands began to dance. The mania gained the etovril
below, and for a long time the troops of the line sad
the National Guards were joining in one general con--
tredanse, or an enormous ronde a la main. This pTe—'
lin►inary orgie, while waiting for the body of the great
hero of their nation, and in the face of the long line of
statues of their greatest warriors, struck us as peculiarly'
French.

Every holy hut the Journalists agreed in pr
nouneing the whole affair a complete failure. E very
the Constitutionnel, which recorded so patheti calif
the wailing of the peasantry of Normandy, is silent
on the subject of the tears which were not shed in
Paris when the coffin of NAPOLEON wr 4s borne
through the midst of it. In pronounch Jg the fu—