The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-29 00:00:00

(Cries of " No, no.") He was glad to hear what the
Hon. Gentleman had said, because he thought it was
a prat:lice that could not be too severely reprobated.
After a few words from Mr. E. WILMOT, the
amendment was withdrawn.

(LEFT SITTING.)

SPIRIT of the PLIBLa2—JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP THIS EAT.

(From the Globe.)
The speech of the Hon. E. J. Stanley has excited
more than the usual quantity of rancour in the jout nals
whose vocation it is to vituperate and misrepresent
every Member and act of the Government. In the
prosecution of their allotted task these unscrupulous
assailants not unfrequently damage the cause they
mean to serve, and, by admissions and unguarded
assertions, the effect of which passion prevents them
from perceiving, level heavier blows on their own party
than any they can infiit:t on their opponents. Mr. S'an-
ley, in referring to the comparative claims of the Whigs
and Tories, stated the notorious fact, that no one great
measure for the amelioration of the institutions of the
country had passed in Parliament during the last forty
years, which did not bear on its front the advocacy of
the Whigs and the opposition of the Tories—
" Had not the Tories," 31r. tanley asked, " for forty
years unlimited sway in Parham ant, the command both of
the House of Lords and of the Sovereign, and no opposi-
tion in the House of Commons, which could prevent them
from passing any measures which they thought fit? And
yet to what page of the statute book can you turn to find
one good deed which they have done, to discover one
enactment which they have passed for the amelioration of
the institutions of the country, for the promotion of civil
or religion liberty, for reforming the abuses, or improving
the condition of the country ?"
What miserable ignorance! What base ingratitude !
exclaims a Tory annotator. Nothing, indeed! Do you
call it nothing, that during those forty years of undis-
puted power we did not abolish the constitution, sweep
away the nuisance of a representative government, lock
up the House of Commons, gag, the press, and, in a word,
imitate the conduct of our illustrious and well-beloved
Cousin and Councillor, Ernest, by the Divine permis-
sion; King of Hanover! There is a cool effrontery
about such claims on public gratitude which is,quite
amusing.

(From the Standard.)
We congratulate the country upon the satisfactory
working of Sir Robert Peel's election trial law ; and
our congratulation is not one jot the less hearty or sin-
cere because the case that suggests it is one in which the
Conservative cause sustains the temporary loss of a vote.
Our party can afford such a loss without injury, and
the prospective good of an honest and uncorrupt
mode of election will repay it in the end, and that
end is not distant, a thousand-fold—if future com-
mittees imitate those of Leidlow and Cambridge.
This is the proper substitute for the ballot. Let
gentlemen be once assured that in practising
bribery or treating, IN heater as candidates or par-
tisans, they are throwing away their money, and
with a certainty of defeating their cherished object,
and bribery and treating will be at an end. The
ballot, as the example of the United States proves,
would not produce this effect. A rigorous admi-
nistration of the law cannot fail of it, and therefore
we hail, with a gratification which we must again
repeat, the decision of the Cambridge Committee. The
decision of that Committee wa-s severe, we admit, that the
law was urged to ts very limits, when Mr. Manners Sut-
ton, confessedly guiltless in his own person, was deprived
of his seat, as the penalty of the indiscretion of a few
over-zealous friends. The law, too, was enforced with
extreme rigour, when the moderate entertainment
of a few electors after they had polled, was con-
strued as bribery and treating. Such attentions
certainly do not satisfy the proper definition of bribery,
—" inuneribus illicitari," which supposes that some
gift or promise of a gift precedes the act held to be in-
fluenced by it. And treating we have ever understood
to describe that riotous entertainment anterior to the
poll which operates either directly as bribery, or sends
men irrational and inflamed to the hustings. Nothing
in the shape of such bribery or treating was proved
against the Conservative party at the Cambridge elec-
tion--the decision of the Committee was therefore

severe.

(From the Courier.)
The triumph of Conservatism in Lambeth, a parish
which has been so grossly abused by the Radicals as
to excite general indignation, is, in point of fact,
a triumph of loyalty over republicanism, of religion
over infidelity, and of humanity over the brutal
system of what is misnamed relief to the poor.
Hitherto, the respectable inhabitants of this large
and populous district have been subjected to the
coarse and violent rule of a low set of 'demagogues,
who, without the requisite talent to enable them to con-
duct the affairs of a community, and destitute of the
influence which might be available to the public
good, have. contrived to usurp the stations for
which they are eminently unqualified. Lambeth,
Eke IVlarylebone, presents a striking illustration of
the working of the popular system of representation.
Whatever has been useful to morals or govern-
ment has there been in disfavour ; the Church
has been defrauded of its legal rights, and the intoler-
able claims of the political Dissenters most unscrupu-
lously maintained. The placards ostentatiously paraded
by the Radical faction during the contest, and pro-
claiming animosity- to the constitution of the Established
Church, must be, to all just and considerate people,
convincing proofs of the value of the victory obtained by
the repectable and intelligent parishioners.