The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-25 00:00:00

WALSALL ELEC TJON.

(From Tait's Magazine for February.)
„Limited as is our space, we cannot allow the occa-
sion to elapse, without one word expressive of hearty
satisfaction at the decided movement of the Anti-Corn-
law League. From the attitude the League has as-
sumed, whatever may be the immediate result of the
election—and we anticipate triumph—the most bene-
ficial consequences must arise. The Chartists and
working classes will now be convinced that the mem-
bers of the League are in earnest in the pursuit of
that great object which has been misrepresented as a
trick of the middle classes to divert the people from
those fundamental reforms more necessary to their well-
being ; and those of the Ministry, rho are capable of
serious reflection, must now believe that something
more is required to satisfy the abolitionists than
the hocus-pocus of Open Questions. A proof like this
WAS wanted to carry conviction both to that insensible
Government, who dispatched the unlucky young gentle-
men, at such a crisis, to such a constituency, and to
those misled persons (on this point grossly misled), who
imagine that they have an interest opposed to that of
the Corn-law abolitionists. In the present critically-
balanced state of factions and votes in Parliament, the
Ministerial points are, of course, furious at any step
which may endanger the places of their patrons ;
security in office, " keeping in the Whigs," being the
Alpha and Omega of their desire for the general
wee!. The real Reformers, also, would, in this parti-
cular instance, be doubly grieved and disappointed if
the Tory candidate was returned ; yet even that cala-
mity was tolerable, under the conviction of the advantages
that must result from the step advisedly taken at Walsall,
and which will be repeated as often as a similar crisis
atises. Did the Whigs, when they sent down that
raw young gentleman, believe that the Anti-Corn-law
Association was not sincere in the declarations put
forth, that,` vith them, the repeal of the Lread-tax was
to be the testing question of every candidate? In
these circumstances, the appearance of Mr. Lyttelton
at. Walsall looked like premeditated defiance and in.
suit. It was Lord Melbourne's speeches against repeal
put into action ; and upon every ground of principle,
expediency, and consistency, challenged opposition the
most decided, let the consequences be what they
might. The lesson which this energetic line of con-
duct has taught, will make the Whip more cautious
how they put forth a candidate—fee warded per order—
' whose only claim is aristocratic connection and Trea-
sury influence. It is of those who sent him that
Mr. Lyttelton has to complain, and not of the deputa-
tion of the League, who only performed a duty to
which the League was deliberately pledged, as the Go-
vernment well knew. But both the Ministry and their
tools have been so long accustomed to see every na-
tional object give way to "keeping in the Whigs," that
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towing up of the British Queen by five steam-tugs excited
great interest in the river. One powerful tug was pulling
away ahead, one on each side of the paddle-boxes forward,
and one abaft each paddle-box. The tops of the funnels
of the tugs, good-sized vessels,
were on a level with the
top of the British Queen's paddle-boxes, and they appeared
mere pigmies by her side. Soon after the British Queen
was taken in tow, a revenue cutter, coming upon the lar-
board tack, ran into her. The blow was a sliding one,
and the channel plates of the cutter were carried away.
On her arrival off Messrs. Curling and Young's ship-
building yard, a large steamer moored off the place was
removed to make way for her, and she was hauled into the
dock where she was built, the only one in the kingdom
capable of holding h. r.