The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-15 00:00:00

TO THE NON-ELECTORS

No class in the country is so interested in the ap-
proaching contest as you. It is not, as it has usually
been, an election betwixt Whigs and Tories ; it is a con-
test bewixt justice and injustice, betwixt work and no
work, betwixt cheap food and dear food, betwixt low tax
and high tax, betwixt free trade and monopoly, betwixt
the rights of labour and the wrongs-of legislation, be-
twixt honest poverty and ungodly wealth. You have no
votes, but you live near those who have ; you are their
neighbours, their relations, and their customers. You
have a legitimate influence over them ; that is, of reason-
ing with them, persuading and entreating them to vote
fur your interest as well as-their own. The time may
come when 'you will all have votes, and be
Protected in your voting but till that period arrives,
do not throw: away your just influence and madly
side with your adversaries. .The elections in
many places, doubtless, depend upon yo/i. Form your-
siAves into district committees, and at every interval of
leisure be diligent in canvassiug the voters. Is it possi-
ble that when the shopkeepers see your rags and poverty,
and hear your true and mourntul tale- of sufferings ; when
they remember the bad debts they have on their
.books.
arising from bad trade ; and especially when they \knOw
they have principally to live by your order—is it possi-
ble they can vote against you ? In fact, you don't know
your own importance until you try.
With a big loaf and better trade before you, don't be
diverted from your purpose by any common place cry of
" down with the Whigs." , For my part, I care ,not- a
flirt about Whig or Tory ; if Sir Robert Peel had
proposed the measures which the Whigs have now brought
forward, I would have supported him as anxiously as
I now support them. Don't be misled by the cry of
" New Poor-law.", I hate the New Poor-law, -and I
want the people to be independent of poor-laws alto-
gather. But I will never support that monopoly party
which creates poverty by wholesale, and then says,
" You shall have a rural workhouse, instead Of a union
bastile, and a plateful, of paupers' porridge„instead
so many ounces. -You must assist in removing Poi:erty
altogether from the habitations of the people. I say
don't be diverted by any of these catches. While the
battle rages in the field, think of nothing but
heart and hand, the honest army of-repeaters in attack-
ing the vast and combined forces of dcar bread, dear
sugar, and land monopoly. If you do your duty on this
occasion, I doubt not but the vietory will be won.

TUE WEATHER, CROPS, FRUIT, Src.—.---Up
to this time the month of Jima has hardly been so propi-
tious as May was The weather has been very cold, and
on Friday We had -something like a storm. Altogether.
however, the weather is good, the only. complaint being.
drought, and this will certainly , be hurtful to the grast
crop if we do not get ram immediately. The ground,
however, has been put in admirable condition for receiv-
ing the turnip seed, and the cold has seemingly not pre.
vented fruit from advancing with great rapidity. co far
'back as Saturday last, we were favoured at this office with
a beautiful and delicious bunch of fully ripe Mayduke
cherries. These w,ne grown on a wall tree in the garden
of Mr. John Duff, at Kinninmont. No more • than the-
ordinary care was taken of them, • . and they were quite
exposed. On 21101111 y: we had a similar present from Islll,
:Dingwall, saddler here. All this shows..4gleat mildness
of the season,—Fife Herald. . . .

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
r THE DAILY PAPERS did' YESTERDAY. •
C RONICLE.—We insert to-day Lord John !Russell's
straight-forward and manly address to the electors o? the City
of London. It evinces a frank confidence in the soundness of
-the Ministerial policy, and in the intelligence and principle of
the electoral boeteby which that policy'will now be tre.l. The
City of London will pass judgment on " that kind of taxation
which,
whi.e it 3elds nothing to the Exchequer, presses heavily
upon the people," and decide whether its pressure, already
crippling the energies of commercial enterprise and straitening
the poor in their means of subsistence, shall be continued. There
can be no doubt that the result of the metropolitan contest will
exercise a dec sive influence on this great pi actical question.
No questien of equ.:l magt.i ode and simplicity hes ever before
Fee: presented to this great constituency. It is unembat-
rassed by !crims! considesalions or ninor tot it's. Lord Joha
Russell •aeyears before the electors es the representative of a
system of pshey %het policy which has for its "main object to
increase the comfost, to promote the trade,- and to unchain the.
minify." Oa that policy, the City will be pelted,
ilidustry of the lease at and pervading interests of the com-
ae, or no.
Every man who .does not vote for Lord John -Russell answere -
it in the negative. No mystiflcetions or evasiei a can give any
otter meaning to his vote. He is either for Lord J. lin Rus-
sell, or he is tor e• monopolies injurious to the welfare of the
Uneed KingeleenS" and for new taxes in addition to those rem-
nepoliet. On this point, and on this alone, issue will be joined.
We rejoice in the coming trial. '
POST.—Lead John Rugsell has acceded to the requisition
of the sycophants of aristocracy who incited him to come for-
wa:d as a candidate for the representation of the City of Lon-
don. This can excite, no surprise, for, in tru.ll, Lord John,
had not the servie portion of the citizens • of London offered
him the base homage of their votes, would have eii at a loss
where to look fqr a scat in the. next House of Commons, and
must at once. have d recourse to one of the family boroughs
of the House ofelledford. Lord John iS spared this humiliation
for a moments and for a moment .only, by the requisition of.
the toad-eating c'eraocrats of the City of London, who have
thus shown themselves to bear the same resemblance to
gen &tie and 'nfiWlleamerats -that. ett;tt' kar men.
AV hat :4Ypatiry.. or respect. tol6rds *Lord John Rus-
e 11 can he • felt by the hottest and straightfor-
ward citizens .of Loudon -of einy party ? Do they not
recollect hen as the Minister who treated their corpo-
ration with studied ccntempt in the business transaction
le hating to the bell-ling of the Royal Exchange ? Do they not
know him for the tyrant, upon whose motion their Sheriffs,
no longer than a year ago, were unjustly sent to gaol? Will
the citizens of London accept for one of their Members a man
who has thus acted, and whose only further recemmendatinn
is that of having been spurned by every one of the numerous
constituencies lie has successively repress nted ? Lord John
Russell deserves no corxmisseration from us; but we sincerely
pity bins nevertheless. He has been. fraudulently lured. to a
step which must end in his hitter mortification, by a body of
persons of small weight or authority in the City, the object of
some of them being merely the mean pne 9f flattering a Lord,
and that of others to create an excitement, by the novelty of
a real Lord as a candidate at Guildhall, under favour of Which
the insignificance into which they know their party to have
fallen, may for some time longer be concealed.
HERALD.—Let the Livery of Lotichen only return Lord
John Russell to Parliament as their representative and they
will soon find out the true extent a, d natu.e of their obligatiens
to him. He is backed, ridden, surrounded by a clique, who
are the sworn and avowed champions of " free trade." Ilese
men, in pursuit of the abstract principle of such a system of
things, would sacrifice to-morrow the " mere" individual
"local" interests of the port.of London, or of the ceiporation of
London—of its trade in coals, of its trade in sugars, in shipping
—or in any commodity or merchandise, in short, that can be
named, with no more compunction than - Lord John Russell
howled down the boroughs in schedule A, or Mr. Poulett
Thompson knocked such protective statutes as the " trade and
navigation " laws upon the head. Shall we he asked to. When
or to what would Lord John Russell be prepared to surrender
such extensive communities, with all the capital, investments,
'and engagemen s connected with them? Why—to the "pre-
tailing interests," to be sure, of that very free trade!
TIMES.—Of the general result of the pcoding election no
svell4nformed persen, be he Ministeeialist or Conservative,
seems to entertain the smallest doubt.. , Men naturally differ,
as their wishes or fears predominate, as to the extent of the
loss which the Whigs and Radicals nay expect to sustain, but
cone whose judgment is of any value seem to feel the least he-
ae to the, certainty of a Conservative gain. lu a
northern joui nal, in the interest of the Government, which a
day or two since fell into our hands, a London correspondent,
professing to be intimately acquainted with the views of the
elinistry, says, that " out of 144 English county Members,
Ministers do not feel themselves safe of more than twelve."
In the present House they have Arty. So that here alone
would be a werkieg majority for Sir R. Peel, where no other
change to take place. But in the boroughs also a eonsiderable
acce sion of strength to the Conservatives may be looked for.
In the metropolis the Whigs and*Raeicale have, at present, all
the seats but tutu. In the erasing elections, the Conservatives
will start at least eieht or ten candidates,' and are 'not likely to
realise fester thsn six seats. And so of the larger towns.
They are now contesting Manchester. Leeds, Bradford, Sal-
ford, and Roel.dale, and prokably Will' start candidates in
Sheffield and Birmingham also. In none of these have they
at present a single Member. .Even to gain three or four seats
out of the whole will be a great advance, especially as the
-smaller towns are rapidly becoming. Conservative. , In such
places as W combe, Butkingliam, Newark, Bury St. Ede
• mund's, Reading, it is tolerably certain that there Will he
a very decided change. The prospect, then, is encouraging.
cello
cleief hope o( Ihe.l)7ltigs..steras to. be placed, not in their
p.bihty to keep Sir Robert Peel out of power, but in the diffi-
eulties which they predict will surround him on his entering
upon office.
AD V ER T S —Monopoly or no monopoly? This is the
'question. Cla sea enriched and aggrandised at the public ex-
-pew will, no-doubt, array themselves. against measures de-
signed to admit all parties to free end unaided competition.
But the electors of London must bear rn mind that all duties
operating for the proteeiion of classes;, and not -for the public
revenue, Are sheer loss to the State—an exaction of money
without an equivalent.. Such are the Corn and Sugar Duties.
The landlords magnify their rent-roll by one,'the favoured
sugar-growers their profits by the other.; .but we defy the-most
ingenious casuist to point out a single advantage which the com-
munity derives from the system. It is, in fact, nothing less than
the desecration of legal authority to the perpetration of fraud.
It is not a party struggle in which the nation is about to en-
gage,
it is a struggle tor its very existence. Our commerce,
our caritas, our skill are daily migrating to ether lands; and
beingttnll4-in;tiVe4nitneneitites of otrr4ratle, aetnelly
depress it, by the increased facilities of competition to which
a foreign soil affords them access. Nor is thewound thus in-
flicted the less fatal in consequence of the feather of the shaft
which inflicts it hat ing been drawn from our own bosom. This
indeed serves rather to give a keener pang to our suffering.
There is no need of politico-economical disquisition to exhibit
the bearings of.. the present question,,,which, expressed in its
undisguised' end appalling enotinity, it 'simply " Shall we or
shall we not have lawsto secure the perpetuity of scarcity and
starvation?' •
GLOBE—The Tory newspapers are already ",count-
ing the gains" that they expect will accrue to their party
from the ensuing election ; and the . Times-quotes the
anonymous London correspondent of an unnamed
northern journal as an authority for, the fact that " Mi-
nisters do not feel themselves safe 'of more than 12 out
of 144 of the English county menibers." Who may
be the illustrious individual that, • while enjoying the
fullest - confidence- of the Cabinet, thinks it not
beneath his dignity- to act as London reporter to
a . country print, -it is of course impossible to
guess ; but, whoever he may be, it is quite evident that
the intimacyof Pell, the Portugab-street attorney, with
the Lord Clancellor, as recorded In Pickwick, was
mere formality, coldness, and reserve, as compared a
i
with the perfect unbosoming that appears to take
place between the penny7a-line IV/fiche of t!-:e north-
ern print and the whole •of her Majesty's Ministers.
He is evidently acquainted not only with all they
say, and with all they think, -but with al they do
not say, and with all they have -never thought about.
The utter annihilation- to the Whigs that the Con-
servative organs are on all sides threatening, reminds
one forcibly of the magniloquent 'denunciations which
the Chinese are accustomed to hurl upon their foes on
the eve of a contest ; but fortunately the battle itself,
and -not the proclamations that precede it, must decide
the victory. If the Times is, to be :believed the Minis-
ters are merely cutting their own threats- by a dissolu-
tion—=o certain is the increase of force "that the Con-
servative party is about to acquife tr• and counties, bo-
roughs, and cities are comfortablytTut 'down as'" sure'
by the Tory organs, who appear wholly oblivious ef
the disappointment that may arise from the practice of
prematurely counting chickens before going through the
necessary preliminary process of ~late ring them.. But
there is evidence that the confidence. which flows so freely
from the pen is not felt in the heart ; and as the Coward
often talks the loudest when he is the most afraid, so the
rude throat of the brazen trumpet of the Times may be
put into requisition merely that its inflated blast may
sound the hollow note of victory. 'r- While inwards the
Tories treat failure as impossible,' . their acts proclaim
success to be nearly desperate, for :they are resorting to
the worn-out agitation 'on the Poor4aw, as the only
ground on which anything like a faVourable position can
betaken up for meeting their 'antagonists.
COURIER.—It is not probable that Sir Robert Peel,.
who has already taken his stand, 4114 so far made such
:commendable progress, in mitigating. the-harsh and un-
•christian provisions of the new Poor-law- Continuance
Bill, withdrawn for the present, will relax in his noble
undertaking, either as Minister or Member in a new Par-
lament, until he has drawn all the ferociims fangs of that
odious measure, and reconstructed at poor law which shall
equally guard against a recurrence of those abuses under
the old system so designedly exaggerated by interested
place-hunters, and of that reckless and- deliberate op-
pression of.the poor, which is the all-pervading and only
principle of the new. We feel ourselves entitled to
their faith
of Sir Robert
re-
cord these our own convictions, Consistently arrived at
as they are, after calm consideration of facts, as the
people are., fully warranted,. from experience• of the
cihnoi o
anidi
Nevertheless, t 1
eaivv
aro apeilotLsoleatillnt ii,imeit,lps
placing
them that toil for
themselves, so we would call upon-. the people to put
forth their strength in their own behalf, as the best as-
surance for the continued zeal of old friends and the
conversion of new ; for unless the•onstifinional leader,
as well as those ConserVative Members arrayed ..under
his banner are fully upheld by the general expression of
popular opinions at the hustings and during the approach-
RadicaLdependents, world
not
fail til\presume upOn pop u
approach-
ing elections, they might be justly. led to hesitate in
carrying out :those searching reforms of Poor-liiws to
thmes.s.eeixirnwtitwhhhicilst
Whig- they now ineditatel and Lord '.',Tehn
B lar apathy and remissness fIS
undeniable • evidence of the favourable acceptation in
which the new laws -'e held, of the humane and bzne-
ficial manner in which they have. worked, and, per
se
people, but of turbulent
Chartists and parties with interested Purposes t 6 sub-
serve.. t
‘h-oaitce the
o
was consequence,,
not f the universal, outcry against them
serve. . Let the war cry of ..electora and non,alectOrs
everywhere be, therefore—Down with the New; Poor'-laces.
STANDARD.—For ourselves we ..never had a d(itibt
that the Budget was an extemporary affair,_ and on the
to-..4l:eacet. the.
evelailiteleallyoronol'.vthihceh:Cbl:l44lClUele''S°.t.Sgitet 4eecji to the

:Some clays since the Earl of Mountcashel, while presiding at
f.. 1 the annual meeting of the London Society for the Protection
I of Young Females, related the following extraordinary cir-
cumstaners, which his Lordship stated had reached bins
through a source which c.uld leave no doubt whatever of its
authenticity :—A young, handsome, and accomplished young
lady, of most respectable family connections, residing in the
country, had received a pressing invitation from a lady at
the west end of the metropolis, to come to town ant wend
a few weeks with her. The young lady accepted the
invitation and came to town, where she was received with
great kindness, and treated with great attention. In a short
time after her arrival, the lady who had given her the invita-
tion, took her to a fashionable shop at the west end, and
after looking at various articles, and making some pur-
chases, her friend requested the yostng lady to remain in the
shop for a few minutes while Ort, merely went to the other
side of the street, seeing she would return almost. imme-
diately. The young lady of coutse consented, and her friend
lett the shop, to return, as she supposed, in a few minutes,
hat iu this supposition she was disappointed. After some
considerable time had elapsed, a female, of apparently ac-
complished mariners, address.'d her ; and after stating that
she had observed her anxiety at the absence of her fleetd;
and the awkwardness of her, as a stranger, being left so,
offered her a seat in her carriage, to take her to the house
of her friend. 'I he young lady epreseed her. gretitude for
what site considered to be cetreine kindness, and accepted
the offer. She was then ushered into an elegant car-
riage, with a coachman and .footman in costly. liveries,
and driven away, as she believed, towards the residence of
her friend. Going along, however, she observed she did not
think that the coachman was going in the proper directilin,
but the lady, her ccnductres,, assured her they were ; but at
length the carriage drew up, end her companion assured her
that the coachman must have mistaken her directions, and had
driven to hi r own house instead of that of the young lady'_
ftiend. iShe then requested her to walk ie ler a few mo-
ments, while she gave some directions to her servants,
and was shoe n an apartment, and as soon as she enured the
dour was locked, and there she was kept for some consider-
able time. At length, however, the door open, d, and a gen-
tleman who, he Lord Mouutcashel) was ashamed and sorry
to say, Kai a clergyman belonging to the Church of England,
was admitted to her. 'the übect fer which he was intro-
duced there could be no doubt about, but seine idea might
be forp-ed of his Eharre and niortifieatioA on bcholdina,-.not a
stranger, but a young and virtuous lady, eith Wlime persone
and friends he was very intimately acquainted, and he being
actually the clergyman who had prepared the lady fer con-
firmation. The lady, it wits needless to add, escaped the
dreadful outrage intended to be committed on her ; and though
she had mentioned the facts as he had related them to a led'', a
friend of his (Lori Mounteashe:'s), who repeated them to him,
she had never disclosed the name of the clergyman. In con-
clusion, his Lordship said, he had mentioned this circumstance
in order to show the extraordinary lengths that were gone to to
entrap persons, even in the higher ranks of life, into infamy,
and the necessity on the pate of the members of the Society to
Use the utmost efforts to check them.