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

MORNING

ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED
STATES,

1U THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR—Permit me to enclose to you an acoun
of the effects of a general election in the Unite
States.

As to a Police governing the United States
rs- out of the question ; no army could ; but they re'
quire neither, as they can govern themselves.
While the morals are as sound as they are at
present, and the increased attention be paid to ele'
mentary education, the present system of goveril:
ment will unquestionably continue. During thela'
half century, nearly every Government in ELLOPI
has been revolutionized, yet the Republic has bee'
internally calm and externally energetic.
I attribute that calmness and energy to freed OR
mainly ; this is continued and sustained throtio
the Ballot boxes, I may say the Superintendol'
General. Although I am for some qualificati°''
even in that country, yet, not of property ; theilaw,
already require citizenship, long residence, 80“ 50
thing more is wanting in my opinion than to be re
gistered in towns only.
A CONSTANT READER OF YOUR ',APO

tjALM AFTER THE STORII.—It is surprising l
soon alter the political tempest which has swept °t,
the land, the warring elements are settled into lio
it is true we now and then hear of a congratulat,?rf
k,
dinner or supper, and occasionally a gun is let oUtie
the few last poppings of undisciplined militia, but is b,.01
main the tumult is hushed, and the era of good feed
has returned. Men can now meet a political 0110,
nent without gnashing their teeth upon him. lbe;01
feated party bear their disappointment with a becoel'
equanimity, and the victors their triumph with a goo
degree of moderation.
European nations cannot understand the mystel
e
a great people engaged in political warfare, as if the:
salvation depended upon the issue,—call each °t
all manner of hard names, and working thernscivesup
to a pitch of violence amounting almost to phreoi)eir
and then, when the contest is decided, resumiag tb
wonted calmness and their neighbourly feelings, lisut
nothing had happened. Judging from the excito:l-28
which prevailed two months ago on the subject 01 et,
Presidential election, and which was almost 01,00
sal throughout the country, an observer unaccustwee ye
the peaceful working of our icstitutions, would 0,„
said that whichever way the balance might tull'uij
whichever party might carry the day,—the other Oe
never submit to it, but a revolution, or attempt atrfe
volution, would be the consequence. Possibly if the ti
suit of an election involved the entailment of a 407,
upon the country, which might continue for centur;,;
something of this sort would occur. But as the cst
now stands, it is only for four years at longest, th i
the new Administration is fixed upon the coilot oe
and the defeated party, if honest, of course caleP-ed
that before the expiration of this period, the taw
sense of the people will return, and that everri'reo
will then be placed upon its proper footing. Abebt
democrat, be he Whit or Loco Foco, can never dO,O
the ultimate wisdom of the people. He knows t'o
they are liable to err, but he knows also that
e";
due time they will discover their error and retrid
it. So although he may regret the necessitY of
their learning wisdom by experience, instead ej
receiving it from his own lips, yet he feels 004:0.
that they will learn it ; and this in his judgment.
I°,,y,
rantees the ultimate triumph of his principles acd
We are not here speaking of any one party in !Orb/
cular, but of all parties. Now more than ever t.e
Whigs will assent to the doctrine of the ultimate 11;0
dom of the people. For a long period they have,bepo
endeavouring to convince the nation of the soutO.io
of Whig principles, the necessity of their adopt°olt
high places, and the vast benefits which would let
from it to the country at large ; and behold, tls
have at length succeeded. A majority of the Pe°roo,
are convinced, and have expressed their 401,
viction in a manner too plain to be misunderstood.
titudes who have heretofore acted and voted with tb
00
Jackson-Van Buren party, have come to the
conclusi
that all is not right in the management of our pobl,
affairs. They see on every side the evidences of°o
barrassment and distress ; and as the Whigs say 1„,1,r,
nearly all owing to the measures of the party in P°";00
they are disposed to try what a new Administration
,0
do. They are sure the state of affairs will not be O'ev
b under Whig management, and they hope it will be
/0
ter. They are prepared to continue their adhesioe
the party, in case they are satisfied with its measdrbei
and equally ready to go back to the old ranks if t
find their expectations disappointed.
sret
The new Administration, therefore, comes into P°
under delicate, as well as propitious circumstances. 1,0
political revolution has been effected, and they wh.) ba
given it their sanction, expect to soe the fruits Ole
They expect the new Adtpinistration will avid
curs or the oio, whatever those errors may be, and taarl
out for itself a course in accordance with the best -
terests of the country. Among other things, theY,eiro pect that the price of labour will be enhanced
the labourer, but not to the employer ; that agrieull;
ral produce will bear higher prices to the farmer bud
not to the consumer ; that commerce will revive and d°
risk, but that there will be no over
; the real -:
tate will look up, but that there will be no speculati°l/1;
that the banks will be restored to soundness, altb°4
the natioaal government has no control over any en,,e,,001
t
them ; that the revenue will be increased, but
any increase of the Tariff ; that the expenses of the 'Ol
vernment will be diminished, while the navy, the natte'
defences, and all other objects of national importan;t
are fostered and sustained as they deserve. In shi;
they expect impossibilities. Gen. Harrison, we d°.
say, will guide the helm of state with the eye 0f a
statesman ; his administration, we doubt not, will be,
good one ; but to expect, either from this or that
ministration, a cure for all the.ills which flesh is heir to.
is expecting more than will be realised.

HOW TO HAND A NAME DOWN TO • oef
TERITY.—There is now to be seen on a post at the enr.,l
of a street forming in the Faubourg du Temple,
Ncl.ibs
placard with the following notice :—" To be sold,
right of giving a name to this street."
CURIOUS INSTANCE OF LONGEVITY.—..
the 25th of last November there died in a commune "Tre tween Chalon and St. Yrieiz, in France, a cesteO
whose demise presented this remarkable circumstance'
4He was born on the 25th of November
1740, and died o
the 26th of November, 1840, having thus lived exact,/
century and a day.
Extract of a letter, dated from on board 111 e
Princess Charlotte, Marmorice Bay, Dec. 13, 1840 ',,
on
" 1 am sorry to inform you that the Zebra was driven
er
shore and totally wrecked, with the loss of three of
I'l, ~
crew. The Bellerophon was nearly lost, and the
4,1 c
lost her masts. Dreadful weather on the coast. We, tbtri
God, have escaped, but most miraculously ; four aneu°,o
a-head. I never saw worse weather. Wo have
Wl'
sail of the line here, and a host of small craft."
It is calculated that at the Shrewsbury Christlo:
market there were sold in one day 6,000 turkeys, vtbit,
realised the sum of 1,8001. ; 8,000 geese for I,Bo°'
ducks and fowls (couples), 7,000 fur 1,0504 ; making $
grand total of 4,650/. Worcester Journal,
LIABILITY OF PARISHES AS TO E XPOSI
CHILDREN AND DEAD B ODIES, —At an inquisition 11°-
on the Ist ult., at the Gloucester Arms Tavern
Gloucester-road, Kensington, before Mr. Waklelt
M. P., Coroner for the western division of oid;
dlesex, on the body of a male child about the
months old, tst.,su tato been found exposed on •-,,
night of Friday, the 28th Nov., at the gate of the house
No. 14, Maida-hill West, Paddington, and who died in
few ohurs after its removal to the
workhouse of tv-
Kensington Union, a question arose as to the pole:,
of the parish officers of the Board of Guardians
issue advertisements offering a reward for the covery of the inhuman, parents, which has slot
from the Poor-law Commissioners an opinion that "
parish officers have no power to incur any expenses ;;,,, the prosecution of vagrants, and have no duty b.
provide for the burial of a corpse found in the
par r
the Commissioners consider that there is no authority
I°/
their incurring expense in advertising for the discovery °
the person who exposed such child or such corpse. If, i°'
deed, upon any such advertisement the
party were discovere,lr
a prosecution might be instituted, but the Commissioners
not know bow any reimbursement of the expense incurred could be compulsorily obtained from such party.., The re'
suit of the correspondence from which the above is all es'tract, appears to be, that there are no funds whatever aPPi;"
cable to the payment of expenses incurred in the proseew
Lion of persons deserting and exposing their children, eves
should the offence amount to murder, as in the above case,
nor to advertising a description of the child, &c., or offer
ing a reward for the apprehension of the delinquents.
His Excellency General Alava, Lord Grenville
Somerset, and a crowd of fashionables, have visited the
Royal Polytechnic Institution, in Regent street, &nig the present week. The attractions of this place of in:
structive amusement are daily receiving additions, sou'
amongst the novelties that are announced as in prepara-
tion are a new form of railway carriage, which is to be ex-
hibited in the Great Hall, and an ingenious modification of
the powers of the hydro-oxygsn microscope, which by
entirely novel invention can be adapted so as to magnotS#
by reflection, opaque bodies. The first application
of th. le
discovery will be to exhibit the pictures thrown by the,
,
Daguerreotype on metallic plates, which will thus have a"
the effort of a natural panorama, strictly faithful to the ori-
ginal view.

ENGLISHWOMEN IN ITALY.—The English'
women, too, evince a no less warm attachment to the
customs of their native land. Balls, soirees, and tableaux,
a-/a- mode de Londres, are continually given, where may
be seen assembled many of the same faces to be met with
at Almack's every spring ; wearing the same smiles, and
lisping about the fetes of the previous and ensuing weeks
just as they are wont to do at home. In short, men andwc);l°
men endeavour as much as in their power to forget, aP
make others do so too, that they are dwellers in the
" Niobe of nations ;" and though they leave London, take
with them all its luxurious habits and dissipations. It is P
positive tact, that one English lady of fashion proposed to
exclude from her circle any individual who should in COP'
versat'on revert to the works of art or antiquities of ft"le.
—Lady Blessington's Idler in Italy, Vol 111.
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