The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-26 00:00:00

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LONDON:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1840.

The Tories have begun to find out that the
Livery of London are not to be so easily duped as
they supposed. A Correspondent of the Times has
met with several Liverymen who will vote for Al-
dermen HARMER. That Journal, in its leader,
prepares for a defeat, by acknowledging that it may
be mistaken. But the most favourable signs are
the zeal of the Alderman's friends in all quarters,
of which our Journal contains the proofs, and the
quarrels of his opponents. The Standard an-
nounced Mr. Alderman PIRIE as the man for the
Tories ; the Post explained that to appoint him
Mayor would be no punishment to Alderman
HARMER, and insisted on the necessity
of electing Mr. Alderman THOMAS Jo FIN.-
sort. Last night the Standard acknowledged
its errors, but affirms that Mr. JOHNSON has " de-
clined to stand," and that" Mr. PIRIE will no doubt
be elected." Mr. JOHNSON, therefore, will not
suffer himself to be made the tool of Tory spite ; he
declines to be a party to displacing Mr. HARMER,
and till we are assured on far better authority than
that of the Standard that Mr. PIRIE has lent him-
self to the dirty intrigue, we shall not believe that
he will willingly allow himself to be put in nomina-

Nor do we believe that any Alderman will assist
the schemers by openly lending them his counte-
nance. The Court of Aldermen is notoriously
Conservative. The Standard states that by usage
they,would be bound to select the Alderman who
stands first in rotation, and they will be slow to depart
from this usage, without some substantial and grave
cause. If they set aside Mr. HARMER on ac-
count of his political and religious opinions, they
will make the annual election of the Lord Mayor
henceforth a party squabble, and expose themselves
to the expense and the hazard of a contest every
year. They are now sure of their election when
their turn comes ; but once let them depart from
this principle, and not only will the election of each
man be disputed, but it will be impossible to fore-
see what other changes the one great change pro-
posed will introduce. For Conservatives to begin
a disorganising policy, is contrary to all principle ;
and we do not believe that a single member of
the Court of Aldermen will lend himself to the
scampish tricks of the ci-devant revolutionary
Times. That Journal lives in battles, and would
readily serve its own temporary purposes at the exe
pence of the privileges of the City.
We will further remind the Aldermen, that it is
proposed to set Mr. HARMER aside because the
Tories are not satisfied with the mode in which he
gets his income. Will the Aldermen, then, coun-
tenance the principle of an inquisition into every
Alderman's trading transactions, as a. preliminary
to elevating him to the civic chair? 'We makenO
question of ;their
siio!iFsty, but amongst
stationers, bargemen, wa;L-chandlers,_ earthenweee.:l
men, &e., there may be many transactions which`
an envious enemy might place before the public in
a very invidious light. He is no friend therefore,
they may rely on it, to the happiness of the Alder-
men, and the peace of the City, who advises them
to depart from the custom of total' -n.
The Times of yesterday quoteu the case of Sir
MATTHEW BLOXAM who Haas passed over, as a
justification of passing over Mr. HARMER. But
Sir MATTHEW BLOXAM was, we believe, when
his turn came, an uncertificated bankrupt,' and
therefore, by the laws of the City, ineligible. . He
was set aside, too, if our memory serves us,
by his own consent, or, he made no effort to
be elected. That case, therefore, is quite inappli-
cable to the present case. Examples of Aldermen
passed over by their own consent are abundant, but
they do not justify setting aside Mr. HARMER, who
is willing and able to serve. •
We must now expose some of the false state-
ments which the Times again yesterday directed
against iVIr. HARMER. It began by describing
Mr. HARMER as " seeking" to be elected. He does
not seek to be elected : the honour comes to burn in
due course : it is a customary right, and his reward
for serving the subordinate offices of the city, and
of that right the Times and its allies seek to deprive
him. That is lialsehood number one. "He has
withheld loyalty from his Sovereign." When and
where ? The only answer the Times vouchsafes is,
that a person who writes in the Dispatch propounds,
doctrines and opinions which another person, who
writes in the Times, finds it at at present prudent
or profitable to disapprove of. Not an instance is
quoted of Mr. HARMER having neglected any one
duty of a good subject, a good citizen, and a good
Magistrate. That Mr. HARMER has withheld
loyalty from his Sovereign is falshood number two.
In order to point a sentence, the Times g0.:3 on
to say, that " Mr. HARMER has withheld
worship from his Gon." If that were true,
and no man can know its truth, for Mr. HAR-
MER may in his inmost heart, and at all times,
and in every action of his life, worship his GOD
in spirit and in truth, without giving to a single
human being, except in his conduct, the evidence,
of his worship—if that charge were true, it is
of a bigoted Dominican to make
it worthy
in
aonyplublic Paper. But it is not true ;
the Editor of the Times cannot know it to be
true, and this is falsehood number three. These
three palpable falsehoods are contained in
one article ; and the last, as far as the
wording goes, well-pointed calumny, is a disgrace
even to the Times. We know nothing to equal
it, except the story told of Mr. -HENRY HUNT.
He was addressing, according to the report, a mob,
at the Bristol election, who were clamorous in their
applause. They were all his friends. An oppo-
nent appeared who narrated a scene of Mr.
HUNT'S life, the knowledge of which might pre-
judice his cause. He could not deny the fact, nor
could he at first silence his opponent. After a
little reflection he hit on the expedient of de-
claring that his opponent was a—. The word
caught the ear of the mob ; their indignation was
roused, and the opponent scarcely escaped with his
life. Like Mr. HENRY HUNT, the Times seeks to
give Mr. HARMER an odious nickname. It de-
clares that he has withheld " loyalty from his So-
vereign and worship from his GOD ;" and the fool-
ish mob who follow the Times, run with foul-
mouthed indignation, like the Bristol mob, to ex-
tineuish Mr. Alderman HARMER. They will not
succeed. The exertions of his friends, and the
feuds amongst his opponents will ensure his suc-

cess.

It appears, by Captain liossoN's proclama-
tions, which we publish elsewhere, that her MA-