The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1847.

Fur fifteen years Liskeard has been faithfully
represented in Parliament by Mr. CIIARLES BULLER ;
a seventh time has that Right Honourable Gentleman
been returned by the constituents as a burgess in the
Legislative Chamber at Westminster. It is always
gratifying to observe this reciprocation of confidence
and attachment between the enfranchised members of
the community and the popular nominees. It is an
evidence that public services, performed with the in-
telligence, the assiduity, and the inexorable consis-
tency which have throughout characterised the Par-
liamentary career of Mr. CLIARLES BULLER, can be
appreciated and acknowledged. It infuses a degree
of enthusiasm into the operations of Government
such as would be otherwise unattainable, and consti-
tutes the most salutary antithesis to the old and
partially exploded system of boroughmongering.
What Old Sarum and Gattori were to the
unconstitutional elections of the last generation,
such places as Finsbury and Liskeard have become
wider the Reformed Parliaments returned since the
passage of the glorious measure of GREY and
RUSSELL, The former were as much disgraced by
the corrupt principles prevalent among the pocket
constituencies, as the latter are entitled to admiration
for their unbending independence and for the staunch
and cordial reliance reposed by them in their patri-
otic and distinguished representatives.

In consequence of the recent retirement of Mr.
CHARLES BULLER from the office of Judge-Advocate-
General and his appointment as Chief Commissioner
of the Poor-laws in the different shires of
England and Wales, he has again ap-
peared as a candidate before his political
supporters, and has again received an evidence
of their satisfaction by his unanimous and uncontested
election on Tuesday. Of all the more accomplished
Liberals in the House of Commons not one has more
entirely merited for himself such tokens of confidence
On the part of a constituency as the late Judge-Ad-
vocate-General. The remarkable abilities evinced
by him not merely in the discharge of the duties con-
nected with that part of the Administration, and pre-
viously in his position as Secretary to the Board of
Control, under the Cabinet of Lord MELBOURNE, but
also in his individual character as a debater in St.
Stephen's, have acquired for him the con-
sideration of the 285 electors of Liskeard,
and of the Liberal population of the United
Kingdom. The evenness of temper displayed by him
amidst all the turbulent passions excited by discus-
sion ; the pertinacity with which he has for sixteen
years advocated the principles of civil liberty and
religious tolerance ; the industry with which he has
invariably discharged the duties devolving upon him
from his official rank ; and the earnest anxiety shown
by him to fulfil the responsibilities connected with his
Particular post in the Administration, have con-
firmed the anticiP ations raised by him when chief secre-
tary to the Earl of
Governor
ofD DURHAM during his colonial
labours as
Beyond this, it is
not unworthy
of remark that the Chief Commissioner
of the Poor-laws can be numberedi among not the
it
least distinguished of themembers of this
most literary Administration. literary
ca but good-
humoured
sarcasm -which imparted certainautefloor of the
ic
relish to
the speeches delivered by him from th s
House, has been occasionally detected among
the
contributions to the Edinburgh. It has ever
consti-
tuted the salt of his criticism, whether in literature
or legislation.
After the complimentary expressions usually in-
dulged in by successful candidates, the most interest-
ing remarks made to the electors by Mr. CHARLES
BULLER, on the occasion of his return on Tuesday,
were those which had immediate reference to the
Irish Coercion Bill just introduced by the Govern-
ment. Remembering that the Right Hon. Gentle-
man has hitherto been numbered amongst the most
strenuous opponents to any measures of a co:--rcive
nature in regard to Ireland, and that he proved espe-
cially antagonistic to the Bill which led to the expul-
sion of Sir ROBERT PEEL and his colleagues from office
in 18467 it became a matter of curiosity to