The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-19 00:00:00

WICKLOW.

Acton 663
Howard 603
Grattan 563
KERRY COLT'S Tl.—Gross PoLL„TULY 16.
O'Connell
Brown 451
Blenerhassett 370
Hickson.... 53

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TIIE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle gives the
this day as its summary of- the result of the ele2-

Lio!is
The Members returned up to twelve o'clock lw t
night were—

Reformers.
176
22
57
30

English Boroughs
English Counties
Ireland
Scotland

Tories.
166
137
43
22

Total 285 363
Tha Reformers have gained 37 seats, one of which
Welch county, and three in Scotch counties ; and
the Tories have gained 78 seats, of which 23 are in Eng-
Counties, four in Scotch counties, and five in Irish
collnties: There are now only five Members to be re-
one from a Scotch county, and four from Irish
n ties."

rhis, it is to be remembered, is the calculation of a
:Ministerial journalist, of a journalist, too, who but a few
(LT; since predicted that the Conservative 'majority
would be nil, or very. small. There can be no reason,
herefore, for supposing that it overrates the Conserva-
tiv,i victory ; but there is every ground for believing that
i-Lt victory is consklerably underrated ; arid such is the

•
t!lyt. However, we are contented to accept the calcula-
• t.:•m as it is given. This calculation gives a majority of
ii-s than eighty-three to the Conservative party
upon 653 returns—a majority which cannot possibly
be reduced below seventy-eight though- all the five
remaining returns should prove adverse. There is,
ho‘‘ ever, no reason for supposing that such will be
the. 'ase, and in any event as respects these five.
• retin•lls, the Conservative majority must exceed ninety
hm all the petitions promised shall have been
disposed of. The Conservative majority will be, as
we believe, more than ninety ; our adversaries confess
that in any event it cannot be less than seventy-eight
a majority, we own, exceeding by nearly twenty that
upon which we counted, and one that plainly con-
tetrads with wonder the defeated party. This majo-
rity is important beyond the present moment, or the
interest of any existini, party ; it proves beyond all
possibility of doubt the safety of confidence in the
BrKsh people. One of the arguments against Parlia-
mentary Reform was the difficulty which it must op-
pose to the " carrying on of the Government ;" and
ch.trEng the last four or five years we have heard it
rc;rcatedly alleged as an apology for the Whig-Radical
retaining office with majorities of tens, and
fi and threes, an twos, and even in disregard of de-
fc`.., that never again can a Ministry be expected to
coivimand a large majority—such a majority as enabled
Pitt to administer the government with the vigour
which he did administer it. Why, never at any
tuna during his Administration, except perhaps in the
ihit-kest gloom of the French Revolution war—say in
1796,- 1797, 1793—did Mr. Pitt command such a power-
ful majority as is now prepared to support his every way•
aI:4AV.° representative, Sir Robert Peel. It was calcu-•
lated .tkat in Mr. Pitt's time the Treasury could com-
mand rfri less than 120 seats. The number was much
diminished by the operation of retrenchment after
:he close of the war ; but even at the time of the
”using of the Reform Bill the number of Treasury seats
0, -Is; tuted an anomaly and a nuisance, which the nation
~;(1,111d: no longer bear. Lord Grey saved as many of them
„, lie ck,.,11d, and their number may not now exceed 20, all
in the hanlis of the Melbourne Cabinet, of course, at pre-'
:e-rit. It is not then because, numerically, Mr. Pitt's
majorities may have exceeded the present Conservative
ihitjority, that we' are to suppose his government stronger
in the support of Ole people than Sir Robert Peel's ad-
ministration is sure to prove. A majority of 80 to 90
now, is more powerful than a majority of 200 in the
days of Mr. Pitt, or all that we hs.ve heard of the diffi-
.;ialty—indeed, it was called impossibility—of carrying on
Thu Government, ifs-well as all that has been said of the
necessity of small majorities, for the time to come, must
r-o for nothing. The majority which we see is indeed
ihe attestation of the people to their preference for Con-
s 4 rvative principles ; it is the testimony of " the Conser-
ratire democracy." It cannot be ascribed to the influ-
ence of any oligarchy, aristocratical or otherwise. This
wiil be manifest upon a glance at the following statement :
--,-The constituencies of England and Wales, in which
the conservatives hare gained during the late election
TllbCr-
In the Cities and Boroughs* 78,676

In the Counties

145,037-223,713

The constituencies in which the

Whig-Radicals have gained num-

;),..3r :-

Tn the Cities and Boroughs
.1.11 the Counties

31,Yerenee in favour of the Conser-

• atives
" Cardigan and Thetford are not included.
accuracy of this statement cannot be questioned,
and it is decisive of the vast ascendancy.of " the Con-
,: ~.Ltlive democracy." The strength of the Conservative
is, however, no longer denied ; but the curious
,I;-,qwery has been made that this strength must prove
1:11, ito its possessors. The very same journals which,
7)a.-(11,,- more then a week ago, exulted in the assurance
sir Robert Peel could not conduct his Government
Ht.:, a small or even a moderate majority, now, with
,ttmost gravity, affirm that the great majority which
has obtained cannot fail to prove his ruin. Strike
it is impossible to please these adversa-
Ai, strike low,
• 3.1. of the Conservative statesman.
(111,0 BE.—The Monopolists are too elate with their
-12tories at the hustings, to allow their joys to be damped
by calm reflection on what would otherwise prepare
.thi-rn for the change which is assuredly
.app_roaching ;
mid which no combination of their forces in Parliament
. will he sufficient to Overt. They have invoked every bad
it-din...nee at their command, and have thus set themselves
to oppose a change in the laws affecting the importationt
ri foOd, and the free intercourse between our manu ac-
.. tvr and the nations which are ready to exchange their
produce for our staple commodities. But,
m at the very mo-
eer of their triumph, when they areintoxicated with
their stic,cess and are chuckling over their majority, as that
which will secure to them the retention of their exclusive
• advantages, clouds of formidable difficulties appear above
the imrizon to obscure and threaten with extermination
._ the bright hopes they cherish. The corn market begins to
1.-el the effects of the heavy rains which the country has ex-
• perienced sevaral successive weeks; the prospect of a dd.-
e Pitt or greatly deterioated harvest has set the specu-
lators on the qui vive. The consequences which will re-
nit to the poor from dear bread, added to low wages and
,chnty employment ; and the embarrassment to com-
,oonnal men which is sure to be occasioned by the ne-
-4-,;-sity imposed on the Bank of England to narrow
its advances, from its being drained of bullion to pay for
srivi,ign corn—this, with a lOan to the French Govern-
ment, of which our capitalists will have the largest
if not the entire amount ; and the sum which
filo new Tory GoVernment will be compelled to bor-
.ow to meet the deficiency in the revenue, until the
'IW budget can be prepared—these combined influ-
,-.,ic06 upon the Money Market will make money
; and thus increase the difficulties of the Go-
.entment, by increasing the discontents of the coun-
rr. The trading and manufacturing interests will be
;opelled to restrict their operations for lack of capital;
the operatives will, in consequence, be thrown in
yet greater numberi out of employment. Public con-
fidence will be shaken. The effects of the insane po-
licy, to the reten,tion. and defence of which the new Go-
vernment is pletNed, will become manifest. The sufferers
from it will Ge "ilie more impatient under the privations
and sufferiitH it will entail upon them, from the pro-
spektt whieliVas affbrded of a change from the restrictive
system to'a more liberal commercial intercourse between
nations, and ovhich the monopolists combined and con-
spired to destroy ; and they will become more indig-
i mainly clamorous against the men who were raised to
Tv, E.., der by pledges to perpetuate the system which is the
Mtegtf
,l:)l.eir calamities, and by which they succeeded
e.treelated fLatei'ir"rnln;nt prepared to carry measures
, lE.
whole,
hree;'.ng.lish and Scotch elections may,
,is'ax•Luteuowrt,
_be said to! have been conducted in a mo-
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maul s
despite the inflammatory