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

under a mistaken view, in their owt favour.
With the first abundant harvest they will be
ready to reverse their own decision. Adtlitting
the power vested in the agricultural electopi, we
must assert that on this question they wit not
exercise it justly.
The electors of towns may be superficial; titY
may pass a hasty judgment; but at least in the
majority of cases their opinions are their OW
The agriculturists, says the Bishop of D"-
" lean upon the opinions of those ivith,
whom, they are connected." The electors of
towns form their own judgments. The land-
lords dispose of the votes of the freeholders; the
electors of the large towns are neither to be in-
fluenced nor bought, except by reason. A re-
presentative for a county, therefore, though his
constituency may nominally be several thousand,
really represents only a few landlords, and the.
representative of a small town population CLIII
111
reality boast of a larger independent constituency •
As an index to public opinion, we regard theretVns
of the towns to be infinitely of more irnportanT.
than the returns of the counties. The latter Will
undoubtedly be against the. Whigs, but that the
fbrmer is in their favour is a complete 1)190
that they are nearer right.than their opponefl-,,,
Y
and must, in the long run, be successful.
We do not know any instance of the
tants of the towns going back to the opini"l,:hpa,
the inhabitants of the rural districts. All
organs of public sentiment are established
.:
.towns. Almost all improvements, whether
house-building or clothing, and many even „_
-agricultural instruments, have taken their rise '-
towns. All the discoveries in science, nearly,
have originated in the same places. The ion.
bitants of towns march in the front rank
lization, and the Minister who has their stnir" "-:'
may be sure of obtaining those of the 110°
turists at no distant day.
It is consolatory to know that Catholic enziwof%
cipation, the abolition of the slave-trade a°4.
slavery, the reform of Parliament, with el',,r:
other political improvement of modern firac.;
have been carried through by the
vetsencrgl
of the inhabitants of the towns, and „,he
generally in despite of the opposition'
inhabitants of the counties. They were fee 0
supported in the beginning, but, after or
years' of discussion and struggling, they'
came the general opinion. The same Prfie:bt,
and the same results, await, -we have no
the great doctrines of free trade. To thew
bulk of the town population was not long .t't
opposed. Protective and restrictive laws, ju...elfeert
had their origin more in. a desire to I-"-
manufactures r r ou
than agriculture. The town
,o;
lation are now.suffering fDr the errors and sins
their forefathers, which are visited on theta ja
o
the third anti fourth fzeneration. They ha.
been forced, however, by their sufferingsto e.
mine their theories, and they have, generallY:i wg
come converts to the opinion that protective is
ire
are injurious to a coce.munity. Such, too, eve
the opinions of the Micdsters ; and he must ". 0.0
a shallow intellect and. u. little heart who desPA' „c,
of the speedy and complete success of the " -re
trines of free trade, because they may he at; P-el
sent successfully. opposed by the back sraru..ii- "
interested landlords
.and the voters whew- '—
command.

,sAssa
On the 30th ultimo we quoted a r
frsm the Times, accusing the Tories 011. 113Yi pd
resisted the ordinations of Providence, 0° tit
being very slow to comprehend its ways' „ be
I
Contemporary then expressly said, 'ea
defective state of the representation .ah
to the introduction' of the Reform )3 lc•
which, as we have often said before, sva'€' fie-
casioned rather by a sort of philosophic' ji
cessity than by the peculiar patriotism of a 0., •
ascendant faction." We thought when wer(! to
ted that passage that we should have to refer teif
it frequently, in order to answer the Times it .
or the party of the Times. The first Pert I:01
whom we must apply it is the great leacta I
master of those presumptuous quad';, I°' se.
politics, thwart the ordinations of 'pros44,e-ti it
iie
Sir. 11. PEEL, in his Tamworth Ora+
_jou us"
following words :
thc oe
It was just at the period you d tha,t
events took place in France wkich,
physical force triumphant over the.: cxllconstituted authn j-
.,tit
of the country, which led a F.econd.great revob
rt
tion in France, and exp, -1*
-.l‘Orametheo athbrone of
country, country, for the second ti'.ne, the Oder branch of the Mfi°
of Bourbon. Those events in Prr..nce made a deeP Lirc4 re
to
exhibited to 1)"‘"::
sion throughout the whole of Europe convals` id
-
public mind—in some countries led -to, revolution',
.a. 7
there were some which es eape,l from the ind"el:;eo
those great events. This great country was not
from that influence : th're arose here a des' ire.for c
cot„r
in the ancient institutio:is of the country • and the 0;
quence was a fundamental change in the Coialrin- oof
House of Parliament. I thin foresaw that that g'•
IWaths
ealcicioirnepsaaniw,edl wsaiyth,
tahle-esitallepsos,dt,erisicreeofforlafurther eitir
ing the
dations of a great CinsevvativeApa.rty—(Lojud:Acheer the
attached to the ancient fundamental institutions' Of '
country, not disposed to. resist such chancres as the l'de
circumstances of sOciecy might require, but a Pa.rtY.
termined to maintain on their ancient foundatioos
institutions in Church and State.—(Tremendous Cheetb e
Sir R. PEEL, far from believing then tbatr
progress of society, and the overthrow of denta
tire institutions fis according to the will Oi''.;;;°,
evidently now treats the desire which has aria.
in England for political improvement and I°a II
cal change, as the consequence of the rre-tit e
Revolution. , That again he disparages/ 15. 0, I
trzumph of physical force over the constitfi
authorities, to which good men ought to be Z.; tt
posed, and accordingly asserts, that from ten r
period he had seen the necessity of ft)'; re
A
ing a large party to resist the r
for change and improvement. The e°l,.!,
vat.ives, then, according to Sir RonnaT ,
are fbrmed into a party, on the principle ofd: .11g
sitting the philosophical necessity of amen 'di'
defective institutions, and of opposing the ° ERT
nations of Providence. Whether Sir 1°,13 11i.
PEEL hal then really the foresight to will" ctou
now lays claim, after the event, or merelY:3 ja-
on resisting Reform on the blind and sae' ,very'
prehension of little minds, which dread '
change their limited powers can .neither Iv:0
head nor control ; whether Sir ROBERT NO ot
of a wisdom he did not thenpossess ornot, x
no earthly consequence ;• all that we care 0. '.4
show, by placing
.111 juxta-position 'gibt
and the language of his chief suppor tf
iv at
the Times and Sir ROBERT PEEL are ( .11 .'ecttijo-
variance. The one maintains that 1 h e
tions of Providence, or philosophir_aL l,ece it
governs the affairs. of society; t'ue < itber'.deat
the great changes are the offsy rin4' ' )1 ace' sill'
or change, which wis e men, lily esir Roo
PEEL, must take means to p :even a ~d dir
We briefly noticed yest_erdayb .e great -1101,
cretion a this declaration af 4.4ir W! his
PEEL, and the distrus',. it WOl7 es -.cite 0' ,
• los
government in our gratest an. d nein'es-
boil
boor, and that one who can d. yus t in
and with whom it most beh
.ove, •; us to lip
tit:
amity and peace. As might be expe C tea.
extraordinary passage of t 1 aP prc,,hua,;.e 127ein
Minister's speech has alr ~,add, bE ,en Inech con A
mented on in the Pari.si an
given us a foretaste of A.
mutrial national eXta'
cerbation we may
exPe!ct from ;pis accession t
power. But -tl-.;ttipasst• ss;e is as fallacious as
cl_
indiscreet. constituted.authorities ofFranese,
jo,3mials, and IJS ,
tile orga.oised physical force of the ivilc.`" r
:ate co,Jamencement of'lB3o, in P°s',
swioenreo,r7i
kiisa-diii; and., vain of that support, just 116.2 i.
R•:i'EEL.and.tlie Duke of WELLINGTON al.° " ,e
constituted authorities endeavoured, as ,
of the support. here of the organized forcet h°rJ.:
PEEL and his friends endeavour,
to stop
„to
ito
progress of society, to arrest the marell he
provement,
provement, and extinguish the desire in
It v
people to remedy defective institutions.
f ;he
—w
d the press
people—of the deputies, an fo reel
not the physical but the mural force 0-
tcoa lreedsiinto
texercisethe
o.organised
eprhsyo.sritaolf pflio.Yrcseie. aollsc the
constituted authorities—that did, thank
ganainseo
t
S essfully -- most successfully—ee?
teaching constituted authorities si use. Al 1:3
"• Ja,
and setting a noble example, which v, e 1101L
trust will be followed here wheneve'r Sir R.
and his Conservative friends shalt 'imitate th