The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-19 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, k' I;;,RUARY 19, 1846,

The Lords did not sit yesterday.
The Corn coons assembled at Twelve.
Several railway and other private Bills were forwarded
a stage, and -various petitions presented.
The repo.:t oil Lhe County Works l'reentment (Ire-
land) Bill w 1: *greed to.
On the ni( Rion of Sir J. GRAHAM the third reading
of the Dra u ►ege (Ireland) Bill was postponed to
this day.
Several re b erns were ordered, and the House ad-
journed at 0 Pie o'clock.

A respectaVe deputation from a portion of the Liberal
electors of W estminster waited upon us this day to com-
plain of som e remarks which appeared in The Sun of
last evening respecting the result of the election. They
considered the sit in these remarks an unjust imputation was
cast on the co aduct and motives of the electors in their
opposition to g 2laptain Rous, asserted that only a small
number of pm tt ectionists voted for General EVANS, that
the motives v it tich guided the Liberal electors were in
perfect accore Lance with the principles which they had
long and con sc ientiously professed, and that nothing
was further from their views than to play
into the hand a of the Dukes of NEWCASTLE, RICH-
MOND, and B GUKINCTIAM, for the purpose of annoying
Sir R. PEEL, t throwing obstacles in the way of a
Government t hat had introduced measures approved
without except itm by Whigs, Liberals, and Radicals.
We must state, Airst of all, that we never attributed to
the Liberal ele It ors of Westminster any improper mo-
tives, and that it is impossible to draw any such We believe them to be as
con-
clusion from our remarks.
firm and consist st, t in their
principles as at any former
period, when•w .es tminster stood forward repeatedly as
one of the first a ni l most powerful opponents of bribery,
corruption, and ; fot ten boroughs; but, at the same time,
we blamed their poi ;icy in taking any steps which could
in the remotest d eg ree embarrass 6ir ROBERT PEEL'S
Government, or c
MiSnger the repeal of the most unjust
and most obnoxi. Dug of all laws' that ever afflicted the
working classes of the United Kingdom. The corn-
law question was the one which we kept prominetly in
view, but we also. had regard to the entire new tariff,
and to another ix Pesaro which the liberal electors of
Westminster have ;strongly supported—a repeal of the
wicked and ruin‘ us system by which the navy of
England has been. so long controlled and crippled.
We considered t Ivo carrying of such vast Pleasures
of far greater imp( I•tance than the assertion and vindi-
cation of principles,iat a crisis when the hands of the
Minister required tvi be strengthened, in place of being
weakened by a di wit tion among his supporters ; and
knowing that a gerieral election +V7I.!; near, we thought it
infinitely better for. :the electors to isedt for that event,
and in the tneantitr te to cheer on the, Minister, and aid
him in eery possil de way against the powerful resist•
ance of the Home t eLords, and the general hostility of
the agricultural int 3; 7est. Our object was to gain our
point while we had .rthe opportunity, and not allow the
Lib_ rats to waste flrue in proving what could not be
disputed, their revel mance for the great principles of civil
and religious Ebert) r.: There is a time for 4:verything.
" A bird in the ha ad is worth two in the bash." We

wished to make our great: purpose secure, to possess the

object within oar r taehol and not endanger the whole
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