The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-01 00:00:00

INVERNESS.

There have been queer doings in this county. We un-
derstand that a fanner has been so fortunate as to sell his
wheat at eighty shillings a quarter, though the general
average scarcely exceeds fifty ! A correspondent alludes to
the nine votes which turned the election against Mr.
Stewart, and asks, whether Mr. Cumming Bruce, when
he brought up this reserve at the close, did not get a pro-
mise from Colonel Bailie to defray his (Mr. Bruce's) ex-
pences ? The story is circulating,, and we publish it in
:he hope that it will be contradictel.

(From the Aberdeen Herald of Saturday. )
We have only room to mention the important intelli-
gence of the surrender of the citadel of Antwerp. General
Chasse has capitulated to the French ; and the garrison
are to remain prisoners of war, till Holland gives up the
forts of Lillo and Lief kenshoek.

In England, 257 Reformers are already returned to
Parliament; and among the 53 Scottish Members (of
whom more in our next), 10 or 11 or ly will be Conserva-
tiv, s. Lord Ormelie is returned for Perthshire by a ma-
levity of 574 ; and the Right lion. C. Grant for Inverness-
shire, by one of 36. Su much for the " Dutch war,"
and the elections ! Poor Tories ! A merry Christmas to
them ; and a bumper to " General Chasse and the brave
defenders of Antwerp."

The die is east, the old leaven of Tory corruption has
prevailed, and so far as the counties of Aberdeen, Banff,
and Kincardine are concerned, Parliamentary Reform has
been in vain ; they are now mere rotten boroughs in the
hands of the Gordons, the Grants, the Arbuthnotts, and
the other Conservative lairds, by whose machinations and
system of intimidation the three counties have been car-
ried. It is, however, some consolation to know, that
the evil effects of this mishap will be almost entirely con-
fined to the disgrace which these counties will incur from
remaining in Tory bondage; for the small number of Con-
servatives returned to the new Parliament will render them
perfectly harmless, especially those of such a calibre as
the three worthy Members alluded to. We suspect, too,
that those gentlemen will not find their honours sit very
lightly upon them. They will soon discover that St. Ste-
phen's is no longer the snug old house, where they felt
formerly so much "at home." They will find, that the
ancient edifice has been extensively repaired, its founda-
tion strengthened, and the inside thoroughly cleaned and
whitewashed ; that to remedy the general complaint of
darkness, every means Las been used to introduce a great
increase of light into the interior, which, by caming an
efficient system of ventilation, has also got rid of the close-
ness that-was heretofore such a nuisance. A two years'
cruise won't do now ; nor will my uncle's practice be to-
lerated, of never being present at a debate, nor absent
from a division. The Reform candidates would have been
bailed with joy in the new Parliament, and would have
had the satisfaction of witnessing the triumph of their
principles, iu the practical application of Reform wherever
improvement was necessary. But the reward of the Tory
Members, for the great exertions, expense, and last, net
least, the humiliating nature of their canvass, will be, after
so hard a run, to be just " in at the death"—of their own
party; to witness the last pangs of Toryism in the people's
House of Parliament; and not even to have the poor con-
solation of forming a " respectable minority." Their
radical friends, too,—with whom they might, as in the
last Session, have formed a snug coalition—all thrown
out ! Poor Hunt, whose friendship for them has cost him
his seat ! To be sure, there's now Cobbett—and, then,
there's Dan, with his fiery tail of Repealers, like a blazing
comet. But William and Dan are sly fellows, and very
apt to leave their friends in the lurch; for although there
is a curious report of William's having coalesced with the
Conservatives at Manchester, and that both he and Dan
are known to bate the Whigs, and only to like Reform
when cut from their own pattern, yet their hatred for the
Whigs is only a few shades deeper than for the Tories, and
if interest causes a temporary co-operation, the unnatural
alliance ceases with the urgent necessity which prompted it.
A Conservative friend in need
Is a valuable friend indeed,
But whene'er we can do without,
We send them to the right about.

Miss MARTINEAU, the distinguished poli-
tical economist, has been honoured with an interview by
he LORD CHANCELLOR.