The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-27 00:00:00

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1833.

The House of Lords did not betray the
consistency of its character last night. It turned
out the Tithes Stay of Suits Bill," and the
Clergy are again left to ride the people rough
shod—again left to prosecute their thousands of
obsolete claims. They swim fast, but like a
certain animal to which they have been com-
pared almost in all times (the apostolic form the
exception) they cut their own throats in doing so.
The Sea Apprenticeship Bill was also thrown
out, and perhaps with advantage, for
although great abuses of the law of setttlement
take place in maritime districts, they are too
intimately connected with similar abuses in inland
parts to be separately legislated for. The Bills
passed were the Bank Charter Bill, the Facto-
ries Regulation Bill, the Tea Duties Bill, the
Chancery Regulation Bill, and the Exchequer
Bills Bill.

Lord WARWICK adventured last night, in
the House of Lords, some bold and injudicious
assertions, the truth of which time and facts will
determine. His Lordship abjured all personal
knowledge of, or connection with, the corrupt
practices of the Warwick election. He further
indiscreetly and strangely stated that he design-
edly left Warwick Castle at the period of the
contest, and to his great personal inconvenience
remained away after the election ! Verily his
Lordship appears sagaciously to have foreseen
the " excitement " he represents himself unwil-
ling to promote by his personal presence ; and
it is a pity that his Lordship did not take with
him his steward, BROWN, his banker, Mr.
GREENWAY, and his veritable town clerk,
TIBBITTS. Lord WARWICK admits that he
authorised the payment of the " legal ex-
penses" (the usual convenient phrase) of
Sir CHARLES GREVILLE ; but his Lord-
ship forgets that the sum transferred—
upwards of three thousand pounds—is enor-
mously disproportionate to the amount of the
"legal expenses." Further, the Noble Earl
purposely omits any " explanation of his re-
markable ignorance of the acts of his steward,
BROWN, and his town clerk, TIBBITTS. Can
any one suppose that those two individuals
dared to deal with Lord WARWICK'S money
and lands, not only without his approbation, but
without his knowledge ! There are a well
known class in the metropolis called " putters
up," a class distinct from the " cracksinen."
The evidence will be the test of Lord WAR-
WICK'S made up explanation ; and the Re-
formed House of Commons will, doubtless, deal
with this scandalous case of election corruption
as it deserves, and not allow the real offenders
to be saved by the sacrifice of the smaller
sinners. The Earl of WARWICK, in the mean
while, may rest assured that he cannot
humbug the country—that his trial has
not yet commenced, though his deceivers may
flatter him that it is terminated. His most
manly and politic course will be, forthwith, to
resign his Lord-Lieutenancy, for the majority of
the Members of a Reformed House of Commons
will never stultify their own proceedings by re-
maining satisfied with what one of our contem-
poraries terms " a cock and bull" explanation.
On the publication of the Commons' evidence,
we shall put Lord WARWICK on his trial before
the bar of public opinion ; we shall soon discover
for whom—by whose means—and under what
mask of corruption, the Electors of the Borough
of Warwick have been thus shamefully degraded
and oppressed.

In the month of April last a Committee of
the House of Commons was appointed to in-
quire into the state of the Police of the metro-
polis within the metropolitan district, and the
state of crime therein. We were in hopes,
from the early period of the Session at which
the Committee was appointed, that we should,
by this time, have had to congratulate ourselves
upon the prospect of a revision of our system of
police, and of criminal punishments. From
various causes, however, the inquiries of
the Committee have been so impeded that
it has been obliged to make a report, in which
nothing is reported. The Committee ex-