The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-13 00:00:00

all the populous districts, with the exception of
Norwich, where the return of Sir JAMES SCAR-
LETT has been effected, under circumstances
which are likely to lead to Parliamentary inquiry,
there will be a similar result, and if Minis-
ters imagine that the new House of Commons
will consent to regard the Reform Bill as a final
measure, they will be much deceived. We are
quite sure that more than two thirds of the next
House of Commons will insist upon the imme-
diate adoption of those great measures of Reform
and improvement of which so much has been said,
but respecting which so little has been done.
Indeed, Ministers, whatever have been their in-
tentions—and we are far from supposing that
they had not the best intentions, although we are
glad too see a guarantee for their performance in
the salutary control of a Reforming Parlia-
ment—seem now to be fully aware of the abso.
lute necessity of proposing measures, of the
propriety of which they were not long ago said
to entertain doubts. Two months since we were
told that it was necessary to proceed with cau-
tion—great caution, on the question of Church
Reform ; that it was impossible to repeal the
house and window tax unless a substitute could
be found ; that people had different opinions as
to the propriety of repealing or even reducing
the taxes on knowledge, and a great deal more
stuff of the same kind. Now, however, the
partisans of Ministers tell us that among the
first measures of the Cabinet in the new
Parliament, will be proposals for reforming
the Church, for repealing the house and window
tax, and for reducing the taxes on knowledge.
We believe the statement ; for, although we do
Ministers the justice of thinking that they were
always anxious to carry these great objects into
execution, the certainty of the thing now exists
in the absolute impossibility of their retaining
their places unless it be performed.
When these measures shall be brought for-
ward, we must expect to hear a great deal more
of the cant about danger and "destructiveness,"
which was resorted to by the Tories, in the hope
of preventing Parliamentary Reform. The new
House of Commons, however, will treat this cant
with the ridicule that it deserves. Even the
servative Whigs will be compelled to admit
that the only way of preventing the destruction
of what is worth retaining in our old institutions
will be to repair and reform them, and that if
this be not done extensively, they will find a
strong party in the country determined to pull
down and rebuild. In the reparations and re-
forms rendered necessary by the spirit and
exigencies of the times, there will be some sore
work for those who have fattened on the abuses

of a corrupt system, and who dread every thing
like republican simplicity; but they will give way
under the conviction, that it is better to lose the
half than the whole; and therefore we may
safely predict that the year 1833 will be dis-
tinguished by future historians as THE GREAT
YEAR OF REFORM.

The elections for the metropolitan boroughs
were brought to a close yesterday, and without
any of those riots or disturbances that the Tories
in their wisdom had predicted, and in their
madness had prayed for. The speeches
of all the successful candidates were sa-
tisfactory, especially ?dr. GROTE'S in the City,
and Mr. TENNYSON'S in Lambeth. The
latter gentleman spoke out, like a true, straight-
forward Reformer as he is, to the point, and
with uncommon energy. He advocated trien-
nial Parliaments, and vote by ballot, a scot and
lot suffrage, and a Reformation in the Articles
of the Church of England, which assuredly is
much wanted. He also inveighed warmly
against the monstrous practice of voting by
proxy in the House of Lords,--a portion
of his speech, which had a very visible
effect on his hearers, who cordially echoed his
sentiments. It gives us pleasure to find that
iNir. TENNYSON is particularly tenacious on the
subject of the ballot, which the scenes that have
lately taken place at Norwich and Stamford, and
are now taking place at Weymouth, prove to be
imperatively necessary. Among the signs of the
times, which the present elections have been the
means of developing, assuredly not the least
striking is the circumstance of a Catholic (T.
STONOR,Esq.) being returned as Member for the
city of Oxford—under the very nose, and pos• '
sibly with the connivance of a rank Ultra-
Tory Minister ?

We have just heard that Lord HENLEY
has resigned the contest for Middlesex.

Brussels papers contain no further intelligence
from Antwerp and its neighbourhood than will
be found in The Sun of this day, extracted
him our Morning Contemporaries. Accounts
from Corfu, alluding to the dispute now pending
between the Viceroy of EGYPT and the PORTE,
say that the former makes demands to which
the latter replies that it cannot, " consistently with
its honour and independence," accede. The SUL-
TAN seems bent on not yielding to the
PACHA'S demand of the " complete and un-
conditional eession of Syria."