The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-20 00:00:00

and sincerity, between the man who can merely
promise to behave better for the time to come,
and him who can boldly bid his constituents look
back to the past, as a pledge for his future
conduct. 111 The appearance of Sir CHARLES
FORBES on the hustings, as a candidate for
Middlesex, is a gross insult to every elector who
hears him. It is neither more nor less than to tell
him, "I am convinced you are a fool, who do not
know the difference between black and white,
who will unhesitatingly swallow all the fine things
that I, as a Conservative, may think fit to tell
you, but as it is to fools I appeal, and as fools
only can carry my election, I have thought fit,
Sir, to address myself exclusively to you."
Will the Middlesex electors allow this implied,

though not, perhaps, avowed, reflection on their
understanding to pass unnoticed ? Will they
vote for the poor, drivelling party tool,
whose success (and he knows it) must
he the result, not of their shrewdness, but their
imbecility ? Whose every sentence is a dull,
stupid appeal from folly to folly—from cant to
cant ? Assuredly they will not, and the latest
announcement of the poll, which has just this
instant reached us, confirms the truth of our
assertion. By this announcement we perceive
that Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE stands but a
very indifferent chance of success. As a sin-
cere and zealous Reformer, would it not be better,
we ask, that the Gallant Candidate should at
once resign his pretensions in favour of Mr.
Hum E ? By creating division, he only weakens,
not strengthens, the good cause.

Our readers will, no doubt, participate in our
surprise at the following remarks, made by Mr.
STANLEY, on the occasion of his being returned
for the northern division of Lancashire :—" The
Government had come forward with a complete
measure of Reform, which the people had
adopted as the charter of their liberties ; it had
been so extensive as to alarm many, who,
however, consented to go the length of it upon
the distinct pledge that it was to be taken as a
final measure. If, therefore, it should be at-
tempted to bring forward any measure for
shortening the duration of Parliament, or a still
further extensive alteration, by a protection, as it
was falsely called, of the vote by ballot, he now
announced (and he spoke the sentiments of his
Honourable Colleague) that any such measure
would meet with their most decided opposition.
On the ballot, he must say that he regarded it
as a most important deviation from the princi-
ples of the British Constitution. The represen-
tative had a right to know of the represented who
approved and who disapproved of his political
and public conduct, and how could he have that
right by the introduction of the secrecy of the
ballot ? After shortly dwelling upon this and
other popular topics, the Right Hon. Gentleman
proceeded to repeat the determination of the
Government to resist any attempt at a further
alteration or extension of the Reform Bill."
Surely Mr. STANLEY will not venture to pro-
nounce that the ballot is a more " important de-
viation from the principles of the Constitution,"
than the bare-faced bribery, corruption, and in-

timidation, that have lately disgraced so many of
our borough elections ! If lie do, then has he
read the Constitution, not with the enlarged eye
of a Statesman, but with the microscopic eye of
a bigot. We shall shortly return to this subject.

We are indebted to two correspondents at
Poole (as will be seen in another column) for
calling our attention to an article which appeared
in The Sun of Monday, relative to the election
for that borough. We much regret that it
should by a mistake, such as will occasionally
unavoidably occur in the multifarious business
of making up a newspaper, have appeared in our
pages, for, as our correspondent, the Poole
elector, says, we know Mr. PONSONBY to he a
Reformer who would scorn having recourse to
the means alluded to in that article, to influence
any election whatever. We heartily wish Mr.
PONSONBY all the success his stanch Poole
friends can desire for him.

Since writing the above we are gratified to
find, from the election returns, that Mr. PoN-
SONBY has been returned for Dorsetshire.

Letters have been received from Oporto from
Sir JOHN MILLEY DOYLE, and other officers
of rank, up to the 7th inst. They write in good
spirits. Sir JOHN MILLET DOYLE appears
confident of a successful issue to the exertions
of the Constitutionalists.

We have reason to believe that an attempt
will be made by some of the great Powers, to
induce Don MIGUEL to abdicate the throne of
Portugal. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL, however, in
a letter to one of the Tory clique here, declares
that MIGUEL will never consent to any arrange-
ment which shall not leave him absolute posses.
sion of the whole of the Portuguesc territory.

It will be seen by our extracts from the
French Papers, that the siege of Antwerp citadel
progresses slowly, but surely. Letters have,
however, been received in London, bringing
down our intelligence three days later, viz., to
the 18th, when the batteries necessary for
breaching the Toledo; Bastion were not expected
to be ready to commence their fire till to-
day. The movement we noticed to have
taken place in the Dutch troops some days
back, has led to nothing, although some ac-
counts say that Marshal GERARD considers it
as preparatory to an attack on Belgium.

The gamesters of the Stock Exchange in
Paris last week killed Prince TALLEYRAND,
and we find by a letter from that capital that
they are now attempting a second time to 1(11
the King of PRUSSIA. M. de TALLEYRAND
boasts that he is too hardy to go off suddenly,
and the Prussian Ambassador declares that the
KING, his master, has not been so well as he is
now for some months past. We wonder whose
life they will attempt next.

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An active correspondence has taken place
btween Prince METTEttNicx and the Austrian
Ambassador in Paris, on the subject of the
imprisonment of the Duchess of BERRY. We