The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-24 00:00:00

How different, his Loidship may learn, if he wil
condescend -to read the foliowing extiact from the
Times of August 19th, 1831.
" Indeed, Lord Chandos and his supporters, now that they
have carried this fnsidious clause, take no trouble to conceal
the grounds of their exuberant exultation. It is a landlord'i
measure; it is. like the County-division clause, a stab in the
heart of Parliamentary Reform. Not long since, the Duke of
Buckingham made known pretty generally throughout the king-

dom, that the bulk of his estates were let to tenants-at-will.
How many of them will dare to vote against the nominee can-

didate of the house of Buckingham ? It might indeed afford
a satisfactory clue to the motives from which my Lord Chan.
dos's amendment proceeded, that the effect of it has been to
place as many votes as there are tenants upon the vast estates

of the Duke of Buckingham at the absolute disposal of their
aristocratic master. 'We do not scruple to affirm, that the
clause for dividing the counties, conjoined with that for extend-
ing the landlord's influence over so immense a body of electors,
dependent exclusively on his arbitrary pleasure for the conti-
nued enjoyment of their vested capitals and habitations, has
actually frustrated, in a very large degree, the advantages pro-
mised to us by the Reform Bill. How Minist•n came to sup-
port one of those clauses, and how they contrived to be beaten
in their opposition to the other, is not fur us to say ; the facto
are before the country, which will know how to appreciate

If, then, it be true that Lord Althorp " professed'
Lord John Russell's 8,11 " to be a final measure,"

he made a profession which requires, supposing him
to be really honest Lord Althorp, that he should
treat Lord Chandos's Bill as anything but a " final
measure." Let us imagine that the Whigs had
"contrived to be beaten" on schedule A, would it
have been honest in Lord Althorp to describe the
Bill, so altered, as the same measure which he" pro-
fessed to be final ?" It would have been a trick
worthy of the most tricky Tory. And where is the
difference between the actual and the imagined
cases, if, as the Times says, and as a very great
number of persons believe, the advantages promised
to us by schedule A have been " frustrated" by the
county clauses ? If Lord Althorp had spoken sin-
cerely at Northampton, he would have said—
" Now that the borough elections are over, and the
county elections are about to begin, I declare that
we, the Whigs, intend to treat the Reform Act,
improved by Lord Chandos, as a final measure?'
This is the true meaning of Lord Althorp's pledge
against fur:her Reform. His pledge against touch-
ing the corn laws, translated into the language of
truth, appears as follows As town electors wish
for free trade in corn, we, the Whigs, have made
them believe that we intend to alter the corn laws;
but now, farmers, I tell you, the borough elections
being over, that we intend to preserve the corn
laws untouched ; vote accordingly, for Whig candi-
dates." " Honesty is the best policy." Lord
Althorp will have cause to repent of his Arorthamp-
tonshire pledges, and perhaps to explain them away
before the Session of 1833 is half over.—Spectator•