The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

It will be seen by the returns of the first day's poll
for South Devon, Lord John Russell was on Monday
evening in a minority of 634, and that as there re-
mained no more than 1,262 unpolled, it was almost
impossible for his Lordship then to overtake his oppo-
nent. The Leader, then, and most conspicuous repre-
sentative of the Administration in the House of Corn-
mons, has lost his seat in consequence of a re-action
since the preceding contest, from some cause not ex-
plained by the mere fact of its existence. It cannot be
that greater or more strenuous exertions were used on the
present occasion than the former one, seeing that the Mi-
nisterial papers have been filled with descriptions of the
wonderful efforts of bribery, intimidation, and so forth,
by means of which the Conservative minority was
doubled at the election of last January. Those arts
(or alleged arts) failed in the previous instance—why
have they now succeeded ? Given the equality of
Conservative bribes and coercion, as they stood three
months ago and at the present time, the difference of
result must be imputed to some extraneous causes.
These causes are to be found, of course, in the
lower estimation of the candidate, as compared with
his former popularity ; and, in directing Lord John
Russell's attention to these, we would respectfully,
and in no hostile manner, impress upon him a lesson
of prudence for the future difficulties which await him.
His Lordship has done too much, as appears to us,
for his party, and held out too niggard a hope of good
to the community. He has run too far, and too fast,
on the road of revolution. He has, in the opinion
of the people, the sober people of England, threatened
too bitterly the existence of the Church in its great
outwork, the Irish establishment. It is our per-
suasion, that when Lord J. Russell proceeds to act,
he will himself become a conyert to some of these opi-
nions. We are as sure as we are of any thing which
has not yet happened, that neither he nor Lord Mel-
bourne, nor Mr. S. Rice, nor Sir J. Hobhouse, will
relish the sort of supporters who now beset them, nor
the sort of daily necessity which they must experience
of playing as many diversified games of politics as
there are of Radicals in their escort, and no one of
such games their own. The solution of the whole
perplexity is manifest ; but we speak to the ears of the
deaf and stubborn ; and we must bide our time, and be
content to watch over the country.—Tinzes.
The Whig Radicals, we understand, have commenced
their " sweep," by prevailing on his Majesty to cancel
the appointment of Lord Heytesbury, as Governor-
General of India. When this Noble Lord has been
employed on former occasions in discharging the func-
tions of British Ambassador at foreign European
Courts, there was more than once an outcry raised
against him, as if all that was despotic in the conduct
of the Governments to which his Lordship had been
accredited sprung from his suggestion, or met with his
approbation ; and all that was absurd or unfortunate in
the proceedings of those inexperienced constitutional
States in which he resided as our Minister, must have
had Lord Heytesbury for its author. We say this
with the less reserve, being conscious that at one time
our own judgment had been warped by the clamour
so diligently directed against Lord Heytesbury (then
Sir William A'Court) ; nor were we disabused of our
prejudice until a long opportunity of close and accu-
rate observation, while the Noble Lord was, during
a very difficult period, representative of the 13riti3h
Government at Lisbon, had enabled us to testify, up-
on the most satisfactory evidence, the spirit, the ho-
nour, the discretion, and strict integrity with which lie
fulfilled the important trust confided to him. We have
ever since been fully persuaded that Lord Heytesbury,
whatever may have been the colour of his politics at
home, and whether he was to be classed by his party
predilections among Tories, Whigs, or Radicals, was,
at all events, a man to be relied upon by his country,
no matter how arduous the office 113 might he called
upon to execute. The peculiar province of Lord
Heytesbury is the diplomatic service. At St. Peters-
burgh his abilities were exercised with frequent and
signal advantage to the public interests ; but we
will venture to affirm, that on no emergency was
a more powerful display of those great abilities re-
quired than on this, wherein an immediate field for
them is presented by the subsisting relations between
England and Russia, particularly as regards the known
dnsigns and active preparations of the latter despotism
against our Indian empire. If there be a spot on
earth from which the manoeuvres of Russia against our
frontier Olt the Indus can be most completely over-
looked and frustrated, it is from the centre of our
power in the East : St. Petersburgh itself is out of the
line of successful observation. The watch-tower for
giving notice of the movements of such an enemy as
Russia, the vast distance of whose eastern extremity
from her capital affords space for concealing the most
extensive armaments, until they approach the point at
which they are be concentrated, that watch-tower must
be in the East ; nor is there a diplomatist living who
would better comprehend the benefits to be derived
from such an observatory of all that takes place
between the Caspian and the Indus than that very
Noble Lord, who it seems is now to be superseded,
and to have for his successor--whom ? Mr. Charles
Grant, forsooth! the Lord of last night's creation, by
the title of Lord Glenelg—a personage drowsy enough
in his best of days, but now that he has got the baronial
cushion to recline upon, one whojwill snore away his
whole s_vestence, as the amiable, but most inefficient,
geatAtinan is reported to have done, some 14 or 15
years sgo in Ireland, where, as being Chief Secre-
tary, they zay he was always asleep until he awoke in
a deadly fright one day, and gave instant orders to
fortily the streets of Dublin ; in which state of im-
potent exertion, like that of a man just floundering
out of night-mare, the Marquis Wellesley, we believe,
detected his predecessor's government ; and it is the
same Mr. Grant, rendered doubtless more vivacious
and energetic by time, to whom the task of combating
Nesselrode and his myriads of agents, in defence of
India, has been committed by this discriminating and
impartial Whig O'Connell Government. What the
feelings of the India Company may be, when they
find themselves thus kicked about like political pup-
pets, for the ends of factious jobbery, it is easy to
surmise. We learn that the rights of remonstrance
and petition are about to be vigorously exercised.
As appendages to the overthrow of the arrangement
for India-1. Sir Howard Douglas, who is a man of
eminent military science, and who showed himself a
prompt and sagacious politician, when certain adven-
turers from the United States attempted coolly to pos-
sess themselves of part of our North American territo-
tory, is to be turned off without a trial from the lonian
Islands, to take the command of which he had just,
we believe set out. 2. Lord Amherst, appointed by
Sir R. Peel's Cabinet to proceed upon a mission of
peace and redress to Lower Canada, is ordered to put
about ship again, and suffer the French malcontents of
Lower Canada to keep the game of agitation in their
own hands. What Lord Melbourne's Government
proposes to do with the necessary consequences of its
own party combinations is beyond our power to antici-
pate. The Noble Viscount's position is not, we sus-
pect, according to his own judgment, the most enviable
in the world ; and far be it from us to aggravate his
embarrassments or his cares.--Times.
We have recently expressed our opinion upon the
notable vote of the Common Council of London in fa-
vour of a periodical election of Aldermen, by which, if
carried into effect by this new species of Septennial Act,
these magnates of the Corporation would be displaced
or re-elected—if re-elected, of course only on the score
of the " cap in hand" civility with which the magiste-
rial candidate may have known how to secure the good
opinion of his constituents. Joseph Ady, for instance,
et id genus omne, would be very awkward constituents
for a canvassing Alderman under such circumstances.
But if this mode of electing Magistrates periodically
be objectionable in the metropolis, where, from its ex-
tent, comparatively but little personal intercourse and
ifluence can be supposed to exist, it becomes much
're objectionable in provincial towns, where parties
•0 much acquainted with, and, in fact, dependent
vch other. If the sole business of country Mayors
7eEses consisted, as in some instances it has prin.
Ile, in discussing the various feasts which,
ious periodical accuracy, are set down in
Almanache des Gourmandes, we can
Ile there could be no reasonable objec-
of election now proposed. Indeed,

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