The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-04 00:00:00

a paragraph, from which the following is an extract.
It requires no comment :
" At a nocturnal meeting held at Bury on Saturday last
and represented to have been attene.ed by nearly twelve thou.
sand friends of Mr. Edmund Grundy, it was unanimously re.
solved
' That it is the opinion of this meeting that so long as a
large portion of the people of
4-reat Britain are unjustly de_
prived of their unalienable r;.ght of a voice in the return of
Members to the Commons' House of Parliament, it is incum-
bent on them to employ evrzy legal means within their power
to oblige those who, under the existing law, hold the elective
suffrage in trust for them, to use that privilege in sending
to Parliament individuals pledged to the support of such mea-
sures as will tend to the removal of the intolerable burdens
which now press oh the 43.- 1 k-
ouring classes,. and especially of
the extension
‘jr the dP
subjects.
_ctive frahchise to every class of British
That tti b.
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riving been long the practice of most religious
.r bodies of men associated for some common pur.
.rengthen themselves by mutual support in business,
ption of this practice by the radical Reformers, and
.cularly the unrepresented portion of them, appears calcu-
ced at the present crisis materially to benefit the cause of the
people; and as their opponents have long employed this pow-
erful weapon against them, they are bound to adopt the prac_
tice in support of their friends, and do therefore solemnly
pledge themselves that they will not henceforward spend a
single penny with any elector who shall give his vote to the
enemy of the people.
" ' That, in accordance with the request of the inhabitants
of Radcliffe, Tottington, and other places, lists of the voters
for each candidate will be published immediately after the elec-
tion, specifying their respective occupations and residences.'
" These resolutions, we understand, have been placarded on
the walls of Bury ; and at the Meeting where they were passed,
Mr. Edmund Grundy (the candidate on whose behalf this pre-
cious scheme has been devised), Mr. Matthew Fletcher, a sur-
geon, a Mr. Greenhow, and one Burd, a cotton-spinner, are
represented to have strongly advocated its adoption.
"In Oldham, a placard has been published, signed, 'J.
Knight, Secretary' (of the Political Union, we believe), of
which the following is an extract :
" ' We, therefore, call upon you, Electors of Oldham, to per-
form your full share of effecting the political salvation of your
country, by returning as your and also our representatives,
Messrs. Cobbett and Fielden. If, however, you pursue a dif-
ferent course, and identify yourselves with the enemies of free-
dom, we hereby declare it to be our firm intention to withdraw
our support from such of you as refuse to assist in the regene.
ration of the country. This determination is the result of no
hasty or transient expression ; but arises from a deep convic-
tion of the necessity of distinguishing between our friends and
enemies. Nor let it be imagined that this resolution will ter-
minate with the election—we entertain no such intention—for
you may rely upon it, that even after that period we shall trea-
sure in our recollection the conduct of those who may insult the
people (:) by a reckless and unjustifiable opposition to their de-
clared sentiments.' "—Morning Chronicle.
The Parliament that owned its own corruption,
and laid the axe to the branches, if not to the root,
of the tree of false representation, is no more—
Gatton and Sarum are no more—nomineeship is al-
most a dead letter, and a Parliament is about to be
elected, which, if the people will only do their duty,
will put an end entirely not only to all the abuses in
the representation of the people, but to all the un-
just burdens which press upon their industry,
and abridge their comforts. Electors of England
—your country expects you to do your duty--pos-
terity will thank and immortalize you for doing
it. Be not, therefore, led away by smooth words—
by half-and-half professions—by promises which
sound well to the ear, but speak not to the mat-
ter in point. The great and golden opportunity
which you have long coveted is within your grasp
—corruption is at your feet—tread upon it and
extinguish it, if ye be men, and have the feelings of
men. Upon your conduct now depends, not only
the future happiness of yourselves and families, but
of generations, many and numerous, yet unborn.
Take care that those for whom ye vote pledge them-
selves to exert all their efforts for forwarding your
views ; but, above all, take care that they have no
hesitation respecting the necessity of--
I. Vote by ballot.
2. Triennial Parliaments.
3. The reduction of taxation, and, above all, of the reduc.
tion, if not total abolition, of the house and window taxation.
The two first are the most important. Pin your
candidates to vote for them, and if real improvement
does not come now, it will assuredly come in no
great length of time.—Morning Advertiser.
The next most important event to the opening of
hostilities by the "pacificators" of Europe in Belgium
is the dissolution of the last unreformed Parliament
of Great Britain, the knell of whose death was
pealed by the Gazette of last night. The era of
the practical application of the Reform Bill to the
purposes for which the country demanded a change
in the state of the representation has now com-
menced. Our opinion of the Bill and its machinery
is too well known to require a repetition of our sen-
timents on the present occasion. We always con-
sidered the nomination, or rotten boroughs, not only
as a gross defect in our practical system of legislas
,ive government, but a monstrous violation of the
principles of a Represent ttive Constitution. But
'hat the machinery of the present Bill is very defec-
tive we mentioned from the beginning; and expe-
rience has fully proved to the country at large the
correctness of our opinion. It will be, therefore,
"tie of . he duties of a Reformed Parliament to reform
this very Bill. In the mean tame, it is better,
under any limitations, to have a real con-
stituency in the place of the nomination bo-
roughs, than to continue under the absurd denemina-
ion of that mockery of a representative system.
But the great consideration at the present crisis is
that the Reform 811 shall be so worked as to se-
cure, as far as it is possible, the great objects
which made Reform so desirable to the country.
Let us a-k what are those ohjec,s ?We believe we
ilo not err when we say they may all be comprised
111 the four words, cheap and good government.-
Some of the candidates for seats in the new Parlia
merit, and who were supporters of the Reform Bill'
-eem to think that the pe,iple, having succeeded in
carrying that measure, ought to rest contented, and
leave every thing else to the patriotism and discre-
tion of Ministers. We fear such persons are but
ollow and deceitful Reformers. For of what use i-
Reform Bill if it be not so worked as to pro-
that good and cheap government which it
1 to be impossible to procure under the for-
upt and defective state of the representa-
__
mer Con . 'ed, one elf the great arguments in favour
tion ? Intl, -m Bill, with some of those Treasury
of the Refot .^h now advise the people to have
Journals wbi. 'dense in Ministers, was that,
unlimited con!, 9cient stare of the represent a-
,ith a really et. ,t matter who were Mini-
tion it would Tit opinion, through its proper
stern, because public AT of the House of Corn-
and constitutional agent.. Ilutary, a wholesome, and
mons, would exercise a a,
an irresistable control over
public opinion .
cutive Government. But hollsil
a blind confidence in theirrulers a.'
be exercised if tt,
sive or supine ? The histo.ry.
melancholy evidence that it is . ,
~
litical power, and,
to corrupt even the
most met), if that
i 'enable 'and effic;,7nt c
as itthe
. acts of the exe-
,ovfectahpn,b,baltz
have control
s u
cot!
to become pas-
world affords
of the nature of po
gooerdbe qualitieswere,no t nps
placed
co
ef
dt h
undera'
pd, d.bl e from it,
hearrteain.
powhecks. If the making of treaties,
*he salutary control of a
for instance, was under . - -zna a matter of
,• ,al representation, instead of 0e... ' of that
prerogative, we should riot have heart.,
loolish, and, we must add, iniquitous convention,
by which, even without a declaration of war, the
merchants of Holland
:conzLeercae
sopfutilheof7aoffmenutlsitn
is avaluable source of com-
mercial intercourse to our own merchants cut off,
.slaughter,
.commenced in Belgium; and
all b
hen unchecked in their
oc
the work of.
Iwould titer-
meddle
pr:daituigses by our
anyr tjle
pr.Csp,War control, i
which the country had
of the first fruits of the ,
Reform Bill would
in
We had hopes that one
no concernin guarge
whateveris ;
have been the e
this
country is not only oppressed,
etloction of the
the industry p.c
almost
.A.--.l,rnense weight
of taxation, by which but I
crushed. One great step
tdwarda that P consum-
mation so devoutly to be wished" N,-,,:mid havg been
the reduction of .our immense standing arni.,---jna'
inense, we say, for au insular country, and one
essentially commercial, to rn;tiltain in a time of
pie
It will be recollected that the present Mi-
ij,aee peace, 5 ,
,0;;rn after they came into power, increased
the standing aiaiy, which they had so often assailed
t
with eloquent invective, by 8,000 men. If they
predicted
osito the country Would be soon placed in
a p _ •
ini I that•n
which it would appear uosemtiable

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