The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-15 00:00:00

whether the King's present Ministers will put these
anticipations to the test. Let the result be what it
will, it cannot, we believe, be denied that the registry
is now in a far better state to produce a fair avowal of
public opinion than it has ever been before ; nor was the
dissolution of any House of Commons ever more

anxiously looked for than the present. Out own opi-
nion, however, is, that. Ministers have no intention to
try the experiment. Precarious as their tenure of
office is, and rotten the prop on which it rests, the re-
sult of the registration holds out to them no prospect
of bettering their condition, nor have they any wish,
therefore, to " venture on a world unknown," which,
in all probability, would he found to " treat them
worse than this has done." In the mean time, we
would strongly urge upon the heads of the Conserva-
tive party, not to lose or trifle with the 'vantage ground
which the apparent results of the present registration
has given them. Let them not deceive themselves
into the notion that because the Whigs are losing
ground, Reform is becoming unpopular. Such, they
may be assured, is by no means the case. To preserve,
and not destroy, is the leading principle, the test of
Conservatism ; but the real Conservatives are few in-
deed who do not wish to see the absolute necessity of
effecting such salutary Reforms in the Constitution,
both in Church and State, as may arrest decay, increase
utility, and enable us to hand down to succeeding ge-
nerations, those blessings of civil and religious freedom
which our ancestors have bequeathed to us.—Morn-
ing Herald.
In the letter of our Dublin correspondent, and in
the report which we have taken from the Evening
Mail of the proceedings before the Dublin Election
Commission, some details will be found of two Whig
O'Connell jobs, as finished and perfect in their several'
kinds as any which the junction between the King's
Government and the great Irish Agitator has yet pro-
duced ; and that is saying a great deal. Both of these
jobs, as might naturally be expected, when it is recol-
lected that their authors are great Parliamentary Re-
formers, are calculated to operate in the most direct
manner upon the constitution and character of the
Legislature : the one assails the independence and cor-
rupts the purity of the House of Commons ; the other
militates against its legitimacy as a representative
body, the Members of which ought to derive their
legislative power from the suffrages of a constituency
legally established. It appears that Mr. Ronayne, who
is admitted by all parties to be destitute of every other
qualification for the office than those of having been
a fierce Repealer and an obsequious tool in the
hands of Mr. O'Connell, has just been appointed by
the Irish Government Assistant Barrister of the county
of Tipperary. Mr. Ronayne represented the town of
Clonmel in Parliament, having succeeded during the
Repeal agitation in overpowering the influence of pro-
perty in that place. But the principal proprietor has,
it seems, since the last election, paid some attention to
the registration of voters, and, from this and other cir-
cumstances, property at Clonmel, as elsewhere, has
resumed its ascendancy. Mr. Bagwell's return at the
next election is regarded as quite secure, and, for-
tunately for Ministers and for Mr. Ronayne, Mr.
Bagwell happens to be a gentleman of undecided
politics. In these circumstances an opportunity was
presented of accomplishing several capital objects at
one stroke, and at a cost which the present Ministers of
the Crown have always regarded as trivial, that, namely,
of appointing an incompetent and unfit man to an impor-
tant judicial office. Tire future Member and permanent
patron, under the Reform Bill, of the pocket borough
of Clonmel might be propitiated by the offer of an
earlier accession to the dignity of a Member of Parlia-
ment than he could otherwise have obtained. He is
propitiated, as our correspondent intimates, and more
than propitiated. The bargain with him is actually
struck. The future votes of Mr. Ronayne's succes-
sor, who will sit in the House of Commons for his
o.vn reformed borough, are bought and sold in the
gross. Then, again, one of the most useless joints of
O'Connell's tail is provided for, in such a manner as
must inspire zeal and fidelity to their chief among all
the remaining portions of that formidable appendage,
showing them very plainly that if they do but display
these qualities, whatever may be their deficiencies in
talent, learninn-, good sense, or respectability, all will be
overlooked, and, by dint of these qualities merely, they
will be deemed fit and proper claimants of any promo-
tion which the Government has to bestow. A nd, in
the third place, another proof, and the strongest
perhaps that has yet been afforded, is placed before
the country, that the whole power of Government in
eland is substantially vested in Mr. O'Connell, a
demonstration admirably calculated to beget confidence
among the foes of British connection, to gratify the
feelings of the loyal and peaceable Papist population,
and to reduce to a proper sense of their insignificance
and degradation that refractory and lawless portion of
the people, who obstinately persevere in the profesion
of an heretical creed, and the practice of an odious
worship. It was not to be expected that so liberal a
Government as we have now the happiness to possess,
should forego these obvious advantages for sake of con-
siderations so trivial as that of maintaining the respect-
ability of the tribunals of Ireland, or that of preserving
the independence and purity of the reformed House of
Commons. What signifies to them the dignity, the
efficiency, or the reputation of a nation's jurisprudence
—what signifies to them the character or the composition
of the Reformed Parliament—when placed in competition
with the opportunity of buying a cheap vote, and of doing
an acceptable piece of service to so firm and powerful
a friend as Mr. O'Connell ? But if this part of our
Irish news demonstrates how little regard Ministers
entertain for the administration of justice and the pu-
rity of Parliament, the other portion of it to which
we have alluded bears a testimony equally direct and
equally conclusive, as to the utter indifference of the
whole Ministerial party to the legitimate descent of
votes in the House of Commons from the antecedent
votes of a legal constituency. It is now clear, from
the proceedings before the Dublin Election Commis-
sion, that the investigation into the validity of the re-
turn of Mr. O'Connell and his colleague, as Repre-
sentatives of the city of Dublin, was transferred from
a Committee of the House of Commons to another
and less expeditious tribunal upon false pretences,
and for the purpose merely of prolonging the usur-
pation of two seats in Parliament, which had
not been obtained by the votes of a legal con-
stituency. When Mr. O'Connell urged the ne-
cessity of transferring the inquiry to a Com-
mission in Dublin, the general opinion among
those who knew anything of the proceedings of
his party at the election pronounced it to be merely a
trick to gain time. But it was scarce)y expected, we
believe, that so decisive a proof of fraud and delusion
would ever have appeared as is involved in the prompt
and unhesitating resolution of the Commissioners—
who were certainly not appointed because they were
supposed to be unfriendly to Mr. O'Connell, his party,
or his objects—that of about 700 witnesses, whose
examination Mr. O'Connell's agent had sworn to be
indispensable to his case, not a single man was a ne-
cessary, or even an admissible, witness. The sincerity
of Mr. O'Connell's attachment, and that of his con-
federates, to sound principles of representation, to the
rights and privileges of the people, and to the cause of
order, justice, and good Government, may be estimated
by the fact, which can no longer be contradicted, that
he wilfully imposed upon a Committee of the House
of Commons by means of false allegations, for the pur-
pose of prolonging, to the utmost possible duration, the
flagrant usurpation of two seats in the House of Com-
mons, in defiance of the votes of a clear majority of the
lawful electors.—Morning Post.

MEMOIRS OF LIEUT.-GENETIAL SIR THOMAS
PICTON, G.C.B.—" Sir Thomas Picton was another Ney
—le brave des braves—the right arm of Wellington. The
chivalrous character of his exploits excited an admiration
which was justified by the solidity of their results. The
members of Picton's family have been liberal in their com-
munication of valuable materials to this work. The extracts
from his private letters, in particular, are full of interest.
The book is ably written, and contains a spirited sketch of
the operations of the British army in the Peninsula. The
account of the storming of Badajoz is a powerful piece of
description."— Morning Chronicle.
The mobs in Mississipi continue their power and
functions. Journals from the vicinity give accounts of fur-
ther murders—" executions by the people," as they ,are
called. Such is the dreadful state of society. The jour-
nals of the week furnish the usual amount of violence—
Lynching, as it is termed—murdering, whipping, tarring
and feathering!—American Paper.