The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-06 00:00:00

INCOME.

Custonl3,—Consolidated Duties
Sugar applicable to the
Consolidated Fund

Total Customs

Excise
Stamps
Taxes
Post. Office
Miscellaneous

To Cash brought to this Account to
replace the like sum issued, or to
be issued, out of the Consolidated
Fund in Ireland, for Sapply and
other Services

2,664,169

501,C02

3,166,161

4,2;4,493
1,57:.,112
1,808,701
324,000
51;,973

11,193,410

376,578

3,C.83,53

917,647

4,00 ',673

3,481,200
1,5%5,162
1,633,1,20
3'2:1,000
I , 0

11,050,705

t17,g35

11,572,018 111,568,640

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The first blow against Toryism has been struck, in
Southwark. The two Reform candidates, Mr. Humphrey
and Mr. Whittle Harvey, were yesterday returned without
even an attempt at opposition. A Good omen ! The
nomination for the City of London took place yesterday,
and the polling commences to-day ; the result, we believe,
is no longer doubtful. Where " hot-blood, bawling, and
beer supply the place of thinking," to use the language of
the " Standard," the Tories may succeed, and they will
gain a few in counties in which tenants-at-will must vote
for their landlords, at the expense of their consciences ; but
wherever the constituencies are numerous and respecta-
ble, Reformers will be returned. Thanks to the Re-
form Bill, the independent constituencies must for a
time prevail. We say, for a time, because we
are well aware that if the principle of the Reform
Bill be not followed out, by cutting of small and flea
pendent constituencies, and introducing from time to time
a supply of new blood, many years will not passAill we have
another rotten-borough system. In the 01.,1 boroughs, the
old leaven of corruption still ferments. However, for the
present we may bid defiance to ten,;:ats-at-will and freemen.
The 10/. householders and free'nolders are our salvation.
These men are not to be bought. They seek to protect
their property, and to enjoy the fruits of their industry.
Under the old boroughmongering rule, the mass of owners
of property were utterly unprotected. The suffrage was,
for the most part, exercised by necessitous and dependent
persons ; and a system of plunder was organized, the most
effectual for its object of which there is any example in the
bistoty cf the world. The people of the United Kingdoms
are quite aware of the cause of the peculiar hostility
of the Tories to the Reform Bill, and of their anxiety to
reposs themselves of power in order to impair its efficiency.
They are not the dupes of the interested cry of the Tories,
that property is in danger. The Tories will no longer be
suffered to make a property of the industrious classes, as
they did before 1832. The Reformers are so far Destruc-
tires. that they wish to destroy the abuses by which aristo-
cratic drones and paupers batten at the expense of the
community. The Reformers are destroyers of abuses ; but
the Tories are the real Destructives, whom the owners of
property have to dread. Property is keen-sighted. Tories
and taxation are closely associated in the minds of the peo-
ple. The wolves in the fable, who sought the friendship of
the sheep, are typical of the regard of the Tories for the
people. The burdens which we owe to Tory misrule and
to Tory plunder are lessons which he who runs may read.—
" Morning Chronicle."

The election of Southwark, which began yesterday, ended
in rather an unexpected manner on the same day. Mr.
Ellis having proposed Mr. Humphrey, the late member,
and Mr. Davis having proposed Mr. D. W. Harvey, the
new candidate for the representation of that borough, and
the usual routine of speeches having been gone through by
the movers, seconders, and candidates already named, it
was found that no opponent had come forward to take the
field against them. Mr. Humphrey and Mr. D. W. Har-
vey were therefore declared duly elected. This will, no
doubt, be hailed as a great triumph by the Whig party.
But neither of the two candidates are Whigs, and Mr.
Harvey owes his election to his celebrated motions respect-
ing the pension list, which were as strongly opposed by the
Whigs 'as by the Tories, and which (the Whigs being,
Ministers at the time) owe their rejection more imme-
diately to that party than to the other, who are often most
unfairly represented as responsible for it. The borough of
Southwark knows best whether Radicals are the poli-
ticians who best represent its opinions ; but the other
constituencies of the country, instead of taking the
tone from such instances will probably see in them ad-
ditional motives for choosing moderate and constitutional
Reformers, if it were only for the purpose of checking
the injury which disturbed and disturbing spirits are apt to
disseminate. Yesterday, being also nomination day for the
city of London, Mr. Alderman 'Wood, Mr. Grote, Mr.
Lyall, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Ward, Mr. Wilson, and Mr.
Pattison were proposed by their respective friends. The
politics of the different candidates are well known to our
readers, baring been frequently discussed in the course of
the last few days. The four Reformers, Whig and Radical,
have coalesced, and we suppose the three moderate politi-
cians who wish to give the present Ministers a trial, have
done the same. At all events appearances bespeak a sharp
contest. It would be absurd to think of inferring from
the noisy scene at the hustings who are the individuals
upon whom the choice of the constituency will fall at last.
Both parties are in high spirits as the hour of trial ap-
proaches, the inference from which would be that no man
can foresee the result. So much for the metropolis. The
boroughs of Lewes and of Guilford, as will be seen under
the proper heads, are preparing for contests likewise, the
nomination having taken place, and polls having been de-
manded at each.—" Morning Herrld."

Two charges are brought against Sir Robert Peel by
his adversaries—the first, that in taking office under the
Reform Bill he has acted with inconsistency ; the second,
that he is opposed to all reform. To substantiate the
charge of inconsistency, it must he shown that the predic-
tions of the supporters of the Reform Bill have been ful-
filled, and that Sir Robert Peel's apprehension of its
consequences have proved groundless. With regard to the
second charge, it is at variance with fact, and in direct
opposition to his manly and explicit declaration to his con-
stituents at Tamworth. If, since the passing of the Reform
Bill, it could be shown that the state of the country had
improved, that agitation had ceased, that violent and revo-
lutionary projects could find no supporters—if it could be
shown that the, men whose rank and respectability chiefly
contributed to the passing of the Reform Bill remained
still united, still capable of forming an Administration, then,
indeed, the charge of inconsistency might have been suc-
cessfully made. But when we see the condition of the
country changed for the worse ; that lawless and unprin-
cipled demagogues are not only not discountenanced but
that they are actually cherished ; that an appetite for mea-
sures which are wholly repugnant to the existence of the
Constitution is catered for by those whose station makes
their example dangerous ; when we find those very men
who united to carry the Reform Bill, now, in consequence
of their own dissensions, incapable of supplying his Majssty
with an Administration ; what can the most factious malig-
nity discover in Sir Robert Peel's undertaking the Govern-
ment of the country but an evidence of the noblest con-
sistency of conduct, an evidence that the same wish to
serve his country which induced him to oppose the Reform
Bill induces him now to come forward and use his best
energies to save his country in an emergency which he had
himself predicted as the probable consequence of that
Bill ? Such is the man whom his Most Gracious
Majesty has been pleased to call to his assistance
in the hour of danger—a man who, while he promises the
correction of proved abuses and the redress of real griev-
ances, has firmness enough to declare, with Lord Bacon,
that " it is good not to try experiments in States except the
necessity be urgent or‘ the utility evident ; and well to be-
ware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change,
and not the desire of charge that pretendeth the reforma-
tion ; and, lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected,
yet be held for a suspect, and as the Scripture saith, That
we make a stand upon the ancient way, and look about us,
• the straight and right way, and so to
a striking contrast to his opponents !--
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