The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-03 00:00:00

Archdeacon or a Warwickshire pedagogue, no terms
of reproach were too bitter. Scarcely was he allowed
to exercise his own elective franchise; but if found in
the remotest degree influencing his parishioners, wo to
the unlucky clerical wight who fell under the exter-
minating ban of Whig censure. The country was
hardly so unreasonable as to expect out-of-office
principcs to follow men into place, and was there-
fore prepared to witness some little inconsistency,
especially where the extreme had been so violent.
But how stands the matter now—now that the Whigs
are mace more out of office, free from shackles, which
so fatally compromised their free agency ? If ever a
general election took place in which priestly interference
appeared under the most flagrant and influential form,
Ireland has just exhibited a scene which beggars all
example or description. Yet where are all the Whig
sympathies, all those out-bursts of virtuous patriotic
indignation, which, to be consistent, should have been
poured forth upon the occasion ? Principles unluckily
are as nothing when party objects stand in the way I
And as the interference of the Catholic Priesthood in
Ireland has for its object the removal of the pre-
sent Administration, and the re-instatement of the
Whigs, the end is readily made to sanctify the means,
and the most hateful exercise of spiritual domination
is witnessed in silence and with apparent satisfac-
tion. On the country at large, however, the scenes to
which we are alluding must have a very different effect.
It will be difficult to discover what either Catholic
Emancipation or what the Reform Act will have done
for Ireland, if this species, not to say of mere intimida-
tion, but of actual violence, can accompany, unrestrained,
the clerical office. A Correspondent of a Morning
Paper indulged its readers not long ago with the ac-
count of some country Clergyman in England who had
turned away his washerwoman, because her husband
would not vote as her employer wished. If this were
true, it would furnish, at least, an instance---we trust
a solitary instance—of bad taste ; while it furnishes
also an instance of that one-sided justice in which the
writers alluded to are so prone to indulge. At pre-
sent we admit that we are treating the subject rather
sarcastically than seriously ; rather as affording a proof
of party inconsistency than as it affects the great ques-
tion of national representation. Ridicule, however,
,may be on this, as it is on many occasions, used as a
test of truth. We wish we could urge the Whig
press to a notice of the subject. It is one on which
in a minor point of view, a vast deal of past eloquence
has been bestowed. Never was there an occasion when
the thunders of its indignation were so loudly called
for. Let it not be said that its sympathies are all ab-
sorbed in the case of one solitary washerwoman !
Morning Herald.
The answer given by the people of Scotland and
Ireland to the appeal recently made to their loyalty and
patrL,tism by our good King, if not indeed so satis-
factory in ;:;:: details and immediate consequences as
the reply of the ,lectors throughout England and
AVales, is, nevertheleSs, 11.2tiglit with matter for agree-
able consideration. We do not. refer so much to the
numerical triumphs achieved in those i..Yo branches of
the United Kingdom (although they are by means
to be passed over in silence), as to the moral effeci
which the elections in question must necessarily pro-
duce ; and to this we will chiefly confine our attention,
taking, however, a rapid and cursory view of the more
important changes in favour of order and good govern-
ment which have occurred in those portions of the
British empire. With reference first to Scotland.
Sir George Clerk, one of the most useful and efficient
men of business in existence, is elected for the metro-
politan county, vice Sir John Dalrymple, who never
" showed," and by a decisive majority over Mr.
Gibson Craig, the son of a Whig-Radical Baronet,
the idol of the distinguished Supplies-stoppers who
abound in that neighbourhood. Mr. Pringle, of
Wythbank, than whom a more patriotic and indepen-
dent gentleman does not breathe, is returned for Sel-
kirkshire, where lie had been unsuccessful during the
period of excitement, returning the compliment upon
Mr. Pringle, of Clifton, the late Member, who pos-
sessed nothing in common with his victorious rival,
save a similarity of names. The " legitimate influ-
ence" of Lord Minto avails nothing in Roxburghshire.
By the way Lord Minto's father was ennobled by a
Conservative Administration. Captain Elliot, the
brother of the Whig Earl, and ex-Secretary of the
Admiralty, a gentleman personally popular, but poli-
tically odious, makes way for Lord John Scott, of
whom it is impossible to speak in too lofty terms of
panegyric. Admiral Fleming, an ultra-Whig, is
driven out of Stirlingshire by Mr. Forbes, who was
beaten at the last election by a very large majority. So
much, then, for the result of the elections in Scotland.
Proceed we now to take a brief and succinct view
of the more important victories which have been
gained in Ireland. The city of Cork has rejected
Dr. Baldwin and Mr. Daniel Callaghan, than
~..hom it would be difficult to find a more factious and
less intelligent pair, and is now represented by Mr.
Leycester ,and Colonel Chatterton, men opposed in
every point of ),;.!.9w to the ex-Members. The borough
of Athlone has ennzisted the care of its interests to
Captain Mathew, a Conservative, the services of Mr.
Talbot, the late M.P., being civilly dispensed with.
Queen's county has cashiered Mr. Patrick Lalor—an
especial joint of the " tail"—and has asociated a fit
and able colleague to the excellent and ann.z..l)le Sir
Charles Coote, in the person of Mr. Vesey, the sk;2l
of an exemplary resident landlord, himself a worthy
scion of his parent stock. The county and town of
Carlow have nobly emulated each other in the election
of three Conservatives, Mr. Bruen and Mr. Kavanagh
being the Representatives of the former, another Mr.
Bruen of the latter, constituency. In the late Parlia-
ment Mr. Wallace, Mr. Blackney, and Mr. Vigors were
the " tail" Members. 'Kinsale returns Colonel Thomas,
a friend of the Constitution, in the room of Colonel
Stamen, a good officer, but bad politician ; Mr. Dixon,
the Destructive candidate, encountering a merited de-
feat. Carrickfergus, which was without a representa-
tative before the dissolution (its disfranchisement
having been attempted by that unprejudiced and im-
partial chairman of an Election Committee, Mr. Daniel
O'Connell,) is now defended by Mr. Kirk, a good man
and true. The province of Ulster, ever active and
zealous in the good work of loyalty, has not disap-
pointed our expectations. The names of Verner,
Castlereagh, Conolly, Batesou, Maxwell, and others,
whom it is now unnecessary to enumerate, speak in
terms too plain to be misunderstood. It becomes now
our duty to point out, with as much brevity as is con-
sistent with the importance of the subject, the moral
effect to be anticipated from the results of the late
general elections in Scotland and Ireland, and to these
we will now apply ourselves with as much brevity as
is consistent with the importance of the subject. It
must have struck the most superficial observer
by what very narrow majorities the Destructives
obtained in many instances a temporary success.
East Lothian, Forfarshire, Perthshire, and espe-
cially Inverness-shire, are striking examples of this
fact : and even the "gude town" of Edinburgh deserves
some det:ree of praise. In proof of which we need
only refer our :eaders to the positive and relative station
on the poll of Lenzl Ramsay and Mr. Learmonth as
compared with that of i`,Lir. Blair two years back, when
the majority of tine ex-Lora Advocate (we beg his
pardon, the actual Lord of Session,; and the pensioned
candidate for the Speaker's chair was
ncomparably
greater. In Ireland, again, let us take the e... 1 ses of
Tralee, Youghal, Belfast, Newry, and, though last no.
least, the county and city of Dublin (and we might
name many others,) and then let us inquire of any fair
or candid person what inferences he would draw from
such unanswerable facts ? But we may be asked how
happens it that the Conservatives have not gained more
numerical victories in Scotland and Ireland ? The
question may be easily answered. Political excite-
ment has not yet completely subsided in Scotland.
The falsehood and bluster of titled mountebanks
and coronetted Cades are not yet entirely detected
or duly appreciated by our northern neighbours.
The cry denouncing all institutions, whether ec-
clesiastical or civil, still rings in their ears ; and
the revived feelings of loyalty and veneration,
whose influence in England have been of so power-
ful and gratifying a description, have not yet
penetrated thoroughly and effectually into the
hearts of our respecead neighbours. Let us wait,
however, until they shall have another opportunity of
giving vent to their sentiments. Let the measures of