The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-18 00:00:00

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ruhnc—children none at U. They are fabt
clinging to the bosoms of their unhappy mothers, as
if frightened by wolves, wild beasts, or monstrous
spee'res, at whose head Nicholas stands prominent,
as in him the soul of the infanticide Herod is meta-
morphosed. StiA the metropolis bears her misfor-
tunes with dignity and calmness,approaching on sub-
Emily; like Laocoon encircled with serpents, she
looks up to Heaven, vanquishing , her grief. Our
poor countrymen, even of the lowest classes, may be
said to be happily pfted by nature with a religious
confidence. Their belief in the speedy deliverance
ortheir count ry is strong among them; they bear, there-
fore, with calmness, and apparent serenity, their ill
destiny, in the universal affliction. Impressed with
this conviction and faith, they imagine, in the sim-
plicity of their minds, that either the French, or the
fr:endiy Hungarians, are but a few miles distant
from Warsaw, hastening to rescue them. Proba-
bly the for, ifit•ations which the Russians are speedily
erecting might he one of the cau•es that suggest
them to that simple, cherished wish of their warm
patriotism. Without any bent to dissension or fa-
natacism, they often make their enemies the object
of their ridicule and merry joke, and never fail to
maintain their superiority over the rude and barba-
rous automata.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

IMPERIALPARLIAMENT

THIS EVENING.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Lord LUMLEY prets-nted a petition from 111msfitdd, in
the county of Nottineham against the Scotch and Irish
Vazrant4 Remoysl 1111.

Mr. HOPE presented a petition from the workmen of
Cupar itilillx, in the county of Fife, against the Bill for the
regulation of 14hour in factories.
Mr. MULLINS presented a petition from a pariah in
the county of Kprry, against the the tithe system.
Mr- O'CONNELL supported the petition.

Mr. W. BROUGHAM brought up the report of the
Committee on the General Registry Bill. He then pre-
sented a petition from the patish of Sr. Mary, Bother-
hithe, again.t the Vagrants' Removal Bill.

Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from the
southern districts of the county of Dublin, agreed to at a
met.' ing, assembled on the top of the Three Rock Mountains,
against tile tithe system. He also presented a petition
from Mr. Coht.ett, which as coming from au individual
could ned be printed, and therefore the Learned Member
said be would trouble the House with its details, some
pat is of which, however, he :aid he could not concur in.
Ti e petitioner stated that the provisions of the Reform
Bill in respect lo registration were extremely complicated,
and it would be almost impossible to carry it into
eff et. He also complained that it tended to put the
franchise into the hands of the tich and to embar-
ra-s the poor. He conceived that every man who
was liable to be drawn for the militia was entitled
to a vote. The Hon. Member hoped that suffi-
cient si.eurity would be given for a free exercise of votes
by the House visiting any improper Interference with a
.r yore punishment. The petitioner prayed for annual
Par!' irnsnts. universal suffrage, and vote by ballot.
Mr. HUNT said tit.. petition had abused him for ad-
voc.•lting the very measures which he was now anxious
should he adopted. The petitioner hail been veering round
for some time in his publication ; and now, after
the Reform Bill had passed, he came forward to
bare it completely alterered by the introduc-
tion of annual Parliaments, vote by ballot, and,
universal suffrage. He was, and always should he, ready
to vote for A torte ex•ended measur.., as lie believed it to
be the only means of preven,ing bribery, which was now
going on to a great extent. At the present m.inent voters
were having their rates paid for them The voters of
St. ff.rd were all bribed. The Hon. Member did not
know any person better qualified than ciepeti:ioner to turn
round fr..m one side to the other.

Air. HARVEY thought the clause in the Bill which;
made it compukory upon vott-rs to pay their rates on or
before the 20th of July, was a great inducement to briberyi
but he could not see that it would be prevented by /mow,'
Rirliaments, universal sufft age, and vnte by b.i110% If
sucli a measule ever become law, the Government of the
country would have to be entirely altered, as a limited
monat chy and a hereditary aristocracy were totally at vari
acre with annual Pirliament,.
Mr. CAMPBELL denied that the Electors of Stafford
bad been bribed. Th.-y were as respectable a body, at any
rate as the Electors of Preston.—(Laughter.) He though;
with the Hun. Member for Colchester, that the clause in
the Reform Bill, with reference to the payment of rat, s,
would have a great tendency to increase bribery, which
would not be put an end to by the Bill now upon the table,
unless the clause he had ptoposed was added to it, namely,
that all Alembe,s before taking their seats should make ao
cath that they had not been guilty of bribery.
Mr. O'CONNELL, in moving that the Petition should
lie on the tilde, observed, that he should not enter into
the gitarrel of the petitioner with the Hon. Member for
Preston or himself, but he wished to know if the present
Bill t,a.l gone up to the House of Lords with Universal
Suffrage attached to it, the Hon. Member for Preston
thought there would have been the least hopes of its suc.
P,,at , hear.) The people of England have had a
great boon granted to them by the Bill as it at present
stood, and be (Mr. O'Connell) had no doubt they would
duly appreciate it.—(Hear )

Mr. HUNT had no doubt if the same force had beeti
used as had been applied to the passing of the present Bill
in the House of Lords, to a Bill giving universal suffrage?
it, or any other Bill, would have passed. In his opinion,
the vote by ballot tv,is the only means of preveniog bribery.