The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Whilst the Glerg? and Aristocracy are directing
their fiercest aefaults against the Liberal party, it is grati-
fying, toind that the spirit of the nionventeitt is animating
with its wonted fire the great mass of our countrymen, and
daily pervading more and more all our institutions. The
weapons of sophistry and ridicule are often dangerous in
the hands of cunning or wicked men, but they never yet

effectively harmed a cause cased in the armour of truth
and such a cause is the people's. But yesterday, and the
working class of the nation was looked on with contempt,
and put in the back ground ! Beings, destitute of talents
manual or mental, had the impudence to sneer at those,
without whose honest assistance they could neither be
clothed or fed ! Let me ask the drones that buzz about
the precincts of the Court, whether they are still obstinate
in denying that any change has taken place of late? Do
they see no difference now Who now occupy the fore-
most part of the national canvass ? Who now are con-
sulted and looked up to, feared and flattered ? Who,.
at length, have vindicated their own rights, and read a
lesson to Monarchs and their minions, which will be re-
membered as long as civilized man himself exists? THE
PEOPLE—the enlightened, laborious, and virtuous portion
of the community. Compare the gaudy trappings and
gingerbread gewgaws that surround Princes with the
beautiful, though unadorned, majesty which encircles the
PEOPLE. They cannot be mentioned in the same breath,
for their natures are essentially dissimilar. The power of
the one is built upon a purely artificial basis, whilst
that of the other has its roots in human nature. As
we become more enlightened, the few will lose, and the
many will acquire, strength ; bound up as it were into one
body of ties of unspeakable interest, they will learn to value
and love one another, and to spurn the apple of discord,
however plausibly presented, or however tempting to the
eye. The strides that freedom has made within the last
few years are wonderful, when you think of the difficulties
it has had to encountei% They are, indeed, the effect, im-
mediately, of that glorious remodelling of our Constitution,
the exclusive honour of which belongs to the present gene-
ration of Englishmen. But, let it never be forgotten that
the immortal Reform Bill itself was the-fruit of the tree Of
knowledge. It was enough, once upon a time, to tell the
people they were free—and the dull lie was believed.' Such
was the gross general ignorance, and such were the arts
employed, that the masses suffered themselves to be
gulled to any extent. They never, for an instant, thought
of reasoning on the matter, but innocently took it for
granted that change meant revolution, and that a revolu-
tion was only a wholesale apology for cutting one
another's throats ! Men, with minds full of dark designs,
pointed to France in triumphant confirmation of these
savage notions, and contrasted the peace and happiness at
home with the blood and misery abroad. Events that con-
veyed a great moral lesson were lost upon our entrapped
countrymen, and the trade of political pickpockets and gull
catchers thrived a ntervcilk. Gradually, however, did eyes
begin to open, and see things as they really were ; pro-
fessions were weighed and found wanting ; the tide of
common-sense rolled more steadily in, and, the enfeebled
barriers of prejudice and bigotry washed away—thank
Heaven ! "on such a full sea, are we now afloat!" We
now demand civil and religious liberty disenthralled, and
disentangled from all devilish cheats and dark intrigues.
We exact the privilege of doing what we please, pro-
vided we mean honestly. We assert that this beautiful
country belongs to the PEOPLE, and that the rights and
property of its industrious, hard-working, inhabitants, shall
no longer be bandied from one sluggard to another, by
bits of parchment or bags of gold.
The diffusion of knowledge, so much despised and so fa-
cetiously commented on, has produced its effects somewhat
sooner than was expected. The joke has turned most un•
mercifully against our well-informed Gentlemen ! But
they must endure what they cannot remedy, and consent to
see Penny Magazines peacefully sowing the seeds of de-
struction—yes! of destruction ; in other words, the utter
subversion of all that can shackle or blind the understanding
of the noble PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. MI LO.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
(SCOTLAND.)

KILMARNOCK.—On Tuesday, the election of Councillors
in Kilmarnock, ended in the return of five gentlemen, all
decidedly Liberal in their opinions.
AIRDRIE.—The Liberals have triumphed once more in
Airdrie. The Tories, for a long time past, had been pre-
paring for the struggle, and left no stone unturned to ac-
complish their purpose ; but all would not do.
RENFREW.—Here the Tories were completely defeated.
CAMPBELTON.—The result of our election to-day has
been glorious for the Liberals. We have carried all our
friends by a very great majority.
IRVINE.--Hugh Watt, merchant (re-elected), 81 votes ;
Dr. W. W. Gray, 79 ; J. A. Rankine, writer (re-elected),
68 ; John Smith, agent, 66 ; John Bruce, flesher, 64 ;
William Wilkie, cloth-merchant, 63. All hers are Liberal,
and five out of the six are most decidedly so.
FIFTH WARD.—Another election for one Councillor
takes place in this Ward on Monday. It excites immense
interest. The Tories have set up the cry of the Church in
Danger, and many well-meaning Liberals do not perceive
that it is a mere piece of strategy, a hypocritical pretence
to obtain a civic victory, which those who use it will laugh
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in their sleeves at the gulls on whom it may successfif
operate.—Scats limes.

The Earl and Countess of Mulgrave arrived at the
Viceregal Lodge, Phoenix Park, on Monday evening, from
their northern tour. We regret that the Countess felt in-
disposed as she passed through Newry.—Dublin Paper.
The, Duke and Duchess of Bedford and Lady
Georgiana Russell have arrived at Woburn Abbey, from
the Highlands.

On the 28th ult. Viscount Arbuthnot was re-elected
Lord Rector of the University and King's College or
Aberdeen ; and the following gentlemen were re-appointed
assessors :—.Tames Urquhart, Esq , of Me'drum ; Charles
Bannerman, Esq., of Crimmongate ; John Garioch, Esq.,
of Heathcot ; and Theodore Gordon, Esq., of Overball.

DEATH OF SI lt DAVID BARRY.—It is with much
regret that we have to announce the sudden decease of. this
gentleman, which took place on the morning of the sth, at
his house in Welbeck-street. S:r David was seized on
Wednesday about one o'clock, when walking in the Hay-
market, with extreme faintness, and was carried into a shop.
Shortly afterwards he was taken home in a coach. A few
minutes past one in the morning he uttered an exclamatien