The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-04 00:00:00

to reduce that army, they certainly' appear, like a
certain class of prophets, to have taken pains to
realise their own prediction. Certainly the position
in which—with eight hundred millions of debt
buckled on its back—the country stands in regard
to Holland is not an instance of good government;
and that it does not augur any sudden return to cheap
government we imagine nobody will deny. In such a
state of things it becomes the electors of England to
look well to the sort of persons whom they send
into Parliament. If they bestow their newly
acquired suffrages upon those who argue that every
abuse of power, or every act of extravagance or cor-
ruption that may be committed under a Whig Mi-
nistry ought to be defended, because as bad or
worse was done by the Tories, they cannot fail, at
the end of the seven years of the Parliamentary
stewardship, to find their affairs not less embarrassed
than at present. The people will recollect that the
Reform Bill is bur a power gained in the State—
which, like the steam engine, is of no use until prac-
tically applied. It may, in theory, be a curious
thing to contemplate, but the only value of it is in
its utility. Now to what ought the power of the
Reform Bill be applied ? Undoubtedly to the abuses
of the Stare—to the corruptions of Government—
to the extravagance which has brought this great
country almost to the verge of financial ruin. But
we trust that the people of England, while they ap-
ply that power with effect, will do so with that
peaceable temper and good sense which ought to be
expected of a people so highly civilized, and proud
of giving examples of well-regulated freedom to the
universe.—Morning Herald.
The approaching election for a representative of
the University of Cambridge, in the room of Mr.
Peel, will afford the friends of the Constitution and
the Church another opportunity of showing their
devotion to the best iliterests of the country. It is
hoped that every friend of religion will see through
the flimsy veil which covers the attack of modern
Sciolists, or more open and daring assailants of
Christianity, whilst putting forward the plausible
ground that a seat of learning should be represented
by men of scientific attainments. Let them never
forget that our Universities were not instituted
merely for the advancement of abstract science, but
for the support of our national religion as well as
useful learning, and that they have been since the
Reformation the bulwarks of Protestantism.
Let them never forget that it was the same
idol of vain philosophy which the Savans and
Encyclopedists of revolutionary France set up for
the people to fall down and worship, and whose
power when established was immediately directed
to the annihilation of every moral and religious re-
straint, and ended, as might have been well pre-
dicted, in the subversion of every religious and poli;
tical institution of the country. In short, this is
one of the few occasions which each man may and
ought to seize of doing a duty which his God and
country alike demand of him. The Members of the
Senate of the University of Cambridge should re-
collect, that by a clause of the Reform Act it is pro-
vided that nothing therein contained shall extend
to, or in any wise affect, the rights and privileges of
the Universities ; and that the abridgment of the
period for county and borough elections will not in-
terfere to prevent them exercising their franchise for
the University.—Morning Post.

COURT OF KL‘G'S BENCH, DEC. 3.