The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TiII:PUBLIC JOURNALS.

knock up a pernicious monopoly, and to appoint town-
councillors in whoM they have, whether a well or ill
founded confidence, for the management of their own
affairs, in conformity with their own local comforts, is
the index of a commensurate, or of any, disposition on
the part of burgesses generally to turn such a change
to the account of political party by voting for O'Con.
nell's vassals in matters connected with the general
government of the empire, because .they voted against
the petty tyrants of their own towns—the man who
thus argues must have a prurient fancy for non sequiturs,
Theburgesses who name the town-councilmen consist,
in a very large proportion, of persons who, so far as
concerns Members of Parliament, have no elective fran.
chise whatever—non constat that the burgesses who
are not political electors, composing a vast majority of
the whole, have any sympathies on questions of general
politics with those who are so. They constitute. h
poorer class of the community. They naturally, abme
on good grounds, some on bad, look with, Sharper
jealousy and distrust at the 101. homeholder, who in.
respect of political privilege is placed upon a level
below which they are themselves depressed, than at the
capitalist er gentleman whose house is rated at 1001.
a-year, and who is the most certain and liberal em-
ployer of the said poor class, of burgesys. The only
order of burgesses from whose conduct any fair .infe-
rence can be drawn, as to their effective support of
any description of general politics, are those who have
already exercised their political franchise in favour of
a Conservative or Whig-Radical Representative, and
of such the country,knew the temper an:l inclination
as well I),Fore the election for town-councilmen as
since. The discovery, however, of a Ministerial tri-
umph over Conservatism„ in the just. and natural hos-
tility of an ill-used town or borough population to
the local monopolists by whom they have been in-
jured,. is one of those fortunate mares'-bests which
may serve to help out the; Christmas merry-making •
but we are mistaken if it will survive Twelftlt-day.—
Times.

It is in vain that the Tory organs seek to suppress
their rage and vexation at the splendid and unparalleled
victory of the Reformers in the overwhelming majority
of the Municipal Elections—a victory which has once
more put to flight all the vain but pleasant illusions
of" re-action" which the cant of the No-Popery cry,
and the occasional gain of an isolated county or borough
election had hitherto contributed to.sustain. In spite
their efforts their mortification and despair burst
At in every expression, and the sullen and studied si-
lence of the "thundering"escribes, who are wont to
bluster and swagger the most loudly on similar occa-
sions, is perhaps still more significant than the awk-
ward explanations and ill-contrived imaginings with
which other oracles of this fallen faction seek to dis-
guise an unpalatcable truth, and to draw a veil which
may serve to conceal, at least from Tory eyes, the
lecided and irreparable losses which their party has
• -el. Never since the Great Reform Bill has
Jere been so unanimous, so decided, so triumphant an
effort on the part of the Reformers. In every part
of the country the spectacle has been presented
of 'a great and enlightened people shaking off every
sense of indifference or apathy, casting off the degrad-
ing fetters of Tory domination, and placing under the
safeguard of acknowledged Liberals those municipal in-
terests which Toryism has hitherto so generally me-
nopolis-ed and abused. From this general enthusiastic
expression of public opinion, the Tories may learn that
the day of their power has passed away, and that the
cherished notion of a Conservative re-action is nothing
but an idle dream—while the friends of the people, and
above all those Liberal Ministers whom the votes of
the National Representatives have replaced in power
in spite of the minions of the Court, and the intrigues
of a lordly faction, may learn where their real strength
is placed, and be convinced, if the fact required con-
firmation, how great is the dependence which they
may place Upon the people if they arc but true to
themselves and their cause. For our own parte we in-
fer from this glorious manifestation the happiest results
to the Liberal cause, which is no other than that of just
and equitable government—we infer that the resolute will
be strengthened in their resolves, the timid reanimated,
and the wavering secured and reclaimed—we in'F.tir that
admitted principle will walk hand in hand with a de-
cided and vigorous policy, and that the progress of
those reforms which the voice of- the three Kingdoms
demands at the hands of the Government will receive
a fitting impulse from this triumphant effort of .the
people. The most sceptical must now be convinced,
that if occas:on require it, an tippeaLto the people on
behalf of a vigorous and reforming, policy can be made
with the Certainty of a successful issue, and the weaker
minds Who might be disposed to stir out of the plain
• ht-forwerd path of energetic reform in the vain
-
cope of conciliating an impracticable Opposition, may
now learn that every consideration of expediency as
well as of principle, counsel a bold and manly no•
licy, as the one called for by circumstances, as in-
deed it has ever been the course best adapted for WAR-OFFItE, Due. 29.
preserving the affections and respect of the British 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet W.Persss to be Lieu-
CPoc-Tec t ' PE'. Cochrane,teesait, by purchase, vice Mande, who retires; W. Drysdale, Gent.
people. Since we last addressed our readers upon
t o Cornet,6btenit,Tim ebnyt
opfurDehrzeo,oNnslce
29.
this subject, we have received reports of the follow-_
ing elections, for the details of which we must refer Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vandelcur, Ycho retires
A. F.
be-
ing
Torapson, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Cochrane, Dec. 29.
them to another part of our paper ;----Bath has re9:h -
ll_iese n,,
nineiriotonfrki',,Toot—Licut..ttsl. I
Ensign
eron to be Captain, by pur-
lar
Genant t
to
t
turned 25 Reformers to 17 Tories ; at Bridgnorth the ‘e
whole 12 are Reformers ; Bridport has elected 15 Re- be Lieutenant, by purchase,wbo le
vice Heron; R.t-1. E.
Morgan, Hartman
formers out of 18 Councillors ; at Chesterfield, the be Ensign, by
,purchase: vice Hartman, Dec. 29.
numbers are, Liberals 9, to 3 Conservatives; at Co!- ch3ast,s.t I,.'iocoet—Auesaigrnyt, \pc.o,2,,,loatuelde tino bethe LsiseutittenFant, without pur-
G'regory, from half-pay 14th Foot, to' be Ensign,ooj; Ensign W.
chester, 12 to 6 ; at Deal, they are all Liberals ; at
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Denbigh, there are 9 Reformers to 3 Tories ; at Dc3e':t ° Sele cijeealtta-lSrt.j deceased, October 2o
orN.Hynes to be Adjutant, with the
Derby 31 to 5; at Durham the day is Won-14, to 4 ; rank') of Ensign,'lt v
Hereford is represented by 15 Liberals and 3 Tories ; 39th Foot.P:,,ign H. A. Strachan to be —ELieutenant, without
Lichfield by 17 of the former and 1 of the latter ; purchase, vice Sjiewart, deceased, June 2 ; Ensign. A. it. Marshall,
Toryism of the Town riondhaliz!-oat'eai.,7l,gn D. r Jones
27thi Foot, to be
to be r
Ensign,vice29 Strachan, Dec. .
Ludlow by 12 Reformers, the Tor
eu
to Ensign, by
tenant, by purchase,
Council amounting to a cipher ; inMaldon, also, the vice belme, who retires; W. Gore, Gent.,;
whole are Reformers ; in Nottingham the reform into- 'purchase, vice Jones, Dec. 29.
59th Foot—Ensign E. B. Napier to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
rest has a majority of 12 in the Council, the nuo'aers vice Davidson, who retires; Ensign H. W. Gordon, from the Bth
being 27 to 15 ; from Oxford we learn the na'a‘ority is Foot, to be Ensign, vice Napier, Dec.
29.
decidedly Liberal ; Reading has 14 RefOrmerjs in the 64th Foot—Lieut. M. J. Western to be Captain, by purchase,
n
Council and 4 Tories ; at Shrewsbury the )ie
numbers vilf;eo
NirTeetsizt.,e,rs; Ensign
n J.
Smyth,T.Krkwood, to be Lieut.,
i .
Gent. to be Ensign, by
are 17 Liberals to 13 Tories ; at Tewkesbury the Pu-rha.se, vice Kirkwood,; J.
29.
67th Foot—Captain J. Elgeo, from half-pay Unattached, to be
whole 12 are Reformers ; at Tiverton we have
16 Liberals to 2. Tories ;at Truro 16 to 2 ; aphasttif,er,,,tvicLA,lortillir
.1111a.jir,1\-,,itorsrteottireescupon.half-pay, Dec. 29.
an‘‘bky putorelbleasei liceu.
Warwick 15 to 3; at Winchester 10 to 5 ; Wood who retires, Ensign N. C Captain
4, to 2. The accounts also state that, at tenant, by purchase, vice Myers, Dec. ; Ensign and Adjutant
Worcester 3 Robertson ,to have the rank of Lieutenant, Dec. 30
A.
T.
Beaumaris, Carnarvon, Chester, Doncaster, Lancaster, - aantten, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stack,
Preston, .Rip d Dec. 9*
on, Saffron-Walden, Sandwich, an
7•2hd Foot—Lieut. C. W. Meadows Payne to be Captain, by
Stockport, the Liberal cause has triumphed. At v_tii;xis,caent,t-reby,rpauvrecni,lalisseho retires ; Ensign lion. C. Stuart to be
Exeter, the preponderance, though slight, is stated to , vice Payne; Gentleman Ca et H. S.
be from the Royal Military C2oilge, to be' Ensign, by Inv-.
be on the Liberal side ; at Newport (Isle of Wight)
the numbers, we arc informed, are equal ; and the cha,s3et,hveotStuLar
fl) elev. 2,‘9, .
,e.. idra:m to be Captain, without purchase,
only places in which the Reformers have failed, as far vice Hill, deceased; Ensign: R. Campbell to be Lieutenant,
vice Kleiman; Dec. 19; Gent. Cadet. E. Se.-ell, from the Royal
as our reports hitherto go, besides Dover, which we
mentioned yesterday, are St. Alban's, Hertford, Kid- atinlidtaNri7eCstolil,Ta, to be Ens,igni.v.iu,Camplirli, Dec. 29.
...toler, Gent, to be Ensign, by
derminster, Lynn, Marlborough, Newark, Stamford, purchase, vice Cameron, who retires, Dee. 29.
and Wenlock ; these trivial defeats, however, are lost
amid the mighty record of the general triumph, while
the pompous manner in which they' are proclaimed and
detailed by one or two Tory prints, which have care-
fully excluded all the reports of Liberal victories—that
is to say, all the accounts of nineteen-twentieths of the,
Municipill proceedings from their columns—affords a
most amusing and ridiculous picture of the subterfuges
to which even the boasted oracles of " three-fourths of
the people of England" are reduced in their desire to
support the cause of a faction, which, in common with
their own apostate columns, the people they have be-
trayed and libelled, have so signally and utterly repu-
diated.—Morning Chronicle.
The nature and operations of the Common Coon,
cilman returns in the cities and boroughs throughout
England on this recent election do not seem to be
very clearly understood. It is called by the Whig-
Radical prints a political triumph over the Conser-
vative cause, on those political principles which haste
constituted the ground of quarrel between Sir Robert
Peel's party and Lord Melbourne's party, since the
Reform Bill was passed. This is an egregious blun-
der. The contest was between the nos-governors of
municipal bodies and those against whose local inte-
rests, and to whose unjust exclusion from the benefits
for which corporations had been originally instituted,
the system of misgovernment had been carried on.
The principle of corporate self-election was fraught
with every species of abuse which could be perpetrated
with impunity, where none were responsible, all might
plunder, and plunder they did, ill frequent cases, with
a vengeance. The respectable portion of the inhabi-
tants of every town, who saw the malpractices but could
not remedy them, and the lower order of inha-
bitants, who saw but could not share them, were alike
incensed at the peculation of funds and perversion of
privileges which took place before their eyes ; so that,
generally speaking, the corporation of a borough had
few or no friends but those whom they admitted anion',"b
their members, or could influence by patronagn ter. te.i
ror. When the Municipal Reform Bill watt; brought
in, little difference cf opinion existed (IThyond the pre-
cincts of each mansion-hones or tosvn-hall) as to the
urgent expediency of abolishing the old and execrable
system of self-declaim, and restoring the fiscal and ad-
ministrative power of the 'municipality to the hands of
the iutlstpendent people at large, for whose advantage
the charters of incorporation had been almost invari-
ably granted. In the principle of such a reform the
greater portion• of the press was agreed. Some distill-
guiahed members of it went even further, our contem-
porary, the Standard, declaring loudly in favour of a
total overthrow of all corporations, because of their long
course of misbehaviour. Our own feeling was strongly
expressed from the first, in recommendation of opening
the monopoly, and letting into the rights of local go-
vernment the great body of those who were to be sub-
jected to its burdens—whose interests were to be af-
fected by its laws—and who were likely to be capable
of exercising it beneficially for themselves and others.
Questions necessarily arose upon the level of the quali-
fication, below which it seemed vain to look for the ca-
pabilities essential to a burgess, and dangerous, to the
public, to suppose them. Upon the whole, it did not
seem to us that the point was badly fixed at rate-payers
who had for three years successively discharged the
demands upon them for local taxes, low as the rate
might be, and almost fractional the amount of taxation.
That high and low among the inhabitants of towns ap-
pear by the late returns to have combined against the
old and exclusive monopolists, is anything but a matter
of astonishment. Wrong had been very largely com-
mitted, and this was the eale medium of effectual redress.
But he who jytqqs "4. Whig-Radical conteinpo-
priek hay tc), the CQUGIUSWIi that a desire tt?

susta

FROM TaAST NISFIT'S- GAZETTE.

At the Ccurt at Brighton, the `22:l clay of December, 1835,

r.arsENT,
The. I:ing's INlost_Excellont:ldajcsty in Council.

lii 31"ai,t-ty was this day pleased to direct the Clerk of, the
Council to correct the following technical errors in the warding of
the borough of Neweast:e-on-Tyne, under the Order in Council of
the 4th insiant:— _ . .

Ihe words, " thence northward, along the manors and along the
east side of Carliol-square," to be made, in each of the two places
in which the words occur in the said order, " thence northward,
clang the manors and along the went side of Carliol-square ;" and
he words, " thence to the said angle, and northward and westward
along the boundary line," to be mvit, " ihnice to the said angle,
and northward and eastward along the boundary line."
B AT R ST.

R'Hi7'F.tl ALL, DEc. 24.

The Lords Coinrnssioners for the-custody of the Great Seal have
appointed William Francis D'Arey, oT Newton Abbott, in the
county of Devon, Gent., to be Master Es'aaordinary in the High
Court of Chancery.

straig

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 9.9.
Thc King has been pleased to apprinre of Mr. George Handers
as Consul at Cork for Her Most FaithCtil,Majesty.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. n.

Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain G. Phillpotts to be
Captain, vice Hulme, placed on the Retired. List.;: First Lieut. G.
C. D. Lewis to be Second Captain, vice Phillpotts ; Second Lieut.
R. G. Hamilton to b.?. First Lieutenant, vice Lewis, Dec. 5.
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Second Lieutenants with temporary rank, to be Sceonil Lieute-
nants with permanent rank—J. Cameron; J. P. Hawkins; J. H.
Freeth, Dcc. 12.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset-
]st Somerset. Regiment of Militia—lL B. Norman, Gent., to be
Ensign, Nov. 10.

BOROUGH OF PORTSMOUTH.

ERRATA.—In the Fifth Supplement to the Gazette of Friday
last, page 2454, col. 2, published on Thursday, the bo'andaries of
All Saints Ward are described as passing through the old borough
of Portsmouth, instead of the new borough of
occurs in four different places. 'Port" nouth, which

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