The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-13 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1835.

Reformers of the great County of Middlesex
the ifi.rit in commercial and political importance in
-gum/I—are now called upon to imitate the glo-
rious
Attet example of the Citizens of London, and the
lietitart7,:s litan Boroughs, in the choice t-rf their repre-
+Adin the ensuing Parliament. Again do their
ti and trustworthy servants, Messrs. BYNG and
kidai, solicit their suffrages; and for the honor of
the "ex, the cradle of British liberty, we trust with
for
certainty of success. We cannot believe
a
l to
wi; moment that the tricks and schemes
.of d 'eh
.the Tories have resorted for the purpose
I,4:giving the country of the invaluable services of
ume, will endanger the triumphant return of
sw4tthil'edefatigable labourer in the cause of freedom and
Itra. People. \V know well that the Tories will
'° ° k
j.e..very nerve for that purpose—we are confident
is "I'. HUME'S return to the House of Commons
e upon by the Conservatives as one of the
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misfortunes that could befal them, inasmuch 1,
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(,I,l4i_e.
_is a guardian of the public purse, which no tha,
tt‘
tetrotrreo :Iv
et iriye Treasury bench can lull to repose, and
engine will be set to work which pro-

raises a chance of ousting him. The return of Reformers
who only contend for the triumph of principles, is suf-
ficiently bitter to the Tory palate : but a Reformer
like Mr. HumE, who keeps an eye to the budget—who
is ever on the alert to dry up the streams of corruption,
by beginning at their very source—who insists upon
knowing how every shilling extracted from the pockets
of the people is to be applied—such a man is gall and
wormwood to the old advocates of places, pensions,
and sinecures. There is not another individual in the
United Kingdom whom the old Tories so cordially
detest, and yet whom they so much fear, as Mr. HUME.
He attacks them in their strongest holds, and even when
most unsuccessful, holds them up to the scorn and re-
probation of all who prefer the fruits of their own
honest industry, to being quartered on the public
purse for services, which in four cases out of five
might be cited as instances of the moral degradation
which may be purchased by a pension. For fourteen
years has Mr. HumE laboured day and night to free
the country from the incubus of sinecures—to reforn
the abuses which exist in the Church temporalities—
to extend the suffrage—to shorten the duration of
Parliaments—to remove the corruption existing in most
of the municipal Corporations—to reduce the stand-
ing army in tune of peace—to abolish the degrading
punishment of flogging among the British land and
sea forces—to establish a free trade with all other
countries on the principle of mutual reciprocity—to
abolish all monopolies, especially a monopoly in food
—to extend to all classes of the community, the bless.
ings of education, and an equal share of civil and reli-
gious liberty—and above—all to cut down the public
expenditure commensurate with the wants and the pe-
cuniary means of the people.
Such is the man whom the Reformers of Mid-
dlesex are now exhorted to return once more in
triumph as their Representative. The country can-
not afford to lose the Parliamentary services of such a
staunch, steady, and able advocate of Reform as Mr.
IIUME. We want a man who will watch the move-
ments of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
we are sure to find him in the present Candidate for
the representation of Middlesex. We would have
the people's purses taken care of, as well as their
principles defended in Parliament. The Tories would
persuade us that pounds, shillings, and pence-calculations
are of no importance whatever—that an attention to
such plodding concerns is unworthy of British free-
men, with other arguments of the like nature : but it
is worthy of remark that they have never evinced any
obvious dislike for fingering the national cash, when
any opportunity was afforded them of appropriating it
to their own private use, and that of their dependants.
True they troubled themselves but little with the
niceties of calculation ; like O'HANLON, the Irish
robber, having swept the board, they were satisfied,
without knowing precisely how many pounds, shillings,
and pence had fallen to their share. But no consistent
intelligent RefUrmer can be so stupid as not to know
that the guardianship of the public purse is one of the
most important duties that can devolve upon a mem-
ber of the British House of Commons ; and that the
ability and the will to watch over it, now that it has
passed into the clutches of the Tories, is one of the
first, and most invaluable requisites in a Member o
Parliament.

Considering it as uncalled for as it would
be tedious, to enumerate the various motions made and
votes given by Mr. HUME, for Reforms in most of
our public institutions, during even the two last sessions
of Parliament, we shall conclude by calling upon the
Independent Freeholders of the county of Middlesex,
who supported the Reform Bill, to come forward, and
by re-electing him prove that they are not more indif-
ferent in the great and good cause than the citizens of
London. Let the Tories say what they will—let them
insinuate what they please—in the question of Mr.
flumE's re-election is involved the triumph of the
great principle of Reform, in all its various ramifica-
tions—political and financial. We are confident
that the Freeholders of Middlesex will do their
duty on this important occasion, when the inte-
rests of an empire are at stake. They will not,
they cannot be intimidated ; and their past conduct is
a guarantee that they are too intelligent to be made
the dupes of the old Tory faction. They who taught
a lesson to GEORGE 111., in days when liberal prin-
ciples were only successfully advocated by themselves,
will not now fall down and worship a WOODEN Idol,
set up by the last tottering remnant of conservative
despotism. Freeholders of Middlesex I your tried and
trusty Representative again claims your suffrages.
London has set you an example which your following
will be the prelude to a national triumph. We call
upon you, in the name of the British people, to do your
duty, by returning Mr. HUME as one of your Repre-
sentatives to Parliament.

We invite our readers' particular attention to Sir
JOHN HOBHOUSE'S speech to the electors of Not-
tingham, which will be found in another column. In

this important document—the most important of any
that has yet appeared on the subject of the late Go-
vernment's dismissal—Sir JOHN observes, " it was our
intention on the very first day of the Session to have
announced an entire reform in the Irish Church—a
reform which would have cut at the root of the great
abuses which have so materially contributed to render
that country a bye-word to the nations of the earth.
The next Bill we intended to propose, was a Bill to
supersede the Irish Coercion Bill. It was also in-

tended by the late Cabinet, on the first meeting of
Parliament, to give notice of another Bill for adjusting
in a much better manner than at present, the
English Church establishment ; and for a commuta•
tion of tithes, on a plan which, I firmly believe, would,
w-

en well considered, be satisfactory to all. We also
ntended to bring in measures of redress for all practi-
cal grievances under which the Dissenters are labour-

ing, so that the causes of real complaint might be com-
pletely removed. And I can speak with more certainty
on this subject, because I happened to be one of

at section in that Cabinet to whom was intrusted

the preparation of these measures, and I have the
Bills now at home. I have now stated what was our
intention, at the first opening of the session, and I
trust you will think with me, it was a tolerably good
bill of fare. We, however, did not rest here—.we
went farther—we proposed to do for England what had
already been done for Scotland, by introducing into
this country great and salutary Municipal Reform. We
were, in fact, a Government opposed to monopoly in
every sense of the word—the determined opponents
of all monopoly of power, that was not exercised for
the general good. Whether it was for this we have
been dismissed from office, is not for me to say, though
:nay be for you to guess. A story has been told

ere was disunion in the Cabinet—upon my
sywd, it is a fable from beginning to end." Sh9uld
there be any longer A hitt); in the mind of any