The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-24 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF MIDDLESEX.

GENTLEMEN,
MY unavoidable absence from London during the
last three days, has prevented my sooner offering my
grateful acknowledgments, for your late successful exertions to re-
instate me in my former honourable situation.
I am proud to call myself (for the fourth time) the Representa-
tive of the honest, consistent, and independent men of Middlesex;
and you may be proud of having so successfully struggled against all
the forces which wealth and power couldarray against you, and so sig-
nally defeated them. In this result I perceive already some of the
glorious fruits of the Reform Bill, which, by adding to the constitu-
ency a considerable number of intelligent and independent men, ac-
customed to judge and think for themselves, has, in a great measure,
delivered this County from the domination of the Aristocracy.
Happy shall I be to see it made efficient to the same purpose, all
over the kingdom ; but the proceedings at the late Election must
have convinced every reflecting Reformer that some further enact-
ments are necessary to secure to the electors the free exercise of
their franchise. Such enactments we must endeavour to obtain.
Let us also hope that, as the means of obtaining sound political in-
formation is daily becoming more extended, the electors will begin
to see their own true interest, and no longer be led away by per-
sonal considerations of fear or favour in the choice of their Repre-
sentatives ; but when called upon hereafter to exercise the sacred
trust committed to their charge, for the protection of the rights of
the unrepresented millions as well as their own, will conscientiously
endeavour to ascertain which of the candidates is likely to be the
most efficient labourer for the public welfare, and to give him their

support.
I have been told that I lost the votes of some influential bodies of
men at the late election, because, in former Parliaments, I voted
for or against measures which they considered might affect their
particular interests. Gentlemen, it was my vocation to incur dis-
pleasure on such grounds. I went into Parliament pledging myself
to act to the best of my judgment for the benefit of the whole
empire mot of this county alone, much less of any particular classes
in it, however influential.
Notwithstanding such obstacles, and my determination not to
owe my success to personal solicitation, or to forward it by large
expenditure, the united and well-concerted efforts of the enemies
of Reform have been unavailing to prevent " THE TRIUMPH OF
ranicznx."

Let not the present success, however, satisfy us ; there is much
yet to be done, both in and out of Parliament. I shall, on my part,
spare no pains to fulfil the important trusts reposed in me ; and I
earnestly entreat that each of you will, by every means in your
power, endeavour to advance the great objects we all have in view—
the promotion of national freedom and happiness.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
Bryanstone-square, Jan. 23, 1835. JOSEPH HUME.

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1835.

In the Standard of last night appears a plan of
Tory Church Reform, which wears all the appearance
of being official. This plan possesses some excellent
points, but still more objectionable ones. The good as
compared with the bad in it, is as an ounce of sweets
to a pound of sours. Its besetting sin is, that
,it is
taintedsbroiighoUt with Toryism. " The. trail of
the' serpent is over it all." It is a Reform brought
forward not go mtich to benefit the community,
as- to continue, under the mask of religion, Con-
servative ascendancy. It will never do. •It must be
opposed tooth-and-nail ; cut up root and branch—its
objectionable portions, we mean—or we shall have
Churchmen and Dissenters, instead of being more cor-

dially disposed towards each other, (which should be
the first great object of all Church Reform), arrayed
in a more virulent hostility, than ever.

Our first objection to the plan is, that it is of too
proselytizing a character. This objection applies
with peculiar force to Wales, and those parts of the
kingdom where dissent most abounds. Without paus-
ing to discuss the question, whether people are most
likely to be benefited by the instructions of Churchmen
or Sectarians, we shall here content ourselves with the
remark, that it is highly impolitic to attempt to unsettle,
or interfere with their present opinions. They hold them
from habit—from conviction—from all that can give

them sacredness in their eyes ; they were the opinions
of their fathers—those in which they were themselves
brought up, and in which they ought to be permitted
to die. Seventy years ago, when dissent was in its

infancy, an attempt on the part of the Church to arrest
its progress by Reform, might have been attended with
beneficial consequences. Now, it is too late. Dissent
has become a faith—a settled principle of duty. It
may be disturbed. It can never be eradicated. The
fixed mountain may be sooner removed from its posi-
tion, than their own tenets from the hearts of the
English Sectarians.
The proselytizing spirit of the Tory plan, though
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artfully veiled, may be still seen lurking in this passage
—" The only means by which the end of Church
Reform can be accomplished, is the providing an effi-
cient Minister for every parish in the kingdom. The
providing of a resident, accessible, and efficient reli-
gious teacher for every family in England and Wales,
whether these families be congregated in manufactur-
ing toxins, or dispersed through agricultural districts,
must be the cardinal object of every really useful
Church Reform." Now, if we rightly apprehend this
passage, it bespeaks an avowed intention on the part
of the Church, not so much to take care that those dis-
tricts where her disciples most abound, be properly at-
tended to, as to send forth her pastors to intrude their pre-
sence among those flocks who prefer the superintendence
of other shepherds. If this be the object of tho
Church, it will fail—and fail to a deplorable extent,
for so far from extending the benign influence of reli-
gion, it will be the means of stirring up animosities,
where before, all was peace and harmony. Wales, for
instance, is a hot-bed of dissent throughout its entire
length and breadth, and its people live peacefully and
contentedly under pastors of their own choice. Why,
then, are they now for the first time to be told—'
you are happy under your own dissenters ; but you ate
so in a wrong spirit. You must be happy after our
fashion." Language like this, which speaks out pretty
broadly in the passage we have just quoted, is not the
language of men-of-the-world Reformers, but of clois-
tered fanatics, who can admit of no true happiness
but that which lies within the pale of their own belief.
Our next objection is, that the plan has a Tory taint

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about it. This appears indirectly•in the proposal to
multiply the number of clergymen. By effecting this,
the Tories, whose best ally has ever been the Church,
will, under the pretence of facilitating the means of
religious instruction, secure the services of an increased
body of electioneering agents. Our readers may per-
haps consider this a premature objection. Never-
theless, it is a just one. Who were most active during
the late Surrey election ? The Parsons I Who most
meddlesome in South Derbyshire ? The Parsons !
Who in the North of Ireland ? The Parsons ! Ex-
perience has shown that in moments of political excite-
ment, it is impossible to prevent these men from exert-
ing their interest in behalf of that party to which
from habit, inclination, and interest, they are insepar-
ably attached. We object, then, to the multiplication
of such agents. Let the Church content herself with
turning to the best account the means she has already at
command. Let her fill her present churches, before
she builds more. It is not to multiplying her resources,
but to applying in a worthy spirit those she already
possesses, that she must look for the extension of her
influence. A crusade against Dissent will no longer
avail her. It is merely Don Quixotte's assault and
battery on the windmills.
The bests parts of the plan—and these we can
most conscientiously approve—are the proposed equa-
lization of duty, the reduction of Bishoprics, and the
abolition of sinecures. But these, be it remembered,
have not been originated by the present, but are bor-
rowed from the late, Ministry. In fact, all that is
good in the present plan is owing to the Liberals ;
all that is bad, to the Tories. Of course the bad
preponderates.

The indemnification of the United States, and the
extraordinary demand made on France by the Emperor
of RUSSIA, as Sovereign of Poland,—both treated of
in The Sun of yesterday—include the only important
subjects in the Paris papers of Thursday, which we
have just received. It seems that the French public
was first made aware of the extent of the indignity
offered to the Kingdom by Russia, through the medium
of the article in the Frankfort Journal, to which we
alluded yesterday : for although it had been previously
rumoured that an agent from the CZAR was on such
a mission to Paris, the fact was looked upon as
too improbable to be credited. Sober-minded men
could not conceive such a stretch of hardened, reckless
guilt, as first destroying the nationality of a brave and
ancient people, and next proceeding to collect debts
due to them in their pristine glory. It was too hor-
rible to be contemplated; and wherever it was discussed,
it was regarded in the same light as if a man was first
to murder his neighbour, possess himself of papers,
and proceed with blood-stained hands to call upon
those who owed the deceased any thing, to pay it into
the coffers of his ruthless destroyer. But the
article which appeared in the Frankfort paper, stating
that although the claims of the EMPEROR as Sovereign
of Poland were under consideration, yet that the act
originated with France, at once alarmed and enraged
the French people. They believed that as far as re-
garded the revival of French claims on Poland, the
Government was grossly slandered; and their rage
knows no bounds at the idea, that Russia, after her
murderous annihilation of Polish nationality, has dared
to remind France of the treaty of Tilsit, for the
purpose of exacting a debt due to an ancient ally,
ruined by the cruel selfishness of the CITIZEN KING,
and his dastardly advisers. But fume and storm as
they may, the fact is now acknowledged by
the Ministers themselves. Already has the KING
appointed Baron MONNIER, a Peer of France, to
investigate the legality of the Russian claim, and to
report thereupon to the Government. Should this
question come to be diScussed in the Chamber of
Deputies, the whole country will be roused through
all its remotest extremities. The French nation, the
KING only excepted, has ere this, more than once re-
pented thk- it ever permitted the destruction of un-
happy Poland—for were it not that France and Eng-