The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-22 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1845,

The labours of the Anti-Corn-law League to amend the
county representation will go far to console us for the pass-
ing away of another Parliament without the enactment of
Vote by Ballot ; for, without such enactment, we may be
now sure that this Parliament will pass away. Mr. COB-
DEN'S fortyshilling freeholders will wrest those counties to
which his registration labours extend from the landlord-
ridden serfs whom Ballot is desired to protect. Their next
representatives will be returned by majorities consisting of
freemen, and will no longer speak the voice of the landlords.
'there will 'still be nomination boroughs and corrupt
boroughs: here the League can do nothing, and they have
-wisely given up the boroughs for the counties. _ It is not pro-
bable that before a dissolution they can comprehend all the
counties of England even within their grasp ; but the way
to succeed is to confine efforts to what may be done,
and to do that; and this is the way, we rejoice to see, that
the League are pursuing.
Something has been already done. Mr. COBDEN, who is
no braggart, has lately repeated many times that four ,
-counties aro safe to return free- traders. All the family in-
fluence and high character of Lord FRANCIS EGERTON will
not agaire avail him in South Lancashire, and his col-
league, Mr. Ex.rwtstr., will have to whistle for his seat.
Mr. Rttowx, the eminent Liverpool merchant, and Mr-
CHARLES %%wrens, are booked as the Members for South
Lancashire in the next Parliament; and a truly deserved
*Waird will thus be conferred on Mr. VILLIERS for his noble
gorvices to the cruse of free-trade in Parliament. Mr.
STpatry WORTLEY and Mr. BECKET DF.stsoN are no longer
to misrepresent the West Riding, which will thus take
the first opportunity of recovering itself from the disgrace
ig rejecting Lords MORPETH and MILTON. The two present
thetas-protecting Members for North Cheshire are doomed
also; and so is Colonel WOOD in Middlesex, where it is ru-
moured that Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR will be the candidate
On free-trade principles, whenever a vacancy may arise.
These are the counties which the League have made safe.
They- have made progress, also, in other counties; and in
the neir-t year's registration they propose to make safe the
following twenty-four counties :
County. Present Members.
North'Lanctishire
Clifton

South Cheshire
—B4;
Egerton and Mr. Tollemache
North Staffordshire aft. . J. W. Russell and Mr. Adderly
South Staffordshire
Lordmr.
Hl.nf easmt rti)teonanadndComl.rA.
Liddellnson
North Durham
East Cumberland
South Northumberland Mr. Bell and Mr. S. Ogle
North Warwickshire
East Worcestershire
East Gloucestershire
teris
West Gloucestershire
East Somersetshire
West Somersetshire
North Wiltshire
South Nottinghamshire Lord Lincoln and Col. Rolleston
South Leicestershire
Rutland
Last Surrey Mr. Kemble and Mr. Antrobus
South Essex Mr. Bramston and Mr. G. Palmer
West Kent
South Hants .. .. Mr. Compton and Lord Charles
Wellesley
East Sussex Mr. Darby and Mr. Fuller
East Cornwall Mr. Rashley and Mr. Pole Carew
West Cornwall
Lemon.

It is well to let those who are doomed know their own
,names.. There may be as many as six. out of the four dozen
Members we have named who have voted for Mr. VILLIERS'S
motion. One of these is the venerable Colonel LANGTON.
' The League propose to provide him with a more suitable
colleague than Mr. MILF.s. Oh 1 what a blow will it be to
the 17, Bond-street Society, to see their spokesman in the
House of Commons—the leader of the agricultural protection