The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-17 00:00:00

THE LONDOI,: .COURIALS.

DAILY EXTRACTg PROM THE MORNING PAPERS,
JUNE 17, 1826

[THE Tlmits.]

Aftt-:t all the 'prejudices which have been excited
144 tostqti, awl All the unworthy artificea whie,t have been at-
teoreded, the City of London returned yeeterday to Parliament two
Repreyn,tetives at least, about whosaindependent and liberal prin-
ciples there can be no mistake. Aldermen Wood and Weithman
are known to the Livery ; they alisl lint reserve to the moment of
coming to the poll, the &Amino, of their eentimente upon the-
most important subjects; nor when interrogated, though ltir.
Waithman might, without a reflection upon his manliness, have
been somewhat more explicit with vegetal to the Catholics, did
either at the Worthy Alito men pretend that he had never thought
about the nueetioo, or made up hie mind upon it. Aldermen
Wood, indeed, seized the hull tiy the horns. lie avowed his reso-
lution to vote as he ha.l always done in behalf of religious liherty,
though manifestly conscioue that his opennest cost hitettis
seat; while Mr.Ward,it young gentlew eo tarbri or thereaboute,hardly
seemed to know w hat was meant by 'Catholic 1 inem. ipation ! As it
turned mit, Alderman Grniatt'e ill-timed intrusion does natal,-
pear to have affected the linel remit!: of the election ; the Lord.
Mayor, who was most likely to teller from that uolooked for piece
of levity', having fallen short of )Iv. Ward upon the gross poll by.
to greater numher of votes than the torn-total who had polled for
Garrett. it may h ae well to mention here, that Mr. Ward's
corn/little have dieeltimed the Mean forgeries imputed to them on
fPliwroley last at the MasiLion-hoose; and have -promised, when_
the easetration of the city bottle adroit* of it, to search out awl
~epees the authors of the Vaud. Cambridge, sve are happy to.
yetreeire, continues to manifest a !PAM of the indignity which she
would suffer from a repreaelitatiern cepiely on the haei. of
4` No Popery." Lord Petri-initial has gained his 'election, hieing
124 a-bead of Alr. Buckingham's aritagorneteeelMr. Noires the
younger ;—a gentlemen whose effort*, both in writing awl in ore-
tern have established for him a fame which nn doubt he would wil-
ljazgly get rid of. We may bete take occasion to IA why the electors,
ineteed oflroulding themeelves with anxieties about the power of
the Pope,` do not tondeseend to feel an 'interest in whet iniftledi-
etely and deeply. concerns the welfirreof the satittlitry. - Why do
they not throughout England generally ilitea 'their care to points
of real end practical significance ?.,Ak'hy, when pledges are de.
Vr,finduly and . tests put firth, are those things- which constitute the
trw sue husineme and ever'r.sitty object of all clams of society for-
gotten? It was molt ritfieulous to hear that creetsfallen gander.
Mr: Stunner; catechising Mr. Pal Leer el to hit sentiments on
emancipation, it would have been so much More pat, for
tome hone t.
,freeholder to get op and insist on the. catechiser
I:imeelf elechtaing to the county on which he 'had ,an :long set
like en incubus, what were his intentions with regard to other
neetteuree of State policy ; as, for instance,—" How, Mr. Sumner,
'will you vote upon a motion for repealing the corn-laws? How
hate you voted on that most preeeing question ? Will yon, br
will yeti not, vote for a mitigation of the gamble's, through:,
Wlrieli so many poor men annually loge their lives? Will you:
vote for such specific motions Parliamentary reform as may
tend to make the House of Commons less an engine of thit
aristocracy than it teat rfitont ? Will you vote for an tbeditiore
of useless plueee-s-for a reduction of overgrown establieliment4—,
for any subetatitiel check upon the waste or plunder of the public
money?" We are friends, as We hive already said, to teets
and, plefitets, awl bonds, aml thottgages upon the honour of
Members of Parliament; but let the eternities be required for
solid and worthy conejdelatimu. , As. for " No Popery," it has
been got ready in the neture of a tub for the whale, that the poor
floundering animal may he harpooutd move effectually as on former
seeetreions. the clergy, 3.e find, in Westmoreland and Huntiq-
riostehire er* busying thsineelves with mine than ordinary alacrity,
t* opposition to Mr. Brougham and Lord Sohn Rustill—without
sO4ct, as it hitherto appears, in the' latter ; without effect, we cur-
elially hope, in the former.