The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-07 00:00:00

Carlisle, or any of those who took office with
them. To the former Nobleman we give
the 'need' of our honest praise when he
quitted the Ministry; and we are happy to
find him in his legislative labours still the
worthy rival of the enduring reputation of
the Right Hon. Gentleman who preceded and
followed him in the Hotne Department. The
weakness and want of unity in the last Cabinet
-arose out of the operation of one cause. It was
' the Cabinet of parties not the Cabinet of Eng-
land. Every Member .when he entered its cir-
cle, within which only g,eneral views and general
principles cttght to be admitted;. carried with
him the private views and particular principles
of the party to which he belonged. He left
without a band of friends, to whose opinions
he was attached, and to whose judgments he de-
ferred, and of whose approbation he was more
solicitous than he was of that of his colleagues.
Instead, therefore, of a chemical tertiuin quid,
differing in some measure in its nature from any
of the individual ingredients of which it was
composed, we had a mechanical aggregate,
in which the qualities of each part were as
distinct and perceptible as before they were
mingled. This is a state of things which
faction begins by eulogising, and ends by des-
pising, It must appear strange, when we are so
very lately delivered from such a state, that there
should be men who would - labour to bring it
back ; for to what other desire can we attribute 1

the Attempts of those who ought to know better,
to hold up the Home Secretary, not as an ele-
ment of a Cabinet confessedly most desirous to
give the utmost security to all classes in the
State, but as the head and representative, par
excellence, of a particular party in the State ?
To that party we are as much attached as the most
zealous of our contemporaries can be, but we
would not wish to push its interests by means,
which, if successful, would inflict on them the
heaviest blow they have yet sustained. Were
any arguments capable of convincing men who
are determined to press their views coute qui coute,
we would beg them to -consider, that for the
very same conduct ,Mich they condemn as in-
jurious to the Church, the Home Secretary has
been attacked by its enemies.—New Times. •

We published last week a short report of the
case of Jefferson v. I Eardv, tried at the York
Assizes. We have since found the circumstances
of the case to be of far greater importance than
they at first appeared to our reporter. We there-
fore publish a very full report, and especially re-
commend to the attention of members of the
House of Commons the cross-examination of
the witnesses Wood and Horner. If these wit-
nesses speak truth,—and there seems no reason

to doubt what they admit with as much indiffer-
ence as if they were speaking of the most ordi-
nary and daily occurrences,—thee corruption is
as plainly b.-ought home to the borough of Pon-
tefract as it has been to East Retford or Penryn,
or any other borough which is undergoing, or
has undergone, the process of disfranchisement.
Voting-aluney,"—,, attending Members for
the purpose of distributing guineas,"—distinct
avowals that two at least of the candidates, and
those- the two sitting Members, paid this
money to the:voters, are facts which are sworn
to in the clearest and most unequivocal
terms. One witness will not swear that out of

nearly 1,000 voters there are more than ten whO
do not receive a regular price for their votes.--r
As far as our recollection goes, no case of cor-
ruption has ever been more distinctly. ai directly
proved ; nor is there one which iiiere loudly
calls for severe handling and correction,. We
think that it' Parliamentary attention is directed
to this rotten member of our representative
system, it must be cut off: and should it be dis-
franchised, we may confidently hope that. Mr.
Peel will allow that this is a case where the
franchise ought to be transferred to sonic great
manufacturing or commercial community. The
[louse of Coffi-IM's may save a vast deal of time
by observing the mode in which this trial was
conducted. Au inquiry which, to judge by the
usual practice, would occupy Parliament some
weeks, is lucre brought to a satisfactory conclu-
sion in a few hours, though that inquiry
braced other points besides the important one of
the general conduct of-the electors.—Times.

We understand that the Commissioners ap-
pointed to invest ate the state of the common
law were not named by Mr. Peel, but by the
Lord Chancellor, subject to the approval. of
Lord Tenterden. The members of the commis-
sion are excellent men, honnurable and learned

—in short, every thing but reformers. Besides,
five will probably be too many for effective work.
Mr. Brougham, we suspect, will find that his
labours of amendment will still have to be exerted
when the commission has completed its func-
tions.—lbid.

THE REVENUE.—We this day present to
our Readers an Official Statement of the pro-
duce of the National Revenue in the Years
ended April, 1827. and 1828, distinguishing
the Quarters ; together with an Abstract ; show-
ing the increase and decrease in the several heads
of Revenue—upon the whole of which we have
most cordially to congratulate the Public. Con:
trary to the dismal prognostics of some of our
cotemporaries, we have the happiness to find,
that so far from a material deficiency in
.the
financial produce of the country, there is an im-
portant and most gratifying increase in almost
every branch of the Revenue. Whilst in the
product of the .whold year we discover de&
ciencies only in the departments of the
Excise and r Post Office (all the others
affording a considerable increase) ; in the
last Returns—those for the Quarter ending the
sth of the present month, we find a great
crease in the whole of the branches, with the ex.
ception only of that of the " Miscellaneous ;'!
upon which however there is an increase upoti
the year of no less a sum than 176,8761. Thd
general result is, that upon the last Quarter titer
is a net increase of 538,1411., whilst upon thd
whole year it amounts to.upwards of 1,000,0001
The most gratifying consideration is of course
derived from the state of the last Quarter's ac-1
counts—showing as it does the growing pro-1
sperity of our Revenue, under the direction of
a wise and provident Ministry. • An increase
the Revenue of the country, in one quarter only
of considerably beyond hg, a million sterling
is circumstance.regarding which we cannot help
indulging in the highest and most heartfelt feel-
ings of gratification—and upon which, with
honest exultation, we must again beg to ofFeri
our sincerest congratulations to the public.-1
Mdrititig

A traveiler journeying near Oxford a few
dad s ,4nee,',:saw'frve or six of the Oxonians riding at the
distance of a mile or two trout that ancient seat of learning,
and he ob.erved that something about four inches in length,
of an oblong figure, was strapped on at the saddle-bow of
each on the near side ; from its place he thought it was a
holster, but its shape and size made that impossible.—i
This put him upon inquiring, and he aszertuined that eachi
of these gentlemen was carrying his cigar-care fixed to the
front of his saddle.—Berks Chronicle.