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THE LONDONIJOURNALS.

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'RACTS FROM THE MORNItitiIIAPEREe.
JULY 4,...
1826.

[THE Timm] 1
The election for Westmoreland is concluded in the
manner which there was, from temporary, in addition
to permanent causes, but too strong reason to appre-
hend. 'We observe in some of the other contests, that
certain candidates reject the idea of giving useless
trouble to their adversaries, This is a very vicious
principle. All men ought to have trouble given,theta,
and to feel pain, while they are pursuing a wrong
course, even though the frustration of their schemes
may be somewhat more than doubtful. It is the or-
dinance of Providence that fears, misgivings, and
anxieties, should attend guilt, and the efforts of good,
men should second the, ordinations of Providence. If
the family of the Lowthers consisted by prescription of
Sir Charles Grandisons, never should even a family of
Grandisonspocket the county of—Westmoreland NVith-
out opposition : at least, if the county is thus to be
disposed of, it ought to be divided among the contigu-
ous counties, and put out of the list altogether.
The importance'attached to Mr. Brougham's opposi-
tion is evident from a very singular fact, which is,
that Mr. Curwen was in some danger of losing his
election for Cumberland, from the circumstance of
his name being castially omitted among the names of
those who signed the requisition to Mr. Brougham to
stand for Westmoreland. The effect of a scandal re-
sulting from this circumstance was such, that he found
himself obliged to publish' the following hand-bill, ad-
dressed to the gentry:—

"ro /HZ GINTItY, CL itCiy, &ND f cr. 'animas or Tiiz COUNTY

OP epiliEßl. A ND.
"Gentlemen--A most unfOunded rumour having been circu-
lated to injure me in your opinion—that the absence of my name
from Mr. Brougham's requisition to stand for Westmoreland pro-
ceeded from indifference to the cause, or, what would be more
discreditable, temporizing with those to whom, for more than
40 years, I have been constantly opposed—l feel it incumbent on
me to declare,' that both of these imputations are false. No
can reprobate more strongly thin I do, and will, a 5 far ail haie
power, concur in' opposition .to the unjust monopoly of till whole
representation of Watmorelaud in one family,--.4 have the honotir
to bt, Gentlemen,
.your obedient humble servant,
"WOrkington-hall, June 13." "J. C. CURWEN."
The proceedings of Mr. Broughain and the Low-
thers, on the subject of Bm oan Catholic voters, 1)14-
seitted a singularcontrast to each other. Mr. Brougham,
who is a friend to emancipation, allowed a Catholic, by
voting for the Lowthers, to Vote against, hirtisell, and
the free toleration of his Wth : the Would not
stiffer a Catholic to vote. for the free toleration of the
faith which heprofesses ! Mr. Brolighain refused to
tender the: oath of supremacy' altogether: the I;;OWthets
*spend it in favour of their friends, and enforce it
gag* their opponents. We should *doubt' whether
Catholicism has any thing ini it more. unjust or illi-
beral than, this act of its enemies; or Whether ProteS-
taritism teaches any doctrine more kind and tolerant
than the conduct of Mr, Bionghain. There is no-
doubt that the Catholic who was drag,ed up to
vote against his religion, would have thanked Mr.
Broughtun had he stopped him in the aco and as
little doubt that the refection of those Catholics who
would vote for their religion, is felt by them 4 cruel
and unjust measure. This subject deserves considei
ation also.; .n another voint of view. yNecteti to
the Catholic religion that it, tathithi tln u te rthetitTs
its prefessors too much to tin «.»ninioo of the I)ricat
However, it is now evident that, whatever may be the
tyranny of the priesthood among the Catholics, the ty=
railny of the LoWthers is greater, wherever they hare
firm hold of their, victitn; for they can , drag a , man
aws4i, front priest tind Confession both, and, make hint
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vote against the toleration of that faith to which he
,belongs.

LritE, MORNING lIERALD.:I
It is said that 'arrangements are making at the Post,
to convey letters twice a day to allplaceS within
.20 Miles of the ll oy.al Ex eh al►ge ; a , h
embraCeWindsor, Staines, Leatherhead, Epson),
Hertford, St. Albans, liAgate, Mulford, Gi.aYesend,
&c. We shall be glad to find that this. report is cOr-'
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rect ;and that the heads Of this department, Who haVe
of late shown rather alethargie tendeney, are once
more wide awake and able to sec their way. Should
the above account he true, %,.e hope it , will be;, ot4f
the forerunner of (Ater improvelllCati ; that , the
obvious means we have, So often pointed out of pip,
viding a more early deliver; of letters by the General
PoSt ‘vill speedily be adopted, and that the ridicidons
practice of confining the twopenny postdelivery within
the limns or what once was London Will be forthwith
abolished. We think too that if the threc-penny'pOsi
delivery were extended to small parcels, and the
with the letters, conveyed in mind!. carts instead of the
wretched 'half-starved horses that, now earry the
hags and the boys, great convenience would arise to
the public, and not improbably to the Revenue.'

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The ,Yood people of the. North generally lay claim,
and apparenuynot without reason, , to, a greater share
of, mother wit, than falls to the lot. of Southern
fellow-countrymen. 'file Yorkshire . election, frOM
which great play was es.pected,
,aeetns to have gone
off precisely upon this, point, Mr. Pethell Itayipg
.more discretion than to contestt,hat county at an expeitee
which was enough to astound the largot; fortune. The
'contest:in Northumberland, Illiwever, NV bid' is; sonic.;
whit,fuither North atill, betrays not only a want ;of
prudence, but atlegrce of inconsisteticy quite irrecon.
eilak►le with the.breviduess ,t,e generally attribute to
theae northern lights. Here are tWO Ministerial, or
Tory candidates, Who arc at the head of the poll, and
who may therefore be said to have had the game in
their own han&i, but who play it ~c) badly are; to
have each actually made a, coalition with one of their
opporientalr. Liddell splitting his votes with Mr.
Beaumont, and Mr. Bell his with Lind Howielt.—L
The hest of the joke is, that a large proportion of tbe
Nartlftunbrian wiseacres are actually enough to
allow their .notes to be thus neutralized, and them-

this 'kind of unnatural nun»).
selves made the dupes of
—But the absurdity does not stop here, for so in-
volved are these good people in the private

mabbles of the ettaidates, stna so totally :inben

sible to the public principles upon which, find upon
which alone, Melt exercise the elective
franchise, that some. old dovynriglit Whigs have
actually given Plunt',rs to 'ThrY candidate) while
the heeds of great Catholie who have been
out most luhtily i
for years crying (Ana at mit
or both of the candidatef,
have done the saine to one
who are opeos, opposed to their priiinsions. There
incoAsieteticy,co OuritvAgft sl?out, such do-
VP* te:gesolyi political ' :feelings Lan& opinions into
,-!ctct ITOTINense, and we-hope we shall hear no more,
such people at least, of Whig prineipleS, of Pa-
sThriarnipation. It must show plain loOl4raron,
at !text, the extreme folly of an over-eagerness or zeal
upon inch topics, when those , who profess, t

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