The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-17 00:00:00

The Cambridge Election proceeds just as
might be expected. Mr. CAVENDISH is at the
head of the poll, and Mr. BANKEs—poor Mr. ,
BANKES!—Weighed down by the laws of specific
gravity, sticks fast at the bottom. All the
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rising and vigorous talent of the University is
with the one gentleman ; all the decayed, mouldy,
and obsolete prejudices with the other. Mean-
while the latter party are straining every nerve to
return their favourite candidate. What they want
in ability, they make up in impudence. Squibs
are put forth, " for gentle dullness ever loves a
joke ;" allusions made to the intellect of the
BANKES'S family--just as if it had any in-
' tellect to allude to—and the claims of
GEORGE himself, (the Georgium Sidus of the
High Church Empyreum,) put forth with a pomp
of words and obscurity of meaning, worthy of
WARREN, Dr. RADA', or ROWLAND'S Macas-
sar Oil.

Passing by the claims of Mr. CAVENDISH—
for of what earthly use is it to urge a point on
which all the world is agreed ?—we come to
the question who and what is Mr. G. BANKES,
what has he done for the University, what
does he intend to do, what is he ever likely to
do ? Literary distinction he has none. Of po-
litical liberality he has an equal quantity. But
his father, it may be said, is the author of that
droll production, the Constitutional History of
Rome, and genius, like an entailed estate, is here-
ditary. Granted : we surrender up to Mr. BANKES,
junior, the full possesion of this intellectual estate
of Mr. BANKES, senior, just premising, by way
of set-off to our liberality, that such estate is so
mortgaged with absurdities, so clogged with
dullness—not with your palpable everyday dull-
ness, but with that bewildering trash which
glimmers with such peculiar effect in the nar-
cotic and enigmatical columns of the Morning
Journal—that it can be of no earthly service to
any one.

" But," says Mr. BANKES, as a reason, we
suppose, for his being elected, " my principles are
unchanged." Who ever doubted it ? They
cannot possibly change for the worse ; on that
point luckily they can never apostatise ; and as
for the better, it is quite enough to know that
they are, and have been hostile to the Emancipa-
tion Act, to become at once convinced, that in-
tellect has had little or nothing to do with their
formation.

Let Cambridge then—the nurse of science,
the mother of generous and manly wisdom—re-
turn him who has already shed splendor on her
annals. Let her return him who on the Tripos
Paper was first and foremost, instead of him, who
duly counting from the bottom, held a nearly
similar position.

Calcutta Papers to the 14th February have
been received at the North and South Ameri
can Coffee-house, but they contain no news.
The Governor-General's health was nearly re-
established since his return to the Presidency o❑
the 3d of February.

Two mails have arrived from Lisbon—one of
the 24th, and the other of the 31st May. The
Lisboa Gazettes to that period are, as usual,
barren upon domestic events, and political ones
they dare not touch. The same unvaried game
of cruelty still continues :

LISBON, MAY 25.—,0n Saturday, the 123,1 inst., 31
individuaba, and on the fillowing day the remainder, 14
in number, were brought from the prisons of the Li-