The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-19 00:00:00

LONDON, TUE•:,JAY, AUGUST 19, 1845.

W'il'e the mini,teri-d organs chuckle, as in duty
tee Cnichester, Cirencester, Warwick, and
&Eiderland election:, we, who own no ministerial alle-
giaktee, may (I,uht whether this accord of constituencies
denotes so much love of Sir ROBERT PEEL as defective
electoral ins itutions. With the ballot at Chichester
would L.brd ARTHUR LENNOX, the Duke ot RICHMOND'S
broter, but member of a Government which the Duke
of RicitmoNn oist-u.ts. have necessarily triumphed, by
the Duke of RICHMOND'S influence, over the Duke of
Rictimoma's politics ? With the ballot at Cirencester,
would Mr. CRIPPS, stripped of Lord BATHURST'S in-
fluence, and the influence of his, father's bank, and left
to the resources of his own eloquence, have been sure of
re-election ? Is it even clear that the Cirencester con-
stituency of two or three hundred is entitled to be repre-
sented ? Armed with the ballot, the Warwick electors
would, douhreis, leave snapped their fingers at Warwick
Castle, and laugh, d in the face even of a Greenwich
commissioner. And with the ballot we will not
believe that the electors of Sunderland would have made
a shameless sacrifice of public duty to local interest ;
and, under the great responsibility of choosing a worthy
successor to Lord fIOWICK, have allowed a mere fortu-
nate railway adventurer to triumph over the venerable
author of the Corn-law Catechi(.m.
Other questions have for some time past thrown ques-
tions of Parliamentary reform into the back-ground ;
but, sooner or later, public attention will be again roused
to the necessity of the ballot, and to the large number
of small nomination and corrupt boroughs which still
disfigure our representative system. We can conceive
nothing mere likely to revive the interest in further Par-
liamentary reform than such a batch of farces of election
as ha, just now followed a shuffle of the small Govern-
ment cards. Otte more such farce is to be played in
Lintithgowshire, where a Government dummy. who has
been rewarded for a few years' service of silent voting
by the governorship of the Isle of Man, is to be replaced,
by dint of landlord influence and faggot votes, by ano-
ther adherent of Sir R. PEEL. Bel;ast, abandoned by
Mr. EMERSON TENNENT fur a life-provision in Ceylon
and a knighthood, will nut allow itself to be made over
quite so quietly to any ther Conservative ; and Mr.
O'CONNELL'S sun raises the banner of repeal against the
huh ~e
10 losieg Mr. E3IERSON TENNENT the Government
have lost tile sole representative of a large manufacturing
constituency among them. Mr. CARDWELL, to be sure,
repro cents a small English manufacturing borough—
Chttiero, but M. CARDWELL was carefully placed in
an otli;e which did not require re-election, because he
did not dare to run the risk of defeat, and, whenever a
general electbn comes, Mr. CARDWELL will have to
look elsewhere. It is somewhat strange, also, that Mr.
EMERSON TENNENT'S vacancy in the Government has
not been filled by some other Irish representative. Ire-
land has anything but its fair share of representation in
Sir 11. PEEL'S Government. Mr. EMERSON TENNENT
gone, the only two officials connected with Ireland are
two representatives of Irish counties, but hardly Irish-
men—Mr. CORBY, Secretary to the Admiralty, who re-
presents Tyrone, and Mr. JOIN YOUNG, Secretary to
Treasury, who reen-sents GA-an. We mention this,
not to fan any vulgar jealoasy, but as a proof of the
lanai; •f s it ;'Else's Gor, ronent nn sny popular
fee:ing. Mr. SREIL, Mr. M. O'FERRALL, and Mrs
WicsE, were inern:(ers (if the Whig Government.
YOUNG and Mr. Coaair, the representatives of Ireland
in Sir It PEEL'S Government, are Englishmen in all

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