10 JUNE 1837, Page 12

COSTLY ELECTIONS GOOD FOR THE TORIES.

Air. Broadwood by this time must have had enough of Parliament, and will be loath again to tune his instrument to the airs of the Cal ion Club. Ilis bribed electors may defend his seat : we hope they may ; but it will pro. bably be at their own cost, or at the expense of the toint.stock purse of the Conservative party. Whatever drains the fund of the corruptionists, does good to the Reformers. The costliness of our misrepresentation will ulti- mately destroy the system of misrule. Already the Tories find it difficult to " plant " the counties. Several of their most stanch candidates are sick of the price of their seats. The Liberals will tire them out at their own game. The strings of Mr. Broadwood's planojifties are slackened, and a few qui tam actions and indictments will soon destroy his Bridgewater instruments. In the mean while, the Tories are as unlucky in their pretences to political purity as in their bribery elections.—.Morning made.

The costliness of elections will never drive the Tories from the field. Corruptible constituencies are their surest game. To say that bribery and corruption are destructive of a system of misrule, is to contradict experience and common sense. In this country we have had ample means of knowing, that in a mere contest of purses the Tories will succeed in nine cases out of ten; and hav- ing bought the electors, they sell them, or use them for their own ends; and hence misrule. They are less scrupulous and more wealthy than the Liberals. " Cheap elections " should be one of the Reformers' war-cries.