The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-10 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Morning Rudd of this day, in the course of a ram..
bling leading article suggested by the present aspect of par-
ties, observes :—" The late occupants of office have before
this time discovered that they have lost, not merely place,
but every chance of recovering it. Their popularity can
never enjoy a second spring. The play has been played
out. The bubble has burst. The reforming Whigs have
been compelled to loosen their hold on office ; and no voice
has been raised, inviting. them to return within the circle
of its enchantments. The bitterness of death, moreover,
has not passed away with the cessation of their political
existence. No; they have been compelled to witness their
own political obsequies, and to mark that not an eye has
been moistened, as Whiggery has been consigned to its
kindred corruption." In another article on the subject
of O'Connell's recent Letter to the People of Ire-
land, Grandinamma rails at the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman in a style perfectly grotesque from its
ultra-vehemence :—" As a political or literary produc-
tion," observes our ivixen Contemporary, " this incen-
diary effusion of the Agitator's pen is utterly contemp-
tible. It does not display a single ray of talent, or pas-
sage of eloquence. It is a turgid, vapid, and boisterously
feeble production ; full of all the common-places of his
coarsest, lowest, silliest style of mindless declamation, un-
relieved ky one original thought, one happy illustration
one gleam of humour, or a spark of intellectual indignation."
This is all very easily said; the only question is, was it
worth saying? As for appropriateness, tt is no more cha-
racteristic of O'Connell's Letter, than it is cf our Con-
temporary's own diatribe. By the way, what does Grand-
mamma mean, by objecting to this letter that it is " unre-
lieved by a gleam of humour ?" Surely, no sincere patrio
would ever dream of cracking jokes, in a document in_
tends d to rouse his countrymen to a sense of their critical
situation !

The Morning Chronicle speculating on the probability
of a dissolution, remarks as follows :—" It is quite impos-
sille that Sir R. Peel can go on long with the present
House of Commons; we would entreat Reformers not to
place too great reliance on the accounts they may hear
of the intentions of the new Ministry to postpone the
dissolution till the end of ;the Session. There are so
many potent arguments why the Tories should go to the
country with as little delay as possible, that we are very
• much disposed to place little reliance on what they
choose to put forth to the contrary. We would there-
' fore once more inculcate on all constituencies the im-
portance of being on the alert. There is no cause for
despondency. Unity of purpose will make up in real
and efficient strength for any apparent deficiency in num-
bers. The men whom the people must now send to
Parliament ought to do more than merely oppose the
Government of Sir R. Peel—they ought to be prepared
to do battle for such a Reform in the representation as will
make the House of Commons the real image of the people.
No party which does not rest for support on the people can
long subsist in this country; and we have no fear that
public opinion will he unable to obtain proper organs."
The Times assigns the subjoined reasons for the dissolu-
tion of the late Cabinet :—" It was the long coquetting
with democracy, net the slow and late approximation to-
wards Conservatism, that has been the plague spot of the
Melbourne Ministry. The people are monarchical—the
people are attached to the aristocracy of England—the
people, as a people, are for Church and State, and crown
and peerage, and for a Parliament of gentlemen. The
people are sick of turbulent demagogues and obtrusive
pretenders to the love of liberty. The people, on a die_
solution, will bid such persons take their departure from
the hustings. Besides which, as Lord Melbourne him-
self confessed four years ago, the Peerage are against him,
the landed proprietors are against him, the Church, the Bar,
the commercial interest, the monied interest are against him
—all the organ\ zed souaces, channels, and store-houses,
of public opinion are against the shabby Government, and
cling to Sir R. Peel. We anticipate, therefore, an ad-
ministration of Conservatives, no less powerful from her- •
mony with each other and the people, than the shabby,
patchwork Government was feeble, from having no one
colour, and no fixed principles at all. It is expected that
Sir Robert Peel will be disposed, if possible, to do
without resorting to the harsh experiment (though infal-
lible, if required) of an immediate dissolution. We must
confess we doubt the wisdom of this policy." In another
leading article, the text of which is furnished by Lord
Brougham's late decision in the Auchterarder case, our
Contemporary states, " his Lordship's decision, if Vie
mis-
take not, inscribes a hie jacet as well upon the law of pa-
tronage, as upon the spiritual independence of the Church."
The Morning Post discusses O'Connell's Letter to the
People of Ireland in these caustic terms :—" The Learned
Agitator loudly proclaims that, notwithstanding what has
taken place, he does not despair ; but he is unable to con-
ceal his very deep mortification, and his very keen sense of
the calamity which has befallen him. He will most as-
suredly be a very considerable loser, and he knows it. His
unrecognized place of grand distributor of the Government
patronage in Ireland must have been aremarkably good thing,
especially when turned to account with those high abilities
for transactions of finance which were exhibited to the pub.
lie in the Carlow election affair with poor biniple Mr. Ra-
phael. Daniel being compelled, with great bitterness of soul
to abandon his functions of grand distributor of Irish Govern-
ment patronage, has, with his usual alacrity, assumed once
more the deportment and tone of the big beggarman ; and he
bullies and flatters at a great rate, avowing his principal
object to be a fresh rally of Precursors.' Now this is,
in plain English, a fresh rally of shillings. The perse-
verance of this man in looking after the main chance is
really admirable. He calls upon the people of Ireland to
meet the calamitous change of circumstances which has
taken place by a fresh enrolment of six hundred thousand
Precursors. Now, should this scheme take, he gets at
the very least a shilling a-head, for the rule is, that when
a man enlists as a Precursor he pays a shilling instefadenof
receiving one, according to the old Royalist
planke °thin-
listment. Six hundred thousand shillingsedmiat will be thirty
thousand pounds, and if that sum canb be
nice little nest-egg for Daniel 10, egiara.: on in his now
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so far as mere words go, but has nothing at
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class of Liberals, from the most extorretmhe
of the namefr
Administration now in the course of contsotrtuhcetimonos:t mfr
rate, can expect any concession whichworthy
in the course of construction. The Chartists are exulting
such an Administration as that now formed, or is
at the overthrow of the Melbourne Ministry: what do they
Raotbetrhe hands of a purely
t Peel concede to
speirct,
expect, what can they
\\,alex
Tory Cabinet .
Parlia-
ments ? Will he propose, or sanction, if proposed by others,
them Universal Suffrage? Will he give._thern Annual Parlia-
d the Tamworth Baronet
give
a measure for securing to them the protection of secret vot-
ing ? Will, in one wor ,
make to them even
them the Charter? No; nor will" hetl
the smallest concession. What !. he then give them
nothing To be sure he will give them something. He
Already has he _
will give them dungeons in abundance, or it may be free
passage across the seas
begun to give
them a foretaste of what they may in this way expect
from his rule. Arrests have taken
place, and others
arc understood to be in contemplation. we speak advis-
edly when we sly, that Sir Robert Peel it determined to
pursue a rigorous course.

Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Somer-
set gave a dinner to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sus-
sex yesterday evening, in Park-lane, when a select circle
of friends were invited to meet his Royal Highness.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowno
have issued issued invitations for a grand entertainmerta,n 1
Royal Highness Princ
Monday evening, to his Imperial Highness th
cc
Duke Alexander and his William
Henry of the Netherlands, at Lansdowne House.