The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the

JOURANLS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Tory Journals allude to the approaching mar-
riage of the Queen ! and in terms too significant to be
mistaken, evince the mortification, the bare anticipa-
tion of that event inflicts on the party of which
they are the organs The starched and formal
expressions of " hope that the contemplated
marriage may contribute to her Majesty's hap-
piness," &c., contrast strikingly with the apprehensions
by no means ambiguously conveyed, of its discourag-
ing influence on Tory prospects. " The Ministers, we
believe (says the Standard), think themselves, as usual,
lucky' in the approaching event ; they have lived one
year upon theaccession, another year upon the coronation,
and they expect that the royal marriage will carry them
through the third ; and a year, half-a-year, or even one
quarter-day is a great matter to men in their position."
This, though last in order of arrangement, was evidently
first in the writer's thoughts. Like the postscript of a
lady's letter, it cs.mtains the pith and marrow of the whole.
"What effect will the Queen's marriage have on our party
prospects ? How long must we wait ere quarter-day'
brings to us the long-needed and much-desired quar-
ter's salary—which is a great matter to men in our
position ?" The oracle responds to the inquiry : The
effect of her Majesty's marriage will he most un-
favourable to Toryism. At all events one entire year
must pass after it takes place before office can be again
thought of by those who have so long lived on the in-
spiring hope of its early attainment. It is reported o-
some faded beauties that they break their lookingf
glasses for reflectieg their diminished charms. We should
not be surprised to hear of some Tories burning the
Standard for its unwelcome revelations. One thing is
manifest. The Tory Journals are impatient to spring upon
the young Prince who will, ere long, be placed in so inti-
mate a relation to the Sovereign ; to assail him with ca-
lumny ; to insult him, as the Bradshaws and the Robys,
stimulated by them, have aspersed indirectly the Queen,
and openly and avowedly her Court, even to her " per-
sonal attendants," and the " occasional guests" at her
table. Neither rank, nor age, nor sex, have obtained
exemption from these disgusting attacks on personal
and moral reputation—attacks prompted by a disap-
pointed faction for the purpose of subserving the
selfish schemes of party, or of gratifying the base pur-
poses of private or political revenge.
(From the Standard.)
HER MAJESTY'S MARRIAGE —The formal an-
nouncement of her Majesty the Queen's intended
marriage was made to the Privy Council on Saturday.
The document will be found in another part of our
paper. This communication is open to criticism, as
the composition, not of the Sovereign, but of
her Ministers ; but we frankly own that we can see no-
thing in it with which to find fault Our excel-
lent Contemporary the Times pointedly refers
to the omission of a reference to the Protestant
character of the Prince selected as the Queen's
consort. We regret this omission as much as any
one can, but it is only fair to own that the people are
as much to blame for it as the Ministers, that the
Queen is wholly without fault in the matter, and
that the Protestant character of the house of
Saxe Coburg might have been confidently asserted
had circumstances permitted the assertion. It
was the practice of the Princes of the House of
Hanover always to put forward a devotion to the
Protestant interest, in the front of their claims to the
confidence of the nation in the first address offered
to Parliament by each upon his accession to the Throne.
This declaratory pledge has been omitted in our
time, and we do not see how in the analogous case
before us it could well have been recurred to. Sitting
in a Privy Council partially composed of Papists,
how could the Queen allude to a preference of the Pro-
testant religion as her paramount title to the Throne, and
to the confidence of her subjects? Let it never be for-
gotten that it was the act of the people, as represented by
the Parliament of 18-29, that threw upon the Crown the
responsibility of refusing the admission of Papists to the
Royal Council ; and that the Act not only permitted,
but, by the permission, in some measure, compelled the
Crown to admit Popish Councillors. It is true that the
men now in power have abused the opportunity,
by admitting Papists most hostile to the Protestant re-
ligion, and to the integrity of the empire—tithe resisters
and repealers. But te law of 1829 destroyed the Pro-
testant character of the Constitution through all its
branches. Let us not then blame the Crown, or the
Ministers of the Crown, for an omission rendered inevi-
table by our own act.
(From the Courier.)
Fruitful as our foreign policy is, and has generally
been, of glaring inconsistencies and consequences the
most prejudicial to the commercial and political hsterests
of the country, in no instance, perhaps, has its course
of action been of more sinister import, because nowhere
was the right line more broadly marked out by com-
mon sense than in the case of the Spanish American
States. In the failing condition of our external com-
merce to ancient and accustomed outlets it was ma-
nifestly of the first importance to obtain by all
justifiable means a preference in new markets.
This was the primary object and the per-
vading feeling in the mind of Canning, when,
on the announcement of the recognition of the Spa-
nish American Republics, he made the famous de-
claration that he " had called a new; world into existence
to redress the balance of the old." The policy of
the present men in office, who, it that time in oppo-
sition, so loudly applauded his acts and language, has
been almost the reverse in practice. For they have
inclined to cast off the alliance 'and friendship of those
with whom Canning so anxiously sought to draw
closer the ties of connexion ; to relinquish the
patronage and protectorate which he had es-
tablished, and which were gratefully conceded as
almost of right for political benefits conferred of the very
first consideration. To complete the contrast, not only
have the duties of protection and alliance been repu-
diated, but we have connived at the oppression and
spoliation of our allies, and admitted a rival power to
arrogate a degree of supremacy and interference never
exercised on our part, although more rightfully entitled.
Thus Mexico and Chili have each in turn been aban-
doned to the selfish encroachments of France, by whom
they have been spoiled as ruthlessly of treasure, and
their cities assailed as murderously, as in the worst days
of Spanish colonial or buccaneering history. So also
now with Buenos Ayres. For nearly one year and a
half have the shores of that infant Republic been
under blockade the most rigorous ; it's coasting craft,
even to the most miserable fishing boat, recklessly de-
stroyed ; the defenceless villages and farm-houses on
it's coasts surprised, sacked, and laid waste by the
sudden and silent descents of armed bands, by night
or by day, which as speedily re-embarked after the
work of devastation was accomplished, and thus
escaped pursuit and vengeance. Foreign commerce
has been unscrupulously prohibited, and neutrals
dealt with as foes by the French squadron. As that
foreign commerce was chiefly in British hands and for
British account, the main though unavowed designs
of French aggression are accomplished ; for those designs
consist much more in working mortal injury to the
commercial, and therefore the political interests of Eng-
land, through the unsuspicious medium, and under the
pretext of hostilities for the redress of grievances against
the Spanish American Goveraments, than in any desire
to proceed to the utmost extremities with them on the
false and flimsy grounds pretended.