The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

humiliating necessity of begging votes from the sec-
tion upon which it has heaped so much revolting
contumely, cannot conceal its apprehensions that
the Conservatives will hardly venture to make the
demonstration requisite to secure their object.
" Should the attendance of Conservatives appear
weak," says this NEWCASTLE trumpet, "the very
worst consequences to the Monarch and the Mo-
narchy may be apprehended from the impression
that would naturally be produced upon an inexpe-
rienced mind—THE IMPRESSION THAT ITS ER-
RORS WILL BE ALWAYS SUBMITTED TO." Here
is the whole plot plainly avowed. The election of Mr.
GouLBURN is designed as a movement to intimidate

the QUEEN ; to open a war upon our young So-
vereign, and force her to capitulate with that fac-
tion which is hateful to the people, and which
would bring the Throne itself into peril to gain its
ends. Let the Commons stifle this rebellion, as as-
suredly they will ; but let the Press not fail to make
it manifest to Europe. Above all things, it is ne-
cessary to unite on this question in the name of
the QUEEN, and for the honour and security of the
nation. But we reserve these considerations for
another day. The subject is fruitful of suggestions
which must not be lost.

The public is, we believe, tired of the discussions
about the Ladies of the Palace, whose presence there
made the Tories hastily drop the hastily-snatched reins
of Government. Nevertheless, we must beg to
rectify a mistake made by the Tories. The differ-
ence between her MAJESTY and Sir ROBERT
PEEL did not, as they assert, relate to entrusting
him with a constitutional power to form her House-
hold, but to his very unconstitutional demand

to dismiss it now that it is formed. Her
MAJESTY did not say that she would not
listen to her Ministers in making any new appoint-
ment in the Household, but she could not allow
him to make vacancies by dismissing her present
Ladies. Now in this distinction there is an im-
mense difference, and Sir ROBERT PEEL would
have been ungenerously and unworthily treated had
he been refused the power possessed and exercised
by Lord MELBOURNE of nominating members of

the Household when vacancies occur. That
power, however, no person ever thought of deny-

ing him.
Iris highly probable, had he proceeded to form his
Ministry, that the Ladies connected with his poli-
tical opponents would have resigned, but why was
he to have the power of dismissing them ? It is
customary for a great many persons to resign office
in a change of Ministry ; but it is not customary
for the Ministers to dismiss any. Sir ROBERT did
not wait for a resignation ; he took up the Red
Book, and proceeded to dismiss the Ladies. Some
writers, whose disappointed Radicalism makes
them more Tory than the Tories themselves, have
asserted that Sir ROBERT ought to have had the
power of dismissing these Ladies (not of appoint-
ing persons to fill the offices they hold when
vacancies occur), because their appointments are
given for State occasions. Why, so is every
office under the Crown. All the Custom-house,
Excise, and Stamp Commissioners are all crea-
ted for State and public occasions—every one of
those Commissionerships is given away by the
Prime Minister for the time being, but no Prime
Minister, not even the grasping Tory, ever
thought that it was necessary and proper to dis-
miss them all on his accession to office, in order to
display to the world his own regal power. There
is no more reason why Sir ROBERT PEEL should
have asked her MAJESTY for power to dismiss
her Ladies than for power to dismiss from her ser-
vice every man who holds her MAJESTY'S COM-