The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-26 00:00:00

_EVENING EDITIO:

METROPOLITAN POLITIC
SUMMARY.

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The Courier of last evening, in the course of a lea it
article on Monday's division in the ,Commons, observes
as follows:—" The present Session exceeds in barrenness
even tie two that preceded it. This grant of 30,0001. for
the purposes of education is, after. all, the achievement on
which its claims to public respect will mainly have to
depend. The affairs of Jamaica and Canada are neces-
sarily postponed, because all real deliberation on their com-
plicated interests is rendered hopeless by the ' state of
parties.' Will Ministers do nothing to rouse their friends from
their present state of apathy and lethargy ? Lord Mel-
bourne would be the basest craven that ever ran from a
battle-field, if be were to desert his Royal Mistress in her
present need. When he stepped forward as the chosen
champion of his Sovereign, and that Sovereign a young, an
outraged lady, he assumed a responsibility which he cannot
Aril k from now. There must be no surrender. The
battle must be fought to the last gasp, and if a major's!),
cat rot be had without it, Parliament must be dissolved."
The Standard speaks of Monday's division in the fol-
lowing sneering tone :—" Whether the majority on Lord
Stanley's amendment was FIVE or THREE it dil not im-
prove when the grant, which gave rise to it. came to be
itself the subject of decision. The majority last night
sank to TWO. Nearly forty placemen, full forty Ro-
manists, and a number of frifid•sl and anomalously v aried
Radicals, about equal in amount to the combined
placemen and Romauists, actually swelled the Minis-
terial majority to TWO. These two, moreover, Minis-
ters would not have had were .Mr. Clive in his- seat
for Ludlow, for which a petition has been presented bed
which Mr. Clive will yet occupy. The Ministerial j•iurrials
say that some of the Whig- Radical :41(mbcrs were shut
out. This is not improbZie. The doors of the House of
Commons have a marvellous instinct of closing suddenly
against gentlemon who arc in such a position that they
must either vote against their party or against the will of
those who have sent them 'to Parliament. We have no
doubt that the shut out Members did not forget that they
Ld Christian and Protestant constituents, who might
more freely overlook the exposure to exclusion that, a
vote for the grant."

The Glo6i; thus expresses itself (II the suLjcct of the
Education scheme :—" The country mid it have reason to
complain, if circumstances were more f.:vourable, not that
Government attempt to do so touch,. but attempt to do no

wore. The Intoleraat Abusivcs have exhausted their whole
ammunition, have sent their whole iti,:et'Ne force into ac-
tion, and have after all tailed. They will succeed no bet-
ter, nay will f..il more signally, on future cecayiolis, when
the Government and public shallsee their way to more in:-
portant exertions. 'They' have told their force cut to the
last man ; they have drained their topics to the lowe,t pr,-
jud:ce. Ii the Government plan bad really exhibited all
the bosi'ity to ecclesiastical it.fluences which wes pre-
tended, the cry could not have been raised m ire fiercely.
Well I we have seen all that it• can accomplish, and may
be sure it will da even less next time.. If we were not
persuaded that Government is .perfectly sincere i.: its
meaning to effect whatever good can be effected with the
present limited vcee, we might almost base suppo.,ied it had
asked fur that vote merely on.the same principle as an old
soldier might have hoisted a stuffed figure en purpose to
have it shot at ! , Fiat experimentam in earpore silt. The
experiment has been made. The enemy has been drawn
into action, has spent his eff.rts, and we keep the ti
The Times of this morning, commenting on Lend 3.
Russell's late circular, empowering the Lords Lieutenant
of certain disturbed counties to furnish arms to such inha-
bitants as should volunteer their services f,r the protection
of life and property, says The Sdecial Commissions
and the Irish Coercion Bill resorted to by Earl Grey,
whatever may be said of their expediency, exhibited, at
least, no unconstitutional stretch of power en the part of
the Cabinet and Legislature which sanctioned them ; but
with respect to this novel guerilla armament recommended
by Lord Melbourne's Government, the case is quite other
wise The Ministry have thereby transgressed their proper
ovince, and have thereby assumed an authority which no
Ministry has a right to. That the parties to whom a supply
of arms has been offered may be little disposed to make a
bad use of them, is nothing to the- purrse, even hail we
any security that such is the fact. Oar present objection
applies, not to the persons who receive the army., but to
that unprecedented assumption of power which has ori-
ginated the arrangement at all ; and on this preliminary
point, perhaps the most important of any, we defy the
Whigs to justify themselves by even the shadow of an
apology. Not that the Chartist insurgents did not re-
quire to be sharply dealt with ; but that the Government,
in attempting to suppress their seditious procee dings by
the distribution of fire-arms in a way unknown to the
Constitution, have rushed headlong into a Measure which,
besides being ludicrously inadequate for-its professed pur-
pose, establishes a precedent fur future executive usurpa-
tions, perilous in the highest degree to the liberties of the
country. 7

The Morning Chronicle makes the following comments
on Viscount Melbourne's speech in the House of Lords
last night, in reply to Lord Brougham We regret
that his Lordship should have hazarded anything in the
shape of apology for Lord Howick's statement, which,
whether taken as applicable to that part of the Govern-
ment hostile to the Ballot, or as he afterwards explained
it, conveying only the views by which he was induced
to consent to make the question open, was calculated to
damage the Ministry, by exciting, .in the Reformers a
distrust of their sincerity. "--May noto-tobserved nis
Lordship, " one person (I know not 'ivhother any
person has so said) state if this question be fairly
and freely discussed, without influence and without
constraint, it will be sure to retrograde in public
opinion' ; and, on the other hand, a person who is in favour
et* the Ballot, urge very na!urally this idea, Give it fair
play, and it will be sure to advance in public favour ?' "
We confess w think his Lordship has not much mended
Lord flow:.ck's pos:tina by this atteropt at applogy. V.hy
should the part of the Cabinet host-oaf- to au Ballot have
always opposed the making it an open question, except that
they conceived the making it an open question would
advance it ? Men arc not usually opposed to that which
favours their own views. Assuredly that part of the Ca-
binet which favoured the Ballot ware not opposed to its
being an open question. Lord Howick's statement, there-
fore, only relieved Ministers from the imputation of vindi
eating dishonesty by its absurdity,"
The Morning :Herald still continues to harp on the
Ministerial education project, and delivers herself to the
following effect : —" Few persona, we believe, will be hardy
enough to deny that some step is necessary to check the
progress of demoralization. The Whig ecaento will not
de ; in fact, it could only tend to increase the evil by giving
a sort of legislative sanction to the disregard of religious .ob-
servances. But, even if the scheme were not chargeable
with that defect, is the State to confine all its solicitude to
the children, anti bestow none upon the adults ? Oi what
usc.can it be to educate children, and abandon them the
next moment to the example of vicious parents, fur whose
moral and religious instruction no adequate provision has
been made? It is au idle supposition to think that even
the best system of education eau prosper under such cir-
cumstances. No, we must conic at the parents through
• the ins!rumentality of the Church. We must afford them
at least, the opportunity of religious worship, and then we
may indulge some hope that what educatiun may du will
not be undone by example at holin."
The Morning Post in the course of a flippant leading
article, suggested by the late Ministerial inejority of two
in the House of Commons, ou the education question,
indirectly expresses the opinion that Lord John Russell
will not persevere in the measure :—" We can imagine
the prob ability of Ministers having attempted a scheme
which brings them down to the wretched majority of
two, for the sake of ingratiating themselves with their ex-
acting friends the Dissenters, and without expecting,
perhaps without wishing, anything beyond this ; but we
eennat conceive the probability that Ministers,, with a
majority of only two in their favour, and with a consider-
able majority of E relish members directly against them,
will not abandon the plan they have brought forward for
the gratuitous education of the pr ople of England. It
is chsracteri.tic of this Adrnieistration not to do what
ougl.t to be performed by a Government, and to el a dun
m incapacityi what it has attempted from ignorance."
The Morning Advertiser alludes in Cie following terms
tu, the education grant, and the necessity of persisting in
We think we may say that notwithstandiug the
merry chirping of the Tories at the smallness of the ma-
jority, the Government will not be so half-witted as to
forego the grant which will have been obtained by so
severe a conflict, and in spite of the misrepresentation of
• their enemies and of the imputation Of I ad faith s) rock
1 lossiv made, nothing will be done to render the grant sub-
' s•:rvient to any other cods than those distinctly stated in the
terms of the modified plan The Dissenters and the
friends of education and the real Liberal will trace in the
course of argument lately adopted, and in the recent pro
ceediegs of the Tories, the character of the opposition with
which a truly Liberal Government has to coot( ad."

HERTFORD CONSERVATIVE FESTIVAL.— 1
The Conservative electors of the borough of Hertford yes-
terday entertained Sir Thomas .Tinto Farquhar, the un-
sucees,ful candidate for the representation of the. borough
at tlic, !we election, as a token of their high estimation of
his conduct in coming forward as a Conservative. Lord
Maldon was also invited, but did not come. We are told
by the Post that " the proposition for the festival origi-
natzd solely with the operative Conservative electors, who,
although they were not possessed of the means or the in-
fluence to get up a meeting on a grand scale, yet still were
anxious, so far as their means went, to testify their attach-
meet to the cause o! Conservatism, and to show their de-
termination of returning a Conservative candidate when
the next opportunity offers of enabling them to do:so!"
REPRESENTATION OF HULL—We learn from
the Hull Ms( rver that on Thursday evening there was a
meeting of the Liberal electors to receive James Clay,
Esq., as one of the Reform candidates for the representa-
tion of I-lull in Parliament. Mr. Clay was well received,
and after his speech the following resolution was adopted
hv the meeting :—" That this meeting:, having heard from 1
Mr. Clay an exposition of his political opinions, highly
ttpproves of the same, and pledges itself to support him a%
a candidate for the representation of this borough, when-
ever an election may take place." Three cheers were then
eal!el tor, and given with excellent effee'. for Mr. Clay,
the I ke for Colonel Thompson, and the like for Mr. litttt,
We arc authorized to contradict the statement
relative to the property left by the Bishop of Petert,orough.
The whole f,cchold or landed property his Lordship pos.
sesscd did not amount to ten pounds per annum, and
After three cheers for the Queen, the meeting separated.
his personal property (arising chiefly from insurances
on his life), a:ter payment of the necessary charges
upon it, was of inconsiderable amount.
FAIRLOP FAIR —The usual steps were takep
by the Bench at Ilford Petty
Sessions, June 22, to Pm'
serve the peace t.l;. Fairlop Fair, a body of special room-,
eer
bles being sworn in on the application of Mr. Sp ng and
others
place r c
wereativ ordered e byb booths
sßbeenicrhg.
cleared
eSaor
emde
awayby twelve discussion took
on the Saturday
this should be done. It appeared it wss done one year
ntht, tie Chairman being anxious that
when Mr. Miller collected the tulls, but Mr. Spccring
doubted whether it could now be accomplished : he ,how-
over, promised to UVe his best cY.ertions.— Ease Herald.