The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-16 00:00:00

misfortune and mortification of being defeated at the
elections for their several counties. We have scarcely
taken up a country newspaper in the interest of Mi-
nisters for the last week without discovering that the
Whig gentleman whom the Constituency of his county
have thought unfit or unworthy to represent them in
the House of Commons is, of all the gentlemen of
England, the most fit and worthy to be selected by her
Majesty for a Member of the House of Peers ; for a
permanent Councillor of the Crown ; for one of the
ornaments and supports of the British Throne. This
claim to the Peerage, founded on the rejection of the
people, whimsical as it appears when preferred by
those who arrogate to themselves an affection peculiar
and exclusive to the principles of liberal and popular
Government, might, no doubt, have been successful,
so far as Ministerial influence can prevail, had the
number of claimants been somewhat less considerable.
But, unfortunately, the number of claimants upon this
special ground is so large as to make the claim an in-
convenient one. The Ministers have such a multi-
tude of friends whom the electors of our counties have
been so blind and foolish as to think unfit and un-
worthy to represent them in the House of Commons
that the claims of the rejected, merely as such—and
we hear little of any other claims—become exceed-
ingly perplexing. In this respect her Majesty's Mi-
nisters must be afflicted by "Pembarras de ri-
chesses." Then there are the great and wealthy
men of their party who have spent, and spent
in vain, large sums of money, in order to per-
suade the electors of various counties that the
wisest and most patriotic thing they could do would
be to elect the Whig-Radical candidate. With
scarcely a single exception these profuse money-spenders
of the Whig-Radical faction are expecting to be in-
cluded in the batch or batches of Peers, whose eleva-
tion is to assist in securing to the accession of Queen
Victoria honourable mention in British history. And,
after all, there is a third class of Peers expectant,
whose pretensions the Whig-Radical Administration,
if it could have its own way, would, perhaps, of all
others be the most disposed to favour. We mean the
class of Whig-Radical gentlemen, who have been
lucky enough to gain their election to seats in the
House of Commons, but who, being unfortunately of
no use there, the Ministers would be glad to draft off
into the Upper House, in order to supply their places
in the House of Commons by more serviceable men.
There is, in fact, no end to the number and variety
of the claims to the Peerage or of the motives of
Ministers to aeknowledge these claims. They are
infinite in number and indistinguishable in value.
Ought they to be indiscriminately allowed ? This
would imply a prodigality and degradation of ho-
nour which even the present Ministers of the Crown,
levellers as they have sometimes shown themselves, can
scarcely be prepared to recommend. Upon what prin-
ciple, then, is the selection of new Peers to be made,
if, as we do not deny, there ought to be a creation,
amidst the infinite multiplication and variety of Whig-
Radical claims ? This is the Gordian knot which a
Queen of England, and more especially a youthful
Queen, may cut amidst the acclamations of her unani-
mous subjects. There are very feet Coalmoners in
England who, on account of any services rendered to
the State, have a claim to the Peerage. Of the few
that there are a very small proportion are of the poli-
tical party or opinions that would recommend them
to the present Ministers of the Crown. There is no
pretence, in short, for any creation of Peers but what
is incidental to the accession of Queen Victoria. To
illustrate and dignify that event Peers are to be created,
if created at all. We say that there should be a
creation, because the event is one to which all
honour ought to be paid. But since the accession is
the only pretence for any creation we say that the
creation should be a regal act, apart from, and alto-
gether independent of, Ministerial authority and influ-
ence. What man is there in all England who doubts
that the Queen, young as she is, inexperienced as she
must needs be, unsophisticated, artless, and noble, as
we delight to believe her, is better qualified to select
from the princely commoners of Great Britain and
Ireland, men fitted to sustain and exalt the rank of a
British Peer than either Mr. Spring Rice or Mr.
Poulett Thomson—than either Lord Mulgrave or Mr.
O'Connell ? If her Majesty wishes to take time to look
around her, in order to make a suitable selection, she is,
we hope at liberty to do so. The country with one
voice will proclaim that there need be no.haste. Should
any one presume to hurry her she will naturally believe
that he who would precipitate her decisions upon a
matter so important seeks his own sinister purposes
rather than the glory and prosperity of her reign. A rid
when she avows this belief the whole nation, as one
man, will applaud her discrimination and her spirit.
It is, we understand, very much the fashion of the
Whig-Radical party to speak of their position as if the
Queen of England were a baby in their hands, with
whom they may do just as they please. They know
that this representation is untrue, but they know that
they must, in present circumstances, do and say some-
thing to sustain the drooping spirits of their party. Her
Majesty, who fortunately inherits the free and noble
spirit of her ancestors, will not permit them to have
entirely their own way, upon questions with respect to
which it is her right and her duty to pronounce
an individual and an independent opinion. Amongst
the first of these questions is that of the
Peerage creations in honour of her accession. The
slightest reflection must have taught her IVlajesty
that the creation of Peers, unless for acknow-
ledged public services, is a transfer pro tanto of the
regal power into the hands of the Administration by
which the creation is recommended. Her Majesty can-
not have failed to perceive, therefore, how much it is
her Royal interest to be tardy and abstemious in this
matter, and how much it is the interest of her present
Ministers to be prodigal and hasty. Let it, above all
things, be recollected that here the undivided right is
in the Queen. The Constitution of England knows of
no such thing as a permanent accession of strength and
influence to a political party because it happened by
accident to be in power at the moment of an accession.
The Ministry which seeks to obtain such a party ad-
vantage from such an accident, shows that it prefers
its own party objects alike to the permanent interests of
the Crown and to the personal feelings of the reigning
Sovereign.—Morning Post.

As the two Liberal M.P.'s for Wigan were travel-
ling, the other day, from their constituency, en their way to
Manchester, they halted at Chowbent, when a concourse of
people soon assembled round their carriage. Both gentle-
men wore their favours, blue and white, which ware mis-
taken for the favours of Egerton and Wilbraham. One
man, justly celebrated for his intelligence, but much more
for his Conservative loyalty, a slink butcher of the nick-
name of Bill Dougan, would manifest his attachment to
the holy cause by procuring a glass of port wine for each
of the two "blues," who, he said, were on 1.1: side. The
Hon. M.P.'s (perceiving the mistake into which the knight
of the cleaver had unluckily fallen) good humouredly drank
their glasses, not forgetting better health and more discri-
mation to the bellowing butcher, who then vociferated loud
and long in favour of honest Toryism. Some one, however,
in the assembly whispered into Bill's ear that the " blues"
were no other than the two " Rads," Potter and Standish,
from Wigan ; upon which, Bill, with a voice to which
Pluto's thunder would be a mere whisper, bellowed out for
vengeance upon the heads of the " blues," whose sides were
well nigh cracked at the joke. This further exasperated
Bill, who immediately made his way into the public4touse,
and returned, puffing and blowing, with a huge Tom cat,
which he hurled, with all his might and main, at the two
Members of St. Stephen's. No damage, however, was
sustained, and Tom was supposed to possess more sense on
political matters than Bill, which fortunately saved the
skins of the " blues" from laceration. Mr. Standish face-
tiously observed, that he had often heard of M.P.'s going
a ratting," but this was the first time he had heard of them
going a " catting."—Bolton Free Press.
On Monday last was found drowned, at Lambstown,
Wexford, Miss Bridget Power, daughter of a respectable
farmer. The facts of this lamentable death are these :
The young woman had been some time previous in fever.
On Sunday night she must have made her escape from her
father's house, as early on Monday morning she was missed
by her mother. The alarm became general in the neigh-
bourhood—every trace of her being lost till those persons
in search of her arrived at a marble hole, when they dis-
covered some marks of a human foot at the edge. At
once the preparations for search commenced, and, melan-
choly to relate, the body of this oncehlooming young woman
was taken out a corpse. The feelings of the parents on this
occasion may be more easily conceived than described. She
was conveyed to her father's house to await the result of a
coroner's inquest, but the verdict has not come to our know-
ledge.—Freentan's Journal.