The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-11 00:00:00

from exciting the apprehensions of the middle
classes, and from countenancing any appeals to
force. 'We saw therefore, with deep regret, the
letter of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, which appeared
in our paper yesterday, and which excited so many
bitter comments in the Convention.

The Tory Parsons, who set the bells ringing
throughout the country, and drank an additional
bottle of port on the day they heard of Lord MEL-
BOURNE'S resignation, will be much annoyed by
the announcement we sent amongst them last
night, and repeat this morning, of Sir R. PEEL'S
hopeless failure. Great, too, will be the grief
we shall carry into the gentle bosoms of Tory
Journalists—provincial Guardians, Patriots, Chro-
nicles, and Advertisers, who have been expressing
wondrous joy, by our intelligence that the grasping
and ambitious Sir ROBERT, stimulated by the un-
derling Tories, their wives and daughters, into
demanding more than her MAJESTY could possibly
concede, has overreached himself. Bitterly disap-
pointed will all the Tory squires be, who immedi-
ately began to con over their immense services to the
Tory cause, and inquire into the places they could
ask for themselves and their sons. But though all
these should be grieved, it is our pleasant and im-
perative duty to rejoice the hearts of all the
Liberals in the empire by the intelligence that Sir
ROBERT PEEL is not to be Premier. We pity the
poor disaprointed Tories, but we would rather pity
them than weep over the country delivered up to
their mercies. We have quite enough at present
of Toryism in the different parts of the empire, as
exhibited by Yeomanry and Magistrates, not to
dread its ascendancy in high places. We trust
that the opportunity now afforded of putting it
down and keeping it down will not be lost.

Though the appointment of Lord WHARNCLIFFE
has not taken place (and we hope never will), the
Irish may form some idea from what has already
transpired of the treatment they were destined to
receive from Sir ROBERT PEEL. Had he been
able to form a Ministry, the Chairman of Lord

RODEN'S Committee was to have been sent over to
govern Ireland, and could Irish Catholics and
Liberal Protestants have looked upon this ap-
pointment in any other light than as a peace-offer-
ing to the Orange party ? Lord RODEN, accord-
ing to the usual practice, should have been
Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry now sitting
upon Lord NoRMANBY'S Government in that coun-
tr , but it was found convenient to substitute Lord
WHARNCLIFFE, and, to save appearances, it
would also have been found convenient to make
this same Nobleman Lord RODEN'S Lieutenant
in Ireland. We believe the Irish would not
choose between them, or if they did choose, they
would prefer the more open and the more
consistent of their adversaries. Such an appoint-
ment would have been a sufficient test of Sir

ROBERT PEEL'S policy towards seven millions of
our fellow-subjects, who have been in vain claim-
ing equal rights and equal privileges with Eng-
lishmen and Scotchmen, and Who for these
were to receive a Governor in the confidence,
and acting as the substitute, of one who has inces-
santly denounced the most popular and the most
impartial Lord Lieutenant that ever ruled in Ireland.
It would have been a proof, too, that Sir ROBERT
PEEL cannot dispense with the Orangemen, the
determined enemies of the emancipated Catholics,
and, as he will find to his cost, the determined
enemies of every liberal and conciliating measure.

Strange pretenders are the Tories I Pinks of loy-
alty I They, without scruple, insult the Sovereign by
unreasonable and uncourteous demands I and, if
piqued or disappointed, are not ashamed to urge and
to propagate charges unfavourable alike to the Sove-
reign and to those whom she delighteth to honour. It
is the loyalty of LUCIFER. When in power, none
are more obsequious, when out of power none more
factious and rebellious ; and to attain power, none
are less scrupulous. We rejoice in every
successive manifestation of their peculiar excel-
lences. In the Irish discussion they denounced
mercy. In the discussion on the Jamaica Bill they
scouted the security of property, the fidelity _to.
obligations contracted to the Negro population
and to this country, and they took to their arms
the tyrannical oligarchs of the Jamaica Assembly:
in their negotiations with the QUEEN, a warm-
hearted young lady, they brusquely disregard her
feelings, and press upon her terms, at all times
hard to bear, but to one so young, so new to her
high office, and so little used to the vicissitudes of

political life, peculiarly severe, and which it would
require the most ascertained necessity to render
justifiable.

Hasten, we would say to the Tories, to run
through the chart of your policy—has.
ten to meet your adversaries on every
ground, and the Sovereign and the Peo-
ple will alike find that your boasts of
superior honour and loyalty are words—mere
words, and that the whole of your proceedings are
characterised by the want of that highmindedness
which should distinguish the course of Br;tish
Statemen. It has been said that there is nothing
so grossly vulgar as the vulgarity of a pretender ;
the vulgarity of plain persons, who are sincere and
frank, has always some redeeming attraction ; there
is sure to be some good sense and kind feeling in
it ; but in the other it is pure, shallow artifice, nar-
rowness of mind, and selfishness. Thus it is with

the Tories—their pretences are pure pretences, and
when manifested, never fail to disgust by the defects
we have named.

We have inserted elsewhere the Memorial which
we stated on Monday last had been presented to
Government by persons connected with Jamaica,
expressing their opinion of the necessity of the
measure proposed by her MAJESTY'S Minis.
ters. We understand that there were other names
attached to it, which were withdrawn after the ques-
tion assumed that party aspect which it suited Sir
ROBERT PEEL, on second thoughts, to give to it.
The memorial was read by Lord JOHN RUSSELL
at the close of his speech on Monday night. It is
signed by four out of the nine gentlemen who con-
stitute the special committee of the Jamaica Asso-
ciation, viz., Lord SEAFORD, Mr. FRANCIS
BECKFORD, Mr. ARCEDECKNE, and Mr.
CHARLES LONG. Three of the committee,
Sir A. C. GRANT, Mr. MITCHELL, and Mr.
BURGE, the paid agent of the Jamaica Assembly,
signed the petition agreed to at the meeting got up
by that indefatigable servant of negro-grinding
masters. Lord St. VINCENT did not sign either
the memorial or Mr. BURGE'S petition, and the
only other member of the committee, Mr. MAL.,
COLM, was out of town.

At the hour at which we write (3 o'clock P.m.,)
the French mail of Thursday•has not been received
The delay is owing to the stormy state of the wea•
ther for the last two days.

Her Majesty's words in answer to Sir Robert
Peel, are said to have been:—" I WOULD RATHER
BE REDUCED TO THE LEVEL OF A PRIVATE

SUBJECT, THAN BE DEPRIVED OF THE SOCIETY
OF THOSE TO WIIOM I AM PERSONALLY AT-
TACHED, AND WHO HAVE BEEN THE FRIENDS
or MY CHILDHOOD." Her Majesty further re-
marked, that with respict to Sir Robert Peel's
political arrangements she had nothing to do but to
assent to them ; but that the choice of the ladies
who were to surround her, and form her society,
was a point she would not concede.
RUMOURS.—Sir ROBT. PEEL, it is reported,
meant to create a new branch of Administration,
for Public Instruction, of which Sir EDWARD
KNATCHBULL was to be President, with a seat
in the Cabinet, and Sir RT. INGLIS Vice-Presi-
dent. This would have answered the double pur-
pose of providing for two of the new and late Pre-
mier's most zealous supporters, and of bringing the
I whole education of the country under the control of