The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-17 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Times of this morning abuses its Evening Con-
temporaries of yesterday for stating that the Tories in
their recent negociations, endeavoured to domineer over
her Majesty. " The chiefs of the Ministry," observes
our captious Contemporary, " have publicly in Parliament
fully acquitted Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Welling-
too of the charges contained in these paragraphs; and yet
the expectant slaves and ready tools of the same Ministry
repeat the accusations with daily exaggerations in the
journals they disgrace, and rival each other in attempts to
patch up the cast-off slanders of their masters With newly,
woven lies of their own manufacture ! Surely, there-has.
been enough of this dirty work to satisfy the most spiteful
of those good angels of Lord Melbourne, whose drapery
sweeps the back-stairs of Buckingham Palace ; and ludeed,
to give the Devil his due, we do believe that his Lordship
would, now that the end which he and his colleagues had
in view has been answered, bid the Ministerial Swiss
scribes to bait, only that some of the more cautious of the
Cabinet think it is necessary to propagate and foster in the
provinces that disgraceful humbug which the Palriterston
print tells us is " proceeding throughout the country
most satisfactorily." We are yet to learn that the Tory
leaders have been acquitted of an attempt ro domineer over .
the Queen. On the contrary, they have been proved
guilty of the fact, on evidence that would be quite strong
enough to condemn a man in a Cuurt of Justice.
The Morning Chronicle, in the course of a leading ar-
ticle, suggested by Sir R. Peel's recent Parliamentary ex-
planations, urges the Ministry to renewed exertions in the
following terms :—" Nor can the Tories mystify the na-
tion as to the present position of the Government. It
cannot be, as they would have us believe, that we are just
where we were before the division on the Jamaica Bill.
The wheels of Time are not turned back a fortnight. The
facts of that interval are never to be obliterated. The
crested billows of Toryism have dashed themselves against
a rock, and fallen back in foam and slush. The Queen has
given the country a pledge of intellectual and Moral charac-
ter that will bear higher sway than her sceptre. The restored
Ministers have, by the occasion and the very fact of re.
suming office under the circumstances. come undPr ho-
nourable obligations to strengthen her Majesty's Govern-
ment in the contentment and gratitude of the people. We
have no doubt they will do so, and that measures arc in
contemplation which shall tend to the cordial co-operation
of different classes of Reformers. The people do not for-
get Reform in their gratulatory addresses to royalty. They
fittingly tell truth, while they praise truthfulness. For
wisdom and honesty the path is clear, and the junoturg
most propitious." `
The Morning Herald, discussing the question of na-
tional education, says—" The national education project
has, in like manner, no other object, than the subversion
of the authority of the Established Church. Why should
secular education be a " national" concern' Why should
Government commissioners supersede the authority of
parents? The means of education are already, amply, at
the disposal of all classes in the community save the loss-
favoured portions of the labouring poor; and. the miseries
of the labouring poor are, obviously, not to be re-
moved by such an education as Lord Brougham, or Go-
vernment Commissioners might impart. The labouring
poor want justice;—they require a fair reward fot their
toil; they claim to be relieved from destructive competi-
tion with machinery, and with untaxed foreign producers;
_they protest against fraudulent schemes of currency— '
schemes which reduce the value of labour, and aggravate
the despotism of money. These are amongst the evils
under which large bodies of the labouring classes groan ;
and these evils are not to be removed by Lord Brougham's
plan of • national education.' "
The Morning Post falls foul of the " Whig-Radical
organs"—as it calls some of its Morning and Evening
Contemporaries—in the following choice Billingsgate
terms :—" False and stupid as the Whig-Radical organs
are, there is still some amusement in marking the infinite
impudence to which—chiefly by the aid of their stupidity-_
they succeed in attaining. They go on lying away at more
than a railroad pace—fussing and clattering, with more
than a steam-engine's smoke and noise, about the iniquity
of Tory violonce to "our young Queen," in requiting !hats
as Ministers, they should have complete controul O'er the
Royal Household. But this is precisely shat the Whigs
have had, and still have. If there were any wrong in what
the Tories required, there is wrong in what the Whigs
possess. But stupified by ignorance, or drunk with impu-
dence, the Whig roisterers take no account of this." Thin
is not exactly the sort of language to please the boudoir or
the drawing-room, for whose delicate tastes our Contem-
porary is usually so anxious to cater.
The Morning Advertiser draws the following character *of
the two candidates for the Speakership of the House of
Commons :_‘• Of Mr. Goulburn we are unwilling to say
any thing harsh, but we think it will be generally admitted
by his psrty that it would be very bold indeed to allege
that he possesses either the mental or personal requi-
sites which are indispensable for the present state of Parlia-
mentary affairs. He is far from !seing popular in his man-
ners. He is averse to change; the servant of routine ;
contracted in his views, and a servile adherent of his party,
his services to which we believe to be the sole cause of his
being selected by them as their candidate. He has taken lit-
tle part in the conduct of private business, in which Mr. Le-
fevre has been laborious; and though, from having been for
many sears in Parliament, he must have a tolerably ex-
perience in Parliamentary affairs, he has never done any
thing but what his official position required, and may be
recounted a somewhat inactive Member of Parliament.
Mr. Lefevrc, on the contrary, has pursued a course of
constant useulness, though of a very quiet kind: in fact,
he has br.en one of those unobtrusive Members who have
great weight with their friends for their prudenoe and ap-
plication,
although they do not unceasingly parade them-
selves before the House and the public."'