The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-11 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Morning Chronicle of to-day, alluding to a speech
recently delivered by Sir R. Peel, in the House of Com-
mons, observes A desperate effort is made by the
Tory journals to retrieve Sir Robert Peel from his unfor-
tunate lapse into truth in his speech of Tuesday last. It is
all in vain. The concession cannot be obliterated. The
fact stands admitted and asserted by the Tory leader, that
the promise of further reforms by Ministers will enable
Liberal candidates to " cut a better figure on the hustings,"
and to " fight the battle of the hustings" to advantage.
There is no opening by which to wriggle out of the
scrape. To call the constituencies " revolutionary" does'
not mend the matter. To designate the unavoidable
inference, that they desire further reforms, as " ridicu-
lous" only imputes to So. Robert Peel a ridiculous false-
hood, uttered injuriously for his own cause. Ridiculous or
not, false or true, he said it. The speech, we are told by
his defenders, was " impromptu. " Very likely ; that
may perhaps help to account for Sir Robert's stating a fact
so unpalatable to his faction. He is convicted—found
guilty of telling truth. The mistake is irretrievable. He
is fixed, nailed like a bad shilling to the counter. No
subsequent lacquering can " enable him to cut a better
figure." In the face of the country he has confessed what
the country needed not his authority to know, but what
his followers cannot forgive his allowing, that the policy of
his party is at variance with the wishes of the peoyle ;
that the promise of further reforms would be the k.%est
pledge of popularity."
The Morning Advertiser comments as follows on Lod
John Russell's intentions with respect to the Canada Bill :
—" We think that Lord John Russell did prudently in
not pledging himself to pass the proposed Canada Bill
beyond the second reading; because, with the knowledge
of the tactics recently pursued in both Houses by the
quasi leaders of the Tory party, it is impossible to predict
what caprice will direct them; but, looking to the inte-
rests of the colonies, we should hope that the Government
will proceed with the Bill, and that it may actually become
law in the course of this Session.:--which it may do if the
Tories condescend to have the virtue to forego their task
of obstruction."

The Times attempts thus clumsily to account for last
night's division in the Commons :—" It happened that
many Members on both sides:were absent, and of course
many more on the part of the Conservatives, who have a
very unbusiness like habit of indulging in dinner society,
than on the part of the Tail and the Radicals, whom pri-
vate entertainers are not so eager to engage. The result
was a division, which exhibited a wholly fallacious view of
the strength of parties. We doubt not that it will be re-
presented in high places is an indication of returning confi-
dence in the Ministry. The next trial of strength 011 show
that in reality it was but the accident of a premature termi-
nation of the debate."

The Morning Herald abases Ministers for withdrawing
their Canadian resolutions, in this truly refined and gentle-
manlike style:—" The Whigs made last night another of
their familiar exhibitions of self-abasement. Lord John
Russell has agreed to withdraw his Canadian resolutions I
Lord Stanley having intimated his intention to take the
sense of the House on the subject on Thursday next, the
Noble-fienae.Secretary, in evident panic, deprecated such
a step; and, at length, in conformity with a suggestion by
Sir Robert Peel, agreed to abandon altogether his (mous
resolutions I Lord John and his colleagues will, in fact,
abandon anything but place. The wretched intriguers
who style themselves the Government of this country arc
becoming-, in mel, ncholy truth, a moral nuisance of no
ordinary kind. They shuffle, and equivocate, and prevari-
cate upon all imaginable subjects."
The Morning Post comments in the following style on
Mr. O'Connell's proposed motion for to-night in the House
of Commons :—" The motion which Mr. O'Connell is to
make to-night in the House of Commons. for leave to
bring in a Bill to enable Roman Catholics to hold the
office of Lord Chancellor and certain offices in the Ee-
CieFiastical Courts in Ireland,' is one of such daring out-
rage t,; the feelings and principles of the British nation
that even 0 Connell with all his habitual recklessness
'
and audacity
wt:uld never, we are persuaded, have ven-
tured to advance it,
ut that the present distracted and de-
overnment; and its notorious and
profligate bartering
graded situation of the P
with otter parties little less disreputa-
ble, and having in view objects is the less offensive and fla-
gitious, have afforded him such eneOuragement and oppor-
tunity for an attack upon Protestantiso as far surpass any
hope or expectation he could ever have formed."