The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-13 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL
SUMMARY.
The Courier of laq evening dour speaks of her Majesty's
answer to the anti education address of the Tory Lends
" The firmness, the directness, the dignity, the eenstitu-
tional truth and justice, manifest in her Majesty's
admirable reply to the Address of the Lords, cad
se”reely be paralleled "in the memory of the oldest
inhabitant" of that ancient House. It will not speedily
pass from the remembrance of those to whom it was
addressed, nor, we may be enured,. will it be more
spr eddy forgotten by the country. In it we read fresh
signs and tokens of 'hat decision of character and native
loftiness of sentiment, which, consistenly characterising
all her Majesty's public acts throughout the brief period of
her youthful reign, raise se high and brilliant a promise of
future devotion to the interests of her people, and et-during
freedom from the trammels of party."
The Globe, after broadly stating that a mob of partizans-
was hired on Thursday to applaud the Tory Lcrds en their
way to Court with their address to the Queen, speaks of
her Mjcsty's reply in the following terms:—" Her Ma-
jesty's answer—which we gave yesterday in a second edi-
tion, acd reprint in our Parliamentery intelligence of this
day—must have effectually dispelled any lurking hope,
if such there were, that the Queen of England can be
dragooned in.° bigotry, or diverted from the adoption of
measures calculated to advance the nation's good, by such
means as were yesterday resorted to. The Peers might
just as well have employed as many puppets for the pur-
pose; and would bus have been spared the mortification
to which they subjected themselves, in being compelled to
listen to dignified and impressive reproof from the lips- of
their Queen, for having presumed to suppose that she
would be unmindful of her duties, or lend herself to the
unworthy purpose of sacrificing her people's good at the
shrine of a party, however powerful or plausible."
The Standard comments as follows on her Majesty's
answer to the Tory Address :—" The Queen has sharply
buked 229 Peers of Parliament for daring to doubt the
attachment to the interests of the Established Church of
that Ministry, which has already by its own confession me-
ditated heavy blows and gieat discouragement to the Pro-
testant religion; but her Majesty has not sharply rebuked the
majority of the House of Lords alone—her chastisement ex-
tends to a moiety of the House of Commons, and to the great
body of the nation, the subscribers to nearly 4,000 peti-
tions. Is this a gracious-service upon which her Majesty's
Ministers have put their confiding and inexperienced
Sovereign ? And to what end has this compromise of the
personal popularity of the Queen been hazarded, if not to
fulfil the behests of Mr. Daniel O'Connell ?"
The Times of this morning, reverting to the Queen's
answer to the anti-Education Address of the Tory Lords
says :—" This " sharp rebuke" of the Queen to the House
of Lords is a reprimand to the Bishops for their -attach-
ment to the Church of which they are appointed guaklians,
and to the Peers of England for their upright superintend-
ence of the highest interests and welfare of the-British na-
tion. What a solicitude on the part of her Majesty's
nisters does such a reprimand exhibit for the wholesome
and harmonious intercourse of the several states of the
realm with each other ! What a tenderness for the stability
of t'e throne! "
The Morning Herald contains a leading article, the text
of which is suggested by Mr. O'Connell's late letter to the
eVesleyan Methodists, in the course of which our Content-
perary puts forth these remarks :—" The Church of Rome
knows nothing of private judgment deciding upotepoints of
doctrine. M 7. O'Connell himself, with a strange incon-
gruity of argument, worthy of a self-stultifying Milesian
logician, appeals to the infallible authority of the Church
in expounding points of doctrine, while he sets up the right
of private judgment to disclaim the d' ctrines contained in
the notes of the Rhemieh Bible, which have been stamped
with the seal of tha: infallible sanction !"
The Morning Chronicle comments to the following
effect on Mr. Atteood's speech last night in the Commons
on the subject of the National Petition :—" The greatest
enemies of Reform are those who seek impossibilities.
Utopian and visionary [demands only serve to withdraw
men from the prosecution of what is really attainable.
Every people have a right to be as prosperous as they can
be ; but if nature has ordained that a perfect and uniform
prosperity is unattainable, it is sheer folly to talk of the
right of men to absolute prosperity. We must go for it to
that country called L'sbbcrly Land, where roasted pigs and
geese run about with knives and forks stuck into them for
the use of all who choose to eat, and from every fountain
gush forth the most delicious wines. We suspect Mr.
Attwood is more familiar with the descriptions of Mahomet's
Paradise than with the. Scriptures, in which we are told
that the poor shall never cease to be in the land."
The Morning Post still harps on the Queen's answer to
the Tory address, as will be seen by tire following extract
from its leading article on the subject :—" We are of
opinion that it is impossible to conceive anything more
grossly ungenerous—anything more unmanly and base,
than the conduct of the present Ministers towards their
Sovereign. Look at the answer to the address of the
Lords which these Ministers have -presumed to put into
the mouth of her Majesty. Was ever Sovereign so mis-
guided and degraded before, except in those . unhappy
pericds when rude rebellion has lorded it over legitimate
monarchy? Most sincerely do we pity the Monarch who
is made the victim of an Administration at once so dating
and so contemptible."
The Morning Advertiser, alluding to Mr. Attwood's
speech on the National Petition last night in the Com-
mons, observes :—" If a petition, so supported, be not de-
serving the anxious solicitude of Parliament, the right of
pwitioning would be merely the right of laying so much
waste paper on the table of the House. As to the amount
of money in the savings banks, it furnishes hut a very
deceptive means of judging of the condition of the labour-
ing classes. It is well known that the greater portion of
the cash deposited in these institutions belongs to persons
in a Far better station of life than that of those called the
labouring classes. It was not to be expected, however,
that at this late period of the Session such an important
question could be satisfactorily entertained."