The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-08 00:00:00

CHURCH-RATES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIII,--I presume that the communication in your paper
of last evening, " Ofle of the Hundred and Fifteen," re.
fors to Ipswich ; but as the place and date have been
un-
fortunately omitted, the paragraph, as it there stands, WI
ll
be utterly unintelligible to most of your readers. I must,
therefore, beg that the 115 summonses for Church-rates
may he identified with this place ; and I am the more
anxious to have this done, because ulterior measures are
likely to be taken again,t the parties, which may make!'
necessary to claim from you the favour of a short space In
your paper for the information of the public at some flit":
time. The Dissenters here, ever since the well-known
incarceration of Mr. John Chiles by Scott and .13°bbi
for 173. 61., have been employed in successfully resisting
Church-rates, and have lately formed a voluntary societY
for the purpose of withstanding the encroachments of
dominant Church, and are determined to let the
and Lord John Russell know that their efforts in this way
shall never cease, until all ecclesiastical exactions shall be
done away, and the Church shorn of its persecuting and
oppressive power. public

I am, Sir, yours,
AN IPSWICH DISSENTER.
Ipswich, May 7, 1839.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

Our readers will see fro our Parliamentary Report
that Ministers have resigned; and that their resignation
has been accepted. This result was generally antici-
pated as a necessary consequence of the vote on the
Jamaica 13.11. The resignation was announced by Lord
Melbourne in the Lords, and by Lord John Russell in
the Commons. The former, in addition to the an-
nouncement of the resignation, communicated that her
Majesty had been graciously pleased to accept it.
Lord Melbourne stated that Ministers considered
the vote of Monday night not only fatal to the ulti-
mate success of the measure, but indicative of a Wan:
of confidence of so great a proportion of the Members
of the other House of Parliament, as to render it
impossible for the Ministry to conduct the Govern-
ment with the energy absolutely required by the si"
add
tuation and circumstances of the country ; and, 11---
his Lordship, if measures of energy and importance are
taken, there is no danger or peril whatever to De
apprehended in any part of the difficult matters of the
Empire. Lord John Russell adverted somewhat more
particularly to the difficulties in which Ministers wer.ci
placed by the vote of Monday night. Not only, 11;.1
his Lordship, would the authority of the Crown in Ja-
maica be greatly weakened by the vote of the House of
Commons, but it was obvious that, with regard to the
other colonies, where hitherto there had been, if not a
ready and eager, yet an ultimate compliance with the
wishes of the Crown, there would be a disposition ra-
ther to imitate the resistance made in Jamaica, than to
persevere in the course which they had pursued hitherto.
He alluded also to the Canadian question, on which
Ministers could not calculate on the necessary degree of
support. The House of Lords adjourned to Friday'
and the House of Commons to Monday next. Mi-
nisters merely retain their offices till their successors ere
appointed. It was generally understood last night
that the Queen had sent for the Duke of Wellington/
W. do not conceive that his Grace will himself form
part of any Administration ; but, possessing the confi-
dence of the Tory party, it is natural that her 14051
should wish to advise with him in the first instance.
We understand that his Grace is at StrathfieldsaYe'
The Tories were generally in high spirits at the prospects
which opened to them last night. Various circum-
stances afford sufficient proof that the Whigs were not
anxious to retain office. The speech of Lord Mel-
bourne, when Lord Roden's motion was carried, we'
that of a man who meditated resignation ; and it is
understood that he only consented to remain ie
place, because he had declared that so long as
had a majority of the House of Commons he vreu,!
conduct the Government. That he was not tue
only Minister anxious only for a pretext to re-
sign is sufficiently obvious from recent occurrences.
All sorts of conjectures will be formed as to the
course of the Tory Ministry—whether they will i
dis-
solve the Parliament, or speculate on obtaining sue:,
support from a part of the supporters of the Wh'e
Ministry as will enable them to weather through
session at least. It would be difficult to understann
how those W e
hig members, who have taken pains ter
destroy in the public mind any remnant of a belief
in a distinction of principle between Whigs and Tories,
can oppose the latter at the present moment. Sir
Robert Peel's entrance to office has been greatly
smoothed by his p-edecessors. We are much mistaken
if he do not find cause, ere long, to repent the particu-
lar victory which opened Downing-street to hire'
Jamaica may yet find occupation for him. We sal
nothing of his Orangle allies in Ireland. 7"
Chronicle.

Well, the despicable farce is over. The Ministry
are out. They are out, according to their own formal
notifications to both Houses of Parliament yesterdaY
evening. The majority of .5, in a House of more than
600 Members, pairs included, has at last shown them,
that of which they alone, amongst 25,000,000 of people'
pretended to be ignorant—viz., that they were utterly
incapable of conducting the affairs of the British Inn;
narchy. Lord Melbourne in the House of Lords, and
in the House of Commons Lord John Russell, de-
clared that the division of Monday evening afforded
proof of their having « lost the confidence of the
House of Commons," and therefore made it a

duty incumbent on them to tender their twig"-
tions to her Majesty, which, added Lord Melbourne
(although the Home Secretary said not a word upon
that point() her Majesty had been graciously pleased to
accept. l'hey therefore respectively moved in both
the time
government to form
Houses an adjournment, that Queen Victoria might
have
anol' the Administration capable of carrying
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country. 'Thus. we say, the
humbug of four years has gone out. It had burned down
to the socket, and then was self-extinguished. There is
nothing more evident than that the Melbourne and
O'Connell Ministry was fairly worn to the stump, and had
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not a spark of life left in it. When Lords Melbourne
and John Russell talk about the " confidence of the House
of Commons," and of having but recently lost that
confidence, we should like to ask at what period.
from the very outset of their administration, they
ever once enjoyed what would in former times have been
called the " confidence of the House of Commons e_
The main spring, the sheet-anchor, of the Radical
Admiaistration, now extinct, was the notorious aPPr°- !
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and transferring her spoils to the Papists. At what
one period since the election of this Parliament did
the Mdbourne Ministry possess so much of its confi-
dence as to stake their own political existence on the
success of that plundering clause ? It is on record that
the Tithe Commutation Bill was carried without having
the stigma of such a clause affixed to it, and that the
ignominious meanness of the Irish Papists was such as
to sacrifice that clause, which had been their original
bond of union with the Ministry, for the sake of a
Wretched traffic in places and salaries, by which the
raping appetite of individual dependents might be stop-
ped and their importunity silenced. There never
was in the history of England an administration
which clung to the shadow of power and to the
formalities of office with greediness so intense as
that of the Melbourne Cabinet. Sir Robert Walpole,
When his majority fell to 40 in a House of .558 Mem-
bers, considered himself bound in common decency to
This Ministry has more thal once or twice, in
a House of 658 Members, been reduced to a ma.w-
rity of less than half of 40 ; but, in whatever degree
the public service might have suffered, they have
never conceived their own dignity or reputation to
have been wounded by such scantiness of Parlia-
mentary support. There is no one blanch of the
national interests which has not been defrauded by
their professions and deeply injured by their acts.
They came in as friends of public economy, and
every department of the State has been loaded with
new lists of placeholders dependent on the patronage of
the Crown. They came in as apostles of peace with
foreign nations, and there is no epoch of English his-
tory
at which the Government had so many simulta-
e,etius quarrels on its hands, or was for such a length of
time in imminent danger of being plunged in wars
of more portentious issue. The Melbourne Ministry
came in as the advocate and promoter of "reform," and
there has not been a single measure bearing the stamp
!of Popularity or improvement upon the face of which it
lad ever the slightest chance of being carried but
t"'rough the influence of the Conservatives in the House
e`t Commons. The Melbourne Ministry has had to
deal„ with the most temperate, forbearing, and patient
uPPosition, being at the same time incomparably the
most powerful, that ever sat on the left of the
SPeaker's chair. The quiet and considerate spirit of
this great body was employed simply in watching for
d guarding our institutions from daily outrage. The
Conservatives had no thirst for power. They were
even taunted by the public enemy for a too great indif-
ference to the recovery of it, or a too cold and wily
iu waiting till it should fall into their hands.
f` now appears, that without the slightest ef-
,ort on the part of the Conservatives, the Melbourne
Alinisters were actually unable to sustain, though un-
Nested, the weight of that Government which had
hoi,i
eost them so many and such unprincipled efforts to lay
°C We cannot guess (and we will not quote ru-
itnr OS authority) into what hands her Majesty may be
Pleased to commit the trust which Lord Melbourne has
declared his own unfitness to administer. The nation
is tolerably well aware that there exists but one body in
418 realm which can maintain the authority of law, pro-
tect the national interests from foreign encroachment,
tie
rent
preserve with steady and enlightened policy our an-
at fundamental institutions. The despicable Ministers
e
i
„ whom we are just, by their own tardy sense of their
ee,.. .
universal degradation, relieved, have left to their suc-
hess°rs a dilapidated inheritance ; and, but, from corn-
cterison,little prospect of credit or advantage. They have
leased themselves from a complication of difficulties
awttl, dangers, bearing collectively the name of " power,"
f 'eb they ought to have been severely punished
e
h ver entailing on the people of England. They
~a'e flung off their own shoulders the West India
tliolesti°ll ; they have left to those who follow them
eut the hard knot of the Canada question ; they
have
a'huffied themselves free from the meshes of
d Russian and Asiatic toils, which they have
esade inextricable for their successors ; they have
lfe4l3°ll O'Connell, and left, if that ruffian fulfil
18 threat, a " general and bloody rbellion
lillhreughout the whole of Ireland" for the` Lord-
,rheutenant who may supersede Lord Ebrington.
Iley have willed the armed myriads of Chartists as
rgaey to the future Government of the realm.
~ttier their Act for giving liberty to the blacks of the
,t Indies, they attempted another for imposing sla-
aiari?iton the whites. The people of England took the
retire, and told them intelligibly that they ought to
a mitii There never, we believe, did retire from office
teen-tusot'Y 00 whose name were ingrafted sueh con-
Whole execrations. There never did retire a 111 -
Wh,Ye 8o fortunate in flying from impeachment as a
avtio, though, ;r
report be true, it is by no means clear
recognisedthat one conspicuous member of it may not, upon the
b evidence of his own acts, be still brought
ettltorhe a
.tribunal competent to decide upon them with-
fu I"ztrt'4lity or " favour." A day or two more will
rnish some insight into the progress of events, and
eteloPe the nature and character of those councils un-
der which her Majesty has been acting.—Times.
I, And so Lord Melbourne and his colleagues have re-
ed ! and resigned without anything in the shape of
„reasonable excuse. There was a majority of five in
o'fei,l* favour, and according not only to the declaration
sLord Melbourne in the House of Lords, who
7aelared that he would not resign so long as he had a
iority in the House of Commons, but also, in imi-
tzitio
thrir,lle ,of Sir Robert Peel, who did not resign until
untyioeaten, we hold that the resignation was at once
hi gh Ire and injudicious. There can be no doubt that a
feeling of honour dictated the resignation in ques-
; but, in political arrangements, and where the
10,teats of a country are at stake, it behoves men to
ever niore to the latter than to the former. How-
114' the Ministry have resigned, and the Radicals
for triumphed ; and what are they to gain
al the country by it ? For themselves, the
444 universal curse of the country—and for the
ve rY itself, an arrestment of a slow but sure. pro-
signs
,°f Reform. The Government that has just re-
40:d
4 its office into the constitutional bands of t
teen ',l,l.chY can boast of having effected more, as will be
lis,
ourY the following brief, but not sufficiently numerous
fo;70 measures, than any other Administration effected
of fruptn it is said that the Reform Bill has been barren
list ofttnileTust ask you to reflect on the following short
, sures
Crown, innee the' Pass'
into law,
Paused or sanctioned by the
" Bill Passins of the Reform Act.
Ireland, and abolistlVueing ten Bishops in the Church of
" Abolition of S:ng Church cess in that country.
and Ireland. "e'er] in the colonies of Great Britain
" Trade with China thrown open.
"1834.—Poor laws refortned—a measure of vital im-
portance to the present and fu
!°ds eure generations.
election. and controul. —Municipal Corporations subjected to popular
t),:,ll,B3B.—llissenters allowed to marry according to their
e 'orals ane doctrines,
tia`g.`e? eneral Registrations of Births, Deaths, and Mar-
Tilies commuted for a rent-charge, on terms useful
yr agriculture, and equitable to the clergy.
!lath thelB37.—The Session iaterrupted by the df Wil-
Fourth ; still, the Criminal law waseath imoroved,
`mid capital punishments greatly reduced. p
" 1838.—Irish Poor-law.
" Irish Tithe Act.
" To say that those vilio have passed these measures
l'nea the Ist of January, 1833, have been doing nothing,
AaY be a favourite assertion of ultra-Tories and ultra-
adicals ; but it is surely as strong a perversion of fact as
Party violence ever broached.
Let us add to these measures
axes reduced not less than six
`1 Commercial treaties signed with Austria, Turkey, &c.
0,4 The affairs of Belgium amicably arranged by the
of The
endeavours of Europe.
h„:' Peace maintained, and the influence of England
'l;lup-
in every quarter of the globe."
4413
-ebold the above goodly catalogue of excellent mea-
and then let those " philosophical Radicals" who
e 1 against the Melbourne Cabinet tell us when
Pettti the people have obtained such boons from the
ill°(11es ? But now that these Radicals have succeeded
41,14'141 the advocates of Reform from the helm of af-
We again demand will a Peel Ministry give them
,lentversal Suffrage—the Ballot—and Annual Parlia-
for:lts ? Of a verity they will not ; and we have, there-
t,-'t° Witness the spectacle of men coalescing against
4111110 would go a great length with them, and join-
Ene-s those whom they acknowledge to be their bitterest
will The Tories, however, cannot retain office—they
!tie iUst have the opportunity of making another experi-
40tIrt' all(1 finding that Toryism is still at a discount.—
Advertiser.
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Will be efeat of the Government on the Jamaica_ Bill.
honest- 4sSect of deep regret to that numerous class of
so I, and earnest friends of humanity who have fought
intg the cause of negro emancipation. Ndot less son
Ireivs,he to those who saw in the improvfe policyi
not r. a chance of the affairs of the rest the empire
4Part, bole Perpetually impeded by its troubles. But
th,
trfrorn the great objects thus placed in jeopardy, and
there IsaPpointment of efforts pursued for so long a time,
Prid, .are other' causes of regret to those who take a
fol., in their country, which go far to lessen the respect
We Ind Weaken the influence of, our public men.
tome some of those men, whom we have been awls-
naiti to regard as the friends of Liberal measures,
rt),jong With their opposites, the Tories, to defeat the
ststietitY of their own party upon a measure in sub-
iiirlibrerteiesand spirit calculated to secure the permanent
of the island of Jamaica. We will not stop to
i 4 kr the motives of the Ten who have thus flown
of the face of their principles merely to serve the ends
e sade eotnenon enemy. Such a display of wrong-
,L"e
reeki ss, and we fear we must add, immoral
teidee"ssness of Purpose, renders men to be unfit to be
Nile"s and leaders of the people , and we cannot but
1144 s that by this one act of treachery in regard to a
ee dere so free from patty purposes, they have sacri-
Prelnneh of any reputation they bad acquired by
portsns exertions. The subject is of so much im-
th,tnee for the future guidance of Liberal tactics,
it, :e must take another occasion of returning to
trea4sen_other cause of regret and of failure was the.
in the of some Tories, who had cordially acquisceu
tiesai 13ropriety and necessity of the measure in ge-
to th,'e'ietY, and had even gone so far as to express
authors of it, in the strongest terms, their ap-

proval. But finding it a party question; they deserted
those whom they previously countenanced, not daring,
in the face of their party, to stand by their own sense
of right. It is, however, the conduct of the Tory
leaders which we regard -as the mcst discreditable.
They declare the question not to be a party one, while
all the measures usually taken to summon their friends
to a struggle were taken upon this question. Pledges
—private convictions—consistency—all were to be sa-
crificed to meet the call of party. The treachery to
which we have referred was countenanced, and, in
some cases, enforced, and this upon a question which,
in itself, partook less of party than almost any
that could be named, and which more than any
other affected the best interests of humanity. What
an honest and intelligent people may think of
such tergiversation, treachery, and party warfare, we
will not pretend to describe—the day of reckoning will
come—and to that we must appeal. The national in-
terests are to be sacrificed for the sake of mere party
victory--at the expense of all that the country holds
dear. We may pride ourselves upon our liberties, but
the people will cease to be attached to the very odd
means resorted to for their preservation. If, according
to the new theory in politics, the battle is to be given
not to the strongest, but to the treachery of the smallest
party uniting itself to the enemy, our course may he
philosophical, but it will not abound in principle. The
arithmetic will be after this sort :—We know that the
greater number of you. differ from us ;—what of that,
wisdom is not given to the many, but to the few—we
being wiser than you must determine the day ; and
thus any number of opinionated and self-convicted
gentlemen may give the battle to the enemy ; with
such reward, however, as the schoolmaster met with in
ancient story, will our Tory-Radicals be treated ; courted,
indeed, by whippers-in, they will nevertheless be lashed
by the contempt of the leader of their new party.
In the meantime, what will the main body of Liberals
do ? What will be the part of the people? Faithful
to the grand purposes of their former efforts, they will
stand by one another in this hour of defeat ; relying
upon the wisdom and excellence of the policy of late
years pursued in Ireland, and of the great measure of
emancipation, they will not relax from the efforts which
they have hitherto pursued to realise these purposes.
Careless of the support of the Tory-Radicals, they will
still pursue their onward course, and fight with might
and main their Tory foes, aided and abetted as they
have been in the recent struggle ; and though for the
moment defeated, we feel as assured of a speedy return
of better times, as we are of the folly and treachery
by which that defeat was brought about. A few days
will show the counry the play of difficulty into which
the affairs of the Liberals have been thrown ; but it
will show too the plan of action by which they may
reinstate themselves.—Morning Advertiser.
RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS.—Our remarks of yes-
terday will have led our readers to anticipate
what we have now to announce. Her Majesty's
Ministers have resigned, and her Majesty has been
graciously pleased to accept their resignation. They
still hold office, but they do so only until the neces-
sary arrangements are made for transferring their func-
tions to other hands. Up to a late hour last night
nothing that can be regarded as authentic had transpired
from which we should be justified in inferring the pro-
bable nature of those arrangements. Lord Melbourne
and Lord John Russell had an interview with her Ma-
jesty in the morning, for the purpose, it is supposed, of
tendering their resignation, and that of their colleagues.
At a later hour of the day the Marquis of Normanby
had a conference of considerable duration with the
Queen, not, as we understood, in consequence of her
Majesty having sent for his Lordship, but because the
latter thought the opportunity a convenient one for
taking her Majesty's commands upon some colonial
affairs. Earl Spencer and the Duke of Wellington
subsequently had audiences of her Majesty.-2llorning
Post.

The Whigs have fallen, at length ; and they have
fallen unpitied. Party, they have none : well-wishers
they have none. Excepting the hungry and unprin-
cipled adventurers who compose the Irish tail, all
classes of men are disposed to rejoice over the extinc-
tion of the Melbourne administration! In 1835, that
Administration could boast of the support of a majority
of the middle . lasses in England. In 1832 the whole
labouring population, as well as three-fourths of the
middle classes were at the beck and disposal of
the " Reforming Administration." Now, not a public
meeting in support of the Whigs can be held in any part
of the kingdom ; whilst their boasted House of Com-
mons' majorities—majorities, on the strength of which
they threatened to subject the House of Lords to the
sway of the ten-pounders—have, at length, vanished.
That the feelings of hatred and contempt in which
the Whigs are held, arc not an ebullition of popular
caprice may be established by proofs supplied on every
side. Of these proofs, not the least remarkable is, that
dislike to the Whigs pervades every class of the com-
munity ; and that no individual can extend to that
faction sympathy or support without sinking in general
estimation. The gradual decline of the young Queen's
popularity has long been matter of the deepest regret
to all who reverence the monarchical institutions of
this country. There exists no cause for that decline

excepting the exhibition of unabated confidence on the
part of the Queen in Lord Melbourne and his as-
sociates. The community, however, has not, perhaps,
approved itself sufficiently tolerant of the influences
which have weighed with the reigning Monarch in
behalf of the 'Whigs. When the Queen was only
heiress presumptive to the throne, the " liberal" party
concocted the famous Orange plot. That party sought
to persuade the public that the present King of
Hanover was desirous to set aside the claims of the

Princess Victoria to the Crown ; and that, in this

notable scheme his Majesty was supported by the
Conservative nobility and gentry of Great Britain and
Ireland. Absurd and preposterous as this story was,

still it is not to be wondered at, if within the precincts
of Kensington Palace, some little anxiety was excited
by the rumour. The Whigs saw their advantage—re-
doubled their assiduities—and succeeded, at length, in

producing an impression on the Royal mind—animpres-
sion to the effect, that they ought to be considered as the

especial champions of the rights of lineal succession. The
late Premier's personal qualifications aided, perhaps, the
effect of this delusion. Lord Melbourne's easy man-
ners and great powers of observat on and of humour,
may have exercised a certain amount of influence over a
mind, unfamiliar, of necessity, with those qualities in a
Minister, which the stern necessities of the public ser-
vicedemand.—Morning Herald.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of English Grain this week have been trifling,
a fair quantity of Irish Oats, and a large supply of Foreign
Wheat. The Wheat trade remains dull; prices maintained.
In Barley, Beans and Pease little doing. Oats in demand at
rather improving rates. Flour trade still heavy.
ARRIVALS
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