The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A more interesting, captivating, and even affecting
eight will never perhaps be exhibited in this country
than on Thursday next, when our young, beautiful,
amiable, and accomplished Queen is to pass through
the centre of the metropolis of the world, greeted by
millions of loyal, happy, and admiring subjects. If
she were

" Without more train
Accompanied, than with her own complete
Perfections,"
it would be enough, and nothing could he more touch-
ing in its simplicity ; but the people have been taught
to expect to witness the

" Pomp that waits
On Princes, when their rich retinue, low,
Of horses led, and grooms besmcar'd with gold,
Dazzles the crowd;"
and of this, no doubt, there will be abundance ; but
still all eyes will be directed for the time but to one
object, and gaze will be exhausted with its own eager-
ness. When Queen Elizabeth had been forty years
on the throne of England, a gallant Court poet in a
happy line, which secured him the Royal favour,
termed her

" The lodestone of all hearts and lodestar of all eyes ;"
but that which was flattery in Sir John Davies would
be truth in us ; and our a fair young mistress of three
kingdoms fair" will pass along the whole line, from
St. James's to the heart of the City, the sole point of
sight—the one mark at which all eyes will aim, and
the single object of interest and admiration. Hope
will precede her, affection attend her, and good wishes
follow her. If the weather be propitious, as we ear-
nestly trust it will, we shall almost regret that compa-
ratively modern refinement and invention have afforded
facilities of conveyance unknown to the great prototype
of our Queen. Elizabeth paid her visits to her faith-
ful citizens on horseback ; her Great Chamberlain and
Lord Steward led her gorgeously-caparisoned palfrey,
her Master of the Horte held her golden stirrup, and
the highest nobles of the land were proud to bear her
embroidered foot-cloth. Our Queen will necessarily
be in a close carriage, but, like the enchanted lady
in the crystal cabinet of the fairy tale, she will be
visible on every side. All that can be done will be
accomplished for the gratification of the natural
and not unwelcome curiosity of the public. We
would fain hope, nay, we are convinced, that
political discord will be allowed to slumber on
this memorable occasion. Some of our Contempo-
raries have drawn a comparison between the state of
national feeling now, and at the time when it was pro-
jected that the late King should banquet with the Lord
Mayor. That a striking difference, amounting to ab-
solute contrast, exists, cannot be disputed ; but we
shall not think it necessary to dwell upon what is so
obvious, and at a moment so uncongenial. Men of
all parties will be present on this great occasion, but
all party spirit will be absent, and nothing will be
allowed to interfere with the contentment and joy of
the festive assembly. Let us even hope, that as all
political animosity will be carefully shut out for this
one day, and hostile opinions merged and drowned in
a swelling and universal tide of love and loyalty, the
example may operate beneficially for the future, and
the rancour of faction be banished from the temperate
deliberations of the councils of the nation. Can any
opportunity for such a resolution be more favourable
than the present ? We have a young Queen just raised
to the throne of this united kingdom of England, Scot-
land, and Ireland,
" The triple pillar of the world l"
who is naturally anxious for the welfare and happi-
ness of her subjects as the immoveable foundation of
the monarchy over which she presides. She has ap-
pointed servants and councillors sworn to the mainte-
nance of that monarchy and our institutions. They
wish to purify those institutions in order that their
blessings may be permanent, and that every class of her
Majesty's subjects may enjoy the full benefit of their
establishment. Time-hallowed (to use the cant of the
day) they are, but time-corrupted they are also ; and
even the Tories do not, in the abstract, deny that those
corruptions ought to be removed, and the institu-
tions rendered as faultless as possible. What, then,
are they contending for ? If they are sincere, they
will gladly and efficiently aid those who have only
the same object in view, and men of every poli-
tical shade may thus combine their efforts and ac-
compligh the excellent and universal purpose. If
they are not sincere, they will stand aloof: they
will pretend to love Reform, because without that
pretence they cannot have a chance of gaining
what they love much better; and instead of
lending their assistance to promote national ame-
lioration, they will do their utmost to pro-
duce among the unthinking distrust of men and de-
feat of measures, in order that they may avail them-
selves of the consequent confusion, and slip into
those offices from which they were ignominiously ex-
truded. This, then, is the period for testing the
truth of professions. The Queen is a Reformer, be-
cause she sees that Reform is fit and necessary ; she
does not like change for the sake of change only ; and
it becomes all the friends of improvement, whether
Whig, Radical, or Tory, to use their best endeavours
that safe and wholesome Reforms may be quietly and
peaceably introduced. We willingly believe that there
are even among the Tories some who are in their
hearts favourable to Reform ; but they are timid, and
they have been taught by designine, misrepresentations
to fear that amendment :nay be only another word for
abolition ; they see plainly enough the existing evils
and defects of our institutions, and they admit that
they ought to be remedied. These men should be
supporters of the Queen and of the Queen's Mi-
nisters. The present advisers of the Crown are desir-
ous of doing nothing hastily—nothing rashly, but
something effectually ; and there can be no folly,
no fatuity, no absurdity so great as to imagine that
they are more disposed to destroy, or even to en-
danger, the ancient institutions of the country than
those who honestly but mistakenly call themselves
Conservatives." In the best sense of the word,
Ministers are Conservatives : they would be idiots
were they otherwise ; and the good sense of this en-
lightened nation revolts at the assertion that those
who are now put in trust and guard over public af-
fiirs, and the security of whose families and property de-
ponds upon the secure and successful conduct of those af-
fairs, are engaged in a deliberate conspiracy to pro-
duce that very condition which is to overwhelm all
in general and undistinguishing ruin. The great body
of the people has long seen the silliness, if not the
wickedness, of such an imputation, invented and per-
severed in for the vilest party purposes; and the time,
we think, is not very distant when the conscientious
but misguided adherents of Toryism in all parts of the
kingdom will discover what tools they have too long
been in the hands-of a faction, which only seeks its
own selfish advancement at the expense of national
happiness and tranquillity.—Morning Chronicle.
Every day produces fresh illustrations of the state of
the public mind throughout this country, and affords
matter for pretty safe conjecture as to the course of
action between parties, and as to the progressive change
in their relations, provided each party understands the
real position of its adversary, and can be brouel
f ic to
eel its own deficiencies and resources. 'lir. Daniel
O'Connell, within the last week, has acme two things
.worthy of notice that is to say, lie has added two
more tricks to the catalogue of his performances in
ata the line of jugglery. Ist. He has pretended to dis-
solee his notorious rebel associat,iont
only, for the whole framework. and pretended
machine are still to be kr- ' capabilities of the
immediate use when caller upon,
tn a state of readiness for
upon. Its committtees, its
local agenciee throu' et
the provinces, its busy and
turbuleat pacificatorsgeveuriwhere are still to exist, and
to do the daily wosk local mischief. The sole
Change made in, ?eality is that the association now on
the eve of the session of Parliament, will suspend its
pubis;,.sittings—a superfluous piece of mummer be-
Vase the Agitator knows extremely
well that
e
he is detained in London by the necesssity of bullying
Ministers, or intriguing with them at head-quarters,
the it association" in Ireland would become an un-
Meaning farce, or a dead letter—it would, in fact, go
0111 of itself. He puts his bands, therefore, into can-
tonments, and as the spring opens will find some ex-
cuse for calling them together, the first moment that
their re-assembly can be made instrumental to any
evil end. In the meanwhile, should the Ministers
here run restiff, should the O'Connel dictates be set
at nought (of which with this wretched Government