The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

of the recent Ministerial changes, comments in the fol-
Parliamentary proceedings of
lowing terrng on i:29
aovernment during the last two or three months of the
Session :—'olt is scarcely nee,ggary to call to mind,
that, notwithstanding all ilia Was said by the Libe-
rals' last May of the absolute necessity for strengthen-
ing the Government, and obtaining a majority in the
House of Commons, nothing was done to that purpose
during the Session. From the middle of May to tne
middle of August the Administration was just as weak
and as contemptible—just as unable to do what
it professed to think necessary to be done—as it
was from the middle of February to the middle of
May. Indeed, instead of mending, it grew palpably
worse. It became daily more and more evidently
dependent upon Court favour—more and more os•
tentatiously feeble in both Houses of Parliament. It
wound up the Session with the exhibition of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer kicked like a foot-ball by Mr.
O'Connell from a measure which be declared to have
been considered and unanimously resolved upon by the
Cabinet. Lectured and reprimanded in the House of
Lords, laughed at and beaten in the House of Com-
mons, the Administration huddled up the affairs of the
Session, and prorogued, amid the hissing scorn of the
whole country. The Chancellor of th Exchequer,
almost crying with vexation, got a coronet to soothe
his mortified spirit ; and the rest looked each at his
banker's book, where there was a very agreeable entry
once a quarter. Thus were they all reconciled to their
fate."

The Morning Advertiser speaks as follows, on the
subject of the late elections at Cambridge and Man-
chester :—" We yesterday adverted to the immoderate
exultation in which the Tories are indulging, at what
they are pleased to cad their recent victory at Cam-
bridge. They take care, however, to maintain un-
broken silence on the subject of the counterbalancing
defeat they have sustained at Manchester. This is
doubtless discreet on their part, and only affords a
further proof of their being what we have always
allowed they were—excellent tacticians. But though
the Tories, for cogent reasons, choose to re-
main mute at the result of the Manchester election,
it does not follow that we ought to imitate their exam-
ple. Their signal defeat must have been doubly rnorti
fying, in consequence of the confident expectations of
success which they cherished up to the last moment.
And on what were those expectations grounded? Prin-
cipally on the anticipated division of the Liberal inte-
rest, which they imagined would be effected through
the instrumentality of that Tory-Chartist, Colonel
Thompson. They laid the flattering unction to their
souls, that the population of Manchester was sectioned
into two great political divisions, Conservatives and
Chartists ; and that, consequently, there was not the
shadow of a chance for any man who came forward as
a candidate on the intermediate principles. The friends
of Mr. Greg were unanimously voted insane fur ima-
gining for a moment that there was even the slightest
probability of his return. Well, and what was the
result ? Behold the Liberal candidate triumphantly
elected, and cease to wonder at the supreme mortifica-
tion and utter confusion of the vanquished Conserva-
tives. Colonel Thompson, true to his ilfarplot cha-
racter, made desperate efforts to aid and abet the cause
of Toryism. He kept the poll open till the latest
moment allowed by law, and addressed and re-addressed
his Chartist friends. Alas, for the Gallant Gentleman's
oratory, or his principles, or rather, perhaps, both !"