The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-05 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Times of this morning, in the course of a lengthy
summary of last night's debate in the House of Commons,
on the subject of Sir Hesketh Fleetwood's motion for ex-
tending the county franchise to the occupiers of ten-pound,
yearly value, houses, says :—" Sir Hesketh Fleetwood's
short reply did not rally the Radicals from the general rout
which they, and through them, the Ministers had sustained
in this short but damaging debate; and the division which
followed, will indicate to the country with tolerable dis-
tinctness what opinion the more inNential among the re-
presentatives of the people, entertain upon the subject of
organic change."
The Morning Chronicle, after analyzing Lord John
Russell's speech in the Commons last night, and observ-
ing that too harsh a construction was put upon it, goes
on to say, " It is certain, however, that thef.e io hesitation
in the Cabinet where there ought to be noirte ; and it is
equally certain that the Cabinet which hesitates, or leaves
the public in a state of uncertainty with regard ti; its in-
tentions, cannot long hold together. The first que:cti"
which will suggest itself to every consistent Liberal is- --
what end did Lord Melbourne propose to himself by re-
suming the Government? Is he satisfied with the
Duke of Wellington seeing no reason why he ever
resigned ? The Queen has evidently been most un-
fairly used, if, by resuming the Government without
adopting the only means by which it can be successfully
conducted, her Majesty have been thrown unconditionally
into the hands of the Tories. Every person in the empire
possessed of proper feelings, and of just and liberal senti-
ments, must perceive and lament the hardship of her Ma-
jesty's situation, and ask whether this is the fit return for
her magnanimous conduct? Was it proper to advise her
Majesty as she was recently advised, and now to abandon
her cause in the way it seems now to be abandoned, by at
least part of the Cabinet ?"
The Morning Post remarks, in allusion to Messrs.
Hume's, Warburton's, Ward's, and Wakley's corn meats
upon Lord John Russell's speech last night in the Com-
mons :—" The Radicals of the House of Commons are
evidently tired of the Ministerial jesuitism. They has e
been cajoled by it, or which is in effect the same, they have
affected to be so, until they were in danger of being deserted
by every partisan of their cause throughout the country
who wishes to maintain the character of an honest and sin-
cere man. The Radical leaders got up one after another,
to the number of half a dozen or so, to announce to the
forlorn and dejected Ministers that their confidence is gone
and their support withdrawn. This would have fixed the
doom of the Administration had it not been in effect de-
termined already by the feeble absurdities of their resolu-
tions upon the subject of Canada, and their unprincipled
and latitudinarian project in relation to the still more im-
portant subject of national education."

The Morning Advertiser observes as follows, on Sir R.
Peel's late speech in reply to Mr. Labouchere's announce-
ment of the Government scheme respecting Canada .--
" We will not at this moment stop to point out the incon-
sistency of Sir Robert Peel, who pleads for a locus pent-
tentice in favour of Jamaica, and denies the same accommo-
dation to the loyal Assembly of Upper Canada. Sir
Robert, Sir Robert, this political harlequinade may serve
your turn in the House of Commons, with a party whose
case need to be put daily in the best aspect which your con-
summate craft can furnish; but the good people of England
will not be so easily. deluded. It grieves us to see you!:
powers and accomplishments so degraded and prostituted:
The Morning Herald comments in the following strata
on the debate that took place in the House of Corn:non
last night, on the subject of Sir Hesketh Fleetwood's
motion :—" Last night witnessed a fierce quarrel between
the official Whigs and the leaders of the Whig-Radicals,,
who have, hitherto, with so few deviations into a course t?'
independence, obsequiously "paged the heels" of Mini"
sters. Last night Lord John Russell tendered his form
adhesion adhesion to all the main principles of the Reform Bill',
Last night the leading Whig-Radical Members declarefa,
their alliance with the Whigs-proper to be dissolved.
any reliance could be placed on the declarations either of
the official Whigs, or of the Whig-Radicals, the game °f
fraud and hypocrisy which these parties have so success;
fully played for four years past, might be assumed to be at
an end. But, unfortunately, no reliance may be placed
on the professions and declarations either of the wnlb
Ministers or of their Whig-Radical supporters."