The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-14 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Times of this morning contains a lengthened sum-
mary of the explanations that took place in the House of
Commons last night between Sir Robert Peel and Lord
John Russell. As there are no political opinions put forth
in this summary, it is needless to give extracts from it.
The Morning Chronicle speaks of Sir Robert Peel's ex-
planation in the Commons last night, in the following
terms :—" The worth of the late transaction, as an illus-
tration of the spirit of Toryism, makes itself increasingly
felt by the public. The more it is brought to the
light, the stronger is the impression it leaves of cowar-
dice, deceptiveness, and eagerness for a degree of
power which has never been so coveted without
the disposition and the purpose to abuse it. The
Tory leader tells his story with a seeming and pro-
ably a real unconscidasness of the exhibition it affords of
mental and moral qualities such as no enlightened country
would desire in its statesmen. But he must justify him-
self to his party ; and he knows that, to them, his
having pursued a simple, manly, straightforward,
and patriotic course, would be no justification. So
be tells out all the unscrupulousness with which
he endeavoured to coerce the Queen in her do-
mestic arrangements, to abridge the prescriptive ex-
tent of the Royal prerogative, and to lay, in false-
hood, the foundations of a power that, once established,
should defy either Sovereign or people to effect its removal.
The case he endeavours to make out is, that he has done
all that could be done for the restoration of the faction,
without being particular as to the means, and has only
failed because truth and feeling were too strong, as it is
their nature to be ever too strong, for all the weapons and
wiles at his command. And with the faction to which such
a pleading can be addressed, let him stand excused. The
moral sense of the country will appreciate his explanation
somewhat differently."
The Morning Herald is quite delighted with Sir Robert
Peel's explanation last night, observing :—" In the House
of Commons, the explanation furnished by Sir Robert
Peel was of the most ample and gratifying nature. Lofty
as are the claims which the Right Hon. Baronet has long
possessed on the confidence of the country, those claims will,
we venture to assert, be multiplied and augmented by his
most constitutional and most statesmanlike conduct during
the late extraordinary transactions."
The Morning Post, as a matter of course, snakes the
discovery that Sir Robert Peel's explanation was all that
it should be ; and that his proposition to the Queen, to
dismiss from her service some of her best and most attached
friends, had but one fault, namely—exceeding modera-
tion I This is a true Tory sentiment:—" The speech
delivered by Sir Robert Peel in the House of Com-
mons, every material point of which was confirmed
by Lord John Russell, in the name and by the
authority of her Majesty, must confound and abash the
vile and audacious slanderers who for the last three days
have engaged in wilfully misrepresenting the whole
conduct of this able and manly statesman, in the
delicate and important negotiation in which he has re-
cently borne so distinguished and honourable a part.
It will be seen that the Right Honourable Ba-
ronet, so far from intending to remove all the ladies to
whose society her Majesty had been accustomed, contem-
plated only such removals as were necessary to show to the
country that his Administration had her Majesty's confi-
dence, and was not exposed to the danger at every moment
of being overthrown by some Palace intrigue, got up by
the wives and sisters of politicians who are avowedly his
competitors for power. That, in all the circumstances of
case, this was a very moderate, perhaps too moderate, a de-
mand the country will unanimously agree."
The Morning Advertiser comments to the following
effect on Sir Robert Peel's explanation :—" There was
one point established beyond all doubt by the admission of
Sir Robert Peel, upon which Lord John Russell fairly laid
great stress. He asked for more than any other monarch
had ever conceded ; more than any other monarch had ever
conceded was granted to him. Sir Robert contended that
because Jamaica, Canada, India, Ireland, and England were
disturbed—he should have added, by the obstructive policy
of the party—it was necessary, in order to show that he
had full power, that he should disturb the Ladies of the
Bedchamber. He made one or two Parliamentary hits ;
of his views as to a dissolution, and his intention to do
without one, and therefore urged the necessity of having
the control of the Bedchamber women. A more shallow,
special-pleading, yet artfully-contrived Parliamentary jug-
gle, could not be made. In the meantime we recommend
a perusal of Lord John Russell's speech, and the beautiful
appeal of the Queen to his patriotism. It is truly worthy
of a British Queen."

The Tories are a moral people. We do not
usually point to the moralities of public men; but there
has been so much ado made by the Tories of their own
superior virtue, that it will not be improper to point out to
the public Members of the intended Government of Sir
Robert Peel in whose persons that virtue was to be ex-
hibited. Of moral Chancellors:—That of England was
to be Lord Lyndhurst—that of Ireland Sir Edward Sug-
den ;—in the Household, the Duke of Beaufort, the Earl
of Wilton, the Earl of Chesterfield, and Lord Castlereagh
were to fill high places. There arc none of these Noble-
men and Gentlemen who would not despise the cant that
has been indulged in by the Tories and their trumpeters.
But is it not singular that the cautious Sir Robert Peel
should have followed up the general outcry of his party by
selecting men who do not pretend to a superhuman degree
of immaculateness ? They are certainly not men whom
considerate persons would select as the Representatives
and guardians of the morals of the Court.—Morning Ad-
vertiser.

SAGO BREAD.—The hint which we threw out
on the 17th of February last, respecting the conversion of
sago into bread, seems to have been taken up with ala-
crity, and pursued to some purpose. A series of experi-
ments, we learn, have been carried on for some time past
by Mr. H. C. Baildon, Prince's-street, " with the view of
ascertaining whether that most important article of do-
mestic economy bread, may not, by one and the same
process, be improved in quality and reduced iu
price (namely, by the admixture of a certain quan-
tity of the best Pearl Sago with the finest flour,)"
which experiments, we are glad to learn, have been
completely successful, and bread of this description may
now be had in various shops throughout the town. The
recommcndetions of this bread (according to Mr. Baildon)
are, "that it is as light as that made from the finest
.wheat
flour ; that it is more agreeable to the palate ; that it is
capable of being kept much longer without deterioration ;
that it is more wholesome than that made in the. ordinary
manner, and of the usual ingredients ; and that it capa-
blo of being manufactured at a lower price than bread made
exclusively from the best flour."—Scotsman.
The Paisley Advertiser says, " The state of
weather for some weeks past, has been everything that the
farmers could wish ; the braird has " come away" beauti-
fully, fresh and strong, and oats, wheat, and barley, present
the finest appearances of health and verdure. A great
portion of the potatoe seed has been committed to the soil,
under circumstances highly favourable, and the grass fields
are already affording a luxurious bite.

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