The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-22 00:00:00

MINISTERS.-THE PROVINCIAL

PRESS.

Sir R. Peel tells us that beginning his Government
with a minority in Parliament, it was necessary to hold
out to the country that ho had the confidence of the
Court : but ought this advantage to have been pur-
chased at the personal discomfort of the Sovereign !
ought it to have been insisted on when it was found it
would give a severe pang to her young heart 7—espe-
cially when it could be avoided by a bold and manly ap-
peal to the country on the broad principles of the new Go-
vernment. But Lord Melbourne and his colleagues are re-
stored, and the natural inquiry is, how will they remove
the difficulties which before encumbered their path ? Three
courses are open to them. First, a dissolution of Par-
liament, when. the recent transactions might probably be
found to have some influenceupon the country ; secondly,
the removal of Lord J. Russell to the Peers, which is
hinted at, and the adoption of a more liberal tone by the
Ministry, leaving, at the least,the ballot and other subjects
open questions ; and thirdly, are-union with the Radi-
cals without any specific conditions, which at present
there appears an inclination amongst that body to con-
cede. The Whitsun holidays will allow time for the
Ministry to consider all these points. It is evident that
some arrangements are in progress for strengthening
their line, and for turning the retreat of their opponents
to valuable account.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
The Whig endeavour to raise a popular outcry in fa-
vour of the Queen's Whig women has been made at
rather an inopportune and unfortunate time. Ministers
have wofully mistaken
irthet the
p ee characterexpect
them to do battle ofallenlaassle in
classes of
causetish people,
of a female coterie which so grossly slandered
theth e British
and so unrelentingly attempted to utterly ruin the in-
jured Lady Flora Hastings. What idiotic fatuity in
our Whig governors to suppose that the people of Eng-
land would arise in defence of such a set of impurely-
minded slanderers as that which would fain have plunged
the above-mentioned lady into irretrievable infamy !
What a cabal to uphold and maintain in the Queen's
Palace !—Bath Chronicle.
Had her Majesty submitted to the insult that was
offered to her, the rampant faction would ere long have
stepped from her neck to tread upon the liberties of the
people, and tearful would have been the struggle that
would have ensued, for however the Tories may boast
of their increasing strength in the House of Commons
—and we admit it is increasing, and would be much in-
creas.a:l by a general election—the people, we are per-
suaded, will ,fever submit to be ruled by a Tory Go-
vernment, un:ess it should have the wisdom to bow to
circumstances, and condescend—as Peel and Welling-
ton have before done—to be the means of carrying out
popular measures. Of a Government acting on true
Tory principles, they will never again wear the yoke.
Much good is to be expected from the changes that
have Liken place, and the excitement to which they
have given rise.: already have conferences been held
between the Ministers end the Radical section of the
House of Commons, and it is generally understood that
a league offensive and defensive has been entered into
between them ; the one party abandoning " Finality,"
the other giving their support so long as a steady on-
ward movement in the cause of Reform is made.—
Wilts Independent.
The Whigs are again in the service of the Queen ;
her old friends are still spared to her, and still surround
her in her social hours of quietude ; and will the people
of England support her? Will their loyal hearts and
generous bosoms beat in sympathy as ours does for our
young and innocent Queen? and will they, when the
general election comes, which is close at hand, say as we
shall, when they record their votes, " My vote is for
my Queen ; her youth and her innocence require the
protecting aid of her subjects, and it is the duty of
every loyal man to insist that she shall not be deprived
of the small share of independence which is allotted to
the Crown of England."—Sherborne Journal.
The London Journals have been filled with the most
contradictory accounts, and violent disputes, regarding
the circumstances which have led to the recall o Lord
Melbourne. But all this controversy has been put an
end to by the statement, made by Sir Robert Peel in the
House of Commons on Monday evening, the perfect
accuracy of which, in every particular, was attested by
Lord John Russell. From that statement it appears
that the clamour raised by the Whig-Radical press
against Sir Robert, for his alleged cruel and insulting
conduct towards the Queen, in insisting on depriving
her of all the female members of her Household, and
tearing asunder the ties of affection which united her to
" the companions of her childhood," is without a sha-
dow of foundation—mete hypocritical cant, used for the
purpose (as has often been done before) of using the
Queen's name as a means of gaining some public favour
for a Government daily becoming more and more un-
pular.—Devizes Gazette.
Providentially, another change has come over the
scene—their all grasping ambition has overleaped itself,
and, by aiming at too much, they have lost all. Not
only was every public place to be filled with the most
rabid supporters of the Orange faction, by which the
ray of hope that had gilded the horizon of the sister is-
land was to set in blood,-3ut even the youthful Queen
herself was to be made a slave—her private friends se-
parated from her—her feelings and her sympathies vio-
lated—and her palace filled with their creatures and
spies.—York Courant.
The firmness evinced by our gracious Sovereign in re-

sisting the petty atternptto domineer over her inclinations,
and to make—what nf, (Alm Lady in Eugland is sub-
jected priva•e friendships and the choice of her
domestic s:)ciety sulYervierit to the tyranny of party, will
strike a chord of admiration in every manly breast, to
the discomfiture of those dirty creatures whose vocation
is to war upon women, and who have been and are now
busily engaged in ribald slanders upon the Ladies of the
Royal Household. Their labours may be spared ; the
Queen has shown a spirit not to be intimidated or co--
creed, and will not swerve from her purpose. In the
wordA of Lord John Russell, " the country and the
world will be convinced that neither the sex of her Ma-
jesty prevents her from being possessed of courage, nor
does her age prevent her having great discrimination
and a sound and firm understanding." It is understood
that recent events will tend, happily, to the consolidation
and strength of the Liberal party.---Brislol Gazelle.

We are once more rid of the Tories, and the
Whig Ministers will, we hope, improve the opportu-
nity afforded by the spirited conduct of the Queen to
secure to themselves a position in public favour, by
pursuing a course exactly the opposite to that which
had well nigh consigned them to an unlamented politi-
cal death. Let them show themselves in reality a Re-
form Ministry, and public support will nut be wanting
—otherwise another unlucky crisis must soon arrive,
when the Queen, and even her " Bed-chamber women,"
must yield to Tory dictation.—Kent Herald.
A. re-construction of the Cabinet must take place—
fresh blood must be infused into it—and we fearlessly
say that the man having the power at the present crisis
to form a noble phalanx—to defend the sacred ark of
liberty—to protect his Queen and country—who does
not avail himself of every possible aid calculated to give
the Reform Ministry the greatest talent, integrity, and
influence, acts not fairly by the nation. The weak-
ness of the late Cabinet did not lie in the restless pe-
tulance, or instability of some eight er tea ultra-Radical
Reformers—no such thing. It originated with the
questionable, unpopular, and inefficient conduct of Mi-
nisters themselves ; and above all, in their fatal policy
to stop short in the cause of progressive Reform. Let
the new Cabinet be plain, honest, and able—then,
doubtless, will the people rally round and support it.
The re-construction of the Cabinet is to the public
matter of deep importance, and will be watched with
the liveliest interest, as in the character of those who
are added to the old Cabinet can alone be found an ade-
quate guarantee of its fitness and stability.—Dumfries

Times.
The Tories are known, for they cannot conceal it, to
be inimical to civil and religious liberty, thus exasperat-
ing all but their own faction ; they walk band in hand
with the enemies of their Sovereign ; and they expect
think
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a
be the
all the tyrantstb both o
world
may be cajoled
f Queen an and people
p 1 Tn e
by!
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ae nt they
.
Having lost their characters under the former one
of Tory, they, like many in their unfortunate situation,
change their name, calling themselves Conservatives, as
if their persons were not recognised, and their misdeeds,
under the name of Tory linked with Orangeism, were
not remembered. But, above all, when foiled in their
purposes, they fly to defamation of the characters of
ladies, of that of the Queen herself! All this is well
nigh too monstrous for credence, when we reflect they
are travelling in the path of ambition, where " one false
step may be their ruin." Their late behaviour, we ven-
ture to prophecy, will draw many from their ranks ; and
among those with mortgaged property, greedily expect-
ing a banquet on the loaves and fishes, there will be
many a shrug of the shoulder, many a turn of the heel,
and many
Our gracious Sovereign is charged with lending her-
soli to a mean and dishonourable plot ; the Ladies ofail
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in their " foul and poisonous grasp," and with puring
Tier Court are abused for holding the " Royal victim"
" tales of lasciviousness and slander" into her ear to
hasten " the process of corruption,"—with " polluting
the lto‘ al ear and seeking to ruin the mind ;Ind morals
of the Queen of England." This mean and dastardly
attempt to force the. Queen to discard the ladies of
some of the first families of the kingdom from her
Court,
female delicacy, should cull forth, simultaneously,
by malignantly and falsely acting upon her
from one end of the kingdom to the other, expressions
of loyal attachment an i gratitude from the people,
whose cause her Majesty
hris espoused against an ever_
bearing
and unprincipled faction. And we hope the
people of Derby will not be the last to give such a de-
monstration of their determination to support the ho-
nour of the Throne ageinst its real enemies. The de-
mand made upon the Queen is extraordinary and unu-
sual : from the year 176 down to the present time
there does not appear to have been even one example
of interference with the Ladies of the Ilousdielil.
During the reign of William the Fourth, Queen Ade-
laide was surrounded with Tories ; no attempt was
made to remove them, or even thought of; it remained
for the Tories to set the example of trying to subjoet
the Sovereign to coercion and restraint.—Derby Re-
porter.