The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-21 00:00:00

WITH WHICH
" THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW

INCORPORATED.

LONDON :
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1838.

The Coronation is to take place in June, but it is
not yet settled, we believe, on what day. Of course, as is
usual on such occasions, a considerable number of Peers wil
be created, and the influence of hope on several persons may
serve to relax opposition to the Government. As it has
become rather the fashion to reproach public men for not
speaking in time, we say at once that the opinion of the
public as to Lord MELBOURNE'S Administration will be
much influenced by the choice of persons promoted
to the peerage. If many of those who have for-
feited their pledges to the people, and have no hope of
ever again sitting in Parliament, should find an ignoble re-
fuge from public contempt in the House of Peers, the cha-
racter both of that body and of the Ministry will be much
damagedin the public estimation. Public spirited constitu-
encies will hardly brook that those should be rewarded with
Peerages who have betrayed their confidence. We pre-
sume, by the Coronation taking place at so early a period
of the year, that the Parliament will rise early. Unless
sowe peculiarly and important circumstances, not now
foreseen, arise, we may safely infer that the two Houses
will not sit long after the Coronation.

Poor Lord STANHOPE ! If ever inan was a real object
of pity, it is he. The simple tool of a knot of cunning
and factious persons out of doors, he is, night after night, in
tha House of Lords—apFarently without being sensihle of
it—making himself a spectacle, which, however it may
craate mirth by its ludicrousness, cannot but afford matter
of most serious concern to Lis friends. The poor man's
brain is absolutely turned upon the subject of the
New Poor Law. He is labouring under the af-
fliction which, in medical language, is termed mo-
nomania—and a direeul affliction it seems to be, if
we may judge from the symptoms exhibited by him.
Every object that meets his eye—every sound that strikes
s ear—whatever is cognizable by the external senses, or
by the imaginative faculty, is, by a strange perversion of
mind, connected some way or other with the New Poor-
law. This unfortunate measure is even made re-
cnoosible for the ♦icissitudes of the elements. The
excessive cold of the last winter, which pinched the
poor with such unfeeling severity was, according to Lord
STANHOPE, entirely owing to this obnoxious statute, and
he is persuaded, that until it is repealed, no genial season
will ever smile upon once merry England !
Such being the state of the Noble Earl's mind on this
question, it is not surprising that he should have entered
upon a career of knight-errantry against the monstrous
giant that day and night haunts his imagination.
Last night was signalised by a more than usually fierce
onslaught upon his enemy, but it ended as usual, in his own
complete rout and discomfiture. To be serious, we really
think that the country is under great obligations to this
paradoxical Peer, for his persevering, and seemingly im-
:placable hostility to the New Poor-law. He has been the
instrument of great good in eliciting from the most
unexceptionable sources, and from all parts of the country,
the strongest testimony to the beneficent character, and
admirable working of the measure. From all quarters
where a fair trial has been made, there is but one
voice, namely, that while the enormous expence of the
old system has been greatly reduced—a very secondary
consideration we allow—the comforts of the poor have
been much increased, and, what is of still greater import-
Ance, the habits and moral character of the labouring
pc,.oulation sensibly improved since the commencement of
tne, new system. Is it not a remarkable circumstance—a
circamstance that one would think could hardly fail to strike
Lerd STANHOPE himself—that in the discussion of last
night there was not a single Peer in the House of Lords
to be found seconding, or even giving the slightest encou-
ragement, to his views. So far from it, those who spoke
oa the question, one and all opposed him, and
declared their almost unqualified approbation of
tl is great measure. Nay, even Lord WYNFORD, who
has been one of its steadiest opponents up to the pre-
seut moment, announced his own conversion on this sub-
ject.. GOD forbid, said the Learned Lord, that he should
" wish to repeal the new Poor-law, for he thought it had
done r great deal of good."
We :shall resume this subject to-morrow.

On thew motion of the Hon. and Gallant Member for
Dsrtmout b, Colonel SEALE, the House of Commons re-
solved last. night, by a slender majority of thirty-five votes'
that a Bill should be brought in for permitting bonded
corn to be ground into flour for exportation. • We scarcely
know what would have been the fate of this proposition, had
not its supporters, one and all, protested that its
adoption would in no way interfere with the bread-
monopoly at present enjoyed by the English agri-
cultural interest. No effort was left untried to calm
the team and appease the irritation of the choleric country
gentlemen, who mustered so strongly on Thursday last to
defeat M.r.VILLIER's motion for abolishing their legal right
to starve ate manufacturing population of Great Britain.
The Hon. .and Gallant Mover of the resolution declared
his personal interests to be identical with those of the
landed aristocracy ; Mr. COLLIER, who seconded the mo-
tion, assert ed that the Bill proposed to be brought forward
Would not interfere with the Corn-law monopoly ; Mr.
WAasuavv.N said the object of the Corn-laws was to pre-
vent the pe%nle of England from importing corn, in order
that they mig ht eat it, whereas the proposed Bill was for
allowing the el:portation of a certain description of corn, in
order that Englishmen might not eat it ; the Right Hon. the
PRESIDENT of the Board of Trade described the fears of
the landed interest as imaginary or selfish ; Sir Jonw RAE
REID was of the same opinion ; and Mr. M. PHILIPS,
Mr. AARON CHAPMAN, Colonel WOOD, Mr. Alderman
THOMPSON, Lord WORSLEY, and Mr. P. HOWARD, sup-
ported the measure from a similar conviction. Neverthe-
-I.,ss, as the motion referred to Corn in some shape or
other, the monopolists could not be persuaded that it
would not affect interests of which the manifest injustice,
eiA therefore inherent weakness, render them so tenderly
tenacious. The Marquis of CuANDOS, Mr. GEORGE
PALMER, Yr. PLUMPTRE, Sir CHARLES KNIGHTLEY,
And Colonel RUSHBROOKE, could see in the motion before
the House only the motion of Mr. VILLIERS in a different
form, and therefore they would oppose the Bill in every
stage. Let them do so by all means. We only want such
a proof of the ignora.nt and narrow selfishness of the bread-
umnopolists, to rouse the people of England to a full
co:;sciousness of the misery entailed upon them by the Corn-
ws. 'With the moral short-sightedness peculiar to evil-
sLers, the champions of monopoly will thus fight the battle
c‘',!he people against themselves.
flow stands the question at issue between the bread
inic; vpolists and the supporters of Colonel SEALE'S
`ion,? We will explain it in a few words. As the law

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