The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-08 00:00:00

THE StJN; LONDON, ViitD AV, JANUARY S, 1836

BRIGHTON-THURSDAY.

The King; accompanied hy Lad* ral d tiiu, di•oi'e out
this aftern6in at his usual hour on the Rottingdean road.
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence and Sir A. Barnard quitted
the Palace this morning for London, and arc not expected

to return this seasorl.
The performances of Mr. Bailee, Mr. and Mrs. 11. R.
Bishop, yesterday evening, at the Palace, gave the utmost
satisfaction. The celebrated chorus of Vire le Roi is a
great favourite with their Majesties.
Several more large balls are in contemplation, one of
which ekcites intense interest in the fashionable world—
namely, the " Bachelor's Fancy Ball," which will be got up
on a scale of great splendour. The officers of the Cold-
stream Guards will give a grand ball shortly.
The following distinguished persons had the honour 'of
dining with their Majesties yesterday evening :—Countess
of Charlemont, Lady E. Clements, Earl and Countess of
Beverley and the Ladies Percy, Lord Lovaine, Marquis of
Bristol and Lady G. Hervey, Lord Abingor, Hon. Camp-
bell Searlett, Baron Gersdorff, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Ash-
ley, Sir E. and Lady Disbrowo and Miss Kennedy, Sir
Jas. Cockburn, the Marchioness of Ely, and Sir Robert
Smirke.
On Tuesday, the Duke of Dorset, accempanied by Lord
de Lisle and Sir Hilgrove Turner, visited Colonel Chatter-
ton at the barracks, and inspected the horses, &c.
Prince ErneSt will review the 4th Dragoon Guards on
his return to Brighton.

NATIONAL DEBT.

The iiorcls ,Cornmissioner; of his Majesty's TreaSufy
—died to flw ototulssietiers for the ReduCtion of
naving cc.. the tact' 10, Geo. IV.,
the National pursuance o.
l Debt, in -4'
•• United
e. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus Revenue of
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual
expenditurefthered, for the year ended 10th day of Octo-
ber, 1835, amounted to the sum of 1;541, 9041. Os. 90.
The Commissioners for. the Reduction. of the National
Debt hereby give notice that the sum of 385,476/.. Os. 2d.
(being one fourth partof the said surplus of 1,541,904/.
Os. 9d.) will be applied, under the provisions of the said
Act, between the 77th day of January, 1836,..and the sth
day of April, 1836, to the following purposes, viz.:---
To be applied to the. purchase of stock -£335,476 0 2
Add interest receivable on account of dona-
tions and, bequests, to be applied to the pur-
chase of Stock

3,241 15 5

.:C388,717" 15 7
S. Fil fIAM, Comptroller-Gcncral.
National Debt 06Se, jar,. 4, 1836:

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE TOR Y
PRESS.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Considering the slender chances which the Tories
of the present day have of again obtaining a hold on
the Government.of the country, and the absolute and
unconquerable hostility felt by nearly all 'Classes of
Englishmen to those members of the Tory faction
whose principles and practice are most completely in
accordance, we cannot wonder that the more clever and
prudent organs of the party trek to turn away the
public attention from dwelling'upon stihjects only cal-
culated to increase their enmity and diigust, Atid to fix
it upon the only representative of Tory sentiments,
who is in the slightest degree " presentable" to the
people of this country. It is not that the views of the
present idol of ." moderate" Toryism—Sir Robert
Peel—arc in reality of a more sincerely liberal or
enlarged character, than others of his party ; but
his prudential conduct has placed him in a posi-
tion somewhat different from that of others ; and,
it is hoped—by thrusting forward a politician so
skilful—and one imbued with so many negative
qualities as Sir Rotert, as the
,symbol and and repre-
sentative of modern Conservatism, that the most re-
pulsive feature of Toryism will be overlooked and for-
gotten by the British public. It is not that the Tories
love their present leaderfar from it, they both dislike
and fear him ; but they know that they cannot do
without him ; and whatever feelings of envy or hosti-
lity they may secretly cherish are studiously hidden
from general observation. Under these circumstances,
it may not be unamusing or uninstructive to recal to
mind the past, and in all probability the real and deli-
berate sentiments of his present eulogists, and to com-
pare their former studied depreciation with their pre-
sent. unmeasured flattery. A tolerably complete por-
trait of Sir Robert Peel might be drawn from the pages
of the Times and the Standard alone. We shall se-
lect some specimens of their recorded opinions of that
gentleman's qualities and pretensions.
Character of Sir Robert Peel from the Times and

Standard—
His ABILITIES.—" The more accurately this gentleman
is measured the more moderate we begin to suspect will
his dimensions be found."—
" lie may have been, and has been—but, spoilt by
flattery he will not be again—a useful subaltern officer.
To talk of such a man as a statesman or a chief, is
merely an idle abuse of words, for no man whom it would
be worth while to deceive would listen to such misrepre-
sentations."-.--Tinies.
" His mind is of thin staple, carefully, yet not finely
cultivated ; the soil is light and dry, not rich and deep ;
no brilliant flowers, no costly fruits of delicious flavour—
nothing beautiful by which society is adorned—nothing
generous or noble by which true greatness is comme-
morated, has ever sprung from or ever been connected
with this specimen of common-place nature."—Times.
" A man wholly unworthy of the lowest degree of
trust—a man of thoroughly proved incapacity."—
Standard.
HIS CANDOUR, LIBERALITY, &c.—", WP have been per-
fectly sickened with praises of Sir R. Peel's liberality, tem-
per, candour, &c. &c., in the course of some late discus-
sions. Sir R. Peel's liberality ! Sir R. Peers temper!!
Sir R. Peel's candour!!! Why, the gentleman has for
the last eight months been all but bursting with animo-
sity towards the Liberals, and with rage at their success
throughout the land. There is nobody who, so far a;
party politics are concerned, can crouch, or twist, or turn
his back upon himself and his professions more skilfully
than can the existing Tory leader. He can laugh on
calculation, and look grave on joke ; yet we wilt venture
to affirm that no gravity was ever put to so severe a test
as that of the Right Honourable Tory Baronet, when
some of the soft ones about the Treasury bench began to
butter him on his ‘• liberality' and candour.'"—Times.
HIS SERVILITY.—" Mr. Peel's denial of the secret influ-
ence at Windsor had been much better omitted. We
know what its object was, but it 'will fail. There is a
strong personal antipathy to him in a high quarter, and it
is sought to overcome it by subserviency. We hear, in-
deed, that the dislike has been carried to such a length
that it has been desired that, even on official business,
the Right Honourable Secretary should be seen there
as little as possible, and that the necessary communica-
tions may be conveyed through the head of the Ministry.
Who would be a Minister upon such terms-?"—Tinges.
HIS SACRIFICES FOR PLACE.—" His whole life presents
but one record of prostrations : ex. gr., he sacrificed his
principles to the acquisition of a new place, upon the
Currency question ; he sacrificed his principles to the
preservation of place, on the Test and Corporation Rs--
peal Bill ; he sacrificed his principles to the preservation
of place, on the Popish question ; he gave way, for the
sake of place, on the Magistrates' Chancery
Reform Bill—the Scotch Judges Bill ; in short, upon
every occasion in which place and principle came into
collision."—Standard.
'lts CLAIMS TO OFFICE.—" Failing:other reasons for con-
tinuing Mr. Peel in office, his services are recounted,and
very properly in the front of the schedule are put the
occasions on which lie betrayed his post, or run away from
it ; they are, indeed, the landmarks of his political his-
tory, and we fully accept them as all the proofs of his
integrity or talent which can be offered. As to his re-
pealing of time-repealed laws, his slaying of the
that prudent activity'—happy phrase—which he dis-
played in denouncing abuses, which, after as careful a
scrutiny as Falstaf made of Hotspnr's corpse, be. ascer-
tained could present no danger ; for his prudent activity
be may be entitled to a decent clerkship, but -certainly
the Empire is not to be sacrificed to secure the continu-
ance of such nihili pill labours."—Standard.
:Is REMOVAL FROM OFFICE.—" We know from Mr.
Peel's own lips, that he it is who has been so long tor-
menting Ireland and disgracing England, by the mixed
impolicy of a partisan and a bigot.
To get rid of such a peddling interloper between
true Statesmanlike principles of action and the nation,
for whose benefit they will henceforth, we trust, be al-
lowed to act, without such illegitimate obstructions, is a
real advance towards public happiness, and a subject•of
. honest rejoicing to the empire."—Times.

COMMITTEE OF THE COMMON

COUNCIL.

THE CITY OP LONDON MUNICIPAL CORPORATION BILL
Yesterday a very numerous meeting of the Committee
of the whole Court, upon the Municipal Corporation' of
London, took place at Guildhall, to receive a communication
from the Municipal Corporation Inquiry Commissioners
relative to their Report on the City of London, and to the
Bill proposed to be introduced into Parliament thereon.
William Pritchard, Esq., in the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN informed the Committee that' he had
considered it necessary to call the members together to con-
sider the result of the communication which he had by
their direction made to the Commissioners of Corporation
Inquiry. He had addressed the following letter to the
Secretary to the Commissioners : -
" Doctors' Commons, Dec. 12, 1835.
" Sir—l have been requested by the Committee of the
whole Court of Common Council, in relation to the municipal
institutions of the City of London, to convey to his Majesty's
Cornmissioners who have investigated' the state of the Corpo-
ration of London, the expression of the great anxiety with
which the Committee have for some time past been expecting.
that the Commissioners' report of the result' of that investi-
gation would be completed and made public. The Com-
mittee having understood that tile report is very near comple-
tion, beg leave respectfully to suggest to the Commissioners
the great advantages that would attend its being perfected (if
practicable) in sufficient time to admit of its being considered,
nof only by his Majesty's Government, but also by the Coly-
art of
U :on Council, with the deliberation due to its importance prior
t 4) the approaching session of Parliament, in the early 1)
s vhich it will no doubt become the subject of havestive mea-
-I:sure of some extent and difficulty. —I the honour
-;to be, & c.,
"J. Parkes, Esq., Sec., &c. ~ Will. PRITCHARD."
To this letter he had received the following answer :
AWNiotrAt., COAPQRATION COMMISSIONEAS--ENGLAND AND
WALES.
" 21, Great Geore-street, Westminster, Dec. 19, 1835.
" Sie,_ln answer to your letter of the 12th instant, re-
liipecting the completion a the report of the Commissioners 04
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