The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM /HS EVENING PAYEES OF WEDNESDAY.
GLOBE.—The Tories have a sad knack of anticipating
in some instances, however they may delay in others ;
and though very backward in declaring their own views,
they are exceedingly forward in construing the motives
and intentions of her Majesty. The other day they
wanted to write the Queen's Speech—an arrangement
which they hinted would have,been in the highest de-
gree acceptable to the Sovereign, who, it is alleged, is so
well disposed towards a Tory Ministry, that her private
wish was to have said, on the opening of Parliament,
exactly what Sir Robert Peel thinks she ought to say.
This morning we are told that her -Majesty's neces-
sary absence from the House of Lords arises from
nothing at all but a determination not "to be dragged
through the mire " by her present Ministers. We are
at a loss to conjecture where "the mire " is to be found
which her Majesty would be compelled to encounter, un-
less it be the Tory majority in the new Parliament ; but
we suppose- we must regard the expression as one of
those " livery " metaphors which our polite contemporary
has the unhappy propensity of bringing ,up from the
depot at Billingsgate. Where our contemporary gets his
information of the personal wishes of the Sovereign, we
should be glad to learn; for if there are any of the servants
of the palace, who make up stories to tell the footmen,
who tell the housemaids, who tell the butchers' boys,
who tell the omnibus cads, whe tell the newspaper boys,
who tell the Post's printer's devil, who tells the Editor,
the practice ought, for the sake of our gullible and gos-
siping neighbour, to be put a stop to as speedily as possi-
ble. But let us seriously ask the Tory organ what would
have been the nature of its contents if, in the present
situation of her Majesty, she had been advised to meet
in person the new Parliament ? No insults would have
been too gross, no allusions too indelicate, to have been
applied to the act ; and even the vituperative faculties
of the Tory Journalists would have needed refreshing.
at these fountains of coarseness and impurity which
flowed daily and nightly through their columns at the
period when the unfortunate affair of the late lamented
Lady Flora Hastings gave an excuse for calumny against
the Queen and the Court, under the pretext of sympathy.
STANDARD—The Globe of last evening contains
the following apparently official announcement :
" As, in her Majeilv's present condition, any under-
taking involving anxiety or fatigue might prove inju-
rious, we understand that Dr. Locock has interposed his
veto ; and that the new Parliament will be opened by
Commission, instead of by the Queen in person."
It would thus appear that her Majesty will not
open the first session of the new Parliament
in person. We rejoice, however, that we are
enabled to slay the anxiety which the above
intimation is calculated to excite, by stating,
which we do on unquestionable authority, that her
Majesty is in the best possible health, and that there
is no more pretext for the apprehension that the
fatigue of opening Parliament in person will be more
injurious to her now than there has been on any of the
previous occasions on which she has proved herself so
fully equal:to the exertion. Last year, it will be remem-
bered, her Majesty prorogued Parliament in precisely
the same " condition, without suffering the slightest
inconvenience from the effort ; and the anxiety she
has manifested on all similar occasions to undertake
this duty in person, and the energy with which she has
invariably performed it, forbid the belief that she would
not deliver the Speech from the Throne herself, on
Wednesday next, did not circumstances wholly uncon-
nected with the state of her health preclude her from so
dohsll% It is, indeed, most agreeable to her Majesty's
loyal ;Objects to believe that she has been deterred from
appearing Parliament in person, not by the state
of her healtfi, or by her apprehension of fatigue,
but by her unwillingness to perform the unpleasant
task her Ministers have imposed upon her. It is
not improbable, moreover, that her Majesty may have
been further influenced in her determination by the im-
pudent and indecent boasts of the Ministerial journals,
not only of the certainty of her appearance in the House
of Lords on Tuesday, but of the marked manner" in
which she would declare her approbation of the late
budset, and commend it to the notice of Parliament.
lloweOr great the disappointment to which her absence
will give rise, the consciousness that she has been spared
a portion of the mortification which her Ministers would
have imposed upon her will fully compensate for it.

SIT (MARY OF THE EVENDIC PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
The Globe severely reprehends the Times for its pro-
fligate inconsistency of opinion as. regards the present
Corn-laws. It shows that the Times, while it admits the
present system to be injurious to the interests of Britain
is a commercial country, with characteristic public
spirit recommends, that it had better be left to work its
way, rather than disturb the quiet of Sir Robert Peel
by exciting popular attention to its operations, or compel
Conservatives to violate those deluding promises to the
Monopolists, on the faith of which they were returned to
Parliament.
The Courier, in a very plethoric article, attempts to
attack the whold Whig school of politics for their con-
stant and strenuous exposure of the Anti-Corn-law falla-
cies, and, with a feebleness of argument matched only by
its own fictitious statements, foolishly seeks to grapple
with Leviathan. A boisterous attack is then made upon
.Mr. Cobden, of the, Manchester Conference, whose alleged
perversions of truth are superlatively eclipsed by the ab-
surdities and falsehoods of his reviewer.
The Standard is angry at the presumptuous opportu-
nities taken by the Whig press of ascribing actions and ,
motross to her Majesty, which the Standard considers
her wholly incapable of, and runs full tilt at the assertion
of the ChroNiele upon the Queen's absence from Parlia-
ment, that " ITer Majesty's Ministers she does meet—
her Parliament not." The Standard hopes ardently that
it may not be guilty of any disrespect to her Majesty in
placing the slightest confidenw in any intimations of the
same colour as the above.