The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-09 00:00:00

IVIORNI NG SU.N7.

THE POSITION OF THE L li—--3ERAL
(strliomtblethrAee,liSbrPuYteclttahet°r.)
The bark was
waters were gone,"
"
The principles of the movement—the principlEZ.in
reality, of social progression—are f
their eventual advance is quite irrespective
1
vidual or any party. But their founded in flat :re ;
immediate
of any iudi-
various c advanceircumstances,
I
dependent, like other things, upon
which sometimes hasten, sometimes is
retard them, and
call respectively for various modes of treatment. The
theory may be advocated, and
very,,properly advocated,
"in season and out of season, by those who feel
cation that way. In practice—in ar ' 3"-
rangin
g an imme-
diate business lying before us in
daily life—a .
different
principle of action comes into play, and things
considered with a view to what it is possible must be
to obtain.
Absolute free trade, for example, is necessary to insure
to
industry free play, and full reward, andguard all mo-
netary and ftoinmercial systems from constant derange-
ments. We biome no one—quite the contrary—for ad-
vocating free trade, even though the time may
unpro-
pitious, and the thing .'rapossible of immediate attainment;
for whatever there is of truth in such labours will have
an influence in proportion td its merit, though the results
may not be immediate. But he is, in our opinion, quite
as true a friend to free trade, am! perhaps a more judi-
cious one, who endeavours to obi lin all that is at pre-
sent practicable. If he should even Ail, he has the other
course to fall back upon, with a strovger argument and
a more willing audience.
It may be said that this is granting m ore to the Con-
servatives than to the Whigs •, but if it ,be, the remark
does not apply to us, who throughout :le Session of
1835 and 1836 discouraged the attempt to " test the Mi-
nistry," as it was called, by bringing forward questions
only to elicit opinions upon abstract points
.; and who
inculcated the prudence
of first taking everything in
which the Whigs agreed with the Radicals, trasting to
discussion for the gradual advance of those questions
whereon they differed. But in reality there is no ana-
logy between the case of Whigs and Consenutives.
Every Whig measure since 1836 has confessedly been
" prepared for rejection." Whatever measures Sir R.
Peel proposes, will be real measures brought forward to
be carried ; he is now entitled to have them examine 'I
upon their own :merits, and if they are good in them--
Selves, and as liberal as can fairly be expected, the
country is justified in accepting them. Be it also remem-
bered, that the Movement party has no claim upon Sir R.
Peel. He never deceived or betrayed them ; he never pro-
mised an Appropriation Bill, declared himself bound ia
" honour and conscience" to carry it, and then made
it an easy sacrifice, gilded with a million of money, as
a jeeace-offering to the Irish Church • he never
held out tumid threats to the Lords, to cat eh
votes and trick followers into acquiescence, an d
then succumbed to the Peers ; he never, actjordini7
to the purpose in hand, encouraged hopes of " Farthee
Reform," or, taking his stand upon " Finality," sneered
at the Liberals as little better than crazy enthusiasts,,
who would set up an unworkable Government ; and,.
though not distinguished for consistency, he never made,
such strong declarations as those of Lord Melbourne•
against an alteration in the Corn-laws, and then, as an
experiment for preserving place, proposed an alteration
without the slightest chance of carrying it. We be-
lieve there is no disposition in the practical part of the
community to offer any factious opposition to Sir Robert
Peel merely because he is a Minister ; and we think
the community right, for there is nothing else to be done-
As soon as he is in responsible office, he will be a fair
subject of criticism, both for what he does and what he
neglects : at present, criticism has nothing to criticize.
This course -of waiting, and watching, and getting
all that can be gotten, may be unpalatable : but, ex-
cepting the always open course of appealing to the
reason of mankind by abstract argument, it is the
only course left for the Movement party at pre-
sent. For practical purposes the Liberals are disor-
ganized, and without a line of action. The Whigs
and " wise Reformers" have not merely ended by " let-
ting in the Tories," [nit have left the game alto-
gether in their hands. Matters have reached the crisis
we predicted three years since : " When the characters
of the Ministers are irretrievably ruined, the Liberal
party divided into sections, some opposed to the others,
without admitted leaders, party organization, or binding
objects, and all, save the masses beyond the pale and a.
few of the extreme section of the Radicals, are crying•
out for a government on any terms—then will be the time
for the Tories." This is a state of things which Sir R.
Peel can put an end to if he pleases, bet it is not in the
power of the Liberals. if the Conservati 7es attempt to
evade the difficulties which they Come into o.lice to meet,
and think they will be permitted to " rub on " .;n matters
of practical improvement, if they try to govern ii fter the
Tory fashion of other times, or if they sacrifice the' l'iews
of Liberal Conservatism to the crotchets and preit'llices
of some of their extreme followers, then indeed an ad-
vance may be made by the Liberal party : this residt,
however, is not in their hands, but in the hands of the :r
opponents. On the contrary, if Sir Robert Peel, while
standing on Lord John Russell's " finality," shall carry
into effect those measures of practical amelioration, par-
ticularly in the economical well-being of the masses,
which the people were taught to look to as the conse-
quences of the Reform Bill, and which were t:he cause
of their earnest exertions to carry it, then the lf; miser-
ratives are likely to remain in power for years to come,
—barring accidents. We make the proviso, bee "attic,
with our dense population, and our peculiar systet is of
currency, credit, and commerce, a series of unto vas-d
events might produce a very sudden crisis. But 'lee I-
dents of the kind we speak of are more likely to tl iron'
Chartism uppermost than to favour any other party.
All this, it may be said, is a mere dictum or opi, lion.
Well : let those whom it dissatisfies try to shape .a ci atrse
of conduct for themselves : not after the fashion of l ;ear,
when his reason is failing—
" I will do such things !
What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall he
The terrors of the earth !"
but such a practical line of action as will be snpp 'reed by
the country and carried out in Parliament. To ,li scorer
the most likely means of rousing the people to act i. )n, the
late election is the readiest test ; and, looking ei.;her to
the general result or to the topics urged in the ere irse of
the contest, we find that organic changes were lox ; sight
of altogether, or ranked as secondary matters. The in-
ference therefore, is, (we are speaking of facts, mit prais-
ing them), that organic changes are slumbering in the
national mind—unless it be the principles of Ch nrtism.
Let those who are for instant action next survey th e Par-
liamentary forces ; for it is in Parliament that m ly im-
mediate practical result may be obtained, or the mesisure-
meat of any tangible advance be tested. He will first
find a Conservative majority of about 80; which IN vuld
perhaps be increased on any attempt to turn out the To-
ries merely to put in the Whigs again.

THE TORY VOLUNTARY PRIN-

CIPLE.

Lord Francis Egerton is raising a regiment of cavalry
to guard against any outbreak of the starving manufac-
turers in his neighbourhood. The example will doubt-
less be followed, and, instead of playing at sailors at
Cowes, it will be the fashion for Tories to play at soldiers
on their estates.
Sowing
the dragon's teeth will be the
appropriate accompaniment of the maintenance of the
Corn-laws, and for the husbandry of Cadmus the drill-
plough will be the suitable instrument.
Objection has been made to Lord Francis Egerton's
levy of troops ; and it is asked whether the landlords
are to be permitted to raise an army of their own ? To
us it appears that there is much to be said for the equity
of such an arrangement. As the landlords impose fifty
millions of taxes on the food of the nation, is it not, but
fair that they should pay for the means of keeping down.
the people, who may be driven to despair, and to revolt,
by the effects of the Corn-laws ? Why should the na-
tion be charged with the expense of supporting troops
to coerce the misery and disaffection produced by the
landlords' monopoly?
To us Lord Francis Egerton's levy appears at least t nalf
equitable and frank proceeding. It declares in efil
our Corn-laws make rebels, we are read} wive
- as
laws to
sabring of them. Let the Legislature give u
down
the up our rents, and we will find swords to keep
to p y ;co; the
the famished people."
?posed to the monopolies,
^re
The Queen's Councils ...
Iry to employ her Majesty's
and it would be rather ,
i 1 oor wretches whom the mu--
There is a further consistency and equity in this step.
troops in cutting
plc of Lord Francis Egerton,
otidriti-e to desperation. The land-
the exam
iheir own making on their own
will take this office o .
en-law and they will provide exe-
Give them their nlo°rlll,i feosllhoawl:ien gh e Id') eo
dvwto
hands.
the farmers will
eagerly respond
the volunteer regiments,
vo ' keep up their rents and to keep down the
cutioners. There will of course be no difficulty in raising
to tli
1 Their inspiring war-cry, with which they will
rush ter . .y
1 To fight for their rents and taxes will Peitee. the aline, will be, High Rents and the Land-
lords' 31000po •
bethe motto for their banners.
wrhat will be the emblem of the Landlords' Legion ?
1
ketts (the origin, we believe, of kettle-drums), whick e
The Janissaries had a symbol of great frankness—their
signified all for which they fought, all for which they
, all for which they cared. They wore their
spoons, too, au a part of their accoutrements (as our
officers wear their gergets), as the co-relative type to the
kettle. When they refused their soup, it indicated some
terrible extremity of discontent, and threatened the dis-
solution of all the bonds of discipline. - The Janissaries
of the landlords should have some such type. The spoon
ttetild lie an awkward emblem for the poor farmers, as it
would be understood in too direct a slang sense; a bread-
bajcet in gold, with a very small loaf in it, would be
better . bit, perhtiOs,.beSt of all would be the figure of
each vs;lunteef farmer's rent in brass.
voluntary principle at this time
The extension of tii.e v
yolurniemesariksabfolell.owAedV4.
ect for raising Bishops for
C
oe for raising soldiers at
,which shows the falsity of tln.: proverb, that charity
have further apf..l
thil
oielee
begins In, *borne. Of course the voltintW4y principle
.wmill
and a set of Bishops ;dependent of the ,Crown. v,
ications, it will net stotiyith an
,a array
1 An
if the Tories find it neethig, should thq.loat
Queen of their own on the voluntary princip.,,
0_
• owM and Bishop t
army of their own, a navy of their
would be incora-
their own,_ independent of the Crowliat,i4
Crown too. The voluntar,' Prliciet: ependent of the
plete without a court Of their 9 !
inw Isple,may be as good in
see t? up a
monarchy a_ in prelacy and so- -?-6,ries were actualty
bored that not very long ago the -
And be it remem-
Court, and that
endeavouring to set up an oppositioo
treated as the
Queen Adelaide was very. ostentatiously .
neatthe loyalty,aa
monopolists imported,"and, wcio coming
gl iitnt it:L
Queen of their choice, their respect, and then . •, still
' - affections.
availablelu'
ihdeh la)voefao-ra great
Dowager
lre
charms Queen,
voluntary
fo ‘ ‘r
change of pronunciation, the name of Queen Addaload
power to increase the burdens of the people.—Examiner

Accounts from Sydney, of -the rich of July, or
nounce the loss of four vessels. The Lady Grant; lad
mith opium, from China, was lost with all her crew
well as another vessel laden with stores. The Fr
ship Magicienne was also lost in the same typhoo,r
lit crew were saved,