The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-25 00:00:00

PUDLXC OPXWION.

The Morning Herald, discussing the very ticklish ques-
tion of Tory loyalty, observes :—" Nothing is more cer-
tain than that the Conservative party in these kingdoms
has manifested—out of Parliament, at home and abroad
—the most unbounded loyalty and attachtnent to her
Majesty ; and that domestic disaffection and Chartist
menaces, rebellion tampered with in Canada ; and the
seditious proposer of the repeal of the Union with Ireland,
upheld, abetted, entertained by her Majesty's Govern•
ment in London and its representatives in Dublin—have
been among the most remarkable of the Whig manifesta-
tions of regard fur the Royal person and authority."
This is a fine specimen of what the Times—a good judge
of the mendacious—calls " enormous lying." When and
where was it that the Tories evinced the " most un-
bounded loyalty and attachment to her Majesty ?" Was
it at Exeter Hall, when they compared her to the woman
Jezebel ? Was it at Canterbury, when they insulted her
in the most outrageous manner ? Was it in Parliament,
when from party, not patriotic motives, they thwarted
h, l• wishes with respect to Prince Albert's income ? Was
it when the melancholy case of Lady. Flora Hastings
was before the public ? Or was it when they attempted to
take advantage of her youth and inexperience, as respects
the Bed-chamber appointments ? If these were proofs
of Tory loyalty, then we grant that the Tories were
loyal to the back-bone ; but we demur to that sort of
loyalty, which will not bear consideration.
We quote the following significant remarks from the
Chronicle :—" Whatever Tory leaders or county majori-
ties may do, or strive to do, every prudent observer sees
what is coming. The elections have not silenced the
voice of truth, justice, and humanity. It rings yet louder
and louder throughout the land. The symptoms of in-
evitable change in the Corn-laws may be abated within
the walls of the House of Commons, but they are as
visible everywhere else as the most obvious phenomena
of the heavens or the earth. It comes on with a force
like that of the laws of nature, against which it is useless
for parties to win victories. The people 'do object to
starve.' You cannot outvote their objection, or put it
down by a resolution. It will either outlast the land-
lords' Parliament, or it will prove too strong for the
landlords' Parliament. One or the other is as sure
as fate ; which i= much more sure than any body can
be of what the new majority will do with its victory."
To attempt to check the current of public opinion that
is now setting strongly in, in favour of a Repeal of the
Corn-laws, is as rediculous as would be the attempt to
roll back the waters of Niagara. The tide must have
its way, and will assuredly sweep to destruction all who
strive to oppose, or divert its course. Least of all, is
Sir Robert Peel—the most undecided of statesmen—ca-
pable of thwarting the public wishes on the subject of
the Corn-laws. The celebrated Mrs. Partington once
tried to stop the encroachments of the Atlantic with her
mop ; but even this was not a whit more Quixotic than
the effbrts of the Tory faction to prevent the people
from having cheap bread.
The Times says :—" The baited Whigs, being resolved
to die as gamely and gallantly as possible, are reported
to have elaborated the address into a form, which, if
their craftiness be not thwarted by superior dexterity,
I will impose the necessity of responding to it with one
continued negative from beginning to end. Fain
would they put the House of Commons into an
apparent attitude of complete hostility to the
Crown. Fain would they lay a train for a debate
which they might industriously and malignantly
misrepresent as a positive disrespect to the Sovereign.
Fain would they inveigle the representatives of the people
into an indecent wrangle with the Royal prerogative.
Fain would they strain their successful practisings upon
her Majesty's confidence into a perilous. provocation
of her Majesty's susceptibilities of resentment. But,
unless )-;'e are grievously mistaken, their plot will be
balked with even more cleverness than they have
shown in hatching it. The details of their ad-
dress will, we trust, be Dever entered on." It is
to be inferred from the aboVP, we presume, that
the great questions in which the people are now so
greatly interested, will not even be " entered on." The
Tories will put a veto on them, as things of no account.
They will check all discussion with lofty disdain. This
is indeed carrying matters with a high hand.

The Post endeavours to show that the Tories arc
closely identified with the people in their political views,
observing—" The Conservative party is the slow growth
of nine years. It derives its strength from the gradual pro-
cess of nine years' public experience. The public have
found that they want steady, careful government, and that
it is more safe td have a Government composed of men
who are themselves intimately concerned in leading na-
tional interests than to have a Government dependent upoii
disreputable schemers and agitators, whose whole lives
have been, and are likely to be (whether cut short by the
public executioner or not) continued scenes of popular
excitement, and public fraud, and desperate ad-
venture. The British public desire a Government
whose power rests upon a respectable foundation,"
We should be glad to know upon what " respectable
foundation" the Tories stand. Is it on their principles ?
They have none. Is it on their upright, undeviating
consistency ? Here their deficiency is equally glaring.
Is it on their known sympathies with the wants and
wishes of the people ? They have scarcely a sympathy
in common with them. Is it on their loyalty to a high-
minded and popular Queen ? Here, too, they have
shown themselves as wanting in tact as decency. In a
word, the Tories stand on no other foundation than that
of busy intrigue and corruption, aided by the working of
the Chandos clause. Let these be cut from under their
feet, and they would not exist a month.

EVIONEIif—VItADE—COIVILDTERCE.
At Kirkaldy, in the beginning of last century, there
was little done in weaving linen cloth, ticks, &c. In
1736 the number of yards manufactured amounted to
178,000, or fully 100 miles. The quantity manufactured
iii 1341 at Kirkaldy and three adjacent towns, is about
or 14,000 miles.
25,000,6.79 Yards,
The deliveries of tea last week were 434,7001b5., being
rather less that; during; the two preceding weeks.
On reference to tn,' average prices of corn for fifty
there were thirty-six
years, from 1790 to 1839 inc:sive'
~
(rood seasons, rind fourteen indiffere.:L