The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-20 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Scotch Tories are grievously humbled by the
result of the elections. They expected, at least, a ma-
jority of 10, and they are in a minority of 9, on the ge-
neral returns. " Put money in thy purse," says the
Times to every Conservative gentleman. Keep a jea-
lous eye and a joint-stock purse for all the disposable
properties of any importance that may happen to be ex-
posed for sale. A venal elector is a property of vast
importance to a Tory.
As for the _Herald, we are utterly at loss to make out
what it means when in a crying mood it prays to St.
Swithin " to rain out this crying nuisance of travelling
corn agitators." Does the venerable journalist want a
second flood to drown the Smiths and the Acklands,
trusting to his piety for the salvation of himself and
Buckingham ? What human being can catch a
glimpse of common sense in the following sentence (a
specimen of the rest) :—" It is by the way an amusing
effort which they make to fly above the atmosphere of
their conscious obscurity by the marvellously fine prce-
nomina which they all seem to affect."
The Cork Southern Reporter speaks with pride of
its County returning to Parliament seven tried friends
of Freedom, Reform, and good Government. The only
exception was Bandon. But it dreads the first act which
they apprehend of Peel's government, namely, to place
Jackson, West, and Litton on the Bench.

The Essex Herald, looking at the present Tory, ma-
jority, owns Lord Melbourne's Ministry virtually at an
end ; but understands that Lord John Russell will meet
the new Parliament, and bring on, if possible, a division
on the Corn-laws before they retire.. Sir Robert Peel,
it expresses a hope, will before the meeting of Parlia-
ment, seize on some opportunity, as in 1E34, to explain
to the country the policy he shall adopt.
Whether Sir Robert Peel, says the Devonshire
Chronicle, have a majority of 60, 100, or 200, he cannot
keep office and carry on a Tory Government. The
Tories must carry on Whig measures, or turn out. The
days of monopoly and exclusion are numbered, and when
they cease, there is an end of Sir Robert Peel and his tail,
if his tail were to reach across the Atlantic.

The Chronicle, with what truth we know not, im-
putes foul play to the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of
March, at the Banff election, and asserts that after giving
a written assurance that he would observe a strict
neutrality, his Grace's factors canvassed for the Tory.
We cannot believe that a Peer whose name stands so
high, would lend himself to such a plot, and the fact
that many of his tenants voted for Mr. Duff, warrants
the conclusion.

Spain, after having deceived and cheated her fo-
reign creditors fifty times, has another scheme on hand
to keep up the swindling system. On this scheme the
Post makes the following remarks:—"ln war and in peace
her heartless indifference to the claims of the starving
foreign bondholders has been the same. Nothing what-
ever has been paid, nor have the remonstrances of the
sufferers been deemed entitled to a reply. Such has been
the conduct of the Spaniards for the last twenty years,
and really a more incorrigible, a more irreclaimable race
does not exist even in the lawless regions of Central
Africa. Will, then, the Committee of Bondholders con-
descend to listen to any proposition the effect of which
is, not to ensure by any means a more punctual attention
on the part of Spain, to the just claims of her foreign
creditors, but merely that of exchanging, upon the old
offensive principle, one scrap of printed paper for an-
other, the ultimate object of the debtor being, no doubt,
further to complicate and mystify her liabilities, and to
afford scope for more jugglery at the Stock Exchange,
out of which additional funds may be acquired ?