The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, ILONDON. FRIDAY,

lution will appear bold, even to themselves, in
contrast with the craven recommendation of
the Tories, and timid in contrast with the bolder
calls of the thorough Radicals.

While we think the defence of Ministers com-
plete in relation to the Tory accusations, and
their resolve only to resign after Parliament has
met, irreproachable, we cannot approve of all
parts of the manifesto. There runs throughout
it too much of the Ministers and too little of the
national interests. The alterations proposed in
our fiscal system were far less to set trade free
than to improve the revenue. That the fiscal
regulations which the Ministers propose to alter
are dishonest, and contrary to all sound princi-
ples, seems not to have formed any part of their
consideration. It was a little more or less ad-
vantageous to the Treasury, which was the basis
of the plan, and with that the manufacturing
districts had little sympathy, and felt for it no
enthusiasm. In this respect Lord J. RUSSELL
unfortunately justifies the ridicule of the Tulles,
and gives a severe kick to those over-zealous
friends who, on the eve of the elections, held
the Ministers up as the ardent champions of free
trade.

They only consistently follow out their own
principle of looking more to the revenue than to
free trade, more to the Treasury than to the
nation, when Lord JOHN RUSSELL declares that
" it would be inconsistent with my notions of
public duty to harass the Goyernment of the
day by vexatious opposition." He will let the
Tories run their career, and, in return for the
calumnies they have heaped on his party, and
for the unscrupulous means they have employed
to defeat the Whigs, he will help them to
carry on the Government, and give to them, as
Ministers of the Crown, " the means of main-
taining the reputation of the country abroad and
internal quiet at home." The bulk of the Li-
berals will not, we believe, either approve of
this part of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S declaration, or
imitate his conduct. They will think it their
duty to harass the Tories, while his conduct looks
like a truce or compact with the enemy, in which
the people are to be sacrificed in order to secure
the power of whoever may be Ministers.

The times and the circumstances under which
this address appears, give this part of it a pecu-
liar importance. Great distress prevails, which
the Tories ascribe to the Whig Administration,
while Lord J. RUSSELL'S supporters ascribe it to
dishonest Tory legislation. The Tories make light
of the distress, and are resolved to maintain the
dishonest legislation. They are to seize the Ad-
ministration more securely to effect this scanda-
lous and dishonest purpose. Never before, in the
history of the world, certainly not in the history
of our country, was an Administration formed
on the avowed principles of maintaining a
flagitious system of legislative plunder, and no
ordinary rules can be of any force in prescribing
opposition to such an Administration.

Lord J. RUSSELL has obviously a bad opinion of
the means by which the Tories have succeeded.
He refers to the English county constituency,
implying that the Tory majority has been packed
by bribery, intimidation, and all sorts of corrupt
means, making it utterly unworthy of respect
and obedience. A majority, then, obtained by
the vilest means, to effect the vilest purposes, is
to constitute the Government. To us it seems
that every honest man, and every patriot, is
bound to give such a Government the most in-
flexible and most harassing opposition.
By a large part of the nation, which supports
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Tories are regarded
as the enemies of civilisation, and as engaged in
a deadly war against the rights and liberties of
the people. They are endangering the peace of
society, and provoking a rebellion in Ireland.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself proves that they
have violently and perseveringly opposed all his
reforms. With such a party there can be no
compromise and no peace. Our motto, at least,
is, No Surrender. Lord J. RUSSELL studies their
convenience, and promises not to molest them.
We live in difficult times, when statesmen are
required to make, not to follow precedents. We
must say that to those times we doubt whether
Lord J. RUSSELL be equal. We must say, too,
that we doubt whether the Whig policy of
conciliating and soothing the enemies of
honesty, of justice, and civilisation, be
proper. We are sure that it has riot at present,
as a party measure at least, been successful;
and we doubt whether it be not as injurious to
our cause, as it obviously is to the Whigs them-
selves. The Tories are the avowed enemies of
the people; and those who are their friends, and
wish to be trusted, must not talk of supporting
the Tories.

We lay before our readers a list of the Tory
Cabinet, somewhat different from the other lists
which have been published; but which, we are
'assured, is substantially accurate. For all parts
of it we do not answer. At the same time the
known repugnance in a high quarter to Sir R.
PEEL, makes it extremely probable that her MA-
JESTY may send rather for the Earl of ABER-
DEEN than for him, and prefer the Noble Earl
as the medium of communication between her-
self and her Ministers. The Tories, and Sir R.
PEEL in particular, would be ready, we believe,
to accept the plan as the means of obtaining and
securing her MAJESTY'S favour. The wily Ba-
ronet is willing to stoop to make a permanent
conquest. He will not again attempt to carry
her MAJESTY by a coup de main, but he means
gradually to convert her to plausible dishonest
Toryism.

In addition to the names mentioned in the list
we understand that Colonel SIBTHORP and Sir
ROBERT WILSON are to receive important ap-
pointments.

There is no denying the fact, that the Repeal agitation
is rapidly gaining ground in Ireland. Were we dis-
posed to regard the cry of repeal as confined to a hand-
ful of the blind followers of ➢Zr. O'CONNELL, the
grand entertainment given on Tuesday last by the
City and County of Cork to Mr. O'CONNELL as the chief
of the Repeal Association, would impress us with a very
different conviction. The near approach of the return
of the Tories to power fills Ireland with apprehension
and alarm ; and in the southern capital of the kingdom it
is now difficult for any man to obtain a hearing who does
not unite with the populace in demanding a Repeal of
the Legislative Union. In support of this assertion, we
refer our readers to a report of the proceedings at the
great Repeal Festival at Cork, which will be found in
another part of The Sun. Having always conscientiously
advocated the political and legislative union of the two
countries, in opposition to Mr. O'CONNELL, it is not
without anxiety that we see, among other evils, in
the restoration of the Tories to office an irresis-

tible impulse given to the only mischievous mea-
sure set on foot by the great Agitator. If the Repeal
agitation ever find an echo out of Ireland, it will be in
consequence of Tory oppression—if Repeal ever be car-
ried, it will be by a Tory Government acting under Irish
coercion.

The news contained in the French journals of Tues-
day was anticipated in our afternoon edition of Wednes-
day. We have therefore only to select the following
paragraphs from them :-
- A telegraphic despatch received at Nantes on the 15th,
directs M. Dellarald, principal Commissioner of Police at
Nantes, to repair to Toulouse, there to exercise provisionally
the functions of Special Commissioner. The despatch added
that he would find at Toulouse M. Maurice Duval, the Extra.
ordinary Commissioner of the Government. M. Dellaralde
set out post, on the 16th, in the morning.
A young performer of the Theatre de la Porte Saint
Martin, had had his name entered at the church of the Blanc
Manteaux, to be married in the course of the month. When
he returned to fix the day for performing the ceremony, the
Vicar in person appeared to tell him that he could not marry
an actor, and that there was an express prohibition by the
Archbishop of Paris. —Le Constitutionnel.
The Damao frigate, Captain 011ivier, sailed on the 14th
from Brest, for Cronstadt, where it will take on board Baron
Barante, Ambassador of France at the Court of St. Peters-
burgh, when Mr. Casimir Perier will succeed him as charge
d'affaires.—L'Armoricain. _ _ _

We remark in the Memorial Bordelais of the ISth a
telegraphic despatch from Toulouse of the 16th, addressed by
M. Bocher to the Prefect of the Gironde, which concludes
with the following lines. '"The spirit of the troops is excel-
lent; the insult offered to the person of the King, in the per-
son of his representative, will not remain unpuni-hed, the
power of the law and the Government will prevail. An exam.
ple will be made."—Le Commerce.
The Gazette de Lausanne mentions a horrible tragedy
which has just place at Villeneuve. An inhabitant of St.
Clerges had long sought the hand of Nladlle. Champel, daughter
of one of the late governors of the Castle of Chinon, but his
offers of marriage had been obstinately rejected by her family,
as beneath them. lie was heir to an uncle who had property,
and he wished to get from him a cession of part of in, in order
that he might have a better chance of success in his suit. On
the 6th inst. he went to his uncle's residence ; his demand of
cession was refused, and a discussion ensued, at the end of
which he drew forth a pistol, shot his aunt, who was sitting
near his uncle, dead on the spot, and then discharged another
pistol at the latter, but the ball only grazed his forehead.
Thereupon he fled, and went to Clarens, where he breakfasted '