The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—ne discrepancies and disagreements be-
tween the different Members of the New Cabinet on
great questions of national policy, as man7fested on
recent occasions in their Parliamentary speeches,
will afford striking illustrations of the unity which
is likely to prevail among them when consulting
the course they shall pursue in conducting the
Government. While the country will see in the anoma-
lous and incongruous elemeits brought together as a
Ministry an encouragement to hope that the period
allotted to its rule will necessarily be short. The at-
tempt to impose additional taxation at a time when the
resources of the country are exhaisted by the pressure
of distress, produced by the insane and selfish policy,
which the class-interests insist shall be perpetuated for
their exclusive benefit, will provoke a pressure from
without too strong for effectual resistance from within.
A Cabinet constructed of materials which cannot
amalgamate must give way under such circumstances.
Sir James Graham, as head of the Home Department,
has especially committed to his custody the preservation
of domestic tranquillity. We urge upon the renegade
Baronet the necessity of providing for an exigency which
is assuredly approaching, and which he himself has pre-
dicted as certainly resulting from the system he once
forcibly denounced, but is now pledged to uphold :
" The feeling of the public mind must be hostile to
the present Corn-law--the receivers of rent are a very
small body—backed by public opinion, they are almost
omnipotent—in violation of public opinion, they cannot
long retain an exclusive advantage. The contest is fear-
ful : for on what ground will it be decided ? On the
very topic which inflames to madness. Hunger, which
breaks through walls, will be arrayed against them—
reason will be heard no longer—the barriers of society
will be broken down ; and estates, distinctions, honours,
swept away in one resistless torrent."
We do not anticipate so awful a catastrophe as that
which Sir James Graham here predicts in his book
from which we quote. We believe that though the mo-
nopolists will resist long, and obstinately, they will
yield at last. But we do fear that the rapidly accumu-
lating distress in the manufacturing districts, occa-
sioned by scarcity of employment and the high prices
of food, will provoke the suffering population to out-
rages, and jeopardise the public tranquillity. The
Right Hon. Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, seeing, as he does, the natural tendency of the
present Corn-laws to produce the consequences he has
described, will, we hope, while he provides the necessary
protection to the public security, sympathise with, and
show clemency to, the miserable masses, whom " a blind
and selfish policy, rapaciously grasping at undue gain,"
we use his own words, consigns to the verge of starva-
tion, should they be stimulated to acts which must be
equally deplored and condemned.

THE NEW TORY MINISTRY.
HER MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL.

DEPARTURE OF SIR' R. PEEL AND HIS COLLEAGUES
FOR CLAREMONT.—A numerous meeting of the Members
of the newly-formed Tory Administration of Sir Robert
Peel's concoction, as well as of Conservative Members of
both Houses of Parliament, took place yesterday morning
at the house of the Right Hon. Baronet, in Whitehall-
gardens, previously to the departure of the new Premier
to attend the Privy Council held by her Majesty in the
afternoon at Claremont.

Many of the Lords and gentlemen who had attended
the meeting quitted Sir Robert Peel's about eleven
o'clock, shortly after which hour the Earl of Aberdeen
drove up to the house of the Right Hon. Baronet in his
close carriage and four post-horses, and after remaining
in deliberation with the new Premier for about a quarter
of an hour, the Noble Earl and the Right Hon. Baronet
took their departure together in the carriage of the
former.

There was during the early part of the morning, in
the immediate vicinity of Whitehall-gardens, quite a
" sensation." The usually quiet locality was all bustle--
Dukes, Lords, and Commoners were each instant com-
ing awl going, and a number of people assembled in
front of Sir Robert's house to take a peep at the distin-
guished personages who flocked to worship the " rising
sun" of the in-coming party.
On the departure of the two Ministers from White-
hall-gardens, Sir Robert Peel was slightly cheered by a
small knot of Conservatives, who followed his carriage
out into .Whitehall. The Right Hon. Baronet, who
looked unusually thoughtful, acknowledged the cheer by
a slight bow as the carriage dashed out of the sight of his
admirers.

The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buckingham,
Lord Stanley, Lord Ripon, Lord Liverpool, Earl de
Grey, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Eliot,
Mr. Goulburn, Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir James Graham,
Mr. W. E. Gladstone, the Earl of Haddington, and Lord
Wharncliffe, who had all been summoned to attend the
Council, severally left town for Claremont at different
periods of the morning.

Sir James Graham has appointed his brother to be
his Private Secretary.
We believe we may state with certainty that the
" new writs" will be moved in the House of Commons
on Monday next, and that both llouses, at their rising on
that evening, will adjourn until Monday fortnight (the
20th inst.).

EARL FITZHARDINGE AND TIIE

I lER ALD.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD.
(Copy.)

Berkeley Castle, August 31, 1841.

Sir—My attention has been drawn to an article in
your Paper of the 27th instant, in which some one
of the Peers whose titles or elevations in the Peerage
were announced in a late Gazette, is charged with a
crime of the greatest er orrnity. If you believe that
one of the Noblemen referred to did commit the atro-
city described, yi.o must feel that he has no claim to
your forbearance, and that the fullest exposure would be
a due, though not an adequate, punishment of it. You
do not,.bowever, name the criminal, but you bring the
others; who are innocent; under the suspicion of the guilt
of the one. You thus wrong unoffending, honourable
men (for to subject honourable men even to a passing
suspicion is a wrong,) by the very same reserve by which
yoit= spare the real criminal.
But you may plead the fear of the libel law, under`
which truth may be punishable. I, then, as one of the
Peem who fall within the scope of your charge. pledge
myself for my own part, that I wit! not institute any
legal proceedings, if, in answer to the call which I now
make on you to name the person whom you mean to
accuse, you should name me ; provided you prove the
truth of your accusation, which I denounce as a wicked
calumny and unmixed lie, so far as regards myself.
I have had no communication whatever with any of
the Noblemen included in the charge, but I hesitate not
to declare it on their part, as well as my own, a gross
falsehood.

The charge you have made (however improbable) is
that of consummate villany ; and, let me observe, that
next in wickedness to the commission of such guilt is
the false accusation of it. You have now either to sub-
stantiate your charge, or to remain under the infamy of
having made a false accusation.

For the proof of your case, you shall have every
facility ; I will confine you to neither time nor place.
And if you can prove that there is any ground what-
ever for the story, or that by any plausible
construction so infamous an imputation can be
made out, I will patiently submit to the dis-
grace. But should you have preferred so heavy
an accusation, without being able to present any
evidence or authority in support of it, and without any
purpose but that of offering an insult to the Queen, and
flinging a calumny on persons whose politics you dis-
like, the public will know what judgment to pass on
such conduct compounded of malignity and. mendacity.
It is possible that you may say the tale is not your
tale, and that you have given place to the representation
of a correspondent. But surely no journalist pretend-
ing to respectability would publish a communication
impudently addressed to her Majesty, and making so
heavy a personal charge, a charge of "crime," accord-
ing to the words of the writer, without having prepared
himself to adopt and justify it by evidence of facts.
Accusations of so very grave a sort cannot be thrown
out on the mere assertion of Correspondents, except,
indeed, in publications which, having no character for
truth, can hurt ntt character by their falsehoods.
I am. &c., FITZ HARDINGE.

PROTEST OF THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.,-..1n
addition to his Royal Highness, the protest published
in the The Sun on Wednesday last, against the
amendment to the Address agreed to on Tuesday
wee':, has been signed by the following Peers :--Scar-
borough, Zetland, Charlemont, 'Manley, Montfort,
Clements, Foley ; and Radnor, Ilatherton, and Gosford
for the first, 'second; third, and last reasons.

. . .
WICKED SMELLING-SALTS.-HEART-REND-
-INa .00CURRENCE.—A chap down east has invented a
description of smelling-salts, so tarnation strong, that
it wrings the nose off the face or any one who uses it.
Seventeen persons in Kentucky have been bereaved of
their nasal promontory through the instrumentality of
this fatal invention.

.SUICIDE THROUGH DlSTRESS.—Thursday
an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Bell, Red
Lion market, St. Luke's, on the body of Thomas Myatt,
a tailor, aged 25. Elizabeth Myatt, deceased's sister, de-
posed that she resided with her brother at No. 3, B unhill-
row, St. Luke's. For the last two months deceased had
been in a low, desponding state, and, at times, would stand
for an hour, looking in a most vacant manner, and then
complain of a shade being before his eyes. He had been a
long time out of employ, and she attributed his despond-
ency to that. He would go out, and stop away from home
at nitht, roaming about the fields. A short time since a
friend of her brother's destroyed himself by hanging,
and he, getting hold of a paper which contained an ac-
count of the inquest, cut that part out of it, and had car-
ried it about with him ever since. On Wednesday after-
noon she left home, about a quarter-past seven o'clock
in the evening when she returned, on going up stairs,
found the room in darkness, and, feeling about, disco-
vered the deceased hanging to the bedpost. An alarm
was raised, and he was cut down. Mr. Mather, a sur-
geon, was sent for, but he could do nothing for him. The
deceased, when six months old, was knocked down by a
gentleman's horse and his head injured. Verdict—Tem-
porary insanity.
ST. PAUL'S 200 YEARS AGO.—The middle
aisle of the old cathedral was the resort of all the idle
and profligate in London. The coxcomb here displayed
his finery, and the cut-purse picked his pocket. Serving-
men here came to find masters, and tradesmen to attract
purchasers by their notices on the pillars.
THE HARVEST.—We have had several days
of the brightest weather, and the sickle has been most
busily at work. The crops are stated to be thinin the
ground, and the rust has in a few instances prevailed.
Should the fine weather last till the end of the week, we
imagine a large proportion of the corn in West Somerset
L will be housed—Dorchester JournaL