The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Postsay :—" The Whigs may say what
they please of the domineering and exclusive temper of
the Conservative party, but the public know that such
representations are not true. The Conservative4party is
not founded upon the principle of exclusion, or mono-
poly, or preference of this Or that great.interest, but
it is founded on the inclusive principle—on the principle
of bringing together all whose views of improvement may
be brought within the circle of respect for existing institu-
tions and theprinciples of the constitution as now settled."
—The " views of improvement"of the Tory Cabinet are
just about as extensive as the views that one gets of a
landscape through a small hole in a brick wall. The
Ministry is decidedly a monopolist one, based on the
stand-still system of policy, and have scarcely one sound,
healthy feeling in common with the bulk of the commu-
nity. The appointment of the Duke of Buckingham is
a proof that they will not err on the side of liberality ;
and in the adhesion of Sir James Graham we have a
voucher that principle will not go for much in their esti-
mation. In a word, the Government is a patch-work
combination of political Sectarians and Exclusives, which
will drop to pieces the instant that the link of self-
interest which now binds them together, is broken.
The Advertiser gives the following sketch of Lord
Lyndhurst :—" Lord Lyndhurst, though the least noisy
of the leading men in the medley Ministry, is one from
whom the popular cause has perhaps, as much to dread as
from any Member of it. He is cool, calculating, and
cunning ; so insidious in his designs, that even those in
most frequent and familiar intercourse with him, are as
little liable as others to have their suspicions ex-
cited. In this respect he is more dangerous than Sir
Robert Peel himself ; and what aggravates the evil of
Lord Lyndhurst's admission into the new Cabinet, is the
intensity of the hatred which he bears to everything
which wears the semblance of popular principles. He
is the most noted apostate of the numerous apos-
tates with which the Peel Administration abounds."—
This is no exaggerated portrait. Lord Lyndhurst started
in life as a " Whig and something more"—that is to say,
he had a strong leaven of republicanism about him; he
then veered round and joined the ultra-Tory party; but
finding. that they were declining in influence, he attached
himself to the fortunes of the more Liberal Tories, the
headed by Canning. He next deserted them, and joined
Peel and Wellington, with whom he has since continued
to act; and whose obsequious tool he will continue to be,
till he finds it his interest to jump Jim Crow once more.
He is undoubtedly an able man, but whenever mischief is
brewing, he is sure to be among the first to stir the cauld
ron. Like his illustrious prototype, he is always busy in
a high wind.

as The
Tuneslowsi— resumes
"An immense immlts
enPsrs
eatbOs od
body of
the To
the
ery
constituencies Ministry
in each of the three United Kingdoms are appealed to
a second time, on behalf of the constitutional principles
which they so nobly contended fer in the late Contest I
nor have we a doubt that their flintier choice, both as
regards measures and men, will be eagerly ratified,
without exception, by the return of all the Members of
the new Ministry who now solicit a renewal of their
confidence. Among their many titles to public stipport
arising from their talents; clittfattet, and aptitude for
business, the parka disinterestedness by which
they are actuated in undertaking the labours
and responsibilities of office must, doubtless, be
R paramount consideration in tedoniniaddillg them
to the renewed. stdil-egei Of the electors."—
To speak of the " perket disinterestedness" of such men
as the Pelt of Buckingham, Lord Lyndhurst; and Sir
James Graham, is a perfect absurdity, at which they
themselves will be the first to laugh. We would give
something to see their faces while reading such Itypoeri•
tical eulogiums ; they would manage, no doubt, to pre-
serve their gravity till they came to the words " perfect
disinterestedness," when Sir James Grahath would be
sure to burst into a shout of laughter, only to be equalled
in violence and duration by the sympathetic roar of Lord I
Lyndhurst. Nothing Indeed can be richer than the ta,m
of the " perfect disinterestedness' of a man who, not five
years ago, publicly avowed his " utter want of eena-
dence" in a Premier whom he now joins heart and soul!
In reference to Sir Robert Peel's Irish appointments;
the Chronich observes :—" lit has dared te tend to fen,
land as Lord Lieutenant a men WheSe efthection with
one of the most noterietit Orange officials in that coun=
try, it might have been supposed would have sufficed ttl
mitigate the hostility of the extreme party: But ho;
Lord de Grey, though the brother-hr.law of an Orange •
grand master, had not yet passed the tifk 4ai MHO
Lord Haddiagton had been Hilly qiihlitied, and already
is the new Load Lieutenant warned of the fate that
awaits him,. so surely as he dares to govern Ireland in
a spirit of moderation or impartiality:, Lord tliot
is, we believe, a selection as little ObjettiiinitUitt
Sir Robert Peel could Well have made. Yet
for Lord Eliot's suspected moderation, the appoint-
ment of such men as Blackburne and Jackson it
not deemed a sufficiently bigotted eottntervolse !"
The Orange party are already op hi arms against Sir
Robert Peel, and with the de attacking him on one side,
and the O'Connellites on the other, he will have a plea.
sant and tranquil time of it. A bold, vigorous Tory
would have sided with the Orangemen; and at least
have had one class to back him through thick and thin
but the Right Hon. Baronet is not a hold Tory ; he is a
tricky, timid time-server, who by endeavouring to trim
between two parties, and oscillate, like a pendulum, now
to one, and now to the other, will disgust both;
The following is from the lierett 1..;h distin-
guishing trait of a great mrtttvli tai the Irish people that
their political difttitnee; are greatly embittered; and
their Rtray virulence -vastly augmented, by the distribil-
tint ell public patronage ; and this jealousy shot ha to
much arise from selfishness as tenni the rlispfttlitiftiliti
existing between the adherents to the tAle religion and
to the Dissenting faith. While, then, in claims to office
and public preferment, the principles on which Sir 1l Peel
must govern Ireland will not allow of any inquiry into the
religious belief of the claimants to Oakley it *lll be the
rev'f'ehrtgmhen7,ltyrket ttlhme
blroeulnadnedntodiuntyesotifgattose who adedinislet the iitt dills of
cations ; and althougri atsstaistittileYf tineitrhosseecuvliatralgpuoailin%
• obfarfittiothp
Ireland from the Romish sect, cannot he allowed to be a
orderly, and the moderato titlen; rifest at ihnOA be
the peaceable; the
chosen when placed in competition the disaffected,
r separationitb i&, of the Oheitch of
the turbulent, the agitating and Vire trading politician.,"
The Shciyk trot;; es in reference to the
meat of the new Ministry , The bitM. 4314w,i,,' 'it; 'Jr.
Bowring remarked, ' has been. Oitkit`At'eu to the people,'
but they refuse to tivi4k) 'Alla Sir Robert niz..-y enact a
second Peterleo;
soldiers
them, and gill OA Will
refu,ir. es among
~
of Ox)
.justiee to Ireland by sending iiiel‘e
nonscionsncip of their oWin tnit‘;
before them, and a declining • tro; 'sod ilideftse of
reven
taxation, falling
a trade; and inceease of misery, will
forge weapons more formidable than sabres and musketry."
—thetrimm inTpsoislitteinctiana,ndandthtehermenaengaodfeo—bstthi
We quote the f()llowing from the Curpbridge Adverti-
ser '—`` 4001611 g at the materials which compose the
Tory cabinet, we easily discern the elements of disrup-
tion and decay. There are the honest and the dishonest
they ; and although
it comprises even the fool and the man of genius, Such
neainteacmieeraasttrreasn—d
unwrought and discordant materials cannot mix toge.
a Tory Government may continue
a few years, we predicate a speedy end to the Ministry as
at present constituted."

A prelimiCnaOrl7ll4nefil•
was held at the Cock Ta7:11:: X:
•
RE—POR.7I,"
e Ing of the 11,.°
. ...e formation 1
day last, for "-
.A • ...1
oirwo lel
do
oweasy_
Corn-law
_.....,sociation. After an energetic address of two hours by
Mr. Sidney Smith, it was agreed to call another meet-
ing for the same purpose that day week,
At a recent meeting
held at Chichester, in the Inde-
pendent Chapel of that city, the Rev. W. Malden, on his
return from Mt nchester„ gave an eloquent account of the
Conference. The following resolution was seconded and
• unanimously passed :—" That in the opinion of this
meeting the_Coaference,of Qhristiap. Ministers lat9l,y held
in the town of Manchester is entitled,tO the thanls,c.,,f the
nation, that lb* proceedlings were characte*T3.
,by

10, IS4I.

Christian kindness towards the poor, and that it is the
duty of the city of Chichester to petition the Legislature
to repeal those lams which restrict the supply of food to
the people." •
At a religious service held in Hackney on Monday
last, in reference to the Corn-laws, Dr. Pye Smith gave
a history of the Corn-lawS, end pointed nut their perni•
tious effects.