The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-31 00:00:00

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thing of the misdoings of Government, if misdoings they were,
having been condoned by the majority against the vote of want
of confidence last year, we might refer to many great and use-
ful measures, of a highly advantageous character, which
have been passed at their suggestion and by their ex-
ertions in the interval, to show that the Government,
though not the best of all possible Governments, has
yet done a vast deal of good—a vast deal more good,
we should observe, than the Tories ever attempted or professed
to do. But the matter of • fact is this—that the sins of the
Government consist (in the eyes of these Tory objectors), not
so much in what they have done as in what they propose to do ;
and all the welLknown and welprictised skill of the Tories in
party and Parliamentary tactics is now employed with re-
doubled. zeal to prevent those intentions being manifested in a
more distinct form, and still more to prevent that full and en-
tire vindication andjastification of them, which the talents and
energies of the Members of Government are (as the late debate
so thoroughly proves) likely to give. The present proceeding
is, therefore, simply a trick, just of that sort, teo, which, in
jockeying, is resorted to for the purpose of preventing the best
horse from winning.
GLOBE.—The speech of Mr. Ingham affords shrewd
indications of what the Tories have to expect in quar-
t !rs connected with commerce. The Hon. Gentleman
appears to have no mind to present himself anew to the
constituency of North Shields, with the stigma of having
voted for Sir Robert Peel's motion. He has been in
the habit of acting with Opposition on recent occasions ;
but he cannot afford to do so now with any satisfaction
to himself—or to the worthy and independent electors
of the borough of North Shields. This is a salutary
symptom of commercial secession from the side of Tory-
ism ; as was the language of Lord Worsley of agricul-
tural " want of confidence."—" What security," said the
Noble Lord, " have the agriculturists that he will not
alter the Corn-laws, when they see Sir George Murray,
a leading Member of his late Cabinet, seeking the
suffrages of the electors of Manchester, upon the assu-
rance that he is favourable to a low fixed duty .on corn—
when they saw last year his brother-in-law, Mr. Dawson,
ready to throw the Corn-laws overboard altogether, for
the sake of catching a dozen or two of votes at Devon-
port ?" Thus, while landed members of the Liberal party
have no solid motive for deserting their political friends
on the present occasion, mercantile men, even those
whose leanings are towards the side of the Opposition,
have every motive for postponing party to national and
commercial interests. And these symptoms afford the
strongest justification of Ministers for the decided
course they have now taken on the great questions Wider
discussion. That course, as Lord John Russell stated
and proved (and as our own Madrid correspondence
proved), was not taken on the mere spur of the
moment—on the mere impulse of defeat. It was
taken on' a deliberate view of the state of finance and
commerce.. That view had been prepared, and the pub-
lic prepared to respond to it, by the publication of the
valuable Report of the Import Duties Committee. The
party in the State who give their support to the pre-
sent Government rejoice to see its leaders identified
with the cause of commercial and industrial freedom.
And now, forsooth, it is made an imputation upon their
conduct, that they have identified themselves with that
cause. It is an unfair advantage that they take of the
Opposition—when they agitate the country for free trade
in corn, timber, and sugar : If it is an unfair advantage,
it is an advantage. How dors that tacit admission con-
sist with the other charge brought against Ministers,
that they have made a chain demonstration in a
notoriously loveless cause ? how would it suit :s
grind party to identify itself with such a cause
The Whigs have been said, of old time, to build
walls to knock their own heads against. They did
so, much to their honour—but the walls stood—and the
Tories finished them ! The firm of Peel, Copley, and
Co. contracted fur the work, on the lowest terms, after
the Whig buildeni had been unfairly choused out of the
job, ;4e) it may be on the present occasion ; although
we will wish and hope otherwise. If thesubstanee of the
present measures is carried, within a short period,
a-hoerer is Minister,—the present Ministers will be more
than justified for having introduced them as they have

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wrANDARD.-All the arguments of the Ministerial
speakers in the debate commenced on Thursday go to es-
tablish this one position—that it is no longer necessary
for the Ministers of the Crown to possess the confidence
of the House of Commons ; and the Reform Bill it is
which is thUs charged with having deprived the people
of any eflieieut share in directing the government of the
country. Years hove passed since Sir Robert Peel pre-
dicted that he and his friends would have to defend the
subvtance of the Reform Bill against the assaults of
its author, and often within those years has he nobly
realised the prediction : at present, his honourable task
is to defend not only its substance, but its character.
If the effect of the Reform Bill has been to enable
the Crown to continue an AdMinistration in which
the representatives of the people repose no trust, then
1.4 the Reform Bill the most fatal inroad upon na-
tional. liberty that ever was made, or even attempted, in
this country. A remark of the Duke of 'Welling-
ton, directed against the Bill in question has been,
we know, quoted in support of the hypothesis, that the
Reform Rill has wrought the deadly tinge assigned to
it. "How," asked the illustrious Duke, 41.$ the King's
Government to be carried on after you have passed this
Bill ?" What was the answer ? Did any of the sup-
, porters of the Reform Bill say, " As it may please the
King, without regard to the will of the representatives of
the people ?" Oh no ;if such had been the answer, the
doom of the Reform Bill had been sealed on the instant.
The reply, and, as we thought at the time, and still think,
the satisfactory and conclusive reply, was, "That the
Kings of the line of Hanover may be trusted as wishing
to govern well, and the people of England may be trusted
as not disposed to vexatiously, or- perversely', embar-
rass a good Government." Certain it is, that no wp-
norter of the Reform Bill dared to threaten from it a
'Government carried on in defiance of the manifest
distrust of the HouSe of Commons. That the Duke
of Welangton himself contemplated no such outrage
upon the Constitution. is proved by the form- of kts
question ; still more clearly proved by his resign&tion
upon- the very first refusal of the House of Commons
to sanction a measure proposed by the Government
of which he , was a member. His Grace, no doubt,
overrated the danger of the Reform Bill ; but this was
a very,different thing. from recommending an implicit
adoption of that, the worst consequence of which
he thought he foresaw as certain to flow from it.
The course of events has proved that the illustrious
Duke was in error in his distrust of the good sense of
the people of England. The late elections have shown
that Englishmen know the value of good government,
and the evil of that government which- is not good ; and
let a general election come to-morrow, and it is by no
doubtful return, by no "measuring-cast majority," that
the people will ensure to themselves the benefit of good
zwernment.

MONEY IVTARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
CHRONICLE.—The funds have been firm to-day, but
the transactions were limited.
We continue to receive very gloomy accounts of the state
of trade in the mainfacturing district,. The operatives are in
the greatest possible distrstss, and the millowners working half
time. Were it not for the prepitious weather, and the pro-
spects of an abundant harvest, apprehensions are entertained
that the endurance of the people would be soon exhausted.
The accession of the monopolists to power under these circum-
stances would produce discontent and alarm in the country
that cannot be contemplated without great uneasiness. if
they were to come into office after having expounded the
plans be which they propose to relieve the financial
crisis, which is on all hands admitted to exist, the possible
success of their efforts to overthrow the present Government
might be looked upon with less apprehension ' • but, considering
the discordant materials of which Sir Robert Peel's supporters
are composed, and his obstinate refusal to let the people know
what he means to do for their relief, it is impossible not to
fear that his possession of power would be attended with a con-
vulsion. Unless he adopted the very measures which he now
opposes, and on his opposition to which he seeks to rest his
stepping-stone to office, it is generally believed the country
would rise up and protest against his attempting to seize the
Government. Such being the fact, every hour increases the
confidence of the friends of free trade that the principles
which they have always professed will speedily triumph, and that
by an appeal to the people Ministers will obtain such an acces-
sion of strength as will enable them successfully to carry out
I these great national measures, now stopped in their progress by
the factious proceedings of those who, fearful of allowing their
real sentiments to be known, endeavour to force the Govern-
ment to dissolve before the truth is fatly disclosed to the coun-
try, well know ing that necessity would soon compel them, if
they should obtain their places, to proceed tcia-revision of the
commercial tariff, as the only means to restore prosperity to
the decayed branches of our productiveindustry. Sir Robert
Peel may make speeches and move resolutions until doomsday.
'[lie people do not care two straws for either. They
know
thatreferencesthatthe
necessitiesshouldwaycountryanydone
Walpole,and whoever
stit Pitt
to
or
accordingly.
particular
mre,ima3ttaanneyef,oremaen overcome
dine
this fact, and no special pleading or casuistry can blind the
people from perceiving that it will form the basis on which the
policy of the British Administrationr must in future be con-
ducted. The people do not e
Robert Peel, telling them that,7lueiri7,as not confidence in the
a long speech from Sir
Government. Every body knows
that.what the people wish
to know is, the measures which he
w
of the embarrassment of the Exchequer,ar o
and
rivtihe ngreem-
ployment to the starviug population.
The Foreign Market was almost deserted, most of the deal-
ers having started early in the day for Epsom.uotation being Spanish Ac-
tives experienced a slight improvement, the
23-4 to i ; in the other foreign securities there was no altera-
tion
from Spain contained in a second edition of the
The iin value.new.s
morning papers, confirms the accuracy of our ststeerrts of
yesterday. Gonzales has declared that he will not din the
Cortes, that there will be a great reduction in the army,ve
that useful financial reforms will be btougl t forward and
sentiments which hare been publicly expressed by the new
Minister of Spanish finance certainly lead us to expect that he
will exert himself to bring about the conclusion of a commer-
cial Treaty with England. He has always expressed himself
decidedly favourable to this country, although a Catalonian I
deputy, anti even been obliged to defend himself against his
countrymen from accusations on that ground. His opinions
also regardirw the national obligations, are correct, and
must toad to support the expectations of the bondholders,
that Spain will fulfil her promise of meeting the engagements
to her c-editors with perfect good faith.
TIMES.—Although the recent intelligence from Spain
seems to have been thought rather favourable on the Stock
Exchange, the opinion expressed by the leading Spanish mer-
chants in the City, that it would be impossible to carry on a
government in that country withoutadisshoylutthioenhostf
ntfhAe 1 pmr
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sent Cortes, has been strongly confirmed
ters that has just arrived. At first hopes were entertained of
the possibility of forming a coalition Government by an union
of the leading Trinitarians and Unitarians, but the present fist
shows that all such attempts have failed. Among the Trinita-
rians, as is well known, are the most violent democrats, and
now there is such a strong democratic party. in the Le-
gislature, the difficulty that will be found in working
with a Cabinet without a leading Representative of that party
may easily be conceived. At any rate, if anything were to be
done at all. under circumstances so disadvantageous, it would
be by individuals of such weight and unquestionable influence
as might form a counterpoise to political obstacles. The
choice of Senor Gonzales as President and Minister of Foreign
Affairs seems to have given satisfaction, and so likewise does
that of Senor Infante, as Minister of the Interior. The-lattet
distinguished himself at Bolivia, in Peru, where he was Minis•
ter for Foreign Affairs, and was successful in the preservation