The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-15 00:00:00

TO THE PUBLIC.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
( From the Globe.)
There is nothing for which Sir Robert Peel has more
frequently claimed credit for his party than their magnani-
mity in supporting government against all manner of Radical
exigences. They showed, however, last night, that they are
ready to violate every principle of forbearance which they
have claimed for themselves—which aWhig opposition never
refused, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, " in the
warmest times of opposition, even during the war"—sim-
ply for the purpose of catching a few Radical votes. Mr.
Hume and others were of course consistent in giving the
Tories their dishonest majority. But on the principles
which they had always asserted in power—in which Parlia-
ment had always acquiesced—it was grossly and glaringly
factious to demand statements from Government at such a
time, and in such a shape, as they had invariably refused
when in power, and had never been pressed by an ho-
nester Opposition. We doubt not, however, that Tory
magnanimity will again show itself—that is to say, when
any thing practical is proposed by their friends of last
night. They will support the Government in any vote
against Radical measures. They will never sacrifice their
principles to swindle a night's majority excepting when
that majority can serve no purpose but mere annoyance.
(From the Standard )
. . .

DEFEAT OF MINISTERS. —lt will have been seen by the
result of the debate upon Mr. Ilerries's motion that Minis-
ters were again beaten last night by a majority of ten;
and beaten upon a question which any other Administra-
tion would have treated as involving its existence.
Although we have borrowed the summary of the Mora-
lity Herald, we are anxious that the discussion, and
more particularly the triumphant speeches of Mr.
'Terries, Mr. Goulburn, and Sir G. Clerk, be read at
length, not merely as proving the utter unfitness of
the present men to hold office, and as demon-
strating what we have sail of the vital nature of
last night's struggle, but also as full of encourage-
ment and hope to the country. If our financial
affairs had fallen into their present state of difficulty and dis.
order under good management—under the management of a
Pitt or a Peel—there might be reason to despair; but the
worBt circumstances of the past afford the most satisfac-
tory grounds of reflection upon the future. It is be-
cause everything has been mismanaged, because we have
suffered Whig- Radical government for nine or ten years,
and from that cause only, that in the 26th year of peace
the country is sinking deeper and deeper into debt,
and that the dental)" for new taxes has become
peremptory. The single act of a change of Govern-
ment is therefore sufficient to set all to rights again.

(From the Courier.)
Sir E. Sugden's motion to-night will necessarily raise
the whole question of privilege. Indeed, it seems impos-
sible that any step can be taken in this extraordinary
affair without producing the same inconvenience and the
same interruption of business, for the transaction of which
the House was elected. Those Members who, for-
getting the history of this branch of the Legislature,
assert that they are only claiming the privilege 3 which
were conferred on them by their constituents for the
general good—for so it was expressed in the debate of last
Friday—may imagine that the present proceedings are of
public utility. Few will be inclined to concede anything
of the kind, when it is recollected that the original reso-
lution, which has occasioned the collision between the
Commons and the Court of Queen's Bench, is a claim to
injure the legal rights of Individuals whenever the Mem-
bers may think it necessary for the due performance of
their Legislative functions.

POLITICAL SUMMA4Y OF THE

MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Herald of this day, speaking of the second
reading of the Irish Municipal Corporations Bill in the
Commons last night, observes. :—" Sir Robert Peel sig-
nalized himself, we regret to state, by delivering a tho-
roughly Whiggish speech or. the subject. The Right
lion. Baronet spoke much about the advantages of con-
cession and conciliation.—Let him not deceive himself,
nor seek to deceive the country on this point. If the Mu-
nicipal Corporations of Ireland, with all their vast influ-
ence, shall be abandoned to the Papists, the Established
Church in Irelard must at no reroute period be abandoned
also."—The Times, alluding to the necessity of a large naval
and military promotion, remarks as follows :—" But this boon
to tither service, or, more properly speaking, this urgent
measure of national safety, will be, as it has been, coughed
or laughed down as too expensive, by the bungling bank-
rupts who have broken up the financial system of the em-
pire, substituted a frightful yearly deficit for an ample and
effective yearly surplus left them by the Conservatives,
starved our establishments for self-defence, the army, the
navy, the militia, and the yeomanry ; have inflamed the
rabble, robbed the Church, and, let loose upon us all the
elements of a fierce and profligate revolution." The
Morning Chronicle thus refers again to the Privilege
question :—" The most obvious interest of the people
in supporting the privileges of the House of Commons
arises out of the function of that House, as the great
inquest of the nation. The success of Mr. Stockdale
and his patrons, in the present contest, would effectually
cripple the Houle of Commons for conducting inquiries
tending to the detection, exposure, and consequent correc-
tion of abuses." The Morning Post expt esses itself in the
following terms on the subject of the Duke of Wellington's
sudden indisposition yesterday May we venture to
hint to the personal friends of his Grace, that they cannot
render a more important service to the country, nor one
which the nation would appreciate more highly, than that
of prevailing upon his Grace to be more careful of his own
health, than ho seems to have been in the present, and in
at least a former instance."

AN ACTIVE MAN.—Lord Brougham arrived
at Paris at one o'clock in the morning, went to bed, got up at
nine, went out at ten, and paid visits till dinner time, dined at
the Rocha de Caneale, attended the Opera, thence went to the
ball at the Hotel de Ville, after which he proceeded to the ba
masque at the Opera, and started at five in the morning for
Frej us.
FIRE AT WINDSOR.—On Tuesday evening,
about half-past nine o'clock, an alarming fire broke out at Mr.
Dash's, the Star and Garter Inn, in this town, which at one
time, threatened the destruction of those extensive premises.
The fire was discovered by Miss Dash, who, upon going into
her bed-room upon the second floor, found the bed-hangings
consumed, and other portions of the room and furniture in
flames. She had just time to give the alarm, when she fainted
from fright. One of the waiters immediately rushed up stairs,
but such was the density of the smoke, that ere he could de-
scend he became insensible and fell, and it was some time be-
fore he was restored. Several of the neighbours immediately
rendered their assistance, aided by the police, and the flames
were fortunately confined to the room (the whole of the furni-
ture of which was consumed) in which they broke out. The
house was completely drenched with water, and the furniture
in several of the lewer rooms considerably injured. A short
time previously to the fire being discovered, Mrs. Dash had been
in the room with a light, and it is supposed her candle must
have set fire to the bed-curtains.