The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-06 00:00:00

far better far the Whigs in the end that, on the present occa-
sion, they should be the losers instead of the winners. " Un-
less a miracle," it says, " occurs to enable the Tories to revive
trade, &c., it is inevitable that a few months must suffice to
destroy the last vestige of their popularity, and bring about an
overwhelming re-action against a Tory Government. It is,
perhaps, better for the cause of free trade in the long run that
the monopolists should have, in the first instance, such a majo-
rity as compels them to form a Government." The Chro-
nicle may deem it a miracle for the Conservatives to re-
vive the prosperity of the country after the manner in which
it has been quacked into a decline by the Whigs, and
upon this rest its hopes of the quacks being again called
in to finish their work. But if the Chronicle is content
with the bird in the bush, we are quite satisfied with
the one in the hand. The hand, however, which turns the
evening organ cf the Whigs does not play exaetly the same tune
as the performer for the morning. It grounds its hopes of the
Whigs returning to office, not upon the incompetency of the
Conservatives to achieve the miracle of reviving trade. &c.,
but upon the Whigs being able to thwart them in doing so.
The majority of the Conservatives, it says, "has been already
reduced within limits which will render it powerless against the
rising spirits of the people, and the regained confidence of the
Liberals in the existing Government. *
Another di•solution will, in all probability, follow at no distant
period, the nearly-balanced state of parties which will still exist
in the new Parliament, and then —." We have no appre-
hensions of what would happen then; such a repetition of the
present crisis would cause us no uneasiness for its result, but
we are perfectly prepared for the steps which the Whigs may
take to bring it about. We do not suppose that Lord John
Russell, as the leader of the Opposition, will pursue tha same
manly and unprejudiced course as Sir Robert Peel. Both his
position and personal character differ widely from that of the
Right Hon. Baronet. He cannot command that unanimous
deference from his heterogeneous party which would be able to
restrain them from factious opposition ; neither do we suspect
him of the political integrity which would scorn to thwart the
measures of an opponent without reference to their merits.
His conduct in this respect, when Sir Robert Peel was called
to the Government in 18.15, cannot have been forgotten. It
stamped him as the unscrupulous partisan who will decline no
advantage by which the grand objects of his party—the recovery
of place and power—can be promoted; and the bitterness of
deteat is not likely to improve the impartiality of his judgment
or the candour of his disposition.

THE 'QUARTER'S REVENUE.
GLOBE.—Although unable to express ourselves with
certainty as to the general results of the quarter's
revenue, as it will be exhibited in the official tables,
which will not be made up until a late hour to-
night, and which we shall give in to-morrow's pub-
lication, we have reason to believe that those re-
turns will show that the existing restrictions on the
trade and commerce of the country are working
gradually, but certainly, those consequences to the
revenue, which they have already, to a fearful ex-
tent, produced on the labouring classes who are de-
pendent on them for support. The fearful pressure
of privation and distress upon the industrial classes,
caused by diminished wages, where they are able
to obtain employment, and their consequent utter
destitution of means to purchase to an extent at all
approaching to the usual consumption, exciseable and cus-
tomary articles of food, naturally acts upon the revenue,
which largely derives its supplies from those sources.
We anticipate that this consequence will present itself in
the official statement which will appear to-morrow ; and,
in the unmistakable language of fact, will warn the mo-
nopolists, and those who have identified themselves with
their system, against persisting in a course which is
pregnant with certain ruin to the country.
STANDARD.—The county elections for England and
Wales will generally be held in the course of the week
commencing this day, and it is quite impossible to
over-rate the importance of their result. It is true
the city and borough elections have proved beyond
hope favourable to the Conservative cause ; but •it
would be wrong to rest supinely upon the ground
thus won. The influence of Romamsm in Ireland,
and the effect of the non-intrusion dispute , in
Scotland may balance all that has been gained in
this part of the United Kingdom. ' These considera-
tions must satisfy the agriculturists that they cannot spare
a single seat to their adversaries—every county must
send men resolved to protect from a threatened ruin those
by whom, county members are elected. Upon the most
favourable supposition as- to the present state of affairs,
the supposition that Sir Robert Peel will have a
moderate majority in Parliament (that he will have
some
,'majority is already certain), kill the agriculturiits
cannot consider themselves safe. A mbnace has already •
been thrown out, that if . parties be divided with
any near approach to equality, the Queen, will be
advised to resort to another dissolution ; \and in
the times in Which we live, it is no answer's Ao
the menace to say. that its execution would be ,
criminal, unconstitutional, and all but treasonable.
We have seen expedients as wicked resorted to : it is
only by ensuring a great majority that this `atrocious
step can be effectually obviated ; and a great majority
can be ensured, if the farmers of England only do their
duty to themselves, their wives, their children, and their
country. Of them, if of any single class, we may say that
eley are emphatically "the people of England"—the pri-
mary sources of its strength and opulence—the living re-
, presentatives of the national chara,cteristics•—the depo-
sitories of the honour and safety of their country. If
they speak firmly and unanimously, no minister will
be so desperate as to disregard their voice ; but if they
allow an appearance of division among them, there are
other classes ready and eager to usurp the proud station
which they will thus abdicate ; and of the support of
theie other classes a profligate Ministry may avail them—
selves to sacrifice the agriculture of the United King-
dom, or, rather, they will promptly buy the support of
these other classes by the sacrifice, as they have already
shown themselves willing to do. Let the farmers,
then, coolly contemplate their . present position.
Sir Robert Peel, noble and patriotic as are his dispo-
sitions, unrivalled as are his talents, will not be able to
support the agricultural interests and the other interests
of the country, if not' supported by a great majority.
The great majority it . rests with the farmers of
England. to give him—and they are the parties inte-
rested above all others in his obtaining it. This is the
farmer's opportunity : it is only at a general election
that he can act, and it is only by securing friends at a'
general election that he can provide a permanent organ
for the.expressionof his wants and wishes, and a constant
and Vigilant guard for the safety of his dearest interests.
COURIER.—The returns, as will be seen elsewhere,
continue their favourable course for the constitutional
cause, the fitting commentary upon which may indeed
be'read in characters not to be mistaken, in the gloom
and despondency by which the Whig-Radical press,
lately so loudly
.boastful, is now overcast—
" The dawn is overcast—the morning lowers,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day
Big with the fate of "
Russell and O'Connell. The weekly and daily tone of
that press is now wasted in elaborate strains to
prove that Sir Robert Peel may achieve, but cannot
retain office, or rather, that upon certain given
calculations and logical deductions therefrom, he
ought no more to aspire to the triumphs of the Legis-
lature . and the Cabinet, than, by a similar process of
ratiocination by the same sagacious critics in days of
yore, the great Duke was justified in marching from
one victory to another, in defiance of all the rules .of
war and military tactics, as then authoritatively laid
down by the Edinburgh Review, and the Aulic Council
of Holland House. Our honest Radical Contempory, the
'Spectator, indeed, oracularly hints in no ambiguous
terms at certain political 'coups d'etat and bedchamber
intrigues,, by which the progress of Sir Robert towards
the Treasury is to be stopped in liminc ; the coup d'etat
bugbear, assuming the formidable shape 'of a Whig Privy
Council, by which the Right Hon. Baronet and his
Cabinet are to be superseded •and overshadowed,
,whilst the successive chaMpions who are to carry
out the 'bedchamber plots, and scatter dismay and dis-
order through Conservative ranks, are, niirabile dictu,
yet unborn, although, after the appointed period of
gestation, they will be found armed cap-a-pie for
the fray starting bodily from the very head or loins of
Majesty or Minerva. Well satisfied as we are that ma-,
chinations such as these discovered and denounced by
our witty and well informed Contemporary do really
haunt. the reveries of philosophic blue stockings like Mr.
Macaulay, and palace politicians like ladies of the; bed-
chamber and the nursery, again gracefully 'lisping their
first lessons about—
" The babes in the wood"—
yet as we may not gravely treat of them without min-
gling up in some sort the 'Royal person with the discus-
sion, also so indecently and disloyally paraded on all
occasions as in disreputable alliance with Whig-Radical
parties and purposes, we shall not expose ourselves to
the possible construction of an indecorum through the
malignity of opponents, by pursuing a theme otherwise
so temptingly fruitful of materials for reflection or
ridicule. •