The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY.

Me OW. .1,••
The parties in the two Houses last night changed their
places, the Duke of Wellington and the Tories occupy-
ing the Ministerial, and Viscount Melbourne and the
Whigs occupying the Opposition benches.
Lord Lyndhurst took his seat on the Woolsack.
The Administration of Justice Bill went through a
Committtee.
On the Report, Lord Brougham proposed an amend-
ment not to allow more than one additional Chancellor,
which was negatived.
Lord Campbell moved to insert words which would
ensure the eligibility of Irish barristers of fifteen years'
standing under the Bill, but he consented to postpone it.
The Duke of 'Wellington promised the Earl of Wick-
low, in calling his attention to the subject, that he would
inform his Right Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for
the Home Department, of the fact that the punishment
of Death Bill was not extended to Ireland.

In the Commons the Tories mustered in considerable
force; the Whig Radicals were but few. That Mr.
Wakley kept his old seat amongst the Tories was un-
doubtedly a mistake.
A number of election petitions were presented.
Lord Scarborough's IndeMnity Bill was passed through
all its stages.
Dr. Bowring and Mr. Roebuck severally gave'nOtite3
of motion Telative-to, Tariff and the Correspoudencso
concerning M - ocl.
No new'ivr4were moved for as some persons seem to
have expected: " That cannot be done till the Bth.
Both Houses rose at an early hour.
The new writs, consequent upon several members
having accepted office, cannot be moved for until Wed-
nesday, it being required that there should be fourteen
clear days after the formal opening of Parliament, and
the issuing of new writs, in order to afford time for elec-
tion petitions to be previously presented. It is at present
understood that on Wednesday, after the new writs have
been moved for, the House will be adjourned till Monday
week, to afford time for the re-elections ; that then there
will be some unopposed money grants, and a continuation
of the Poor-law Act for a short period, as it would
otherwise wholly expire. This business having been
got through, it is expected that the Parliament will be
then prorogued, with a view to its re-opening by her
Majesty, with a speech from the throne. The Lords
will be also adjourned, and for the like period.
In the Lords, last night, some slight laughter was
caused by the Duke of Sutherland, who, on entering the
House, went to the place he usually occupied on the
Ministerial side, took his seat, and did not seem to find
out his mistake until he saw some of the ex-Ministers op-
posite to him. The Noble Duke enjoyed the joke to
which his error gave rise, and made his way to the other
side, along the front of the Ministerial bench, every
Minister on which good-humouredly shook hands with
him as he passed. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes
of Sussex and Cambridge were present during the sit-
ting, and sat together for some time. Both the Royal
Dukes appeared in excellent health and spirits.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Morning Post assigns the following reasons for
the accession of the Tories to power :—" Highly us we
esteem the Conservatives, we do not deem it necessary.

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:o ascribe their elevation to power to any supernatural

means.

We do think that the effectyonies:by eause,

and that cause the old and accustomed one for the ac-

cession of any party to the powers and responsibilities
of British Government, namely, the constitutionally-ex-
pressed preference of the people, to which preference it

bas plea.sed the Sovereign to give effect.

The Consery a

Lives have not gained power by a triumph over the peo-
ple and the Crown, but by the choice of the people and the
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Constitutional concurrence of the Sovereign in tliat choice."
—lt is not true that the Tories have gained power by the
choice of the people. They have gained it by the folly
and supineness of the Whigs, aided by their own dexte-
rous electioneering tactics, and the neglect of the Liberal
party to attend properly to the registrations. The people
are still—what they have been for the last twelve years
and upwards—Anti-Tory at heart ; and only just en-
dure the new Ministry from a hope that it will stultify
its nature by adopting a liberal and enlightened policy.
We need scarcely add that this hope will be disappointed.
The Peel Cabinet will pursue the stand-still system of
legislation, and make it its greatest boast that it does not
retrograde.
The Advertiser states the following as a fact, for the
accuracy of which it pledges itself—" Are there still to
be found persons in the country who incline to the
notion that Sir Robert Peel contemplated an anti-Corn-
law line of policy ? If so, we beg to inform them—and
we pledge ourselves for the accuracy of the information—
that the Duke of Buckingham declared a few days since,
in the Carlton Club, in the presence of a number of per-
sons, that Sir Robert Peel before he (the Duke of Buck-
ingham); would consent to take office, had completely sa-
tisfied him on the subject of the Corn-laws. This is decisive."
—We never supposed that Sir Robert Peel—saddled as he
is with two such embarrassing burdens as the Duke of
Buckingham and Sir E. Knatchbull—would make any
alteration in the Corn-laws worth having. The utmost
we expected from him was, that he would amend them
in the same fashion that the Irishman mended his
blanket—that is to say, by taking a piece off at the head,
and clapping it on at the tail. But let the present rain
continue but a few days longer, and, whether the Bucking-
ham and Knatchbuli's like it or not, Sir Robert Peel
must either convert to make a sweeping alteration in the
Corn-laws, or else request another " eight minutes " in-
terview with her Majesty, in order to tender his resig-
nation.

The Herald is beset with uneasy apprehensions lest
the people should expect an over. dose of Reform from
the Tamworth quack-doctor and his apprentices. Now
our Contemporary need not be at all uneasy on this
point. The people take a very proper measure of Sir
Robert Peel as a Reformer ; and having given him the

fair trial which he has been so long clam-nu—ring for, will
just reward him according to his deserts. He will be
allowed ample rope enough, and if the usual proverbial
result should . follow, we are by no means prepared to

contend that the affliction of the country will be Of a very
heart-rending character. We subjoin the -Herald's remarks :
—" If the public, from their abounding confidence in,
and habitual respect and personal regard for, the chief of
the Conservative party, should be apt to expect the ac-
complishmenr of more beneficial objects of foreign po-
licy and domestic amelioration within a given period than
can possibly be realised in so limited a term, the Queen's
present Ministers and their supporters are bound to re-
gard the very extravagance of the expectation as an in-
voluntary compliment to the integrity of their purposes."
The following is from the Chronicle:—" The political
friends of all liberal policy have been much too supine.
They have grumbled, and with excellent reason, at the
vexatiousness of the registration system ; but meanwhile
their opponents have turned all the capabilities and all
the vices of that system to account. As we have more
than once shown, the late elections have been turned, and
the Tory and monopolist majority obtained, not by the
desertion of Liberal voters, who have generally brought
undiminished numbers to the poll, but by Tory additions
to the registers. The landlords grow votes upon their
broad fields, as thick as any other kind of crop. Besides
the tricks and chicanery which no honest poli-
tician will imitate, Toryism is largely indebted to
its legal manufacture of votes. It sees for how
many safe ones every inch of property is good."—
In addition to these malign influinces exerted by the
Tories during the late elections, we may mention their
intimidation and exclusive dealing system, which they
practised to a rigorous excess, and by which they ex-
torted the votes of many timid Reformers. They knew
that the election was a question of life or death to them,
and stuck at nothing to carry their point. Well, they
have succeeded, and are now " Thane, Cawdor, Glammis,
all ;" and it may be added with perfect truth that they
" have played most foully for it l"
The Times says :—" Far are we from insisting that
Protestants shall be the exclusive occupants of place and
trust in Ireland. Give us individuals cordially attached
to the existing constitution of the empire, as admi-
nistered by a Government willing, on all fair
grounds, to avoid giving the slightest offence to any
portion of the population ;—and, whether these in-
dividuals be Roman Catholics or not, by all means
let them be promoted to the offices for which, if
properly recommended, their character and abili-
ties may fit them. But Earl Fortescue, we are
bound to declar.-2, has followed no such impartial
rule. Nay, we appeal to candid Roman Catholics
themselves to say, 1, t ether his Lordship's patronage—
now that they can es 7 1. to the sordid designs which go-