The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-24 00:00:00

PIMLICO OPINION.

The Chronicle contains an article on the subject of the
brief discussion on the Corn-laws that took place in the
House of Lords last night, and observei, in allusion to
the implied promise of Ministers, that if her Majesty
would give them her confidence, they would enter on the
examination of the questions which she had recommended,
remarks as follows :—" The strong Government is
formed; her Majesty has fulfilled her part of the bar-
gain ; and now it is not only fair, but just and decent,
that Parliament should redeem its pledge solemnly given
to the Crown. Yet the expecting and suffering portion
of the people see a strong Government that dare not even
face a discussion on the question ; and the great majo-
rity in both Houses of Parliament are literally about to
skulk from the consideration of a question, which thou-
sands of her Majesty's subjects declare is affecting
their health, their property, and their lives I"
None who are versed in the history of Tory tactics, could
have expected that the present Ministers would have
acted otherwise than they have done. Had they re-
deemed their promise, and entered at once boldly and
honestly on the question of the national distresses, they
would have falsified their character as Tories. Your
true Tory never considers aught but his own per-
sonal interests. His thoughts wishes feelings
begin and end in Self. His humanity never travels be-
yond Number One. He is now desirous of a prorogation
first, because he knows full well that his party can, and
will, do nothing for the country ; and secondly, because
he considers it a great bore, and an impeachment of his
gentility to be seen in London during the autumnal
sporting months. What are the distresses of the people
to him ? They are used to starvation, as eels are to be
skinned ; and he deems it unconstitutional to make any
innovations on their condition.

The Post, like the rest of the Tory Journals, is quite
delighted with—what it calls—" the present very cre-
ditable Parliamentary conduct of Mr. Wakley," as will
be seen by the following paragraph :—" Men smarting
under, the infliction of recent defeat and degradation
are seldom very correct reasoners, and we can, there-
fore, forgive an organ of the late Administration for
forgetting that two rather important facts are wanting
to justify the inference it draws from the present
very creditable Parliamentary conduct of Mr. Wakley.
One of these is, that this gentleman is, or has
ever been, a Chartist, and, the other, that the support
or the forbearance of this gentleman has been
courted, or his favour cultivated, by Sir Robert Peel,
or by individuals connected with his Government."—
The great eagerness with which the Tories court the
alliance of the Radical 'Member for Finsbury, is a proof
that they are fer from easy in their present position, and
have strange misgivings respecting their continuance in
office. One would imagine that, backed by a majority of
ninety-one, they would treat Mr. Wakley's advances—
and those of a hundred such—with the most sovereign
contempt ; but they seem to be aware that majorities are
capricious things now-a-days, as changeable as the Times,
and just as likely to be found one fine morning on the
Whig side of the question, as that weathercocCjournal.
Some months ago the Tories were clamorous in their
abuse of the Melbourne Cabinet for condescending to
accept the assistance of Mr. O'Connell ; yet now this
haughty party stoop still lower—exhibit still greater
condescension—in courting the alliance of Mr. Wakley!
And the men who thus abjectly prostrate themselves,
exult in the idea that they are connected with ;the most
aristocratic Government that England has known for
years! Alas, how closely in some natures is pride allied
with meanness ! Pope in his Satires, has hit off a Tory
to the life, when he speaks of " the meanness that soars,
and pride that licks the dust," of Lord Fanny.
The Herald is so transported with Lord Stanley's late
election speech, that it devotes not less than two columns
and a half to the subject, and observes, inter alive :
" Like Lord Stanley we have ridiculed the idea of a
specific for the cure of national evils ; and with him we
have exposed the absurdity and the danger of the Legis-
lature giving way to the prevailing prejudice or fashion
of the time. Had it so given way during the last ten
years of Whig rule, there would not at the present time
be an institution either in Church or State left standing.
There would now have been no national establishment,
no House of Lords, no public debt, no army, no navy,
and, we verily believe, no Sovereign ; but there would,
in their stead, have been universa suffrage, annual
elections of the House of Commons, the Ballot,
general confusion in ecclesiastical matters, a na-
tional guard, a centralised and tyrannical demo-
cratic Government, and confusion worse confounded."
—So, the "idea of a specific for the cure of national
evils" is now a flagrant absurdity ! Lord Stanley has
declared it to be so, and the Herald endorses his opinion.
What, then, did the Tories take office for ? The answer
is ready—tO promote their own party interest ! They
are a mere set of political swindlers, who have sneaked
into place under false pretences ; and now that they arc
fairly housed in Downing-street, laugh at the fools who
obtained them admission there. To hope anything from
men like these, is to hope for mercy from a slave-owner,
or toleration from a Philpotts !
We quote the following from the Times :—" It is un-
questionably a growing feeling, that the Queen's Govern-
ment ought to keep the sole power of coining money,
whether in gold or in paper, ,in its own hands ; sub-
ject to the constant inspection of Parliament. This
would prevent the sudden increase of the circulation
in one year, and its sudden diminution in another.
It would save many, still solvent and respectable,
from the fate which has already overwhelmed thou-
sands of innocent victims. A gentleman at Liver-
pool was left by his father, four years since, the '
handsome fortune of 100,000/. He employs it, as
his parent had done, in the wholesale cotton trade. He
is naturally a large dealer, and holds a large stock,
The late contractio4 ill the currency works a rapid fall

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