The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-28 00:00:00

of the nation. The whole question as to the propriety
of a dissolution depends on the question as to the pro-
priety, and necessity, of the measures on which Ministers
are to go to the country. If those measures are proper
and necessary, and if their authors are prepared to prove
them so, what constitutional objection can there be to com-
pleting the detnonstration,and then enabling the constituent
body to affirm or reject their views ? Is there any person
who believes these measures really important, and who
does not believe they will be forwarded by the course
which is taken by Ministers ? Is it the friends or the
enemies of these measures who complain of that course ?
If the friends, then we will acknoWledge the justice of
all that is urged by their enemies. If the enemies,
then we will only say that we never expected their
sanction ; and that if Ministers had received it, there
would be a strong presumption they had gone wrong.
STANDARD.—We deny that there is any unwilling-
ness on the part of Sir Robert Peel or the Conservatives
to meet a discussion of the-Corn-laws, though, for the ex-
cellent reasons assigned by Lord Melbourne in the pre-
fixed passage, they might not choose to provoke one. It
is very stupid, however, to surmise of Sir Robert Pe, 1
and his friends that they have an, expectation of evadlng
the threatened discussion. They well know that, what-
ever may be the fate bf Sir Robert Peel's motion, the ene-
mies of the public tranquillity will have both the power
and the will to move the subject of the Corn-laws, and
with just the same, effect, whether they occupy seats on
the right hand or •on the left of the Speaker. If, in-
deed, the Conservatives had the power to prevent a
discussion, the effect of which must be, as Lord Mel-
bourne says, to cause " a most violent struggle," to " stir
society to its foundations, leaving behind every sort of bit-
terness and animosity," " to convulse society to its centre,"
"to excite man against man," "leaving behind the deepest
feelings of discord and animosity," &c. &c. &c.—if,
we say, the Conservatives possessed the power to
stay this deluge of social evil, it would, no doubt, be
their duty to exercise that power; but they have it
not, and the utmost that they can hope to do is to
limit the opportunities of those by whom the pest is let
loose, for doing which the conduct and circumstances of
the criminals, in matters not connected with the Corn-
laws, supplies the proper occasion. The Morning
Chronicle, we are pleased to see, anticipates that the
nisters will be defeated on this night's motion :—" We do
not mean to say that we think the monopolists cannot
muster a majority. We expect they will. They are
not amoagst the most helpless classes of her Majesty's
subjects. No Ministry has ever yet been encountered by
so-formidable a conspiracy of sinister interests." The
sinister interests are the landed interest, the colonial in-
terest, the shipping interest, the anti-slavery interest
and—why should we suppress an interest once of some
consideration in England ? the Protestant interest.
Against these Ministers choose Co array their force of
money-jobbers, millowners, and Romanists ; but this does
not fix the character of conspiracy -upon the combined
English and Protestant interests. This, however, by
the way.
COURIER—A weak and incoherent attempt has been
made by the Ministerial papers to justify the tenacious re-
tention pf office by their patrons, in despite of the pubic
opprobrium. in which held, by an assimilation of their po-
sition with that of the illustrious Pitt, in his memorable
struggle 'against the disgraceful coalition of Mr. Fox and
Lord North in 1783. We should be little inclined to meddle
with this wretched juggle of distorted facts and per-
verted reasoning, which otherwise in more parti-
cular detail has been successively and conclusively dis.-
posed of by our.
.contemporaries of the Standard, the
Herald, and the Times, but that we have reason to
believe Ministers have had the audacity to impo3e this
mendacious parallel, dressed up in specious form, upon .
their Royal Mistress, as their justification for retaining
office against the declared inclinations and without the
confidence of the people, and, moreover, by way of in-
direct, but well understood, exhortation, that they shoWd
be regarded as victims of devotion to the royal will,
whom, under similar circiunstances, her Majesty's august
grandfather, George 111., of glorious memory, would have
upheld with 'unflinching firmness aganist the voice and
the condemnation of Parliament. However for the
time, these daring misrepresentations of history may be
successful, we cannot doubt that the truth must ulti-
mately, prevail when that illustrious lady, mistrusting
the honesty of councillors by whom both royalty and
j the country have been so often and disgracefully
misled and betrayed, shall apply the energies of her own
Royal mind to the study of those exemplary passages in
the reign of her noble grandfather. She will then find
that an unprincipled faction, in one House of Parlia-
ment only, had coalesced to cripple the Royal preroga-
tive and to deprive the Monarch of the faculty of se-
lecting his own servants ; that the people at large
were more indignant and decisive still in reproba-
tion of the nefarious project , and conspiracy than
their betrayed. Sovereign ; that they earnestly and re-
peatedly prayed him and his Minister to deliver them
from the scourge of an insolent majority and a packed
House of Commons ; that that House was not dissolved
until obstinately persisting to obstruct the public busi-
ness; and that, when dissolved, the people amply justi-
fied the appeal of the Monarch and his Minister, as well
as their own previous addresses in reprobation of the fac-
tion, by the return of an overwhelming majority of good
men and true to a new Parliament.

THE STOPPAGE OF THE SALOP

AND NORTH WALES- BANIC.

SIIREWSBURY, TUESDAY EVENlNG:liil;excitement
consequent upon this unfortunate occurrence has consi-
derably increased since yesterday, and sufferers from a
distance continue to arrive in this town hourly, in the
hopes of finding the calamity of a less wide-spread and
severe extent than rumour had assigned it. Rumour for
once, however, had not exaggerated in this instance. The
liabilities of the bank are far greater, and the probabili-
ties of their liquidation far less, than had been .antici-
pated when the stoppage was first announced yesterday
in a hand-bill, of which the fhllowing is a copy, affixed
to the outer door of the establishment in the Market-
square :