The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-17 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1840.

The Commons did not meet in sufficient numbers to
make a House last night.
The Lords requiring only two besides the SPEAKER
to form a quorum, proceeded to business. A petition
from Southampton, complaining of Jersey making
England into a kind of penal settlement for its criminals,
excited some attention. The subject is under con-
sideration.

The Earl of ABERDEEN moved the second reading of
the Bill for healing the schism betwixt the Scotch
Kirk and State. He expressed satisfaction at
the manner in which the Bill had been received
by a large part of the clergy and laity of Scot-
land. He adverted, however, to the manner in which
it had been denounced by some part of the Clergy.
The General Assembly, he said, had acted in contempt
of their Lordships' decision, and had persevered in it.
The Noble Earl concluded by assuring their Lordships
that if nothing were done in the matter, a schism would
take place in the Kirk.

The Marquis of BREADALBANE opposed the Bill,
and called on their Lordships to go to the root of the
evil, and apply the principle of non-intrusion to the in-
duction of Ministers. He moved that the Bill be read
a second time in six months.

The Earl of ROSEBERY thought the Bill would in-
crease doubts and difficulties, and he seconded the
amendment.

The Earl of CAMPERDOWN, though he blamed tie
Assembly, also opposed the Bill.
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The Earl of I)ALnousre attributed much of tle
opposition to the Bill to party spirit ; he denied that
non-intrusion was a principle of the Kirk, and sur-
ported the Bill.
Viscount MELBOURNE thought the Bill would not
settle the question, but avoidcd giving any opinion es
to its provisions.

The Earl of HADDINGTON thought the Bill goo' and
-easonable.

Lord BROUGHAM could not suppart the Bill, in
whiCh he saw the veto lurking.
Thu LORD CHANCELLOR explained that the judg.
nieilt of their Lordships had in no case trencl.e-1 on
the spiritual jurisdiction of the Church.
Tne Earl of ABERDEEN replied, and the second read-
ing was carried by 74 to 27. At Eleven their Lord-
ships adjourned.

We have good reason to think that Lord
STANLEY was partly induced on Monday evening
to acquiesce in Lord JoHN RussELL'S proposition,
by a conviction that Sir R. PEEL would not sup-
port him in thus forcing his Bill into Committee.
The Noble Lord is aware that, in the course of
nature, he must speedily be removed from the
Lower House, and he is somewhat more reckless of
its future character and proceedings than Sir
ROBERT, of whom it inur;t continue to be, as
hitherto, the theatre of his glory. Sir ROBERT
must have seen with much dislike the bold attempt
of his ally to interrupt that arrangement which con-
triLutes even now to his convenience, and without
which he would be exposed, when he returns to
power, as he expects, to endless trouble. If he
had voted with the Noble Lord at all, it
would have been with great reluctance. The know-
ledge of that induced Lord STANLEY for once
to sham a little modesty, and made him eagerly
embrace Lora JoHN RUSSELL'S offer.

It must be very mortifying to Sir ROBERT
PEEL to see the young and recreant Whig sup-
planting him as the leader of the Tories. All the
Tory triumphs of the Sessio►► have been gained by
Lord STANLEY, who is throwing Sir ROBERT
completely into the shade. Before Lord STANLEY
had deserted his friends, he set himself up as a
rival to Sir ROBERT, who was then jealous of his
growing influence with the House of Commons.
This jealousy will increase; and these two orators,
should Lord STANLEY not be speedily removed to
the Upper House, will struggle for mastery over
their party. Fox and PITT divided the nation
between them, but the Tories will be divided be-
tween STANLEY and PEEL.

We may even add another leader. A small and
trusty band, though generally serving under the
combined STANLEY-PEEL banner, acknowledges
Sir ROBERT INGLIS as a leader, and draws off
from the others so decidedly at times, as to make it
apparent that it constitutes a separate and auxiliary
force, lured into present obedience by a hope of
plunder and conquest. The Tories, therefore, are
now divided into the Stanleyites, the Peelites,
and the Inglisites, and these three sections, just
as the Episcopalians hate the Catholics for very
small differences, hate each other worse than
Whigs and Tories, and will fiercely quarrel when-
ever they shall be relieved from their enemies, and
have an opportunity of sharing the spoils.
Such rivalry amongst leaders, and such cer-
tain dissensions amonast followers, while they are
all repudiated by the Masses, now make the Tories
wholly
incapable of
governing the country. Besides
this, their principles
belong, not to the pre-
sent, but a past,
age ; and they are in open and
angry hostility with one-third of the nation, and
thoroughly despised and hated by at least half of
the remaining two-thirds.. The
hold of the Government—to keepy may possibly get
hold of it will be
beyond their power. If they expect to find a clinch-
ing holdfast in toe Church they will be miserably
deceived, and the weight of that cumbrous and an-
cient body will only break them the more speedily
fromthe new work of modern society.

We have received flits of Jamaica Papers to the
30th, and Barbadocs Papers to the 20th of April in-
clusive. The Liberal Jamaica Journals are by no
means well satisfied with the conduct of his Excellency
Sir CHARLES METCALFE, the Lieutenant-Gover-
nor, who appears to have thrown himself com-
pletely into the arms of the planters. His