The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-28 00:00:00

to increase the revenue without adding to the
burdens of the people,lhey must add to ta.:?..tion.
But will they not put the country to great ad-
ditional expense ? We think that they ineVi-
tably will, and we shall trace some of the causes

of an increased expenditure under a Tory Ad-

ministration.
The Tories are much more hostile to France
than the Whigs; and the Tory Press has assidu-
ously endeavoured to excite the anger and wound
the morbid vanity of France. They have
succeeded; and the feelings of irritation which
now prevail will he strengthened by the acces7
sion of the Tories to office. But the mutual
jealousy which exists between France and Eng-
land is already a source of great expense to
both. They probably do each other more in-
jury from that cause than any other two nations,
and their mutual jealousy and mutual expense
will be augmented by the expected change in
our Ministry.
Moreover, the Whigs strove to extend
trade as a means of cementing peace be-
tween nations. They. wished to open our mar-
kets to corn from Germany, Russia, Prussia,
and the United States, and all parts of the world,
which, establishing or extending commercial re-
lations with those countries, would be a guaran-
tee against war, and would enable us to lessen
our fleet and army. The Tories have strenuously
opposed the extension of trade. They will on
no account allow a regular trade in corn between
England and those countries; and their advent
to power must cause a diminution of national se-
curity and additional expense, without any in-
crease of resources. .
As to treaties of alliance and friendly disposi-
tions between Sovereigns, of which the Tories
may perhaps boast as to' Russia, they are com-
paratively ~of no importance whatever, unless
they be supported by the mutual and reciprocal
interests of the different nations. But the ob-
ject of the sulky national independence advo7
cated by the Tories, is to isolate England, and de-
stroy these mutual and reciprocal interests. When
they are at an end, treaties of alliance will not
be worth the Paper they are written on, and con-
sequently, by denying us an extension of trade,
the Tories increase the chances of war.
With respect also to our colonies, the Tories ad-
vocate governing them from home. They always
have opposed, as long as possible, the wish of the
colonies to have an independent Constitution. The
wishes of the colonists being refused, they can
only be governed by, force, and thus the Tories
may be expected to increase our expenditure in
relation to the colonies.
Report assigns the post of Secretary at War to
Sir H. HARDINQ:B, who is a great advocate for a
more rapid_ and extensive system of relief for our
colonlal garrisons; and if he act on his principles,
he must require an additional military force.
It is plain, therefore, that the Tories, who have
defeated the Ministers, and are preparing to take
their places because the Ministers proposed to
lighten the public burdens, cannot decrease the
expenditure, and must add to the taxes.
The most rabid enemies of the Ministers
never accused them of persecuting the mem-
bers of the Anglican Church by proposing to
place the Dissenters and the Catholics on an
equal footing with them, and nobody ever
dreamed that they would break out into re-
bellion, however much they might grumble,
because justicelwere done to their fellow subjects.
At the same time their claims of exclusive pri-
vileges are injuries and insults to the Dissenters
and Catholics; and many persons anticipate,
when the Tories get into power, that their arro-
gant extension of these exclusive privileges will
provoke opposition and resistance from the Dis-
senters and Catholics. Injustice is ever very
expensive. The Tories, by continually refusing
to give equal rights and equal i'•amunities to the
Catholics and Dissenters, act on principles of
injustice, and their Government will necessarily
be more expensive than that of the Whigs.
One of their greatest, indeed almost their
only measure, last session was Lord STANLEY'S
Irish Registration Bill, which, under a sancti-
fied garb, was exclusively directed against the
Catholic population of Ireland, who have already
expressed their detestation of that Bill. As a
Minister Lord STANLEY will bring it forward
again, and go far to provoke the Catholics into a
just and forcible resistance to him and his
measures. And we beg to inform the Tories, re-
assuring by the remark many of our Liberal
friends, that open and forcible resistance to the
Tories, with their bribed and bought majority, is
not rebellion. But if it were, rebellion against
tyranny such as they have practised would be
justified, and whethtftr justified or not, it is very
very likely to ensue, if the Tories, as Ministers,
act on the principles they have professed as an
Opposition. Lord STANLEY'S Bill followed out
would be another source of increased expense
and diminished resources.
No doubt Sir R. INGLIS will renew his motion
for Church Extension under happier• auspices,
when his friends are in office. No doubt, too, that
Sir R. PEEL, who voted for that motion, will
give it his official support. His Ministry, there-
time, will inflict an additional injury on the Dis-
senters, and will justly provoke their dissatisfac-
tion and resistance.
There is-another great class of men in whom
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S accession to office will excite
many angry feelings. M. DE TOCQUEVILLE has
written an elaborate book to point out the grow-
ing and certain ascendancy of democracy, and to
recommend statesmen to endeavour to guide and
govern it. Sir ROBERT PEEL, however, as is
avowed by his adherents, is forced into office by
an aristocratic movement, to resist the demo-
cracy. The democracy are the many, the aris-
tocracy the few; and he, therefore, assumes
power to rule the many, in spite of their wishes,
for the benefit of the few. He acts consist-
ently, for his whole life has been a sue-
, cession of defeats, battling against the
democracy. Every extension of the suffrage,
every plan to give liberty to the multitude,
and enable them to exercise a fair share of
political power, he has most strenuously and
most consistently opposed. lie will undoubtedly
abide by the same principle in office ; and hence,
on the part of the unenfranchised;—on the partof
the democracy, dissatisfitction, anger, and most
likely strenuous, if not violent means, to obtain
their rights, and give a legal expreSioo to
their will.
In this statement we have plainly set down
a few of the circumstances which will make the
Tories—who are about to turn out the
Ministers because they proposed to re-
lieve the people and increase the revenue—
augment the national expenditure, curtail the
national resources, and add to the burdens of the
people. We have neither exaggerated nor
wished to deceive. In our judgment, the princi-
ples of the Tories are vicious, their system of
Government most unjust, and we can anticipate
nothing from it, if carried out in office as it has
been developed in opposition, but a great increase.
of public distress.

We hope Lord JOHN-RUSSELL'S disclaimer of
all vexatious .opposition to the Tories does not
extend beyond the walls of Parliament. For ex-
ample, when the Tories accept office they will
have to vacate several seats, all of which ought
to he contested. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and the
Whigs will surely exert themselves to oppose
the re-election of Tories.

We are happy to see that Exeter, which it is
supposed Sir Wm. FOLLETT will vacate, is already
prepared with a man to contest the seat, and that
Mr. BULLEIt has a good chance of being success-
ful. In the same manner every seat vacated
ought to be contested, and whether Lord JonN
RUSSELL and the Whigs help the people or not
to harass the Tories, the Liberal electors will, no
doubt, do that to the complete conviction of the
Tories that political rogues, such as they are,
will never be allowed to have any repose. •
Every day brings to light new facts, and be=
fore those elections take place, many of the pre-
judices engendered by the Tories may be dissi7