The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

EV El ING SUN.

FiPItIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

BROM THE DAILY PAYERS OP YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.— The Post of this morning has arraigned
the Government upon a new charge, and accuses its
members of meditating self-destruction, actuated proba-
bly by despair at the approaching loss of their offices.
The Whigs arc gravely impeached by our Contempo-
rary on the :ground of their being engaged in an at-
tempt to excite a revolt against the Queen's Govern-
ment ; and since we as yet know of no other Govern-
ment but that of which Lord Melbourne is at the
head, we can only presume that the Post accuses the
Liberal Administration of an attempt at suicide. The
patronising, but authoritative, way in which the Tory
organ interferes to prevent the desperate act is ex-
ceedingly entertaining ; but we beg to assure the Post
that matters are by no means so gloomy in the eyes of
those who are still in power, as to induce them to take
a flying leap from their official elevation, or give with
their own hands the finishing blow to " the Queen's
Goverment." Perhaps we may be told that it is the Go-
Ireniment in perspective against which the Whigs are
directing their hostility ; but though it is quite true that
the coming event has already begun to cast its shadows
before, it is not with the shadows that the Liberals mean
to contend, and the substance is too remote, or at all events
much too impalpable, to be at present grappled with.
To talk of attacking Sir Robert Peel's- Government
would just now be as absurd as to propose an onslaught
on a cloud of dust which a gust of wind may have car-
ried forward in advance of an enemy supposed to be
coming after it. In the first place, the foe may never
venture to come to close quarters; and in the next place,
the dust may be occasioned not by their march against
us, but by a scuffle among themselves ; and it is quite
certain that internal differences in the Tory ranks are the
cause of the present obscurity in which all the Tory
movements are enveloped. The curtain must be
kept down, or the public would perceive that the
Conservative drama never can be gone through with
-svhile there is nothing taking place but perpetual
etifferences between the performers and the managers.
It is clear that Sir Robert Peel cannot make a move
in any one direction without spoiling the position he at
;)resent occupies. He has got into one of those " situa-
tions," as the actors call them, which are highly effective,
but which are no less difficult to be got out of than to
be got into. Like the imposing tableau in the Critic,
where the uncles could not move because of the nieces,
-while the nieces were at a dead stand-still because of
the lovers, and the lovers were unable to advance or re-
Lire because of the uncles' daggers, Sir Robert Peel can
neither go to the right nor to the left because of his
party on the one hand, and the nation on the other ; the
one threatening to desert him, the other to give him his
deserts, according as he may approach or recede from a
Liberal policy.
STANDARD.—The carefully organised system of
" enormous lying," by which the Whig-Radical sup-
porters of the Government are endeavouring to agitate
the country, has been visited with so many, and such
overwhelming exposures, that it seems , hardly worth
while to contradict any statement, however false
and flagitious, that may hereafter be propagated
by such authorities for the purpose of pre-
judicing the Conservative party in the estima-
tion of the country. . The grave announce-
ment of the Morning Chronicle that the Tory aris-
tocracy were about to form " a volunteer auxiliary
army," which was to " be ready to start into existence
the moment Sir Robert Peel should come into power,"
professing to.be founded on the fact that Lord Francis
Egerton had " taken the initiative in raising a body of
cavalry," has received a still further contradiction from
the pen of Lord Francis Egerton himself, and turns
nit i.) be destitute of even the slender thread of truth
en which it was supposed to rest. His Lordship has fa-
voured us with a letter, which proves that the statement
in question is from beginning to end a malicious and
gratuitous falsehood. His Lordship has taken no such step
as that which has been imputed to him ; and if he had,
he would have done no more than every nobleman and
gentleman, of whatever political opinions, has done be-
fore' him, under similar circumstances. The lie, how-
ever, remains still uncorrected by the journals with which
it originated, and, associated with their exaggerated ac-
counts of the "alarming state of the manufacturing dis-
tricts." is still on its tour through that portion of the pro-
vincial press which devotes itself to the promulgation of
their slanders. What the nature and extent of their
next fabrication may be it is difficult to conjecture. The
failure of the harvest, or, "at least, a very late crop,"
has been already anticipated by them with no little
3xultation. but with no more tangible pretext than their
apprehensions on the subject of the " volunteer
auxiliary army ;" whilst every petty failure that
has taken place in Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, or
Birmingham, has been magnified by them into an
alarming additional proof of the approaching ruin of
the town in which it has occurred. The industry with
which they multiply these consoling consequences of
Whig misrule is only equalled by the pertinacity with
which they persist in referring them to every cause but
the right one.