The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-28 00:00:00

S MARY OF EIS

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" Who runs may read."

PoR.ExqN.
New York papers of the 10th inst. announce the passing of the
United States Bank Bill through the House of Representatives by
a majority of thirty-two votes. It only awaited the signature of the
President to become the law of the United States.
Four Royal decrees appear its the Madrid Gazette of the 19th
inst. The first regulates the collection and disbursement
of provincial taxes ; the second provides for the incorporation of
Navarre with the rest of Spain ; the third orders all pensions
to be paid by the Treasury ; and the fourth directs that all the
Noblesse refusing to pay the proper taxes for their titles and escut-
cheons shall be deprived of them. These decrees are all highly
popular, and aim at the suppression of numerous abuses.
Several powesful tribes in the neighbourhood of Botia and
Mostanagem Ink!Up recently submitted to France. Gene-
ral Bugeaud's 41ate campaign in Africa has been crowned
with considerabla success. We reed not add that all the
advantages yet gained by France in Africa have been purchased at
au expense of blood and treasure ten times greater than they are
worth.

The Alexandrian Correspondent of a Marseilles Journal states
that Mr. Ongley, the British Consul at Canea, had been obliged to
go to Syria with his flintily, in consequence of the support given by
him to the insurgent Candiotes. Our advice); from Candia had
prepared us for far different intelligence. Mr. Ongley has been re.
presented to us as strongly prejudiced in favour of the Porte.
Letters from Athens of the 10th, state that King Otho, seeing
that all his Ministers were about to resign, promised to yield to the
demands of Mavracordato, but only with a view to gain time.
King Otho's incurable folly is the ban. of Greece. The removal
of this Royal imbecile from the throne of Greece would, be a
benefit to that country, second only in importance to the liberation
of Greece from the Turkish yoke.

PARLIAMENTARY.
Her Majesty's answer to the Address was last night
read to the Peers. After expressing satisfaction that
the Lords are animated by a desire to promote the in-
terest and welfare of the people (why should the Queen
be made instrumental to such delusion and humbug), it
promised to take into immediate consideration the other
part of the Address, namely, that relative to the Tories
having no confidence in the Whigs, and a great deal in
their own ignorance.
The Bills for Draining and Improving Towns, intro-
duced by Lord Normanby last Session, and reintroduced
on Tuesday, were read a second time.
The correspondence which has taken place relative to
the election at Yarmouth, where it appears a number of
policemen erroneously supposed they were disfranchised
by their situation, and resigned in order to vote, which
has begotten several paragraphs in the Tory papers, is
to be la,d on their Lordships' table. They have ad-
journed till Monday.
In the Commons, Mr. M. Phillips presented the peti-
tion of the Manchester Conference.
Mr. Sharman Crawford gave notice of an addition to
the Address on bringing up the Report, recommending
an Extension of the Suffrage.
Captain Berkeley called attention to the Jewish prac-
ti•ze of making her Majesty's seamen in the Mediter-
ranean take. a dollar, which passes far only 45., at 4s. 4d.,
taking away from him 9 per cent. of his pay. The prac-
tice is to be remedied. Who has pocketed the difference?
The adjourned debate was resumed by Mr. Monckton
Milnes, who took the same line as the rest of the Tories,
and refused to consider or talk of anything but of the
unfitness of the Whigs, and the fitness of the seraphic
Tories. to govern the country. Another dull debate, in
which the speakers were Mr. Rennie, Mr. Wallace, Mr.
Hindley, Mr. Wigney, were the first speakers, ensued.
It got a little more lively towards nine o'clock, when
Mr. Villiers made a useful speech ; Mr. Hawes a smart
one ; and Mr. O'Connell an impassioned one.
Sir Robert Peel followed Mr. O'Connell, and lashed
him severely for his vituperation of all parties • telling
him that what he said had lost all weight and value.
The Right Hon. Baronet forgot that when Mr. O'Con-
nell called the Whigs bloody and brutal, they were re-
presented in Ireland by his Right Hon. Friend Lord
Stanley. The Right Hon. Baronet made on the whole a
showy speech, but we are sure he has nothing good to offer
the country, by dwelling with much emphasis on the
peace of Europe, and recommending the nations to dis-
arm. We heard this part of his speech with great plea-
sure, for it told against his party. He dwelt much on
his recent declarations ; and instead of telling the
House what policy he would follow, defended at great
length the sliding scale. He talked largely, too, about
his independence of partizans7 and his resolution, if
power devolved on him, to act on his own conscientious
convictions. His speech seemed to us to want the ac-
cents of sincerity..
Lord John Russell concluded the debate by an elabo-
rate and judicious defence of the policy of Ministers.
He showed that they had been successful abroad and at
home, and had lost the confidence of the country more
by misrepresentations than by their own demerits. At
the close Lord John made some observations about
the press, that were rather a compliment to the
Tory Journals, and a slur on the Journals of his
own party, than a vindication of himself, and might have
been spared. The division which ensued is elsewhere
mentioned.

PUBLIC OPINION.
The Tenses takes leave of Ministers in the following highly COM.
Alimentary terms :—" They have never been a Government of prin..
;Tenec
wh
' . They have not conciliated the respect, or enjoyed the con.
and
without
any party whatever among her Majesty's subjects.
Those
to beoh have supported them have done so without enthusiasm
alma esteem ; merely as a aler, as a bad Government,
tolerated only for fear of a worse. They have been a des-
potic and
a Sobbinthey have been g Government, without being Conservative :
a Government given to change, without being libe_
ral or popular. re
They have apparently had no better reason for
acting with the movement party (when they did so) than
personal hatred and jealousy of the Conservatives • and
when they have acted with the Conservatives, it' has
been without consistener, cordiality, or courage."—It is
a high joke in a Tory organ to
sneer. yat, the Whigs for. having.
of principle." What " principle"
have": e never been a
saevGero.vaedrzcroaTedt ;
ex
cept the very accommodating one
of self-interest ? As for the ante of the Whigs being " a des-
potic Government," this taunt comes with peculiar propriety from
way entitled to accuse the Whigs of "jobbing,"
a Journal which only yesterday insisted en matters being carried
with a high hand iii Ireland! And e jobbing" too Truly the
Tories are every
considering their own notorious Dundee and Bathurst affair, which
was deemed too gross to be endured, even 'by an
unreformed Par.
Lament!
The Herald thus remarks on her Majesty's answer to the Ad-
dress of the House of Peers :—" There is a passage in the answer
of her Majesty to the address of the Peers, delivered last evening
by the Earl of Errol in the House of Lords, which appears to us
to be fraught with encouraging promise for the country,
be-
speaks, either in the royal bosom, (as the British public will al-
ways be anxious to believe,) a deep and responsive feeling et con-
currence in the wishes and opinions of the supreme tribunal be the
empire expressly submitted by one of its most solemn acts to her
Majesty's consideration; or, on the part of those very advisers of
the Crown against whom that act was expressly levelled, a grossing
conviction of the necessity for yielding, with whatever want of
grace or alacrity, to the power of the constitutional doctrine which
has been thus successfully invoked, and affirmed against them..
The Chronicle says:—"The attempt of the Tory majority to
swarm, all the public questions suggested by the Royal Speech in
the one question, who shall be Minister, is a disgraceful piece of
chicanery, enforced by the difficulties of their position upon die.
honest minds. Lord Sandon says, " the great question which
the country had been called upon to try was that of confidence or
no confidence in Ministers." Were this the fact, the present
House of Commons would have no title to sit any longer, or for
any other purpose, than till that question 9s disposed of. Having once
affirmed, by formal vote, what is already sufficiently notorious, that
the majority does not confide in the present Ministry, they ought
forthwith to return to their constituents, report the fulfilment of
their mission, and leave the people at liberty to decide on the
principles and policy which they desire should be carried into
effect by the machinery of representative government " The
truth is, the Tories haveuever thought of the people at all during
their struggle for place, but having got a majority by their usual
clever electioneering tactics, aided by the Chandos Clause, they
are resolved to think' only of themselves, and how they may

best consolidate their power. They may possibly astonish the
people by their Liberal reforms; but the safest way is to hope
nothing from them, but just to take care that they do as hale
mischief as possible.

We quote the following from the• Advertiser :—" Lord John
Russell made a masterly defence of the policy of the Melbourne
Cabinet. His Lordship referred, with triumphant effect, to the
manner in which affairs have for the last few years been admi.
nistered at home, abroad, and in the Colonies ; and certainly,
had the legislative policy of the Whigs at all kept pace with
their administrative, they would not only have merited, but
maintained the perfect confidence of the country. But the time
requires something more than a good executive : a good Admi-
nistration can never compensate for the evils of bad laws, and in
this was the failure of the Whigs. They refused to assist in
the further reform of the House of Commons, and, in return,
the House of Commons, last night declared its want of confi-
dence in them by a majority of 360 against 269. Thus at
last the Whigs may be regarded as out of office—they have
long been out of power ; and before they need expect to resume
either they must set themselves steadily and sincerely to work on
reforming the representative system "
The Post observes of Sir Robert Peel's speech last night in the
House of Commons :—" The great speech of last night was that-of
Sir Robert Peel. It had been looked for with anxiety, and the
expectations of the public will not be disappointed when they pe-
ruse it." We agree with our Contemporary, that " the expecta.
tions of the public will not be disappointed" by the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet's speech, for they expected nothing from it, and they will find
just as much as they expected, and no more. Beyond a few vague
promises of doing his best, and so forth, for the country, not a word
does the proximate Premier let fill on which the people may ground
a confident hope that their destiny will be ameliorated. This speech
is of a " great.cry-and.little.wool", character, meant to tickle the
ears of all parties, and to convince the understandings of none but
those who have a direct personal interest in being convinced.