The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

FRASER.

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that the Protectionist- opposition, either through their
own misfortune or the faulth of their leaders, fall as short
of the Ititiiitirial.party in moral power as they exceed it
in numerical force, and that,the breach which has severed
Lord George Bentinck and Sir Robert Peel is quite irre-
concileable. It is evident, moreover, that the Tory party
dread Sir Robert Pcel, and accordingly, this writer,
speaking in thaw name, endeavours to persuade the Right
Hon, Baronet either to retire altogether from public
life, or to accept a peerage. We hope he will do neither.
The House of Commons is the proper field for his exer-
tions, and as the moderator of- parties in that House,
" sitting apart and watching for his country's welfare,
like some oracle created to advise," his position may be,
perhaps, as this writer says, " irksome," but it will be
most useful and most honourable, and although " it may
prove a source of inconvenience to others(" that is to say,
to the incompetent, and incapable, and disappointed, and
selfish, who aspire to be statesmen, but who possess not,
the requisite abiltty fur the due performance of the func-
tions which may devolve on them), to have the most ac-
complished administrator of affairs that this country
has of late years produced, prevent in the House
of Commons, to puzzle them by questions f
and to expose
their short-comings—yet the presence of such a one
cannot but be of vast service to the country, and there-
fore we hope that Sir Robert Peel will continue in the
House of Commons. Cunningly is the temptation held
out to the personal friends of Sir Robert Peel to desert
him:—
. Between the younger members of the late Cabinet and
the heads of the Protectionist party there is no feud which a
little explanation on both sides could not speedily end."
And why is this temptation so held out ? Evidently
because the Protectionists feel that they are absolutely
Without any man of administrative talents among them.
The junior members Gf the Peel Cabinet are, therefore,
to be invited to join the Bentinck party, in order to teach
them the business of administration, and to be sacrificed
immediately afterwards. In the meanwhile it seems the
Whigs are to be tolerated as warming-pans for the Pro-
tectionists:—

The Whigs must have fair play; that they will manage
matters well for any length of time, in promoting the
people's interests, while they maintain in their integrity the
great institutions of the country, we rather hope than anti-
cipate. If they do, they shall have our hearty support ;
and if they do not, they may rely upon it that we will tell
them bf their: backsliding, and use our best endeavours to
turn them out; and then it will be seen how far the Pro-
tectionists deserve the good opinons which, at the present
moment, we entertain of them."

Such are the present purposes and views of the remnant
of the once compact and powerful Conservative party.
The article on" Literary Legislators" is continued. The
elaborate notice of Mr. Disraeli is concluded, and fol-
lowed by a notice highly eulogistic, but not more eulo-
gistic than just, of Mr. Mackinnon. The most readable
paper in the number, however, is the article entitled
" Holland House and its Inhabitants," which is full of

amusing gossip, antiquarian, artistica], and biographi-
cal, of the far-famed Holland House and its inhabitants,
from the days of Sir Henry Rich, who began its con-
struction in the time of Qubea Elizabeth, to those of its
late accomplished occupants, the late Lord and Lady
Holland.