The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-11 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Times, in an article whose object is to contrast
the unanimity that exists among the Tories, with the
differences that exist among the Liberals, makes the fol-
lowing remarks :—" There is every probability that the
sections of Liberalism of which Mr. O'Connel, Mr. Roe-
buck, and Mr. Cobden are representatives, Mill act pretty
uniformily together ; and it will in no degree surprise
us, if their united' forces should be found to out-number
those of the Whigs, properly so called. Thus there will
be virtually three parties in the present Parliament :
Her Majesty's Ministers, with their supporters ; her
Majesty's Opposition ; and her Majesty's Opposition's
Opposition. The probable termination of this state of
things will be, the dethronement of Lord John Russell
from the office (:of leader ; and, in such an event, we
might possibly have to congratulate the Conservatives
upon the accession to their ranks of that personally re-
spectable, and every way well-meaning Nobleman."—
The Radical party will only draw off from the Whigs,
in the event of the latter failing to discharge their duties
promptly and vigorously as an Opposition. At present,
we see no cause to doubt that they will be true to their
principles ; but should they play false, and make gradual
advances to the Tories—and stranger things than this
have happened !—the last, desperate struggle will then
commence between the privileged and unprivileged
classes; between the combined Whigs and Tories, backed
by the whole weight of the House of Lords, on the one
hand; and the vast majority of the oppressed and unre-
presented people, on the other ! The struggle will be
long and severe ; the Few will exert every energy they
possess ; but the victory will be with the Many.
The Post is still harping on the late Byng dinner at
Brentford, which seems to have greatly disquieted its
nerves. In particular; it is quite enraged with the Hon.
Member for Middlesex, for presuming to assert that we
are " now living under an aristocracy." Our Contem-
porary's evident soreness on this point, is another illus-
tration of the old adage, that " naked Truth is exceed-
ingly unlovely." We are " living under an aristocracy;"
and the proof of this may be found in the fact that the
present Government possesses the entire confidence and
sympathies of the House of Lords—which same House
has invariably set its face against, and mutilated where
it could not wholly destroy, every really liberal measure
brought forward by the Whigs for the last ten or twelve
years. . _

The Advertiser, remarking on the prospects of the new
Cabinet, and Sir R. Peel's position, says :—" With a
Cabinet constituted as we have shown the Cabinet to be,
it were impossible, even did he possess the disposition,
for Sir Robert Peel to conduct the affairs of the country
on liberal and enlightened principles. Lyndhurst. Stan-
ley, Buckingham, and Graham, are not made of pliable
stuff. They will not obey his high behests, should he
happen on any occasion to assume the tone and attitude
of a dictator, when under the inspiration of one of
those fits of expediency with which he has, in former
years, been sometimes seized. They have too high
an opinion of themselves to acquie3ce in any course
of policy which does not quadrate with their despotic
notions of the fitness of things. Instead of being his
slaves, the new Premier will speedily discover that he is
much more likely to be placed in a position of bondage
to them."—Sir Robert Peel, we suspect, has discovered
this already. He has been compelled, much against his
inclination, to take the Duke of Buckingham into the
Cabinet; and to throw poor Lord Londonderry over-
board, because Lord Stanley objected to him. The new
Premier may boast, as he pleases, of his independence,
but he wears a fetter on every limb. He is the mere
puppet of the aristocracy, who pull the strings that set
him in motion.

The Chronicle predicts the failure of the Peel Go-
vernment in Ireland, observing :—A moderate Tory Go-
vernment in Ireland, we repeat for the thousandth time,
is a political impossibility. You may try the experi-
ment which has been tried before, and send to Ireland a
man of courtly manners and splendid fortune, and he
will succeed, as did the Duke of Northumberland, in
winning popularity, in a gay, though impoverished ca-
pital. His liberal expenditure and his more liberal
charities suffice for that. And if he only abstain from
administering his political functions, he may pass with-
out discredit through his viceroyalty. But the Secretary
of a Tory Government in Ireland has no such option."
—A tame system of temporizing and expediency may do
well enough in a season of halcyon calmness ; but when
party spirit runs high—as it does just now in Ireland—
it is a sheer humbug—the last resource of conscious,
hopeless incapacity. Sir R. Peel's attempt to trim be-
tween the two great Irish sections of Orangeman and
Liberal, will be—as it deserves to be—a miserable failure.
Let him side' either with the one or the other ; but not
stand halting between two bundles of hay. The Orange-
men have, we conceive, strong claims on his gratitude,
which he ought not to overlook. They have aided him
in all his efforts to force himself into power; and now
that he has actually succeeded in breaking into the Trea-
sury, it is but just that he should allow them a handsome
portion of the plunder. When a burglary is committed,
all parties engaged have a right to share in the swag.
The Herald observes:—" Parliament will not, and must
not legislate on the Corn-laws during this continuance of
feverish excitement, which is altogether opposed to rea-
son and moderation. If it be absolutely necessary to the
relief of existing distress, temporary appliances must be
resorted to ; but no permanent legislation on this ob-
ject, which exceeds all others in importance, must be
had recourse to until times of greater quiet and less cla-
mour. The Parliament of 1815 passed the original Corn-
law in defiance of brick bats, bludgeons, riots, and pub-
lic disorders ; the Parliaments of 1841 and 1842 must be
equally impervious to sin ilarWhig-Radicalinfl uen ce s."—
This notion of our Contemporary, that a grievance is
not to be removed while the people are in a state of
"feverish excitement" about it, is too palpably absurd to '
demand any lengthened exposure. Pray when is an evil
to be redressed, if not when a country is smarting under
it ? The grievance that occasions no "feverish excite-
ment" is one that it is scarcely worth while to remedy.
The Inverness Courier makes the following remarks in
reference to the new Ministry :—" One feature in the
Ministry will give general satisfaction, the absenceof that
extreme party, so hostile to Ireland, of which Lords
Roden and Winchelsea, and Sir Robert Inglis, may be
considered the represenzatives. Not a single Orange-
man appears to have found favour with the Premier.
Mr. Goulburn is rather of the • old- exclusive cast, but
he is not so eaten up with bigot zeal as to threaten an
explosion in the Cabinet. The new Irish Secretary,
Lord Eliot, is highly spoken of for his generous and
conciliatory character, and, according to the Examiner,
there could not have been picked out of the Tory
party a successor of opposite politics to Lord Morpeth so
like him in all his urbane and kindly qualities.' Lord
Ripon can scarcely be considered an acquisition to any
Ministry. The lustre of Prosperity Robinson' has
long since left him, and there is a nervous timidity and
sensitiveness about him in public, which age has much
increased, and which must ever prevent him from being
a useful or powerful debater."
The Leicester Mercury gives the following advice to
the Liberals as respects the new Poor-law :—" The Li-
beral party have suffered much, unjustly, through the
Poor-law. Let them now, as we have before recom-
mended, vigorously agitate for the removal of the whole
Board of Commissioners ; with the removal of whatever
is harsh from the Poor-law; and, though they will find the
hollow Tories against them the masses will be with them."
The Western Times states that there is little hope of
Corn-law reform from the present Ministry, observing:—
Though some people affect to believe that Sir Robert
Peel, because he sold the landlords on the Catholic
question, will betray and sell them again on the Corn
question—yet that is impossible in the present case, for
they have fastened him down too tightly
to allow him to
wriggle down the sliding scale to any extent mischievous
to their supposed interests. The Duke of Rich m ond said that
the landlords had made Sir Robert Peel Minister, and
the same power would unmake him if necessary. The
Duke of Buckingham and Sir E. Knatchbull, two of the
strongest supporters
of the Corn-law, and the Earl of
Ripon, the author of it, are all members of the Cabinet.
How hen can those who look to a reform of the Corn-
law for an improvement of our commercial affairs, ex-
pect to receive that reform at the hands of the Peel
Cabinet."
The Dublin Evening Post entitles the present Cabinet,
an Aristocratic one, and adds We do not like Re-
publicanism—far from it ;we like American Demo-
cracy still less ; but, we confess, of all the forms of Go-
vernment ever invented by the wit or the malice of in an,
we detest an Oligarchy the most. But what signifies our
hatred. The people of England. we arc told, are mad
with delight, and the People of England will have their
fling. Oh ! they are a fine people and a proud—pity it
is likely they are about to be a starving people. What
of that ? Have they not a Cabinet of Lords?"

Baro:Iftlen:171.;111:s?hillild1:38-of—aC:ii:771:aT:tClfr.ussels on
Tuesday last, for the purpose,
it is said, of entering into
a negotiation relative to an iron railway from Valen-
ciennes to Par. ts

AGRICT3I.TuniLL.
As proof of the capability of the Irish soil for pro-
ducing fine flax, a very beautiful sample has lately been
grown and handled the neig,hbourhood of Armagh,
and a parcel of 150 stone of the same quality purchased
at a high figure by an inhabitant of the town.

NAVAL
47D zonLizart.Y.
The Kingston-Harbour lights are altered by order of
the Dublin Port Corporation, from the present revolving
white light to a revolving light showing red and white
lights alternately, and sseen at shorter intervals of time.
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Another improvement is the fixing a sriall red light on
the west-pier head.
Yesterday a detachment of the 60th Royal Rifles
marched into Deptford from Windsor, and a detachment
of the 15th Regiment joined head-quarters at Woolwich.
On Tuesday Major Lewis's troop of horse artillery ar-
rived at Woolwich from Dublin. On Thursday the Ist
division of the 99th Regiment marched for Chatham.