The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-13 00:00:00

(From the CFSOM THS DAILY PAPERS OF YESTRhDAT.)
thSeesGsiolonben.a)turally suggests to
The termlnation ofF
us, whose business it has been to discuss its measures
and record its acts, another duty, no less imperative.
The results of the Session, and the prospects of the
Government and of the country, as indicated by the
position of parties at its close, are no less interesting to
the public than they are to the politician. On the lst
of January last we wrote as follows, in an article in which
were largely discussed the position and prospects of
the Government and its opponents at that time :
"The retrogression of the Tories from the false position
they took up for the purpose of imposing on :he untbink-
;lig part of the people, and the bold and undisguised avowal
tf the principles which constitute their system, has placed
between them and office a distance far greater than that
which seemed to exist at the commencement of 1839.
The intermediate space between two points may be in-
leased by the retrogression of the one as well as b) the
advance of the other. The Tories have furnished proof
of what we have invariably asserted, that Toryism is nu-
changed and unchangeable. We need not Insist upon
the utter impossibility of a Government formed on Tory
principles, even if permitted to assume office, being able
to retain it. In the unmistakable exhibitions of unmiti-
gated Toryism we see an accession of strength to the ex-
sting Administration, steing it farms the only barrier be-
`ween the Tories and office."
The well-feigned ridicule and indignant scorn with
which our predictions and anticipations were receivtd
by the Tory journals will be remembered by many, and
nay 1e seen by ail who feel sufficient interest in the
natter to induce them to refer to the files of those Jour-
ials. Whether the event has not justified the prcdic-
(ion is, happily, now no doubtful question ; it is seen in
the distracted, disjointed condition of the Tory party
is read in the reproaches and upbraidings of the or-
gans of that party, which vie with each other in heap-
ng contumelies on the Tory leaders, whom they were
vont to hold up as infallible by their wisdom, unim-
9eachable in their patriotism, and immaculate for their
purity 1

(From the Courier.)
the American Presidents be too diffuse in their
sessional speeches, they do certainly communicate some
nfortration to their temporary subjects. But who
:an peruse the Speech of a Sovereign of France or
England and say that he has learned anything
which he has not previously known ? We iztave
)ur neighbours to the care of their own mock-
lisplays of wisdom, and confine oursehes to the ridi-
ulous Whig compositions which are annually deli-
vered from the throne, and which, notoriously the com-
position of some self-conceited politician or dabbler in
iteraturr, disgrace the country if they are to be consi-
lered in any other respect than matters of courtly
'arm. The Royal Speeches under the present ad-
ninistrations reflect no credit—no great c-edit
Jpon the authors, unless, as we have intimated
at opinion, they may have intended to conc,al
what they formally profess to explain or dc-
:lore. Inasmuch as nothing of public value re-
sults from these things—to give them the best name they
leserve—and inasmuch as both French and English
appreciate them, why should such tom-foolery
oe practised ? The Herald, whose natural and ac-
quired talents are well worthy of better objects, has
Jan at the pains to dissect the last piece of trash of
,he class that we notice. If Ministers cannot write
'getter things than for a great number of years we
tave received from the Throne, let Parliaments meet
and dissolve without the trumpery. There might be
some occasion for official speeches when the iron•clad
warrior, whose whole attention was directed to the
,mithy and the stable, was a legislator ; but sow that
,he common people are competent to judge for them-
ielves they need no instructions from Lords Russell,
Melbourne, and Normanhy.
(From the Standard.)

We have bead of a plan calculated to promote cx-
ledition in the art of printing, by which it is proposed
o cast whole sentences in single types ; so that, on
.his principle, all the hackneyed portions of a minis-
ei ial address in Parliament may come before the public,
f necessary, at a few minutes' notice. There is
certainly no class of composition whatever, which would
ifford a more favourable opportunity for testing the prac-
icability of such a device than a Royal Speech ; or cer-
tainly that would occasion, under such circumstances,
so
little trouble to the printer, as the parliamentary pro-
logues and epilogues which are usually put into her
Majesty's mouth by her present Ministers. A " case"
with some four or five partitions would suffice to hold

materials for a dozen such speeches ; their " common-
places" differing only in the order of their arrangetwlnt
as occasion might require. Be the condition of the
country what it may, whether we have rebellion at
home, the immediate prospect of war with the nearest
and most powerful of our neighbours, or are over-
whelmed with pacific assurances from all parts of

the world—a superabundant revenue or an impe-
rative demand for new taxes—a closely-balanced
House of Commons, which leaves Ministers in a bare
minority on several of the most vital questions of the
Session, and affords their opponents a moral triumph
upon all ; or a large majority in their favour, whenever
they condescend to require it—whether our foreign Ito.
licy is the admiration or contempt of Europe—what-
ever be the circumstances under which Whig proroga-
tion speeches are concocted, they differ in no material
respect from each other. The same stolid indifference
to danger from without or reproaches from nithin,
in
%ariably characterises them the amount and warmth
~f the congratulatory period; with which they abound
being carefully proportioned to the number of diflicui-
ties by which the country may happen to be surrounded
at the moment.