The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-31 00:00:00

E D IT iON

SIR ROttERT PEEL `S MOTIONI „
FOR THE REMOVAL OF MINISTERS.
,„We judged correctly in supposing that Sir Robert
peel would not proceed to the extremity of stopping the.
'Applies ; but the stn which he has taken seemed to us
S 4 much more improbable, that we did not think it worth
%%:I,lile to speculate on it in our conjectures as to his
ecalr,4e. It was a maxim of the Duke of Wellington
never to fight a battle without some object more sub-
stantial than the eclat of victory ; and we thought that
Sir Robert Peel'was too skilful a general to risk an en-
gagement which'eannot alter the position and resources
ef his opponents, but which must show declining forces
on his side, if it eo not terminate in actual defeat.. Sir
Robert has nothing to gain, much to lose, by his motion,
j'which, if carried, will be pure supererogation ; if re-
ected, gratuitous: discomfiture.
The vote on the Sugar Duties decided the case of. the
Government in the present Parliament, and Ministers,
who were not to be deterred from their great duty to
,
he Sovereign and their country by that division, will
.. as little moved from their course by any decision of
the same Parlianient to the same effect.
... tut it is obje,!ted that, though Ministers' -have the
11ght to appeal to the country to decide between them
411(1 the confedentled monopolists, they are not 'justifiable
hen
office in defiance of. the existing. Parliament,
, 3111 t; at the' same time the convoking of another.
The
s answer is, Cant the case for the appeal to the country
v not complete till the whole question between Ministers
a%:?(11 the monopolists is before the public. The country
pILI not be in a condition to make its choices for the next
'rliament till it has had the opportunity of knowing
what are the views of its present representatives upon
every important branch of the Ministerial project. The
Country„ must know how the candidates for its confidence
p, oNw _
r -e to deal, not only with the Sugar Duties, but with
he Corn-laws and the Timber Duties. Before the pre-
sent Parliainent has declared itself upon all these great
Illesth'os, the case for appeal is imperfect in the most im-
portant respects. All the branches of the scheme must
..b.e discussed and decided on by the present representa-
ives ~s ~
lion ." the people, before the blic can be in a condi.-
and to give judgment as to which. are the men to serve,
tut ll to defeat its best interests. But The}h
E.:ev,11ed.,,,,?..e Which the. Tories feel the dangers of.-
it,le ascious that their cause suffers by discussion, and.
0,,' y cannot escapea dissolution, they wish to hurry it
10"(,).so as to prevent a full hearing of the case against the
, .n°Pfllies- Their logic is curiously inconsistent. They
IliTetrt, in their proposed address to,the Crown, that Mi-
tble-er' cannot carry their measures, and they argue in
in heir Prints and speeches that Ministers are net justified
3,dPrueeeding to submit those measures to the publie
invent, by which they Must ultimately succeed or fall.
the motion of Sir Robert Peel—
po's' jhat her Majesty's Ministers do not sufficiently
*.iiab,sB the confidence 'of the House of • Commons to
'° them to carry 'through that House measures
which ti ley deem of essential importance to the public
a•eif.
'tr e, and that their continuance in office under such
ereurnstances is at variance with the spirit of the
is 1: pot declaratory of a judgment ; for how can there be
sosiott'ilignvent Without a hearing ? It is rather political
predic,in' or
fortune-telling. At best it is one of those
non: Which the authors imagine they have the
rower of fulfilling.
,f4ild hoar signifiCant is the suddenness of the change
c.!tvateg'y hi the Tory camp. Uto the announcement
oliiii:_lqinisterial project, the Fabian policy was relied
that the adversaries, and they boasted that every week
tract existence of the Melbourne Ministry was pro-
sc,rriq, would give years to the succeeding Tory Go-
nt. Ment. The more rope given the better, it was said.
preeras argued that the only danger was, that
th, Titation might prevent the completeness of
Pai,i 'Vilig disgrace and ruin. But suddenly the
i, an Policy is dismissed, and the 'Government
S to i.
la be carried by a coup de main. The change
that . without reason, for the Tory leaders see
le to ontinue the Fabian tactics now would not
its n'i)ing the Ministry to its causes of exhaustion, but
velli e.l`.
, si u:..ces of strength. Time and truth are now
taaCg }for the Government, and therefore the Tories
cogrteianet.r.talevd.eSperate attempt to shorten the duration of the
nibtit:rvail If they could succeed in this object it might
certain impolitic effects belonging to the
sx . 4 ; but how could -they reckon on succeeding,
in_€pt through the weakness of Ministers in surrender-
thg. at. the first summons, their right of a hearing for
the measures on the merits of which they have to take
Ade,:ense of the nation. Such a folly on the part of their
uto rsaries was not to be expected by any but prepos-
ll'islY sanguine or very desperate men.
sablee he
project has already made great . progress in. t .
tio favour ; but it will make more the more it is
por:‘,3l,
int? d every hour will add to the strength in sup-
of it.
'Times fairly makes the admission that if Minis-
diarssorPect in the present juncture to gain a majority by
tho - vtlig, no one can say that
with Constitution requires
toill4 to relinquish their plan ut appealing to the
tiintr,trY. Sir Robert Peel, however, in his speech, contends
the Government has no right to suppose that the opinion of
al cn,- try is at variance with that.. of the existing Parlia-
ri ,;,' a,ild according to this position a dissolution could
41; "4 -ally circumstances, be justifiable for the purpose
Aar:.' appeal to the people. But has Sir Robert Peel al-
l'j,rol this doctrine—has he always maintained that
Oa -7:lltent Was the only index of public opinion, and
thalat;„liwas' unwarrantable in a Government to suppose
-4,77ni ent of the country opposed to that of its repre-
IV:'
Oh the 'f‘ f 15v0 to a very remarkable passage in his speech
'e'l
eon% , i'PPropriation question in 1835, which, for the
%%it)i 'enee o comparison, we print in juxtaposition
~
e the doctrine which he has produced as suitable to
,E_.9l. iiwesent ccasion.
l day lassoa Tours- Sir Robert Peel on the 2d
, T.
4 ...Clittayb,,;., April 1835.
we may not have the
' True " You talk of your supre-
, .
den f b "ve toe coaft- macy—of your power to con-
-221'. meNeb°ll/t e House of Com-L trol the Executive Govern- 1.
your
Govern-
-1 t i
.t . leas -a,,urP:rtoviasps,
as Mr. mmt ; let me whisper in
ay, though ear, that although you are
'.:_ux deitied it, if we triumphant here—though you
~"..f.'_, ),1 the Rouse of Com- are enabled to fetter our wa-
rt:A 'sere are suff:ei nt in- sures in this House—yet the
'Zir that we possess the power you exercise does not
(Cil,e_nee a the cout.try.'— extend without these walls
$ll.-.t,r;S and counter cheers,) with the intensity with which
with' -I.4c'w v!
-"r, I sl.O tld say it operates within,—(Great
i:ou., t r• -Fox, it is flange- cheering.) We may be weak
eco.,in
,admit any other re- here ; but this I tell you
op' 4'.'"inioen org„n of , public again respectfully, but with
00innin, the the House of a firm conviction of its truth,
tit iii+ 'vs, It is dangerous that there is a public opinion
~,'', ull.the implied or sup- which exists independent of
eji'Q'
.C: opinions of constitu- majorities—which is notcon-
and 4..in,4111-4 their declared trolled by votes—which it is
1141,4"11tpvi4e4 organ, the essentially necessary to pos-
. ''' -Coraniaßs," sess—in addition-to mere ma-
jorities in tha's House, I
never felt more, convinced
of anything than I do of the
truth of• what I. have been
stating ; I never felt more
convinced than I do of this
truth, that the public opinion
will not sanction—it will with
its submission, but it will
not with its approbation
sanction—your efforts, even
if they are successful, to
throw impediments in the
way of the useful measures
of Government."—(Cheers.)
When .Sir
.Robert Peel used this strong language,
assertin
g that the opinion of Parliament was opposed to
te Prevailing opinion of the country, he dicl.not con-
e: paltetse.erpotting his boast to the test by a dissolution.
danger there is, as he says, '4 in setting up
implied or supposed opinions of constituencies
Itt4tiNt their declared and authorised organs," be then
~..,. trrea 0
.or no other purpose than an empty. vaunt, and
.71itiout a thought of verifying his assertion by a
itew a
• sr,- PPeal to the country.
/ 4,11 e very language which Sir Robert Peel so ground-
ytsl used in 1835, Ministers may now adopt with a
.I,,'!' confidence. They may say to fine monopolist ma-
„. jay, " 'We may be weak here, but there is a public
\‘l), ilillon which exists independent of majorities, which
IC not sanction . your efforts to throw impediments in
~way of the useful measures of Government,"
Iliat Sir Robert's was a vain vaunt in 35 events
Moved. He did not, indeed he could not, dissolve
Cu? carliament.. of his own calling, but the dissolu-
a-ft "0 the King's death brought his assertion to the test,
oft 6 the opinion of the ecaintry, instead. of condemning
4,v overthrow of the Tory Government, and the policy
Ministry which succeeded ft, ratified both by re-
*th.l--"I. 'rig a Majority.. The smallness of' that majority
itt indeed, he a tine subject for' scoff and sarcasm, but
.
a,t-ttviptils, to be derided which can only muster so
gill 4 illaj4ity, Oat is!to be faought of•the party etcr-
„,3' boasting its po;:se;sitan of all the poiiers of th .
s'untry,..o _v.
atic4 cannot muster • any majority wha!ever,
".4!,'ltPon-;t1le , rare and re; p 'et ible occasions of. the
u, l' such as the Sugar Duties question ?
ges4 • •t' V liohert Peel points to the elections which have
tb. "re ~ suit' the.calling of this Parliament, in proof of
t nl:44l44llnPvilitrity ttf the Ministry. We have only to
074; le this; , sun what WO haVV, more than once:
will i tinh-the Tories:always have :had, anilalways
iaave, the 'advantage in isolated cases, because they
:,9riug-,-the powers of the sptirse, and also of another
4., to bear on single points with more effect than they
Fan!distribute them in a general contest. But when Sir
tle*rt Peel- is discussing the Ministry's .present prospect
Wit! ;;t ti What inference is to be drawn from elections
41 I'
!StP"fi4 tiefore the Government had produced its
Iv
41 tI. an ita tlig izelipt pc •tk 9iitintry and-the improve-'
ent of its finances ' '
.--'We have denied that the victories of the TOties •in
i..olated contests are to be taken as evidences of -opinion,.
!:?,‘7,,,•e. du not pretend that, in the state of things ante-
-74
(tll t3te. finnpaneement of the Ministerial project, wei_
gage'4 1/1". fe9h4file FIR! fi• majority in the event of- a:
laral fil:optom, lie snipit
..rttbereil, is stirred by .he hePPO§ to It now PrAPOO4l=
The
people have now great okieets to call forth-their OX-
etrtions, and to reward them, ' Every individual not in,
,rested in the monopolies has a practical good to strive
t'"'—ilay more, even those interested in any one mono-
V.lrt-yo 8.4 interest in the abatement of the others,. and
Fe 4.4, 1:14' ft, gain against any loss which they may
il'rehcm.l. . ' • ','''
it' .113- WY•chance whi9h the Tpyles b ..
• 1, •
, , aVe in hauling
gainit thii 1;14n fm, FerflOYlllg the giqiCnities }cif the
'`)"., ,tltrY, hy relieving the Oveihurdened:' . i,' '''.}t'z' 8
Oqustry, is certainly to arrest the discussion it
vefote h is thoroughly understood, and therefore
"-3 believe folly in the sincerity of Sir Robert Peel,
44eYP he says that one of the motives of his pending
tkotion is to arrest or abridge the Anti-Corn-law dis--
siou• The attempt will be abortive, and will only taage those who made it. It is the bad move of a bad
Position.
T All that we see confirms our first impression that the
Tories will rue their forlorn lop Men like Lord

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irsley, who voted against Government, differing from
it as to the Corn-laws, or as to the sugar duties only,
will support it, nevertheless, against a party with whom
they have nottgreement except on those solitary points.
Whatever may be the result of the division, it can only
more or less hurt the Tory party, impairing the former
bad triumph, if not casting them again into a minority.
As fo: the Government, its course cannot be altered one
way 0.: the other by the issue of this debate. Two
words sum up their resourses—discussion as full as pos-
sible, dissolution when discussion is complete.
Sir Robert Peel has maintained his reserve as to what
he would do to meet the financial difficulties of the coun-
try. He glorified his frankness at great length, boasted
that he had declared himself on this and that question,
and on all ordinary topics of legislation, but said that on
the particular subject of finance he must be allowed to
reserve his views. It is plain that he will not throw his
pearls t) swine, but will peep them for official wear. In
like manner, some time ago, an adventurer promised the
discovery of an invaluable secret on the condition that e
certain price should be subscribed for the payment of it
in advance. Give me place, says the frank Sir Robert,
and you shall have my secret for the restoration of the.
finances, but no advice gratis on this particular disorder.
Sir John Hobhouse observed on the backwardness of
the Tory leader—
" The Right Hon. Gsntleman's career (he Will excuse
me for saying so) has been one of general expediency, of
ineffectual resistance, and ultimate concession. He has at-
tempted to swim against the current of public opinion, by
which for many years he has been beaten back, and has
landed upon shoal after shoal, and which has sunk .under
him, and been swept away. If he has been saved, he owes
his safety to yielding at last to that side which he has spent
the best part of a valuable life in endeavouringtocombatin
vain. The Right Hon. Gentleman has certainly not been
the leader—perhaps it has been his misfortune, not his
fault--but he has not been the leader of events, but has
been dragged onwards by them. He has generally coire
too late with his political disCoveries. He has been, on
almost all occasions, obliged finally to adopt that line of
policy which in an earlier period he has thought it his
duty to oppose. It might be his misfortune, but I think
the Right Hon. Baronet, with all his talents—with all his
opportunities—with all his great party support—has
shown himself deficient in one great quality that belongs
to the character of a statesman, the satracity which reads
the,
,signs of
,the times, and which foresees the conse-
quences them.--4dieers.') As -he has hitherto come
too late with all his measures, so if he should now attain to
power, his future measures will not be such as can rest
on the principles on which he set out in life, and such as
for many years he maintained as a private individual and
as a Minister.—(Cheers.) No : he must administer the
affairs of the country upon those principles I am happy
to say upon which we have administered it so long.—
(Cheers.) He can only act upon those principles."
We differ from the last opinion, which is indeed in-
consistent with the preceding remarks. Sir Robert Peel
cannot administer the .affairs of the . country upon the
principles on which it has been governed by a Liberal
Government, and at the same time continue his course of
resisting good principles to the last, and acceding to
them too late. The difference would be 'precisely the
difference between the rule and the exception. For the
one late and forced liberal concession of Sir Robert,
there would be a hundred cases of obstinacy in resisting
improvement in the ripe season for it. A line of action
against the dispositions can never have any similarity to
a line of action in accordance with the dispositions ; and
this would be the difference between a Peel Government
in its occasional extorted liberalities, whatever they
might be, and a Liberal Government., whose measures
were in pursuance of their wishes and convictions. The
public may reckon on an occasional concession after
great throes and struggles, against the grain, but never
on a tenor of service, which is the distinction that does
not seem sufficiently made in Sir John Hobhouse's

speech.
Whether Lord Stanley has any shame or any feelings
we know not ; but if he has, Sir John Hobhouse must
have touched them, not more sorely than justly, in this

passage :
" The Noble Member for North Lancashire. had
asserted on a former night that the present Government,
in the words of the poet, was 'nodding to its fall.' If it
must fall, for himself he would 'say that he was quite
ready to fall in such company ; as he and his friends
had risen to power together, so he was ready to relin-
quish power with them. But they had kept together
in their chivalry' for some years, and he saw no reason
to believe that they might not continue their career for
the correction of abuses and the lightening of the bur-
dens of the people. If he fell, it would" be with his
friends, and he was better satisfied to fall with them
than, like his late Noble Friend the Member for North
Lancashire, to rise to any eminence, however lofty,
among his enemies.—(Hear, hear.) He should be sorry
to see himself surrounded in any situation by men whom
he had once uniformly opposed, and supporting princi-
ples which in the earlier part of his career he had felt
pride in resisting.—(Loud cheers.)"
The debate is adjourned to Wednesday ; as yet it has
been heavy and spiritless. Examiner.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.
On Saturday an inquest was held at the Windmill Inn,
Lower-road, Deptford, before Mr. C. Carttar and a highly
respectable Jury, upon view of the body of Miss Ann
Castle, aged twenty-six years, daughter of the well-
known ship-owner of that name, carrying on business
at Rotherhithe, who was found drowned in the Grand
Surrey Canal on Thursday evening last under the fol-
lowing lamentable circumstances.
The first witr.ess called was William Jones, of the
Victualling-office, Grove-lane, Deptford, who saw a man
named Nash dragging the canal for the deceased, and in
about an hour the body was found. The deceased had
on a figured dress, but no bonnet. Witness saw a bonnet,
and bottle labelled " Prussic Acid—Poison." There was
also a parasol picked up. The bottle was marked " Wil-
son, Druggist, Rotherhithe."
Thomas Sadler, foreman of the carpenters, Commer-
cial Dock, said that he pulled deceased out 9f the canal.
Jacob Myall, of Grove-lane, said that he left the Com-
mercial Docks at half past three o'clock on Thursday,
and on going to the canal he saw a bonnet in the hedge
and one string fastened to a tree. A paper was fastened
to the bonnet. and a parasol and phial were lying on the
ground. The note appended to the bonnet was written
on ; it was the address of Mr. Castle, namely. Ann Castle,
11, Lucas-street, Rotherhithe.
Ann Linton said she was servant to Messrs. Henry and
Charles Castle. The deceased was a single lady, aged
twenty-six years, and resided with her brothers, Messrs.
H. and C. Castle. Mr. Castle, sen., came in the morn-
ing and told Miss Castle that her brother Frederick had
been lost on board the ship Henry Wellesley in the
Channel off the French coast. The deceased was very
low spirited all the morning. She went out and returned
without saying word, which was not her custom. She
returned about two, declined taking dinner, but wrote a
letter and went out, as witness supposed, to the post-

office.
CORONER.—What became of the letter ? Witness—l
do not know ; it was taken away, but by whom I cannot
say.
The Coroner and several jurymen said that the letter
ought to be produced, aps it no doubt contained the cause
of the rash act.
CORONER-It is important that the jury should see it.
Witness continued—The deceased's brother command-
ed. the Henry Wellesley ; she was depressed at the news
of its loss ; thought she would destroy herself.
Charles V. Field, surgeon, Lucas-street, Itotherhithe—
Attends the family ; saw the deceased about two o'clock
on Thursday ; she was following her father home ; was
always in good health ; her mind (lid not appear disordered.
Witness understood that there had been a quarrel between
deceased and her father that morning respecting a gentle-
man who had been acquainted with the family, her father
wished her not to see him again. She was a high-
spirited girl, and felt the matter severely ; her father
had written a letter to her on the subject. She had
written a letter to the gentleman alluded to, who resid€d
at the west end of the town. It was a sort of will, leav-
ing certain things, and requesting the gentleman would
retain them for her sake. She was extremely attached

to him.
By the CORONER—Believes her father has copies of
the letters.
Charles Castle—Deceased was passionately fond Of
her brother Frederick. Nothing but the sudden news of
the loss of the ship could, witness thought, have induced
the fatal step, and he denied what Dr. Field said about
the difference between his father and sister. It was quite
fallacious.
This being all the evidence, the Coroner summed up,
and the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary In-
sanity." Thirteen of the Jury out of sixteen signed the
inquisition.

A correspondent writes from Calais, that 01
Wednesday morning, in consequent e of a dense fog, the Eng
lish schooner Hope, of Bristol, Captain Tuckey, from Han
wich to Bristol, with a cargo of stones and timber, ran ashore
half a league eastward of Calais. The crew were landed
safely, but the vessel was not expected to le saved. In the
afternoon of the same. day, the three-masted vessel, Henry Wel-
lesley, Captain Castle, from London to Hobart Town, with a
mixed cargo and three passengers, went ashore near the former
vessel. All the crew and passengers were sally landed, and it
was hoped, if the weather should improve, that the ship, which
had eight feet water in her hold, would he got off.
ORDER OF ST. JOHN.—The decree of the
Emperor of Austria for re-establishing the Order of St. John
of it rusalem, directs that the buildings of this ancient priory
at Venice, in the parish of St. Francis della Vigna, shall be
destined to the foundation of the priory of the Order ; ar.4
that the Grand Prior shall receive 2,000 florins (convention),
or rather more than 5,000 f. per annum. None but Austrian
subjects can be appointed to the Grand Primate, and every
facidty is to he given to Noble families in the Lombardo-Ve-
netian kingdom who may wish to make foundations connected
With this Order.
E How. MRS. DAMER'S DIARY.--Travels
in the ,Holy Land must always be regarded as among
the most valuable illustrations of the Scriptures, affording,
as they invariably do, such abundant confirmation of '
their authenticity and sacred character ; but, notwith-
standing so much important commentary has been made
public by Lord Lindsay and other recent travellers in
Palestine, we have a Mass of contributions to the popular
study of Biblical literature of a still more interesting
character in this Diary of a Tour in Greece, Turkey,
Egypt, and the Holy Land," by the Hon. Mrs. Dawson
Damer—a lady of high literary attainments, who met'
withsuch facilitieS for prosecuting her researches through-
out a country that may justly be entitled " The Cradle
of Religion," as have enabled her to obtain an accession
of Infopmation that cannot but be considered of unrivalled
interest in every part of the Cbristian
The following officers are promoted for the ser-
vice col the coast of China : —Commissions dated May 6,
1841. Commanders—Edward Belcher, P. G. Blake, %Wil-
liam Warren, Harry Eyres, to be Captains. Lieutenants—
George Goldsmith, Henry hetlat, R. B. Watson, John Hay
(B), John E. Bingham, I. P. Bower, to be commanders.
Mates—Messrs. John Daly, John Hancock, G. B. Jeffreys,
Rowland Edwards, Arthur Vyner, .G. C. Fowler, W. G.
Lua.rd, to be Lieutenants. Captain S. B. Ellis, R./R., recom-
mended fur brevet rank of Major in the army.