The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-07 00:00:00

PAUZIADIZNTAILY.

There was no House of Lords last night, but the Peers
meetthis day at one o'clock, to be present at the proro-
gation of Parliament by commission.
• The Commons met as usual, and Mr. Wakley, for
what purpose we know not, gave notice of a motion for
next.. session, . for a radical reform in, the':House.'of
;CatereOns.' T4..this to blind or pacify, his Radies&COn-
stituents till' the House again meets?.
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brought.under the .Uotice.,of .the House
the ease of Lord G. Paget, wha pe.titioned.,.against the
return for Carnarvon, and •who•,-failed to-complete .his
recognizance by having 'entered'intoit ,before,a Magia-
trate 41/e 'Cardigan, when the.Aet,' insperutively requires
that it shall be entered:. into .before..a..Magistrase fof
the county wherein the boi-ongli is situated. Mn Buller
wished an indulgence granted to Lord G. Paget, and
asked that the law should be set aside ; but on the motion
being opposed, he withdrew it.
In the discussion, some remarks were made about
bribery and its remedies, which arc worth reading.
Mr. Wakley brought under the notice of the House
the case of a Scotch gentleman, who has been confined
in a lunatic asylum as a madman by his friends on ac-
count of some family quarrel, which is like many similar
hard cases, we are afraid, in England ; but on Sir William
Rae promising to institute an inquiry, the Hon. Gentle-.
man allowed the subject to drop.
An Address to the Queen, got up at Tamworth, which
appears to have been improperly signed, was also the
subject of a brief discussion. The Government have
sent the Address to Tamworth, and have ascertained
:that some of the signatures are not genuine. It was not,
however, thought so badly of as to be withheld from
the Queen. It will go with the bundle, and be thrust
aside in the usual manner with the petitions and ad-
dresses of the people.
The late Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Baring)
referred to something said by the Duke of Wellington,
in the. other House, relative to ,the First Lord of the
Treasury having been in greater deficit in the revenue
than Mr. Baring had stated, and he applied for an ex-
planation. Both the present Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer and Sir Robert Peel bore testimony to the ac-
curacy of Mr. Baring's estimates, but stated that several
demands had since come in, which was what the Duke
Meant.' The House adjourned at Half-past Six, to meet
this day at Two;- to be prorogued.

PUZLXC OPINION.

The -Morning Chronicle appears to entertain an im-
pression that, during the recess, Sir Robert Peel will
bring the qUestion of the Corn-laws before his colleagues,
with a view to propose some alteration in them. " From
what the•Dukeof Wellington said in reply to the Earl
of Radnor," observes our Contemporary, " it seems that
his declaration ow the previous evening was made in too
unqualified a way, and that he does contemplate, at
some future period, some change in the Corn-laws. The
Duke of Richmond, too, tried to back out of his famous
threat to Sir Robert Peel, that We' who put him in
would turn him out, if he dared to meddle with
theV,orii-laws. We may, therefore, infer that a Corn-
lum; -Ciiiiference has been held, and that Sir Robert
Peel, by taking out his resignation, and hol&
iug it ,at half-cock at their heads, has partly
frightened and partly coaxed the great representatives
of the landed interest' to consent to a prospective
change. The value and extent of that change, however,
may be guessed from the language of the Duke of
Richmond, who still considers an Bs. duty as a piece of
madness, and loudly demands ample protection for the
agricultural interest. But in the reluctant concessions
to public opinion made by the Dukes of Wellington and
Richmond. we see alsrohability that during the recess
some attempt may be made to patch up a scheme which the
united Cabinet' may be led to bring before Parliament
during next Session, in the hope that an appearance of
change may enable them to cheat the people of its reality."
—Such a change in the Corn-laws as will really be benefi-
cial to the country, is not to be expected from a Cabinet
constituted like the present. The Duke of Buckingham
alone is a guarantee for the Ministers making no altera-
tion worth accepting. Ilis Grace had been thrust into
office by the land-owners, solely for the purpose of keep-
ing up their darling monopoly ; and no concessions will
he allow to be made, but such as are purely nominal. As
for Sir Janus Graham, we think nothing of his opposi-
tion. Having no guiding principle of action, what should
prevent him from turning round again, as he has so often
done before ? Still, we repeal, nothing is to be expected,
in the way of useful Corn-lalv Reform, from Ministers.
They are bound up with the aristocracy ; they are sworn
to do its bidding ; and they will—for the slaves cannot
help themselves—do it at all hazards !
The Times sneers at the Corn-law Reformers in the
manufacturing districts, in a style that might be mis-
chievous, were not its venom neutralized by its exceed-
ing vagueness and clumsiness. There is a would-be
aristocratic hauteur and loftiness in our Contemporary's
manner that is infinitely amusing. We quote a portion
of his comments :—" In all the great hives of manufac-
turing industry, you unifiirmly find a certain proportion
of humming hornets, who, happening to have gained the
ear and confidence of their associates, are continually
haranguing them upon their alleged wrongs—busily
conniving with the factory demagogues of the me-
tropolis—superintending an extensive conspiracy for
hatching 'grievances or demanding redress —and ever
contriving to lay their clutches upon the contribu-
tions of credulous dupes for the- purpose of support-
ing theinselves in mischievous idleness, as delegates, for-
sooth, to'a grand National Convention ! To what extent
this vulgar species of humbug has been practised in Man-
chester' Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Glasgow, Dun-
dee, and other places, maybe tolerably well estimated,
both from the fierce quarrels of the principals last year
when dividing the spoil, and. also from the angry re-
proaches of the misguided masses whom they severally
affected to represent. • Such jobbing collusions, however,
are by no means confined to the lower vermin of the fac-
tories. • Your hutigry•hornets, with glossier wings and a
yet bolder bite, • are to 'be found-regaling their instincts
upon victims a single remove' higher. The buzzing sec-
taries who disported for a few days at Manchester,
as well as the stinging tribe of Anti-Corn-law leaguers,
are all of the same genus."
The Herald affects the jocular, in noticing a remark
made by Lord Melbourne on Monday night in the House
Of Lords. As it is but seldom that Grandmama attempts
smartness or drollery, we subjoin a specimen of her
powers on the present occasion, if only by way of no-
verty.:—‘‘Lord Melbourne has, like Shy loch, been dream-
ing so. earnestly of ' money bags,' that he has
actually on his awakening felt convinced that he had
the power of the Bank of England. in his right hand,
and in his • left the combined influence of all the
millionaires of the City. With this strength, how-
ever, the Noble Lord commingles mercy and kindness;
he will allow the Stock Exchange to exist ; he will
not tumble down the value of the funds ; he will not
• stop the Bank of England ; he will not wholly ruin
the British public. This merciful intention Lord Mel-
bourne announced on Monday—' I will not,' declared
the ex-Premier, say one word that will produce any
effect on the money market Thank Heaven ! The
City of London is at present to he spared a conversion
into a modern Petra grass is not at once to spring
up in Lombard-street, desolation is not immediately to
be the only resident in Threadueedle.street, silence is
nut hereafter to prevail in Capel-court, St. Swithen's-
lane is net to become the abode of the solitary and por-
tentous raven. Nothing' in Lord Melbourne's politi-
cal life becomes him as the leaving of it ;' if he did
no good in power, he will no. harm on
the nation in opposition : he will , ' temper the
wind to the shorn lamb. he not pro-
duce, by an ipse dinit, another, commercial panic
It mast be very comforting for the Tories to know, that
if they have Lord Melbourne against them, they have
the wit and waggery of the Herald in their favour.
This is, indeed, a tower "of strength, which it is to be
, regretted " they of the adverse faction want." The
Reformers may bid defiance to the sophistry of a Peel,.
and the lumbering logic
.of a Grahank ; they may even
resist successfully the noisy declamation of the..A.lon-
' derer of Printing-house-square ; but they earLiot rea-
sonably
j brilliant, lightning-like sarcasm of Granduunruna,

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