The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-17 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Herald thus remarks on the announce-
ment that Lord Spencer intends to move the Address in
the House of Lords:—" Lord Spencer can do his friends
no good by the forthcoming display, and most assuredly
he will be personally seen to far less advantage than he
was the other day at the Liverpool agricultural meeting."
In a preceding paragraph our Contemporary states that
Lord Spencer " despised and deserted the Whigs"—a
glaring inconsistency, to say nothing of its utter impro-
bability, for what statesman would allow himself to be
drawn from his voluntary retirement, in order to assist
those whom he " despised" and had " deserted ?"
The Times insists that Ministers will be guilty of " a
high misdemeanor," if they attempt again to force forward
their " obnoxious Budget;" observing, " When the
Sovereign dismisses an Administration for measures dis •
approved by the country, the constitutional construction
of that proceeding is, that the obnoxious measures are
abandoned, and that the Sovereign is entirely free to
take other steps more consistent with the opinion of the
people. The suceassors whom the country brings in have
a right to expect that the Sovereign is prepared to act
upon their advice in general, and mere particularly in
the specific matter on which the decision of the country
has thus been taken." If the broad and intelligent
ciples on which the Whig Budget was based, are to be
altogether thrown overboard by the Tories, as the Times
proposes—if monopoly is to be continued, and free trade
to be scouted as a delusion—how do Sir R. Peel and his
party propose to relieve the distresses of the country ?
Do they mean to rest satisfied with the Prayers of the
Church for a more prosperous state of things, or trust
from day to day to the expediency system ? If so, they
will very soon find themselves freezing again in the arctic
regions of Opposition.
The Chronicle states that Sir Robert Peel " has
precluded himself from introducing a Liberal Budget,',
and that " no satisfactory adjustment can be expected
from him." We judged as much from the studied re-
serve he has continued to maintain on the subject of any
remedial measures; but what will the country say to a
Tory Budget based on the Vansittart and Goulburn
principles of humbug and chicanery ? A very few weeks
will suffice to solve this momentous problem. Our Con-
temporary truly adds, that " Parliament cannot possibly
postpone a discussion on the corn question till February.''
The Post, in an article on the subject of the Church,
remarks as follows :—" We do not wish to deny or to
disparage the exertions of Christian teachers who are
without the pale of the Church of England ; but as
practical and patient observers of what goes on in the
business of life, we are unable to have confidence in the
good effect upon the social community of their unautho-
rised superintendence." The reasoning of this is, that.
none are capable of instructing, elevating. and refining
the character of the people, but those who are strictly
orthodox members of the Church of England. All with-
out the pale of the Establishment must necessarily be
ignorant pretenders, whose lessons will do more harm
than good. Verily, this is being more orthodox than
Episcopacy itself !
—• We quote the following from the Leeds Times:—
" Lord Egerton's yeomanry scheme is put by for the pre-
sent. If this weather continues, Lord Francis and many
others must set their houses in order. Their fate is sealed.
It is dreadful to contemplate the consequences of their
pig-headed pride and selfishness. They fight against
God, against the laws of the Creator."
The Dublin Evening Post says with reference to a
recent article in the Times, on the subject of Ireland :
"Let Sir Robert Peel take care—some of the armed men
may be wanted for England. To be sure, soldiers are
no answer to a clamour for food—yet the clamourers at
home may find business for the soldiers. Most sincerely
do we hope not. But it is, we must say, under correc-
tion, rather inconsiderate for the Times to menace Ire-
land with a military government, when troops may
become Absolutely necessary to preserve the peace o
Great Britain."
The Cambrian thus remarks on the rumour that
the Tories intend to make material alterations in the
New Poor-law :—" We own that we cannot believe in
the rumoured intentions of the Tories to tamper with
this law. On the hustings and for electioneering pur-
poses, a few Ultras of the party may make a show of
great commiseration for the poor, and of a determina-
tion to restore the old system ; but Peel and the mag-
nates must pause ere they saddle their estates with the
Old katag. Tligy will have enough to do in the trying
times that are at hand."
—The Scotsman observes, in an article suggetted by the
present state of the country :—" A very little reflection
indeed will show that the crisis, for the country, is only
now beginning, and that unless the Tory reign shall be
brief, that crisis is fraught with the most serious alarm
to the peace and prosperity, if not also to the freedom of
the empire. Already something of the gloom of 1830
begins to loom again over the political horizon ; and can
that memorable era be already forgotten."
'the Lieerpool Journal, speculating on Sir
Peel;S probable eontse of policy, remarks as follows :
" Is Sir Robert reefs grand panacea to be merely a fol-
lowing out of the Quarterly lieeicidg advice to raze half
the large towns in the kingdom to the ground, and dis-
perse the population over the rural districts ? If so,
we may congratulate the squirearchy on the comfortable
prospect they have before them. For the last twenty or
thirty years they have regularly been drifting off their
surplus farmers and labourers into the manufacturing
towns, where
'most of them have been absorbed, The
tide. must now be made to flow in the opposite direction."