The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Herald is deliiihtedvriiitthe new Minis-
terial appointments, as will be seen by the following
passage :—" The appointments already made carry with
them every promise of stability, permanency, and public
concurrence and sanction. From Lord Ellenborough
we- shall be justified in looking for the speedy establkh-
meat, in our Indian dominions of a less dangerous, less
ambitious, and less encroaching policy than that which
has placed such vast interests in jeopardy for the
costly indulgence of a spirit of territorial ag-
grandizement. In Lord Lyndhurst we may safely
look fir all the learning, uprightness and dignity,
that can adorn the highest judicial station ; in
the Cabinet or on the Woolsack—for all the in-
tellectual power, the nervous eloquence, and perspicuous
statement which can give effect to the most enlightened
views of political wisdom, and beneficent legislation."—
The allusion to the " uprightness" of Lord Lyndhurst,
who has been jumping "Jim Crow" throughout the best
part of his political life, is a high joke; and not less ab-
surd is the complimentary reference to " mme elephant"
Ellenborough. As for the Ministerial appointments car
rying with them every promise of stability, they carry
with them nothing but a promise of discord and disunion.
The Post congratulates the country on the accession of
the Tories to office in these terms :—" We have now a
Government of sufficient strength to carry into effect
what it determines upon, without the help of agita-
tion,' previously got up by the violent language of news-
paper partisans, or the rabid ravings of itinerant lec-
turers. Whatever may be known, then, of the general
principles of the new Government, and of the probable
scope and tendency of its measures, no very specific in-
formation can be expected, until it is necessarily brought
forward in the official form. We shall now have an
actual Government, and not a scramble of all sorts of
powers Pnd influences, regular and irregular, resolving
themselves into an eccentric course of political expe-
tirtiehts,"

---Vetinote the following from the Chronich :—" We
hope that the rule td the 'Tories will soon be at an end.
For much as we may consider a modification of our
tariff to be imperiously called for, in order to save the
best interests of the country, we also feel the value and
the importance of such a modification being effected,
hot by a sullen and unfavourable Administaation, but
by one hearty toivartis its support. The Tories
have ousted the Whigs tin the question ; but if the
Tories take up the Whig question of Commercial
Reform, they at once sin against public faith and
morality, and also rouse the country gentlemen."—
The great objection to be urged against the new Admi-
nistration is, that whatever reforms it undertakes, it will
undertake in a stillen and reluctant spirit. It will not go
cordially or strenuOttsly to Work ~but will do no more
than it can possbly help. Every Merril will have to be
wrung from it—every concession it makes to public feel-
ing, will be made with a wry face, as if it were swallow-
ing so much physic. In a word, the Ministry can only
be liberal in the enlarged sense of the term, by sacrific-
ing all consistency.
-The Times is by no means so positive on the subject
of the honest intentions of the Peel Cabinet, as It was
Ohne days since. Instead of stating it broadly as a
fact, it now contents itself with a modest 113pe, that the
Ministerial policy will be " a just and humane one."
What, is; there a screw loose already ? Has our Con-
temporary heard it whispered that the Tories are likely
to stick firm to their old creed, and scout all substantial
Reform as an absurdity ? We feel strongly disposed to think
so, or otherwise the Times would scarcely have ventured
to indulge in these somewhat distrustful observations:—
" It now appears as certain as anything human can be,
that the Administration of Sir Robert Peel will experi-
ence no obstacle either in the Court or in the Legisla-
ture ; but will be enabled, calmly and at ease, to de-
velope its entire policy. May that policy be a just, an
humane, a truly Conservative one ! -For we can hardly
express our sense of the calamity which would befall the
country should the Ministry now about to assume the
Government disappoint the hopes which the people have
beets led to form..