The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-07 00:00:00

TEE SEIN, LONDON, MOND AN, JUNE 7, 1841.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

GLOBE.—This Number One Resolution then has
been passed on something like false pretences. Sir
Robert Peel would have us believe he had felt no right
to infer that Ministers would consider any extraordinary
decision necessary, after their defeat upon the sugar du-
ties. Undoubtedly, on that supposition, the Number One
Resolution might be called for ; or rather a stronger
resolution would have been better and more Consti-
tutional. But does it not betray the weakness of the
grounds on which this has been passed, that Sir R. Peel
was reduced to justify it by alleging such a false sup-
position ? Could the Right Honourable Baronet lay
his hand on his left waistcoat pocket, and say that
he entertained that supposition a single moment ?
And yet it was necessary to press that supposition
into his service, in order to make out his " con-
stitutional" case for the resignation of Ministers.
Mr. C. Buller, in his able and acute speech, distin-
guished justly between the position of Ministers before
and since their late measures. That the confidence of
a house where so many class interests are represented,
and where the general interest, on the subjects in ques-
tion, is not strong enough to compete with them, has
been lost by Ministers—is indubitable ; though their
opponents' triumph is ominously narrowed to num-
ber one. But that loss might well be antici-
pated, and there is an appeal from it. The Number One
Resolution could have no real force, unless Ministers
had intended to decline that appeal. Then, of course,
it would have been " unconstitutional" to think of re-
maining in office ; and that is the absurd supposition
Sir Robert Peel has stooped to put forward to defend
a proposition which can only escape from truism into
falsehood.

COURlER.—Resignation is put off—dissolution is
postponed—Corn-laws are shelved or deferred—New
Poor-law further sufferance Bill delayed—the public ser-
vice altogether impeded, procrastinated, or fractionally
dealt with—in order that Lord John may take time to
consider his course and prepare his speech. Will that
speech, miraculous though it be, save number one ? Will
their own continuous cackle save the Ministry, as the Ca-
pitol was once preserved by the terrified twaddlers of
that day ? History is a great repeater of itself, but the
age of miracles is past. Great must be the skill, pro-
fuse the expenditure of labour—
hic labor, hoc opus est—
which shall succeed in writing off, in blotting out for a
day, that fatal number one now registered in the pon-
derous tomes of Parliament, and consigned for ever to
the pages of history. Number one has been the charmed
spell of thought, word, and deed, in Ministerial exist-
ence ; but the charm is broken, and by number one that
existence is doomed. The bell that tolled for the division
was the funeral knell of the Administration. Black
Monday will tell us all about it.
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle cheers its
patrons with the consoling reflection that matters might
have been worse, for that a much more considerable ma-
jority was anticipated in the first instance against them.
There is no doubt of the fact ; but lookini, at the virtual
expression of a want of confidenea which such men as
Lord Worsley, Mr. Handley, Dr. Lushington, Mr. Ing-
ham, and people " of that ilk," had already recorded,
looking, moreover, at the avowed determination of
those Radical Members of the House who have so re-
peatedly affirmed the proposition in issue, but who in
this, as in every similar emergency, have invariably
supported her Majesty's Government (to say nothing of
the disproportioned price which Ministers are known
to have bidden for a portion of that support ;)
there can be no pretext for dissatisfaction at
such a result. Having been deserted by the volantes
squadrone, as Mr. Colquhoun calls them, including the
whole band of " mercenaries " and apostates, the phalanx
of Sir R. Peel's supporters on a question which was
to force Ministers from office was necessarily reduced ;
but how different is his majority in character and
consistency from the motley assemblage who have
waived their conflicting opinions• for the purpose of
keeping in office a Government with whom many of them
have hardly an opinion on any subject in common. The
majority of Sir Robert Peel is, on the other hand, firm and
united, and animated, on all vital questions, by the same
mind and disposition.

G. T. F. SMITH'S << PARLIAMENT-
ARY PREDICTIONS," FOR THE SESSION 1841.
—Published in January last.
(From the Cheltenham Examiner.)
PREDICTIONS FOR JUNE.

" June Ist to the 7th or Bth will produce clamours,
political agitation, and excitement : the Government
meet with much opposition, and some one of them may
change his place. Notwithstanding this, her Majesty's
confidence appears to have its due weight in their sup-
port.—How far the introduction of the " Corn-laws and
the consequence of that measure, together with the steps
her Majesty may take in support of Ministers under the
crisis, to which this and my subsequent remarks allude,
time will reveal ; in the event of their defeat, little doubt
remains but that in support of Ministers her Majesty
will dissolve the Parliament, which event would, I sub-
mit, directly coincide with the effect ascribed to the po-
litical influence pending in the month of June, to the
several dates therein named.

" June 15th and 16th, or near then, there will be
much controversy, together with seditious proceedings.
The Government are in contest upon an affair of Na-
tional interest, but the struggle they have to contend
with will leave them victorious. Although their posi-
tion be embarrassing, they will be supported by her Ma-
jesty, whose interests and satisfaction form a strong
link in the proceedings."—Herein the words of the pre-
diction are, " their position will be embarrassing," but that
Ministers will, under the crisis, be supported by her Ma-
jesty ; now the political probabilities are, at the time I
write, that on Ministers being defeated on the Corn-
laws, the Queen will dissolve the Parliament, in con-
sequence of the embarrassment which must result from
defeat alone ; thus we have an event of great "National
interest," and the " embarrassment of Ministers," to-
gether with the struggle and contest previous to the Par-
liament being neutralized, predicted for the early part of
June.

" Again, June 19th and 20th, the positions indicate
mutinies and commotion ; popular stirs and attacks
either upon Royalty or the Government. The period
from the 15th to the 20th appears a conflicting one;
and certainly an active and stirring scene in the arena
of politics ; but I conceive the balance will be in favour
of Ministers ; or there will be alternate advantages and
Compromise."—Note the elections.

'what think you, reader, do the political elements of
the day bear any comparison with the minute details of
my Predieflons ? or is the lightness of sceptical opi-
nions, when opposed to such a mass of evidence, more
deserving of your choice ? There is nothing equivocal,
nothing but prospectiveinstances to decide upon, and
were published in January last. Politicians were im-
pressed with the belief that Ministers would resign at
the commencement of the Session ; my principal Pre-
diction was, "'No dissolution of the Ministry during the
Session ;" therefore should the Parliament be dissolved,
there will be an end of the present Session, and my
principal Prediction, namely, "No dissolution of the
Ministry," borne out to the letter.
Your obedient servant,
5, Pittville-street, Cheltenham, G. T. F. SMITH.

METROPOLITAN IMPROVE-
MENTS.

Some surprise, we understand, has been expressed, and
it may be very naturally so, at the apparently slow pro-
gress of the projected metropolitan improvements, Parlia-
ment, it is alleged, having given the necessary powers as
to some of these by an Act of last session. The improve-
ments then sanctioned, we have on former occasions ap-
prised our readers, contemplated the opening of very en-
larged and direct thoroughfares between Oxford-street
and Holborn, the Strand (opposite toWaterloo-bridge) and
Bloomsbury, and Spitalfields through Whitechapel to the
India Docks. To these others have been added by an Act
of the present session, comprising the long desired open-
ing from Piccadilly into Long-acre, through Leicester-
square ; an opening from Farringdon-street to Clerken-
well ; another from Southwark to Westminster-bridge ;
and a fourth from Westminster Abbey, westward, in the
direction of Grosvenor-place.
The first four of these improvements comprise the
whole of which the execution depends immediately upon
the Government, but the fund out of which they are to
be effected is the same in every case, viz., the sum to be
raised upon the credit of the coal duties, which, to those
,-vho are at all conversant with the subject, it is known
are Already pledged for nearly fifteen years to come.
By a recent act, Parliament has granted an extension of
these .unties for four years, and the unpledged reversion
is consic:ered (and has been reported by a select commit-
tee of the House of Commons) to be sufficient security
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and remote, and the disadvantages
in the market under such
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put as
other alternative presented by' Pa
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ments have accordingly been
made an7t, and
th the Commis-
sioners for the issue of Exchequer Bills, which the
requisite funds will be supplied from time to Ole—that
is, to the extent for which the security given by lair will
be available.

It is possible that, in negotiating with thq owners of
property to so large an extent, the demand may at times
anticipate the supply. It would undoubtedly be better
could it be otherwise, and with management it may
yet be so. But this it is, we learn, which, in jus-
tice especially to the claimants, has rendered it
necessary hitherto to proceed with caution, and
to confine the proceedings up to the present
period to communications with the numerous parties for
obtaining the particulars of their respective claims, and
proposing to them an equitable and inexpensive mode of
settlement, viz. a reference to arbitration. By the ar-
rangements now entered into, funds, we are informed,
will be available at Midsummer next, when the public
may hope to see the four principal lines, at least, in tiro-
greys.—Sunday paper.

We understand, from authority upon which we
can most implicitly rely, that the agents of the Carlton Club
have organised a gang who are to be well paid for hissing and
hooting Lord Melbourne on his appearance at Ascot. The
whole thing is regularly arranged ; and the gang, already under
pay, commenced their proceedings on Friday night by follow-
ing Sir Robert Peel, as a body-guard, to his house after the
debate. There are honourable men who may deem such a pro-
ceeding as this almost impossible; but the men who so think must
have omitted to read the report of a trial which appeared in the
Observer about three or four weeks back, and which proved that
the agent of a Tory candidate had engaged an organized gang
of fellows, who were, among other duties, to knock down every
man who opposed their employer, the Tory candidate. Well do
we know that this proceeding of the Tories is not directed
against Lord Melbourne personally, for fully are they convinced
that contempt is the only feeling which this wretched expedient
of the Carlton runners could excite in his mind. N. o ! The
aim of these factious partizans is to make an impres.ion on the
Queen's mind of the unpopularity of her Majesty's Govern-
ment ; avid this, too, at a moment when the whole country is
haling with loud acclaim the announcement of their measures
forits relief.— Observer.