The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

COBBETT AND PEEL.

The following is an extract from a little work by the late
William Cobbett. It was addressed to the Tory Premier of
1834-5, and will apply equally to him in 1841. Truth is un-
changeable :
" You and your party have always seemed to take it for
granted, that the Reform of the House of Commons might
have been avoided; that is proceeded from the ambition, the
greediness, the love of power, and of pelf in the Whigs ; and
that it was the Whigs who made the Reform of the Parlia-
ment, and who deluded the people into an expectation that
Reform would do them a great deal of good.
" This, Sir, was a capital error, and it has misled you all the
way through. You are very fund of talking of the ' intelli-
gence' and property' of the country. With regard to the
former, if you mean information and knowledge with regard to
civil and political rights, and with regard to the true interests
of the kingdom, the great possessors of this intelligence are to
be found amongst those who live by their labour; and r verily
believe that I could name a hundred weavers and mechanic's of
the borough of OLDIIA 31, who possess a greater portion of this
knowledge, and who are more capable of a profitable application
of it than any hundred merchants of the city of London ;
or than any hundred of those who are called country
gentlemen, the whole of whom have been too stupid to
learn anything; because too stupid to listen to any-
thing which militated against their own views, which
have tithe; been sordid in the extreme, or the effect of mere
animal pride. It was the people, the whole body of the people.
that demanded and enforced the adoption of reform ; and, if
the making of the reform had fallen into the hands of men
who thought with the people on the subject, we should now
have had a tranquil and most prosperous country, instead of
being haunted by the fears of a convulsive revolution, and the
fulfilment of all my prophecies, even to their most terrific
extent;

" Was it the despicable Whigs that produced . the Parlia-
mentary reform? What! it was they, was it, who caused the
thousands of petitions, and the meetings all over the country,
after WILLIAM the Fourth came to the throne? It was they
who really threw the country into half a convulsion, by meet-
ingskind petitions for reform ? It was they who made the
DUKE of WELLINGTON bolt out that silly speech upon the meet-
ing of Parliament, on the 26th of October, 18-31 ; it was they
who created that indignation against him which compelled the
King, out of humanity to the people of London, to rescind his
engagement to dine with his citizens there on the Lord Mayor's
day ! The DUKE is famous for shooting his bolt. He ap-
pears to think himself always in a camp. His uncalled-for
observation, that county meetings were a farce,' has
been flung in the teeth of his son, at meetings of
the county,' in which lies the estate granted him by Parlia-
ment, and which estate was, in my opinion, most unjustly
granted. Next came his equally uncalled-fur, and most insult-
ing declaration, that a House of Commons, with a major:ty in
it noesinated by Peers, by rich Commoners, and by the Trea-
sury, was the best of all possible representatives of the people;
and that, if he had to form a House of Commons. he wou!d
come as near to it as possible, though he could nut expect to
form any thing so perfectly good. Next, we had his gratui-
tous support of the Dead-Body Bill ; and now, at last, we
have his voluntary, uncalled-for, support of the Poor-law Bill,
and his question to MELnoiniNE whether it was his intention to
introduce a rural police ; and we have your votes for the Poor-
law Bill, and your well-known predilection for the Bourbon-
like police. Marplots all the way through; apd you come to
the peformance of your great and prodigious task, with all
the heavy weight of these undeniable facts against you."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)
LONDON, Auc. 30.—Wind this day at noon S.W.
DEAL, AUG.S.W., light.-29, S. to S. S.W.,
light.—Arrived the Jane, Wildern, from Brazils;
Newcastle to Jamaica. Arrived from the River the Ganges,
for the River Gambia; Oroniocto, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick; Windsor, Calcutta; Ant, Quebec. Arrived from the
River and sailed the Douglas, from Montreal ; Queen, Mira-
michi ' • Wigeon, Port Phillip; Kate Nickelby, Rio Janiero ;
her Majesty's ship Pique, westward ; Ida, Genoa ; Paramanbo,
Surinam ; Lady Wood, Prince Edward's Island ; Kent, South
Seas.

LIVERPOOL, Auc. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Colonist,
Doswell, for St. Thomas's; Acadia (steaner), Boston, left
16th, and Halifax, 18th ; Robert A. Parke, Quebec; Five
Sisters, Montreal ; Emily, Plumer, Picton; Crescent, Ca-
diz. Sailed the Kaliska, Manger, for Honduras ; packet La
Guayra, Alexandria; Wise, and Mersey, Montreal; Cata-
rique, Clyde, and Jamaica, Quebec ; Josephine, and William
Ripppn, Richibucto ; Plorris..Palermo; Alpha, onte Video ;
Lord Ravensworth, Miramichi ; Betsey, Constantinople ; Mar-
garet, Messina ; Glendower and Echo, New York ; Parthe-
non, and Middlesex, Boston ; Howard, Savannah ; Liverpool,
St. John's, New Brunswick ; Cornish Diamond, Leghorn ;
Nova Feliz, Azoes ; Spbvnx, Malta.
CROOKrIAVEN, Atm. :25.—The William Hinch, from Hali-
fax, got into Ilimlough Bay, between the Mizen and Sheep's
Heads, this morning, during a fog. She is still holding to her
anchors, and there are hopes of her being got off, if the wea-
ther remains moderate.

PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 28.—Wind W.N.W. 29.—Wind
.S.W. to W.N.W.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Pique, Lieut.
Eastai ; Baron of Bramber, from Leghorn. Arrived off, the
Parrock Hall, Parsons, China; Ontario, New York.
BRIGHTON, AUG. 28.—Arrived off, the Forester, M'Arthur,
from Tobago; Priscilla, Brazils for Haraburgh ; Jacobus,
Rotterdam, for Batavia.

STANGATE CREEK, Auc. 27.—Arrived the Blackaller,
Watson, from Smyrna.
DOVER, Auc. 29 —Arrived off, the Oliver Van Nord, Van
Scoss, Java for Amsterdam.

SOUTHAMPTON, Auu. 28.—Sailed Royal Tar, Gibraltar.
COWES, AUG. 29.—Sailed the Armadillo, for New York.
WEYMOUTH, AUG. 29. —Arrived the George Wellsford,
From Quebec.

OFF SALCOMBE, Auc. 27.—St. Ann's, Retalliek, Quebec.
FLYmouru, A uG. 29.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Ber-
nard, for Quebec; George Cumming, Sierra: Leone.
FALMOUTH, Af:g. 28.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Skip-
ton, Place, from Odet,..a ; Montrose (steamer), Gibraltar,
left the 19th, Cadiz 20th, Lisbon 23d, Oporto '24th, Vigo
:25th ; Palermo, Clyde, and sailed for Palermo. Sailed the
Mary, Young, for Mil , Ipswich (steamer), Jamaica; Mon-
trow (steamer), Southton.
BRISTOL, AUG. 29 —Arrived the Fanny Palmer, from
Smyrna, - Jane, Hardy, Montreal. sailed the Cosmo. for
New York ; British Queen, Quebec ; Rival, Messina ; Camp-
bell, Newfoundland ; Bolivar and Rowena, Quebec ; William
Ilannington, Miramichi ; Orator, Portsmouth, New South
Wales.

GLOUCESTER, AUG. 28.—Arrived Eliza, Wells, Miramichi
SwAsszA, Aua. 28.—Arrived the Sumatra, Harvey, from
Cuba; Pilot, Peterson, Valparaiso.
Hum., AUG. 26.—Wind S. W. by W.—Arrived the Cove,
Roberts, from Quebec.
YARMOUTH ROADS, Atm. 26.—Arrived Jubilee, Quebec.