The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-02 00:00:00

our correspondent, by scrutinizing motives, nor analyse
the causes of her Alajesty's affliction, to ascertain the
relative amount of tears shed for her country's affliction
and her own, though we know the patriotism of her
Majesty would not wane in the investigation. It is
sufficient to know that the feelings of the Sovereign on
the accession of a Tory Ministry, not only from public,
but personal consideration, are in unison with those of
the people. It is in such circumstances that the Sove-
reign's name becomes truly " a tower of strength." It
is a " tower" which should be immediately fortified by
a national demonstration before the enemy become
strengthened in its possession. Not a moment is to be
lost. An active organization of all classes of honest Re-
formers should be immediately set on foot.
GLOBE.—It is fortunate for the Tories, that on com-
ing into power they find the country in a state of order
and tranquillity which many former years of their own
misrule had rendered exceedingly rare, until the acces-
sion of a Liberal Government, by making proper conces-
sions to public opinion, has removed all excuse for ex-
travagant demands by satisfying those which had justice
for their foundation, and reason for their advo-
cate. It will not be denied that the late Minis-
try leaves our domestic policy in a tranquil, if not
in a prosperous, state ; and while we claim
for the Liberals the merit of the freedom from any-
thing like convulsion or agitation which the people
at this moment display, we unreservedly charge upon
the obstructive policy of Toryism a great share of the
distress which afflicts a considerable portion of the com-
munity. While the Whig Government has kept the
people obedient to the laws, the Conservative Opposi-
tion has deprived the mass of the population of the bene-
fit that would most probably have arisen from the mea-
sures proposed by the late Cabinet ; and if the country
is tranquil under the disappointment it has sustained,
the cause is not to be found in the overthrow of its
friends, but in the expectation of receiving relief, how-
ever reluctantly granted, from the more powerful hand
of its enemies. In plainer language, the starving mil-
lions of our population, who show no symptoms o vio-
lent excitement at the accession of the Tories, are calm
and unmoved only because they hope, from the policy
and fears of the Conservative body, such a revision of
the Corn-laws as never would have been conceded from
the same quarter on any nobler or wiser principle.
The leaders of the Tory . party in Parliament, and
their principal organs among the press, have declared
that something must be done. The Times has threat-
ened to cast off Sir Robert Peel, if he does not at least
moderate the burdens that press on food ; and the new
Premier himself has declined the support of all who
require the inviolability of the Corn-laws as the price
he must pay for obtaining it. As far, then, as the lan-
guage of himself and his principal journals can bind
him, the new Premier is pledged to do something ; and
it is to know what that " something" will turn out to
be, that the people are waiting—in an attitude of repose,
it is true, but of the most intense and anxious interest.
STANDARD.--The spirit of the following passage of
Sir Robert Peel's speech of Friday night is that which
ought at present to animate all Conservatives :—" I
have been opposed to the Hon. Gentlemen opposite for
a period, with a short interval of nearly ten years.
I have attempted to conduct that opposition—
reconciling, at the same time, the frank ex-
position of my opinions, and the open and direct
condemnation of their measures, with the absence of
every expression of an acrimonious nature—the absence of
every feeling betraying in the least degree any personal
hostility. Placed in that situation in the opposition
where some latitude is necessarily allowed, I have in this
way endeavoured to discharge the duties imposed upon me;
and it certainly is not upon this occasion, when, accord-
ing to the apparent feeling of the House, that opposition is
likely to be attended with success—it is not, ,I say, upon
this occasion, that I shall allow myself to be betrayed into a
course different from that which I have hitherto pursued."
They who have had to fight the Conservative battle
in the ranks' carefully as it was their duty to guard
themselves from all feelings of a personal na-
ture, cannot claim the praise of having always ab-
stained from acrimonious expressions and violent hos-
tility—to them, it would be no praise ; for, as in actual
combat, the common soldier must meet blow with
blow, fierceness with fierceness—though a serene and
gentle temper always becomes a leader—so in the politi-
cal struggle, the tone of controversy on the one side must
always serve more or less as an example to the other.
But, if it has unfortunately not been in our power to
imitate the dignified equanimity and courteous demea-
nour of our great chief hitherto, there is nothing to pre-
vent our following his "example now that the battle has
been won. A certain vigour, not to call it ferocious-
ness of resistance, was necessary while the strife lasted ;
not as a mere retaliation ; mere retaliation is unmanly
and unchristian, but in order to prevent the triumph of
our principles being snatched from us. Now the same
description of resistance would not be innocent, because
the necessity for it exists no longer. The triumph of our
principles
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