The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-26 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—If the present Government possess the
,confidence of the Sovereimi, which we assume they do,
there is no violation of the spirit of the Constitution, our
opponents themselves being. judges, in their refusing to
retire even upon a vote of want of confidence ; nor in the
Sovereign's-requiring a distinct, specific ground of a " want
of confidence' motion being passed by the Commons, as
a reason for calling upon the Crown to exercise its
prerogative in dismissing them from her Councils.
George. the Third, " the best of Kings" in Tory
estimation, protected the Government in which he re-
posed confidence against a powerful coalition which
sought to destroy it. The present Ministry is opposed
°Y a coalition of monopolies, which strengthen the Op-
Position in their designs upon the Government. Why
maynot Queen Victoria adopt a similar course to that
George the Third pursued under similar circum-
stances, and refuse to dismiss her Ministers even upon
an Address from the Commons for their dismissal ?
'And why may hot the present Ministers be allowed—
Without liming it charged upon them that they " act in
variance to the spirit of the Constitution"—to bring for-
ward their whole plan of national finance before Parlia-
.raent and the country, ere they appeal to the country—
just as Mr. Pitt brought forward his India Bill" before
Parliament that the country might judge between him
bd_ his opponents, before he appealed to the country
a, dissolution of Parliament hus, even if Sir R.
rel s motion be'earried by the aid of the members who
deserted Ministers on the sugar duties, and will vote
against them on the. Corn-law question, the Right Hon.
Baronet and his impatient place-expectant adherents will
glnsin nothing by the "bold and decisive step which has filled
party with such delight. This step pol ideal resembles the
step military,
in which the soldiers "keep the step"
lyithout advancing a single inch. But if the " bold and
Oecisive step " should fail—if, by a majority, however
small the House of Commons reject the motion into
hieh Sir R. Peel has been coerced bv his followers, the
fail failure would " a heavy blow' which would not
, in the present posture of affairs, to have a stunning
*fleet upon them. Of this we have considerable hopes.
The general policy of tie Government has been emi-
laent2y approved.
,STANDARI).—The interests threatened by the
nclget are too narrowly described by the Morning Chron-
, 2C,.l4—they are not mer4ly the corn, the sugar, and the
_7?!r interests ; they are the whole agricultural interest,
mut all dependnt upon it, including all professional
bleu and all retiil traders—the whole. West Indian
ti!LI Bast _lndian interests—the whole colonial and
-"TPing interests, These are the interests with
"which the Ministers thought it prudent to declare war,
after having first, by their O'Connell connection, alienated
411 the moral and religious feeling of the nation, and, by
their Poor-law all the humbler classes. To all reflecting
9en it was in thahaving once Committed themselves
*anith the mill-owners, the Ministers must come
ns to this state of nearly universal hostility with whatever
sound and respectable in the nation ; and it was the
Yvisdoin of Sir Robert Peel to curb the impatience of his
itli.clignisrit friends, until the open declaration of waragainst
eourttry had put all who were threatened upon their
uard—to wait until men should no longer be restrained
F°lll defending themselves and the nation by the delu-
to en of
" old party connections." Again, had the blow
n struck even but a day or two earlier, Ministers
Would have escaped much of the responsibility for
abt high crime against the Constitution which they
that. 4 'e
been committing, and in which it is now plain
they intended to persevere—the retention of the
Government without the confidence of either House
91 Parliament. Had Sir Robert Teel given his notice
innediately after Ministers were defeated by a ma-
iority of 36 this day week, it might be said " Minis-
era intend to resign, and your notice is superfluous ;"
Or, " Ministers mean at once to appeal to the people by
IL dissolution, and your notice becomes an impertinent
alnd unconstitutional interference with_ - the prerogative
°f the Crown." By abstaining for a week, however,
Sir Robert Peel left :the Whig-Radical party without
these pretexts—left -them, mark after a defeat upon
the budget by a majority of thirty-six, to give notice of
their intention to continue conducting the Government
through questions of such magnitude as the New Poor-
-law Bill and the Corn-law resolutions. They cannot
/low back out of the acknowledgment of this criminal
Purpose.
COURIER.—It is not alone on the House of Parlia-
ment, but on the whole empire, that the announcement of
Sir Robert Peel that—,, upon Thursday next I shall move
a resolution to the following effect That it is the opinion
of this House that her Majesty's Government does not suf-
heently, possess the confidence of the House of Commons
to enable them to carry measures which they deem of
essential benefit to the public welfare, and that their
continuance in office ender such circumstances is at

variance with the spirit a the Constitution' "—will pro-
duce an electrical effect: " The resolution will be hailed
_ .

With acclamation wherever new Poor-law barbarisMhaS
1..), een 'established, and Bastile torture, declared in per-
inonence. It will be welcomed as the death knell of
agitation in Ireland, and the healing promise of happy
recd, cilement for the feuds by which . the Church of
Scot:a nd is. Afflicted. By every great interest of this
gfeat c-;untry, Sir Robert will be cheered on to the
(foi°".A glorious rescue it will be) of their trembling
fortun es Wont tfie palsied hands and convulsive struggleg of
an ex iring, bet desperate faetion, banded for their injury
°r deatructiOn. By-every colonial dependency of this
/41, empire, in whatever region, the news alone 'of such a
motion will be received with anxious hope, and its con-
;utnniation commemorated as the dawn of a new and a
•
righter era of prosperity. There may perhaps be one
ass of exception to the general rule ; one class which,
1!.• uidst the general rejoicing, may stand sullenly apart
PkAti all their fellows ; w© mean the class of milloivners
and. Inanufacturers who have committed themselves so
titre scrvedly and unadvisedly, for the most part, to the
few
schemes or selfish interests of comparatively a
le`Ar alitators. But we despair not of the returning
san.se of the majority of this class, when the
Lever
of ex citeoaent into which they have suffered them-
rreV to bo exasperated by a clique of persons only
mere unprincipled than ignorant, shall have abated, and
they find their best intereAs confided to the care of men
Aosrtaer
' is4u the protection of princißles under whose. long. and
alel
or . •
reign they *eve called into existence, most wisely
and mogt laygely flourished, the envy and ad-
initi eodn,f the world. •

- -AnEmoisELLE ACHEL.—This aCCOM-
?lulled actress performed on Monday for the second time the
;livaeraeetor Hermione in the Andromaque of Racine. She
2.4,4 ti.the attention of an audience mare numerous certainly,
Perhaps more fashionable, than attended any of her pre-
Ananti3s,performances. The applause elicited by her delivery of
t ce P
attention esw
breathle stressasenthusiastic. This tribute to the genius of
may be regarded, however, as less valuable than the
A T which was generally manifested by the au-
D henever :Mademoiselle Rachel was on the stage.
illeusst-DEe OF U. NIEMC EWICZ.—Tite Journal
b Is announces that Poland has just lost one of its most
nous and tried citizens in the person of Julien Ursin
yo hTeewicz, venerable old man, 84 years of age. from his
continues the Debats, he was distinguished for his
nuncios in li.tevature. 1-le was one of the most eminent
ut. eis a the reot Constituent Diet of 1791. Aide-de-camp
ion 'seiusko, woe-need and captured by his side, he suffered a
in rated
bee!), confinement in the dungeons of St. Petersburgh. Having
t,ni set at liberty at the accession of the Emperor Paul, he
to America with Kosciusko, the old companion
xiourrrns Wa.hington, who granted those exiles an ho-
ZPable hospitality. Thong!: a cultivator and American
oeti he hastened, in 1807, to serve his native country, for
that a new era had commenced, and whose vicissitudes from
rz period he constantly shared. As secretary and member of
member of the Council of Public Instruction, Presi-
of the Society of the Friends of the Sciences, and lat-
te2:l cppointed to a mission to England in 1831, he was in-
a':(l v
2ani,ly devoted to his country. His literary works in prose
to cr tat' were a continual echo of the events which occurred
Poland, and in which he had performed so distinguished
Part
skti • .e news of his death will cause a considerable seri-
,. " erous di
024 throuh-hout Poland. His numerous friends in France,
~,4eat Britain, and America, will regret one whose amiable and
4'quaitited "
.•ition endeared him to all with whom he was
eu qc •
k••:.; HE CRoPs.—The orchards of this county,
,Avhieh
-; a fortnight ago presented the most luxuriant pro
416 ei.L.se, have suffered a blight, which it is feared will very
‘4r,.1-7:lertibly diminish the crop. The wheats generally
-4' well, the dry lands, of course, having the most fa-
not e The long continued moisture has
is llot been ppeall!nc heavy,wet soils, of which there
congenial to the
• „- large breadth in this county, consequently the plant
-Pon the ground ; nevertheless, a propitious season
produce a fine east. The ho biases are, all shoot-
-1,1'1\9; the poles, and mostly betoken vigorous health,
41): warmth is now indispensable to their progress. Ow-
'. 11111,g 10 the failure last year, many hop-yards have been
Lii,„l.° Iva down. The pastures, perhaps, never
,promised
anti vier award ; should the remainder of this month
,watil Jane be fine, the hay harvest will be a most abund-
fie,"o„t,ene:t. The great demand for, live stock at our fair
iri Ine4fAy, may doubtless be, attributed to the plenti-
:Liuth'ess of. ;Tess. On 'the whole the country exhibits a
,1‘
lc want ;Picture, in wkich is a bright prospect that
13.11.ntY will crown the labours of the husbandman.—
ereford Times.
xi !GRA TION.---On the 3J instant the schooner
alts
senger sailed from Aberystwyth -ith upwards of eight
*migrants for United States; most of whom were small
farmers • the

and their families, from the neighbor hood of Llan-
grwYddon.—St/urian.
,
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.--The total receipts from
the several railroads in England and Scotland (29 in number)
4.f.,, for the last week—that is to say up to the date to which
were
"4
returns are calculated, were '71,6321. ; of this there were
a:
1, ca 13,745/. for merchandise, and 57,887/. for passengers, parcels,
rriages, horses, and mails. The greatest receipts appear to
17, have been taken by the following railways :-.-London and Bir-
/ nlinghatn, 16,526/. ; Great Western, 8,165/. ; Grand Junction,
11'69M ; Liverpool and Manchester, 4.551/. • Manchester and
-eeds 3,0924 ; North Midland, 3,569/. ; and the London and
South Western, 5,500/.
DR. CIIALNIERS'S OPINION ON THE CORN-
t.t.ws. —ln a note to his work on Political Economy, he says-
-1 'or the sake of its moral 13,nefit, we know no ttAievement
snore, earnestly desirable than that of a free corn trade, There
Is not a more fertile topic of clamour and burning discon-
tent all over the land, and, were it but effectually set at
vest, ‘vo are aware of nothing which might serve mote to
sv.'eefen ;the breath of British society." And again, after
divngeloquence and ingenuity on vihat may proba-
.. bly Le the ,ultimate effect of the abolition of the Corn-laws
k- on the interes.t of landlords, and on the industry and prospe-
t., city of the country, and showing that the loss to the landowner
f,,. is ranch exaggera.ted, he proceeds to say—" Yet in the face of
i. all this uncertainty,. we feel no hesitation in affirming, both
e' the expediency anti the rightness of a free trade in corn."
aol *When considering the' probable effect on revenue, he says,
14., "We should not object to a slight duty, such as five shillings a
, quarter, on imported corn, to be remitted only in "I es of
scarcity ;" and finally, in winding up his remarks on thye whole
' .4;ilituatter, he says, that the real good. the comfort and prosperity
Anienf the people, the proper erld of all legislation, is less dependent
"4111 oil material resources than on moral restraints and right
Ire. I:principles."
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HURRICANE.-- About one o'clock on Saturday
•-ialremendous hurricane came en with heavy claps of thunder
and vivid flashes of lightning, the rain and hail descending in
-torrents, but whichlasted a very short time.—lpswich Express.