The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-21 00:00:00

THE _DUKE •OF—WELLINGTON.
We are happy to learn, and so will the public
be, from the Tory Journals, that the Duke of
WELLINGTON is daily getting a great deal better ;
and we shouZ be still more happy if the Tory
Journals were not so habitually given to make false
statements to serve a party purpose, as to make us
read nearly all which they say the back way,
as witches recite their prayers. Their statements
are not confirmed by our information. His Grace
has somewhat recovered, we learn, from his severe
attack, but it was so severe as to cause the greatest
alarm to all his friends and servants ; and so severe
as yet to leave many doubts of the result. The
Duke was seized, we understand, with paralysis,
affecting, we believe, the greater part of one side ;
and, at his time of life, exposed as he has been to
much fatigue in various climates, there is much
more to fear than to hope from its consequences.

The Morning Post yesterday again assailed her
MAJESTY, but the attack was made through
Prince ALBERT. From some accident or mis-
understanding the PRINCE was not ready to re-
ceive the deputation of the House of Commons
which waited on him on Tuesday with the Message
of Congratulation. This was a lamentable mis-
chance, almost as much to be deplored as an earth-
quake or a short harvest. It might, however, have
happened merely from the PRINCE not being fami-
liar with our language, or from his engagements
being at once numerous and uncertain ; but it
surely could not have been intended to insult the
House of Commons. The Morning Post is quite
sure that it was so intended. If our Contemporary,
who assumes to know so much, would ascei d a
little beyond the porters of the Clubs or the lacqueys
of the Members-4 he would, as he continually
gives us to understand he can, consult the heads
of his party—if he would ask Lord ASHLEY or Sir
GEORGE CLERK, who formed part of the deputa-
tion, lie would, no doubt, learn that the PRINCE
made an ample and satisfactory apology for the mis-
take or mischance of the preceding day, and that
those Tories, instead of supposing that any insult
was intended to the House, were fully convinced
that the PRINCE was not at all to blame, and were
satisfied, not to say charmed, by his apology.
What is gathered from eaves-dropping chamber-
women or door-porters suffices for an attack on her
MAJESTY to that Journal which, not long ago, al-
most insinuated a charge of murder against the
QUEEN, because one of her serving-ladies died of
an old liver complaint.
The Journals which employ these improper arts
are very loud in their complaints of the Socialists
and the tyrant majority of the House of Commons.
But we venture to doubt whether the Socialist doc-
trines, carried out to the utmost consequences im-
puted to them by Mr. OWEN'S adversaries, or
the tyrant majority of the Commons, can ever
equal the wickedness and the tyranny of the Tory
Press. To deprive her MAJESTY of public esteem
by villanous lies is not merely to expose the Crown
to degradation, it is, in these times, to endanger
the QUEEN'S life. Society slumbers on the bed of
a furious volcano, in which Chartism, priestcraft,
fanaticism, intolerance, and unjust legalism, are
struggling for the mastery. How it may explode,
no man yet can tell, but the explosion seems cer- •
Win ; and if the efforts of the Tories to bring odium
on the QUEEN should be successful, her fate may
be most disastrous. To see them, day after day,
on the slightest occasion, or on no occasion at all,
hunting down that young lady with all the savage-
ness of bloodhounds, and all the while pretending
the utmost loyalty and devotion, is one of the most
disgusting spectacles of ferocity, united with hy-
pocrisy, that. has ever fallen under our notice. We
defy Socialism to produce a more revolting spectacle
than this offspring of Protestant bigotry I
Again, as to tyranny. The House of Commons
only pretends to exert a power over the bodies of
those who offend it, but the Tory Journals tyran-
nise over the. mind. They trample truth under
their feet : they crucify principle. The Great
Apostate, or as one of its own Correspondents yes-
terday called it, the Universal Journal, makes its
gullible readers believe one thing one day, and the
contrary another, and tyrannizes over their mental
faculties far worse than ever the SULTAN tyran-
nized over his most devoted slaves. Imitating this
Universal Despot, sundry lesser Tory Journals, like
Turkish Pachas, gathering by all kinds of cruelty
and exaction the tribute for their head tyrants, tor-
ture truth and principle in the same manner as the
Arch Apostate, and exercise a general and most ar-
bitrary tyranny over words. Disregarding truth,
justice, and charity, the Tory Press at once crushes
and enslaves the minds of its believers and dupes. It
feeds them with gross calumnies, panders to their
low appetites for slander and scandal,—one day
assailing the Socialists, the next the QUEEN,--...
one day misrepresenting the representatives of
the people, and next the unrepresented people
themselves, till Tory readers and Tory journal-
ists, the seducers and the seduced, lose all appetite
for truth, and live on falsehood.

The Earl of MINTo announced in the House
of Lords last night, that Rear-Admiral ELLIOTT,
who now commands at the Cape of Good Hope, is
to take the command in India, vacant by the death
of Sir FREDERICK MAITLAND. According to
our knowledge, there is an instant necessity for' the
presence in India of some naval officer of talent,
reputitiOu, and energy. Admiral ELLIOTT may
possess all these qualities, but he cannot reach
India so soon by several weeks as an Admiral sent
over-land. It will take nearly two months to con-
vey to Admiral Et.r.toTT, at the Cape of Good •
Hope, the orders to proceed to India. After he
receives the orders, some time will necessarily be
taken up in preparation, and it is nearly impossible
that he can reach Calcutta in less than three
months from the time the orders are sent from
England. Now there are many gallant unem-
ployed Admirals who would be willing and ready,
we are sure, to start for that command, if appointed
to it, it one week. In forty days after leaving
London, posting through France, steaming to
Alexandria, crossing the Isthmus of Suez, and
again steaming to Bombay, lie might asstane the
command in India, and so save at least forty clays.
We know not what policy is to he followed in re-
spect to the Chinese, but we presume that it is to
be warlike and vigorous. If so, the sooner the
better. India has immense resources—they
are all under our command ; and an actin e
Admiral with suitable officers, on the spot,
would in forty days do much towards preparing
an armament to be ready to act when the
havesquadron
waar with cli
arrives from
.Enoland. If, then, we are
tona and if the arrangement
mentioned last night by'
Earl MINTO be not car-
ried into effect, we humbly venture to suguest that
an active, intelligent, en l r
teri *•- a Admiral, and
suitable officers, should be despatchedisn overland to
take the place of the deceased Sir F. MAITLAND,
oct
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beg as not casting any re-

unfavourable to the Bill, but that what a Revenue Board
might not judge proper, a more enlarged consideration
would justify. The Report for the Customs turned
very much on the supposed facilities the inland ware-
houses would give to smuggling, and to publish that
would be a lecture on smuggling by those most qualified
to teach it.
Lord ASHBURTON made one of his usual—that is,
see-saw—speeches, so far as it could be understood.
The Noble Lord puzzles the reporters as much by re-
fining over much and by his contradictions, as by his
low voice and perplexed delivery.
Viscount MELBOURNE opposed the motion, as mak-
ing the returns would destroy confidence. The Noble
Viscount corrected a misapprehension which had gone
abroad of what he had formerly said as to the Revenue.
He had then admitted that the expenditure of the
country was increasing, owing to many schemes sug-
gested for the public good, but he had not stated that
the country would find any difficulty in meeting its
expenses. On the contrary, he saw no symptom of
decrease in the power of the country.
Lord MONTEAGLE said that the same motion had
been made in the House of Commons, and withdrawn,
Viscount STRANGFoun withdrew his motion.
The House adjourned.
The Commons did not make a House.