The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Post, speculating on the household ap-
pointments, says :—" With respect to the high offices
of her Majesty's household we are enabled positively to
assert that no definitive arrangement has yet been made.
In this department the personal wishes of her Majesty
will be, as they ought to be, paramount to every other
consideration."—The Tory tone is very much lowered
now, to what it was when the faction last grasped at
power some five or six years ago. Then, nothing
would suit their high notions of authority, but her Ma-
jesty's consenting to discard all her old friends, whether
she were averse to the sacrifice or not ; now " her per-
sonal wishes are to be paramount to every other consi-
deration ! " Having failed in their attempt to bully
Royalty, the Tories, with the cringing instinct of all
bullies, have at length discovered, that the . best thing
they can do is to lower their pretensions, and practise
the soothing system. And yet their leader makes a
boast of his independence—he who—to say nothing of
this fresh proof of sycophantic servility—cannot stir a
step without hearin; the chains of the landowners con-
stantly clanging at his heels 1
In another article the Post has the following remarks :
—"ln the whole history of self-deception of party there
never has occurred anything more preposterous than the
notion of the Whigs that their policy must be adopted by
the country, and that even its opponents are emulous of
becoming its advocates. No man who raves in Bedlam
could commit greater outrages upon sense, coherence,
and probability than this. The country has been dis-
tinctly appealed to upon this Whig policy ; it has given
its decided vote of disapprobation ; and while the con-
sequences of that vote are ringing from one end of
Europe to the other, the Whigs say that their policy
must be adopted by the country, and will probably
be adopted by the Conservative leaders !!"—Why, the
leading Tories themselves do not dare, boldly
and decidedly, to impugn the Whig policy ! They carp
at it indeed, and nibble at it ; but this is the very utmost
they dare do. Will Sir Robert Peel, with Lord Ripon
in his Cabinet, venture openly to set his face against
free trade ? Will he have the assurance to declare that
there shall be no alteration in the Corn-laws ; that our
commercial system shall not be carefully considered, with
a view to its improvement ? Certainly not ; he has at
least cunning enough to see the suicidal folly of making
such decided declarations ; and so far, therefore, indi-
rectly acknowledges that the spirit of Whig policy is
sound, though some of its details may be erroneous.
His opposition to this policy has been a shabby trick—
a mere feint—throughout—every way characteristic of
the man who has played a false part throughout life ;
who is neither Whig nor Tory—" neither fish, flesh, nor
good herring"—but an obsequious waiter on the Chapter
of Accidents.

The Advertiser thus describes the New Ministry
"It is a Ministry of apostates. Its leading members—
its Ripons, its Stanleys, and its Grahams—are one and
all renegades of the rankest kind. Nor would the sobri-
ouet of the renegade Cabinet be an inappropriate name
jay %Thich to baptize this coalition medley."—And yet it
is from it Cabinet thus constituted that the Tory organs
tell us the country is to expect the greatest benefits !
" Can any good come out of Nazareth ?" Can Ireland
hope any thing from Arms-Bill and Registration-Bill
Stanley ? Or Reform from apostate Graham, or wishy-
washy Ripon ? Will Aberdeen, the avowed disciple of
Metternich, enlarge and elevate the character of our
foreign policy or the Duke of Buckingham lend his
support to a judicious alteration in the Corn-laws ? The
bare idea of such suppositions is absurd ! It is comfort-
i,.s, t. ...Slant that the cause of public morality
—on which the Times has lately been laying great stress
—will gain considerably by the accession to office of
Lord Lyndhurst, who, having no conscience of his own to
look after, will have more time to look after that of her
Majesty!
The Times loudly insists on the necessity of ruling
Ireland with a high hand. We subjoin our Contempo-
rary's remarks on this subject :—" With the strength
which a Conservative Gloverninent will possess in both
Houses of the Legislature, we are persuaded that it will
not hesitate to put in force the law already existing
against sedition; or, if that be insufficient, to call upon
Parliament for such further enactments as shall effec-
tually stop the inflammatory harangues of the mischief-
mongers. This is a prevention worth a whole bureau of
violent remedies ex post facto. The waters willnot flow pure
till you stop the miscreants who poison the springs. '—
Here is a tough morselfor the Tamworth quack doctor to
digest at his leisure. But willhe take the hint thus adroitly
thrown out by the Times? Will he dare to put down
liberty of speech in Ireland, under the Jesuitical pre-
tence that it is sedition ? 'Will he refuse her equal jus-
tice with England, and then gag her if she venture on
remonstrance or agitation ? Not so, Sir Robert Peel
is the very last man to play a bold, uncompromising game.
He is as timid in the.wrong, as lie is tame in the right;
and without venturing on the bold step of absolutely
coercing Ireland, will keep her in a constant state of
fret and worry.
The Herald says, in reference to the Duke of Wel-
lington's refusal to accept office The conduct of the
Duke of Wellington in the formation of the Conserva-
tive
Cabinet has been quite characteristic of his noble
nature. His Grace's colleagues pressed on him the ac-
ceptance of the Presidency of the Council or the Foreign-
office. The Noble Duke, offering to the new Adminis-
tration all his personal assistance, and willing to under-
take the labours of leading in the House of Lords, felt
that his bodily strength and somewhat precarious health
might render his performance of official duties less regu-
lar and complete than his own high standard of perform-
ance dictated, and therefore determined not to assume
the duties of any office in which he might disappoint his
own feelings, or delay in the slightest manner public
business. Thus in every action of the Duke of Welling-
ton's life does a sense of duty to the country predominate."
—Ls it not somewhat curious that the most influential,
sagacious, and straightforward man among the Tories,
declines having anything to do with them, except as a
volunteer ?It cannot be from age or infirmity—for the
Tory organs themselves assure us that he was never
better in his life; and if he be equal to the difficult task
of defending Sir Robert Peel's policy in the House of
Lords, the duties of Office—and we presume lie was of-
fered his choice of places—cannot press very heavily on
him.

The Chronicle remarks as follows on Sir Robert Peel's
late attack on O'Connell : " This was the sort of oppor-
tunity which Peel seized for a kick at O'Connell. Reply
or retort there could be none. He had him safe, and his
own phalanx was marshalled at his back. The laughter,
the shout, the yell, were all, as he knew, awaiting his
signal. He knew it was no matter what be said, so that
it was but vituperative ; its inherent pertinence or
power would be superfluous. The power and perti-
nence were in the strength of three hundred pair of Tory
lungs. And so he laid it on, like a big bully of a boy,
with all the school round him, upon an opponent who
cannot then return blow for blow. The Tory Journals
which praise this external, seeming,. and cowardly tri-
umph, have yet a latent consciousness of its character."
The Kent Herald gives the following character of the
defunct Cabinet :—" We have no desire to write the epi-
taph of the Whig Ministry. Too oftenrtoo bitterly, have
they deceived the hopes of the Reforrners--too succes -
fully have they opposed the reform movement which at
one time, and but for their opposition, had the power to
establish the ascendancy of the popular interest. The
Whigs, with a bias occasionally towards Liberal principles
disqualify themselves by their aristocratic fastidiousness
for the possession of office ; they are best fitted for oppo-
sition where they suggest and press upon the Tories
more liberal measures than they have the courage to
propose, or the means of carrying, while themselves are
Ministers."
The Dublin Pilot thus speaks of O'Connell's late
speech in Parliament : "If we wanted evidence of its
power, we need not read the speech—we see it in the
fury it created in the chief of the faction against which
it was chiefly directed. There was something comfort-
able and consoling in seeing how it made Peel foam
with rage. What an eulogiuin on the orator to find a
man, usually as cold as if chiselled from an iceberg--
schooled and practised in systematic hypocrisy—driven
from his imperturbability—to make a bad attempt at the
fish woman."

We quote the following from the Chelmsford Chro-
nicle :—•` Th..; Right lion. Baronet has now the ball at
his feet. He is essentially the corner-stone of his party.
His great talents, his unwearied caution, his moderation,
and the faith, as we have said, of the people in his libe-
ral principles, have enabled him to raise and conduct
that party to a position to which no other political man
of the day could have led them ; and having accom-
lished this, he will do injustice to himself, and an in-
justice to the country, if he suffers his own free opinion
to be cramped, and his improvements circumscribed, by
men of less enlarged and less enlightened minds."

zotrzsr—Tit.a.nr.--cONZ2VIERCE,
The dismal state of trade experienced in most of the
manufacturing towns and districts, meets with an excep-
tion at Rawi,2lc. All hands are employed, the demand
for various articles great, and business seems to be ex-
tending.
The present price in London for the best or full-
priced" bread, is elevenpence the four-pound loaf, which
is fivepence dearer at the present minute than the same
weight of bread in Paris. This at the distance of not
more than thirty hours' post from London.

MORN/
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AGRXCULTurtAz.
The Wheat harvest is now all got in round Paris. Tha
crops of various kinds still on the ground are stated to
be in unusually good condition.

NAVAL AND ILEXIATALIZY.

Great bustle prevails at the dockyard, Sheerness.
bringing ships forward for commission. Her Majesty?*
ship Waterloo of 120 guns, as also the Dido, were Q
Wednesday taken into the fitting basin.