The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-17 00:00:00

MORNING SUN.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—It has been said that the Tories will
discuss nothing till February. It might be very conve-
nient to Sir Robert Peel to have no discussion till Febru-
ary, but we do not see how a discussion can possibly be
Avoided. Why was the late Parliament dissolved ?
That the sense of the nation might be taken on the
Budget. And how are we to ascertain the sense of the
nation ? Clearly in Parliament alone. It is not a majo-
rity on this or that which will do—it must be a majority
on the question which led to the dissolution.—
Lord John Russell, in his address to the electors
of London, declared, "as soon as the new Parlia-
ment meets, we shall take the first opportunity of
asking for a clear and decided judgment upon the
policy we have pursued." If Ministers have come
en this determination, it is not in the power of the Tories
lee avoid a discussiom. They may, indeed, avoid a dis-
,cussion till February, by postponing their intention to
attempt to obtain the Government till February; but in
no other conceivable way. No—a discussion there must
be, and a division, and the names of those who decide
for or against the Ministerial measures must be placed
before the country. The majority of Sir Robert Peel
against the Ministerial measures will be a memorable
majority. The country will have an eye on every man
a them. Between this time and February many
thousands will have fallen victims to the privations im-
posed by the corn monopoly on the industrious classes
of this country. We are about to realize a sad expe-
rience of the working of that law. With the certainty
of a late harvest and exhausted stocks, and the prospect
of a deficient crop, the working of the Corn-law'prevents
our obtaining supplies. The starring manufacturers,
the own out of all emplyment, or only partially employed,
know what that means. But it will be consolatory to
know the names of those to whom they are indebted for
the continuance of this policy.
POST.—Nothing is so likely to promote the worth
and dignity of this nation, and very greatly to further
and increase even the temporal happiness of all classes
of the people, as a restoration of the influence of the
Church of England. The people require a more inti-
mate And more affectionate paternal care than (except in
some few favoured spots) they have over them at pre-
sent, and" we see nothing so likely to afford this as the
Church. The people are greatly in want Of duly qiiali-
fied persons to guide and comfort them, and we see no
mode of providing this guidance and comforting which
can be r,iss3nably considered so safe, so just, and withal
so practicable, as a restoration of Church influence, in
order that every man may have, what the inhabitants of
souse small ei untry parishes have sires-';-, a sober, dis-
creet, well-eda zated, religious friend, to rejoice with him
when he rejoices, mourn with hia:i when he mourns,
strengthen him in the hour of his distress, teach him pru-
dence in the time of his prosperity, and, above all, keep
him ever afrktionately in mind of the last great account.
Not only is something of this sort desirable as an im-
provenee at, but the want of it makes our present state of
so.iety absolutely dangerous, and awful to contemplate.
lIMIALD. The Ministerial press, not content with
inciting popular discontent during six days of the week,
devotes the Sabbath also to the propagation of palliatives
for public disorders. The " Queen's own" journal of
yesterday is a perfect hand-book of rebellion. It is re-
grtrdless of what may be the policy of the Conservatives
when in power ; their conduct in opposition has already
'ruined the kingdom. " The country is perishing."
" The foreign demand has fallen off almost to nothing,"
—the causes we have lately shown. " The• rejection of
the Ministerial measures have cut off all chance of the
revival in the foreign trade." " The last chance was that
an abundant harvest would create a good home trade.
The chance is at an end."
"The only measures which could restore prosperity
have been lost. The only alternative by which the de-
ficiency of the revenue could be made good without new
taxes, has been rejected. The only Ministry which could
govern Ireland, without throwing itself into the arms of
the Orange faction has been driven from office. The
first step of the new Government must be to increase the
arrn.y in Ireland ; the second to impose new taxes to pay
-for it. Already the Tory press are demanding- laws and
troops to let loose upon surpliced ruffians,' and the
seven millions of Irish savagery.' Already the Tory
conclaves are deep in calculations as to the additional
revenue to be derived from repealing the greatest boon
ever given to the civilisation and social intercourse of a
country--the penny postage."
To offer any denial to or detailed refutation of this
farrago of lies and nonsense, would be to insult the cause
of Conservatism. It is noticed only to show the despe-
rate efforts " the brutal, base, and bloody" will have re-
cours4ifor the preservation of place and pelf. For a
continnace of power they are ready to convulse the
(country—they are prepared to risk rebellion. TheY, on
lifermer occasion, encouraged revolt in one colony, and
,have lately proposed to ruin the most ancient of our de-
pendencies that they might not be ejected from Down-
ing-street; but their crowning triumph of evil is to be
reserved for instigation to domestic broils and internal
commotions. Their evening organ, the Globe, a few days
ago, held up the insurrectionary movements at Tou-
louse as worthy of the imitation of Englishmen at the pre-
sent juncture. Their morning agitator, the Chronicle,
daily serves up the most elaborate incitements to the use
of ;,,thysical-force arguments in favour of " free trade"
and " cheap bread."
TIMES.—It is no longer kept a secret that the Royal
speech on the opening of the new Parliament is to raise
the subject of the Budget. We had heard this confi-
dently :Asserted almost a fortnight ago, but we were un-
willing to believe, ill as we think o the yet lingering
Ministry, that they were prepared to commit such an in-
decency as this. We could not persuade ourselves that,
under all the circumstances of the time, and with a proved
imp ossibility of adding, by this new crime, a single hour
to their tenor of ofece, they would go the length of
committing their Royal Mistress to a string of recommen-
dations to ' which they positively know that Par-
liament must needs return a firm, however respectful,
refusal. If shere be one constitutional principle which,
more tan all others, is important to the well-being of a
monarchy, it is, that the wishes of the Sovereign shall
never be made to appear in conflict with the wishes of
the people. For this reason it has been usual with
former Administrations, when they have found, from
plain, though not perhaps actually direct indications,
that the confidence of the country was withheld or
withdrawn from them, to resign their offices, and
so give their Sovereign the grace of the earliest
possible compliance with public opinion. This was
not the course which it seemed good to the Whig
Ministry to adopt. After a decision of their own
House df Commons against them, they held on, pretend-
ing to believe that the people, on appeal, would reverse
the sentence. The appeal was made, and the sentence,
emphaticaliy confirmed. Upon this, full many a sim-
ple-minded man imagined that they would forthwith re-
sign. We knew better. We knew that they had insti-
tuted their appeal, not with any real hope of reversal,
but for delay. Thus it was clear that they would keep
possession until judgment could be actually entered up,
and execution issued against them. So far we were not
at all surprised at their waiting till the assemblage of the
new Parliament, for we have always done them
justice about their consistency in the matter of ad-
hesion ; and, in common with our old friend
Lance, we "would have one that takes upon
him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a dog at
all thi.ngs." But what they are now about to do is, we
own, a proceeding that astounds us.
GLOBE.-Though Sir Robert Peel will not, until re-
gularly called in, prescribe for the nation, his organ, the
Times, is very desirous that he should at once be per-
mitted to prescribe for the Sovereign. Though he will
not say in what manner he intends to dose the State,
the privilege is claimed for him of making up a mix-
ture for her Majesty in the shape of a Royal Speech ;
the preparation of which by the present Ministers, in
the manner they consider best, is denounced by the
leading journal as an act of indecency. For our part
we think there is something much more indecent in the
haste of the Tories to write the Queen's Speech before
they are admitted to the offices of the Queen's Ministers,
than there can possibly be in the fact of the CroWn's pre-
sent advisers continuing to exercise their functions until
upon others has regularly devolved the duty of perform-
ing them. But it may be said in reply, "We do not
wish to dictate the terms of the Royal Speech ; our
only object is to protest against any allusion being made
to the subject of the budget. You surely can avoid one
particular topic, when you are left full liberty to range
over the wide field of generalities, from which the
matter of these documents is usually gathered." We
know the tact of the Tories in appearing to say something
when they have really nothing to say'; but as the Whigs
do not happen to be in that predicament they are not
obliged to fall back upon the truly Conservative art of
dishing up a very minute portion of matter in a very consi-
derable number of words, in order to form a speech of
respectable length for the opening of Parliament. But
what arc the arguments on which the Times disputes
the right of the present Ministers to allude, through
the Sovereign, to the subject of the Budget ?—and
upon what ground is the act denounced as a misde-
meanor so high, that anything higher in the scale of
enormity is hardly conceivable ? We are told that
" when the Sovereign dismisses an administration for mea-
sures disapproved by the country, the constitutional con-
, struction of that proceeding is that the obnoxious measures
are abandoned." This is all all very true. The conclusion
is exceedingly just ; but the case alluded to in the pre-
mises is unfortunately hypothetical, and the period
" when the Sovereign dismisses an Administration" has
not vet arrived. But if, when the event does take place,
it is because " their measures are disapproved by the
country," it will then, we agree with the Times, be
proper for the Sovereign to refuse to listen to other
measures of a similar kind ; particularly if they should
be indecently proposed by the very man who may have
been foremost in obstructing them. However inconvenient
it may be to Sir Robert feel to be called upon for his
opinion with regard to the Corn-laws before he is " re-
gularly in," he is certainly " regularly out ' if he ex-
pects tin t there will be any opportunity given him of
declaring hereafter that "his silence gave consent" when
out of office, to any revision of the Corn-laws, which,
aimed he ever be in office, he may think proper to im-
pose upon her Majesty.
STANDARD.—The latest rumour of the intentions
of Sir R. Peel and his supporters forms the leading topic
of animedversion in the Morning Chronicle of this morn-
lug. He will, it pretends to believe, "di
until February." It reminds scuss nothing
us of Lord John Russell's
pledge to the electors of London, that "As soon as
the now Parliament meets, -he awl his colleagues will
take the first opportunity of asking rot a clear and
decided judgment on the policy they haVe pur-
sued ;" and it pretty significantly hints that in
order to afford him the opportunity, the Royal Speech
on the opening of the new Parliament will raise the
question of the budget. Indecent and unconstitutional
as such a course would be, we have had too much
experience of the reckless desperation of Lord
Melbourne and his associates to induce us to regard
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discussion " until February ? Why, by postponing
until that time any attempt to obtain the govern-
ment. This, it appears, is the " only conceivable way"
in which " all discussion may be avoided." The excuse
for anticipating so gross an improbability as that Sir
Robert Peel will not avail himself of the earliest oppor-
tunity of placing Ministers at the bar of their country,
and taking its verdict on their conduct, is accordingly to
be made the excuse for precipitating a Corn-law discus-
sion by a reference to the defunct budget in tin Speech
from the Throne. And what is to follow the discussion
thus raised ? Our Contemporary shall explain for him-
self :

" A division, and the names of those who decide for or
against the Ministerial measures must be placed before
the country. The majority of Sir R. Peel against the
Ministerial measures will be a memorable majority. The
country will have an eye on every man of them."
No doubt the country will have its eye upon them—it
has already its eye upon every man of them. There can
be as little question who they will be, as of the result to
which their votes must inevitably lead. It will not be
the first occasion on which a profligate Ministry
have endeavoured to screen themselves from the public
odium they have provoked, at the expense of their Sove-
reign. But the attempt will, we trust and believe,
be resisted with the firmness which belongs to her
Majesty's character ; and that she will not be prevailed
upon to recommend from the Throne measures which
her Parliament has already repudiated, and whose re-
jection has been so fully ratified by the recent appeal
of her Ministers to her subjects. No epithet of
scorn can be too strong to apply to the conduct of
Ministers, should they place her in such a dilemma.
That such is, however, their intention, the industry of
their morning organ in inventing for them a pretext for
it, would certainly lead us to infer. There need be no
apprehension that Sir Robert Peel will shrink from the
battle, considering the 'vantage ground be has gained ;
nor is any such unwillingness pretended, except for the
purpose of affording an excuse for the course which it
is now clear that Ministers propose to attempt.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS,

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

POST.—Letters from Liverpool notice the failure of
a considerable mercantile house in that town. Its transac-
tions are understood to have been principally in the cotton
trade. The liabilities are not accurately known, but
50,0001. is the amount talked of. With us commercial
affairs are mending. In most branches of the import
trade an improvement is experienced.
Our Madrid correspondent briefly alludes, in a letter
inserted this day, to the claims of the Spanish Treasury
bondholders. He touches upon the subject in a manner
from. which it would appear that he has had recourse to
local sources of information alone. The decrees pro-
mulgated with so much formalft3 in London, relative to
the issue of the Treasury paper, convey impressions
that are perfectly conclusive and irresistible. They ad-
mit of no second interpretation, and the sooner, there-
fore, Senor Rull and the London embassy prepare them-
selves to act upon their very stringently-worded pro-
visions the better. The Treasury bonds are Spanish
Exchequer Bills lying over for five years dishonoured, and
nothing else. They present a monument of the males
fides of the Spanish nation at which the diplomatic re-
presentatives of various States in this capital express
the utmost amazement ; • for, as the civil war has now
been long at an end, and as' confiscation is at length
hinted a:, instead of honourable payment, the case of the
holders is more widely discussed in the leading political
circles than it had been. They now reasonably look for
their due. The Ambassadors of every country are cog-
nisant of the general indifference of the Spanish authort-
ties to their financial engagements, but when the Trea-
sury Bond rig comes to be explained to them in all its
treacherous and heartless depravity, their disgust is
equally irrepressible and unbounded. Let Mr. Rull only
put it to himself, how indignant Ministers of the high
honour of Prince Esterhazy, the Baron Bulow, and other
dignified official personages at her Majesty's Court must
feel to be mixed up in any way with the Envoys of the
Peninsular Governments—a class of men sent over to
this great commercial metropolis for no other purpose
apparently than that of co-operating in the nefarious
schemes of agents, contractors, and their subordinate
scouts and tricksters planted about the purlieus of Chapel-
court.

The assertion that the Treasury Bond affair of 1836-7
was a blunder of M. Mendizabal is contemptible. It is
indeed, in our humble estimation, only making a bad
thing worse. There was no blunder in the matter.

HERALD.—•It may be noticed here that generally a
considerable improvement has been visible in commercial
affairs this week in the city, and more business done than
for a considerable time past. A tolerably large business has
been doing in various staple articles, especially in oils
and tobacco, of which the stocks have been materially
lightened, with an accompanying amendment in prices.
There is reason to hope that, if the harvest be so insuf-
ficiently productive as to require more extensive imports
of foreign corn than is anticipated even by those specu-
lating to some extent upon a presumed deficiency, there
will be such a general amelioration in trade, both home
and foreign, as in a great degree to counterbalance the
prejudicial consequences of corn payments in bullion.
The amount of bullion that may be required for such
payments, will be found doubtlessly grossly exagge-
rated, in the same manner as those of late years have
been. It may be remarked, without at present en-
larging upon the subject more, that the former pressure
upon the Bank of England for gold for export was not
only not solely referable to the drain caused by corn im-
ports, but was at least in equal proportion caused by a
simultaneous drain arising from other and very different
causes. This supplementary operation of another cause
has been alluded to on former occasions, and may form a
subject for remark hereafter.

ACCIDENT AT VIRGINIA WATER
WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.—Her Majesty left the
Castle yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and four, ac-
companied by the Duchess of Bedford and the Countess of
Erroll, rather earlier than usual, for the purpose of pro-
ceeding to the neighbourhood of Virginia Water, to wit-
ness the hunting aloil the margin of the lake of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert's Lilliputian pack of
beagles. The Hon. Miss Cavendish, with Lady Ida Hay
and the Earl of Erroll, followed in a pony phaeton and
four, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with Lord
Alfred Paget, the Marquis of Headfort, Colonel Wylde,
Major Keppel, and other members of the Royal House-
hold, proceeded on horseback.
Upon the Royal party arriving at that part of the lake
near the Obelisk, about a mile from Cumberland-lodge,
the carriages were drawn up close to the mound, in
order to afford her Majesty a good view of the sport.
They had not been upon this spot but a few minutes,
when, upon the beagles being brought near to the
Queen, their " tuneful voices" caused the pony in the
phaeton (containing Lord Erroll, Lady Hay, and Miss
Cavendish) upon which the front postilion was mounted,
to show symptoms of kicking ; and upon the dogs run-
ning between the legs of the horses, it reared upon the
back of the off leader, and threw its rider, kicking him
on the head, which came into contact with the wheel as
he fell. The leaders, then under no control, darted
sharply round, and rushed down the mound towards the
lake, running over the dismounted postilion, and drag-
ing the wheels of the phaeton also over him. The Earl
of Erroll immediately jumped out from the off-side of
the open carriage, over the door, and providentially res-
cued the two ladies without their sustaining any injury
beyond some very trifling
_bruises.
Cannon, the other postilion, seeing the dangerous po-
sition the party were in, jumped off his horse and ran to
the heads of the leaders, followed by Prince Albert, Lord
Alfred Paget, and the other male attendants upon the
Queen, but not in sufficient time to prevent the restive
leader from darting into the lake, which at this spot is
upwards of 14 feet deep.
By great exertions, in which the Prince greatly dis-
tinguished himself, the other three ponies, by skilfully
cutting the traces, were prevented from being dragged
into the lake, and the carriage with them ; and after
some time the restive leader, which had several times sunk
under the water, was got ashore.
His Royal Highness, during the whole of this-time,
rendered great assistance, " working," as was observed
by a bystander, " like a Briton."
Her Majesty, upon witnessing the accident, immediately
descended from her carriage, in a state of the greatest
alarm for the safety of those who were so fortunately
rescued from their perilous situation in the phaeton.
Her Majesty's next care was to inquire most kindly as to
the state of Rann, the postilion, who had been stunned,
and was lying on the ground insensible. The Queen
then commanded one of the outriders to proceed with all
possible despatch to Windsor for Mr. Brown, the surgeon
to the Royal household, who in less than three quarters
of an hour after the accident arrived with his assistant
(Mr. Andrews) at Flying Barn,,near the lake, where the I
poor fellow had been taken in the mean time, aecompa-
ness, be
nied by thefore the arrival of the surgeon assisted in undres-
sing the postilion and relieving
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last night, and again this morning
Her Majesty and the Prince were delayed returning to
the
hour Castle last evening until a short time previous to the
for nner.
11,7. d it not been for the presence of mind of the Earl
of Erroll and the other postilion, and the timely as-
sistance rendered by Prince Albert, and those in the
suite of her Majesty, the carriage, with the two ladies,
must have been dragged into the lake, when most
bably loss of life would have been the result. pro-

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, AUG. 14.—The Rev. H. A. Woodgate, of St.
John's College, and Rector of Belbroughton, has been
elected a Proctor for the diocese of Worcester for the
ensuing Convocation at St. Paul's, on the 20th inst. The
other Proctor for the diocese is the Rev. J. Howells,
Vicar of Trinity, Coventry. The Rev. W. Digby, a
Canon of Worcester Cathedral Church, has been elected
Proctor for the Chapter.
The Provost and Fellows of Queen's College have pre-
sented the Rev. H. A. Dodd, Fellow of their society, to
the Vicarage of Spersholt, Berkshire, void by the deaths
of the Rev. Thomas Pearson.
Mr. G. Humphreys, of Abingdon School, has been
elected to a Scholarship on the Tesdale Foundation of
Pembroke College.
The Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Houses having
selected the Rev. Dr. Powell, of Worcester College, for
the Chaplaincy on the Madras Establishment, the Rev.
Gentleman was sworn in at a Court of Directors at the-
India House on Wednesday last.
The Master and Fellows of University' College have
elected W. Beale, of Maidstone Grammar School, to a
Scholarship on thaGunsley Foundation.

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