The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-28 00:00:00

SU;',4,;iARY OF NEWS

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PUBLIC OPINION.

The Chronicle takes the Post to task fur its incon-

sistency in observing that " most people have much more
interest in the cheapness of money than in the cheapness
of anything else," and yet at the same time crying up
the political merits of Sir R. Peel, who, as our Contem-
porary observes, " did more by his Currency Bill, to-
wards making money dear, than any Minister by any
one Act, either before or. since." The Chronicle then
proceeds to hint at some of the projected swindlings of
the Tories, and among others, their not improbable
scheme of cheating the freeholder and all annuitants.
As the faction has not,.never had, and never will have,
a shred of principle in Its composition, it is not likely to
be diverted from any plausible project simply because it
may be dishonest. Political dishonesty is the rule of
Tory conduct—honesty is merely the exception.
The Herald has some laboured hits at the Chronicle
for insisting on the independence and supremacy of the
Scotch farmers ; but adds, by way of salvo, that the
Scotch counties deserve praise for. having returned two
Conservative Members for one Whig throughout. Con-
descending praise like this, from so influential an autho-
rity as the Herald, must be highly gratifyingto Scotland
The Post adduces the authority of Mr. Huskisson to
prove that the Corn-laws, instead of being a curse, are a
comfort and a blessing to the community ; and adds that
it is a mere fraud to assert that the Whig policy' on the
subject " are in the spirit of Mr. Huskisson's policy."
Our Contemporary, we suppose, will next endeavour to
show that Reform and Toryism mean one and the same
thing ; and that in advocating enlarged principles of free
trade, Mr. Huskisson only meant to advocate prohibi-
tion in all its strictness.

The Times is in raptures with the old institutions
of the country, observing that " they have produced a
higher standard of morality and practical religion than
can elsewhere be found." Strange, that, thus thinking,
our ContempOrary should have laboured so hard to pull
down these "old institutions." Who more strenuous in
abolishing the borouglimongering system, which—as the
Tories were constantly observing—formed the very
foundation-stone of all goon Government, and deprived
of whose support, the " old institutions" of the country
could no longer exist ? We sincerely believe that there
is not a single " old institution" that has not at one time
or other, been the object of our Contemporary's bitterest
hostility and ridicule. To day, the " old institutions of
the country" are all that is precious and sacred in his
eyes—to-morrow, perhaps, their very antiquity may be
hateful and obnoxious to him !

The Advertiser persists in attributing the results of
the elections to " the enormous folly" of Ministers in
throwing themselves into the arms of the Tories. The
Whigs have certainly been- delinquents in this respect,
but not to the extent insisted on by our Contemporary.
-- The Cambridge Advertiser, alluding to the rapacity
of the Tories, compares Sir Robert Peel to Acton, ob-
serving that " he is in danger of being devoured by his
own dogs," and that as he " walks the streets, the sha-
dow of some disappointed Tory, worn and thin, will
darken his path, pleading unrepaid services, and breath-
ing out threatenings of desertion."

The Brighton Guardian states, that the Whigs
should hold no terms whatever with Sir Robert Peel's
party, as it comes into office " expressly to uphold in-
justice, and to levy taxes on the bulk of the people for be-
hoof of a few."

The Dublin Pilot confidently expresses its oponion,
and argues forcibly on the hypothesis, that the Whigs
will very shortly be reinstated in office.