The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-22 00:00:00

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THE DILIGENCE OF NEW BROo3lB.—Sir Robert Peel
surpasses Lord Melbourne amazingly in his attention to
business, and no doubt the country will be so much the
better governed. We every day read such announce-
ments as the following in the Tory Journals, set off
with large type :—" Despatches were sent off this morn-
ing by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel to her Majesty
at Windsor."— Courier last evening. " A Treasury mes-
senger was sent off with despatches this morning for her
Majesty, at Windsor Castle."—Standard of Monday.
Besides these the meetings of Ministers with Sir Robert
Peel, and of law officers with Ministers, which are re-
corded every day, are as numerous as steamers in the
river, or horses .in the street. John Bull will be at once
satisfied. " How they do labour," he will say, " how
well we are governed ; these are the right sort of lads."
Softly honest John. Do you remember the old adage,
" The greatest talkers do the least they say." All the
quacks that have ever existed from Paracelsus to Peel,
have been great and pompous talkers, making a great
show, sending their servants hither and thither, as if
the world were not wide enough for their energies.
Boz or Marryat, we forget which, perhaps both, with
great knowledge of quackish nature, makes a doctor
who wanted to get into practice, hire a person to rap at
his door at night, to show that he was in vast repute.
On the same principle, if Sir Robert does not actualiy
send his Treasury messengers to her Majesty daily and
hourly, the Tory Journals do it for him. He is a phy-
sician, according to their reports, in wonderful repute.
Lord Melbourne at least managed affairs in a much more
quiet manner.
MR. WAKLEY AND THE TORIES.—The mutual Com-
pliments which these parties bestow on each other begin
to excite the notice and the suspicion of the public. On
Monday evening Mr. Wakley, speaking from a Tory
bench, said " that all Sir Robert Peel required was time,
and he considered that was but a fair demand." " It
was but a reasonable request, and he thought it would be
unjust to refuse it." Mr. Wakley, therefore, speaking
not in his own behalf, but in behalf of the Radicals of
Finsbury, thinks it unjust not to allow Sir R. Peel and
the Tories time to consolidate their power, and time to
starve down the people to their purposes. For this, or
some similar good turn, the Standard of last night thus
praises Mr. Wakley :—" The best speech of tEe night,
after the speeches of Sir Robert Peel, was unquestion-
ably that of Mr. Wakley, in which the Hon. Member
for Finsbury, with candour and manliness, exposed the
unworthy delusion attempted, when it was pretended
that either the Ministry or the Legislature could by any
act afford present relief to whatever distress exists in the
manufacturing districts. We earnestly recommend Mr.
Wakley's argument to the attention of those who fancy
that corn can be made cheaper in seasons of scarcity by
a substitution of a fixed duty for the sliding scale." Our
own report does not show the Hon. Member actually de-
fending the Corn-laws ; but the Standard, which is no
doubt well informed, implies that he did, and praises
him accordingly. Mr. Wakley cannot suppose, at this
time of day, that he can serve two masters, the Tories
and the people, and worship at once God and Mammon.
SLAVE TRADERS BEWARE.—Lord Brougham mada
an astounding declaration in the House of Lords on
Monday evening, to which it seems advisable to call the
attention of the gentlemen who compose the Companies
fur carrying on mining operations in the Brazils and
other countries by slaves. Lord Brougham said,
" Various Mining Companies were formed in this
coi.ntry, which carried on their operations in Brazil end
Cuba, working their mines by newly. imported slaves
from Africa, who were illicitly purchased by the agents
of these Companies, although such agents well knew
that the importation of the slaves was illegal, contra-
band, and piratical. Whatever might be lawful to a fo-
reigner in his own country, it would not be felony 'if he
purchased a slave in any part of the British dominions.
But if a British subject en participated in slave- trading,
that is to say, by the purchase of a newly-imported
slave, in a country where the importation was by law
declared to be piratical—auch British subject could
be seized in this country, tried, and convicted of felony.
Three years ago he would be punished with death, but
uow he would be liable only to transportation for life,
whether such trade in the country, in which the act was
done were legal or illegal." If this be the law, it is
quite clear to us that Messrs. Irving and Co., with all
their friends and auxiliaries, are at this moment, if the
factg can be proved that they are engaged in working
mines with s.!aves, a:1(1 tniyi;i; new slaves for the ,par-.
hove, liable to be tried and tran.,ported for life. V.'e
should like to see the law put into execution ageing
great offenders.

LEITIL—On Saturday the duty on foreign wheat hay-
ing been lowered to oue shilling, occasioned consider-
ab!e stir in the port. In the course of the day duty was
paid on 130,000 quarter; yet, the duty being so low,
the receipt of the Customs for that day was only about
6,7001. So confident were the merchants that the ave-
rages would rise, that a number of vessels which ar-
rived dutrire-, the week thy in the dock with their cargoes
witl:out - when, insteed of

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bonding it, they paid
inoneed unloading. he•carters and porters arc at pre=
sent n:aliaing, high wages—the former making 305., and
the latter 105. 6d. per day.