The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-04 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Opwton.

" fl ho runs. may read."

PORMIGINT.
Sir Robert Peel's quack oration at Tamworth is
the leading topic of discussion in the French Journals
of Sunday. The National contrasts its utter want of
dignity, its puny. jokes, _and its silly affectation of re-
serve, with the statesmanlike address of Lord John
Russell to the electors of London. What the National
regards as most* remarkable about the speech is, that it
was spoken, not Jo the electors, but at the Queen and
the Court. The flummery about the marital virtues of
Prince Albert was Sir Joseph Surface all over. It will
take a great deal of lip-slavering to make his Royal
Highness forget that Peel abridged his proposed in-
come to the amount of twenty thousand a year.
The Emperor of Morocco has sent his compliments
to Queen Donna , Maria, with a request to be favoured
with thirty-three thousand dollars, in lieu of certain pre-
sents made to his Imperial predecessors by the Sovereigns
of Portugal. The Cabinet of Lisbon has agreed to lodge
and feed his messenger, Taleb Aberdeselen Aberode, and
to remit to the Treasury of Fez one fourth of the sum
demanded. With our extensive knowledge of Portugal's
inveterate habits of non-payment, we must pronounce this
offer really munificent.
The King of the French and the Carlists are in-
triguing about providing a husband for the infant Queen
of Spain. Louis Philippe has a son whom he is willing
to devote to the service of her Most Catholic Majesty,
whilst it appears that Don Carlos has two, either of whom
would feel no repugnance at dividing the cares of royalty
with her Majesty. If the Spanish Government wish to
put an end to a state of things which may eventually en-
danger the Constitution, it will provide a husband for the
Queen totally unconnected by blood with the Bourbon
family, either in France, Spain, or Italy.
The Queen of Portugal is more of a natural philo-
sopher than the Deputies of her kingdom. In a late
address relative to the earthquake at Terceira, these
" wise men of Gotham," by way of consoling her Ma-
jesty, observed :—" Let not your Majesty regard an
event happening so early in your reign as a bad augury
of the future ;" to which the Queen rebukingly replied,
" the phenomena resulting from the invariable laws of
nature cannot be considered as an augury of future
events." The grave dignitaries of the kingdom must
have looked rather silly on receiving such a correction
from the lips of so young a woman as Donna Maria da
Gloria.

There is some probability that Hamburgh and the
Hanse Towns will shortly join the German Customs'
Union.

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Chronicle, reverting to Sir R. Peel's
last Tamworth speech, and his "concession of the need
of some further institutional Reform," declares that this
concession is hinted at " for a sinister purpose, that of
obtaining an undue preponderance upon the electoral re-
gister ;" and adds, " what a Janus-headed quack it is !
He is hoaxing both parties, the one with his founda-
tions,' and the other with his renovations.' " The Right
Hon. Baronet is indeed halting just now between two
bundles of hay, doubtful which to nibble at. Now be is
tempted by the Ultras—now, by the more moderate
section .of the faction. His recent speeches show
his perplexity. He dare not decide boldly and promptly
like a man, but must stand flirting and coquetting alter-
nately—like Macheath in the Beggars' Opera—with both
classes of the Tories. And this is the man, and this the
sort of policy that is to rescue the country from its pre-
sent state of extreme suffering and despondency ! We
have reached an alarming crisis, yet the Minister who is
to rule our destinies has not yet made up his mind how
to act. We ask him for his remedy; and he puts us off
with a vague promise or a mysterious shake of the head.
Like Morrison, the Hygeist, he tell us we must have faith
in his.pills ; but when we call upon 'him to produce his
pills, as our case is desperate, he frankly tells us, that
they are not yet made up !
The profuse bribery practised at the late clections
has so shocked the Times, that it is specially anxious
to see an immediate and effectual stop put to the system,
and implores the " Conservative Administration," to re-
gard this as one of their first and most important duties.
The object of such advice is evident. Having attained
a majority by dint of gross corruption, the Tories
are now naturally desirous to disguise their delin-
quencies beneath the convenient mask of political
purity. Electioneering corruption being no longer
cf immediate use to them, they are now all
for electioneering incorruptibility. They are horrified
to-day, at what but yesterday they practised with the
most hardened indifference There is a sad s'ant of tact
in all this cant and hypocrisy. A man should never
kick down the ladder by which he mounted the wall, for
in case of being suddenly and unexpectedly compelled
to descend again, he can only do so at the risk of a
broken neck.

The Herald has several lengthy articles on the sub-
ject of the blunders committed by Lord Palmerston as
Foreign Minister, in all of which our Contemporary shows
himself well versed in the " Much-ado-about-Nothing"
style of reasoning.
The Post commences its first and principal article
in these significant terms :—" There are no worse ene-
mies of this country, in point of fact, whatever they may
be in intention, than they who in the present state of
affairs lead the people to place their hopes upon great
extension of manufacturing and commercial business."
We look upon this remark as a sort of feeler, intended to
prepare the country for the disappointment it will inevi-
tably experience in hoping for any practical be.
nefit from a Tory Administration. We are not, it
seems, to expect an extension of trade and commere. We
are to be content with things as they are—with Toryism
as it ever was, and ever will be. If we demand a remedy
for our present distresses, we are to be ranked among
" the worst enemies of the country." The Whigs pro-
mised us free trade ; but from the Tories we are warned
—by one of their own molt influential organs—to expect
nothing. This is encouraging, and will reconcile John
Bull more fully thaw ever to the inestimable blessings of
a Peel Government.

The Morning Advertiser considers that the position
of Sir Robert Peel, whether as regards his friends or
foes, is by no means to be envied, for that " his bed will
not be one of roses." Hew can it possibly be a soft,
snug couch, stuffed, as it will infallibly be, with such sharp
and stiff thorns, as Stanley, Graham, Sibthorp, and other
such Impracticables or Ineapables ? As the bed, however,
will be of his own choosing, it is fit that he should pay
the penalty of his choice.
The Cheltenham Journal proposes conquest as a
sovereign panacea for all the evils of Ireland. "
asks our Contemporary, " what would, in reality, be jus-
tice to Ireland ? What, the greatest blessing that could
be conferred on her ? The answer to these questions is
prompt, and comprised in a single word—conquest ! Few
are the nations, if any, that are the worse for having
been conquered." If this be so, Ireland ought
now to be enjoying a most unparalelled state
of prosperity, for England has been playing the
part of conqueror towards her for full six hundred years !
If our Contemporary were to fight a battle with a rival
neighbour and get worsted in the encounter, his notion
of the advantages of " being conquered," would, we
suspect, undergo very considerable modification,