The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-24 00:00:00

PIISLIC OPZNION.

The Morning Post contains an article, whose evident,
through not avowed, object, is to exalt the Tory system
of legislation by underrating that of the Whigs :—" It
was always the plan of the Whigs," says our Contempo-
rary, " to flatter the people with hope that they could set
right whatever was wrong in the condition of the people.
But they never succeeded. As soon as one project failed
they set up another, but it was only to produce fresh dis-
appointment. And thus it happened that the Whigs, who
began their projects with a revolution in their favour, and
an immense majority in the House of Commons, gradu-
ally lost that majority, and all public confidence. They
-Promised to the people remedies for their real or fancied
evils, but the people found no benefit from them."—
The people "'lave certainly found no benefit -from Whig
remedies, but it is because those remedies have not.
been tried. That great experiment, in particular, of dis-
encumbering trade of the shackles that most heavily
oppress it, was never even allowed to be brought for-
ward. The Tories were apprehensive it would succeed,
so crushed it on the threshold. And what, pray, are
the remedies these men propose, in lieu of those they
condemned ? The answer may be summed up in a
sentence—none at all !
The Chronicle is of opinion that Ireland will continue
to be a thorn in Sir Robert Peel's side, notwithstanding
his attempts at conciliation, and adds :—" Sir R. Peel
may depend upon it the day of reckoning with his Irish
supporters will not pass off so quietly as he thinks. For
the services they rendered they must be requited. It
will not do to tell them that measures like the Bill of Lord
Stanley were taken up merely as convenient positions from
which to assail their opponents, and which were to be
abandoned the moment the fortress was carried. They
naturally ask themselves What have we gained by this
triumph ? Where are the spoils the hope of which sus-
tained us through so long a conflict ?' Where, indeed !
You have got Lord Eliot for your Secretary, with an as-
surance that his policy is to be a policy of conciliation ;
you are debarred all hope of stopping the supplies to May-
nooth College (a cheering indication this to the mitre-
hunting M'Uhees and O'Sullivans) ; and lastly, as yet,
the Registration Bill of Lord Stanley is put in
abeyance? How much more do the Irish Protestants
require before they find out' Sir Robert Peel ?"
The hour is fast approaching when the Irish Orange-
men will discover that the Tory Premier is no more to
be trusted by them, than he was, when—in defiance of
all the repeated, solemn pledges he had made them to
the contrary—he turned round, and carried Catholic
Emancipation. He will deceive them, as he did then ;
but he will not throw thorn overboard at once ; no, he
is far too cunning for that ; he will just keep up the
farce of acting with them, till he fancies himself
strong enough to do without them ; and then send them
adrift, to sink or swim, as may happen. We warn the
Orangemen to keep a wary eye on Sir Robert Peel. He
will sacrifice them, as he did poor Canning. We have
no great respect fur these red-hot Irish Tories ; but in
vigour and honesty we think them immeasurably supe-
rior to the trimming quacks who now hold power under
the sneaking alias of Conservatives.
The Times is delighted with Lord Stanley's speech on
the occasion of his re-election for North Lancashire,
observing—" In all respects it is a fitting accompani-
ment to that of his fellow-secretary at Dorcester—nay,
without invidiously subjecting the ability of the two ad-
dresses to a comparison froth which, indeed, neither of
them need shrink, and while perfectly admitting the
equal merits of both in their distinctive scope, we feel
warranted in saying that, owing to a curious accidental
circumstance, Lord Stanley possesses a somewhat superior
interest, not very dissimilar to that which attached to Scott's
memorable disclosure when he avowed himself the au-
thor of Waverley As the great Northern writer had
for many years been -the object of endless surmises and
suspicions, which he had taken no pains either to encou-
rage or to allay, so it is well known that the noble heir
of the house of Derby, having been supposed to have
incurred the *uilt of political apostacy, has for a con-
siderable period been assailed with every epithet of
party rancour, which, strong in the consciousness of
his own rectitude, lie has treated with silent contempt."
—To say that Lord Stanley's speech was a " fitting ac-
companiment" to that of Sir James Graham's at Dor-
chester, is a very left-handed compliment, wearing the
aspect of irony ; for never was there a more vague, dri-
velling, spiteful tirade, than that perpetrated by the
heavy-headed Netherby Baronet—the rejected of Cum-
berland, of Pembroke, of Westminster, and of divers
other towns, counties, and cities, which we have neither
space nor time to enumerate. Nevertheless, we agree
with, the Times that the North Lancashire affair was

quite as good as the Dorchester affair ; and both were
just what might have been expected—spiteful twaddle !
The Herald thus expresses itself on the subject of the
new Poor-law :—" There was in the House last night a
most satisfactory and wholesome expression of opinion
as to the cruelties and severities of the English Poor-
law ; a hope was very generally expressed that Sir H.
Peel would make great, alterations in the more strin-
gent provisions of that law, and in this hope a great
majority of the public most warmly concur. It is
indeed quite impossible that the Poor-law can remain
in its present form; and it would be most unwise to
continue the superintendence of any law that may be
substituted for it in the hands of the present Poor-law
Commissioners, or their secretary, who never can or will
enjoy the confidence of the English people. The Poor-
law is a subject which cannot be shirked or got rid of by
palliative amendments ; less than thorough will not
do it.' It is the duty of the Conservative press to speak
Out boldly on this subject ; any suppression of opinion is
treachery to the great national party of which it is the
organ."

The Advertiser makes the following remarks on Sir R.
Peel's studied silence :—" We warn Sir Robert Peel to
beware. If he persists in his present silence he may dis-
cover with regret, when regret will be idle, that the
commercial wealth of this country, though great, cannot
continue under the existing system ; that its enterprise,
though *Unbounded, must give way when its merchants
are excluded, by an illiberal British code, from foreign
markets ; and that the patience of a suffering peo-
ple must ultimately give way under the priva-
tions which they have so long heroically en-
dured. Let him speak out, therefore, when silence
is useless, and before disclosure be unavailing."—
Why should Sir R. Peel speak out, when a majority of
ninety-one are in favour of his holding his tongue ?
Why should he speak out, when the aristocracy, to a
man, are ready to swear that nothing can be so prudent,
statesmanlike, or beneficial to the country, as his pre-
' sent silence? Above all, why should he speak out, when
he has nothing to speak about? Such, no doubt, is the
way in which- his party argues; but not so will the
country argue; but infer, rationally enough, from his
reserve, that he has neither inclination nor capacity to
devise such remedial measures as may suit the interests
of the people.
The Dublin Evening Post remarks, in reference to Sir
R. Peel's Irish policy :—" Sir Robert Peel, with his ha-
bitual dexterity, availed himself of the complimentary
remarks of Lord John Russell respecting the principal
Irish appointments, to make a very premature boast that
he had already got over the great difficulty of governing
Ireland. The first factious proceeding—the first indica-
tion, upon the part of the Irish Government, towards the
old insulting and tyrannical Tory system, will prove to
Sir Robert Peel that he has reckoned without his host."

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declining state of track., the prospects fur the ensuing
winter are discouraging in the extreme."

COZVTIVIERCIAX, nz..FORIVE.

At the meeting of Proprietors held at the East India
House yesterday, an alteration was proposed in an exist-
ing by-law, which prohibits any Director, officer, or ser-
vant of the Company in Europe, trading either from or
to India, otherwise than in the Company's joint-stocis:,
by which it was shown that trading with Australia,
Africa, and many of the best ports in the world, was
restricted from the Directors. The motion, however,
was withdrawn.

AGazzlculyrunfor.
Heavy dews and hot days are now rapidly bringing
fruit and grain of every kind to a complete state of ripe-
ness. In Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire many districts
are cleared of corn, and the harvest in Derbyshire ra-
pidly progresses.