The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-13 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Post, alluding to Sir Robert Peel's dif-
ficulties, says-7" Supposing that Sir Robert Peel be made
Minister, is it not something hard that he should have to
contend not only with the difficulties which belong to the
time, but also with the financial deficiencies of one, two,
and three years ago, Which the Ministers of those periods
ought to have remedied, but which they wholly neglected?"
It was a much harder task for the Whigs, when they
came into office in 1830, to contend with the difficulties
which the Tories had left them, by way of legacies.
The country was then all but in a state of insurrection ;
Swing blazed by night, and Revolt stalked abroad by
day ; and so great was the 'popular ferment, that the
Tories were actually afraid to allow the King to dine
with the Lord Mayor at Gnildhall ! If Sir Robert Peel
have difficulties, they are in a great degree of his own
seeking ; but when Earl Grey took office in 1830, he
had no choice between that and revolution. It is sheer
cant; therefore, in the Post to whine about the Right
Hon. Baronet's difficulties.

The Morning Advertiier thus remarks,on Sir R.Pelel'9.
studied silence :—" Were Sir Robert Peel to announce
the leading measures he has in contemplation for re-
lieving the commerce of the country from its present
state of utter paralyzation, the inevitable effects of that
announcement would be, assuming the measures to be
wise and good, to restore public confidence, and to give
a. consequent mighty impetus to trade and commerce—
even before the measures themselves had received the
sanction of the Legislature." Had the Right Hon.
Baronet really any serviceable measures in contemplation,
he would not so long withhold them from the country.
Men are not usually tardy in communicating good news :
it is only when they have bad news to communicate, that
they delay the intelligence to the latest moment.
The Chronicle says :—" Most newspaper readers
remember the memorable announcement of the Times—
' The Whigs are out. The Queen has done it all.'
Our Contemporary has made another revelation not less
startling—' Peel is in. The Church has done it all.'
The new Parliament is not the Parliament of the
landlords, but the Parliament of the Church. The
ministers of religion it is who have returned the majo-
rity by whom the people are to be starved. The Con-
servatives may depend upon it,' says the Times,
that the confidence of the Church is the real secret
of their power, and that the re-action by which
they have been borne back to ascendancy has been
essentially her worh.' We never doubted the
agency of the Church in assisting to swell the
monopolist majority, but we hardly expected this bold
ElvOwttl of it. The Rgta)lished Church of this country
has no popularity to throw away and though
the political zeal of the clergy is often fully
as conspicuous as their piety, and sometimes gets
the better of their prudence, yet it would argue
an utter absence of the latter quality if we could
suppose that the avowal originated with them."
That the advocates of the starving system should be
lifted into office on the broad, square shoulders of Mo-
ther Church is no more than might have been expected;
but the avaricious old dame will expect handsome wages
for her labour, and the Tories can only honour her de-
mands in full by setting at defiance all the best interests
of the country.
The Times insists that it is imperatively necessary
for the Tories to rule Ireland with a high hand, observ-
ing, " the Government which shall do its duty to Ireland
will not have to subdue a ,nation, but only to repress a
faction." We presume this is a sort of feeler, put forth
to prepare the sister-country for another Tory Coercion
Bill.

The Herald is singularly diffuse on the subject of
what Sir Robert Peel will not do, when he creeps into
Downing-street ; but says not a word on the sub-
ject of what he will do. He will not, it seems,
slander women—depend on a cabal—or affront
the pecuniary sensibilities of Mother Church ; but we
do not learn that he will promote Reform—loose the
shackles of commerce—or extend the suffrage. Even
his warmest and most enlightened adherents do not hint
that he will do any thing of this. They merely under-
take to answer for his negative qualities.
The Cheltenham Examiner, writing on the subject
of the Speakership, says :—" We are within about a
week of the meeting of Parliament, and the only
point on which the State Physician has hitherto
allowed the nature of his prescriptions to transpire,
is in the election of Speaker. It seems that on this
great point the treatment is to be of a soothing and anti-
irritating nature—the constitution is affected with
febrile symptoms—the aspect is flushed—the pulse
strong and excited—and Sir Robert Peel, good physician
as he is, puts his cane to his mouth, and recommends
the soothing system. So far, so good; we are sure we
have no fault to find with such a course. But what will
the loafers of his own party say, at thus loosing one of
the snuggest gifts, and most certain iniatory steps to a
Peerage, which the Minister has to bestow ? We may
judge of their feelings as expressed though their organs."

The Dublin Evening Post observes, in allusion to
the remedial projects of the Tories:—" The remedies for
the present distress are varions. The Duke of Buck-
ingham and Sir Robert Peel are all for the Sliding
Walter and the Times for the Repeal
of the New Poor-la-w .21f!---Mr. Bennett, of Wilt-
shire, for converting the Manchester manu-
facturers into hale field labourers—the StaW.lard
would burn the manufacturing towns—the little Lairds
of Scotland, and some of the great Lords, too, would
ship off the population at the public expense, as if the
public had any money to spare—while that conceited,
Germanised person, Carlyle, coolly recommends a whole.
sale murder of the Innocents."