The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-19 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPMTION.

The Times and the Spectator yelp in one couple
against the proposed meeting of the Dissenting Minis-
ters at Manchester. The company in which our quasi
Liberal Contemporary finds himself, should frighten him

from hunting down such game. The Times, fulfils its
vocation when it decries all attempts to improve the
Corn-laws, which may thwart Sir R. Peel, but the pre-
sumed vocation of the Spectator is not that of the
Times. The only difference, however, in respect
to their attack on the purposed meeting of the Dissenting
Ministers is that one quests like a lady's spaniel, which
has strayed into forbidden cover, while the other goes
forward with the deep and loud-mouthed baying
of a blood.-hound on the trace of a fugitive negro, con-
scious that he is backed and followed by an overpower-
ing force. _ _ _

The Times points out to the Tories how Ireland is
to be ruled—not by good laws, and granting her equal
justice with England—but by riding down the rebels—
meaning the Catholics, by the troops of their Royal mis-
tress. . " Half Ireland," says that atrocious journal, "is
in a state of rebellion against the Constitution, in
Church and State, the ring-leaders of that rebellion being
the Popish priests," alias the " Surpliced Ruffians."
`What is this but calling for civil war in Ireland ? Per-
haps it will come sooner 'than even these blood-thirsty
persecutors expect.

The Post, in the same strain, and scoffing at
the prayer of eight millions of her Majesty's faithful
subjects for justice, savagely- asserts that justice to Ire-
land requires that for the sake of example adequate
punishment shall be inflicted upon those who have sought
to defeat and annul the elective franchise, not of course
Lord Stanley and the iiotous Orangmen, but O'Connell
and the priests.
The Bristol Mercury, after reciting the great mea-
sures which. Reform
~has affected in every department
of the Administration, shows that mighty must be the
achievements of the " strong " Tory Government to
thrOW such actions into shade. "At present," says a
subsequent article, " the Liberal party recedes, like
the wave, more fearfully to return."
The Derbyshire chronicle avouches that unless the
,Tories considered themselves fully powerful enough to
put. down Anti-Corn-law agitation by the strong hand
'altogether, it was most unwise to oppose the Ministerial
Proposal of a fixed duty. But a short time will elapse,
however, before the subject of dispute will be reduced
to the stern and naked measure of right.

The Somerset County Gazette asserts Sir Robert
Peel. to be at heart a Liberal, and from various indica-
tions shows that a large section of his own party mistrust

him. He is too liberal for his party, and is not eaough
of a Tory to please them.
-- The Hereford Times likens the ecstasies of the
Tories, at the present moment, to the man who was
" dancing on the head of a barrel of gunpowder, when
the fire of a lighted train was slowly but surely pur-
suing its course to the explosive body." The invention
of new taxes, it expects to be the first act of the Tory
batch, for either borrowing or taxing they must adopt.
" The. Radicals are not in such,a bad plight," says
the Leed; Times, " as they are thought to be. Now is the
time for putting forth with good effect bold and honest
principles. Another such national movement as the Re-
form Bill must dislodge the Tories, and the suffrage
question at once presents itself as that on which the most
successful rally may he made."
The. Kelso Chronicle, commenting on the non-
return of Lord Howick, says, " That the son of Earl
Grey should have been rejected by the constituency of
his native county is matter of deep regret. Only seven
years ago the very same men who have been instru-
mental in his defeat flocked and tendered the father of
reform their thanks and gratulations."
Though Toryism., says the Devonport Independent,
be rampant for a time, yet the tide-wave of public opinion
will rise and roll on„ " Sir Robert Peel may figure like
another Dame Partington in trying to mop out the sea,
but his endeavour will not be more wise or glorious."