The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-26 00:00:00

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—There is a sympathy due to the Sovereign,
when placed- in circumstances such as those in which
our beloved Queen is now placed, and which her sub-
jects of every gaade, and of every party, whose feel-
ings are not rendered callous by faction, will render to
the woman, if they cannot constitutionally express it
toward the Queen. The change of Government will in-
volve a removal from personal attendance upon her
Majesty of those with whom she has been in the habit
of social intercourse ; whom habit has rendered familiar
with her tastes, and who have found their duty to
anticipate her wishes, and to conform their whole lives
to her ascertained inclinations, their delight. At such a
.time, and in the near prospect of a crisis, when the
presence of attached friends and attendants is essential
to fortify the mind of the most courageous female against
the " peril .and danger," and to console and en-
courage under the severity of anguish attendant on
an event to which we need not allude in terms more
distinct—at a time, when the Queen of England will be
called upon to consent that her chosen Ladies be removed
from their attendance on her person, and that others,
strangers to her and to her habits, destitute of the
sympathies which association only can inspire, shall be
introduced. All this, we are told, is necessary to
show that the Queen has confidence. in the Cabinet.
It may be so in the estimation of such a Government
as that which is about to be formed. But we cannot
but lament that our beloved Queen should be compelled
to submit to a change so painful at such a time. We
trust that when the proximate Premier comes to that part
of the business in which these changes will be involved,
the introduction to it will be somewhat different than—
" And now, Madam, as to your Ladies." But we will not
pursue the subject.

- STANDARD.—Lord Melbourne declared that the
amendment came upon him " like a thunder clap." It
is easy to believe that, living as he has lived for six
years, in a kind of Epicurian security from care and the
apprehension .of danger, the poco curante Premier has
been awakened from his luxurious dream with feelings
of surprize, as well as horror ; but he is probably the
only man in the empire who did not see the coming
storm with equal certainty and distinctness. Under
the influences of the thuuderstroke, the Noble Lord
made of course a very feeble speech. He was replied to
by the Duke of Wellington, who complained with a just
indignation of the attempt of the Ministers to identify the
Sovereign with their falling cause. The Duke of Rich-
mond supported the amendment, and ably though
briefly defended the Corn-laws. Lord Lansdowne apolo-
gised at some length for the course pursued by the Mi-
nisters. Lord Brougham closed the debate in one of
the most characteristic and amusing speeches ever deli-
vered by the Learned and wayward Lord. He supported
the Address, but gave among his reasons for supporting
it, such an account of the recent conduct of Ministers as
must show, that their proper abode at this moment would
be in her Majesty's rower of London, not on the Minis-
terial benches of the _House of Parliament.

COURIER.—The work commenced yesterday in good
earnest, and one House of Parliament has formally re-
corded j udgment upou that Speech from the Throne, in the
concoction of which Ministers did not shrink from carry-
ing out to the last moment of official existence their foul
. and long-practised policy of profaning the name of Ma-
jesty by insolently parading it in the vanguard of their own
selfish party. Happily the Sovereign, with true nobility
of sentiment, refused to lend the imposing sanction of
her own august presence to the delivery of an Address
designingly constructed to place her in apparent conflict
with a Legislature returned by the voice of the people,
and so the plot will recoil, has recoiled, upon its mis-
chievous authors in both Houses of Parliament. Lord
Melbourne, it will be seen, attempted to justify the
gross innovation on the privileges of the Commons,
involved in the recommendation of special fiscal measures
besides generally representing the Sovereign as entertain-
ing strong feelings on certain party questions, by the
precedent of George 111. on the dissolution of the legis-
lature engaged in a factious opposition to Mr. Pitt.
But he was promptly put down by the Great Duke, who
quoted the language of that wise Monarch on the occa-
sion referred to, in which there can be found no more
than that general reference to the state of affairs which
is indispensable in all such circumstances, but with-
out the indication of any special opinion of his
own or consequent attempt to dictate them to the
constituency. That was moreover the case of a
dissolution merely, but here we have a reckless
Government not only daring to issue a manifesto
and raise the standard of appeal to the country on
party questions in her Ma;esty's name against the deci-
sion of one Parliament, but, with more desperate treachery
still, inaugurating a new Parliament with the same un-
principled profanation and perversion of that exalted
name, by abusing it into a vehicle and watchword for the
sordid purposes of expiring Administration. Mild and
courteous as was the rebuke administered to Lord Mel-
bourne by the Duke of Wellington, and infinitely short
of his deserts, we should be loath to believe that it was
not keenly felt.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TUESDAY.
TIMES.—The returns lately published by order of
the House of Commons relative to the public debt of this
country, state that the unredeemed capital of the public
funded debt on the sth ofJanuary, 1828, was 777,476,8921.;
in 1831, 757,486,9961.; and in 1841, 766,371,7251.; that
the amount of Exchequer Bills outstanding in the same
years was respectively 27,546,8501., 27,271,6501., and
22,271,0501., the second amount including the issue
under the Act of 11 George IV., cap. 26, to pay off the
proprietors of 4 per Cent. Annuities, amounting on the
sth of January, 1831, to 1,662,0001.; that the amount of
terminable Annuities, whether for lives or years, was
for these years respectively. 2,610,7541., 3,297,375/., and
4,114,0211. ; that the sums required to defray the charge
of the interest and management of the permanent public
debt during these periods were 25,779,1151., 24,377,379/.,
and 24,442,303/. ; and that the sums paid or required to
defray the interest on Exchequer Bills for these years
were 873,246/. ; 675,0004, and 818,046/. The amount
of all payments made out of the Consolidated Fund of
Great Britain and Ireland, other than on account of in-
terest and management of the national debt and the Civil
List was, for the year ending the sth of January, 1828,
1,853,172/.; for the year ending the same month in 1831,
1,625,941/. ; and for the year ending 1841, 2,552,79;1.
POST.—The circumstance incidentally mentionei by
the supporters of Ministers in their free trade crotchets,
as a cause of the cheapness of foreign bills of exchange
just now is also a favourable feature. The exchanges
have been kept up, they say, in consequence of the nego-
tiation of quantities of American paper on France, con-
sisting of bills drawn for flour sent to that country. A
want of activity in our manufacturing towns is complained
of. Many of the American bills drawn against flour ship
ments to Havre may be remitted to London to provide
for state and other dividends falling due ; some may be
to discharge old debts standing unliquidated on the
books of our merchants ; but the principal portion,
it is likely, accompany orders for goods for the ensuing
fall; as remittances from hence to Dantzic and Ham-
burgh accompany orders for grain. More work may,
therefore, be expected from the operatives of Manchester,
Glasgow, and other places.
When the reins of power shall be resigned into the
hands of a party worthy to be called a Government, and
the effects of the errors of the present incompetent dab-
blers in statesmanship can be in some measure counter-
acted by the wiser course of administration that may be
looked for, the country will, in our humble opinion, have
nothing whatever to fear for the future, but every thing
to hope, and this, it is gratifying to know, must now be
soon.