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

PAR.LIAMENTARY.

The Royal Assent was last night given by Commission
to the Earl of Scarborough's Indemnity Bill, and the
Peers then adjourned to the 20th instant.
All the new writs were moved for last night in the
Commons, on account of the Ministers taking office.
We were surprised' also to observe that Mr. Warburton
vacated his seat for Bridport. Perhaps disliking to sit in a
corrupt assembly, or perhaps the petition presented against
his return on account of some informality, may have led to
his resignation. Mr. Alderman Thompson also has
vacated Sunderland, in order to prepare for Westmore-
land. Sir George Anson, too, retires from Lichfield, in
order to preserve his situation in the household of Prince
Albert.

Mr. Roebuck complained of an article in the Times.
as a breach of privilege, failed in his attack, and added
to the power of that formidable journal.
Sir George Clerk signified that when the First Lord
of the Treasury was in his place on the 16th inst., that
Right. Hon. Baronet would state what course he meant
to pursue. The world waits for Sir Robert Peel.

'he Administration of Justice Bill was read a first
time, with the approbation of both sides of the House,
which adjourned to the 16th inst.

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Post says :—" The Whigs may say what
they please of the domineering and exclusive temper of
the Conservative party, but the public know that such
representations are not true. The Conservative party is
not founded upon the principle of exclusion, or mono-
poly, or preference of this or that great interest, but
it is founded on the inclusive principle—on the principle
of bringing together all whose views of improvement may
be brought within the circle of respect for existing institu-
tions and theprinciples of the constitution as now settled."
—The " views of improvement"of the Tory Cabinet are
just about as extensive as the views that one gets of a
landscape through a small- hole in a brick wall. The
Ministry is decidedly a monopolist one, based on the
stand-still system of policy, and have scarcely one sound,
healthy feeling in common with the bulk of the commu-
nity. The appointment of the Duke of Buckingham is
a proof that they will not err on the side of liberality ;
and in the adhesion of Sir James Graham we have a
voucher that principle will not go for much in their esti-
mation. In a word, the Government is a patch-work
combination of political Sectarians and Exclusives, which
will drop to pieces the instant that the link of self-
interest which now binds them together, is broken. •
The Advertiser gives the following sketch..of Lord
Lyndhurst :—" Lord Lyndhurst, though the least noisy
of the leading men in the medley Ministry, is one from
whom the popular cause has perhaps as much to dread as
from any Member of it. He is cool, calculating, and
cunning ; so insidious in his designs, that even those in
most frequent and familiar intercourse with him, are as
little liable as others to have their suspicions ex-
cited. In this respect he is more dangerous than Sir
Robert Peel himself ; and what aggravates the evil of
Lord Lyndhurst's admission into the new Cabinet, is the
intensity of the hatred which he bears to everything
which wears the semblance of popular principles. He
is the most noted apostate of the numerous apos-
tates with which the Peel Administration abounds."—
This is no exaggerated portrait. Lord Lyndhurst started
in life as a " Whig and something more"—that is to say,
he had a strong leaven of republicanism about him; he
then veered round and joined the ultra-Tory party; but
finding that they were declining in influence, he attached
himself to the fortunes of the more Liberal Tories, then
headed by Canning. He next deserted them, and joined
Peel and Wellington, with whom he has since continued
to act; and whose obsequious tool he will continue to be,
till he finds it his interest to jump Jim Crow once more.
He is undoubtedly an able man, but whenever mischief is
brewing, he is sure to be among the first to stir the cauld-
ron. Like his illustrious prototype, he is always busy in
a high wind.
The Times resumes its praises of the Tory Ministry
as follows :—" An immense body of the constituencies
in each of the three United Kingdoms are appealed to
a second time, on behalf of the constitutional principles
which they so nobly contended fur in the late contest ;
nor have we a doubt that their former choice, both as
regards measures and men, will be eagerly ratified, '
without exception, by the return of all the Members of
the new Ministry who now solicit a renewal of their
confidence. Among their many titles to public support
arising from their talents, character, and aptitude for
business, the perfect disinterestedness by which
they are actuated in undertaking the labours
and responsibilities of office must, doubless, be
a paramount consideration in recommending them
to . the renewed suffrages of the eleetors."—
To speak of the " perfect disinterestedness" of such men
as the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Lyndhurst, and Sir
James Graham, is a perfect absurdity, at which they
themselves will be the first to laugh. We would give
something to see their faces while reading such hypocri-
tical eulogiums ; they would manage, no doubt, to pre-
serve their gravity till they came to the words " perfect
disinterestedness," when Sir James Graham would be
sure to burst into a shout of laughter, only to be equalled
in violence and duration by the sympathetic roar of Lord
Lyndhurst. Xothing indeed can be richer than the idea
of the " perfect disinterestedness' of a man who, not five
years ago, publicly avowed his " utter want of confi-
dence" in a, Premier whom lie now joins heart and soul!
In reference to Sir Robert Peel's Irish appointments,
the Chronic"! observes :—" lie has dared to send to Ire-
land as Lord Lieutenant a man whose connection with
one of the most notorious Orange officials in that coun-
try, it might have been supposed would have sufficed to
mitigate the hostility of the extreme party. But no.
Lord de Grey, though the brother-in-law of an Orange
grand master, had not yet passed the ordeal by which
Lord liaddiugton had been duly qualified, and already
is ,the new Lord Lieutenant warned of the fate that
awaits him, so
surely as he dares to govern Ireland in
a
spirit
of moderation or impartiality. Lord Eliot
is, we believe, a selection as little objectionable as
Sir Robert Peel could well have made. Yet
for Lord Eliot's suspected moderation, the appoint-
ment of 'such men as Blackburne and Jackson is
not deemed a sufficiently bigotted counterpoise !"
The Orange party are already up in arms against Sir
Robert Peel, and with these attacking him on one side,
and the O'Connellites on the other, he will have a plea-
sant and tranquil time of it. A bold, vigorous Tory
would, have sided with the Orangemen, and at least
have had one class to back him through thick and thin ;
but the Right Hon. Baronet is not a bold Tory ; he is a
tricky, timid time-server, who by endeavouring to trim
between two parties, and oscillate, like a pendulum, now
to one, and now to the other, will disgust both.
The following is from the Herald :—" It is a distin-
guishing trait of a great portion of the Irish people that
their political differences are greatiy embittered, and
their party virulence vastly augmented, by the distribu-
tion of public patronage ; and this jealousy does not so
much arise from selfishness as from the disproportion
existing between the adherents to the State religion and
to the Dissenting faith. While, then, in claims to office
and public preferment, the principles on which Sir R. Peel
must govern Ireland will not allow of any inquiryinto the
religious belief of the claimants to place, it will be the
bounden duty of those who administer the affairs of
Ireland to investigate most strictly their secular qualifi-
cations ; and although a disbelief in those vital points
of faith which mark the separation of the Church of
Ireland from the Romish sect, cannot be allowed to be a
bar to preferntent, yet the respectable, the peaceable, the
orderly, and the m: Berate citizen, must at all times be
chosen when placed in competition with the disaffected,
the turbi dent, the agitating and mere trading politician."
the Shefj:el.l Iris observes, in reference to the appoint-
ment ef the new Ministry :—"The bitter as
Bowring remarked, isas been presented to the people,'
but they refuse to drink, and Sir "iobert may enact a
second Peterloo, or do justice to Ireland by sending more
soldiers and cartridges among them, and still thy will
refuse. The consciousness of their own might is now
before them, and a declining revenue, and an increase of
taxation, a falling trade, and an increase of misery, will
forge weapons more formidable than sabres and musketry."
We quote the following from the Cambridge Adverti-

ser:—" Looking at the materials which compose the
Tory Cabinet, we easily discern the elements of disrup-
tion and decay. There arc the honest and the dishonest
—the consistent and the renegade—the moderate and
trinuninq politician, and the man of obstinate measures—
it comprises even the fool and the man of genius. Such
unwrought and discordant materials cannot mix toge-
ther ; and although a Tory Government may continue
a few years, we predicate a speedy end to the Ministry as
at present constituted."