The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-31 00:00:00

to which, ace arding to him, everything in time, space,
,and thin s, ref ast bend—makes him appear to us
like a ,talking NAPARTE. His Lordship concluded
the de.%ate, which vas again adjourned at twelve o'clock.
Lord NorrEt H is, we believe, in possession of the
House.

As we yank ourselves to be close adherents of
neither of the two parties which now divide the
Parliament but do not together repreent the na-
tion, we s hat I take our own view of the motion
which Sir . JOHN YARDS BULLER has submitted
to the Hoi ise of Commons. He purposes to de-
clare that the Government, as now constituted,
does not pc )ssess the confidence of the House of
Comm. ans. S o far as his words go we in a great
measm e ai ;ref: with him, and must extend the
principle to tb ,e whole community. The Govern•
ment,l is now constituted, does not possess the con-
fidence of tin country.
We lire, so far as the principles of government
are con t 'ernes 1, in very remarkable times ; and in
nothing Are tihey so remarkable as in a general and
growing opirtiola, not confined to one class, or to
one nation, but dispersed through all classes, and
pervading, more or less, all nations, that no Govern-
ment, as n tow constituted, merits the confidence of
mankind. In the United States, in France, in
Spain, in l 3ngland, we find large masses of the com-
munity pre ife.l;sing a want of confidence in their
political in la tutions. We live in an age of revo-
lutions, of which that want of confidence is
the source. .In fact, Government has less influence

in mouldings ociety than society has in changing
Government and the progress of society being now
every where ix nexampledly rapid, every where there
are great clema tnds for changes in political institu-
tions. No au tesman knows what will happen next
week, or to-rco arrow, and no one is prepared with
measures to I Y wet the exigency. Those institutions
which, in pa: 0; times, as the Church, and of late, as
the Reform Act, have been most loudly recom-
mended to i is as panaceas, have turned out com-
plete failures , and the consequence is a wide-spread
and increasin tg distrust in political institutions. So
far as Sir Jo HN YARDE BULLER'S motion calls
on the Hous eof Commons to express its share in
that general 3 pinion it has our concurrence, and
cannot, we be I ieve, when closely examined, be gain-
sayed.
But his mot ion extends in fact much beyond its

words. It no t only implies that the House of
Commons and the country have no confidence in
the present NU .nisters, but that they have confidence
in another set of men, the antagonists of Ministers.

The hidden 1 ',tarpon of the motion is to convey an
opinion that the Commons and the country have
confidence i• 3 Sir R. PEEL, his friends, and his
policy. Thi sis insinuating a palpable falsehood,
and herein we differ in Coto from Sir JOHN
YARDE BA IT.LER. Sir ROBERT PEEL and
his friends are Tories ; their policy has been
year after• year repudiated by the whole nation--
given up, -mu e after time, by Sir ROBERT himself
and by al 1 this followers, one after another, till
they have :been obliged to hide their discounte-
nanced err Drs, by assuming a new name. Sir RO-
BERT him self has no confidence in his own policy,

neither ha re his friends. Indeed, what it r i now s,
except to t F matt the Whigs, it is impossible to tell.
Whatever n lay have been the errors of the Minis-
ters, and wi hatever may be their unpopularity, both
are due to heir having followed too closely the prin-
ciples of the Tories. That has hastened the
alarming cri; sis in which the country is placed. As
long as their conduct kept alive the hope of politi-
cal ameliorat ion, the country was free from tumult.
Rebellion Fir ew out of finality. The policy which
has injured -them, carried to a greater extent by the
Tories, wo aid be doubly injurious, and doubly de-
structive of confidence. It is not merely false,
therefore, it is absurd—and the absurdity will every
day become greater—to assert that the House of
Commons a aid the country have confidence in Tory
policy.
But Sir :RozEnT's friends do not confide in

him any inc ore than he confides in himself. For
example, a large body of them divided against
him last year on the Irish Corporation question,
and this yea r they have who
wholly forsaken him on
the Privilege question. lie is, in fact, so hewil-
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to.
of his pa rty, the tail being not merely a rud-
der for th .e Tories,—it impels them, like a fin.
The tail of the Whigs sometimes impedes, and
sometimes gives a slanting direction to the party,
but the tail of the Tories is the master will, to
which, both in fishes and in men, all the Members
are sub see vient. Sir ROBERT PEEL is wholly
impelled b y the tail of the Tories.
Amomg st his associates, members of his last,
and meml ers no doubt of his future Cabinet, are
Lord ST',ANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, rene-
gades fro, en principle and party, in whom neither
Whigs, 7 :ones, nor people place any confidence.
The bulk . of the community mistrusts them for their
tergiversat ion ; the Tories do not forget their
conduct 1831 and 1832, and the Whigs
regard tht m as traitors since 1835. At one
time the a,d vocates of toleration, and at another of
persecutima. —now constituting schools for general
education, and again making it a crime in Minis-
ters to give education to the people, independent
of the Priesthood--these politicians are mistrusted
and hated e Eke by Catholics and Protestants, by
Whigs and; Tories, by the great multitude, and
the middle classes. If, as we are constrained to
admit, the o ommunity has no longer confidence in
the Whigs, the assertion that it has confidence in
the crew of bi gots, changelings, and arbitrary, pi est -
ridden statei men, who are nicknamed Conserva-
tives, is too. preposterous to be worthy of further
aefutation.

We hope that the working and unrepresented
classes throu bout the empire, amounting, we be-
lieve, to not less than four-fifths of the commu-
nity—in het tnd they amount nearly to nineteenth-
twentieths-1 rill mark and note the conduct and
principles of the Tories, as exemplified during the
present discu s non concerning the conduct of the
Ministers. A.ll parties in Parliament recognize the
existence of vltst discontent, and the Tories make
its existence a charge against the Government.
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a ~v thems.
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Ministers seen not to know how to remedy it, but
they are not unwilling to give some extension to
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tisioemce
declared, spe:3l:ing by the mouth of Sir JAMES GR A-
dnr flea:
majority
declaration,
ohonef,
the Tories
sitting
stbht and we
agriculturists
e
fluctuating sc. ale of duties, was necessary ; and that
he was determjned to oppose every extension of the
franchise. Thus the forks avow that they will
not make just laws for the working classes, and
will not allow them to have any part in making the
laws. They declara that they, the landlords, shall
and must continue to rob the working classes by
law, and that the working classes shall not have
the means of quietly restraining and pulling an
end to this robbery. This is throwing down the
gauntlet to the working classes, and telling them
that they shall continue to be slaves and be plundered.
So far as the Tories can sway the Legislature, sach a
declaration puts at once an end to all hope of
freedom or justice from the Legislature, and
leaves but one course open to the unrepresented. The
Tories already have a majority in one branch of
the Legislature, and if they should . prevail in the
other the Legislature would be constituted on a
principle of hostility to the wishes and welfare of
four-fifths of the people. It would be their avowed
enemy, and would thus invite them, by the strongest
t standu
principles of man's nature to destroy it.
Let us
in
againstitl the at
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Toriesof
the nation. The whole of the congregations of the
Church do not exceed one-third of the commu-
nity. Many of them are opposed to the inordi-
nate pretensions of the priesthood, who constitute
the whole and sole Church for the Tories.
Amongst the priesthood, too, there are many
serious divisions—the only thing they are una-
nimous on, is keeping the revenues of the Church
to themselves. Now, on this narrow basis, this
small disjointed section of the community, for
its interest exclusively, and by its means, the
Tories are endeavouring to seize and hold the Go-
vernment of the country. If they could succeed,
they must constitute only a Government of a
narrow and intolerant sect, which is daily splitting
into fragments, and dwindling into contempt. To
aim at constituting a Government on such a
basis—which is what the commanding genius of
Sir R. PEEL is now doing—is physically and
morally absurd.

Leiters from Athens attic I lth inst. state that the
Chiefs of the recently discovered conspiracy are Count