The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-06 00:00:00

THE RAILWAY SUN,

AND THE
PARLIAMENTARY SUN,
ARE NOW RE-PUBLISHED,
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San Office, Aug. 30, 1841.

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The Schah of Herat, liatxtuAx, after vir-
tually expelling Major TODD from that city,
acknowledged himself the vassal of Persia.
Herat and Ghorian, which it has cost us
such immense subsidies to save fronv the grasp
of Persia, are now voluntarily delivered
up to her by a traitor, for whose defence
England spent in works alone thirty lacs of
rupees. It is possible that we may have to
expel KAMRAN, and occupy Herat and Gho-
I rian in' the name of the Schah SOOJAH.
Colonel WYMER, of the Bengal army, sig-
nally defeated a great portion of the Aff-
ghan tribe of the Ghiljies, but from the
Bombay correspondence, found in another co-
lumn, it would appear that the origin of the dis-
affection of this tribe is attributable to the rash-
ness of a British officer. From a report
generally credited in India, that Lord
AUCKLAND had demanded a reinforcement
from the Ruler of the Punjaub of 10,000
Siekhs in conformity with an article in
the late Treaty, it would seem that the occupa-
tion of Herat is really contemplated by the
Anglo-Indian Government. This would be
indeed a bold measure, and one which
would be likely to embroil us in a quar-
rel with Russia. Notwithstanding the return
of the British Ambassador to the Court
of Teheran, we regard 'a war with Persia as an
event by no means distant. Sir HARFORD
JONES BRYDGES, for several years Ambassador
at the Court of Teheran, calculates that be-
tween the years 1809 and 1838, Persia cost
England two millions and a half sterling, and yet
what but hatred have we gained by this immense
outlay Persia never has been, and never will
be, anything but the tool of Russia and, there-
fore, whatever language she may hold—the
enemy of England. Let us then not deceive
ourselves, nor at .any time be unprepared for th
sorst that can happen.

Many of the supporters of the late Cabinet are

disposed to give the new Ministry a fair trial.
Why we know not, except that Sir ROBERT PEEL
has boxed the political compass so often that no
person seems sure as to the course which he may

:ake upon the Corn-laws, or any other of the

great questions which now agitate the country.
But the slippery and unscrupulous Baronet is

neither the Cabinet nor the uncontrollable direc

.or of its councils.

Notwithstanding his late

boast in the House of Commons, that-he would
not suffer himself to be made the scape-goat of
the ultra-Tories, it requires little sagacity to pre-
dict, that surrounded and hedged in as he is by

such men as STANLEY and GRAHAM, and the

Duke of BUCKINGHAM, he will be compelled to

stand sponsor for any policy that they are unani-
mous in adopting. With the threat of the Duke

of IticnraoND ringing in his ears, that the party
who have given him a majority will desert him if
he abandon the Corn-laws, it is idle to expect
that Sir ROBERT PEEL will adopt the only true
and efficient remedy for the public distress, which
consists in the repeal of all taxes upon the im-
portation of food. To divert public attention he
will appoint a Committee of Inquiry, consisting,
of course, of men enriched by the bread tax ;
some variation will be made in the sliding scale ;
but the people may depend upon it that nothing
ill be done which will be of the least benefit to
them. The object of the Tories and of PEEL 19 to
humbug them. The new Ministers, with awful
length of face and solemnity of voice, will crave
time for consideration and inquiry ; they will
deprecate all precipitancy in matters closely
connected with great national interests; but
unless forced to it by some unexpected pressure
from without, they will do nothing to fill the
bellies of the hungry with cheap food. When men
are resolved to see difficulties in their way, and
to be impeded at every step by the scruples of

a tender conscience, it is astonishing at how slow
a pace they will contrive to travel. The Tory
Cabinet is exactly in this position. The Tories
dare not avow their predilection for a retrograde
course, and to avoid as much as possible anything
like an onward movement they affect a wonder-
ful solicitude for a grave and deliberate exami-
nation, before stirring, of every object which the
most timid imagination could regard as an
obstacle. Of lip sympathy for the people there
will be no lack on the part of Tory statesmen,
but while there is a political agitator at whose
door to lay the blame of the misery of the peo-

ple, not a syllable will be said about the im
mense share the crimes and avarice of the landed
aristocracy have had in reducing them to the
state of wretchedness in which we find them.
We have no confidence whatever in Sir
ROBERT PEEL. We have, if possible, still less
confidence in the men by whom he is sur-
rounded in the Cabinet. We never wholly
trusted the Whigs ; we wholly and absolutely
distrust the Tories. We know well what we
have to expect from the arrogance of Lord
STANLEY; from the rankling apostacy of Sir
JAMES GRA HAM, eager to revenge himself upon
the country for the scorn which it has heaped
upon him ; from the pig-headed selfishness of
the Corn-law Duke of BUCKINGHAM; and from
the unprincipled, buccaneering, political parti-
zanship of Lord LYNDHURST. As well might
the people expect the Ethiop to change
his skin, or the leopard his spots, as these men
to set seriously about relieving the distresses of
the working classes. They never intended any
such thing. Their battles with the Whigs were
battles for place and for power. Their darling
object was office, not the means of benefiting
their country by any large or improved scale of
legislation or administration. So little; in reality ,
did they see wrong in the conduct of the Whigs,
that when they drove them from office they
stopped at the door to compliment them on the
politeness of their demeanour, their untiring in-
dustry, and the sincere uprightness of their in-
tentions ! It was a spectacle for men and
angels, to see men who, fbr ten years, had
represented the late Cabinet as composed
of traitors to, their country and its So-
vereign, starting to their feet, ready with
outstretched arms ,to embrace them, and
to proclaim their virtues to the word, the
moment it was announced that they had made up
their minds to give up the spoils of victory to
their opponents. When the Treasury bench was
gained, the Tories were satisfied. They even
talked of an oblivion of all old grudges, as if there
was no People out of doors who had the least con-
, cern in the arrangements made by Whigs and
Tories in the House of Commons. In such men
neither The Sun, nor the working classes of this
country, can have the shadow of confidence.
Were Sir ROBERT PEEL'S power in the Cabinet
absolute, we might expect something, for the
Right Hon. Baronet never supported the Corn-
laws with half the zeal he displayed in resisting
Catholic emancipation, and yet, in a few months,
he was brought round to carry that measure.
Sir ROBERT'S only political principle through
life has been expediency, and were the popular
outcry to render it expedient to abolish the Corn-
laws, he would be the first to propose their abo-
lition, were he not bound hand and foot to the
agricultural dray driven by the Duke of BUCK-
INGHAM. As he is now situated, he can do
nothing but obey the mandates of the thick-
skulled landed aristocracy, whose dupe and slave

he is.
The bulk of the people, who would not stir a
step to save the Whigs, abhor the Tories. None
of the rival factions possess their confidence.
They must now look to themselves, and among
themselves, for men upon whose abilities and
honesty they can rely with some degree of con-
fidence.

On Saturday the Bishop of LONDON consecrated
the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery
at Mile-end. An entertainment followed the
consecration service, at which the Right Rev.
Prelate made a short speech, in which he lauded
cemeteries at a distance from large towns as
favourable both to public health and public
decency. The good Prelate was not always so
favourable to cemeteries, and he had the.candour
to state his objections fairly to the company.