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LONDON:
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1841.

The great cry of Sir ROBERT PEEL at Tam-
worth, was turn out the Whigs, turn out the
Whigs, and all will go well. They have lost
the confidence of the country, therefore turn
out the Whigs. That, and that alone, has been
the object of the Right Hon. Baronet's policy
during the whole time he has been in opposition.
For this, and this alone, he has built up, as he
says, the Conservative party; for this he sum-
moned his followers to do battle in the Registra-
tion Courts, and for this he has patiently strug-
- Bled through eleven years of wearying defeat to
a temporary triumph. Other politicians may
have had nobler motives. Some may have
struggled to serve the people, others to gain a
victory for the Crown; some have been enthusi-
astic for a theory, others have formed a broad.
and-comprehensive scheme of policy. Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL has laboured and fought exclusively
for office.
The assertion that he was contending to
preserve our institutions and uphold the
Church is a mere pretext, for neither
he, nor any one of his followers, 'has ever really
believed that the Monarchy and the Church,
with all our institutions, were not as safe in the
keeping of the Whigs, as in the keeping of the
Tories. He has more than once, indeed, re-
proached the Ministers with being obliged to
make concessions to the Radicals and to Mr.
O'CONNELL, because they were weak ; but they
were weak only through the factious opposition
of the Tories; and if the idea of serving the
State, according to his own principles, had ever
predominated over obtaining office, if he had
wished to prevent injurious concessions, he would
have offered his services to the Government, and
strengthened it by his support. He rarely or
never did so, though he was frequently found vot-
ing on its side, where it adopted Tory principles,
or resisted attacks on the Constitution. The
opinion that Sir ROBERT PEEL—who, rather
than give up office, consented to be the instru-
ment for passing the Catholic Emancipation.
Bill, which he had all his life opposed—is the
enemy of the Whigs from any enthusiastic at-
tachment to the Monarchy, being disposed of,
there remains no other clue to his conduct but
that we haye already given into the hands of
the reader ; he has laboured fbr nothing else
than to
place himself in office.
With that clue to his conduct, he having no
broad and comprehensive scheme of policy laid
down, but being a mere waiter upon Provi-
dence, and ready to adopt any measure which
time and circumstances demand, consistently
with his sole and grovelling object of remaining
in place, the demand to turn out _the, Whigs,
so vociferously echoed by his followers,
which means turn in PEEL, becomes power-
fully expressive. A wise and a thoughtful
man, preferring his country's welfare to his indivi-
dual aggrandisement, would never have adopted
such a course, or used the same language as Sir
ROBERT PEEL. Whatever his followers may
bawl, he must be sensible that the difficulties into
which the country is plunged, deficient revenue
and deranged trade, are not the result of mal-
administration, but of unjust and improper legis-
lation. The additional expense which the con-
duct of the Government brought on the country
—even
.if we were to admit that they were tu
blame for the Canada troubles, which were a
„Tory legacy ; for the Chinese dispute, which was
the' consequence of barbarian folly, and the unwise
legislation which placed a Government repre-
sentative on the waters of Canton to watch over
-our 'trade ; and-.for the Affghanistan and Syrian
expeditions,—the additional expense, we say,
caused by the conduct of the Government, ad-
mitting it to have been blameable, was met in
1840 by additional taxation; but the resources
of the country have ceased to expand under the
pressure of short-sighted legislation., and the ad-
ditional taxation, resulted in a positive loss to the

revenue. For that no change of Ministers can
be a remedy, and that man must be blinded by
a desire for office who could teach the multitude
that to turn out the Whigs and turn in the
Tories would be to restoreour damaged finances
and bring back prosperity to our unemployed and
starving artisans.
It will restore confidence for a time, we admit,'
in the Govern - '
mem'? ueoduze at present the ma-

•

jorily of the electors have confidence ,in the
Tories; ;1111.4 tkeExecutive Goyernment, as such,
can do nothing, and,.:in the haads of the Tories,
certainly will do nothing to restore the national
prosperity. The cure must come from the Le-
gislature. The plain fact is that the resources
of our industrious and ingenious people, vast as
' they are, are inadequate to feed themselves
comfortably, which is their first duty, and
comply with all the demands which the Le-
gislature makes on them. Their skilful toil,
however productive, is inadequate to pay all the
expenses of the State, and all the still heavier
expenses imposed on it by legislation, establish-
ing and maintaining a great number of mono_
polies. It is physically impossible for the peo-
ple to comply with all the demands made on
them by the Legislature. They are required to
run with their legs tied, to swim with a load they
cannot carry. The Legislature, by its laws, not
the Executive Government by executing those
laws, imposes these burdens on the people,
and the Legislature only can give relief.
The Tories, however, and the monopolists,
are one and the same; and their subservient
tool, the Tamworth quack, takes office to fix
more securely, if he can, all those burdens on
the people, while he teaches them that a change
in the Executive Government will give relief.
The people will be deceived if they expect that
having confidence in the Government will pro-
duce any such effect; and Sir R. PEEL, though
he takes on himself the responsibility, knows
that the Executive Government, however much
it may be confided in, cannot restore the prospe-
rity of the country, unless the Legislature
abolish the monopolies.
So far, however, does Sir ROBERT PEEL share,
or inculcate without sharing, a vulgar prejudice,
that he refers to the repeal of the Union, and
the Lichfield House compact. as affording an
explanation of the state of the country. That the
justice done to the Catholics by the Ministers
has raised against them the bigotry of the ultra-
Protestants is not doubtful ; and Sir R. PEEL'S
allusion to that subject must carry conviction to
every man that bigotry, though little publicly
and openly appealed to during the late elections;
has had considerable influence in deciding them.
The No-Popery feeling was active, if the No-
Popery cry was not heard. Whatever might
have been the effect of the Lichfield House com-
pact, in a party point of view, it had no more
tendency to increase the expenses of the State
than disbanding a few regiments. It diminished
the expenses, and by producing tranquillity it
augmented the resources and revenue of Ire-
land. By acting on contrary principles Sir RO-
BERT FEEL may increase the public expenses,
but he will grossly delude the people if he tell
them that the Tory Government he is to form,
with the help of the whole army of monopolists,
will augment the revenue, increase trade, and
add to employment, profit, or wages.
We repeat, as we have
,before more than once
stated, that the country has not been brought
into its present condition by the maladministra-
tion of the laws, but by the laws being unjust.
Sir ROBERT PEEL has no plan to amend them;
he has no settled and comprehensive scheme of
policy, except that he will as long as possible
maintain the unjust laws; and he has no higher
motive for supplanting the Whigs than the de-
sire of possessing place and power.

The , demand which is generally made on Sir
R. PEEL by his opponents to state what he will
do when he is in office, would seem to imply, on
their part, an opinion that he must succeed
Lord MELBOURNE. Certainly the assumption of
the Tories that he must be Prime Minister,
makes very light of her MAJESTY, and implies
that she must do as the temporary majority of
the Tories dictates, however attained. There is, in
truth; less admission in the demands of his op-
ponents, than arrogance in the assumption
of his friends. Sir ROBERT PEEL has
been the forward ar►d active man in
breaking up the present Government, and
therefore the public have a right to demand
of him what he suggests in place of that budget
which he would not allow to pass into a law. At
the same time it does not follow thither MAJESTY
must make the leader of the mischief her chief
counsellor. Really the Tories, who boast
so much of their loyalty, do not show
any great respect for her MAJESTY, since they
speak of her as the humble tool of their• ma-
jority. They do not leave the grand-daughter of
GEORGE 111. any will of her own. They exer-
cise her prerogative for her; they fill up all the
public offices; they make this man First Lord
of the Treasury, and that man Viceroy of Ire-
land, without ever consulting her MAJESTY, any
more than they consult her waiting-woman. Her
MAJESTY, we apprehend, is not deficient in that
spirit which her father and grandfather possessed,
and she will scarcely allow Sir ROBERT PEEL
and his friends to treat her as if her highest
duty was to obey their directions, and lend her
signature, when they bid her, to carry their will
into effect.

We have received the French Journahi of
Wednesday. All the news they bring of any
political importance 9peared in. The Sun of yes-
terday. The following are additional extracts
from them :-
- The Utilitaire of Toulouse of the 25th has the fol-
lowing paragraph :—" The posts hitherto held by the
National Guard were relieved yesterday evening by
troops of the line. This extraordinary measure was car-
ried into execution with all the prudence which may be
expected from an extraordinary commission of the King.'
We are threatened with the dissolution of the National
Guard. If this should be true it would be the commence-
ment of a rigorous execution meditated by the Govern-
ment against the city. We recommend M. Duval to
consider on. this point what it would be most proper to do
on this occasion.

Tl-Ae same journal says, " We learn that the King's
extraordinary Commissioner has a municipal administra-
tion quite ready. He only waits for a favourable oppor-
ttmily to make it known. It is said that he bas chosen
fo: this purpose the fetes of the three days. The moment
would be well chosen to inaugurate an administration
which might be designated by the name of Proconsular.
It is announced that the inhabitants of Toulouse in-
tend to raise a subscription for the purpose of presenting
a sword of honour to General St. Michel. M. Mahul had
a private audience of the King on Monday."—Le Com-
merce.

A few days ago. at an auction sale of household fur-
iture at Etreval (Meurthe), the flooring of the room
n the first floor, in which the sale was held, gave way,
nl all who were in it fell through to the ground floor.
More than fifty persons were severely injured, and several
were killed, but the number is not stated in the letter
from which we take this account. Amongst the persons
severely injured was M. Saulnier, avocat of the Cour
Royale of Nancy. One female had both legs broken,
and they have since been amputated. .Her daughter, a
girl of fourteen, had also a leg broken.
The Augsburgh Gazette says—" The advantages of-
fered by the Austrian Government to the contractors aro
stated to be as follow ---it. The contractors are to be
at liberty to transform • their bonds into Italian rentes.
2d. The Governmentt engages not to pay off or convert
3indt.o oltnhetrhse nttoecykehe total amount of the 5 per cent. debt.
par, the Governmenoft
thbe 5 per cent. bonds falling below
engages to assist to the utmost of
its power in raising
fund. 4th. If" it, y having recourse to the sink-
ingshould be so depreciraetme
edvvuasnforeseen events the new bonds
under 92 on the Exchangerr
rr tor
vbe i
efor a , Itsh de ay s together
Government
monatrhrlangeraent for relieving the
engages to come to a
monthly instalments which might
contractors from the
still, remain to be effected. Theul Governmentloan is
en-
gages to contract no other loan based upon the system
of public credit, before the 31st J 1854031
e. l y The
Augsburgh Gazette adds; that the neawn•
in-
tended for the consolidation of the old debt, and is not
to be used to cover any deficit of the budget or to meet
any extraordinary expenditure.
It is stated in a letter from Hanover, of the 17th inst
that the Prince loyal had for some days been much •'
in-
disposed, and that he would, as soon as he shouladgabine
well enough to undertake the journey,•. go to Norderney
for sea-bathing. The rumour of an intended marriage
between timesai d ago,to
have i
between the Prince and a Princess of Anhalt-Dessau,
s urged
rheisvievedus.in'Twhheilichinl'a'ss perysreicnitansosm
hi; going to Ems for his health, but he objects so much
to l giving, that the proposed journey is more than ever
uoubtful.
BouRSE—PARN, WEDNESpAr, JULY 28.

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