The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-31 00:00:00

MORNING SUN.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
CHRONICLE.—In the present state of parties, the
proceedings at the dinner given by Sir Robert Peel to
his constituents at Tamworth will, of course, be read
with some curiosity. The dumb show still continues.
Sir Robert Peel will tell nobody what he will do as
Minister until he is Minister. The point to which he
sticks is—turn out the Whigs, and put me in, and then
you shall see what you shall see. His own party are
quite as much in the dark as the rest of the world.
He says he is " constantly asked" what he means to
propose. But he is asked in vain. " The hungry
sheep look up, and are not fed." Why, then,
are they his party ? Plainly, on no ground of
public policy. Some other tie binds them to
him. They do not follow him for the sake
of some known good to be achieved for the country.
What can charity itself surmise but that they follow him
for selfish and sinister ends, acting upon " tainted" mo-
tives, iu conformity with the tainted characters which
their own journals ascribe to some of the more influen-
tial members of the faction ? The power of such charac-
ters to force themselves into office may well make the
expectant Premier uncertain about what measures it will
be expedient or practicable for him to propose. No one
who has studied Sir Robert Peel would expect him to
confess to such a difficulty as this. His characteristic
course would be to varnish it over, give it the colouring
of a free choice, and manufacture it into a merit. This is
precisely what he has done. In shrinking from all disclo-
sure of his future policy, Sir Robert claims to be in-
fluenced by a principle of propriety. He vamps up an
analogy to prove that it would be " not fit" in him, the
aspirant to the premiership, to apprise the nation of his
intentions. He affirms himself to be in the position of a
medical man, who sees a patient suffering, wrongly
treated, and without confidence in the present physician;
and who declines to suggest anything because not regu-
larly called in, it would be " no proper advice." We
know this is medical etiquette ; and we also know that
if any physician of our acquaintance should see one for
whom he professed half the regard professed by Sir R.
Peel for the country in this condition, and acting on Sir
Robert's principle, should sacrifice the health or life of
his friend to the etiquette of his profession, we should
think him a most unexceptionable man of forms, and
also as cold-hearted a scamp as ever indulged in false
profesions.
TIMES.—The Government of Louis Philippe was
recognised and supported by England in 1830, not from
any enthusiastic admiration of its popular origin, but
because it was, under the circumstances, the form of
government best fitted to secure the liberties of the
French people, and to check the abuse of them. The
great public interest of maintaining a strong and orderly
Government in France, in order to curb that -revolu-
tionary spirit which had overturned the Throne of the
elder Bourbons, and might again have devastated,
Europe, was paramount to all minor considerations of
national jealousy. It was so then, and it is so still.
Whatever tends to weaken that Government tends to re-
move the only barrier by which the world is protected
from evils so enormous, that they cannot for a moment
be weighed against the utmost success of Lord ]?on-
sonby's paltry intrigues. It cannot be concealed
that the loss of the English alliance, the excitement
of the military operations of last year, and the ad-
ditional burdens flung upon the country by a reckless
and short-lived Administration, have considerably in-
creased the difficulties with which Louis Philippe has to
contend. The state of society in France is too unsettled,
and the authority of her rulers too insecure, for the
friends of peace and order to trifle with such inflammable
materials. It was the part of England to conciliate the
nation and to support the Government : it has been the
part of Lord Palmerston to irritate the one and to in-
sult the other. The actual result of his policy, as far as
France is concerned, has been to stimulate the bad pas-
sions of that restless and ambitious people, and to weaken
the power of the established authorities. A few weeks
more will put an end to this deplorable state of things.
A Conservative Administration will inherit none of the
passions and projects which have so agitated and con-
fused our foreign relations : but it will apply its steady
influence to the maintenance of that good understanding
with foreign nations upon which their internal order and
the general tranquillity of Europe depend.
POST.—The speech of Sir Robert Peel, which we had
the satisfaction of giving to the publicyesterday morning,
exclusively in the whole of our impression, cannot fail to
do great good to the Conservative cause. How very dif-
ferent it is from the snappishness and deception which
were the prominent characteristics of the written address
lately given to the world by Lord John Russell ! We
have perfect confidence in submitting Sir R. Peel's speech
to the common sense ,and rational manly feeling of the
country, that it will be received with warm ap-
probation. We care not whether they who sit in judg-
ment upon it belong to the Tory or the Whig
school of politics, provided they be people of
sense, and above the small malignities of party spirit.
They will find it plain and honest and earnest. It is not
deformed by any boasting. Notwithstanding all the
temptations to retaliate which have been furnished by
Whig-Radical organs, there was nothing said unworthy
the great leader of a great party. Sir Robert Peel
plainly asserted the plain truth as to the censures which
both the Parliament and the people had passed upon the
Ministers of the Crown, but he did not for a moment
lose sight of the respect due to the Crown itself, nor did
he presume upon the probability that the power he now
wields would make it necessary fir the Crown to appoint
him and his political friends in the room of those whom
Parliament and the people have censured.
HERALD.—We congratulate ' the public—and Sir
Robert Peel not less—on the speech delivered by the
Right Hon. Baronet at the dinner given by him to his
constituents on Wednesday evening the 28th instant, in
the Town hall at Tamworth. It was a manly, unaffected,
plain, intelligible expose of his own views of his own posi-
tion under the circumstances of the present eventful
crisis. The repor:, which we published in a portion of
our impression yesterday, and which we repeat to-day,
it is perfectly refreshing to peruse after the recent inflic-
tions we have witnessed of such vulgar balderdash and
incoherent raving as formed the staple of the last perform-
ances at the Corn Exchange, Dublin. Sir Robert treated
whatever subject he touched upon with the frankness of
an Englishman, the independence of a gentleman, and
the dispassionate judgment of an enlightened statesman.
There was no "clap-trap" about his address. He went
directly to the points which he wished to enforce and
illustrate, and made up by mere argument and sound
reasoning—for all that the friends of " repeal" would
say was wanting in force and fire. He relied only on
admitted facts. He left to others the bad eloquence of
unscrupulous invective and studied misrepresentation ;
and he elicited testimonies of enthusiastic approbation
and expressions of personal attachment from the com-
pany whom he addressed, which " liberators" and " repre-
sentatives " of whole kingdoms in their single persons
may be surprised to learn were so elicited without indul-
gence in a single vituperative charge against a political
opponent—without a single insinuation of jealousy or
malice against an unsuspecting friend. It is impossible
to avoid contrasting (mentally, we mean, for we have no
intention of visiting the penalty of the actual collation on
our tit:offending readers)--Lthe simple, brief, and digni-
fied acknowledgments of the Right Hon. Baronet to his
constituents for their continued support and confidence,
with the stilted extravagance, the fawning obsequious-
ness, of the thanks uttered by O'Connell on analogous
occasions.
ADVERTISER.—The Morning Journal which is
privileged to possess the confidence of the Tamworth
Baroncf, continues its piecemeal developments of the
course of policy which the Right Hon. Gentleman
means to pursue when he shall appear before the public
in his new capaCity of Prime Minister of England. If
.on some points of vast importance the morning omen
'of the expectant Premier is vague and indefinite in ban
intimations, there are others in which it is
and explicit in its revelations as to leave no room ain' er
doubt or misapprehension in any mind. The
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question
of the ballot is au instance in point. If any one
a lossots to what conclusion ought to be come to with
regard to the probable course which Sir Robert Peel,
-when he shall have wrested the reins of office from their
present possessors, means to adopt on the question of the
ballot, he has only to consult the Puddle-dock oracle of
yesterday, and his darkness will be enlightened at once.
For ourselves, slippery, sliding, and supple as we know the
Premier elect to be, we never had the shadow of a doubt as
to the course which, on that question, he would pursue.
We knew his bitter hostility to the right of secret voting,
and his determination, so often as the subject should be
mooted in Parliament, to resist the adoption of the Ballot
with all the appliances which his position as the First
Minister of the Crown, and leader of the House of Com-
mons will place at his disposal. If any one should have
been sanguine enough to suppose for a moment that the
Mallet would be included in the category of " expedient"
•questions, such person must haVe totally miscenceive'd
the character of the Right. Hon. Gentleman. Whatever
may be his other concessions to the popular demands,
whatever other Tory "principle" he may immolate on
the shrine of his favourite " expediency," the surrender
of his prejudices against the Ballot is a sacrifice which he
will never make. There is something in the moral con-
stitution of the man at irreconcilable variance with the
secret and unbiassed exercise of the electoral qualification.
STANDARD.--The Whig Laureateship, emu- Led
successively by Sir Charles H. Williams and
captain
Morrisis now a vacant office. The filth of R'
the 011 lad
cast upon fir. Pitt, because he was a •
life ; the scoffs of Peter Plyinlev Alan of virtuous
pure habits of Mr. Perceinl „ at the amiable and
Even • the Rev. scoffer would not tell now.
who among all his Peter Plymley himself,
• broke so coarse -coarse and profane jests, never
Ol' so profane an one as when he took
r
_or.ltll,e.r.se _intitt_e
ehureh—even the Rev. scoffer, Peter
an„,m imseif is compelled by the corrected taste
. „morality of the age, to conform himself to de-
V.verything proves that at present it is by
respecting, not by violating, their highest obligations,
seen can now hope for the favour of the British nation.'
'We have grounds of quarrel with the higher aristocracy,
but it ie chiefly with its older members, and withtht
few exclusives, who through the miserable vanity of ex-
rensiveness, still cling to old habits, but let us look to
the younger members of even the higher aristocracy, the
Lincoln, Mandevilles, Ashleys, Mahons, &c., and where
in the world can you hope to find more accomplished
or betthr men? Descend a step in the nobility and you
will find the same glorious improvement in the rising
generation. It is the same, and in the same degree, with
the gensry and middle classes ; and even in those humbler
orders.v:hich intelligence and improvement reach the last,
there
is manifestly a mighty amelioration—witness the
fateiin of Socialism. Though patronised by the Queen's
3 isters—though its founder was presented at
Court by the Prime Minister himself, even the humblest
and most ignorant of the people have spit it from them
with disgust and indignation, thusdemonstrating how far
they have outrun Lord Melbourne in right feeling and
moral taste.
and Atheism, Ism, the incorporation of impurity
never received countenance with any
above the lowest except the Queen's Ministers, and now
the ion est have cast . from them. It is impossible
to contemplate au improved state of society as W

have been considering without a feeling of delight and
gratitude ; and without a feeling of extreme anxiety too
that nothing shall be permitted to interrupt its progress.
The people have done their part at the elections to pro-
vide a spotless Ministry ; and have done enough
too to prove that the power of such a Minis-
try will be immense, a power commensurate with
the whole moral force of the people of the United King-
dom. Let us see such a Ministry—and we expect to
see it—and we may repose ourselves in peace, with the
assurance that during the life of any of us, England will
never witness the return of the Whig-Radicals to power.
GLOBE.—There is something rather comical in the
idea of Tamworth being the chosen borough to whose in-
habitants the future Minister of this great country makes
known all that he condescends to tell of his political in-
tentions ; but, if we are to believe the Post of yesterday,
Tamworth is a much more important place than the
world has been in the habit of thinking it. It is true,
that at his nomination Sir Robert declared that he
would rather sit for Tamworth than for Westminster,
—which reminded us at the time of the pride of a
Little Pedlingtonian, who, notwithstanding all the re-
nown of the pump at Aldgate, had pinned his affec-
tions on the pump of Little Pedlington. That the
honour of representing Tamworth and Westminster
may have been brought by recent events somewhat more
than formerly on a par, we cannot help admitting, and
the simile of the pumps may be applied to a great por-
tion of the electors both at • Tamworth and at West-
minster. But, lest posterity should doubt the greatness
of a statesman who had represented a place so little, Tam-
worth is declared, in the Post of yesterday, to be really
a place of very considerable size and consequence. It is
said of Alexander the Great that he ordered the beds of
his soldiers to be made very much too large, that future
ages might be filled with admiration of the stature of a
Macedonian ; and we fear it is somewhat in the same
spirit that Tamworth's importance is exaggerated, lest
those who live hereafter should infer, from the insignifi-
cance of the place, the littleness of its representative.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

CHRONICLE.—The Madrid correspondent of a
morning Contemporary has informed the-public in seve-
ral of his late communications, that the Spanish Govern-
ment is about sending to this country a remittance to
pay one dividend on the Three per Cent. Stock created
for the conversion of the arrears of coupons of the actual
Active debt. This report was mentioned again in a con-
fident manner in the Morning Post of yesterday. We
are inclined to think that this information is rather pre-
mature, as the conversion of the coupons has tot taken
place, for which the bondholders have to thank the mem-
bers of the Committee, and therefore no payment can be
made until the matter is arranged. We do not profess
to know to what purposes the Government will apply the
loan of 600,000,000 reals, (about 600,000/. sterling) for
which the sanction of the Cortes has been demanded ;
but we have been given to understand that the intention
of the Spanish Government is to apply 60,0001., which
will be paid by this country for the purchase of the
island of Fernando Po, to the settlement of part of the
arrears of interest due on the indemnity bonds, which
amounts to about 30,0001. annually.
ADVERTISER.—It is a matter worth noticing, per-
haps, as having been stated in the accounts received from
Frankfort to-day, via Rotterdam, that the Italian
hanker Belloni, who suspended payments at Trieste, a
few days back, owing to the stoppage of the Vienna
firms, has been enabled to resume again, and further, that
the eminent houses of Bethmann, Bonn, and Floer-
sheim, at Frankfort, had withdrawn nearly all the large
amount of bank and private assets deposited with Gey
Muller, before the house failed, so that they will escape
' with comparatively trifling losses. On the other hand,
we are sorry to state that the banking and exchnges
firm of Malionie, at Vienna, has fallen into embarras-
ments.

TIMES.—The public in the City have been much sur-
prised at the pertinacity with which the Sun Fire-Office
have been continuing their building, while the legal
question concerning the boundary line is still undecided.
It seems they suspended operations till they obtained the
Vice-Chancellor's injunction against the proceedings of
the Commissioners of Sewers under " Michael Angelo
Taylor's Act," but as soon as they had procured that, not-
withstanding the notice that the Commissioners would
appeal to the Chancellor, they went on as before, though
the question was still undecided. A reference to the
law reports of the day will show that the Chancellor con-
siders the case as yet undisposed of, and suggests that
the decision of a court of law may be procured on the
construction of the statutes connected with the mat-
ter. The Sun Office, under these circumstances, are
scarcely justified in carrying on their invasion against
public improvement. The Commissioners of Sewers, it
is said, are determined to continue to the last the contest
for the cause of the public.

REGISTRATIONS.

TO BOROUGH AND CITY ELECTORS.

The next General Election (should there be one)
within 15 months) will virtually commence to-morrow,
that being the day on which the Overseers publish
the list of voters for the ensuing year.
Every Reformer, should, therefore, prepare for the
contest by carefully attending to the registration. Ist.
Ile should see that the Overseers publish their lists on
all the Churches and Chapel doors on the Ist and Bth of
August, their wilfully neglecting to do so rendering them
liable to a penalty of 5001. 2dly. He should examine
those lists either next Sunday or the following Sunday,
or at the residence of an Overseer any day before the
15th of August, which any person may do without the
payment of any fee. He should see that his name, qua-
lification, and place are correctly described; and having
ascertained if the names of any persons, who be believes
to be entitled to be on such list, have been omitted, he
should induce them to claim to be registered on or before
the 25th of August ; for this purpose the Reform Act
prescribes a form of claim which should be adopted, viz.

A CLAIM TO BE REGISTERED.

To the Overseers of the Parish of

I hereby give you notice that I claim to have my
name inserted in the List made by you of persons en-
titled, under the Reform Act, to Vote in the Election of
Member (or Members) for the City (or Borough) of
, and that my qualification consists of a
at No. in in your Parish.
Dated this day of
(Signed) of
Insert the name of the parish, and the nature of the
premises, as house, warehouse, counting-house, shop,
workshop, stable, shed, or as the case may be, and the
name of the street, court, &c. ; put in the date, and sign
the names of the claimant, and his place of abode, at full
length. If a scot and lot voter, instead of the words
" under the Reform Act," insert " In respect of the Scot
and Lot Franchise."

1841.

On or before the 25th August, give this claim to an
overseer, and afterwards attend before the Revising Bar-
risters, who hold their Courts between the 15th Sep-
tember and the 25th October. A correct copy of this
claim should be kept, and the party who serves the claim
should immediately write on the copy to whom the claim
was delivered, and the day of the month and year.
He should then copy from the Overseer's list the
names of any political opponent that he believes not be
be entitled to a vote ; and, should he be disinclined to
take the trouble consequent upon objecting himself, he
should forward his information to a Reform or Regis-
tration Society, if there be one in that borough or city,
or to some active Reformer residing therein,—as it is
necessary that the objector, or some one on his behalf,
should appear in the Revising Barrister's Court to sup-
port the objection, though the proof of qualification will
fall on the person objected to.
The following are grounds of disqualification, viz.
Ist. Not having been in occupation of the premises for
12 months previously to the Ist of July.
2d, Not occupying as tenant, but only as director, se-
cretary, clerk, servant, &c.
3d. Premises not being worth 10/. per year ; or, if
described as a house, not having control over a separate
door. This is not necessary for any other premises, as
shop, warehouse, counting-house, &c.
4th. Not being rated, or not having claimed to be
rated, to all poors-rates made since July 31, 1840.
sth. Non-payment, on or before the 20th of July,- of
window-tax (if assessed) due before the 6th of April, or
of the poors-rates which have been demanded per-
sonally, or by a notice left at the premises, before the
6th of April.
6th. Not having resided (slept) within seven miles,
since the 31st of January last.
7th. IT in partnership, not having been so twelve
months before the 31st of July, or premises not giving
10/. fur each.
Bth. If rai alien, infant, idiot, or lunatic, officers of
excise, customs, stamps, post-office, assessed taxes (if
I yPointed by Assessed-tax Commissioners), or new po-
ee,P_a',9,E,T, (.?1- if convicted of bribery, felony, &C.
The following notice of objection can only be signed
by a person whose name is on the overseer's list, and
must be delivered to an overseer on or before the 25th
of August :

NOTICE OF OBJECTION.
To th 3 Overseers of the parish of
I kzeeby give you notice that I object to the name
of
being retained
in the list of persons entitled, under the Reform Act, to
vote in the election of a Member, (or Members), for the
city (or borough) of
;and that I shall
bring forward such objection at the time of the revising
of such list.
Dated the

day of August, ha the year 1841.
(Signed)

JULY 30.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE,—It is pleasing to find
this attractive place of amusement proving a refuge and
means of support to the dramatic corps of Astley's, so
suddenly thrown out of their sphere of action by the fire
at that theatre, and it is equally so to witness the per-
formances of such men as Mr. T. P. Cook, Mr. Rayner,
a
and Mr. Hammond, who have given their services gra-
tuitously in the cause of charity. Mr. Keeley, Mr. B lls,
Mrs. Honey, and Mrs. Grattan have also offered to per-
tbrm without claiming reward from the treasury; and it
is to be hoped so excellent an example will be followed by
all whose names can give eclat to so worthy an object.
There is a report in Hastings that Mr. Planta,
the present Tory Member—who was allowed by the Re-
formers on the late election to get in, unopposed, ou
grounds which would not be suffered to apply in the case
of-any other individual of his party—is to be appointed
Governor of Malta. We hope the Liberals will keep a
vigilant eye upon the present registration.
The first of December, 1787, a shark waLtaken
in the Thames, near Poplar, in the stomach of which
was found a watch with the name of Watson engraved on
it. The watch had belonged to a young gentleman who
had been drowned near 4"abztouth.