The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-08 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1841.

The votes of the House of Commons already
contain a notice of a motion by Mr. BODKIN " for
early next Session." The Herald says, that after
the business of voting some unopposed grants,
and passing a continuation of the Poor-law Act
for a short period, that the Parliament will be
then prorogued with a view to its re-opening by
her MAJESTY with a speech from the Throne.
These circum tacces confirm the reports to the
same effect which are already in circulation.
Supp- sing them true, slme of the consequences
of so acting are worthy of notice.

lirst,-it is plain that the speech to be made by
th.! QUEEN, having Sir R. PEEL for her master,
will be very different from the speech lately de-
li ,-ered by Lords Commissioners in the name of
the QUEEN when she had the Whigs for her
Ministers. It will at best shadow forth a totally
different line of policy in respect to the food of
the people when drawn up by Sir R. PEEL, Sir E.
KNATCHBULL, and the Duke of BUCKINGHAM,
than when drawn up by Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
Lard PALMERSTON, and Mr. LABOUCHERE. Such
a proceeding will make it plain to the meanest
capacity that royalty—with all its prerogatives,
is only a puppit in the hands of contending fac-
tions, and that it moves differently as each pulls
the wires. We make no objection whatever to
that important truth being thus forced on the
attention of the people, but the Tories must not
hope, while they must he aware that it is the
result of their own conduct, that it will add to the
respect and veneration of the people for royalty.
At the same time, we object to royalty being
made the puppet of the Tories, and to a young
and gracious Lady being made the means of
giving credence and circulation to doctrines
which go to starve the people, by limiting the
supply of food, and taxing the little they are
allowed to get for the benefit of the rent-owners.

- The palpable puppetism cf royalty is instruc-
tive in another sense. The men in office are not
the Ministers, they are the masters of the QUEEN.
They have been placed over her, and forced on
her, by the constituencies; and. we, being lovers
of the popular principle, do not object to the con-
stituencies over-riding royalty. Not only have
the con,:thuencies forced a master on the QUEEN.
they have changed all her MAJESTY'S household,
and are to change her whole policy. But if
the constituencies may do this for the QUEEN,
there can be no harm in their doing it to; the
ar s ocracy; if the constituencies 'Allay do it,
there is no reason why the unrepresented should
',MC kind, which might
somettling of th
not do
be pleasant to thelnSaves, sa that the Tory prac-
tices, not ine Tory doctrines, lead directly to
the !wog extreme democratic conclusions, and
taey justify the assumption of power and go-
ve:nment by the unrepresented. It is impos-
sible to make a puppet of Royalty for the behoof
of the aristocracy, without giving the democracy
a fair claim to the same power, both over the
Crown and the oligarchy.
Next, the propoSed plan of prorogation will
postpone the meeting of Parliament till after
Christ:jag; probably till the beginning of Fe-
-I"4tlarY. All attempts at relief by legislation,
then, are to be put off till next year. If legisla-
tion were not the exclusive cause of the evils
under which the country is suffering, we should
have no right to demand its intertbrence to give
relief ; but when bad laws—when laws op-
posed to all reason, honesty, and justice—laws
mike condemned by GOD, for his condemnation
is marked by the numerous physical and moral
evils those laws engender—and man, for the
multitude revolt against them when bad laws
cause such manifold mischief—it is a little too
great a trespass on the patience of the p,ople—
it is tasking their obedience too hardly, to ask
them to sit quietly under these evils, without an
attempt to remedy them without even an
inquiry into them throtr;h the approaching
dreary months of winter, till next spring. The
law-makers having made the starvation law, may
then shoot game, but must not be troubled to
inquire into their own acts. Against such a post-
ponement of business, of relief, and of the abuli-
tion,M. lessening of a curse, we feel it to be our
duty tit once to protest, and we hope whatever