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

S Nlllllol' OF NEWS

AND
Vubitt Opttiton.

" Who runs may read."

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Chronicle returns to the subject of Sir Robert
Peel's last Tamworth speech, and alluding to the Right
lion. Gentleman's rexultation at his party's election
triumphs, says :—" His majority, as all the world knows,
is exclusively a county majority. In English cities and
boroughs the majority is with Ministers. The Scotch
majority is with Ministers. The Irish majority is with
Ministers. All are overborne by the county majority,
returned by constituencies under the Chandos clause."
When this fatal clause was first proposed in Parliament,
the Reform Ministry was warned, in the most emphatic
terms, of the consequences that would accrue from it.
They were told distinctly that it was leaving a door on
the jar for the admission of the enemy ; and so the fact
has turned out. Shut out at every other avenue, the
Tories will shortly enter Downing-street by means of the
Chandos clause. This is not the first time that the
Whigs have furnished the Tories with weapons for their
own destruction. We hope it will be the last.
The Post is of opinion that the people will not be
at all " dissatisfied with the caution and reserve of Sir
Robert Peel." How characteristic is this opinion ! Hav-
ing themselves an innate horror of anything like frank-
ness or manly straightforwardness of conduct, the Tories
take for granted that the people are influenced by the
same spirit. They imagine, as a matter of course, that
cunning and mystery are dear to the heart of John Bull,
and that the sly reserve of Sir Robert Peel is the very
thing to suit his taste. This is another convincing proof
that the Tories, notwithstanding their long practical ex-
perience, are wholly ignorant of the national character.

The Tories, if we may judge from a hypocritical
article that appears in the Times, are resolved hence--
forth—that is to say, as long as they hold power—to
distinguish themselves by an ultra display of loyalty.
They now profess to be shocked at the " essenthd dis-
loyalty " of the Whigs. Their sensitive nerves are
agonised at the idea that the whole practice of Ministers
" for the last four years has exhibited an entire disre-
gard of loyalty." If this be the case how happens
it that Lord Melbourne, the very head and front
of the offimding party, has so long been ho-
noured by the especial confidence of her Majesty? And
who are they that thus presume to accuse the Whigs of
disloyalty ? The very party who themselves have, for
years past, been foremost to throw contempt and odium
on the Throne; who have openly talked of " that woman,
Jezebel;" and at times have been so carried away by their
feelings, as to be obliged publicly to apologise for their
disrespectful conduct!
The Herald states, with much emphasis, that Mr.
O'Connell is fast advancing to his second childhood ; but
from the logic with which he supports this assertion, we
suspect that our Contemporary is himself in the predica-
ment which he so feelingly laments in Dan.
"Had Sir Robert Peel been untrammelled," says the
Derbyshire Chronicle," it is plain from his speeches that
he would have cast the West Indies and their sugar
overboard, and tampered not a little with the sliding-
scale." Our Contemporary however, adds, that the
Buckinghams and Gladstones will not let him; and says
that "to make bricks without straw from the mud of
the Nile, was not a more hopeless attempt than it will be
for Peel to find statesmen among renegades, and econo-
mists among spendthrifts."
The Western Times, in reverting to the question of
the Corn-laws, says that a bad harvest threatens to follow
the late ungenial weather, and asks how long protection
would last, should privation and destitution come upon
the manufacturing districts ?

The Cambridge Independent, speculating on the
prospects of the Tories, observes :—" Her Majesty will
not be taught principle by Sir Robert Peel, no more than
she will morality by such a keeper of the Royal con-
science as Lord Lyndhurst ; moderation by Lord Stan-
ley ; or the philosophy of Christianity by the Bishop of
Exeter."

The North Devon Journal expresses its conviction
that the seeds of disunion are thickly strewn among the
Tory ranks, and that " we shall soon have as pretty a
quarrel as could be desired."