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

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The only remaining form through which
such of the members of the new Government who have
seats in the Lower House have to pass, previous to their
entering upon the exercise of their duties, Parliamentary
as well as official, is to be re-elected by their constitu-
ents—their seats in the House of Commons becoming
vacant on their acceptance of office under the Crown.
The forms of Parliament require that several days shall
intervene before they can appear in the complex cha-
racter of Ministers of the Sovereign and Representatives
of the people ; and, until they do so, little will be known
of the policy on which their administration is to be con-
ducted, except so far as that policy can be predicted from
what is on record as to their past characters and con-
duct. Fortunately for the country, which is naturally
anxious to know as much as possible of the fate which it
awaits, if not equally to the advantage of the Govern-
ment, their history is matter of notoriety. The nation
has seen with astonishment, now rapidly merging into
deep and settled disgust, a Cabinet formed of statesmen
only remarkable for their former disagreements, and
whose present association with each other is not less
surprising than it is- dishonourable to themselves and
dangerous to the country. Whether we look to the
measures which are likely to emanate from such a Cabi-
net, with respect to our Foreign, Colonial, or Domes-
tic relations—their influence upon our position with
other States, or their necessary influence upon the pros-
.
perhy- and tranquillity of our own, we will not con-
ceal our apprehensions that clouds will overspread,
if storms do not disturb, our hemisphere. The only
hope which the lover of his country can indulge in its
present circumstances is, that the distractions, which
cannot fail to exist in the councils of such a heteroge-
neous mass calling itself a Ministry, will be speedily
followed by an open rupture ; and the nation be thus
relieved from a visitation not more injurious to its real
interests, than it is derogatory to the honour and
honesty which constitute the bases of its character in the
estimation of the world.

STANDARD.—In the House of Commons no less
than twenty-six election petitions were presented. This
is the last day for presenting such petitions. Several
notices of motions, of greater or less importance, were
given ; among others, a notice by Mr. Roebuck, as fol-
lows :

"On going into Committee on the re-enactment of the
Poor-law Amendment Act to move—

" That the Board of Commissioners be abolished, and
all such discretionary powers as may be deemed neces-
sary for the due administration of the law now possessed
by the Commissioners, be transferred to the Secretary of
State for the Home Department." .
It is difficult to understand what Mr. Roebuck intends
by this motion ; fur his attachment to the New Poor-
law in principle and detail has been too recently ex-
pressed to leave any doubt of his wish to continue the
system exactly such as it is in its operation upon
the poor. What he proposes is clearly impracticable.
Tho Secretary of State for the Home Department
already has his hands completely full ; and even if
this were not the case=if the system of centralisation
is to be continued, as Mr. Roebuck plainly intends
it to be—some intermediate authority between the
parochial governors of the poor and one of the
Queen's principal Secretaries of State, would be ab-
solutely necessary in a constitutional view. It would
be extravagant to suppose one of her Majesty's
principal Ministers called nightly to account in Par-
liament for every case of alleged local mismanagement.
But this is the only remedy which Mr. Roebuck's
proposed arrangement would leave, and this after a
little time would prove in practice no remedy at all. The
truth seems to be, that the system of centralisation must
be abandoned sooner or later, and the management of the
poor once more assigned, under whatever terms the legis-
lature may think fit to impose, to kcal authority, subject
only to the courts of law. Meanwhile, if there is to be a
central authority, it is much better that that authority
rest where it does, than in the Home Secretary of State's
Office.

COURlER.—Scarcely had four days elapsed from the
resignation of the Whip's, before it was officially an-
nounced that Sir Robert Peel had completed the task as-
signed to him, and obtained for his Cabinet his sanction
of her Majesty's gracious approval. To this important
fact we wish to direct the special attention of our Whig-
Radical Contemporaries, as signally falsifying all their
reit crated predictions regarding the obstacles, perplexities,
and difficulties which Sir Robert Peel was to have en-
counterel on his way to power and office. It must still
be flesh in the public mini with what unabashed assur-
ance, and in what a tone of anticipated triumph, our
Contemporaries were in the habit of menacing him
with the most complicated disasters should he pos-
sess the incredible hardihood of approaching the
precincts with no higher recommendation than the
unbounded confidence of his country, as expressed
in both Houses of Parliament. Woe betide him,
was their incessant exclamation, should he adventure
the formation of a Ministry, for beside the resistance he
will be sure to met with in the highest quarters (and the
mysteriousness of their language on this head gave fear-
ful force and significance to their ominous threatenings),
the jarring jealousy and impracticable stubbornness of
the materials from which the Cabinet must needs be con-
structed, will render the taslt, if not absolutely impos-
sible, at least one of the utmost difficulty. Such were
the prophetic croaltings of the Whig Press, and such
their mode of administering consolation to their patrons
while still in possession of the seals of office. But the
extreme facility with which Sir Robert Peel has been
enabled to form a Cabinet, and the unprecodentedly
short time he required for the completion of all his other
arrangements, show bow wretchedly deficient either in
veracity or foresight were these self-constituted political
prophets.

TILE " BEARD" MANIA.— A Berlin corres-
rondent writes that, at a late review by the. King of
russia, WI Majesty was much annoyed by observing
many of the spectators wearing enormously large beards,
and, turning to one of the hirsute gentlemen, he said with
a significant gesture, "Pray, Sir, go and get yourself
shaved, for here you run great risk of having your beard
singed."
OLD AGE.—Salezza de Pedrada praising an
old lady for her beauty, she answered that " beauty was
incompatible with old age." To which Salezza replied,
"We say beautiful as an angel,' and yet the angels of all
creatures are the most ancient."