The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF ME PUBLIC JOURNALS

The Tory chiefs, assert in all societies that they hare
at present no desire to reassume the Gnvernrnent, for that
the " pear is not yet ripe." This phrase admits of easy
eXplenarion, and the Conservatives, in the sense is whieh
they employ it, have formed a correct estimate of their
own posi'ion. Their notion is, that the people of England
have not yet sufficiently I egotten the op: ressions of the
old /system, or suffered disappointment enough at the hands
of the Whig Ministry, to endure an immediate return of
Conservatives to office. Now, this we take to be not
only an exact translation of the language held by the
Tories, but a tolerably correct representation of the case
itself', as Letween themselves, the Ministers, and the coon-
try. It offers, indeed, an important lesson to the Whig
Government respecting the sort of progress which they
have hitherto made in ttse opinion of many cleanses of their
liberal and independent countrymen; but at she w.rne time
a lesson, by virtue of which they may easily retrace what-
ever erroneous steps they have taken, and render it very
speedily by no means a matter of option with the Conser
vatives to hasten or postpone at pleasure the overthrow of
the Whig Administration, It is perfectly true that the
Tories have now the means, when they think fit,
of so embarrassing and clogging up the business
of the nation as that, without a large addition
to the Peerage, the Whig Government cannot go
on. But the creation of Peers to each an extent
as would be necessary, and for such a purpose as the
suppose! Crisis would indicate, can be regarded hut as a
species of remedy Containing within it a great deal of posi-
tive disease; so extreme a measure would be an evil of
such magnitude, that nothing but the last emergency
could justify it, and no power but that of strong national
sentiment could support any Minister in its adoption.
Then assuming, what is indeed obvious, that the Tory
Lords may at any time place Ministers under this choice
of evils—viz., of submitting to Tory dictation, or inflict.
ing an acknowledged wrong upon the constitution, is it
not, let us ask, the proper duty, as we believe it to be OA
wish, of Lord Grey's Government to cultivate, by every
honour.ble means, the esteem, and confidence, and warm
support of the nation, thus securing to themselves a reserve
of public feeling to fall back upon, under an emergency tie
be deplored, but net by any exertion of theirs to be
avoided ? It is not the wish of the country, of the re-
presentatives of the people, or of those members of the
press who have lamented and condemned the late vote on
the Irish Church Bill,—it is not, we repeat, the wish
(far from it) of any of these parties to substitute a Tory
Government for that which now exists. The Whirs con-
stitute a natural barrier between the extravagant
and violent men who on each side oppose them,
and it is their own fault if they be not an
efficient barrier. The English nation is nether ultra-
Radical nor ultra-Tory, but it is fair to say
that we look upon the Radical to be a more growing p trty
than the Conservative, and that any attempt to conciliate
the latter by a compromise of broad principles, or of effec-
tive measures, will assuredly bring upon the backs of the
Whigs ere long an enemy too powerful to be resisted even
by a cordial union, were that possible, between them
and their Tory enemies. By truckling, then, to the ad-
versaries of popular principles, nothing can be gained for
any honest public object, or even for the selfish one
(which we do not impute to theta) of prolonging the
Whig administration; but by decision, by firmness, and
consistency in right, the Whigs may set their own foes,
and those of order, as well as of liberty, at defence.--.
Times.