The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-14 00:00:00

lnd the astonished Right Hon. Baronet will
discover himself seated for the little family bo-
rough of Tamworth in a new political at-
niosphere—his
superiors, not his inferiors, com-
passing him round about. Sir R. Peel was
bred up in the Chesterfield school of public
speaking—the first lesson of which was as fol-
lows, in the letter of the Noble founder to his
son :—" No man can make a figure in this
country but by parliament. Your fate depends
upon your success there as a speaker; and,
take my word for it, that success turns
much more upon manner than matter : even
trifles elegantly expressed, well looked, and ac-
companied with graceful action, will ever please
beyond all the homespun sense in the world."
The late Mr. Canning was a master of this
school of oratory. Sir Robert would also wish
to be a master, but is merely a mannerist. Such
is a rough sketch of the political career of this
great beau ideal of Tory statesmen. We will
perfect the picture some day, especially in this
adult legislator's labours on the article of money.
We will record what he has collected for him-
self since his advent in political life, and how
he has meddled with the property and pecuniary
transactions of the whole kingdom. Though
so bitter an enemy of Reform, he little opines
that he is the parent of the Ministerial measure.
He is so short-sighted as not to know his own
progeny. His Bill of 1819, the 4 and 9-10ths
per cent. " depreciation," his utter want of po-
litical foresight, preceded and chiefly originated
the Reform Bill. But Sir Robert Peel never
did or will see the shadow of a coming event ;
he will never have sagacity to foresee, nor cou-
rage to propel or stay political circumstances.
Nevertheless this is the public man—tried and
found wanting—the real destroyer of European
institutions, by allowing the rust of time to eat
into their core—whom the Tories wish to act
as Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Wellington.
To what miserable shifts must they be put—
the ends to be intrusted to those who have thus
virulently and wildly opposed the means ! Can
men gather figs from thistles ? The idea of Sir
Robert Peel ruling this country is preposterous ;
he must make several more political somersets
before he can perform that singular feat.—
Morning Chronicle.
Were we going to argue the Reform Bill over
again, and more particularly that much-contested
branch of it,—the representation of the metro-
politan districts,—our text-book should be the
admirable speech of Lord Durham, delivered in
Committee on the Bill, and on the 22d ult. It
is curious enough, that whether we take the
democratic test of qualification—viz., numbers
or the opposite test—namely, wealth, and the
conservative tendency growing out of it, the
claims to representation on the part of the me-
tropolis are even more difficult to be resisted by
a tory reasoner, on his own principles, than if he
looked exclusively for materials to the popular
data. For example, the four great towns of
Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, and Sheffield,
whose rights to the franchise are now admitted
by all the conservatives in the country, contain
a population of little more than half of that com-
prised within the metropolitan districts ; they
contain in houses of 101. and upwards, little
above one-third, and they pay in assessed taxes,
as compared with Marylebone, Finsbury, the
Tower Hamlets, and Lambeth, less in amount
than 'one-sixth. Therefore, it may be alleged,
that if there be one ground more prominent and
unassailable than another, whereon to justify the
grant of the franchise to the districts of the me-
tropolis, that ground was furnished by the Tories
themselves, whose opposition to the mea-
sure has been marked by the grossest and
most revolting inconsistency. In subjoin-
ing one or two of the tables annexed to
Lord Durham's printed speech, we must hint to
the inhabitants of those very metropolitan dis-
tricts, that, unless they act with a spirit and
energy in the exercise of the privileges with
which the Reform Bill has clothed them, and
greater than they at present manifest, they will
have supplied the Anti-Reformers with a power-
ful objection to the enfranchisement of those
districts, which no man's ingenuity could have
anticipated—namely, that the elective qualifica-
tion is an honour of which its new possessors
are insensible, and a trust which they are incom-
petent to discharge for the public good. This,
we repeat, will be echoed throughout the country,
as a valid reason for having attempted to with-
hold an extended franchise from the metropolitan
population, unless they who are thus enfran-
chised shall display a much increased alacrity in
their preparations to employ the power. As yet
no such measures are apparent.

Comparison of the Four New Metropolitan Boroughs with
the whole of the Forty- two New Boroughs.