The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-13 00:00:00

HEROD OUTHERODED.
(From the Morning Past.)
The Peel Ministry is at an end. We are not among
those who feel any regret at making this announcement.
On the contrary, we say with the most perfect sincerity,
that we are right glad of it. In our opinion—and it is
not the first time we have said so—Sir Robert Peel has
most shamefully :deceived all who trusted him. His
whole career since 1842 has been one of insanity or
treachery. We have done all in our power to expose
him. Ile has not (since 1842) deceived us. We regard
him as the most loathsome of public men. His abilities
(which are unquestionable) only add to his odiousness.
He prostitutes, to the meanest purposes the talents which
God has given him. We hope there can now be
no doubt of his joining the Whigs. That the Tories
should ever afgain have anything to do with him, we
cannot suppose. He has done them enough of mis-
chief. Upon every point he has betrayed them : the
Test and Corporation Acts Repeal, the Roman Ca-
tholic Emancipation Act, the odious Poor-law, and now,
forsooth, the . total repeal of all protection to British
agriculture! We do not say that none of these things
should have been done, but they should not have been
so done as to bring down disgrace and dishonour upon
the Tory party. This was the method, however, of Sir
Robert Peel. First, he contrived to attach to the Tory
party all the odium of bigotry, by his offensive manner
of maintaining their cause, and then he brought upon
them the disgrace of weakness and want of spirit by his
pusillanimous abandonment of his own professed opi-
nions. But we trust we have now done with him for
ever in the character of a Conservative. Never again
may it be our ill fortune to see him in any other position
than that of antpen Whig partisan! We wonder what
office Lord John Russell will offer him. We shall be
very anxious to learn hereafter whether it be true, as
some people said yesterday, that a messenger was sent to
summon Lord John Russell on Saturday last, four days
before the late Cabinet was out of office. The Noble Lord
passed through. London yesterday morning on his way
to Osborne House. Sir Robert Peel has always (since
he became Minister) been very accommodating to
gentlemen opposite. It is now confidently asserted
in the clubs and the streets, that the Whigs had known
for more than a week what was likely to happen. Hence
the simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, pronounce-
ments by ex-Cabinet Ministers in favour f free trade.
No doubt many exaggerated statements are flying
about, but no inconsistency that could be mentioned—
no treachery that a busy imagination could devise—
seems too improbable to be credited respecting such a
man as Sir Robert Peel. The man who, in June las,
told the Parliament that he would not vote for repeal of
the corn-laws, because such a measure would totally
alter the character of the country, and be accompanied
by social evils, which no mercantile advantage could
compensate, and who, before the month of January, en-
deavours to persuade the whole Cabinet to consent to
that very measure—the man who could do this may be
suspected of anything. But the bold features of his
career during the last four years are not points of sus-
picion, but of palpable fact. The mischief he has done has
been enormous ; only, indeed, to be equalled by the large-
ness of opportunity for doing good, which, in his folly, or
his treachery, he has thrown away. In September, 1841,
he found himself at the head of an overwhelming ma-
jority in the. Commons, pledged to the protection of
British industry against undue foreign competition. The
Lords were also in his favour by no less a majority. The
only pressing difficulty before him was the state of the
revenue. From that he was relieved, not by an ingenious
expedient of finance, but by a method which any banker's
clerk could have suggested as well as he—a tax
upon income. The Whigs could not have availed them-
selves of that, for they bad not the influence to carry
such a measure. The powerful party, however, that had
made Sir Robert Peel Minister gave him without any
hesitation the revenue he required. His way then was
plain and even easy, if he had been faithful and honest.
The protection ,of British industry—the advancement of
agriculture, and of every species of profitable pro-
duction within., the British islands—the generous, yet
not extravagant consideration of the poor—the culti-
vation of good old English feeling towards the Church
and the Throne—these were the obvious duties of any
honest and honourable man, circumstanced as Sir
Robert Peel -was, and brought into office as he
had been. Hia, course was exactly the opposite. In-
stead of being animated by a desire to act up to the prin-
ciples of the party that gave him power, his great aim,
as soon as he had power, seemed to be to concede Tory
principles to the " liberal views" of those whom for ten
previous years he had opposed. In fear, or in treachery,
for as yet one cannot certainly pronounce which it was,
he began, as soon as he had supplanted the Whigs, to do
the work of the Whigs, and in this alone he has been
consistent. By his miserable misconduct he divided,
disheartened, and to a certain extent disgraced the party
which had placed him at its bead, and now, at last, he
has finished by breaking up the Cabinet in a monstrous
attempt to accomplish the very thing which he was called
to power in order to prevent ! Can any public career
be more loathsome than this ? Again we say, we
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except by calculating that what he now most
strenuously supports, he will by-and-by most pu-
sillanimously abandon. It is incredible, however, that
Lord Jahn Russell should have much success as a Minis-
ter. He may have Sir Robust Peel and a few more rats
to help him in -the House of Commons, but we suspect
he will find no majority there in favour of total repeal of
the corn-laws, On the contrary, we believe that the
Conservative party in the House, when relieved from
the wet blanket of Peel, will soon teach Lord John
Russell that with the present Parliament he has no
ebauce. But he will appeal to the country. By all
means—the sooner the better. The country will give
him his answer, as it did in 1841. And then—and then
the Conservatives will come back to power, relieved of
the hideous encumbrance of plausible Peel. There is no
doubt, we believe, that a majority of the present Cabinet
have voted steadily against the last poisonous potion
which Peel offerkl them to drink. They will be read)
to form a new Government—a Government which we
have no doubt will command the respect and confidence
of the country, and all the more certainly from being
without any kind or degree of dangerous support from
so characterless &public man as Sir Robert Peel.

EDMONTON PETTY SESSIONS.
(Before Dr. Robinson (Chairman) and Mr. Mores.)

MURDER OF AN INFANT BY ITS MOTHER.—Elizabale
Hunisman, twenty-one years of age, a single woman,
and of most respectable connexions, was brought before
the Bench, charged, on her own confession, with the
wilful murder of her illegitimate female child, which was
about nine months old, by drowning it in a brook in the
parish of Edmonton. A great number of inhabitants of
Edmonton were present during the inquiry, who mani-
fested deep sympathy with the accused, her father being
long resident in the parish, in which he carries on the
business of a grocer. The prisoner, who is a young
woman of eonsia,erable personal attractions, was pro-
vided with a chair and sho was supported by her mother,
who sat by her side, and who was much afflicted through-
out the proceedings.

The evidence was conclusive; but the inquiry was
adjourned for medical evidence. It appears that about
two months ago the prisoner attended at Edmonton
Sessions, for the purpose of compelling the putative
father to contribute to thesupport of her child; but, as she
had not sufficiently corroborative evidence to support the
affiliation, the summons was dismiss( d. Since then, after
having had a wet-nurse's situation, which she was obliged
to give up, in consequence of ill-health, she received
assistance from her mother and friends, not beingallowed
to return home;