The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROAI THE DAILY IiAPEES OP YESTERDAY.
GLOBE..—There is no sure ground for infer-
ring more from the Duke of Buckingham's re-
signation than that the-most extreme and oh sti-
uate adherence to monopoly is abandoned. So
much, we think, may clearly be inferred
from the incident—whether anythiag more,
a day or two will now disclose to us. We are not
fondof gratuitous imputations of trickery to poli-
tical leaders; and we shall not say that a trick
is intended in the very act of this resignation'
But Wale resignation is not a trick, as we wil.
not suppose- it is—must not the. appointment
have been one? Have not the Farmers'
Friends" been bamboozled? Have not the
county elections been gained on pretexts wilier
were never meant to be acted on ? Has not the
Duke of Buckingham's " following" (whether
tho Duke himself or not) been intentionally
blinded by his admission into the Peel Cabinet ?
If the Prime Minister always intended, as we
have no doubt he did, to alter the Corn-laws in a
manlier which it was certain, at all events, the
Duke of Buckingham could not subscribe to, was
there not something of unworthy artifice in his
Grace joining the Ministry at all? We do not
stop to ask whose was the artifice.—whether his
Grace was imposed upon, or whether, which is
more likely, he allowed himself to be utilised
with his eyes open. In that case, the Corn-law
party in the counties have been the dupes; just
as the Malt-tax party in the counties was duped.
about seven years ago. It has been rumoured
that -the Duke of Wellington, with that sense
of just.ce, the strength of which has survived
the full vigour of his other faculties, remon-
strated against deserting that party, which he
said, " have stuck by us." Deserted, however,
it is now perfectly clear that party will be—
and the effect of this desertion on Tory union
is yet to be seen. With us, however, party
objects sink into absolute insignificance, com-
pared with the question—ls Sir Robert Peel
prepared to do anything effectual for placing
the trade in corn on a safe and regular footing
with Europe and America? Having kicked his
Corn-law ladder from under him—having cut
his Corn-law colleague adrift—is he prepared
boldly to throw himself on the support of the
enlightened of all parties ? If he had strength of
will and judgment to doso, he might be sure ofa
rich reward—whether in long duration of power
or no---in the esteem, and restored prosperity, of
his country. Sir R. Peel calls himself a friend
to free trade in principle. From its enemies he
now stand's separate, at least by one step, in ac-
tion. Will he now prove to the world that what-
ever artifice—whatever complaisance—whatever
make-believe he may have employed to concili-
ate class-interests in his favour, he had worthier
ends in view than to rule but just better than
their worst dictates? Will he prove to the world
the truth of his assertion, that he bad no other
motive in seeking power but to use it for the weal
and the safety of his country ? This is in his
power! It is in his power to conquer oblivion for
all that has been questionable, for all that has
been egotistical in his past course.
STAN DARD.—The place occupied by the
Duke of Buckingham and Chantlos in the esteem
and affection of the country naturally causes his
Grace's retirement from the Ministry to be the
occasion of great anxiety. On the one side,
all who with ourselves remember the long and
faithful - career of the Noble Duke, his ta-
lents, zeal, and energy—and beyond these,
his unspotted character—all devoted to the
best interests of the people, and, through this
devotion, so eminently contributing to purify and
restore the Conservative party—all who remem-
ber these claims of-the Duke upon public confi-
dence would view with dismay his Grace's
secession from a Ministry which we believe to
be the. best- that Parliament can afford,
were the secession founded upon any differ-
enee in principle. For ourselves we will
not disguise the truth, that in a difference
of principle between the Duke of Buck-
ingharn and Chandos, and any other statesman
or number of statesmen, we should scarcely hesi-
tate to take our part with his Grace—so high is
our estimate of his sense arid patriotism. On the
other side, the- enemies of the Conservative
cause rejoice at the event, as proof of divi-
sion in the Conservative ranks, and feeling
all the value of the Duke's connection with any
Govbroment, exult in' his retirement from the
Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel, as a symptom of its
approaChing fall. There is, however, no reason
for fear upon the one side, or for exultation on the
other. The difference between the Duke of Buck-
ingham and Chandos and his late colleagues is not
a difference of principle, not even a difference of
principle in the lowest detail in which principle can
he possibly involved ; least of all is there such a dif-
ference as can divide the Noble Duke front the
party with which he has hitherto acted, and which
owes so much to him. The retirement. of the Duke
his own act, an-act resolved upon by him in
opposition to the earnest and an anxious re-
monstrance of his brother Ministers; and it is
dimply a sacrifice to personal honour—to a feeling
that a public man ought not merely to maintain
his professed opinions firmly, a 3 long as con-
scientiously he can, but also obviate the sus-
picion of abandoning them upon any unworthy
consideration. This is a determination which
must command the admiration and gratitude of
all, how much soever its effect in the particular
case may be regretted. How much of disgrace
would have been spared to public men, and how
much of evil would the country have escaped, if
all public men had always acted io the spirit of
this determination? We may easily suppose
that Whig-Radicals cannot understand the con-
duct of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.
COURIER.—Last night's Gazette affords the
first proof, and we hail it as an auspicious corn-
menceieent, of the Colonial Secretary's labours
in the promotion of colonial prosperity and of
colonial immigration. Although the prepa-
ratory steps announced in the Order in Council
the facilitating, and therefore encouraging,
the iminigration of free Indian labourers
into the Mauritius, may he considered as
the maim trunk of the great scheme for
carrying out colonial emigration on a large scale,
presumed for some time past to be in the con-
templation of Lord Stanley; if' not already suffi-
ciently perfected in its details to be laid before
Parliament, yet as one of the offshoots of such
larger scheme it may be accepted as initiatory
evidet.ce that the whole question of emigration
will at length be embraced, grappled with
energetically, and, we doubt not, all its
manifold difficulties and complications
mas-
tered by the manly inind now fortunately
presiding over the Colonial department.
The example of what is now done for Mauritius
we take to be of good omen for the cause of im-
migration in the West Indian colonies. We flatter
ourselves that this is but the first of a series of
measures by which the interests of those colo-
nies, and those of the magnificent colonies of
Great Britain at large, are to be relieved from
their present state of depression, and again re
stored, reinvigorated and flourishing, to the rank
they once held among the first elements of na-
tional greatness and wealth, when the " ships,
colonies, and commerce" of Great Britain were
the boast of the land and the envy of the great
Napoleon.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
IliticliEsTnn.—There was nut the slightest improve-
ment in the market yesterday ; on the contrary, the
demand was limited, even at the very lowest prices yet
known, with a tendency to further decline in some
Reticles. The country trade is also, we regret to state,
exceedingly inactive ; and loud complaints are heard on
all Ades of the small amount of business now doing by
the parties engaged in it.
ILYDDE ISFIELD MARKET, FEB. I.—There was very
little change in the state of the market; at gny rate
it was no worse—perhaps even a little better, fa which
there is ample room. In fact, so indefinite and inde-
scribable is the state of trade, that the difficulty of
honestly I.portitio• the markets is any thing but a sine-
cure. Trade is bad, destructively bad ; and it is vain
to expect a permanent improvement until our very
absurd and suicidal fiscal system is revolutionized, or
abolished} altogether. There is a demand, certainly, for
a large amount of goods ; but the prices are so low
that were it not for temporary existence, it were better
to cease wo.nufacturing. It is pitiable to contemplate
the fall of many honest tradesmen, in despite of all their
persevering efforts to weather the trying long storm.
Roc lID•LE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JA N. 31.—.
We have had today a very dull market; the business
done has been very limited ; and prices, as usual,
ex-
tremely lobe. Wool has been very little inquired after;
prices stationary.

After the dejeuner a l f
Mayoress
, ourchetk
Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress which the
had the honour of
giving to his Majesty King of Prussial on Sunday
last, at the Mansion-house, the ;Mayoress presented
be
eindee different to his Majesty a copy of the BmiiblgebYitn
lan-
guages, and requested that it
in the
his Majesty's returnP:tsoitals -Royal Library upon
domi-
nions. The King received the present the most
gracious manner and assured her Ladyship that he re-
ceived it with high gratification, am t that he should
pre-
serve it with great care, as an invaluable testimonial.
The Journal du Bourbonnais in its number of
the 22d int., leaves one of its columns in blank, and
states that, in consequence of the late condemnation of
the printer of the Charivar 1, together with the editor of
its own printer, afraid
tli_attupaper, for a seditious article,
if an s action of the law, had refused to print the journal
w e.rue stortiT.elititled " De t Action de Dieu Sur la Trance,"
A . Inserted in it.
rickety Tory newspaper,
Just died from want of
standara, has , ory newspaper, the Limerick
support,