The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-28 00:00:00

.tem (pry conjures up out of a 'little cloud, the '
f
ass mption that such addresses will ever become ,
gen ral has not even the shadow of foundation'
to rest on. The chances of Mr. Peel's becOrning
Prime Minister are excessively small ; but the
chances of addresses, even of-regret at his leaving
offige, ever becoming general, or even numerous,
is, if possible, still smaller. The auguries of the
PoSt, froin its " knowledge of individual' dia.,:
racir, and the aspect of existing circumstances,"
would be quite as likely to be fulfilled, if drawn
&oil a knowledge of particular clouds, and the
aspTt of the existing weather. There are many
thin s in which a footman's information. may be
of service, but there are limits even to his know-
ledge. Mr. Peel might, it seems, have been
Prime Minister, if he hail but wished it ; but he
was itoo modest. This piece of intelligence,, we
suppose, came from the same source as the news
of 411. r. Sturges Bourne's pension, and Mr.
James Brougham's •Commissionership ; a source,
greatly to the . diminution of our contem-
pora;ry s State intelligence, and the amusement of
the public, now for ever dried up. Our contem-
porary very properly reads the Right Hon.
Gentleman a lecture on this rather uncommon
failing. "He has," he says, " been guilty of a
negative injustice to his country, in consequence
of Having previously committed a positive in-
justice" in his estimate of himself." Now we
camiot for a moment suppose that Mr. Peel was
ever, guilty of the crime here. charged against
him,, even inadvertently, and we think he owes
littlei gratitude to the Post for
,such an awkward
attempt at compliment. It is the characteristic
of a nan of genius to entertain a low estimate of
his Rowers compared with that beau ideal which
he. aims at reaching.; but no man of any talent
is igjiorant that he possesses it. He may rate it
more highly, but our contemporary• may depend
uporit it he will not rate it less highly, than it
deserves. The Post is itself a proof of this ;
for, while it' says that Mr. Peel refused the Pre-
mierihip, becanse lie 'thought himself unfit for
its du,ities, it adds; that no such unfitness at-
tachy to him ; thus asserting that its knowledge
of what a Prime Minister ought to be is greater
than .hat .of the Right Hon. Gentleman. Con,,
sidering their different opportunities, and means
of lunging, we think a'little more of that criminal
mode ty, for which it blames the -Ex-Secretary,
woul not be misplaced in our 'contemporary.—
We issent, however,, from the Post when it says

that Vlr. Peel might have been Premier had-it
net iteen for his " modesty.", So long as Mr.
Cam ng was in the Cabinet it .was impossible
for
i lr: Peel to be Prime Minister. We are
most ready to acknowledge Mr. Peel's talentS,
but we will not insult him by comparing him to
Mr. eanning; and we feel assured that he would
feel it to be an insult: Why, even supposing
that their powers of intellect had been originally
on a I.ar, does our contemporary forget that Mr.
Canning s have been so much.longer.exercised ?
Mr. canning was a Statesman when Mr. Peel
was t school-boy. But, says the Post,
." Mr.
Peel lis the hope and the model of English
Totie, and it is not too much to say, that a
prouder station, or a more splendid name, was
never! yet assigned to mortal man." This is
prodigious ! It ought to have been given
in Llitin by our contemporary's evening com-
peer. i We almost fear. to say , what Mr.
Canning is after such a burst. :Of pane-
gyric i yet, in our plain way of think-
ing, to be, as he is, " the hope of England,"
and not only the hope. of England, but of all
that is sound and sober in -Europe, is a yet
prouder station, arid a more splendid name than
even to be the head of a respectable party, which
our cOtemporary and others have laboured very
earne ' ly, though, more from lack of wit than
will, tern, unsuccessfully, to degrade to a most
T
conteipptible faction. With respect to our con-
lemparary's observations about "making expe-
rimenis on the national mind," and " vague
terms 'of liberality,and cloudy notion of inde-
finite flange,„ we must shelter ourselifes under
our modesty, even should it be deemed criminal.
We dp not comprehend these fine things. The
following piece of information is, we presume,
drawn from as high a source as the rest of the
State secrets of the Opposition Press :
" Hip Royal Highness the Ldrci High Admiral is an
excellent Tory, and so is the present Lord‘Chancellor."
Wei had some suspicion of the fact ourselves,
but we were not prepared for the conclusion that
our contemporary seems inclined to deduce from-
it. When the Ministry, of principle, to which
he looks forward, " from his knowledge of in-
dividual character, and the aspect of existing cir-
cums_tinces," shall-be formed, these two excel-
lent Tpries are, it seems, to be sent about their
tiuSinel6s without ceremony, and .the Earl of
Eldon and my Lord Melville, to be put in their
places. Of a truth, our contemporary's libe-
rality Is very " vague ;" and his notions of
changd, rather "cloudy."—lbid.

MELANCHOLY COINCIDENCE.— On the
14th instant, inquests were held before Enoch Hand, Gent.
of Uttoiceter, on the bodies of Harriet and William Foster,
the one three years and the other five months old ; the '
youngest was burnt to death by a lighted stick falling into
the cradle, and the eldest by drinking part of a phial of
spirits o vitriol : the accident occurred at the same moment,
and they died within a short time of each other.--Staf-
fordshire Gazette.
CONSEQUENCES OF A HUMANE ACT.--
The genilemin who lately indicted some watchmen for, an •
assault committed upon him, in consequence of his inter-
ference to protect a woman whom they were dragging
along the street in a brutal manner, and ohtained their
convictidn and punishment, gives the following detail of
his'expences : .
The recognizance at Hatton-garden £ 0 2 6
Indictment as prosecutor
Subposnis before the grand jury 0 3' 2
Letter
Enteiing,the indictment as defendant 0 12 6
Subpoenas before the petit jury 0 3 2
Motion that the recognizance might be respited 0 10 6
Swearing affidavit 0 1 0
Motion that the trial inight be postponed l' 1 0
Entering:indictment the second time 0 12 6
Subpoenas second time . 0 3 2
Prosecutor's costs of the day 1 10 0
Paid the crier for my verdicts, &c.

£7 12 6

TfIE, STREAM OF LlFE.—Life bears us on
like the stream of a mighty river. Our boat, at first,
glides down the narrow channel, through the playful mur-
murings of the little brook, and the winds of its grassy
border. The trees shed their blossoms over our young
heads ; the flowers on the brink seem to offer themselves.to
our young hands; we are happy in hope, and we grasp
eagerly at the beauties around us; but the stream hurries
on, and still our hands are empty. Our course in youth
and manhood is along a wider and deeper flood, and amid
objects more striking and magnificent. We are animated
by the moving picture of enjoyment and industry which
passes before us; we ate excited by some short-lived suc-
cess, or depressed and rendered miserable by some equally
short-lived disappointment. But our energy and our de-
pendence Are both in vain. The stream bears us on, and
our joys and our griefs alike are left behind us ; we may
be shipw'ecked, but we cannot anchor: our voyage may
ibe hasten d, but it cannot be delayed ; whether rough or
i
smooth, t e river hastens towards its home, till the roar-
ing of the; ocean is in our ears, and the tossing of his
waves is beneath our keel, and the lands lessen from our
eyes, and the floods are lifted up around us, and the earth
loses sight of us, and we take our last leave of earth and its
inhabitants, and of our further voyage there is no witness
but the Waite and Eternal !--,Bishop Heber's Sermon.