The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-29 00:00:00

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officers, and the undaunted valour of our troops,
have again accomplished a great victory, which
spreads the halo of success and glory round
Sir ROBERT . PEEL'S Administration. The
Tower guns have been fired by its orders;
bells' have been rung the animation, or
perhaps we may say the intoxication of unex-
pected good fortune, has infected the public, and
there has been a general clearing up of clouded
countenances, and a general exhiliration on
public 'changes and commercial marts, such as
have not been known for years. Reports already
prevail that the army is to be somewhat reduced;
taxes, it is clear, may be remitted, as the war
in Affghanistan is at an end, as the whole ex-
pense of the Chinese war, for which they were
levied, has been reimhursed, and a large sum
paid into the Treasury ; the people may be
soothed, and the lucky Administration, which
boasts of its strength, may possibly beCome po-
pular. Nevertheless, we adhere to our opinion,
that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government is a failure,
and that, though equally lucky- and strong, it
must give up the policy it was established to
carry through.
In the Times of yesterday appeared a letter,
duly leaded, signed " Conservator,", dated Man-
chester, and calling on our Contemporary boldly
to advocate a moderate fixed duty on corn, as-
suring him that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S late measure
has only whetted the appetite for further
changes; that every Conservative in Lancashire,
and perhaps in the country at large, is for a
moderate fixed duty, and implying that nothing
else can serve or save the nation. But Sir Ro-
BERT PEEL was forced into office far more on
account of our domestic distresses, than our
foreign relations, and it was to cure them that he
took his great fee. On being placed in office,
he cast aside,- as a useless nostrum, the Whig
recipe of a fixed duty ; but he adopted and re-
commended the sliding scale, and a high rate
of agricultural protection, and his prescrip-
tion has made matters much worse than be-
fore. Now friends and foes, Conservatives
and Whigs, join in declaring that he has mis-
taken the disease, and that a moderate fixed duty
is the true panacea. In spite, therefore, of an
unexpected good harvest, and in spite of unex-
pected successes abroad, the main shaft of Sir R.
PEEL'S policy is broken in twain, and he must
have a new one, or the machine will soon come
to a still stand.

The distress of the people renders vain all his
schemes. " The Anti-Corn-law League," says
"Conservator," " are only powerful as long as the
manufacturing population are distressed." That
is the fulcrum, working on which the lever of
agitation will tumble down PEEL'S Administra-

don, unless PEEL changes his policy.. He •must
satisfy the manufacturers ; the bulk of the people
must have employment and reasonable wages;
and if these things be not accomplished, as they
cannot possibly be, either by a sliding scale or
a fixed duty, he must come to a perfectly free
trade. On any other principle he will make the
Government responsible for all the wants of the
manufacturers and the merchants; for all the
uncertainty and sufferings of the farmers; and
for all the distresses of the people. Such a re-
sponsibility, now that the pretensions of Sir H.
PEEL to cure all national diseases have fixed the
attention of the public on him, and justified all
the demands it can make for ease and health,
will speedily convince him that he has no other
alternative than to set trade entirely free, shake,
from the Government the awful responsibility he
has assumed, and tell manufacturers, merchants,
farmers, artisans, and labourers, to provide for
themselves.

The history of those remarkable proceedings
which led to the suit of CHESTERFIELD v.
THYANY, copied from a weekly paper, will be
found in anotherpart of The Sun. The compiler
of facts, if we may use such an expression in re-
ference to these very discreditable negotiations,
has apparently taken great pains and time to as-
certain the truth, and certainly places the de-
fendant-in a very different light from that in
which he had been represented by certain jour-
nals. We have heard from other quarters that
this view of the case is correct, and that through-
out the' whole transaction Count BATHYANY
conducted. himself in a manner so honourable,
as to form a remarkable contrast to that
exhibited by I►is English friends. The plaintiffs
are now convinced of the fact, and in order to
hush up the affair, which prudence and regard
for their rank should for ever have concealed,
they have withdrawn the action put down for
trial in the Queen's Bench on Saturday before a
Special• Jury. This is fortunate, for possibly
some further details might have been furnished
little creditable to the parties themselves, or the
,order to which they belong. If these, are a
specimen ofour hereditary legislators, and as they
are nearly related toPeers who are con,stantly bawl-
ing out "Church and State for ever" we may take
them as a tolerably fair sample, can we wonder
at the enormous extent of class legislation, or the
outcry raised occasionally by the lower and
middle classes against the two Houses of Parlia-
ment? If Peers and Peers' sons and Members of
the House of Commons be parties to such acts in
private life, what security is there that they will.

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act more honourably when • they perform tlip
functions of legislators ? To lay heavy taxes on
others and screen themselves, to uphold an
enormous Church establishment in which they
have an interest, to vote pensions to their relatives
1 out of the people's money, and to make severe
laws which they know cannot reach themselves
in one case out of a hundred, are only matters of
duty compared with those deeds which, within
the last six months, have brought such merited
disgrace on the higher classes. But the injury
done does not only affect them. They are re-
garded as the leaders of fashion, as models for
imitation in all the walks of life, and aspirants to
rank and titles, so ihat even the plebeian multi-
tude are corrupted by their bad example. We
would, therefore, recommend such worthies
as Lords CHESTERFIELD and MAIDSTONE to
the especial care of the Bishops, and chiefly
to him of LONDON, who wculd find quite
enough of work on his hands without lec-
ail ing the poor on the immorality of playing at
~ki!tl?F, or wasting his precious time i❑ counting
the boats that pass by his country palace on
Sundays.

Madrid journals, of the 21st, have been re-
eAved, and are chiefly occupied with the dis-
turbances at Barcelona. No further accounts
'have been received from that place of the
slightest importance. ESPARTERO left Madrid
on the 21st, with an army of 15,000 men, to put
down the insurrection. The march will occupy
at least ten days, and the general belief in the
capital was, that the REGENT, in order to prevent
such mad outbreaks for the future, would make
slme severe examples.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the
election of a Deputy for the first arrondissement,
which had become vacant by the appointment of
General JACQUEMINOT to the command of the

It cannot be denied that the Ministry is ex-
tremely lucky. A bounteous harvest, when
least expected, promoted as much as possible Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S schemes to give relief to our
suffering people. The termination of the war
with China, at a moment when nobody looked
for it, on most advantageous terms, opening a
new and a ready peopled world to our trade, and
stimulating enterprise in all our ports, is another
piece of good fortune. Unfortunate delays in
sending the avenging army into Caubul, and a
hesitating policy in the Governor-General, bad
excitedipainful apprehensions. The skill of our