The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The changed position of Sir Robert
Peel, from leader of the Opposition to head of the Go-
vernment, has involved him with the ultras of his
party with reerence to what he has done, and what
he has not done, in his new character. This has already,
to a considerable extent, had the effect of undeceiving
their hope and of shaking their attachment. Another
occasion of discord in the matter of Church Extension
by Parliamentary grants from the national revenue, still
remains. Sir Robert Peel's silent and sulky vote
on Sir R. H. Inglis's motion in the last Parliament,
was anything but satisfactory- to the Oxford Baronet,
and those who regard him as leader of the Church
militant in the House of Commons. Still it was hoped
that that vote, constrained as it was, might be taken as
a pledge of better things to come. At the last election,
therefore, the High-Church party lifted up their ban-
ners in his name, and zealously beat up for votes in fa-
vour of his candidates. If Sir R. Peel were placed in
office by a Tory majority returned to the House of
Commons, the waste places of the National Church
would be restored, by the erection of new churches
and large additions to the established clergy, at the
national expense. The good old times would be re-
vived ; when the nation was church-ridden, and
Toryism was the creed, religious and political;
the articles of which were imposed as the
terms of civil privileges in this world, and
enforced as essential to happiness in the next.
The organs of the party to which such expectations
were held out and such arguments applied, begin to
suspect that gross deception was practised upon their
simplicity ; and, as a matter of course, to complain of
and to resent it. The last session of Parliament passed
over without any allusion to the grand scheme of im-
posing new taxes upon the entire nation, already over-
burdened and crushed to the very earth by the extent and
severity of commercial distress, to supply the deficiency
of church accommodation and religious instruction
which the defective appropriation of the large revenues
of the Church had in part occasioned, and which the
existing funds of the Church, if properly husbanded
and applied, would go far to provide. The reason for
this omission was suspected. It was shrewdly guessed
that its introduction would provoke a discussion
anything but advantageous to the new Govern-
ment. ft would compel the Premier to take a de-
cided course on a very difficult question. In
avoiding Scylla he would run upon Charybdis ; for
a middle course was impossible. He must either
propose a grant, or oppose it, if moved for. Sir R.
Inglis would fain have preserved his Right Hon.
Friend at the head of the Government from the
dangers which threatened him frcm the Church Ex-
tension scheme. This, however, was impossible. His
own consistency must have been compromised by an
abandonment of his project. He was pledged to
bring it forward " under the happier auspices " of a
new Parliament. He, however, gave the Premier "a
long day," as the onl favour he could bestow.
STANDARD.—IJpon the House of Commons
going into Committee on the Bill for the Queen's
protection, Mr. Hume got up, with his usual feli-
city and characteristic good taste, to pronounce a
coarse invective upon the lavish expenditure, as
he affects to esteem it, of her Majesty's Court.
" If anything," he said, " could be more dissatis-
factory to the great mass of the people than an-
other, it was to see, outside of the palace, squa-
lid poverty, misery, and wretchedness, in all
their painful variety, and to behold withinside
the palace nothing"—mark, nothing—no sympathy
for the Spitalfields weavers—no effort for the relief
of the Paisley sufferers—no gracious supplications
from a Queen in behalf of her distressed subjects—
" nothing. but extravagance, gorgeous grandeur,
and expensive finery." Having by this malignant
contrast done his utmost to direct upon the Sove-
reign the worst feelings of the ignorant and un-
principled, the Member for Montrose expressed his
approbation of the Bill for the protection of her
Majesty. Sir Robert Peel, whether mildly or sar-
castically, suggested the hypothesis that the Member
for Montrose had mistaken the question before the
House for a question of Supply, and exposed
the folly of supposing any connexion between the
Royal expenditure and the public distress. Sir
Robert Inglis remonstrated against the ungracious-
ness of Mr. llmne's speech upon such an occa-
sion, and destroyed Sir Robert Peel's charitable or
ironical hypothesis of a mistake, by marking the
expression by which Mr. Hume referred to the ques-
tion actually before the House—an expression which
will be found at the conclusion of his speech. Never-
theless, Mr. Hume and Mr. Williams, of Coven--
try, made a clumsy attempt to shelter the offen-
sive speech behind the pretence of a blunder. Ques-
tionless the occasion upon which Mr. Hume deli-
vered his gross attack upon the Queen adds to
its ungraciousness ; but nothing can aggravate the
wicked sedition of the words which we have '
quoted, or the utter falsehood of the inference to
which these words were manifestly designed to lead.
Words more exactly calculated to raise up among
the ignorant and thoughtless, profligate and despe-
rate, not mock, but real assassins, could not fall from
the lips of man. The people are represented as ex-
posed to squalid misery and wretchedness in all
their painful variety, the Queen is described as
indulging in extravagance, gorgeous grandeur, and
expensive finery, revelling in epicurean luxury and
its epicurean indifference. " Nothing" else is to be
seen in the Palace. Her Majesty's painful discharge
of the distracting duties of her high station, those
noble efforts by which she has proved her constant
and mnst affectionate sympathy with the wants of the
humblest of her people, are all rejected from Mr. Hume's
picture of his Sovereign—a picture sketched too on a
day, or in a week (we may give up the inquiry
as to the particular minute), when the question
is raised by an unhappy necessity, how best
her Majesty can be protected from personal danger.
The Earl of Lincoln, in the course of a graceful speech
:mentioned a circumstance that may teach Mr. Hume
that the Queen does sometimes think of other matters
than extravagance, gorgeous grandeur, and finery. It
appears that when the plan of Buckingham Palace was
prepared in the reign of George the Fourth, a chapel was
forgotten—and at present the Royal Household have
no place of worship nearer than the Chapel Royal, at
St. James's, an occasion of much inconvenience in
bad weather. The Queen, in consequence, resolved
to supply this want, and that it might be supplied
without any demand upon the public, devoted to the
purpose a grant made for the building of two con-
servatories.

STATE OF TRADE IN SCOTLAND.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The utter destitution of the industrial classes here
at this moment, in its harrowing details, exceeds be-
lief. Montrose, Perth, and Arbroath, exhibit fright-
ful evidence of ruined trade, in the condition of the
working classes. In Aberdeen—though of compa-
ratively recent growth—the list of unemployed is
swelling weekly, and has already attained an alarming
appearance. Perhaps throughout Britain the present
condition of Aberdeen—in its marked change, compared
withthe state of trade only a few months back—is
without a parallel. In Paisley the all but complete
bankruptcy of the manufacturers and traders was only
a prelude to the state of utter helplessness in which the
labouring population appear to be ; and that state of
destitution and misery is hardly credible. The soup
kitchens are sustained with difficulty ; and only
exist through the immense sacrifices made by various
charitable individuals in their regular donations. The
relief list every week gives evidence of yet more
serious barriers being in the way of raising the re-
quired amount to meet the necessary outlay. In Dun-
dee, owing to a great many of the staple articles of
trade being shut out of the French market upon
which Dundee mainly depends—the utmost stag-
nation pervades all branches of manufactures. The
flax mills are closing ; and men and women
crowd the streets in idleness, yet willing to toil.
The town is canvassed every day for subscriptions
in aid of the unemployed labourers. In Glas-
gow the public works are closing. Cotton mills
and other factories are only kept open half time, at
serious loss to the manufacturers themselves. Shop-
keepers and small manufacturers are in a like posi-
tion ; for the custom of the one is gone, and
the latter have nothing to do, The busiest
streets evince this fact to an extent almost beyond
belief. In nearly every street there are whole
rows of shops shut up, while those that arc open
scarcely draw as much, in retail, as will cover the
expense of porters' wages for a single week ! All trades
are suffering alike. In Edinburgh—although de-
pending more upon its local consumption than any
other source of revenue—the number of tradespeople
out of work is very great, and daily increasing ; d
es-
pecially in such trades as printing, brassfounders, and
tailors.
A private letter from Ayrshire, dated July 12,
tells a fearful tale of distress amongst the spinners and
weavers of that quarter. The writer is a schoolmas-
ler. He says :
" I hear that ti Is with • • the greatest difficulty and ex-
, ertion the people of Paisley arc kept quiet; and should