The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-06 00:00:00

crease his own embarrassments as well 4s those
of the country. That Mr. Canning is anxious
to get rid of the Session of Parliament is pretty
evident ; and it follows that he will, therefore,'
postpone the period of its re-assembling as long
as lie possibly can. What then will, probably,
be the case next year ? Why Parliament
will not meet, perhaps, till February : the ap-
pointment of the promised Committee will, per-
haps, be postponed till after the recess, or after
the circuits, when Gentlemen are come to town
and can more conveniently attend. The
subjects brought before it, when assembled,
will be so multifarious and important, as to make it
impossible for the Committee to make any report
during the Session—or at any rate too late for any
legislative measure to pass till the next year--,which
will carry us over to a very distant " to-morrow,"
indeed—at soonest, the Session of 1829. But if
Mr. Canning is really in earnest, in wishing to see
any reform take place in- our finances—and if a
Committee be first necessary, why is it not ap-
pointed at once, with permission to sit during any
adjournment, or even prorogation of the House ?
Surely there would be no great harm if the idle
people about the Treasury were to be kept for once
a little upon the qui rive during the summer montlo.
Suppose they were, for one season, at least, obliged
to emerge from their suburban villas before one or
two o'clock in the day, and were occupied in pre-
paring and laying before this Cominittee the docu-
ments, which would enable them to make a full
report by the next meeting of Parliament; and that
that meeting were to take place before Christmas.
We do not imagine that this, or any part of it, will
be done; but if it is not, the country will be apt to
form its own opinion why.—Morning Herald.
The line taken by a Noble Duke, and some
of his late colleagues, on the subject of the Corn
Bill, seems hardly reconcilable with what the
world calls plain dealing. The measure itself is
decidedly, in all its features, one of that very
Administration of which his Grace so lately
formed a part ; and it must be presumed, had
received his Grace's sanction as a Cabinet Mi-
nister, and would have continued to receive it
had he continued in office. If public men are
allowed to have what may be called a Ministe-
rial and a Parliamentary conscience, then this
change of opinion and of conduct may be justi-
fiable ; but if truth be immutable, and cannot
veer about at our pleasure, then we do not see
how that can be wrong to-day which was right
yesterday. We speak it without meaning offence
to any one, when we say, that this apparent ter-
giversation (with which the Whigs in particular
are just now furnishing us with so many striking
instances) goes far to destroy the confidence of
mankind in general in public men ; and in proportion
as that character stands justly high and is revered,
the more must we regret to see any course taken by
its possessor to lower himself on any one occasion
to the varying thermometrical range of the Whig
standard. In the present state of affairs, when men
who have run the gauntlet of all principle and opi-
nions, force themselves upon the world as prodigies
of political tact and consistency, it is the more ne-
cessary for those who have characters to lose, both
for their own sakes and that of the public, to keep
a strict guard over their own principles; besides
which, we would remind all public men of all par-
ties, that the world are but too ready to consider the
science of politics as mere trick and deception, with-
out the mighty convenient change of opinion which
they are now every day witnessing.—lbid.