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

EVENING SUN

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—The Duke of Buckingham has re-
signed. The Tory snake appears casting its
scales. The great champion of the sliding scale
is the first to be cast off. "It was only yester-
day,' says the Post, " that this termination took
place of a discussion which, we believe, had en-
dured for eight or ten days, be4ween the Noble
Duke and the First Lord of the Treasury, in whose
proposed measure upon the subjectof the Corn-law
every member of the Cabinet is understood to
concur, with the single exception of his ;rtece,"
It was "only yesterday" that the m:..gorily organ
of Political Bucks-onomy in the
ing of "the consolidation e,‘A. the strength of the
Conservative Ministry,"
zdtimatum. of Corn-him and declaring, as the
policy, that " a regular
trade in foreign t
CO'CO-al is what must be defeated."
Was only a wee'
or so back that the Post was in-
dignantly co,atrainctin, the rumourthat his Grace
"was going to Paris, and the inference deduced from
that rualow: that there was any sort, or shadow, of
disagreetrient between him and his colleagues.
There a timid animal -
,ehich, when pursued,
bites Vf the part which provokes tile chase. In
like. manner the Premier, in nibbling at the Corn-
lay, has bitten the " Farmer's Friend" off--
" The deep-revolving witty Buckingham
No longer shall be neighbour to my counsels."
We compared his Grace, some time back, to
a tcp-heavy " joggling" pilot-engine—and pro-
phesied lie would upset first, whatever became
at the train behind him. The prediction has
been verified; and it now only remains to be
seen whether the Peel cotton bays will avail
to deaden the t fleets of this overthrow. It is
clear that till; apprehension of those effects must
have been '.re,itendous; and the efforts to obviate
his Grae',..'s final secession immense—from the pe-
riod of "the Stanley and Graham mission to Wotton
the "eight or ten days" discu.--klion between the
Noble Duke and the First Lord ot* the Treasury.
Ni> wonder Sir Hobert Peel has been looking
Latterly very Chandos-wkorn. This occurrence,"
Buys the i)ust, " will be hailed by the opponents
of the. present Administratioa, both in public
life and in the humbler sphere of general society,
as eminently propitious to their views."
e may certainly be permitted to re-
'ard it as i;oniev:hat confirmatory of our
-views of the pr,:earious tenure of Minis-
terial. union, and a pretty strong pendant to the
altered divisions betvteen the several sections of
Liberals. Here are a set of Ministers who can't
keep together on their first " Speech." Will
they ever arrive at a second; or how many
scales will they cast at each process?-How much
" interest-begotten prejudice" can their political
strength afford to par t with ? It is amusing to
observe how comfortable our opponents affect to •
make themselves under the circumstances that
have just taken place, in which the writers
of the party really • see •no particular
ground for uneasiness. The Post is sorry
tiar the split to be sure, but consoles it-
self by reflecting, that the Duke of Buck-
ingham, though "no longer a member of the
Cabinet, will be still its friend," which is
comparatively, if' not positively, the fact, for he
will probably do less harm to his late colleagues
by leaving them dews by staying among them.
But we think we remember that when the
Duke of Buckingham joined the Administration
he was said to give it considerable weight;
and we should be glad to know bow, it'
his accession was so beneficial to the Cabinet,
his secession can be regarded as insignificant?
Do his old colleagues insinuate that his Grace
was a millstone round their necks—a weight it
-was desirable to throw of; and can they pos-
sibly be secretly pleased at having got rid of
Rini? This cannot be the case, for the Tories
know that the Duke and his followers are pon-
derous, and consequently powerful; it may be
difficult to move with them, but it will be an
equally arduous task to get on against them, and
-though his Grace may have been a dead-weight
in the Cabinet, he is still something in the scale,
and will be found no less inconvenient as an ob-
bauaion than he has hitherto been as an incubus.

STANDARD.—The Mort; lg Chronicle hi s
a long article upon the Dublin City elec-
tion, in which the letter M is again made to play
a great part. Our Contemporary persists in as-
serting that 600 voters whose initial is this ill-
used member of the alphabet have been precluded
from exercising the franchise, and of course
ascribes the defeat of Lord Morpeth to their
exclusion. Now, admitting the premises
for a moment, and for a jest, we contend
that this is going something too fast. The
other twenty-five letters have, we may suppose,
returned Mr. Gregory by a majority of 403, and
letter M must, therefore, divide in the propor-
tion of something more than three to two, to
neutralise the effect of that majority. But why
should this unlucky letter be so much worse dis-
posed to the Conservative candidate than its Cad-
ntean brothers! Are there, however, really so
many as 2,000 M electors in Dublin, according
to the statement of the Morning Chronicle?
We have before us the Dublin Post-office
Directory of " gentry, merchants, traders,
&e." This Directory extends to two hundred
and fifty pages, containing about 13,000 uarncs,
and of these names we find the letter M to Com-
prise about 1,400, contained in less than 30 pages.
Are there more M electors than there are M gen-
try, merchan ts, traders, &c. in Dublin; and if there
are, how does it happen that the gentry, mer-
chants, and traders of other letters are not so
-fairly represented in the franchise ? If M ought
to have two thousand, it is plain that the other
letters ought to have about sixteen thousand. We
request the Morning Chronicle to explain this.
There is something curious in the exact number
said to be excluded ; there are, as we see by the
Directory, 1,400 M's in Dublin, of the classes
probably qualified to vote. The Morning Chro-
nicle, however, says, that there are 2,000 elec-
tors, but that 600 were excluded. Does not this
appear as if the bona fide M's had all, in fact,.
voted, and that the 600 victims were creations of
-the same lively imagination to which the world
is indebted for the Mullyash and Phillipsto wit
murders and the awful Orange outrage upon Mr.
Murphy's wig? But leaving the six hundred in
the clouds—their native home—we can direct
the Morning Chronicle to other solutions of the
defeat of its party in Dublin. The influence of
seditious agitation had spent its force, and the re-
sources of corruption had been exhausted.
COURIE.II.—At length, and for the first
time since the accession of the present Ministry,
the Chronicle is in extaties—the Duke of Buck-
ingham's.° long the mark of its matutinal vitupera-
tions, so often the subject of its daily lie, has in
reality abdicated the functions of office at length ;
hence shouts of triumph front the Radical
press. There is no longer any doubt that his
Grace retires from
.office, but in divesting
Wanself of his ?:`.facial insignia it does not
ibliow that he separates himself from the Admi-
-nistration, the members of which are the friends
and the associates of all his political life and po-
litical sentiments. It may serve, perhaps, to
chasten the exultation which his secession in-
spires among his enemies and calumniators to
}mow that, excepting on one question, that of the
Corn-laws, the most perfect accordance still hap-
pily subsists, as will be duly verified by the evi-
dence of words and deeds hereafter, betwixt the
Noble Duke ex-Minister and his late colleagues.
Th is even t, however we may lament the cause and
the effect, has neither taken us by surprise, nor,
we should conceive, any portion of the observ-
ing public. Whilst we honour the scrupulous
fidelity of this eminent individual to cona,:,ctions
conscientiously entertained and ever acted on
with unfaltering uprightness of puri,ose, we could
not shut our eyes to the fact. 'ant any alteration
in the Corn-likivs which sb:ould materially depart
from, the ~•rinciple, or the system, on which at
present. they are rzonstructed, must necessarily
meet, with the dissent of one who stood so deeply
and earnestly pledged against innovation, how
clver disposed to concede to a certain limited ex-
tent their necessary modification ;For ou rown part,
we do not hesitate to express our conviction that a
large alteration and improvement in those laws is
no less expedient than inevitable in the interests of
all classes of the co,inmunity. But if we could be
persuaded that by such alteration, large and
liberal in tl,e test sense as it may be, and as we
believe i.c will be found to be, any injury or in-
justi:e, could possibly he inflicted upon or result
to the agricultural, the greatest of all national
iirerests, we should be among the foremost to
4.) ffer it our strenuous, however humble, opposi-
tion) an to contribute to its defeat.

,of - - - -----
, leverai the Cabinet
Ministers visited Sir James
uralrin, yesterday morning at the Home-office.
AN
Menzies, one oi EAGLE,I., ----
On Thursday last, Hugh
spindid
golden
eagle
Ward's gamekeepers, captured a
This lordly deniX upon one
of
the Glengarry hills.
of the wilds has been for years
known to the shepherds in the district of Glengarry, and
,u,::s much remarked, as vei for his size as fur his de-
truction of game and -flocks,
t feet three inches;
Ile measures between the
tips of the wings whta extended,
and from the point of the tail to thie beak, three feet two
in the capture ;
inches. He suffered little or no in*
and although he does not well brook We captivity, he is
quite lively. —lnvernes6 Courier. •
THE EI. ECTlON.—Parliament will meet t
morrow. The motion for the issuing ola new writ for Li:
v.Tpeol; consequent on the elevation of Mr. Cresswell to
the Judicial Bench, will, in .all likelihood, be made on
that day or the next. The writ will in that case reach
P e ton by the end of the week, and Liverpool in a few
h. urs afterwards. The election will therefore take place
towa.:da the end of the week following, probably on the
11th of February.

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