The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-20 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1842.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM announced last night that her
AT AJ I•STY'S Government—her MAJESTY'S strong Go-
wrnment--her MAJESTY'S all-powerful Government
—the great master of QUEEN and People, when a
monopoly is be preserved, or when a tariff is to be
pas Led, which opponents approve of, and supporters
dare not oppose—Sir JAMES GRAHAM announced last
night that the monster of a powerful Government
meant to give up a great portion of the Poor-law
Bill,' for the simple reason, that it is unable to pass
it this session.

Sir JAMES said he wished to pass the four clauses
following the first, which regulate the number and
duties of Sub-Commissioners, and apply to the is-
suing of rules and regulations; but he does not mean
to proceed with that part of the Bill which relates to
CII.II}MT unions, and the formation of districts. One
or two cla►Lses, which go to correct the curious prac-
tice lately grown up, of thieves and vagrants making,
as Sir !JAMES said, a hostelry of the workhouse, he
wishes to pass, but the rest of the Bill the Cabinet
will mature at leisure during the recess, and intro-
duce it next, session.

We have no desire to see the Bill pressed through
the House, for we are satisfied that a very different
Porn•-law from Sir J. GRAILVM'S Bill will be neces-
sary before next year, shoubd trade not revive, and
should pauperism continue OD spread with the same
frightful strides during the next that it has taken
during the last six months„ but that the strong Go-
vernment has given up this Bill supplies a lesson
which'we must not allow to he lost.

Th; Government has trietl, and tried zealously, to
pass.oe Bill. It was filvised a month ago to give it
up—there were rcporcs that it had so resolved; but
Sir All ES GRAII A 7/1, on being asked, stated more
than once that the Government meant, if possible,
to carry ,the Bill. • The strong Government, then,
has - been unable 'to carry out its own design:.
August approaches- —the supplies are not yet obtained
—it is not possible 'to keepgentlemen swelteringin the
metropolis all thra ugh the summer ; they might as
well be in the dent art as in this dry, dusty, and hot
place ; and the s ong Ministry must yield to the
stronger necessity -vs hieh country gentlemen feel, to
return to their plei Ist int parks, and which the belles of
the metropolis, wb Oln the beaux must follow, feel to
flee to other places fashionable resort.
In truth the poor convenience of these insignifi-
cant person:; is the I insis on which laws are built or
• put aside. When ti e Corn-law was on the tapis, and
when the tariff was i i progress, the threat of resigna-
tion was sufficient to c nerce ihe votes of the grumbling
landowner §; 'but no , :nn ,at, ito power can induce
them td protract their .res idenca In town ; and as they
will run oil; the strong- G overnment is obliged to give
up a gteat part vt• its Poor-law Bill. When Sir
Roiator had. . I as growling and greedy
friends to deal with, h t c ouhl hush them into obedi-
ence by a threat to ha; ul over patronage and power to
the Whigs, but the sti it dy Liberals who oppose the
Poor-law Bill are not Ilabe so quieted, and the strong
Government finds itseb !conipelled to yield.

This is only one pro .3f of weakness-; is not another
to he found in the o ppogition the Government en-
counters every Suppi y night ? It has wished to
shirk the distress of tile country—it would have
the public calamities, but
glossed over and cone: ;fed

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