The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-03 00:00:00

which it is beset on every side, that the people have,
for some time, placed their hopes in the Monarchi-
cal part of the Government, and instead of viewing
the Parliament as a preservative of our liberties
against the encroachments of the Crown, they view
the Parliament as an obstacle in the way of the ex-
ertions of the Crown for the benefit of the people.
The Legislative endeavours of the Parliament have
been very trivial indeed. We have made no advances
in any thing. Our Criminal Law is precisely where
it was; and even with respect to Corn, the all-en-
grossing subject of discussion this Session, we must
begin dc novo next Session. A heavy arrear re-
mains, for all classes, even the Unitarians, have been
put off. Wishing well to our Constitution, and feel-
ing uneasy under the opinion which the ignorance
displayed by the House of Lords has produced in
the people, and having great faith in the salutary ef-
fects of instruction, we would throw out a hint to
our Legislators by nature, from which they may pro-
fit. It is impossible that instruction can altogether
cure natural incapacity : but nature has made men
more nearly equal than is generally supposed. Now_
the House of Lords, if it wishes well to itself, should
avail itself as much as possible of means to, counteract
the evils of which we have alluded. We would in
sober earnestness recommend the passing a Standing
Order (equivalent to the by-laws in other Corpora-
tions), to exclude from voting and deliberating all
persons who have not undergone a course of study
in certain branches of knowledge, so as to prevent
the body from suffering in general estimation by the
display of gross ignorance.--Morning Chronicle.
The Ministry is evidently not yet settled, not-
withstanding the breathless haste with which the
Premier obtained his nomination on the 11th of
April, in order that a new writ might be moved
for in the House of Commons on that day.—
Almost every day now produces its resignation
of some public office, and some alteration of the
arrangements. Mr. M'Naghten, it is said, has
either resigned or been dismissed from his seat
at the Board of Treasury : and Mr. Vesey Fitz-
gerald is about to be removed from his place in
the Army Pay Office. Lord Courtowu is re-
ported to have resigned his office on Saturday.
Lord Lansdowne, according to a new arrange-
ment, is expected to be appointed Secretary of
State for the Foreign Department, in the room
of Lord Dudley and Ward ; and the Duke of
Portland is to resign the Privy Seal in favour of
Lord Holland. Lord Palmerston is likewise
expected to resign, and to be appointed Gover-
nor of Jamaica ; and Mr. Calcraft is mentioned
as his Lordship's successor in the office of Secretary
at War, and under the happy circumstances of the
moment, to have the patronage of the Army.—
This last arrangement will give much satisfaction not
only to the Army, hut to the Theatre ! The Home
Secretaryship, it is also expected, will shortly pass
into other hands. It has not yet been arranged to
what office the Earl of Morley will be appointed ;
but it is understood that a high situation in the
Household is allotted to him. The Lord Mayor
and Commons of the City of London (for, to their
credit be it said, there were no Aldermen present)
were certainly rather hasty in congratulating his
Majesty in the beginning of May last, upon having
formed a new Administration • and the Minister
ovally indiscreet (notwithstanding the delay of
nearly two months in receiving the precious Ad-
dress), in advising his Majesty on the 30th of June
to answer that same Address in terms of exultation,
that his Majesty's difficulties in forming an Admi-
nistration had been met and overcome.—Morning
Post.
We are glad to see it stated that Mr. Peel
exhibited a total indifference to the vociferous
applause with which he was greeted at the late
Oxford Commemoration. If Mr. Peel possesses,
as we have no doubt he does, one half the good
sense which the words giver I,ixrx v....ait far, iv.
must have felt, any thing but gratification at the
indications of insubordination and vulgarity which
he must ba_ve witnessed lipaa_thaLoccasion.__We
can make every allowance for an exuberance of
feeling among young men ; nor do we expect to
see old heads upon young shoulders ; but we
do expect young men who ought to be educated
as gent,:lemen, to conduct themselves as such,
which has nOt been the case with the conduct we
have heard degeribed as
E having takend
the place
Oxford
both
at the last Cambridge Election ari
Commemoration. On both these occasions it
seems to have been the al* object of a large
party of the young men to insult, and on one
occasion to assail with brutal violence, some of
the persons put in authority 6-yer them. We
readily hope and believe that the nlajority are
not so minded ; for what sort of Statesmen, what
sort of Clergy, or what sort of subjects, are young
men likely to make, who thus set out in life in
a career of vulgar, cowardly blackguardism, which
would disgrace any place and any men, but is
more especially disgraceful in those places where
the sciences are cultivated, the effect of which,
we are told, is to be found in the
" Emollit mores, nee sinit ease feros !"
Justly proud, then, as Mr. Peel may well be, of
the station he holds in public estimation—a
pride which may be fairly and honourably en-
hanced by representing the seat of learning in Which
he was himself educated—he has done himself no
small honour by his indifference to that spurious
kind of reputation wL,i4ll the applause of a vulgar
banditti, who had just assailed the Vice-Chancellor
with hootings and howlings, offered to load him
with. We shall be glad if Mr. Peei's indifference
on the occasion teaches these young men and their
successors more decency of deportment for the ,time
to come; and that to render either their applause or
their censure valuable, it should be shown in a wad
somewhat more consistent with the character ol
scholars and of gentlemen.—
Morning Herald.
The prorogation of Parliament took place
yesterday by Commission. It was very generally
expected that the speech of the Lords Colnus-
sioners would contain some more pointed allu-
sion to the state of Greece than merely to de-
clare that his Majesty's efforts and those of his
allies were unceasingly directed to the termina-
tion of existing hostilities. Yet we do not see
how any thing more positi7e could easily have
been made. I.t ought .to be ,;e,f2ollected that
Turkey is one of the allies of Great Britain, and
that towards her, as well as towards Greece, we
have, up to this moment, observed the strictest,
neutrality, notwithstanding provocations, espe—
cially from the Greeks, which might well have
justified our departure 5.0 m it. It would not be
easy to reconcile a declaration
,of favour to one
of the belligerents with that courac which we
have deliberately chosen and. pursued. All that
was consistent with neutrality has been recorded
in the expression of his Majesty's desire to ter-
minate a struggle which has, unfortußately for
the cause of humanity, as well as of
freedom, been too long waged. That portion!
of the speech which relates more i.ranrediatelyi
to ourselves, cannot fail to impart the
most u.mixed satisfaction. A careful revision
of the financial state of the country—a work of
much labour and impe.rtance—which was pro-
mised early in the Session the Chancellor of
the Exeirever, is now guaranteed by word
of his Royal Master. From that revision,
,we;
anticipate the happiest results, and one, not cer-'
tainly the least, will, we have every reason to
expect, be a reduction in the public expenditure ;
effected, not by diminishing what is necessary
for the service of the State, but by lopping off
superfluities, and by the introduction of a simpler