The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-20 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.:

CORN EXCHANGE.
The supplies fresh up since last Saturday evening are small
lb. New Corn Bill in the House of Commtms has rendered the
Y. and though there is scarcely any litht°e.d.--pijetse
m be considered nominally
is heavy at Monday's price.. There le aim a dull trade for Flour_
ARRIVAL
are unaltered. The Oat trade
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0,040

Lord NoßntinY receives an Irish Earldom,
with remainder to his second son, and a pension
of 4,5001. a-year. He was anxious for a British
, but did not obtain it, The new title is
PEeaerlrageof NORBURT ; that first decided on was
Earl of ICNOCKALTON, but his Lordship subse-
uently changed laic ;
, ~—,Freentares Antrnai.
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Those Members of the House of Peers, who,

by voting for the Amendment of the Duke of
Wellington, caused the loss of the Corn Bill,
were prepared for a good deal of popular irrita-
tion, or rather indignation, and had made their
minds to meet it boldly and fearlessly ; but the
contempt and the ridicule of which they have
become the objects have quite disconcerted them.
So long as the sublime individuals in question
confine themselves to vague generalities, and
protect themselves by forms, they may contrive
to blind the public with respect to their qualifi-
cations ; but in an evil hour they allowed them-
selves to be tempted to enter into the details of
the warehousing system. Earl Grey was quite
elated with the proud part which he thought he
would infalliably be called on to act. He was

already, in imagination, struggling in his last
ditch for the privileges of the Landholders,
against an invading host of infuriated weavers.

But to be forced to descend from one's inaa-

Binary consequence to repel the rude and most
_ _

... . . -
unceremonious assaults of Members of the House

of Commons, who lecture grave and pompous
Peers as if they were so many school-boys,

whose ignorance makes them objects of pity
rather than of indignation, is, it must be owned,

galling in the extreme. Their Lordships were,
Indeed, last night, in a most pitiable state. Their
wisest course would have been to preserve
silence ; but this was too great an effort for
them. The chagrin generally felt found a vent
in one or two organs. Earl Grey " lamented
the occasion which gave rise to the inconvenience
(an allusion by Earl Grosvenor, to the proceed.
ing in the Lower House), and the mischief
would be greater, he apprehended, if a latitude
should be taken by Gentlemen in the other,
House of Parliament—by persons in authority—
;(3 throw reflections on that House ; which, as

an independent branch of the Legislature, he
ktiztea they would never suffer. . . . If
they wtke.threatened with farther inconvenience

about w' fiat was said in that House, he could

only repeat what he had before said, that he
trusted the House would have firmness enough
first to despise, and, if persevered in afterwards,
to resist it." No Ministers were present, except
the Lord Chancellor, so that Noble Lords

were obliged to lay a little restraint on them-
selves for a day; but, in order to insure a fitting
opportunity for a little observation, notice was
duly given that some questions would be put to
Ministers. this day. Whatever may be thought
ofthe wisdom ofthe supporters ofthe Duke of Wel-
lington's Ameildnient, there seems to be but one
opinion with regard to the honesty of the five ex-
Ministers Who formed a part of the Majority.—:
The public in general subscribe to the opinion
expressed by Mr. Baring " that when he saw no
less than five of the late Ministers, all of whom
had, while in the Ministry, themselves concurred
in and approved of the measure which had been
.pa33ed by this House, and sent to the other
kkouse,--when he saw all of them, when out of

office, turn round and strangle that very measure
he could not agree with the Right Hon. Mein:
. her fOrrOxford,ithat all this was done from an
entirely- honOOtaeeling : more especially as the
Amendment, by means of which they had
effected their object, was the most foolish and
absurd, and the most inoperative for any good
purpose, that ever was proposed to be introduced
into any Bill that ever came before Parliament."
•Admitting the apology offered by Mr. Canning
for the Duke of 'Wellington, that he was merely
a tool in the hands of others (and after the evi-
dence of incapacity, amounting almost to imbe-
cility, which he has himself given, the supposi-:
lion that he was played upon carries with it much
probability) ; admitting that the Duke thought
that he was doing a great service to the country
when he first proposed his Amendment, and that
he had not discernment enough to perceive that
it was at variance with the principle of the Bill;
surely all the rest, aided, too, by Mr. Peel's
counsel, could not be under the same delusion.
Mr. Canning, indeed, intimated that he knew
the author of the intrigue. "He knew (he
said) that two or three wiles were used, without
which the subsequent Amendment of the
Puke of Wellington would not have been in-
troduced." But, even this exculpation of the
Duke, humiliating as it is, only extends to
the delusion under which he originally laboured.
What was observed by Mr. Otway Cave
on this subject was unanswerable, that " the Noble
Duke might have proposed the clause in ignorance
of the meaning of the Right Hon. Gentleman's let-
ter ; but after that meaning was explained, why did
the Noble Duke persevere ?" Mr. Huskiason has
not escaped censure, for trusting any suggestions
whatever to the Duke's discretion, after the glaring
evidence which he had received of his incapacity.
We can conceive," says a contemporary (the
Globe)," that the application to grain and pulse of
the rules of military promotion, must have puzzled
Mr. Huskisson extremely. The notion of the owner
of some junior corn, running about to get the per-
mission to enter a few quarters for home consump-
tion, with letters patent, signed and sealed by 250
owners of senior corn, and needing the signatures
of 2.50 more, seemed to present, as he politely ex-
presses it, great practical difficulties. i Though
this proposed Amendment does not prove any great
acuteness, we confess it clears the character of the
Duke of Wellington, and rather injures That of Mr.
]Huskisson ; for it is quite conceivable, that the
statesman who could pen such an enactment might
conceive that he was doing the world a service by
that which he afterwards procured to be added to
the Bill. It clears him from the suspicion of any
power of contrivance;- but that Mr. Huskisson, after
hearing this evidence .of the,Duke's notions on such
matters, should trust him:with the suggestion at the
close of his reply to the Duke, with a moral cer-
tainty of its being misunderstood, does, we own,
lower Mr. Huskisson's character for discretion."
This accusation naturally leads one to reflect on the
qualifications of Cabinet Ministers. How often may
not Resolutions of the Government, involving the
most important interests of the nation, have been
determined by the casting vote of a Minister, the
trusting to whom the plainest suggestion is made a
;round of charge against one who was for years his
scJeagt:r. It was Chancellor Oxenstiern, we be-
lieve, who told his son, when setting out on his
tray, la
Lo observe with how little sense the world
,
„,a3 governed.—Morning Chronicle.
In another part, of this day's New Times, will be
found a full and interesting report of the proceed-
ings which took place at Liverpool, on Monday last,
'upon the occasion of a public dinner being given to
Mr.. Brougham. The speech of the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman embraced topics of more than
ordinary attraction at the present moment; and it
was because we anticipated it would do so, that we
adopted measures for laying before our readers, thus
promptly, an account of what he said. The lati-
tude of a dinner oration, like the licence of a hust-
ings' speech, rermits much to be told, which could
hardly be uttered within the walls of Parliament.
141 r. Brougham's declarations with respect to Mr.
Canning, Lord Eldon, and the recent Ministerial
arrangements, will be perused with great interest.—