The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THIS EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel may discover the senti-
ments of the country toward the leading measures of his
Government in the annual elections tor the Common
Council of the City of London. The Corn-law and
the Income-tax—the former based on the vicious
principle of a " sliding-scale"—fit emblem of the
slippery propensities of its champion !—the latter, his
grand financial remedy for the national maladies—
' these have shared between them the decided opposi-
tion of the citizens ; who, in nearly all the ward elec-
tions, have tested the merits of the candidates by their
adhesion to, or determined disapprobation of these in-
jurious and obnoxious measures. The Herald, cast-
ing about for some topic of congratulation under cir-
cumstances so mortifying to Sir Robert Peel, and por-
tentious to his party, finds it in the supposed predomi-
nance of dislike on the part of the citizens to the In-
come-tax !—" St. Thomas's Day passed away in the
City without promoting Anti-Corn-law agitation.
The citizens are practical people, sensitive in
the extreme about the quarters where the breeches
pockets lay, and they grumbled therefore at the
Income-tax much more than at the price of bread."
Miserable comforter ! The 'lncome-tax was the
master-stroke of Sir Robert Peel's financial policy—
the measure on which above all others, he rested his
claims to the confidence of the country. When he
proposed it to the House of Commons his tone and
manner, no less than his language, showed how much
he prided himself on his grand expedient—how un-
shaken was his confidence in the potency of its virtues,
and how sanguine his expectation of universal appro-
bation from the country for its introduction. And
now—on the earliest opportunity, before its exactions
are demanded by its collectors, and it is only known
through the preliminary operations of its in-
quisitorial investigation—to find the citizens
provokingly unanimous in resenting its im-
position; and showing, by their mode of exercis-
ing the civic franchise' how they would use their
electoral rights in voting for Parliamentary represen-
tatives, were the opportunity afforded them. Sir R.
Peel is wise to discern the indications of popular
opinion. He knows well what the resolutions recently
passed by the Common Council in favour of free
trade, and those which have been adopted by the
most populous wardmotes of the City against the
Income-tax, followed by its open denunciation by the
inhabitants, who required from the candidates a
pledged resistance to the Corn-laws and Income-tax,
as the condition of receiving their suffrages for the
office of Common Councilmen—Sir Robert Peel, we
say, understands what these things mean ; he knows
they are the precursors of a storm against which his
crazy, ill-manned bark will be unable to bear up.
STANDARD.—We have at length extorted, if
not an account of the missing 100,0001. of the League
Fund in 1841, an excuse for rendering no account.
Our readers will be puzzled to conjecture the na-
ture of this excuse. The books have been burned,
they may imagine—or carried away in the late in-
surrection—or the cashier has bolted—or, possibly,
has received a hint from Lord Abinger, or Sir
Nicholas Tindal, that the effect of his exertions
in the cause of the League last autumn requires a
change of air to Sydney or Norfolk Island, or the
refugium of Russell Magistrates, Port Phillip ?
No—nothing of the kind is alleged. No loss of
books is pretended, nor does it appear that any of
the confidential agents of the League has as yet
met with his deserts. The explanation is that
the boasted collection of • 100,0001. was all a cheat
—that not more than a fourth of the money
(if so much) was ever brought to book—and that
the remainder must be set down to the scattered
and casual expenses of the Leaguers and their friends.
This is just as if a bankrupt called by the Commis-
sioners to account for the disposal of his cash credit
should say—" Heaven help your wits, gentlemen ; I
never possessed such a sum, or the fourth of it. What
you see here in the books as credit to cash
is merely the sum total of all that I expended—
house bills, tailors' bills, milliners' bills, my
wife's soirees, many good dinners, money paid for
puffing advertisements, or expended at boxing-matches
and horse- races: I have lumped them together, and
put plus my little stock of money, down as my cash
credit." We doubt whether any of the Whig-derided
Commissioners would rest satisfied with an explana-
tion of this kind. The answer would probably be,—
"Sir, you have claimed to possess a certain sum in cash
(say 100,0001.) over and above all these current ex-
penses—account for that or abide the consequences."

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

YOUNG V. FISHER.
This was an action brought by an attorney against
a client, to recover the amount of three bills of ex-
change for 201. each, which were given for his ser-
vices as an attorney, and for a further sum of 71. 10s.,
for subsequent services. The defence was that the debt
was covered by the bankruptcy of the defendant, and
that the bills were accepted for the accommodation of
the plaintiff, and that the services for which the ad-
ditional sum was claimed, were rendered before the
plaintiff had taken out his certificate, and he was there-
fore not qualified, and could not recover his costs.
Verdict for the plaintiff.
The Court then adjourned to Wednesday, Jan. 11