The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNA,LS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE—There is discord already in King Agra-
'limit's camp. The dupes are finding -out, that they
are dupes, as we told them they would, long ago.
The organs of monopoly in the press are repeating
• what the mouthpieces of monopoly in the House
were muttering last Friday evening. " A sovereign
shame so elbow'd them," as they elbowed each
other, and sat marking the subdued but significant
hints of desertion of their cause by the Premier, that
they have ever since been denouncing him as about
to repeat the game of 1829, and abandon their
acres,ps he betrayed their religion. The landed organs,
London and provincial, seem tending towards the
same course. The Herald grumbles " If, in addition
to the impolicy of considering the Corn-law as an isc.
lated subject, there are indications of a design to con-
sider that law improperly, then ought the sensitiveness
of the nation to be doubly aroused." The Bucks
Gazette, his Grace of Buckingham's particular organ,
thus accounts for his il'signation
The Duke of pledged himself to the
agriculturists to maintain, in or put of office, such an
amount of phe considered ity on foreign corn as .
ade-
quate protection to the home grower. 11-Ov, had such
an amount been proposed and carried in th.: Cabinet
as the Noble Lord deemed protection, he would, of cO7set
have assented to it, and remained a Cabinet Minists.r.
The fact of his resignation suffices to prove that the re-
' duced scale proposed was not 'protective in the Duke's
estimation, and that therefore he resigned. The agricul-
tural body have much to regret in this result, for it augurs
no good to their interest, by which the Duke has stood
unflinchingly and consistently since he first commenced
his public career, We shall not speculate on the pre-
cise oltjections made by his Grace to the scale proposed,
but we may be sure that, with his desire to preserve thz
unity and strengthen the plans of a Conservative Admis ••
nistration, he would have given way had such a course
been consistent with his determination to stand by • the '-
farmers. And we do fear that when the reduced 'slid-
ing scale' shall be made public, that the agriculturists
will soon detect the grounds of the Duke of Bucking-
ham's refusal to acquiesce in it."
Another Buckinghamshire paper, in the Liberal in-
terest, the Aylesbury News, gives the following account
of the effect produced on ihe Tories of that county by
his Grace's resignation :
The Buckinghamshire Tories, ever since Tuesday
last, have' looked dreadfully chapfallen and disconsolate.
IVllether this is because they fear that they have lost
a share of the Government patronage, or because they
fear that they are again to be sacrificed ;' or because
they dread the effect of the change in developing the
character of their ducal leader, and causing disaffection
in their ranks, we cannot say. It is certainly true that
the Tories of this county, whatever the country gene-
rally may think• of the affair, feel the resignation of the
Duke of Buckingham to be a heavy blow and great dis-
coaragement to them and their hopes. What the effect
may be on the constitution of the great Tory party in
this county, time will show. To us it is a matter of deep
regret that there is no organised party of Liberals in
Buckinghamshire to take advantage of the split which
must soon necessarily take place in the dominant faqion
of this county." •
STANI)ARD.—Who does not remember the so-
lemn warning given against the prosecution of this.
Affghanistan war by the greatest military authority
living, or that ever lived—by one, too, who had spent
his youth and formed his manhood, and reaped
his first laurels, destined to 'be overshadowed by the
brightest wreath that ever adorned a conqueror's
brow, in Asiatic war ? Who does not remember the
Duke of Wellington's solemn and earnest, and.
)st .angry remonstrance against the prosecution
or hostilities at a distance so remote from our re-
ssurces as Central Asia ? We cannot pretend to
recal his Grace's words—and at the moment we do
not know where to look for them. This was, how-
ever, the spirit of the warning You will succeed •
in the first instance ; of that there can be no doubt,
when you have British officers and British troops—.
butt° what will your success conduct you ? How
will you, at such a distance from your resources,
muster a force large enough to occupy the country,
or how will you bring back so large a force in safety dud
with honour ?" This was the warning given by the .
Duke of Wellington, a man whose transcendant •
military genius those who have most frequently
questioned his views in civil policy admit without
reserve—a man who, often blamed for sacrificing.
party interests to a sense of duty, determined by lns.
personal judgment, has never been even once sus-
pected of proffering an opinion for a factious-.or even,. '-
a party purpose. This was the warning' solemnly
and -importunately pressed by such an authority-and
such a man. It was despised by,. se firmly helie„-.
the -674y,individuals living sufficiently destitute :ASf,
'Modesty A The .lateO ,wisdom to despise it. -
Ministers despised the military authority- of the •
Duke-iff 'Wellington; and now the country pays
• the penalty of enduring such Ministers so Vittg. .
confess that we cannot dwell upon the disastrotse
theme with the temper in which it becomes us to ad-

dress our readers ; the lives of the late Cabinet were not
worth the hundredth part of the calamity that has
already visited the British arms, solely through
their criminal stupidity and self-conceit—solely, we
say, through their stupidity and self-conceit ; for here,
mark, there has been no blunder of commanders or
diplomatists, no treachery of allies ; least of all has
there been any slackness or cowardice on the part of
the soldiers engaged. All the subordinates have dis-
charged their duties not merely well, but nobly; the
seed of defeat and disgrace was in the original concep-
tion of the plan of the war, as the Duke of Wellingtori
said it was, and for that none can be in the slightest
degree responsible but the late Ministers.

STATE OP THE NOTTINGHAM HOSIERY
• ..en.,I.A.cE TRADES.—It is painful to state, that notwith-
staedingthe month of February has arrived, the demand for
both hosiery and lace goods is rapidly decreasing; shops that
some time since had half employment. now wholly stand, whilet
a fever for emigration prevails amongst the young men, and it
is only for the want of means to pay their passage that it is
not general. In the midst of this distress, we are sorry to
state that the manufacturers of both hose and lace are conti-
nually compelled, through the influence of the Corn-laws, to
meditate reductions in the wages. The wrought cotton hose
hands have submitted almost without a struggle to the reduc-
tion of 3d. per dozes on their wages. Another very large
house has given notice of its intention to reduce the price for
making cut-up hosiery.—Nottingham Review.
The Lace Trade of Chard continues in a de-
pressed state, or rather is increasingly depressed. This trade
Las occasionally been like a green spot in the desert, while all
around has been unproductive, but at present, we are sorry. to
sat, it partakes of the general gloom. What is the doetOr
going to prescribe? Unless some effectual remedy be shortly
administered, the patient will certainly be in an irrecoverable
state.—Somerset Gazette.
failuresTßADE
reportOedF
debyatsoaherto
several parties in aggravated distress. Wakefield has
but the
been favoured more than its neighbouring
here
eWthAis WAKEFIELD.—Some
involve
-a sufferers.—
may stop. Some of the corn-factors are h
blow is struck at last, and it is difficultctoies say where
nh
Leeds Mercury. —Tit E Poo u
WoRsHrP-sTREET
;red a donation of 51. from ti.,,,
wireeitiheweerri
were
Box.—Mr. Broughton
E. applied at the discretion of the
Skinners' ConlPanY' to
the poor.
(Monday.)—
Box.—Mr.
Three hundred inhabitants of .
ed on Saturday to Clerkenwell. Court, for poor-
sates,
and ordered to pay them in seven days,- . .- '
Magistrat.as to therelief ofr": p
Sates,