The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

PUfILXC OPXNZON.

The Times has an article on the subject of Sir Robert Peel's
difficult position, wherein it observes :—" There is a feeling
that Sir Robert Peel is the statesman of the (lay, and the man
to whose practical skill and integrity the management of the
nation can be most safely entrusted. So far, so good ; and if
there were no further embarrassment, Sir Robert woud have
nothing to do but to float down the current—to accept the Pre-
miership, and do his own will or the people's fancy upon the
Corn-laws. But it happens that among that large majority
who call him to office, an influential, if not a preponderating,
party are utterly and entire!) opposed from feeling and interest
to these alterations which the temper of the day demands, and
unappeasably jeal, us of all its requisitions."
The Herald states that it is the duty of Government to
male the country immediately acquainted with the worst that
has befallen the British arms in Cabeol ; and adds :—" The
attempted subjection of Affghanistan being immoral in its
origin, nothing that has occurred can deprive any future at-
tempt of similar immorality. The A ffghans are not rebels or
insurgents; they owe no fealty or allegiance to the British
Crown, and the endeavour of England to deprive them of
independence is as monstrous as that of Napoleon to destroy
the independence of Spain. The rising at Cabool—bloody,
cruel, sanguinary, and brutal though it be—is a movement to
achieve independence. It is not an insurrection—it is a war.
The deadly revenge which animates each Affghan blow is rot
without parallel in European struggles for nationality ; and the
disgusting insult perpetrated on the remains of Sir NV illiam
3PNaghten could readily be exemplified during the recent
civil war in Spain."

The Chronicle says .—" It seems generally understood that
the Corn Importation Bill will receive little further opposition,
beyond attempts in Committee to improve its details. This
affords noproof that the country is satisfied with the measure;
the country neither is, nor ever can be, satisfied with any mea-
sure, of which the object is to promote the interests of a class
at the expense of the community: It merely proves the pre-
valence of a conviction► that the proposed law, though equally
objectionable in principle with the existing law, will be found
less injurious to commerce."

The Post, speaking of Lord Howick's speech on Wednes-
day, which the Chronicle declared to be worthy of Burke,
says :—" We have sometimes had the honour of hearing Lord
Howick speak in the House of Commons, but we own that it
was not our happiness on any of those occasions to discover the
germs of that philosophic eloquence wbieh was to burst forth
as soon as he Lecame Member for Sunderland, and to bring
back, as it were, the great Burke to this dull time of our Par-
liamentary history. Yet further we are bound to acknow-
ledge, that if we hat heard the speech of the Noble Lord on
Wednesday night, we should probably (such is Tory obtuse-
ness) not have found out the excelltnee which it seems the
Noble Lord possesses, and then exhibited." -.

MONEY—TRADE—COIVIMERCZ.
A meeting of the Proprietors of the West London Railway
took place yesterday in Abchurch-lane, when the debts of the
Company were stated at 37,0001., and an adjournment was
made for a month, to allow time for further consideration. _ _

Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of the
London and Croydon Railway was held at the London Tavern.
The Report stated a balance in hand of 1,073/. 17s. 6d. The
repair of the late landslip had cost 21,0001. A dividend of
6s. Bil. was proposed and carried.