The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-14 00:00:00

PUNCLIC OPINXON.

The Times contains an article on the Rural Police sys-
tem, to which it is strongly opposed, describing it as a
very unnecessary innovation, which has augmented local
burdens without diminishing crime. " Public opinion,"
adds our Contemporary, " may be expected, sooner or
later, to pat an end to this rural nuisance ; but in order
to furnish it with fitting dispatch, its opponents must
form themselves into active Committees in every part of
the kingdom, and thus bring their influence to bear
against it in a constitutional way."
The Chronicle reverts to the engrossing question of
the Corn-laws, observing Ethat these laws prevent the
people getting the more work which it is allowed they
want ; that the work-provider is growing corn across the
sea, and the landowners intercept the exchange ; and
that they will not let the people have the more work that
is wanted, both by the would-be employer and the would-
be workman.

The Herald, in noticing a Puseyite tract, just put
forth by the Rev. Francis Wackerbarth, declares of this
noisy tract, that it has perused nothing so utterly shock-
ing to every notion of decency, of common sense, of
good taste, of Christian feeling, of mere worldly pru-
dence. The tract, it seems, is dedicated to St. Athana-
sius— a most appropriate Saint for a Puseyite pam-
phleteer to dedicate to.
The Post states that the report of the Duke of Buck-
ingham being likely to replace Lord Cowley as. Am-
•bassador to the Court of France is utterly unfounded.
4. Lord Cowley," says the Post, " is not about to leave
Paris, the Duke of Buckingham is not about to quit
the billet, nor has there been, for a single moment,
any idea of a separation between the Duke and his col-
leawues or the slightest circumstance from which such
an idea could have sprung."
The Advertiser asserts that there can be no question
that Sir Robert Peel means to do something, with the
view of modifying the Corn monopoly, and adds—" Sir
Robert will soon find, to his cost, if he seek to steer a
middle course between the monopolists and the country,-
that he will only forfeit the friendship and the confidence
of the former, while he will not obtain the approbation or
support of the latter."
The Dublin Evening Post thus alludes to the Tory
candidate for that city :—" They have hooked the
lad.' Five thousand for a beginning. Mr. Gregory is
beginning early. His father has only come into his
granduncle's estate, and he forks ont a year's rental at
once. Though young, it is said he is a distinguished
member of the Turf. Is it possible that he has no
friends ? Is there no one to be found, who will have the
common charity to tell him, that a Dublin election is the
worst betting-book he ever opened ?"
The YoreCourant, speaking of the present Ministry,
says :—" They are do-nothings where the interests of the
people are concerned, but they have ever shown them-
selves ready hands at finding their way into the pockets
of the people. It cannot be denied that the finances of
the country are in a depressed and a deranged state, from
which the measures proposed by the late Government
would have given them an immediate turn for the better,
and a gradual arrival at a healthy permanency."
In reference to the Irish Tory Government the Chel-
tenham Examiner remarks as follows : "From the
stubborn nature of his Irish supporters kis not improba-
ble that Sir Robert Peel may yet find Ireland his chief
difficulty. Like all trimmers, it seems Lord de Grey's
fate to please neither party. Strike high or low, there
is no pleasing Paddy. The Noble Viceroy, a few weeks
since, in bestowing an appointment, passed over the
claims of Mr. West, M.P. for Dublin, and So chagrined
were the Dublin Tories with the slight, that they forth-
with dissolved their Registration Society out of pure re-
venge !—a truly Hibernian notion of vengeance 1"