The Sun. — 1839-07-11 (London, England)

ROBT. PEEL from making such a reform the first act of his next Administration. If Mr. RICE on Friday should be luke-warm on this subject, dnd resolve on maintaining the revenue at all hazards, he will betray his own friends, without securing for himself the character of an able financier.  We have given in tinother part. of The Sun the observations in the Times of yesterday, and in the Spectator of Sunday last, on the Shannon Bill. We are well-wishers to the improvement of Ireland, but we dislike jobs of all kinds, and we, therefore, as impartial Journalists, feel it our duty to call attention to Mr. RICE'S effrontery in palming this Limerick rffair on the country, to the injury of the Administration of which he, unfortunately for the Liberal cause, has too long formed a part. The affair appears to us the more glaring, when we consider that. it is not many da)s since Mr. RICE had the assurance to persist in his opposition to a second resolution of the House of Commons in favour of the shippinc' class of Danish claimants, who had a just debt against the Treasury, into whose coffers the money for their indemnification had been paid thirty-two years ago. The minute on the subject of these claims has, we understand, just passed the Treasury, and will, no doubt, judging from the private instructions which Mr. RICE acknowledged having given to the Commissioners on a former occasion, turn out another attempt to shuffle the claimants out of their just rights.  -If the House of Commons will tamely submit to the passing of such jobs, on the olie blind, and such conteinpt of the privileges of Parliament on the other, it is high time that a reform should take place, and the people have representatives who would_ see justice more impartially and effectually administered.  The Morning Post, which on Tuesday discharged its masked battery of disloyalty against the QUEEN, yesterday opened its slanderous fire upon the Ladies of the Bedchamber, warned, doubtless, if not alarmed, by the hints given it by a Contemporary of its own kidney, that it was doing no service to their common cause by the course it was pursuing. The Times insinuates that the Post is acting the part of a tool in the hands of other parties in thus pertinaciously keeping up the discussion of a subject which the relatives of the unfortunate Lady FLORA HASTINGS, the persons principally concerned, must now wish to be no longer agitated. In this insinuation there is a mixture of truth and falsehood. It is quite true that the Morningi t it s Peloustalilsy u a tool—that every body knows— but an ancient when it tre thatgrudge"t the Times is merely malevolently endeavours to mislead the public as to the quarter from which the Post receives its orders. The whole affair has been made a party business from the becrinnino• ; and the unprincipled prompters of the6scandal-mongering print care nut a whit to what lengths they go, provided they can turn it to account, by gratifying their factious malignity, or venting their vindictive spite towards the highest Personage in the realm, whose unpardonable crime it is that she rejected their services on constitutional grounds. The oracle of Printing-house-square sees clearly enough  the damage which the cause of the Tory party " must sustain by these attacks upon the SOVEREIGN, and he is therefore' anxious that they should not be attributed to their true cause. This is the reason why he puts the public on a wrong scent. So far does the Morning Post carry its extravagance on this " awful subject," as to charge the Ladies of the Court and Sir JAMES CLA RKE, with little less than the murder of Lady