The Sun. — 1840-02-21 (London, England)

ALBERT. From some accident or misunderstanding the PRINCE was not ready to receive the deputation of the House of Commons which waited on him on Tuesday with the Message of Congratulation. This was a lamentable mischance, almost as much to be deplored as an earthquake or a short harvest. It might, however, have happened merely from the PRINCE not being familiar with our language, or from his engagements being at once numerous and uncertain ; but it surely could not have been intended to insult the House of Commons. The Morning Post is quite sure that it was so intended. If our Contemporary, who assumes to know so much, would ascei d a little beyond the porters of the Clubs or the lacqueys of the Members-4 he would, as he continually gives us to understand he can, consult the heads of his party—if he would ask Lord ASHLEY or Sir GEORGE CLERK, who formed part of the deputation, lie would, no doubt, learn that the PRINCE made an ample and satisfactory apology for the mistake or mischance of the preceding day, and that those Tories, instead of supposing that any insult was intended to the House, were fully convinced that the PRINCE was not at all to blame, and were satisfied, not to say charmed, by his apology. What is gathered from eaves-dropping chamberwomen or door-porters suffices for an attack on her MAJESTY to that Journal which, not long ago, almost insinuated a charge of murder against the QUEEN, because one of her serving-ladies died of an old liver complaint. The Journals which employ these improper arts are very loud in their complaints of the Socialists and the tyrant majority of the House of Commons. But we venture to doubt whether the Socialist doctrines, carried out to the utmost consequences imputed to them by Mr. OWEN'S adversaries, or the tyrant majority of the Commons, can ever equal the wickedness and the tyranny of the Tory Press. To deprive her MAJESTY of public esteem by villanous lies is not merely to expose the Crown to degradation, it is, in these times, to endanger the QUEEN'S life. Society slumbers on the bed of a furious volcano, in which Chartism, priestcraft, fanaticism, intolerance, and unjust legalism, are struggling for the mastery. How it may explode, no man yet can tell, but the explosion seems cer- • Win ; and if the efforts of the Tories to bring odium on the QUEEN should be successful, her fate may be most disastrous. To see them, day after day, on the slightest occasion, or on no occasion at all, hunting down that young lady with all the savageness of bloodhounds, and all the while pretending the utmost loyalty and devotion, is one of the most disgusting spectacles of ferocity, united with hypocrisy, that. has ever fallen under our notice. We defy Socialism to produce a more revolting spectacle than this offspring of Protestant bigotry I Again, as to tyranny. The House of Commons only pretends to exert a power over the bodies of those who offend it, but the Tory Journals tyrannise over the. mind. They trample truth under their feet : they crucify principle. The Great Apostate, or as one of its own Correspondents yesterday called it, the Universal Journal, makes its gullible readers believe one thing one day, and the contrary another, and tyrannizes over their mental faculties far worse than ever the SULTAN tyrannized over his most devoted slaves. Imitating this Universal Despot, sundry lesser Tory Journals, like Turkish Pachas, gathering by all kinds of cruelty and exaction the tribute for their head tyrants, torture truth and principle in the same manner as the Arch Apostate, and exercise a general and most arbitrary tyranny over words. Disregarding truth, justice, and charity, the Tory Press at once crushes and enslaves the minds of its believers and dupes. It feeds them with gross calumnies, panders to their low appetites for slander and scandal,—one day assailing the Socialists, the next the QUEEN,--... one day misrepresenting the representatives of the people, and next the unrepresented people themselves, till Tory readers and Tory journalists, the seducers and the seduced, lose all appetite for truth, and live on falsehood.  The Earl of MINTo announced in the House of Lords last night, that Rear-Admiral ELLIOTT, who now commands at the Cape of Good Hope, is to take the command in India, vacant by the death of Sir