The Sun. — 1842-02-02 (London, England)

PUBLIC OPINION. The Morning Herald observes that it is hardly possible to overrate the importance of Mr. Gregory's return for the city of Dublin, and adds, " In his own stronghold—thus early in the career of his magisterial and civil authority, and after all his unscrupulous efforts to swamp the constituency with pitchforked freemen—we behold the champion of agitation and sedition signally defeated in the rejection of such a candidate as Lord Morpeth. All the respect which the personal character of that nobleman justly commands—all the popularity which his courteous and obliging demeanour in office was so well calculated to secure for him among the citizens of all classes in Dublin, have not availed, to save his Lordship's election, when it was felt that his return would be incompatible with the spirit of Earl De Grey's Government, and the certain progression of Irish prosperity under the administration of Sir Robert Peel. The Post has an article on the subject of the difficulties against which Sir .Robert Peel's -Government will have to contend ; in the course of which it remarks:— " His disadvantages arise out of the wretched state of the national affairs bequeathed to him by his predecessors. The revenue of the country has been thrown away, and it must be built up again. There is a- great' accumulation on the wrong side of the account, which must, in some way or another, be cleared off. And these financial difficulties -must be contended with, at a time when the manufactures and commerce of the country are remarkably depressed. Here, again, we trace the bad management of those who, having reformed' the Parliament in a violent hurry, did not know what to do with it when the steady work of statesmanship had to be attended to." The Times, discussing the question' of the mutineers of the slave-ship Creole, says:—" By what possible right can we claim to exempt certain crimes from the class of murder, because committed in assertion of what would have been the criminals' rights if they had been born or transferred into English jurisdiction ? We might as well call him honest who refused to pay a French debt because it would have been barred in England by the Statute of Limitations. Whatever difficulties there may be in adopting the principle of the delivery of fugitive criminals, whether in general or arising from our present relati9ns with America, all which we are far from underrating, we certainly cannot urge on behalf of these men the plea of not guilty.' " The Advertiser remarks in an article on the injurious effects of party-spirit ;—" The party names of Whig and Tory have sufficed to set society together by the ears ; and while the people have been cuffing and cudgelling each other, for the sound of a mere name, those who fomented the strife have been gloating over the spoil. The thing called Government has hitherto been employed to impoverish the, productive millions for the aggrandisement of a luxurious' aristocracy." The Chronicle thus accounts for the success of the Tory Candidate at the Dublin election :—" In the result of the city of Dublin election, the Tory journals discern 'a reaction' in favour of their party. A gang of swindlers, chuckling over the success of a professional enterprise, might as well say that it was a reaction' in favour of being plundered, that enabled them to lay hands upon the property of their victim. The Dublin election has been won by the combined influence of fraud, bribery, and intimidation, carried to lengths so scandalous as to render it impossible for Parliament to pass over the matter in silence.