The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-22 00:00:00

detrnlty was found. In the treasures of the palace,
the cannon of the 'fortifications, and the ships in
the _harbour. As the expenditure of France has
thus been reimbur,.ed, and her honour avenged, the
question of her African conquest is divested of every
consideration of national justice or pride, and be-
comes one of mere policy or interest.— Times.
The meeting of Parliament is usually preceded by
a rapid succession of pamphlets; and the harvest
his season ,seems more than usually abundant. Every
day brings us a fresh publication, in praise or vitu-
peration of Ministers. We have just received one.

under the title of The Result (1 Me General Elec-
tion; or, What has Me Duke of Wellington gained
by Me Dissolution? In this pamphlet we have a
variety of (Mails, illustrative of the respective gains
and lo ses, which the writer balances by making
Ministers losers by twenty upon the result of the
whole. With respect to the popular part of the re-
presentation, the writer observes--
" First, as to Counties. There are in England forty
Counties. Of the eighty-two Members which these re-
turn, no more than twenty-eight are steady supporters of
the Ministry ; forty-seven, or nearly double that number,
are avowed telherenta of the Opposition ;_ and seven are of
a neutral east, not leaning much to the Government. Did
ever Minister yet meet Pariament with such a preponde-
rance of the County Representation against hint? Of the
thirteen great populous cities and boroughs, with hundreds
(Loudon, Westminster, Aylesbury, &c.) returning twenty.
eight Members, only three seats are held by decideil Mini-
sterial men ; twenty-four by men in avowed opposition.
There are sixty-two other places which may have mates
—being More or less open—they return one hundred and
twenty-six 11Iembers. Of these only forty-seven are Mini-
! sterial--all the rest are avowed Opposition men, save
eight, whose leaning is rather more apinst the Govern-
ment than for it. Of the two hundred and thirty-six men,
then, returned by elections more or less popular in Eng-
I only seventy-nine are Ministerial votes ; one hundred
and forty-one are in avowed opposition, and sixteen of a
neutral vast. If, therefore, the Ministers are to make bead
against a Wee of two to one against them, from every part
of the country where the popular voice is heard in elec-
tions, it can only be by means of the rotten boroughs and
the Scotch Members. Everywhere else they are in a mino-
rity altogether without a precedent."
We very much question, however, the possibility
of anticipating with anything approaching to accu-
racy, the course which a number of Members will
take in these times. There are many Members who
have bought their seats, and will vote for or againit '
Ministers, according to the opinion they may have
of the proposed measures. Much of course, will
depend on the measures, end the character rind
talents of the Ministers who propose and defend
them. Let us see how the writer characterises the
Ministers :
" Can any one," he says, "then doubt that the follow-
ing sketch paints to the life, those weak but presumptuous
. . .

men who affect to administer our affairs ?

It would be easy to find an abler man than the Prime
Minister; but impossible to name any one less popular,
whether with the Ari.tocraey, the Church, or the Com-
munity at large. Civil experience he has hardly any—
pulitical knowledge none—his talents lay in war, and with
the peace they have ceased to be of any more use than an
old matchlock or a battering ram. He was of some ser-
vice while the King's personal prejudices and unsteadiness
required the contront of a strong hand ; with the life of

the late Monarch, that use too ha; ceased. If he has any
►►ther claims to his station, except his extravagant estimate
of his own universal genius (a new light since his me-
morable self-denying declaration), neither the Nation nor
the Parliament have, as yet, been able to discover them.
Let them be plainly brought forward, however, by any
one who is quixotic enough to maintain them, and they
may be fairly discussed.
" The Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst has notoriously dis-
appointed, by his indolence, all who had formed any ex-
pectations of him. lie is, by common consent, the moat
inefficient Keeper to whom the Great 'Seal has been en-
trusted since Lord Bathurst—whose heir at law would
make as good a Chancellor as either hit Noble and Learned
ancestor, or his Noble and Leatned Colleague. No doubt,
as far as personal weight and consideration goes to make
up public virtue, the present Ministry may boast a share
in the person of its First Law Officer, such As none other
ever had, and such as it would be absolutely cruel to ex-
amine in detail.

" Among hit colleagues the Earl of Aberdeen stands
distinguished (bold as the assertion may, to some, ap-
pear) for that union of feebleness with presumption—of
incapacity in every other man's eyes, with all-sufficiency
in his own—which constitutes the ridiculous in character.
It is from such 'originals that the pencil of Cervantes drew
the J3aratarian Government of Sancho Panza, that of
Sheridan his Lord Burleigh, and of Swift his Gulliver,
drawing upon the King of Brobdignag. Mankind have
yet to learn one single ground upon which this Lord
should affect to bold any other given Lord cheap ; and yet
he never opens his mouth but to try some clumsy sneer.
He is supposed to have studied under Mr. Pitt, who had
some right to indulge in such supercilious demeanour.—
'The ilitoloos have an apologue of a dwarf, who used to
keep company with a giant, and seeing him always look
down upon the crowd, got the habit of looking down
when he saw men whose middles he could just reach stand-
ing upon tip-toe.

The Uther Members of the Cabinet it is really diffi-
cult for any one, not having a peculiarly retentive memory,
or, as Mi. Brougham would say, ' not being good at
proper names,' to recollect. One, indeed, Lord Ellen.
borough, is remembered, not froM the possession of any
shining or statesmanlike qualities, but on account of cer-
tain awkward passages in his history. This individual
professed himself at different times the follower of Lord

Lansdowne and of Lord Grey ; but he left them all upon
the first hint of a place from the Duke of Wellington, and
he accepted it with an Amendment to the Duke's Address
ready written in his pocket, which he bed had the impudent
vanity to show to several persona. To the Government he
hroUght a weight of personal unpopularity, which it rarely
Ws to the lot of any outs so little conspicuous as himself
to acquire. And if to this disadvanWe is added an over-
weening conceit—overweening apparently in proportion
to the absence of merit—a total want of judgment, and a
singular faculty of attracting the tslerishm of others, it will
be easily granted that his co-operation is, in fact, a griev-
ens misfortune to the Administration which is encumbered
with it.

Of Lord Bathurst, lives there the man so unfeeling,
so lost to all the softest emotions of our nature, as to speak
in an enumeration of Statesmen fit to administer a great
empire? If such there be, and of heart so flinty, thee the
same might also view unmoved the sorrowful plight of
Mr. Goulburn, and weigh the merits of that good sensible
man and most able Quarter-Master-General, Sir George
Murray; as a Parlimentiry Chieftain. Whether or
not Lord Francis Leveson Gower be a Cabinet Mi-

nutter, may be a question ; it can he none that in
such a Cabinet nature bas well qualified him to hold a
place, and a prominent one. But though he may rival
Lord Aberdeen in furless debility, he falls so in.
finitely short of hint m presumption, that it would
be a shame to speculate upon the amount of his
gain by his late removal from Ireland. He was
found to be perfectly unlit for the Parliamentary con..
(lied of that department ; some change of climate war'
absolutely necessary to preserve his existence. So he is to
battle the Estimates night after night against Mr. Hunt,
for six or eight weeks of the next Session, by way or

having an eti-sy lift, And a task he is At for.
Of Sir Robert Peel we have not spoken. He Is
man of respectable talents, moderate acquire►nents, un.;
questioned propriety, undeniable self-complacency, and
brilliant and boundless wealth. Whether these, added to
the possession of as much unpopularity as ever fell to mu 3
man's share, ha exactly the quslifiettiotis that will fit hint
for leading such a Monte of Commons as is just returned,
and against such an Opposition, may be a different thing."
There is a little colouring in this; yet it is ;tripoli.,
Bible not to recognise the features► of most of the
individuals pourtrayed. It has been said of the
Duke of Wellington, that he is exceedingly patient
of criticism on his performances in a department itt
which he is undoubtedly a great master. In the►
third volume of The Life of bir Thomas Aintwa,
jost published, General Wellesley is very sharply
handled by that clear-headed indiv►dual, for the un-
skilful manner in which he fought the battle of
Astoye; but we never heard that the sharpness of
this censure produced any coolness between the two
hien& Sir Thomas tells him, that he could hardly
hove expected to defeat the enemy with less than
half the loss he actually suffered; that after break-
ing their enemy, his cavalry, when entire, was not
sufficiently strong to pursue any distance, without
which he could not have done so much execution
among them as so counterbalance his own loss; and
that there Was a possibility of his being repulsed :
in which case the great superiority of the enemy a
"',v4lr,y, with some degree of spirit which they