The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-01 00:00:00

th•ek and thin adherents at the public expense, by be-
wowing exclusively upon such persons every vacant
office, &id sometimes creating new ones for their be-
nefit, exemplifies no less strikingly their purity of
principle. At first the Whigs proceeded with rather
cautious and timid steps in this course of venality and
corruption ; but now the familiar practice of the thing
has rendered them so bold and shameless that they no
longer attempt to cloak their corrupt jobbings, but
openly glory in their shame. The evening organ
of the Ministry, in recording the other day
two
instances of public employments conferred upon
disappointed Whig-Radical candidates at the last
election,—one, the conferring a place worth 1,5001.
a year upon Mr. Stock, the defeated candidate
at the election for Trinity College, Dublin ; the
other, the appointing Admiral Sir J A. °lnman-
ney to the chief commend of the fleet in the Tagus—
the evening organ of the Ministry, we say, in record-
ing
these two instances of public employments be •
stowed on account of electioneering services, was not
ashamed to add, by way of commentai y upon the
" purity of principle" text, " This is the only true
policy—reward, and you increase the number of your
friends and supporters." So much for the " Govern-
ment without patronage" which the Whigs had pro-
mised to a then credulous and duped, but now an un-
deceived people I We do not pretend to say what are
the qualifications of Admiral Ommaney for the com-
mand of the fleet in the Tagus, or those of Mr.
Stock for the office of a Judge in the Bankruptcy
Court. We confess ourselves to be profoundly igno;

rant of the brilliant achievements of the one as a nava
officer, and of the forensic character and exploits o
the other, as a member of the bar—indeed we know
not whether the one ever fought a battle, or the
other ever held a brief ; but what matters it, if such
appointments are to be the reward of electioneering
services for the avowed end, not that the public ser-
vice may be well performed, or the country in any
respect benefited by the talents or experience of the
fortunate recipients of the patronage, but that the ad-
herents and supporters of the Whig Ministry may be
increased? For aught we know, Admiral Ommanney
may be as great a commander as the immortal Nelson,
and Mr. Stock may be a Hale or a Thurlov:,ewGllioobsee
modest merit, except in the Trinity College election,
shrunk from obtruding itself upon public observation ;
but the principle of preferment laid down by t
makes it quite unnecessary to take into consideration
what a man's qualifications for any office are. A gal-
lant Admiral having gratified the juvenile Whig at the
Foreign Office by contesting South Hampshire, from
which the author of the non-intervention war was un-
ceremoniously kicked out, obtains the command of the
non-intervention fleet in the Tagus, where, if his
naval should not be better managed than his election-
eering tactics, it is quite certain the maritime glory of
the country will not be much enhanced. " Reward,"
says the Globe ; " this is the only true policy ; and
you increase the number of your supporters. So,
then, the dispensing of patronage in the army and
navy, and other branches of public service, for Par-
liamentary and political objects, which used to be a
Tory crime, has become a Whig virtue I Verily the
boasted purity of Whi,,ogism requires those who believe
in it to have no smell, so strongly does it savour of
rottenness and corruption. The Tories, even in the
high and palmy days of their power, did not entirely
exercise their patronage for the benefit of their political
creatures and dependents. The glorious achievements
performed by naval and military commanders, under
Tory administrations, proved that qualification for im-
portant offices was not entirely disregarded. Among
Tory appointed judges, too, we also find the greatest
luminaries of the law. The Mansfields, Kenyons,
Ellenhoroughs, Hardwicks, Thurlows, Eldons, and
Tenterdens, with many other great sages of the law,
were all of Tory appointment ; and to those we might
add some living instances, showing that Tory patron-
age was not always bestowed merely to reward politi-
cal partisans, but that talent and ability for the public
service were kept in view. To the Whigs belongs the
disgraceful distinction of making the public service al-
' together subservient to electioneering and other poli-
tical purposes, as their own journal has avowed. So
much for Whig patriotism, and the Government with-
out patronage !—Morning Herald.
That admirable disinterestedness which is the lead-
ing characteristic of Whiggery evidently extends to the
journalists of the party. The Chronicle, which seeks
the patronage of taprooms, and relies on the support of
the town temples to the goddess of gin, has not a civil
word to spare for the country. " Ignorance, depend,-
ence, and timidity," it declares, " dwell in villages. '
It is quite sure that, though the counties were all
against the Ministers, yet still the Ministers might
boast of having " all the independent and intelligent
constituencies in their favour." It proves that
plenty of intelligence and plenty of coalsid asrteeamt
ways found together, and that where coals and steam-
engines are not, there " the electors are to be bought
or bullied, and cannot have an opinion of their
own." This goes down mighty well along with
beer and gin in the town taprooms, and nobody
of course can suspect the Chronicle of being any-
thing else than quite disinterested in this peculiar
view of the whereabouts of British intelligence.
The Globe, on the other hand, goes out of town in
considerable quantity by the afternoon coaches and
the evening mails. Strange to say that, though in
most things sympathising with its morning coadjutor,
it is sometimes most affectingly rural, and frequently
condescends to speak of country people as if they were
something better than the dirt upon their shoes. Even
the town patriotism of the Globe has a touch of su-
burbanity, and it is particularly great upon the wrongs
which greengrocery suffers at the hands of intolerant
Tories. It would of course be high treason to the
Globe's disinterestedness, to suppose that in this will-
ingness to get out of town in its speculations, it had
any eye to a freer circulation. We would, however,
recommend even the rural and flowery Globe to keep
to its market gardeners, and leave off all allusion
to the ‘. farmers," unless it has a greater fancy
than most people or papers have for bing laughed
at. " Greengrocers and farmers," as the Globe
with 2 careful eye to the " order of precedence,"
thinks fit to class them, are a very different sort
of people. The one class rise in the world, and ap-
plaud themselves, in proportion as they are adroit
in passing off old cabbages for new, and in currying
favour with cooks. Thus practised, they become emi-
nently fitted to determine upon the policy which Go-
vernment ought to pursue, and to have a lively sym-
pathy with the Whig party. Having much to do with
leaves, they become literary without knowing it, and
suddenly spring from the making of composts for vege-
tables to the manufacture of political manuals for Whig
Lords. Farmers are another sort of people altogether,
and one might have thought that even the Globe would
have made this discovery from the recent elections. We
have heard, says the learned greengrocery organ—i, we
have heard of indications of incipient rebellion in far-
mers." Have you, indeed ! We suspect this " rebel-
lion," as the Whigs call it, is nothing but the resistance
of sound Protestant farmers to Whig dictation. Ask
Mr. Coke, of Norfolk—we beg pardon—ask the Earl
of Leicester, how many farmers' votes he succeeded in
getting for those who gave him an Earl's coronet? His
thirty thousand pounds (merely a " subscription" re-
collect, nothing else) was available in Yarmouth, but it
would not do Kith the farmers. No, no—they had
no stomach for O'Connell Government, though it did
confer an Earl's coronet upon Mr. Coke ; so the
farmer; were voted at _Holkhain to be " rebellious."
This is the story which the Globe . has got hold
of, and, like the Chronicle in the case of the Bishop
of Kilaloe's letter, haS got hold of it by the wrong
end. Our greengrocery friend may save himself the
trouble of trying to flatter the farmers into any parti-
cipation with that baseness which accepts a present
convenience at the expense of sacrificing every sound
English principle. The farmers are somewhat too
tough to be humbugged either by the O'Connell
blarney or the Globe's logic, There will be no " re-
bellion" on their part, either against the Protestant
Constitution of the country, or the healthy feelings
which uniis atom in one common cause with the Pro-
testant gentry. They are not MP) to lift on the
O'Connell livery, latotis;yppl;:t:onMesit_nistty which is
willing to le sustained in place by the Irish Priests.
anti therefore
tlhlemyeYaarree, anieligitil6iiey' must be, hostile to such In mini,.
nistration As the present.--Hormuz- Post,