The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

A certain Sunday organ, hot by the Whigs far the'.:
private political devotions, 'nes been exerting its bellows
and barrels in perforrsing what we May term, in its own
Sabbatic style, an entirely new Gloria pate-wry, wilicit,'its
far as we knor, is rot the production of any known or ac-
credited eeeeposer. With an onthemic peal, fully mole
startling than harmonious, it obtrudes upon us a strange
Alieist ...del eulogy, whereof the burden is as follows :
" A Treasury clerkship is now vacant, and the
Examination of the three candidates is now going- on ;
The three young gentlemen are the sons of Sir William
Folkes, Sir Henry Calder, and the Rev. Mr. Law."
11u we know, is in many respects an arbitrary science,
-the significancy of whose symbols are not always intelligible
to the v-ulgar : but certainly, if the scoring we have just
quoted have any purport at all, its only meaning can be,
that now-a-days Whig appoint ments arc inflexibly reg,t-
lated upon the twofold principle of comparative tr:,l
and approved teerit. On the understanding, then, that
this righteous rule has at length been adopted by the Whig
dispensers of patronage, we cheerfully award our humble
meed of approbation ; and, far from objecting to fhe
eligibility of these youthful probationers, we look with
considerable interest both to the evidences of superiority
they may respectively exhibit, and also to the strict impar-
tiality with which their pretensions shall be estimated and
owned. No doubt the nomination of the younger Ellice
as Private Secretary to Lord Durham must subject the
Whigs to very considerable suspicion, inasmuch es the
country has scarcely paid expense it has been saddled
with in convs)irg him and his household to Canada than
he is permitted. to resign, for the express purpose of visiting
and superintenaing his patrimonial seignory of Beauharnois.
No doubt the Whig pretence cf bestowing honours and
offices exclusively upon tested merit, wholly irrespective of
famii:y influence, v:ould seem to be sadly discredited by the
caAow brood of Cowpers, Strangeways, Russells, Listers,
'Greys, Elliots, Ponsonbys, Howards, and Rices, who, by dint
of their relationship ;to the unclean paternity of Downing-
street, are feathering their nests and gorging their maws
in every department of the State. But we will not
dwell upon this. To suppose that the beak-capacity of
these fledglings has been duly tried and ascertained before
actually allowing them to fasten upon the garbage of
office, is P.., difficult matter : and as the superiority of
appetite:, claw, and pinion, is now the declared standard
whereby contending claims are to be determined, we make
no doubt that the cawing Folkeses, Laws, &c., are quite
as eligible for preferment as any other candidates whom
Whig partiality could select. But, considering that there
are many diversities of Liberalism, an identification or dis-
cordance with which may materially affect the success of
particular competitors, the arbitrament of rival importu-
nities must often be felt by the Whigs to be a very perplex-
ing business. The proelaimed rule for settling such mat-
ters appears to be, that whenever the political influence of
candidates is forend to be equal, a preference shall be given
to the most liberal, To put a Conservative in the path
of prornoteem is repugnant to the whole spirit of Whig
professism and poiicy. The Whigs declare that they hate the
Conservatives. The advancement of any of their Conserva-
tive connexions, even to a subordinate post, is what they
profess to abhor. When, therefore, a young gentleman
belonging to a Conservative family is brought forward by
the Whigs for an official appointment, we may be tho-
roughly assured that corruptien is at the bottom of it. In
such a case, unless the Cuances extended to the favoured
juvenile can be shosen to be wholly disconnected with fa-
tnily considerations, the Whigs manifestly sacrifice the in-
terests of the. country (according to their own views) for
the sake of securing a private domestic benefit. Now,
with4ze:.t stopping to ask Mr. Spring Rice, or his Sun-
da,: organ, what sort of a trial Master Stephen under-
went before his recent appointment to a Commissioner-
ship of Customs, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact,
that young Mr. Calder, one of the aforesaid candidates
for the vacant Treasury Clerkship, is not only Mr.
Spring Rice's nephew, but is the son of a most respect-
able and consistent Conservative. Consistent, do we say ?
Most certainly ; for though it is scarcely a year since the
young nominee escaped from a private tutor to a public
school, his education has been such, upon the whole,
as perfectly warrants his father in accepting any
suitable situation for him which may happen to be
offered to Sir Henry, compatibly with the retention of his
constitutional principles. Those principles the Hon. Ba-
ronet would be the last man on earth to sacrifice. But what
shall we say of Mr. Spring Rice, whose political virtue
thus succumbs to his nepotism ? What of the Government
which connives at such family frailty ? What of the
bellows and barrels that can bepuff it ? If, as they say,
" blood is thicker than water," it appears at least to be not
quite so pure. In a word, although the circumstance of an
office being thrown open to Conservative competition is not
in itself discreditable to the Whigs ; yet, when we see that,
this seeming generosity to opponents, so foreign to their ex-
clusive spirit of party favouritism, is restricted entirely to
their own family connexions, the act which might otherwise
appear to be magnanimous is evidently nothing better than
a mean and unprincipled job. But, after all, it is impossible
to doubt that the announced " examination" which these
youngsters are said to be undergoing is a mere colourable
humbug of the most arrant Whig quality. Toinducea belief
that public offices are now disposed of with the strictest
regard to the fitness of the aspirants, wholly apart from
private influence, is manifestly the sole purpose for which
the said announcement has been made. People, however,
who know the incurable jobbing tendencies of our present
rulers, will not be so easily gulled. Come of this examina-
tion what may, not a particle of honest credit on account
thereof can be given to its crafty practitioners : and with
regard to Mr. Spring Rice's part in the business, the Right
Hon. Jobber, who always affects to shun the very appear-
ance of evil, ought to recollect that, whether his Conserva-
tive nephew be successful or otherwise, it is unlikely that
anything but shame can attach to the luckless uncle. If
Mr. Calder should chance to be appointed, the public will
know how to estimate the sort of talents that determine his
success : if, on the other hand, the Rice nominee should
fail, the presumption will be, that the tricky Chancellor has
as usual paltered in a double sense, and kept the word of
pramise to his kinsman's ear, but broke it to his hopes.—
Ti mes.

AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 16.—His Royal Highness
the Prince of Orange and his two eldest sons have arrived here
to.dny, from the head-quarters at Tilburg
DIABOLICAL ACT.—On Tuesda:y last, as a boy
named William Peele, of Brewery-row, employed in Bur-
gess's Iron Foundery, Botche ate, was touching the cock of
a steam boiler on the premis_e.rg
a, John M'Laughlan, a working
man, said that he would put him in the boiler. The boy, na-
turally enough, laughed, upon which the monster seized him
and placed his head. in the boiling water, and, after holding it
there for a secood or two, droppedhoy in altogether!
The poor fellow contrived to get
out
the
out of th e bailer, but is so
dreadfully scalded that his recovery i3considered hopeless.
He states that no ill will had previously existed between
M•Lauglatan and Lim. The perpetrator of this barbarous act
is i t cirstoly.— Carlisle Patriot.
About half-past 12 o'clock on Wednesday morning
female, very respectably attired, came up to Mr. S. Tedder'
the gatekceprr on Waterloo-bridge, and, shaking bands with
him, asked him to allow her to pees, and that she would pay
him the penny ashen she returned. Having known her as a
person of great respectability, he at once complied, and in a
few minutes afterwards she was seen to throw herself over the
',ridge into the water. It being high water, and no assistance
at hand, her recovery was hopeless.
Died, at Rempstone, on Monday, the 3d instant,
of hydrophobia, Mr. William Orton, butcher and sheep-
dealer, of that villae.e. Same five or six weeks ago he bought
a dog at Nottingham, and when taking it home in his cart it
jilts-owl up and sl;ehtly serateled his face; but the wound
having quickly heaied, though the animal died, he thought no
swore abont it until the S Awalay following, when, being at
Bunny-park on bly;iness, he drank a glass of ale, which his
stomach quickly- ej eeed, azed was then seized by dizziness,
tightness a'ieut the throat, and other alarming symptoms,
which grew worse aed worse, until he expired in great agony.
Dcr.T Reporter.
A day or two ago as one of the inspectors of weights
and measures in this riding, was paying an unexpected visit
amongst a number Of shopkeepers, accompanied by a deputy
constable of the cross eyed race, they fell up ,n one who hap-
ren,d to be rather light in his dealing, and who, thinking all
eyes were off him, with the dexterity of a first-rate conjuror,
poppe..l a few of thesntail 'weights into his coat pocket; but the
deputy happened to be looking at him all the while, and in a
tone aecordmg with his office, ordered Mr. S!eert to t ike the
weigh:s out of his pocket. lie did so, and, on being brought
berre the ililgi-trans, Was fined in the mitigated penalty of
it —Letd3 .Thtell:gencer:
On Aionday morning, about 2 o'clock, the out-
offims beloreeiug to Colonel Conyers, Cnpthall, Essex, and
uhic.ll are situate a short dis'alce from the mansion of that
eel-Al-me 1, %Tore d:sc,.verefl to he on fire; and though every
tto.o. eted d he :,If,ritel wad given by the inhabitants
5601)ot:rho, nr"PerlY to the amount of nearly 2.000/.
be arrested. The tire
a' as coesurned before
itsuppos.ed to have er n the flames could
d in the stables or granary adjoin_;inet7
three varn.ble huntrrs,
ing, in the firmer of whe ,wc.rc
the latter the preduce of
which v:ere burnt to death, and
all of which was
14 acres of haeley and 10 tons ofmoat,real,
consumed. The flial,s then extended
an'l thence reached
•to the fowl house, and
teatre) ed some thousands of its occupants,
The cause of the
the cow-house, which it nearly destroys;.

fire remains a mystery..
While an English family, residing at Boulogne,
were a few dais as-go at breakfaq, one of the party, as the
Almiteur Pari.sie't status, on breaking 2n egg, found within it
a b1,,c1; wUcli was conee:ved to be the germ of a
chicken. Another egg was brought, in which was di!tinctly
discovered a horso.h;ir The fir's! egg was then earef.iliy
ex,nuined, and the black substance within it was ascertained to
be a ball of ho•-se-h,,ir most curi-;usly interwoven. Both the
egs,l,l44ve been d,,poiitei in the Boulogne Allsemn ; and it
pr;v:fs.ct, . he li,n which laid them had been shut up in a
(gsteiafriNotaaa a lup and swalllwed some of the bairs
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