The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-10 00:00:00

TORY JOBBING.

The Times has the effrontery to say " that the Whigs,
who came into office with the words economy and re-
trenchment' upon their lips, have perpetrated more jobs,
created more patronage, and appointed a greater number
of new salaried officers than any Tory Minister ever
thought of in his wildest dreams."
What description of jobs Tory Ministers are in the
habit of dreaming of we cannot undertake to say, but of
those perpetrated in their sober waking senses, there are
fortunately, or rather unfortunately for the pockets of
the unhappy tax payers, official records which any one
may consult who chooses.
In the year 1835 a return was made, dated Treasury
Chambers, and signed Thomas F. Freemantle, of pen-
sions and annuities paid in the course of that year out of
the Consolidated Fund. In that return we find, among
a long list of pensions amounting to 510,086/. a year,
granted by Tory Administrations, the following names

PENSIONS FOR NAVAL AND MILITARY SERVICES.
Earl of Chatham £2.000
PENSIONS FOR CIVIL SERVICES.,
Right Hon. H. Goulburn £2,500
Right Hon. J. W. Croker 1,500
Right Hon. T. P. Courtenay l,OOO
Lord Sidmouth
Lord Bexley 3,000
Hon. Jane Carr (late Perceval)
Joseph Planta, Esq.
Spencer Perceval, Esq. 675
The Countess of Westmeath 923
Earl of Athlone 1,846
Baron Aylmer 553
In the return of sums paid in 1840 to officers of
Courts of Justice, we find—
Lord Ellenborough, Chief Clerk in the
Plea side, Court of Queen's Bench £7,700 0 0
Lord Kenyon and Lord Ellenborough,

Custos lirevium _
2,089 17 4
The Hon Thomas Kenyon, filacer, &c. 5,492 8 ' 0
Hon. Charles Law, late Clerk of the Rules 1,000 0 0
Among the diplomatic pensions we find—
Sir Stratford Canning
Lord Strangford 2,056
Lord Heytesbury
The Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot 2,056
Sir A. Cockburn 1,51G
And a long list of other Tory Peers and scions of the
aristocracy, who, together, bleed the country to the tune
of 198,0821. a-year.
The pensions charged on the Civil List and Consoli-
dated Fund amounted, at the date of the last return, in
1835, to 138,0831. The nature of these pensions is best
described by a few specimens picked at hazard from the
foul mass of indiscriminate and abandoned jobbery.
Drummond, Edward £250
Greville, Algernon
Holmes, Thomas Knox 5OO
Rae, Dame Mary 660
N.B. These pensions were granted on the 16th No-
vember, 1830, being the day after the Duke of Welling-
ton in the House of Lords, and Sir R. Peel in the House
of Commons, declared that they had resigned, and only
held office till'their successors were appointed
Arbuthnot, Catherine £l3B
Arbuthnot, Jane
Arbuthnot, Augusta lOO
Brudenell, Augusta
Bloomfield, Lord
Beaufort, Louisa Catherine Bl
Bathurst, Charlotte
Ditto, Dec. 31, 1829 lOO
Carmarthen, Marchioness of
Croker, Rosamond
Courtenay, Ann
De Roos, Lady G. Fitzgerald 2OO
Herries, Isabella Maria
Ditto ditto
Hill, Lady, sth of April, 1830
Johnstone, Sir W., Bart. 714
Murray, Lady Charlotte Ann 3OO
Roscommon, Earl of 192
Roscommon, Countess of BB
Rothes, Earl of 276
Strangford, Lord
Strangford, Dowager Viscountess
Smyth, Hon. G. A. F. Sydney
Tyrconnel, Earl of
Ditto ditto
Westmeath, Marchioness of 389

If we were not sick of sounding this cess-pool of cor-
ruption,
and impatient to return to a purer atmosphere,
we could add names, not by the score, but the hundred,
to the catalogue of Tory leeches, fattening on the na-
tion's blood. But we will conclude with this challenge
to the organs and spokesmen of the faction in or out of
Parliament. Let them, if they can, point out one single
public service of the Right lion. H. Goulburn, of the
Right lion. J. C. Berries, of Thomas Knox Holmes, of
Lord Sidmouth, or of one single name among the long
list of Tory Ministers, Noblemen, Members of Parlia-
ment, partisans and retainers, who, either by them-
selves, or their relations, are quartered on the pub-
lic purse.
Let us now turn to the doings of the Whigs. We
search in vain for the name of one single Member of the
Government, of one single Member of Parliament, of
one single person of note connected with the party,
who, in the event of the Whigs going out of office,
will enjoy a sinecure pension, granted during the ten
years they have been in power.
Instead of drawing increased salaries, the scale of
official salaries, especially those of the higher class, has
been greatly reduced, as appears from the following
table :
AMOUNT OF REDUCTION IN SALARIES OF 1,0001. AND