The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-26 00:00:00

THE SCRAMBLE.

It is not so much that gentlemen and noblemen do
not like to be advertised in. this way for office, for manyt
of them do like to be advertised in this way, butitha
those who are not advertised in this way are offended to
the last degree at seeing the places upofi which they
have set their hearts assigned to those who are adver-
tised in this way. From Nir James Graham down to
Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli, a feeling of angry disappoint-.
ment is excited, each measuring his own excellent claims.
against the pretensions of the advertised rival, and find-
ing a most injurious and ungrateful slight in the undue
preference. With reason may. Sir Robert Peel depre-
cate announcements of this nature—sufficient for the day
of gazetting them is the evil thereof. He has thirty a1.,-
pointments to make, and three hundred expeetwits
to disappoint. At this moment. there are 'wariing
about three Chancellors in expectancy, five 'First
Lords of the Admiralty, four Foreign Secretaries,
seven Home ditto, half-a-dozen Colonial ditto, two
Presidents of the Council, three Speakers of the
'House of Commons ; and, as to the secondary appoint-
ments, the Under-Secretaryships are engaged 20 and 30
deep, and'the Boards of the Treasury, Admiralty, lade,
are filled fifty-times over. When the day arrives for
the bursting of all these bubbles, the judgment and gra-
titude of Sir Robert Peel will not be in very good repute
I with his party. He is much to be pitied, poor man I
How many are his cares in prospect ? How to govern
Ireland ; how to govern the Duke of Buckingham ;
what to do with the Duke of Wellington, as to
satisfy him that he is thought fit for a working office,
though not put into one ; what to do with Lord Lynd-
hurst,
so as to content him, without giving umbrage to
Lord Stanley ; how to arrange the appointments of the
Queen's Household, agreeably to the pleasure of all the
Tory ladies, and all their husbands, fathers, brothers,
cousins, &c., and a thousand more such perplexities.
A fig is not more full of seeds than the head of Sir
Robert Peel of troubles. What cutting . his teeth is to
an infant, cutting his colleagues is to a Minister forming
a government, and there is no " soothing syrup" for the
operation.
Not the least obnoxious thing to the Tories, in the
arrangement of places, is the preference which Sir
Robert Peel must give to his pair of rats over faithful
adherents of his party. Lord Stanley and Sir James
Graham are interlopers who take the bread out of the
mouths of better, because truer, men. They are both
undeniably very clever persons, but the Tories could
man• their posts without them when they were foremost
in the opposite array, and it seems hard, undoubtedly,
that their apostasy should procure them a preference,
over consistency and fidelity.—Examiner.

THE COUNTY REPRESENTA-
TIVES OF THE TORIES.
(From the Examiner.)
The Tory organs through the length and breadth of
the land are rampant with exultation at the great
triumphs which the English county elections.,have given
to Conservative principles. We might, perhaps, suc-
cessfully deny that these elections prove anything except
the ignorance, the bigotry, the power, and the tyranny
of the landed interest and of the Church. If the propo-
sition be, that the peer, the squire, the parson, and the
elderly ladies united, can overbear all opposition in the
English counties, we fully recognise the right of the
parties who propound it to inscribe Q.E.D. at the end of
the demonstration. We marvel, however, greatly at the
moderation of these exulters, for they do not estimate
their triumph at one half of its real amount. When Lord
Camelford threatened to send his black footman to repre-
sent his pocket borough, he indicated the greatest con-
ceivable victory of boroughmongering over a representa-
tion of the people in Parliament. So, in the case of the
counties, it is quite evident that the lower the quality
of the persons sent to represent them, the greater
is the triumph of Conservative principles. There-
fore we say that they under-estimate their triumph, for
they have taken no adequate credit for the marvellously
low quality of the county representatives. What Lord
Camelford only threatened, those who control the county
elections have virtually carried into effect. We do not
deny that Lord Stanley is the keenest debater of the pre-
sent day, nor that Lord Francis Egerton is a highly-
accomplished gentleman. We admit that Sir E. Knatch-
bull has been a Cabinet Minister, and we see no reason.
why Lord Granville Somerset should not become one.
We do not doubt that Mr. Miles, Mr. Patten, and Sir
Eardley Wilmot transact county business in Parliament
in a manner satisfactory to those who employ them,
nor that (judging from their style of parliamentary
eloquence, for we do not know the fact) they are chair.-
men of Quarter Sessions. We have named seven out of
one hundred and thirty-seven English county Members
who are claimed by the Tories, and we should be glad
to be informed how many grains, even of the slender-
est corn, the most careful winnowing could redeem
from .the chaff which remains. Of thirty-four new
county Members it might be unfair to pronounce any
decided opinion, _though, in the great majority of their
cases, exhibiti,Giis on the hustings have been quite suffi-
cient to moderate our expectations of any latent states-
manship. Ninety-six tried men remain, and with re-
spect to eighty of them at least, we will, after having
carefully examined the list, venture to assert, that no
mechanics' institute in England would, out of 137 of its
members, furnish eighty so little marked by talent or in-
formation. The qualifications for an English
member are to inscribe Church and Corn-lawan_ onte hisbe
banner, to be sufficiently " fat in the head," d
contest. None
ready with a taw thousands in case county
ranee are recommend
)f your thinkers or reasonersto;
atkg'sji- in her lay tools
Church requires no clerkship
for submissive
shtoiuS-fP7dpiatYtroiailsi.d
ignorance is the kindly given to the
at
of Wellington, wean
obedienceland d interest' d
he declared thuart
food.
not to be dependent on
ood ought The county constituencies were
foreigners for o.
thereby a the k ,
a Corn-laws ueyono that dictum.
tied his reasoning
over-estimate the obligation under
would be difficult to
by thet ih)ceeusetrok
dmonished to tolete any man who car-
It
by thus offeringhimself up victim
of Wellington laid the supporters of
mere politician would have been
of their cau •Any
childish
absurdity
a.
dby the utterance of so an Mr ;
swamped
Wellingtons reputation rests on a
but the Duke of
political
basis than the wisdom of aphorisms
firmer
the only man in Great Britain who could afford to
He is
tvhhei echo
rtih:if,seBn Duke
say
1841
nthlaSt3tohteh
Corn-lawsa tth country
o ugh‘tvad n
tontebe
maintained
reform,
hitainnd,
ed ain
because
it would be unwise to depend on foreigners for our food.
Under the agis of the Duke of Wellington, sir E.
Knatchbull and,men of his stamp are emboldened to re-
tail an argument which would have been poli-poh'd in
any society but at the tea-table of a cathedral town, if
it had emanated merely from themselves.
But the whole amount of the county Conservative
triumph is not yet told. About twenty-two Ij-beral
county Members/who sat in the last Parliament have
been defeated at the present election, or having been
forced by the hopelessness of the case to withdraw with-
out venturing on a contest, have in. every instance been
replaced by Tories. Among .them we find the names of
Lord Morpeth, Lord Houck, Lord C. Russell, Mr. E.
J. Stanley, Sir 11. Vivian, Sir C. Lemon, and Mr. San-
ford. We limit ourselves to seven, because we have pre-
viously given the elite of 137 Tories amounting to that
number. We challenge comparison between the two
lists. The Conservative triumph might be carried much
further, for we have no hesitation in saying that the list
of twenty-two rejected Liberals contains in it more talent,
more Parliamentary knowledge and industry, than are to •
be found among the 137 accepted Tories. If we had not-
sufficiently established the shrinking modesty of the Tory
exulters, we might, with great advantage to the Conser-
vative cause, pursue the inquiry by comparing the un-,.
successful new county candidates with the successf
Tories. Mr. W. Gisborne, for instance, in South Derby.
shire, with Mr. Colville; but "forsan satprata biben
This state of things, however, opens wide considerAtiotrs,
to which we may advert on a future occasion.
Ts

BRUSSELS, JULY 24.—His Majesty returned
yesterday evening from the Frmp at Brerlo.e. The number of
troops reviewed during his Majesty s visit to the camp was
10,000 men. On comparing the amount of the %nuance of the
indirect taxes in the first six months of 1841, with that of the
first six months of 1840, it appears that there is an excess of
1,887:257 francs. This amount is 354,30 francs less than
the estimate.