The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-11 00:00:00

WHIGS v. TORIES.

(From the Morning Advertiser of yesterday.)
We were yesterday in a condition to communicate
intelligence which will cause the national pulse to throb
with a joy amounting to ecatacy, while it will strike
utter and eternal despair into the hearts of the Tories.
We speak advisedly—hear it and rejoice, ye people of
England—hear it and be filled with confusion and dis-
may, ye Tory faction—we speak advisedly when we
say, that Sir Robert Peel has made an unequivocal
avowal cf his determination not to take office, in the
event of the overthrow of the Melbourne Ministry.
lie has farther declared that there is not the slightest
hope for a Tory Ministry, so long as the Queen re-
tains her attachment for a Liberal Administration—
which attachment is likely to be co-existent with her
life. Sir Robert admits that the dissolution of the pre-
sent Ministry is by no means an improbable occurrence,
but he adds, that even in such an event the position
of the Tories would not be one whit improved. The
destruction of one Liberal Ministry.would. be. followed
by the formation of another. Believing, therefore, that
any attempt to construct a Conservative Administra-
tion, in the event of the present Government being
broken up, would prove an utter failure, he, like a cool
calculating man of the world, is resolved not to share in
the discredit consequent on any such fruitless attempt.
We shall be asked, perhaps, on what grounds, or on
whose authority, we make the assertion, that Sir Ro-
bert Peel has made the declaration to which we have
referred. It were not advisable, in all the circum-
stances of the case, either to specify the grounds, or
to mention our authority. At present it must suffice
our readers to be assured, that we have the most un-
questionable authority for our assertion ; and a few
weeks will afford the •country " confirmation strong"
of the accuracy of what we state. The conduct which
the Tamworth Baronet will pursue, on the opening of
Parliament, will conclusively show that he has no de-
signs on Dawning-street, because he knows that
were it possible for him and his party to get
there, it would only be for a week or two at the
longest. By why should any one doubt for a moment
the accuracy of the information, who takes the trouble
to glance at the Tory journals ? There is not a
day in which these prints do not contain a negative
proof of the correctness of the assertion we have made.
Who ever hears of a syllable now about Sir Robert, as
the "proximate Prime Minister ?" Who has heard a
whisper for the last four weeks respecting a Conservative
advent to Downing-street? Two or three months ago the
Tory journals contained nothing else. Why so suddenly
and so entirely silent on the subject now ? For no
other reason, than that they know that the chief of
the faction to which they belong 'has intimated that
there is no hope for the Tories so long as her Ma-
jesty lives, and that, consequently, he will never
become a consenting party to the attempt to con-
struct a Conservative Government. Farewell. then,
may the Tories well say, to all hopes of their re3tora-
tion to power. The Queen, so long as it shall please
Providence to spare her life—and where is the man
.
who does not pray that her life may be long preserved
—will present an insurmountable obstacle to the ac-
cession of the Conservatives to office. The prospect
is
a gloomy one for the enemies of popular rights ; tis a
glorious one for the friends of freedom. Everlasting
blessings on the head of her Majesty will be the bene-
diction of the people of England. when they thus see that
she stands between them and a Tory despotism. Alas,
poor Tories!

Madame d'Arblay, better known under her I
inaiden name of Burney, has paid the debt to nature.
What. a" wide interval separates the period, when we
learn, from the pages of Boswell, " that clever jade,
Miss Burney," made tea to Dr. Johnson, and fearlessly
entered the lists with that formidable intellectual gladia-
tor! " Cecilia" and " Evelina" placed her in the very ,
first class of English novelists ; and, notwithstanding !.
the rich accessions of late years to that branch of lite-
rature, and the changes which have taken place in
fashions and manners, " Cecilia" and " Evelina" still
maintain their place in the public regard. The late Mr
H izlitt, in an article in the " Edinburgh Review" on th e
British Novelists, drew a character of Miss Burney, io
which justice was hardly done to her extraordinary me-
rits. Her dialogue is peculiarly intellectual.
THE REPAIRS AT THE MANSION HOUSE.—
The repairs at the Mansion House having, with the
exception of those which the Committee ordered to be
made in the Egyptian Hall, been completed, the Lord
Mayor and the Lady Mayoress expect to take formal
possession this day, and on Monday they will give the
usual Plough Monday dinner to the gentlemen of the
household. The Egyptian Hall repairs will be very
considerable. Indeed the universal display of hospi-
tality and the crowding of last. year in that magnificent
hall, render it necessary that the painter and carpenter
should exert themselves to make it fit for the generous
competition of the present Mayoralty.
UNREHEARSED STAGE EFFECT.—III a drama
recently represented on the theatre at Berlin the bead
of a victim of the tyrant of the piece was to be pre-
sented to him in a dish, on a table, and covered with a
napkin. All the preparations were most ingeniously
made for this awful spectacle. The head was to be a
real one, and the actor who was to perform the part of
the decapitated person, had to thrust his head through
an aperture in the back scene, and lay it in the dish,
[fainted so as to make a ghastly appearance. This was
done, the tyrant had raised the napkin, and the audi-
ence were all becomingly horrified, when the dead man's
head replied to the tirade which his murderer was in the
act of delivering, by a violent fit of sneezing, which at
once turned the scene into a ludicrous farce, and the
house rung with laughter. Some wag who had admis-
sion behind tho scenes bad sprinkled the blood-stained
dish with a quantity of snuff.