The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-06 00:00:00

THE NEW MINISTRY.

The first Cabinet Council of Sir Robert Peel's Admi-
nistration assembled at the Foreign-office on Saturday,
at three o'clock. The summonses for holding the Coun-
cil were issued to all the members of the'Cabinet on Fri-
day. night.
I 'Most of the new Ministers transacted official business
at their respective offices on Saturday morning. Sir
James Graham, Mr. Goulburn, and Lord Stanley were
early in their attendance.
On Friday, shortly after the return of the Earl of
Aberdeen from Claremont, a messenger was despatched
from the Foreign-office to Wynyard Park, requesting
the attendance of the Marquis of Londonderry in town.
We understand that the messenger was instructed, in
case the Noble Marquis should have left Wynyard Park
before his arrival to participate in celebrating the coming
of age of Sir C. W. Wynne, that he was immediately to
follow him.

In the course of the morning several of the Cabinet
Ministers visited Sir Robert Peel in Whitehall•gardens.
The Earl of Shaftesbury had also a long audience of
the Right Hon. Baronet.
Sir William Rae had an interview with Sir James
Graham, at the Home Office, on Saturday morning. We
may state, we believe, with certainty, that Sir William
has received the appointment of Lord Advocate for
Scotland.

THE RAPACIOUS RATS AND
RENEGADES.

The seals of office have passed from the hands of the
Melbourne Administration into the hands of its sup-
planters. The leading Members of the new Cabinet have
long been before Cie public ; to use a common, but ex-
pressive phrase, they are " better known than trusted."
Their previous reputations will anything but advance
their claims on public confidence.

A leading Tory journal of Thursday, bidding high for
the organship, .introduced the new Administration to the
public with the following flourish of trumpets :
"It would be idle in us to claim for a Cabinet thus
constituted the confidence of the country. There is not
one of its members who is not already well known to the
people of England, or who has not by his past conduct in
public life earned for himself a high place in their confi-
dence and esteem. We need only add that the appropria-
tion to each individual member of the Cabinet of the
position in the Administration which each is destined to
fill, has been accomplished with the unanimous concur-
rence and to the entire satisfaction of all."

A mighty change has passed over the visions of Tory
seers. We have before us a host of very differently-con-
structed articles,upon the Premier and his colleagues—
all printed in leading Tory papers within the last twelve
months. We shall indulge in a few extracts.

First, then, as to the-Premier himself. No longer
since than August, 1840, the following denunciation of
Sir Robert Peel appeared in the Herald—now among
the loudest in his praise
".This is not the time to forget that no party ever
trusted Sir Robert Peel without being betrayed by lam.
His name is closely identified with nearly every mis-
chievous measure of the last quarter of a century. Sir
R. Peel betrayed the industry and agriculture of the
country by his fatal Currency Bill of 1819. Sir R. Peel
betrayed the Church by the part he took in passing the
Romanist Emancipation Act. Sir R. Peel most foully
betrayed the great interests of the Conservative party
by his conduct during the present session on the Privi-
lege question. And now we have, as the result of a
commission issued by him five years ago, a regularly or-
ganized scheme of spoliation brought to bear upon the
Church, and destined, if ever acted upon, to sweep it
from the catalogue of our national institutions I "
The public will recognize in this condensation of Sir
Robert Peel's crimes against Toryism, the text of the
letters of Catholicus, recently published in the Times ;
the elaborate arguments of the British Critic, urged to
the same result ; and the appeals of the Standard to the
" Conservative democracy," to select " other leaders ;" as
those- in whom they had trusted had proved traitors to
the Protestant cause. The following were among many
similar intimations, employed about the same time by
the Standard to alarm the time-serving Peel and his
then supporters, now his colleagues, into the support of
Orange Protestantism :

The knowledge that the Conservative democracy
will be obeyed by those who assume to represent and
to lead them in Parliament, will go far to produce
union among Conservatives in both Houses, by eft-
couraging those who, however they may have
acted, have all along wished to act right, and by,
teaching to such as.would distract the party by their
personal engagethents, or their impracticable prejudices,
that they must be content to submit or to retire."
Again :
" Let it once be known that the Conservative masses
will take their own business into their own hands, and
all
,things in the party will be speedily arranged as we
can wish."'

Of Lord Ellenborough, a member of the new Cabinet,
and the holder of an important and prominent post in the
Government, the same faithful chronicler observed—(the
extract is from an article on his Lordship's support of the
Canada Clergy Reserves Bill) :—" This man should
really spare Conservatism the misery of having to bear
at once the scandal of his sinecure, and the disgrace of his
association !"

We might multiply quotations of a similar description.
We reserve ourselves, however, for future occasions, of
which plenty will arise.—Sunday Paper.

COUNTY COURTS.—There has been just I
printed for the House of Lords a Bill (presented by the
Lord Chancellor, and read for the first time on the 27th
ult.), entitled " An Act to improve and extend the juris-
diction of County Courts." The passing of this Bill
will be productive of many advantages to the community
at large. The present constitution of County Courts is
extremely defective and unsatisfactory. There is no pre-
cise or specified time for their being held, and they have
only authority to hold plea of personal actions when the
debt or damage cloth not amount to forty shillings. The
under-sheriff, too, is the person who presides in them,
and although these are generally a very efficient set of
men yet it may happen, and frequently does, that not
being accustomed to complicated cases, he finds himself
rather perple-:ed and puzzled by the statdments and
counterstaterr ents of the cunning attorneys who have to
manage matters for their respective clients. By the
new Bill twenty-five Judges are to be appointed by the
Lord Chancellor, with salaries varying from 8001.
to 1,5001. per annum, all of them to be either
barristers of seven years' standing, or attorneys of
ten. The Judges are to be invested with summary juris-
diction in personal actions, when the amount is under
five pounds ; when it is above that suns, the plaintiff or
defendant is entitled to call for a jury to decide. As
the passine.b of this Bill will no doubt multiply to a great
extent the business of the County Courts, so it will bring
much additional business to the county attorneys, to
whom a wide field for practice, and which promises to
afford them a no very scanty harvest, will be thus Sud-
denly opened. It may be thought, perhaps, that too
great patronage will be thus given to the Lord Chancel-
lor, and that the salaries of the Judges are somewhat too
large. But these are the only objections that can be
brought against it. In all otli,?,r respects it is worthy of
the earliest consideration of both parties—as well Torres
as Whigs. Upon the author.of the Bill (Lord Cotten-
' ham) the Times of Friday has bestowed a very hand-
some eulogium ; and well, indeed, it may have done
so. There are few—perhaps, no Chancellor has ever ,
retired from the woolsack so universally esteemed for
his urbanity, his mildness, his untiring attention to bu-
siness, and the many eminent benefits which, in some of
the new rules that he has n:ade, he has conferred upon
the Court over which for so many years he has presided.
Very great excitement prevails at the present
moment in Hamburgh, owing to the capture, by an Eng-
lish cruizer, of a vessel under the Hatnburgh flag, on
suspicion of being engaged in the slave trade.
ALARMING FIRE.--on Friday morning, about
a quarter before six o'clock, a fire was discovered raging
in the extensive granaries of Mr. Alexander Bell, Win-
chester Wharf, Bankside, Southwark. The fire origi-
nated in the drying kilns, on the second story of the
building, and considerable damage was sustained. The
prethises are insured in the York and North of England
Insurance Offices. An extensive dyehouse adjoining the
granaries sustained some damage.
The Duke of Wellington receives annually as
Pensions out of the Consolidated Fund, 8,9261. Con..
stable of the Tower, 9501. Colonel of Rifle Brigade,
2381. Colonel of Ist Regiment of Foot Guards, 2,6951.
Lord Warden of Cinque Ports, 29a In addition to the
interest on the grants made to his Grace by Parliament.
THEATRICAL CHIT-CHAT.—A lady who,
under the aristocrat name of Walpole, many years since
appeared at Covent-garden Theatre in the " Irish
Widow," and, for a season, sustained a high reputation
in the histrionic art, is about to return to the stage under
the auspices of the indefatigable 'Webster. The new
grand melo•dramatic water-piece. called " Grisselle ; or,
the Night Dangers," recently brought out, and having
such an attractive run at Sadlers 'Wells, is from the pro-
lific pen of the veteran Moncrieff. It was intended Co-
vent-garden should open with a translation of the above
mentioned piece, and portions of the scenery were actu-
ally painted, but the management on hearing of the
success of the Well's version, abandoned this intention.
It is quite certain that Charles Kernble and Mrs. But-
ler (Fanny Kemble). will return to the stage during the
approaching season, and the first Shaksperian revival
will be " Henry the Eighth." Miss Adelaide Kemble
will also make her appearance in the course of the
approaching season. Knowles's new play is to be called
"The Banker." It is founded on a modern case of
forgery ; but the action is made to pass as far back as
the reign of Charles I. The interest is powerful, though
somewhat melo-dramatic, and the denouement unexpected
and striking. •
A sow of the half.bred species, belonging to
Joseph Bell, of Ellenborough, lately littered the extra-
ordinary number of 19 rigs, all of which are doing well,

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FRO3I TOE DAILY FAPERS OF SATURDAY.

GLOBE.—Yesterday was a grand day for the Tories,
and the dreams- of power which they have long indulged
are at last substantially realized. The official seals,
which, like the air-drawn dagger of Macbeth, have so
long, with " the handle towards the hand," been hover-
ing above the heads of the leading Conservatives, are at
length firmly in their clutch—visions of Treasury boxes,
and bundles of papers tied together with red tape, are
no longer •

" False creations,
" Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ;"
but are now as sensible to the touch as to the eye ;
and Sir Robert Peel, instead of starting up under an
attack of nightmare, and screaming for a Treasury
messenger, has at length substantially under his com-
mand the whole troop of underlings in the employment
of Government. It would be unfair to ask, at this mo-
ment, what the new Ministers mean to do ; for, in the
first flush of triumph at having been really installed into
place, it is probable, that, so far from knowing what they
mean to do, they are not quite aware of what they are
actually doing ; and as excessive joy is said occasionally
to place a man in some uncertainty as to " whether he is
standing on his head or his heels," we suspect that many
of the new Cabinet are in the condition when it is diffi-
cult to determine which happens to be uppermost. We
should be rather inclined to say that the head
had lost its proper pre-eminence, and that the
heels had gained the ascendancy, when the new. Cabinet
galloped off post haste from Claremont, leaving their
Royal Mistress, as the Standard tells us they did, to eat
her dinner alone, after the Sovereign had made it a
special request—not a command, as her Majesty might
have done--that her recently appointed advisers should stay
and dine with her. They must indeed have been intoxi-
cated with pleasure when they committed such a gross
breach of etiquette as that which their evening organ im-
putes to them ; and history will record the fact, that the
first act of an Administration that had forced itself
on the Crown, without invitation at all, was to prove
its contempt for the Royal wish by rudely refusing to
comply with the first personal request .that the Sove-
reign had the unprecedented condescensiff to make to
her Tory Ministers. But they had got their seals, and,
like children with a new toy, they must go home to
play with them. As to Sir James Graham, he could
not rest a moment, but must drive to Downing-street ;
and the Earl of Aberdeen also " transacted business"
at the Foreign Office, which, as the Government apart-
ments were all being swept and scrubbed, must have
been got' through amid the din of pails, brushes, and
charwomen.

STANDARD.—A change in the cost of producing
corn may have occurred since 1828, and such a change
would be as good a reason for modifying the scale of
protecting duties 'as a change in the value of money.
Whether a change in the cost of production has occurred
since 1828, we are not in a condition to say with any
certainty; but if it has, it must be plain that the scale of
duties necessary for protection in 1828 is not necessary in
1841. The purpose of every such scale is to protect agri-
culture from deterioration, and to encourage its advances;
whatever goes beyond this is unjust, and injurious in more
ways than one to agriculture itself, as it would not be
difficult to show; but for our present purpose it is suffi-
cient if we have explained that a preference of certain
definite pecuniary arrangements, several years ago, is
no proof of an opposition to other duties at present,
while the principle of complete protection is maintained.
It is, however, unnecessary to say more of the Corn-
laws, because the present Conservative majority was,
in fact, elected mainly with a view to maintaining the
principle of these laws, for which the Conservative ma-
jority- of the 24th of May unreservedly declared itself.
Upon the Corn-law question, therefore, there is not the
most remote danger of a division among Conservatives.
Ireland —but here the chances of Conservative division
are, if possible, still less to be anticipated. We give
below gratifying proof of the absence of such danger.
There is indeed in the defensive position of a
Conservative party, and more particularly of a party
resisting great and terrible evils, a principle of union
which can scarcely exist to the same extent in any
other party. Such a party having no aggressive
purposes, can have no motive for a separation
which the surrounding peril proves to be fatal.
Were the Conservatives now to divide, they
know who would succeed to power, and what
are their designs—not the Whigs, from whom
mischief might be apprehended ; in moderate mea-
sures, they are extinct—but the motley crowd of free
traders, Infidels, Radicals, and political Romanists,
agreeing in nothing but in seeking the destruc-
tion of whatever the Conservatives hold dear. The
next change of Ministry in this country will, if men
hold to their present temper, be a change from monarchy
to republicanism in Great Britain, and a dissolution of
the empire. This it is which distinguishes our present
state and duties from what they were at any former pe-
riod ; and we have, happily, another distinction. Leaders
of parties are as prone to mistakes as the humblest of
their followers ; and though we believe Sir Robert Peel
to be as able, honest, and upright a Minister as ever go-
verned the country, we claim for him no infallibility, and
we rejoice to see that he is not exposed to the tempta-
tions to error before which some of his predecessors have
stumbled.

COURIER.—There are few things in this world so
thoroughly evil to the core, as, when thoroughly sifted
and examined, not to be found capable of yielding some
proportion of good. As in the physical world, the meanest
and most malignant creatures have their proper uses, if
we could but discover them, so events and occurrences in
the political world, which short-sighted mortals are wont
to look upon as portending nothing but disaster or cala-
mity, too often prove the means of multiplied benefits
to the nation, and of its ultimate safety. Thoughts of
this kind naturally suggest themselves to our mind when
we contrast the former palmy state of the party lately
in power with their present crippled condition. Far
be it from us to indulge in shouts of unseemly triumph
over the vanquished ; the defeated are entitled to
commiseration—the fallen .to forbearance ; but never-
theless a salutary lesson of political wisdom may be
read in the causes that have led not only to the over-
throw of the late Cabinet, but to the utter prostra-
tion of the Whig party. The most conclusive proof
that the Whig Ministry had far outlived its allotted
term of life, is, we think, to be found in the fact that in
the first division that took place in a Parliament con-
vened at their own time, and under their own auspices,
they found themselves in a minority of 91 ; and
that party in the State which lately claimed for
itself the dignity of power, and assumed the re-
sponsibilities, can now hardly muster strength enough
to present a tolerably decent front in opposition.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

THREE POLL ONE.—A respectable man, named
Wood, was charged by City policemen, 646, 669, and
645, with having assaulted them.
The policemen stated that the defendant was in Bi-
shopsgate-street the night before in a state of intoxica-
tion, and that he suddenly went up to two women who
were walking quietly together, and tripped one of them
so that she fell like a log. One of the policemen asked
the woman who was thus ill-treated whether she would
give the defendant in charge; to which she replied that
she would not, as he was drunk. The defendant then
went on and the women Mowed him, and he abused
them dreadfully, and annoyed the whole neighbourhoo::.
Upon being expostulated with, he attacked the police-
men, who found it necessary to secure him and take him
to the stationhouse, where he tore the coat of one and
violently assaulted the rest with hands and feet.
The defendant declared most solemnly that the state-
ment just made was in all the leading features false. He
was passing soberly and quietly along Bishopsgate-street,
when one of the two women alluded to put her arm round
his . neck and asked him to give them some drink. He
pushed her away—they both followed him, abusing him
in the most filthy manner, and he called to one of the
officers to take them in charge. The policeman refused
to take them in charge, and he (defendant) said that he
would report the policeman who refused to do his duty.
This was the signal for all sorts of maltreatment ; a
desperate attack was made upon him by the three police-
men, who dragged him to the station-house, beat him
with their staffs and put handcuffs on him, although he
had never committed an assault upon anybody. lie ad-
mitted he resisted when they were putting the handcuffs
upon him, but who could endure such an indignity ? and
he positively asserted that one of the policemen was with
the girls and was quite familiar with them.
The women did not make their appearance.
The LORD MAYOR asked the policemen whether they
Were correct in stating that the defendant struck them
all ? They all answered in the affirmative, and said that
they never had so violent and uncontrollable a man.
The Defendant—lll take my solemn oath before God
that I never struck a blow.

The LORD MAYOR-Have you any witnesses ? The
Defendant—No, my Lord. I was by myself, and I could
not have witnesses in a station-house.

The LORD MAYOR—I am here to take evidence, and
those three men swear that you assaulted them. You
must find bail. The Defendant—What evidence can a
man who is walking home by himself be expected to
have against a set of policemen who take the part of
prostitutes, and handcuff him and beat him desperately?
My hands are cut to pieces by these men, and it is only
necessary for three or four of them to get together and
trump up any story. It is really a dreadful abuse.
The LORD MAYOR—You must find bail. If you have
any complaint to make against the policemen, you must
go to the City Police Commissioner.
The defendant found bail immediately.
We have not heard whether the Commissioner entered
into the inquiry.