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

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 the 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 iv
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 queztion. And now we have, as the result of 'a
courtnissionissued by hihrfive years ago, a regulptSt or-
ganized scheme of spoliption brought to bear upon die
Church, and destined, if ever acted upon, to Sweepit
I from the catalogue of our national institutions "

The public will recognize in this condensation of Sir
Robert Peel's crimes against Toryism, the text of the

letters of Catholicus, recently puLlishe'd in the Tines
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 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 en-
couraging those who, however they may have
acted, have all along wialte4 to act right, and by
teaching to such t would distract the party by their
personal eugawnenta; or their impracticable prejudices,
that they must be content to snbmit or to retire."
Again :

" Let it once be known that the c4,Wrrative masses
will take their own business ilatia their own hands, and
all things in the party will be speedily arranged as we
can whh."

Of surd Ellenborough, a member of the new Cabinet,
and the holder of an important and prominmat post in the
Government, the same faithful chrottiOer observed—(the
extract is from an article on Otis Lordship's support of the
Canada Cleru Rgamoa Bill) :,—" This man should
really sparo onuervatism the misery of havii to bear
at. keo t?w scandal of his sinecure, and the disgrace of his
association !"

We might multiply quotations a a similar description.
We reserve ourselves, howeyok,, for future occasions, of
which plenty will adu\--Sunday Paper.

THE NEW ELEcrloNs.—Next week most
probably the members of the now Administration will
have to re-appear before their constituents to receive the
fiat of their approval bee ,w they can resume their seats
in the House of CNAPAons. There are some of them it

....
is true, sue h aa% as some one styled him the other day,
thQ UPAGarabie Member the Baronet for Tamworth,
whmn there is no possible chance of displacing. All of
them, however, are not in the same happy security, and
where any chance does exist, no means should be left un-
tried by the friends of truth, justice, and the Queen to
deprive them of that which already they have gained, and
diminish that majority by means of which they have
st(111-1W.d the palace and forced themselves into the councils
et their sovereign. A few examples of this kind might
have a very salutary effect, and in some of the following
places, for instance, the attempt might not unprofitably
be made. Lord Stauloy for North Lancashire ; the case
is certainly 1 doubtful one, the monopolists having no
small power in that district, but yet the attempt would.
be worth making. His co-mate and companion in ter-
giversation and backsliding, Sir James Graham, for
Dorchester ; here, too, au opposition might not be inef-
fectual. Sir W, Vollett, for Exeter ; this is a place in
which a Liberal would have every chance of success ;
gleh is the slender hold which Sir William has upon
the suffrages of the electars that his own friends are be-

ginning to be quite apprehensive upon the point.
Cambridge University, that has always leaned to the
Liberal Ade, ought, at all events, to return some
losN efficient Member than the twaddling Old
Goulburn, who is to be the Tory Chancellor of
the Exchequer. Thett there is Mr. Gladstone, for
Newark—but it 15. useless to enumerate further. In

every co.sQlffii! there is the slightest probability of
sneoes.s, the attempt should be made. Nor should
the fact of the Tories having been successful at the
late election, deter a Liberal candidate from coming
forward. The Tories must now necessarily offer them-
selves under difkrent circumstances. Before, they had
merely WI attack and arraign the conduct of the Whigs,
and there are few plans or propositions so blameless that
an industrious ingenuity cannot pick holes in them. But
now they will either have to explain the course which
they intend to take themselves (which, all things con-
sidered, is not likely), or they must go poking on like a
`t pig in a bag," a thing which few people at any time
are willing to purchase. This, it must be obvious, will
be the most likely result, as their plans will hardly be
arranged and digested till the elections are all over.
But the electors who voted for them the last time before
they came in, should, now that they have come in, re-
quire something more than a mysterious nod and wink
and shake of the head as to what they will do. Defeat,
then, in the late instance should have no effect in deter-
ring a Liberal from coining forward now. And if even a
few of them were unseated, the effect would tell.—San-
-414 roper.
THUNDER S T R M.—Yesterday afternoon (Fri-
day) between four and five o'clock, we were visited by a
terrific storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by
torrents of rain. During the day the weather had been
uncommonly hot and sultry, and the troubled state of the
atmosphere portended a storm. Up to four o'clock,
however, the sky was comparatively clear ; but a little
past that hour big drops of rain began to fall ; and soon
after brilliant flashes of lightning darted forth in exten-
sive volume. These were speedily followed by loud and
long peals of thunder, which burst, as it were, imme-
diately overhead, and shook ninny buildings to their
foundations. The storm raged with much violence ' • but
about six o'clock the rain and thunder ceased, though
the lightning continued to flash nearly all the evening.—
Dover Chronicle,
TENACITY OF LIFE.—It is a common saying,

thatstctai has nine lives, whether true or not ; but a case
occurred in Kirkby Lonsdale which proves that at least
they have one long one. During the last month, two
cats, belonging to,Tohn Pearson, Esq., were missing, and
it could not be conjectured where they had gone. During
Tuesday in last week, one of them was heard mewing in
the hayloft, when the hay was immediately removed, and
there they were found betwixt the boards and the•ceiling
both alive. They wore, of course, in a poor weak state,
having been thus confined for twenty-two days without
any food, and a mow of hay two yards thick above them.
Kendal Mercury.
Wood sheathing was first employed for ships.
A very early instance of extraordinary attention to the
preservation of the bottom of a vessel appeared in a gal-
ley, supposed to have belonged to the Emperor Trajan,
A.D, lig to A.D. 117, which was found in the fifteenth
century, in the Lago Riccio, in the kingdom of Naples,
and was weighed, after it had probably remained more
than thirteen hundred years under water ; it was doubly
planked with pine and cypress, coated with pitch, upon
which there was a covering of linen, and, over all, a
sheathing of lead, fastened with nails of brass or copper;
the timber was in a perfectly sound state. In the reign
of Henry VIII. large vessels had a coating of loose ani-
mal hair attached with pitch, over which a sheathing
board, of about an inch in thickness, was fastened, " to
keep the hair in its place."—Athenceunt.
CAUTION TO LOUNGERS.—The frequenters
of the parks, &c., should be careful where they bestow
themselves when tired, in their daily promenades. Since
the extension and vigilance of the police force in the me-
tropolis, the pick-pockets, whose trade has been on the
wane, have substituted, for their ordinary "pickers and
stealers," certain instruments with which they are enabled_
silently and surely to abstract whatever the pockets of
the lieges may chance to contain. This is effected, how-
ever,tn at an increased disadvantage to the sufferer, for,
obtain the prise, the garments are hacked in a most cruel
manner, An instance of this kind, which came withinv_hen
our knowledge, occurred only a few evenings since, when
a gentleman, fatigued with his walk, sat do
in the inclosure in St. James's Park,
where
were
ersons were also sitting. Their appearance was
sufti-
se, for,
on a
two other
ciently respectable, but their acts we
very shortly alter they had taken their departure
coatparttir pocket
eeet
fromk
Ole hi+neh, he found that the bottom of scarcely
his
had been entirely cut away, _
large
es stolen,
actin tlthe
i gr
coat itself completely d
is
.
inci-
sions, and the loss of several shreds from the skirts.
theed b contents)
The robbery and mutilation were e ecte , no doubt,
while the skirts were hangin over the bench Sunday
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Paper.
r BROADIIENISTON.—The belief in whichcraft
has received a severe blow in this parish. A lady's maid,
who attributed an increase of size to the effects of witch-
craft, and spread the report all over the village, has bee's
brought to bed of a daughter.