The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Sir Robert Peel, on Tuesday evening, at the Man-
sion-house " Entertainment," denounced the doctrine
of his false friend the Times of " Measures not men."
Sir R. Peel and the Times are made for each other.
The crafty Baronet has not been an inattentive obser-
ver of our Contemporary ; and even if he were not na-
turallvdisposed to observe Rochefoucault's maxim—ln
your intercourse with a friend, consider always that he
may one day be your enemy—he must have witnessed
that our Contemparary has betrayed in turn all who
trusted to it, and that while appearing to be devoted to
one whom it is serving, it is carefully availing itself of
the confidence reposed in it, to collect materials to be
turned against him at a fitting period. Sir Robert can dis-
cern the wolf in sheep's clothing—he foresaw the use that.
would be made of the maxim by the "Leading Journal,"
that it was a mask for the purpose of ulrimately be-
, traying and destroying his Administration, the Judas
Print having in turn abandoned every Government
when approaching its fall. "Men, not Measures," is
the most convenient doctrine of the subtle Premiers he
knows that he can cater for the one, but not so easily
„:nply the other. Sir R. Peel repudiated the doe
trim: of his recent Tamworth address at the Mansion-
houseet
din,:er7 Circumstances are changed, and with
them the policy of the Premier. Since the publication
of his Election Squib he has rushed into a mob of
Tories, so well described by our contemporary the
Courier, as a Ministry " literally crammed with the
most violent and rabid partizans ofthe Orange
faction"—Lord Roden, Sir Edward .Knatchbull,
and Colonel Percival! Does the insane • .Baronet
think that such men can govern this enlightened na-
tion Well may the Courier suggest the propriety of
a writ de lunatico inquirendo. An exposition of the
intended policy of such a Government is absolutely
worthless. We are not, therefore, surprised that the
shifty Premier has gone on another tack, and told the
Lord Mayor to look to his men, and not to his mea-
sures. " Ido not agree (said the slippery Baronet),
with the views of some persons, who are supposed to
support the Government on the ground that we should
look at the measures to be proposed, and not at the
men who offer them." This was palpably aimed at
the Times. Only last week, that recreant Journal
was in a fit of ecstacy with the false position as-
sumed by the Westminster candidates, Sir Francis
Burdett and Colonel Evans, which now, however,
amounts merely to this—that the Members
for Westminster will accept any good measures
from Tory Ministers, but do their utmost to turn out
the political cheats at the first fitting opportunity. Sir
Robert Peel is too wary to found his Administration
on Measures. Such a sandy foundation would soon
give way. He is sensitively aware of the miscarriage
of his Address to the Electors of Tamworth, and
that it has miserably failed to impose on the Re-
formers. In consequence of the explosion of the sham
Reform plot, the new Premier has been forced to
construct his Cabinet exclusively of Tory mate-
rials. Now, therefore, the supple Baronet hauls
down his Reform flag and hoists his original Tory
colours. The old ship is brought out of ordinary;
and manned with the old crew. Such a crazy
hulk will never pass down the British Channel and
be mistaken for a steamer. In the absence of Sir
Robert Peel, the Tories vainly imagined that an affec-
tation of liberal opinions would force themselves on
the country, notwithstanding the load of their politi-
cal sins. But Sir Robert Peel has unadvisedly cut
the ground from under them. Now that we are told
that men, not measures, are the rule of faith, let us
see what are the opinions which the new Ministers
and their present journals formerly entertained of each
other. First, who are the men ? We give the rank
and file of the whole Tory regiment, as far as known
we select the new Cabinet :-
1. Sir Robert Peel First Lord of the Treasury, and
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
2. Duke of Wellington

Pew e,

8 to 8.

3. Earl of Aberdeen
4. Lord Lyndhurst ......

5. Henry G oulb urn Home Secretary.
6. J. C. ll:terries
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7. Sir Edward Knatchbull Paymaster of the Forams.
B. Lord De Grey
-2. 9. Sir Henry Hardinge

10. Lord Maryborough Post-Master-General.
11. Lord Rosslyn President of the Council.

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12. Lord Wharncliffe

13. Alexander Baring President of the Board of Trade.
14. Lord Ellenborough President of the Board of Control.
15. Sir George Murray Master-General of the Ordnance.
We will now enumerate some of the subalterns of
this bitter Peel-and-Wellington Cabinet.
16. George Davizon Secretary to the Admiralty.
17. Sir Geo. Cockburn
18. Maurice Fitzgerald Ditto.

19. Sir John P. Beresford Ditto.

20. Sir Charles Rowley
21. Lord Ashley
22. Yates Peel

23. Lord Lincoln Ditto.
24. Lord Stormont
25. Charles Ross
26. W. E. Gladstone

27. Sir George Clerk Secretary of Treasury.

28. Sir T. Freemantle Ditto.
29. Viscount Lowther Treasurer of Navy.

30. Lord G. Somerset Chief Commissioner ofWoods,&c.
31. W. Praed
32. J. Planta One of the India Board.

33. Lord E. Somerset Surveyor General of Ordnance..
34. Sir Edmond Owen Clerk of Ordnance.
35. F. R. Bonham
36. Colonel Perceval

87. Stuart Wortley
38. Lord Mahon

We will now enumerate the political lawyers, in
their profession respectable, in their politics most
offensive.

39. Sir Edward Sugden ... Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

40. Sir James Scarlett Chief Baron.

41. Frederick Pollock Attorney-General.
42. C. Follett Solicitor- General.
43. Sir W. Rae Lord Advocate.
The household troops complete the battle-array of
Toryism.
44. Lord Roden
46, Lord Jersey Lord Chamberlain to the King.
46." arl Howe Lord Chamberlain to the Queen.
We may add, to make up the two dozen, that the
Marquess of Salisbury is " talked of " for Ireland, and
Lord Londonderry for Russia I These are the chosen
Men of the .Times—the known and tried friends of
liberty, domestic and foreign—the enlightened advo-
cates of the reformation of our social institutions in
Church and State--the pacificators of Ireland 1 We
wonder that the ink Is not frozen in the pens of the
writers in the Times, whsle they are vainly and impu-
dently seeking to palm off' such a gang on the liberal
electors of the United Kingdom. From thine own
mouth shalt thou be convicted. 'We will to-day re-
flesh the memory of the Times with a chronological
series of elegant extracts from its characters of the new
Premier ; and in succession with the late and recent
estimates of the political reputation and capacity of
the other Men newly drafted into the Wellington
corps of Liberals. We will hereafter present
our readers with Knatchbull's character of Peel, and
Peel's character of Knatchbull—with the observations
of the Times on Lyndhurst, and of Lyndhurst on the
Times—with the Standard on the Peels and the Red
Tapists—the Times on the Standard, and the Stand-
ard on the Times. The first striking portrait of Sir
21.obert Peel by the Times, was drawn on the 7th May
18.27. The " Leading Journal" thus describes the
Peel and Dawson party :—" The more accurately
this gentleman (Peel) is measured, the more moderate
we begin to suspect will his dimensions be found, &c.
We speak the common sense of the country in in af-
firming, that when the dust which these oldcast horses
of the Government have raised by restiveness andpranc-
ing otia road which is strange to thern,shall have sub-
sided, it will be discovered that their numbers are but
few, their paces feeble, their condition miserable,
and the prices which they may again be bought at
little more than what are current in a knacker's yard."
On the 6th of June, in the same year, the Times
thus estimated the oratorical Premier as a " useful
executive officer," but in Parliament " a speaker of
that tribe which fluctuates between the .third rate and
the second. We never heard a sentence or expres-