The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Peel Cabinet is at length matured, after a
month's painful travail. It consists of the last remains
of Toryism. The materials are " Wellington's En-
tire." The Bigots, the Apostates, the Red Tapists,
the Aides-de-Camp of the Field-Marshal, are mixed
up in equal proportions. A more abortive, ridiculous,
or insulting Ministry never was presented to a free
nation. The curious composition is as follows :
Sir R. PEEL First Lord of the Treasury and
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Lord LYNDHURST Lord Chancellor.
Duke of WELLINGTON
Lord WHARNCLIFFE
Earl of ABERDEEN First Lord of the Admiralty.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL
Lord ROSSLYN
Mr. A. BARING
Mr. GOULBURN Secretary for the Home De-
partment.
Sir G. MURRAY Master-General of Ordnance.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH President of Board of Control.
Mr. HERRIES
Sir HENRY HARDINGE Secretary for Ireland.
What number of these Anti-Reformers, Mock-
Reformers, or Conformers, are enlisted in the Cabinet
we know not, and we doubt whether they themselves
know till the Duke, of Wellington shall announce the
Councillors whom he shall elect to impose upon Sir
Robert Peel. The Secretaryship of the Colonies, and
the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, are
reserved for future baits. Sir Edward Sugden is the
new Chancellor of Ireland; Sir James Scarlett is the
Chief Baron of the Exchequer (vice Lord Lyndhurst);
and Lord Jersey the Lord Chamberlain. Lord
Lowther, Mr. Croker, and Lord Chandos, arc
not placed in this motley Administration ; and
the latter Nobleman is said to have left
the Cabinet-makers in disgust. Whether his
conscience on the Malt Tax can be reconciled to an
office without a seat in the Cabinet, as some suspect,
but which would be a miserable juggle, time will re-
veal. Of course a large batch of Peerages will ulti-
mately further increase the excessive numbers of the
Upper House of Legislature. The new swamp will
not popularise the Lords ; it will make its character
still more dissonant with the elective system created
by the Reform Bills. It is understood that Sir Ro-
bert Peel and the Duke differed on Saturday last on
the subject of a dissolution, Sir Robert being strongly
opposed to it ; but the composition of this genuine
Cabinet of Tories necessitates recourse to the measure.
Such an alien Government would assuredly meet with
an untimely end at the first meeting of the present
House of Commons. What expectations of existence
it can have in any new Parliament, we are at a loss to
imagine. The most sanguine of the Tories do
not calculate on one-third of the forthcoming
Representatives of the People. A more insane or
reckless seizure of Executive authority was never
hazarded by any desperate party in the history of
nations. We never recollect a greater burst of amaze-
ment than when this despicable combination of public
men was announced. All reflecting Tories have for
days unreservedly declared their conviction, that it
would be impossible to obtain a Ministry capable of
resisting for a quarter of a year the assaults of an Op-
position in the Commons, consequent on the reform of
the representative system. If the new Ministers have
adopted the principles of their predecessors, what oc-
casion is there for their own services ? Should they
not pursue the same policy, Lady-day will be the ter-
mination of their tenure of office. If they be Con-
ihrmers, what confidence will be hereafter placed in
the integrity of public men ? But the very nature of
the men—their political ignorance and recorded insults
of public opinion—their votes against Parliamentary
Reform—their horror of the measure, and opposition
to its certain consequences—their utter blindness to
the " signs of the times"—their hatred and contempt of
the "spirit of the age," leave no doubt as to their policy,
and the announcement will occasion but one general
expression of disgust throughout the kingdom. The
days of the Tories are at last numbered. Self-
destruction is the usual end of such barefaced faction.
Sir Robert Peel will rue the hour when he departed
from his propriety, and surrendered his own cool judg-
ment to the attraction of the Court. The " thing" is
too odious and contemptible for serious discussion.
We now call on the Reformers of England, Wales,
Scotland, and Ireland, to fly to their posts. The elec-
tors have the will and the power to cast out the un-
clean thing. Let them give ear to no smooth-tongued
pr?fessions, however crafty. Old enemies with new
faces are the most dangerous foes. The Liberal elec-
tors must cast aside all minor and local differences.
One more struggle, and the Tories—the enemies of
the people—will be put down, and for ever extin-
guished as a faction. The people of Ireland, when
-they see themselves delivered over to Mr. Goulburn,
will surely have no difficulty in anticipating their de-
stiny. Only think of placing the people of Ireland
under the controul of the most bigotted man in the
empire, one whose opinions are a subject of wonder-
ment to the most decided Tories I The people of Ire-
land and the English Dissenters will understand the
insult. —Morning Chronicle.
When we yesterday informed our readers of our in-
ability to communicate more detailed information as to
the forthcoming Ministerial arrangements, we did so
because, whatever might be our reasons for supposing
that such and such appointments would be made, we
are never desirous to lay before the public any infor-
mation which is not absolutely authentic, and on
which they, as well as ourselves, may not securely
rely. We are now in a situation to acquaint our
readers with the names and offices of the new Ministers,
and it is with pride as well as pleasure that we point
public attention to the following list of the Conserva-
tive Cabinet :—(For the list of the 'Ministry, see the
preceding article.) Our readers will perceive that the
post of Secretary far the Colonies is not as yet filled,
nor those of Post Master-General, Master of the
Mint, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and
First Commissioner of Woods and Forests ; the occu-
pants of which places we hope to be soon in a condi-
tion to announce. We have great pleasure in adding
to the above list the names of
SIR EDWARD SUGDEN, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
SIR J. SCARLETT, Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
The EARL OF JERSEY, Lord Chamberlain.
Looking back upon the names above quoted we feel
confident that the announcement of them will win the
approbation and confidence of the nation in favour of
the King's Ministers. Whether we view them with
respect to rank, intelligence, official experience, political
independence, fortune, probity, or talent, we are per-
suaded that Under no other Minister than the eminent
Statesman who now stands at the helm could such an
assemblage of all these indispensable qualifications
have been drawn together. When we add to this that
a government so constituted receives the active, though
unofficial, support of such men as Lord Stanley, Sir
James Graham, the Duke of Richmond, and other con-
stitutional Reformers, we cannot conceive an Adminis-
tration more likely to receive, or more sure to deserve,
the support of Parliament and the public. A warm
attachment to the institutions of the country, un-
mingled with any disinclination to purify those
institutions ; to amend, to improve, and to correct
them where faulty ; but,. above all, an unsuspicious,
becaiise disinterested, devotion to the public weal, are
the 'principles upon which the present Administration
is launched, and on which, and which only, it relies
for the countenance and support of the country it has
been called to govern. Brought into office by no in-
trigue in Parliament or at Court, finding its way to
power by no clandestine whispers in the Royal ear, by
no indecent bidding for popular applause, it has nei-
ther cause to blush for its origin, nor tremble for its
success. It may look back with honeSt pride, and for-
ward with earnest and not ill-founded hope. If it will
not court popularity by evil arts, it will strive to de-
st.rve it by meritorious exertion. If it does not boast
of an ostentatious hostility to every ancient establish-
ment, it is not the less resolved to correct every ascer-
tained abuse. And, fortified by these feelings, as it
is founded upon these principles, it commits itself
without shame, without fear—and, let us add, with-
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