The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

THE NEW MINISTRY.

THE Ministrial events of yesterday are soon tsld
Lord HEnnY (as stated in another column) had &large
meeting of hts supporters in Downing-street, where
he harangued them at some length, and—it is said
with much warmth ; afterwards protruding to
the House of Peers, where he formally Nu
nouneed the fact of his retirement from
stated that her NiAJEmTv had aecepb:4 his meg.
nation,—and that she had sent for the Margois c 4
LANSDOWNE and the Earl of Anr.itht:EN, to torts a
new ministry. Lord lam, after this announce•
went and some explanations, reported in our palls.
mentary columns, went on to move the adjournment
of the House of Peers till Thursday next, with sa
intimation of his intention to move a still further
adjournment till the following Monday, if the new
Cabinet was not, on the first of tlors: says, sta,
ciently complete to assume the reins of office.
Whilst these steps were being taken by the re.
tirin PuEntEit, the in-coming Ministers were
equally active. The Marquis of LANsis,weg it
stated to have been sufficiently well yester-
day to set out for Osborne, to wait upon
the QUEEN, and afford her the benefit of his counsel
in the present emergency. Meanwhile, in linulort
Lord lons Itussubb held a ounference With the
Earl of AISERDEEN,—an example followed during the
day by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Mr. SIDNEY HERISI.RT,
and some other Peelites. Our Parliamentary report
gives the terms in which Mr. DtstesEt.i at a later
hour announced the retirement of his party from
office.

Every club and coterie has, by this time, its favou-
rite list of the New Ministry, each putting down,
of course, the names of those it desires to see in the
enjoyment of place. All such lists must necessarily
be imperfect, since even the most authentic of them
may be upset by eircumstance4, always liable in such
eases to " turn up," even at the last lnar. Probably
the following was, last night, the likeliest pre.
gramme—es far as it goes—but can only to be takes
with the reservation we have indicatitl :
First Lord of the Treasury Earl of Alwailccn.
A seat in the cabinet without
oilier Marquis of Lansdowne.
Foreign Odic,
Home
Colonies
Admiralty
Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Oladstour
President of the Council
Bard of Trade Lord Granville.
Post Office
Privy Seal
Duchy of Lancaster Lord Carlisle.
Gaeta of Control
Lord Chancellor
Lord Lieutenant ot lrelaad Lord St. Germans.

Secretary-st-War Mr. Osborne.
Under &menet), of the
Colonies
Public Works
We must repeat that the strength of a government
does not consist merely in its personnel. In its
prineipks must reside its strength; and the princi-
ples of the new Government must be clearly under-
stood before any general support can be expected
from the Liberal party, or before anything Win po-
pular sympathy can be expected from the nation at
large. The list we have given is very full of lords
and very empty of merchants, or traders, or repro-
sentatives of that commercial and industrial
class who ale the real architects of the
wealth and power of England. Many of the men
now about to form un administration were, up to
It lt;, decided Tories, and now to see them under-
taking the lead of the Liberals is sufficient surely to
make us ask for an early explanation of principles.
To take a few tried Reformers into the ranks
of such an administration—unless such Re.
formers took their principles with them—would
perhaps do little fur the cause of good govern.
limit, although it might teach such represcnta.
tires of the people some of tho boasted secrets of
office, and render them more popularly eligible on
any future occasion for ministerial work. It does
not, however, yet appear that any men of very de-
cided liberal views have been asked to join the party
now entrusted with the duty of forming a govern-
ment. The men, however, are of ennipiratiiely
little consequence—what we need is the programme
of their measures. By that alone shall we he able to
predict with certainty whether or nut the new
ministry can endure.

A TORY LIST.
(Peon the .Voming Ilernfil.)
The fel:owing names have been mentioned as
to fonts a portion of the new ministry; but, as nothing ■
yet definitively settled, we of course give thum merely la
what we believe, as fur u matters have gone, will be
likely to prove correct in the main:—The E irl of Aber-
deen-I.lot Lord of the Treasury ; Sir J. Graham—Cftan.cellor of the Exchequer; Lord J. Russell—Hume Secre-
tary; Viscount Canning—Foreign Secretary; Right Hoe.
W. Gladstone—Colonial Secretary; Right flow Sidney
Herbert—First Lord of the Admiralty; the Earl of Claren-
don—President of the Council; tho Duke of Arole—Lord
Privy Seal; Earl Granville President of the hued
of Control ; Right lion. E. Cardwell—l'resideut of the
Board of Trade ; the Marquis of Clanricarde—Postmater-
General ; Lord Seymour—First Commissioner of Woods
and Forests; The Duke of Newcastle—Governor-Genera
of India. In addition to the names mentionid :thaw, it 11
likely that the office of Lord Chancellor will offered
Lord Cranworth, and Lord '..:hancellor of Ireland or Attar:
ney-General for Ireland to Mr. Brewster.

THE MINISTRT.—FIO7II;IIthat we could Icarn up
to a bite hour last night, nothing had been •, ;tied a. to
the formation of • new ministry, and it is mare than
doubtful it Lord Aberdeen will succeed at all in 11.3
enu-
siou.—Morning Herald.

TIM IRISH MEMBEIta.—We understand that
meeting of the irib liberal representatirts will be I,ddia
the course of the week, to confer upon ttc line of
with regard to the new ministry, toward. c.irrying oat
which the important numerical strength of that party wdl
be directed.—Globe.