The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-31 00:00:00

MARKET NETIVS-unts DA X.;

CORN EXCHANGE. •
Most of the English wheat on offer in to-day's market
was left over from Monday, the fresh arrivals being un-
usually small. For all kinds we had a very dull inquiry,
at prices nominally the same as on Monday.
The imports of foreign wheat coastwise are good—they
amounting since Saturday to 18,.190 quarters. The trade
was very dull, and to effect sales lower rates must have
been submitted to.
We had a very dull inquiry for barley and malt, at
barely stationary prices.
For oats, beans, peas, and flour there was scarcely any
demand, at barely stationary prices.
lIRIVALS THIS wunx,
Barley. Malt, Oats. i Flour.
2,810 1,430 370 $ 1,060
-- 10,630 ; --
230 -^ 15,350 1 38005k5.

Wheat.
620

English ..
Irish •• • •
Foreign ..

18,593

BOROUGH HO?.
The demand is tolerably steady. In prices no change
has taken place.

WHITECHAPEL,
Each kind of meat was in moderate request, as follows :
—Beef, 3s Od to ls Od ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; veal,
45 21 to 55 4d; pork, 35 Od to 4s 'id per
.81bs, by the
OMAN.

No great penetration is needed to perceive that
Lord John Russell's abrupt separation from the
Government in which he occupied a conspicuous
place was dictated by other motives than those
which he assigned for that desertion. Indeed, it now
distinctly appears that, in addition to the correspon-
dence quoted by Lord John on the subject of the
Ministry of War, which ended on the 3d of December,
that question was further discussed on the 16th of De-
cember, when Lord John distinctly informed Lord
Aberdeen that he bad changed his mind, and desisted
from his proposal. Upon this statement being made by
Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons, with the au-
thority of Lord Aberdeen, Lord John Russell did not
deny its accuracy. We are therefore bound to say that
the suppression of this fact in a speech which was in-
tended to connect his resignation with the former dis-
cussion on the subject of the War Minister was an
equivocation to which we might apply a still harsher
name. Nevertheless that portion of the Whigs who are
content to sacrifice to this spoilt child of party even
their consistency, their patriotism, and their honour,
exult in the division of the Liberal phalanx, and boast
that 70 of the supporters of the late Government followed
Lord John into the enemy's camp. Hence they argue
that the Government of 1846 can be reconstructed, that
the Whig houses are once more in the ascendant, and
that a Cabinet composed of Russells, Greys, and How-
ards is all that the country can desire. They see
Lord John Russell once more at the head of that
pitiable Administration under which we had the misfor-
tune to live for five long years, with what was well
termed on Monday night " a fictitious monopoly of Li-
beral policy, a genuine monopoly of lethargic Govern-
ment, in the hands of those great men who are Demo-
crats in opposition and oligarchs in office." Even the
venerable name of the Marquis of Lansdowne has been
put forward to conceal the barefaced impudence of such
pretensions, as if the present crisis were one to place the
affairs of the realm in the hands of a Minister of 75, who
has t ivice before refused the Premiership ; and as if the
people of England could now submit to the rule of a
party which collapsed from sheer inanition three years
ago, and has sines undergone a progressive decline. Of
All the Ministerial projects now afloat, that of a pure
Whig Cabinet is by far the weakest and the worst ; and,
after the circumstances which have marked the resigna-
tion of Lerd John Russell, we question if there ara many
of his late colleaguoa who would consent to place their
political capital in his hands.

We revert, therefore, with increased confidence to
Lord Palmerston, as the only man who is able to give an
energetic direction to the war as head of the Government,
and at the same time to retain the services of the ablest
members of the Liberal party. Lord Aberdeen and the
Duke of Newcastle are, of course, removed by the
fall of the late Cabinet, and we fear that Sir James
Graham's illness is such as to give uneasiness to his
friends and to exclude him from a new ministry. Sir
George Grey and Sir Charles Wood are doubtful, for
they are said to be divided between the claims of their
country and the exigencies of the party leader who just
one week ago forsook them without notice. But the
place of the former could with advantage be filled by
Sir W. Molesworth, and there is no reason that the
country should lose Mr. Gladstone, whose eloquence
even in defending a hopeless cause has no equal in the
House of Commons. At this critical moment, too, when
negotiations of the most important and complicated cha-
racter are in progress abroad—negotiations alike impor-
tant for the furtherance of the war and for the hope of
peace, it would be a public misfortune if the seals of the
Foreign-office were transferred from Lord Clarendon to
a minister less able or less intimately acquainted with
the present state of Europe. The success of a ministry
of which Lord Palmerston would be the head depends,
however, in great measure, on his obtaining the co-ope-
ratioa of Lord Grey in the direction of military affairs,
and we stated yesterday reasons which appear to con-
stitute an imperative claim on a statesman who spoke
as Lord Grey did on Monday night. In the internal
administration of the country no man would fill a
higher office more ably than Mr. Baines. Of nen
not previously connected with the Government
there are several whose talents and standing entitle them
to office, and, among others, Mr. Layard might with
advantage be called upon to submit his administrative
abilities to the criticism he had lavishedupon others, and
to show that he is capable of better things than he has
yet given evidence of. We cannot hazard even these
faint suggestions without an increased consciousness of
the extraordinary difficulties which attend the formation
of any efficient Cabinet, chiefly from the want of orga-
nisation and discipline in the ranks of the Liberal party.
The vote of Monday night and the impending inquiry
into the state of the army have increased those difficul-
ties, for they separate men otherwise well qualified to
act together. But the substantial interests of the coun-
try urgently demand mutual forbearance and union.
The credit of constitutional governmentitself is at stake,
and the greatest of all trials and calamities for this na-
tion would be to fail in establishing a united and power-
ful Administration at this crisis in public affairs.