The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

LOiNDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1852.

Rzdical Reformers must now be on the alert from
one extremity to the other of the United Kingdom.
They must keep a watchful eye upon the course pur-
sued by the present Ministry immediately upon the
assembling of the Imperial Parliament. Hitherto the
country has continued almost uninterruptedly in the
dark as to the intentions of the DERBY Administra-
tion. Indeed, time was requisite, in the first instance,
to enable the new Cabinet to decide itself upon the
precise policy advisable in a Government so hastily
formed and prematurely organized. Had the Earl of
DERBY calculated beforehand upon the probability, or
even upon the possibility, of his being Prime Minis-
ter of England as early as last February, he would,
doubtless, have been prepared to submit at once to
his colleagues a series of measures suitable to the
emergency, if not a complete cut-and-dried scheme
for carrying on the affairs of the British Empire. As
it was, he was literally surprised into power—called
abruptly back to town by the commands of
his SOYERBIGN, and compelled to collect together
the requisite number of statesmen within the
limits of an anxious and agitated fortnight. The
Whigs had retired suddenly in a huff, A coolness
had sprung up between Lord Joule RUSSELL and
Viscount PALMERSTON. The latter had seen himself
hurriedly, and even, we cannot but still think, most
discourteously displaced at the Foreign-office by the
Earl of GRANVILLE. Matters dragged on " much as
usual" for a little time in the Lords and the Com-
mons, when, unexpectedly, a single bolt thrown by
the hand of the exiled CUPID carried dismay and
confusion into the Councils of the Ministerial
JUPITER. The still dominant Reemier found himself
stricken by the prompt and startling vengeance of
the ex-Foreign Secretary. Scaroely had the printers
to the House of Commons struck off the first
I; proof" of the division-list upon the Militia Bill,
when Lord Joss announced to his colleagues his
determination to resign, and that immediately. The
downfall of the Whig Cabinet, therefore, although
confidently looked forward to at the time as speedily
inevitable, was recognized upon all hands as at that
Instant an event entirely unanticipated. Surprised
the nation was by the occurrence—surprised even
Was the majority of the Legislature—but her
MAJESTY must have been still more so, by an incident
which placed her for a while in some anxiety as to the
consequences. Everybody recollects no doubt that the
Royal suunnons was obliged to follow the Earl of
Dearer from his town mansion to his residence in
the country, whither he bad gone only a few hours
before, little dreaming of what was " looming in the
future," in the shape of honours and responsibilities.
Thereupon came the hurryings to and fro
the inquiries and cross-inquiries, the propositions and
the refusals, the interview.; at this moment with the
Earl of ABERDEEN, and at that with the ex Chancellor
iirspsuasr—in fact all those impromptu delibera-
tions which ended at lest in the announcement of a
n .wl.y organized Government. Everything indicated
the haste with which the whole arrangements were
driven to a conclusion—nothing showing
it more
clearly then the circumstance that the new Prime
in order to carry into effect
Minister was compelled,
his unrehearsed enterprize, to crowd within a single
Gazette the unprecedented number of no less than
eighteen fresh Privy Councillors!
After this, of course, the nation had to wait pa.
tiently until the DEBBY Cabinet had decided upon
the exact nature of the policy which it would be ne-
cessary for them sooner or later to submit to the ac-
ceptance of the Legislature. Several of the more
eager spirits on the side of the Opposition grew restive
under the delay, becoming noisy, grid even to our