The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-23 00:00:00

THE SUN,

even the furtherance of parts for the sake of
upholding these who were enabled to enter
the claims of blood relationship, or even
association by marriage—recognising by a strange
and culpable obliquity of judgment the evidence of
capacity for statesmanship in the nearness of the ties,
whether of connexion or of consanguinity. Happily
for these islands, however, and, perhaps, still more
happily for the rest of the scattered dependencies of
the Crown, the Family Compact has at length been
broken up, the nation obtaining some chance of
administrative improvement. Any change could
scarcely be anything but "for the better."
Rather than witness the perpetuation of the
Grey-Russell grievance, we are rejoiced on
beholding the return to power of Tory, Conservative,
and Protectionist. The Whigs, at first surrounded by
suspicion, and afterwards fallen into contempt, had
come at last to be anathema maranatha to the vast
bulk of the population. Consequently the intelligence
of Saturday, the intelligence that Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL had, on the night preceding, announced his
intention to resign was hailed throughout the coun-
try with feelings of the most genuine and
en thusiastic exultation. The majority of the people
were grateful, we are convinced, to the Hon. Baronet
the Member for Marylebone when he extorted from
the PREMIER a more explicit and unmistakable decla-
ration of his resolve to abandon without more ado the
toils and responsibilities of government. Satisfied
that this time there was no mistake whatever in the
reality of the fall of the Whigs, the community have
awaited with curiosity, of course, but with pleasure-
able sentiments of security, such as had not very re-
cently been experienced, the result of that extraordi-
nary, because almost despaired-of resignation.
Since Saturday evening the movements in high
quarters have, as will be observed, been numerous
and important. According to nearly universal specu-
lation, the Earl of DERBY has been entrusted by her
MAJESTY with the powers necessary for the formation
of another Cabinet. Subsequently there will, doubt-
less, be many changes and modifications in the new
Government, but already some of the more difficult
departments of the Administration have been en-
trusted to men in whom the leader of the Country
Party, if not the country itself, has confidence.
Among the appointments which it is supposed have
already been filled up—it is believed that the
Admiralty has been entrusted to the Duke of Non-
THUMBERLAND, and that the Foreign
,Office will be
presided over by the Earl of MALMESBURY. In ac-
cordance with a prevalent anticipation, now by no
means of yesterday, Sir EDWARD SUGDEN it is
generally understood, after being raised to the Peer-
age, will be nominated Lord Chancellor. There
were rumours afloat, moreover, that Mr. SPENCER
HORATIO WALPOLE was to be Home 'Secretary ;
and that Mr. BENJAMIN DISRAELI would be Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. L iter than this, the talk
at the Clubs runs very differently. Under the Pre-
miership of the Earl of DERBY it was stated, within
the last hour or so at the Carlton, that Sir STRAT-
FORD CANNING would in all likelihood be Foreign
Secretary, that Mr. DISRAELI wool i be Home Secre-
tary, that Lord JOHN MANNERS would be Colonial
Secretary, that either Mr. HERRIES or Mr.
fuomas BARING would be Chancellor of the
Exchequer, that Lord ELLENBOROUGH would be at
the head of the Board of Control, that Lord
HARDINGE would be Master of the Ordnance, Sir
FREDERICK THESIGER, Speaker of the House of
Commons, Sir FITZROY KELLY Attorney-General,
Mr. WALPOLE Solicitor-General, and that, besides
this, either Lord LYNDHURST or the Duke
of RICHMOND would he President of the
Council, the Marquis of SALISBURY or the
Earl of EGLINTON, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
Chief Justice BLACKBURN, Chancellor for Ireland,
either Mr. Sergeant GREENE or Mr. NAPIER,
Attorney- General for Ireland ; Mr. WHITE..
SIDE, Solicitor-General for Ireland ; with Lord
GLENGALL, Postmaster-General ; the Duke of
WELLINGTON still being left, of course, at
the head of the Horse Guards as Commander-in-
Chief of the Forces. Added to the above list,
there are numerous reports current as to a
different arrangement in some of the departments, both
the Earl of DESART and the Eterl of EGLINION
being spoken of as the Viceroy of Ireland, Mr.
STUART being mentioned as Attorney-General, Sir
EDWARD SUGDEN as Lord Keeper of the Seals, with
the Chairmanship of the House of Peers, and Mr.
ADDERLEY, or, according to some, .Mr. DISRAELI RS
the Colonial Secretary. Such are they most remarkable
among the appointments spoken of as in contempla-
tion, or already distributed, many of them highly
improbable, but some of th(!rn little short
of actual certainty, such as the state-
ments associating Mr. DISRAELI with the Chan-
cellorship of the Exchequer, Sir EDWARD SUGDBN
with the Chancellorship, the Earl of ELLBNBOROUGR
with the Board of Control, and the Duke of NORTH-
UMBERLAND with the Admiralty.
Apart from the feeling of exultation inspired
by the destruction of the Whig Cabinet, we
should look with sentiments of little less than
ii difference at the elaborate Miriinterial arrange-
ments being made at this moment ythe Earl of
DERBY, regarding the ['resent crisis as in
every respect merely preliminary ;al its character.
The estimates, of course, will Ent of all be
voted by the House of Commons, and after such mere
routine business as the passing of the Mutiny Act, it
is expected that Mr. COBDEN, as l;he acknowledged
chief of the Manchester school of politicians, will,
upon the question of upholding our free-trade policy,
place the Earl of DERBY in a minorityinevitable to
him as the leader of the Protectionists After the con-
sequent appeal to the country, we :shall then look
with confidence to the coming in of 'Lord PALMER-
„TON and the Peelites.

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" Fas est ab hoste doceri." Valuoilile lessons may
be learned from the tactics of an experienced oppo-
nent. After repeatedly defeating the R. amans, PYRRH us
discovered that his most skilful h nanceuvres wtret
turned against himself, and that he w as vanquished by
means of the very weapons with which he had supplied
his adversaries. Lord JOHN RossEm...has profited by
his historical reminiscences—he has fic llowed the ex-
ample afforded by the conduct of bis great prede-
cessor in office. When Sir ROBERT ,PEEL, in 1846,
discovered that he could no longer carry on the
Government with credit to himse)if and advan-
tage to the nation—that the unnatural coalition
of WhigS and Protectionists could edsplace him at
dny moment, he determined to fall with dignity. The
state of Ireland afforded the most fitti'7lg opportunity,
and by hastening on the crisis he avoided the more
inconvenient topic of the sugar duties, which he be-
queathed as a legacy to his Successor.
Last yr.ar Lord
Ile found that.TORN, ,
THE
RUSSELL c
opur ABiSuendGEETsi”cuhilaac
excited strong and
abed _general animadve re ion—that men
of all classes,
imbecility, creeds,
colubiti dwith
in
condeinniug
theol most glaring instance of financial
A, and parties were for once united
principh, the most total disregard of
thei
of a Brish Parliament.
hadcommonest ever been brou4lat f h
fur
wlrd by equity an.d justice, that
a Chancellor of
the
Exchequer .in the
face
The PREMIER SEW defeat staring him '
knew that if he met the House on in the face. He
day fixed for
the discussion, unless he made s,,mt, d
e move in
the interim he must be left in a decisive
and ditgrace-,
' ful minority ; be therefore took ad:vantage
of the
• which he received from
gentle lEW, one of his h
proceed more rapidly on th up.
porters, to
e path of Re-
form. Mr. Loess KING'S motion w; iy carried on the
20:h of February, 1851, and ou the folio wing day
• Lord JOHN RUSSELL tendered his resi Kilation of ofEce
.to her Most Gracious MAJESTY. By' his advice the
Earl of DERBY was sent for, mid eut meted with the
duty of forming an A dministration,.. The Noble
Lord willingly undertook the pleasing: task. But he
found his party disorganized, a lamen ts,ble deficiency
of experienced officers, and an unwil7:ingness to as-
sume the necessary responsibility on tine part of those
from whom he might reasonably hsrve looked for
more decided assistance. After sundry energetic
efforts, the then Lord STANLEY relinquished the at-
tempo., and Lord JOHN RUSSELL contrn ued in power.
fie speedily found the good effects of :the delay thus
interposed. He was allowed, by drawing largely on
the future, and making unequivocal pledges as
to what he would do in the Way of Par-
liamentary and legal reforms—(the House re-
served to itself the right of legislating on fiscal I
and financial topics by limiting the d oration of the
Act for the renewal of the income-t 4:c. to a single