The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1852.

The DERBY Cabinet will nowhere find reason for
a more onerous sense of responsibility than in refer-
ence to their administration of our Forty Colonies.
It is a rather serious reflection, therefore, that at a
juncture of supreme importance, the colonial de-
partment of the British Government should be pre-
sided over by a statesman so little known by the
display of distinguished capacities as the Right Hon.
Baronet Sir JoaN PAKINGTON. Fortunately, the
country is already able to appreciate the merits of
almost all the other conspicuous members of the
Ministry. It knows by many years of experience the
vigorousintellect of the Noble Earl now the Prime
Minister of England. His capability in the conduct
of affairs has been recognised in many positions of
eminence and under circumstances of very extraor-
dinary import. His administrative skill has been re-
vealed scarcely less frequently in office than his
rhetorical powers have shone with peculiar splendour
in debate. For testimony in regard to the former we
have only to look to the records of history during the
last eight Administrations, as in regard to the latter
we need only glance very cursorily through the
Pages of Hansard. If nothing else testified the
genius of Lord DERRY as a ruler of the land, ample
evidence of that fact would be discoverable in his
method of conducting the affairs of his department,
as Lord STANLEY during the memorable interval
when from 1841 to 1845 Sir ROBERT PEEL guided
with his master-hand the helm of the State, infusing
so much regularity and precision into the intricate
operations of the Government. Hardly less manifest
by this time are the scope and adaptability of those
mental endowments which have suddenly raised the
Right Hen. BENJAMIN DISRAdELI to the Leadership
an
of the House of Commons the Chancellorship of
the Exchequer. Everybody i9' moreover, tolerably
well acquainted with that
profound legal erudition
which the nation has recently rewarded by the
bestowal of a coronet upon Sir ED
WARD SUGDEN,
now the Lord Baron ST. LEONARD'S,
and his sense
of which the PREMIER has marked by his
High Chan-
cellor.
is promotion
of the new peer ta the dignity of Lord
Within the past half-year, we have been
enabled likewise, to understand the reasons which
actuated the Earl cf DERBY in filling up, as he has
done, the responsible posts of the Home and Foreign
Secretaries. The industry of the Right Hon. SPENCER,
WALPOLE has not been less conspicuously shown
daring the lapse of the long vacation than the
Promptitude and patriotism of the Earl of MmaiEs-
busy were rendered apparent by his resolute course
in reference to the British North American Fisheries.
Liberality of sentiment has been unexpectedly
displayed by Mr. HENLEY. Forethought has
been visible in the policy of Mr. HER..
RIES. Business habits of no ordinary excel-
lence have, to the amazement of his most
prejudiced depreciatory, been detected in Lord
JoaN MANNERS—Iong sneered at as an in-
different rhymer and en eccentric visionary,
the preu.z chevalitir of Young England,
priat4ly ooetumed, it was thought, in a more appro.
white waist-