The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Several of the Ministers went to their offices yes-
terday for the last •tirne The new Ministers are to
receive the Seals of Office this forenoon. They
will appear in their places in the two Houses this
day. We stated on Saturday, that the law ap-
pointments were not so definitively arranged as the
others. The principal difficulty, to which we then
alluded, has been overcome. MiS Brougham will
be sworn in this day, arid take his seat in the house
of Lords at four o'clock. The long tenure of popu-
levity of Mr. Brougham in the House of Commons, -
rainy have produced in him a reluctance to leave it for
a station which is coveted by every lawyer. Perhaps
he is the only man who ever hesitated one second as to
the acceptance of the Chancellorship.. The highest
judicial elevation, no doubt, brings with it cares and
discomforts; but how- fewlhere are, who, contem•
plating a Peerage, and the immense patronage con-
nected with the -Chancellorship, would for one
moment fix their regards on the reverse of the picture?
The Duke of Richmond is not to be Master-Gene-
ral of the Ordnance. He is, however, to take office,
and it is thought that he will most likely be Master
of the Horse. Sir James Mackintosh is to be Judge
Advocate, and not Mr. Robert Grant. The latter
gentleman, we believe, will be Under Secretary for
the Colonies. Other appointments are not yet de-
finitively settled. The list which we gave on Satur-
day requires some other amendments. Lord Auck-
land is the President of the Board of Trade, Mr.
Clime Grant is President of the Board of Con-
troul, and Sir H. Parnell is Vice-Treasurer
for Ireland. We omitted to mention that Lord
Duncannon is Secretary at War, and Mr. Pou-
let Thomson Vice-President of the Board of
Trade. The new men enter on office under circum-
stances, which, in one sense, may be considered fa-
vourable, and in another unfavourable. Their pre-
decessors (with a single exception, perhaps) are
little respected, and they have nothing to fear in the
way of comparison. But then the internal state of
the country is one of peculiar embarrassment. The
expectations of the people are high ; and much,
consequently, will be expected from a popular Ad-
ministration. Repeals of taxes and retrenchment
will be expected, and, above all, Parliamentary Re-
form. The Aristocracy suffer greatly in popular esti-
mation on account of their possessing what is deemed
an improper controul over the representation. • As
landholders, no man in this country objects to them ;
It is in their capacity of owners of boroughs. But the
question is—will they renounce that power over the
representation which is the cause of so much dis-
content throughout the country Ministers have,
however, agreed to make the attempt. Prudence
demands on the part of those who possess borough
influence great moderation at this conjuncture,
because, if they should succeed in throwing diffi-
culties in the way of Ministers, they would only
accelerate their own ruin. The Treasury Boroughs
will, of course, be against Ministers in their plans
of economy and reform. It may be a question whe-
ther a dissolution should not precede the discussios
of the question of Reform, that it may be supported
by the influence which naturally belongs to the Go-
vernment.—Morning Chronicle.
We call the attention of our readers to an account
in another column, of a meeting of owners and oc•
cupiers of land, held at Rochester, on Friday last.
The meeting was coiled by the Earl of Darnley, and
was attended by his' Lordship, Lord Clifton, some
of the magistrates of the ,divisiOn, many gentlemen
of the neighbourhood, and a great number of the
yeomanry. Lord :Darnley stated to the meeting
that be had been asked, if a regiment of 'Yeomanry
were raised in West Kent, to take the command of
it. Mr. Bentley, the Chairman of the Kent agri-
culturiste, stated .that cavalry were insufficient to
preVent the midnight incendiary- from pursuing his
work of destruction; that there were sufficient
means %tired in the civil power to put down the
tumultuous meetings that, heVeteken place; and that
unpopular as Yeomanry Caealry,ncno are, their re-
establishment would produce an. excitement in that
district, which, he was happy to say, did not then
exist. The meeting agreed with Mr. Bentley, and
a resolution, pledging those present to be in readiness
to act for the preservation of the peace under the di,
swami of the. Magistrates, was adopted. But another
rcia4lllloa was coupled with this, against which Lord
Manley in vain struggled, and which was carried by
a large majority, declaring that the inability of the
farmers to subsist their labourers decently was
mainly occasioned by the excessive taxation " to
which they, in common with the rest of the com-
munity, are burdened, and the odious anti impolitic
tithe-tax to which they alone are liable," and, as a
remedy for these evils was only to be expected from
a Reform in Parliament, expressing a hope that,
under a popular Monarch, and with the prospect of
a Ministry pledged to liberal measures, the time had
at length coma when that salutary measure would no
longer be withheld. Lord Darnley, not in the best
taste. threw the apple of discord among his hearers,
by introducing the merits of the Aristrocrecy and
the Church into his speech. The virtues of the
I louse of Peers had nothing to do with the question.
Because the Members of the House of Peers are vir-
tuous, that is no reason for withholding from others
their just rights. The yeomanry of the country are
not hostile to the just rights of the Aristocracy; but
they are hostile to the abuses which enable the
boroughmongers to strip them of their property.—
The meeting is important, from the influence it will
have over the country.—Morning Chronicle.

There has not been, within our memory, a re-
signation of an entire Cabinet, upon which public
opinion may be said to have borne so directly and so
powerfully, us that of the `Duke of Wellington and
his colleagues. It must, nevertheless, be acknow!,
ledged, that in, no instance was a change effected in
public opinion so absolute, so obvious, and so sudden,
as that which his Grace experienced within a single
fortnight, Vk hieh he had the Misfortune to produce
by his own words, and to disregard utterly until it
struck and overwhelmed him. So long as the
Duke of Wellington moved in harmony with the
predominating spirit of the nation, he was the most
popular of all public servants. Notwithstanding the
murmurs of a bigotted snd narrow-minded ruction,
lie lost nothing in the eyes of the country generally
by his Catholic Bill or his Dissenters' Bill, while
the earnest he had afforded of a desire to retrench,
even before his hutnune and considerate abolition of
the Beer-tar, and the credit he thus obtained as an
economist, down almost to the eve of the late meet-
ing of Parliament, were such, that not more than six
weeks ago he never showed himself to ths people
without being loudly cheesed. The revulsion, 44
we have said, was most capricious on the part the
people of England. The Minister, instead of the
national colours under which he had served since
his accession to office, Seemed all at once to hoist
an unconstitutional ensign, to desert with it to the
lead-quarters of the rotten borough system, and to
aggravate this, unhappy dereliction, by an attempt,
atter the fashion of former times, to fix upon the
neck of the country a pledge of supporting a large
amount of civil list, inaccessible to any dart at
trllew
viation or revision, during the whole reign of his
present Mejesty. The Duke, then, has fallen-m-for
u fall it is; there is no evidence (though suspicion
there may be) that his Grace would ever have re-
signed, if in his power to avoid it. What, then, is
the lesson to be drawn from this downfall of a man,
celebrated, esteemed, admired, until very lately en-
deared to his countrymen, and, in spite of every
failure, immortal in the records of England
nod of Europe ? Tim Nihon is an important
one for those who succeed in office the baffled
Administration of the Duke of Wellington.—
The exigency to which thaltew Ministry owe their
admission to power, is not one produced by Court
intrigue, or by mere party triumphs it is founded
on that opinion which caused te overthrow of a
ooverintientr hostile to reterm, not enough zealous
for retrenchment, end supposed to he, thottgit per-
haps unjuidly, tint quite unpartitti as between tint
interests of freedom, and prerogative in the colicerns,
of foreign nations. By the tide, of opinion, thee,
floated into office,
A is upon it they must continue

to buoy .themselves, or they will inevitably perish.]
The composition of the Grey Ministry is possibly
as good as the present state of parties would admit
of, confining the selection to public men who are
likely-to agree on most political questions, and espe-
cially in the enforcement of those great principles
which constitute the rallying points for all reflecting
and disinterested minds at the actual crisis of the,
world. We do not attach high importance to the
fact, that the lists of new Ministers in circulation
embrace not merely the larger portion of the yet
ascertained Parliamentary talent now existing in the
country, with the two 'exceptions of Lord Lynd-
hurst and Mr. Peel, but the whole of it. Want,
which have more than once betrayed themselves
among men of considerable ability as public
speakers, may we hope not be chargeable upon the
infant Government we mean those of sagacity in
council, promptitude in action, and steadiness see
diligence in the conduct of daily though subordinate
matters of administration. It is, perhaps, upon the
last of these points, even if apparently the least mo-
mentous, that the most serious apprehensions might

now with some reason be entertained. The Tories
have, for almost half a century, filled all the offices
under Government; so that amongst many mono-
polies from which the public interest has suffered,
by no means the least injurious has been the mono-
poly of official experience, tact, and readiness, by a
single party in the State, to the exclusion of a fair
share of it by any and every other : nor is the opera-
tion of such a circumstance upon the course of public
business under a Whig Administration confined to
the mere slowness or imperfection with which the
machine of State, through the rawness of its con-
ductors, moves on. Besides experience in the Whig
who supersedes the Tory subaltern, there may be,
front many years of close connexion with Tory
patrons, something not far short of treachery in
the Tory underling who, from generosity or in-
difference, is left in place, and trusted when he
ought in prudence to be superseded. This we
would recommend a newly-appointed Ministry to
consider. For working heads of departments we
feel a delicacy about prejudging any man. Lord
Althorp is, we believe, a man of steady industry,
as well as sound good sense. Lord Palmerston has
had long experience at the head of a difficult de-
partment, and if we may judge by his public speeches,
is a man of liberal politics with regard to foreign
nations. Lord Ooderich has had before now suf-
ficient acquaintance with colonial affairs to save him
the labour of elementary inquiry upon the subject,
and, though totally unfit to lead and govern, it would
be unfair to withhold from him the praise of industry
as well as good temper. Of Lord Melbourne, as
Home Secretary, little more need be said than that
as Secretary for Ireland he was not looked up to for
superior energy or efficiency, and yet his present
office requires indefatigable industry and vigour.
Mr, Charles Grant is accused of indolence: of want
of ability never. Of the remaining members, we
may just observe that Lord Grey and Mr. Brougham
are both known to the country more as opposition
leaders turn as practical statesmen, but that they
both acme into power at this moment, pledged in
the most solemn manner to their Sovereign and the
country, as advocates of the most unflinching re-
trenchment, and of a principal of reform adopted
without reference to its operation on political
friend or foe. The new Lord Chancellor stands
more peculiarly bound before the world, not only to
Parliamentary reform, but to execute on a broad
and mighty scale, a plan of reform in the jurispru-
dence of the empire, of which, when he shall have
overcome the difficulty, we shall be the first to
tvcribe to him the full and abundant honour. But

the first and lust subject of solicitude for the new
Ministers must be, that they accede to office by ca-
pitdation with the people—they. Mgt redren our
grievances, or be for ever ruined. The Administra-
tion, except in two or three and not important par-
ticulars, may be considered as completely formed.
The writs will be moved for this day, and the
liouse will adjourn (probably) for a week : the ad-
plummet cannot be very long, or money will be
wanted-for the exigencies of the Estate.