The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-18 00:00:00

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1830.

Up to the time of our going to Press, nothing IMO
definitively settled as to the formation of the new

Ministry.

The Secretary of the Admiralty (Mr. J. W
CROKER), and all the others holding office in that
department, this morning tendered their resignations.

The usual despatches from France and Holland
were received at the Foreign•oflice this morning.

Mr. BROUGHAM'S determination to take the sense
of the House against the postponement of the Elec.

tion Conunittees was most proper; and the feeling
on the subject was even more strongly expressed
than the division, which was nearly two to one in
his favour. The attempt to prolong the stay of per-
sons in the House, who may be illegally there, was
preposterous, though very natural on the part of
their friends. A vast number of petitions are pend-
ing. Perhaps since the reigns of the present Dynasty
commenced no Ministry ever interfered so unscru-
pulously in Elections as the last. From the mi-
nority of 204, in which the Government was on
Monday last, there may perhaps be deducted 15 or
20, who are illegal voters, whose returns were pro-
cured by influence and improper manoeuvres, and
whose continuance in Parliament cannot in all pro-
liability extend beyond the period of investigation.
The exertion of that unfair influence in Committees,
on which these worthies no doubt relied, will not
now laud them. We have our doubts whether an
action at law does not lie against persons voting
who are petitioned against.

Wj congratulate the country on the resignation
of the Whig ATTORNEY-GENERAL. It is n tri-
umph for the cause of freedom and civilization
that of itself demands the most universal
illumination ever known. The man who would have
extinguished the freedom of thiPress is gone for ever.
As a lawyer he may still display his retail tradesman-
like acquirements, still fill the bar with astonishment
and admiration at the variety and adroitness of his
smart subtleties, and his perfect mastery over all legal
technicalities; but as a public man, whose malignity
towards the rational freedom of thought and dis-
cussion is likely again to be formidable—he is gone
at once and for ever! The Whigs disown him—the
Tories distrust him—the Liberals execrate his very
name. On this one point all parties are alike unani-
mous.

We have just received a handbill, by which it ap-
pears that the inhabitant householders of St. Mary-
lebone intend to illuminate generally on Friday ever.
ing next, in order to celebrate " the recent triumph"
—so the placard terms it of public opinion over
despotism." It would not surprise us to find this tran-
quil and " enlightened" mode of rejoicing adopted
by every parish in the Metropolis, and even t he country
itself expressing its gratification through the same
legitimate medium. The extreme peril, indeed,
from which the country, and we will even add, the
Constitution, has just escaped, is such as cannot fail
to be matter of sincere rejoicing to all who wish well
to that country and that Constitution; and as a ge-
neral illumination is the most peaceful manner of ex•
pressing such satisfaction, wesee no earthly reason why
it should not be adopted. But one short week ago,
the moat threatening clouds hung over the political
horizon; the voice of the nation was to be regarded
as a thing of no account; its distress was to be
passed by as a matter of course ; reform was to
be banished from every Ministerial circle—all, in
short, was to be despotism on the part of the Go-
vernment, and blind unqualified submission on that
of the people. Such was the state of public affairs
but one short week ago. What is it now ? Sunny
and full of promise—t be raiebow hangs out in the poll.
tical sky—the clouds are clearing off—the country.
has a chance of regeneration. Under a fresh admi-
nistration, much of this promise can and will
no doubt be realized, for whoever may be the
successors of the late Ministry, it is plain that
they will come in pledged, body and soul, to support
reform--retrenchment--and a more equalized system
of taxation. And most assuredly these measures
will not be brought forward before their time, us our
readers will perceive on reference to another column,
where they will find the most recent and authentic
accounts of the alarming state of many parts of the
country.
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Brussels Papers► contain a letter from Da POTTER
to the Members of the Provisional Government, an-
nouncing the reasons for his re►►ignation, as also a
copy of the Protocol of the conference held at the
Foreign-office, London, on the subject of the affairs
►►f I3elgiu►n, for which we refer our readers to the
following extracts :

IikUSSELIi, Nov. 15.
" PROTOCOL OF THE CONFERENCE HELD AT
THE FOREIGN-OFFICE, LONDON, Nov. 4., 1830.
" Present—The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France
Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia. ,
" His Majesty the King of the Netherlands having in-
vited the Courts of Austria, France, Great Britain,
prussic, and Russia, as parties to the Treaties of Psris and
vienna, which constituted the kingdom of the Nether-
lands, to deliberate in council with him on the best means
of putting an end to the troubles which have broken out
in his dominions, and the Courts above.-mentioned having
itteven before they received this invitation, a desire to
i; with the least possible delay the disorder and effusion
of blood, have, through their Ambassadors and Ministers
soat the Court of London, agreed on the following r
e
-
luins
t 4 1. According to IFection G of their Protocol of