The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-25 00:00:00

THE ELMINISTERS.

SPIRIT n( the PRO VINCIAZ JO URNAtt,;,
(From the irrlglittni Guardian.)
The arrangements were all completed on Friday.evening;
as Mr. Canning and the Duke of 'Wellington required, in the
one case three weeks, and in the other nearly a month, to cote'
struct their Cabinets, the facility with which the arrangements
have been made argues a great willingness in the Whigs to take
office. We cannot fancy this bodes Much good to the countrs ;
for haste in seizing power in these perilous times is rather the
sign of rash and unreflecting ambition than. of sedate and con:
siderato wisdom 'which is so.needed to guide the vessel of State
safely through the storms that are threatening on all sides. Ao
we are disposed to recommend, whoever. may be in office, that
the people be mistrustful of Ministers and vigilant for them.
selves, we shall look at the conduct of the late and the eninp e.
aition of the new Ministry, more in relation to ;circumstance.
than to men. The first thing which strikes us is that the rests.
nation of the Duke of Wellington is a subject of triumph to the
people and a proud homage to the principles of Reform. Not,
that we cherish any feelings of hostility to him,—not that we
are blind to the great services rendered by, his administration;-.
but we are glad to see that no services,—that no merits can
uphold a ISlinistry which will not go cordially and cheerfully
and fully along with the stream of general improvement. Far
behind that, as the late declaration of the Duke of Wellingtoo
against Reform proved him to be;—ignorant, as the conduct of
the Ministers on the subject of the Civil List demonstrated them
to he of the feelings and dispositions of the people, we never can
forget that the Duke of Wellington and his Ministry sailed
along with the stream of public epinion more rapidly than any
previous Ministry we recollect. The ripe& of the nit and Cor-
poration Acts,—the Emancipation of the Catholics the Im-
provements in the Criminal .Code,—the Abolition of the Beer
Monopoly, with the Abolition of ie Beer and Leather Taxes,
which have been effitcted during the Duke of %Wellington's adml.
nistration, slime the extent mai rapidity with which he has pro.
ceeded. But society has proceeded still further m.d faster ; and
the Duke was obliged to give up power, because, still cherishing
antiquated doctrines, he was not disposed to go the whole length
with it. He resisted Parliamentary Reform ---he resisted a-
searching economy in the expenditure ; and imperfect as our
system of representation is, the voice of the public, tong and
loudly lifted up, had sufficient influence' in the House of Com-
mons to prove tp the Duke that no man can now govern this
country who is opposed to retrenchment and reform. 11)4 deci-
sion is very memorable ; because the administration of the Duke
of Wellington was as posverftsi as any unpopular administration
can possibly be. It was supported by all the eclat of Isis victories
and by all the strength of his persontil charm ter. The King
willingly gave it all the assistance in hfa power. The Court perty
was cordially united to it. No buck-stair intrigues teaselled its
influence; no favourite thwarted its clews. His subaltern agorae
in the House of Commons were incapable men; but the Duke
might have obtained more efficient coadjutors, had he been a
shade more liberal and a shade M Mae confident in his own all.
sufficing wisdom. He proved the vast extent of his individual
influence by carrying Catholic emancipation, in spite of the
Church and its buttresites —by carrying, In spite °Ellis inefficient
assistant (Mr. ooulburn) and the country gentlemen, the Bill
which transferred, from the unpaid to the Excise, the licensing
of all house* and abolishing the monopoly of the brewer,—and
in retaining, in spite of the declared voice of the people, Gut
punishment of death for forgery. We say, then, that it must be
a great consolation to the people of this country, and a great en-
couragement for them to proceed in obtaining Reform, when
they find so powerful a Minister,—a Minister, too, who had gone
Rather with them than any of his predecessors, obliged to re-
sign, because he would not go at once with them to the full ex.
tent of their design. More may be learnt from this change than
is at first apparent. We mentioned last week that the Sovereign
of this country is a mere pageant used by the aristocracy tor
their own purposes, acting under advisers responsible only to
them, and that his splendour Is maintained only to suit their Fur.
poses. He wished very much, according to report, to go to the
Corporation Feast; but his Ministers, because they were un. o.
pular, denied him the gratification, and he was obliged to ab-
stain. As the Times said, the Duke of Wellington" would not
let the King go." In fact, it Is quite plait!, as the Ministers are
responsible to the Parliament only fur the advice they give,
and as the Lords and Commons together only constitute the en•
gine of the aristocracy, that the Sovereign of this country is
nothing and cats be nothing but a State pageant for the behoof
of the aristocracy. Our history within a few years has at'.
tbrded some remarkable illustrations of this truth At'
two periods in the reign of George the Third,—in li
and in 1810,—the Ministers, for a considerable time,
tensed altogether with the Royal authority. For several
weeks, aud even months, the mind of George 111. VMS vacant
darkness ; and yet the Government was carried on without a
ltegency. No longer ago than last session, one of the grounds
on which the Ministers resisted the motion for their considering
the question of a Regency, was tint If the demise of the Crown
should take place before the Parliament tnet, the Ministers
could tinder their responsibility, peril:inn all the functions of
Royalty. Thus the people—the reformers and economists—ln
overcoming the Duke of Wellington's Ministry, have overcome
the aristocracy.-the rulers of the State—and have flumished
plain and palpable evidence of the complete sovereignty of the
people, evert with their present defective representation. 'Dud
is now, as the French said of the Charter, become a reality, and
this one victory will be a stinging reproach to the nation when-
ever it falls to obtain any species of reform or any modification of
the Government which lost appears both just and expedient.—
From this demonstrated sovereignty of the people, it is also evi-
dent that the new Ministers can only succeed in governing the
country by consulting the inclinations ut the people, and attend-
ing to public opinion. Amongst theta there is no individual
ermal in reputation and influence to the Duke of Wellington...
All their power, as a body,, is. derived from pledgee they have
given on time subject of economy and reform, and ftoni their
opinions being more in accordance, it is supposeo, with those of
the people than those of the Duke of Wellington were. We
must, however, remind our reader. that the pledges of an Opp°.
adieu were never yet redeemed by a',llicalstry. According to
our view of the power of the. Sovereign, and the uses of the Civil
List, the victory we have just obtainea was not over the: King,
abluotnolvewrittihi eutriantoccornagm.
intriengthe present Ministers likely to go
that victory ? We are' atraid
not. What Influence late events may have had of the mind of
Earl Grey, we know not; but we do know that two years have
not yet elapsed since this nobleman declared that lie was ready to
combat for the defence of his " Order," and of all those privi-
legeo—from the lieretlitar right to mike laws to the exem. thin
of paying postage—of which the people universally complain.—
We hardly know whist interpretation to put on, Mr. Brougham's
language; because he is a lawyer and uses' words rather as
counters to reckon by, than as sterling coils : but his declaration
three weeks ago—. that he was ready to perish for the Arleta..
cracy," does not recommend him to us as a tit instnnnent fur
constimmai ing the victory of the ',wade over that great body Of
extortioners. The Lambtons, Melbournes, Paimerstons, and
Itichmentis, have in their names' no charms for we They are
members—high and proud members...of that aristocracy which
the Duke of Wellington trampled on. It Is possible that they
may be prudent, (mowing men, who have become aware, tYota
the gradual decay of their order in times past and in ail count
tries, that it is doomed, inevitably deemed to annihilation i and
it is possible that they may therefore be disposed quietly to pro-
mote its gradual extinction, instead of hastening, by resistant.*
its violent and destructive dissolution. This may be possible ;•
but the high aristocratic manners, and the stern, unbending cha.
rector of this new tahninistratinit give us no well.grounded
reason to ferns any such hem Nevertheless, we are persuaded
that the great problem whirls any .and every Ministry of the
country will have to solve, is how to reconcile the aristocracy to
the gradual and safe subversion Of its privileges and powers..
Times privileges and that power are in hostility to that love.
reignty of the people, which, though it has long been a dogma
in Whig doctrines, his never beets a feature in Whig practices
but which must now Ise consulted by whoever would stand at
the helm of ettldrs. Will those Whig Lords and high Tory
Lords reform the tornwralities of the Church t• will they give
up this means of providing for their ohildreres tutors and their
younger sons? ``VIII they curtail our protium Colonial expentils
tore?- Not if they can help it; for that would starve a few ges
Iterations of Lord &twin& and LorcijOlMS. Will they cut down
the salaries of Ambassadors and of the Great Officers of the
State? Will they cut down the Civil List to 11 standard comas.
Mensurete with the povesty cif the people? Yes, if they are
compelled, If the !maple, whose power is now manifest, declare
that it shall be so, the proudest of the proud Will gladly be the
instrumento, however much he may boast of not Wing isstlmi.
dated,—of paring down the Church,—of curtailing the Colonial
expenditure,... of limiting the salaries of A mbassadors and Consuls,
If they he only allowed to enjoy and administer the paltry sums
the people may think their cervices worth. We have great con.
fidence nature,.-.we have none In public inert ; ,aid
therefore we mob), in emu:l4olou, bitter readers rood cheer on
our vb tory, and let that encositege them to trust in thetnselveas
and not in their rulers,

(FrOm the Liverpool Albion.)
Who could have anticipated, that the 1/ul“i of Wellingtons
administration would be shivered to atoms by the very first sinsi..k
it might receive in the Nouse of Commons i 'the rickety state
of his tlriteos Millet was obvious to all eyes ; nobody ever him.
glued that it would so soon fail to pieces, The general belief
was, that the Premier, aware of the fnsecnre tenure by' which he
held power, and of the formidable nature of the phahmx which
would be opposed to him, would endeavour to strengthen his pc„
sition, by bringing forward measures which would silence the
clamours of faction, command the approbation of the country,
said'sati..fw the just claims and the reasonable expectations of all
classes. But, with a fatuity which is perfectly unaccountable, aced
a disregard of the feelings cf thp nation which argued the moat
culpable degree of ignorance in statesmen who ought to have
known the state of opinion throughout the country, the
very tirst financial measure which Ministers brought under the
consideration of Parliament was funned on a scale se extravagant
and eirinciple so obnoxious that the HOW of Commons, in
the (1,1141' 'eet of the pledges which the members, elected by po.
polar soft age, had 'morally given to their constituents, re.
aisted the attempt which Ministers most unblushingly made to
saddle the country, without allowing it even the fortnglity or lin
examination of the iterns, with the burden of all enormous civil,
list, The majority, whilst they were ready to bestowon the Alsip
navel} the tun& necessary for maintaining the dignity and the'
sproldour of the Crown, were not willing to place the sum of half
a million lictyinici lhp control of Parliament during the remaliuler
of his Majesty 'a reign. idinjyters refused to agree to this propo.
sltion : they wished to confines to royitlfy the public on the
subject on the Civil List, and to draw Oil the riovereign the
odium of absorbing annually nearly a Million of the piiblie money
for his own personal use. The decision of the House being Ili
homy of retbrring the subject to a select committee for the pur.
masse Or sekeretleg the diffb.ront items heretofore included in the
Ltit, phy IFiec weMnston and his colleague:{ tendered,
on .runi4l,), inerareg; the reovition of- their settees, which the
King was pleased to accept, the Panfeiikftp ram of the
dissolution of the Wellington At mintratiOb, hayi:lg existisl
within a few months of three Mira, was the dividoo tin the ova
List. But the weds of its dissolutlim were town during the last
I_ersion of the last Parliament, The utter Inability of the Duke et
weiffpio4; and his colleagues to manage the affairs of a great
treding,eoMfbereisti,,ztel manul`aeturing country like England was
then moat palpably displayed, kit men at that time saw, that,
r 4441 4r -Cqlga of foreign and
tiutsitaleingrieliamt
4teliief
ldue°l:l:4l7,l gti4tlibsll(t°lclUrtAceusYo' f:ullirek inlaogv adopten; troteec4riht m,
he: envnedr cnot
aglow skit party which, on - the assembling of the new Perna.
Merit, Witll4C4T;7Ol " Ministry.. Yet the Nuke,
who to" Ay& err!? • tho position in which he stood towards
the country,' lied the 40010Yitiqti iriVl Parliament without hay.
ing matured tiny pito of totreiteninialr ; eye% the rash.
nest to declare, for the purpose, doubt lea, dr etitielativfikm
ranks the old tories, who had deserted limn theirs In T.OO dame
uf the " breaking in on the Constitution,."' that no agent
sham ike people have, so long as Ise renuilned at the heed of
the Clover nit From the moment he uttered that bold but
indiscreet declaration., id: c-le, as a littilirptiirsitseraga:usbiasciatliesdr.lotlihne.
conduct
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of t
oporuti.
rg ow a
uiripar
proud and IMperious, had evidesitly " increased his natural arro.
wipe led had proinpted him to extend its sphere beyond the
own} .iroo, ig pinch he' moved. In this state of mind, he
dared to treat M51011447' 141141 !Anaemia, by telling them that
they were idly clanum 11# attprwvlnente in a Constitution
which he deemed ports:44M Pile,' Ili
PP,t)rlimei4 Is the
oligarchy had blinded his eyes to the growinave 140 eltd Mita.
Bence or the people ; ansadArthur, Duke or N. tingtfieolntit he
remeined ashen time longer in office, without kereneg&-104,
the aerniop,ying tone which of late lie had assumed, would just
have been." rd" of all others best qualithd to inoveke a spirit
of reilstance,, whibtii` *out, in all probability, have sehveri,,d
o the order' to which h belongs, 414 have endangered the
stability of the Throne Itself. The fail or tim Ad-
mink-WIWI IN a ITIONt signal pronto( the iiresiStible liercisofpnblic
opli)Nuilui4er the madness of Statesmen in attv.m ng to resist the
march ur 1441041 inniroveraellt. No matter how splendid the
civil
or the military fitiffel, gift Ipdiviiitial who may chance to
stand at the bead of the lroverallitqine do not run with • the ;
age and act up to its spirit, his down ran tot, The fluke
of Welllngtour in consenting to the mescal theverpeeation And
Test Acts, and in currying the great mount° of Roman Catholic
ernencipation, gave tile world reason to hoop, that tohtd
was forcibly Impressed with this grit
truth and that all the
ineastirea or his GagglTTlwat would Oa in accuircianee with tl}e
temper of Shp tinlo.4 and :i tic the wishes of the imilne'

Men could not bring their minds to believe, that be who had re-
moved the brand of religious, would refuse to remove that of
exclusion also. At a moment when the cry for refer
,111415 universal, arid when the influential and educated class,
tieeredeteriniiiesi toeliforeethegreat principled making represen-
tation coextensive with taxation, nobody suspected, that his
Grace would not merely disappoint the hopes of the country, but
insolently dare to tell the inople, that their demands were.
Unreasonable, and that they should only enjoy the rights of soe
(rage and of representation so far as those rights were compatible
with the preservation of the unconstitutional power which apt
all-grasping oligarchy has wrung from the Commons of England.
This was a degree of insanity for which mankind were not pre.
pared. They were not prepared to see the Duke of Welling.
tote, in flirtherance of his design to repress the spirit of reform,
or, rather, of political improvement, committing the existence
of the aristocracy in a struggle with the middle classes of society.
They were not prepared to find him courting the Newcastles,
the Exeter., and the borouglimongers generally, and spurning
the people, without whose support no Premier, whatever May Le
his Ministerial connection; can, in the present day, sustain him.
self, for any length of time, in office. But his (;race has been
guilty of all these unaccountable mistakes ; he has verified the
truth of his own judgment of himself, that 'tined" indeed should
he be to undertake the office of Prime Minister." Public opinion
has, therefore, passed sentence on him, and driven him from his
post as ignominiously as he drove Napoleon from Waterloo.
(From the Exeter "(/'eed.) •
We cannot but reflect with deep concern on the effects likely
to result to this kingdom from the frequent changes of Ministry
that have oceured within the last few years, or since the death
of the Earl of Liverpool. Whatever might have been the mis-
deals of of the Tory Administration, as charged against them by
the opponents of their policy and their measures, it Is clear that
they had more 41rni)y the reins of Government than any that
have followed, notwithstanding she confidence with which the
abettors of the defunct Cabinet have expressed themselves with
;expect to the strength and stability of the latter. On the sub-
ject of the Civil List, which has so universally, in times past,
been carried by overpowering majorities, under all circumstances,
the triumph last Tuesday was unquestionably great, receives!
with acclieriw ion in the House, and by a large portion of the
British nation will, at this moment, be looked upon as a signal
victory on the part of the opposition. It was, indeed, a defeat of
no common or unimportant character, if we reflect that the ob:
Ject to be attained is that of bringing the expenditure of, the
State within the circle of its means; yet, when we see that the
Cabinet which came after those so remarkable for their aelf.act-
ing principles, forget the professions they bad previously made,
and most strenuously attach themselves to the overbearing, all
persuasive impulses of Nature's " first law," we are alinest in-
clined to say that we would rather bear Oar, ills we have than
fly to others that we know not of." Of one thing we are sure—
that a Ministry going out of office entails on us a charge of many
thousands annually, which, unless the strict economy of their
successors provide a remedy, must be productive of evil instead
'of good. That the Duke of Wellington and Sir 'Robert ~Peel,
these two essential organs of the Government, do not possess the
popularity which every fiend to the peace and welfare of the
community would be glad to seeat the command of individuals
in their exalted stations, has been amply demonstrates' by events
that have recently transpired ; and it will therefore give a mo.
mentary, if not a permanent, satisfaction to the mob," as Mr.
Peel would term them, although they might nut have the fore.
sight or disposition to calculate on any thing beyond the mere
gratification of political animosity. After what has transpired
since the Duke of Wellington has put his sword into the scab-
bard, for the purpose of becoming the leading member of the
Senate, his Grace his shown increasing symptoms of towering
ambition, such' as a free people cannot applaud or sous.
tenance. To prove the true spirit by which the Noble
Premier Was actuated in his legislative capacity, we need
only refer to his Grace's speech in time House of Lords on the
opening of the Sessions : Ido say that this country has now
a Legislature snore calculated to answer all the purposes of a
``sod Legislature than any other Mat can well be devised—that
ft possesses, and deservedly possesses, the confidence of the country.
And I will say further, that if I had to form a Legislatute, I
would create ono—not equal in excellence to time present, for that
I could not expect to be able to do,' but something as nearly of
the same description as potsible. I should form it of men pos-
sessed of a very large proportion of time property of the country,
in which the landholders should have a great preponderance.
I therefore ant idol prepared with any measure of Parliamen.
tary Reform, nor shall any thing of the kind be proposed by
the Government as long as I hold my present position."
After this, what shall we say of tho great revolution that has
taken place within the last few days I—not altogether unex-
pected, because it had been said by some and that in very plain
ternms, "the Duke must go out." It' the late Ministry, agree.
ably with the words of his Grace, were "calculated to answer
all time purposes of a good Legislature," and " deservedly pox.
sessed the confidence of the country," we are bound to lament
the loss we have sustained in their resignation as irreparable;'
and have, therefore, in justice to them, and injustice to our.
selves, as a nation under their controul, to take a calm and im-
partial retrospect of the good they have effected during their lid-
ininistratiou, They have emancipated the Catholics, it is true,
by way of clothing, feeding, and, giving tranquillity, to Ireland,
which Mr. O'Connell told them and his countrymen would be
the ease; but the Irish are still as naked, starving, and discon-
tented as betbre..they have reducer' a great many low salaries,
In order to produce a saving to the Government; but left un-
touched the large incomes of the ride; and continue those taxes
which press severely on the industry of time middling classes—
they have caused weeks to be wasted in discussion& on our
criminal code, chiefly with regard to time punishment of death for
forgery ; amid, at the conclusion of their lalsours, left the law In
nearly Its original state —they have, as a matter of extraordinary
financial policy, gjven assent to a Beer Bill, the consequences of
which will never be beneficial to the revenue or time public. "We
might trace a few more of the measures that were adopted by the
last Perliament through the instrumentality of the Duke of
Wellington; Sir R. Peel, Mr. Gommlburn, '&c. &c. if we ape.
!mended those would not suffice. That memorable passage of his
Grace's speech which we have quoted above not merely leads to
these and similar inquiries, but will operate as a watch.word on
the conduct: of future Adininistrations ; for, being told by the
Noble Duke that he could not expect to create one " equal in
excellence" to that over which he presided, the people are taught
to scrutinise the actions of those that may come after, by way of
forming the comnparison which his Grace SO beklly and unequivo.
catty challenges. Time nest point is, the class of persons he
would select to flave the preponderance in the Cabinet, which
he says shomild be
." landholders," frem "men possessed of a
very large proportion of the property of the country"--men who,
if the senteece Ise faithfully interprettxl, would always strive' to
keep "a very large psops rtion" of the country's wealth in their
awnregardless of the pecuniary difficulties it might
create among the agricultural, manufacturing, and labouring
lipoulation of the kingdom. 'flee hardy assertion of his Grace
on the subject of Parlinmentary Reform is, In the present situa-
tion of attain, well dvaerving consideration.-he not only tells the
House, us a calculating, if not a modest, Premier would have
done, that he was 4, not prepared with any measure" orthe kind
at present; but goes so far as to say that no such measure should
be proposed whik he held the reig,ns of Government. So direct
and uncompromising an affirmation never proceeded from the
lips of a Judicious Minister of the Crown, and at a time, too,
when revolution, are surrounding US—when the seeds of discord,
long sown, are springing up in all directions ; and when public
sentiment had already began to display itself in petitions owe
question so intimately connected with our interests. Mr.
Brougham, one of the most profound and liberal legislators that
England could ever boast, admit' aid advocates time necessity of
reform, as a ',fnot which he thinks involves our universal pri.
vileges r but the Duke of Wellington, though a warrior, never
WAS or will be remarkable AS a senator, or desirous to secure the
liberty of the subject by time exercise ofjudgment and moderation.
Earl Grey, we trust, will restore that " confidence" on which his
Orates laid so much streas aud endeavour to melte time Ministry
under him as " deservealy" popular 2123 a faithful, loyal, and
patristic people are desirous that they should be.

(From the Newark Times.)
" Reform, retrenchment, pace." A Ministerial system
Summed up in three words; and impressed with the fiat of sove-
reignty—A, done." At last we have got rid of his Highness, who,
consequence ofyhat occurred in the House of Commons,
felt it his duty to wait upon his Majesty, and tender his resig-
nation of the offiest which he had the honour to hold, when his
Majesty sign Vied his pleasure to accept of that resignation." We
need not say, we largely participate in that pleasure, and most
heartily congratulate our readers, that the overweening into.
lence and inordinate self importance of his Highness has under-
gone its death.blow ; and that we arc fairly rid of him mid his
despotic system. With hiM, also, we have got rid of all the
Parasites—all the household—all the underlings. With one fell
swoop they are wiped oft: The alterati :a is entire: not one is
lett ; not even a Croker to croak over the fallen greatness of de-
parted gramieur. Surely, this will teach one lesson that mill-
tary renown and civil Government are incompatible, The Duke
of Wellington, this hero of Waterloo, frightened by as Alder-
niane4ecelred by an ass. Purely Ministerial is the ariangentent
or the Civil List; no constitutional question is involved in it; it
is always the concern of the Minister lb; the time being. by it
the Duke fell, and Inglorious was his, fall. Retributive justice
marked the event. We have often been asked, why we disliked
the Duke as a Minister l We answer,* because he possessed so
single quality for being Whilsier V a free people. We dislike
the Duke because, in the thee of the whole enuotry, vaoressed by
waggon loads of iwtitions which made the table of the ,louse'
glum, he refused to inquire into the distress oi the country ; be. i
cause he upheld so inefficient, so base a Ministry; because he
ceciaredidiaself tffe unflinching enemy of reform when its ne-
cessity is superevident ; because he let loose Scarlett upon the
l'ress, and thrust l'hillpotts upon the bench,

(From the Greenock Advertiser.)
Intelligence of the overturn of the late Ministry appears
to have given general satisfactim throughout the West of Scot.
and On the news reaching Greenock on Thursday night, it
was 11484 with every mark of rep:Acing by all classes, and yes.
tertlay morning hantl,bills were posted through the streets, call.
ing on the inhabitants to express their joy at the event by a
general illumination in the evening.. The Magistrates, -how-
ever, issued a proclamation in the course of the day, hoping that
as Go. measure might have it tendency to lead to disturbances,
the olhoisants wooed .see the propriety of rehraining Atm any
Illemillation. In consequence of this eitproadon of opinion from
the MagiAtt'avy, though there Was evidently a strong wish on the
part of the inhabitants -to illuminate, only a very few put candles
in their windows in the evening. We understand that it Is in.
tended shortly to have a piddle meeting in (1, eenock on ReftWill,
11,ttun the flail Packet.)'

to
that the BVellington /Win nistration at an cud. The r«we haveannotthoe in our present publfeation the important
fact,
tirtinent was not altogether unexpected by the country, and not
altogether unhoped for. It is not to be denied, by the most
zealous friends of the hue arrangement, (if any such there bej
that the uncalled for and sweeping declaration of the Duke in
regard to Reform, coupled with the apparent want of nerve be.
trayed on the occasion of the King's visit to the city, and other
mitten, !qui excited a strong feeling against the late Cabinet,
whose pentaaritY, Awing to the depressed state of- the country,
was :tiredly -ter teign Inc Wane, rile defeat of Ministers was
eennected with' the subject of retrenchtnent—a feet that we hope
their successors will bear in mind—for most eartein we are, that
whatever may be their principles, whether Whig or Tory, it will
I.)e vain- for them to expect permanency to their offices, or pros.
of th eir y.to
ac thets.ir
It councils, unless economy be the moving principle
is dated that they are to COITIC► pi 44 to three
object*, " retrenchment, reform. and peace." Wee; hope that
this is correct, and heartily wl5ll them success in their endeitvours
(From the „Dumfries Coarier.)
Important events have occurred since our last, though we can.
not say wa wereldtogether taken by surprise -On the contrary,
from tbe moment the Premier put forth- afeekr in the King's
loontent he talked. . lightly; ol' the:distresses of
the !wale, ht)' IntelY. let his' race Intitinst the idea of evert
the ep ttiq time inni vforit Ina certain
bigh.pressure to Winne, IvniCh,ll. 110 speet ily furnished
with-a safety valve, may explode, to the injury of a 1 add sundry
.foul that very moment we foresaw, in common with the ma.
jori that the days at the Wellington
aa
The declaration against every species
t,
„ reform, pronounced in terms the most unbending and un.
compromising, astonished and grieved *very thinking coati in
were
the country, not even excepting the Duke's colleagues in the
lower House. Itt 'fad, while thousands on theme: Ma of our
coontryinen had been watching, not with uneasiness, the signs
r Vi no!
re
deiec° numbered.
.of the times—while the sympathetic swell which follows every
()Utica' stortn,. had been lett undulating very near our own
P • , t woe das If the elver, With all his acknowkilgeti
...wily arid tAfent, had b&trasleep ezr In- a trance while, others
were nut it is needless to atketilafe aboitt these things
A new Ministry has been formed, or is in the
very itt
of
46,4 completed, with perhaps the first statesman in Europe at
it. bead _mettle perhaps front his lengthened span in physical
a„binty, endowed with all the gifts that belong to judgment, eon,
prehension, knowledge, and wisdom. But a mere cliai:ge of
men is a trine in our 441$patioli, and we would fain hope that
public opiniou bat become more potent than the wand of the en.
t banter, and reeling tie that eireutristanee alone, we would fur.
titer trust that stunkthiao iikda rely era is about to arise oti the
destiplcs of Britain: One thing 'the whole countsy reinice
and that hrititi) •.,'t.l). t
u.
tionoi acid moderato reformer. In owe list oliniste` 0 havc
adhered to the version of the Morning Chr,
-W •
oto a jounittot fearless and uttshrhtking howdy, conducted by a Seot
man o' great erudition anti vitt vnant