The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-17 00:00:00

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, MO,

In our Paper of yesterday we announced to
our readers that Ministers had at length per-
formed that act of justice which they owed
to their Royal Master and their indig-
nant country—an act which we were the
first to state last week they had done,
or were about to do. Notwithstanding the
interested contradictions multiplied against us
by mock-officials, our announcement has proved
correct.

All the Members of the late Cabinet me

this morning at the house of Sir ROBERT
PEEL, and continued in deliberation until two
o'clock, when they proceeded to St. James's
Palace to attend his MAJESTY'S Levee. In

ie evening they dine together at Lord ELLEN

BOROUGII'B.

We believe there is nothing definitively settled
as to the New Administration. Lord GREY
was sent for yesterday by his MAJESTY, but
we are informed that his Lordship declined
the honour ofl•'ered him by the KING of form-
ing a new Ministry, and advised his MA-
JESTY to send for Earl SPENCER. At the
same time he declared, that if a Cabinet acting
upon liberal principles was selected, it should
have his most cordial support. It is stated
most confidently that Lord PALMERSTON will
be:Secretary at War, with a seat in the Cabinet,
and that the Right lion. CHA !ILES GRANT
will fill the office of Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, or President of the Board of Trade.

We give the following as the rumours of the

morning :

Sir ANTHONY HART to be appointed Lord
Chancellor. It is said that Sir ANTHONY is

the least objectionable personage to all parties ;
and that Lord PL UN KETT is to be Lord
Chancellor of Ireland.

We have heard many other rumours, but we
consider them too vague to notice.

In the House of Lords last night, after the
Duke of WELLINGTON, with a readiness which
cannot be too highly appreciated, had formally
announcod his resignation, Lord BATritußsT,
in reply to a question asked by Earl Gnos.
VENOR, respecting the filling up of the office of
Clerk of the Council, vacant by the death of
Mi. BULLER, observed, with infinite prompti,
tulle, " that the office had certainly become va-
cant, and was now filled up again." The
English of this is, that tl:e Noble Earl has
appointed his own son to the office in ques-
tion, before the dead man was yet cold !
In the strongest terms of which the language is
capable, we protest against this grasping, in-
decorous, and unnatural haste on the part of an
Ultra-Tory Aristocrat, who, already gorged with
public money, yet hungers like a miser for more,
and actually appoints one of his own family to
a .sinecure ere yet the Home Secretary knew
that it was vacant ! Is it possible to feel
regret for the downfall of a system which
pampers to the ravenous cupidity of men like
this---•.men who feed on the public industry, like
locusts on a field of corn, careless of the mis-
chief their vulgar avarice spreads throughout the
country ? The very brutes of the forest know
when they have had enough, and discontinue
their repast when the wants of nature are ap-
peased ; but the public sinecurist is an animal
never to be satisfied—his passion for price and
profit is a thirst that not even repletion itself can
assuage. He may burst, but he will never
cry, " Hold, enough !"

Since writing the above, we have received the

I-allowing :
CLERK WITH COUNCIL

Lord BAnwnsT on Monday morning
waited upon the KING and informed his MA-
JESTY of the death of Mr. BuLt,tem, Chief Clerk
to the Privy Council, and at the same time soli-