The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-13 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL CHANGES.

(From the Observer.)
Events of great importance have occurred within the
past week. On Tuesday morning the unhallowed
shouts which arose from the Conservative Benches
in the House of Commons proclaimed to the most hum-
ble class of her Majesty's subjects, the emancipated ne-
groes, mere children of freedom, that they and their new-
born liberties had been sacrificed at the unholy shrine
of Faction. Having achieved this victory, by means the
most factious and dishonourable, the next step was to as-
sail the Sovereign herself : so comprehensive is thcgrasp
of Conservative tyranny that it can embrace both ex-
tremes: the SLAVE and the SOVEREIGN are with the Tories
what logicians call " convertible terms." The momentary
success of the factious mancenvre of Sir Robert Peel
led to the resignation of the Reform Ministry.
That resignation was tendered to her Majesty on Tues-
day afternoon, and was most graciously accepted. The
Tories do not conceal the fact, that in her Majesty's
interview with Sir Robert Peel she expressed her sin-
cere regret that political necessities should compel her
to have recourse to him. We may therefore safely say,
that it was with sorrow that her Majesty received the
resignation of the Reform Statesmen. But to return to
the narrative. On receiving the resignation of Lord
Melbourne and his colleagues, is it quite true that his
Lordship advised her Majesty to send for the Duke of
Wellington ? His Grace waited upon the Queen
next morning, and, declining the task of undertaking to
form an Administration, advised her Majesty to have re-
course to Sir Robert Peel. Sir Robert Peel was accord-
ingly sent for, and he undertook that task. On Thursday
Sir Robert Peel went to the Palace with his scheme of an
Administration, and then, for the first time, as is known
to all well-informed persons, the Tory leader announced
to his Sovereign, that, in order to assure the public
that her new advisers possessed her unlimited confidence,
it would be necessary that he should make a " demon-
stration" to that effect. " I must have the power—(we
give the most modified version—that of the Tories them-
selves)—l must have the power to regulate your Ma-
jesty's household ; I must have the power to remove such
members of the household as I think fit." The princi-
ple thus insisted upon was so unprecedented, so odious,
so degrading to the Sovereign, that when Sir Robert
Peel demanded the power of removing such of her female
attendants as to him might seem fit, the answer of the
Queen was, " No, not one of them." The Tory leader,
1 thus confounded, asked leave to consult the Duke of
Wellington ; and, if we mistake not, the Queen expressed
again to them both her determination not to submit
to that thraldom which, whilst it enslaved the Sove-
reign, would go as far as the efforts of Toryism could
avail to degrade the Royal personage to an extent to
which no lady of rank in this country would submit.
Well, the joint-presence of the Duke of Wellington and
Sir Robert having failed, the Conservative Baronet ex-
pressed his desire to consult the leading members of his
party. He did so, and the result was, the declaration of
Sir Robert Peel to her Majesty, that, unless she would
concede to him the power of regulating her household,
he must decline the commission with which she had
honoured him. The Queen promised to send Sir Ro-
bert an answer that evening, or next morning. Every one
knows that she at once sent for Lord Melbourne,
in order that she might avail herself of his advice, Peel
having abandoned his post. Lord Melbourne called
together his colleagues at his private house. The re-
sult of their deliberations, as every one knows, was that
the Queen wrote a letter to Sir Robert Peel, declaring
her determination not to degrade herself by submit-
ting to what teas so utterly unusual, and what Sir Robert
Peel must himself know was an outrage to her pri-
vate feelings. Sir Robert Peel sent to her Majesty a
letter, a very long letter—the Tories are enamoured of
it ; they say that it is full eight pages long, and thence
they hater that there must be something very conclusive
in it. The result was that her Majesty again sent for
Lord Melbourne, and yesterday a Cabinet Council was
held at the Foreign Office. The Council met at twelve
o'clock, and did not break up until half-past four. One
of the results of their deliberation was, that Lord Mel-
bourne waited on her Majesty to assure her that the Re-
form Ministry would stand by her and her constitutional
efforts to preserve her personal dignity and her Royal
attributes from Tory encroachments. But the Tories
have their own story. They say, for instance, that
Sir Robert Peel, in insisting on the principle of de-
ciding
upon the female household appointments, did
not mean to enforce rigidly the power upon which he
insisted. Very fine, indeed, is this Tory nonsense I Sir
Robert Peel insisted on the power of removal : her Ma-
t jesty most frankly toll him that she would willingly con-
I cede to him every appointment in the household which
lrad a political character. We may mistake the words,
but the meaning, we believe, was, that her Majesty
would acquiesce in whatever the Constitution demanded
of her, and that she would offer no objection to the re-
moval of any member of her household who was in Par-
liament. but that she insisted on the principle of being
the sole judge of the fitness of her female companions, a
privilege which Sir Robert Peel himself would be slow
to deny to Lady Peel.
Well, such being the circumstances, it may not be
unprofitable to inquire into the motives of Sir Robert
Peel in pursuing his present unmanly and disloyal
course. The Times would iro:inuate that every lady who
was connected with any Statesman remarkable for con-
i •
statutienal politics, must be dismissed, and particularly
those who were in fivour o! impartial government in Ire-
land. The Standard has talked of the necessity of dig-
gracing those ladies,who, according to our Contemporary,
' were parties to the much-talked of affair about Lady
Flora Hastings. No as, as to Ireland, the Orange pro-
pensity is evident and notorious ; as to Lady Flora Hast-
ings, we have ever avoided any the most remote notice of
the subject ; but as it is now made a weapon of attack
upon the Queen's Court, we here undertake to challenge
the calumniators to bring their complaint if any they have,
forward boldly. Passing from that subject,' we ask Si;
Robert Peel what, in the name of loyalty and decency, he
means by causing to be inserted in one of his favoured
organs (the Morning Post) the following sentences. We
feel that we owe to 'Our female readers an apology for
the insertion of such matter, but we nevertheless insert
theta, and ask Sir Robert Peel to disavow the horrible
sentiments which are thus put ha one of his most courtly
organs. We quote the extracts, but want of space pre-
vents us from dwelling upon them to the extent they de-
serve. It will be seen from these extracts, that the organ
of Sir Robert Peel attributes to her Majesty a degree of
profligacy to which no lady should be subjected. The
following are extracts from the Morning Post :
" On this hint, duly communicated to them, the fe-
male tyrants of Buckingham Palace again seized hold of
the Royal victim, whom they had released for a moment
from their foul and poisonous grasp—got up, perhaps,
for the occasion, some new tale of lasciviousness and
slandentto hasten the process of corruption, and convince
the youthful Majesty of England to say, alas! she could
not live without them."

" Do Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell ima-
ine for a moment that the influence of Court ladies
who pollute the Royal ear and seek to ruin the mind
and morals of the Queen of England by mingled ob-
scenity and slander, however strenuously it may be ex-
erted in their support, will be sufficient to sustain them
in office, destitute as they have confessed themselves to
be of the confidence of either House of Parliament?"
la conclusion, we have only to express our earnest
hope that the House of Commons will rally around
their Sovereign and her constitutional advisers ; and
should the appeal to their patriotism fail, which we
cannot believe, confident are we that there is in their
constituency sufficient loyalty and manhood to uphold
our beloved Queen against all enemies.

When an outcry is raised about having the House-
hold of her Majesty in political accordance with the
Government, it may be as well to state that Lady Har-
riet Clive, Lady Forbes, Lady Gardner, the Hon.
Mrs. Campbell, Bedchamber women to the present
Queen, are Tories. So are Sir Henry Wheatley,
Privy Purse : Sir W. Houston, and Colonel Armstrong.
To the list of ladies may be added Lady Barham
(daughter of Lord Roden), and Lady Portman.

We understand that a strong difference ofopinion arose
between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Stanley as to
whether the Duke of Buckingham should belong to the
Cabinet—Sir Robert Peel urging that he should. This
wag one of the many difE:,.ulties which induced Sir
Robert Peel to seek for the pretext of abandoning his
futile attempt.

TIIS POOR EXCLUDED FROM ST. JAMES'S

PAEE..—( FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—The statement
made a day or two since by a Correspondent, in your jour-
, nal, is quite true. The gatekeepers will not let any person
' go into the pleasanter part of the park who is not well
dressed ; and such is the absurd importance attached to
dress that no person on a pony is permitted to pass along,
even the high-road in the park, unless he be very smartly
attired. The gate-keepers state they can let nobody pro.
ceed through this public thoroughfare but such as are " re-
spectable," the cut and quality of the coat being the
sole test of their respectability recognized by them;
so to qualify a man for the privilege of riding through
the park, he must have been under the hands
of a fashionable tailor ! Can any rule he more
absurd—any distinction more odious. I put it to you Mr.
Editor, whether such insulting tyranny as that pursued at
the park-gates is not calculated to countenance the opinion
that in England there is one law for the rich and another
for, the poor. " Free-born Englishmen !" Why the
slaves" of the continent would spurn such petty thraldom
;nay, lgiers itself has no pto it. To see the toil-
...rn.artiAzan or bumble tradesmenarallel treated with so much con-
Lmet3q—is it not enough to make the blood broil, the
rar,..umi_s_woe.llo,_t_lnd the uplifted hand strike down the liveried
icKICK
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otHR 'al oligarchs.
&c. 3 Lon
HORSE.-011
shocking 0e,,, A Friday morning a
Hicks, aged happened to a man, named James
sce.,
Lonn the employ of Mr. Sermons, veterinary
surgeon,
unfortunate man wgas. cane, Smithfield. It appears that the
spirited animal, wh„Znsloydedd in shoeing a horse, a high-
him on the left thigh, knonekeden: kicked out, and striking
trampled rn
Lnce, aid afterwards down with great via-
conveyed to St. uponßartholomew, Hospital Ile
pi t a: l was
i
imme-
diately
astat
of insensibility, where it was ascertained thatos his left thigh
was fracture d in two pl lees, besides which he had sustained
some severe internal injeries. He lies in a
deplorable
state.

CHARTERHOUSE-SQUARE

HOSPITAL.

On Friday the friends of this admirable institution, which
was founded for the cure of fistula and similar diseases,
celebrated the third anniversary at the Albion Tavern ; the
Righ Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. After the usual
toasts were drunk,
The LORD MAYOR rose to propose prosperity to the noble
charity which the distinguished persons around him had
assembled that day to commemorate. He wished that
some more able advocate had been placed in the chair ; but
he was convinced that no one could have been selected who
wished better, or looked with more sanguine hope to the
great object of the institution. He rejoiced to say, that
though only three years old, the charity was assum-
ing the vigour of manhood, and, in the midst of old
and long established institutions, it promised as firm and
triumphant a duration as any of them.—( Loud cheers.)
The spacious room in which they were assembled was
filled with its friends, who, he was convinced, would so
extend its reputation, that on the next commemoration
they would not be able to find a room large enough to con.
tain its ardent supporters. He had visited the Hospital
that day, and was delighted to see the proofs of the bene-
fits it was capable of conferring. The gratitude expressed
by the poor patients who were recovering from diseases the
most afflicting of all to which the human frame was subject
was quite overpowering, and he was satisfied, from all that
he had heard and observed, that although the institution
was in its infancy, it had saved many lives, and alleviated a
boundless stock of misery.—( Cheers. The nature of
the diseases was unhappily such that multitudes
pined in secret under their afflicting agony rather than
seek medical assistance, but the estabishment of the
Charterhouse-square Hospital was an invitation to certain
cure under circumstances calculated to dissipate all ob-
jection or embarrassment. The only thing to be lamented
was the state of the funds. The hospital was full. The
applicants for admission were numerous, and the Directors
had been obliged to sell out half the capital to supply the
pressing exigencies of the institution. He trusted that the
liberality of the public would place so noble a charity be-
yond the reach of accident, and that it would take a high
station amongst the philanthropic establishments of the
metropolis.--( Loud cheers.)
The toast was drunk with three times three.
Sir J. L. LLTIIIINGTON bore testimony to the great bless-
ings
which the Institution conferred upon the poor, and
particularly observed upon the advantages arising from an
exclusive attention to the particular diseases which were
treated with such marked skill in the Charterhouse-square
Hospital, and to which the Right Hon. Chairman had al-
luded so eloquently.—(Cheers.) He then proposed the
health of the Lord Mayor.
The toast was drunk amidst acclamations.
The LORD MAYOR, in returning thanks, again called the
attention of the company to the limited means of the Cha-
rity, and declared that it was impossible at present to sup-
ply accommodation to one-fourth of the applicants whose
cases absolutely required treatment within doors. He had
since his Mayoralty presided at a great number of cha-
rities, and he had been obliged to decline taking the chair
at others which well deserved support, but he considered
the claims of the Charterhouse-square Hospital so over-
powering, that he without hesitation consented to render
whatever service he could to an Institution founded upon
the great plan of curing a class of diseases comparatively
new to surgical science.—(Cheers.)
Mr. J. MASTRRMAN rose to propose the " Corporation of
London." Ho did not, he said, reside within the walls
of the city, nor had the honour of being a member of the
corporation, but he could bear testimony to the manner in
which they discharged the duties which devolved upon
them. Indeed, they discharged those duties in such a
manner, that he should sincerely regret any serious curtail-
ment of their rights and privileges.—( Cheers. ) In works
of charity they were truly distiuguisbed, and entitled to the
deep gratitude of the community. Upon the present oc-
casion he could not help connecting with the toast the
services of Mr. Deputy Conley and Mr. Heppell, who
recommended iii the Court of Common Council the grant
of money which was voted to the charity.—( Cheers.)
Deputy CoRNEt returned thanks. He felt highly gra-
tified at the honour just done to the corporation, which had
long felt the want of gentlemen of the standing and charac-
ter iu society possessed by the distinguished person who pro-
posed the toast. He considered it to be an honour to be-
long to the corporation, if it were only for the gratification
of administering part of the funds to objects of charity, and
he appealed to the Lord Mayor whether the vote of money
to the Charterhouse-square Hospital, recommended by
the committee, was not unanimously responded to.—
( Cheers.) He regretted that all the faculty did not unite
in supporting the institution. but he believed another year
would dissipate all the clouds which overhung its ad-
vancement, and that they would hail the sympathy of
the whole body of a profession always foremost in the
ranks of mind ;• of a fraternity to which from the earliest
period were conceded privileges of the highest order, and
characteristic of the most honourable distinction, for the
medical garb wass a passport amongst the ancients to their
most private ceremonies, and at the present day obtained
access for the wearer even to the most jealous apartment of
the eastern despot.—( Laughter and cheers.) He trusted
that the long-established hospitals of London would find
their equal in that which the company were assembled to
make more generally known and more extensively useful,
and he would take upon himself to say that the corporation
would, upon any future occasion, most willingly come
forward with aid if any future emergency should occur.
The LORD Meson then proposed the " Health of Alder-
man Copeland, and the past Presidents of the Institution."
The Alderman had, by his activity and perseverance and
liberality in promoting and aiding the charity, placed it
under infinite obligations to him.—( Cheers. )
Alderman COPELAND said it was a delightful reflection
to him to think that while he was Lord Mayor he was in•
strumental to the arrangement by which the chief magis-
trate became president of so admirable an institution. %Veen
he took the chair he was satisfied of' the nature of the insti-
tution, and his experience fully confirmed the exalted
opinion he at the commencement entertained of its utility
to the bitterly afflicted poor of the metropolis.—(Cheers. )
He had been waited upon by poor persons full of gratitude,
who expressed to him the deplorable condition from which
they had been perfectly released by the surgeon and
founder, his hon. and excellent friend, Mr. Salmon. Those
individuals had declared that they did not know until they
were admitted into the hospital what it was to lie down in
anything like case for years.—(Great cheering.) One of
his own servants could testify to the inconceivable personal
services rendered by the founder, who, satisfied of the ex-
treme necessity which existed for such an institution, de-
voted himself to promote its great object for the welfare of
his fello ov-creatures. —( Cheers.
The next toast was " The Vice Presidents of the Hos-
pital."
Sir F. OMMANNEY returned thanks, and mentioned that
amongst the individuals relieved was a man employed by
his son, who was connected with the mechanical opera-
tions of the Mint. He hoped from his heart that the bless-
ing of God would descend upon those who promoted and
supported so invaluable a charity.
Mr. POW NALL rose to propose the health of Mr. Salmon,
the surgeon and founder of the Institution, but for whom
the present distinguished company would not have been as-
sembled to celebrate the anniversary of that Institution,
and many a poor suffering fellow-creature would have had
no cause to return thanks for cure or mitigation of suffer-
in,. It had been said that he who caused a blade of grass
to grow where sterility existed had a claim to the cha-
racter of a benefactor. How much greater were the
claims of that individual who raised up by his skill,
talents, perseverance, and philanthropy, an institu-
tution fraught with so many blessings to his fellow-crea-
tures ?—( Cheers.) After several observations upon the
masterly exertions of the founder, Mr. Pownall said that
he had that day visited the asylum, where amongst a
number of other things the recollection of which gave him
much pleasure, was one to which he could not advert
without pain—the disproportion which the pecuniary con-
dition of the institution bore to the claims of the suffering
poor, and the anxious wishes of those who support it. He
had witnessed the grateful effusions of the patients who
crowded the hospital. One man said to him upon being
asked how he felt himself---" Oh ! Sir, I have been for 12
years a wretched sufferer ; I have been dropping in misery
into the grave. as I thought; but since I came here I have
been made almost a new man."—( Cheering.) Another
who had been eight years suffering under the dreadful in-
fluence of disease seemed to be bursting with anxiety to make
kuown the miraculous change in his bodily condition ;
and, in fact, a scene more grateful to the benevolent mind
it was impossible to represent.—( Cheers.) H© saw by
the feeling of those around him what was to be expected
from their exertions on behalf of the charity. He ex-
pected a great deal ; indeed we did not keep pace with
our ancestors in administering to the diseases which afflicted
humanity.—( Cheers.) In the lower districts of the me-
tropolis there existed a mass of misery which medical men,
whatever might be expected from them, could not relieve,
for it was not to be forgotten that a medical man's skill and
abilities were his support, and without adequate profit it
was impossible for him to contribute his great aid in the
mitigation of suffering.
The toast was drunk amidst great acclamation.

Mr. SALMON expressed his high sense of the honour
done him, and his obligations to those gentlemen who
bad so warmly and eloquently eulogised his exertions.
He then gave an enlightened description of the difficulties
with which the asylum bad had to contend, and which
were inseparable from all infant institutions. The
prejudice of interest was naturally the most formi-
dable, but was fast dying away under the influence
of the splendid patronage which had sprung up and
was rapidly advancing.—(Cheers.) It had been truly
observed that his heart ached at not being able to assist
numbers who applied to be received. He lamented to
declare that there was not room for one-tenth part of the
number of applicants. Mr. Salmon then proceeded to
account for the great increase of diseases, which he at-
tributed to the increase of the population. It was, he
said, quite impossible for any individual to be able to mas-
ter all the disorders incident to humanity. He therefore
recommended exclusive application to certain branches of
the profession._( Cheers.) That to which he had devoted
himself could not reckon either amongst professors or pa-
tients any impostors. No man would present himself at
the board without having unquestionable ground for seek-
ing assistance, and the institution was open to all medical
men, who could easily detect errors, if they existed, and
who could not help seeing the good which was accom-
plished amongst the poor sufferers.—(Loud cheers.) Mr.
Salmon, after having entered at length into the merits of
the institution, expressed his thanks in the warmest man-
ner for the honour done him, and sat down amidst accla-
mations.

Mr. GILPERT proposed the health of the members of the
Committee, and

Mr. HovvELL, jun., returned thanks.
Mr. MASTERMAN returned thanks for the Stewards.
Major Wool), M. P. for Middlesex, who, in the com-
mencement of the convivial proceedings, returned thanks
for the Navy and Army, spoke warmly in favour of the
institution, and anticipated a most triumphant progress
to it.--( Cheers.)
The subscriptions were announced, amidst the greatest
applause, to be (5501.