The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-24 00:00:00

THE EX.MINISTERS.

SPIRIT of tle PR 0 VIIVCIAL JOURNALS.

(From the Stantford Champion.)

GLORIOUS NEWS FOR TtIF COUNTRY.-.ItESIONATION or MlNl-
einas.—Hated, despised, derided, covered with every species of
disgrace, the Yellin ton Administration has fallen—an example
and a wanting to statesmen of the controlling genius of the age,
and the power of opinion. Never did a Government, in the
short space of fourteen days, contrive to render itself so odious
and so contemptible. With what ingenious management it in-
dicated all hateful purposes, and with what matchless fatuity it
discovered the weakness that negatived the vice, " letting I dare
not, wait upon I would," showing the mind for mischief and
the hand powerless of the ill achievement. "I he immediate
cause of this event was the divislin in the Commons of Monday
last, on an amendment moved by Sir Henry Parnell, for the ap.
pointreent of a Committee to examine. into the items of the
Civil List ; but the more indirect causes may he traced to the
unpopularity and contempt into which the late Premier had
fallen by the moral cowardice he displayed in advising the King
to decline dining in the City —by the speech be put into the
mouth of the Sovereign on the opening of Parliament,—and,
finally, by his own uncalled-for and fluieus tirade against all rf
form,—thus making himself the despotic arbiter of events, and
arrogating to himself the right of controuling the opinions of
the whole empire. Such conduct, at length, stripped the victor
of Waterloo of that gaudy covering with which people had
been accustomed to deck him, and exhibited him to the country
in his true light,—that of a very shallow politician, if not a very
weak man. The division of Monday, therefore, in which Mini-
sters, aided by all their Placemen and Pensioners, could only
muster 201 against 2133, only hastened by a few hours a cata-
strophe, which, in the natural course of things, must soon have
been brought about. Indeed, Mr. Brougham's motion on Par-
liamentary Reform, which stood Ihr the next day, would cer.
tainly have given them their coup tie grace, had not Sir Henry
Parnell's amendment been attended by that effect; and this
circumstance, it is probable, quickened their determination to
resign.
(From the Boston Gazette.)
OUNCE IN TUB MINISTRN.—Thc destinies of this great em.
pire have undergone as greatand as welcome a change asthose of
France or the Netherlands. Here, indeed, the triumph has not
been tarnished by blood nor followed by desolation. The clank
of armed men—the thunders of artillery—the combat and the
bloody victory—throw a gloom over the glorious revolutions of
France and the Netherlands • but in England, thank God, we
' have uo cause to regret. But ttifew days ago, and the Aristocracy
scorned the petitions of the people. The military Premier di..
dared that the old system otabuse and corruption should remain
untouched; the people prayed for a reduction of the taxes, but
_ they prayed in_vainoind some_ atrongliints were thrown out of
an unpopular war. But the seeds of knowledge had been sown
among the people, and had brought forth fruit ; and the Duke of
Wellington, stern and contemptuous as he us, backed by the
power of an enormous standing army, was compelled to bow to a
mightier power—the voice of the people. The Ministers saw the
gathering storm, they beheld therns of an incipient rebellion
increasing, and prudently retire before the accumulated von.
geance of a neglected and despised people burst upon their
heads. In a second edition of the* Gaaette, published at an Carly
hour on Wednesday_ morning, we were able to announce the
total defeat of the Wellington Administration, on an important
question; that sealed the fate of the iihnistry. The tidings
spread rapidly, and were hailed with general satisfaction and ex.
uitation, as the inevitable forerunner of the downfall of an Ad.
ininistratlon, decidedly unpopular from is variety of causes. The
Duke of Wellington appears to have acted with a strange fatality
—he has deceived every party, and rendered himself obnoxious
to all classes. In the new Administration, a list of which will
be found in a preceding column, talented men of all arties are
combined. 'The idle and ridiculous division of party has ceased
to exist—Tory, Whig, and Liberal, unite for the general good,
and the people may rejoice in the union. But should the pre.
sent Government relapse into a disregard of the people, they
w ill most assuredly follow those who have gone before. No
compromise, no half measure no keeping of promises to the ear,
but breaking to the hope, will avail them. Their course must
be plain, honest, and unceasing attention to the wants and wishes
of the people ; and we are indeed happy to hear that the watch.
words of the party are retrenchment, Constitutional Reform, and
Non-interference.

(From the Glasgow Herald.)
Should our new rulers not split on the question of Parlia-
mentary Reform, and carry on without an immediate dissolut ion
of Parliament, there Is A chance of their continuance in office
for some time. There is still something mysterious about the
retreat of the Duke of Wellington. At first we were disposed to
ascribe it to some expressed or implied wish of the King, but it
will probably be nearer the truth to suppose that it has originated
in the force of public opinion on the question of Reform. It is
evident that his Grace contemplated resignation when he mule
his uncalled-for declaration on the subject, in which he corn.
pletely adopted the sentiments of the late Mr. Cunning. It would
appear that the Duke apprehends dangerous consequences from
the present agitation of that question, and he therefore took the
opportunity of entering his protest, to be recorded In history,
against commencing a change in the Constitution which, be
thinks may be injurious to it, if not destructive. Having deter.
mined to retire, he chose it should take place as the consequence
of a vote of the House of Commons, and not have the appear.
ance of pique. As however, a new Ministry might probably
soon dissolve Parliament, it would have been hard upon bit
friends to be sent to their constituents with the unpopularity of
opposing Reform upon their heads ; he therefore brought on the
division on a question of cloparatiiely little moment, and was
outvoted, according to his wish, without any injury to his putty.
—This may or may not be the proper way of accounting for the
late Ministerial proceedings, but it appears to us tLily more
feasible than any other.

(From the She,ffirld
The resignation of hia Majesty's Mininers, which has been
made known through the country during:the last week, has given
more general satisfaction to all classes than any similar event
whirls has happened for many years past. We have no dispo.
sition to recapttulattrthose particularly obnoxious acts which have
tended by their accumulation to precipitate the fate of the men
now retiring from office—covered with as little honour as could
possibly attach to indit iduals who have had such ample means
of securing it. It may be sufficient just to say that the Duke of
Wellington, who came into oilier in the very teeth of Ids country's
dislike, has shown a carelessness of popular opinion, perhaps
well enough becoming an old soldier but which has been wither-
ing to his personal fame, fatal to his character as a statesman,
and hazardous—not to say more than hazardous—to the very
existence of the country whose destinies were entrusted to his
controul. The Duke's capital fault as Prime Minister has all
along been, what constitutes the chief excellence of the heroic
character—resolute self-advised decision. In het, the Duke was
toe great a matt to confer with his coanpeers, and theretbre he
but slightly, when at all, either availed himself of their counsel,
or cared that they should share with him the odium of his union.
;ilarity. On the other hand, his Grace having been brought
up in the discipline corps, and after fighting his way, sword in
hand, through the better part of his life, having been trans.
planted from the field of Waterloo so the Court and confidence
of such a Sovereign as George the Fourth, his countrymen and
he have had little in common beyond that most fligitive and
equivocal of all sympathies—the glory of having beaten the
common enemy of their country and of the world in the field of
battle. We have little of this inertial sympathy ; and therefore,
apt we never very highly magnified the Duke of Wellington in
his palmy state, we are the less disposed to condole with him in
his abandonment as a fallen statesman. With all his faults, we
readily give hint credit fur hotteety, but it is the honesty of a
soldier little accustomed to weigh nicely the fluctuating masses
of popular opinion, and little less disposed to brook the unsoli.
cited advice of inferiors : hence the Duke and his colleagues
have not Daly for themselves thrown away but have defrauded
the country of one of the fairest opportunities for reforming eer.
tain radical end crying abuses which have crept into the admi.
nistration, that can ever again occur. During a state of pro.
found tranquillity throueout Europe, such as characterised
the earlier period of the Wellington Administration, Parliamen-
tary Reform might have beets ceded with as much grace as
safety. But this peace encouraged Ministers lit their obstinate
confidence of security against innovation : and thus the, great
dissiderata so long and so loudly demanded by the country were
put off; not till the most convenient time, but till they cannot
longer be withheld. The experience of past Teats hes generally
shown, that men in power and men in opposition undergo mar.
vellous changes of character ; and so it may be in the composi-
tion of the new Administration. As we observed last week,
when recommending the step which has just been taken by Mi.
!listen, we do not expect a faultless Cabinet; but we do expect
one, of whomsoever composed, that shall come before Perna.
ment and the country under the implied conditions of listening
and acceding to the voice of the people in those great moditica.
tions of the existing system of things, which can no longer be
allowed to remain compatibly either with the happiness of the
subjects, or the safety of the Government of the United Kingdom.

(From the Caledonian ittertarry.)
It will be seen that Sir H. Parnell, whose motion led to the
downfall of the Wellington Administration, is not yet named to
an leading office. It may be remarked, that there has been no
Administration, tbr a long time, so purely English as this list
presents. The two Messrs. Grant are the only Scotchmen--Mr.
Brougham being only half and half—and as yet there is not an
Irishman in the list. On looking at the Array of talent, el°.
quence, official experience, and personal energy which are lime
brought together into one Cabinet, it is Impossible not to feel a
sentiment of strong confidence in the tUture results of their Ad.
ministration. It cannot, as we have already mild, be called a
Whig Administration, fbr although it embraces the great leadon
of that party, Lords Grey, Lansdowne, Holland, Durham, and
Mr, Brougham and Sir James Graham, there are of the Canning
party Lord Palnaerston, Lord Melbourne, Lord Goderich, Lord
liuncannon, and Mr. Charles Grant; Lord Althorp may be re.
garded as the representative of the thoroughly independent
party in the Commons; and to our great satisfaction We have
the Tory Duke of Richmond. It is quite clear that this is an
Administration founded on a regard to, and agreement in, cer-
tain principles, and not in the mere desire of turning out ano.
:tiler set of men for the sake of getting their places.
Nothing is As yet said, or probably has even been thought or,
with respect to the changes in this quarter. The Solteltor.Cle-
nerid has sent in his resignation' and so we suppooe has the
„Lord Advocate; they leave office with the reenact and regrets of
all. It is considered probable, that Mr. J. A. Murray will be the
new Lord Advocate, anti Mr, Cockburn the tiolicitoryGeneral.
No* that Reform is the order of the day, we mimosa that some
of the public bodies will think of bestirring themselves in ex.
pressing their opinion of its necessity. Hitherto, certainly, very
little has been exhibited of that spirit in quarters where a dia.
play of it would be considered entitimi to much weight,