The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-18 00:00:00

of Lord Londonderry he•ftvidently came in with
the intention of occupying. and maintaining
higher ground. Instead 'of being counted only as
one member of a party in the Cabinet adhering
to a leader, he would be himself a leader,; and
as he knows that a leading Minister in England
must have an individual hold upon national opi-
nion, and fill a large space in the public eye, he
has put himself forward singly in more promi-
nent relief. How far he has succeeded in this,
is a thing not to be decided in a moment.—
His position has been difficult. The least at-
tention to his career in office, and his speeches
in Parliament, will suggest a doubt whe-
ther he has been able to execute his own
intentions. His design at the outset evident-
ly was to distinguish his Administration from
that of Lord Londonderry. His line of policy
was not to be a continuctndo of that of his pre-
decessor. But this was an embarrassing po-
sition, and the perplexity in which he found
himself sometimes escaped indirectly through
his speeches in Parliament. One night he
took care to counteract impressions circu-
lated through the midium of the Press, of
his intention to depart from the foreign policy of
his deceased rival ; and when the admirers of
the latter triumphed in' this implied adhesion of
Mr. Canning to the policy of Lord Londonderry,
he took occasion to contradict, and gently rebuke
these also. But if the march of his Administta-
tion. be observed since he came into office, does
he appear to have made any deviation from the
course which his predecessor would probably
have pursued. There has certainly been
a change of tone in his speeches. He seems
to have made a truce with Jacobinism, and
has touched more rarely and lightly upon Radical
Reform. He even made in his splendid orations
upon, or rather against, the French invasion of
Spain, some professions of faith, so near what is
understood by the term " liberalism," that his
habitual opponents at home were quite eager in
their hopes of him, and he was highly compli-
mented by the Liberals of Paris, But this proves
only an opposition to a certain degree between
his administration and his speeches. The pro-
test of Lord Londonderry against the Mani-
festo of Laybach applies exactly to the line
which Mr. Canning has pursued. There is even
no essential difference that can be perceived
on the face of both transactions, between the
policy of the one Minister regarding the inva-
sion of Naples, and that of his successor, re-
specting the invasion of Spain. Mr. Canning
still, in his speeches during his late excursion,
put forward his love of liberty, his respect for
what are called Constitutional rights—studiously,
not to say affectedly. But he has yet to do
something to signalize his Administration, and
distinguish it from that of the Minister who went
before him.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 17.

The Court was occupied the whole of the day in hearing
bankrupt cases, of which not one possessed any interest, save
that of" De Tastet v. Latham and Parry." NVe refrain, how.
ever, from reporting it at present, as it was only partially beard,
and as an intimation was thrown out by the Lord Chancellor
that it would be unjust to Mr. De Taste to. publish any
account of the proceedings • whilst he had no opportunity of
making a reply to them. ,Tbe case is to be further heard on
Saturday next.