The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

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LONDON:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1841.

At the Cabinet Council held on Saturday it
was unanimously determined that the resignation
of the Ministry should be immediately for-
warded to the QUEEN. Lord MELBOURNE
immcdiatelw repaired to Windsor, and commu=
nicated the determination of the Council to her
MAJESTY, who ordered Sir ROBERT PEEL to be
sent for. Sir ROBERT PEEL accordingly left town
this morning, about eleven o'clock, for Windsor,
to receive her MAJESTY'S commands to form a
new Administration.
The determination of the Ministers was offi-
cially communicated to the Houses of Parliament
yesterday evening.
The Duchess of SUTHERLAND resigned her
situation of Mistress of the Robes on Friday,
thus preparing the way for the Tory ladiin to
surround her MAJESTY,

There has been a Ineeting of the landowners
called to consider Sir R. PEEL'S speech, at
which the Duke of BUCKINGHAM and his friends
have derzlared themselves satisfied with the Right
H,' ii. baronet. The union 13 perfect, therefore,
and the Tories may carryon the Government
with a high hand. It will be an act of
kindness in them, when so fully assured
of their strength in the Houses of Parliament,
if they grant to the necessities of the nation the
least relaxation of the odious laws they have
assembled to maintain,

There is an end of the Whig Ministry. Lord lime
BOURNE in the House of Peers, and Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL in the House of Columbus, yesterday announced
its dissolution: though we have frequently felt it to be
our duty to censure their acts, we cannot deny that we
see their departure from office with considetublOi•egretr.
If they were not the wisest, discrettesb, host ginistfys
that ever stood at the he.m Uoe idniiipitrO them rather
with their successerfk th&n. with an abstract idea of per-
fection, and we dread what is to come.

We have no partiality for what is called 0, sttoill
vernment; which means some man, or lite* •Olio46'itivd
a strong will, profiting by the obedience tof
ruthlessly to carry out a theory, and titakehilig by their
help all the interests itnd aftlittiOns which stand in the
way, NAPOLEON'S was a strong Government, bet Et
was aethroned and exiled. The Peke o a,--
LLNGToN's was a strong * Gterettenent, lnit lii
was obliged somewhat ignontiniotisly ;to tiVe 441.6..
The country can at present ill ekAailgt. the mild care-
lessness of Lord MittitollateE, and the easy firmness of
Lord tionle Ittitsm, for the vice-like gripe of Sir Be.
"Mitt PEEL and the tiger-like spring of ray Ileed iltAnt
Backed by the army of monopolists., Whose tools they are,
and stooping to do their bidding., that they may be the
more powerful, these statesmen Will foein i 1 Atimg
Government, intent of enforeiitg Wtong and unjust
principles. But the .sti.enget And more overbearing is
such a GovernMent of monopolists, the greater must be
the frictiein with society, and the sooner will it efid in
some terrible catastrophe.
The causes which have brought ItekYtit At tali of the
Whigs, lie within themselves. Their power was essen •
tially derived from the people ; but when they obtained
the favour of the Crown, they turned their backs on their
friends, and sought to hold office by the help of the oli-
garchy and the priesthood, who never forgive them the
destruction of the Boroughniongering Parliament, and
to whom, by this deference, they gave the means to de-
stroy them.
This was the capital error of the Whigs. Thereto
must be added, which is common to all statesmen of our
day, too much reliance on existing institutions, con-
siderable ignorance of the natural -laws which dictate
the progress of society, and hence the want of any com-
prehensive and great plan of policy. Their principles
of Government were not settled and determined from a
combined view of what was clue to institutions, and
what living society demanded. They did not adjust the
rival claims of the past and the future. They were
accordingly one day foi: -coticezaion and anc.tlier. for re-
sistance—now expounding the largest principles of
Reform, and then giving us the least possible portion

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