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London, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLII; JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING 1.2.1'7711,S OF THIS DAT

CHRONICII7I.-:-Sir Robert had an opportunity on I
Tuesday of verifying the justice of -the commendations •
bestowed by the Duke of Wellington on Lord Mei-
bonnie, for the success which had attended his lessons to
her Majesty on her duties as a constitutional Queen. It
appears that the interview between the Premier and her
Majesty lasted exactly eight minutes, during which brief
interval she was able to transact the important business
which required the presence of the Right Hon. Baronet
at the Palace. Not being prepared for this promptitude,
Sir Robert had a considerable time on his hands before
the arrangements he had made would allow him to leave
Windsor, which he devoted to a minute survey of the
state apartments. There are duties " committed to the
care of the wearer of the British Crown"* (for Toryism
I knows how to suit its language to the times) which re-
quire occasional intercourse between the Premier and her
Majesty. But Sir Robert owes a very different allegiance
to King Rent. No man knows better than the Right Hon.
Baronet the extent of the power of that doughty sovereign,
and the changes which he has wrought in the Constitu-
tion, through the instrumentality of the Chandos clause,
aided by corruption. We were somewhat amused by
the following naive proof in the Times of the subjection of
the landed interest to Sir Robert Peel :—" The accept-
ance of office by noblemen, in whom the agricultural in-
terest places unbounded confidence, is a complete an-
swer to the insinuation of which we have lately heard so
much—that the champions of that interest aro unwilling
to assist in such a modification of the present Corn-laws
I as Sir R. Peel has intimated his intention to propose, for

the purpose of remedying the abuses and evils connected
with the present scale of duties. We never gave
them credit for being so unreasonable ; and we now
see in their accession to the Government a most satis-
factory security for the accomplishment of those neces-
sary changes, without the slightest disturbance of the
union existing between all branches of the Conservative
party." The question is whether, by their acceptance
of office, the agriculturists have got Sir Robert or Sir
Robert has got them. They have taken office nominally
under the Right Honourable Baronet ; but it does not
follow that he is to give the law to them ; and the pre-
sumption rather is, that, as the Duke of Richmond told
him, they would turn him out as they brought him in, if
he does not do their bidding. Sir Robert Peel is in,
and he will obtain a fair trial. If the landed interest be-
come mollified by their triumph over Queen and people,
and in their generosity suffer Sir Robert to ob-
tain credit for a little liberality by touching the
sliding scale, the people will be agreeably surprised.
For he who runs may read that the constitution of
this country is not now what it was. When the Tories
were frantic on account of the Reform Bill, and the
Liberals were to much elated with it, Lord Melbourne
alone bad the sagacity to foresee that it would turn out
something very different from whathoth had anticipated.
In the debate on the second reading of the Bill, he hinted
at some such working of the Bill as we have just seen.
It is now manifest that the Reform Bill, through the
Chandos clause, has placed both Sovereign (or the
wearer of the Crown, as the Tories phrase it) and people
in the power of the landed aristocracy. A complete re-
volution has been effected. In all questions between
the landed interest and the rest of the community,
Sovereign and people go for nothing. That matters
will remain where they are, we do not believe. The
love of monarchy, as well as of constitutional liberty, is
too deeply engraven in the hearts of Englishmen to allow
them to suffer their Queen to be for ever enthralled by
the landed aristocracy, and to suffer the latter to sacrifice
the prosperity of the country to the most sordid, how-
ever mistaken, interests.

• " If, as we fully expect, the Government, thus consti-
tuted, remains true to its principles, if it is conducted, as we
are confident it will be, with patriotism, moderation and jus-
tice, and with a constant and practically influential regard for
the religious as well as the temporal interests committed to the
care of the wearer of the British Crown."—Times of yes-
terday.

FROM THE DAILY PAPYRI! OT YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The members of the Cabinet, and their
offices, with the _exception of several of the subordinate
appointments in the new Administration, are definitively
settled. At the audience with her Majesty, to which
Sir Robert Peel was yesterday admitted, the Royal sanc-
tion was given to the programme submitted by the new
Premier for that purpose. This act of the Sovereign,
though merely formal, was, no doubt, performed with
the characteristic promptitude, grace, and self-com-
mand, for which her Majesty is remarkable. Like
her Royal grandfather, our beloved Queen is al-
ready celebrated for her firm adhesion to principle.
The observation of George the Third to the first
Ambassador from the United States of America, after

they had succeeded in establishing their independence
of the British Crown, is well known. At his first

audience, and when a momentary embarrassment was
visible in the Minister, on delivering his credentials to
the King, his Majesty said, "I was the last to consent
to the recognition of your independence ; I will also be
the last to violate it." Some such feeling may be sup-
posed to have been in action in tho mind of Queen Vic-

ioria at the audience of yesterday. The office of Post-
master-General, it is said, has not yet been appropriated.
Lord Lowther, who has been named, and for whom it
was reserved, has, it is reported, intimated a dis-
inclination to yield cordial support to a Ministry,
the policy of which is likely to embrace conces-

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sions to the demands of the times much more extensive
than any uncompromising Tory can sanction.
The appointment of Lord Chancellor of Ireland is
a difficult subject with the new Premier. Sir Edward
Sugden, who held the seals under the former Peel-Wel-
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lington Administrations, is understood to urge his im-
plied claims with unabated vigour. If the Irish, seals be
committed to Sir'Edward Sudden, there will be a revival
of the discussion to which his former appointment to the
Lord Chancellorship of Ireland gave rise ; and, if they
be entrusted to other hands, a more distinct reference to
the supposed difficulty in immediately fixing upon a
Chancellor for Ireland would be ungenerous, and perfectly
gratuitous. A difficulty of another kind is said to exist
with reference to the Attorney and Solicitor-General for
England. It is perfectly understood that the Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer contemplates an early retire-
ment from the Bench ; Sir Frederick Pollock, who
was the Attorney-General of Sir Robert Peel's former
Administration, is as confidently named as his succes-
sor. But Sir William Follett, whose seat for Exeter
is deemed very precarious, if appointed Solicitor-
General, will in such case be compelled to face his
constituents twice ; once on taking office as Solicitor-
General ; and again on succeeding to the office of Attor-
ney-General, vacated by Sir F. Pollock on his succeed-
ing Lord Abinger in the Chiefship of the Exchequer.
This difficulty might be obviated by, as was originally
proposed, appointing Sir William Follett Attorney-
General, and Sir F. Pollock Solicitor-General. But
then, as a Chief Justiceship is the understood privilege
of an Attorney-General, to pass over Sir William Follett,
and appoint the Solicitor-General to the vacancy, al-
though perfectly understood by those in the secret,
would, as a matter of history, be regarded as
, a reflection upon Sir William Follett, and, as
a matter of precedent, be considered as a dan-

gerous invasion of the prescriptive rights of the Bar.
It is currently reported that a negotiation is pending
with Lord Abinger to induce an immediate resig-
nation, with a view to obviate the difficulties we have
described. The First Commissioner of Woods and Fo-
rests—or, as the office is now termed, " First Commis-
sioner of Land Revenues"—is also dependent on arrange-
ments not yet complete. Lord Granville Somerset is
named for this office. The Mastership of the Mint and
the Head of the Ordnance department are also unappro-
priated. The Right Hon. J. C. Herries (who with Mr.
Fitzroy Kelly was rejected at Ipswich, and who is there-
fore without a seat in Parliament), will, it is said, have
the former office.
COURIER.—The list of Sir R. Peel's Ministry is now
before the country, and we challenge malignant criticism
itself to deny the extreme aptitude of its individual mem-
bers for their respective offices, or its pre-eminence and
superiority, as a whole, over any of its predecessors.—
Bat it is not only in the unquestionable efficiency of dis-
tinct departments that Sir R. Peel's Ministry challenges
public respect and confidence—it is not that it is illus-
trated in the one House by the matured wisdom of Wel-
lington and the brilliant powers of Lyndhurst, or that
in the other it commands the sharp energetic in-
tellect of Stanley, the financial experience and skill
of Goulburn, the solid and practical acquirement of
Graliam-it is not in these respects alone, we repeat,
that it possesses the most undoubted claims to respect
abroad, and reliance at home, or that it contrasts most
favourably with the displaced Cabinet—but in having
a real, efficient chief—a First Lord of the Treasury,
not in name, but in reality. One of the great faults
of the Melbourne Cabinet, and one that gave rise to
an immensity of mischief, was, that it was a mere
combination of separate and distinct departments.
Sir Robert Peel's Ministry will, on the contrary, be
not only efficient in its separate provinces, but be per-
vaded by one intelligence, and informed and guided
by one master spirit. Thus , under whatever aspect we
may be disposed to view the newly-constructed Cabinet,
we cannot fail to find in it the elements of strength, sta-
' bility, and duration. The agricultural interest will re-
ceive the appointment of his Grace the Duke of Buck-
ingham to the Privy Seal as a guarantee that in any alte•
ration that may be deemed requisite in the details ol
the laws and machinery regulating the importation ol
foreign corn, their claims to adequate and reasonable
protection will neither be overlooked nor slighted, while
the commercial and trading classes will recognise
in the President of the Board of Trade a man tech-
nically conversant with the most complicated opera
tions of commerce, and from habit and inclination desi-
rous of relieving them of all needless restrictions. It
would be in us an act of unpardonable impertinence to
speak of the exalted legal acquirements which Lord
Lyndhurst brings to the Chancellorship, or of the uni-
versally-admitted professional eminence of the Attorney
and Solicitor Generals. But of all the appointments yet
announced, that which promises to be attended with the
largest share of beneficial results, is the appointment of
Eon de Grex to the Lord Lieutenancy, and of Lord Eliot,
to the Secretaryship, of Ireland. More perfectly unob-
' jectionablo appointments, or ones that will go further in
silencing carping criticism, and disarming hostility it
would be impossible to imagine ; and we fancy we know
enough of the sister country, to he assured that neither
Mr. O'Connell's violence or virulence will be able to
counteract the soothing influence which such appoint ,
ments are calculated to produce on the troubled stream
of Irish polities.
STANDARD.—The first, if not the great difficulty of
the new Government, is the Exchequer. That difficulty
may, we know, be easily overcome in this wealthy
country ; but it must be overcome early, or its magnitude
will progressively increase, and while it continues it will
paralyse the Government. We say that the difficulty
may be conquered with comparative ease—and we say so
upon the evidence of experience. The first duty of the
new Government will be to rectify the financial state
of the country ; this once effected, we may look forward
to a long course of good government and effectual im-
provement. We believe that the mere accession