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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1846.

THE NEW MINISTRY.

The following are the principal appointments in the

new Ministry :

IN THE CABINET.
Lord Chancellor
President of the Council

Lord Privy Seal

Home Office Sir G. GREY.
Colonial Office Earl GREY.
Foreign Office Vint. PALMERSTON.
First Lord of the Treasury Lord J. RUSSELL.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Cnaltnits WOOD.
Chancellor of the Duchy of 1 Lord Cri
AMPBELL.
Lancaster
Paymaster-General Mr. MACAULAY.
Woods and Forests
Postmaster-General Marq. CLINRICARDE.
Board of Trade Earl of CLARENDON.
Board of Control Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE.
Chief Secretary for Ireland Mr. LABOUCHERE.
Admiralty Earl of AUCKLAND.
NOT IN THE CABINET.
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland Earl of BESIIOROUGIA
Commander-in-Chief
Master-General of Ordnance Marg. of ANGLESEY.

Lord Joux RUSSELL received visits this morning
rom several of his political friends.

PRIVY COUNCIL—No summonses for a Council
for the reception of the seals of office from the mem-
bers of the late Administration have yet been issued,
but it is expected that her MAJESTY Will hold a
Privy Council on Monday next, when the new
Ministers will be formally installed into office by the
delivery of their respective seals.

Sir ROBERT PEEL is expected to arrive in town
on Monday next, from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire.

After an extraordinary existence of seven years
and nine months, the Anti-Corn-law League has been
dissolved ; constituted in the September of 1838, it
has ceased to exist in the July of 1846 Although
the word " conditionally" is introduced in the an-
nouncement of its dissolution yesterday, we
feel authorised to regard the career of this
wonderful association as altogether terminated,
because we coincide in the opinion so em-
phatically expres .ed by the illustrious representa-
tive of Stockport, who declared that " it would be as
well to attempt to abolish Magna Charta, or to do
away with trial by jury, or to repeal the Act for the
Emancipation of the Catholics, or to abrogate the
Reform Act itself, as to endeavour to re-enact the
system of corn-laws in this country." So impressed
are we by this: conviction that we cannot even picture
to ourselves the possibility of entertaining sentiments
of trepidation as to the ulterior and unrestricted
realisation of commercial freedom ; and that
not simply in wheat and barley, but in every com-
modity which human industry can cultivate or human
ingenuity devise. As rationally might an emanci-
pated prisoner dread the renewal of his captivity when
his manacles are shivered to atoms, his dungeon de-
stroyed, and his gaolers paralysed. It is, therefore,
with unmixed feelings of exultation that we be-
hold the disbandment of that mighty organisa-
tion, through the instrumentality of which the irk-
someness of monopoly and the grinding influences of
unnecessary taxation have for ever been removed from
the population of Great Britain. We behold its dis-
bandment with unmixed exultation, because it is the
most fitting guarantee that the greatest social refor-
mation of perhaps any century has been fully accom-
plished, and this without compromise, chicanery,
intimidation, or any - of those vulgar weapons of
assault which are sometimes employed against a
constitution. In the annals of that memorable body
which has just consummated the object of its original
creation, one circumstance of its existence, one con-
comitant of its power, one illustrative phase of its
character, will ever assume to itself in the memory
of these stirring times an especial prominence and an
undecaying lustre. It will be seen and acknow-
ledged hereafter, that for the subversion of an in-
famous system, and for the substitution of one more
consonant with the dictates of morality and justice,
the whole armour of the League, both offensive and
defensive, was REASON. From the first unpropitious
meetings of the miniature junto of free-traders in that
miserable room at Manchester, when a " dingy little
red curtain was drawn across the chamber" to pre-
vent any chilling effects from being experienced, in
consequence of the paucity of the numbers present, up
to the final meeting of yesterday, the League has
ever persisted in that undeviating course of wisdom,
and sobriety, and consistency, and legality,
and thoughtfulness, and intellectual pertinacity,
the combination of which characteristics have left
this association without any parallel in the history of
nations, or in traditionary records of the people.
No eulogium, however grandiloquent, could exceed
the abstract merits of this remarkable body; but we
conceive that mere wordy panegyrics would be but
little in accordance with the principles by which
it has been throughout actuated, and through which
it should ever be contemplated. Its noblest enco-
miums are inscribed in the minutes of its proceed-
ings, in the dignified and rational eloquence of its
orators, in their unflinching earnestness, their inimit-
able integrity, and their exceeding disinterestedness.
Did we abandon ourselves to the utterance of
those emotions which animate both ourselves and the
population at large in speaking of VILLIHRS, Bow-
RINd, BRIGHT, WILSON, THOMPSON, but, above all,
in mentioning the name of RICHARD COBDEN, we
should be tempted to an extension of our remarks al-
together incompatible with propriety. Nor can
we induce ourselves to imagine than any ob-
servations of such a character are requisite, believing
as we do in that picturesque and beautiful truth
which was pronounced by the Member for Stockport,
that "though the body of the League will perish, its
spirit is abroad, and will pervade all the nations
of the earth." It has embued the whole woof of
society with its tinge, it has inoculated the
community with a healthy abhorrence of legislative
injustice, whether social, commercial, or religious. It
has performed its lofty and onerous duties without
the bandying of a single vituperation, without
eliciting amongst the members of its association one
angry sentiment, without an eye to emolument or a
thought of extortion. It has revolutionised the coun-
try without shedding a drop of blood ; it has pursued
its solemn and triumphant course peaceful amidst the
storms and calm amidst the bickerings of furious and
relentless contention. Honour, then, to the manes
of the League, and honour to those noble patriots
who, by their oratory, their integrity, and their
bravery, have contributed so effectually to the realisa-
tion of free-trade measures. It is gratifying to ob-
serve the resolution of the Committee of the League
to present a testimonial of 10,0001. to Mr. GEORGE
Wil.§ost, for the extraordinary exertions and abilities
which he has 414 played throughout the existence of this
association as its chairman, to the detriment of his pri-
Yato fortunes, and the incalculable advantage of the
League, Having thus far performed an act of com-
mon honeaty in regard to one of our public bene-
factors, it remains to us to tender to a still loftier
patriot and a still more national and world-wide
benefactor a tribute of love, and veneration, and gra-
titude. One hundred thousand pounds are now in
- course of being collected for presentation to Iticnain