The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-13 00:00:00

tirb ISbitton

INQUEST UPON AIR. REDHEAD

YORKE. M.P.—(THIS DAY.)
An inquest was held before Mr. Wakley this day, at
the Elephant and Castle, opposite St. Pancras Work-
house, on the body of the late Mr. Yorke, M.P. for the
city of York.
It appeared from the evidence that the deceased
gentleman purchased a quantity of prussic acid at
the shop of a chemist in the Haymarket, and that he
swallowed it in the vicinity of the Regent's-park, and
instantly expired.
The medical evidence went to show that the state of
the deceased gentleman's brain indicated that he must
have been insane some time before the commission of
the rash act.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Tem-
porary insanity."

ConstitutionnlelßhAasNaCieEfo.
The llowing on the re-
cent M 1 ainisteri •
appointments -
" We have few observations .
M. I3astide, M. Duo to make on this Ministry.
ere
, and M. Charras were Under-
Secretaries of State in the departments of Foreign
Affairs, Finance, and War, during the time of the Pro-
visional Government—
M. Lanuartine, M. GarntheY replace the old Ministers,
present members of the le
Er Pa os, and M. Arago, at
Jules Favre, xecutive Commission. M.
e, who was 1.1 ei '
the Interior, is to exercisen er-Secretary of State of
the department of Foreign
the same functions in
dent that M. Lamartine igil'
Afhtirs. It is eyi"
particular attention to the affhli'l not cease to pay
wbich, under the new a airs of that department,
fewer that three chiefs at therranngement will not have
for a Ministry in which the administrativesate time. That is many
lativelyof little
importance, in labour is re-
greatest part, and in which unitwy.hieh policy,
plays the
cially necessary. M. Recurt, t)- of
direction is spe-
Mayor of Paris, and recently elected(rrnerly a deputy of the
the National Assembly, isanold
d Vice-President of
Re-
publican,a a friend of order and trulyi enlightened
liberal.
choice will be universally approved.
five Members of the Executive Commission to the ten
Ministers, and the Under-Secretaries of State,
have a very numerous personnel in the e'we
Government.
We have, in matters of policy and
administration,
more confidence in unity aLd superiority of views
than in the number of rulers. It seemsi
when five persons are invested withthe to us that
power, the Ministers their delegates are little executive
more than
Under-Secretaries of State, and we do not too clearly
understand the necessity of giving the Under-Secretaries
of State. There is a great deal of luxe for a Republic
in this Government of three stories. There are many
causes of delay and conflict in this complicated organi-
zation of the Government. The more we think of it,
the more it seems to us that if the Assembly had per-
sisted in its first idea of designating the Ministers itself,
and in collectively investing them with the Executive Go-
vernment, it would have formed by ballot a Ministry as
strong and as happily composed. But at present it is afait
uccompli. It only remains to us to express the wish that
things may go the best way possible, both for the
sake of the Republic and the country. The principal
characteristic of the new Ministry is, as tar as ;it is
possible to judge, inexperience. Its members will, no
doubt, hasten to acquire the experience they need by a
Ise °found study of administrative matters. They will
nut act lightly, and will carefully consider every one of
their resolutions. Immense interests are in their hands;
they are not provisional measures, decreed for two
months under the empire of circumstances, which have,to
be taken; their acts may exercise a profound and du-
rable influence on the country; to press them to multiply
decrees and to settle by enthusiasm questions of which
they must necessarily be ignorant, would be to lead
them to their ruin at the expense of the country. We
are too good citizens to range ourselves among the im-
patient. What we ask of the new Ministers is nut inven-
tion, but study—not knowledge, but wisdom."