The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1846.

THE NEW MINISTRY.

The members of the new Ministry are entering on
their official duties at all the Government offices.
Lord Palmerston and the Hon. E. J. Stanley have
commenced their duties at the Foreign-office, as
Secretary and Under-Secretary ; Lord Auckland and
the Hon. William Cowper have,assumed office at the
Admiralty, the former as• First 'end the latter as one
of the Junior Lords. Wile,6, 'Conor Don has at-
tended at the Treasury as one of the Junior Lords.
Lord Edward Howard, son of the Duke of Norfolk,
acts as Lord John Russell's Private Secretary. Mr.
Arbuthnot, Private Secretary to Sir Robert Peel, has
been appointed to the same office under Mr. Charles
Wood, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer.
To-morrow the officers of the Queen's Household
will he appointed at the Privy Council, at Bucking-
ham Palace, the present Great Officers of State con-
tinuing at present to fulfil their respective duties.
Earl Fortescue, it is expected, will be the Lord
Steward of the Household, vice the Earl of Liver-
pool ; and Lord Spencer the Lord Chamberlain, in
the room of LOrd.Delawarr.

Not only are very excellent auguries discoverable
in the avowed principles of the Russzu. Adminis-
tration, but the improvement and proSperity, of Great
Britain is, to our thinking, assured by the aggrega-
tion of talent. and the community of sympathies
which characterise the present Cabinet. Since the
publication of the. Prime Minister's official address
to his constituency his colleagues have severally
proclaimed trieir intentions after a similar fashion :
Lord PALMERSTON with a delightfully undiplomatic
distinctness ; Lord MORpETH with a generous and
even chivalrous enthusiasm of tone ; Lord EsaiNo-
TON in a manner not unworthy of his progenitor ;
Sir THOMAS WILDS with , a preiumptive allu-
sion to his : Parliamentary future ; and Sir.
JonN CAm Honniiust With, a confident re-
ference' to - his Parlia:mentarY past. Were we
indeed to conjecture the political consequences of the
new MiniAry Airnply frOm the avowals and the fore-
gone behaviour of its different, members, we should
rurtouestionably be justified in indulging in a most
propitious', Vatieination. .. Happily, however, we are
not restricted to , merely hypOthetical auguries like'
these; our prophecies !may .be baseil upon, something
infinitely mote substantial; its foundations, are not
theoretically anspiciduSthey are solid golden facts.
What,'for, example, can be uttered in dei4eciation of
the distinguished intellects who will preside over the
destinieS of our beloved country ? Can the talent of
the ItosszLt,Adrninistration be carped at with even
a semblance, of propriety? Is it not singularly
prodigal both in natural and acquired abilities ?
can it nbt boast some, of our most illustrious states-
'
in4n, ;nanr of our most astute diplomatists, several of
our brightest orators, and the most accomplished de-
bater in Parliamentl? Does not the catalogue of this
Adminiptratian enumaate,men remarkable for fdrensiC
'genius,,rhetprical energy, land deliberate judgMentL-
men alreidi"cilbrated .116 v their,legislative achieve-,
ments, bi ?or the dignified position they have assumed
to themselves in !literary or ,adMinistrative *art-
ments, as "historians or as members of the English
Governmeni,. as geerOtaries of State or as elevated
critics ? It would be .imMeasurably ridiculcins' .to
quibble at observations like , these *hen such
authorities can ' be adduced' •as . RussELL;
PALM ERsTON, CAMPBELL,
,flonHOusE7. MACAULAT,
MoaPETH, COTTENHAAL, SHEIL, and their colleagues!
In that gamy, of talent we possess a guarantee of
the fitness of the new Cabinet to regulate the inter-
nal and external 'relations of this gigantic empire,
and of the- discriminating generosity which will
' direct theanieliorative measures for the introduction
and accomplisbinent of which the whole population
are now so sanguine and so expectant. A guarantee
of the Ministerial ability, and: conscientiousness is af- '
forded by that galaxy of talent—but not by that ga-
laxy of talent alone. A still more noble, more em-
phatic, and more encouraging assurance is given of the
wisdom and liberality which will preside over the
councils of the RussELL Cabinet, and that assurance
-is none other than the broad and comprehensive sen.::
timents which have influenced the First Lord of the
Treasury in the selection of his colleagues. As we
have already'specified, Lord •JoHN RUSSELL evinced
his intense, eversion ,to, anything like party 'aggran-
disernent or the instalment of a faction (whether such

a•
faction might be christened Tory, Whig, Radical,
or C,onservative), and that on the first moment of his
summons to form an Administration it was his
bition to accomplish a wholesome fusion or amalga-
mation of such political sections as had been formerly
repellant to each other. Instigated by these' aspira-
tions, overtures were made to insure the official co-
operation of 'such Noblemen as the ex-President of
the Board of Trade and the ex-Secretary for balm),
the rejection of which overtures is already as *Mar'
to the public as, upon reflection, it appears to be judi
cious. Nevertheless, though his admirable and general
policy was thwarted in that particular direction,