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London, England, 1841-09-06 00:00:00

BOURSE—Parris, SATURDAY, SEPT. 4.

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This news from France tnis morning is not important.
The Courrier Francais' presents its readers with the fol-,
lowing sketch of the Teel Cabinet, upon' which- our space'
will not allow us to offer a word of comment :—" The
new Cabinet is not one of such pure breed as the ultra-
,Tories could have desired ; neither is it f.)rmed by the
coalition of the moderate men of different shades who
directed the Tory party when in opposition. All the
opposing factions are represented from the • converted
WhigS, like Lord Stanley,- to the most thick and thin
Tories, like Sir E. Knatchbull. The Duke of Welling-
ton gives only his name to the Ministry. He takes no
office, .and reserves to himself, probably, the task of
keeping together those Ministers whose antecedents
have furni4hed the greatest contrasts. Lord Lynd-
Must resumes the functions of Lord Chancellor.
Nothing less would suffice for the direction in
the Lords, than the profound knowledge, activity,
and well-known dexterity 'of the Yoble Lord. Mr.
Goulburn, who becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer. is
a man of very doubtful capacity, and will, doubtlessly,
be merely the instrument of Sir R. Peel. The Earl of
Ripon, who is a renegade in political economy, as, well
as in politics, is at th bead of- the Board of Trade, and
we may venture to predict that he will commit more
than one blunder there. He it was who complained re-
cently, in the House of Lords, of the concessions to
•France, stipulated fur in the projected treaty of com-
merce between France and England. We see how little
fruit the example of Mr. Huskisson has borne. Lord
Ellenborough, who is to direct the affairs of India, is an
elegant talker ; but we question whether he be equal to
the post which he is to fill. As to Lord'Stante), who is to
be Secretary for the'COlOnies he certainly does not want
talent, but is there no danger to be apprehended
for the department .over which he is to preside, from
his irritable temperament ? Sir James Graham, who is
to be the Home Minister, is a madman, who sees double
in politics. Sir Robert Peel will have enough to do to
moderate the passions of these men. We have left to
the last our opinion of the new Foreign Secretary, Lord
Aberdeen. The only motive for placing him in this dif-
ficult post is his long experience of diplomatic business.
Apart from this consideration, Lord Aberdeen is a very
ordinary man. He hates Prance, and has shown hatred
on all occasions since he last held office. He will not,
however, come to an open rupture with us, for the Duke
of Wellington and Sir- Robert Peel are anxious to cover
their real dislike of France with a veil of friendship.
We may, however, expect from Lord Aberdeen a
thousand annoyances and,a pride and coldness in his re-
lations with us borderino•. On hostility. Such is the Tory
Ministry for England and Prance. We have not gaimd
much by.the change. Lord Aberdeen will, perhaps, be
less bold'and violent than Lord Palmerston, but an un-
derhand conflict will continue on every point of the globe
between French and English interests."

The Sied calls Lord Lyndhurst " the sycophantic
servant of the aristocracy," and Lord Elliot "the humble
shadow of the will of the Duke of Wellington." It adds:
—" There are, properly speaking, only three Ministers
in the new Cabinet—namely, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke
of Wellington, and Lord Stanley, but the latter aspires
to the highest rank 4ith the support of the Church. If
a rupture should take place in the Cabinet, Sir James
Graham, Sir Henry iiardinge, and the Duke of Buck-
ingham, will go over to his side. This is the first
danger of the new Ministry, for Lord Stanley will never
be satisfied so long as there shall be in the Cabinet any
man higher than himself."
An Alexandrian Correspondent of the Semaphore
states that the officers of an English frigate, which had
recently arrived from Beyrout, reported the Druses and
Maronites as having come to open hostilities against
each other ; and that a good number of men had fallen
on both sides. It was also stated that the British Consul
at Jerusalem had retired to Jaffa, because one of his
Janissaries had been maltreated by the populace, and the
authorities had refused to give satisfaction. •
Advices from Lisbon of the 30th ult. represent the
Algarves as very disturbed. General Macdonnell, for-
merly of Don Miguel's service, was arrested on the 24th
ult. at Lisbon, and sent a prisoner to the Castle of St.
George. He was charged in the Chambers with being
privy to some Miguelite conspiracy:
The Emperor of Morocco. has sent two ships of war
to exercise on the coast of Portugal. His Imperial Ma-
jesty threatens war unless Queen Donna Maria pays his
demand of 30,000 dollars. _

From France, Spain, and Holland, the accounts of the
crops are favourable. The prices of grain are declining.

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Chronicle thus defines the character of
the new Tow Administration :—" Sir Robert Peel com-
mences by sinning against the very first principles of
Government. His power, instead of being exercised for
the entire and general benefit, and resembling, in its in-
fluence, that sun which "shines alike on the evil and
the good," is to be wielded for the imagined benefit of
those who have been the means of placing him in office.
He is to rule for the landlord, as opposed to the manu-
facturer. lie is to rule for the farmer, as opposed to the
artizan. He is to rule for the profit of the agricultural in-
terest, as opposed to that of the commercial. He is to rule for
the counties, as opposed to the cities. Such a Government
is a fraud. It commences with the very worst prin-
ciple of the, very worst Government. It adopts and
fosters that system of class favouritism which has been
the cause of all the heart-burnings that have ever roused
a people against its rill( rs."—lt is impossible that a
Cabinet, constituted as Sir R. Peel's is, can ever adopt
. an enlarged or decided system of policy. It has only
one bond of union—that of self.interest. Its ruling
principle will necessarily be, to support one part of the
country to the detriment of the other—to throw the
whole weight of its influence into the scale of the agri-
cultural interest, and do no more than it can possibly
help, to further the good of the commercial classes.
The Times speaks of the Tory Opposition—now the
Tory Ministry—in the following inflated terms of pane-
gyric :—" Never in the history of this nation was there
an Opposition more splendid, efficient, and constitutional,
than that which for some years has been headed by Sir
Robert Peel. The true secret of its strength is to be
found in its moral character. Abounding in talent and
eloquence of the first order, as it undeniably did-Aistin-
guished, as it uniformly was, by just and enlarged views
of public policy—and exhibiting, as it never failed to do,
an admirable combination of moderation without feeble-
ness, and of vigilance without ungenerous partisan-
ship—it, nevertheless, was indebted for that gradual in-
crease of.popularity which has at last placed it in power,
not so much to any or to all of the attributes we have
ascribed to it,, as to the high political morality which, in
conjunction with those attributes, pervaded and hallowed
the whole course of its operations."—The " high political
morality" of Sir Robert Peel's party is a qualification
that it has yet to deveire—if it be not the most cutting
irony to allude to it ; or where is the " high political
morality" of Lord Ripon—of Lord Stanley—above all, of
Sir James Graham—who, of course, will materially con-
tribute to give a tone to the new Cabinet ? " High po-
litical morality" is the most absurd phrase our Contem-
porary could possibly have applied to the Tories. •
The Post says—" The new Administration of Great
Britain is fully disposed to put a favourable construction
on the acts of the French GoVernment, and, while main-
taining British principles, and respect for established in-
stitutions everywhere, to co-operate cordially with France
in the advancement of the civilisation, the peace, and the
happiness of Europe." We/4.1,w. no faith in this assertion
when we remember that our Foreign Minister is Lord
Aberdeen—an avowed disciple and imitator of Metter-
nich, who has always been an advocate for stretching
Prerogative to its utmost limit.
The Advertiser sketches Sir Robert Peel's political
character, as follows :—" Sir Robert Peel is the same
"man now he ever was. Considerations of abstract jus-
tice will never weigh with him ; they will never influ-
ence his conduct. In the present case, we cannot even
expect anything from his notions of expediency. He
never vecognises the claims of expediency, until they
haVe assumed an attitude which menaces the public
peace if any longer resisted. And consequently, as
the disposition of the public 'mind at present is, un-
happily, to repose in quiet, in the conviction that
Sir Robert Peel meditates some important measures
of political and commercial amelioration—he will bring
forward no such measures, so long. as the national
mind remains in this tranquil and passive frame."—
It is only by a show of dogged and desperate determi-
nation on the part of the country, that Sir Robert Peel
will be induced to stir a step. He will reform only on
compulsion. Like Palinurus, he will 'i,lumbel- at the
helm, to the last moment, trusting to the apparent se-
renity of the weather. In a word, he is a day-after-the
fair Reformer, who will never yield till it is just too late,
and till concession has lost half its value and all its grace.
The Herald thus alludes to Lord John Russell's policy,
as respects our Australian colonies :—" In every one of
the Australian colonies Lord John Russell leaves some
vexatious question behind him. In New South Wales
there is the application of the land fund to purposes
other than immigration—a process which realises the
fable of killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
Then there is the projected division of that colony
into three dependencies.— a suggestion exceedingly
unpopular at Sydney. In South Australia—the Wake-
field model colony !_his Lordship has broken the
condition on which the settlers went out, and has
been compelled to place it on the foundation of an ordi-
nary Crown colony—proceedings which will, doubtless,
heavily disappoint the colonists, if they do not induce
them to emigrate elsewhere. In Western Australia his
Lordship's meddling Governor, Mr. Hutt, has been un-
necessarily introducing what are termed the new colo-
nial land principles to their fullest extent, to the great
annoyance of the older settlers. Ile has interfered in
every thing in which interference was needless, and has
not interposed where interposition would have been be-
neficial, by protecting the colonial whale fishery against
the depredations of the American whalers."
We quote the following from the Cumbrian:—" Power
in this country is always unpopular. The very fact of
being in possession of the Government makes enemies of
thousands. A Jack in office is always an object of dis-
like and suspicion to John Bull. The Whigs lost influ-
ence merely because they wt re, the G overnment. In a
short time Peel will be the magnet of similar feelings.
Notwithstanding all we have heard of the power of the
landed interest, the colonial interest, the shipping inte-
rest, and the manufacturing interest, we have a suspicion
that there is in this country an interest stronger than all,
and that is the Grumbling Interest."
The Hull Rockingham speaks in the following terms
of the new Ministerial appointments :—" We have not
much fault to find with these appointments, seeing that
a Tory Ministry is inevitable. The most objectionable
name is that of the Duke of Buckingham but we sup-
-pose it was nlcessary- to conciliate the landed interest in
his person. Bow his determined support of the sliding

scale will be made to comport with the equally strong
predilection of Sir G. Murray for a fixed duty, remains
to be seen."

The Livevpool Chronic I', commenting on " invariable
conduct of the Tories towards the people, observes:—
" They have no feeling for them, they have no sympathy
with them. They are suffering privation. They are
oppressed by poverty. They are afflicted by hunger, and
almoSt overwhelmed with famine. But what of that ?
What is all that to Tory legislators ? They buy their
seats in Parliament to serve, themselves, and not the
people."
Tke. Dublin Evening Post thus alludes to Sir Robert
Peel's late..interview with..the Queen_:—" _Eight minutes.
Short enough, in all conscience. But what had the
Queen to do but acquiesce? Where was the use in pro-
longing a disagreeable visit? Sir Robert came with his
list. Her - Majesty cast her eye over it, and said yes.
What inure' did they want her to say ? One thing is
clear, she has not forgotten her dignity."
The British Mercury remarks, in an article suggested
by the new Ministerial appointments :—" What, how-
ever, stamps the character of the whole Cabinet, is the
presence in it of the Duke of Buckingham. Most heart-
sickening is it to contemplate this appointment. It is a
direct challenge to the starving masses—a throwing-
*down of the. gauntlet to the manufacturing and commer-
cial classes—and an insolent announcement that the tax
upon food will be maintained in all its vigour.
-The Scotsman speaks of Lord John Russell's farewell
speech in the House of Commons in the following terms
Lord John Russell's speech will be T.( al with painful.
interest by every friend to liberal government. It is
.precisely such a speech as we should expect from a pat-
riotic Minister, who, having toiled to advance the best
interests of his country, has fallen, through the triumph
of popular ignorance and error, electoral dishonesty,
and factious combination."