The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1846.

THE NEW MINISTRY.

The following appointments have been made since
our last announcement :

Master of the Mint Right llon. R. L. SIMI,.
Secretary of the Board
of Admiralty II. G. WARE, Esq.
Attorney-General
One of the Lords of the
Treasury
Under Secretary for the
Home Department Sir Wm. SOMERVILLE.
Under Secretary for Fo- The Right Hon. E. J.
reign Affairs STANLEY.
Lord Advocate A.RIJTIIERFORD, Esq.
The Duchess of SUTHERLAND will be Mistress cf

the Robes. •
We understand that either Mr. C. BULLER or Mr,
HAWES will be Under-Secretary for the Colonies.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—Iiis Lordship received
visits this morning, at his residence in Chesham-
place, from several of his political friends. The new
Ministerial arrangements, it is understood, are nearly
completed, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL is expected
to leave town this afternoon for Wimble-
don. His Lordship will remain at Wimble-
don, with Lady Joss RUSSELL, until Monday,
on which day it is confidently expected that a Privy
Council will he held at Buckingham Palace, when
the members of the new Administration will be sworn
into office, and will receive their respective seals.

The magnificent banquet given last night, at the
Reform Club, to his
,Highness InuAnim PAcHA, pre-
sents many circumstances of an extraordinary
character, the effect of which will not be lost on the
illustrious Prince in whose honour the entertain-
ment was provided.
The heir-apparent of one of our firmest allies, the
future Sovereign of a great and important terri-
tory, in war the gallant and victorious General, in
peace the eminent agriculturist and zealous
cultivator of all the arts and sciences,
by which the social relations, the tastes, and habits of
civilised life, are ameliorated and improved; he had
not rested in the enjoyment of luxurious ease, but
had determined to visit other nations, to become an
eye-witness of their institutions and manners, their
manufactures and commercial arrangements,
not for the gratification of an idle curiosity,
but in the same spirit by which PETER the
GREAT was animated to investigate fully
the causes by which national prosperity was attained,
and, as far as practicable, to introduce into his own li
country the improvements he saw practised in other
nations, to effect extensive and valuable reforms in
the civil and political institutions of his people.
Such were the objects of his journey ; and it is little
to be wondered at that the first public entertain-
ment should be given to him by the Reform Club—a
body of gentlemen associated together in honour
and commemoration of the triumph of the great na-
tional reform by which our Legislature was purified,
and the popular branch of the Senate practically
41,—v, it unroorted to be, a real
the vast benefits of later days—the removal of the
taxes on a nation's food, the triumph of free trade,
and the abolition of all commercial restrictions.

The Chairman, who ably presided over the banquet,
and who proposed the health of the illustrious guest,
was the hero by whom his progress had been
checked, and his triumphant career arrested,
and his victories turned into defeat ; but not the less
cordial was the feeling that subsisted between these
gallant men because they had been arrayed against
each other in hostile ranks—each recognised in the
other an opponent worthy of his arms—and such men
must ever entertain the most profound respect and
esteem for each other.

The nobleman by whom the health of his royal
father was proposed had formerly, when filling a
high and important public situation, to which he has
just been restored, after a secession from office of
nearly five years, felt it to be his painful duty, in the
conscientious discharge of the functions of his office,
and in the maintenance of the balance of power,
to oppose that father in his most cherished
plans, and to interpose the arms of Great
Britain between him and the accomplishment
of his most ardent wishes. To this nobleman
was entrusted the more pleasing task of bearing his
testimony to the honourable course pursued by
MEHEMET ALT, under such irritating circumstances,
towards the British subjects and Biitish interests,
placed within his power for a time, which, as he truly
said, was that of a most generous fee.
The occasion, too, was an auspicious one : that very
evening the acceptance of office by a new Ad-
ministration was announced to the country
by their seats being vacated and new writs moved
for in the house of Commons, pursuant to the con-
stitutional principle, which declares that on a repre-
sentative of the people being appointed to a situation
of emolument under the Crown, he must resign into
the hands of the people by whom he was elected the
trust reposed in him, and receive their sanction as to
the propriety of his conduct before he can again sit
or vote in Parliament. The late Ministry had been
singularly successful during their term:of office ; the
nation had enjoyed a long period of commercial activity
and prosperity, almost without precedent ; the finan-
cial affairs of the country had been placed on a firm
basis ; and, notwithstanding the reduction of many
taxes, by which the industry of the working classes
had become oppressed, an increased and increasing
revenue bore the strongest testimony to the soundness
of the principle acted on. The wars in which
this country had been unhappily engaged were
brought to a peaceful and happy termination, and
the honour of the British name and the British arms
had passed untarnished through the ordeals by which
it had been tested; but, far beyond all, the force
of public opinion had achieved a peaceful victory by
the force of reason and argument only. Monopolies
were extinguished, the glorious principles of free
trade had triumphed to the utmost extent, and mea-
sures giving full effect to the earnest
wishes of the nation had just received the
royal assent, and yet the Minister by
whom all this was effected, and who had
gained for himself the greatest popularity, had
fallen in the moment of his most brilliant triumph.
And why ? Because he had, although conscientiously,
yet, as it was conceived, unnecessarily, or at least
after the great and pressing necessity had ceased,
attempted to carry measures of coercion by which the
liberties of a portion of our fellow-countrymen
would be interfered with and abridged. This
is a lesson which cannot be thrown away on
a Prince of so much intelligence and judgment
as IBRAHIM PACHA. We trust that he will take it
deeply to heart; and be guided thereby in his
future career, and that he may thence discover that
the true interests of a Government are best promoted
by insuring the constitutional freedom of the go-
verned, by obeying the voice of the people, and keep-
ing up in the most liberal and enlightened manner
to the spirit of the times. That he will be inclined,
to act in this manner we firmly believe, and we sin-
cerely trust that Egypt may have just cause to
rejoice at the visit of this Prince to the British nation.

It is gratifying to observe the entire absence of party
prepossession and factitious rivalry in the selection
which Lord oific RUSSELL has made of his col-
leagues. ThWpeculiarity of his Ministerial arrange-
amuts 45 indeed been carried to an excess—but an