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London, England, 1834-07-14 00:00:00

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caiLie. of Liberal Let ha.: ttinenplied by the
good sense and consistent principle of the King. We
havc,the gratification of communicating to the country,
that since the following article was composed, his Ma-
jesty has given full and exclusive discretion to Lord
Melbourne to form an Administration. The Noble
Viscount visited the King yesterday at Windsor, and
returned to town last night. It is understood that he
immediately communicated with Lord Althorp. We
forbear to give circulation to many prevalent rumours,
or to anticipate the selection of public men whom
Lord Melbourne may elect to associate in a Reform
Ministry. From his reported honourable conduct
throughout his communications with his Majesty and
several public men, we have no fear of his constructing
a weak and ricketty Ministry. The experience of the
past will not be thrown away. All that the Reformers
require is a progressive but sure approach to good
government, and the certainty of that great national
object by the Royal choice of Ministers in whom they
may confide. There is no truth whatever in the re-
ports of communications between the Tories and the
King, except the transmission of a correspondence by
command of his Majesty, which the Tories have made
no secret of in their clubs, dealing out at the same time
copious abuse of his Majesty. The Tories have never
been asked to take office, whatever their desires ; and
shrewd physiognomists, in the last two days, have
noticed the palpable chagrin depicted in their faces.
We have now only to express our hope that Lord
Altherp will consent to support Lord Melbourne.
The declaration in course of signature among the
Members of the House of Commons, representing
their confidence in Lord Althorp, has already received
a very extensive signature. The majority of the Irish
and Movement section of the House—generally in the
minorities against his Lordship—have also honourably
signed it, recognising in the Ex-Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer the fitting Minister to lead the Commons,
uniting in his political character the general confidence
of the House. The document is as follows :
" My Loan—Convinced that at the present crisis the peace
and prosperity of the empire would be promoted by your Lord-
ship holding a distinguished place in his Majesty's Councils,
we beg to express our deep regret at your retirement.
" If his Majesty should be graciously pleased to desire a
continuation of your services, we beg to assure you that we
shall be prepared to afford to your Lordship our best support
in carrying into effect the reforms and improvements so anx-
iously desired by the country, in accordance with that liberal
and enlightened policy which secured to the people the great
and salutary measure of Parliamentary Reform.
" We believe that we shall fulfil our duty to our consti-
tuents, and best promote the interests of the realm, by thus
evincing our confidence, that your Lordship, and those with
whom you may ally yourself, will act upon constitutional and
liberal principles in the administration of public affairs.
We have, &c. &c.
" Lord Viscount Althorp."
Particular care was taken in the paper to avoid in-
tending the semblance of any dictation to the King,
and the object of it was simply personal to Lord
Althorp, and to prove that his resumption of office
would be acceptable to all parties—Tories excepted—
at the present crisis. Perhaps there never was a mem-
ber of the House of Commons, on many personal and
political grounds, who united so many sections and
interests in his favour. No possible imputation could
be entertained against Lord Althorp, in respect to his
secession from the Ministry of Lord Grey. An ap-
peal to the late Premier himself would soon set this in-
sinuation to rest, and Lord Grey has too high an esti-
mate of the honour of Lord Althorp to allow it to
subsist for one moment. The proceedings in the
House of Commons this evening will be looked for-
ward to with great interest.—Morning Chronicle.
Nothing has, we believe, been yet determined about
the Ministry. Reports, however, abound, which we
should be sorry to undertake to reconcile. It is stated
in many quarters that, on the resignation of Earl Grey,
his Majesty's anxious wish was to see an administra-
tion formed out of the elite of all parties, and that to
ascertain the practicability of such an attempt was the
commission with which Lord Melbourne was intrusted.
His Lordship's answer is said to have represented the
attempt as hopeless. All idea of a coalition is, there-
fore, supposed to be relinquished. Our city article
speaks of an application to Sir Robert Peel as a ru-
mour to which some degree of credit was attached in
the city. But the mention of Lord Althorp as Pre-
mier has been revived again, and revived in a more cir-
cumstantial form than before, as the following requisi-
tion will demonstrate, This requisition is said to have
originated with Mr. Hume, who has taken upon him-
self the part hitherto performed by Lord Ebrington.
Some of our contemporaries will have it that another
requisition, to the same effect, has been forwarded by
another party ; so that, if these statements be correct,
Lord Althorp is in a fair way of returning to power.
We may add that Lord Melbourne and Mr. Spring
Rice visited the Marquis of Lansdowne on Saturday,
at his house in Berkeley-square, and that Lord Mel-
bourne had an interview with the King yesterday. It
would be easy for us to add to the length of this article
by noticing other reports which have been circulated
with equal confidence, if not plausibility, but having al-
ready said enough for the state of our information, we
are satisfied to proceed no farther until we shall have
heard more.—Morning Herald.
We regret that it is not yet in our power to relieve
the anxious suspense in which the country has now
been held for nearly a week upon the subject of the
formation of a Ministry. We need not tell our readers,
that on Saturday and yesterday a thousand conflicting
rumours were in circulation, more of less connected
with this engrossing subject. A crisis like the present
is never barren of rumours. Many of those of the
last two days were manifestly no more than the mere
emanations of babbling surmise ; many of them the
expressive indications of the hopes and the wishes
of parties or individuals ; sonic of them perhaps
the artful manceuvres by which politicians sought
to promote ,the success of intrigues of their own,
or to circumvent the intrigues of others. Having
no authentic information as to what is going on, or
none, at least, which we feel at liberty to lay before
the world, we willingly spare our readers the repeti-
tion of reports and surmises which we could only re-
peat for the purpose of contradicting. It is probable
that this day will not pass before something definitive
will have- been concluded. It is almost certain that it
will not pass without wild) having been explained.
We believe, notwithstanding the contradiction of the
Globe, that we were quite correct' in stating, as we
did on Saturday, that " the attempt of Lord Mel-
bourne to make up an Administration out of the
wreck of the Grey Cabinet" was " understood to have
been signally unsuccessful." We.may venture also to
express our belief that the project of a coalition Minis-
try, if it was ever seriously entertained in any quarter, is
now finally abandoned.—Morning Post.

Lord Melbourne again paid a visit to his Majesty
yesterday at Windsor ; but what the object of that
visit could be, except to report to his IVlajesty the total
failure of his original mission—namely, that of form-
ing a mixed or coalition Cabinet, consisting of the
principal persons on the opposition side of the House
of Lords, in alliance with those of the dilapidated
Cabinet. We are aware that it is not believed in
well-informed quarters that any negociation of any
kind has ever existed between the King's confidential
adviser, Lord Melbourne, and the chiefs of the Tory
party ; but we are, nevertheless, almost in a situation
to prove that such a negociation has been attempted
—that letters, answers, and replies have passed be-
tween the Duke of Wellington and Lord Melbourne
on the one hand, and between the Lord Chancellor
and Lord Rosslyn on the other. What the purport
of
,these communications was, we have, of course,
no means of informing our readers ; but at such a
crisis, to what could they have related but the re-
modelling
of the Cabinet ? Is there any sane person
who would believe that they were of a purely com-
plimentary character, and had no reference to the
political events of the day ? But there is another fact,
and it is one of immense importance at this moment—
and that is, thut no liberal Member of either House of
Parliament has hitherto had any communication will:,
Lord Melbourne. We take upon ourselves to state
this to be the fact ; and we regret to be under the ne-
cessity of stating it, because although Lord Melbourne
has the character of being a liberal statesman, and

would not, we feel confident, form a part either of a
coalition or of a Tory Government, we are of opinion
that his Lordship has placed himself in a false posi-