The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-22 00:00:00

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RAMSGATE, Nov. 20.—1 t is blowing a gale
here from the N. N.E., and all the vessels are driven from the
Downs. I am fearful that we shall hear of much mischief
among the shipping. The waves are dashing proudly over
the magnificent pier. The Ramsgate packet from Calais has
just arrived (four o'clock), and brought seven passengers; she
beat the Post-office packet, the Ferret, for Dover, by at least
a quarter of an hour, and though the passage was very rough,
the passengers declared that they had made a better passage
than they had anticipated.

CORPORATION COMMISSION.---The Corporation
Commissioners have investigated the affairs of the Curriers'
Company and of the Combmakers. The former Company
still exercise considerable influence over the trade, and regu-
late the rates of wages. The working curriers are represented
to be generally a more respectable class of men than other
journeymen, as the apprentice fee is very high, sometimes
amounting to 450 guineas. The Combmakers' Company is
one of the poorest in the city. The Company possess about 9001.
in the stocks. They claim jurisdiction over the trade to a
distance of twenty miles round London, but it is never exer-
cised. A great many persons take up their freedom and
livery in this Company, in consequence of its costing less than
any other. The Court only dine together once a year, and
the dinner never costs more than 101.

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TWOPE N NY— PosT-oFFICE.—Very extensive ar-
rangements are making by Sir Francis Freeling in this de-
partment, which are expected to be completed in a few weeks.
There will be six deliveries daily in town ; three in the envi-
rons, within ten miles of the General Post-office, and two
within a distance of twenty miles. These new regulations will
be of the utmost importance to the public, as letters at present
sent to a distance of above ten miles are only delivered at the
same time as those sent to Brighton, Bristol, or 130 miles from
town.
AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.-011
Tuesday last, William Wilson, reader at Messrs. Gilbert and
Rivington's, St. John's-square, left that office in perfect health,
about three o'clock, for his own house, No. 8, Poole-street,
New North Road. On arriving there, he ate a hearty dinner,
and was observed to be unusually cheerful during the meal.
When he had finished, ho proceeded to his garden, followed by
one of his children, where he had previously arranged some
slight alteration in the form of the ground. He was in the
act of using the spade for that purpose, when in a faint voice
he desired his child to fetch its mother. This was immediately
done ; but when Mrs. Wilson arrived at the spot, she found
her husband a corpse ! He had died in a fit of apoplexy ; but
so powerful and sudden bad been its effeet, that in one moment
life had become extinct. The deceased had been many years
in the employment of Mr. Baylis, of Johnson's-court, and
Messrs. Cox, of Great Queen-street. In those printing-
offices he bore an exemplary character. The case of his widow
and three children is earnestly recommended to the kind con-
sideration of the public, and the printing department in par-
ticular.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC-4

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His Majesty yesterday held a Pri Tch
was attended by the Duke of Welling some
other members of the Conservative party ; but we have
as yet nothing further to communicate on the subject
of the Administration. Were we to attempt to give
one-half the rumours so industriously circulated on
this subject, we might well exclaim—
., Adeo sunt multa, laquacem
Delassare valent Fabium."
The Noble Duke is the only Minister who has been
sworn into his office, which is that of Home Secre-
tary. It is understood that this is only to be tem-
porary, and that, should Sir Robert Peel consent to
take the Premiership with the Chancellorship of the
Exchequer, the Noble Duke will take the Secre-
taryship of Foreign Affairs, and the present Speaker
of the House of Commons will be Home Secretary.
The pi esent Chief Baron, Lord Lyndhurst, takes the
Great Seal in Commission, his brother Commissioner
being, it is said, Mr. Justice Bosanquet. This, how-
ever, is only in consequence of the Noble Duke's re-
solution to make no appointment at present, as it is
determined that Lord Lyndhurst will be Chancellor,
and it is equally understood that he will be succeeded
by Sir James Scarlett as Chief Baron, with a
Peerage. That measures of preparation have also
been taken with respect to filling up the other offices
we know, and some individuals we could name have
been sounded as to their capability to obtain a re-
election or a seat in the House of Commons in the
event of their acceptance of office. We mention the
above appointments as almost certain ; other offices, of
course, have their different persons named for them ;
but when, as we have above observed, nothing can be
finally settled for the next fortnight, it would be waste
of time to mention all such speculations. While, how-
ever, writing thus calmly on this most important sub-
ject, we must observe that we cannot conceal from our-
selves the fact, that the country is looking with no
small degree of anxiety for a clear and unequivocal de-
claration of the principles on which the Noble Duke
means to act. That the country has been " astounded
and alarmed" to the extent that some of our contem-
poraries would fain persuade their readers we deny ; but
we have no hesitation in asserting that their not hav-
ing felt the alleged alarm is owing chiefly to a proper
confidence in their own strength and power, and also,
perhaps, to an unwillingness to believe that the Duke
of Wellington--or any of his adherents—can
have consented to form a Government with any
such insane intention as to put an end to all further
reform. For ourselves, we will confess that such in-
fatuation appears to us to be incredible. And as we
have never been amongst the flatterers of the Noble
Duke, as we have never told him that his best laurels
have been gained as a statesman, we trust, therefore,
we shall easily obtain credit for sincerity when we state
that we do not yet believe him to be so blind to the
course of events as " to lay the flattering unction to
his soul," and hope that he can re-assume the reins of
Government on anti-reform principles, and with the
determination to deny all those necessary reforms which
every real friend, both of Church and State, now ad-
mit should no longer be delayed. His friends and
partizans are asserting most strongly, we admit, that
the Duke and his party are prepared to effect all judi-
cious and salutary changes—to relieve the Dissenters
from their actual grievances, and to reform the Church,
without, at the same time, at all impairing its dignity
and usefulness, and by extending to Ireland such
system of relief for its destitute poor as will tend more
than any other measure to secure that unfortunate
country from the hands of unprincipled and selfish de-
magogues, and, by thoroughly reforming the Church
,
Establishment in that country, to put an end to those
heart-burnings and disturbances which have now ren-
dered it one scene of rapine, lawlessness, and murder.
If these reports be true—if, we repeat—all may be
well ; but we confess we have been startled at hearing
of one or two persons being likely to be connected
with the Government, whose ultra principles cannot
fail to throw a very strong suspicion on the intentions
of any Cabinet of which they form a part. Their
constant struggles and intrigues against every reform
—their equally zealous advocacy of the claims of the
oligarchy, which has been the cause of such
innumerable evils to this kingdom, and, we might
almost add, to the world at large—cannot fail
to excite a degree of suspicion in the breast
of the country, which scarcely any professions,
or even measures, could effectually remove. Till,
however, the principles of the new Administration are
declared, we cannot but disapprove of the attempts
made to excite alarm throughout the country ; till then,
we equally condemn the holdings of meetings for the
purpose of addressing the Crown on the late step
which it has thought fit to take. These latter savour
too strongly of an attempt to exert a greater influence
over the Crown than is justified by our Constitution,
which, thank Heaven is not yet a wild democracy.
The liberal and enlightened majority of the nation, we
feel convinced, do not at all feel themselves called
upon to interfere at present. They have too strong
and a well-founded reliance on their own strength,
and on the good intentions of their Sove-
reign. But let it only be once declared that
the Noble Duke has again taken office, with the
same opinion on reform that caused his instantaneous
deposition from power only a few years back, and we
have no, hesitation in asserting that his fall now will be
as speedy and certain as it was then, and which, if for
a time delayed, will probably be only the more dis-
astrous and destructive to the throne and other valued
institutions of the realm. Since writing the above,
the following announcement appeared in the Supple-
ment to the Gazette of last night :
" His Majesty in Council was this day pleased to deliver
the Great Seal to the Right Honourable John Lord Lynd-
hurst ; whereupon the oath of Lord High Chancellor of Great
Britain was, by his Majesty's command, administered to him,
and his Lordship took his place at the Board accordingly."
It will be recollected how pompously a Morning
Paper declared that no appointment except that of the
Duke of Wellington had been made, or even dis-
cussed, and that none would take place until the arrival
of Sir Robert Peel.—Morning Herald.
It is amusing to observe the shifts to which the
ex-Ministerial papers are put, in order to evade the
unanimous verdict of the public, which, notwithstand-
ing all their petty attempts at agitation, they feel is
about to sentence them and their masters to eternal
oblivion. We had stated the fact, in which we were
afterwards in greater detail corroborated by other
journals, that Lord Melbourne had acquainted his Ma-
jesty that a serious difference of opinion existed in the
Cabinet upon the subject of further encroachments on
the property of the Church. Now, see how warily,
and at the same time how timidly, the Morning Chro-
nicle (we willingly adopt its authority as the organ of
an expiring faction) ventures upon a hesitating con-
tradiction :—" This, however, we can safely state ....
there were no actual (the italics are not ours)
differences in the Cabinet, and Lord Melbourne
was not aware of any questions respecting which
they were disunited ; but who can say what
is possible or not possible ?" See how cunningly
the Chronicle evades the real question, and
hides himself in the mysteries of special pleading.
"No actual difference That is to say, no positive
declared schism. But will the Chronicle or its
prompter venture to deny what we, in the teeth of
all their denials, would still continue to assert, that
there were questions of the precise kind alluded to
above, that were of neeessity_ to be brought before
the Melbourne Cabinet previous to the meeting of
Parliament, which Lord Melbourne admitted in his
conversation with his Majesty to be of a nature to
lead to the resignation of Lord Lansdowne and
Mr. Rice, and others, in the probable event of these
gentlemen being outvoted in the Cabinet by their
more Liberal colleagues ? Will the Chronicle and
its prompters deny that Lord Melbourne admitted
to his Majescy that if, on the other hand, the Ca-
binet could by any management overpower these
attempts of the Radical portion of it, his Lordship
could not conceal from the King that, in case the
L seine anti-Church projects were broached in the
House of Commons by any of the demagogues of the
day, the members of the aforesaid Radical section of
the Government would vote on a division against their
more prudent colleagues in his Majesty's service ? We
have worded the foregoing sentences as queries. We
• , boldly put them as facts. True it is that the Govern-
- I merit, conscious of the inevitable consequence of a de .