The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-11 00:00:00

the vessel to the wind ;" but not one jot as to where
the port lies, or how you are to gain it. That por-
tion of the press which has assumed the ?ffice of pro-
mise-maker to the Tories, stands confessed and
branded in the eyes of all England—in the eyes of
all the world—as the Political Weathercock ; and all
that the people can learn from it is how they can be-
come the servile tools of the Administration—subser-
vient to all its purposes—bad or worse—at the mercy
of that wind, from which quarter soever it may blow ;
and we have the experience that, in as far as honest
and straightforward reform is concerned, it has blown
nothing but blight and mildew—the withering of every
liberal hope—the nipping in the bud of every demon-
stration of public feeling. And if the Tories (Ave
must use that word for want of a better) should grant
a few nominal reforms of the Irish Church, or other-
wise, what would that avail ? Is England so poor
in spirit, so wretched in condition, so debased in
principle, so lost to all that has made her the
Queen of the nations, as to beg at the • door of
the Minister that bread which she has earned
by her own labour, and out of which the Mi-
nister himself is fed by her bounty ? Forbid it,
heaven I Forbid it, earth I Forbid it all that "is
honest, true, lovely, or of good report I" It is not
any one specific Reform, be it what it may, which is
wanted. The people of these kingdoms are not silly
children, to be " pleased with a rattle, tickled by a
straw ;" they are men, and men sinewed by the good
fight which they have already fought for their liberties.
They love freedom ; they have in so far obtained in
the councils of the country, the reflection of that free-
dom which was born and nurtured in the country
itself : and therefore they want, and, be the struggle
what it may, they will have,—an Administration im-
bued with the same spirit—animated by the same de-
sire of Reform. It is not any one specific alteration
in any one part of their institutions which the people
demand—it is a thorough sifting and revisal of the
whole, not for any factious purpose—far from it—but
for the general, obvious, confessed, and practical good of
the whole. Many, indeed almost all, of our institu-
tions have been so long in a state of corruption and
estrangement from the people, that it is impossible at
once to say what are the reforms and alterations which
they require. Time only can establish this ; and,
therefore, it is indispensable that the people of this
country should have an administration possessing a
conformity of feeling with them, always ready to hear
them, and to go along with them in the accomplish-
ment of every good work. This is what we, the
people of England, want, wish for, and must have ;
and of this, whatever may be said, nay, whatever may
be done, they can have no hope from the Tories. If
these men shall be traitors to their own principles—to
those principles which, from the constancy with which
they have been displayed, appear to be as necessary to
their existence as the breath of their nostrils, how can
they be true to the principles of the people of Eng-
land, of which they have always kit and expressed
their detestation ? We shall return to this subject.—
Morning Advertiser.
Alas, alas ! What has become of the wish " father
to the thought " of our Radical contemporaries that
Sir Robert Peel would not accept office at the present
moment ? How completely have the hopes of Jaco-
binism been frustrated, the anticipations of ex-place-
inenship been destroyed, by the prompt and patriotic
obedience of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer to
the commands of his Sovereign. We have never en-
tertained for a moment the slightest doubts of such a
result. We knew that, although the delicate and
sensitive feeling of honour which has ever been
an attribute of the Right Honourable Baronet pre-
vented . him from accepting office two years ago,-
under circumstances which might have exposed his
conduct to the misrepresentations of those whose
breath is faction, and whose trade is • falsehood,
that as soon as the time should arrive when Sir
Robert Peel thought he might accept office with
honour to himself and advantage to his King and
country, he would readily and cheerfully come forward.
Our anticipations have been realized, and the formation
of the Administration has been entrusted to one who
has more than fulfilled the splendid promises which
early academical distinction held. out, to one whose
eloquence, statesmanlike views, and unrivalled judg-
ment, combine with unblemished private reputation and
the possession of wealth, which places him far above
the love of office for the sake of its advantages, to
point him out as incomparably the fittest man for rule
at this important crisis. With him are associated the
illustrious hero whose acceptance of the Seals of the
Foreign Department is a . guarantee for the honour,
peace, and dignity of England (what a contrast with
Lord Palmerston I), and the learned and acute
Lord Lyndhurst, who leaves to his successor (if re-
port speak true, no unworthy possessor of his mantle) a
judgment seat which he has raised to pre-eminence and
distinction as a British Court of Justice. Will Lord
Stanley' and Sir James Graham join is now the
question ? For their own sake, as well as that of the
country, we trust the question will be answered in the
Affirmative. There can be now no material points of
.difference between Conservatives of any denomination.
Loyalty to the King, attachment to the Church, and
an affectionate veneration for theecclesiastical and civil
institutions of the land, with an anxious but cautious
desire to effect such reforms as may be useful or ne-
cessary, are the principles which animate in common
the Duke of Wellington and Lord Stanley; Sir Robert
Peel and Sir James Graham. The result of such an
union cannot be doubtful—a firm, compact, and en-
lightened Administration, which may bid defiance alike
to foes of every description, whether they muster under
the banner of destructive innovation, or are banded
together merely by an inordinate attachment to the
honours and advantages of office.--Mornino- Post.
It will be seen that some progress was made yes-
terday in forming the new Administration, Sir Robert
Peel having, as was expected, received the offices of
First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer ; the Duke of Wellington the seals of the
Foreign Department ; and Lord Lyndhurst, the Great
Seal of England. These three Ministers constitute
at present the nucleus of the forthcoming Cabinet,
of which nothing more will probably be known until
answers shall have arrived from Lord Stanley and
Sir James Graham to propositions which, it is under-
stood, have been made to them on the part of the
new head of the Administration. If Lord Stanley
declines a seat in the Cabinet, his friends are of
opinion that he, nevertheless, will steadily support
it, but that a little time must show. When it is
urged those who are indifferent to party, but
who measure their conduct towards a given Admi-
nistration by its policy, past or prospective—when
they express their willingness to give a fair trial to
this " Conservative" governMent, and not expel it from
office until it shall have proved itself unworthy,—they
are answered off-hand--" Why should we try the
" Duke ? We knew him formerly as a deprecator of
all reform. How can he now be otherwise ? Let us
recall those whom we know by experience to be its
friends." We think there will be no great labour in
showing the fallacy of such language under the cir-
cumstances in which it is now resorted to. When the

Duke of Wellington made his declaration against
Reform, he-did no more than manifest the repugnance
of a statesman who never had been an experimentalist
in politics towards any great and vital change in the old
institutions of his country. He had seen in other parts of
Europe more of political experiment, or of its conse-
quences, and been compelled to meditate it more closely
and anxiously,than perhaps any other man existing. He
had witnessed its progress and its perverse, wayward, and
uncertain action in the Peninsula, and in France the

effects of twenty-eight years of incessant change, which
had been such that no fixed principles of government

were there relied upon, save only those of arbitrary,
that is, of military power. It would be little wonder
if a man long disgusted by the want of stable and re-
spected institutions elsewhere, brought home a mind
impressed above all things with the persuasion that
repose must be a master element in the political system
of a nation desirous to be happy. We have no doubt
that a dislike of change, merely as change, had a
considerable share in the Duke of Wellington's re-
sistance to Catholic emancipation, to the repeal of
the Test Act, and finally to an extensive reform in
the representation of the people.- - But this was be-
fore the accomplishment of such changes. Does any'
person suppose that the Duke of Wellington's early