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

that to Marshal SOULT will eventually be entrusted
the formation of the new, or rather the cobbling up of
the old Ministry. The public seem tolerably indiffe-
rent upon the subject ; it matters not to them who may
be called the Ministry, when they know that whatever
men LOUIS PHILIPPE may make choice of, he
alone will be the bona fide and actual Premier.
How far the French may deem this consistent with the
spirit of their charter we cannot say, but to us it
most certainly appears unconstitutional. The Gazette
de France has already undergone several prosecutions
for its agitation of this point, and although it is but
seldom we can agree with it on any question, we mu=d
confess that its arguments upon this subject arc both
just and liberal. The charter expressly says that
the nation shall hold the Ministers 'responsible for
their acts ; and if the King, in face of this, per-
sists in being his own Prime Minister, we eettainly
think that in so doing, the nation have an undoubted
right to hold him responsible, along with the rest of
the Ministers, for whatever measures they may adopt.

It would be honourable to the independence of the
several candidates whom we have heard nained, if th
KING'S determination on this point, were the difficulty
which hindered the formation of a Ministrv, but we fear
it is more owing to their mutual jealousies of each other,
than to their dislike of being the mere puppets of th:.;

Monarch, that the delays may be attributed. .It seems
decided that Prince TALLEYRAND shall not return to
London—his health is too far bro.en to permit him to

think of resuming his functions at our Court. The
Duke de BItoGLIE, as we mentioned yesterday, will
most probably be his successor.

Whatever may be the result, we are glad to find
that the conduct of the Marquis of DowNsHIRE in
attending the Orange Meeting at Hillsborough, and
the right of the Government to dismiss him from
the Lieutenancy of the county of Down in conse-
quence thereof, are engaging the fullest attention of
our morning and evening contemporaries. "In the
multitude of councillors there is wisdom," saith the
wisest of men ; and, therefore, is it no less wise than
prudent in the Government, to hear the reasoning of
all parties, before any decisive steps are taken which
would render advice valueless, and reproof irritating,
without the possibility of exercising a wholesome in-
fluence. But now that all have been heard, let us
ask what do the arguments of those who protest
against the removal of Lord DOWNSHIRE from the
Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Down amount to?
-Why, we anticipated them all in our second article
which appeared on the subject, for we believe we were
only preceded by the Chronicle in commenting upon
Mr. SHEIL's well-timed letter to the Marquis of
W'ELLESLEY. The Tory prints declare that to re-
move Lord DOWNSHIRE from the Lieutenancy, would
be on the part of the Government a stooping to the
dictation of the Irish Dictator DANIEL and his Tail,
while the more liberal journals in which the same views
are advocated, declare that the adoption of such a line
of policy would be an infringement of the liberty of the
subject, and a base imitation of the acts of Lords SID-
MOUTH and CASTLEREAGH. Now we are neither
advocates for the policy of the Tories in general, nor are
we among those who have bowed the knee to the Irish
idol. We would coerce no man for his opinions ; nei-
ther would we recommend the infliction of any penalty
for the expression of them, provided their avowed ten-
dency was not to endanger the peace of society. But
in the name of reason, what would these journalists
have the Government to do in such cases as that of
Lord DOWNSHIRE? Is every act necessarily evil,
because O'CONNELL may recommend it, or Lords
SIDMOUTH or CASTLEREAGH may have performed
it ? What kind of shallow, stupid, vapid nonsense is
this to put forth, as argument on a great national ques-
tion? We do not urge the infliction of punishment on any
Orange conservative attending the Hilsborough gather-
, ing ; all we say is that no person ought to be suffered to
exercise the power of the Government, for the purpose
of bringing that Government into contempt. If Lord
DOWNSHIRE has, since the lieutenantcy of Down was
conferred upon him, discovered that the Whigs are the
bane of the country, let him speak out and welcome—we
care nothing forhis abuse ; but let him not make use of the
power of the Whigs to obtain possession of the rostrum
whence he denounces them. Why should the Whigs
be called upon to eschew the example of the Tories
with respect to their subordinates ? Do those who
employ such language know that justice and not gene-
rosity is the duty of a Government ? Do they reflect
that if the subordinates act in opposition to the ruling
body, one or other must be guilty of great national de-
linquency, for which the governing power is alone re-
sponsible? If we understand aught of the science of Go-
vernment, we apprehend that in its executive functions a
Cabinet cannot permit itself to be resisted by its subordi.
nates, without a clear admission of its total incapacity for
discharging the duties which appertain to it. 'Without
entering into the question of the legality or illegality
of the meeting itself—of which we have some doubts—
its object clearly and manifestly was, the condemnation
of the conduct of the present Government with respect
to Ireland. The meeting was convened by the High
Sheriff of the county, although several magistrates
protested against the legality of the summons ; and
the instrument issued on that occasion bore the signa-
ture of the Noble Marquis, not simply in the
character of a country gentleman, but as Lord
Lieutenant of • DOWN, under those very Whigs
whom he called upon the people to assemble to de-
nounce as betrayers of their country. The language
held at the meeting was most infamous. The Govern-
ment was charged with heaping honours on men for
advocating the assassination of the Protestant
Clergy ; and the Members of the Cabinet were
called over by name, and held up to scorn
and ridicule in the face of an infuriated rabble, by the
very men whom they continued in power under them—
namely, the Orange Magistracy of Ulster. It may be
contended that it was not in the power of Lord DOWN-
SHIRE to foresee what would take place in the course
of the meeting—that he ought not to be made
responsible for the ravings of Lord LONDON-
DERRY, or the insane twaddle of Lord RODEN and
Sir R. BATESON. We admit all this. He could
not, it is true, anticipate that Lord. CASTLEREAGH
would have permitted his oratorical valour to ooze out
in the bristled appearance of a lion springing from his
lair, lashing his tail, and growling defiance at the
enemies of Orange Conservatism,: but then, did he
move the adjournment of the meeting, when he found
it begin to breathe the atmosphere of a region which
we care not to particularise ? Why did not, Lord
DOWNSHIRE, or the Noble Chairman, his son, call
the speakers to order, who dared to charge that Go-
vernment, whose power they were then exercising, with
combining to encourage the perpetration of murder,
and every other species of crime ? That they did not