The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-13 00:00:00

CONCERTS.-

CRV ANTI7RBU Y HALL
EERY EVENING,
A Grand Selection from the opera of
NORMA.

Norma ...• •• • • • • • Miss RUSSELL.
Adalgisa .•• • • . Madame MARIA,
(Her first appearance in this country.)
Ai ter which the ETHIOPIANS, consisting of Seventeen Per-
formers. orerAnised expressly for this establishment, for the
Performance )f Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and
Sentimental, F3th Negro Delineations, Anecdotes, &c. Prin-
cipal Negro Artistes, Messrs. Joe Brown, G. W. Pell, H.
Drummond, and Charley F•x.
Musical Director, Mr. F. JONGH3IANS.
Balcony, is Hall. dd.

TR] WEATHER.....SUN OFFICE, NOT. 13, 100.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
44—highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
45—this day at noon.

BARomETER-21.59.
WIND—South-Easterly; light, with fine mild weather.'

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY.—Morning, 11h. :22m.—Afternoon, lh. 45m.
To-xtowtow.-Morning, 2h. Bm.—Afternoon, 2h. 132 m.

THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 13, 1860.

'The Cabinet Council convened this afternoon, at
the official residence of the Prime Minister, is in a
manner the nucleus, as we may call it, of a cluster of
great Ministerial opportunities. Let us hope that
events will show that these same opportunities
have neither been overlooked nor neglected when
recognised, by the high advisers of the SovEREiGN.
At this reunion, it should be remarked, the
Administrators of England have been brought
together exactly midway between the annual pro-
rogation and re-assembling of Parliament. During
the interval which elapses (every recurring twelve-
month) between these two important events, a
weightier responsibility devolves, as a matter of
course, upon the Ministers of the Crown, as the
conservators of the honour of the country, and as
the regulators and directors (unembarrassed, for a
while, by the co-operation or interposition of the
two Houses of the Legislature), of the gigantic,
yet delicate and complicated mechanism of
our Constitutional Government. At home and
abroad —in regard to the policy of this
country—they are necessarily in a great mea-
sure as supremely " monarchs of all they survey"
as SELKIRK on his desert island: they are thus in
a great measure collectively as a Cabinet, and thus
also are they each of them peculiarly and individually
in the conduct of the affairs of their respective de-
partments. The only moderating influences indeed
which can be said to affect the councils of her
MAJESTY'S Ministers during this long period of
independent action, apart from the authority of the
Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, are
those derived on one hand from the remembrance
that with the return of February the Legislature
or the empire will be again brought together, and
upon
the other (this influence being always more
urgently felt,
because absolutely unceasing in its
evidences of activity and of vigilance) from the un-
sleeping
watchfulness, and the bold and ever
audible voice
of Public Opinion as enunciated
through the press. if Ministers, therefore, are
thus annually allowed, during very nearly one-half
of the year, viz
from the end of August until the
beginning of February, a show of more than ordinary
independence, an appearance almost, as one may say
of actual irresponsibility—their burden of
and individual, respon-
sibilities, both collective are in
truth only, as we before intimated, enhanced in-
stead of being diminished ; they-are never for an
instant independent either of that Public
Opinion
which perpetually envelopes them, as
it were, like
an atmosphere, or of that Coming Session, which
must always haunt the conscience of a Cabinet,
almost like a sense of remorse, during the whole of
the five or six months' interval of the winter vaca-
tion.
At any ordinary Cabinet Council convened ex-
actly midway between the last and the next session
of Imperial Parliament, one might not unreason-
ably presume that the Ministers of the Crown
must necessarily, if only from the mere circum-
stance of their assembline; thus exactly midway
between those tw o (to themselves especially) impor-
tant events—that: Ministers, if for no other reason,
at any rate for cant, must be impelled then espe-
cially to take a taore than usually comprehensive,
and impartial, an .d attentive survey of
into which the pt >Hey of the country, both at home
and abroad, hadi
)y that time been brought under
their Ivii,l[Aerial iluidanee, or, it might be, eves
in spite of their • •
M inisterial guidance.
The Cabinet Cast •
ncil of this afternoon, however,'

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