The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-24 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24, 1858.

The Ministerial arrangements have been com-
pleted, and the list duly presented to her MAJESTY

by the Earl of DERBY. It will be found in

another part of our impression, and nearly coin-
cides with what we stated to be the probable ap-

pointments on Monday last. Fortunately for

Lord DEBBY and the community, Mr. GLADSTONE

has not been included in the Cabinet. There is
no infusion of the Aberdeenite element in the
Ministerial cauldron. The Right Hon. Gentleman
will still be enabled to cultivate his peculiar ciot-

chets on the Opposition or neutral benches. His
talents are unquestionably great, but his services
would be double-edged—as likely to damage
friends as enemies.

Mr. DISRAELI is to be the financial Minister,
with the uncontrolled leadership of the House of
Commons. Although he very disinterestedly
offered to waive his powerful claims to that
position, the sacrifice was not required, and Mr.
DISRAELI can now bring forward his own views
without being embarrassed by the equivocal aid
of the Right Hon. Member for the University
of Oxford. Even within the present month
he strongly deprecated any further delays on the
Bank Charter question, and emphatically declared
that there were ample materials for immediate
legislation. He will be required to act in strict
accordance with his professions, to show that his
"sayings and doings" duly correspond, and that

be will not be changed by the possession Recollect that this YES is no merely insignifl -
of office. A large and comprehensive cant Proconsul. He was lately the ruler of one
measure of monetary reform is expected at his of the most flourishing, one of the most fertile,
bands, and he should not disappoint the natural one of the most wealthy, and one of the most
anticipations of the people, or suffer himself to be densely-populated of all the vast provinces of the
hoodwinked by the " hard calculators," or their Celestial Empire. He was Viceroy of a gigantic
organs in the Fourth Estate. Nor will it be the country, having as its chief city one of the five
currency question alone that must be attended to. noblest capitals in all China. Canton being re-
He has already shown a disposition to improve garded in importance as the third or central one
the iniquitous Income Tax, to relieve to some among these five principal capitals : having only
small extent those who earn their daily bread by Pekin and Nankin superior to it, and having both
their daily labour, and who are now oppressed Amoy and Ningpo rated as its subordinates.
and ground down by the unfair and unequal Remember, moreover, that the province of
assessment that draws as much from the hard- which YES was up to the sth ultimo Viceroy—
working clerk at 1501. per annum, as from the the enormous province of Kwang-tung—is in one
foittinate possessor of 5,0001. Three per Cent. sense the most important of all the 18 provinces
Consols. Re will now have an opportunity of of China, so far as the relations of China with the
submitting his views for the consideration of the vest of the nations of the earth are in any way
Popular branch of the legislature, and should the affected. For through the capital of Kwang-tung
Derbyitee decide on an appeal to the wan (ry it will —the city known amongst us as Cantor, but
be utterly futile, unless they can conciliate the amongst the Chinese themselves designated
middle classes, and obtain the assistance and Kwang-chop-foe—the commerce of China, more
support of which they stand greatly
in need, and than through any other of her seaports, is carried
which would not be conceded unless they proved on with the tea-consumers and the silk-purchasers
themselves worthy thereof.
among the other inhabitants of the globe, the
Besides there is the Reform Bill, without which " barbarian" races of both hemispheres 1
the nation will not be satisfied. The
• people wan', i Let it not be forgotten, too, that this
reform, and it must be granted without further great province of Kwang-tung occupies the
Procrastination or equivocation. Lord PALMER- prominent position among all the eighteen pro-
Isl'a Promised something, although he carefully vinces of the Celestial Empire by reason of its
withheldthedetails of his contemplated measure. superiority over all the other five provinces lying
We must say that
in an
we do
degreenot believe that along the coast line of China. It presents a
its prospects will
be
tdeteriorated wider coast line in itself than any of those five
by his abdication. We shall look to
h tdifferent other provinces on the Chinese seaboard--a coast
competitors—to the ex.-leader and the new leader line more extended than that of either Poo-keen,
of the House of Commons, and to the veteran who j or Che-kian
th : a ea
island
of
nor Kt e
ang-nen, or Shan-tung, or Pe-
en' inaugurated the modern Magna Charfa. Between chili g,
iinunionuto that of Leo-tong, from a point
s seaboard extending
DISRAELI, itfrom the
Lord PALMERSTON, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and Mr. (gulf of Totig-
ci
to southern
Will be hard indeed if the nation confronting the westernr the north. o f extremity ofthe
cannot obtain that which it so greatly requires. ! Haivan to a point fa
permitted to open the ball,ll extremity of the peninsula of the Korea.
Mr. DIsRA2LI will be
Bear in mind, ltkewise, that the province over
and put forward the first tender. But he cannot
province having an area
rest on his oars, nor will he be permitted to let which Commissioner YEH has hithetto been pre-
What he is to siding as the vice-regal representative of the
the grass grow under his feet.
do must be done quickly. Chinese EMPEROR—is a
His competitors will
of some 80,000 square miles, comprising within
be impatient for his decision, and the people Will
it about 20,000,000 souls as the number of its
not sanction the shelving of the important (pee..
Reckoning those square miles in
tion. We shall witness the contest with con- populatioD.