The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-05 00:00:00

TICE INBA.THER.-SUN OFFICE, JULY 5.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
77—highest since noon yesterday.
62—lowest this morning and during the night.
72—this day at noon.
BAROMETER.3O.4O--rising fast.
WIND, North Westerly ; rather fresh, with fine cloudy
weather and sunshine. It was very sultry last evening, the
thermometer being up to 74 at sunset.

Our prediction has been fulfilled—or rather it
should be said perhaps more correctly, our selection
has been adopted by the head of her MAJESTY'S
Government. Immediately Mr. COBDEN'S refusal
of the post set apart for his acceptance became
known on Saturday, we pointed out in our impres-
sion of that evening, the man who according to our
opinion ought most appropriately and fittingly to
be nominated at once to the seat thus left vacant at
the council board of the Coalition Cabinet. Our
remarks though brief were so explicit in themselves
that we cannot more distinctly indicate our senti-
ments at this moment in the matter than by quoting
verbatim et literatim, without any alteration what-
ever, the precise words used by ourselves on Satur-
day evening, when referring to the last and crown-
ing appointment requisite to complete the newly-
organised Administration. Having commented at
some length upon the indisputably pure and lofty
civism which had manifestly prompted the refusal
by the hon. member for Rochdale of the triple
honours of a seat in the Cabinet, the Presidency of
the Board of Trade, and the right honnourable
distinction of an enrolment among the ranks of the
Privy Councillors of the SOVEREIGN—We added
these words at the close of our second leading article
on Saturday :

" There remains, however, for the Premier now to
decide, as speedily as may be, the question—Who
shall be nominated to the post in the Administra-
tration still left vacant by the self-abnegation of
the Great Free Trade Leader of the political school
of Manchester. And here we cannot but recall to
mind one name strangely enough passed over alto-
gether in the formation of this singular Coalition
Government. Who could more appropriately be
inducted to the post of the Presidency of the Board
of Trade, or to that of the Poor Law Board
(supposing the latter to be vacated by Mr. GIBSON'S
acceptance of the former), than the eminent pre-
cursor in the House of Commons of the great
apostle of Free Trade principles, the Right Hon.
CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS—(in age, two years
Mr. COBDEN'S senior—six or eight in Parlia-
mentary experience)--who, we ask, could more
fittingly be inducted to the vacant seat than the
Right Hon. CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS, for now
very nearly one quarter of a century tbe distin-
guished Liberal representative of Wolverhamp-

ton r
Our selection has been now, two or three days
afterwards, adopted—the vacant seat in the Cabinet
having been judiciously awarded by Lord PAL-
XERsTON to the right hon. gentleman the member
for-Wolverhampton. The representative of Ashton-
"der-Lyne having exchanged the Presidency of
the Poor Law Board for that of the Board of Trade
—the former office (thus vacated in its turn) has
been offered to, and accepted by, the very man we
ourselves at
°nee specified as the right claimant for
the unoccupied seat
in the Cabinet. Mr. VtimEßs
thus becomes, at last, a Cabinet Minister by an act,
as it • were of poetical justice. The seat in
the councils of the nation, declined from un-
impeachable motives by the member for Rochdale,
has been awarded eventually to the member for
Wolverhampton. It is only, however, when fifty-
seven years of age that the Right Ron. CHARLES
PELHAM VILLIERS obtains the dignity of a Cabinet
Minister. Tardily though the honour has
come to
him—it has come to him at length, nevertheless.
It is between six and seven years since Mr. VII:

LIERS first kissed hands as a Privy Councillor, upon

the occasion of his nomination in the last Coalition,
in the December of 1852, to the post of Judge.
Advocate-General ! A post which the right hon.
gentleman continued to occupy uninterruptedly
throughout that and the succeeding Administra-
tion, namely, during no less than five years and a
quarter—resigning office in that capacity only-when
Lord PALMERSTON, in the March of last year, was
abruptly expelled from power as the chief of her
MAJESTY'S Government. However slowly, however
reluctantly, however ungraciously, the great
public services of Mr. VILLIERS have at length
been recognised. The ultra-liberal, ultra-
reforming champion of Free Trade Princi-
ples in the House of Commons—Oß Teople's
-reptrE•sentative whose name will lang be
henrourahly borne in remembrance in our Parlia-
mmitary history as that of the man whose annual
motion, years and years before the abolition of the
obnoxious Corn-laws in 1845.1846, ventilated the
doctrines of Free Trade betimes within the
walls of the Legislature—the worthy disciple of
ADA! fd. SMlTH—the not unworthy suecessor of
Wr' L LIAM HIISKISSON—the efficient precursor of
RI'CI COBDEN—the energetic forerunner of

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THE SUN.
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1859.