The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-17 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Abbotsford, Mitchell, Liverpool to New Orleans, the
29th ult., lat. 41. long. 27. A ship, with a black ball in her
fore-topsail, supposed to be the Europe, Liverpool to New
York, the 30th ult., lat. 42;10ng. 38. The Ann, of Glasgow,
bound to Savanna, 3d instant, lat. 45. long. 29., by the Cum-
berland, arrived at Liverpool.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It appears, then, according to my Lord John Rus-
sell, that the arrangements for a Whig-Radical Mi-
' nistry have not yet been completed. What is worse,
it appears that they are not yet begun. The speaking
Leader, we know not whether to call him of the future
Government or only of the present Opposition, de-
clared, in reply to Mr. Sinclair's question as to the
progress which had been made in an undertaking so
full of anxiety to the whole people of the British em-
pire, not merely that there were no new writs to be
moved for, and nothing in the shape of precise infor-
m -motion to be announced, but that nothing save of a
preliminary nature had occurred between his Majesty
and Viscount Melbourne, and that not before Sa-
turday next would his Lordship be able to state—
what ?—that he had completed his Cabinet ?---no,
by no means ; but that he would not have it in
his power before Saturday next (to-morrow) to
affirm, that he had so much as received the Royal
authority to submit to his Majesty a list of names
from which to compose an Administration ! Now
it must be in the remembrance of thousands of
people, how often the friends of the Whig-Radical
party boasted, that after voting out the Conservatives,
all the rest would be easy—that all the rest would fol-
low of course—that Lord Melbourne would have no-
thing to do but reinstate his own former colleagues in
their offices, so perfect was the confidence which the
entire nation had placed in them until the moment of
their dismissal, so beautiful and unbroken the unani-
mity which had reigned amongst them, and so definite
and well arranged the whole frame of their contemplated
policy. We ask, therefore, how comes it that so many
preliminary difficulties have occurred as were signified
last night by Lord John Russell ? If all was to be
really so smooth and pleasant, what is there to delay
the grant of that authority from the King to Lord Mel-
bourne, his Majesty's readiness to confer which on the
noble Viscount must have been concluded from the sum-
mons of the latter to the Royal presence ? To be sure,
we do recollect some trifling discrepancies between the
averments of certain of the Noble Viscounts's colleagues,
with reference to measures which have derived vast
importance from the events of the present session.
When Lord John Russell was taxed, on some occa-
sion in Devonshire, with an intention to despoil
the Irish church, we think it was in his famous
speech at Totnes, that his Lordship alleged most po-
sitively the non-existence of any design on the part of
the Melbourne Cabinet to bring forward a measure
founded on Mr. Ward's resolution, so pertinaciously,
if not fatally for the Whigs themselves, insisted on by
the Noble Lord in his four successive motions of this
session ; indeed, the Noble Lord negatived in distinct
terms the fact of their having " any plan " of church
reform whatever. Whereas Sir John Hobhouse, a
gentleman entitled to quite as implicit credit as Lord
John Russell, is reported to have said that the same
Cabinet were agreed upon all their policy in respect of
the Irish church, and upon the measures which they
would bring forward. Was that policy therefore
founded on the conviction that nothing ought ever to
be done towards carrying into effect Mr. Ward's reso-
lution ? or that, as must be inferred from the preceding
votes o£ Ministers, nothing ought to be or could be
done until the commission should have reported ? In
either case it is equally difficult to reconcile the speeches
of the two Ministers in question with each other,' or
with their conduct in Opposition since the present
Parliament opened.We repeat once more,—for it is
a truth which the country ought never to lose sight
of,—that whatever may show itself on the surface, or
however promisingly (we do not assert that there is as
yet any flattering promise)—however promisingly Lord
Melbourne may at the outset seem to proceed, the ob-
stacles to his forming out of the material now in his
hands a Cabinet which can rule the kingdom effectually
towards the end of all government—the maintenance of
peace and justice throughout the land—are so essential
and so deep-seated as to defy the ablest man in England
to remove them. Lord Melbourne cannot govern by
the Whigs alone. It was a task beyond the skill and
influence of Lord Althorp, when the Whig party
counted an hundred votes, of which the last election
deprived them. Even then they were blown about like
wisps before the Radicals, who made up in energy
what they had not in numbers. But how would the
case stand now ? Suppose the 270 Conservatives were
to absent themselves altogether from the Opposition
benches, could anything be more pitiable than the ab-
ject condition of a Whig leader of the House of Com-
mons, with an army of auxiliary barbarians, far out-
mustering the native Romans, and having projects apart
from, and hostile to, the safety of the empire ? We
shall never cease to reiterate, that the Conserva-
tives are Lord Melbourne's natural allies, and that to
treat them as enemies, and Repealers and Radicals as
friends, is to place himself and the whole constitutional
Whig power in the most false position that ever was
imagined. Is it not wonderful, as experience tells us
how deplorable, that party animosity should, in seeking
an hour's gratification, blind men to their own eventual
and enduring interests, pervert all their sympathies, and
lead them, through the indulgence of a petty rivalship,
to plunge into inevitable ruin ? See how it already
works. The Whigs have turned out Sir R. Peel
there is nought between them and the grand object of
their cupidity, save that which they ought to have fore-
seen from the first—the terror of that plague of locusts
which their own hardened stupidity has brought upon
them. They have stormed the fortress, but others will
share the spoil. " Sic vos non vobis," &c., ill-fated
Whigs ! We do solemnly declare that a single instance
comparable to this, of reckless, brainless, mere animal
desperation, has never before amazed our sight since we
began to observe the turbid course of faction. To defeat
a rival they humbled themselves to a scornful and impla-
cable foe, who avows, even while he grants their prayer,
that he will tolerate them only till he has them com-
pletely in his power, and will then make them pay, ay,
and with bloody usury, the weight of Christian flesh
for which he has secured their bond. Why, the ha-
tred of the late Government under which some of the
Opposition act is not hatred—is not vengeance :it is
rank madness—else why should one Whig Duke ex-
claim that lie would give " half his estates to see the
Conservatives out of power ?" Poor fooliOninion
of an undiscerning goddess ! Or why else Should an-
other great Duke vocifarate " Give me anarchy rather
than Peel ? " This dotage of malevolence is quite
painful. These very men, before twelve months are
over, will fly to Sir Robert Peel for aid against the
furies which they have themselves excited ; but it may
be even then too late.—Times.

The new Cabinet is not yet formed ; but it is in
progress of formation, and several writs might have
been moved last night but for a technical difficulty,
which is of no importance, and which it is, in conse-
quence, unnecessary to mention. The Tory and ultra-
Radical journals rejoice at this delay in the formation
of a Cabinet, and re-echo the cry with mutual joy that
a Cabinet cannot be formed, and that the country
must fall back upon Peel and Co., the opponents of
the Reform enemies of the liberties of the
people—the men who, in a moment of profound
peace, and exceeding prosperity, seized the helm of
the State, recommenced agitation throughout the