The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-14 00:00:00

We hope the Ministers are not so ignorant as some of
them profess to be, or as their retainers and adherents a-
rea to be, of the real state of feeling at Court, and of,the
intrigues now on foot, in order to produce another crisis.
We can understand the fears of some of these gentlemen
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for-the loss of their official situations, always in the-ir opinion
jeopardized by the admission that " evetything is not right"
at head-quarters. But in cur view of the ease, danger is
more easily parried when steadily faced; and they have no-
thing to apprehend if they will only act with frankness,
Armness,%und decision ; keeping their means in a state of
re* organization for any emergency. At all events our
duty, as journalists, requires that we should deal with the
facts which have come to our knowledge, and the rumours
in circulation, fn such manner as may best prepare the
people for the consequences of another act of caprice cr fa-
tuity, if the boldness or the wickedness of the back-stairs
advisers of the Court should again drive matters to that
extremity. It is now no secret that the late change
of Government was as unpopular with the Court as
it was popular with the country. From the day of
the present- Ministers entering upon office, they have
been subjected (if report speaks true, and it has often
been the boast of the Tory Papers), to one series of cold_
neglect and studied incivility. The usual dinneri and fkes
given at this season at St. James's are said to have been
suspended, to mark the dissatisfaction of the Princes and
Princesses and Lords and Ladies of that anti-national co-

lony, with the victory recently gained by the people over
their enemies in the House of Commons. Some two or
three of the Ministers may have been invited on rare occa-
sions to the Royal table, as an exception •to the general
ride of their exclusion, but we have observed that no Mi-
nister reported in the Court Circular to have gone down
to Windsor on public business connected with his depart-
ment, has ever been admitted to a night's lodging in the
_Castle, except, we believe, Lord Palmerston, when in attend-
ance on the Prince of Naples, while the Palace has been
crowded with the usual host of Tory parasites and dependants.
Every one knows the use made of this uncourtcous conduct
by the Tory press, and the encouragement it has given to
an active and bitter opposition to the King's Government.
But matters appear to have proceeded further in the course
of last week. At a Court held at St. James's, for the pur-
pose of swearing Sir Charles Grey, one of the Commissioners
to Canada, into the Privy Council, his Majesty, acting no
doubt on the instigation of the unconstitutional and evil coun-
sellors by whom his Court is constantly infested, so far forgot
himself as to address personal orders to Sir Charles, at vari-
ance with the advice which had been given by his constitu-
tional Ministers, and impugning their conduct and opinions
with reference to the all-important mission to which that gen-
tleman had been appointed. This unbecoming scene took
place in the presence of the Household, and the other usual
attendants on the Council, and was of course immediately the
topic of conversation in the clubs, and the theme of great glo-
rification in the Opposition papers. In like manner, after the
review on Friday last, at a dinner to about seventy officers at
St. James's, various toasts were given, and extraordinary
speeches made, which, if we are to credit the version giVen of
them by the Tories, were distinguished by the most has-
tile feeling to the actual Government, and the most marked
expression of favour and partiality to their opponents.
Other symptoms of the same feeling, and of the inter-
ference of an unconstitutional cabal, are visible in other quar-
ters. Royal Dukes are said to state boldly and without dis-
guise, their knowledge that the Royal assent will be withheld
from some of those important measures no.w before Parliament,
for the introduction of which the King has signified his con-
sent through his Ministers, and the most exaggerated reports
of unadvised conversations and communications with persons
having no right to approach the Royal presence on such subs
jects, are spread with an eagerness and a seal only to be ac-
counted for by the confidence which the cabal entertain of the
result of their intrigues. We do not accuse the Duke of
Cumberland, or others of his Royal relatives, either male or
female, directly or indirectly, of mixing themselves up with
these proceedings; but we advise them, as sincere and attached
friends to their family, and to the principles which placed and
can alone maintain them on the throne of these realms, to
be more cautious and circumspect in their conduct and
language, in the critical circumstances of this na-
tion. We ask, to what must such a state of affairs
lead ? Can men of any party possessing common
sense, or the least knowledge of, -or respect for, the institu-
tions of the country, think that any thing but unalloyed mis-
chief can flow from it? The King, after indulging in what
can scarcely now be called in any quarter a discreet exercise of
his prerogative, in November last, and which has nearly de-
stroyed the best confidence in the stability of all government,
was obliged to have recourse to his old Ministers to save him-
self and the country from another crisis of the greatest danger.
In again throwing himself upon them, and accepting their as-
sistance, he was bound, upon every principle of honour and
good faith, to give them his entire and cordial confidence and
support. Scarcely seated in their places, they, according to
the most accredited reports, experienced on the contrary the
conduct we have described, and they find the otherwise nearly
overwhelming difficulties of their position aggravated by the
venemous and malignant intrigues of a cabal at Court. Will
the country endure this? The Tories tell us that the 21st of
next month is fixed for the dismissal of the Government. If the
feelings imputed by these reports to his Majesty with re-
spect to his Ministers, are correctly represeutod, it would
be hypocrisy to tamper with the country for a single day longcr,
by appearing to give them a hollow and unreal confidence.
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dm\NiiffirteidchurnoltpYacy: not have produced a grave calamity, to which it
might be indelicate further to allude. Lord Melbourne has
gained olden opinions with the public by the frank, manly,
and straightforward manner with which he has hitherto con-
ducted his Administration; and he may be assured that the
people have full confidence In his ability and discretion to
deal with the difficult crisis before him, in the manner which
may be most conducive to the welfare, peace, and satisfaction
of the country. He has nothing to fear. Let the Tories and
the Court do their worst. Let them make another experi-
ment, on their own responsibility, and at their own risk. It
will be the last, and it may clear the way to a better under-
standing of the means by which it will be necessary for
the people to secure the march of good government,
against Court intrigues and Tory opposition We do not
think it will come to this; but ive are sure nothing is so likely
to lead to mischief as any concealMent or mystification of the
real state of affairs. Reformers well know what becomes them
under such circumstances—the strictest union and the greatest
and most , scrupulous forbearance on every point which can
weaken, Oen in appearance, or in any manner tend to embar-
• rags, the Government. Nothing can be more admirable than
the conduct of all classes and parties in the liberal ranks up to
this period. They already see the advantage of it in their in-
creased and increasing strength in the House of Commons; and

they. have only to persevere in the same conduct to insure a
final triumph over the combination opposed to them, and which,
after all, is powerful only when working in the dark. We en-
treat the communication, from any quarter, of facts and ob-
servations which may enable us to expose to the public the pro-
ceedings both of Carlton and Conservative Clubs, and of Court
cabals and intrigues. The Reform Bill will, we trust, be
found an effectual antidote to those remnants of the last veno-
mous but impotent efforts of Tory dominion.—Morning
Chronicle.
Our readers cannot have forgotten the impression which was
made on the House of Comnions the other night by the state-
ment of Mr. Wallace respecting the abuses in the management
of the post-office. It was impossible to have read the luminous
speech of the Hon. Member, corroborated by the general tone
of the discussion, and even by the testimony of such Members of
the Commission as took any part in the debate, without feeling
that a strong case had been made out for inquiry. This was all
that the Hon. Member asked for, and it was evident from what
took place that the opinion of the House of Commons went de-
cidedly along with him in the demand, though they forbore for
the present to enforce it, expressly upon the ground that inquiry
by Parliamentary Commissioners were still pending. It will
be seen, however, that the procoedines which took place on
the same subject in the House of Lords last night disclose a
very different feeling. The Duke of Richmond and other Noble
Lords, most, if not all of them ex-Postmasters-General, denied
the statement of Mr. Wallace in the most direct terms, and
seemed evidently to feel that their own official characters were
implicated in the charge brought against the department
and the system. Nothing could be more strongly contrasted
than the tone of the two discussions, and, judging from these
discussions, the tone of the two Houses of Parliament on this
occasion. But without pretending, in the present state of our
information, to determine who is right and who is wrong, we
must say that the contradiction given to Mr. Wallace's state-
ment, though it should be supported by the returns for which
the Duke of Richmond moved last night, can never satisfy the
country without a full and searching inquiry into the whole
case. We, therefore, call upon those Noble persons to join in
the demand of Mr. Wallace for a Select Committee, in order
that the facts may be sifted to the bottom, and the truth extri-
cated from the perplexity in which it stands at present between
two opposite and confident assertions.—Morning Herald.

STUPRNTS FOR TLIE BAR.—The last remnant of
any distinction between those who are graduates of one of
the four Universities, and those who arc not, has been swept
4‘‘,l;a3T by the lienebers: of the throe Inns of Court. After
"
o,haelmas Term every student who is admitted will have to
make a deposit of 1001.
A handsome entrance is to be made forthwith
through Hyde-park, from the road near Kensington to Ken-
sington-palace, chiefly for the use of his Majesty whenever he
is pleased to visit the Palace. A lodge for a porter has been
already built, and an iron railing will be immediately erected,
leading frbrn Kensington barracks to Knightsbridge, the old
wall that enclosed the Park there having been nearly taken
doivn for that purpose.
~ On Friday last, a man, weighing nine stone, was
400.3,0 to title .a pony 18, miles within the hour, for a wager
of 201.• The animal performed the task whic'a had beep so
barbarously assigned lo it, on the Aylsham road, in 66 ini,
nutes, but died shortly afterwards,--Norfolk Chronicle.