The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-21 00:00:00

failure of every etfoit to reorganise a new Cabinet
out of the Progresista party, the Marquis de Loule
and Viscount Sada Bandeira have formed a coali-
tion with three d,puties belonging to th,, Chartist
or Conservative Constitutionalist party, and I am
assured the Administration will to-day be officially
declared in the Cortei as follows :
The Marquis de Loule, President of the Council,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and, ad interim, of the
Home department.

ViSCOUnG Ss da Bandeira, Minister of Marine
and, ad interim, of War.
_ _

M. Antonio Jose d'Avila, Minister of Finance. -
M. Carlos Bento da Silva, Minister of Public
Works.

M. Vicente Ferrer Netto, Minister of Justice.
By this reconstruction of the Loule Cabinet two
Ministers went out—MM. Julio Gomes and Cunha
Pessoa, and three new ones have taken office. M.
Avila has formed part of several Administrations,
but M. Carlos Bento, chief of the department in
y,
the Treasury, and M. Ferrer, professor in the
University of Coimbra, have not before been Mini-
sters of State, though they have continually been
membes of the House of Deputies, and evinced
considerable ability as debaters.
It is very probable the new Ministry will, ovally
with the last, have a good working majority in
the Lower House, but it is extremely difficult
to say whether this or any other combination
of parties will be able to command one in the
Upper House without the creation of a new
bat 'h of Peers, so equally divided does that House
appear to be, and so conscious is each pary of ite
power to give a check to any Administration by
suddenly sending for half-a-dozen of those Peers
who are usually absent ; and thus, so long as the
King allows it to be understood he will not crest*
new ones, it does not appear this difficulty in legis-
lation can be overcome, and permit the appoint-
ment of an administration likely to carry on public
affairs any length of time, which would be very
desirable for the interests of the country.
Admiral Dundas left the Tagus in the Duke of
Wellington, and Captain Eyres remains on board
the Exmouth, arrived on the 9th, as chief officer,
with the Princess Royal and James Watt.

AMERICA,

THE PRESIDENTS INAUGURAL
MESSAGE.
THE AMENDED TARIFF.
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.
The United States' mail steam-ship Fulton, Cap-
tain J. A. Wof ton, arrived in C ,wes-roads this
morning, and her mails were delivered here at
noon. She arrived under the Needles at 9 o'clock
last night, but was detained by a dense fog until
9 a.m. to-day. This steamer left New York at 4
p.m. on the 7th inst., and brings three days' later
news than the advices per the Asia. She bas
four passengers for England and 60 for Havre, for
which port she proceeded after d;sembarking her
mails, ctn., for this place. She has on board $12,200
in specie, 1,200 barrels of flour, and 21 packages of
samples for Havre.
The Hon. Charles Sumner, of Boston, Massa
chusetts, is on board the Fulton, on his way.
France, to improve his health.
On the 9th inst. the Fulton passed the barque
Fleet Eagle, of Boston, from the Cape of Good
Hope.
The steamers Atlantic and Persia, from Liver-
pool, had arrived at New York ; the former on the
sth, and the later on the 6th inst.
By the Fulton we have received President Bu-
chanan's inaugural Message, which was delivered
at Washington on the 4th inst. Subjoined is a col/
of the speech
Fellow Citizens,—l appear before yon this day to
take the solemn oath that I will faithfully execute the
office of President of the United States, and will to the
best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend tbe con-
stitution of the United States. In entering upon this
great office I must humbly invoke the God of our fathers
for wisdom and firmness to execute its high and respons-
ible duties in such a manner as to restore harmony and
the ancient friendship among the people of the several
States, and to preserve our free institutions throughout
many generations. Convinced that I owe my election
to the inherent love for the constitution and the Union
which still animates the hearts of the American people,
let me earnestly ask their powerful support in anstaininT
all just measures calculated to perpetuate these the
richest of political blessings which Heaven has ever be•
stowed upon any nation.
" Having determined not to become a candidate for
re-election, I shall have no motive to influence my con-
duct in administering the Government,
except the de-
sire ably and faithfully to serve my country and to liT6
in the grateful memory of my countrymen.
" We have recently passed through a Presidential con-
teat, in which the passions of our fellow-citizens were ex-
cited to the highest degree by questions of deep and vital
importance ; but when the people proclaimed their will
the tempest at once subsided, and all was calm. The voice
of the majority speaking in the manner prescribed by the
constitution was heard, and instant submission followed.
Our own country could alone have exhibited so grand and
striking a spectacle of the capacity of man for self-go-
vernment.
" What a happy conception, then, was it for Congreee
to apply this simple rule—that the will of the majority
shall govern—to the settlement of the question of do-
mestic slavery in the territories. Congress is neither to
legislate slavery into any territory or State, nor to ex-
clude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof per.
fectly free to form and regulate their domestic institu-
tions in their own way, subject only to the constitution
of the United States. As a natural consequence, Con
gress has also prescribed that when the territory of Kan-
sas shall be admitted as a State, it shall be received into
the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution
may prescribe at the time of their admission. A diffe-
rent opinion has arisen in regard to the time when the
people of a territory shall decide this question for them-
selves. This is, happily, matter of but little practical
importance, and, besides, it is a judicial question, which
legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United
States, before whom t is now pending, and will, it is
qnderstood, be speedily and finally settled. To their
decision, in common with all good citizens, I shall cheer-
fully submit, whatever this may be, though it has been
my individual opinion that under the Nebraska-Kansas
Act the appropriate period will be when the number of
actual residents in the territory shall justify the forma-
tion of a constitution with the view to its admission as a
State into the Union ; but be this as it may, it is the im-
perative and indispensable duty of the Government of the
United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the
free and independent expression of his opinion by his vote.
This sacred right of each individual must be preserved.
This being accomplished, nothing can be fairer than to
leave the people of a territory free from all foreign in'
terference to decide their own destiny for theniselveoe
subject only to the constitution of the United States
The whole territorial question being thus settled upon the
principle of popular sovereignty—a principle as ancient
as free governments itself—everything of a practical n
ture has been decided, and no other question remains fo
adjustment, because all agree that under tbe constitution
slavery in the States is beyond the reach of any human
power except that of the respective States themselves
wherein it exists. May we not, then, hops that the long
agitation on this subject is approaching its end, and that
the geographical parties to which it has given birth, so
much mewled by the father of his country, will speedily
become extinct I Most happy will it be for the country
when the public mind shall be diverted from this yes*
tion to others of more pressing and practical importance.
Throughout the whole progress of this agitation, which
has scarcely known any intermission for more than 20
years, while it has been productive of no positive good
to any human being, it has been the prolific source
of great evils to the master, to the slave, and to the
whole couetry ; it has alienated and enstranged the
people of the sister States from cede other, and has even
seriously endangered the very existence of the Union ;
nor has the danger yet entirely ceased.
" Under our system there is a remedy for all mere pc.
'Wee' evils in the sound sense and sober judgment of the
people. Time is a great corrective. The political ea-
jet ti which but a few years ago excited and exasperated
the pubic mind have passed away, and are now nearly
forgotten ; but this que,tion of domestic slavery is of far
greater importance than any mere political ques ion, be-
cause, should the agitation continue, it may eventually
eneanger the personal safety of a large portion of our
countrymen where the institution exists. In that event
no form of government, however admirable in itself,
however productive of material benefits, can compensate
for the loss of peace and domestic security around the
family altar. Let every Union-loving man therefore
exert his best influence to suppress this agitation, which,
ovitsdis.
since the recent legislation of Congress, without any
legitimate object. It is an evil of the times that men
have undertaken to calculate the mere material value of
whieh
the Union. Reasoned estimates
Staten
andates
and
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beenasntfai romes n presented
owfoutld result pecuniary
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,prreopfit profits
solution, and of the comparative injuries which such an
event wouli infl at on other Metes and sections. Even
descending to this low and na roe view of the -mighty
question,
all such conclusions are at fault. The bare re-
ference to a single consideration will be conclusive on
this point. We at relent enjoy a free trade through-
out our extensive and expansive country, oh as the
world never witnessed. This trade is conducted on rail-
roads and canals, on noble rivers and arms of the sea,
which bind together the north and the south, the east
and the west of our confederacy. Annihilate this trade
arrest Alta free progress by the geographica lines of
jealous and hostile States, and you destroy the prosperity
and onward march of the whole and every I art, and in-
volve all in t.ne common ruin. But such considerations,
important as they are in theins, lees, sink into insigeifi-
canoe when we reflect en the terrific evils which would
result from disunion to every portion of the confederacy
—to tie North not more than to the South, to the East
not more than to the West. These I shall not attempt to
port ay,
because I feel an bumble confideece that the
kind Providence which in-pired our fathers with wisdom
to frame the most perfec form of government and union
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ver oevis,d by man, will not suffer ic, to perish until it
shall have been peacefully instrumental by its example
in the extension of civil and rellOotis liberty throughout
the world.
" Next in importance to the maintenance of the con-
stitution and the Union is the duty of preserving the
Goyerament free from the taint or even the suspicion of