The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Nothing is yet known respecting the intended
Ministerial arrangements,- except that the Duke of
Wellington has certainly no commission to form an
Ultra Government. The Duke has left town for
Strathfieldsaye, with Don Miguel. He will probably
see the King at Windsor on his way to his seat ;
but it is believed nothing will be arranged till his
Grace's return to Windsor, on Tuesday. Lord
Wellesley did not see the King when he went to
Windsor on Thursday.---Tintcs. ,
•It is now..of 'the greatest importance that the real
cause of the. breaking'up- of the late- tiPt Vernment
should be. clearly stated and theriughly understood
liy the; thinking and refietting part of the people of
Eltglaad. It.. was well remarked by Louis NVIII.
that no people possessed so much gcr,,.d bite in the
serious concerns of life' as tire tnglish. To this
'quality we may confidently add another, closely akin
to iv:•—that of • good judgment; we shall therefore
:content ourselves with simply stating the case as it
ieallY. is, end rely completel: on that good taste and
that good judgment to form an_honest correct opi-
nion,. being welt assured that every- hoot- htings
nearer that period, already near, when the over-
whelming power of public opinion must triumph
over the petty manoeuvring of a profligate faction and
uodei•hand .intrimue. . It will be remembered that
the House 'of Commons last year, at the suggestion
of Mr. Canning, agreed to .postpone the budget and
the consideration of the state. of the Imances
and public expenditure,. on thedistlnet understand-
ing that such a committee offfillance should be
apPointed:this Session'Of .Parbament ,as would pro-
ceed, without fear or trembling, prejudice or favOur,
to the examination of that most vital subject, in
ivhich the welfare aicd happiness of this,great nation
are so deepl•i-tOncerned. This tOmmittee was not
to be a fining of shreds trid. patches, in which every
go?'.l tied honest intention was (as hitherto has been.
'the case) to be neutralized'and soured by the leaven
of Toryism--not to be a mere :empty pageant, to
save appearances and suggest expedients to get
through the evil of the day, and quiet theclamour
of the moment; but one which would probe the dis-
ease to its core, and look the evil boldly in the face,
—turning a deaf ear, and buckling on the armour of
resistance, against the menaces or ent•eaties of job-
bers, Jews, placemen, courtiers; sins...urists, and all
those filthy caterpillars of the State which prey
upon its vitalsi —one which would :have- proceeded
in its stern path of duty, not to botch up, but to en-
deavour effectually to repair that mill and confusion,
the fatal legacy of a long continuance of a Tory Go-
veaurnent,—one which would recommend the most
rigid reduction of every branch of public adininistra-
tion, as the surest means of rendering the income of
the country adequate to its expenses. The appoint-
ment of Lord Althorp to be Chairman of this Com-
Ynittee was of itself a sufficient guarantee that such
were the upright intentions of the Government.
This distinguished nobleman, honoured alike by all
purties, unites to talents which peculiarly qualify him
for this arduous situation, an indefatigable persever-
ance, the greatest practical knowledge, the
highest soundest principles, the most unblemish-
ed character.' -This mast excellent appointment
was highly 'approved of by Lord Goderich, and
generally known to be so, as far back as last No-
vember ; it was then known by Mr. Herries,,who at
that time brought forward none of his present ob-
jections. For the present we .shall content our•
selves with stating the nature of these objections,
mud why they arc now advanced by this humble
tool of a more powerful band of concealed in-
triguers. They clearly perceive' that such a com-
mittee, with Lord Althorp for its chair Man, would
strike at once at the source of their dishonest gains;
that then must be an end of that system of rotten-
ness by which they have been engendered,-and—so
'long supported - tkkat the revenues of the country,
derived from the exertions and industry of the many,
must no longer be to them a fair object of plunder—
a fun 4 to supply the idle disreputable luxury of the
few ; then would come the' hour of severe and rigid
examination into all their jobbing and deeds of
darkness which shun the light. Mr. Herries is their
Chancellor of the Eichequera second Daniel—a
man after their own heart his is the good old Tory
system, by which they have so long thriven and hope
yet to thrive. The. question is now before the tri-
bunal.of the public : reduction and economy on the
one hand, extravagance and. additional taxation on
the other.. Surely, then, we have not indulged in
groundless hope_wheo we confidently trust and
re-
quire that all those from whose pockets.the means
must be extracted for the continuance of this
fed system, should unite in a firm, determined, and
uncompromising resistance.—Rid.

We are yet unable to lay before our readers any
information which may be relied on as to the Mi-
nisterial arrangements.—Morning Chronicle.

The difference in principle between Tories and
Whigs, in the present day, is, as we have more
than once observed, not very easily understood. The
difference is personal rather than real. Of the great
families of the country, a certain number call them-
selves Whigs, and a certain number call themselves
Tories, and that is all that can be said about the
matter. Both these denominations comprehend
men of various degrees of intelligence, and, conse-
quently, entertaining various opinions as to the mea-
sures best calculated to advance the interests of the
country. During the last Session of Parliament,
for instance, the Administration, in its measures
for improving the Corn Laws, was supported by the
liberal of both Tories and Whigs, and opposed
by the prejudiced of both. If the Duke of:Wel-
lington, Lord Londonderi v, arid Lord Ellen-
t opposed the Corn Bill, so did the Duke
of Bedford, Earl Fitzwilliam, and Earl Grey.
Both wish the preservation of the Constitution
as it is to discovered in its working, and not as
it exists in theory. The terms liberal and illiberal
would, in the present day, be more appropriate than
those of Whig and Tory. Liberal supposes an
homage to knowledge, a disposition to submit all
opinions to the test office inquiry, and to be always
open to egeviction. Whig and. Tory, as opposed to
each other, as we have observed, is merely a nomi-
nal distinction ; but liberal and illiberal arc as oppo-
site as light and darkness. It is the more necessary
to insist on this distinction, because by the Consti-
tution, as it is worked, political power is monopo-
lised-by men, from whose ignorance and imbecility
we are at least as much in danger as from their evil
intentions. One branch of our Legislature is ex-
clusively composed of men " whose wants have been
forestalled from their cradle," who have never
needed to exercise their wits to possess any object
of their desires. Take any hundred men, more
favourably circumstanced, that is, men under the ne-
cessity of scrambling to get on in the world, and
how few of the hundred will even the stimulus
of poverty have led to diStinguish themselves by
their exertions. But take a hundred men, who,
from their childhood, knew that they arc to have
every thing they. wish without toil, and what chancels
there that three per cent. of them are not in a state of
mental lethargy approaching to imbecility? But men
of this description not only form exclusively one
branch of the Legislature, but influence the returns
of a majority of the other. Hence the chief diffi-
culty with which we have to struggle in England is,
that of the iginrance and imbeeilitTof those who
have the monopoly of political power... We have to
dread measures which injure the peOPle and benefit
no one.. It. were too much to expect that men who
monopolize power should not exert it for their own

separate advantage; but when the separate advan-
tage is obtained;,. aliberal policy would seek to pro-
mote the public benefit. But here the ignorance of
Our Legishiicirs meets us at every step. They feel
their incoMpetence to inquire, and they decide
without inquiry. They know not what is really
for their own benefit any more than what' is for
the benefit of the public; but lest they should de-
cide,. againit their own interest, they proscribe
all innovation as theory. We confess, when we
con4idina the composition of the Legislature, we
are by iio:means sanguine as to the influence of any
Administration in iinprovitG. oar Laws and Justitu-