The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-12 00:00:00

No. 16,WPi. LONDON, FRIDAY E - 6 S .17 Ny
DECEMBER 12, 1845.

REPEAL OP THE CORN-LAWS.
A MEETING of the ELECTORS of LONDON will be held
at the Guildhall, on MONDAY NEXT, December 15, at One
o'clock precisely, for the purpose of expressing their sentiments on
the subject of the existing corn-laws, in connexion with the prevail-
ing apprehension of a scarcity in the article of food.
The Right. Hon. the LORD MAYOR will preside.

rik F GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S splendid and powerful first-class STEAM-
SHIPS are appointed to leave the Custom House or Tower for—
HAMBURGH, carrying her Majesty's Mails —Every Wednesday
and Saturday Morning.
ROTTERDAM, carrying her Majesty's Mails—from Blackwell Pier
—Every Wednesday and Saturday at Ten, Morning.
ANTWERP—From Blackwall Pier—The Soho every Thursday,
at Ten, Morning.
HAVRE—From St. Katharine's Wharf—Dec. 14th, 20th, 25th
and 30th, at Eight, Morning.
From London Bridge Wharf; for—
OSTEND—Every Wednesday and Saturday Morning.
BOULOGNE—Every Thursday and Saturday Morning.
CALAIS—Every Thursday and Sunday Morning.
HULL—Every Tuesday and Friday, at Eight, Morning.
YARMOUTH—Reduced Fares—Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur-
day, at Six, Evening.
From Brown's Wharf, Poplar, for—
EDINBURGH—Reduced Fares—Dee. 13th, .oth, 24th, and 27th,
at Ten, Evening.
From Irongate Wharf, near tke Tower, for—
NEWCASTLE--Every Saturday, at Eight; Evening.
BRIGHTON and DIEPPE—Every Saturday, Dec. 13th, at Eleven,
Morning ; 20th, at Three, Afternoon ; 27th, at Ten, Morning.
DOVER and BOULOGNE—The Magician—Daily.
To secure Berths, for Freight and Bills containing hours of
departure, fares, &a., apply at the Offices, 69, Lombard-street ; 37,
Regent-circus ; and 35, Leadenhall-street.

BANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.)
The COURT of DIRECTOES hereby give notice, that a HALF-
YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of Five per Cent. per Annum
on the Capital of the Bank, will be PAYABLE to the Proprietors of
Shares registered in this country, on and after the sth' of January
next, at the Office of the Corporation, 7, St. Helen's-place, Bishops-
gate-street, between the hours of Ten and Four.
No Transfer can be made between the lath instant and the sth
proximo, as the books must be closed &wigs that period.
By order of the Court,
G. 1)E B. ATTWOOD, Secretary.
7, St. Helen's-place, London, Dec. 5, 1845.

T. mApjLEBDNE,---D-gcmvainn ti, 1845.
TO BRICKMAKERS, &c.
BREEZE.—The Vestrymen of this parish hereby give notice that
they will meet in the Vestry-room of the Court-house of the said
pariah on SATURDAY, December 27, at Eleven o'clock in the fore-
noon, to receive TENDERS from persons willing to CONTRACT for
the BREEZE and ASHES of the said parish for ONE YEAR, from
the 31st day of January next. Payment of one quarter of the year's
contract-money must be made to the said Vestrymen at the signing
of the contract, and good security given that the remainder be con-
tinued to be paid one quarter in advance throughout the contract.
The parish is divided into dye divisions, for the purpose of contracting
for the Breeze, particulars of which, with the form of the contract,
and printed tender, may be had of the surveyor, Mr. Robert Seace,
at the Court-house, from Twelve till One o'clock daily.
Tenders to be sealed ; and no Tender will be received after Eleven
o'clock on the said 27th day of December.
By order of the Vestry,
C. FLOOD, Vestry Clerk.
Contractor to pay six guineas, as expenses of contract and bond.

nro COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.—Every
description of solid and other LE ATHER CASES, for carrying
samples or stock, made to order. Solid Leather and other Portman-
teaus, Carpet Bags, Hat Cases, &c. &c., in great variety, always in
stock.
John Southgate and Son, manufacturers, 76, Watling-street, London,.

ETROPOLITAN RAIL WAYS JUNCTION

COMPANY

The Committee of Management have decided-to call a meeting of
the Sharholders of this Company for FRIDAY, the 19th instant, at
One o'clock precisely, at the Company's offices, 11, Clement's-lane,
Loin bard-street, for the purpose of laying before them a report of the
present state and prospects of this Company, at which meeting they
are invited to attend

J. T. CROFT, Chairman.
JOHN CHEESE, Secretary.
Dated this eleventh day of December, 1845.

THE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
CHAIRMAN—Thomas Dowglasse, Esq.
Ermizing-IN-Cumr—Samuel Charles Drees, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street.
SECRETARY—Z. Hubbersty, Esq.
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction to announce
that, in compliance with the applications and suggestions of several
gentlemen of experience, they have instructed the several bankers
named in their Letters of Allotment to continue to receive the pre-
liminary deposits from this time until the 7th of January next, in
order that those parties to whom Shares in this Company have been
allotted may consult their own convenience by paying the first de-
posit at the present time, or paying the whole deposit on or before
the 7th of January next

By oiler of the Beard,
Z. HUBBEASTY, •eeretary.
Ifoorgate-chambers, Moorgate-street, Dee. 9, 1845.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, EDIN-
BURGH, and DIRECT GLASGOW JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY, with a Branch by the North Tyne to Hozham.
Capital, 1,600,000/., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Sham.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and $ Vie., sap. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir Charles M. L. Monck, Bart., Belsay Castle, Northumberland
Saville C. H. Ogle, Esq., M.P., ICirkley-hall, Northumberland
William Henry Charlton, Esq. Hesleyside, Northumberland
Robert Charlton, Esq. Lee-hall, Northumberland
Thomas Cookson, Esq. Swinburn Castle, Northumberland
Mr. John Crawford, paper manufacturer, Warden, Northumberland
Mr. Edw. Campion, iron manufacturer, Mareshaw Ironworks, North-

urnberland
Ralph Wm. Grey, Esq. Chipchase Castle, Northumberland
Mr. John Green, iron manufacturer, Ridsdaie Ironworks, Northust-

berland
Mr. Wm. Grace, naltwick, Northumberland
J. Haggerston, Esq. Reedsmouth, Northumberland
Nicholas Maughan, Esq. Newbrough-lodge, Northumberland
Charles Atticus Ifonck, Esq. Humshaugh, Northumberland
Thomas James, Esq., Otterburn Tower, Northumberland
Mr. W. R. Rayne, paper manufacturer, Ilaughton, Northumberland
Smith Stobart, Esq. banker, Hexham Abbey, Northumberland
Captain R. Jobling, Newton-hall, Northumberland
Rev. Wm. Kell, rector of Corsensido, Northumberland
W. C. Trevelyan, jun. lisq. Topsham, Devon
Sir John Fife, Knt. .Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Thomas Gray, tobacco manufacturer, Newcastle-stpoa-Tyne
Mr. Charles Rayne, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Henry Glynn, C.E. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Wm. Anderson, jun. coal-owner, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Wm. Hunter, colliery reviewer, Newcastle .tmou-Tyne
Mr. John Coulson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Mr. Alexander George Gray, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Captain John Kelly, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
T. C. Granger, Esq. M.P. Durham
Andrew White, Esq. Tunstal-lodge, Sunderland
Richard White, Esq. Thoniey-close, Sunderland
A. J. Moore, Esq. Hill. house, Sunderland
Mr. Michael Brown, merchant, Sunderland
Hugh Dixon, Esq. manufacturer, Sunderland
Thomas Bell, Esq. alkali manufactory, South Skields
Mr. Joshua Greene, merchant, Gateshead
William Hymers, Esq. J.P. Gateshead
Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart., Grange and Fountain-hall
C. Craigie Haekett, Esq. Lawhill
John Dick Lauder, Esq. jun. Grange and Fountain-hall
Andrew Wilkie, Esq. one of the magistrates of Edinburgh
William Girdvrood, Esq. magistrate of Leith
Robert Laurie, Esq. merchant, Leith
John Anderson, Esq. jun., merchant, Edinburgh
John Gibson, Esq. provost of Lanark
Thomas l3rownlie, Esq. Convener Trades-house, Glasgow
William Bankier, Esq. provost of Calton, Glasgow
Sir John Trevelyan, Wallington, Northumberland
James Wolfe Murray, Esq. St. Andrew's, Fife.
Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Esq., Wallington, Northumberland
William Oliver Rutherford, Esq., of Edgerton, sheriff of the county
of Roxburgh
(With power to add to their number).
BANKEMI.

London—Messrs. Glyn and Co.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Northumberland and Durham Distriet Bank,
EnGINEErt-IN-CHIEF—John Miller, Esq., C.E., Ediubiergh.
Local. ENGlNlElts—Meisrs.
John. and Benjamin Green.
SOLICIToIo.
Mr. John Brown, and Messrs. Laws and Glynn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Messrs. Prichard ant Collette, 67, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Mr. C. It. Sinclair, S.S.C., 11, South-bridge, Edinburgh
Messrs. J. and R. Gibsen, Hexham
Messrs. Strang, Tulle, and Kevdon, writers, Glasgow
Mr. William Blackwood, Banker and Solicitor, Peebles
Mr. Simon Scott, writer, Jedburgh
Mr. George Oliver, writer, Hawick
Messrs. Curie and Erskine, writers, Melrose.
?AMA AMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Spettiswoode and Robertson, Great George-street, London.
SECRETART—Mr. James Potts.
Offices of the Company. 11, Eldon-square, Neweastle-uPon-Tyne.
Applications for prospectuses and shares to be made to the soli-
citors, and to the following brokers :—Messrs. Warburton and Co.,
Central Exchange Market-street, Newcastle-upon-Tyre; Messrs.
Tucker, Barnett, and Ellie, 11, Birchin-lane, London ; Robert Allan,
Esq., Messrs. Mans and Home, and Anthony Shiels, Esq., Edin-
burgh; Messrs. M'Ewin and Auld, Glasgow; Messrs. William
Reynolds and Sons, and Messrs. D. and J. B. Nelson,
Liverpool; Messrs. Alsop and Son, Hull; Messrs. Beaumont
and Williamson, Leeds ; Messrs. Robertson and Bates, and
Messrs. Thomas Cardwell and Sons, Manchester ; Mr. J. L Lane,
Birmingham ; Messrs. Walrnsley, Woodhead, and Co.. Bradford ;
Messrs. Low and Tunstal, Bristol ; Messrs. Wm. Moore and Co.,
Huddersfield ; Mr. J. N. Balme, Gloucester ; Mr. W. Pollard, Lin-
coln ; Messrs. Warburton and Crossland, Sheffield ; Messrs. Halli-
well and Davis, Halifax Mr. T. C. Maynard, Durham ; Messrs.
Bills and Allason, and Mr. W. I. Barker. Sunderland; Mr. Win.
Davison, Alnwick ; Mr. T. Glover, South Shields ; Mr. John Hurst,
Louth ; Mr. Jos. Nelson, Settle ; Mr. John Sturrock, jun., Dundee ;
Mr. Jas. RosFsOR, PMerthOF APPMLICATIONr. Walker TFORhompSHAson,
RES. Berwick.
To the Provisional Committee of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edin-
burgh, and Direct Glasgow Junction Railway, with a Branch by
the North Tyne to Hexhara.
Gentlemen,--I request that you will allot to me
shares of 20/. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the
same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me ; and I also undertake to execute the Par-
liamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Name in full
Residence .
Trade or Profession (if any) •••• • • • • • •
Place of Business • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Reference ••• • •
Address of Referee •• •• • • ........ ••• • •
Date of Application • ..
ALLOCATION OF SHARES.
The Committee of Management have now the satisfaction to
and
in-
form the subscribers and the public that the Plans. Sections,
Books of Reference of this undertaking have been completed, and de-
posited in compliance with the standing orders of the two Houses of
Parliament, which will enable them to apply for an Act in the en-
suing session ; and as none of the ether lines projected to Hawick
(including the London and Edinburgh Direct and Darlingten and
Hawick Junction Railway) have lodged their Plans and Sections
in conformity with the Standing Orders, this Company is, therefore,
the only one in a position to apply to Parliament in the ensuing Ses-
sion for powers to make a Railway by the midland route to Edin-
burgh and Glasgow.
The Committee have also much pleasure in stating that the result
of their surveys is such as completely to answer the objections which
have been made to their line in varions quarters, and that they are
confirmed in the opinion which they at first held, that the line would
be of easy formation, and that the tunnel through the Carter would
not exceed one mile and a quarter in length.
And they hereby give notice, that no Application for Shares will
he received after the 15th of December, and that the allotment will
be made as soon after that date as possible.
By order,
CHARLES ATTICUS MONCK, Chairman.

JAMES POTTS, Secretary.
Offices of the Company, 11, Eldon square,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dec.. 3, 1845.
At a MEETING of LANDOWNERS, held November 10, 1845, at
Belsay Castle Inn, the following resolution was adopted :
" We, the undersigned, landowners on and near the line of railway
proposed to be made by a Company calling itself the Newcastle-on-
Tyne, Edinburgh, and Direct Glasgow Railway, with a branch to
Ilexham, having considered the proposed line, and explained with Mr.
Monck, the Chairman of the Managing Committee of the said Railway
Company, are of opinion that the proposed line of railway, both in
its main line and in its branch, will be beneficial both to the line
of country through which It will pass, and to our own estates, in af-
fording the shortest and easiest communication between Glasgow,
Edinburgh, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and in opening out to use the
lime and other minerals which may be now lying nnwrought in our
lands. We are of opinion, therefore, that the projectors of the pro-
posed line ought to have our consent sold support, subject to such re-
servations in regard to all private and personal interests as is usual in
such oases."
Beatty Castle Inn, NAY. 10, 1645.
(Signed) Chas. M
Switiburne. P. G. Ellison (for Ralph Bates,
Chas. M. L. Monek. Eget.)
Thos. Anderson. J. S. Ogle.
Thos. Atkinson Harle. Thomas James.
John Forster. R. C. Askew, fbr self and the
W. D. .mint.
Basso Davldso

NORFOLKRAILWAY.-GOODS TRAFFIC.
The Directors respectfully give notice to the public that the
goods trains are now running.
- The Company undertake to forward all sorts of merchandise,
grain, cattle, &c., between Yarmouth, Norwich, Attleborough,
Thetford, Brandon, and London.
The classification of goods, and scale of rates, may be had on ap-
plication at the Secretary's office, London, and to the Superintendent
of the Norwich Station.

RICHARD TILL, Secretary.

Guildhall-buildings, London

BRISTOL AND ENGLISH CHANNELS
CONNECTING RAILWAY.
ALP
The Committee of Management have the satisfaction of an-
nouncing that the requisite notices of the intended application to
Parliament in :be next session have been given, and the deposits of-
Plans and Sections with the several Clerks of the Peace and the
Board of Trade, as required by the standing orders of Parliament,
have been duly made.

Applications for Shares may be made until the 27th instant, when
the lists will be closed for allotment.

ISAAC COOKE and SONS, Bristol,
BAXTER, ROSE, and NORTON, ISolleitors,
3, Park-street, Westminster,

December 1, 1845.

OXFORD, THAME; HIGH WYCOMBE,
AND UXBRIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Offlces,'43, Moorgate-street.
THN MANAGING COMMITTEE.
liubert de. Burgh, Esq., Chairman.
Viscount Curzon, Deputy-Chairman.
Lord Albert Conyogham Deane John Hoare,Lieut.-Col. Lothian IDlcksou John Lane, Esq.

Charles Collins, Esq.
Thomas Edwards, Esq.
Frederick Win. Etheridge, Esq,

Malcolm Maclean, Esq.
Richard Christopher Preston,Esq,
Richard Tiriss, Esq.

A.. W. Hillary, Esq.
The Committee of Management have deferred closing their Share
Lists until they were assured that the standing orders of Parliament
had been complied with. The Plans and Sections having been duly
deposited with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks of the
Peace of the counties through which the line passes, they now give
notice that no application for Shares will be received after the 2711;
instant, and until, that period they will continue to be received at the
Oftlces of the Company, 43, Moorgate-street ; of the Solicitor F. T.
Geil, Carltcn-chambeis, 8, Regeut-street ; and of the following
Brokers :—R. H. WilklAS, Esq., 4. Bank-chambers, London; henry
16grenchlY, Esq., Cashion-court, Old Broad-strm.t, L.ralora
It. MORTON CALEY, Secretary.'

EAST DEREHAM AND NORWICH
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have the pleasure to inform the
shareholders and the public that they have concluded arrangements
for leasing the above railway to the Norfolk Company, at a rental of
41. per cent. per annam en the outlay, and an equal divisioa of the
surplus profits.
The Plans and Sections relating to this undertaking have been
deposited at the Board of Trade, and with the several Clerks of the
Peace, in conformity with the standing orders of Parliament.
In order to comply with the standing orders of the House of Lords,
as recently altered, it is necessary that the deposit of 1/. already paid
should be increased to 21. 2s. It is also necessary that the scrip
should be called in and re-issued, and new Parliamentary deeds
executed.
The shareholders are, therefore, required to pay, on or before the
Ist day of January next the further sum of 11. 2s. per share on the
shares respectively held by them, and for this purpose to deposit with
the Secretary, at the Company's offices, Norwich, the scrip now held
by them, together with an application for registry and exchange, in
the annexed form, on or before the 24th day of December instant.
The requisite order to one of the Company's hankers to receive the
increased deposit will be issued within three days after the registry
of the scrip, and on the production of the banker's receipt, and the
execution of the new Parliamentary contract, the new scrip certifi-
cates will be issued.
All scrip, in respect of which the shareholders shall fail to take the
necessary steps for payment of the required deposit within the speci-
fied period, will be forfeited.

EDWARD WILLETT, Chairman,

Norwich, Dec. 8, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR REGISTRY AND EXCHANGE

OF SCRIP

To the Committee of Management of the East Dereham and Norwich

Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l herewith transmit scrip for shares in the
above Company, in respect of which I request you to issue me new
scrip, and I agree to pay the further deposit of 11. 2s. per share on or
before the Ist day ofJanuary next, and to execute the new Parlia-
mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required.
Dated this day of December, 1845.
Name in full ............. ...... .........
Description ............. ...... .: • . •
Reference ....... ...................
The form must be filled up in the handwriting of the applicant.

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JOHNSON, Mairoft.
A. COMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber
of the GUILDHALL of the City of LONDON, on THURS-
DAY, the 11th dal' of December, 1645,
ligsolved,—That great, powerful, and wealthy as this nation is, by
far the largest portion of her Majest/'s subjects in England, Scotland,
and Wales have lost; beenireduccil for their principal support to pota-
toes ; •that all class:ls, but especially the poor, have been, and are,
great .sofferers frost this result. of the national economy ; that the
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sufferings arc attributable to erroneous legislation, which, by ex-
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resolutions, earnestly and anxiously praying, that her Majesty will
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MEREWETHER.

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THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
CHRONICLE.—We cannot satisfy the just impa-
tience of our readers by any positive intelligence re-
specting the steps to be taken in consequence of the re-
signation of Sir Robert Peel. Lord John Russell, as
we have stated, is not returned from Osborne House, and
the public must for the present be content with knowing
that the task of extricating us from our difficulties is
confided to him. Fur we must not disguise from our-
solves that the present is a crisis of great difficulty, no:
to say even of national peril. A strong Government is
all of a sudden dissolved, because the Minister, yielding
to a strong sense of public necessity, has proposed a
measure of relief which the representative of the aristo-
cracy will not permit to take effect. If, after the matter
has been brought to such a point, the people were to ac-
quiesce in the rejection of their just demands, all hope of
relief would have to be abandoned, and our interests
would be sacrificed to an oppressive oligarchy. We
must carry the repeal of the corn laws now or never.
That it will be carried, in spite of all hostile influences,
we have not a moment's doubt. There is that
spirit in the people, that we feel persuaded that they
will not submit to an eternal corn-law, and will not
draw back from a contest in which both Sir R. Peel and
Lord J. Russell have united to lead them. But it is not
merely necessary that the repeal of the corn-laws should
be carried. It must be carried at once, and without the
excitement of a prolonged contest. We will not enter
into the details of a contest with the House of Lords
—the necessity of probably more than one change of
Ministry—of possibly more than one dissolution of Par-
liament, amid the greatest national excitement—of an
actual swamping of the House of Lords—of a repeti-
tion of that ignominious coercion that carried the Reform
Bill, or that more ignominious submission by means of
which Catholic Emsousipo.tioa was passed. If we mean
to retain a House of Lords as part of our Constitution,
we must avoid permitting its members to place themselves
in an attitude of resistance to the public will and the
public good, in the cause of the most sordid self-in-
terest. Now of this evil we run the greatest risk. If
the ground which the Duke of Wellington has taken
be that of opposing the repeal of the corn-laws, we may
anticipate the most obstinate struggle on the part of un-
wise Peers, battling for their personal interests under
the sanction of his great nanle, and the guidance of his
little prudence. But we trust that such is not the
ground on which his Grace has broken up Sir Robert
Peel's Government. We would rather believe that he
objected not to the repeal of the corn-laws as a matter of
public necessity, but to the performance of that task by
a Tory Government. Looking at the probabilities of the
case, we still hope that it will eventually be found that
he will not head an opposition to the measure, supported
by one of the great political parties in the country, and
adopted by the leaders of the other. We cannot believe
that he will close his glorious career in a struggle so
void alike of honour as of hope. But even if we escape
the calamity of being opposed by the Duke
of Wellington, we must make up our minds
to a sharp contest with the House of Lords.
This is a point in which they fancy their
pride and their pockets both so interested, :that the
majority of them will be inclined to resist under any
leader: and leaders we may be sure they will find in the
abundant resources of ducal folly. We must not per-
mit ourselvs to doubt that the great majority of that
House is inclined to resist free trade, and will do so as
far as they dare. But though we should beat them in
the contest, it is a contest which, in the interests of
public order, it is most essential that we should avoid
The great measure of justice must be carried before the
opposition shall have had time to excite the public in-
dignation, and stir up other and more formidable ques-
tions than the corn-law. Now that the people of both
parties have entered upon the struggle, the work must
be done, and done out of hand. And the only way of
attaining this result is by letting the House of Lords
see at once that none other is possible ;—that there is
such an union, such a determination on our part as will
render it impossible to uphold any Government except
one that will in this matter do the work of the people.
This can only be done by the union of all, who, what-
ever may be their party connexions, whatever their
politics on other points, are determined on the repeal of
the corn-laws. The members of the late Government are
as much interested in the success of such a measure as
those, whoever they may be, who shall take office for the
purpose of carrying it. They have not got rid of their heavy
responsibility with their places. They cannot have pro-
claimed to the world, by the very act of their resignation,
their deep conviction of the urgent necessity of a policy
which must have been most distasteful to them, without
being prepared to prove the sincerity of their conviction
by the most loyal exertions to ensure its success. Last
week we called on all Liberals to put; aside all party
considerations, in order to enable Sir Robert Peel to
bring this momentous question to a satisfactory and
speedy settlement. Circumstances are only so far
changed that we may now possibly have to require the
aid which we then proffered. The co-operation of ra-
tional and honest men, for this purpose, is still as
necessary, and still, we believe, as confidently to be
counted on. Sir Robert Peel, in the great step which
he has taken, has, after all, but acted on a wide-spread
feeling among that large and powerful section of the
Conservative party which he more especially represents.
Be his faults in past time what they may, his last act
gives proof of a sincere regard for the public good.
His example in this respect will surely act most
strongly on the great mass of those who trust in his
guidance, and sympathise with his general pur-
poses. If such be not the case, it would undoubtedly be
a grave question whether Lord J. Russell should attempt
to form a Government at present. It would perhaps be
necessary for us to pass through a preliminary process,
and prove to the monopolists the hopelessness of their
resistance, by throwing on them the responsibility of
carrying on that government which they will not allow
others to conduct. Let the Duke call his brother dukes
around him, and see what kind of practical talent for
government he can get out of' them. Let them try the
arduous experiment of fishing out an ultra-Tory to lead
the House of Commons in common grammatical English.
Let them break down in the hopeless enterprise—give up
power to those who can wield it—and acquiesce in the
law which the intelligence of the country imposes on
them. But this prolongation of perilous strife—this
damage to the aristocracy—this interruption of the real
business of the country—let us be spared, if possible.
It will be possible, if some little sacrifice of party and
personal feeling can be generally made to a great object
of general interest. Happily, the very crisis which
imposes the necessity on us has loosened the bonds of
party. On the Liberal side, the ancient distinctions of
by-gone party names have long ceased to be realities;
and, thanks to Sir Robert Peel, what has been called
the Conservative party is now resolvbd into primitive
chaos.
HERALD.—We stated yesterday that the whole
Cabinet had resigned. Such is the fact ; the whole of
the Conservative Cabinet goes out together, and, we
have no doubt. will adhere to the Conservative party.
Whatever Sir Robert Peel's opinion upon the subject of
the corn-laws, the country may be well assured that he
never did propose, and, in office or out of office, never
will either propose or support any change in the corn-
laws, unaccompanied by what he believes to be full
compensation to the landed interest through all its gra-
dations. Whence that full compensation is to be obtained
we are utterly at a loss to conjecture, but it is no more
than an act of justice to the late Premier, as we
suppose we may call him now, to repeat it, that
he never did propose, as the infamous fabrication of
the Times asserted, an unqualified and total repeal
of the corn-laws. Nor, as we firmly believe, will
he ever propose or support any such measure. This is
most important, because whatever difference has existed
in the Cabinet has been merely a difference in degree
and not in species, and therefore cannot extend to the
Conservative party in either House of Parliament. Lord
John Russell has been summoned by the Queen, and is
now in attendance upon her Majesty as her confidential
adviser. And who is Lord John Russell ? A party to
the Lichfield House compact—one who has within these
last few days pledged himself by a public document to
concede all the most extravagant demands of the Anti-
Corn-law League ; and, hear it you opponents of the
Maynooth grant, one of the party most solemnly pledged
to extinguish the Protestant Church in Ireland, and to
establish the Roman Catholic Church in that great divi-
sion of the United Kingdom. Let Conservatives think
of this in time—and they have but little time to think of
it —for whether Parliament be dissolved or not, the work
of ruin will probably commence the first week of Fe-
bruary.
POST.—What may be the tactics of the new Minis-
try seems a matter of considerable dubitation with the
political public. A dissolution of Parliament was the
first thing that suggested itself to people's minds, as the
present House of Commons could hardly be expected to
furnish the Whigs with a working majority; but against
this measure it is urged that the most serious incon-
veniences to the public interest must necessarily follow
on a dissolution. The locking up, for so many weeks,
of the capital deposited by projected railway companies
is mentioned as one point deserving of careful considera-
tion; and another is, that many railway Bills, that were
not finished last session, must be brought forward de
novo in the new Parliament, instead of being taken up at
the stage in which they were left at the period of proro-
gation in August. This, it is argued, would not only be
a cruel infliction of expense upon the companies so situ-
ated, but a positive breach of faith with them on the part
of the Government and the House of Commons. Then
there is the state of our relations with America. Ima-
gine Parliament dissolved when a hostile mess ige
from " his Excellency" Mr. Polk should arrive.
Whence are to come the sinews of war? In short, there
is embarrassment on all hands. Let the new Minister
continue the present Parliament, and in all humanh
probability he finds himself iu a minority; let
im
dissolve it, and there is an equal probability that he
will
be unable to " carry on the Queen's Government. But,
as his friend Sidney Smith said, " Lord John Russell
will undertake anything—the command of the Channel
fleet, the building of St. Paul's, or the operation for the
stone." It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that he
i feels no hesitation in facing the perils of his present
Iposition. It is so much the way of the world to forget
old friends, especially when they chance to have no good
I things to give away, that people talk very little about
the members of the late Cabinet. This may, perhaps, he
owing in seine sort to the habit of Sir Robert Peel, who
spoke often of himself and seldom of his colleagues; but
' still he had colleagues, and men of "note and mark" in

many instances. Of these, we believe we may safely
say that the Duke of Wellington strenuously and
successfully opposed to the last the repeal of the corn-
laws. Of the Duke of Buccicuch we are assured the
same may be predicted. Lord Stanley, we have
reason to think, was firm in favour of protection to
British industry ; in fact, we might go on to
enumerate the majority of the Cabinet, for it was to a
majority that Sir Robert Peel succumbed in his vain
attempt to establish free trade in corn. No endeavour
is made to account for this extraordinary propos:d on
his part, though it is rumoured that he was seized with
panic at the run made upon the stock of bonded corn
for the purpose of exportation. Whether the cause (4-
the effect more prove the practical weakness of the
Minister, we leave others to judge. "We tell the tale
as 'twas told to us." Some friends of the late Cal,in.t
are still sanguine of its speedy restoration to office—of
course without Sir Robert Peel at its head. What is to
become of him does not clearly appear. A corresp,md-
ent, indeed, last night informed us that Sir Robert Peel
will be immediately created a peer by the titles of Baron
Trent, Viscount Drayton, and Earl of Tainworth, and
that in the House of Lords he will give his independent
support to that measure, of the policy of which he has
failed to convince his late colleague,e' And here, for
this occasion, closes our budget of Ministers past, pre-
sent, and to come.

TRIES.—Sir Robert Peel has resigned, and Lord
John Russell has been invited to form a new Admini,-
tration. Such is the sudden and strange event which has
taken by surprise the whole political world ; and such
the verification, if not the fulfilment, of the intelligence
which yesterday week astonished our readers. At that
time another conclusion of the controversies which had
evidently long harassed the Cabinet was confidently and
justly expected. Sir Robert Peel had then gained over
to a total repeal of the corn-laws all his colleagues ex-
cept three or four, with whose co-operation, if report
speaks true, he might very well have dispensed. He had
just won the reluctant assent of the Duke of Welling-
ton, and his promise to propose the measure iu the
Lords. It had also been settled to summon Parliament
early in January for this purpose. Our readers then
possessed an exact and literal transcript of the Minis-
terial state and intentions. We had not even omitted
to notice the " insignificant and doubtful" exceptions
to the general unanimity. Unless, indeed, it had been
possible to tell, not only what was in men's minds, but
also what might possibly enter into them, we are con-
vinced that not even the Cabinet itself could have given
a truer account of the state of affairs. Subsequently,
however, to the date of our announcement, the Duke
withdrew his assent, and joined the minority. The
Premier then felt that it was not his place, or perhaps in
his power, to carry the measure. On Saturday, accord-
ingly, Sir R. Peel iniormed the Queen of the difficulties
in which he found himself, and tendered his resignation.
Her Majesty, it is said, was pleased to express a great
desire to retain his service!, if it could possibly ha so
arranged. Sir Robert Peel could suggest no alternative,
and the Queen summoned Lord John Russell to her
councils. On Wednesday the whole Ministry resigned,
and is now only holding office till Lord John Russell
has selected a Government to supply its place.
Did we consult our own taste, we would not say a
word in vindication of our announcement, which has
ceased to be a matter of any importance now that
the result is known. What we said was then perfectly
true, and is, moreover, fulfilled, in its most important
feature—viz., the surrender of the corn-laws by Sir
Robert Peel and an immense majority of the Cabinet.
Of course no mortal man could foretel such a casualty as
that the Duke of Wellington would change his mind.
Had the sudden stroke of death or other calamity dis-
solved the Cabinet, that would not have vitiated the truth
of the statement. In every intention and every declara-
tion regarding the future there are reserves which it is
not necessary to express ; and admitting that the Duke
may have changed his mind most conscientiously, yet it
would have been an insult to specify that beforehand as
a particularly probable contingency. We will add, how-
ever, that even as far as he is concerned, our original an-
nouncement is nearer to a literal completion than certain
obstinate unbelievers imagine. The Duke, contrary to
the rumours which were all we had to depend
upon yesterday, will not risk the existence of the
Lords by raising them against the measure, or lift his
own voice against it. Though he will not propose it on
Sir Robert Peel's initiation, he will, we have reason to
believe, offer no obstinate resistance to it on Lord John
Russell's. We may, therefore, leave the question of our
veracity in the hands of the public with very little mis-
giving as to the issue. With the measure recommended
us a speech from the Throne a few weeks hence, with a
Ministry then perfectly unanimous in its favour, with
Sir Robert Peel and three-fourths of his colleagues
speaking and voting for it in the Lower House, and the
Duke of Wellington yielding a virtual assent in the
Upper, we will leave the population of Manchester, or
any other fifty thousand rational men, to decide which is
the truer prophet, we, or they who denounced the sole
statement, letter and spirit, in their own peculiar style,
as "an atrocious fabrication," resting that courteous
denial on the utter impossibility of the Premier under-
going so considerable a change of opinion, and, what
was worse still, giving them no information of it.
To Lord John Russell, therefore, we must now turn,
as the helmsman of the State through the present
crisis. We have frequently intimated that he and
his friends had at least a better claim to such
a measure as that soon to be passed, than
,the Conserva-
tive Ministry ; and immediately on the appearance of
his Lordship's letter we said, that he bad made the mea-
sure his own so thoroughly, that even if the Conserva-
tive Premier should afterwards declare for it, he would
hardly escape the stigma of unjust appropriation,
Fortune has, at last, distributed the parts of the political
drama with a fitness to which we have latterly been little
accustomed. Of existing statesmen Lord John Russell
is the nearest claimant. That is the utmost, perhaps,
that can be said for him. It is, as we have said, the
measure of the people. The people propose it. The
people are passing it, and it is a popular triumph. Lord
John Russell has the honour of being, not in the least
sense whatever the author of the measure, but the han-
diest, most opportune, most convenient, and most becom-
ing instrument—viz., in the hands of the people. Ile
will of course start very fair ; with his first
great measure made to his hands, his work cut out
for him, some small stock of popularity in hand, and
a neutralised, a divided, and embarrassed Opposition.
Had not the Whigs a certain happy facility of eTast-
ing the best resources, and spoiling the fairest occasions,
we should augur well of his continuance and success.
His responsibility, however, must already press heavily
upon him. Never was there a Ministry which did not
receive in its first formation the seeds of futuro decay—
never one which could not subsequently trace its
calamities to the inevitable working of somo constitu-
tional virus. His difficulty is the abundance of the
materials from which he has to make his choice; and not
merely the abundance, the variety, and, in some re-
spects, the discordance of those materials. Whig and
Radical, aristocratic and popular, not to say, plebeian,
are the colours which he must group and harmonise.
And well does it behove him to count the cost of every
choice and every rejection. Two paths lie before him.
He may either reunite the old materials of the former
Whig Ministry without going out of " the family" for
a single new name; which will be a simple way of
beginning, and, we will add, a simple way of finishing,
his career. Or, he may endeavour to enlarge that
close connexion and widen that narrow bags, by taking
in a little of that rank and nobility which nature and
the people have created. Common decency as well as
common sense seem to suggest that the Cabinet of a
representative people should itself be representative,
and should therefore contain the real authors of its
measures, the foremost men of its principles, the framers
of its constitution, and maintainers of its cause. Till
the last few weeks opened their eyes, the Whigs have
had nothing to do with that great measure which places
Lord John Russell at the head of the national councils.
If the new Cabinet is to be a mere re-union of that
exclusive coterie, all the world will he struck with the
ingratitude and insolence of a usurpation which so coolly
monopolizes the fruits of a victory gained by the indus-
try, the perseverance, the genius, and the patriotism of
others. It is not the Whigs who have displaced Sir
Robert Peel and brought in Lord John Russell. The
Whigs have had nothing to do with the present crisis
and the question now at issue, except iu slowly ten-
dering their adherence at the eleventh hour, and being
ready to divide the spoil. They are not the makers
of the new Cabinet. Neither ought they to be its only
members. Yet it is reported that there are men who
consider themselves not unfit to carry out the mea-
sures of the people, but who recoil with horror at
the least plebeian encroachment "'twist the wind antl
their nobility." On his own triumphant battle-field
they scout the rough soldier of the commonwealth.
Reinstated as they aro by the million, they will not sit
with those who lead the million. Such surely are men
who would be ashamed of their own fathers, if fortune
had not made them ornamental as well as kind. Tibie,e
world will suspect another feeling besides the d espica
vanity, of caste. They will be thought unable to en-
(lure the presence of one to whom they are under such
overpowering obligations ; perhaps vonto cower be-
neath an influence so energetic and independent. It
was as much as the fastidious Whig could do to admit
the brilliant essaist and reviewer. The novas homo of
more practical greatness will undoubtedly put his po-
pular sympathies to a more practical lest. It the Whigs
condescend to use the opening which the people have
given them. they must also condescend to follow its
leading. In a peculiar sense they are now the repre-
sentatives of the popular will. It is their boast to carry
out the Reform Bill. That Bill gave a political exist-
ence to the rnanufaettsring masses. It gave to the busy
and populous north Its just proportion in the State.
The reform of the Parliament involves a reform of the
Cabinet. The one is a function of the other, and there
will be an endless collision till the man of the people is
admitted to the secret councils of the Sovereign as well
as to the public deliberations of the Legislature.
' ADVERTISER.—A crisis has arrived ! the Minis-
terial plot works : as Talleyrand said, we have now
before us le commencement de la fin. What the termina-
tion will be. time alone will unfold ; but at present the
" peat fact" of the resignation of Sir Robert Peel's Ca-
binet is now beyond doubt. In our impression of the
4th instant, we distinctly announced that, owing to the
difficulties with which Sir Robert Peel found himself
surrounded, he had threatened to resign. The opposi-
tion he has encountered from the Duke of Wellington
and the high Tory members in the Cabinet, to his

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meditated blow against the corn-laws, and the utter
impossibility which existed of his being able to face the
Parliament and to do nothing, have rendered the neces-
cessity of his resignation overwhelming; and-Wand his
colleagues at present only hold the seals of office
till such time as their successors shall be appointed.
We have the satisfaction to state, that imme-
diately upon the resignation of the late Ministers,
her Majesty sent for Lord John Russell, who, after
having had an interview of an hour's duration
with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at Whitehall, imme-
diately repaired to Osborne House. His Lordship had
an audience of her Majesty, and returned to town last
evening with full authority to form an Administration.
The leading members of the former Whig Cabinet have
already communicated with his Lordship, who is actively
engaged in the formation of his Cabinet. It is probable
that an address from his Lordship to his constituents of
the City of London, with a declaration of the principles
which are to guide his policy on the corn-laws, will ap-
pear forthwith. The excitement and speculation which
these important events created throughout the whole cf
the metropolis yesterday, may be easily conjectured.
The rumour of a speedy, if not an immediate dissolu-
tion of Parliament, was very prevalent at all the West end
club-houses, and the conference which took place between
Lord John Russell and Sir Robert Peel revived, with
more than its original force, the report which we gave a
week ago, that a coalition Ministry, with the two Whig
and Tory chiefs at the head, would be formed. Indeed,
it is currently reported is the City that it is the inten-
tion of the Liberal party, in case of a dissolution of
Parliament, to solicit Sir R. Peel to stand as a candidate
for the City of London, by the side of the Noble Lord,
the present Member for the City, upon the broad prin-
ciples of free-trade and repeal of the corn-laws. In this
general dislocation of parties, it is almost impossible to
predict the future course or events. It is, however, more
than probable that the Tories, now that the disruption of
their Cabinet has taken place, will rally round some of
their leaders, and make the most strenuous defence of
the protection laws. The history of the world furnishes
no example of a greedy, selfish body of monopolists
quietly relinquishing the edvantages which they have
gradually and silently usurped. But the blow is struck:
the corn-laws and the protection-laws are doomed, ani
must inevitably be placed upon a free and equal footing
bearing impartially upon all classes of the community
alike. It is impossible to overrate the importance of the
present crisis. Upon the firmness of the people
rests the future happiness and prosperity of unborn
millions. It will depend upon the number of personal
adherents of Sir Robert Peel who may follow his ex-
ample in the house of Commons, and join the ranks
of the Whif,s, whether Lord John Russell will be able
to assume such an attitude in the Lower House as shall
compel the House of Lords to give way, as they at
length reluctantly did in the case of the Reform Bill.
The cry of " Corn," not " Curry," at an election, will
shake the power and influence of these legislatorial
Peers to the very foundation. No more will the alarm
spread abroad that the Constitution is in danger avail
them. Their efforts to curry favour with their detestable
"curry," and their wretched expedients to avert the
blow which is now falling upon their house, will be es
abortive as they are contemptible. A long vista of
happier days for the English labourer is opened to our
view. All that remains to be done by the people is to
persevere in their present course, and one of the greatest
monopolies which ever afflicted a country will be extin-
guished for ever.