The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-27 00:00:00

We stated yesterday all that had passed up to the

time of our publication respecting the differences in
the Ministry. We pointed out Mr. Huskisson and
Lord Palmerston, not only as the retiring Members,
but the former as one who had lost the confidence
of his Majesty, and would no longer forni part of
Administration, even should the ultimate result be
a total change of Councils. This fact is now pub-
Rely admitted. Mr. Huskisson had an interview
with its Majesty yesterday, at which he resigned
the seals of offiee, and the country is now secure
against the mann), cf e•.:periments, to which it has
been too long subjected. Lord Palmerston has also
terminated his official career. Beyond this nothing
has igt occurred. Other secessions, or rather dis-
missals, li yr been talked of, but, we are assured,
erroneously. The rest of the Administration will,
we understand, remain Ys it is, and the places
of the politically defunct Statesmen, will be
fined up without any difficulty or delay, Vis-
count Ootterich is strongly spoken of as likely
to return to office on this occasion, and an
early dissolution of Peiliament continues to be
regarded as a very pro‘dable es,-etit. The
tempest, which broke so suddenly upon the
Duke of WellllT:ton's Administration, has only
served to confirm itc, strength, and to display in a
clearer light the manly tirmneL:e and decision of its
:chief, Straight-forward in all his acts and intentions,
the Ni,,ble Duke could neither suspect nor permit
doubly VieWS in others. He did not understand an
offer to resign, NihiA was not meant as a resigna-
tion. He knew that if 4 y/4s not a resignation, it
was a bravado and an insult, and he took the more
charitable view of the case, when he Eerie. Mr.
Hue-
lz_isson's letter to the King, for what it purported to
be, instead of' considering it as a piece of hypocrisy,
which bore ;1. different meaning from that which it
expressed. He ti,t,;.4. as he would have done for
himself. He would have prefei.re4 honour to place,
04 naturally ascribed the same feeling is Hus-
kissou, He protected the honour of that Geniief.
man, at the ei:p,ense of its situation it is true, but at
an expense more repaid by the homage thus
done to h:s integrity his truth. That
Huskisson will complain, we therefore do
not anticipate. He has been treated r.;.? ?>1)
honest man, .3.p,(-,1 ought, we think, to fe'el
grateful. That be 4a% we will not assert. We
leavg that to those secrets a the bosom, with
which a 4,4-4;s own spirit alone is aequaintad. But
that the country ovrs the deepest gratitude' to the
ha
Noble Duke, for ving 4:hewed her from the dan-
ger tir further expetiments qtrthe prosperity, and
even the ,e-i•liztence of her most irupdrtant interests,
f,ay her debt most ampfy,
and that she wii4are not
imaginations but ceetalpties. The country, like
her Moniprli, places all her coni4mce on the clear
understanding, ;lte I.ro:ng sense of right, the frank
honesty, the total aPsie4i-s,e from guile petty pas_
sion9, art the ,unbesi tat] n *.c,,.40n of the Leader
of her Councils. Could she give a mote Aopvmcing
• proof of the extent to vAi,eh she trusted his Grace,
than her conduct on this occasioil ? Dinic,uKes had
arisen which might possibly have led to greater
changes, or indeed to the total overturning of the
Noble I)uYes Admißistratiop. Was a wish
m breathed
throughout the land th;t wars not for the Fel:ope':
►A the
of his Ministry ? Did a thought wnnaer
Whigs, who so lately imagined that they had re-
gained the respect of the nation No : they were
forgotten, as they deserved; or if recollected, only
remembered as men who seemed studious, when in,

power, to reverse all the promises which they had
made when out of place. Every eye was fixed on
the mind that made the Government a national, not
a party object, and the continuance of the Duke of
Wellington at the head of public affairs, was the uni-
versal hope, the universal prayer.—Xezu Times.

MR. HUSKISSON, lIIS RESIGNATION, &C.—The
following we last night received from a West End
of the Town Correspondent There is no doubt
that Mr. Iluskisson has ceased to be Minister for
the Colonies ; such, indeed, has been the fact since
last Thursday, from which time Mr. H. did not
transact any business, and all communication be-
tween him and the Office was suspended. It has
been whispered, by those who have been very close
observers of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that he
entertained a similar ambition to that of the late
Mr. Canning : certain it is, that he has shown, in
the various changes which took place a few months
back, a great tenacity for keeping office. It was Mr.
Huskisson's conduct, in the first instance, that led to
the dissolution of the " Goderich Ministry." Lie,
it would seem, has tried the same " ruse" again,
but he has not found a Lord Goderich in the Duke
of Wellington, who behaved in a decided manner;
for, when he found a Member of his Administra-
tion pursuing such conduct as might lead to its
dissolution, he resented it in such a way that
that Member's resignation was inevitable. Mr. Hus-
kisson's speeches—the one made at Liverpool,
and the other in the House of Commons, and
between which there was so little coincidence
—were, it is very likely, not forgotten. His (Mr.
Huskisson's) removal from the Colonial Office, it
is understood, does not cause the resignation of
either of the Under Secretaries. Mr. Hay is con-
sidered a fixture ; Lord Francis Gower, the Parlia-
mentary Under Secretary, and who in general fol-
lows the Principal Secretary, will, it is understood,
remain in office, as he was conductit's the business
in his department during yesterday. Lord Francis
was considered to be introduced into the office of
Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Depart-
ment by the Duke of Wellington. It is expected
that Lord Dudley does not resign the Foreign Se-
cretaryship, for which his late frequent interviews
with the Duke of Wellington, and his Lordship's
dining with the King on Saturday, in company with
the Noble Duke, is a confirmation. Sir George
Murray was yesterday spoken of as likely to suc-
ceed Lord Palmerston, as Secretary at War. Among
the reports of yesterday, one was that Parliament
is to be dissolved.—A. B. C.—Morning Herald.
The expectation which we yesterday so confi-
dently expressed has already been fully realized.
Mr. Huskisson, whose recent extraordinary conduct
excited so much surprise, to give it no other term, is
no longer a Minister of the Crown. He yesterday
resigned into his Majesty's hands the Seals of Office
as Secretary of State for the War and Colonial De-
partment ; and Lord Palmerston as Secretary at
War, and Mr. Grant as President of the Board of
Trade, are expected to resign their respective offices
in a few days. These are necessary consequences of
the unexpected presumption of the liberal portion of
the Cabinet, in opposing their dark and insidious
practices to the honest and straight-forward conduct
of the illustrious Premier, and his no less honourable
colleague, the able and respected Secretary for the
Home Department. Upon this important event
we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of congra-
tulating the public, persuaded as we are that it will
lead to the happy formation of a Ministry, upon
the sound and safe principles of good old times,
and to which the country may look with confidence
for the preservation of the Constitution in Church
and State—the maintenance of those 'blessings for
which our ancestors fought and bled, and of those
rights and privileges (now so seriously menaced)
which it is our bounden duty to hand down unim-
paired to posterity. Some of our contemporaries
will have it, that the East netfot d Question was the
sole ground of difference which led to the rupture
that has already produced such beneficial effects to
the country. We have already, we hope, given
ample reason for our difference of opinion with
them; hut admitting for the sake of ar-
gument, that they are perfectly correct, we
would seriously ask, whether a fair occa-
sion is not even in that case afforded to discuss the
principles which ought to regulate and reconcile
Ministerial unanimity and individual independence,
—principles without a due regard to which the Ad-
ministration of England must he for ever insecure,
and the policy of England for ever wavering. Any
man who consents to form part of an Administration,
clearly pledges himself by that consent to acquiesce
irk? tlie decision of the majority of the Cabinet (if
fairly taken) upon all questions, with the exception
only of those which are understood beforehand to be
open questions, or upon which he has previously to
joining them, made his colleagues understand that he
holds an inflexible opinion. Upon the great princi-
ples of national policy it may generally be taken for
granted that the men who form themselves into an
Administration fully understand each other; it is
upon subordinate questions only, therefore, or upon the
application of the fixed principles of national policy to
emergencies which mayfrom time to time arise,that they
can differ. And we do not hesitate to say that the mi-
nority in a Cabinet which refuses to submit to the
majority on such an occasion, or which does not sub-
mit until it has endeavoured in vain to excite the
tuition in favour of its own over-ruled opinions, af-
fords by this single act the most conclusive proof
that it consists of men, insensible to the obligations
of good faith, incapable of understanding the value
of a settled, in comparison with a devious and
fluctuating course of public policy,—totally unworthy
in short, in intellect, in temper, and in morals, to
bear any share in swaying the destinies of a great
empire. To illustrate the principles we have here
laid down, let us suppose the majority of the
Cabinet to have decided, that the privilege of return-
ing Members of Parliament, hitherto exercised by East
Retford, ought not, in all the circumstances of the case,
to be transferred to Birmingham ; but that the right of
voting ought merely to be extended to the Free-
holders of the Hundred in which that Borough is
situated ; and let us then ask, if there can be any
doubt that the minority of the Cabinet were so far
bound by this decision, as to be precluded from
voting in Parliament in opposition to it ? We med-
dle not now with the question as to which party
would have been right and which wrong, upon the
,original topic of dispute. We say nothing of the
importance, be it greater or less, of the question at
issue ; but we do say, that the decision of the ma-
jority of the Cabinet, upon such a question, ought
to regulate the Parliamentary conduct of all
its members; because it is clear that the pre-
valence of any other rule would throw the
whole "sloyetntttent of the country into the hands of
the House of Commons, yy con,;tituting it a per-
manent court of appeal upon all Ministerial diffe-
rences of opinion. This consideration is so obvious,
and at the same time so important, that any man,
tvho ;!42 for a single moment been capable of over-
looking or disregarding it, may be safely pronounced
unfit to remain a Minister of the British Crown ;
may justly be suspected of the basest treachery tP-
ards his colleagues ; and must henceforth he con--
pent to take his place among those in whose estima-
tion neither personal itonsats nor the welfare of the
State are of any value, in comparison with a women-
F4ry aml vulgar popularity.—Morning

In less thz,tn forty ye4r; so pornpletely has
every bodily trace of Mpaa wr vanished from the minds of
the pepple of Vienna, that there is not a spill there who
can even tell the Flare where he was buried. The ansWer
to every inquiry iS, Nobody knows,—the register of St.
' Stephen's must be consulted for the information." There
is no rude memento—no sculptured stone—to indicate
that the divine 1191. A RT once sojourned in Vienna ; and as
for the spot of his interment, it may not be thought too
fanciful to suppose that earth, the general mother, .1"1“1°'
of her production, has hidden hint again in her womb, lest
celestial beings should claim him as their own. This
perhaps, a poetical apology for what is, in fact,
neglect everla,tingly disgraceful to the Viennese, who, I am
afraid, have Inoue joy in the pageant of a funeral than they
have sorrow for the loss of great men.—A Ramble an!,
the Musicians of Germany, a piece of

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