The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-15 00:00:00

the body to whose unwearying and brilliant ewer
tions the country owes its victory over monopoly.

Madrid journals of the 7th have been received.
Reports of the QUEEN'S marriage with the Count
DE TuArANi have been again revived, and furnish
topics of discussion in most of them. This project
of marriage is universally disapproved of by all inde-
pendent Spaniards, and is supported only by the
French party. The Esperanza repeats the rumour
that the notorious BRAVO, once Prime Minister, had
been dismissed from his situation as Ambassador at
the Court of Lisbon. It appears that great reform
has taken place at Court, and most of the ancient
ceremonies when Spain was a great country had
been revived. A letter of the 6th says :
" The ceremonies of the ancient reigns have recently
been adopted at the Palace. The day before yesterday
thirty or forty ladies were admitted to the honour of the
Tabouret, and yesterday several grandees of Spain put
on their mantle for the.first time. The ceremony of the
chapter of the Order of Charles 111., held this day, has
been magnificent. Seventy-four knights were present
in their rich costumes, The Dukes de Valencia and
Rianzares, and Martinez de la Rosa figured conspicu-
ously among them."

The Gazette contains a notice from the Sinking Fund
Board that the dividends on the Three per Cent. Internal
Debt will be paid at Madrid from and after the 2d of
January next, and that persons holding that stock in
Paris and London may receive bills on Madrid at four
days' sight, drawn by the presidents of the finance com-
mission there on the Sinking Fund Board, for their cou-
pons, if they prefer doing so.

The Three per Cents. have advanced latterly, owing
to the combination formed for that purpose ; they closed
on the 6th at 36-1 cash, and 36i at 60 days ; 27 millions
done. Five per Cents. 24 at 60 days ; 1,600,000 done.

The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with discus
sions on the resignation of the PEEL Ministry, and its
probable consequences. The views taken by some
show more knowledge of political affairs in this
country than previous articles would have led English-
men to anticipate. The following remarks from the
Government paper, the Journal des Debats, will be
read with interest :—" The grave determination come
to by the English Ministry was unexpected. We
were not ignorant of the serious difficulties which
had arisen in the Council on the subject of a change
in the corn-laws, but it was generally believed that
the head of the Cabinet had succeeded in bringing
his colleagues to his own opinion, and that a una-
nimity had been re-established in the Councils of the
Crown. It must be believed that the principal ob-
stacle which was thought to have been removed has
again come in the way, and that the member of the
Cabinet whose influence alone could counterbalance
that of Sir ROBERT PEEL, the Duke of WELLING-
TON, has felt himself bound to recur to his first
opinion. However this may be, the Ministry of
Sir R. PEEL is dissolved, and the English Government
at an absolute crisis. Without pretending to fore-
see the manner in which this crisis will terminate,
we nevertheless think that, considering the state of
parties in England, and the disposition of the public,
no long time will elapse before Sir ROBERT PEEL
again finds himself called upon to form a new
Cabinet. Without him only two combinations are
possible, a Whig Ministry directed by Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, and a Ministry purely and simply Tory,
with the Duke of WELLINGTON for its chief, and
Lord STANLEY for its orator. A Whig Ministry,
particularly after the recent demonstration of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, would find itself in very consider-
able minority in the present House of Commons,
and would have against it nearly all the Lords. It
must therefore have recourse to a dissolution. It is
indubitable that it would still find itself in a
minority in a new Parliament, and that the
agricultural party, though greatly weakened in
the last four years, would, nevertheless, be still
the strongest at a new general election. There
only remains an ultra-Tory Ministry on the system of
maintaining the present laws, and resting solely on
the landed interest. Such a Ministry will probably
be tried, but all conceive that it cannot last ; and, if
it lasts, it will be dangerous. A political, but at the
same time a progressive, conservatism, like that of
Sir ROBERT PEEL, was the only one capable of neu-
tralising by directing a popular feeling so strong as
that which is now manifested in England. This
mixed party, this party of wise mutual concessions,
would prevent a shock between OA two extreme ele-
ments, and gradually, though slowly, prepare the ne-
cessary fusion. The species of crusade undertaken
against the corn-laws has hitherto borne only the
character of a question of economy—this new state
will give it a democratic character. The struggle
which has hitherto beek only between two systems,
will become one between two classes; and when
the cause of the freedom of trade and the increase
of labour shall no longer be debated, only in the he-
reditary Chamber, a conflict will arise between the
middle and working classes on the one side, and the
aristocracy of the great landowners on the other.
We therefore believe that the most probable solution
of the Ministerial crisis in England is, that, after
several attempts by others, Sir ROBERT PEEL will
once more be charged with the formation of a new
Cabinet. The separation of the Duke of WELLING-
TON will, undoubtedly, be a cause of great difficulty ;
but a Cabinet which shall reckon among its members
Sir R. PEEL, Lord ABERDEEN, Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
and perhaps Mr. GLADSTONE, will still combine suf-
ficient influence, as well as talents to form a strong
Government. We will add, that particular circum-
stances will render the constitution of a new Cabinet
most urgent, for the Message of the President of the
United States will in a few days arrive ail Liverpool."
We subjoin the opinions of some of the other papers
on this unexpected event::—
(From the Constitutionnel.)
"We have already examined, as well as an opinion
could be formed of the future, what were the probable
consequences of Sir R. Peel's withdrawal from office, it
this step be certain, which is not yet definitive. The
journals which pass for the confidential organs of his
opinions, declared the other day that, in consequence of
the attitude taken by Lord John Russell, all coalition
had become impossible between the Whigs and mode-
rate Tories. The result will be, that the Queen will
summon the Whigs to the Ministry, and that Sir R. Peel
will give, in the Chamber, to Lord J. Russell the perse-
vering and disinterested support which he received from
him during the past year ; or that the Tories, who have
just overturened Sir R. Peel, will seize on the Govern-
ment, and endeavour to defend the present legislation.
We believe, as we have already declared, that in presence
of the progress made by the agitation against the corn-
laws, they will not be able to succeed, except by turning
public opinion on a great undertaking, where all the
forces of the country should be engaged."
(From the National.)
" The Cabinet of Sir Robert Peel is dissolved. If the
Whip were ready for and desirous of office, and if they
could command a majority in the Parliament, all diffi-
culty would soon be at an end. But the accession of the
Whigs requires three things which are not easy;-1.
The dissolution of the House of Commons. 2. Favour-
able elections. 3. A considerable creation of Peers.
Lord John Russell must, moreover, be decided to assume
the direction of affairs, and everything indicates that, at
this moment, he has no such intention. The Whigs are,
by this time, accustomed to see Sir Robert Peel sweep-
ing the road for them, transacting their business, and
they rendering government commodious to him. They
then take their portfolios and go to sleep in the
sweetest idleness; when the people grumble and ac-
cuse them of impotency, they request Lord Palmerston
to kick up a bit of a row out of doors, and his Lordship
finds here and there a personage flat enough to pass
through the eye of a needle. The Whigs, enchanted, then
say that they have done quite enough for their glory, and
after this exploit they return into private life. Now, as
Lord J. Russell does not appear much inclined to new
adventures, there remain Sir R. Peel and the Duke of
Wellington—which of the two will the Queen send for?
Both, perhaps ; but the position of each is narrow and
difficult.. What can the Duke of Wellington do? Form
an ultra-Tory Cabinet resolved upon resistance. But
who will be chosen by him to lead the House of Corn.
mons ? Where is the man sufficiently robust to stand a
single night against Peel and Russell ? There is
not one. Lord Stanley might have tried, but he is now
in the House of Lords, Suppose even that Wellington
should by chance find such a person,, where would be
his majority ? The Tories decided on yielding nothing
are not more than 200 ; Peel has the others, and their
junction with the Whigs would at the first trial
place the Wellington Cabinet in a minority. If, then,
such a minority should be formed, it would not last a
month, and it would only have the effect of facilitating
a coalition between Sir Robert Peel and the Whigs,
which has long been foreseen. On the other hand, the
Baronet cannot hope to direct the affairs of the country,
having against him, not only the Duke of Wellington,
but Stanley, Ripon, Buckingham, Buccleuch, Richmond,
in short, the whole English aristocracy. In proposing
the abolition of the corn-laws, he would infallibly ob-
tain through the Whip a majority of the House of
Commons, but he would fall in the Lords before a for-

midable opposition. There would be only one way to
destroy this obstacle, viz., to create at least sixty Peers
which, sooner or later, must be done. Such a measure

may be resorted to in favour of a firm Cabinet, having a
real majority of its own in the 'louse of Commons, but
Sir Robert Peel would only have a borrowed majority,
which would cease the mombnt the Whigs should vote
against him. Would he himself, with the consciousness
of his weakness, attempt a large creation of Peers ?
and would he not, in such ease, be obliged, in order to