The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Ministry ! This is a fearful subject at the
present time, for it is one the aspect of which changes
every moment; so that though what has actually
happened cannot be rendered undone, yet that which
is happening may be so thoroughly unwoven, that it
will appear afterwards as if the work were never
begun. Hence, those whose duty it is to describe
passing occurrences on this subject, and who have
all the means at their disposal necessary for the task,
may be thought to have stated that which was never
the fact, simply because an operation which was be-
gun was never consummated. With a demand for
indulgence springing from such a state, we proceed
to communicate what we know about the Ministry.
The Duke of Wellington and the Lord Chancellor
both went to Windsor yesterday. Lord Goderich,
isit known, had been there the day before : the ob-
ject of his visit is better understood, and its issue
more defined. We believe that his Lordship's re-
lat perhaps, his brother,—who had
for some time endeavoured to support his tot-
tering power and cheer his spirit under the
weighs e
. administration, at last became con-
vinced of his feebleness, and counselled his re-
treat. This step, on his Lordship's part, be-
came the more immediately necessary from dissen-
sions in the Cabinet. A disagreement had sprung:up
between Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Herries : the for-
mer, as leader of the House of Commons, proposed
to tioesinate Lord Althorp as Chairman of the Pi-
bailee Committee—a nomination which all England
'will agree did honour to its author, and must throw
obloquy on him by whom it was opposed. Mr.
Herries had not been consulted in the first instance,
and Mr. Herries opposed the appointment of Lord
Althorp, as well as other projects, of which we
:,hall speak hereafter. Lord Goderich, therefore,
waited on his Majesty, to state, that he could not
control these discordant elements, and, in truth, that
the Ministry was broken up. His Majesty, though
very ill, saw his Lordship, and dismissed him, say-
ing, " As Huskisson resigns, there is no Govern-
merit." This mention of Mr. Huskisson's resigna-
tion brings us to another point of difference between
that gentleman and Mr. Herries. Mr. Huskisson
had, we have been assured, prepared such a plan of
finance and retrenchment as he thought necessary
for the security of the country : to this also Mr.
Heisies, it is said, had objected; upon which Mr.
tluskisson declared, that either himself or Mr. Her-
ries must retire from the Cabinet ; and with this
conditional resignation of Mr. Huskisson his Ma-
jesty must have been, of course, acquainted when he
saw Lord Goderich. It was impossible, a plan of
finance being proposed, which one Minister had,
with much labour, concocted and another opposed,
that those two Ministers could remain in the
same Cabinet. In truth, Mr. Herries never ought
to have been admitted as a Minister after the
death of Mr. Canning, who could have controulled
hint. His conduct in his new station reminds us of
that of a certain new Duchess. A lady of real rank,
after much repugnance, determined to admit her
Grace to her parties, in hopes that the distinction
might do her good; but no sooner did the parvenue
find herself among her betters, than recurring to
her ancient habits, she began to " blow them up"
for supposed neglects; and this is the manner in
which Mr. Herries has treated the Ministry to which
he was improperly admitted : he has blown it up.
And what does he mean ? Has he a plan of finance
to propose to the country in lieu of Mr. Huskisson's
(supposing that gentleman not to remain) ? or -can
he carry on the concerns of the country without re-
trenchment ? Has he any plan which will expose
and render useless in future, all the trickery prac-
tised in the making up of the public accounts ?
that twill quietly sweep away that pantomime ma-
chinery, at once diminishing the expenditure, ren-
dering its items intelligible, and economising both
the collection and the application of revenue ? The
Ministry of Lord Goderich being thus disunited, the
visits of Lord Lyndhurst, arid that of the Duke
of Wellington, must of course have had refer-
ence to its re-construction. The Chancellor,
we believe, went first down on Tuesday even-
ing, and remained with his Majesty till yesterday
morning at two o'clock. His Lordship returned to
Windsor yesterday with the Duke of Wellington, as
we before said, but was present at a Cabinet
Council in town at five o'clock. We do not see
how a Tory Government can stand, and believe it
would not even be attempted without a dissolution
of Parliament ; and besides, the King knows and
feels too acutely how that faction or party has
treated him lately. With the Tories, also, the re-
mains of Mr. Canning's party are equally irritated,
and must, therefore, be still more identified with the
Wigs. To Lord Althorp, we believe, there has
been recently attaching itself a party of considerable
weight, and daily increasing numbers, neither bound
to support nor to oppose what may almost be called
the late Ministry; but rather inclined to watch and
weigh its measures, and determined to promote or
resist them, as they appear wise or the re-verse. The
Lords Milton and Tavistock are also leaders in this
hand, already consisting of at least 40 distinguished
persons; which must still, if it remains united,
possess great influence among parties equally matched,
or nearly so in Parliament.--Times.

The following is the substance of intelligence re-
reived after the preceding remarks were written :
The Lord Chancellor returned from Windsor in
time for the Cabinet, which met at foul. The
Duke came back at six. The King is understood
to have desired his Grace's opinion, as to the steps
proper to take respecting the state of the Ministry,
and the Duke, having desired time to consider, is
commanded to report to the Lord Chancellor. There
is, however, no actual resignation, up to this mo-
ment. It seems quite certain that Mr. Herries is
the principal cause of these embarrassments. He
objects, as we have already stated, to Lord Althorp
as Chairman of the Finance Committee, and Mr.
Huskisson, being honest and firm in the discharge of
this most important duty of public economy, it is
understood that one or other must retire. It will
be passing strange if the Government shall be dis-
solved because a Clerk of the Treasury, made
Chancellor of the Exchequer, chooses to set himself
up as a dictator. Can the House meet without
asking why he is to have such influence ? What the
Duke of Wellington will propose, is of course not
yet known; we take it for granted that his Grace
will not dream of forming a Government of Ultra
Tories.—/bid.

With the part of our city despatch which relates
to 3linisterial changes we shall not here meddle;
but the concluding part of the article hints at a puo-
position of such horrible iniquity, that we were half
disposed to ()wit the mention of it. The proposi-
tion is to this cifeet,—that Scotland is to be allowed
to circulate small notes after they shall have ceased
in England, upon a certain tricky condition—ten-
dered, or said to be tendered, by the scotti,h
bankers—of depositing Exchequer bills to the
amount of all such their petty issues. A modest
request this, on the part of the Scottish banker=,
supposing them capable of having made it, that to
them should be conceded a monopoly of all the pa-
per allowed to circulate in the island, between one
pound and four pounds nineteen shillings inclusive !
We would have all people, therefore, fully to under-
stand, that it is not the security, but the extinction,
of a small paper circulation that the country looks
to as a source of good,—as a means of diminishing
the cost of articles of daily consumption, and equaliz-
ing to a degree (not wholly, but to an useful dege)
the prices of the necessaries of life here with those
on the Continent; and the difficulty of this extinction
we have no doubt has been nearly vanquished, there
being now no small notes of the Bank of England
circulation, and comparatively but few of private
bankers, and those recurring incessantly to the bands of
those who issued them ; so that no interest can be
derived from their circulation. With respect to the
comparative convenience of small notes and gold,
there is not a doubt that it preponderates in favour
of the lighter article. There is not a tradesman in
London, from the great brewers and distillers down
to the pettiest huckster, that would not, in his or-.