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

to the army was, in a considerable degree, hoWeiter,
repaired by the appointment of the. Illustrious .Wel-
lington as his successor. The Thike of York,though he mingled but little directly lit patics,
had a political character and influence in the
highest value to the nation, and it is on accouut of
these that the nation is now chiefly sensible of his
loss. There were in his political character a firm
uprightness, a steady consistency, a tine and chi
valrous integrity, which inspired feelings of dismay
and counselled disguise and inaction among, poli-
tical intriguers of the loftiest pretensions. Had his
Royal Highness still lived, we feel, and the country
feels with us, that England would hare been spared
the calamity and the degradation ''of having a Mi-
nistry composed of the refuse of every party—
of men who adhere together only because no one
of them has sufficient honour, or spirit, or integrity,
to adhere to his own principles. His frank and
manly nature would ill have brooked to see every
principle of the British Government involved in
confusion, and enveloped in obscurity. The nation
had not yet recovered from the shock inflicted upon
it by the melancholy event to which we have just
referred, when the Prime Minister of England, the
enlighttmed and virtuous Earl of Liverpool, was
struck from the eminence he ennobled, by severe
and hopeless indjsposition. This event was the-
signal for an universal movement of political parties.
and of public men in England. The cause of na-
tional virtue and glory, of probity and honour, had
lost two of its most powerful champions—individual
integrity two of its brightest examples. The ambi-
tious, the selfish—those tt, whom politics were a
trade, and principles only a mask—all who were
leagued by sympathy. of disposition, if by no closer
bond, with the restless -and turbulent spirits of the
world—were droVii together by the instinctive free-
masonry of congenial minds. The inauspicious and
unhallowed confederacy strove by dark manoeuvres,
which will yet sooner or later be dragged into'day,
to possess itself of the Government of England,
and unhappily it succeeded. The post of pre-
eminence was by the common consent of the confe-
derates assigned to him who, by the Portuguese
speech which we have already described, and other
similar blandishments, had done the most to mature
and cement the confederacy ; and with suppressed
grief, and alarm, and indignation—suppressed only
from respect to the Sovereign—England beheld the
creation of a Cabinet, in which were collected or
represented, either every variety and extreme of
political opinion, or no political opinions whatever.
The first resolution of this Cabinet was to pre-
vail, if possible, upon the LegiSlature to suspend
its functions for a year. Various pretences were
urged for this indulgence, and it was granted. The

:rue reason for it «•as to afford the Ministerial Con

federacy time to compromise and adjust the conflict-
ing principles of its members—principles which are
nevertheless, up to the present moment, just as con-
flicting as ever. The House of Lords was not, in=
deed, quite condescending to their views; for it
took occasion, on the Corn Bill being brought be-
fore it, not to express any opinion :Ton that mea-
sure, but to manifest very clearly its utter contempt
and aversion towards the new Administration. The

prorogation of Parliament was 'quickly followed by
the conclusion of a treaty, the first political act of
the new Cabinet, with Russia and France, bind-
ing this country to co-operate with those Powers,
by representations to the English Government,
and if it sho'uld become necessary by force of arms,
to put an end to the Greek war, and to en-
force thv right of the three Allies to dictate

what kind of connection or relation should thence-
forth subsist between Turkey and its revolted de-
pendency. This Treaty was in direst violation of
the law and practice of nations, a blemish which
our liberal Government disregarded, probably in
consideration of the high excellence of the Treaty
in another respect, namely, that it sanctioned and
patronised revolt. The results are ,likely to corre-
spond with the silly atrocity of this nefarious com-
pact. Russia, the Power of which England has
the greatest cause for jealousy, is sure to be ag-
grandized, while it is highly probable that Europe
may be involved in a general war. Before the
natural consequences of this pernicious and un-
principled Treaty had unfolded themselves, its
author, Mr. Canning, the mischievous declaimer,
who had done so much to render the Portuguese
expedition abortive—to place England in a position
at once hateful and degraded in the eyes of all other
nations—and to proclaim his own personal sym-
pathy, in opposition to the Administration of which
he then formed a part, with the agitators of the
world—and who had been rewarded accordingly in
the new order of things, which he had so powerfully
contributed to create, with the highest place in the
English Government—had ceased to exist ; and lie
would have been lamented by the nation, if splen-
did talents unaccompanied by honour or integrity
could impart any value to the character of a States-
man in the estimation of a high-minded and reflect-
ing people. The Administration remains in prin-
ciple the same as when he formed and when he
left it; but deprived of his 'unquestionable talent,
it is reduced to a state of 'hopeless and helpless
incapacity. The Allies, bound by a treaty which
had for its hypocritical pretence the desire to confer
peace, have recently been employed in destructive
warfare against one, if not both, of tilt original bel-
ligerents. They have done every thing that they
denounced, and performed nothing of what they pro-
mised. Greece is as much ravaged as before—
piracy flourishes more than ever; torrents of blood
have been shed at Navarin ; perhaps also at Scio;
and Russia and Turkey are prepared for a war,
which will either speedily end in the annihilation of
the latter as an independent State, or will call
into hostile action the whole of Europe, in order to
prevent this violent derangement of its existing
political system. This is an European question ;
but with respect to it and to every other question of
Foreign policy, no man can say with confidence
what are the principles of the British Government.
With respect to the most important domestic ques-
tions, the case is precisely the same. No man can
say what are the views or principles of Government
at this moment upon the disabilities that are impos-
ed by law upon Roman Catholics and other Dis-
senters, for the security of the Protestant Church
and Constitution of the Realm: No man can
say what it intends, or is likely to intend,
with respect to the Cern Laws, and the
other restrictions which are now imposed by
law upon Foreign Commerce for the protection
of British industry. No man can say what are its
principles upon the subject of Reform in Parliament,
or the degree of influence it is safe and
proper for
the Crown to possess in the House of Commons.--
The inevitable effects of so much and such various
uncertainty are now bitterly felt by the people of
England. Every interest of the country languishes
—nobody knows what he is about, or how to regu-
late his own private affairs; enterprize is at an end ;
commerce internal and external droops ; and the pub-
lic revenue of necessity decays. Such are the cir-
cumstances under which we enter upon the second
year of a Liberal Administration.--Morning

The " Paul Pry" steam-vessel having coin-
IJeted her arrangements, started from Crompton's wharf,
for Chepstow, at 20 minutes before 10 o'clock on Wednes-
day morning. She passed down the river in gallant style,
and performed the first nine miles in one hour—Captain
Ranroan preferring to see her work steadily, rather than
rapidly. After remaining half an horn• at lloarwithy, she
returned up the rapids, which she ascended as cleverly and
as swiftly as she before ran down them ; she then tacked
again, and proceeded on her way at the rate of 14. miles an
hour. Ross was passed almost as soon as seen ; and the
compact little steamer anchored at Wilton at ten minutes
before two o'clock, having performed 32 miles in little
more than four hours, in hiding the loss of three-quarters
of an hour at Iloarwithy. 'n many parts of her voyage
the banks of the river presented an animated picture—the
adjacent villages and hamlets having poured forth their
motley multitudes to witness the interesting novelty. All
Ross seemed to be " out of town," and the boat was re-
ceived by loud cheers from the assembled crowds, and by
a merry peal from "yon heaven-directed spire." The
vessel answers her helm beautifully. —Hereford Inde-
pendent.