The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-12 00:00:00

men incompetent to the arduous duty of superintend-
Ing.retrenchment ; or will be allowed the credit
(whiAfw,e believe •due to• him) of wishing to form
& juncoon of the most eminent and influential
cha-
, racters•in. the Reuse of 'Commons, best calculated
for that department ? We do not believe that" any
one will accOse either hiin Orr Mr. nuskisson•Oren-
- tertaining arty other in'rentions.. --,•What therrAneans
111 thistAttempt at oiAtery.-;.-whor the whole, as7he-
tweelothe above-mentioned Parties, is really nothing
more than a simple difference of opinioA„easily con-
-conceivable to have happened at any time,and between
any two individuals oft he same Government—a differ-
ence that 'exists on public grounds alone, with re-
gard to the individual who is. to fill the post of
Chairman of the COrrimittee of -finance. Again,
the Tinily invidiously puts another question, thus :
" But when we find the balarice_t• be, Mr.lluskis-
son and effectual retrenchment in the on© scale, and
Mr. Herries, its opponent, in the other, that which
it was difficult to answer before becomes utterly and
hopelessly unanswerable." We say invidiously,
because we venture to assert that the statement is
utterly untrue, and that Mr. Ferries has always been
ready and willing to carry retrenchment, and will
now do it, quite as far as Mr. Huskisson. Then,
why sv.r unfairly and unjustly bring these gentlemen.
• Jr •
eb ision ? Is it to produce such rancour as to
grunt their sitting in the same Cabinet ? If not,
why deal out untruths of such a nature ? Would
it riot be more candid and more just, both to the in-
dividuals themselves, and the public, to state the
rwrespondence, than to advert to things without
wistence, and thereby mislead the judgment of the
public ? We shall conclude (and we hope not to
resume the subject), by saying-, that we are led to
helitive, that the actual correspondence will not bear
out the Times in one of its assertions, except that
which relates to the conceded point, of difference in
he nomination of the Chairman of the Committee.
—Morning Chronicle.
Nose of the new Ministerial arrangements have
yet been publicliannounced, but there is no doubt
of the most eminent Statesmen of the day being in-
cluded in them. The change in his Majesty's
Councils, thus happily effected, was throughout the'
whole of yesterday the general theme of joy and ex-
ultation in all pEirts of the metropolis, notwithstand-
'ng the gross misrepresentations of the causes which
produced this auspicious event, in which some of

our cotemporaries continue to indulge. It was not,
we repeat, one point merely of disagreement between
the Members of the late Administration, but several,
and some of them of the very highest importance,
which led to this fortunate result--a result in which
every sincere lover of his country so openly and un-
t'eignedly rejoices. The Whigs, as we have already
stated, insisted upon the admission to the Ca-
binet of Lord Holland, as the first step to-
. wards the accomplishment of their ill-concerted
design to form at no distant period an Ad-
minis'tration consisting exclusively of Whigs.
This was resolutely resisted by the Tory Alem-
hers of the Cabinet, particularly by the Lord
Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
from a due sense of the evils that would arise, as
•well from the prevalence of Whiggish influence in
the Cabinet, as from the dangerous political princi-
ples publicly and repeatedly avowed by the Noble Ad-
vocate cf Radicalism, the Champion of Catholicism,
and the inflexible Opposer of the Test Act. The
Whigs, fortutrately for the country, were defeated ;
and having' from that moment become conscious
that they held office by a very precarious tenure,
they then began to look about them for the means
of casting a gloss over their retirement or dismissal.
Another subject, upon which an inconceivable
difference of opinion prevailed—a subject too of
the greatest and most urgent importance—was the
measures proper,. for England to adopt in the

existing state of her relations with Russia and

Turkey. The Whigs Were for resolute war against
the latter Power; the other more prudent Members
;1 the Cabinet would not be convinced of the neces-
rfity, and were unwilling to encounter the probable
consequences of reducing the question to this ter-
rible alternative. The Whigs were figarn'defeated,
with, we have reason to believe, this circumstance
of additional mortification; that some of their victo-
rious colleagues expressed an opinion that too much
had already been done against Turkey; and that,
unless we found ourselves actually attacked by the
Porte, our more discreet course would be to remain
strictly upon the defensive. These differences
of opinion were what really- produced the
conviction, in which we believe every Member
of the Cabinet concurred, that it was impos-
sible for the Administration longer to act toge-
ther; and the slightest reflection upon the latter
point of difference to which we have alluded, will we

think be sufficient to satisfy every impartial man,
that the country has the greatest reason to rejoice
at this final expulsion of the Whigs from power. It
was not thought fit, however, that the setting sun of
Whiggery should sink below the horizon,
without an otempt at least t 6 delude the populace
into a valedictory acclamation ; and the contrivance
hit upon with this view is entirely worthy of the
men who have employed it. The Whig Ministers,
led by that old cunning fox, Mr. Tierney, took
upon themselves not' only to prepare a list
of the Members of the House of Commons
whcf were to compose the Finance Committee
in the apttcraching Session, but to determine
.that Lord Althorp (a quiescent votary of Whig-
gism) should be its Chairman, without con-
descending to consult the opinion or wishes of Mr.
'Terries, the Minister of all others who ought pH-
, marily to have been consulted upon the subject.
Yet strange, to say, we are asked in the leading
Paper of the defunct Ministy, " who or what is
Mr. Herries, that his wishes should be consulted ?"
Our answer is; that Mr. Herries (a Gentleman of
l'igh birth and distinguished talents) is the Chancel-
Alor of the Evehequer of Great Britain—the lonasflde
and respyrisible Minister of Finance of the Empire, •
with whose official department in the Government
this Committee would have been exclusively con-
eerned, and whose important duty it was to prepare
all the necessary materials for its proceedings.* The
Whigs 'know well enough that Mr. Herries is not a
man either to brook such an indignity, or to suffer
the interests of his country to be sacrificed to the
purposes of faction. He of ceurse, as they ex-
pected and into dad, rejected their irregular and
presumptuneas nominatierns, resting upon the ground
of real national advantage, and determined that the
proposed task should be impartially assigned to men
considerately selected from both sides of the House,
and that a Member fully experienced in the business
of Finance should be appointed as Chairman; in-
stood of yielding to the wishes of the Whigs to
'turn the whole business to factious and dangerous
purposes. This, we have before stated, the Whigs
artfully allege as the immediate cause of the
breaking rip of the Administration, and upon
the strength of which, they, adding to their
total disregard of the public interest, the grossest
insult to public understanding, vainly hope to ob-
' rain great popularity in the country, as martyrs in
In further answer to this unworthy question, we can-
not deny ourselves the pleasure of extracting the following
passage from a letter inserted in some of our succeeding
columns, to the truth and justice of which every man of
even ordinary information must in common fairness sub-
The letter, it will be observed from its date, was
written before the dissolution of the late Ministry, and in
reply to an article in a paper of Thursday :—" If there is
any family in England distinguished for its antiquity and
nobleness of descent, it is that of Mr. Herries. He stands
at the head of one of the oldest houses in the empire. The
first Herries
upon record was one of the west distinguished
Saxon Earls, who, disdaining to live under the thraldom
of the Norman Conqueror, fled with his exiled Princess
to the coast of the Scottish Monarch, and was endowed
with several ample manors in the Northern kingdom. His
descendant joined the banner of Richard the First, was a
distinguished warrior in the Holy Land, and on his return
received very extensive grants of land in England, particu-
larly in Notts, Northampton, and York, as may be seen in
the ' Testa de Neville' and other ancient Records. His

family was ennobled in Scotland more than four hundred
years ago, and if the Right Hon. John Charles would take
the trouble to make out bis claim, he might now be. Lord
lierries, of Treggles.