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

dinary business, greatly prefer such notes to sove-
reigns at this moment, if he could have them : there
is no trouble in weighing the notes (as in the case
of cash)—no loss from light weight ; and the risks
from forged notes are not greater than those from
false coin. Yet all these troubles and inconve-
niences have been, and are, cheerfully borne here in
England, for the sake of obtaining the other advan-
tages which it is supposed will result to the public
from the substitution of gold in the place of such
notes; and now it is proposed, or insinuated, that
the Scotch bankers—not the Scotch people—should
be allowed to prevent us from finishing a work just
concluded, and oblige us to leave a loop loose, by
which the whole web of our security may be unra-
velled, and all our past difficulties so readily encoun-
tered, rendered useless.—lbid.
Our Readers must have been prepared by what
they have lately seen in our pages, for some Mini-
sterial Changes. We understand that, on Tuesday,
Lord Goderich went down to Windsor, to lay be-
fore his Majesty some circumstances of an embar-
rassing nature in the conducting the Government,
when his Majesty observed, that, under existing cir-
cumstances, he deemed it necessary. to form a new
Government, and desired that he might see the
Lord Chancellor that evening, though it might
he late. The Lord Chancellor accordingly went
down that evening, and the King requested that he
would come down again yesterday morning with
the Duke of 'Wellington. We understand the Noble
Lord and the Duke saw his Majesty, and that it
was arranged that his Grace should go down this
morning to deliberate with his Majesty on the sub-
ject of the proposition then made to him, he having
expressed a wish, tinder circumstances of so much
moment, to give his Majesty the advice required
from him, only after the .most mature consideration.
Thus matters stand at present, and it remains to he
seen what the result will be. We will not venture
to give an opinion, whether a mixed Government, or
whether a purely Tory one, or a purely Whig one,
will be recommended to his Majesty. We may,
however, safely add, that what we have stated is all
that can be known-at present, and that we will state
as soon as we are informed, who is Minister of this
Empire.—Morning Chronicle.
A Cabinet Council was- held yesterday afternoon,
for the purpose, it is supposed, of communicating
the King's intention to form a new Government.—
We have been informed that neither Lord Lans-
downe nor the Chancellor of the Exchequer were
present, but we do not vouch for the truth of our

information as to this point.—lbid.
We have seated all the positive information which
has reached us as to the subject which almost ex-
clusively occupies the public at present. We do not
think it either necessary or expedient to indulge in
any speculations as to what the embarrassments are

that have led to this change of the Government; but
when the time for disclosure comes, and circum-
stances shall be allowed to escape, we will then en-
deavour to obtain the facts from quarters on which
we can depend, for a plain and simple narrative of
them.—lbid.
The state of the Administration has been for some
time past, we understand, in a very unsettled
state, but particularly so the last two days. Whe-
ther Lord Goderich's visit to the King on Tues-
day was by his Majesty's command or not we are
not informed. On his Lordship's return to London
he had an interview with the Lord Chancellor for
about an hour, which prevented the Learned Lord
from attending the Duke of Clarence's dinner party.
Yesterday morning the Lord Chancellor and the
Duke of Wellington attended the King at the Royal
Lodge. Both these distinguished personages waited
on his Majesty, it is understood, by command. The
j..ord Chancellor arrived in London between four
and five o'clock, and proceeded to attend a meeting
of the Cabinet Council, which had been sitting
nearly an hour previous to the arrival in
town of the Learned Lord. The Cabinet Council
was very thinly attended by its members, there being
only about half the number of the members present;
viz.: eight, and the Cabinet is composed of fifteen.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer was one of the
absentees, although the Right Hon. Gentleman was
in the office opposite to where the Cabinet Council
was sitting. The Marquis of Lansdowne did not
come to town to attend the meeting of the Cabinet
Council. We give it as a rumour in the official
circles, at the breaking up of the Cabinet Council,
that the Ministry would not meet any more in Ca-
binet—and, in fact, that it was dissolved.—Morn-
ing Herald.

The Irish Catholics, by forcing their petition into
the hands of the Marquis of- Lansdowne, have
placed that Nobleman, who happens at the present
moment to be a Minister of the Crown, iv a situa-
tion which he cannot but feel to be rather an awk-
ward one. There is no one of the present Admini-
stration who can be desirous of playing a very con-
spicuous part so far as the Catholic Question is con•
cerned during the approaching Session ; but if we
were to select one from the motley corps to whom
such a part must be peculiarly inconvenient, that
one would certainly be the Marquis of Lansdowne.
If the Noble Marquis should have ceased to be a
Minister of the King ere the time shall arrive for
the presentation of this petition, of course all the
difficulty will be removed. In this certainly not
very improbable case, he will speak upon the ques-
tion as he has hitherto uniformly spoken; but will
he so speak, in case (the less probable case of the
two we admit) of his still remaining a member of
the Administration ? This is the question which
excites a very lively curiosity among political specu-
lators generally, and a feeling of more intense in-
terest among the smaller number of persons, who
look upon the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire as a
Statesman of some importance. Merely advocating
the claims of the Catholics as well founded in justice,
or urging the expediency of conceding them as the
preferable course for the Legislature to adopt, will
not be sufficient on the part of the Marquis of Lans-
downe. He must say, as he has said before a hun-
dred times, that to grant the Catholics a full equality
of political power is a measure not only just, not
only wise, but that it is a measure of urgent and
immediate necessity; that it is a measure upon
which the peace and safety of the empire, not

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from century to century, but from hour to hoar,
essentially depend. Will the Marquis of Lans-
downe then, as a Cabinet Minister, now that
the valuable privilege of silence is denied him,
and that he is forced into the most conspicuous
position as an advocate of emancipation by
the Catholic clients, whose confidence he has
courted and won, will he, in the approaching Ses-
sion, for the question is in every body's mouth,
place unreserved concession to the Catholics upon
the same high ground of pressing and indispensable
necessity as be has heretofore chosen to place it? if
he does less than this the Catholics will feel, and in
this instance the whole country will feel with them,
that the former advocate of emancipation, in be-
coming a Minister of the Crown, has not only
abated the fervour, but that he has entirely surren-
dered the honesty of his advocacy—that what he
now does is no more than a cold, heartless, reluc-
tant, worthless half-tribute to his own personal con-
sistency. Nor are the difficulties less perplexing
which will beset the Noble Marquis in the event of
his resolving to adhere manfully to the opinions he
has so often expressed. It will be something quite
new in the British Parliament to hear a Minister
of the Crown declare his conviction that the
safety and welfare of the empire depend imme-
diately upon the adoption of a measure, which
neither he nor any one of his Colleagues is at
liberty in his capacity of Minister to propose. It
will naturally occur to all men of unsophisticated in-
tegrity, to enquire how it has been possible for an
individual holding such opinions to become a pro-
minent Member of an Administration which is pre-
cluded from taking any step whatever, or exercising
even the smallest portion of its influence in favour of
the measure in question. It will naturally occur to
every Constitutional Senator to inquire who are in
effect to be responsible to the country for its safety
and welfare, if the Ministers of the Crown are to