The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-28 00:00:00

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Mate knoWledge of the complicated relations of this
great country and her various dependencies. But
here we have an Irishman, one day supposed. itica-'
pable of understanding the plainest proposition, and-
the next-surprising the world izi,,hrs Premiership as
much as Sancho did in his Government of Barra-
taria : and a Scotch Highlander; of whose abilities
as a Statesman no one ever heard. till 'now; chat-
lengingsthe applause of the world, as, being able to
acquire in a day, what Mr. HuskisSon toiled all his
life to acquire.. Your military urea, for !rapid intel-
lectualmarches! Has the Duke no:other. companion
in arms to relieve Lord Lyndhurst of the duties.of
the Chancellorship ?—illorning elironjcle;
THE MINISTRY.—We last eight received the fol-
lowing from a West end- of the tOsin Correspon-
dent :—The most interesting topic yesterday;, was
the manner in which the vacant Secretaryship of
State would be filled up. It. is yery,:„likely. that
Lord Aberdeen will be the Ors-011,-7a very !Ortg.cor-
respondence .has taken plaFe between dhe Noble
Lord and the Premier. The Du 4 of Wallington
has also carried on a correspondence (it is :supposed
on the above subject) with .Mr. Secretary ''eel fur
the last two days-.—but, up to last night; no arrange-
ments had been made for the, swearing in of a new
Secretary. It is understood that it. was Mr. Has=
kissoti's intention, after his resignation, to retire alto-,,
gether from public life. This, it is believed, has
been strenuously opposed by a' certain party; who
may be termed the Runip, of the.Canningites, and
who had deter Mined to make . him their . leader.,
they were closetted with the Right Hon. Gentle-!
Man for a very, great length of time yesterday and,
the* day' before; whether they haVe succeeded in
their persuasions, of course, is, not known yet. The
reason that the public have `hekrd or seen so little of
Mr. C. Grant.is that lie.has been anxiously watch-
ing the death-bed of a. sister; -who is now no more.
It is, therefOre, expected that nothing...4sh will
transpire with respect to -hint,. till. after the.funetal,
which will take place on Saturday.: t Mr- Grant had,
however, an interview with 'Earl Dudley during yes-
terday.—Morning Herald. •• -
Though Mr. Huskisson'S. N` cite upon 'the:gast
Retford question is given out as the ostensible reason
for his retirement from the Ministry. we..do .not
believe it to be either the only or, even, the tote
cause. When embers lie smothering,'a very slight
puff finis them into a flame; and in the common' in-
tercourse of life, when there is no 'great- real
Cordiality bet Ween persons, hoWever closet's,: con-
nected, it requires often but a' cold look, 'or an
equivocal remark, to create a. barrier of abSolitte
estrangement. It is iMposSible,., howeVer, not to
look at Mr. 1-Lsl:4:son's retirement front office as a
loss, to the country. , It has been the custom of men
Of narrow, unenlightened minds, and who would
have the world,utove on in one. jng-trot unintprovable
state to the end of timemo represent Mr. Huskisson
as a mere theorist. We, on the contrary—and so,
we belieVei-dO the 'majority of the country-'—look upon
him as-possessing the truly practical mind of a states-
man ; and though he may, in some instances, have
endeavoured to carry his ideas to.a length not prteti-
cable on the sudden, his system is in itselsound, and
must ultimately prevail. The great oh4ael,e, to that
system,.and the error, if any, in Mr. Hoskissca6 own
adoption of, it .into
.practice, is the overwhelming
debt and taxation of the country, which render what
may be Irtilycalle&reiip-roc-ity, a thing' literally un-
attainable; and Mr: Huskisson has erred a little, we
think, in diminishing the scale of import dutiei, in
some instances, uelow what the highly taxed
_pro-
ducers of the Same commodities in this country can
well bear. , But Mr: littskissOn's.errors are practical
ones, and mere shades in his system easily remov-
able by time and' experience, while.;lose of his op-
ponents
,partake. wholly . of the. mere theory with
which they. upbraid him. Their system, if acted
upon, would throw us hack into astate of barbarism ;
for how do a mate of nature and a state of society
most differ from
.each other, but in that interchange
of commodities 'which- is the trite foundation of in-
dividual' cornfOrt and of national ? . These
;objects it was,und is,, the. very soul, of. Mr. Huskis-
'sou's policy to
.extend ; and we look, therefore, upon
his retirement.from the Government, in, this respect,
As a loss, alleviated only by a' conviilion that he has
been long enough at his post to establish that policy
upon a basis Which cannot fail ultimately to succeed.
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We have very little to add to:the gratifying inte
ligenee which we were yesterday enabled to commu-
nicate to --thf Public, relative to the happy. changes
which are about to take place in his Majesty's
Councils. Tile resignations of Mr. Huskisson, Lord
Palmerstciu; and. Mrs 'Grant, have we believe been
followed, .by :that of. mr. Lamb, and some other
Gentlemen-. in subordinate Offices ; the whole of
whom will -bit. advantageously replaced for the public
interests. Thesucessors to the retired and retiring
Ministers have not yet been regularly appointed;
but we have reason to believe.that the Earl of Aber-
dun], Sir George Murray, and Sir Henry Hardinge,
will esch aye,situations allotted to them well suited
to their respeetke,e, abilities ; and that when the whole
of the arrangeinents are completed, the Administra-
tion will be of such a character as will not fail to
give satisfaction to the country, and ensure the con-
fidence and support of Parliament. We en-
tertained i 4; apprehension from . the moment
when the IJuh of . Wellington retained so
many of the adherent.. Of the. late Mr. Canning in
lijs Administration, that the latter would not prove
a Stvti well disciplined part of the Ministerial corps;
that they would manifest a dispOSition to form them-
selves into so isolated, at least if not a mutinous
body in the camp, 4.14 to hoist once more the ban-
. ner, tattered and faded as it was, under which they
had been acoustomed to act: This anticipation was
fouraed‘ upon our. 'knowledge ,of the character of
their Survi.Tiing leader ; upon the undue elation, and
over-weening :leg-Confidence natural to one, who
had' gtruggled and laijoyred upwards from being a
declaimer upon the rights' o in the Jacobin
Cilub,(through the influence of his
,aececed friend),
to tine situatjof. of a I'ritish Cabinet Minster; upon
the fancied monopoly of talent and.importutice, whicb
the politicians of tie liberal *24001 confer so liberally
upon themselves ; and upon Ow 407 that the influ-
ence of Government, and the temporary infatuation
of a certain proportion of the people had combined
At the' last General -Election to throw into their
hantie greet increase of power in the House of
Cowanons, wvh,e.n that period, their deceased chief,
a man of splendid 40'1E4 01,:j inordinate personal am-
filled the station., leader. But
while we felt iipon these and other gronn4a liti:ong
I,c,onvietion that Mr. Huskisson, and those who after
the dcrAise of Mr. Canning looked up to him as
their Chief, ',{vre not the most proper persons to
form
a permanent pasta. 4:the Administration of the
pittike of Wellington, we were ,campelled to ac-
.)cnowiledg.; the great prudenee anili-arsepqry Of
the Noble p4,,,4, in retaining their services,- as
the test possible V,e6fge t) the country and
to other r.aLions, 'that di
or d rre pAp-7 a England,
1-01,nestie, was soft aldout
VlVlent fliitua-
%:e:lrdrergiboreignany ludden. 1,n4
00v. wp knew
.it of that they must be useful;eful
in tt) iG inp
view, and that they might
at krmaneciiii under a Premier as
,
kf
6.urssetf'ul e.Ven
,the Nol,leDtike,..
naticms of their own impoFtaree
if their ,res9c.ss!,wft q speculation,
and ',thei!'bto4d
aorta have sufferesl'them b
as political sect, dz.
mere to e
docile arfd tractable. .13 I ,a, consola-
that 4,17 faded to
than all tip,;. Test, we knees` fox than .
suns, and subdue thew
brass down their pretepsjo ,
e sunordinate poll
rogauce-to the proper
,levs of
tical station tkley peep' Prell
nke yy, we
shoals', with sUch a Premier as the
4.
lington, possees the Jdeasing and prCtle certainty
them as
of being at oFce and fox evser clgOe wivo,
influential politiesil • 'hi was cefir
tainly the most natural, gad 141,ing Or,cup•
stwagos into view, the• most acivamtgetlas issue,
for t4e ,country, of a connection so e9uiviPer')
and precarious,. The arrogance and presumption of
Mr. Huskisson .and sow pther Statesmen of the
same stamp, have impelled akem„ as might have be,en
a,i4i,ciyated, to their politicalyoin--and we ,rejoice at