The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-22 00:00:00

Lord Granville Somerset had not arrived in town.

The meeting broke up at half-past twelve o'clock.
Yesterday, soon after one o'clock, Lord Granville
Somerset arrived in town from Norwich. His Lordship
immediately went to have an interview with Sir Robert
Peel.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. His Grace
left town in the afternoon for Strathfieldsaye.
The Earl of Dalhousie attended yesterday at the
Home-office, and visited Sir Robert Peel.
The Lord Bishop of London held an Ordination yester-
day morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The
prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the
sermon was preached by the Bishop of London. His
Lordship ordained twenty-seven gentlemen as priests,
and ten gentlemen as deacons.
At the daily service in the Chapel Royal the prayers
were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, the lessons by the
Rev. Dr. Dakins, and the communion service by the
Rev. Dr. Sleath. The sermon was preached by the
Hon. and Rev. G. Noel. The anthem was " Prepare
ye the way of the Lord" (Wyse). Sir George Smart
presided at the organ.

LORD J. RUSSELL'S MINISTRY.
(From the Times.)
The following was, we believe, the intended allocation
of places in the Ministry which the sudden resistance of
Lord Grey to the appointment of Lord Palmerston as
Minister for Foreign Affairs brought to so premature a
close :
First Lord of the Treasury, Lord John Russell.
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Palmers-
ton. .

Secretary of State for the Home Department, Sir G.
Grey.
Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Grey.
Lord Chancellor, Lord Cottenham.
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Besborough.
Secretary for Ireland, Mr. Labouchere.
President of the Board of Control, Sir J. C. Ilobhouse.
First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Auckland.
First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, Lord
llorpeth.
President of the Board of Trade, Lord Clarendon.
Lord Privy Seal, Lord Minto.
The Vice-Presidency of the Board of Trade was
tendered to Mr. Cobden.

THE MINISTERIAL CR[SIL;•
(From the Times.)
The politics of the last fortnight seem especially de-
signed to baffle the ingenuity of those who stake tiviad
credit on the happiness of their conjectures. Everybody
is right, and everybody is wrong. Lord John Russell
has at last positively and definitely retired from the
scene, and Sir Robert Peel has consented to remain in
office. That, at least, is the latest information. Wifat
new turn things may have taken by the time these pages;
are in the hands of our readers, it would be rash to fore-
tell. We only pretend to be historians. Our first an-
nouncement was a simple matter of fact, with no oth
sr
predictive character than what appertains to every
statement which cannot for the present be fully autlieu,
ticated, and which, inasmuch as it relates to the future,
may be frustrated by the events which a day may bring
forth. Others, meanwhile, have indulged freely in the
spirit of prophecy, and shown much superfluous clevm•-
ness. Matter of fact, however, as we have been COE-
L,nted to be, by a succession of surprises and disappoint-
meLsts, we bid fair at last to come round to a fulfilment
as lite:al as could possibly have been anticipated. Death
will have
removed one member of the Cabinet, and, per-
haps,
v„iiK.tion another, but there s now every human
probability this!' at an unusually eiarly day of the new
year Sir Robert ,eel will propose a repeal of the corr.-
laws. The events os the last week have been so ephe-
meral, so personal, so ,accidental, as really to be hardly
worth relating. Readers whose minds will be carriti
on to the important future, not have patience foes
the frivolous gossip of the past. That gossip, however.
is simple enough. It is due to the nobleman and gentle-
man whose movements last Iveek occupied so unusual a
space in the columns of the public press, to state that the,
impossibility of constructing a Ministry out of all that
splendid and abundant material, did not arise from any
difference of opinion as to the measure to be proposed,
They were unanimous for an entire repeal of the corn-
laws, and though many of the party were indisposed to
take office, and not very hopeful of success, all had con-
sented, and the business of allotting the places begs's..
For this purpose, it is said, that the species of provisional
Cabinet in which the measure and the emergency hail'
best] discussed was broken up, and Lord John Russell
gave se},llrate interviews to his intended colleagues.
Here, lion. ever, in the very first step of his
Aelministratioa; the Premier elect broke down.
Rumour relate., that, beginning with Levi
Grey, Lord John Russell offered him the Colonist.
office. He accepted, bt:t had the curiosity to ask who
was to have the Foreign-otilee? The answer was, Lord
Palmerston—an intimation wbie' had the immediate
effect of neutralizing Lord Grey's love of place anti
power, patriotic and disinterested as it undoubtedly was.
He most strongly objected to the appointment, ,and for
his own part, positively refused to serve with Lord Pal-
merston as Foreign Minister. We will not stop to dis-
cuss how far this objection was sound, and how far ah
peace of the Cabinet would be compatible with the prie-
sence of a man whose name is certainly not the harbinger
of peace to the world. .Lord;Grey, in withdrawing from
the Cabinet under the circumstances, only followed the:
example of the Parisian capitalists, who have been with-•
drawing their money from the funds with more or less,
haste, exactly as there was reason to expect that Lord
Palmerston was to be the channel and negotiator of in-
ternational amity. However, be Lord Grey and the
Bourse right or wrong, so it was, he would not come ties.
It was in vain that Lord John represented the utter,
impossibility of passing such a man by ; possibility
or impossibility, Lord Grey was inexorable, and took
his ground on the absolute incompatibility of himself
and Lord Palmerston sitting at the same Council
table. The whole of Friday evening is said to haves
been spent in fruitless endeavours to move the rock.
As Lord John Russell Considered that he could not die
pense with either of their Lordships, or at least could
not afford to leave them at liberty to follow their owr.
devices in the approaching struggle, he resolved again,
for the last time, to return his commission into he.
Majesty's hands. Saturday was the day appointed for
Sir Robert Peel to make the formal resignation of hip
official insignia ; and on Saturday, accordingly, he would
have presented himself at Windsor for that purpose, it'
an early intimation of the state of affairs in his rival'
camp had not changed the object of his journey.
spectacle of two retiring Premiers at once in the Castle:
would have been ludicrous enough, if it were not else:,
significant of changes in the constitution of our politica.'
parties which, happy or not, are far too momentous for
smiles. It has been the boast of that era of which
Providence has made Qaeen Victoria the most august
and distinguished type and representative, that it unites
the ancient factions, and reconciles the discordant
theories of Government. Instinct and philosophy alike
aSsure us that it is impossible to construct new unities out
of tLe more dislocated parts and broken material of those
which Lave passed away. The old forms must com-
pletely expire before the new ones can arise, and new
institutions ere' born out of the very dust of the old.
Tory and Whig ts:e passing away. They are only re •
membered names. -,llhey have no place in the system
that is. Fragments ant: specimens survive. We
.can
contemplate, examine, clacsify, describe, and admire ;
but revive we cannet. Behold the visible consumma-
tion which history at last rovea;.s. An earthquake shakes
the political world to its basis. Public necessity . and
public importunity fight their way L'trotigit the ruin of
Cabinets to the foot of the Throne. AL. 'roost at the same
t.d e
hour the heads of the two ancient and no`' antiquated
present themselves and declare the impossibility
of constructing Ministries out of existing party n:aterial.
Both at once proclaim their parties obsolete—themsAves,
as the leaders of those parties utterly invalid Crid
effete. The exigency of the moment compels the Queci!
to select the one who is de facto charged with her execu-
tive responsibilities. Sir R. Peel resigning his old autho-
rity, receives from the organic head of the State a new.
one, in better keeping with the crisis which compels hie
surrender, and consequent re-acceptance of the
trust. Providence and the people izave spoken in tones
which it is impious and rebellious nit to hear. That
deep murmur has shaken all things, ail classes and.
parties. The throne only is not shaken, because it;
listens and obeys, or rather, to speak perhaps more
loyally and more truly, it follows its own deep sre_pa-
thies with the heart and mind of the people. Ile
throne, then, after abrogating the worn-out system esof
the age gone by, founds a new order of things on new-
principles, and assigns to a re-instated and renovated
Minister that new and solemn responsibility. The
friends of Sir Robert Peel have no reason to lament
what has occurred. Without such a solution the com.-
plexities of his previous policy could not be entirely dis-
entangled—the burden of party could not have been
entirely shaken off. Sir Robert Peel, however, must for
the present consent to be regarded in an equivocal and
doubtful position. It is still for him to decide, and put
that last bold master-stroke to his portrait, which pos-
terity shall agree to regard as the clue to his real cha-
racter, and the solution of his apparent inconsistencies.
He resumes office certainly not as a Tory Premier--
that he never was—but not even as a Conservative. Hsr
must now be the popular Premier ; and that people from
whom he virtually receives his present policy and trust
he must now determine faithfully, honestly, and impar-
tially to serve.
(From the Morning Chronicle)
The readers of the Morning Chronicle must have been
prepared, by our announcement of Saturday morning,
for the unsatisfactory result of " the Ministerial crisis."
On Friday night, we believe, Lord John Russell com-
municated to her Majesty that, in consequence of a diffi-
culty which had unexpectedly .risen, he must resign the
commission with which she had honoured him to form
an Administration, and on Sato: day his Lord-
ship waited on her Majesty for this purpose.
The difficulty referred to, we feel it right to
say, did not arise from any difference of opinion
upon the great question which has produced the
present Ministerial crisis. Upon that question there
was on Friday, and continues to be still, the most com-
plete agreement between Lord John Rnssell and the
friends with whom he bad been in consultation during
the week. Nor is there any truth in the statement
made by some of our Contemporaries, that there was any
difference of opinion as to the individuals who were to
have composed the future Cabinet. Sir Robert Peel
waited upon her Majesty on Saturday. Upon his re-
turn to town he was met by the members of his Cabinet,
with whom he remained in deliberation until a late
hour. It was rumoured last night that Lord Ellenbo-
rough, Lord Dalhousie, the Earl of St. Germans, and
Mr. Gladstone, were likely to be members of Sir Robert
Peel's Cabinet.

(From the Herald.)
We believe the following statement may be relied
upon:—Her Majesty desired Sir Robert Peel to wait
upon her on Saturday, for the purpose of finally taking
leave of her Majesty. Sir Robert Peel repaired accord-
ingly to Windsor, and on his arrival was informed by
her Majesty that Lord John Russell, after having un-
dertaken to form a Government, had failed in accom-
plishing that task ; and that her Majesty must therefore
express her desire that Sir Robert Peel would not abandon
her service. Sir Robert Peel informed her Majesty that,
just previously to his quitting London, he had received
the intelligence of Lord John Russell's failure ; and that,
having reason to believe that those of his colleagues Ivho
had differed from him were not prepared to form a
Government, and considering that Lord John Russell
was unable to form:one, he had resolved, without a mo-
ment's hesitation, to withdraw his tender of resignation,
to resume office, and to propose to Parliament those
measures which the exigencies of the public service
might require.

THE LATE HIGH TIDE.
RESPECTEDTO
T liE
FRIEND;EDLTFOrRom OreFadTinHgEtheSdUiN.
stressing
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reduced in the neighbourhood of Lambeth, in conse-
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of a poor pipe maker, I take the liberty of sending the
small inclosed sum, thinking perhaps thou would have
an opportunity of forwarding it, and that perhaps some
of thy considerate readers may be led to do the same,
and thus afford therm some comfort and relief, particu-
larly at this season, which Christians are about to cele-
brate, viz., the advent of Him, who told us, " Give, and
it shall be given unto you. Good measure, pressed down
and shaken together, and running over, shall men give
into your bosom ; for with the same measure that ye
mete it shall be measured to you again."—Thine re-
spectfully, A CONSTANT READER..
Sheffield, 12mo. 19, 1845.
[We have received with this half a sovereign, which
we will forward to the Police Magistrates at the Lambeth-
office, who appear to have taken an interest in the case.
—ED. Sun.]

The Earl and Countess of Cardig•an are entertain-
ing a large circle of their fashionable friends at Deene Park,
Northamptonshire. The party consists of his Roya
ness Prince George of Cambridge and the 11..
Macdonald, the Marquis and Marchioness •of /r.i
Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, the Hon. Colonel aid
Anson, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert De Burgh, Viacounta
stone and Cantalupe, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, fk.„..n,
Knightly, &c. His Royal Highness the Duke of C ;;,. •
was prevented by indisposition partaking thsehospititlitt"
the Foble Eirl.
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