The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-15 00:00:00

genius, as they phrase it, may laMent over the neg.-
lect of a man like Mr. Burke, thus feeling the
ordinary inconvenience of straitened eirennistances.
We do not allow of any feelings of this caste, unless
they be the very same which the spectacle of im-
prudence and its result excites towards other men.
Genius, so far from having any claim to favour,
when it neglects the ordinary precautions or exer-
tions for securing independence, is, in truth, doubly
inexcusable, and far less deserving of pity than of
blame. Mr. Burke ought to have earned his in•
come in an honest calling. Every man of right
feeling- will prefer this to the degrading obligations
of private friendship, or the precarious supplies to
virtue, so perilous, of public munificence. It is cer-
tain that he chose rather to cat the bitter bread of
both these bakings, than to taste the comely—the
sweet—the exquisite fruit, however hard to pluck, of
regular industry. Ile was a politician by trade; a
professional Statesman. There is no such craft re-
cognised in this State ; all our institutions are ig-
norant of it—all our habits averse to it ; nor is there
one of a British Statesman's functions, which may
lint be conjoined with the cares of an industrious
life." That it would have been prudent in men like
Burke, Sheridan, or Pitt, to dedicate their talents to
!axv, or medicine, or merchandize, whereby they
might have earned a competence at least, instead of
becoming politicians, the consequence of which was,
their dying in debt, may be readily admitted. But
:is far as the public is concerned, is it advisable that
There should be no professional Statesmen ? Is it
I true that the affairs of this great Empire may so
easily be managed that a Minister may, after passing
the day in the King's Bench or Court of Chancery,
just take a walk to his office, to see that all is right
There, and then proceed to chambers to prepare for
the next day's judicial labours ? That the public
business may he conducted in this manner we can
well believe from the complaints titi hick have been
exhibited against particular officers. But is it fit-
ting that the public business should be made a bye-
job as it were ? It is remarked in The Observer of
Sunday last, " Our Sovereign has, within this
twelvemonth, been made to feel most bitterly, that
there is little or no public opinion to which he can
ippeal, and that the Aristocracy can compel him to
employ any servants, and to pursue any policy, they
choose to dictate. In France, an able Minister is igno-
miniously driven from power by the whole nation, on
mccount of his illiberal principles—in England, an
Administration is dissolved on the ground of its
liberal policy. In France, the King cannot form a
Cabinet without making it more liberal than the pre-
ceding : in England, the King finds he cannot form
a Cabinet without an almost total exclusion of libe-
ral men. In France, under an almost absolute Go-
vernment, the new Cabinet is comprised of plebeians
who have raised themselves by their talents; in
England, under a free Government, the Cabinet
does not contain a single Minister, except Mr.
Huskisson, whose talents have exclusively raised him

from poverty to eminence--of course we except the
law ; the servile drudgery of its study always im-
plies that its chief officers must be selected from the

riclustrious and talented poor." Now, bow is it that
:o much importance is attached to Mr. fluskisson

How is it that all parties readily admit his great
=ervices to the country, rendered in his character of
President of the Board of Trade ? Could Mr. Hos-
kisson have rendered these services to his country,
had he followed the profession of medicine or be-
taken himself to that of law, and merely made his of-
ficial business a bye job ? The consequence of the
doctrine laid down in the Edinburgh Review would
be briefly this :--The names of Ministers would be
vriven to a few dandy Lords of large incomes, who
would enter on office without the least acquaintance
with business, and, consequently, would never be
able to do more than declaim a few sentences in

Parliament, while the real Ministers would be the
Clerks of the various establishments, initiated in
the details, and on whom the heads would be en-
tirely dependent. It has been too muck the fashion
in this country -to consider the public business
merely a bye job. But it does not require the

speech of prophecy to foretell that that system will
not last much longer. That system might do well
enough 30 or 40 years ago, but the people are now
become hard to please, and expect that a Minister
should possess some knowledge of the business of
his office. Hence, say what we will, the politicians
by profession, the hard-working men who have been
trained to business,will be more and more in request,
and it will be found necessary to have a certain 1111111-
her of them in any Administration which hopes to
have any degree of popularity.—lbid.

The movements for forming a new Administra-
tion are proceeding with the greatest secresy. The
Duke of Wellington, who is the avowed framer of
the new Government, does not admit of any per-
son, high or low, to know his intended movements,
when leaving town, but orders the drivers of the
horses to proceed on the particular road on which he
is about to travel, without saying the object of his
destination. The mystery of his movements has
excited more particular notice within the last few
days. His Grace has kept what is called an open
house for plain dinner parties since he has accepted
of the King's command to form a new Administra-
tion—acting upon the general English notion, that
nothing can be done but over a good dinner. The
arrangements of Sunday were, that Don Miguel
should dine and sleep at the Duke of Wellington's
mansion-house, at Strathfieldsaye, on Sunday, where
Sir Frederick Lamb and family are about to meet
his Royal Highness. The Duke of Wellington was
with Mr. Peel, at his house in Privy-gardens, yester-
day afternoon, about three o'clock. Within a week
the meeting -of Parliament will take place, previous
to which the new Ministers must be sworn into
office before the King in Council, and the King's
Speech must be prepared for the opening of the Ses-
sion of Parliament.—Morning Herald.
After all, we arc inclined to the opinion that there
will not be much alteration made in the Cabinet.—
The Duke of Welliagton, Mr. Peel, and Lord
Bathurst, we think, will be the new Members to be
introduced, with, probably, the Marquis of Welles-
ley, to the exclusion, of course, of some of the pre-
sent Members; but who those may be we are not at
present able to form are opinion.—lbid.
Among the reports of to-day one is current, that
the Duke of Wellington has a carte blanche to form
an Administration, to the exclusion only of two per-
sons—a Noble Earl and a Learned stud distinguished
Commoner.—lbid.

There is yet nothing certain known of the result
of the Duke of Wellington's labours in the forma-
tion of a Cabinet; and although the public will,
doubtless, be favoured by our Morning Contempo-
raries this day, as they were -by most of our Even-
ing Contemporaries yesterday, with authentic lists,
we should not_ be much surprised if a considerable
time were to pass before any thing
.decisive be
known. In the absence of all information of what
or how the Cabinet is to be constituted, we can
Only have recourse, as on former occasions, to cal-
culate the question from a consideration of the ele-
ments that must necessarily enter into its solution.
There are now, as there were when Mr. Canning
assumed the office of Prime Minister, three sets of
men out of which a Cabinet may be formed. The
first, and unquestionably the strongest, of these, for
they arc supper to a certain degree by many of
the laser adherents of the other two, is the mode-
the late Cabinet was the re-
rpartees
epnatar party,
eo.f which That
Cabinet combined a large por-
tion of the more liberal Toryism of both Houses,
with a good deal of the milder votaries of Whig-
gery. If, as we have said, and no rumour has
yet inclined us to retract our words, the only
changes to which the recent breaking up of
the Cabinet will lead, will be the introduc-
tion of the Duke of Wellington, the Mar-
quis Wellesley, and , Mr. Peel, in that case
we shall have one of the most powerful
Cabinets that has been seen in England for half a
century. We are, indeed, at a loss to discover
whence the elements of opposition can be collected
against such a Ministry. Mr. Peel has, it is true,
declared that he could not join an Administration of