The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-17 00:00:00

The causes assigned for this unexpected step were,
according to some, his Lordship's ill health, arising
partly from the load of business which he had to
attend—partly froix the jarring of his colleagues—
' and, according to others, from the difficulties in
which he was placed by the threatened war with
Turkey, and the financial situation of the country.
That his Lordship's health may have been affected
by his closeness of application is quite possible ; for
he has not, we believe, been absent from the duties
of his high office for a single day since he received
his present appointment. But while we grant the
possibility of this, we must say, that up to the mo-
' merit when it was brought forward to bolster an
hypothesis, which is, so far as we can learn, without
a particle of foundation, we never heard a whisper
on the subject. Lady Goderich's health is, indeed,
understood to be far from that soundness which
her friends, and more especially an affectionate
husband, would desire ; and were his resignation
of office to tend in any way to confirm it, we
know his Lordship would not be slow to resign;
but really, amongst all the cures of the pharma-
copoeia, we seek in vain for such a one as the aban-
donment of a station in which he enjoys the full and
' entire confidence of the Sovereign, and the appro-
bation of the public, where either the health of the
occupant or, that of his friends is at stake. With
respect to one of the alleged causes of Lord Gode-
rich's ill health—the jars of the Cabinet—where
are they ? Who is the malcontent ? True, there
is a Journal, which has of late supported the Minis-
try, and it yet never supported a cause which its
conduct did not tend to injure, which has—were the
state of those whom it would have the public to
look on as its patrons to be judged.-by its arguments
and statements—given ample means for supposing
that there were jarrings in the Cabinet. That
Journal, which has been so long accustomul to the
tone of opposition, that it knows not how to dis-
pense with it, has by its heavy attempts at ridiculing
one or two members of the Administration, and by
its no less heavy attempts to give undue
and undesired prominence to one or two
others, infused into those who are not yet dis-
ciplined to receive its statements with the sus-
picion they deserve, a notion that the differences
which it described were to be found somewhere else
than in its own columns. No notion can, however,
be more utterly unfounded. There is no more jar-
ring in the Cabinet at this ii-o,nent than when it
was formed under the auspices of the great man who
planned the coalition of parties of which it con-
sists. The Cabinet contains, in fact, too much in-
tellect to afford materials for jarring. It is not
among men of high talent that the • petty interests
operate that lead to such unseemly exhibitions.—
Where fools and witlings quarrel, men of sense and
genius only argue. The band which unites the for-
mer class may be broken asunder by any petty disap-
pointment, by any thwarting of childish expectation,
because it is in origin feeble—that which knits the
latter springs from higher sources, and is of propor-
tionate permanence. But, forsooth, Lord Goderich
has been scared from his place by the difficulties of
the financial state of the country ! In what respect
have these difficulties increased since he accepted
office ? Is there any thing in the state of the
country, at the present moment, which was—
,we say not foreseen—but known—when Mr.
Canning died ? And if the financial state of the
country be difficult, is not Lord Goderich, himself
so lately Chancellor of the Exchequer, as capable as
any Minister whom his Majesty can choose to face
it? Where, in the name of wonder, shall we pro-
cure a Premier to grapple with our financial embar-
rassments if Lord Goderich may not ? The
Marquis of Wellesley has been mentioned—seriously,
we cannot for a moment suppose. The Marquis of
Lansdowne has also been named; but that Noble
Marquis's brief experience of 1807, would hardly
entitle him to much deference on a subject, to which
he has been so many years a stranger. And is not
Lord Goderich assisted by the most expert business-,
man, in respect of finance, in England—Mr. }-ferries ?
By the first practical economist in Europe—Mr. Hus-
kisson ? And by the most expert calculator in the world
—Mr. Tierney ? In fact, if the present Cabinet be. more
powerful in one department than in another, it is in
the department of finance. It is ludicrous to ob-
serve-how eagerly the opponents of the Ministry-
catch up the most improbable tale that knaves in-
vent and fools circulate. One of these worthies
we find gravely speculating- on a conjunction be-
tween Mr. Peel and old Lord Grey—the back and
bone advocate of the Catholics, the friend of Parlia-
mentary Reform, and a much more determined enemy
to Mr. Peel, Lord Eldon, and all the retired mem-
bers of the Cabinet, than he is to Cobbett and the
levellers, who would make a bonfire, had they the
power, of the order for which he declared himself
ready to sacrifice his life. How utterly must
Mr. Peel contemn the absurdity of the scr►bblers
who thus labour to bring him into ridicule, and
how heartily must Lord Eldon laugh at the plan
of a coalition between him and the Ex-Presi-
dent of the Friends of the People ! The fact—to
which, though they endeavour to shut their eyes "to
it, they are quite alive—which renders it impossible
that the present Ministry can be dissolved, is, that
there are no materials wherewith to frame a suc-
cessor to it. Partial alterations are quite possible,
but a pure Tory Ministry cannot be formed, or, if
formed, it would not last a week. We do not of
ourselves assert this--we have much higher autho-
rity than our own—the authority of that gentleman,
whom, notwithstanding his repeated declarations to
the contrary, the Opposition will yet pretend to
rank among their number—we mean Mr. Peel. Mr.
Peel himself has declared that he could not form a
Tory Ministry ; and if he could not, who can ? The
present Ministry are strong therefore, both positively
and relatively—strong in themselves, and stronger in
the utter imbecility of their enemies.—New Times.