The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-02 00:00:00

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LONDON
WEDNESDAY, 14'EBRITARY 2, 1842.

The Morning Post is sensible that the with-
drawal of the Duke of BUCKINGHAM from the
Cabinet will not recommend the Ministry to the
agricultural interest. No longer ago than last
Wednesday, at an agricultural meeting, at Bos-
ton, Mr. CHRISTOPHER, in order to assuage the
fears of the agriculturists, already considerably
excited, told them " that the farmers need be
under no apprehension so long as such men as
the Duke of BUCKINGHAM and Sir EDWARD
KNATCHBULL arc in the Cabinet." The farmers'
friend is no longer in the Cabinet, and the main
connecting rod which bound the agriculturists
to the first mover is snapped asunder before the
machine has come into work. If Sir EDWARD
KNATCHBULL remain, he must ply with the new
movement, which has broken off his fellow, am.l
the confidence of the agriculturists will not fol-
low his eccentric motions.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM was also peculiarly
the friend of the Short Time Committee, and of
LordAsn LEY and his motley group ofSocialists and
Chartists. His Grace gave them a much warmer
reception than Sir J. GRAHAM and Lord STAN-
LEY ; and his retirement or expulsion from the
Cabinet severs the alliance, it may be pre-
sumed, between the Tories and the Owenite
Chartists. ,
The Post declares that there is'no question of
principle involved in the change. Do the mem-
bers of a Cabinet, then, formed to save the coun-
try, separate on qnestions of trifling detail? Such
men can never form an Administration to last
six mouths, and the apology of the Post is a
severe censure on its friends. It says, too, that
the Duke of BUCKINGHAM continues the friend
of the Administration. For how long? The
Post expects that his Grace will be the
friend of the Administration five months
hence, as five months ago he expected to meet
the Parliament a Member of the Cabinet; and
as one expectation 'has been unfounded, who will
answer for the correctness of the other ? When
his Grace begins to oppose his late colleagues
and present dear friends on "specific points of
the specific measure," about which they have
already disagreed, who will answer for the effects
of recriminating and angry oratory ? Taunts,
reproaches, secrets will escape; and if Sir R.
PEEL, having got rid of the flirrners'friend, and
being driven by the circumstances of the coun-
try, and the remonstrances of an irritated and ,
starving people, should extend his proposed I.e.
lief; the friendship of the Duke of BUCKUYCHAM
will evaporate for ever. His withdrawal frOm
the Cabinet we hail as the bursting asunder of
the factious league, which was formed six months
ago to maintain the starvation laws at all hazard.
Will the withdrawal of the Duke obtain for
the Cabinet the confidence of commercial men?
It will give them great satisfaction, bid the whole
proceeding will damage the character of the Ca-
binet, and diminish the confidence of all rational
men. From the time bf the Tories entering
office, the Comlaw has been the one question
for consideration. The Premier's plan, if he
have one, ought to have been communicated to
his colleagues at least two months ago. In fact,
about that time the first scheme of an alteration
in the Corn-laws announced as Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S was made public. Since then, the public
has been inundated with alternate reports of the
Duke's triumph and Sir ROBERT PEEL'S victory.
The Post admits that the discussion which ter-
minated only the day before yesterday, has
lasted eight or ten days. What is the legiti-
mate inference-,from all these facts? Why, that
the Cabinet has been unable to agree, after six
months' deliberation, on any measure either of
finance or trade—for the Corn-laws is the key of
all—till within four days of the meeting of Par-
liament, and then only agrees to expel one of its
own members.

Now comes another consideration. The Duke
of BucKiN6Ham being got rid of, the support
of- the agriculturists' interest being weakened or
lost, the probability is, that the Cabinet will
make its proposed measure still more fitvourable
to commerce, in order to conciliate the other
classes. if such be the case, we shall have this

united Cabinet, after six months' deliberation,
actually meeting Parliament with a measure

concerning one of the most important subjects
that ever required a statesman's attention,
framed within a few hours of its assembling.
Such solemn quackery would damage any Cabi-
❑et in the estimation of rational men ; and the
blow which has severed the farmers' friend from
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S side, will not knit to him any
representative of the manufacturing interest.
What, also, will be thought of the skill of the
great master, whose instrument of government
breaks to pieces on the very first trial? Hitherto

the Cabinet has done nothing, however active the

heads of departments mayhave been; its first act is
the Speech from the Throne, and, in preparing
that, the machine has ruptured an in/portant
link. Who, after that, will not find his confi-

dence in the machine, and in the chief ma-
chinist, considerably abated ? What portion of it
may next get out of repair and break off we pre-
tend not to foresee ; but as it has not been able
to hold together while running in the smooth
tracks of Downing-street, it is not likely to be-
come more compact and safe when exposed to
the rough friction of Parliament.

We heartily congratulate our readers upon the
first symptom of dissension amongst our ene-

nnes. The voice of the people in a righteous

cause will be found more powerful than an jai.

(pitons faction, however numerous. Terror will

soon penetrate into the hearts of the unjust

spoilers, and pervade their ranks. It is only ne-
cessary for the men, who are hearty in the good
cause, to press the yielding foe, and the only cry
we shall soon hear from him will be " Saure qui
pent." To-morrow only let the people show
themselves worthy of liberty, and they shall Ibr
ever be free.

Proceeding on that rational philosophy which
had its birth-place in England, to which we al-
luded on Monday, we propose briefly to inquire
on what facts, past, present, or future, Puseyisin
rests, and is offered to mankind as a means of
making them better, wiser, and happier. To us
it appears to rest more on a negation of external
facts, and on the ambitious internal desires of a
few men, than on any positive and certain truths.
About ten or twelve years ago, the Puseyites
began to creep into notice, which places their
origin coeval with a great political movement..
In 1830, the throne of the elder BourtnoNs was
overturned, and that of Louis PHILIPPE erected.
Belgium was separated from Holland, and Po. I
land made an attempt to break her chains. In
England the Whigs were carried into office on