The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The Ministry is at length settled, but the Ga-
zette of last night, which contains some of the
new appointments, was published at too early an
hour to present the whole. That which we shall
first mention is one of great importance, much
less in a domestic sense, as bringing near to the
King's person a Nobleman whom his Majesty
highly esteems, than in a political point of view,
as indicating the accession of the body of Whigs
to the new Administration. The Duke of De-
vonshire, we are enabled to announce, kissed
hands yesterday as Lord Chamberlain ; and this
event, we again state, is the outward sign of the
union of the Whig body with the Ministry.
Other persons connected with Lord Lansdown
will accept, and are accepting, office. That
Nobleman was properly selected to appear for
and represent his party : and the negociation be-
tween him and Mr. Canning was conducted in
the most frank and cordial manner. It was dila-
tory of course, because in the technical arrange-
ment of parties which had been long approach-
ing to each other in political sentiment, but had
never been blended together before, there was
much to put in order ; but the negotiators were
sincere, and their conferences have ended in an
amicable settlement. It suits better with the ar-
rangements that Lord Lansdown should not im-
mediately accept office ; and if any thing could
prove the indifference to personal objects through-
out the negociation, it would be this fact, that a
Nobleman of high political character arranges for
the deserted service of Government ; identifies
his own friends and party with the more faithful
portion of the old Ministers of the Crown ; no-
minates, in conjunction with the select organ of the
Royal will, to vacant places, and, himself declin-
ing immediate participation in the emoluments
of office, is content to cast the broad shield of his
independent character over the union which he has
cemented, and to defend the system of policy to be
adopted, on the simple ground that it is most useful
to the King and country. Nor can we learn that
any one has obtruded his pretensions, or clamo-
rously presented himself for office; individuals have
been generally chosen by those who may be called
their representatives in treating ; and it of course
results that the future measures will be such as shall
not offend the preconceived opinions, •or recorded
sentiments of the persons composing either of the
blended parties. Sir Francis Burdett has recom-
mended, and Lord Spencer approves the union.--
The following is a list of the new 'Ministry; some
places are, however, it is well understood, only filled
provisionally :
Mr. Canning, First Lord of the Treasury and Chancel-
:tor of the Exchequer.
Mr. Robinson (Lord Goderich), Colonial Office.
Mr. Huskisson, where be is.
Lord Bexley, ditto.
Lord Palmerston, ditto.
Marquis of Anglesea, Ordnance.
Duke of Portland, Privy Seal.
Lord Harrowby, President of the Council.
Lord Dudley, Foreign Office.
Mr. "Wynn, where he is.
Si; J. Copley (Lord Lyndhurst), Chancellor.
Mr. Sturges Bourne, Home Office.
Mr. Scarlett, Attorney-General.
Sir J. Leach, Master of the Rolls.
31r. Hart, Vice-Chaszeilor.
Sir L M'lntosh, Judge Advocate.
Mr. William Lamb, Irish Secretary...-Times.

Mr. Canning's distribution of his law patron-
age seems to be taking place in the oddest way
that can be imagined, The late Attorney-Ge-
neral, who had given him no offence, he turns
adrift, and the Solicitor, who had given him
no support, he retains ; yet, without a reason
or a precedent, he puts over the latter's head a
new Attorney-General, in the person of Mr.
Scarlett, who had been at all times his political
opyonent ; and who, wanting nothing, accepts
this office at the risk of being compelled to op-
pose the party in Parliainent with whom he has
acted all hie life. Of Mr. Scarlett's professional
eminence, end fitness for the office, no one can
entertain a doubt : but if Mr. Canning be a
Tory and a Pittite, as he always professed him-
self to be—or if he was even, in heart and soul,
a sincere member of Lord Liverpool's Admini-
stration—then, we would ask, xippn what prin-
ciple it is that he appoints a Whig Attorney-
General, and that before he has made any nition
with that party generally, to the exclusion of the
numerous members of the Bar, both in and out
of Parliament, who have hitherto been as warm
supporters of the Government as Mr. Scarlett
and the. Whigs have been the opponents of it ?
We do not complain of Mr. Scarletea appoint-
/:tent ; on the contrary, we are rejoiced at it, as
',MT es at the disappointment which has thus be-
fallen scl much professional sycophancy ; but
still we contend that the -appointment is itself
quite out of ail rule and precedent. It is ru-
moured to have had I:.`.s rise in an early friend-
ship between the parties--but we strongly
suspect that the Attorney-Generalship to the
Duchy, which Mr. Scarlett has hithertd held;
has more to do with it. But Mr. Canning's appa-
rent liberalism in the distribution of the law offices
does not centre here. His first act—the appoint-
ment of Sir John Copley to the woolsack—was of
the same description. That the new Premier is
naturally the most forgiving man upon earth, judging'
by his past history, we should not exactly credit;
and those who remember (as who does not?) the
bitter taunting which took place so recently as on
the late debate on the Catholic Question, between
idr. Canning and the Master of the Rolls, must
either smile or wonder that so speedy a union should
have taken place between them. Mr. Plunkett,
and his Peerage without office, we have already
noticed. The cashiering of Sir Chas. Wetherell is
not the less extraordinary. Indeed, so strange a
jumble of party and or. no party is there in the
whole of Mr. Canning's legal arrangements, that we
must not wonder if a post or two brings us advice
from Dublin of Messrs. Shiel and O'Connell having
taken office—or Mr.,Jeremy Bentham's early recol-
leetione being gratified by a place.—Morning
Herald.

We believe we may now pretty confidently as-
sert that the Ministerial arrangements are, as an
Irishman would say, finally arranged for the pre-
sent, and that the negotiation between Mr. Can-
ning and the Marquis of Lanadown having ended
with the latter having declined office for the pre-
sent, those arrangements are as follow=—viz.:—
The Cabinet to consist of
Mr. Canning:
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Lord Harrowby President of the Council
Lord Lyndhurst Lord Chancellor
Lord Dudley and Ward Foreign Secretary
Mr. Robinson Colonial Secretary

Mr. Sturges Bourne Home Secretary
Mr. Wynn Board of Controul
Lord Bexley Chancellor of the Duchy
Mr. Huskisson Board of Trade

which reduces the Cabinet to nine—a number
quite sufficient, we should say, to insure una-
nimity, or transact business. The other appoint-
ments we have heard of are—