The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-11 00:00:00

PROROGATION

OF
PARLIAMENT.

RESIGN ATI ON

THE MINISTRY.

(From the Morning Herald.)

Sir Robert Peel's Government is at an end. All
the members of the Cabinet yesterday tendered
their resignation, which her Majesty was pleased to

accept.

It will be easily believed that we regret this de-
termination of her Majesty's advisers ; but we should
much more regret their unanimous determination to
sacrifice the industry of the country by stripping it
of all protection.

The important fact now announced proves how
completely wrong the Times was when it stated that
that the Government had decided upon proposing to
Parliament, as a Cabinet measure, the repeal of the
corn-laws.

(From the Morning Chrcnicle.)

SAn official announcement, in another part of our
paper, confirms one part of the statement which we
made yesterday—namely, that Parliament, instead
of being summoned for the dispatch of business,
would be again prorogued. The other and more
important part of our announcement is, we believe,
equally correct. The Cabinet, we are assured, re-
signed yesterday. It is confidently said, that so far
from the Cabinet having at any time come to a
decision to recommend the repeal of the corn-law,
a large majority of his colleagues have throughout
been opposed to Sir Robert Peel's recommendation.

(From the Times.)

Yesterday Parliament was further prorogued to
the 30th instant. The naming of so early a day
would of itself imply that the Cabinet is not now in
a state to meet Parliament. .The rumours, however,
which have been confidently circulated in the best
informed quarters since Monday, and circumstances
which have come to our knowledge since the return
of the Ministers last night from Osborne House,
leeve scarcely any reasonable doubt that thel re-
viving repugnance of the Duke to the decision of
his colleagues has rendered it necessary for them to
tender their resignation to her Majesty. An un-
foreseen difficulty of course there must have been
somewhere. After so long and close a succes-
sion of Councils, that difficulty could only arise from
a struggle between the declared intentions of the
chief, and the prejudice or pride of some of his col-
leagues. Were the Ministry certain of meeting Par-
liament as the servants of the Crown, it would have
fixed the day, and our prediction would have been to
the letter fulfilled. That is no longer possible. Some
minor changes, as we intimated at the first, there
would undoubtedly have been ; but it is to the
graver difficulty that this new and unforeseen delay
must be ascribed. It is said to have been only by
the most unqualified expressions of opinion that the
leaders of the Cabinet gained the unwilling com-
pliance of the only considerable dissentient. There
can be no doubt, that—what was all along to be ap-
prehended—the representative-general of the Lords
has since felt with returning anxiety the weight of
the numerous proxies notless rashly undertaken than
rashly confided to his care. The head of an aris-
tocracy demands, it may easily be imagined, a
little more time to act, if not to resolve. It is not,
however, always possible to adjust the interests of a
Cabinet, much less those of a nation, to the con-
venience, the:dignity, or the humour of an individual.
An obstinacy which is assumed with a less serious
intention may be maintained a day too long, to
the ruin both of colleagues and cause. Mean-
time whatever may happen, whoever may be
in next month, very few hours can pass without
proving to the nation the substantial truth of our
first momentous announcement—viz., that the leaders
of the Cabinet were resolved upon proposing a total
repeal of the corn-laws. They were resolved to the
utmost of their power. They were resolved to do
this, or nothing—to repeal the corn-laws, or be no
Ministers. If the Duke sees peril in that measure, or
feels reluctance to undertake it, he will have to
realise the dangers and disagreeables on the other
side of the scale—the dissolution of the Conserva-
tive Ministry, and the interposition of a rival, and
in some respects a more suitable agency. He will
be assured that his own punctilios, so far from im-
peding the measure, may perhaps only render it the
first of a series still less to his taste and convenience.
Whatever amount of distrust he may feel in his pre-
sent (if not by this time his late) colleagues, he will
be only too sure of the statesmen and the policy he
will help to inaugurate in their stead. If he ha 3 not
the heart to solicit the Lords in behalf of friends, he
will, nevertheless, not escape the still more arduous
task of conducting his little aristocratical troop against
the close and serried phalanx of an unanimous people
headed by inveterate foes.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON

GAZETTE OF TUESDAY,

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wighi,
10th day of December, 1845, present the Queen's
Most Excellent Majesty in Council,—lt is this day
ordered by her Majesty in Council, that the Parlia-
ment, which stands prorogued to Tuesday, the six-
teenth day of December instant, be further pro-
rogued to Tuesday, the thirtieth day of December
instant.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of
deaths during the week ending December 6, was 930,
showing a decrease of 25, as compared with the previous
week. We regret to find that the deaths from measles
and diseases of the organs of respiration are on the in-
crease. The number of violent deaths was 27, of which
11 were from fractures and contusions and 6 from burns.
The others were caused by hanging, drowning, and
poison, or medicines improperly administered. We find
only 3 suicides,
THE LONDON MARITIME INSTITUTION.—The anni-
versary of this very old and excellent institution was cele-
brated yesterday evening in the usual manner at the Lon-
don Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the large dining-room of
which establishment the patrons and supporters of the
society sat down, at six o'clock, to an hospitable banquet,
provided by Messrs. Bathe and Breach. The chair was taken
by Mr. Henry Barkly, M.P., supported on his right hand by
Mr. J. Locke, of the Trinity- house, and on his left by Mr.
G. F. Young. There were present many captains in the mer-
chant service, and gentlemen connected with the shipping
and colonial interests. The musical arrangements were con-
ducted by Messrs. T. Cooke, Hatton, and Mr. Hawkins, of
the Chapel Royal. The cloth having been removed,
and the Non .Nobis sung, the Chairman proposed the
health of her Majesty, which was drunk with all the
honours and good feeling with which it is invariably re-
ceived. This toast was followed by the healths of Prince
Albert, of the Queen Dowager, and the rest of the Royal
family, to which the company responded with cheers. 'the
toasts, the Army and Navy, the Trinity House, &c., ware
also given and received with cordial good-will. The Chair-
man then gave success to the institution the company
were assembled to support, and made some brief but pertinent
remarks on its peculiar claims in a commercial country.
This toast was received with cheers, long and loud; and
shortly after the secretary announced the subscriptions of the
contributors to the funds, viz.—the Trinity House, 105/. ;
Mr. W. Curling, 201. ; the Chairman, 10/. • Mr. Foster, M.P.,
51. ; Captain Locke, Si.; Lieutenant Waghorn, 5, &c.,
making a gross amount of subscriptions of nearly 4001. Mr.
Powles then proposed the health of the chairman, and in
doing so, amongst other observations, remarked that the
society was, from the good it effected, entitled to much more
general support than it received from the masters of mer-
chant ships in the port of London. They were a very
numerous body, and might, by their co-operation, produce
most beneficial results, and by subscribing to the funds of
the institution which the :company were met to celebrate,
enable it to extend its advantages. He hoped they would
come forward liberally, and by their a.sistance render the
London Maritime Institution able to do more extensive good.
Mr. 11. Barkly having returned thanks for the way in which
his health was received, several other toasts were drank, and
the festivity kept up till late in the evening.
ELOPEMENT.—The town of Stowmarket was
thrown into no small excitement on Wednesday last, by the
information that the fair and accomplished daughter of the
Rev. Sir Augustus Henniker, of Plashwoods, Haughley, had
eloped with Charles Robert Bree, Esq., surgeon, of that town.
It appears that Sir Augustus being absent from home, Mr.
Bree met the lady (who is about twenty-four years of age)
about a mile from her father's:residence with an open carriage,
in which they proceeded to Bury, and then sent the vehicle
back. On the return of Sir Augustus in the evening, the
lady was missing, and they were traced to Bury, but no
further tidings could be gained of their progress. It is
understood that the lady has independent property.—Bury
Pot