The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-24 00:00:00

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1827.

Some of the Ministerial Appointments will
appear in the Gazette of this evening. In the
mean time, we are enabled to state po-
sitively, that the Lord Viscount DUDLEY
and WARD is to be the Foreign Secretary.—
Mr. BACKHOUSE, who was for many years
Private Secretary to Mr. CANNING, and lately
one of the C, mmisC,oners of Excise, succeeds
Mr. Planta as Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.

Mr. PLUNKETT has declined the Master.
ship of the Rolls, and goes to the House o'
Lords, without office.

We are still unable to give the result of the
negociation with Lord LANSDOWN.

It is generally understood that the illiberal
party hope to make a grand display of their
strength by throwing out the new Corn Bill in
the House of Lords. The attempt would cer•

tainly be quite in keeping with the rest of their
conduct ; but as far as the seven seceding Chiefs
are concerned, we cannot for a moment fancy
them guilty of such inconsistency as to offer
opposition to a child of their own, originating
with the Noble Individual under whom they
lately served, and sanctioned by themAs Mem-
bers of the same Government. To doubt
the case being altered, alters the case,"
and suspicion may speculate on the possibility
of their giving secret instructions to their under-
lings to oppose the measure in the only way they
can—we mean by giving a silent vote ; but as to
their coming forward themselves, in opposition to
the measure, it supposes such an abandonment
of principle—such a thorough want of decency,
that we should fear incurring the penalties of the
Statute, against the crime of scana'alum magna-
tun:, were we even to hint at the possibility of
these diStinguisheci individuals for a moment
doubting as to the course which they ought to
pursue.

In the next place, we would advise the lauded

interest not to look to the support of the Bishops.
That body is well known to have sent in their
adhesion to Mr. CANNING'S Government, for
being naturally engrossed with spiritual concerns„
they have less time for the consideration of ques-

tions affecting the temporal interests of the king-
dom, and wisely leave them to those Peers whose
designation points that out as their department,
or rather to that portion of them who possess the
confidence of the Head of their Church.

The kindly feeling of some of the great Whig
Lords holds out every prospect of their support
being given to the Bill, so that the whole oppo-
sition to it must proceed from a certain en-

lightened body headed by a Northern Thane,
whose ideas on political economy seem to have
altered when the principles of free trade
threatened to make free with the contents of his
own pocket. HOMER calls AGAMEMNON,
" King of men," but what is that to being
King of Lords," a title which fame confers
upon the Peer in question. We would be sorry
to see a bad precedent established—but if these
noble individuals will set their own interests
against those of the State, and thus perpetuate
the distraction of the country upon the subject of
the Corn Laws—they certainly would have no
right to complain were Mr. CANNING to carry
through the Bill by the creation of twenty or
thirty Peers, on finding it otherwise impossible.
If Mr. CANNING makes a point of it, they may
depend on his defeating them, and whilst they
may encrease his difficulties, they will be adding
to their own unpopularity, with a certainty of
ultimate failure.

The Duke of CLARENCE is to enter upon
the duties of his High Office on the Ist May ;
and it is impossibb! that his Royal Highness
could do so under more favourable auspices. He
will be surrounded by men as his Council who
themselves formed a part of the most useful and
efficient Board of Admiralty which ever presided
over the Naval -Affairs of the kingdom ; and the
business of the department will still he conducted
by two Secretaries, whose talents arc of the
highest order, and whose experience for nearly
20 years, gives them an intimate acquaintance with
every branch of the civil affairs of the Navy. The
Lord High Admiral will also find the state of the
subordinate naval departments not less gratifying
in their degree than that of his immediate office ;
and, instead of having, as his great prede-
cessor the Duke of YORK (afterwards King
JAMES the Second) had, upon entering upon
the duties of his office, to re-model all the minor
departments of the service, and to form new re-
gulations, bo4l for the civil and military govern-
ment of the navy, his Royal Highness will find
a correct and efficient system every where in ope-
ration, and a new and complete code of instruc-
tions recently drawn up and established for his
MAJESTY'S service at sea.

The state and condition of the fleet and naval
arsenals will likewise be found by his ROYAL
HIGHNESS such as no former period could
boast of. The Navy of England, which, during
the late long war, had been nearly worn out, has
been regenerated, and can now reckon the largest
number of ships of good quality which her list
ever contained. Her dock-yards have also been
Pn 1 arze d and tens;red. an.l enr,toin the moans