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

Two petition; were presented yesterday to her Ma-
jesty-, through the I:Lome-office, from the Borough of
Finsbury, and the Borough of the Tower Hamlets, for
the abolition of the burdensome and inconvenient tolls
of Waterloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall Bridgesi, for
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BRIGHTON, FEB. 1. 'reparations are ma.:-tb •.t
Pavilion with great activity, in expectation of wt
from her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Court, abumL.
the 10th of this month. The following families wilt
wait the arrival of her Majesty : The Marquis
and Marchioness of Donegal, the Earl and Countess
of Belfast, the Marquis of Bristol, Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury, Earl and Countess of Albemarle,
Lord George Seymour, Lord and Lady Boyle, Lord and
Lady Rivers, Countess Listowel, Countess Ross, Lady
Elizabeth Parsons, Lady Georgiana Toler, Lady Anne
Becket, Lady G. Fane, Honourable A. Macdonald,
Sir Robert and Lady Wygram, Mr. Mofier, Honour-
able Vice Trevor, lionourable Hanbury Tracey,
Col. and Mrs. .Ashworth, Mr. and Mrs. Craven, Lady
llotham, Col. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. Roust Hon. Ge-
neral Upton, Lord and Lady Petre, Mr. and Lady Jane
Peel, Countess of Desart, Lady Grace Gore, Mr. and
Lady Jane Knox, Col. and Lady Susan North, Hon. Mrs.
Greville, Dowager Lady Brownlow, Lord and Lady
Teignmouth, Hon. Lady Noel Hill, Viscount Neville, &e.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
HERALD.—The rumour of the Duke of Bucking-
ham's secession from the Cabinet, which two of our
morning Contemporaries chronicled yesterday, on no
better authority, however, than the gossip of the clubs,
is an occurrence which, if it do take place, ought, from
his Grace's well known opinion, not only on the prin-
ciple, but also on the details of the present Corn-law,
neither to be matter of surprise nor alarm. His Grace
is too honest a man to sacrifice his conscientious opinions,
deliberately formed and warmly expressed, as to the
impolicy of materially altering the present law, except
from the force of his own personal convictions ; and the
Noble and warm-hearted Duke is far too sincere a Con-
servative to permit a difference of opinion on a single
subject—although it may compel him to spontaneously
separate from his colleagues—to erect the smallest
.obstruction to the success of Conservative Govern-
iiieot. Should the Duke of Buckingham. retire from
Sir Rol's!=!rt Peel's Administration in consequence
Of his inability to acquiesce in the Corn-law propositions
on Whigh the other members of that Administration have
agreed, it will be in the same frank and generous spirit
as has characterised his Whole political career ; his re-
signation, should It take place, will be a subject of deep
regret to his colleagues, and a I,ersonal sacrifice to his
own deeply-cherished attachment to :lie most prominent
national interest--domestic agriculture. unlike every
acceding member of the Whig-Radical C'fibinets, the
Duke of 13uckingham will not fall the victim Of an in-
decent intrigne ; or retire into inactive opposition, as
did Earl Grey, or into sulky expatriation, as did Lord
Olenelg. The conscientious difference which may lead
to sertatation will be calmly, and firmly reiterated by
the Noble Duke in his legislative capacity, when due oc-
casion shall call )t forth ; but to that expression the
opposition of his Grace will doubtless be confined ; to
any alteration of the Corn-law, which is, in the Duke's
opinion, calculated to injure landowners or farmers, his
Grace will offer his most determined opposal ; but on
all other topics the Duke of Buckingham will support
those former colleagues, whom lie respects a sincerely
as he is by them respected. The known repugnance of
the Duke of Buckingham to any material alteration of
the present Corn-law, as being a step towards the aban-
donment of protection to agriculture, and an experiMent
unwarranted by the present condition and future pros-
pects of the agriculturists, and his anticipated resigna-
tion on that ground, are not, however, to be regarded as
decisive indications that the Cabinet measure will be
hostile to the landed interest. The anxiety of that inte-
rest will, most undoubtedly, be greatly excited should
the Duke of Buckingham have actually resigned the
Privy Seal, and a greater degree of watchfulness over
the proceedings of Ministers—by no means unnecessary,
though certainly not adverse—will be thereby stimu-
lated. But that resignation will not, in itself, be deci-
sive as to the expediency or inexpediency of the forth-
coming measure. The Duke of Buckingham is, we
apprehend, more deeply pledged to the details of the
present Corn-law than the agricultural interest generally
approve of, and therefore it is not improbable that the
Ministerial scheme will conciliate the general support of
landowners and farmers, even though it have been dis-
approved of by his Grace. The landed interest will tit
all times most cordially acknowledge the great and im-
portant services which the Duke of Buckingham has
conferred on it ; they will see in any separation that
may have taken place, another example of the Noble
Duke's deep devotion to . what he considers their true
policy; their gratitude is ever due to his Grace, but they
owe to the Noble Duke—what, indeed, he would be the
last man in the empire to anticipate— no fealty, arid they
cam afford to give no prostration of judgment. The Corn-
law. to be proposed by Sir Robert Peel's Administration,
must be judged of by its own merits.
CHRONICLE.—We abstained from all remark yes-
titday in noticing the resignation of the Duke of Buck-
ingham. Why lie entered the Cabinet at all, and why
he has quitted it, on the eve of the assembling of Parlia-
ment, are questions which we leave for the solution of
the Tories. Ye. we should suppose there are parties to
t whom the disappear ante from the Cabinet of the f (inners'
friend, the individual V,lio was considered by the agricul-
turists as giving, by his presence, a guarantee to the
country, for the Cabinet, Ghat agriculture would be
quite safe from its determinatioN--cannot be without
its significancy. Will the MemberS' who have of late
regarded the Duke as their leader, view' his ejectment as
a mere matter of moonshine ? What, on Ihis occasion,
is the tone of the new Conservative Club estaNished by
his Grace ? What will be thought by the various agri-
cultural societies of which lie is the recognised patron ?
Many rumours are afloat on the subject. Some will
have it that his Grace outwitted the Preniier in obtain-
ing the blue ribbon before striking. Others assume,
from his having obtained this honour, that the difference
between the Premier and his Grace is what in vulgar
parlance is termed a sham—got up to save appearances.
Time will soon throw light on these dark subjects. The
value of the Premier's plan will enable us to estimate the
value of his Grace's resignation.
TIMES.—The Whig-Radical papers are in a state of
no small exultation at the secession of the Duke of Buck-
ingham from Sir R. Peel's Ministry. We lament it our-
selves—though we cannot lament what is presumed to
be its cause. We lament that the Cabinet should have
lost a member, firmly, we believe, opposed to that op-
pressive mode of dealing with the poor, whether em-
, ployed or unemployed, in factories or in workhouses,
which we have always denounced. At the same time,
even at the price of losing the services of that Noble
Duke, we are ready to rejoice that Sir R. Peel is pre-
pared to bring forward an effectual modification of
the restrictions imposed by the existing Corn-laws.
Nor can we at all agree with some of our Contempo-
raries in considering it inconsistent in that Nobleman,
while relinquishing
.the duties of a Cabinet Minister,
to accept the merely honorary distinction of the
Garter. A difference of opinion as to a single matter of
State policy may well make it impossible for two states-
men to carry out one uniform system of government,
yet the same difference need not interfere with the gene ,
sal support which one may be ready to give to the other's
measures, or, by consequence, with his acceptance of
those honours by which such support, according to the
usages of the political world, is acknowledged. A man
may well be treated as a friend, who would find it impos-
Able to act with us as. a fellow-labourer. For the one an
.agreement in practical details, for the other only a gene-
ral approval, is necessary. We see at every turn in history
or in private life that it is most easy for those to act as
allies who would yet, from difference of principle or of
temperament, find it absolutely impossible to concert toge-
ther any common plan of action, much more to carry it out
harmoniously through all the minutiae which practice re-
quires. One may have a very decided opinion on the
question which is at present at issue, who shall govern
the country—Sir R. Peel or the Whigs ; without being
prepared either to share the responsibility of all his
measures, or to co-operate unreservedly in their execu-
tion—necessities from which a Cabinet Minister cannot,
but a Knight of the Garter may, be allowed without
much difficulty to escape.. In the choice of a Minister to
succeed to the honourable position in the Cabinet which
the Duke of Buckingham has vacated, Sir R. Peel has
been guided by the suggestions of a sound discretion,
and we entertain no doubt that his Grace the Duke of
Buccleuch, who has accepted the vacant office, will justify,
by his public career, the high expectations which his
demeanour in a less prominent station and in private life
.as already raised.

FUNERAL OF DUCROW.—The funeral of Mr.
Ducrow is fixed for Saturday next. The body will be
conveyed in a hearse and six, followed by mourning
coaches and four, which will contain Messrs. Searle,
Anderton, and Oscar Byrne (the executors), Bunn,
James Wallack, Gomersal, lionner, Lawrence (his late
treasurer), J. Lawrence, 'Wilson, Lambert, and other
gentlemen, to the number of thirty. Mrs. Ducrow win
also be one of the mourners. Several of Mr. Ducrow's
horses, decorated with black velvet palls, plumes of
feathers, &c., will join in the procession. As a mark of
respect for the, late Mr. Ducrow, Mr. Batty's Circus will
be closed on Saturday evening next.
ANTI-MONOPOLY PETITION.—The Liver.
pool Anti-Monopoly Petition had received 23,550 signa-
tures up to last night. We trust that all the friends of
free trade will make a point of signing it before it is sent
away.—Liverpool Times.
DEPARTURE FROM LONDON OF SIR H.
DOUGLAS.—(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—We understand
that Captain W. 11. Molyneux, R.N., was deputed to present
a requisition to Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., emanating from a
public meeting of Sir Howard's friends, held in Liverpool yes-
terday. Sir Howard, having consented to offer himself as can-
' didate for that borough, set off yesterday morning in company
with Major Douglas and Capt. Molyneux, and was thus pre-
vented from having the distinguished honour of meeting the
King of Prussia at the Duke of Wellington's last evening, ac-
cording to invitation.
HENRY DE PomEnoY.—This romance, by
Mrs. Bray, the popular novelist, is now published. The scene
of the story, which is laid during the time of the Crusades, is
in England; and it affords a vivid picture of the chivalrous
lives of our ancestors—of the ecclesiastical domination then
existing—of the manners of the despised Saxon Thanes and
peasantry—and of the magnificence of the Norman nobles in
their proud castles. The period is one of the deepest interest,
and Mrs. Bray has invested it with a plot, of which the quali-
ties are exciting mystery, grandeur of circumstance, and lofty
passion.
THE WEST MIDDLESEX ASSURANCE OF-
Fl CE.—Sir Peter Laurie mentioned to Mr. Alderman Lainson,
the sitting Magistrate, yesterday, at Guildhall, that Holt, one
of the founders of the independent West Middlesex Assurance
Company, in Baker-street, which suddenly broke up a few
months ago, to the disappointment and rum of a great number
of individuals, is now a prisoner in the Fleet.