Star.
London, England, 1831-06-01 00:00:00

CHANGE OF AMERICAN MINISTERS.

We have received American papers of impor-
tance, containing a change of the President's
Ministry.
The new Cabinet is to consist of the under-
mentioned persons : Secretary of State, EDWARD
LIVINGSTON, of Louisiana; Secretary of War,
HUGH WHITE, of Tennessee ; Secretary',of Trea-
sury, Louis &FLAN E, of Delaware; St celery of
the Nary, ANDREW STEV ENSON, of Vbginit.
It is also added, that JOHN M. P. BERRIEN,
Attorney General, has resigned, and that the
Honourable JAMES BUCHANAN, of Pensylvania,
will be appointed in his place.
THE NEMTLIAMENT.

Within a fortnight our PATRIOT KING will
meet a PATRIOT PARLIAMENT, in which the,
♦oice of millions will be substituted for the in
tripes of the boroughmongers. What a source of
hope to twenty two millions of British subjects—
to our colonies, and our dependencies around the
globe—and to liberal men through all civilized
nations.

The questions will be, what is most advantage-
ous to the country ?—not what will most serve the
members, their patrons, and kindred ! What will
most promote the happiness of man ?—not what
will most promote the pride and empty splendour of
a few privileged persons !
Nevertheless, in the heterogenous assemblage of
this Parliament, the old leaven will continue to
show itself, and there will be quibbling and carp-
ing, and sophisticating, quite enough to afford
pleasure to the public by the consideration that all
such exertions will be v. ithout power. Four hun-
dred Reformers, to two hundred and sixty-eight,
are odds which will create no apprehensions ;
while in the majority there are untried men who
with ardour will seek to flesh their maiden logic in
wordy encounters with the enemies of their princi-
ples. If there be genius, talents, intelligence, and
public virtue in Britain, sufficient to prove that the
country is worth saving, they will be displayed
within a month after the meeting of this Parlia-
ment.

We shall unquestionably hear of some plane out
of the ordinary routine and common place, calcu-
lated to revive and encourage the industry of the
country, and to extricate the suffering people from
the snares and toils in which they have been en-
tangled for the last thirty or forty years. Some
men, identified by education and habits of life with
the people, will arise to instruct those who brought
up in the lap of luxury, and mingled only with
aMuence, know so little of the true causes of pub-
lic discontent, and therefore have, and can have, no
practical plans for relief. Of the one hundred en-

tirely new members, some PUTT, at least, may
be expected to be such men as those described ;
and from them, the rest may receive such lessons
of wisdom as the people have Iong—VERY LONG
—desired to see given in our public councils.
But, if it prove not so—if this Parliament should
be a compromise to effect one object only—we shall
honour it for achieving that object, and regard its
duration as the ADVENT of better things.
Political abuses have grown step by step, and their
removal must be effected step by step. We must,
therefore, if necessary, await the coming of a Re-
form Parliament, in which we may presume that
the fifty will be quadrupled, and then be numerous
enough to maintain, and original enough to enforce,
by facts and arguments, th various means of re-
lief of which the million stand so much in need.—
But to effect this requires men who are themselves
identified with society, as part and parcel of its fa-
mily ; for no theories or theorists, no undisciplined
intentions however good, no mere mawkish philan-
thropy, and no intercourse, how long so-ever con-
tinued with the privileged orders, are wholly corn-
petent. Nor do these plans imply revolution or
violence, or injury to any—all which involve IN-
JUSTICE, and therefore can have no concern with
the comforts of families and household enjoyments.
But we have said enough. We have suffered
and are suffering—and brighter prospects are before
us, if we have patience, if we maintain our loyalty
to the Father of his People, and if we have just
confidence in his upright Ministers.

••• In two or three days, we will take an opportunity of
restating the heads of plans which the enlightened People
of England expect fro:n a popular Parliament.