Star.
London, England, 1830-11-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TOE JOURNALS.

CHIONICLE —The Ministerial eriangements are completed, with
the exception of the Legal appointments, which are not yet definitively
died. We wish it to be understood, therefore, that in the List which
we are about to give, the Law appointments are not to be altogether re-
lied on. With this caution, we believe the following may be considered
as a correct account of the arrangements :
-
Premier - - Earl Grey
Lord Chancellor . . Mr. Brougham
Chancellor of the Exchequer . Lord Althorp
Home Secretary . Viscount Melbourne •
Foreign Secretary - - Lord Palmerston
Colonial Secretary - Viscount Goderich
President of the Board of Trade Mr. C. Grant
President of the Board of Control Mr. C. Wynn
First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham
President of the Council . Marquis of Lariodown
Lord Privy Seal - . Lord Durham
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster . - . Lord Holland
• Master of the Mint . . Sir H. Parnell
Muter-General of the Ordnance Duke of Richmond
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . Marquis of Anglesey
Commander-in-Chief - - Lord Hill—Times.
Secretary at War - - Lord Duncannon—Post.
Chief Secretary for Ireland - Mr. Stanley
Lord Chancellor of Ireland . Lord Plunkett
Attorney-General - . Mr. Denman
Judge Advocate - . Mr. R. Grant
The Lord Chamberlain - Duke of Devonshire

The Solicitor-General—Mr. Bickerateth. Mr. Home u well as Mr.
Pepys are also mentioned. Mr. Pennefather is named as Attorney.'
General for Ireland, in lieu of Mr. Joy. Earl Grey had an imeruiew
last night with the King, and although the ministerial names are cor.
reedy given above, it is possible some changes in the places assigned
to them may yet be made. The conduct of the King throughout is
spoken of in terms of warm approbation. So long as the Duke of Wel-
lington's Ministry were able to carry on the business of the country,
he gave his entire confidence to them. The resignation of the
late Ministry, in consequence of their defeat on Monday night.
imposed on his Majesty the necessity of looking elsewhere
for support; and it is understood tbat, when Rail Grey esp. isihwia -
the terms on which he could undertake the formation of an Administra-
tion, his Majesty met his views in the most frank and cordial manner.
The principles on which the new Administration have consented to take
office are liberal. It is understood that economy and retrenchment,
not in name merely, but in substance, are to be enforced throughout
the various establishments of the Empire. With regard also to another
point—namely, Parliamentary Reform, it is intended to meet the
wishes of the country. We can undertake to say that Ministers have
agreed to propose a real and substantial Parliamentary Reform, and not
a Reform merely in name. The country may also calculate on the
adherence of the new Administration to the principle of free trade.

PosT.—The difficulties under which we have stated Earl Grey to
labour, in his fearful task of forming a new Ministry, are most fully
shewn by the pitiable result. His Lordship, it is clear, found it im.
possible to form anything like a respectable, or efficient Administration,
and was therefore induced to have recoutse to the ordinary expedients
of the party, of which he is so worthily the head, to accomplish his de-
sired purpose. Whip, it is well known, are never over-scrupulous,
when the allurements of place are presented to their consideration ; and
Lord they, well informed in this respect, saw at once, in the actuating
motives of Whiggism, the ready means of relief from his embarrassments.
Accordingly his Lordship determined upon overcoming all obstacles, by
naming such men as he knew from long experience would accept official
situation on any terms, and almost from any party. The consequence I
is, that the new Premier has submitted to the degrading necessity of
tilling up the various offices in a manner which not even all the diffi-
culties we early foresaw would have induced unto deem possible under
any circumstances. Of those:who are called to the highest situations, the
greater portion could scarcely have been selected with less regard to their
respective qualifications for the duties they are about to undertake,whilst
on the other hand we see the best talent of the pasty sunk and lost inthe
most subordinate departments of the government. So wretched an ad-
ministrative power, we do not hesitate to say, has never disgraced the
country from the period of our history in which public feeling end
national dignity were first duly consulted.

TIMES.—The forthcoming Ministry, we have reason for believing,
begins to be licked Into form, and If so, no great deal of time has been
lost; arrangements are no doubt facilitated by the circumstance that,
with one splendid exception certainly, every body is for reform. The
Tories are for it, because, say they, had it- taken place previously to
the agitation of the Catholic question, and the voles of the people been
truly heard upon that subject, the measure never would have been ear.
tied. The Whip are for reform naturally, and of old time I so that,
with the exception of the vile borough.ownen only, the ay for reform
is perhaps stronger in the House thin out of it. There
therefore, no inconsistency in the sensible Tory (the Duke of
Richmond,) who has expressed a decided !pinion for re.
form and retrenchment, joining the experienced Whig Lord Grey
in the Mime Ministry ; and, accordingly, we bear his Grace has
been applied to—we believe not in vain. Lord Grey of course is Pre.
mier, and First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Lattsdown, Lord: Gode.
rich (to whom at one time the Premiership was absurdly and erroneously
ascribed), Lord Pabnerston, and Sir James Graham are to be Cabinet
Ministers. Lord Anglesey will go to Ireland, with Mr. Stanley as
Irish Secretary. Perhaps the motto "tans Mercurio fume Norio,"
dues not apply to the late Premier; but it is with peculler propriety
that he is invited to become Commander in Chief under the new Ad.
ministration, and, without casting an milted= on Lord Hill, we sin.
eerely hope his Grace will accept the Ala. The Lord Chancellor, Lynd.'
hunt, of a surety goes out, but be will do more than earn his pension if,
being now unfortunately drawn from his professioo, he will
give his attendance frequently in the House of Peers during the bear-
ing of appeals, and add his prudent and sagacious weasels generally,
without taking any part in the ordinary war of politics, and the eon.
filet of parties. hit. Brougham, it is probable, may succeed his Lord-
ship sooner or later, though he may have some pain in quitting his
northern constituents. ;They cannot complain that they have been
made a stepping-stone, for the promotion would, we suppose, have
taken place had he continued to xpraent the close borough of Snares.
borough. The parts were y cut last night; and we are inclined
to think there is not much error, except that certainly Mr. Brougham
is not yet appointed, and that sord Hill may be replaced by the Duke
of iVellingtor..

HZIRALD.—It will be seen that, although the Whip predominate in
the present Cabinet, it is not exclusively composed of Whig materiels.
All the members of it, however, are pledged to a liberal course of do.
mestie policy—to Inquiry into the causes of public distress, and lo
non.intervention with the internal affairs of other nations. Whether a
definite plan of Parliamentary Reform is to be made a Cabinet measure,
or whether each member of the Ministry is to be at liberty to vote on
that question as he pleases, is not yet positively ascertained. The state
of the country requires that the arrangements necessary to the formation
of an effective Government should be completed with the lam Feasible
delay.

Cuaornet.E.—We have, in the present state of this country, the
mat powerful of all reasons fir abstaining from interference with the
internal affairs of other nations. The burden which presses so heavily
on us, it the fruit of a depandre (kin the paths of policy, and of jus-
tire. The history of the last century, and a eoesiderable past of the
present, is a history of wan begun without an Intelligible object, to
which the resources of the nation were lavished, without regard 'either
foe aleting or future generations. We are now pay* the penalty af,
our misdeeds. The state of the country at the present moment, is such
u to inspire well-grounded apprehensions in all who possess any pow%
of reflection. The men who enter on office under such circumstances,
win not, most assuredly, lie on a bed of roses. Retrenchment muss,'
of mune, be effect with an unseXi hand. But retrench.
meat is not all. There is a. of a meet fond.
dable characta now going on .between possessing of diarist
d'escriptions of property. The labouring classes—the producers—have
roke loose from the restraint of law and order. The farmer, placed
between the Government, the landholder, and the titheholder, en dab
one Mind, and the labouring popWadoa on the other—sees blow& an.
able to meet their respective amused. upon hinh The hallbsider'
buoyed up with the hope of the continuance of the pekes daring the
au. made family settlements sad contracted debts on a scale CORM.
Pooding with the then value of his estate, and resists the demands of hie
tenantry, not because they are unjust, but because to arse with the
would be to consign himself to beggary. The Pm" Rave rubbed „„„ '
aslong as they could : but the 15..., though delayed, cannot be avoided.
e would fain persuade ourselves that the bhglast ranks are becoming
alive to the danger which surrounds than. The ewe on Meads) night
Is only a somewhat favourable symptom.

Tune—The writer (alluding to a letter) fallifilni I"
Miles the mode of election by ballot. We do not think he boons a.
rtlch of election by ballot in Francs es wo do ; wad yet we Ukek set
The taking away of publicity, it is our conviction, talus sway the bet
ustrsint upon bed mets--sheme. However, this, and every ether mt.
'ec connected with *kedges, must now come sue judos. We will net
toter omens by a premature opinion. We Ma MT.
,rethnel ; the people of l the people of ingleme..will ban
;the opposition'to it, • if any be madly attempted, win 101.
444 like dew below a merciting men. Near bet the wlifelly

blind want, at this time of day, reasons for reform • but to the
bigotted and-reformers we beg to present for consideration, the pro-
ceedings in the House of Commons on Monday last, in the Civil
List. There never, perhaps, was a division more calculated to prove
calculated to provethe actual working of the borough system. Of the
two general classes of representatives...those who were sent to parlia-
ment by many voters, not under any ascertainable or sordid influence,
and those who owe their seats to a few voters, implicitly governed in
most came by some one or two individuals—there was on this occasion
a line drawn, more marked and characteristic than we recollect to have
witnessed on any former one. We heartily wish that the Duke of Wel-
lington had inquired into the state of public feeling on the subject, be.
fore he pledged himself, and his ministry, against the very principle
of reform ; but he shut bia eyes and his ears, and we have seen the
consequence !

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, No•. 19.

The LORD CHANCELLOR (Lyndhurst) took his seat on the
Woolsack before five o'clock.

Petitions against Slavery in the Colonies were then presented by Lord
Farnham, Lord Carlisle, Lord Bexley, the Bishop of London, Earl
Batbunt, and Lord Wluancliffe.

REPEAL Or THE UNION.

The Marquis of ANGLESEY presented a petition from the in-
habitants of the manor of Great Gorman, in the county of Dublin,
praying for repeal of the Union. The noble marquis was unwilling to
discuss the question of dissolving the Union between England and Ire.
land, upon the mere presentation of a petition ; but could not abstain
from saying he differed in opinion from the petitioners. At the earliest
opportunity he should express the principles upon which It was his in-
tention to support the Union. The petition was read and laid on the
table,