The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

I.4fiw MINNTRY

(From Saturday's Monday Hevaid.)

Yesterday, at Claremont, saw the principal officers of her
Majesty's government installed in the respect►ve posts to
which the royal pleasure had called them. This ceremonial
followed immediately after her Majesty's reception of the
seals of office and the resignatioy- a her late ministers.
The members of the conservative.caliiiiet 'and government
appear to have been received with every demonstration Which
could bespeak the cordiality and confidence of their royal
mistress, or could confer honour on the servants of a gra-
cious Sovereign. Sir Robert Peel, on his appointment as
First Lord of the Treasury,—the Earl of Liverpool, on re-
ceiving his wand as Lord Steward of her Majesty's House-
hold,—and the Earl of Jersey and Lord Ernest Bruce on
their respective appointments, had the honour of kissing
hands. The commission for executing the office of Lord
High Treasurer not being yet complete, was, we apprehend,
the cause of the appointments of the Premier, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, and other of the leading members of the
new government,-not being published in the London Gazette
of last night. The only Gazetted appointments appear to be
these :

Lord Wharncliffe, to be Lord President of the Council.
Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

The Dille of liu'ekinghap, Lord Privy Seal

Earl of Aberdeen, Principal Secretary for Affairs.
Right Hon. Lord Stanley, Principal Secretary for the Colo-

flies.
Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Principal Home Secretary.
The Earl De Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of Trade.
Mr. W. Ewart Gladstone, Vice-President of the Board of
Trade. (He will also hold the office of Master of the
Mint, but without salary.)
Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster. _ _

And thus the vessel of conservative government, after a
long " laying up" of many years, is launched once more
upon the waters. She carries a noble crew ; she is steered
by an experienced pilot. She has veteran commanders and
rising officers, all animated by the same spirit of devotion to
the honour of the flag they carry, the glory of the crown they
serve, and the prosperous completion of that political voyage
on which they have embarked with the " God speed" of
millions of their countrymen.

(From the Times of Saturday.)
CLAREMONT, FRIDAY.—This being the day appointed by
her majesty for the holding of the Privy Council, at which
Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues were to be formally in-
ducted into office, the members of her majesty's most hon.
council repaired in great numbers to Claremont for the pur-
pose of witnessing or participating in this high act of state.
The public having been made pretty generally acquainted
with the circumstance by the daily newspapers, the railway
trains in the forenoon felt, like the whigs, the pressure
from without," and several groups of pleasuring, yet ap-
parently most anxious, spectators were to be met on various
points of the road which passes from Kingston-upon-Rail-
way through the romantic village of Esher to Claremont.
The pretty lane (for it is little-else) which leads from Esher
to Oxsbott, passing the entrance to Claremont-park, was the
principal resort of the non-official metropolitan quidnuncs,
and as the dashing equipages of the outgoing and incoming
ministers of the crown whirled up the narrow defile—for the
whigs upon this occasion plucked up a spirit, resolved to die
game, and put their best horses' best legs foremost—many a
neck was strtched to the imminent risk of entailing upon it-
self a crick for life, and not a few smartly trimmed bonnets
were festooned with an extra wreath of mud as the tax for
their fair wearers' overweening curiosity.
One o'clock being the hour announced for the holding of
the council, her Majesty's well-known punctuality induced a
corresponding degree of exactitude in point of time on the
part of noble lords and hon. gentleman. Accordingly, by
one o'clock the last of the numerous official visitants' car-
riages had driven through the park gates. The late whig
ministers were those who first arrived, with the exception of
Lord Palmerston, who was the last of all the privy coun-
cillors, whig or tory, who made their appearance at this grand
denouement. His lordship was universally remarked to hold
down his head, and to wear an air so observably sombre and
doleful, as could not fail to suggest to the most casual ob-
server the reflection, that it was with mortal reluctance he
repaired to the trysting-place to give back the seals and other
tokens so long and signally abused. Perhaps his lordship
was of opinion that, like Fabius, he might, cunctando, be in
some shape enabled restituer, rem, or possibly to tack him-
self to the fag-end of the new administration. However this
be, it was somewhat strange that one who has so long been,
accustomed to the rapidity of the movements of foreign mes-
sengers should, in this instance, have been so much more
like a messenger of death.
Shortly after twelve o'clock the carriages of Lord Mel-
bourne, Lord John Russell, the Marquises of Lansdowne
and Normanby, the Earl of Minto, and the rest of the late
cabinet ministers reached Claremont, whereupon a court of
privy council was immediately held, at which Lord John
Russell and the other Secretaries of State, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Lord Privy Seal, &c. delivered up their seals of office
into the hands of their Royal Mistress.

At the conclusion of this painful ceremony, the ex-minis-
ters and members of the now defunct Melbourne cabinet,
thus summarily and satisfactorily broken up, took their leave
and their departure for London with all possible expedition
and despatch.
The whig noblemen and gentlemen having made their exit,
which they did not only without any flourish of trumpets, but
without even a single cheer from one solitary adherent, all
the cheering (as far as we could observe) having been reserved
for Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, her majesty
was graciously pleased to declare the right hon. Lord Wharn-
cliffe lord president of her majesty's most hon. Privy Colin=
cil, and his lordship took his place at the council-board ac-
cordingly. The council chamber was now occupied solely
by the several lords and gentlemen connected with the new
administration : Sir R. Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the
Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl de Grey,
the Earl of Ripon, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Lyndhurst,
Lord Stanley, Lord Eliot, Lord Lincoln, Lord Ernest
Bruce, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Granville Somerset; Mr.
Goulburn, Mr. Gladstone, &c. The Duke of Buckingham,
the Earl f Liverpool, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Eliot, Lord
E. Bruce, and Mr. W. E. Gladstone were sworn in Privy
Councillors, and took their seats at the board. The great
seal was then handed over by her Majesty to Lord Lynd-
hurst, and the oath of Chancellor administered to his Lord-
ship. The Privy seal was with the same fortes delivered to
his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, and the seals of the
three principal Secretaries of State to the Earl of Aberdeen,
Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham. The proceedings of
the Council were wound up by her Majesty declaring Earl de
Grey Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Ripon Presi-
dent, and Mr. Gladstone Vice-President of the Board of
Trade ; and handing to Lord Granville Somerset the seals of
the Duchy of Lancaster.
The Council having thus terminated, about half-past two
o'clock the new Ministry took their departure for town. The
Duke of Wellington was the first to quit Claremont. His
Grace was in an open barouche and pair, and was accompanied
by Sir George Murray. The air being a little sharp, the
illustrious Duke threw a white Mackintosh over the Windsor
uniform, in which, like the rest of his Ministerial colleagues,
he was arrayed. The instant his Grace's remarkable profile
was caught, as his barouche drove through the gates, by an
eager group of spectators which crowded the centre of the
road fronting the entrance to Claremont, his approach was
saluted by loud and enthusiastic cheers. His Grace's carriage
was followed in rapid succession by those of the Duke of
Buckingham, the Earls of Aberdeen. Ripon, and De Grey,
Lords Lyndhurst, Hill, and Stanley, Sir James Graham, &c. ;
Sir Robert Peel's carriage was the last but one which left the
Royal residence. The same tribute of heartfelt applause
which had previously saluted the avatar of " the Duke" was
now sent forth by the same crowd to hail the advent of the
new Premier ; and as Sir Robert Peel responded to these
salutations with a dignified courtesy, his countenance was
radiant with the triumph of an honourable ambition.
We never saw Sir Robert look to greater advantage. He
was slightly flushed with the necessary elevation of his new
position, and the evident sympathy of the crowd, and looked
extremely well in the Windsor uniform. The outgoing Whig
officials all wore plain clothes, and looked very plain in them,
if we are to credit the testimony of numerous fair spectators
of the scene. Undoubtedly, in ladies' eyes at least, the Con-
servative leaders had greatly the advantage of their competi-
tors, not alone in point of elegance of attire (as wearing the
official costume), but still more by the superiority which good
temper and triumphant success gave them over sour looks
and sadly disappointed ambition.
At precisely a quarter before 3 o'clock the gates of Clare-
mont closed upon the carriage of Lord Granville Somerset,
which was the last in the new Ministerial procession.

(From the Times of Saturday)
THE CABINET.
First Lord of the Treasury,
}Sir Robert Peel.
(Premier) . .
Leader of the House of Lords,
1 The Duke of Wellington.
without office
Lord Chancellor .
President of the Council Lord Wharncliffe.
Lord Privy Seal The Duke of Buckingham
First Lord of the Admiralty The Earl of Haddington.
Principal Secretary of State for 1
Sir James Graham.
the Home Department
Principal Secretary of State for
}The Earl of Aberdeen.
Foreign Affairs
Principal Secretary of State for I Lord Stanley.
the Colonies.
President of the Board of Trade The Earl of Ripon.
President of the Board of Con-I Lord Elienborough.
trol for the Affairs of India.. -
Chancellor of the Exchequer .. Mr. Goulburn.
Secretary at War
Treasurer of the Navy and Pay- 1 Sir Edward Knatchbnll.
master of the Forces

NOT OF THE CABINET.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The Earl de Grey.
Irish Secretary .
Master General of the Ordbance Sir George Murray.
Chief Secretary of the Treasury Sir Thomas Fremantle.
Vice-President of the Board of ll Trade and Master of the Mint W. E. Gladstone, Esq.
Secretary of the Admiralty .• • . The Hon. Sidney Herbert.
Joint Secretaries of the Trea- Sir T._ Fremantle, Bart.,

.. f and Sir Cr. Clerk, Bart.
An Under-secretary of State for l Viscount Canning.
the Foreign Department .. • •
Under-secretary of State for the} The Hon. Bingham Baring.
Home Department.
Secretary of the Board of Con- The Hon. John Stuart
trol
••Wortley._.

Sir G. Cockburn and the
Lords of the Amiralty ........ S Rt. Hon. Henry Thos.
Corby.
First Commissioner of Land j The Earl of Lincoln.
and Revenue. ll
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- }
Lord Granville Somerset.
caster ....................
Postmaster-General .......... Lord Lowther.
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Master of the Horse .. The Earl of Jersey.
Lord Chamberlain .. The Duke' of Rutland.
Lord Steward ... The Earl of Liverpool.
Vice-Chamberlain Lord Ernest Bruce.
Viscount Powerscourt,. the
Lords in Waiting Earl of Moreton, and
Lord Sidney.
{ Captain Maynell and Mr.
Grooms in Waiting

COURT CIRCULAR—MONDAY.—The Bishop of Norwich,
clerk of the closet, performed divine service before the Queen
and his royal highness Prince Albert, yesterday at twelve
o'clock ; the service was attended by the officers of the royal
household. The rev. prelate had the honour of dining with
her majesty in the evening.
On Saturday afternoon her majesty and Prince Albert took
an airing in a carriage, followed by the royal suite in ano-
ther carriage. The royal party returned from their drive a
little before seven o'clock to Claremont.
At the Privy Council held at Claremont on Friday after-
noon, the right hon. Henry Goulburn received from the
Queen his seal of office, and the honour of kissing hands on
being appointed chancellor of the exchequer.
The first cabinet council of the new ministry was held at
three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at the foreign office.
The following were the ministers present :—Sir It. Peel, the
Duke of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Wharncliffe,
the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stan-
ley, Sir James Graham, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of
Ripon, Lord Ellenborough, the right hon. H. Goulburn, and
Sir Henry Hardinge.
The Council broke up soon after five o'clock.
The Earl of Ripon and the right hon. W. E. Gladstone at•
tended on Saturday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Lord Stanley attended on Saturday at the Colonial-office,