Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-06-27

From the Nee York Times, June q.
As the new management Of The British cabi-
net is Of most interest IT our foreign ne VS., we
have taken some trnub9 TO see how much it
differs from many that have preceded it since
Mr.. Pitts death.
! Mr.. Pitt died Jan. 80, 1905, soon after me
Gailure Of he great continental coalition, and
left the kingdom depressed in deepest gloom.
Ihs King offered the premiership to Lord
Hawks5ury (now Liverpool.) He shrunk from
the station as toe ardnous, and retired to the
wardcnship of the Cinque Ports. The forma.
tion Of cabinet was then inuusted to Lord
Grenvie, and the following appointments took
place:-Lord Grenyllc, First Lord of the Trca-
sury; Lord Erskine, Lord Chancellof;s Mi. Fox,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Earl
Spencer, Home Department; MIR. WindAam,
War and Colonies; lord Henry Petty (now
Lansdowne), Chancellor of the Exchequer;
Lord Howick, First LORD Of tae Admiralty;
Earl MORA, Master of the Ordnance: Earl Fi,zs-
william, President of the Council; Lord Sid
mouth, Privy Seal; Mr.. Sheridan Gin the room
Of Mr.. Canning) Treasurer of the Navy. On
MIR. Fox's DEATH 18th Sept. 1906, his place was
taken by lord Howick, and the Admiralty TAX
en- by Thos. Grenyille. This was thorough
Wing Cabinet and lasted until The 25,h March,
so7, when upon the reading Of Lord Howck's
Catholic Bill, his Lordship finding that ii would
be defeated, gave notice that he should make
no motion for adyancingit The cabinet in The
course of short time thereafter was broken up.
The new cabinet was made up of Eldon,
Lord Chancellor; sWestmoreand, Priyy Seal;
Duke of Portland, Premier; Earl Camden, Pre-
siden,; Lord Mulgrave, Admiralty; Lord Chat
ham, Master Of the Ordnance; Lord Hawksbu-
nara I oh WAY
ard Colonies Mr.. Canning, Foreign Affairs;
Mr.. Perceval, Chancellor Of the Exchequer;
Dundas, Bathurst, Rose, Huskisson, and others,
came into subordinate Offices. This was tho
rough Tory Administration, and continued un-
til Sept. 1909, when Mr.. Canning and Lord
Cas,creagh, both resigned in consequence Of
their quarrels and soon after the Dnke Of Port
land retired, the business Of the two secretaries
having in the mean time been discharged by
! Lord Liverpool (who had now succeeded 10 that
title on the death of his father he took the War
Department. Lord WELLESLEY was called from
Cadiz to take Mr.. Canning's place as Secreta-
ry, and Mr.. Percival united the Office Of Pre-
micr withthe Chancellorship Of the Exchequer
The Regent retained these servants OF his IA
Their until 3th Feb 1912, when all restrictions
on him being al an end, he wrote 10 the Duke
oil York, stating his satisfaction with The mca-
I SUITES tECst WhoHl, iohi
sense Of duty TO his royal father, he had re-
tanned in Office, and expressing wish that
| some Of the persons with whom the habits oil
bis early life had been formed, would strength
en- his hands and constitute pa: Of his govern
ment." Lords Grey and Grenvie, 10 whom
the Duke Of York communicated the letter,
declined, and Immediately ,hereupon Lord Wei
lesley resigned the Foreign SecreIaryship, and
was succeeded by Lord Castlereagh. On the
| lIti May, Mr.. Perceval was assassinated, and
! after several sruitless attempts to form new
Cabinet, made first by Lord Wellesley Though
Mr. Canning 10 Lord Liverpool, and afterwards
by Lord MORA TO lords Grey and GrenVille,
Lord, Liverpool was made Premier 9th June,
| 1919, and Mr. Van Sii,art NOW Lord Bexley)
Chancellor Of the Exchequer. With some &C.
casionsl shiitngs, changes, and retirements
! from office, the character OF the abinet conti-
| nued uniform until the death OF Lord Castle.
reagh, in July, 1922, when Mr.. Canning reiin-
gushing the Governor Genera!shiP OF lndia'
took his place as Secretary.
| The objection 10 the new cabinet appears to
be. that at the head Of il, instead Of the calm,
long prac,ised, sterling good sense, the unsus-
pcctcd integrity, and mistaken hrmness olLord
liverpool, so necessary some quesfions'to adj
lust the balance In the councils, and 20 salutary
| 10 check the overgrowng zeal Of some OF MS
friends in the House Of Commons-there viii
be fourd in the present Premier, that very zeal
which Lord Liverpool most happily tempered,
and that very bias which Lord Liverpool, WIN
out losing even vulgar popularity, was always
able to neutralizc. The grea, wbig work OF re,
forming the criminal code which Sir Samuel
Romiliy begun--a work quite as momentous,
and as difficult as the Catholic question, was
taken up by Mr. Peel, when in the ministry, as
cabinet measure; and he pledges himself ina,
his opposition TO the present cabinet shall uet
induce him on ibis great point 10 withhold ms
services We do not apprehend there VIII be
much difficulty IL carrying on the government
since the Catholic question, and Parliament
,ary reform, are no, now TO be brought forward.
The change amounts TO this; some Of the wings
now sit on the treasury side, who in all the ,eaa,
inc measures or the last Eve years, have roisd
with ministers, though they sat on the Other side.
There is poiH, in Mr.. Tirrney's remark. IT IS
as much '.his Majesty's Opposition" as II IS
"Maies.ys Minister'S"
T,the Editors of the National LntelEgeneer.