Star. — 1821-12-05 (London, England)

MINISTERIAL CHANGES.  Our Readers will perceive that the Ministerial Changes announced, demi-officially, yesterday, were not unknown to us on Wednesday last. We then limited our notice to the postponement of a former Cabinet Minister's accession to office, not feeling at liberty to announce further measures which, however connected with that question,.were then not fully decided upon. • _ _ _  It is evident that the appointment of Mr. Prat is an experiment, on the event of which must depend the continued non-accession of a former President of the India Board. Briefly, we have no doubt that it is contemplated that the acknowledged talents and high character of Mr. Part will amply compensate. in the House of Commons, for the support that had been expected from the Right Honourable Gentleman for whose return to office the negociation alluded to bad failed.  If the experiment succeed, we may, without pretending to the gift of prophecy, predict that other changes in the Cabinet are at no great distance—and we say this the more confidently, because we are not ignorant that more than one prominent office in the Ministry cannot fail to be influenced by a recent remarkable change in the Household.  The Meeting held yesterday at the Thatched House Tavern, ou the present state of Ireland, was little calculated to raise the hopes or allay the fears of the suffering part of that distracted country ; for notwithstanding the general interest of the occasion, not more than a hundred Gentlemen were present. The real state of Ireland received very little elucidation from the collected speeches of the Gentlemen, though some ot them were sufficiently diffuse. When Major ' TlGue., in moving a Resblution for an Address to his MAJESTY to convene Parliament speedily, boldly declared that the evils operating in Ireland were neither owing to bad government, the supineness of the Magistracy, the oppressive exactions of landlords, nor politics, nor t) the,; it would have been well if he had pointed out the cause, which he confessed himself unable to do. We should have thought this would have been no difficult matter, as the information might have been obtained by a very short residence there, or by the evidence of those who have written on the subject. To whatever extent the outrages in Ireland may be carried, there can be no doubt they have their origin in the wretched misery to which the peasantry have been reduced, and of which we, in this country, can scarcely form an adequate idea. It would indeed be a bad feature in the character of the Irish, if, with good government, kind landlords, trifling tithes, and an absence of party feelings either religious or political (and according to Major Trona they have all these), they were to pursue such a course, of rapine and murder as every day's Paper now records: but it is not the case ; of whatever acts of desperation the Irish peasantry may be guilty, it is the desperation of misery and of want, unrelieved by kindness or  We have never disguised our opinion respecting the policy pursuing by the 'magnanimous ALYZANDER of Russia, respecting Turkey. We have ever considered war as the unavoidable result of that policy, and been of opinion that any professions of a pacific aspect were only intended to lull the suspicions of those who may imagine that their interests, political or commercial, would be involved in the issue. Matters have now assumed an aspect calculated to, awaken the suspicions of the most credulous respecting the conduct likely to be pursued by the Court of St. Petersburgh. Even those Journals which had, time after time, been stating, " on authority," that there would be no war, begin to have the film removed from their eyes: or, if they themselves have never been deceived, to cease attemptink any longer to hoodwink those who pay attention to their statements. Indeed, if it be true, as now stated, that the Persians have attacked the Turks with a large force,it would be difficult to persuade any pawn, at all acquainted with the relations of the Persian, Russian, and Turkish Governments, that there was not a secret understanding between the two former at the present moment. Btu let us suppose the contrary, and, even in this ca.e, it will follow that the inducements to Russia to hasten the execution of its long practised prospective policy are so much heightened, that it can hardly be believed that Power can ever hope for a more favourable crisis to execute its-Tong concocted projects Against turkey. May we not go even farther, and ask whether it.