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540 THE CABINET COUNCIL. (Communiqué by our oars naming Table.) L.4s the tortoni rises, the Ministers are rarioNsly so-copied. Lord lirlow.t.L, echo habil some ftl the ages, is searching those of Cicero ,tar quotation to hip In hie new ilefortai 11111 Npeerh. Mr. (31.4iisruNE, hi deep Maw,Al. is instinetirrip showing Nam, and patting " Nimbi" to earl.. Sir JANUS WUHAN' is sasitinply penning a biller ivarriplion in o Lindley Merrell which he is pia, to semi to Mr. Bernal Osborne. The !hike itr Aittivi.i. is Irvine all the chairs in horn, and Ihiskato how well he ramid Jill terry caw. The eriJiNcr.mos I. wailing until mararlmaly shall lake ludic.. ,t 1 him. Lord CLAitENIImoN is smoking a ciyar. I,OOIIIPALIIEItsIroN is root ing Miss difarlinesin's towel " Thr Haar and the Masi." Lord AltF:ltlii:EN is waking a "cat's rraelk" with a piece fel faring. The Whoa are look; op aver newspapers.] Lord GRANVILLE :My Gentlemen and Lords. ( A lii Ilk f►om Sir C. IViw►i, who usually laughs.) Thank you, Wood ; you are a good audience, and deserve II better one yourself than you generally get. (Sir U. Wood will not lawyh this lime.) Now, shall we proceed to the con sideration of this Eastern question Lord PALIIERNTON (gisietly ): Well, perhaps it is almost time. Lord CLARE DON : You all know the state of things fr►►m the papers, and I have no more information in my office than they have ; indeed not quite so much. So now, what is to be done ? Lord ABERDEEN : My Lords, gin ye'll hearken ; I dinna ken that lightly, but ma fancy is that I've just hit upon a pla-an— ALL (isapatiently): Ihnit, Aberdeen, please! There's a time for all things. Don't interrupt business. Lord CLARENDON : As Foreign Secretary I presume I am expected to propose some course. I continue to be of opinion that a communi cation should at once be framed for tra n smission to Vienna, by virtue of which negotiations would assume a specific aspect, which would in duo course tend to their adopting a certain direction, and this. followed, as it would undoubtedly be, by their presenting a determinate and recognisable basis, would ultimately eventuate into relations of a temporarily, if not permanently, desirable character. That is my frank and simple opinion. Sir 3. GRAHAM (roily): And, if I might inquire, with all defer, ence, what do you propose, Clarendon, t►► say in that connnunication ? Lord CLARENDON (hastily): Say—oh! Of course. Say—why— there is—l moan—that is—why, I suppose that is what a Cabinet Council meets to determine. 1 merely submit the diplomatic Mr. GLADSTONE (udmiriNyly) : The diplomatic initiative ! A remarkably good phraue, that. Don't be hurprised it' you hear that again. Lord PALMERSTON : I shan't. It mesons Mr. GLADSTONE : Alt! Don't spoil a good thing. It may have three meanings. Lord PALMERSTON (aside to him): No ; blest it it. may. if Clarendon said it, or one either. It belongs to the true no meanings that puzzle more than wit. Mr. 61,Atarrost: : Do not be severe. Where is all the "amiability" of your Mork gnaws dilreto ! Never be sarcastic. Yon never luau me sarcastic, at least when 1 Celli help myself in any other way. The Duke of Anom. (rising): I am really surmised that any diffi culty can be felt upon the subject. Logically and practically. it. is as vicar as the day ; and hesitation implies a shallowness which I regret to impute but am unable to ignore. The Russians must be get out of Turkey. (Sits dorm 1 Lord PALMERSTON : Egad! we've all been saying that ever since they got in. Lord AstnnEEN : you, gin yeti hearken, Fin just hit upon a pla•an At.t.: Don't, Aberdeen, please ! Lord thusvat.r. : ('ninwnrth, you have never Mee proposed any thing for the settlement of this Eastern question. That is not Mir. Everybody should put his shoulder to the wheel. Come, do oine• thing for us. Lord CRANWORTH (rule pled:fed briny twrieeth : Ideally. I don't know. You see, if Russia were amenable to my—to the Court of Chaneery—l might have granted a tie swat agAtist- the Russian army ; but you see it is too late for that, because they are already out don't see how I ►can interfere. committing waste and cutting ire serve(' properly, that is, with fly dear Chancellor ! The SATURDAY, this Council was called for. What in the world Imve we left to talk about? You have floundered—no, Clarendon, I wota say we. for I had nothing on Heaven's earth to do with it—you have floundered into the most infernal mess that ever was heard of. Talking won't do now, my good fellows, and if you can't see that I am devilish sorry for you. . _ lord 1011% Russw.: T beg to state most distinctly that I see it. Lord PALMERMTON : Yu/. ! Of course you do, and so does Glad stone, and so does Graham, who never sees anything until it is quite convenient to him. Well, then, what have we to talk about? If we are to stand for five minutes atter Parliament meets, not five minutes ought to be lost now. Lord AsEuei:Es : .lust so ; and gin ye'll hearken two-- Au. ianarity): Aberdeen, do hold your tongue! Lord l'At.mmorrox : I am not Premier, I am not Foreign Secretary, lam nobody, of course. But I know what the people want, anti what they'll have—if not from you, from your successors. Order up every ship into the Black Sea, and let them begin battering and blazing, and let Europe see that you are iu earnest. Austria must then declare herself. She will declare for Russia; and the very next hour ought to see Kossuth and Mazzini dashing at his two flanks, and Clarendon hurndng them on. Then up with the Poles ! Toni JOHN lit:mat:ll : I 'almerstt m ! Palmerston ! (Sensation.) Lord l'AinsasTox (e.reite,/) : 0, it's all very well ; but your blundering and floundering has got us into a war, and, by Jupiter ! you must tight it through as you can. No time to be niee about your tools now—Red Indians or lied Republicans—it's all one ; and thank Provi dence for every extra inch of steel you can get drawn on your side. It's a horrible mess, but Aberdeen has done it for you ; and, if every map of Europe becomes waste pamper in a year, Europe knows whom to thank. Lord ABERDEEN : But gin yell listen noo, I've just hit upon a pla-an— ALL (owtrayeollsly): Ah! Bah ! [The Council breaks wp as the cortain hulls. PLAINTIVE APPEAL OF ABDUL MEDJID TO ADMIRAL DUNDAS. Take, 0 take, those ships away, Since their owners are forsworn, And those tars, whose loud hooray Echoes round the Golden Horn ! But iny Prince►lo►ns give again, Lost through your Athenian Thane, Hide, 0 hide, those frowning rows, tiuns whose lips are dumb for us ; Hide, I say, those warlike shows, Since you will not hide the Buss ! Yet my Princedoms get again. Lost through your Athenian Thane. MOTTO FOR THE PRENUER. "Lear and,-- 7 fipr Bear." AN ENLMY PlltAliEss. — The Grand Duke of Tu tie ANY hue lately expres,,egl. through Mi:•s et'SNINGHAME, that he is strongly opposed to " The Pilgrim's Progress." LORD PALMERSTON'S " PINT OF CORN." Tut: writer of a letter i po:4 mark, " Paris -) inquires why, when two ;overninents are in " constant and complete accordance." our should always be allowed to take the initiative in every bold and vigorous step" When two men ride on a horse one he knows must sit behind, but he suggests that the place of England ought not to be invariably the entyPen [This is endorsed in red ink—" To be considered." P.l "Vox Forth" remarks that the sooner bad ABERDEEN can be induced to retire on as supentnnuation allowance the better. I_Endorse• ment—" To be done." P. •: Philo-llellenic," foreseeing that extensive destruction to Greek property must come from the •• pending differences," begs the Home Secretary to reserve to himself (Lord I'.) the duty of assessing the damages. "One of the Fancy."—A judicious bottleholder should never leave his bottle in charge of Sir CHARLES WOOD. of the kin om and into Turkey. So I don't soe how I can interfere An inj . 44. if • them from committing waste and cuttim down ' .I'"' • • •• e avail. 4Ft • i ' i ll' 11 `-116. e •,. ' , • if it were serve(' properly, that is, wit" 1p2,1111M;,- , .I‘,A l well-. .g • .....• , ~.„‘l. • d 't iI, indeed, my dear Chancellor ! Tht beg ii ; K i - I ,v- '..- 1 :gym' • ". "1 1100 41&1-. , yi„l4.. Lo ~ ... ): You flatter ma. ~.. dßaik.. Nit 1i... li" . . Y . ever flatter anybody—except poor dew dully I .... ' -: WO& (Earmettly.) 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