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London, England, 1855-06-30 00:00:00

to do with odious class distinctions between
"patricians" and " plebeians." Mr. M'CuL-
LAGH'S speech was, however, an improvement
on his address at Norwich. Ho does not
seem well adapted for a popular speaker.
With some showy qualities, he wants that
muscularity of power and directness of logic
which command a mixed audience. More
fluent than forcible, he is only a declaimer of
the Debating Society school. Your gaudy
phrasemaker never makes a stirring orator.
We do not place much confidence in the
good that is to result from " a careful examina-
" tion of the systems of other countries, whe-
ther at Paris or Vienna," announced by Mr.
MonLEY on the part of the Society. England,
and its society, have so many political pecu•
liarities that systems which would work well
elsewhere would be ineffective here, and roue
versti. In some departments, chiefly connected
with military life, we might borrow foreign
systems with advantage. But our Civil Ser-
vice, grievously requiring reform, had better
be amended by thinking Englishmen recog
nisiug the tendencies of the age, and possess•
ing a full knowledge of the merits as well as
the defects of our British society.

LORD CANNING'S APPOINTMENT.
COALITIONISM is not yet at an end. The
Peelite Lord CANNING is selected to succeed
the Peelite Marquis of DALHOUSIE in the
splen lid office of the Viceroyalty of India.
By such an appointment the Whig families
admit that, with all their pretensions, they
have not ,a man amongst them capable of
filling that arduous office. It was often
whispered that the Earl of CLARENDON was
intended for the situation; but if the Noble
Earl were new sent to India, the Whigs would
he in a difficulty to find a Foreign Secretary,
since as Lord ABERDEEN wrote to Lord J.
RUSSELL, " PALMERSTON told me that the now
" found the Foreign-office too much for him."
The Duke of NEWCASTLE, also, has missed

his chance of that grand prize. Enough,
perhaps, has been said and written upon his
Grace's conduct, but we cannot help thinking
that, upon calm reflection, the Duke of Naw-
CASTLE must now deeply regret the active part
taken by him in drawing the Coalition toge-
ther, and assailing the Cabinet of the Earl of
DERBY. Never did an ambitious Peer pay a
more woeful price for infatuated ambition.
On Lord CANNING'S pretentions to states-
manship there are contradictory opinions.
He has always been spoken of as a " very
" rising young man," but until this week he
has never got decidedly beyond that distinc
tion. He is now, however, high enough to
justify the praises of the cliques that have
praised him, if he has only half of the abilities
assigned to him by his panegyrists. For our
own part we are not sanguine as to the career
of the new Governor-General of India. Lord
CANNING has never appeared to be much more
than an accomplished red-tapist. He has
none of the brilliancy or vivida vis of his
famous father, though he has highly respect-
able talents, considerable general knowledge,
a fair manner, and he is said to be industrious.
In short, he is a pupil of the Peelite school,
ready to go safely in harness, and warranted
free from all dangerous originality.
We regret, therefore, that a stronger Gover-
nor-Ceneral was not selected for the post
Indian Reform must be dealt with, in spite of
all the petty acts of bureaucratic influences to
smother it, and in neither House of Parlia-
ment Lord CANNING never showed the vigour
requisite for the administration of an empire.
His talents have been departmental, and an
inventive faculty is indispensable in one who
is to succeed to the post filled by HASTINGS,
WELLESLEY, and Lord W. BENTINCIE. Few
would venture to assert that Lord CANNING, in
his new post, was " the right man in the right
place."