The Press.
London, England, 1858-06-05 00:00:00

from yon, what the Government to which I have the honour
w belong asks from the country--a fair trial.
The old landmarks of - • are in much effaced : the old

party are in mac.,
bsttle-cries of party few thoughtful men will care to revive.
intelligent persons on all sides find that the settlement of
questions on which they formerly ihffared has cleared from
obscurity many points on which they can agree. Abroad,
liberty befriended without sacrifice of peace ; alliances
secured without loss of honour; where war is inevitable,
English vigour; where victory is achieved, English mercy.
In domestic policy, judicious economy, industrial develop-
ment, and those practical reforms by which the elastic
nature of free institutions accommodates itself to the
progressive intelligence of a loyal people.
For myself I hold with one of the ahlet:t statesmen of
the last century that " there is no worthier atlribute of a
British Minister than a fearless confidence in the generous
temper and good sense of his countrymen."

It is not always at its formation that the strength or
weakness of a Government is clearly ascertained. Govern-
ments become strong in proportion to their success in
establishing sympathy with public opinion. And, if I ask
you to ratify by your suffrages the distinction which our
Sovereign has been graciously pleased to confer upon me,
it is with the conscientious belief that 1 join an Adminis-
tration of which it is the earnest desire to prove that a
Conservative policy is never more completely realized than
when employed in promoting, throughout all the
&minions and amongst all the subjects of her Majesty,
the contentment and prosperity which are the surest
guarantee for the maintenance of law and the stability of
order.-1 have the honour to be, gentlemen, your attached
and faithful servant, EDWARD BULWER LITTON.
Park-lane, May 31, 18.58.

A CABINET COUNCIL was held on Saturday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
in Downing street. The Ministers present were—
the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis
of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the
Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Stanley, General Peel,
the Right Hon. J. W. Henle3, and Lord John
Manners.

THE HEAD MASTERSHIP OF CHARTERHOHSE
SCHOOL became vacant a few weeks since by the
death of the Rev. Dr. Elder. There were four candi-
dates for the appointment—namely, the Rev. Henry
Wright Phillott, M.A., rector of Staunton-on Nye,
Herefordshire, formerly student of Christ Church,
Oxford, and assistant-master in the school ; the Rev.
John Ernest Bode, M.A., rector of Westerwell,
Oxfordshire, late student and tutor of Christ Church,
Oxford ; the Rev. Richard Elwyn, M.A., late Fellow
of Trinity College, Cambridge, second master of the
school ; and the Rev. Edwin Palmer, M.A., Fellow
of Balliol College, Oxford. The choice of the
governors at the election fell upon the Rev. Richard
Elwyn, and he was declared duly elected. Mr. Elwyn,
who was admitted into aeacon's orders by the Bishop
of London at St. Paul's Cathedral on Sunday
last, was senior classic and members' prizeman at
Cambridge in 1849, where he also took mathematical
honours. He gained the Bell University Scholarship
in 1846, and the Craven Scholarship in 1848.