The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-01 00:00:00

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our readers. To the latter
we can wish no greater public bensit than
'guidon of those measure, pi poikisal and spak
penance which it has, for years past, been the 06.
of the .Erpressa to advocate. To accomplish thi.,
boweir. they must work with ns and with each
elbiromi with such co-operation there is no °tar-
trate*, mialidence in the anticipation that a good
result must flow from our hearty wish to them of a
" Happy New Year."

IT ii • wise saying—don't bo ashamed of taking
• hint from an enemy. When any peculiarity of a
person or party is pertinaciously obtruded on public
notice by him or its enemies, the object of the attack
may rest assured that the said peculiarity is, or is
generally believed to be, a fault. If it really is re-
prehensible, therein consists the power of the assail-
ants to injure. The surest way to defeat them is to
amend. 'Men gain little by denying charges that can
be clearly established; nothing by ostentatiously
doing penance in a white sheet; but when they
depart from the error of their ways, the public is
gooduatured, and forgets and forgives.
The heaviest battery opened against ministers, by
the frosileurs who are resolving to take advantage
of any dissensions that have, or may have, been
occasioned by the retirement of Lord PALMERXTON, is
the allegation that the Cabinet is a mere family com-
pact. It is the obvious truth of the assertion that
makes it hurtful. Of fifteen cabinet ministers, nine
are related by blood or by affinity; eight are
members of the House of Lords; three are sons
or brothers of members of the House of Lords, and'
the remaining four are allied by blood or marriage
to members of the House of Lords. It cannot bo
denied that a Cabinet so constituted looks wondrous
like a snug family party. And the names of the
heads of departments may suggest, but cannot convey,
an adequate idea of the extent to which their clans-
men swarm in the subordinate offices.
The objections to each an arrangement are many
and obvious. A cabinet recruited from so narrow a
field of selection cannot possibly embrace an ade-
quate portion of the available political talent of the
day. It cannot by its connexions have a strong
hold on general society. It must of necessity be
weak, both internally and externally; weak as
respects inherent talent and energy; weak through
its isolation from public sympathy. . Nepotism in
political alliances and promotions is analogous to
what in the language of agriculturists is called
" breeding in and in." " Breeding in and in," it is
well known, causes races of horses, cattle and kings
to degenerate,—and nepotism has the same effect upon
ministries.

There an rnasoun abroad that the PREMIER has
at last awakened to a sense of the danger to which
the nepotism et himself and his colleagues has exposed
him. This is not improbable : the wonder is that
ho has not unit long ago. Lord Jous, in common
with all the political school to which he belongs,
attaches great importance to trececlents and party
traditions. If he has read aright the history of his
country for the last hundred years, he must be
aware of the main cause that enabled GEORGE 111.
to crush the influence of the great revolutionary
families, sad establish on its ruins the court party, or
modern tosies. The monopoly of power exercised
by the NEWCASTLE., BED/OROS, and CAVENDISIIES,
had made them ujustly odious to the people—whom
they excluded from all participation in public affairs
--as to the King, over whom they domineered. It
was the people quite as much as the court that scat-
tered" Fox's Martyrs" to the fair winds of heaven ;
installed the second Prrr in office, and relegated the
whip to the " cold shade of opposition " till
1830;—though the court contrived to pocket all
the gains of that insurrection against the Whig
family compact.
To the reports that Lord bolls RUSSELL has seen
the error of his ways, and contemplates an extension
of the basis on which his ministry rests—the con-
struction of a bogus fide " broad-based administra-
tion"—we attribute as much importance as such re-
ports generally deserve. The gossip of clubs and
coteries is a very insecure foundation to build upon.
But the belief that he would find no difficulty in
making room for new colleagues does not rest upon
such rumours. As we said yesterday, Sir GEORGE
Oar v's state of health makes him willing to resign ; it
is notations that the Marquis of LANsnowita (we had
his word for it during the ministerial crisis last
session has long been anxious to rerga on account
of his advanced years; and as for Lord BROVOIITON
he has never been considered, even by himself, as
anything more than a stop-gap, till an eligible,
efficient Indian minister could be found. Two detri-
mental' and an honoured veteran yearning for repose,
willing to make way for others, and two offices
already vacant, afford an opportunity, not perhaps
to make the cabinet all that could be wished, but
to improve materially both its character and posi-
tion.

Fors est et ab hosts doceri. Lord ionit's iuwailants
know, and he himself feels, that his assailants who
dwell so pertinaciously on the exclusively aristo-
cratical composition of his cabinet, and the affinity
and blood relationship, which connect so many of its
members, are what stage coachmen seed to call
" flogging a raw." Their dispositions towards him
are net ei a satin to entitle him to expect that they
will digit tram • g; it would be prudent on his
part to set shot the " raw."
no passil or hymns§ to serve,
weldo ast tabs apes as to direst or him Lord ions
in his amiss • I aro aseociatio HoEhowever,
talus a limes hem the past. The of family
and issi•--which led the whip el days to
bap eves a Bum iu a subordinate position, and
which induced a CANNING to coalmines his political
career in connexion with a party for widen be had
so =total sympathies. in pridirones M ass with
whisk be had both sympathies and somodut he.
boyhood—was their ruin. The resellosos of the terns
to inomporate rising talents into Is woks--the
L000111110101:101M CANNING% Boom mad PALM/I-
wross—eseured them a long lime of power, in deft.
ease if papaw amid= on the see hand and court
Mealier is the ether.
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any sosailloallis length of time.

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heup his family in beeret, sober, sad indite-
MIND and without pod& milef except he eases
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ess who las Ease the ems Mk se Mien in relief.
To Yolks ditiselind he Medina es& Mien in
him sot peens. In then tires hem netheates
we be sequired that the dillies have bees Twin at
sash ; and special advantage Abe gives te these whose
elkakes, wend* to their joss& dessainnzrze
Inn kept et sash he lha Suet peeled. Ts -
amid serws. se blouson. side se Seel, wbs lave
lesi he tit MOM soil se ionise Is the sane situation.
Ts semi isms. owls se hod,. writ have kept their
ist pies et flushes he the kaput period (not less than
SW rani). In ell the foregoing classes preference will
Zanto seal on as shall have laid by in the
best, or fee a deism& annuity, or in any benefit
es padist institution, if who have been in the habit
re
stUrviznalar melisleass to their friends. To th
of garden or allotments, being ale:
grosof Moat, Mar, and good moral eharacter.
penes who wens in hie garden or allot-
ment ein asp pan Or Sunday, Of who, except in one
allewed by tie susimittire, hires assistance to cultivate, will
he reeetwed as • eamilidate for the prise. The garden or
alletnest not is emed a quarter of an acre except in
spend eases limed by the committee. To the labourer,
or the wife ire wide, of a labourer, or other panels, being
she a penes of meant, sober, and good moral character,
wire shall exhibit at the next anneal exhibition the best
eshetion of vegetables and produce of his or her garden,
or the beet nem= of cottage handicraft and economy.
No piensa wits is been appreatieed to any art can be re-
Weed se • iseadidahe for a prise in that particular employ-
MAR The collection of Tegetablso exhibited foe a prise
Pet consist of at least three different sorts, being rained
la gardens or allotments, subject to the aforesaid limita-
be as to sire. Any person intending to exhibit mast
Lnotice of such intention to the asidatant secretary, at
.sr ,
a fortnight before the meeting Persons who are, or
have been, employed in gardens will compete separately.—
Signed, by order of the committee, Pannell§ H. SITYOUIt,
Chairman.
Tile NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
have received a letter, stating that the Premier will receive
a deputation on Tuesday, the 6th instant, instead of on the
31st. The deputation named includes Mr. Henry, M.P.;
Mr. Milner Gibson, M.P.; and most of the leading mem-
bers of the Association.