The Press.
London, England, 1858-05-01 00:00:00

GRUNIBLINGS OF THE " OUTS."

WE are told by the Times that the Govern-
ment of Lord DERBY occupies a position abso-
lutely unprecedented in the constitutional
history of England ; and every morning at
breakfast we receive from the Morning Post,
the recognized organ of LorJ PALMERSTON, an
expression of grief that Mr. DISRAELI sits in
the seat of the Noble Lord, and a concurrent
assurance that in a few days—it may be on
Monday, or Thursday, or, in good faith, on the
Monday following, at the latest—the Cabinet
of Lord DERBY will cease to exist, and Lord
PALMERSTON, reinstated, a Phcenix upbuilding
anew his Cabinet from his own ashes, will
give confidence to his country and information
to his newspaper.
There is a cosmopolitan proverb, which says
that truth is stranger than fiction, and another,
a national one, peculiarly the property of
Spain, which avers that there is nothing con-
ceivable on earth which may not be accom-
plished "by peiseverance and spittle."
Ideally the latter is not. it must be Confessed,
a very clever proverb, but it is expressive, or,
to use modern slang, graphic; and " spittle,"
we take it, may not improperly be rendered,
per favour of free interpretation, by Morning
Post, or Times, as the reader pleases " For
our own part, we are quite prepared to
oppose weekly the strange fictions of the
Times by stranger truths, and to meet the
daily perseverant jeremiads of Lord PALMER -
TOR'S organ with exposure every seventh day.
But it is very odd—we may pause to make
the remark—there is a very singular differ-
ence between the tone of Lord PALMERSTON in
the House of Commons and the note that is
matutinally sounded on his behalf in the journal
to which we have alluded. In the douse
Lord PALMERSTON, especially since the falling
to the ground of the Cambridge-house gather-
ing, is a Gallio, caring not for differences and
division. In the Morning Post Lord PALMERS-
TON is a disappointed politician, bitterly sor-
rowing over defeat, and rabidly anxious for re-
instatement in place. Which is the real Lord
PALMERSTON? We trust the former. We have
ever entertained p high opinion of the ability,
sagacity, and, in spite of many faults, real
statesmanlike qualities of the Noble Lord, and
we should regret extremely to have that
opinion destroyed. Still, we must confess that
the absence from the House of Lord PALMERS-
ToN—aa absence evidently designed, on. the
ciocaotion of Mr. LOCKE KING'S motion-has
grievously disturbed our confidence in the
Noble Lord's adherence in opposition to prin-
ciples avowed and maintained in power.
ii,We will put aside, however, these personal
questions, •and we will proceed to the con-
sideration of the more important proposition
propounded by the Times, that " the Govern-
" went of Lord DERBY is in a position utterly
" unparalleled in Parliamentary history, and
" that England, however accustomed to ;Minis-
" tries under every imaginable influence of
" calamity and decrepitude, has never seen a
" Cabinet in the exact position of the present
" Government."
Now, what is the position of the present
Government? It has united in organized
support and in reorganized allegiance the
ast single Party in Pal liainnit—a Party in
oirg ority in the Lords, and in a minority in
-tht Commons only when opposed to a

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