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been ultimately adopted, though only sup-
ported by a minority for, with the exception
of Lord Joux Beast:Li. and the estimable
Lord LANSDOWNE, 1140Td PAL)IIMSToN has not
counted a sincere adherent on Uwse mutters.
Lord ABERDEEN WWI, feswever, resolved that
Lord PALMERSTON. alloalld not, eiespe from the
Cabinet on a for up gsvition : though he had
the majority, he Always, therefore, eventually
succumbed, hut • with a (Iclay that virtually
secured his ends. Had the British fleet, for
example, left Malta when Lord PAtmensrox
recommended that course, the Pruth would
never have been passed.
And what will happen now? " The tone of
" the Cabinet on foreign atlitirii," we are told,
s' is not to be lowered, and their energy is not
"to be relaxed." As for lowering the tone of
the Oehinet—Ohnt we defy them to do. As to
their energy. its evidence way be fuuud in the
Bay of Sinop.. But. at present, the prospects
of It sublimer spirit and increased vigour may
be found in the circumstance that the Emperor
of the FASNOI has just declared that a eon-
section with Lord ABIIRDIIIIN is " too humili-
ating," while the Emperor of Rows has just
informed Baron BRUNOW that, notwithstand-
ing the provocations he has received, he still
retains his native magnanimity, and that, when
he has eonquered the Turks, both by sea and
lands earl in both giarters of the glebe, he
trill be prepared to accept the VIZNNA NOTE.n.
Wilma ssodilieetione.

THE PASSIONS OF NEW COMMUNITIES.

IT was not generally known in England till
within the last few days that the Congress of
" the smallest nation in all creation," a few
years since, took a marked step, in advance of

"'the old eoui►tr7," to establish their claim to
ti* Pr9nd designation. That many of the

States of which the glorious Union is coma
posed had borrowed millions of English gold,—
that the gold so borrowed had been expended
in making roads, canals, and other internal int-
provewente, which greatly enriched America,—
was, indeed, too well and widely known : first,
by the suffering, of the widows and orphans
whcmt those States of the great and free re•
rldtwecl to beggary, when they rept'•
dieted their obligations ; and secondly, by
what we were wont to call the wit of SinNtlf
81404. in England that Rev. Canon of St.
Nitre was regarded as ajoker of joker a funny
fellow; indeed it was understood that his
seeding Jests were rather obstacles to his
advancement in the Church. Of him as well
ali of win it could ha ,N) been said that,
" Hai be bean a tees wiuy writer,
lie might, pests's, have had a mitre."
But now we learn that these are slow old.
eeuntry notions, or that, at least, if Rinnv
was witty himself, he was also, like Faht4/f,
the cause of wit in others. We read in the
le4ter of the New York correspondent of the
Times of last llonday :
aktney Smith raised a laugh in 'Congress at his ci.
pease, by a petition to that federal body, asking it to pay
'Alm of the bonds of the State of fonnsylvannt he hap-
pened to hold ; and yet Sidney Smith ferthirty years wasp
prinelpel eontribetor to the Edinburgh Qea,lrrty !
Lull fellow ! And what must the nation he in
which a " principal contributor " to one of its
principal periodicals is so stupid as gravely to
suppose that the Congress of America could
view the claims of the " Britislicrs," whom
renntrylvania had so cleverly done out of their

money, in any_ but a humorous anti ridi-
onloue light? We are aelunued of our dulness.

sad can only plead in excuse that Penn-
sylvania has been for morn than thirty year:,
a principal component part of the 17nited
Staley, and one is apt to suppose that the
honour of the Union is in some way involved
in that of its members. We are. however.
better instructed now, and must ell:lnge our
MI twatation into NEfila at ab, Ile. The oecn-
sion.of this soniniscauce of the jocularity of