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LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMBAR 19.

ALL attempts having proved lasffectul to readied
preliminariss of alliance with either motion of the
Tory opposition, Lord PALDUIZOTOX hes Wen bask
upon the Whip sad resolved to seek from ameopt
them perms to fill the Cabinet Mess now meet.
Oa the part of several of these so particalar desire,
we believe, was masifested to accept the offers whoa
first made. They meld not reprd the existing
Administratica as popping any of the mere obvious
sips and token of longevity ; and their essfilineso
In
the political steadfastness of its shier was net likely to
have been particularly heightened by the notoriety and
empresnotent of his solintatioms to others to enter the
Goverment. Nevertheless, 'lam it wee pat to
them that the cortisone of as Administindts. own
of the provisional charsene of the pennote depended
upon their oblivion of pet shortasmiege sad PAM
Wheelie in Mare, an altered dispoltion
waseriaesd
by some and a mend yielded by others to semi
the somewhat questionable &deaden thee West
upon them. With the reasons se motives of such a
determination, however, the Table have Ude mosern.
Wires they learn that Mr. LAWMEN" hes bosom
Secretary for the Colonies, they will sot pm
to patios the comparative degrees of paean
fitness tams him and other candidates who
bps been at random named ; bat admitting
his many personal qualifications of temper, Integrity,
diligence, and experience, they will naturally and
fairly ask, why bas he been selected at the present
tamest, and what are his motiments end views ea
*the great and engrossing gulden of the war ?
To this question, the best Power that ma be given
meshes in the statement of fast that, apes every
maim since the oemmencement of hostilities, the
right hmarebb member far Taunton has coa-
&toady supported the measurer which Goverment,
upon its responsibility, imposed for moistaining
the hewer of the wintry ; and that, In the last
memorable struggle, apes the quondam of the
Tartish boas, he was one of those who fermi
the small majority by which the plighted kith of the
Goveromeat was preserved. For his individual
opiaioes cm more moat or still imperfectly dievoisped
phases of our foreign policy we do not undertake to
answer, for we have no means of information. The
@looters of Tomas will have an early opportunity of
lalseregatiog the sew Colons' Minister is the, sub.
jests of such deep sad mementoes interest to the
sseatry at arse; and we reagales In the (PM*.
ticaal necessity of pain through each an ordeal the
best senflemation el the doctrine that the heads el all
the piasipal woefdag departments ought Übe mew
tors of the Hams of Commons. Other legal perm
tee we have really none, that when vacancies Pear
in the Executive Goverment they shall be Stied,
up by men of definite and mod °plaices. Oa some
topics we believe that Mr. baronesses boss sot
agree with es; on rebels we ksow that be doss not.
Bat we are willing to confess that the tope to
which we allude are not the premiss sad immellaM
questions of the day. Ups. the policy ot begin
the peace with America, and the duty of minleining
with vigour our warlike attitude towards Romig
until solid guarantees foe permanent peace shall have
• been obtained, we are reedy to give the right boa.
gentleman credit for earnest and unqualifed resolu-
tion until the contrary be shown ; and we axe afraid
that we mast add there has never bees a period when
straightforward loyalty to the paths intereets, es
seatradidagnished from them of parties or indi-
vidasis in high places, wee more required.
To the Doke of Borman, to Lord SWUM
*ma nn, and to other Whig parsonages more or
less known, the Postmaster Genesahltip is variously
seised. We retain our conviction that the beat
thing which could be dose with the Ace would be to
abolish it altogether, placing the deportment on the
Sondes of the Customs or Inland Bereave Nerd. and
dimaciadug its administration, which is essfeesedly
ma merely of fiscal and mechanical details from
the political direction of national affairs. Bat if
we are still to pay a parliamentary dignitary to
superintend postal arrangement' and letteraarrier
interest', then by all means let as have a practise],
working, bosinesc-like man In the place—somebody
who really understands, without going through a
twelvemonth's apprenticeship to the pompon
Secretary of the department, what the busy public
out et doors want and desire, sad who would require
no jogging or prompting to set about donna, im-
provements and meal moddleatim in the deity
transitions of intelligence. Are we to be told that
smog the commoners of the Home of Ornessens,
the merchants and men of beams who for
their practical worth have been chosen to sit
there, these is no man fit to be Postmester-Gsneral ?
The cardinal vice of the Adminietradea is that with
which it was born—do ezeimivesees. Men of
various sentiments on the meet important questions
have sat in the coarse of the lest nine months in the
PALM:MON Cabibet ; but one distinctive &erect.-
lista tie bas marked them all. that of beloaging to the
landed oligarchy. Mau of every rank of nobility
and of every degree of econexioa therewith have
bean sememively included In the erafideatial email
of the Crown ; bet is a musaatile country not a mer-
chant. is a madestering essatry not a maaaketerer,
In a land of sinner and literature, sad of baptise,
not a man of seised& or literary eminence has
been admitted to participate In the homers,
the emoluments, or the dignities of rule. There is so
ether eeentry In the civilised world where each an
easimiee, at sees se instant sad se mild, is sawed
to prevail. Mee without hereditary statics or Pa-
tine are In every other Gevernmsat of Christendom
permitted to take the peso their taken and attain-
meats entitle them to, whether the form of rule be
absolute, seastitational, or dessoseada la Wood
aim a metier oleos have monde' in esorplog and
engrossing to theessolvore the entire functions and
powers of Goversamt. If the tree is to be judged
by its fruit", have we any ream to be particularly
peed of theresultsofthisanemelcusgetemt balsa
of being led sad pied by ear Government, are we
net essfessedly obliged, in every importemt soutter,
eltinately to push and impedes', to taunt Ind
threaten, ear sasinal Ere nave tote taking a den-
sive Nos of mica ; end when it is takes. do we net
Sad. to ow me east. that In every bran* the mew
&tare is condoned en a male of wsetehl extrema-
post, for whisk the exams is airways ready—
mTnie ; bat it wee formed spa us by the will of the
Mira* Them is note sad there sanest be, arty
remand sere Ise the visaed which we 'complain