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London, England, 1852-12-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, TRURSDA F. DECEMBER 23.

WHATEVER be the exalt proportions in which the
Messeate of Whig and Tow an As* to be blended
be the Coalition Cabinet MIMS SUM to be but little
meson to doubt that as a whole Its mastitution will
he more exclusively aristocratic than say of its recent
predecessors have been. Of dukes, marquises, and
earls, time will be the usual number, with Lords by
courtesy and Peers presumptive, to fill up each inter-
stice of the privileged edifice. But representatives of
the Commons, as the constitution recognises them,
there mu to be none. No man, in the judg-
ment of the coalition, is tit to be associated
with as a member of the executive govern-
ment who follows the vulgar pursuits of industry
is the field, the counting house, or the mine.
The principles of this joint coterie are declared by its
clayeettrs to be impartial. and,—speaking in confi-
deace,—rather Liberal. Where are we to find the
proofs of this ? No man of large landed property,
noble birth, or aristocratic connexions can feel that
he is shut out on account of his opinions. For that
matter, it does not seem to signify at all what his
opinions are. He may have voted tor the Jews or
against the Jews. Ile may be a Pulley ite or • Low
Churchman; in favour of more bishops, or in favour
of none ; an advocate for the payment of the Catho-
lic priests out of the Exchequer, or an enemy of the
Irish Established Church. Ile may be an advocate of
university reform or a defender °revery mon as tic abuse.
In short, he may profess any kind of political creed
upon the topics we hair named, as well as many
others not enumerated, provided he be a nobleman
or fine gentleman. But it is quite understood at
Argyle House that "No plebeian need apply." At
Vienne, men made of common clay arc, for sake of
their brains, sought for and placed in poets of power.
Our nobles are more Austrian than the Austrians
themselves. We have the houour to live in • free
sountry,—• here merit, in the eyes of the aristocracy,
appears to be nothing, whilst a privileged few are
allowed to make free with nod appropriate to them-
selves, by a happy combination of joint stock im-
pudence and hereditary fraud, all the dignities,
powers, and emoluments of the greatest Government
in the world.
Merchants in • commercial country , and men of
letters in what is called an enlightened land; manu•
lecturers amidst a manufacturing people; inventon
and discoverers and men of practical enterprise in a
eountry whose greatness is pre-eminently owing to
enterprise, discovery, and invention—all these are to
be outlawed as far as the right of participating in the
executive government are concerned, because their
mothers were not ladies of quality and their fathers
the hereditary owners of territorial possessions.
Some pro-subordinate posts may, by grace especial
and favour of "my lords," bo conceded to the
humble and pliant adherents of their cause—
if MUSS it can be called—for even dogs
may eat of the crumbs that fall from the
great men's table. But the insolent line of
exclusion, is marked all the more sharply and signi-
ficantly by the contrast thus presented. All real
power, all high profit, all inspiring or ennobling in-
centives to ambition, is greedily clutched and held
fast in unblushing monopoly by the privileged order.
Nor is this the result of accident or chance. The
only member of the New Cabinet whose family
descent or personal position can possibly seem to
reader him an exception to the invidious rule—we
mean the right hon. member fur the University of
Oxford—has within the last few days declared in
the House of Commons that he and his party
deemed it their duty "to check the further
of democracy." And a still more
tifn7uished member of the tome party not
bog ago made it a ground of public reproach against
Lord DERBY that, by elevating new men to the rank
of Cabinet Ministers, he had conceded too much to the
democratic principle. In point of fact, its indeed
most true that the Tory party hive at all times
showed themselves:moretolerant of humble birth,
when coupled with conspicuous ability, than either
the tapists or the Whip. Still, amongst these two
last named unions, there have from time to time
been relaxations of the ignominious rule. In the
course of twenty years the Whigs did actually admit
at different periods two men of rnersantile wealth
within the precincts of the Cabinet. But it is
mid that they compelled them both to qualify
far the honour try withdrawing from their respective
callings, and a similar offer is supposed to have been
made by the late Sir Room Pert. to a distin-
guished merchant of his party,—by whom it is be-
lieved to have been declined. IVith humiliation we
are forced to confess,—but we are bound to do it
frankly,—that in the constitution of Lotd Denny's
Cabinet, whatever its other defects =Limn been,
the seanold and injustice we are adverting to was
not to ha bead. If merchants were not numbered
in its ranks, the principle of middle class repreenta-
ties ia the executive was amply vindicated by the
meam In which @sterol of the high offices
wane Sled up; and, above all, by the leader-
ship really awarded to the remarkable talents
of " one at the Parliamentary rabble." It
war a virtue that covered asap visa although
it • MOM INS !ahem the keel mane et a Me
puitias, sad it woe a abate be the true spirit
amp wise of ear line esiestitadea which will be
reaesailsweel ee the swat--the only eredft—at the
ate Admiailsatisa,

Bat it maid sera es if Podium and Whiggery in
coalition were likely le berme ma anti-plebeian
than in the days whew they were rivals. The salu-
tary inflames at political aampstitioa bad not much
real effect. as we lave balm observed. But the little
that it had is sew at as and. We an to have nothing
now but lords, ralativas of had's, and lord's immediate
eseardeem The mil Taker herd, out of whom
main the sgememlethee of seedy all the
=.. aitise Imes are tibia, the bankers, mer-
masalltatalma ma of seiner, literature,
mei et_ Pt, the Thule Pratirmatery rabble, are to
And bliMssetled 1111di wait without the decrees of
ii dismte—saisaget witsmorith the single
of dm noble member he the City of
there is net ores who reprammito a greet
apreentile esmsdlesmsy, ire whir bas shown himself
ly aide vie with the mem of his time in
Chard
la
rd sad bliph work et literature. We Amid be
Ma to the prapie, to that great and in
ad& d slew whose iadastri chiefs sad int
ambles ere the thinking and moving pewits of ear
bas esmamity—if we did am time promptly mei
Petal, palest against the hasiemW --asseplies
et** oedema rights by a needy la peed/ dam
—if we did auk Peip esselyee, mire all circus-
Mem te raid M the utmost the attranot is rtmovais
a opt= ef manaWy so opposed is the genies of ear
iZeThe " Lend..• are not the /Asia Wits and
met to be the whole government i—the people
are the realities of the country, and agnate be insulted
with impunity.

Br the last arrivals from Cape Town we learn that
the Legislative Council had bees assembled by the
Ltstrretester-Goveamon, and • despatch igsed,
"bony 8. PAKINGTON" submitted for their cooni-
deration and guidance. This document iostructsd
the Governor and Council to postpone indefinitely
the peening of the new constitution into a
law. The reason assigned for this extra-
ordinary recommendation was the uncertainty
alleged to attach to the working of the proposed
electoral qualification. Sir Jolts was pleased to my
in his despatch that the restriction of the franchise
to the occupation of buildings to the value of 251
was objected to by a large section of the council and
the community. At the time Sir 'mix wrote he
knew that the opposition of the colonial reformers
bad been withdrawn ; that they had accepted it in
order to ensure the speedy attainment of some kind
of parliamentary government. The opposition was
ecofined in the nominee council to the under-
Wrappers who wen serenely subservient to the
Weasel aseestary (all his colleagues of equal
sask dimes dog from him), and out of doors to his

dependants and agents. Sir JOHN PAKINOTON knew,
moreover, that Mr. MONTAGUE and his faction, sfese
objecting to the 251. franchise, on the ground that
it was too extensive, and finding that no attendee
was paid to this argument, suddenly wheeled round,
and maintained that it was too narrow. This se*
contradiction betrayed the factious doeteter of the
Opposition ; its determination,recklan of truth: le
attribute to the proposed electoral qualification any
character moat likely to damage it in general esti.
tendon. Sir Dome PAIUNGTON must, there-
fore, have been aware that the opposition
to the Cape constitution on this ground,
was not only confined to a scanty clique, but was
palpably hollow and dishonest. One of his last acts
in office, therefore, has been to disappoint the Cape
colonists of long promised self government, under a
pretext which he must have kn iwn to be untenable.
In the despatch some subsidiary objections to the
constitution are thrown in as make weights. It is
alleged by Sir lons that there is a lack of statistical
documents to show the proportional relations of the
different races in the colony, and that this is a
serious consideration, inasmuch as " no inconsi,iera-
" ble number of the coloured population, upon
" some of whom, at least, the franchise
" would be conferred on any of the plans
" which have been proposed, bays been re-
" cently in arms against the Crown, ar.d that under
" those circumstances their admission to a share in the

" government must be of very doubtful expediency."
The grmamatical structure of this sentence is so loose'
that it is not clear to whom the pronoun " their " in'
the last clause relates. It may be to the whole
coloured population, or it may be to those of them
who have been in arms against the Crown, or have
abetted the rebels. If the former, it is monstrous to
withhold political rights from a whole race because
"no inconsiderable number," or "at least some," of
them are or have been in rebellion—a rebellion pro-
voked by scandalous mismanagement and oppression.,
If the latter, no statistical details of the rela-
tive proportion of coloured and white men
in the colony are necessary to enable the
legislature to enact that convicted rebels shall
not be capable of exercising the elective franchise.'
This like the allegations about the 251. qualification,
is palpably a mere pretext; it is impossible that Sir
JOHN PAIKINGTON can himself have attributed any
weight to it.
M ere our object merely to show that not one
member o: the DERBY-Matsui Cabinet was better
or more trustworthy than another, we should be
unjustifiably occupying the time of our readers. But
this last shabby trick of the late Colonial Secretary
is so pregnant with danger that it is necessary to
direct the attention of his successor in office (who-
ever he may be) to it by way of warning. For a
long track of years the petitions of the Cape colo-
nists, for an elective local legislature, were superci-
liously neglected. For the last few years they have
been incessantly tantalised with promises of
elective legislatures, which have again and
spin, under various shallow and untenable pretexts,
been snatched away just as they held out their hands
to grasp them. This, of itself, was enough to create
exasperation. But the public mind at the Cape has
been further irritated by despotic and ungenerous
treatment, in other respects, at the hands of different
Colonial Ministers—u, for example, in the attempt
to make their country a penal colony by. sur-
prise. This systematic threatening and vexing of
the colonists by the home Government is still per-
sisted in. At the very moment that Governor
CATIICAIT is summoning the burgher levies en
masse, he has introduced a system of secrecy
respecting his operations that has often pre-
vented the colonists from learning even the
results of his completed movements until the
news was received by the return mail from England.
In fact, the colonists have been given to understand
that henceforth the labour and expense of defending
them from their enemies on the frontier is to de-
volve mainly upon themselves, and at the same time
they are refused any opportunity of knowing. or
forming a jnelsrment on the military operations
carried on in their name and at their expense. The
wanton defeat of their hopes of obtaining a re-
presentative legislature at such a moment and
ender such circumstances cannot bil to be more
goofing than any of the many affronts and outrages
they have previously experienced at the hands of the
Home Government and its local tools or instruments.

It is clear, therefore, that whoever is to be our
new Colonial Minister, he will, at his entering upon
office, find the Cape colonists in a state of great and
justifiable exasperation. This is a circumstance not
to be lightly thought of or trifled with. The South
African settlements are spread over a wide and
(for military operation) impracticable country
If driven to the alternative of proclaiming
themselves independent, they are, in fact, un-
assailable. Within the limits of the old colony
and at Natal dens eau we look for any great
MOM of British natiomality ; and the recogin-
tits of the independeese of the emigrant Boers
keeps senstantly brier the eyes of the colonists the
tpegged it men who have no distinct
ier these M thwart, vex, and worry them.
Ti a heats* severing of the colonel band
whigl Wads Ilentk Africa to this country will de-
mand on the pin of the Colonial Minister great
tamper, great caution, and, at the same time, the
utmost promptitude in active. And looking round
upon our public any we see but few who have taken
say trouble to make themselves acquainted with
colonial affairs, while the few who have taken any
active part in them, almost without exception, have
proved themselves dadaist in the tact and judgment
required to deal with the independent entreliant
spirit necessarily demigod in the settlers of new
countries. It is Me esesideration—oo desire to
hasten the day of ezposene he that small
Sir Jonx Paintovonc—thst has Mined us to
dwell at seek Megth on this Met giSINI it
tridtery. We wend fix the paha, Winds' eatitseei
tied aids it the relatiom dais mustry with ens of
items* impetint mantel ispumbedsi, in odor to
lbw the urgent need then h of megadoes and wall-
island stitmems at the head enr dike.
There is no deportation it giesnmmat in whisk a
first-ruts mans so urgently needed is which
there is so slender a propel ef dedtng a sompitent
minister.

• TM Gowen oftbe Caps mils% mak so mils
•diviessd of elm =Amy rules of ompolillso
do Souitaiv he Ms Wink& Is poodoessiso
Lased by ban la Oslslier last, 0.01111 WYNN souks of
Bray liesesseili who Mee been faith et yillbehlia sod
Jerky is de Vele Old etAw hialeffOsta it a ekes ej
slorootios." ahlembity et living la a sous of storm-
dos k sow Mu.

AnzterfaD MUltron Or • Win n 8n Rue.
MEL—Robert Kam, a taim ereallag be the Deg Bark,
NewertiorperTyae, was hem& ip at the pee omit
ea the ahem Mop ea Teselay. TM aliawle was seer
minds re ail tilt. bet Mee lam bed met eeMelertly
reseweed her be Wash if the mord she ..sieve to
Ebat eraser SWUM AMU era 'Week es the Wawa-
of do gliL aft ewer were bend by emir reser
rerred erns teat dim 'deism Ore et
them a woad am So pi-
nny% vi him ard will es the
rimer • her ban stride, bean Frill
dim ?" Lea reelisk ~I've time
r. 7.5.. Mb sere NM, " Oh, 'utmost wreak what
base yes dem te ae. radr,... acre it to Foamy. too."
He dm add is Ni Mgr, Die with a good await. Mrs.
Finaigar and ens ether females added Mn. Krea's
deer, and brad bet dr had beer emenly weemied la
be lessee, • sheep beenmert barn peresseed therm!
bee err. Mare rue giver bile the herb ef the raw,
the marl is his berm bison, prehary. 11e..a B.
Fife, .spar, bevies beer sert he marred the meads.
Met Kass sees la • seer M eareere der Miele, set lo
math Ma the ant et Me mesa re hem ahem.
The masa Er bed .mead sea .hesttwo
base asp met dr eighth rib. It had paw
lend is dam emd ingemerts, but me reverted
Be. pimp dryer by the rib resit TM mead ma ham
be. giveserred pest fever is it_permated he mays at •
=tem they kM beer erMy sewed. Theme was so
Mmeriage ; end Mir Mina he
asseelaired the
reehe weer red same ef amid, he did sr
Mud may dower. TM prieerses marl wee age esegE
re the at ter, but it permeated to the Wert his., w
perverted it hoer plat deeper. Mrs. Kerr who was
iamb agitated, stated Wien YIN right la pestles Mr his.
bawl came in tipsy. rad they irserelled. no told hiss she
remit lease tits larme, end he was small*/ she
sheer do so. She wee reeleder la hertwmiaatioa to
Move, when the felt Ms* weraded. la sorer to the
preesee's auserey, Mr. beleer, she sired this about la
eambe age ha ha deer *lie, red Met the brk pt of
his hawk sad he bra meow Mrs elight deer lb part
wee grist
rhea sober bet gun red Mir ha bril myekked b
They bed bra mired 2S pu ma had hod • delibes.
Ome ef the shirr*, ea istairatiOd d 1.1 Pus et spa,
seer emmired, bit send Or pm me minim with peat
eibeelimere. The primer wee eemimlnd he Mel at the
emb

THE NEW MINISTRY.

. •
urriFirekie Earl InaRDION tee 4
the ,so far. it
fraseici see:
setikto lay it; ere bee
..
the QUEEN ll4d learn he p as to the loci'
femme li led ao far *mirk The rameen
on the subject were not of a kind to eassurege aisg
very high hopes for tho character of the incoming
Cabinet. The list, so far as it was known with any-
thing like certainty. had a far mere Coeservative
than " Progressive" look. Almost every name dead
what every-day people are fond of calling " a boodle
to it"—they were all Lords or Sirs; and though
there is little objection to taking good measures from
aristocratic men, the political experience of this
country has a decided bias against expecting much
advancement from any Cabinet composed ahnost ex-
clusively of Peers and their immediate adherent&
What we need are principles—cdear, out-spokes
enanciations of Liberal principles ;--and we all
know that liberality and the House of Lord*
have hitherto been the reveres of synonymoo&
It was confidently said that Lord Jowl Russ=
was in danger of being cajoled out of his Itheralismo
and put in a false position amongst his new col-
leagues, and that after being the leader of the ad-
vanced Whigs, he might possibly be found in a posi-
tion little better than that of an honorary follower of
anything but an advanced phalanx of reformers. On
the return of the Earl of ABERDEEN to town after his
interview with the QUEEN, it was confidently
Med that the new Cabinet had been decided
trin—that the basis of the Ministry was financial
111111111rimiset, and not suffrage extension ! This state-
ment wee received in many quarters doubtfully and
nairilliegly, but with many misgivings, and must only
be taken as a rumour which thousands will be natu-
rally and very properly anxious to find unconfirmed
by coming mut& The Peelites generally are said to
be fond of asserting the necessity for "progress,"
and Sir JAMES GRAHAM is understood to have expressed
himself very favourable to a new Reform Bill, whilst
Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT is declared to be strongly
opposed to everything.of the sort. But to hear, and
to know, such things, in such times, arc, we most re-
member, widely different things. Coupled with the
statement that reform is not to be the basis of the
new ministerial compact, comes the allegation that
lad JOHN RUSSELL wished to be President of
Ile Council—a poet of late yew.' regarded
es
essentially connected with education ; but
this office h..ying been, from time immemorial,
held solely by members of the House of
Peers, the fact of hia being only a Lord by courtesy
was held to be sufficient bar to his assuming the
poet, and that of the Chancellorship of the Iluchy
of Lancester was given instead,—with the Leader-
ship of the House of Commons. This, if true, is
very poor news indeed for all those who hoped to see
the Ex-Leader of the Whigs still in the post of
influence doe to his past experience and career. The
Earl of ABERDEEN will, it is now alleged, direct the
Foreign-office himself, with either Lord CANNING or
Lord ChLiNvILLE as ostensible Foreign Secretary. This
glees a semblance of equality, between the Whigs
and Peelites—six of each party being in the Cabinet :
the thief Peelite,—the Earl of ABERDEEN, loading
the Peers and attending to Foreign affair.; the chief
Whig, Lord J. RUSSELL, leading the Commons, and
holding only the nominal Duchy of Lancaster. But the
equality—if such really be the arrangement—is little
more than nominal, supposing Lord JoaN has taken
Me tee on the subject of reform. Without
east guarantee he falls into the hands of the Phil&-
dues, with no rational hope of rescue ; and the
rotates—the officers without troops—may well claim
the victory over a leader who had a large and
important body of supporters in the Lower House of
ParliaineLt. A difficulty said to have been un-
settled yesterday before the journey to Windsor is
understood to have arisen upon the question in the
new Cabinet—who shall be Colonial Secretary ? A
Whig in the Commons was wanted, but not readily
to be found. Would Lord PALMERSTON take this?
was a question said not to he still unanswered,
but those who conjectured a certain refusal on his
pert augured from that refusal a belief on the side
4 the ex-Foreign Secretary that the Ministry was
MD sot worth joining. If this be really Lord
PALMEILSTON'S decision and his reason, many will be
quite ready to agree with him. Mr. GLADSTONE is
again positively placed for the Chancellorship of the
Exchequer—which of course indicates what we may
look for about Income Tax in the new Budget;
whilst Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT is now located at the
Admiralty—where be may superintend the clerical
opinions of the chaplains of the fleet. The Puseyite
rock a-bead will be found to be a very formidable
ministerial difficulty. Mr. CARDWELLU named for a
seat in the Cabinet ; and Sir CHARLES WOOD is
=id to be expecting a similar compliment, —but
with what other position seems not quite fixed. Of
muse Lord ST. LEONARDS—though the Earl of
DERBY did slaver him with compliments—cannot
retain the Lord Chancellorship. Lord CRANWORTM
Will probably be his auccemor' though other and
eminent legal names have been spoken of as those of
expectant' for the honour.
All this, vague as it seems, is very unsatisfac-
tory. The Peelitea may talk about " program," and
mesa nothing all the while better than " re•actiou."
A mil progresses—but at a miserable pace,
sod leaving anything but a satisfactory mark
behind it : When talked to about "progress,"
we most ask at what pace we are to move,
and to what end we are to go. Even a Reform Bill
may mina anything bat what the country requires.
Mr. WALPOLE oiled us an extension of the suffrage
—to the militiamm; and Mr. DISRAELI proposed to
eat a hale county couselhiency into a small one, and
talked aim it as a " pullementery reform." Ac-
mediae I. press= &prelims= =thing will satisfy
the perm leaks of the Miss bat an enunciation
of the priesighe of the new =Met, and that enuncia-
tion we met Me the sided paselble opportunity to
smart If the required setiliatioa be not given
°bestially mad telly en tbe seam& legitimate occa-
sisa we mist entertale the met m Nip that a
me beneeseatic trick is likely tiessiarredand apse
the samitry. end that whoa Mr. D lard
loin Ilvesim, walk &eras the I. St Om.
acme en the thinks formal= of the aew gems
meet, maker Riau meg alma Is carryon, all
theirfeireser tali Me.
Again, ia ear meat of prom Km dm
47.
formation of the ew Cabitst, it is =WM Se aria
visa we have bet= said, that in all them OM lb
meat the *realist can do for the matithellin el
public anxiety is to detail such inthellitlaa se Os
uncertain character of the su ' will pm&
Until the new appointments are
not h can be relied upon. with metlettyisl
the Weaee of adverse parties being as toreador
=its at one hour thought liable to
the next.

Ist!

THE MINISTRY.
Tlee Sam et this arming sir t
Ire my se sash Mee en ease, ke asislise et Ines titer
Men who whit se aped the reteresise ef thi ma ether-
ase thee le dada( easedraos pelaneek Net, es•
Si: Lord Maisie% ane, ma wry reesseelle
wain elll be resseseell this maw. Of
men rem wet. a Ine4 NNW. mem% tat kb
feral m
en:aft rd kaiak Imprensa all b. d«
piked—Um ate IN sesnieshe, the other of a new
eakMaber am Wleedlalp himself took a whole year
MMRkb ma Mist set ef see pearl some, be
mast myna V lie swataxis lee net Ihelly arranged
easy parader ham the embalm d see ma. The
Haw et Loeb will be agespard this swat to next
lisairay, wire there ill so am the mem lin parser e
preneeset with a fair promise a semen sad durability.

PUERILITY or DIMPOTISIL-1110 Mika mom
Lee
of dr °Aeries of
ea Os lath : Vie.
wears I have to eseuessioste Is of as oalboomab
The astadatuosat mad fear mama by theeprosse meessers
end the egotism! arrests, deemed by tbe ommoarism of
Mantua, are so anneal tistrallsaler la WW2 to epee Ms
mouth. wordo s alma seem imprudent ems
premien used in • letter by Ike pest, are • sell-
cleat pretext to Justify demieWary obits sad imprisonment.
Same days ago, despatches having rosebud for General
lierUni, the pot:nester forwarded them lo &Linrs e' by
ore of his employes, who wore • loos beard. Willer ana-
log in the ante-chamber to deliver his despatehes mg *Mar
a receipt, the latter crompied himself fa carry hi =USW
chins. The general, to whom the act was mortal, pro-
nonneed it to be indecent, disrespectful, and revolutionary.
'After treating the man with great rudeness, the general
I sent for the postmaster, and directed him to enjoin all his
employis to shave off their beards. A barber, by his order,
I proceeded forthwith to the poet office for the purpose. On
the following day thr whole of the employis had their chins
▪ smooth r potatoes.
MARIA ANTONIA RAILWAY.—Traffio for thil week
sadism December 9, 1862: 1411.-1861: 1981.