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London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

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RV1101:11 is still busy ravelling and re-weaving
bar marvellous web ut ministerial combination*.
From day to day the chequered design of a reformed
cabinet is changed, to little purpose. At one time
two tory aristocrats and thirteen whig were paraded
as the maximum of generous cuocessiun and the
quintretence of genteel solicitude fur the public
good. Again, a different arrangement of shades and
tints of dulness was exhibited as pisisessing mare
of what is called general harmony and unity mi the
whole. But in the main, nothing that we WWI
hear of has yet been ce en projected usriowoO, OZ.
oept shuttling, and shillings of the old cards ls the
hope of thereby contrie ing to win the last gameof
this parliamentary rubber. Two days ago, MOO
business happened to bring air J.sur..s URAIIAW
to town, and about the same time the Duke of NEW.
CASTLE happened tuba guest at Windsor. Whereupon
all the liveried vermin, of whiggery set about
chattering after their fashion of great and important
changes that were "not improbable, and niigiit have
already taken place fur ought they could tell." A '
phlegmatic world continued to turn on its diurnal
axis vety much as usual, these momentous hints at
what was said to be coming notwithstanding. No-
body, either in city or West-end, seemed to believe
that it signified much whether one, two, or three
more trouts of respectable size were taken by Lord
JOHN out of the PEEL pond, during his present
angling excursion. Aft the remaining inhabitants
of that stagnant water, it was obvious that no
art or skirl on the prime angler's part could
secure: and for the best of reasons, namely, that
his stork of the. and length of line was, at starting,
exceedingly limited by the Fortunate Family who,
for upwards of five 3.ears, have made odes
their private home. They had no great obje►
lion to his amusing himself negotiating with DOM
few of the most whig,,,,ish Pe-elites, for whom
they might, perhaps, be induced to make room in
Downing•street, just to oblige him. But having
offered to do this, they. doubtless imagined that they
had earned for themselves the praise of unparalleled
liberality. and even instructed, 'tin said, their
daro tors to utter reproachful hopes that they should
hear no more of "cliques " and " exclusiveness."
We shall be perfectly plain-spoken on this, es it
has ever been our wont to be on all such matters.
We believe that in the estimation of the middle
elegem of this country, it signifies scarcely 01.11
straw what the family names, tevitorial tidies
or club cognomens are of the lords and lonli•
lings who constitute the administration. They
may 1-e predominantly of one hereditary set, at
principally of another. What does it matter? A great
deal to their respective relatives and particular
toadies, we admit; but to the gnat middle classes—
the claws who have made the country what it is—
the classes that comprehend within them nineteen-
twenti, this of the worth and work and wit of the
nation--to them it matters simply nothing whether
the cabinet be wholly funned out of a single coterie,
or partly out of ono and partly out of another.
With diem there is but one growing and indignant
feeling—that they are disfranchised without reason,
and defrauded of their fair share in the administra-
tive government of their country without a decent
pretext or excuse. It is mere coxcombry, the vulgar
insole ec of usurping power,—the sad stolidity of
bureaucratic ill-breeding.—that ventures to insinuate
doubts whether the hereditary monopolists are
not intellectually abler to do the business of the
emigre than the thinkers, the orators, the writers,
via the discoverers of the commercial and
professional ranks of the community. if this be
Moe, shy not say it out at once and openly? Why
sot tell the Commons house of parliament that the
days of the eammonaltv are over—that all real wis-
dom and talent must henceforth be sought for on the
. scarlet cushioned benches of the gilded chamber, at
whose bar it is their priceless pm-Rego to stand and
listen—only not too many at a time ?lrhy is not the
ehameful fact avowed,—if fact it is believed to be,—
'that the plebeians of England are less fit than those
of any other country in Christendom to be entrusted
with the seals of a department of state ? There is
not a country in Europe or America, save our own,
when- such a system of exclusion is maintained
Free or despotic, republican or Cossack, lay or same
dotal. there is not a government existing in any del.
Wed realm of which men of the middle class de
not form a prominent and recognised part. An
our merchants, scholars, manufacturers. author;
men of inventive genius or of experimental know
ledge. inferior to their Anglo-American kinsmen, et
their French, German, Spanish, or Italian neigh'
boors? And if, of the whole clique of oligarchs them
is not one who would have the effrontery public) tea
'say so.—it an hardly be wondered that the d
. shred claims of England should look with conetendg
.renewed and augmented indignation at each new
show of cheap that serves only to remind themof the
sordid and &melees injustice done them ?
The cabinet re-aesembled vesterdsy after the beg.
days, and the privy council is summoned to mot
to-morrow at Windsor. Whether at the former it
was agreed to take in certain of the Peelle,
notable.,, and whether it will form any portion of
.the business of the latter to recognise or re-afilwit
the choice, we are but little concerned to know. We
'contend for a great principle of civil justice end
polities! eqoality, which such arrangements in no las
spell West or touch. If the whigs -believe that they
can diatom hostility of • certain kind by taking a
few of &a prodlossooms in office into ths went
admnotim., pottairobip. they will po** dont
shot is emphatteaffy their Whir. But the tile of
the iambi at Wipe is ma whitlow this knot of
balledpeeirkkes sr the ether, sr a odxture of both,
soihrod to aspen to themselves all the proles
end Immo and powers of the state ; but whether It
k set dome kr the odious =dimply altogether le
ow w dskomfas ? It is min to talk about
lonshiso reform as • ast-elf against this int-
Lireystem. The eriskeraey know full well
with an sisclosta, deco, mad equal repel.
mutation of the whole pupae in podia•
Yet, their hereditary trade le politics, as a
protected trade, must speedily come to an end. And
Iptel:iple naturally disbelieve in the reality of say
ion of seal for suffrage reform emanating fres
each a quarter. The test of sincerity in this respell
will probably bo The Ballot. If the minishnid
scheme shall not contain the only effective ginumlni
that can be afforded for un intimidebel loft es
Middle clauses will recognise the midge ee a
consistent adherence to the family compact; they
may not wonder at the circumstance, for they
will thoroughly understand " the ream) why."
There is another point of view in which we op
prebend that the Secretary of the 'treasury mast
already begin to ponder seriously on these things.)
The whigs have been hitherto held in their
places sometimes despite the tumbling and
sprawling of some of their heaven-born set—
the radical party. So long as a general
election was remote or uncertain, the latter el
themselves at liberty to lay their plebeian cloaks hi
the mire for their dainty rulers to walk en. Hitherto
their collective humiliation has been their merited
reward. But the temper of the public niind ie
changing. The people are growing impatient wed
irritated at the continuance of an exclusion white,
in the persons of their representatives, they feel io
intended as an insult and defiance of their entire
order. Radical members are very likely to hear at
the hustings a cry of " Business men to do the
Muntry's beeriness!" The sheep-faced fear of being
taunted with the desire of office has too long do
termed the men of the Commons from demanding the
demolition of the lordly system of cabinet-making.
Respect for themselves and for the class whose tights
they have been appointed to guard will prompt
them, we trust, to take henceforward a very dif-
ferent tone.
THE

Rev. J. W. E. Bt.NNErr has again rises to the
*dace of=e bringing with him frtsh troubles
mad now Since Ins compulsory resignation