The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-24 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24.

Werth% the last eight-and-forty hours the needle
has gone round to all point* of the political compass.
Loral Joule Itessso. havingduelared that his cabinet
could not go on, and that it was not fur him to re-
construct another, her MAJENTY swam sl Lord
tire:suf. as the chief of the most numerous party
in opposition. Ibis lordship, it is said, fell
himself more perplexed than flattered by the
offer, and declared, that not having placed the minis-
try in a minority, he had nut incurred the responsi-
bility of providing for the administration of the
country. lie would, however, consult his friends.
Rumour continues the story, by alleging that the
Morquis of GRANBY was the principal friend to whom
Lord Srest.EY had recourse. Ile represented to
the mark, marquis. that in the present failure and
impossibility of other parties to form a ministry,
it was possible and open for the prottetionists to form
one, with the 'wort..., however, that they should, at
least liar the present, waive protection. to this Lord
Gm %SOY and his friends very honestly, we think, de-
mumel ; and Lord STANLEY forthwith returned to the
!Wave to resign into the QUEKN'S kinds the trust
with which he had been honoured.
On the ionic eve ' g of Saturday Lord lints Run-
SEEL and Sir Jew.: tlweilvm were together in the
fluffs's cabinet, fur the purpose of trving if a
joint administration could nut he forma Yes-
terday. Sunday, they were again at the palace, and
it was known that Lord AtiEttliELN strenuously ex-
erted I •If to bring about a fusion. Lord Anne-
indoinwo, is said to have waived every idea of
Ow Foreign-office fur himself, und, indet.d, was
averse to taking any office.
The terms, upon which an accord and a coalition
were proposed, were said to he the introduction of a
new budget by Sir Items Grethen as Chamcilor of
the Exchequer, and some modification of the ;ma-
rred bill as regards Ireland. Sir Jolts Hots-
thirst:, under a new title, has been anode- preci-
pitated up to the Mouse of Lords. The Duke
erf NENIASTI.r it is suppwed, would take his plater.
Sitixf.v III:RH/AT and Mr. tentiwr.o. were also
to have seats in the cabinet. To make room for
them and for their seism& requires, however, a very
considerable change of fittings, much more easify
1...v.4 and agreed to in the gross than actvin-
pbslied satisfactorily in detail.
There still remain. however, many great and
serious difficulties, more than possibly may be over-
MM.' before the SeVAKER hikes the chair to-morrow._

The greattat of these, no doubt, are the reluctance of
Lord hots Itessm.t. to aweritite any portion of a
bill which he etenwiekred the mulirsiPleil of dignified
rmisituitee to Ronw, and to retain oohed by the ad-
mission of a new element and a um party into
the cabinet, which. however liberal on questions of
free trade and of public etanemv. are still no friends
of either elictieral or iselesinstital reform. On a gnat
many pastime, Molted, the Peelites have had the
tart of not committing themselves ; so that we know
much morn of the ability of these men than of their
r'iliVinple% orvie% S. At p11431.11t the.publie and the
miner must. on a great many ponds, take them
on trust. Whilst had ivhigs, Peelitts, and reformers
MT% ell O camistign on the oppuoition bendiest, a
much fainrest mute, und a much stronger anialguma-
lion of meu and things into a party might have been
accomplished.
There Ls. however, one idea dominant in the par-
liamentary, and even in the extraporlianientary
mind, and that is, the dread of a dissolution. Su
!nasty politicians are for the present without Irmo-
plea, and au many more without money ; wo
few parties hove behaved well, and so few
men have entitled themselves to the gratitude of
the public, that no good, it is thought, could
come of facing it. A parliament newly elected
would certainly excel the existing one in reli-
gious seal. Whip would be ousted by fanatics,
Landlords by tenant farmers. The Irish elections
would prose a resuscitation of Donnybrook Fair. A
general election would dim the glassy mewse and
disturb the tranquil atmosphere of the Crystal
Palace. To the dissolution, therefore, every one cries
aranuuf. Anil yet if Lord Jour will not
lend his countenance to the coalition, Lord
tir Vicar must again be called, must dissolve, will be
beaten, and a liberal ministry must re-dissolve, and
England present throughout 1831 the aspect of a
prolonged political tempest.
Change however there must be. If Lord Jotix
Ittssrtst. could, like the vizier in the Arabian Nights,
steal forth in disguise, and perambulate the streets
and clubs, and independent circles where men of bu-
siness esaigrepte, he would, amidst a variety of im-
pressions, discover a manifest gladness and exulta-
Simi at the idea of the Family Compaet being broken
up, and at the number of wing names in the list of
placenien being thinned.
Whilst saying this, let us express surprise that at
a moment when it is found necessary to strengthen a
ministry and give it a broader basis, the hereditary
statesmen of the empire should not recur to that party
which first upnanad the banner and fought the ltattle
of free trade. At a crisis like the present,
through which free trade came triumphant, and to
put an end to which reduction of expenditure and
electoral reform are promiaed and invoked, it dots
seem prepesterously ungrateful, that the most popu-
lar. moat energetic, most talented, most true and
anomie champions of this principle should be over-
looked. Tlw Duke of NEwmucrLe is a very good
mw ; and perhaps admen or a score of voters might
follow him to the field. But we do not see that
either his presence or his party are of that resplendency
or magnitude. as to throw • into the shade those
who muster one hundred upon all questions of pro-
greawive reform.
We are now speaking without book. We do not
pretend to be the organ of any party, being eon-
nuns" with representing those broad principles which
bind liberalstogether, setting aside the peculiar views
and predilections which separate them. I% ehavehad too ,
many causes of difference of late with eminent re-
formers to pretend to be the depository or the organ
of their personal sentiments. They would be the
first to repudiate a wish for office, the foremost to
deride the poribility of their making port of an
aristocratic cabinet. But, in despite of what they
may think or my, we do maintain that
it is a disgrace to England and a con-
tempt of its popular justice and discernment,
to are that men, who achieved the greatest of social
and economiesl ameliorations, should be sedulously
thrust and spurned from the threshold of power,
which the possession of an aristocratic name daily en-
&idea even the political tyro to overleap. A philo-
rophic statesman like Lord Jolts IitSSELL, who can
overlook the dull routine of official life and public
service, must see that there is something fundamen-
tally wrong in the working of a political system that
perpetrates such ingratitude, and that in the middle
of the nineteenth century persists in confiscating
popular eminence and talent, for the exclusive
illus-
trstion and enrichment of lordlings.