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LONDON, YUBSDAY, JANUARY 21.

Tne present House of Commons has already lost
GS unusual number,of those whose ability, station,or ex-
perience rendered them conspicuous at its first convoca-
tion. A sudden and mysterious fate has btreft both sac-
tons Lf the opposition of their respective leaders; while
other causes have occasioned the removal from the
ministerial mks of the most popular of whig nobles,
and the most admired of recent Irish orators. The
more literal tory party in the lower house have now
unstained another loss by the accession of Lord LIN-
COLN to the decal honours of NEWCASTLE and NOT-
TINGHAM
To tir.imate the effect which the circumstance in
question is likely to produce on the fortunes of the
Peelite party, it would perhaps b. necessary to know a
little more clearly than we profess to do, what its
actual leanings sod intentions are. The equivocal
position in which it has stood during the last four
year., between its rivals in office and in opposition,
had grown daily more irksome and less calculated to
inspire general confidence, even before the death of
bir ROHERT Part. Toe protectionists were getting
tired of being periodically tantalised by broad hints
and bland invitations to re-union ; while the smaller
tenants of the Treasury beach were frequently filled
with apprehensions of an immigration that must ine-
vitably lead to the eviction of many of them from their
unimproved holdings. Both, however, appear to have
been premature in their anticipations. The Peelites
chase rather to sing "how happy could we be with
either!"—than to take part le rmanently with ore or
other. They loved to show their power of malting
each in turn preponderate, &Gawk reserved right was
thrown alternately into the doubtful scales. Some-
times they even hesitated not to divide their favours,
aid while Sir Isms GRAHAM and Mr. CARDWELL
walked into the New Lobby, Mr. GLADSTONE and
Mr. BTDNEY HERDERT walked into the Old.

Bat the pulse of human patience and the course of
hem= events does not admit of the indefinite pro-
longation of such a state of things. Sir ROBERT
personal position had contributed not a little
to its continuance so long. It was impossible for him
to be anything less than prime minister ; and neither
of the numerically powerful sections wanted him in
that capacity. To bays led any fatal assault on the whig
cabinet would have unavoidably brought upon the ex-
premier the humiliation of being disowned and deserted
by two-thirds of his followers on the field of bootless
victory. And to have lent the constant combined
faros of his adherents to the present ministers, would
speedily have destroyed the individuality, and thereby
the importance of their position. Sir ROBERT was
too skilful a tactician to commit either blunder. His
obvious sins was power—real, practical, substantial
power—that which' a man feels when be makes his
assent indispensable to measures, and which reoders
it perilous to force the adoption of any proposition
that he thinks fit to condemn. This great and pal-
pable power of arbitrament he undoubtedly exer-
cised, however forbearingly, to a great extent,
from 11440 to 11430. But there were many symp-
toms manifest to attentive observers towards the
close of last session that a change of tactics had
become csay.idabls. What that change would
have been bad Sir ROBERT lived another year it were
idle to conjecture now. But, confessedly, the lament-
able event of last July tended directly to emancipate
his disciples from an allegiance that could only have
been maintained by an open alteration of conduct on
the part of the lamented statesman.
la a minor degree the elevation of Lord LINCOLN
to the House of leers may possibly contribute to the
same result. So long as he continued in the Cons-
Mons it would have been difficult for Mr. GLAD3TONE
to have assumed the undisputed tradership of the
party; yet nobody who recognises the claim of genius
as paramount in such matters, can hesitate to own
that the versatile and elcquent representative of
Oxford University stands forth among hie political
assodates, facile prineepe. For we do not regard Sir
Jame OSAMU u any longer one of the party. It
is someyeare now since he cut the Carlton. Day by
day he has drawn closer to the " friends of his
youth." Ot late he has hardly ever voted with the
AsiILZYS, GOVLUCJINS, and Musician, but on nearly
every subject involving great principles against them.
Sir JAMES may not chose to be called a whig, and he
may not choose to be called a radical, bat for want of
a more definite denomination he may for the present
be termed a liberal unatlarba

Meanwhile the new Duke of NIWCASTI.F. will pro-
bably muse • conspicnous place in the I touseof Lords.
He is kno Tll to possess great industry, no ordinary de-
gree of aptitude for business, and we are bound in
candour to add no common atock of political courage.
His leanings have been hitherto rather too doctrinaire.
Like others of his class and standing he has
often seemed to take infinite pains to show that he
dimwitted from the blockheads and bigots whom he
had been taught by has foolish old father to admire—
not open the plain reasons that made liberal men
eschew their blundering and perversity, but upon
some crotchety notion that nobody could understand.
This Ault wu observable in every act of the Pulite
party. They were not afraid to do right, but
they were horribly ashamed of acknowledging them-
selves converts to the political faith they had so long
and nescrupulonsly opposed. Hencethe dreary
and dreamy lucubrations in which they strove
to make out a Denies of special pleas, where the
simplest and shortest avowal of honest conviction
would have dooe them far more service and far more

honour. But • new epoch is opening in parliamen-
tary history, and the undeniable talent. and attain-
ments of this section of politicians eminently fit them
to take a decisive part if they themselves evince
decision. Energy and experience they do not wont.
Debating and deliberative powers they certainly
possess. Ore thing only they have hitherto seemed ,
to lack,—faith in great principles, and in the eventual
certainty of a great and distinctive line of policy to
vindicateitselfaudexalt its authors. No nombeeof small
quarrels with the whip about detail., or repetitions
of their moms for swerving from the twice on points
now fixed and settled, can compensate for the want of
individuality and obviousness of aim. Mere negatives
will not do. Not to be tories and not to be radical, and
yet not to be whip, is really as well a. literally to be
in popular estimation nothing at all. 'Ti. time to be
something positive and palpable. If the Peelites CU-
not devise a distinctive course, which will engage
wen's feelings and attract men's hopesand sy mystifies,
they had better make up their mind. to join with
some other notion at once atd thoroughly ; for to con-
tinuo in these times in shallow water is the way to
make an comesional splash, but not to swim no strong
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We own tint to us nothing would be more grateful
than to se. a noble competition for power between
toe or more sections, each resting its claim on the
advocacy of great principles of progress and reform.
Manifestly it is for the interest of the country that
there should be such bidding. and counter-bidding.
for its confidence; and independent of all party
obligation., we should tusentedly rejoice to see ass,