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London, England, 1851-12-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, WBDNESD47; DICEMBSR 31.

Tens —the last day of the year —is one on
which people politically, u well as domes-
tically. are inclined to look gay and to think
hopefully. And with respect to }:lngland, viewed as
an isolated kingdom, there is no maul for aught but
cestidence and congratulation in undoubted progress.
But if we contemplate Europe as a whole, and
Freud as nmessardy implicated to a certain degree
is the fate of Europe, it is impossible not to have
complacency dashed by a feeling of uncertainty, dis-
satidection, and danger.
That Europe has gone backward, fearfully back-
ward, within the last two years, is a fact now be-
yond a doubt. Italy, Sicily, and Hungary in 1849
were robbed even of the liberal hopes of the pre-
ceding twenty years, and their liberal institutions of
centuries, to be dung into the most rude and naked
state of bondage. The year 1840 was marked by
the subjugation and extinction of all that was con-
stitutional and protestant in Germany, for the profit
and ascendancy of all that was catholic and despotic.
This subjukition was completed this time last year
in the Conference of Dresden.
During these striking events of the last years, we
in confess to have regarded them with a mournful
and desponding eye. We felt, that however difficult
had been popular rule, yet that military ascendancy
wee more pernicious still. And we felt convinced,
that military predominance in one nation would
beget and necessitate it in another, until there would
be little to be found from one end of Europe to the
other save a bayonet rigone.
Our contemporaries, wo recollect, were more san-
guine. Two yeses ago, when the Austrian armies
triumphed over all constitutions, the Times deelared
that it was all fur the best, that the only object worth
thinking of was Order. It declared that the new
ministry, which SI'IIWAR7.ENBERG instituted on the
annihilation of every promise, was democratic and
liberal, and that it would set to work to found
liberties and institutions, after having destroyed anal.•
shy. lVe said at the time that a purely military
power was ntterly incapable, from its nature, of do-
ing any 01 these things.
And we wore right. Instead of laying one atone
of institutions of any kind at home, Austria made
use of her military advantages and Russian alliance
to crush Prussia and the Erfurt parliament, and to
drive constitutional Germany into the absolutist fold
of the old diet. Yet our contemporary continued to
applaud. It bailed as the tutelary deity of the epoch,
that military power which then extended itself from
the Baltic to Sicily.
Wo have within the last month seen the comple-
tion of the movement. That it must end by absorb-
ing Franco was pretty evident, for the French con-
servatives, as well as the English reectionists, were
loud in their admiration of SCOWARZENBEROR
M. 'limns lauded Austria as much as Lord ABER-
DEEN did. The Journal des DAM* was as great a
partisan of HATNAU, and as bitter a maligner of
oastmi, as the Times. It was but natural that
Louts NAPOLEON should take his lesson from such
eminent men as TutEas, Guam, and MOLY- They
all admired Seteivaurstienc's military rule. Wu
not this indirect incitement to Louis Naroutore to
imitate it? Ile has so closely followed the example,
and obeyed the doctrines of the conservative party
in the different capitals of Europe, that we do not
wonder at its being even said that M. GUIZOT had
given in his adhesion to the present French govern-
ment.
Affairs abroad on the last day of the year 1801 Look
gloomy indeed.

IT is obvious from the tone, not only of the
London, hut of all, or nearly all, the provincial
journals that strong feelings prevail throughout the
country on the subject of Lord PALMERSTON S resig-
nation or dimissal. The people see in this event a
dark shadow cast upon the pathway of the political
future. They feel that anxiety which excites alarm
—that doubt which partakes of dread of an indefinite
consequence; they feel a strong sympathy for the
minister who has so long held office ; and they also
feel much apprehension as to the consequences of his
fall. Imperfectly informed as they arc concerning the
cause of that occurrence, they naturally feel great
anxiety as to what may be the issue of it. The state
of parties at home, the serious aspect of affairs
abroad, the doubt which this occurrence casts upon
the future policy of the government, all tend to in-
crease the concern which the people feel in the event,
and to make them more anxious as to what may be
its issue.

Tie question constantly asked is—What are the
t going to do? lbw, remain in office--
filled up Lord Pwriserozi;';dicace--they
dstrengthening their haads,and Lew life
and vigour into their adinialstratims. Lord mama-
RON, we aro told (and it is a statement set to be far-
gotten). was an impediment to such arrangements.
That being so, wo memo Lord JOHN Ressztes
messeres Ilw next elegies are determined ea, sad
that they an of eme a nature as will west with very'
general concurrence. Bemuse, if perusal objection
to Lord PALMERSTON me the only impediment to a
reconstruction of the cabinet, it is obvious that Lord
JOHN must feel sawed that those he intends to
invite to strengthen his loads and give new life and
vigour to his government. will cordially concur in
the policy he proposes to pumas.
This being so, what are the measures Lord Joint
istends to propose? and whence does he hops to
derive the "strength, and life, and vigour," ho re-
quires P A manifesto which appared in a govern-
ment journal of Saturday even gave the world to
understand that tbe policy of the new foreign secre-
tary was to be identical with the past policy of
VUTOWM PALMER/RON. If the policy of the newly
formed administration is to be identical with the
past policy of Lard Ione( Rossam, we shall have
to look for the new life, and strength, and
vigour to another infinite of whig lordUngs and
Treasury hangers-on. And it is to be remembered
that all " the life, and elessith, and vigour" lately
given to the has been thrived from this
old blood. the last One menthe two places
in the cabinet have been IBsd by whiglings ; and
the fittest men Lord Joan sail dad for hreign
minister was we of this ran and prosistro Wad It
may be, then, that, confident is the beaves•endowed
imaliScatiossof hiskindsikbeialembs Meow Wenn/
life and vigour out of this stagnent peel. Why sisals
there he reason to expect elbsewise P 11. plegie
have thought that the life. and stringth. and skeiur
of political society was =Wide the benniwy of whip
gime ; bat Lord Joint Rues= Ms sent yet arrived
at that conclusion.
On the other hand, it may be that the Pause
MINISTER desires to avail himself of this opportunity
for an entire reconstruction of his cabinet. It has
long been known that Lord Lywoovilig is willing,
if est anxious, to retire from the political arena;
sail that everybody but himself desires Sir
Osamu Wow:is retirement also; it is she b►
lined that Sir Osonos GIRT% declining Itsailli
map bin he the active duties of the Nem-
am; end that lard BROCOMTON DE Onverahe
tent we have ensestly given our old Mod of lira
Clenet-gardsa brabym the title in which be taw
writhe a Noma brew),—that Dad Bemoans na
Oirroao keine* ready, New be his got hie peeing%
to surrearin the plan which le say sae donee hoe
arrest to hiss. If these raw cats web% a►
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Nat assisted with his genesinsat. Sat as
we said before, depends upon his sionsuit
b to be his policy, will be the flat fairsky et One
who an shed to assist la its
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bunnies a natter el amideable neseal. Lord
Jean has cos et two manes sou le hie; to 111 cap
vaunt plane ken mane his eldaisseate" nark-
in eat a bald line stiry he the mein asesisa,
toinvoke the aid deices who, having the confidenee
of the people, can alone assist him through his &S-
-miths. A Wan in which all those should be