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London, England, 1856-08-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, TIIURSDAY, AUGUST 14.

No thoughtful man should be surprised at any
amount of delay and difficulty in inducing an effec-
tual and permanent popular interest in Adminietra•
ties Reform. The transition from the old methods

which have become intolerable to the new which
Inset be decided on involves so radical a change that

it ;;;;;;couraging than disheartening to see that
the nation is not running after a superficial fancy,
but hesitating on the verge of • new and untried 1
order of things. Every regime has its good and evil
attributes; and when the evil preponderate so as to
eompel a change, it is permissible to regret the kits
of any ancient benefit, end to face with roluetanse 1
the admission of any new dangers, however indispa
table may be the preponderance 01 advantage. Thus 1
it is with the changes made and contemplated
is regard to the filling up of public offices in
Ilighad.
The political biographies which have of late
'Amended, exhibiting the life of statesmanship for
Ilme net 70 or 80 years, cause a sort of painful otos-
inmost to young readers, from the revelations they
melte of oligarchical views on the subject of Aloe.
bolding. While the time for imputations of coarse eau
"option has boon long gone by, so that the case of Lord
Mixvuxa appeared a &hackie( anomaly half a on-
tury since, there is yet, in the correspondence and
conversation of even each men as the Glainvuiza,
se uncurious • supposition that all administration
was naturally La the hands of a certain set of men,
that the modern reader finds himself woadering
where all the rest of British mankind were daring
the extraordinary periods of the war and the pesos.
The PIRCIVALS and ELDON' never seem to have
had any doubt that ales wee made for
men, and not men for ales; and the more

patriotic sod truly conseioatises Stefanie of the
time, who wore above selteseldag, sad sumer* de-
voted to the pabao good, had still so sow:option of
each a thing se the public service takiag reek among
polessime to be ehossa by ma ia private life.
Already them were reformat, both i• sod oat of the
Bowes of Comma% who saw sad complained that
the inferior Aces of the rails service were Illed

by two methods so °Meadestable that it was bard to
My visit& was the wart—by favouritism at head-
quarters (especially through husily interest), and
by electioneeeing isiesser. The asses of complaint
remained, sad the disconteat new sad this sae

iato a cry, before the &aegis, disclosures sawed
by the lots war proved to the grimmer* theaseelms
that the old methods of appointing to atlas mast
be 'satiated s sad that they mast submit to sow
petition with aspirants from biped their owe
pais. Daring the period of riposting for this
sheep that, were. however, retardieg lam-
eness. which prevented the actin Fein on
too fat. For the lut quarter of • century the
athletics d Englishmen has Won draws to the work-
ing of the diarist Fractious of fanotioaaryisen is
foreign sessatries—ia Reeds, is Frame, sad is the
United States espeially I and it may be hoped that
what has boss witnessed there say be ea effse-
taal waraisg to as is entering spas say method of
Administrative Reform. In Resida—the type of
Autocratic goverment—we hen always hitherto

an tanetio;aryisa and nobility inessainbly vatted 1
and the earraption them, maim is at list found to

be se intolerable that we now ?Ler of the Laredo&

dem of a parents= polithal sad social erhaags t ova.
that same than sables may ester the puns servise,
sad that Debase may amp, themselves otherwise
than la the public service. The United Iltatss—ths
type of Demorratior go►cea'sat--olfend asseawhile
a as lila painful spectselo, from the amonat of ha►
timed appointsmat placed in the hands of the
missal. Ws mad am damribe ths die editable
was witnessed than of the tandag sat at
all the public amvsats—all ths postmasbenr
all the castes house odious, dur. —oa the
messsion of way am Prsaidest, nor aced we
s►largo on ths fatal corraptiaa 'abodes,' by
sash a prestige. Thera is so prbitipis of dm regale-
s= awaited= whisk is sot imperilled by sash
grass appeals to the selfishases Madre& of Mon-
sen& of ths citing= (holders or tipsiest@ of ofiles).
and by the nstleramss end reekkamesse ocand by
ths asver-ssasing shifting of army hied of piths
employssent. The thss fatsrmsdiste slats sad
satire, the French nada Louts Mims, ander a
mestltatioa, bet with nstristed electoral rights, pro.
mated a spectacle it last is asfavoarahls as either
Russia or Amorist. As son as the Lino bad sworn

tie tM cosentatica, he began to make prevision foe
mding se well as reignisg, by pleating foodooriss
all ever France, to do the work of astral depart.
mate seated la Faris. He saw how he could draw '
the repromitation late his own hands by thin
agony, mad thus is time peers with es little inter
hone free' the Chambers as his evosiesor has to
emplain of now. la 1836, petitioas to the Clem-
bars alleged that the enlarged essatiteney
.—aasolatiog at beet to 280,000 eleistere—had
diminished to 180,000 through the Freese law '
of falseiteass, by which the quallikatios was per-
petually Mooed. nth alleption beiag pissed is
the frost, to seem favourable &thence, the farther
complaint was insinuated that the Anal Wrongs '
held by the Goverameat gave it a fatal sod ever. '
growing asetzel over the elestoral colleges. la the
Chamber to which the witless were Warned, no
lase than 200 member were hotheads@ of the Go-
verment, two-thirds removable at please», and the
reesaisdee in expectation of the rewards of obedience.
The subsequent revelations of the gram smarties
of Ake-holders, and the outset webs& of the
political apathy mad cowardice of a whole people,
who fond themselves bought sad sold odor the
method of fanctionmists, ma favourable to the
mainteasses of the old system in England,
with all its halo If, oa the one hand,
we food our Minim badly dose, and the
public affairs which we had a right to oder-
stud shrouded is mystery and prevarication I
if we hit an oscasiesal pang of wrath at sous me.
tier less or mistake, or qualm of dread at the doubt
bow we should got through say crisis of discos.
mule of nudge, we esegratalated ourselves, es the
ether head, that our brothers sad soothe were set ex-
pend to overwhelming tomptatiosos to Russia, see
tuned adrift alter lour years' navies, as in Amanita ;
sad that our sons were sot diverted by any heathens(
after public ethos from the wean al an isthradent
preemies, trade, or movhstere. As hr as our
plain Mines' meat, our systems wee workhile ill t
but, la regard to eitinse character, it was working bet-
ter than say other that we kaew of. Our Pierson
asses sad on seeking social distbsvies by pereseal
qualidastioes, sad supportive their politics by par-
lielpstiog ia prodlable middle-Am remits; sad
ear Comaseen, paerhei tato the peerage seas