The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-03 00:00:00

own wan have fallen, or sinter. out individuals en

;Adepts of attack. Hui it is quite t vident, that very
minor of Ow dilation tits of g.At t unient wen: in the
Louis or %torn-out or incapable men, who would
never !rive held such plums but tiir their connt shuts,
mai in whom that connexion has supplied the place
nittwity and youth. It is in this way, indeed,
that the tdtl aristorratie parties have always
IThen bonne flute in pumession or office, all ad-
viatettiwid. evtli the lawn of appn titiceship, has
bust giten to a young genenition, ill chosen
mid unable to support the weight or tlie "nice.
Whilst the piety an opposition rteruited talent with
more facility unit sunny'. P1:1:1. was perhaps the only
leading statesman woo turned tlw time and the
patninage or ascendancy and °Mee tort cruit a itirty
and this he Ilutt the party whtint
he ftwontsi and hit behind, is isiwerful cif itself undid*

its very eavirity. though .ainicd without prin-
ciple, or without uny clear connexion with
eitlu r country tir trsnux•rcial interests. But
of what u.c mould thew thernhers be. Lad not
i'LEL favoured them with once? Nothing save
PE►L'.i elvitee and favour, then, has moth• statesmen
of them. Fur we cannot ea:wider Ile,sra. SIDNEY
ificirm.r and r any elevcrer men than
thoteiantls mho have not Chanel:a to have thoue falv.ui-

t agt.s.
1'lu• tenet. flirt', is. upw.trds of twenty years after
the Itchirni Bill, that mere patronage unit couuexion,
thote.Th somewhat more restricted than of old
in the fabrication of legislators, forms a greater
monopoly than ever of the maouractme of
ministers. 'flu• work, have evidently no choice
in the matter. Nue has talent any power.
Alen like those who set on foot the league agitation,
nod carried the abrogation of the corn laws, they
have died in the breach they ?donned, and have been
unserviceable since. Why—becattse by the very
awe they div!cased tit.• 'uvulae* who dispense
power, and who deem and avow that own thus
raised to eminence by the popular voice would prove
troublesome monliers of a cabinet. would disturb
it• unanimity, mid offend its gentility. Now,
we say at ins. that the ceuntry will not much
lousier stand this system. It will not look on
tad see for sears Sir JOHN Ilomtot•+tz entrusted
with the affairs of our Indian empire, and Sir
l'it sates Woo', lord of our tinamr•, tlu•ir iodic
claim being their einmesion or their appnntieeship,
whilst such own as Hew:, ('arena, ()Emus Vll,
Laps, Itueurc►. BRIGHT. and are scouted
as the Pariah of official life.

If it is the prineiple of the unanimity and friendly
finding together of a cabinet that is the cause of
this—and we believe this, rather than any mean
jealine-y, to he the real cause it will be for the
country to outsider whether the whole system of
governing by a cabinet may nut be wrong, and
whether separate responsibility might not be esta-
blished for the chiefs of tlte dittervitt departments of
govenoneut. Of what use is the voice of a subor-
dinate minister on the' question of finance for 07(3111-
'4e, which he never studies? Why shoukt a Ilona,
liveretary be displaced by a blunder in foreign
polities, and so on ?
But above all things it is necessary that the
public and tho Sovereign should hare a large
fit id of choice. Them are but two or three men
in the empire to whom at present it would
be thought wise to entrust the msnagement
of the Foreign-office. We will be bound to say that
sae h a A.. the ',mailing maxim in France up to IMO.
lint since then the mows successful ministers of
fuseign affairs were men who never entered the
edits:, till they entered it as ministers. M. Ovum
and M. 'filiects were supposed to be Raffish:lady
fitted fur it by historic studies and sums parliamentary
eepericnce. General LAIIITIE proved no 11111,11CrOill-
ful or inapt minister; Yet he left the head of
a regiment to guide t&e legions of diplomacy.
Swing these examples, we cannot but look upon
Lord Sranp.rr u declaration that he saw no one
in his party to whom he could give foreign affairs as
a eery great insult. especially to such a man as Mr.
Dtsittut. What in the world is the British em-
pire to do, when in a few years Lord ABERDEI-N and
P it.unisrox are past the age of holding office?
The riaiug or risen generation are evidently considered
iscapable of bearing the burdens of these men.
Mao of the present day arc pigmies compared with
the great of the past. .tnd it is not one party that
titters, but all who echo this twaddle of aristocratic
and official monopoly, which will neither itself
raise and educate tit candidates for power, nor allow
the popular voice to discover and provide them.
Lord Alir IWEEN and Sir JAMES GILLILUI made
long speeches the other day to say, that although
the would adopt an extension of suffrage, they would
still not sanction any such extension as would
weaken lordly influence, or disturb the present
balance of the constitution. In the same breath with
this declaration they gave their assent to
the establishment of a Roman catholic hierar-
shy, with cardinals, and legates, and synods,
out-topping and over-ruling the protestant church.