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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 4.

Wu have been taken to task in the columns of a
morning contemporary for giving circulation to
Lord DEADY'S announcement to his friends, that, if
factiously obstructed in the conduct of public bud-
nese, he would not shrink from advising the QUM
to dissolve Parliament. The tact, as we stated it,
is not denied, being too notorious to be so; but
mamas, Dot the most logical, are assigned to show
why the PREMIER could not, would not, and ought
not to have said what everyone knows he actually did
say. It were enough perhaps for us, who have no flex-
tion to be his lordship's defenders on this or any other
omission, to remind our contemporary of his own sig-
nificant omission above referred to. The public in
general looks on, we believe, with less curiosity
than disgust at the state of affairs in the present
Home of Comma's. And as the national patience
must sooner or later wear out, it is the duty of all
who undertake loyally to give note of warning of
each new incident that may arise, and each new
veering of the political compass, to tell promptly as
well as plainly the whole of the truth. We leave
others to settle with the Parliamentary favourites
whose cause they espouse, and with the public at
large, the lineation why and when it is lawful in
public journalism to be designedly dumb. Fee
our parts, we have no esoteric theory of polities;
and whatever it may concern the public to know—
whether it be an accomplished or an impending fact
—we deem it right to declare it.

But we are not disposed to yield an indolent
assent to any portion of the reasoning put forward
in his specious off-handed way by oar wary
contemporary. Under the anonym of " Salus
" Populi," the readers of the rime are told that the
constitutional right regarding dissolutions is limited
by the ability of the Minister of the day to gua-
rantee a preponderance for the party to whieh be
belongs at a general election ; and lest any doubt
should exist of what each preponderance means, tie
writer goes on to wont the idea that public opinion
is likely to change so far as to " justify Lord DiRBT
" in professing even the faintest hope of completely re-
* arra*, As popular verdict of lair year." We rather
sisepeet that Lord Dam, had he the power to com-
mand the results of an appeal to the country, would
be the last man to invoke the fatal omen of Marsh,
H 337. Disastrous indeed have been the effects of
that most reckless misuse of Ministerial discretion
by the late Cabinet. The country wee, as we know,
set by the ears on a sodden and transitory cry, for
the single purpose of packing a House of Commons
with the flatterers and followers of Lord PAL.
mansrors. The dodge, to too great an extent, into-
seeded. The oldest and ablest members of the
Liberal party were hunted down ruthlessly, and in
several eons successfully, by the whippers-in and
managers of the late Government. The open
aid of inveterate opponents was sought, ob-
tained, and used exultingly in many of the
greet constituencies. Liberal Conservatives fared

no better, and many of the rank and file
of independent Whip, Paellas, and Radi-
cals were driven out of Parliament solely and
simply because they were not and would not be
abject tools of the Minister. When all wu over and
the victory complete, a majority of one hundred and
forty in a new House was declared to have been
obtained for Lord PAtmiaston ; his lease of power
was said to have been renewed for the residue of his
life, and public opinion might, it was thought, be
securely set at defiance in the gravest matters of
legislation, and the most glaring dispositions of
patronage. Toe readers of this journal will pro-
bably do as the justice to recollect that in the very
hour of triumph we ventured to predict that the
attainment of such a preponderance in the New
Parliament would prove its own min, and the ruin of
these who procured it. It is needless to argue out
the question over again. The progress to destruction,
as tar as the Minister was concerned, proved to be
more rapid even than we had anticipated ; and the
aelf-bamolating tendencies to inevitable desolation
bare developed themselves in the House of Cosa-
mom with a degree of inveteracy that we own far
outstrips our worst anticipations. The ship was as
goodly a ship to look at as any other ; and her
launch was cheered by the vociferous acclaim of
passing popularity and recognised power. But her
baild was bad, and her crew unmanageable ; her
captain soon lost his head, and in the first stilt breeze
the vessel proved that She would not obey the rudder.
What followed we all know too well. It may as yet
be too soon to look with entire impartiality as the
lasidents that preceded and attended the catastrophe;
bat history will assuredly, with more or lass of
41.01.161, mord amongst the most imlispatabis fates
that laid PLIAZIMITON'S Bill was prepaid sad pre-
sipilsesel by the sasooad sod amide moodily with
whisk besot his Wasps* bad crammed the Rouse
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