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LONDON, SATURDAY, lAN. 16.

A Teem Meet flan WM new pat 1/ la pOODNOLOO Of
Lord DEROT.A premised Reform Bill. If, contrary to
reasonable expeetatles, it should prove a mere de-
lusion, failing to grapple with any of the acknow-
ledged evils of the present condition of things, and
seeking abortively to reconstruct the old Cooserva-
tive interest oo territorial and class theories, then
we shall either have a change of Ministry or a disso-
lution on the Bill before Easter. If, on the cootrary,
the advanced portion of the Cabinet shall prove that
they have succeeded in persuading their colleagues
to adopt all that was good is the proposals of
1833 and of 1834, and to add something more
liberal of their own, then it is certain that
the great interest of the BOW= will be concen-
trated on the fate of each distinct provision of the
Bill, and upon the effort' that will be made by the
Independent Liberals to improve and expand it.
Once entered on the great work of Representative
Reform, Ministers will be released from all appro.
heosion of piety imprimis or defeats on other ques-
tions. The moral damage of such diecomfitures
every Government tries to avoid. But on the =is
hens which every Government by the law of its
being is forced to deem paramount to all minor con-
siderations—that, namely, whether it is justified in
holding office or bound to surrender it—there can
and will be no uncertainty after the mood reading
of the Ministerial plan. If at that stage, as we have
said, the plan should be rejected by the Commons,
Ministers must either resign or dissolve ; but if the
House should deem the plan to be prisakjetra worthy
of detailed examination, little else will be heard ce
thought of until after the dissuasion that nest
ens** thereon shall hare been brought to a class.
As far as the country is concerned, and es far as its
voice can make itself heard within the portals of
St. Stephen's, the urgency will be all in favour of
finishing the work thus began. We hare recently
bad occasion to point cat how stow the people were
in 101 l to pot any straw mean upon their Re-
preesntatires null they saw plainly that, without
each pressure, they could not he relied on to do their
duty. The means of popular organisation and con-
cert are twenty times greater at the present day
then they were eight and twenty years ago; and if
the earnest friends of Reform bat make it palpable
to those out of doors that the carrying of a
sound, wise and reemnable measure depend@ three
months hence on the manifestation of national
opinion, manifestations enough they will have.

We cannot, therefore, concur with Mr. ROltant%
in anticipating that the prime interest of the coming
&region will be ►uccessfully diverted from domestic
to foreign affairs; we never remember a greater
approach to unanimity of opinion respecting any new
phase of external affairs than that which we have
witnessed daring the last fortnight regarding armed
intervention in Italy. On all sides we hear the same
toile of sober earnest hope that nothing will betray
our rulers into any complicity with either of
the contending despotions. The very suspi-
cion of an Austrian alliance for the pro-
longed enthralment of Italy would be apt to
drive Lord DEP.RT from power in the first
ten days of the Session ; and it is hardly conceivable
that the House of Commons which summarily
cashiered the late Government for its obsequiousness
to Frann•, could be hoaxed or bullied into restoring
them to piwer in order to rapport the Emperor of
the FarVCH in a wee with Austria. A frank
and dignified neutrality in the only course which
England can punnet consistently with policy or with
honour. Coalition with Austria is utterly impossible;
but coalition with such a power as the present
Government of France to readjust the map of Eu-
rope and to determine the domestic institutions of
States, w.inld be at variance with every maxim
of sound statesmanship and every instinct of popular
life. What security could we have, if without pro-
vocation er quarrel of any kind we entered into •
smut part with NA roLtOtt 111. to wrench her Italian
pomession. tram Austria, that our Ally would not
client as to our from, when the deed was done, by the
establishment of Imperialist institutions in the
Peninsula with oe without the help of some other
despotic power ? Or, what right should we hare to
complain next year if, in like secrecy and disregard
of treaties, he were to ester into a league less unna-
tural and less unlikely with arbitrary Governments
like his own toenail ourselves unaware.? Are public
law, public faith, and public morals, nothing? To
Italians writhing under such • ml• WI that of Austria
no son► cootiderations apply. If they. with or with-

out help, can succeed in !baiting off a bated yoke, and
roes eetablishing their independence, then, tree to
the poll."' of Y. tit snzTn,the policy of Curia amt., the
policy of CANNING, and the policy of Berl 0112 T,
we shall not only cordially welcome them iato the
brotherhood of Nations, but ws shall feel earsitlefte
free to sustain end etningthem them with all ear %a-
waited power sod unsullied pestle. But we are
110 t gotog to be made tools of Bonapartism either
in peace or in war.