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LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 26.

Arita ten days devoted to the attempt to per-
suade a majority of the Liberal party in the House
of Commons to vote against going into Committee of
the Whole 'louse on the India Resolutions, theproject
has been abandoned, as certain to prove tinsucosseful.
Whatever difference of opinion there may have been
originally as to the relative advantages of proceed-
ing by way of Bill, or by that of Resolutions, the cir-
cumstances in which the question now stands ren-
der it palpable to all that the large majority obtained
by the late Government, three months ago, in
favour of the first reading of their Bill was no real
indication of any fixed purpose on the part of
the Rouse, nor even of its confidence in the
then existing Administration. Lord PALMERSTON'S
ascendancy in the Parliament of his own calling
still ostensibly prevailed ; many were curious to see
the details of a scheme for the better Government of
India ; and not a few who were influenced neither
by special curiosity on the subject nor by special
confidence in the Minister, considered it would bean
act of legislative discourtesy to refuse Lord PAL-
MERSTON leave to lay his measure on the table. But
no sooner did it oome to be fairly examined, than its
crudeness and inadequacy became apparent ; and
even had Mr. VERNON Sutra, Sir CHARLES WOOD,
Lord CLANRICARDE, and the rest of Lord PALMER-
STON'S bad advisers remained in office, it is well
understood that they would not have been able to
lure carried, without numerous and fundamental
alterations, the incomplete and incoherent scheme so
prematurely promulgated. Meanwhile, the bubble
of Lord PALMERSTON'S personal omnipotence
in his own Parliament bad bunt. The unnatural

subordination of a great party to a Cabinet composed
of second-rate men of one particular clan, and the
unnatural exclusion of the beet and ablest statesmen
in the ranks of the party, because they were per-
sonally or politically unacceptable to an intriguing
and illiberal clique, had come to an end. Lord
CLARENDON had upset the coach ; but it could not
have travelled much further without being over-
turned. The PALMERSTON Cabinet once at an end,
the prevalent feeling amongst thoughtful and
independent men, many of whom had given it a
qualified support, was :that of relief from an op-
pressive sense of embarrassment and difficulty.
They had been grumbling at its general
reactionary tone, and muttering audibly that
its scandalous jobs and abuses came in
quick succession : yet they hesitated to raise openly
the flag of mutiny and desertion. Men said to one
another that it would and must come to that at last ;
but tacitly the day of resistance and defection was
postponed, until the memorable Conspiracy Bill and
the incidents connected therewith cut the knot of
party entanglement. To anyone who has calmly
observed the state of feeling which has prevailed
in the party generally since that event, it must
indeed seem passing strange that anyone should
seriously dream of being able to decoy the bulk of a
liberated party back into the meshes of the miser-
able net through which they had so recently broken.
But the infatuation of those who have lost power by
their own fault, and the blindness of those who ab-
jectly flatter them, are proverbial. Lord PALM ERSTON,
it is well known, was assured by his creatures that he
had only to assume once more the attitude of ac-
knowledged leader, and to give the word for a
general onslaught on the present occupants of
the Treasury bench, and the great body of the
Liberal Party would obey his call, and with one
load and long continued cheer restore him to the
peat whence he had lately been driven. He was
told that no terms would be exacted and no other
changes required than that he should send a few.of
his Whig colleagues to the Lords, and secure a suffi-
cient number of Conservatives to fill their places.
Arrangements were said actually to have been made
for the purpose, and certain of our contemporaries,
eager for the fray, announced in so many words that
the first opportunity would be taken by a majority
of the House of Commons to get rid of Lord PAL-
ERSTON'S presumptuous opponents.
There was a special fitness, it was said, In the
opportunity that would be afforded on the motion
for a Committee of the whole House to consider Reso-
lutions regarding the future government of India.
That course had been publicly adopted by Ministers,
at the suggestion of Lord JOHN Ressett, and with
the approval, as was understood, of Sir lames
GRAHAM and Mr. GLADSToNE, Mr. MILNER GIBSON,
and Mr. MOEUUCK. Nothing could prove se satis-
factorily the continued predominance of PALMER-
STON, Woon, CLANRICARDR, and Company, as
their being able to out-vote all other sections of the
House combined. The humiliation of February last,
and the privations of the period that has since
elapeed, would be amply compensated for by a
triumph in which Derbyi!ee and Radicals, old Whigs
and Perilites, would alike be shown how little their
opinions or their numbers could avail against the
solid phalanx enlisted, disciplined, and led by Lord
PALMIZRATON. At the eleventh hour it has, however,
been discovered that the battle must not be fought,
•s the victory czniid not be won. Instead of the ex-
pected. camber of promises to vote according to
orders, flat refusals have, it is said, been given by
men of all shades of opinion. Two reasons mainly
have bun assigned therefor . the one, the future
government of India is not a subject that in decency,
policy, or conscience ought to be made a
football of faction on the door of the
Hone ; the other, that were it a mother
ineinsicially of indifference, it is not desirable to de
anything which could possibly tend to reensitate
and re-establish the late exclusive and retregrade
Administration. Sensible and independent Nano/

all sections have made up their minds that the
attempt to legislate off-hand for India at the begin-
ning of this session was precipitate and premature.
They are only too glad to be saved from the conse-
quences of the ill advice that was offered them by
the then advisers of the Crown. They feel that
calm and ample discussion of the varied topics con-
nected with Indian rule ought to take place before
the House is again insulted by the flippant and
shallow blundering. of the feeble and rash subordi-
nates whom Lord PALMERSTON collected around him.
They have thoroughly weighed the Bill concocted by
them, and they have found it utterly wanting ; yet
to the dire alternative of passing that Bill they feel
that they mast come, if they now refuse to let the
Speaker leave the chair in order that the House may
proceed by way of Resolutions. As independent men
they refuse to obey the bidding of a chief in whom they
have not confidence; as sensible men they refuse to
take a course that is unreasonable, unnecessary, and
unwise; and as conscientious men they shrink from
tampering lightly with the fate of hundreds of mil-
lions of fellow-beings, and from trifling with the',
retention of the most splendid dependency of the
Crown. And while Imperial considerations so grave
and momentous lead men to the conviction that the
true course would have been that which from
the first was pointed out by the noble
Member for the City of London, they are
confirmed in their resolution to take no other under
present circumstances, by the undisguised avowal
that the attempt to thwart it was primarily instigated
by a barefaced anxiety on the part of certain of the
late occupants of Downing-street to force their way
back there again. We were the first to give warning
that such an attempt would be made, and to declare
our belief that it would fail. It has been made, and
we rejoice to think that it has most signally failed.