The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

LONDON, TUZSDAY. JUNE 14.

Loco PA/Rini/o Irvin been entreated by the
Carats with the teak of herring an Administration
bee acted, we think, wisely in applying himself in
t►e first instance ezeleeively to the clearing of the
ground and laying firmly lbe basis on which he may
subsequently build. Nothing can be more commend-
able vitae the caution and deliberation evinced by
one and all the Liberal chiefs in the parts they have
been called upon respectively to play. When ant:-
pettedly summoned to the Royal peseta
on the evening of Saturday last, Lord RA3-
% tt.t.r, title to the diffidence of real wisdom, depre-
cated respecttutly the onerous distinction in-
tended him by ale SoveREIGN, instead
of betraying any symptom of the elation
pardonable in any man under such circumstance..
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The noble Earl neither deceived his Royal Mistress nor
himself into the belief that he was likely to be sui-
ceasful in the attempt her mandate required of him ;
bat it was not his duty to refuse to try whether he
might not be the means of facilitating &consolidation
of the popular party, so long as her NIAJESTT was
impressed with the belief that he might be. The
failure of the experiment, so far from being deroga-
tory to the judgment of Lord GRANVILLE, tends
rather to confirm the favourable opinion entertained
regarding it. When he had offered the leadership of
the Commons to one of the veteran chiefs w bow joint
co-operation was confessedly indispensable, be had but
third-rate position to offer to the other. It was this'
specific proposition, and this only, that Lord Jong
&mum. declined. That be was tight is so de-
taining, every man of sense or spirit in the country
lisels. His waiver of personal preference in the ease
of Lord PALMERSTON, his senior by some ten years
in age, sad by nearly as much in Cabinet office, was
a generous and graceful abnegation of self for the
asked the party. But that be should be expected
to abdicate the preeminence so long acknowledged in
the Legislature and at the Council Board, in order that
not only Lord PALMERSTON should take parliamen-
tary rank before him, but that t ne so much his junior
al Lord OILAN VILLE ihou!d be placed over his head,
was what no practical politician could have ex-
pected. Lord Joas Brazil. is, moreover, the
standard-beams( Parliamentary Reform. It wee
under that flog that the late Ministry were defeated,
sad it has been by the rally made to that fl tg that
they have been thoroughly driven from power.
Lord louts was not at liberty to lower it before any
other, no matter in whose bands held ; and be did
but his duty to firmly refusing to assign its custody
to any other man, whether peer or commoner. This
is the true version of the matter, and nothing
can be more idle or illusory than the fabu-
lous tale of his having refused to ant
if Lord GRANVILLR was Premier, or his having
repented the proposal that he should do so. That
which Lord Jouit justly raises as the only equiva-
lent rm. the Treasurer's Staff, is the leadership of the
House of Commons. When be offered recently to
forego his claim to the one he may perhaps have
conceived that the other would unconditionally and
from the outset of the new Administration have been
freely accorded to him. He his, however, shown an
entire forgetfulness of self by refraining from the
caution of what everybody must scknowledp
him entitled to; and sooner than place any
difficulty ea his own account in the way
of the formation of a Liberal Ministry,
he has, we understand, agreed to act with
Lord Patel earreux in the House of Ca' envious apes
an understanding between them as to their relative
positions alike honourable to both. By the coarse
he has thus pursued Lord bons itesseu. has gives
another proof of that tree elevation of mind and
genuine public spirit which have so long made him
the acknowledged head of the Liberal Party.
Nor let us fail to appreciate the high qualities
which Lord PALdaisrtis has shown on the present
Gs-eagles. With a foil consciousness that any failure
in the attempt to combine the various elements of
the party hitherto in opposition must inevitably
canoe the resumption of power by Lord Dolor end
his colleague, the noble Viscount has refused to
take a single step is 'deem.* without making sure
of that which was to precede it. After all that has
occurred, and at the present period of the Session,
be must have been well aware that the opportunity
now stfueded him of reinstatement in the position
of Prime Minister, if suffered to slip, woald
cer-
tainty nee again n cur during the present year, sad
might possibly never do so. Lord PAI.VIEIV,TOX
had every possible trnaptstiow to proceed at once is
the (carnation of a Cabinet, leaving the germs of fu-
ture mieundereandings and their fruits to the chapter
of scrideete. lle has honourably and patriotically
refused to de so; end even on points where good
men may direr ill opinion, sod regarding sailcloth*
inchepensatnlity of arranging which some awe may
no, see, he has team iously adhered to the ascossity
of entitle' toe precise and do Gaits eadanstandiag. The
tint wish expressed by her MAJcarr, If VOWS rightly
an folioed, was that the basis of the sew Aelsoiniatrfr
non should be, in the truest sense of the term. ceßl-
',rob/wive ; and all that we know of the details of
the work still seemearily incomplete leads us t
believe that Lord P ***** ,•TON is loyally feting up
to the spirit d the &Aaiun:Ws instructions.
The new Cabinet eau hardly be expected,
to embrace all the ability and worth which
the country tumid like tow, it contain; but it will
certainly ant be the Cabinet of any one political
se a Sr social clique.

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