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LONDON, TrEDNISDAY, It42CH 17.

TEN admirers of rhetorical fire-works have not for
some time had a greater treat than that which was
afforded them the other evening by Mr. BERNAL Os.
Bowie. Like other entertainments of an analogous
kind, economic critics will be apt indeed to complain
that it was all at the public expense. But, u com-
pared with the exhibition organised by his late col-
league, Lord PANIWRE, on the conclusion of peace
with Russia, it may fairly be urged on behalf of the
ex-Secretary of the Admiralty that his startling
rockets and in-odorous bouquets cost far fewer hours
of the public time than those of the ex-
Minister for War cost thousands of the public money ;
and that while the latter served only to gratify the
favoured dwellers in the metropolis, the former
are fitted to amuse the reading population of three
kingdoms. For ourselves, we are not disposed to
take exception upon such ground to the display
of Monday last. Differing essentially as we do from
Mr. OseoaNe in the temper and tendency of many
of his observations, we frankly own that we cor-
dially anent to the general proposition be laid down,
that it is highly desirable upon each occasion when
a change of Government takes place, that the new
Administration should be called upon to state the
general principles on which its Members have
united with a view to the conduct of public
affairs. We admit, of course, the convenience
of the opposite doctrine ; the facility it affords
to coalitions of all kinds for getting under weigh
when they have no genuine papers to show; and
the impediment which the establishment of the rule
might occasionally offer to sudden combinations of
heterogeneous elements having little in common
beyond the desire of office. But the public at large
will be rather disposed, we think, to value it all the
more on account of these objections, and will hardly
be led to forego the hope, that hereafter it may come
to be recognised and enforced, by the recollection
that its advocate in the present instance was for
five years a holder of political office with men who
could never be either pushed or persuaded into put-
ting forward a programme. On this point Mr.
DIiRAELINI answer was comically complete. Ile was
equally successful in his comparative list of " open
"questions." It is rather too bed to find the honour-
able and gallant Member for Dover upbraiding a
Tory Government with inconsistency because Mem-
bers of the Cabinet declare that they will
Vote for the admiasion of the Jews, he himself having
until yesterday served under a Premier who twice
within three years conferred Cabinet office upon im-
placable opponents of that measure. Lord fitments-
BURY wai named Privy Seal and had actually
accepted the office without a word being said upon
the subject ; and everybody knows that it was not
upon the Jew Qaest.on that he subsequentlymeigned
the post. It was then tendered to Lord Humowne,
and accepted by him with a stipulation that he was
not to be expected to vote as Sir Joan Psafttormt,
Lard STANLEY, and Mr. Disaszu are willing to
do. And yet Mr. ()smuts is scandalised at the in-
coherency of the New Government on matters per-
taining to Religious liberty. Similar retorts were
pungently given by the Cruireiu.toe of the Ee-
CTIECIIIKI on the subject of Church Rates and the
Ballot ; and so plainly was the conviction of the
House expressed after hearing both these accom-
plished masters of oratorio fence, that it was at
beat but a drawn battle, that Lord PAutraerron

was fain to treat the affair as little more than a
passage of arms in sport, and thereby to save him-
self and the main body of his adherents from the
reproach of a reptiles in their first attack ender the
lead of Mr. Ossoist.

For ourselves, we prefer the tone assumed by Mr.
HORSMAN and Lord lons RUSSELL towards their
adversaries. We do sot believe that it was by dint
of any manceuvre, either justifiable or disreputable,
that the majority of Lord PALMERSTON was brought
to nought. We are thoroughly convinced that it
was by his own abuse of power, legislative and ad-
ministrative, that that power was overthrown. In-
stead of dissolving Parliament in 1867 upon any
broad or permanent system of policy, such as the
country would have responded to, Lord PALMERSTON
availed himself of the opportunity, as he believed it
to be, of forming in the House of Commons
a personal faction, made up of men of all shades
and degrees of opinion, and pledged to nothing
but adherence to the Administration of which he was
the head. We pleaded earnestly at the time against
the injustice and folly of such a proceeding—but we
pleaded in vain. No other cry but that of
Palmerstonism was pet forward by his colleagues,
friends, and supporters at the hustings; and the
ablest and oldest Liberals were in too many instances
conspired against, and by Tory help supplanted and
betrayed. A few mouths elapsed, and the country
came to its senses. Lord PATJEZILSTON was not, in-
deed, ashamed of his triumph over prostrate and dis-
abled Liberalism ; but the people were. Silently,
but steadily, they set about repairing the grievous
blunders they had made ; and many a warning was
given during the autumn and winter to the over-con
Meet Minister that public feeling was on the turn,
Lord PALMERSTON would not be warned. He be-
lieved in his personal following in Parliament,
and disdained even to affect any desire to
consolidate or widen the basis of his Ad-
ministration. The whole patronage of Government
was recklessly surrendered to assist him for aristo-
cratic jobbing, without even the pretence of party
purpose or object to excuse it. Private character
and political antecedents were equally disregarded.
Every department of the public service was be-
coming stuffed and crammed with paupers of quality