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LONDON. FRIDAY, DBC. 31.

seal Mpeat of labs was dark and troubled.
Turkey wan fall of projects and preemies., and feeds
and threatening% with nothing =take but that
Rashid Pacha was dead, and that nobody treated
anybody else. In Austria, tiniuscial difficulties
menaced ruin, and the disaffection of the haiku
provinces was portentous. In Prussia, the King's
health kept everything doubtful ; except that the
public business could not get done, and that the
reactionary party were filching the remains of
popular liberty at a noticeable rate, while the
Prince of Prune was powerless except in the
technical departments of government. The King of
Sweden was ill, and the country under embarrass-
ment for a government in mash the same way.
Naples was prostrated by a aeries of calamities, of
which the recent earthquake was the severest; and
the quarrel with England and Sardinia about the
Cagliari was at its height. Spain is always in a
state of disintegration which needs no particular de-
leriptiou. In Portugal the young King had made
himself enthusiastically beloved, by visiting the fever
hospitals, and living among the sick in his half-de-
serted capital, and by the efforts he was asking to
carry his people through the accumulated stetereffp
ceased by bad seasons and visitations of assikad.
Is France, the settled gloom which weighs upon the
national spirits was broken up by the explosion of
Orsim's conspiracy, in the middle of January—se
event which was sure to aggravate the despotism et
which it was aimed. Bach was the aspect of the
civilised world at the beginning of the year; some-
what dreary certainly, but less dark and threats.-
ing them at its close.
Our Prime Minister wee, however, in the highest
spirits, and in the most reckless mood. He provoked
I public indignation by the appointment of Lord Clam-
delude to be Lord Privy Seal, and then defied that
indignation in a way which was sure to coat
him dear. His conduct and that of the
Foreign Secretary in our relations with France
overthrew their government ignominiously and
irretrievably. Lard Clarendon's passport arrange-
meets, Lord Palmerston's Conspiracy Bill, and the
bearing of both under encroachments and insults
from France, will not be forgotten by the existing
generation, nor unheard-of by the next. Thus he
and his colleague went out of office on the 22nd of
February ; and Lewd Paltnerston'e own House of
Commons was turned over to a new administration,
with an unconcealed expectation that althea, one
or the other would have to be dissolved in a trice.
Lord Derby appeared in Parliament as Premier
on the Ist of March, to make his so-called
declaration of his intended policy. The speech disap-
pointed everybody, unless it were the late Ministers.
The country liked it no better than their represen-
tatives. The complaint was that we were to have
another India Bill, under the same conditions as the
first ; ens were net rid of the Alien Bill ; and there
was no evidence that we were not still to be ruled
under the suggestions of the French Government.
It will be difficult to dearth* to posterity how the
situation became ameliorated by degrees to all
but the displaced Ministers and their personal
adherents. The Derby government adopted the
only course that could keep them in office, and leave
the public mind time to settle. They adopted the
policy of their predecessors, as far as It was likely to
have semeeded ; sad they trimmed their sails to the
palming breezes, avowing that they did so, and sa-
crificing every pretension of dignity and originality
to the objestef getting safely through a period of
trial in which they had not offered to engage. By
degrees they dissevermi the will of Parliament, and
amomenodated themselves to It. By degrees we saw
those tasted with as so emeidseation, though net
more confidence. By degrees Lord Palmerston sail his
clique showed their temper to be such as to deserve.
no respect or tenderness ; so that we saw the refer
teat and unprepared administration of Februarys
which " could not last many weeks, unless
by dissolving Parliament," gaining ground in Lord
Paliserston's own House of Commons, and retiring
he the ruses in he grater strength thaa they peer
muted themselves en their accession to power. Ia
oar impression of the Sod of August we gave so fell
an moment of the ssesisa that we will not now p
over the ground again. It is enough, in repel to
our foreign relations, be refer to the difficulty
Sardinia, from Mr. liesirise's mistake having isd
Count Cavoar's gervermseat to expect a kind sad
degree of support against Naples which our foreign
minister had me is reality adored; and to the
farther ruffles with France, at the time when tho
Espies was threatening all countries supposed to
contain the refugees whom he had himself drilla
into disoontented sails; and to the 'striation of
Watt but, and then Park, from their madimbillie•
preeminent at Salerno; and kW, to the easignier
mitre Washing= Cabinet about ma tiered
of eemrelling the shim bele et era. This bet di&
silty appears, by the Presidsoff recent Message, to
he still unsettled, the Amerind Government having
al yet proposed no method of bearding the honour
of lb ma flag, such as it proposed in a general way
to sageassile the necessity of either Powers ascertain-
ing that that deg is not wairped, to oover acts of
As fer our own great topic—lndla—we have pro-
vided a government under a am mom and head,
which is intended to perpetuate the best principles
and ansagememie of the Company's rule. We have
witommed the dignified self-amertiou of the Best
India Commay when its power wee about to he
takes from it; and a large proportion of the video
be. paid the homage ef hearty admiration and pativi
tads to the meet MUM& bell-aoleteliesear onfloW
wally secomfiel gemonamat that the world him over
seas at itaWeek. ;Te bet miefiag el iheCesel .(Di-
rectors, as a temiterled -- wee watched With