The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-22 00:00:00

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HAS the country really got rid of Lord PALMER-
/KO:4 for good ? The catastrophe of Saturday morn-
ing has, no doubt, many of the marks of a final
catastrophe about it. The ungovernable and undig-
nified burst of passion to which the ex-Pamunn
gave way in his reply, the uncotirteons impatience
with which he was listened to, and the vindictive
cheering which greeted the announcement of the
numbers on the division everything in the scene
bore a strange and close resemblance to the last
convulsive struggles of a sperm-whale in " the
flurries," when the lance has been driven deep into
its vitals, amid the exultant acclamations of the
assailing boats' craws. Lord Pstutasrox has
fallen by the hands of his own packed Home
of Commons. The breach between him and
the majority haa been attended by cir-
cumstances of reciprocal insult and defiance
that render reconcilement impossible without
atter loss of character to both parties. Lord
PALMEnnoNr. success at the last election appears
to have turned his head. During the present
passion especially he has met all opposition with a
degree of insolence such as no former Premier of
England ever dared to show to members of the
House of Commons. And the cheers which greeted
the announcement of his defeat bespoke how deeply
his insolence had been felt and resented. It is im-
possible to imagine Lord PALMERSTON'S again acting
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Prime Minister in concert with the present
House of Commons ; and what chance could a disso-
lution give him of bettering his position? He has
been tried and found wanting in the one
only capability for which men gave him credit.
Nobody ever believed that Lord PALMER-
nom either cared for or comprehended the
reforms about which the country is anxious.
Nobody had one grain of faith in Lord
Petnearrox's attachment to any one principle
of oar Constitution. Nobody attributed large or
sagacious views to him, even in his own especial
department of foreign affairs. But almost all men
were persuaded that he was animated by a strong
and generous sense of the national honour, and with
courage to uphold it. And it is on this very point
that he has so lamentably shown himself craven and
recreant. He might have recovered from a House&
Commons' vote of censure for any other sin of
emission or commission ; but to have undergone cen-
sors fee neglecting to assert the independence and
dignity of England is irretrievable. The one clap-
trap to which he unfailingly had remorse to parry
all attacks he never can utter on a hustings again.
It would be as hopeless as Ephraim Jos-
kinson's attempt to play off his Cosmogony
a second time on the Vicar of Wakefield.
There seems as little chance for Lord Pax-
taxasrow in throwing himself upon the country
ea
in trying to patch up a peace with his rebellious
House of Commons. His acquiescence in his de-
feat—his prompt resignation under a vote of censure,
may be what a Yankee would call " playing Toe-
" sum." He may calculate on the inability et his
Meals—Liberal and Conservative—to francs a Ca-
binet, or command majorities in the two Homes of
Parliament. He may flatter himself that he is still
the Inevitable, and that when the Qum has Ina
the round of all the other party leaders, she must
again fall beck upon him. But he will find that as
everything earthly has an end, so has his career of
dice. It is extremely probable that more than one
ephemeral combination may be made, and break
down, before a powerhd and permanent Ministry
can be formed, but amid all the chopping and
changing no eye will turn in the direction
of Broadlands. The time has come for Lord PAL-
itturox to subside into the House of Lords, that
lest asylum of outworn Ministers and impesahle
aspirants to seats in the Cabinet.
That Earl DERBY is to be Lord PAtaxerixor's
snseemsor is a very secondary consideration.
At the hands of no new Premier will any
esmillerable body of the people tolerate a measure
Intresbaced for the sole purpose of encouraging
foreign despots to brave the indignation of their
mubjects. If the new Premier will legislate for our
great Indian dependency, it asst he in a manner
that will assure wise and just government for Hin-
dman. sad guarantee England against any increase
of the already too great power pawned by the
Crown and its Ministers of corrupting Parliament
at the expense of the natant' interest and honour.
During a long tract etyma we have seen a number
el Cabinets constructed eat of the old unvarying
materials, by dint of the home-pee= of varied
ossabinations. The personal prestige of all our
atatarara has thus AMU le be pretty well
Imd. ; and the amesupsseise is that the country is
getting more intent upon nessenree than mss, Above
everything it has hem., impatient of the degraded
I at ',dish the ex-itiaistre he. played in the ere of
Continental Europe. It wants men who will seek to
eoaciliate the Preneh nation without fawning Val
the General of the Arai; now saaapea plus
and domineering over its who will repeal' the law
Uses of foreign police spies in Ragland. and gash
from sirgaaisirag our own polies ea the esuatienstal model ; who will support the eassecilthed
sante et Piedmont, Belem, and Subservient, he-
bayed to the despots of Europe by the late Illwistry)
who will exact a strict reckoning from the Lag et
!at mal-treatment of two anesent Bar
illegally entrapped by lit, Irby boo

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