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MB. DISRAELI'S COUP D'ETAT.

Fou.ovneci at a respectful distance the mag-
nificent example of his old friend and comrade
the Emperor of the FRENCH, Mr. DISRAELI has
made his little coup d'etat on the 2nd of
December. He has sacrificed himself to his
country and published his tippet au peup4. We
daresay the Pax-limit's performance will appear
very tame and spiritless to our neighbours. Instead
of seizing in the dead of night the chiefs of the
Liberal majority, surrounding Palace-yard with
a drunken garrison, and then, in the character of
a saviour of society, proclaiming a:state of siege,
publishing an appeal (printed by compositors in
custody) to the millions, and marching up
to the poll through files of brandied
troops and an escort of gendarmes, a terror-
...A.A... rnpeieriee. S., represent the national
will—our Imperial Englishman la reduced by
the unhappy necessities of his situation
to execute in Japanese fashion " happy despatch"
upon himself and his colleagues, and to publish a
°' statement" to his supporters through the medium
of the public press. No doubt this is but a
pale copy of the great original. It is all very
insular and parochial. Nevertheless we are fain
to persuade ourselves that we manage these things
better than they do in Francs. We conies a
weakness for the milder and humaner process. We
believe it to be more in harmony with the
civilisation of the nineteenth century, and better
adapted, on the whole, to the true conditions of
national security and public welfare. But
it was impossible for Mr. DLSRAZIA to
take leave of power in the ordinary hum-
drum fashion of English statesmen. All the
instincts of the political novelist rebelled against
an unromantic exit. He must go off with a bang.
The events of this week will make a stirring chapter
in some future " Coningsby " by one of his
youngsters. The Pavenza's statement to the Con-
servative party is • masterpiece of heroic simplicity.
When her ILussrv's Government were repeatedly
beaten on the Irish Church question last session
in an expiring Parliament, they believed the new
constituencies to which they were about to
appeal " would not sanction" Mr. Gutnerosn's
?obey. Now that the " yokes of the
" enlarged electoral body" have been es-

corteined. it is dear
colleagues " that the
" not expect to

" newly-eleoted House

pest aisoovery of

hundred against

" their own honour

•• not to retain alto

" They decline to " wait for the asserabi&g
" of a Parliament in which, in the present upset of
,c drain, they are sensible that they must be in
minority." Not that they esa vanilla/red that
the country is on **whole spinet them. In spite
of the cumulative widows of the gross number of
votes recorded is the resent mutest as either side.
and of thepopulation whiclithemajoeity of votes re-
presents, Mr. Damns amides that his anti.
cipations of the verdict of the country have bees
justified " in a remarkable degree" by " the der
" cision of numerous and vast oanstitassoiss.?
He retires, therefore, on the eve of a great battle
with all the honours of war, sad conducts a mas-
terly retreat without showing the backs of his
troops to the enemy.
There is no denying that this retreat is masterly,
regarded as an affair of pure porliansentery tactics.
The loss of a fortnight or three weeks' power is.
after all, not a very tremendous eserifiee for
Ministers who, by the bounty of Psovumnoa,
have been permitted to exhaust every stream
of patronage. There is little comfort whether
in public or in private life to protracting
an inevitable fall. The Ministerial resignation at
this moment rubs Mr. °Lammas of angina per.

liamentary victory, and exposes him to the almost
unprecedented difficulty of choosing a Cabinet
from a party whose fidelity and fortitude have not
been tested in action. When Mr. Diana= raised a
roar of laughter in the Guildhall by his oonfident
expectation of returning thanks again next Lord
Mayor's Day for her 11Luserr's Ministers, he
knew of course as well as he knows to day that
" the present Administration cannot expect to
" command the confidence of the newly-elected
" House of Commons." It needed no gift of
prescience to anticipate on the 9th of November
all that has happened since. The political situation
was then, as now, spread out before the mind's
eye of the PRIMUM like a chart. Nothing has
occurred since to provoke him to any sudden or

unealculated reeolve. He knew then that the
Government would be in a minority, and
that for a Government in a minority on

such a question as the Diseetablishment of the
Irish Church, to frame a Speech from the Throne,
to be speedily followed by an amendment to the
Address, or by a distinct vote of want of oonfi-
dence, would cause a state of tension in public
affairs fraught with agitation and excitement.
By a timely withdrawal ho has, it is simple justice
to acknowledge, probably done the best for the
interests of his party and at the same time for the
dignity and convenience of the Crown. It would
be absurd to blame him for not having consulted
in an equal degree the convenience of his rivals.
Nor can it be fairly doubted that by thus antici-
pating the will of the House of Commons, her
Ms.msrv's Ministers have taken into consideration

the exigencies of public business at this season.
There will now be time enough at least for the now
Parliament to swear itself in and verify its powers,
so that in February the serious business of the
Session may begin without further delay. The
voice of the Crown will be that of the Crown's re-
sponsible advisers, and the constitutional ma-
chinery will be securcifrem unnecessary friction.
One thing, at least, we may take the liberty to
consider beyond discussion or dispute, and that is
the Premiership of Mr. GLADSTONE. The whole
Liberal party, as it is represented by the majority
of Om, onlareml cicutosibl body—porlutp• "re might
say, the whole country without distinction of parties
—looks to Mr. GLADSTONE as the only possible suc-
cessor to Mr. DISRAELI. The nation will not for
a moment endure any haggling on this point.
No titular First Minister, in the person of some
soft-spoken and easy-going Peer, will raffice for the
occasion, or satisfy the expectations and demands of
the nation. It is most desirable that the country
should learn as soon as possible that Mr. GLAD-
errora bas been summoned to Windsor, and en-

rusted with the duty of forming a Liberal Ad-

ministration. There have been idle and ma-
lignant rumours in the air, which cannot be
too soon dispersed. As to the formation of
a new Ministry, we are not in the habit
of counting ministerial chickens before the
ministry is hatched. It would be ungracious to
refuse to the outgoing administration credit for

good and able seivicei in several departments.
We trust that there is enough public spirit and
self-denial among the Liberal leaders to make it
not too difficult for Mr. Ch...knaroas to do himself
and his party justice in the selection of his
colleagues.

metropolis. Altiongh im hospital, it may be Rdi
ca led a happy pole., se tifisrly meth.
;oared for, so home-lice and chased is the f
i'peerance of the wards. note is but one 3161.1.
lion to the hospital. and that is that it can
reetive a very limited number of patients, and
fbis vast city there as hundreds of little
orb° ere doomed to edler, sod to die in
• unhealthy homes for the went of the
enecour and the kindly care which "soh ea
Word,. Happily there is a sister laabiheekys,
a rival, in the Victoria Hospital far elilifinn,
which bold its esoond annual meeting yesterday
under the presidency of Mir Wausie Jamie.
It has equal claims upon the public, for it is eon&
ducted upon equally sound peinciples, sedi
ssoctioned by the fleg medial authorities.
multiplication of hospitals is net gemmik
nimble, better that thins existing should he-
lamed end their ellicienoy inereand,
that the extraordinary expense of a new
building aid a fresh staff of atoms
should be named. But Sir WlLiaLm JINN=
showed that this objection does not apply to chil-
dren' hospitals, which be hoped to see establieked
in every quarter of the metropolis; and in
eloquent, because most earnest, hinging" he
pointed out the incalculable benefits they would
confer on the meet helpless, but the most hopeful
portion of the community. There is no benevolsat
object to which a sees an contribute with more
maidens that his money is well bestowed &sato
a noble charity like this. If he doubts our mar-
tion we recommend him to inspect the institution
for himself, and he will assuredly question it no
longer.

OUR OONTEMPOBARDia
MEM DAY.)

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS•

The letter intimating the intention of ministers
to resign, which Mr. Disraeli has addressed to his
=Mottoes in both houses of parliament, is, of
course, the chief subject disowned by the journals
this morning.
The lbws says the ministry have resolved, for the ant
time since the days of Mr. Frederick Robinson--the late
Lord Rips—not to meet parliament ; but their case is
more extraordinary than that of the sole precedent which
can be cited to ernes than. fee the parliament
which Mr. Disraeli has declined to face is one
chosen under the advice given by himself to the crown.
There has never been anything like this voluntary ear-
render of the high function of advising the crown. Lord
Ripon was afraid to fan parliament; but then Lord
Ripon was called to the post of Prime Minister after par-
liament bad been prorogued, and his conduct has
always been smoldered piallmainion No one will
accuse Mr. Disraeli of each fear as is said to
have influenced Lord Ripen. He has resigned simply
because be deemed it prudent to resign. The resig-
nation mud, neverthelen, be regarded merely as • stra-
tegic movement. When Mr. Disraeli and his colleagues
had convinced themselves that to be in opposition was
their inevitable fate, they discovered that to be in oppo-
sition as soon as pueblo was for their clear advantage.
It is mach more easy to fight as a guerrilla chief than as
the leader of • disciplined hod. A man who is in copped.
lion without having propounded any policy nave that of
opposition is encumbered by no strict !plan of campaign.
Mewed, however, ea • question of pare strategy—takisig.
that is to say, the estimate most favourable to Mr. Dis-
neli's action—the Twos proneness hie last movement
the feeble supplement of a galfrnt career.
While the course pursued by winters ie wtthout pre-
West it may, the Daily Nesss urges, be contended on
their behalf that the situation in which they are placed
is unexampled. The two partim have voted not simply
ea
liberals and conservatives, but for and against the die-
establishment of the Irish church ; for Mr. Gladstone and
against Mr. Disraeli. It m morally certain that if what
must now be called the late government had met the
House of Commons, the first act of the new parliament
would have been to declare its want of confidence in
them. Mr. Disraeli cannot be severely blamed for acting
upon certainties as if they were certain; and it is suffi-
cient to note, without insisting as • matter of reproach,
that the course which be has adopted somewhat strains
the forms, if not the spirit, of the cooditution.
It might he urged that the House of Common is the
only autlicened exponent of its own views. The declara-
tion. of politicians on the hudinp, the clandestine of
partisans, and the computations and analysis of news-
papers howsoever accurate, are not known to the law.
The adverse opinion to which Mr. Disraeli bows is that of
a parliament which does not yet exist. Mr. Disraeli
defers not to the decision of the House of Commons, on
whose declared tandem, or explicit refuel of mixt-
dam the fate of minden bee hitherto depended, but
to the verdict of the country, se it has been roughly
given at the polling-booths. He listens to the popular
vein and does not think it neomeary to wait for that
of Its representatives.
The Rol remarks that the nurse Mr. Disraeli hes
adopted in view of the opinion which the country has
expend on the question of the Irish ohureh is con-
venient and dignified. One thing worthy of remark and of
commendation in the conduct of the ministry is that they
have retired without that division of the last spoils of
dies which has come to be considered absent the legiti-
mate concluding act of any government. The peerage
conferred on Mrs. Disraeli was the gracious and spontane-
ous act of her Majesty.
The Fdersph maintains that Mr. Disraeli las done the
right thing in a new style. He has eommdtted the ex-
ceedingly unofficial °Renee el discovering in the news-
papers the fate of his cabinet; he has " neepted serene"
in the most unceremonious way. No miens sealed with
red wax or tied with red tape has infonaut him how
many mfristerialiste or how many of the opposition have
been returned to the new bone.. Be les dinned the
intonation in the shortest and easiest way. All that be
las beard or read on the subject has appeared in what
noble lords delight to call " the ordinary channels of
information." The Teleyreph congratulates the line n%
penis ea so rations' an innovation.
The Mar Wake that the oatmeal inoldennem and in-
formality of his communication to the wantey, though a
departure boos mese, has the Snit of gentlemanly
frankness, end will retie the Premise in the estimation./
the patio. Allowing that Mr. Dirndl has not given
the first prominimee to the prime emotive of hie resign-
don, it mad be admitted that he bee napes& his defeat
in a manly spirit, and bee Welded the prophecies that
be would seek to meld Mr. Gladdens/ • palsy by a tdoky
retention of office, instead of by emnitatlonal eiforb is
oppositien
The Merakidestenb that, apart boa the permed fed-
hip of the afrainisizetion, then an Adele nese= why
two Wrens from the threes breathing mmetly mons
sentiments, &cold not follow seek ether in the nun of
a few days or weeks. And hanky lon ghee is it that a
promulgation of measures Wen n to be passed by a
occoarnative adminionstion bring the erne of leek in
the teeth of a hostile majority headed by Mr. Ofreldone,
would be • somewhat meaning' as posseding. Hair
them circumstances, the ministry have taken the only pen-
dent course.

The 86;14-larol argues that if Kr. Diemen has departed
from formal role sad precedent is Whirling the judg-
ment of the mow Beam of Moine= ha has had enflioient
reams for his opens. It would have been =NO mama-
time] affectation to appeal to the impartial spin*. of
Wes who had pledged thiessehree to have no ophdoe hart
Kr. Gladalonee. It was to the reformed maeliturieles
that Kr. Masa appealed frees the led *gag
of Gramm ; the reformed eargitneselee, It amities
sot how or why, haw tine jodmasat aping
hba ; be proves his own ocarkboar end dam* I at
ones submittals to their rasa and Alan his pat to
the peaty et their chaos. He has sated with egad Wig*
Ned almagation et puma* tralimg b /Arida( bee Ka.

imam
mod. It is
ths ha has
sy of paean-
this day as-

and rawly far
salon in owe of need. There la not Maly to be
soy inessonity for tisk onion in the Avesta. no
lewilice of the assooratio party have not the
slightest idea of as appal to *pion/ force, end
all the opposition papers have alrengly deprecated
say menifeatation on the easeeha of the annivet-
eery of Bandiree death to-sorrow. If thwe are
ray dieturberwes they will be got up by the secret
1 polio& All that the republican party desires is
fair play at the general elation'.

.The-Ciassittisssys—(l weld not promulgate
ire an =sedate without citing my anthority)—
that the President of the Oonvotional Tribunal of
Clermont-Ferrand wee lately sent for to Paris,
and severely reprimanded by IL Its:oche, Minister
of Justice, for acquitting the local journal prose-
cuted for advertising the Pendia salmaiption.
After listening patiently to the minister's lecture,
the judge took front his great cost pocket and
threw upon the table between 300 and 400 cards
which he had received from his brethren on the
beech in different parts of France, anxious to tea-
tify their approbation of his conduct. Ido not
wonder to read that the ministerial council at
Compiegne yesterday lasted an unusually long
time, and was unusually animated.
The Gambia says :—" Many rumours are cur-
rent on this subject, but we know better then to
make ourselves the echo of them."

M. Weiss, the editor of the Journal de Paris,
who, in the absence of his counsel, U. Paul
Andrei—cent for to U. Beryls death-bed—de-
fended himself before the Correctional Chamber
last Saturday, revealed qualities as a public
speaker which give him rank among the rising
young men of the day on a level with X. Gam-
betta. He is sure of a seat in the next parlia-
ment, provided there shall be no coup d'itat to
destroy such freedom of election as now exists.
Y. Weiss was born at Bayonne in 1827. His
father was bandmaster of the 18th Regiment,
whose colonel, K. Tallandier, arrested Louis
Napoleon at Strasbourg. Young Weiss was
brought up in the regiment as an en-
fant de troupe. He was afterwards sent
to school in Paris, and in 1847 he ob-
tained the first prize at a general com-
petition. After remaining four years in the
Normal School, he became professor of history at
Rochelle, in a college belonging to the Poitiers
Academy. Two years later he was one of
an illustrious pleiad of five professors of
that academy who were diamissed—Taine,
Vllletard, Yung, Alfred Assolant, and Weiss.
tie availed himself of his forced leisure to
take a doctor's degree, and, having small
means, gave Greek lessons in a private school for
the miserable remuneration of 93 francs a month.
In 1856 he succeeded M. Prevost Paradol as pro-

fessor in the Aix academy, but he was too liberal
to get on with the Minister of Public Instruction,
end in 1837 he gave up his academic career, and
became a journalist. For some time he wrote in the
Journal des Mbate, then he founded the Courriee
du Dimanehe, which was suppressed by an arbitrary
decree. In 1867 he started, in partnership with
M. Hers+, the Journal de Paris, which, though
not very largely circulated, is a journal of the
highest class.
N. de Barbantane, the deputy for the Sane
and Loire, has been for several years in a mad-
house. A petition is now in course of signature
in the department praying that he may be relieved
from his duties as a member of the Council
General. At the opening of the next parlia-
mentary sessession the attention of the Corps
Legialatif will probably be called to this case.
At the Assize Court of Aix a woman fifty years
of age, named Lacroix, a native of Paris, but
married to a coffee-house keeper of Marseilles, has
been convicted of poisoning her husband under
very extraordinary circumstances. The principal
witnesses against her were her own children,
one a married daughter living at Lyons,
and the other a eon domiciled at Marseilles,
The daughter, when she heard of her father's
death, came to Marseilles, and said she knew he
was poisoned although the medical man who
attended him in his last illness suspected nothing
wrong and gave a certificate for his interment.
Both the children deposed that they had often
seen their mother put a powder in their father's
food, and that he often expressed an apprehension
that she would poison him. Medical evidence
was produced that arsenic was found in
the body. The woman Lacroix twice con-
fessed—once to her children, whom she implored
not to denounce her, and once before the Judge
of Instruction, to whom, however, she said she did
not use arsenic but a decoction of laurel leaves.
She retracted these confessions at the trial, alleg-
ing that when she made them her mind was so
troubled that she knew not what she said. Being
found guilty with extenuating circumstances she
was sentenced to penal servitude for life. No
motive for the crime was suggested by the
prosecution except that the prisoner was a woman
of dissolute manners and had lovers.

Offenbach has two more operas on his &nye—
l'wt. Vert for the Opera Comtism, and the Reisman for
the Beam, and 11%111bOr001 other amities, ressical. dra-
matic, choreographic, are premised for the okra of the
year.
Madame Oneymard and Tamberlik have ap-
peared in the Nersestota at Madrid with immense MOWS.
Erman., soseres, bawls** nothing was wasting to their
trims*
K. Tilmant, for many years past conductor of
the croheetra at the Opera Ocisairme, is to retire on the tat
/meaty, sad will he mimed by M. Deloffrn who recently
crimpled a 'hailer post at the nabs Lyrism.
iphightice en nitride has been revived at the
I,pique with doubtful meows ; An Qteisheas is is wi.
barna

The Hoguence was played bat' Wednesday at
the Grand Open. Per* for the 400th time, yet the ems-
eke wee regarded as a schesaity, with all the deference
dee to a amt regreentatien. The theatre was crowded
to the very cell% mad this nth snake, ha I gathered
together to greet the greet artith Oarrallw
In oothplianoe with the ideation@ of the de-
ceased Berm James de. Ilediehild. the hareem and chil-
dren have, is addition to the gamma doeatioes already
node by thee, Jost sent 60,0001 r. far the boogitale of
Pelf& _ _

- Tilmelaneholy incident has just onsurred at the
Collegiate Ilehool ot Nagbela, i■ Belgian. Daring a
papal between two ot the papas, V—, aged 111, sad
1"--.. 13, the termer Wreck the other a Wow is the hoe.
TM latter is the heat of gawks, Welt his psalodb tract
his pocket, vested it, sad stabbed his adversary is the
teem od the heart. TM volortaaste youth *mired a low
Mars after.

—jive Mingo-41 eh la Leir• mashie that some
thieves pemetrated ea Baader sight tab the Jesuits'
paw as as. pie a% lathe pa ems at the desks. aad
anted sit a sem d %Mfr. The lathes was semen at
• valuable wash-deg, bat bad. eadeeteatheir, mat It
mew a dm dare rmtewir w asesual sl Ms waking tee
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