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LONDON, WEDNESD4T, DECEMBER 9.

MR. LADOCCHERE cannot be congratulated on the
appointment of Lord MELO/LAVE to the Government
of Nova Scotia. To talk of especial fitness, of per-
sonal qualifications, of administrative abilities in
this case is simply out of the question. It is
impossible to assign any other reasons for the
nomination than that Lord MI:LOBATE is within
the magic circle which ham, or is allowed to have, •
preferential claim on all the patronage of the Crowsu
civil or military, high or low, good, bad, or indif-
ferent ; that Lord MULORAVE'S tastes in the Howe
of Commons led him for some few years past to act
as " cad "to the whipper-in of the Ministerial
party, and that it now suits Lord Mrxce.tree per-
senalcoovenience to go abroad for a period of six
yams at the public ooet. The appointment may not be
a gross, offeesive, or any very indecent job, for Lord
Mtruiaare is a popular sort of man in the HMO of
COSMIC= ; and although whipping-in seems seemly
a very elevated branch of industry for the son of a
marquis, Lord M u tostave is understood to have done
Mr. HATTER'S bidding cheerfully and pleasantly in
that subordinate post. Nevertheless the nomination
is a job, illustrative at once of how hard a gripe ariato-
cracy ham on our institutions, and how little all sense
of moral responsibility in our rulers can prevail
against its insatiable appetite.
It was bet a fortnight ago that one member of an
Grist' *made family left, on inheriting a great fortune,
the Baird of Admiralty. Immediately a member of
another noble house was appointed thereto. And, as
in the case of a new Bishop the Crown presents to
the vacant benefice, so the ship vacated by the new
Honourable Lord of the Admiralty was instantly
filled up by another Honourable Captain. The
whole scheme of aristocratic government, like flew
stars above us, moves in its appointed and mous-
tossed course, in accordance with the great political
lam of centripetal and centrifugal force. And so it
will continue until, by a further Reform in Parlia-
ment, we show our rulers that there are more
important political influences in this kingdom than
Woe of the Pmers's and the Poisoners, and their
anise. In the present state of the representa-
tion, when the aristocracy influenos so large a'
amber of seats in the House of Commons,
when at the last general election they placed
Lord PALMERSTON under each deep obligations by
szareising their influence in his favour ; and when,
with the existing restricted suffrage, there is so strong
a timdsocy in places that ought to know better, to
proem a lord simply because he is a lord, Ministers
cannot escape, even if they had any inclination to
de so, from playing into the hands of the aristocracy
in this way. Lord Pxtxxsurrocre large majority on
the dissolution has yet to be paid for ; and the aria-
roomy has a rare crop of these appointments to
Either in under the PALMFASTON regime.

The extent to which the Pa LMIIISTOX Administra-
tion then became indebted to the aristocracy may be
seen by this invasion of Colonial patronage. The
Army has always been very much at their disposal,
and how exclusively they are in possession of the
Diplomatic Service is plain to all who will take the
trouble to consider that at Paris, at Bt. Petersburg,
at Constantinople, at Berlin, at Washington—in
short, at all our great missions except Vienna,
England is represented by Lords, and, with the
single exception of Lord STRATFORD DE RED-
currz, not a man of note or mark amongst them.
On the Navy, as we have seen, the aristocracy is
gradually encroaching; and now, in the person of
Lord MULGRAVE, it assails the Colonies.
The present Government is more aristocratic in
its constitution, combination, and connexions than
aay Ministry hitherto known to this generation. Not
only ate a majority of the Cabinet Peers, bat every
Member of it in the House of Commons, with the
exception of Mr. BAINES, is connected with one
noble family or other. It would be invidious to
particularise where the facts are so notorious and
their effects so palpable. For, of course, the tree
bears its natural fruit, and as there never was •
Government more aristocratic in its composition, so
there never was one more aristocratic in its appoint_
rants.

When Lord Gate wee at the Colonial-office he
introduced the principle of promotion into Colonial
Government This principle has at least one merit ;
it impels Colonial kliniaters to make original ap-
pointments under some sense of motel responsibility.
But Mr. LAtiorcitrae has in the present instance
utterly disregarded Lord GREY'S principle and prac-
tice ; and, by his disregard of them, has of course in-
dicted injustice on thosegovevnors ofcolonies who re-
mind their appointments on the understanding that
they were gradually to rise from one colony to another,
ea Sir HENRY BARILLT has risen from Guiana to Vic-
toria, Sir W. Ditstreox from Tasmania to New South
Wales, Sir HENRY WARD from the lonian Islands to
Ceylon, and Mr. llmolasox from one of the smaller
West Indian lolanda to the great colony of Mauri-
tius. Provided care be taken in the selection of
governors at first, this rule has many practical ad-
vantages. It prevents jobbing, such as we see in
the instance before us; it has a tendency to rear
coed create a race of able and experienced governors,
and so furnish the country with a clam of men
competent to direct the colonial fortunes of this
empire; and it compensates such men for haying
devoted the best years of their life to the colonial
service of their country. Such was the principle
which had prevailed in the Cokeial-ollice under
Lord GREY, under Sir J. PAICINGTON, and under the
Duke of Newcssitt. But that rule, so sanctioned
and practised, Mr. LAJOUCHULI has been compelled,