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London, England, 1857-09-03 00:00:00

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LOEDON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3.

Tits present Cabinet consists of, fifteen members.
At Oa last meeting, held on Monday, only acres
Ministers, or a minority of the whole body, attends&
Four of those who were then present have sines left
London. In ordinary times the Cabinet venally
breaks up at this season of the year, to reassemble
in the month of October, and in the interval there
are no Mom more than a couple of Cabinet Minis.
ten, occasionally none at all, left at the seat of
Govirnment. But this is in ordinary years; now
the rift ot is not only an extraordinary year, it
is also one which, by the uses to which it is put, by
the energy or spsthy shown in it, by the vigour
which is displayed or the neglect which is exhibited
is it, will titter maintain or mar the greatness sad
unity of this Empire. The present is, therefore, a time
end an occasion fur continued and increased Minis-
terial work, end prolonged attendance in London,
and net for en adherence to precedent in separating
now to meet again two months hence.

The Court, though unable to give personal expres-
sion to Perluonent of its regrets at the terrible events
in India, is able to retire to Balmoral as if nothing
almond had occurred, and requires most unneces-
sarily, and most inconveniently for the public service,
the attendance of a Secretary of State. A majority
of the Cabinet have dispersed ere Parliament m
well prorogued. At the last Council only a
minority was present; and four ministers of that
minority hare since Red from the metropolis. Under
these circumstances the public may well require to
know, without being accused of any impertinent
cnriceity as to the private arrangements of the lords
and gentlemen who constitute the advisers of our
distant QUEEN and Government, what arrangements
have been made for the conduct of public business
during the rends?
The ordinary announcements in the journals give
the public to understand that Lord PA:Arturo*
has only retired to Brockett-hall, in Herta, a seat
much nearer to London than the resides°, is which
the noble Viscount generally prefers to pass hie
vacations. This may be accepted as an asturance that
Lord Pvt-MPRsTON will personally be at his poet. On
that point, indeed, the public have little apprehen-
tient. Whatever his faults or emcee, Lord PAL-
Idrit•ToN's devotion to bueinese is deep sod earnest.
(If all his colleagues, Lord PALIIIIASTON, there is
reason to believe, is most arrimely alarmed at the
condition of Hindustan ; and when the honour of
England is concerned, Lord PALMER-41'0N at least
will not be found seeking either distraction or
recreation. His heart and soul are in the question,
and be will not regard it either as a light matter,
or as an inconvenient interruption to deeratalking or
partridge shooting. Lord Pttmeasrom will, there-
fore, it is to be hoped, become in reality and sub-
stance the Minister of India,. and confine and restrict
Me. Scent, of Cannon-row," if that gentleman
will still cling to office, to the mare appropriate and
fitting duties of secretary or clerk.
In calm and untroubled times, a Prime Minister is
at warm content with a general knowledge of what
is going on in each separate department. Bat
when great crises or emergencies arise, then the
public impose on him a special responsibility, and
look to him rather than to the departmental chief.
Thus it was during the later period of the Russian
war ; and thus it ought to be now more than ever,
when the Board of Control has for its chief a gen-
tleman of small capacity and large self-esteem.
But, according to our system of administration,
the Prime Minister, however able and energetic,
does not constitute the Government. He is one of a
Cabinet in which there is free discussion and free
deliberation, and in which he may be out-
voted. The QUEEN is entitled to receive the
advice of thin Cabinet in its corporate capacity.
Now, are we to understand—we ask the question in
all Mucerity and earnestness--that the Cabinet is
dispersed for • couple of months? that as usual the
Minister, have separated to meet again only at tie
latter end of October, or the beginning of November P'
that the neat of government, the centre of all infer-
motion, the place of council and action, has been, in
the midst of this terrible Indian calamity, deserted
by the responsible advisers of the (lt.ex—three
only excepted' We cannot for a moment suppose
this to be the case. We are bound to assume, in
common charity, that Ministers bane only rushed
out of London fur a feeedays' fresh sir, and re-
lief to the eyes and brain, after weeks of hard
Parliamentary work and grievous anxiety. But
as their prolonged absence, es the sessation of
Cabinet Councils, as the dispersal of the members of
the Government over all parts of the country,
cannot fail to produce general discontent and
universal disgust, we venture to suggest is Lord PAL-
IIEIIOTON that in some way or other he should give
asenrenee that the ordinary interregnum in not con-
templated by the Cabinet at this season, and that his
colleagues mean as a body to exhibit that devotion
to public. attire which he is sure to do individually.
If the Court have seta bed example, his collearraes
ought to set a better one ; and, like their chief,
not abandon London when a formidable mutiny and
a Jackquerie are raging in leetin.
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