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quited by their officers. The official §tatement adds

"It is the anxious desire of Government that no
collision shall be brought aLout, and it is its I;elief
that no exertion of force will be requisite to put
down the demonstration of misguided feeling mainly
exhibited amongst the younger portion of the soldiery."
Private letters state that at Lahore a few men of
the Horse Artillery had refused to turn out to drill,
but their officers had induced them to return to their
duty

and the last accounts report that the men

were perfectly orderly and respectful
graphic despatch, received through the Red Sc

Telegraph•offiee, June 10th,
says the Calcutta Mail, of M'ay 17th, had arrived at
Aden that morning. The discontent manifested by
the late Company's troops had been averted. The
new FiveTand-a-half Per Cent Loan was quoted

Telegraph, .dated Aden

at 6 discount

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon

Lord John Russell has appointed the Hon. George

Elliot and Mr. George Russell to be his private

secretaries

Mr. Villiers Lister has been appointed

Precis Writer

At the Police Court, yesterday, the Islington rioters

were examined, when, after hearing the evidence,

Michael Gallagher, a second-hand clothes dealer, was

fined two pounds, or two months imprisonment

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COMPOSITION OF THE NEW CABINET.
IT cannot be denied that there is a great diversity
of Liberal opinion, such as it is, in the new Cabinet,
-=--quite sufficient to warrant the conclusion, that its
composition is one of highly heterogeneous materials ;
but still it is not such as to realise the assurance on
which the compact was made for the overthrow of
Lord DERBY'S Administration, that it should
contain an " adequate representation of the whole
Liberal party." A large proportion of that party,
—that very proportion, indeed, without which the
Whigs and Peelites could never have prevailed
against the late Government,—has therefore very
great reason for dissatisfaction ; and we are much
Mistaken if it does not manifest it, on the first
opportunity that presents itself, in a way to shake
the patched-up Cabinet to its centre, if not actually
to upset it. The fact is, that the whole proceeding,

in so far as that numerous and powerful section of
Liberals is concerned, has been a gross take-in.
Already, we see it declared, that the meeting at
Willis's Rooms, where the terms of the Whig and
Liberal confederacy were settled, has turned out to

have been " a mockery, a delusion, and a snare.''
And if this be really so, how can the new Ministry

ever calculate on such an amount of. support as will
eriable them to maintain their position in Parlia-
ment ? Deceived and disappointed as the Advanced
Liberals cannot but feel cheated, thwarted,
mortified, and irritated— how can they be expected
to' give their confidence and support to those at
whose hands they have received such unjust treat-
ment ? Nor is it merely their party that is thus
insulted : their principles are slighted. The com-
bined Opposition owed its main force, both at the
Gdneral Election, and in the new House of Commons,
as .we have shown before, to those popular principles
of wlaicla the very men were the foremost champions

shimefully overlooked in all the Ministerial arrange-
mats which have just been made by the Palmerston
and Russell Whigs. What claim, then, can an
AdminiStration thus formed, thus composed—not
only possessing a character of aristocratic exclusive-
nels, but having political proclivities, in many
respects, of a most anti-Liberal tendency ever
prdfer to the respect of those Advanced• Liberals
whom, both personally and on principle, they have
so grosslz. outraged

Such feelings as we have here only too feebly ex-
pressed, are these, it is some consolation to find, of
the great body of the Independent Liberals through-
out the country ; and although, there may, at first, be
various reasons why they should show. a. reserve in

manifesting them to the disadvantage of the Govern-
ment, we may depend upon it that it will not be
possible to retain them very long. Already their
organs of the press are beginning to speak out. It
is not necessary to go to the Tory journals to learn
the amount of aversion with which the composition
of the new Cabinet is regarded. They, indeed, are
remarkably forbearing, under the circumstances.
They regard the Ministerial arrangements, as a
matter of course, with deep dislike ; but the
character of the whole proceeding is so notoriously
unjust and ungrateful towards those without whose
co-operation the Whigs would never have had the
chance now appropriated in so exclusive and eon-
tracted: a spirit, that the Tories can afford- to look on
with gOod temper, because with high hope.
In the first really Liberal journal' we lay our
hands on, for instance, we find it thus written, on the
subject of the. new Ministry,—" We are not going to
analyse its composition. The froth on.. the surface
shows the poison that is at work within. It is an
aristocratic Cabinet—a Cabinet overflowing with
titled names and the nominees of titled families.
With one exception, every man in it has held office
before, and of more than one it may be said his being

there was a national misfortune and disgrace. Two
seats out of fourteen have been assigned to members
of the Independent section. One-third of the Liberal
,party are represented by one-seventh of the Cabinet.
'The subordinate offices have been filled up much
after the old fashion. It is a Whig and Peelite
Ministry, with just a dash of Radicalism to usher it
into existence with a slight savour of popularity."
This last named cunning artifice is that on which,
it is evident, they have reckoned for reconciliation
with those whom they have treated so unfairly. But
just for the yery reason that it is an artifice, ought
it to induce them to resist, rather than be reconciled
to, any such wretched scheming.
Now, from the same Independent Liberal columns
let us briefly show what is the opinion entertained,
in such quarters, of some of the details of this notable
MiniSterial patch-work. First, as respects the Law,
—" Sir • RICHARD BETHELL, as a law reformer, has
claims equalled by those of no other man to the office
of Lord Chancellor, and yet he is not to be the Lord
Chancellor of the new Government. The appoint-
ment.is given to Lord CAMPBELL, a man approaching
the age of four-score years, who has shown no dis-
position to amend the law, and who is known to be
ho,ltile
to liberal measures of every kind. It is not
amonj tiff legal profession only that this appoint-
Ment is• !natter. of ostonishment and disgust—so far
as we have had 214x.oportunitY of judging, it is uni-
versally
sonde nnecrby public." Next, as regards
Parliamentary Roform, new Government is a-