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Front the Times of this day. )
The trial of the Italian miscreant who attempted to
as -aseinate the Emperor of the French about a week ago
is expected to take place ts 4 eday in Paris in the ordinary
forms of criminal justice. The Emperor. when pressed by
same of his advisers to cause the pr soner to be arraigned
for high treason, replied, with very good sense, that he
wished the criminal to be- tried as if he had fired on a
ourneyman platertr of the Plain of St. Denis ; and the
wisest policy prohal,ly is to treat attempts of thie.nature
with contempt, instead of exaltirez the madness.of poli-
tical aissassinations into an affair of State- There is,
at-
tempt i
however, borne isoottnat;torze:tshoenr tooiebeilieve that this atrocious at-
or a ruffian ; and that Piano.glaotre'desig
l Liverani,n of
()r a
whateverhis name may be. was connected with a gang of Italian
mamand
refugees, who have already shown on more than one ocea-
,ion that they do t scruple to employ a .eassination far
:the accomplishment of their objects. This man was but
a short time ago iii England, where we are sorry to
,ay that same of these persons are known to reside.
We can only repeat our own strong. feeling of
satisfaction that this -deplorable outrage did not
take place on the , soil of , England, and that
the •asylum we readily grant to fugitives from every
part of the world was not violated by such a crime ; but
we understand that the researches of the French police
have for; some months paSt ascertained that if any plot
exists menacing to the personal safety of Louis Napoleon
it Is an Italian • conspiracy. ft is stated that, by a curl-
.ous, coincidence. if not by prearranged concert, the Pope
received triwards the close of last month an anonymous
communication, stating .that a blow was about to be
struck in Paris which would he followed by a revolti-
tionary outbreak in Rtime rpd in other parts of I:a'y as
soon as the success of the attempt a as known ; arid there
is no doubt that the anarchteal party, both in Paris and
ea other parts of Europe, were, to a certain extent, pre-
pared to take advantage of •an event which was:wholly
unforeseen by the public. We know not how far these
circumstances may be investigated on the trial of
this culprit. They do hot materially alter the guilt
of the wretched man who is this day to be accused,
'and must be convicted, of an attempt at assassination in
one of the most crowded thoroughfares of Paris, and in
the presence of a multitude of spectators ; but they give
a degree of mysterious interest and of 'political import-
mice to this action which a crime committed from private
motives and against a private victim does not possess.
The Emperor Napoleon had relinquished, or at least
postponed, his intended journey to the Crimea before
this painful incident occurred, for on the preceding day
had been given out that his medical adVisers recoil)

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mended him not to expose himself to the uncertain ch
mate of the East and the contagious influences of the
camp. The real motive of this change m a plan which
be had formed and adopted with great pertinacity, even
as lately as when he was in this country, must be traced
to the real or affected apprehensions for the trancuill4
of the capital which were reported to the French Govern-
ment. It is impossible for us to know. whether these
reports are founded on 'fact; or whether they were exag-
gerated and coloured for the purpose of seconding the
representations of those who were adverse to the Cri-
mean expedition of the Emperor. Certain it is that the
principal persons in the empire showed the utmost disin-
clination to accept the responsibility of conducting the
'griveinrnent during the absence of Louis Napoleon, and
that this circumstance proved the mole forcibly how en-
tirely the whole fabric of the present state of things in '
France rests upon the persinal authority and energy of
the ',ruler. The Emperer's own language, in acknow-
ledging the congratulations on his escape addressed to
him by the Senate, partakes of this Conviction. He
thinks that his days are secure, and even his assassins
powerless, until he has accomplished the designs of
Providence and done the work allotted him to
do. But the work allotted to man upon this scene
of human affairs is so varied in its purposes and its
instruments, that what is begun by one band is
finished by a thousand others ; and even the fanatic who
arms himself to commit a murder may possibly invoke
the protection of Heaven with as firm a delusion as the
sovereign who watches Over the preservation of an em-
pire. The d,,gger which, in the hand of Ravaillac.
struck to the heart the noblest, the most popular, and
the best of the kings of France in the height othis„glary
and the meridian of his reign, gla•,ced in that of Damien •
frOm the deprave d and dishonoured person of Louis
XV., whose reign was the prelude to the destrnction of
his monarchy anti his race. The finger of hi4ory or of
faith may, perhaps, trace the mysterious courses of re-
tributive justice, and vindicate the ways of God to lean,
but it is not given to any human being to presume upon
the necessity of his own life to the purposes of the govern-
ment of Providence.
The immediate conßevenzle of the danger to
which the Emperor of the French has recently been
exposed has therefore been to augment the anxiety
which is felt for his perSonal safety, since his life seems
the only barrier between the existing order of things in
France and changes of so great mot so obse4re
that no 111E,4 is wise enough tofore-ee them or bo!d enough
to affront them. The I opertal Government reigns with-
out opposition ; it is toe undisputed master of tee power
and tee resources at France. It makes war, it forms
alliances, it conducts a great and difficult political enter-
prise with vigour and Faizacity ; it commands enormous
financial supplies ; has given an impose to the trade
and iiiiiustry of the ia'ion ; it covers the country with
iragnificeiit works and edifices, and at this very moment
the Universal Exhibition of 1855 is about to mike
Paris the centre of the social movezowit of Europe. Yet
where would al: this have been at the present moment,
if but one short week ago the hand of a ruffian, or
a madman, er a bravo had cut short the existence
on which it hangs ? It has sometimes been said
that the authority of a perioned government, which is
aaother term for despotic power, can alone rescue a
nation from Vie fatal results of a great revolutionary con-
vulsion. Undoubtedly the first Napoleon performed
that task to a great extent after the convulsion of 1793,
and the third Napoleon has rendered services of the same

t►ou', the compromise of our rat►onsl honour, and the
disturbed state of the public mind. The re►ue:iy for this
condition of affairs does not lie through a departmental
reform. Place the government of the country in the
hands of honest and competent men. Let the people
feel that the interests of the country are safe, so far as
safety can be secured, by this salutary change. A Go-
vernment so constituted will have the powerful support
of public opinion, awl the desired reform will follow as a
matter of course.

nature to France alter that of 1848. But the inure per-
sonal such a power is the less can it assume the perma-
nent strength of an instituti,in, and the less can it sup-
ply the place of those inst:tutions which are intended to
provide against the accidents and vicissitudes of human
life. It is impossible therefore fur France, or for this
country as the ally of France, deeply interested in the
stability of her government and in her welfare, to lose
sight of the precarious tenure of ali that depends upon
the existence of an individual, and we can only hope that
all reascn.ib!e measures will be taken to prevent the re-
currence of a crime which might be followed by the
most disastrous consequences to the world.

It is because we feel that the object proposed by the
meeting on Saturday is entitled to respectful considera-
tion, that we have ventured to point out what we believe
to b the right course for its attainment, and have thought
it our duty to warn those who have not pelhaps looked
at the matter carefully of the folly and danger of a mis-
taken course. We may add, moreover, that a reform
such as that contemplated by the meeting must depend
for success upon the pressure of public opinion, legiti-
mately evoked and rationally directed. A knot of
gentlemen in the City may imagine themselves the
apostles of reform, and believe that they could 'bate-
rially assist legislation ; but they may be as much
astray, as to their own fitness for the office they
aspire to, as in the effect produced on the public by
their harangues. When these gentlemen talk of the
people, and of themselves as their leaders, they may
possibly reckon without their host, and put themselves
forward in a position for which they have no warrant,
and in which they will not find the popular support they
reckon upon so confidently. The people are not so
easily led as these orators imagine. The British public
does not move except the object to be secured'is tangible,
and the teaching of its recognised learlera earnest and
intelligible, These are the indispeneable elenients of
any serious agitation. With them, an)thing may be
be accomplished ; without them, nothing. We nave
only to add, these elements are not to lm found in the
proceedings at the London Tavern. Nevertheless, a
,great cause is at stake, involving no less than the honour
and safety of England. It is impossible that the present
rniseiab'e and destructive system cf government can le
tolerated. We must have the right men inthe right places,
by which phrase we mean to say, we must have honest
and vigorous will in the counsels of the Sovereign. We
must haves Ministry, equal to the emergency, and superior
to the contemptible acts to which those in pa wer resort
for the sordid purpose of retaining office, of abusing the
coufitleece of the Crown and of the nation, and of insult-
ing the authority of Parbainent. This is what the people
want, and moreover what they are determined to have
at whatever cost—but this end is not to be secured by
the expression of clap-trap sentiments at any meetings,
and by thrusting forward into indecent prnilinence Mr:
Layard, or any other pretender, in the name of the people
of England. The hour commonly produces the man ;
that man or those men, whoever they may be, if they
are to serve the country, must have its entire confidence.
Those on whom the nation rely have been tried and found
wanting. The country now turas to the ranks of that
party that has never tailed to furnish able and resolute
men in the time of trial. Should the Conservatives for-
get their duty now, they need never hope to regain a
lost position ; and, we say it with deep humility, the
names of those members of the Legislature, who for
the sake of plrty or other considerations would forget
theirduty to their countryat this crisis, and look upon her
visible decline with folded arms, will descend to posterity
in obloquy and shame, a mark for the contempt and de-
rision of future generations.

( Front the Morning Chronieleof this day. )
The first great step in the new political campaign was
taken oo Saturday, with a success that equalled public
expectation. The new movement in favilur of AdminiAra-
ttve Reform wa, both initiated and inaugurated with all
the 1-nnours of a gram] p tpular denioni-tratio,.. The effect
produced far exceeded, the means empl.,yed, which
argues how entirely the public mind was prepared. A
few gentlemen, individually of weight, worth, and wealth,
but none of those who are usually prominent in poli;ical
movements in the city, issued, with their signatures at-
tached, a plain statement of Natienal Grievances, and j
invited all who syrnpallised with them in their &yin:
f.r a remedy to attend on a given day at a given
tine and place, in order that they might,2
SeoxPre"
their wishes. What was the com-equenct
pro-
found and so universal was the sentiiuent of
(iriof
dissatisfac-
tion, that, long before the appointed hour, the d
the great room of the London Taverndwae,l).(ed admittanceeicloseaaint
the still increasing numbers who demanded
into the already crowded space—that the proceedings
were commenced earlier than bad been announced in the
advertisement—and that of the overflowings of that.
crowd another vast assemblage was contemporaneously
formed in the Guildhall, granted by the Lord Mayor for
such purpose.
The meeting of Saturday was the expression of a want
and of a determination. Good Government is the want.

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to announce, in our impression of Saturday, that a. pri-
vate meeting of influential gentlemen had been held at
Birmingham with a view to adopt measures for co-npe-
rating with the metropolitan movement to promote Ad-
ministrative Reform. On the same day we reported,
more briefly than we could tave wished, the proceedings
of a meeting at Derby on the mismanagement of the
war, attended by both of the borough members, anti
by two other members of the Rouse lof Common'
—Messrs. Heyworth and Bass—at which the views
.exrressed were in perfect harmony with those Of
the Administrative Reformers. And even before the
London tnovernent commenced, demonstrations in the
same sense bad been made at Sheffield and other im-
portant centres of productive indu-try. The nation is
rousing itself for a great effert, in a spirit of cairn but
inflexible resolution. The exclusive incapable., wiiose
supercilious defiance of public opinion has raised the
storm, must bend before it, or brave it by their own
imai,led strength. As in the Reform Bill contest, it is
the nation against a frivolous and effete.oligarchy. Then
the struggle was for the infusion of a more popular ele-
'limit into the Legislative Councils of the State ; now it
is for the infusion of a more
.popular element into its Ad-
ministrative Councils. In 1831 the people conquered the
privilege of exercising a moredirect and unmediatesurveil-
lance and control over the aristocratical monopolists of exe-
cutive office; .within ayearor two at the most the people
will conquer the privilege of nominating for the choice
of the Crown administrators more capable and trust-
worthy than the old family coteries of place-holders and
place-hunters can afford. The exclusives betray their
consciousness of this .by their convulsive: attempts to
smile derision at the movement. The demonstration of
Sattirday has struck them with a bewildering consterna-
tion only inferior to that which disturbed the soul of
Belshazzar when he gazed on the mysterious words—
/1f ene, mene, teliel, vpharsin.

( From the Morning Herald. of this day. )
On Saturday the advocates of administrative reform
held their meeting attlie London Tavern, for the purpose
of organising an agitation to secure that object. There
was an overflowing attendance, so much so, indeed, that
those who failed to gain admission adjourned to the Guil-
dhall, and there held a supplementatnieeting,and passed the
original resolutions which have been adopted by. both
assemblies., The speeches contain nothing deserving of
especialcomrnent further than that they express in gene-.
ral terms intense dissatisfaction at the manner in which
our public affairs are managed, and extensive discontent
with our whole administrative system. The resolutions,
expressive of the same sentiments, are framed in tem-
perate language—they set forth the necessity which
exists for experience and business ability in the different
departments of the state—but with the exception of the
appointment of a committee to devise the best means
of furthering the desired reform, and the commencement
of a subscription list to assist it, we do not find a practical
suggestion, either in the resolutions themselves or in
the celumns of declamation which accompany them.
The fact is, this meeting derives any importance
which may attach to it from the circumstance that it is
at once, as we have before said, the symptom and em-
bodiment of popular discontent. The men who com-
posed it are, doubtless, in earnest, and some of them.
honestly desirous of upholding the national honour and
of arresting the progress of the nation to ruin. • So far
their object is not only legitimate, but eminently pafri- '
otic. They seem, however, to have got upon the wrong
track, and in directing the public indignation against
the delinquencies of administr.tive departments, rather
than against those who ought to impart vigour and
efficiency to those departments, to have mistaken the
effect for the cause, and to have adventured on a career
of reform which is sure to disappoint its projectors, and
to increase the evils they seek to remedy by adding to
the general perplexity and alarm.
No one will deny, of course, that the departmental
administration is scandalously and absurdly defective,
and that the deficiencies'in the tianspert, commissariat,
and ether services would have been sufficient to account
for the failure of the Eastern expedition, even had the
command been confided to abler hands ; but those who
are disposed to rest the entire blame on departments
seem to forget altogether that departments are hut parts
of a machine, which, no matter how well adjusted it may
be, requires the guidance of a presiding mind to direct it-,
powers and regulate its manifold functions. That presid-
ing mind has been aed is wanting in the management of
this war ; the consequence has been that the whole
departmental machinery has gone out of gear. If the
organisation of the various services was as perfect as
it is, unhappily, dera. ged, it must, in the nature of
things, be subordinate to -external control. It cannot
set itself in mAion ur sustain in intelligent action its own
functions. No doubt, ability in depat tinents is desirable
—we should say judispein:wde to alminhtrwive effi-
ciency ; but it rests with the ministerial management to
procure tl:at ability, and so to distribute it that the ac-
tion of the whole system shall br uniform, vigorous, and
direct. A movement, therefore, which aims at the reform
of our departrre nos simply begins at the wr.mg end. The
true 84ellica.of the evrl r-o-rteeaol is the incompetence
of the rekp.,n,iole advisers of the Croan ; and until a
change has Veen effected there, and Ministers are &loser)
at once able and sincere, equal to the 'crisis, and welting
to meet it, a 1 efforts at adolioistrative reform are so
many steps in a wrong direction—a waste of energy,
arid a pursuit destined to ti-r rinate in dissopoint.neu t
arid di •aster. We can appeal with confidence, in see-
prt of these remarks, to the entire policy of the late
and the present Administrations. The a hole bi-tory of
our military disast,-rs, and of the failure of our ne.4otia-
tioris, is referable to a common and most obvious origin,
insincerity and imbecility on the part of the Govern-
ment ; to that fatal union we owe our national humilia-

rPRIcE SD.

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troops. Mr. Johnstone Neale sta, , k,,' .1
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episode-Oli Third Pilmerston's fr ~- ...,,,,Poi o• -e; ;c :- ''
chants in the City of London, th.,N; .;. ' i .
well already—the proportion of re,,..,-,,ki.
...„, " ' er
peers, baronets, sons-in-law, of rig. I,tT%ii &.
of the army an 4 navy, ite., in. the ; - '',' -- • ' '-" ' ',—
He did not shows—doubtless for go. . r,,,, ..,,, 4. travittrivr,
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were inefficient men, or that they were not•fairly-drosell
by their
they have underconatituencies, or 'that they neglect the duty
taken. ~.t.' .
The fact is, that " the monopoly of tte'fnuctions of
administration by any section of the community "is a
mockery and a delusion. No such thing exists in this -
country, The aristocracy are not at all likely to he ex-
cluded from the commie. of the Crown lithe Reform
Association, nor have they any monopoly ad-
vantage in political life beyond that
which' other
hey derive from wit, knowledge, or ability; superior;totlfhose they
meet with in Mr. Lindsay or Mr. Bennoch. , , 'They fight
and have fought, and have hitherto maintained their
place in this country aga,instmore fornaidanle opponents
thin Mr. Oliveira and his friends are likely to proie.
lass of men from the Government w4q. show them-
They have, we feel sure, no wish to exclude any man, or
i any class
selves competent to the task. Mr. Huskiseoutand Sir R.
Peel were not aristocrat', neitner were Burke nor Can.
•.n in,, nor is Mr. Disraeli, tier, indeed, was- WA fiat, the
great, Lord Chatham, nor is Mr. Gladstone. .:Wherever
talent is shown, the Mini: ter, who.knows that be cannot
face the House of Commons except with itstaid, is too
glad to get it to ask whether it bearistocratio.or no. But
it is expecting rather too much of any Minislit to accept
as a proved fact a man's own estimate of his fitness for
office, when that estimate is shown by his
pergrmance to
be based on a profound meiancholy deception, such •as that which seems to pursue poor Mr. Layard„
or such as that which we suppose possesses and
,„Prompts the restless eccentricities of Mn,Oliveira.
Ibe House of Commons is chosen by the
iuntry in
the manner which the country thinks thirfiest. The
,aristocracy are returned not lazily and idly, not as
nominees of rotten boroughs, but as representing
they are
some of the great constituencies of England, because
canl enthv
vweomhr oks
pbdeeoat theirkter le
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aesut
maena
nd s mhaovaet th man-
mene m
fully. If the corn mittee of the Reform Associationhave
let them show that the7whaev.e in them
who
forward—let
doing business better than dto not waufbrators ; but
don and Lord_ Pantnure, l' bk-Lebrd
it Li done by Lord Palmer.MlT means of
bmyuastnywaartnnoutnhtenolitahgaittatteonc,oucatirtrryiedwill notat
sDerbi'f and Mr.
rir.J.
tamingP akminagntoonr
Disraeli, by Lord John Russ-ell,
We shall be delighted to welcome t‘ei
•
expense, to believe that Mr. Layard possesses the
qualifications of a Prime Minitler—that 11,Ir. Lindsay i
anymbeen but w
persuadede
fit is for First Lord of the Admiralty, or Mliveilafors
anything—or that the' merchants of London , can spare
time from their business for the task Of governipg: the
country—or that it is advisable to give them places for
life—or that we should gravely set ahOut revolutionising
our whole system for the sake of a few gent/etrien who
cannot command office by their ability, but are anxious
to persuade the world that there is a conspiracy against
their talents, and that the country is bein
ruined for want of their assistance, g rapidly

To gqt it, and speedily, is the determination. That ga-
thering was distinguished from many meetings which
nave been held in thiis eountry of late years, in its
genuineness and spont;eneity. Among the many in-
ventions of an organising age is that of the manufac-
ture of "Public Opinion." The Duke of Wellington
in a hasty moment pronounced "county meetings" to
be "a farce." With even more truth, many assem-
blages that have led to great• political consequences
might have been called shams or imposteres. The value
of meetings, such as those to which so much weight was
.tt one time justly attached by Statesmen, consists in
their being true, bone-t, and unprompted rnArefestations
if public feeling. When they are got up, or “organised"
to servea purpose, they become not merely %aluelese, but
Absolutely noxious. From this imputation the meeting
of Saturday was strikingly free—an advantage which
was adroitly remarked upon by the chairman. Ice
said Mr. Morley, "you refer to the list of the names of
persons convening this meeting, you will find that they I
include, to some. extent, names strange to the public in
connection with public and political matters; but they
are the names of persons who are engaged earnestly,
thoughtfully, and, to a large exesnt, successfully, in,
the performance of the social and public duties in the
various departments of business in which they are en-
gaged. They are the names of persons who are not
generally drawn away from engagements, sufficiently
onerous and responsible, to mix in matters connected
with public affairs. They are men, however, who are
deeply moved by the existing state of things, who be-
lieve earnestly that the heart of the people is sick of it,
and they are men who are ready to call upon you, as
With the voice of one man, to declare that this state of
things shall no longer exist."
• In-those few sentences Mr. Morley ably characterised,
not merely the meeting, but 'also the movement now
Agitatili the nation. A quarter of a century has elapsed
.since there:was such an upheaving of society, of its own
instinctive motion.. "Agitations," in.the commonly ac-
cepted sense of the term, are important things, and some-
times lead. to great results, but they are in the nature of
foregone conclusions, and not comparable, for theii
moral weight, with that slow deep stir of the soul of the
nation which shakes the world like- the earthquake.
Another strong - characteristic of the proceedings—
which 'ought to strike with seriousness, if not with awe,
the classes who now chiefly monopolise•the Government
—is the extreme moderation and the highly constitu-
tional tone observed by all the speakers. There was
none of that wild, fierce passion which lately elsewhere,
and even at certain epochs here, has made Reformers
afraid of Referm. Of the levelling spirit there was-not
the slightest manifestation. The aristocracy were ten-
derly touched upon as an aristocracy, and without even
the shadow of a ground for suspecting a latent class
hatred. The names, indeed, of the gentlemen who took
the most prominent part in the proceedings, afford the
hest guarantee that there are no concealed designs—
that tha most conservative of governmental or depart-
mental refor mere might join in this movement, with-
out the slightest fear of being led to lengths be-
yond their‘ principles. It is an association .of
thoroughly practical men, for thoroughly practical 'ob-
jects—of meet who know, by experience of their own pri-
vate transactions, how the public work ought to be done
- —of men determined that their country shall no longer
be a byword and a reproach among the nations, for gross
mismanagement of all public affairs. They as much as
admit that they are not themselves able to leave their
profitable enterprises for the turmoil and uncertainty of
public life. They do not desire to exclude the aristocracy
Nom tip Government of the country, but they do desire
to destroy the unpatriotic spirit of nepotism, and the
petrifying influence of routine. They wish.the aristocracy
to be true to themselves. Let them exhibit honesty and
efficiency, aud, if anything, they will rather be preferred
fir public employment, because they have more leisure,
more training, and, many of them, more ability and ex-
perience.

Another remarkab'e feature of this movement is the
total absence of all political feeling in a party sense.
Tlioe who are acquainted with City of London politics,
will at once see how diverse are the political creeds of
the chief speakers. As Mr. Travers well remarked, the
promoters of the meeting could not be charged with
wishing to use it for the p•yrpose of subverting the Go-
vernment—for the movement is too important and too
general to condescend to attack any particular indivi-
dual, or any particular Government. It might rather
bear to be described as a movement in aid of all those
earnest and well-meaning men among the governing
classes, who desire to shake eff that incubus called " the
system." To whatever consequences it may lead, those
Who have initiated it are not wild theorists, but the ex-
ponents of a feeling deep and universal, the growth of
long observation by the most jut and practical people
on the face of the earth. It is important to dwell upon
these features of the demonstration of Saturday, fur tney
constitute its significance and grandeur.
It will be objected by the hat)itual opponents of all
change that the promoters of this movement live , not
suggested any specific plateeof their own which shall
p supersede the AT.Leira • now condemned. To- this the re-
, ply is obvious. The primary object in all undertakings
of the kind is to simplify and concentrate. Before
Corning t the details of the scheme which may her,aftir
be accepted as a remedy, let us know whether the pub-
lic are unanimous in desiring to immolate the existitig
aod substitute for it" a better. A'brisis roust be
laid, and this the meeting of Saturday has done. But
this is not all. The resolution moved by Mr. Lindsay,
ur a 'speech of great argumentative eloquence, clearly
points to a general remedy. There must be "no more
monopoly of Govt rriment by a section of the community,'
whilst enlarged and practical ability must be introduced
int r the service of the State." Never mind the obstacles.
They must be overcome, for the cause is a holy one,
nothing less than the rescue of Western Europe from
the outstretched grasp of a barbarian conqueror. It is
very well for Lord Palmerston to protest that he is not
a free man—that he is obliged to work with the tools at
his hand—that with a House of Commons as now con-
stituted he can make no better selections than those with
which he has astonished and disgusted the nation. The
people are prepared to tell another story. They say,
" What we require is just and necessary—the safety of I
the State demands it. It is for you to devise the means
if effecting it it you can. If not, we will !"
It was in this spirit that the resolutions and the
speeches at the two meetings—at the London Tavern
and the Guildhall—were conceived. It is in this spirit
that the Committee of the Administrative Reform Asso-
elation will act in carrying out the objects for which they
are constituted. Like the wealthy burghers of the
middle ages, they are leaving their industrial pursuits, to
take the helm at a period of danger and disaster. To
those pursuits the majority of them will return, when
their work is done: They have been slow in coming
forward, because their present attitude is a result, not a
cause, of public opinion. Of this let them rest assured
—that in proportion to the moderation and firmness of
their proceedings will be their. success, and that in all
reasonable demands for change, while they will' not be
left without the countenance of the Sovereign, they will
meet with the cordial and universal support of ad unani-
mous people.

(Front the Morning Post of this day.)
The great meeting has been held. The new association
has been formed. The money has been subscribed ; that
is to say, twenty-five gentlemen have put do vin their
names for 1001. each, so the chairman, Mr. iSamuel
Morley, informed his crowded audience ; the committee
have been named ; and the Administrative Reforoi Asso-
ciation is fairly afoot. For our own part we havektlready
expressed our wish that, if these gentlemen have disco-
vered points that are wrong in our administrative sys-
tem, they should first show what they are, and, secondly,
should explain what will set them right. That if Cve have
the wrong men in place, they will bring forward the right
ones. 'that if all our system be wrong, they will have the
kindness to show where it is wrong, and how it is to be
set right. Our system of administration is undoubtedly
a great public question. It is open, in common with
all other such questions, to public dismission of all sorts
—it may be talked of—written about—printed on—
solemnly speechified on—the sleeping people of England
may be roused by the eloquence of Mr. Bennoch and Mr.
Lindsay—they may be electrified by the novel images of
the constitutional tree with bright foliage and: rotten
branches—of the precipice on which they stand vtith the
price of cornsteadily advancing—of our old ship, which
we want men of nerve and capacity to guide through
the breakers that surround us. All possible ppints of
this kind are the property of the public—are fair slubjects
for discussion ; the inismanagernent of the arietrocracy,
if it exist, is to be pointed out ; its evil consequences, if
there be evil consequences, are to be remedied ; if our
present Ministry be in fault, let it disappear before the
adverse breath of the offended public ; if fill our.
clerks in all our offices be mischievous or feeles
let us have a clean sweep—let us by all me ner.
88..
,
the right men in the rigl.t places. This is,n..
It is
1
1
d
a matter on which we are unanimouslyt sig.,:
ee
the point
the very principle of our Coustitation---i
a to he a
that we are all striving for, only it happen®
ag ,ee,
r and
on which it is impossible that all ireii should
aid
ineji.rity of
point
on which we therefore take the verdict.a.
far
as
_e have
the lionse of Commons, rep.reseonftintgh,e
ma
j,
been able to get it, the opipion_ercrin wityWof the
As,ociation is, it
public. The Administrative 1,..-
app,ars,distressed boatl with to set about the means of
convicaou that we have not got
thi verdict, awl
ridding the country of an "inefficient
acs a g it, and of
.. d
andlit,,iii:ersess.paeisinb,ltewsa3gsetentineguotf
011 ienvienriystrsetpioanr,tilantda*tolite
tittit
e
sta. t
.._. ii A syteia and a management which they hold
to havebroughti
great disasters on the country. It is
well that, in this case, they should first prove their state- I
;ire in
„rents ; and, secondly, show the remedy
fionrenezair6
have the right on
evils. They should prove that the wrong
office, and should show that they
Now,. after being at the pains to read through the
speeches of Mr. Samuel Meeley, of Mr. Tracers :of Mr.
Mr. Oliveira, we conte-s
Lindsay, of Ml'. Fowles, and of
ourselves at a loss to ascertain what is the p, recise end,
alto, or object of the association—what it intends to do,
or how it means it to done. We can see that Mr. Lind-
say considers himself
stoe have been neglected and ill-
used
; but we cannot e
that that is a reason for dis-
missing all the clerks in the Admiralty. We can see
that Mr. Illeatioch thinks himself a sufficient jiidge of
military affairs to pronounce that oLr officers didnot do
their duty at Inktrnian, but we should be very sorry to
see
Mr' Bennoch taking their places, and directing our

(Froth the Morning Advertiser of thiPday.)
If Lord Palmerston had desired to use his utmost in-
genuity and influence in
-order to break up the aristo-
cratic monopoly of place, and throw open its honours
and emoluments to men of merit, we doubt whether he
could have acted more judiciously than be has done for
the production of that result. The country—which,
notwithstanding its grounds of. just. complaint, would
have been satisfied to leave their redress tothe House of
Commons, had his lordship, on becoming Premier, fol-
lowed the course which events had marked avitt for him —no sooner saw that he was resolved to adhere to the
principles of his predecessors, than it began :.tat calculate
what means of redress it possessed, independent of a
Minister who bad proved false to his antecAnts, and
of a House of Commons which hardly numbered fifty
honest representatives. Even then it was possible for
his lordship, by a" great aot of repentadce, to dis-
perse the gathering storm. Had that been his object,
he would have aided .it by- showing that -litP was 1111• pres:ed with the calamities we had suffered,.-by treating
the popular members of the house with -some'show, at
least, of respect, when they qut,),tioned hird on matters
' of vital interest, and by abstaining from any of those
scandalous jabs, by which the youth of the aristocracy
are forced into positions for which they are utterly un-
qualified, exdlicvleudsin
soo olefelglle.une‘dvehro are,
tile4lig,iialmily rilyQsilei:
fidr:ean! Butictiee—d
had'lite74 seen the talisman of birth so uniformly
triumphant over the vulgar title of merit,ttihat it would appear as if he believed that he and-hia order were en-
titled to be our rulers by the claim of divine right.
Therefore be scorned to conciliate public., opinion. He
even went out of his way to "show with what contempt
he regarded it. To speak in the Parliamentary language,
which we receive from his own lips, he "falsely and
calumniously" charged upon the middle classes the dis-
asters we have suffered, and gave to the seines of the
aristacracyovith equal falsehood, the whole Cliclit of the
Alma and of Inkertnan. When questions were asked
touching the progress of affairs in the Crimea, he treated
them as if they had referred to a were badelle, and
thought it no di-pnragement t, his cwn dignity, and no
insult to the good feehag of the country, to wake a jest
of an expeditkin to whist, lie were daFy being sacri-
fice I, and which bad air. ady cost the sner.fieenf thou-
sands upon thousands of cur fellow-couutrymen. The
' obedient Hons.+ of Coamiami fauJied with the dispenser
pf the pub!ic tultrorag,e. q.sly onee hisi lordship..warmed
int ) indigrution, and when, in th:ii fit of entbusiasm, he
predicted tho downfall of England with the downfalf.of
its az istsscracy, the house burst rut-, tr,remloultihreting.
Fnuri all this What have tl:e pe• pie le6rned, bi.t Vlat,,if
(they would rise from their pro.tnite u,,,,diciiyilwit, rirsumt
be henergies.y their own energies. IT they will riot, befriend
thetosielve, th,,y must look elsewhere for
.a friend in v tin. Ts. this troth they are, at last, we rci swe to see,
thor ,ughty aroused. the grs•at :cretin;; ac 164 L,indon
Taver.s, on Sstusday. the di tingoishe.d cheiss ters of
the men conversing it, their position in the mercantile
world, their wea!tn, their busisse,:s 'canacityyl and the
f‘ct that they belong to different political paßties, cor-
dially uniting as to the vital necessity of Administrative
Reform, will be felt throughout the county. The
friends of Guvernment, the participators in tke spoil,
for which national interests have been sacri4el, con-
sole themselves, in the face of this great denrohsttation,
by saying, "It will be a Hash in the pan." What says
Mr. Samuel Morley ? "This is not to be a thing of to-
day only." Why should it ? "I should like,".continues
Mr. Morley, " to take you through the list ofThe Com-
missioners of Excise, of the Customs, of everything. I
will prove to you that in nineteen out of twenty oases,
they are the sons, cousins, and brothers of members of
Parliament, or of some persons who have interest enough
to demand an appointment. I would alk Whether it
would not he grateful, for instance, to see 4lowland
Hill made Postmaster-General ? I would astifou why
it should be a fact, that never, in the memory, of any
man, has any other than a peer occupied thislposition,
which requires a knowledge of business, sornetthing like
a sympathy with commercial industry, general qualifica-
tions which, I am bound to say, are not found in the
cases of one out of ten peers." This is not thplanguage
of a man who has made up his mind for a mere demon-
stration. Hear, again, what Mr. Lindsay hal to say
on this point. "It is said, at the West-end;that this
meeting will he a mere flash in the pan. I wiljell them
=and it will go forth to them—that it will be no mere
flash in the pan; that such men as our excellitit chair-
man and Mr. Travers and other men now around me—
's
men of business—will not leave their desks Merely to
have a flash in the pan. We enter into this undertaking
like men of business, and we will not rest until we shall
have effected the reforms which we deem to be necessary.
At this meeting a committee will be formed And that
comna ee will meet instanter, It will be cqopcaed of
men of business ; the resolutions they may .pass hers
onwifpwttaht,it,hrilhrctlealhyoist, ef:_atetshereeconlco,tiine
speeches
to t
hheiesvhsruyabs
subject
tough in the kingdonisretu-ning
members to Parliament. We have all, throllghout the
country, correspondents whoare men of substance, and
who have something to lose; we will ask them, if they
apprOve of our resolutions, to. pass similar rose/516°ns in
their owndistriets to form themselves int, committees, and
job'
z's teheNirieoods and
havetla ta,g if
fntthse 13 76
please,every
pointnient of the Hon. Mr. Howard to the
to
borough
abominablersouubg-
ke) ninnl ttnhi.
et t, ekei
ns .0
()Wiz 4ciedl
recent
when
hlia
eep
.nn
have a
Chairnfl;ristg'h°lthe deep and earnest
f6e'
"gs
o
we shall see any such
Forests, the City Committee will endeavour
andf
every su
di to write
appointment, an,
willmo motion i
send
dbbr-cooupgileits
committeefoo frw thea rtdhrrooensuogtihhuoei
resolutions
sotunlstiieluecptcoinnutththrer? a n d
ask
them to petition against the
1 but
be carried out. An interruption, t
was instant lk resented
ttooltvihleeei
determination
amembersn
no td o
more
o oprotest
tti
thisa atig. n ,
tending
to
don
moment
meeting; that its
not to
burnt thwarto f
indignation. the P r
zene, 7,4
the
,:i
iip.,jui).
tciutu:dsentot the it."
We
aawdl Herloibhiuiiebgi;.
thiff:tmbYwi
otuarea:lsotr
alethul'epueagrrdvhotieetso.
by a
to b . sar Thei, umpard ei
las s.,teirye, :B'ufiitap°lllner:readel
ianindxiigonua concludettioonr e:ttehrtihst
this. s: I wish to
pose .
it shoui
pom
forgot to notice. It is
before
Minister of England. I e.'l"l - 111e-
of the Prune.
upon
select twenty should be
say t lat it is
r Ili
ne t
aunt; anle
we rps eatpuel
Havered" since 'he beiiampe the
PE;kni!nleanAjlfliy:ister of England, under .' h
have broken the hearts of thousands—cilwcihurchst:ahliarescawrhriecd
iouds amazement ‘ ‘
village of the land—.-y `t will find
express
pi dretshsietn.y
tdfsohiella.cslto(h)lwoacttolittolhonii
fciiktinhotuoeoisd)eeoevnd2eor y e 0 1 m n r 0 4 ,
to roars
am amongst
glasutgmhaten: It i I .penrfiencettlyeentrte.leasititehtavve
Nileieii
on his lordship's characte'irr,e, i°:,;:thstiost")setaaysi
that,
a.statesman, the
whatl el
ed
ni In
la.:at, ri
eo
1 'nu ‘t
musto ever arfilesitet:triethei,sgrsea'it'ewsht
9 I::(l.llepdetpr es
1 11
l:
It'
enconinosriphsabalem, own;
Commons which has encouraged the lieoafrttleVlVineuPsaenFoYef
of the: aniquated beau ? Against that corrupY'house_9 0
attack most be directed, if it is to be suceesiPl.w.Th
plan of the association is adn'irable'
so
far
;03titi3edr details
be-
lieve, as we earnestly hope, that in all its
ipte'ovpi 11
te.equl3tilYseedin
"rajga°s made in 'the last
advances which popular
power
rstiCeenciee shoild never
quarter of a century,
sse,rviendteleied, enthtislat)tract
wipt,blhtengfrteahet
assertion Of their several
anialating one anotherat a
borough has returnedjts repre-
sentative The
momenta
to have any voice beenin.the;Legisla-
ahnadve
influencingba nd banded
et u) gotottdl:l,uhei
carat fncoo 'fr.)
tthheei
their representatives,
of -athai etching
d
sentative it has ceasedo
sooner finds himself in house
Legisla-
ture. The M.P.
mem-
bers.Withinthdetheztaceziyitsilionofa
-1 the fact. And who is t 3 be blamed feti4.ll? Who
haPi" Y - .. - s and Duffy, tie is um.
bt
fewl at nt
honesti
zwhehe opl
eoaooci!
is
onwog
English
out nhi
nyif osreesi:ress. representatives,Lw himself.o
heoa
have .permittpi4 it.

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