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LONDON, FRIDAY, 'MARCH 10, 1552.

If anything had been required to demonstrate still
more clearly the ab:andoment of all sense of political
decency by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, conclusive evidence
would have been afforded by the proceedings of yes-
terday. Proceedings more ungenerous under the cir-
cumstances have never before disgraced the annals of
Parliamentary Opposition. Proceedings more factious
of their kind have never before elicited from the pub-
lie journalist the expressions of a conscientious con-
demnation. It needed only this to assure us
that the late PaimE MINISTER is entirely
ignorant of the meaning of the word magnani-
mity. His conduct towards his successor will be
contrasted 1)y the future annalist with that displayed
towards himself by his brave-hearted and noble-
minded predecessor. To maintain, as Lord JOHN
RUSSELL maintained yesterday, that there is any
parity between the policy adopted by himself at the
present juncture, and that adventured upon by Sir
BOXERT PEEL in 1846, is disingenuous beyond the
limits even of plausibility. in reality there is no
resemblance whatever between the
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Russt4l Government then and b
vernment now-a-dap. There is an absence of all simi-
larity even is appearance. The present Cabinet has
been called into existence not through its own eager
assiduity in skiving to attain the power and preroga-
tives of administration. It has been suddenly and
unexpectedly summoned into being by the weakness
its
of a Ministry which had lost all former influence
over the population. The prete:-..ce that by the eleva-
tion to power, thus summarily, of the Earl of
DERBY and him political supporters necessitates
the rever;al of our commercial systetr, is on the
very face of it a wilful sham and a deliberate
delusion. From the very commencement we
have insisted upon this. prom the very outset we
have maintained that there is about as much likeli-
hood of a restorati,)n of the system of monopoly as
ton re is of an interference with the laws regulating
the movements of abe planets. To declare otherwise
is to assert what is contrary to the speaker's own se-
area convictions, or to acknowleep a doubt in the
stability of free trade—a doubt altogether incompatible
with aright sense of its wisdom, its efficacy, and
its popularity. Hence we deemed it our
duty, as Free-traders, to discountenance forthwith
and entirely the coultze threatened by the lion.
4;preeentative fur Wolverhampton—dechring that
course, as we did not shrink from doing, to be nothing
less thin factions, because glaringly unnecessary.
Fsc;ioue, hewever, though the course projected by
Mr. TILLIBIL3 vraL, it was not facticus enough by
any means for Lard jonN RUSSELL. The promised mo-
tion was not calculated to inlertere speedily enough
tvitu wile, under the most advantagdrus eir-
curnattamoe!4, could not fail to be the very
ajafiatatt movements of the Government. It has con-
sequently been withdrawn in compliance with the
suggestion of the magnanimous Leader of the Opposi-
sion, who yesterday, in the presence of 168 Members
of the Lower House, assembled in solemn conclave at
his private residence, announced his determination to
1-ibrow an obstacle in the way of
the new Cabinet as
Monday next. Having received from the
Zia. the ClO-I.lcALL:iit Of the EXCHEQUER an
to a-letter, vflattiler 11c +o4soix'6

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