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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1863.

Discretion is certainly the better part of valour
with her MAJESTY'S Ministers. Mr. GLADSTONE—
Iike the embodiment of COLLINS' Ode to the Pe ssions
—" back recoils [though by the way the right hon.
gentleman does know why] even at the sound him-
self has made !" The proposition, coolly put forth
in the Budget, for the taxation of charities, Mr.
GLADSTONE as coolly withdraws last evening in
committee. He has a wholesome qualm upon him
as to the result of any division. Not intentionally
—under the circumstances, for as Mr. HENLEY
drily remarked immediately after the speech of the
Prime Minister, "as the noble lord had spoken oi
the feeling of small associations or of local associa-
tions," we would just say (with Mr. HENLEY) that
we believe "they comprise the whole country—be-
cause," said the quaint old humourist, " the wholeis
made up of puts." Now, looking back to this rather
long-winded discussion last evening in the House
of Commons in regard to this bungling proposition
of Mr. GLADSTONE'S for the taxation of charities,
through a heartless little clause in his Budget (a
clause now miserably withdrawn)—looking back
to the discussion of all this in the House of Com-
mons yesterday, and turning to the speech, already
alluded to, as having fallen towards the close of it
from the lips of Lord PALMERSTON, what, as
usual, do we find there ? Well, according to
what is fast becoming the all but invariable
circumstance noticeable in the speeches of Lord
PALMERSTON, we find the noble viscount's remarks
frequently interrupted with parenthetical intima-
tions of "laughter," "renewed laughter," and so
forth. Grave cr gay, sad, serious, or grotesque, an
after dinner speech at the Royal Academy, an
inaugural address to a learned University, a pro-
posal of a toast to the Ladies of Scotland, an argu-
ment as to certain charities that it has been sug-
gested by one of his colleagues should be ground
down under a new scheme of petty taxation—what

ever the occasion, whatever the thema, so soon as
Lord PALMERSTON opens his lips (he himself all
the while now fast getting on for eighty) there is
laughter, loud laughter, renewed laughter ! Ai we
said yesterday—mainly, if not exclusively for the
sake of this laughter, in consideration of the vivacity
and bonhommie of Lord PALMERSTON the Ministry
(otherwise, in regard to Reform and matters of that
kind, utterly useless) is simply just tolerated. So
that actually—remembering the merriment which is
thus being continually provoked by the one popular
Minister, in the midst of his unpopular colleagues
—the Government of this great empire is now being
carried on upon the simple principle of Grin and
Bear it !

Rather a ludicrous state of things, surely, when
the actual situation of affairs comes to be looked
into. All the more contemptible in its way, more-
over, when we think for a moment of the
war, stilt to this instant, and for a long
while past, raging in
America (a war that Eng-
land may yet be dragged into), and of the
Revolution in Poland that m eventuallysult in a general embroilment fay
the great Powers
of Europe—England amongst them.
Contrasting very strikingly, indeed, with the
careless whimsicality of the Premier and the dull
dead weight of his do-nothing colleagues.—one can-
not but be constrained into seriousness, and into a
hope at least of something like earnest action
on the part of our Statesmen—upon reading
in the initial number of the new monthly organ
of her MAJESTY'S Opposition—No. 1 of The New
Review—orhat may, in some respects, be regarded,
we presume, as a formal manifesto put forth in the
name of that Opposition. Tories, though we are
not, Liberals though we are to the back-bone, to
the very heart's core, Reformers, Economists,
Frye Traders, we cannot hut listen w,th
a po.itive sense of relief to what it is Us
this new mouthpiece of her MAJESTY'S Opposition
has to say, in manly seriousness, in the midst of the
silly frivolities of our aged Prime Minister, and

of the dull do-nothings of his colleagues it] her MA-

JESTY'S Government. Turning our regard from

this do-nothing policy of Ministers-- turning our
attention horn this incessant frivolity of tone notice-