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part, reposing as, in common with the Parliament
and the country, we have reposed entire confidence in
Lord Palmerston's administration of foreign affairs,
and sensible as we consequently are of the heavy loss
which the Crown and the country have sustained in
his retirement from office, we sought with impartial
care, in the statement which the Times was originally
instructed to make upon the subject, for some grounds
of state policy sufficiently strong to account for so
startling an event. We sought in vain. The
reasons essigeed by the Ministers for their
olNn conduct were discreditable to themselves
and humiliating to their country. It became
our duty, as public journalists, to notice
this fact, and to offer such comments as were re-
quired by the importance and magnitude of the ques-
tion. We did b 0 with deep and unaffected pain. We
indulged in no surmises—we offered no suggestions.
As far as Lord Palmerston is concerned, we were
contented to wait for such explanations as he shall
think it fit to give or to require in his place in Par-
liament. Teat Noble Lord, with a dignity and for-
bearance well suited to his high place, and higher
character, has sought no means of anticipating the
solemn and searching discussion which, no doubt,
awaits this grave business in the House of Commons.
Had the Ministry followed so prudent an example,
they might, at least, for a few weeks, have spared
themselves the unhappy
they now re self-exposure under which
sue-ar• They hive adopted another course,
and they must bear, as they best may, the just and
I inevitable consequences
of their startling act, and of
their still more startling
attempts at its justification.
We have deemed
It right thus emphatically to
remind our readers, that all the remarks which we
have offered have been made upon the eete as stated
by the Goesfnment itself,
arid not b
which was exclusively instructed toy us. The journal
publish the fact
was enabled by the same authority to assign its
cause. We did not, and could not, question the ve-
racity of the Times, or its right to make the an-
nouncements in question. 'Ye took them as they
stood on its officially inspired Page. We believed,
and we believe, them to have been perfectly accurate.
The Times, then, said that it was not " Lord Grey,"
nor " his connexion," nor any " rival faction in the
Cabinet." " Lord Grey," on the contrary, and his
connexion," and " most of their colleagues, were ig-
norant of the object for which the Cabinet had been
summoned to meet." They learned then that object
for the first time by the announcement made to the
Cabinet in its sitting of Monday last. From this and
other similar statements put forth in the Timm, we
yesterday showed, beyond the possibility of contra-
diction, that as the cause did not exist in any
" rival faction" of the Cabinet—and as it is
further notorious that it did not arise from any
withdrawal of Parliamentary or public confidence)
from Lord Palmerston, it could have its origin no-
where to England, Whence, then, came it ? We did
not answer that question for ourselves—we found its
answer in the Times. Our contemporary said, in
language which he could not have ventured to employ
without authority, " Her Majesty's Government
could not be indifferent to the fact that, from one
cause or another, the administration of foreign af-
fairs by Lord Palmerston had apparently left him
without an ally in Europe, and, as some think, with-
out a friend." " The elder statesmen of Europe," it
was added, "regarded him witb a degree of hostility
and distrust." This, be it remembered, is the only
affirmative statement in which the Times was autho-
rised to indulge up to yesterday. He had abundance
of negatives. It was ";not Lord Grey.".; It was " not
Lord Grey's connexions." It was "not any conspiracy."
It was not any " rival faction in the Cabinet." And
after having exhausted all conceivable " nots," we are
informed that the Government were dissatisfied be-
cause " Lord Palmerston's administration bad not left
him an ally, and, as some thought, a friend, in
Europe, whose elder statesmen regarded him with a
degree of hostility and distrust." This, then, is, as
we have already shown, the real motive of the
Ministerial act, and the only one which, through
their chosen organ, they have assigned. We empha-
tically repeat that it was not suggested by us. We
could not have supposed that there existed any
Englishman—much less any English Minister—who
would have entertained and avowed a sentiment so
unworthy of his country. We learned, with an
astonishment which the country will share, that,
nevertheless, it has been published in English, and
in a paper officially entrusted to make known a change
in an English Ministry of which Lord John Russell
is the head. However incredible, it is true.
" Who would not laugh, if such a man there be?
Who would not weep, if Atticus were tee?"
Now there can be no mistake about the meaning and
intent of the very remarkable words which we have
-quoted. It is not therown *Web is " left -without
an ally or a friend in Europe." This would be di-
rectly the reverse of the fact. For every state in
Europe is " left " either in close alliance, or on
terms of complete amity with England. In like
manner, it is not the Crown of England which was
alleged to have been distrusted or disliked by the
elder statesmen of Europe. No. It was Lord Pal-
merston, the Minister, who had no "ally or friend"
among the elder statesmen of foreign European
Courts. Would the English public have hcnoared
him with so much admiration and confidence if he
had ? Wherefore should her Majesty's Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, or any other of her Minis-
ters, form private and personal alliances with the
Ministers of foreign Courts. If any one of them
has, it is high time that be should be dismissed from
an office whose duties he cannot impartially discharge.
But this is the new and degrading doctrine which
we condemn, and which will be regarded with still
severer condemnation by the people of England. Be-
cause Ministers of foreign Courts—the elder states-
men of Europe—men sworn to maintain interests
that are not English—cannot succeed in decoying
into private alliances a member of the English Ca-
binet, that member must retire from office. In other
words, it is not the Queen who must choose her own
Ministers—it is not the public confidence in their
integrity and ability that her Majesty must regard in
making her selection. She must see that her confi-
dential advisers have confidential " allies" and
" friends" amongst the Ministers of foreign Courts,
and the " elder statesmen of Europe" must construct
the English Cabinet from men 'whom they, and not
she, can " regard without distrust and hostility."
Upon reflection, it seems that the Times has dis-
covered the melancholy indiscretion of which his
official instructors have been guilty. Yesterday he
assumes a different tone, and, deprecating any official
or authoritative information, suggests a new and
totally different cause for the retirement of Lord
Palmerston. It is not now the Noble Lord's hos-
tility to foreign States or Ministers, or the hos-
tility of foreign States and Ministers to him. It has
now become a " serious and unfounded imputation on
the Government to suppose that the removal of Lord
Palmerston has been instigated by the agents of fo-
reign Courts," If it be so, we repeat, it is the Times
and his Ministerial instructors alone that has visited
the Government with such imputations. They form
their own, and their only, explanation of their con-
duct:But the Time;si coming to the rescue, says they,
know nothing about the matter, for it was Lord Pal-
merston's friendship to France, and not foreign dis-
trust of him, that led to his retirement. He approved,
it is alleged, of the course adopted by the President of
the French Republic, and his colleagues not only
"differed from him in their views" on this subject, but
there was "a marked difference between their mode of
dealing with the emergency" and that of the Noble
Viscount. The Times takes great care to impress upon
his readers that he does not speak here from official
information. It is well that he enters this caveat.
For we do not hesitate to assert, upon grounds and
authority which leave on our mind' no doubt of the
fact, that, when the matter shall be fully investigated,
and the proofs laid before the public, it will be found
that the Cabinet has, Lord Palmerston's retiree
since the Fh G-
ment, officially "I:rnZcated
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ents"to renc
precisely similarovern in
meat"
those
every respect to which had been communicated
to that Government by Lord Palmerston, and that
there is "Do differenee,, whatever between their
"mode" and
his of dealing with this emergency.
We make this statement with the fullest confidence
that it
will be found correct, and we have a claim to
be believed, inasmuch as we have never misled the
public mind in any matter. There are one or two
more points to which we must return, but our time
and space compel us to leave the subject here for to-
da
y.

" A MERRY CURISTMAS AND k. MOTT NEW
YEAR!" are generally the congratulations at this festive
season, and every auxiliary is eagerly sought after for the
embellishment of the person. The decorative beautyland
culture of the tresses of female loveliness especially, en-
hancing as they so greatly do the charms of personal appear-
ance, occupy by Lc, means a small share of attention at th•
toilet. It is more particularly at such periods that the en-
livening and wonderfully revivifying properties of Ronlan.dna.
Macassar Oil are displayed, and which establish " ase.cnint.
vigorator and beautifier of the hair beyond
alissport Row-
Indeed among the chief virtues incident to t,h!u may be
lands' Macassar Oil (in reference to ladies' hair)
the coiffure i n
reckoned its enduring properties in preserving
het of the ball-room,
pristine decorative beauty through the
or the locomotion of the promenadei
letter from Beyrout,
HOW TO PROCURE
in the Osservatore TriestßinoA,7si
every saussulman to pray for, rain on
Go-
vernment has ordered
drought, and gives the following de-
account of the great
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scription of the ceremony -Every
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when it phall Imo rained autficiontly.
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