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London, England, 1834-11-17 00:00:00

governing party, we need say nothing. There
remain the Whigs ; and from the Whigs,
_assisted
by the Radicals, we believe that the materials
of any Government that is to be stable, or
even safe, must ultimately be taken. • Who
shall be at its head,---whether Lord Melbourne, who,
five months ago, was hailed by all the country as the
fittest man, and whose character has, if possible, risen
during those five months, is to be continued, or rataer
replaced, and whether he will consent to that arrange-
ment, and on what terms ?—all these are questions of
great interest, but not, we think, requiring present dis-
cussion. The Whigs will not be resorted to till all
previous combinations have been tried, and found
wanting. The next ten days—perhaps the next
month—will be wasted in attempts to reconcile contra-
rieties : to make the timid bold, the obstinate comply-
ing, the decided inconsistent, and the base honourable.
" Nulli sua forma manebit,
Obstabitque aliis aliud, quia corpore in uno
Frigida pugnabunt calidis, humentia siccis,
Mollia cum duris, sine pondere habentia pondus."
When every man who shall mingle in the intrigue
shall have been sufficiently disgraced, when the country
shall have sufficiently suffered at home and abroad, it
will proclaim, with a voice that cannot be misunder-
stood or neglected, both the necessity of forming an
Administration, and the mode in which that object is
to be effected.—Morning Chronicle.
The dismissal of Lord Melbourne's Cabinet lays a

temporary obstruction, and nothing more, in the path
of that great experiment which has been making during
the last four years to apply to Great Britain the prin-
ciples and practice of a Government directly influenced
by the people. The present is not the first unfortunate
incident which has occurred in the course of this mo-
mentous trial. But the experiment is one which cannot
eventually fail ; for the end is rooted in the heart of
the nation, and happily, in the very first stage of the
proceeding, the most ample means of ultimate success
were provided for us, which never can, by any exer-
tion of violence or fraud, be revoked. But in the

mean time, what dreadful evils may be perpetrated!
Providentially, upon the means of practical good
government Lord Grey's reform Cabinet was unani-
mous, at least its internal disagreements bore no
visible fruits, and the Reform Bill itself, the key of
power, became the law of England. The first
Grey Cabinet broke up upon the extent to which
the machinery furnished by the Reform Bill should
be applied to the re-organization of the Irish church
establishment. The chief of that Cabinet was hustled
out upon another Irish question not ostensibly con-
nected with the church, and less through the positive
treachery, we apprehend, than the meddling and mor-
bid spirit of intrigue inherent in a well-known person.
It is not pretended by anybody, and we are sure it
Would be most unjust to his Majesty to assert, that his
objections to the continuance of Lord Melbourne's
Cabinet were of a personal nature in so far as con-
cerned his Lordship. His Majesty is known, however,
to entertain an aversion which amounts to absolute

loathing towards one individual (by courtesy called
" learned") of the late Cabinet. Respecting him the
King makes no scruple of speaking out, as of an ite-
nerant mountebank, who has not only disgraced the
Cabinet of which he formed part, but has dragged the
Great Seal of England through the kennel, and de-
graded, by his unnumbered antics and meannesses, the
highest office of the law and state in. England. We
think it right also to take this opportunity of
stating that the passage in the communication sent to
us on Saturday morning relating to the Queen, has
no foundation in fact. Her Majesty had not the
slightest concern with this revolution in the Cabinet.
Having without examination, and under the first ex-
citement of such extraordinary intelligence, published
a statement which appeared to bear hard upon Her
Majesty, we have sincere pleasure in giving it this de-
cided contradiction, and in declaring our belief that
the Queen is not capable of any undue intermeddling
with public affairs, or of attempting—what we are
sure she could not accomplish if she did—to exercise
any influence upon the mind of Her Royal Consort,
in what relates to his sole authority as Sovereign.
Now to the facts :—the Duke of Wellington
has accepted office pro tempore—that is to say, he
desires to reserve himself until the return of Sir
R. Peel, who is at present abroad. It is be-
lieved that the Duke would be quite willing to enter
upon the discharge of the duties of Secretary for Fo-
reig Affairs, and cede the post of Premier to the Right
Hon. Baronet, if the latter should be disposed to take
that high station in preference to any other. There is
also no reason to doubt that his Majesty has ex-
pressed a strong and earnest desire that Mr. Stanley
should be included in the Government. If these
things be true,—and the authority upon which we re-
ceive them compels us to believe them so,—it is ob-
viously premature and unreasonable to declare that the
Administration about to be formed will set their faces
against all reform. Was Mr. Stanley opposed to
all reform ? We do not say that he will choose
to join the Administration ; but in the fact that the
King desires that he should jo'n it, we think we can
discover, without any affectation of sagacity, a determina-
tion in favour of, not against, the removal or the reform
of abuses. But it will be said that the amount
of the reform to be achieved is a most important
consideration, and that the country will not be con-
tented with as little of reform as it got last session.
We fully accede to this opinion ; but what did the
Lord Chancellor tell the people in the north ? Why,
that if little were done last session, less would be done
in the next session. Was there anything very pro-
mising to the country generally, or to the Reformers in
particular, in this ? We think not ; and we cannot
discover the slightest ground for apprehending that,
however ingeniously conservative the Duke may happen
to be, he can possibly do less than Lord Brougham
threatened to content himself with doing (vouching at
the same time for his colleagues) in the next session
of Parliament. Surely some of our contemporaries err
exceedingly in supposing that any Minister can in these
times put down reform, or that any man is to be found
insane enough to let slip any opportunity of maintain-
ing peace abroad, and content, by economy and retrench-
ment, at home. Such apprehensions must be affected :
no rational man can seriously entertain them. We
have no fear (because the event is impossible) that the
march of reform and of retrenchment can be impeded ;
and we are confident that our friendly relations with
foreign powers will be maintained ; for wantonly to
disturb them would be to plunge the country in ex-
' penses which it would not hear, and raise up to the
Minister ad enemy on every square foot of ground
throughout the empire. What the measures of the
new Administration will be, no one, we suppose, will
venture to predict. It should, however, be stated that
the friends of the Duke of Wellington declare that he
thinks " a great church reform necessary and inevit-
able:" and that, "generally, he will be found friendly
to all sound and sincere reform." Time will show
what is meant by these general expressions, but it
should be recollected that they are neither more ge-
neral nor weaker than what the late Chancellor said
about caution and temperance in reform, when at the
dinner to Earl Grey he rebuked " the impatient
urgers-on" of Ministers, and called up Lord Durham.
We have little to add respecting the history of the late
change. It is difficult, we think, for any one to believe
that the dismissal of the late Ministers was not the re-
sult of a preconcerted intrigue : yet we owe it to fair-
ness and justice to state, that men of high character
positively assert that the fact is not so. They do not,
however, affect to conceal that the change which has
taken place has long been a cherished project of his
Majesty. Lord Melbourne was the bearer of the
King's communication to the Duke of Wellington.
The Secretaries of State have already received an inti-
mation to attend the Council to-day for the purpose of
delivering up the seals. Some people complain of this
as rather sharp practice,--which, in truth, it is.—

Times.
The Melbourne Ministry is dissolved. The conjec-
tures which we hazarded on Saturday were indeed
signally erroneous. Our contemporaries of the Times
and the Chronicle, better informed concerning the
movements of the Whigs than we can pretend to be,
announced the extinction of the Administration while
we were speculating upon the fashion of its recon-
struction. We will not affect to state, as from autho-
rity, the circumstances under which Lord Melbourne's
Cabinet has fallen to pieces. But, finding certain
statements in the columns of our contemporaries,