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London, England, 1851-12-27 00:00:00

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perplexed and elaborate exposition.
part, -reposing as, in cernmon with the
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eed the country, we have reposed entire confidence -
in
Lord Palmerston's admieittration of foreign affairs,
and-sensible as
wc conseepientia: are
which the Crown and ti -e country have sustsined in
hie retirement from office, wa sought with impartial
care, in the statement which the Times was originally
of the ha„,y ior,ss,
ies'ructe .1 to snake upon tl e subject, for some grounds
of state policy sufficiently ateelle to account for so
startling an event. We sought in vain. The
reasons essigee I by the Mieistere for their
own conduct were li is e .t•ed i table to themselves
aed hurniliatieg to tleir country. It became
our duty, es public journalists, to • notice
this fact, and to offer such comments ns were re-
quired by the importance and magnitude of the ques-
tion. We did co with deep end unaffected pain. We
indulged in no surmises-4e offered no suggestions.
ee; far as Lard Palmerston is concerned, we were
contented to wait fur such explanations as he shall
thick it fit to give or to require in his place in Par-
liament. That Noble Lerd, eith a dignity and for-
bearance well suited to his high place, and higher
character,
has sought no meues of anticipating the
Eole z n n and searching discussion which, no doubt,
awaits this grave business in the House of Commons.
they now suffer. -
themselves the unhappy lied the MiniAry followed so prudent an example,
.they might, at least, for a few weeks, have spared
Startling self exposure under which
and they Tivy here adopted another course,
must bear, es they bast may, the just and
inevitable conacque , of their startling act, and of
deli. still more "
We have deemed it right thus. emphatically to
have offered have been !i
remind our readers, the*attempts at its justification,
the remarks which we
which was exclusively inatrailaci.
upon the
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by the Government itself, al allcase as stated
aid not bl us. Tilejoureal
was enabled by the same _ assign its
cause. We did nr.,f', and could 'nootisittothe ve-
racity of the Times, or its right " t question the rin-
g to publish the fact
aeuncements is questienh we took u makethey
stood on its officially inspired g them
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and we believe, them to have Leon perfectly accurate.believea,
The Times, then, said that it was
nor " his connexion," nor any
Clbinet." " Lord Grey," on the contrary, facnon
iin,,
histhe
connexion," and " most ef their colleagues and
ig-
norant of the object for which the Cabinet' 11',fet,
summoned to meet." They learned then
e riato,ti" 40,rd Grey.,"
thata object
for the first time by the announcement ne,,,d, thea
Cabinet in its sitting of Monday last. From thisto
other similar statements put forth in the Times,aAn,
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 ~n,
withdrawal of Parliamentary or public confidence
from Lord Palmerston, it could have its origin no_
where in England, Whence, then, came it ? Wedid
not answer that question for ourselves—we fund its
answer in the Times. Our contemporary raid, 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 hull apparently left him
without an ally in as some think, with-
out a friend."
was added, "regarded him with a degree of hostility
and distrust." This, be •
" The elder of Europe," it
it remembered, is the only,
affirmative statement in which the Times was autho-
rised to indulge up to yesterday,
of negatives. It was ";not Lord Grey."
Lord Grey's connexions." It was "not ~, had
:l ath:,
a nad, , ar
"not
Lord co
any conspiracy.
It was not any " rival faction in the Cabinet." And
after having exhausted all conceivable "note," we are
informed that the Government were dhsatisfied be-
cause " Lord PalmersteCs administration hod not left
him an ally, and, as same thought, a friend, in
Europe, whose elder statesmen regarded him with a
degree of hcstility and distrust." This, then, is, as
we have already shows', - 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 wee net 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 en
astonishment which the country will there, that,
nevertheless, it has been published in English, and
in a paper officially entru.ted 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 he?
Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?"
Now there can be no mistake about the meaning and
intent of the very remarkable words which we have
quoted. It is Lot the Crown which is " left without
en ally or a hind in Feirope." This would be di-
rectly the revere of the fact. Fur every state in . h
Europe is " left " eithe-elln close -alliance. or on
terms of complete amity With nip-hind: ' In like
manner, it is not the Crown of England which was
alleged to hove been distrust d 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 h(neered
him with so much edmizaticn end confidence if he
had ? Wherefore should her Majesty's Se•.:retary 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 he 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 Mini-tern 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, explaeaqon of their cone
duct.:But the Times, coming to the rescue, says they
know nothing about the matter, for it was Lerd 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 Desert, upon grounds and
authority which leave on our minds no doubt of the
fact, that, when the matter shall he fully
and the proofs laid before
will be found
the public, it „.
that the Cabinet has, since Lord Fetraerston s reure-
ieeestigated,
ment, officially communicated to the French Govern-
inent "views and sentiments" precisely similar . in
those which bad been communicated
Lerd Palmerston, and that
everytotha that e 813
Governmentec t to
b- Y , e
there is
"mode" 50. his
of dealing with this emergency. .
ono difference '. whatever. between their
statement with the fullest confidence
dcorrect, and we have a claim to
that es we have never misled the
believed, inasmuch
be
• mind in any matter. There are one or two
public
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more points to which we must return, but our time
and apace compel us to leave the subject here for to-
day.

" A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW
YEAR 1" are generally the congratulations at this festive
season, and every auxiliary is eagerly sought after for the
embellishment of the person. The decorative beauty:and
culture of the tresses of female loveliness especially, en.
hancing as they so greatly do the charms of personal appear-
ance, occupy by no means a small share of attention at the
toilet. It is more particularly at such periods that the en-
livening and wonderfully revivifying properties of lowlands'
Macassar Oil are displayed, and which establish it as an in-
vigorator and beautifier of the hair beyond all precedent.
Indeed among the chief virtues incident to the use of Row-
lands' Macassar Oil (in reference to ladies' hair)lgir,e in
reckoned its enduring properties in preserving the
coball-room,
pristine decorative beauty through the beat of the
or the locomotion of the promenade.
letter from Beyrout,
How TO PROCURE RAIN
in the Osservatorc Tr;estino, states that
n to pray for rain on
vernment has ordered every
Ti,sd gives the following do-
account of the great drought, Every good Mahometan pro-
scription of the ceremony :t intihaat the Ottoman Go-
y leaves upon it ; he then re-
cures a vine branch
packthread, and cast into Q.
cites a verse of the
is then rolled up, seenrlelen it shall have rained sufficiently.
KwoirtaTh
tfoo:r.ae-r each leaf. The vine brarch
sea, to be drawn out NV