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PRICE 4D• STAMPED, SD.

plain and broad, and that men who have borne a
share in the overthrow of an existing Government
are bound to do their best to secure a better far the
country in its stead. All we mean to insist on is
that they may do so more effectually by waiving
claims of personal ambition than by rashly waiving
repugnances of sentiment on vital questions.
This is one side of the matter ; but there is an-
other. Those who may be entrusted with the task
of forming a Ministry have a perfect right to seek
for homogeneity of opinion in the selection of
materials to compose it. If they narrow their test
of confOriiiity within certain bounds, they are soon
likelyto pay the penalty of their intolerance and
folly, and they may be safely left the liberty of
doing .so at their peril. But as between men of
different classes, they have no right to' hesitate.
The prestige of class exclusion is dead ; the once
haughty privilege of birth and wealth is no more.
What used to be the exercise of a time-honoured
prerogative of social rank, if now to be revived,
would be rejected and spurned as a fraudulent
usurpation. The nation has got beyond that, and
will consent to parley about it no more. The aris-
tocratic jealousies of government have been
taken off their hinges, and sent to be broken up
for historic firewood. We don't envy the impudent
meddler who would try to set them up again. We
will have no more of the darkening and deadening
system. The country has made up its mind to the
representative principle in the ccmposition of• the
Executive its well as in the Legislature. It does not
profess to dictate as to individuals; but it will insist

upon all classes being treated as alike eligible, and
all pursuits being treated as equally entitled
to have ifs foremost men admitted to the councils of
the CroiVn, provided they are qualified by ability,
cultivation, and worth. To the credit of Lord
Derby it will ever be remembered -that in this re-
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spect-he showed from the outset a desire to comply
with the national will. His cabinet had other
grievous faults, but exclusiveness was not one of
them ; and it is a tribute to its memory we cheer-
fully pay when we say that throughout all the
departments the same spirit of fair play to plebeian
talent and character was strikingly manifested.
We will, moreover, add our persuasion that to this
circumstance in no small degree was owing the
forbearance long shown to the late Government on
many trying occasions, and the degree of support
it obtained so far as was possible from the press.

Be that as it may, however, the precedent has now
been fully and fairly set; the principle of progress
has, in this essential requisite of constitutional life,
been thoroughly established ; and no administra-
tion has henceforth a chance of prolonged existence
that does not largely and liberally recognise it.
The positive pledges given by the Whig chiefs,
at the public meeting of the Liberal party recently
held at Willis's Rooms, leave no room to doubt their
personal • dispbsition in this all-important matter.
But he can know little of political history who
overlooks the difficulties and temptations that beset
men who are called upon to form a Government.
From the hour they receive the command of her
Majesty to undertake the task until in all its de-
tails it is known to be completed, they are besieged
by applicants of high degree and low capacity,
insatiable of public profit on which they have been
bred to gorge, and sycophants of rank and intriguers
of quality, all wanting something, either title,
place, or preferment, and each possessing, or fancy-
ing he possesses, more or less of the hereditary
means of showing resentment if his opportunity
be unheeded. Amid the clamour of these noble
cormorants the claim of worthier pretensions is
liable to be forgotten, because it is comparatively
seldom heard. But the eminent statesmen, who,
in the present case, are consulted by the Sove-
reign as to the constitution of a new Executive,
will comprehend the necessities of the situation
and prove themselves superior to old prejudices and
new embarrassments. They will, we trust; show
that, while their foreign and domestic policy is more
in unison with the wishes of the nation than that
of their predecessors, their sense of administrative
justice and equality is not less so. They will
neither submit, let us hope, to be worried nor flattered
into shipping an incompetent crew. They will make
nominations to office their first appeal to the judg-
ment of the country ; and if these nominations shall
be found to "contain the fair proportion of middle-
class intelligence, energy, and experience, which the
highly developed condition ofthose classes naturally
demands, they will have opened their campaign
successfully. They will disdain all shirking of the
principle we have been contending for. If
health, pre-occupation, peculiarity of views, or
any other circumstance, prevents this .nan or that
from accepting office, instread of treating it as so
much additional prey unexpectedly regained for
the harpies of exclusion, they will gladly find in it
the opportunity of proving the sincerity of their
conversion to popular right by offering it to some
other, though possibly less prominent, man of com-
merce, science, or letters. We can never consent to

listen to the insulting pretence that such men are
not to be found. They are always to be found when
they are sincerely sought for ; and the community
that has achieved in arts and arms what ours has
done, will no longer submit to be questioned as to
its abundant competency to govern itself.—Daily
News.