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oF minion.? Will the reunion of Sir. R. Pe-l's
followers with the main body of the ConservAtives
give to tie new Ministry a m jority in the Howe
of Comm us?

Tnis iP, at least, doubtful. But will a diszolu-
ti;n in June set matters right ? Th Lt depends on
the reception which Mr. Gl*dstone's name meets
with in the country.
It i 3 a keen perception of these difficulti,,s which
leads L ird John Russell to predict :with confidence
that the Premiership will be his before Milsuminer.
In his view the failure of a Conservative Cabinet
is certain ; and then he considers that his turn
must clime,- and that the country must accept him
as its dictator, simply because no other course is
open to jr.
This is he anticipation of a v,ry self-confiden-
' man. Others, and more judicious rea3oners, avow
their conviction that Lord John Russell's chance of
soccesi is far smaller than Lord D,rby's or even
than Lord Aberd e ,'s (however prepo .terous ih •
last thought mty appe tr). They tell us th it Lord
John's populirty with the Wlii,s th ms,-lvfs is
nearly gone, and ihit at Br okes's he is s.arcAr
t ylerated. Trey hold it to be impossible for him
to gather round him a decent Cabinet.
On the whole, the advent of a Conservative
Min'stry seems very near. The chief difficulty
seems to be to quiet the apprehensions of sect ral in
Parliament, and of m iny persons out of Parlia
meat, who dread, more than almost any othat
thin', fie in reduction of Trac-ai ian influence into
the high Ilaees of tire laud.

(From the Mornieg Advertiser )
Out of evil cometh. good. The Ultimate resulr
of the nurwfrical divum iture of Ministers yester-
day morninz will be to strengthen-the; ioncle and
encoisraps the he tit of Lo. d -PalmersLon.
country wi!l view the matter in its true light. Tie
country is not a ficqbn. The c-;untry bas no fac-
t ons ends to serve. The country is not in quest of
place. Fac ion has for the moment tiiump'!;e i in the
House of Commons. Place-huuters have, as they
imagine, made a great advance t) the attainment
of their object. Mr. Disr tell and Mr. Gladstone
are specula ing with gre.l confidence on their early
acquisition of the reins of power.
It were well if they were somewhat less sanguine.
" The•e's many a siip between the cup and the lip."
So s Lys the proverb, and every daYs observation
verifies its truth. The coun.ry will never submit !o
see L Palmerston male the victim of the most
disgraceful corn hi nation re con lel in the annals of this
or of amy other country. Only reflect for a mom
on the fact, that the names of the heads of each
Of the five hostile parties into which the house
of Commons is divided, will be found in the list of
those who vot?d against Ministers. Mr. Disra'li,
as the L-a'ler of the Conservative s ; Mr. Glaiston-,
as the head of the Peelites ; Lord John Ressell, as
the chief of t' e Whigs ; r. Cobden, as tie re-
presentative of the Manchester t-chool ; and Mr.
Roebuck, as the le tder of those very independent
handful of Liberals in the house, who manifesr

their iudipendtme3 by always voting again,t any
Governm-nt which chances to be in power—all, all

grweths list of Lori Palmerston's foe'.
There is something ahsolu ely odious in a combi-
nation like this. The country will tUrn away trim
it with loarhing, We repeat whit we have said from
the first, that the bombardment of Canton wag,
under all the circuins'ances, a barbarous act ; and,
therefore, th:t Lord Palmerston committed a great
error in policy, as well as iu justice, in adopting
and making his own everything which Admiral
Seymoir and Sir John Bowring thought proper to
do. But that oily showed au excess agenerogity
on the parr of the Premier. Thera was some.hing
noble in the feeling which promptel him to
stand by th servants of the Crowu—so far distant
from home ; but Lord Pa!merston ought to bs.
a the adverse vote of yesterday morning

inu,t have taught him the les,ori—that gene;
mAy be can ied too fir. It ought never to be exer-
cised at the expense of justice.
Still the error vihn't the Premier has committed

in this insthme did neither require nor jus-
tify the factions hostility which he has had to
encounter from the nieniacious consp.,rators who
leagued aga.nst him in this dlylte. Are all the
past patristic deeds of the noble lord to be fo,g)t-
, ten became of one error, and that arising f om the
noblest of feelings? The Disraelis and GlAdstoue=,
and the hungry broad who trirk at thk-ir heels in
their eager pursuit of place, nity so reason ; bait
lite country will feel and act other wis% The peo, 1 •
will never forget that; to him alone we owe the
ex4ted position which Greci, : Britain occupiei at
thi,' moment am..ng the nations of tue civilised
world.

Th 3 country linows, and feels profoundly grate-
ful in the cmteinplition of tl:e face, that out
Lord Payne s'on Russia would at this hour he
playing the despot o%er the 1,-ngth and likadth of
Europe. It was he, and he alo ie, t'ia.t F:o sigrTatly
defeated all her diplomatic tricks, ai led though she
was by France, iu reference to the Boigra I and
Bevarab an qu..stions. Not only can lie triuin-
phant'y say, " Alone I di,' it ;" but we Clll add,
thitt there is not anot"er man among the many
millions of. 11 it. 111.ijeAy's subjects who c ,uld have
done it. llad Lotd Al)erdeen, Lord Derby, or
Lord J. Russell been in office during the last two
ye trs, England would be, at this hour, in etle.:t, at
tae b:ck of the Czar. We should hwe been vir-
tually .tlit serfs of the. Au c_icrat of all the
Rusisias. Louis Napoleon would have had his
wishes gratified respecting the extinction of the
freedom of our Pre,is ; and ere a few years more
had elapse 1 this country would have been in ,he
same state of political and social degradation as
that in which we see France so deeply sunk. •
Russia will never for-,iiive Lo'd Palmers'on f

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the mark-d and merited punishment which he has
inflicted Gn her ; rilr will there ever be the sitht-ta
diminution of that mortification which she feels at
the mist-I-1y manner in which he dealt with, and
defeated, her diplomatic cunning, with regard to
the recent Paris Conferences. She has vowed re-
venge ; and-Rhssia, as all the world knows, never
relents. Nor does she ever renounce her once che-
rished object,. In accordance with her traditional
temper and tac,ics, she has resolved never to give
sleep t) her eyes, nor slumber to her eyelids, until
she has male Lord Palm -rston her victim. She
will pursue hor vindictive coarse OE th last hour
of the noble lord's political exi,tence. Even then
her thirst for vengeance will not be slaked.

(Front the Morning Pcst.)
As the immediate consequence of the defeat of
the Ministry on Tuesday night, a Cabinet Council
was hell ye,terday.
As a on as the Council had broken up Viscount
Palmer ton left, town for Windsor Castle, whence
his lordship will return io-day. It is impossible 'o
suppose that a Minister of the energy, the ability,
and the popularety of the Noble Lord, supported,
as he is, by a large majority of the Upper House of
Plrliainent, can submit to the dictation of so
fictions and unprincipled a coalition as that which
obtained an unfair triumph on the question of the
hostilities in China.
We feel therefore convinced that resignation is
not the point upon which Lord Palmerston has
taken the Royal pleasure.
Of course, it is impossible to say, till the wishes
of her Majesty have been ascertained, what is the
precise course to be pursued ; but we own that we
see 110 resource in the present emergency except an
appeal to the country.
It is not difficult to anticipate the result of such
an appeal. The love of fair play inherent in ihe
English character—the gratitude for a great struggle
successfully maintained, and crowned with an
honourable peat,.)—fora large and unexpected
dirninuti nof the public burdens—for the interests
of E iglin,l promoted and her reputation vin-licate I
—for the alliances which have 'eonsolilated the
tranquillity of Europe, and combined the two great
nations of the West in the cause of civilisation and
liberty—for a home policy, reformatory and pro-
gressive, an]. a foreign policy, glorious because
thoroughly English—cannot fail to find an echo in
the right feeling and honest action of the consti-
tuency of the country.
It seems a singular and most unaccountable fa-
tal.ty that it is at the very moment when a satis-
factory treaty of Peace is signed with Persia by the
Government of Viscount Palmerston—thus prov-
ing the desire of the Cabinet to put an end t 1
aeitvireoiya;
tthheinvgelriylce mwomare and dw choennt e
thest i n the East—that
Neuchatel
affair
a more promising aspect—that it is
lomat the very mo.
_,.. much-slandered meut when the family of the dn ee ry e. dG superene
victims
t i(mMsr .amCohnigsho:hlms British
t.sitsehy )a,re
intendent of Hong Kona,
numerousoft the is la ra.
and other
from a wholesale system. of POloning resorted
suffering
to by the perfidious
that the Rouse
of
_a and treacherous Chinese—
that Commons, by a discreditable
combination of three art' Is'facetiously de-
termined—let the two hundred
gentlemen disguise 't
Government. The issue has
a.sixty
. and
las they will—to con,
now is Pr three
sun) the
ohably no
longer between the Government of Viscount Pal-
merston and the House of Commons' but between
e
a House of Commons elected under the ausnit.
paid
the Earl of Derby and.the country at large.