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JANUARY 31, 1845.
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HEREFORD STEEPLE-CHASE.—WEDNESDAY.
The Aristocratic Chase was won by Humbug, beating
Momentum, Albert, and Tariff. Albert refused nearl:,
all his fences, and Tariff fell.
*HEREFORD COURSING MEETING.
Only the first caurses for the Cup were run on Wed-
nesday, when, owing to the unfavourable weather, the
meeting was postponed for a fortnight.

fashion with those who seem to take pleasure in always
I inverting the truth, to reproach the Right Hon. Baronet
with defects exactly opposed to those great qualities by
which he is characterised; but we challenge any one to
produce three measures so daring and effective as the
property-tax, the tariff, and the constitutional prosecu-
tion of the Irish agitators within any three years of our
' history. We name these measures only; bat look to
`the last three years—to China, India, Canada—have
not Sir Robert Peel's bold, vigorous, and decisive,
;and yet noiseless and calm measures of Govern-
ment advanced the empire a whole century ? If
we were at liberty to speak of measures, which we believe
to be in contemplation, and of men likely to be called to
the councils of Government, we could show that the hap-
piness of the very humblest classes of the people is no
less the care of the Premier than the wealth, power,: and
general prosperity of the empire. The session of 1845
will, if we are not much mistaken, be a remarkable one
—one never to be forgotten by the labouring classes—
Non operariis taccnda gentibits. We may not, however,
go farther in this direction. Lord Dalhousie is a matt
of great commercial knowledge, of great talent, as bold,
vigorous, and decisive in his views of public policy as Sir
Robert Peel himself, and as kind-hearted and
humane. Such a man will be in the situation in
which he can be most eminently useful to his Sove-
ivign and his fellow-subjects, at the head of the
Board of Trade. It is, however, certainly not true
that Mr. Cardwell has been definitively selected as
Vice-President. Mr. Cardwell's character and talents
qualify him for that or even a higher office ; and there
is little doubt that, if he wishes it, h 6 may command an
eminent station in the public service ; but it can serve
no good purpose to retail what are known to be false-
hoods, or what, as having no higher voucher than the
gossip of the Clubs, may be fairly presumed to be false-
hoods. We fairly tell our readers that we will give
them no guesses, either our guesses or the guesses of
others—as anything bat guesses. If they wish to be
cheated with conjectures retailed as facts, they must go
to another shop 9 - we do not deal in the commodity. To
recapitulate :—Sir Thomas Fremantle will be the Irish
Secretary ; there will be some other changes connected
and unconnected with the vacancy of the Secretaryship
at War ; and the session will be distinguished by some
most gratifying measures.

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NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM TIIE ORIGINAL MSS.
Now ready, Two Vols. Bvo., with Portraits,
MEMOIRS OF
THE REIGN OF GEORGE 111.
By HORACE WALPOLE, Earl of Orford.
Edited, with Mites, &c., by Sir DENIS LF. MARCHANT, Bart.
" The great merit of this work is the life-like knowledge displayed
by its author. lie knew his men in the habit as they lived."—
Sp: Oaten
" The last and moat important of Walpole's historical works."—
Morning Chronicle.
" These memoirs give us an insight into the public and private
peculiarities of George the Third's character, which we may vainly
seek elsewhere."--Sun.
" These volumes treat of a portion of our annals imperfectly
known, but one which was productive of incidents pregnant with
subsequent revolutions."—Athenaeum.
"In his piquant anecdote and gossiping intelligence, which make
us so familiar with the men and circumstances of the period, Walpole
is unmatched and unmatchable: '—Literary Gazette.
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(Publisher in Ordinary to her Ma!esty).

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QCHOOL of CHEMISTRY and NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY, ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
LONDON ; under the direction of JOHN RYAN, LL.D., M.D., and
Professor BACHHOFFNER, M.A., Ph. D.
The Course of CHEMICAL LECTURES and Practical Demon-
strations for General Students, AaTiculturlsts, &c., under the direction
of Dr. JOHN RYAN, will commence on TUESDAY, the 4th of
February.
The STEAM NAVIGATION CLASS, for NAVAL OFFICERS
and others, will commence on MONDAY, the 3d of February.
. The CLASS for RAILWAY ENGINE DRIVERS will commence
on TUESDAY EVENING, the 4th of February, at Eight o'clock.
These Lectures are delivered on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Daily instruction in CHEMICAL MANIPULATION and PRAC-
TICAL ANALYSIS, by Dr. RYAN.
A Syllabus of the various Classes may be had at the Institution.

Just published, in 2 vols. Svo., price I/. 45., cloth lettered,
THE HISTORY and ANTIQUITIES of the
ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH; containing an Account of its
Origin, Government, Doctrines, Worship, Revenues, and Clerical and
Monastic Institutions. By JOIIN LINGARD, D.D.
N.B. This is not a mere reprint of the "Antiquities of the Anglo-
Saxon Church," published above thirty years ago ; for though the
substance of that work is incorporated in the present, yet so much
additional matter has been introduced, that this may be considered a
new work.

POST.—Our readers are aware that we anticipated
some changes in the constitution of the Cabinet before
the meeting of Parliament • but we confess that the re-
tirement of Mr. Gladstone from all share in the Govern-
ment has taken us somewhat by surprise. We are in-
clined to think, too, that it has put the Prime Minister
to no small inconvenience, and that the arrangements
he has at last come to—because, with the opening of
Parliament so near at hand, they could no longer be
postponed—are by no means those which he could have
wished. We should be very sorry to offer any disparage-
ment to such excellent and gentlemanly persons as Lord
Lincoln and Mr. Sydney Herbert; but we think the com-
mon sense and common observation of the country will
be with us, when we say that they dc not add much
strength to the Cabinet. They are very fairly diligent in
their business, graceful in their deportment, having the
best intentions, and an average facility of expressing
their views in the House of Commons. But the task of
conducting the Government of Great Britain, and of
1 usefully contributing to the deliberations and determina-
tions of the Cabinet Council, seem to us to require some-
thing more than belongs to the talents of these very
respectable persons Political knowledge, experience of
business, habits of energetic thoughtfulness, force of
character, earnestness of purpose, readiness and vigour
in the debates of the House—these are the requisites
for high station in the Government. These we do not
find—at least not in any considerable degree—in the
very respectable gentlemen who are to be added to the
Cabinet Council. We do not think it is a good thing to
have a Cabinet containing two or three men of admitted
leading power, while all the rest are men mere fitted by
nature, by acquirements, and by character, to take sug-
gestion than to give it. And this, we think, is more
emphatically true when even the leaders are men rather
of first-rate talents than.of high genius. If such a man
as the Duke of Wellington, or rather a man with
capacity for civil affairs analagous to that of the Duke
in military affairs--if such a man were at the head of
the Cabinet, affairs might go on all.the better for the non-
interference of his colleagues of the Council. But while
every one must admit the comprehensive knowledge of
the present Premier, the care with which he studies the
public business, the sincerity of his views for the
.public
welfare, and the discretion with which he leads his Par-
liamentary forces, still his is not the master mind, nor
his the indomitable energy, which needs no assistance.
He may indeed think with old Nestor—

" it is not strength but art obtains the priz.>,
An to be swift is less than to be wise,"
which, indeed, we ourselves venture to maintain, not-
withstanding the furious railroadism of this " en-
lightened age." But we also must maintain that a man
who is not gifted with the towering mind and fiery
energy which go straightforward to their point, only
requiring instruments to which they supply the need-
ful inspiration—such a man, however consummate
in art, requires another sort of assistance for governing a
great state than that which mere average sense and ac-
complishments can supply. how does te Premier ex-
pect to get on in the house of Commons ? Is he to take
all the important speaking on the Ministerial side to
himself ? His chief assistants were Mr. Gladstone,
Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham. The first retires,
the second is gone to the House of Lords, the third,
indeed, remains, and a very clever speaker he is in Oppo-
sition, where the object is to wound, but a very danger-
ous assistant on the Ministerial bench. Besides, he is
an extremely unpopular man, and almost every thing he
says is received with more or less of prejudice. Un-
less, then, the Premier take all the important
speaking to himself, what is to be done ? Say that
Sir Robert is a match for Lord John and Lord
Palmerston, will he think it safe to turn over Lord
Ilowick, and Sir George Grey, and Mr. Macaulay, and
Mr. C. Wood, and Mr. Vernon Smith, and the rest, to
the replying abilities of Mr. Herbert and Lord Lincoln ?
As for Francis Baring, he may be assigned to the care
of worthy Mr. Goulburn, and that be enough for
each. But we had forgotten the new man, Mr. Cardwell.
Oh, Mr. Cardwell ! Yes, he will do wondrous well if he
be given three hours to write his speech, and thirteen to
commit it to memory. Mr. Cardwell may, indeed, turn
out an able House of Commons debater, as Sir R. M.
Rolfe turned out a very able Judge when no one ex-
pected it ;
.but we believe that even Mr. Cobden will not
think much of making minced meat of Mr. Cardwell.
his free trade principles (if such they may be called)
go, indeed, as far as Mr. Cobden's ; but for
this very reason we assign him over to the
tender mercies of the modest Member for Stock-
port. Two of a trade can never agree, especially when
one is the pet and the other the aversion of the Minis-
ter. But why has Mr. Gladstone left the Govern-
meat ? That is the question. Has he listened to pa-
ternal counsel, and ceased to think that to buy in the
cheapest markets of the world is the best national policy?
Has he learned that, in the present state of Great Bri-
tain, the employment of the people is of more importance
than profit upon capital devoted to foreign trade ?
lie fearful of facing the practical results of the Tariff
and the Canada Corn Bill, and of going on in the same
course ? Or are we to apprehend Government measures
with regard to the Church which Mr. Gladstone, as a
conscientious churchman, cannot support ? This is
what strikes us as most probable. The Church and
the landed interest generally go in the same boat.
The landed interest has had its pleasant experience of
the application of a liberal policy to its position and
its prosperity. It is but conformable with custom
that the Church should come next. If it be so, the Go-
vernment will not hold together. Other defections will
occur as well as that of Mr. Gladstone, and Whigs must
be taken in to fill the vacant places. And then the end
will not be far off. We confess we do not regard with-
out apprehension the changes which have been an-
nounced. They look rather like the beginning of the
end, and we are sorry for it. We think that a firm
mind and a kindly-heart might keep the present
Government together ; but dexterity and labo-
riousness, combined with Liberalism, will not.
A morning Contemporary, which looks upon the
announced changes more hopefully than we do, says that
it can scarcely remember any former period at which a
Government had before it greater inducements and occa-
sions to promote the public good, or when it was more
able to encourage its friends and silence its opponents by
a policy worthy of the great party which placed it in
office. The great party which placed the present Mi-
nistry in office was the agricultural party. Whether a
policy worthy of that party is to be adopted we do not
know, but we certainly see no reason to expect any
such
thing ; and, if such a policy were adopted, we fear that
the Contemporary we have quoted would give it but
small assistance.
ADVERTISER—The President of the Board of
Trade has resigned. We prepared our readers the
other day for changes in the Ministry, but this is one
which we must on
ecmtetlr. I)Gyluasd.stoTneh,e
is s
confess was
change one of notimportanecxeP.
successor is Lord Dalhousie. We defer until to-morrow
any speculation on the Right lion. Gentleman's secession
frAn the Government, in the hope that the darkness
which rests upon its causes may be cleared up in the
course of to-day.

We regret to announce the death of Miss Julia
Cruise, which melancholy event took place at Cookstown
Cottage. Ennesdery, near Dublin, on Sunday week, steel
a long and severe illness. Mibs Cruise Was an actress
of great talent, and for several seasons occupied a high
position in public estimation in Edinburgh, Glasgow.
and Dublin.

MENDICITY SOCIETY —From the annual statement
just published we learn that during the past year the
society has distributed to distressed objects by way of
immediate relief; no fewer than 174,229 meals, eacl.
meal consisting of ten ounces of bread and a pint of
good soup, or a quarter of a pound of cheese. It has.
in the same time, given employment to 4,390 men, and
1,038 women. Such is the active benevolence of this
excellent institution.

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