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them in diplomacy and chicanery, while they them.

But those

selves were as yet only theoretical rulers

whose hopes or doubts, as the case might

them so much concern, forgot one important point
The new men were regulated by old princip
They look to our country, and though tl

ey see her

old as compared with some of the ephemeral states

of Europe, yet she is still young and• vigorous, and,
as an American once said, " with a pulse like a
cannon." They see our Constitution, beneath which
our institutions have grown up and flourished, and
which has conferred happiness on the millions of
many generations, aid they think it more wise to
preserve, respect, or amend, than to destroy

impulses of patriotism are as true to nature as those
of home and youthful association ; and he who is
not dead to feeling, or oblivious of benefits confer-
red, will desire to spare the venerable institutions
of our country, whatever valuable changes they
may undergo. Besides, there is a vigour, a buoy-
ancy, a hope, connected with first efforts, which
often carries one through with success when the
experienced fails through excess of caution; and
the present Administration will make up by energy
and truth, what they want in years of official life.

The supporters of the Radical press are labouring
to transfix the PREMIER on one of the horns of a
dilemma. If he abandon Protection, they say that
he is a hypocrite in himself, and a traitor to those

who trusted in him ; and if he advocate it, he is
met by the cry of " a cheap loaf." Long before
coming into power, Lord DERBY warned the agricul-
turists that they should seek for plans more scien-
tific and productive, rather than rely on acts of
Parliament; and one of the first of his declarations
when in office was, that he would leave the settle-
ment of the question to the country itself. Besides,
there is work enough for the government to do.
There is the consolidation of our resources at home,
and the care of our vast colonies abroad ; the main-
tenance of peace and good order, and the sustaining
of our character and position at foreign courts.
The Augean stable of Chancery has to be cleaned
out; the Church has to be reformed,—both in her
revenues and her officers,—by the pruning knife,
but not by laying the axe to the root; education and

intellectual influences have to be promoted; and
the unequal pressure of taxation greatly lessened.
If the government eschew party strife, and address
themselves to these wholesome measures of reform,
and others like them, their names will go down to
posterity with praise and benedictions, and " the
country will have no right to regret having sub-
mitted them to their first assay." As an earnest
of these and other advantages, we quote the words
of Lord DERBY himself, in his late admirable
speech at the Goldsmiths'-hall :—" We feel that it
is not our duty to be protectors of this or that
craft ; but the protectors, and defenders, and up-
holders of the whole; and by maintaining and
encouraging the industry of the country—by up-
holding and supporting the law,—we shall afford
the best encouragement to the industry of every
denomination, and maintain the integrity of the
institutions of this country, whether in church or
state. This we shall do by maintaining inviolate
the constitution, and upholding the religious liber-
ties of this country, and the rights of the Protest-
ant religion, from whatever quarter assailed."

The confidence which the country reposes in the
Earl of DERBY and his administration, is the result
of good principles and high personal character.
Instead of attributing everything to secondary
causes, like Sir Balaam in the poem, he acknow-
ledges that GOD has to do with nations as well as
with individuals. Instead of filling every possible
post of honour, or of profit, with incompetent kins-
men or useless matrimonial allies, nepotism is no-
where seen, but an honourable and useful selection
is made of honourable and useful men. They do
not blow hot to-day and cold to-morrow, maintain-
ing one set of principles in opposition to another
in office; but adhering to the great truths formerly
enunciated, yet ready to make every personal con-
cession for the public good, we have strong hopes
that they will carry the right measures in the right
spirit. Instead of throwing a sop to the advocates
of democracy or anarchy, with the despicable hope
of making their bed more comfortable, and pro-
longing their official repose,—their appeal is to the
good sense and good principles of the community,
to strengthen their hands in giving effect to law
and liberty. The position which Lord DERBY
occupies at present is a fitting one for a member of
the illustrious house of STANLEY. The first Earl
of DERBY placed the crown on the head of
HENRY VII., at Bosworth field, and staunched the
wounds by which unhappy England had well nigh
bled to death. A younger son of his, in the
northern part of this shire, roused the chivalry of
the two palatine counties to resist the inroads of
an invading sovereign, and on the hill of Flodden
secured victory and peace for England. Our battles
are now fought upon a different arena, but the re-
sults are no less momentous ; and it is interesting
to find, that if there is not another RICHMOND in
the field, there is at least another STANLEY at the
helm of the state, as able for his duties as any of
his predecessors. In whatever respects he may
differ from others of his name and lineage, in one
class of qualities he coincides with them,—in re-
spect for true religion, devotion to his country, and
loyalty to his SOVERElGN,—qualities which must
still command the respect and admiration of the
wise and good.

CHESTER SPRING MEETING

the best week's sport
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the week, sufficient to satisfy the most expecting turfite.
twenty-six Chester
o'clock last evening :—lndian Warrior, Russborough,
Lancaster, Cockcrow, Redmond O'llanln, Sharavogue.
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Spain, Diamond, Prince Rupert, Mountain Deer, Black
Doctor, Sanita, Richard Primmer, Benita. lanthe,
gentuad, Ariosto, and Hothurpe,