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regret this resolution, in common with many others
of his townsmen, it is cnly right to state the fact

distinctly.

But he has formed no such resolution

in reference to any other constituency, and we hope
to see him in the House of Commons after Easter,

as a zealous supporter of Lord Derby.

We have

been in possession of his views on the former sub-

ject for several weeks, and, therefore, studiously

abstained from mentioning his name in connexion

with this borough ; but we have reason to believe

that his prospects are of the most flattering kind in

another very

respectable borough, and that it

would be a serious disappointment to the electors if

he were not to consent to become their repre-

sentative.

The following has hpnn verpivpd by ph.ctri,

telegraph :

" There is nothing later in the Evening Papers
than the extract from the Fourth Edition of the
Herald, which may be considered as the official
list :---` London, 5 P.M.—lt is understood, in well-
informed quarters, that the Earl of Malmesbury
only retains the Foreign Secretaryship until it be
known whether Sir Stratford Canning will accept
that office. The office of Master-General of the
Ordnance will probably be offered to Lord Har-
dinge, and, in the event of his declining, to Lord
Combermere, or Sir Howard Douglas.''

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS, BOND STREET AND
CORNWALLIS STREET.—On Sunday evening last, after a
sermon by the Rev. James Philip Shepperd, curate, a
collection was made, in aid of these schools, at St. Arary's
Church, Kirkdale. and the sum of XII ss. was collected.
We are sorry to learn that these large and useful schools,
which are entirely dependent on pr►vate subscriptions,
and collections at churches, have been for several years
in great difficulties for want of adequate support. The
example thus set early in the year by the Kirkdale people
will, we trust, be followed in most of the churches in the
town and neighbourhood, that the heavy debt against the
schools may be wiped off; and means obtained to con-
tinue the schools in efficient operation,
WELSH CHARITY SCHOOLS.— It has always been
admitted that these schools, which have been established
in this town nearly fifty years, have been of the greatest
service to a vast number of children, who have been, from
time to time, educated in them, and still, by the exertion
of a few patriotic gentlemen, the same advantages are
afforded to about four or five hundred children, principally
offsprings of parents belonging to the Principality. It is
to be hoped that those residing in this town, natives of
Wales, who are advocates for the education of youth, will
take the opportunity of being present at the annual
examination, on Monday next, at 12 o'clock, so that they
may witness the useful and sound secular tuition afforded
to the schools, and that based upon a pure Protestant
scriptural foundation.

THE END OF THE WHIG-RADICALS.
THE Session of Parliament has begun with its
usual incident—a defeat of the Whigs, and a resig-
nation, " positively for the last time." Lord JOHN
RUSSELL has been consistent during all his poli-
tical life in raising petty quarrels on petty questions,
and "nothing in that life became him like the
manner of his leaving it." He had bravely stood
against the important defeat on the profound ques-
tion of the Assistant•surgeons of the Navy messing
in the Cockpit. He had borne like an ancient
Roman the disastrous reverse on the Attorneys'
Certificate Doty ; and shown " the blood of a
RUSSELL" when Lord NAAS liberated the Scottish
and Irish distillers. He had even faced and con-
querred the mighty motion as to the estimable Mr.
BIRCH and his £3,500 paid for slander. It was
clear that his fall was destined for
" No nameless combat and no tameless hand,"

and accordingly he perished on a'great point of
" internal defence," as he designates the subject of
the Militia, on which he clearly courted defeat
rather than on the several other questions, which
must have inevitably thrown him out. There was
something of poetical justice in his punishment.
PALMERSTON, who had been " dismissed,"—as the
Times loves to repeat, with the air of a lady's maid
reprimanding a kitchen wench—driven to desperate
courses, sought for a desperate remedy, and came
hack, like CORIOLANUS with the Volscians, heading
an army of Protectionists and Free Traders,
Radicals and Tories, hound together only in the
common belief that Lord JOHN'S Ministry bad
existed too long.
To this decision, however obtained, it was, in
point of honour and in point of policy, necessary
to come. Never in the history of modern adminis-
trations—never, certainly, since the "cabal" of
CH ARLES IL—was this country insulted by such
a Government as that which has just fallen. A
very little reflection could see in it every element
of a vicious administration. Corruption, happily,
no man now charges against an English Ministry;
but (that charge excepted) what other can we
except ? Incapacity marks every department of
the Government. The PRIME MINISTER dealing
with questions so absorbing as the religious
position cf the country, merely on the impulse of a
moment, and retreating from his word. The
COLONIAL MINISTER, by rare ingenuity, exciting
the hatred of every colony of the Crown—Australia,
the Cape, the West Indies ; but, as we are not
writing a folio, we cannot enter on the blunders of
Earl GREY. The MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
coquetting with democracy, and approving the
most odious, perjured, and cowardly despotism that
has cursed the world since the fall of the Roman
Empire. The LORD CHANCELLOR consistently
impeding the reform of the law ; and the whole
aggregate mass unable to carry a single important
measure. Surely, it is not too much to say that
whatever ministry may follow must be some im-
provement on the late cabal.

Nobody, of course, believes that Lord JOHN
RUSSELL went out on account of a very proper
amendment of his very ridiculous Militia act.
Whatever the economists may say, saving money is
bad policy when you thereby endanger your entire
substance ; and what man, allowed to go at large,
would place the friendship of France on any earthly
ground but that of her fears ? It is, however,
useless to go into the question upon which of the
grave charges they have merited—the Minister
must have fallen. Lord JOAN RUSSELL, despising
the Devonshire proverb, " rode out to meet his
troubles." To fall on a Militia Bill was better than
to fall on the case of the disastrous Kaffir war, or
on the question of the non-descript Reform Bill.
Besides, the Cabinet, it is notorious, has been
divided for a considerable time, and the country
has been sick of a system that had not even the
certainty of one week's uniform policy. It was a
spark of long eclipsed desire of decency for
Lord JOHN to quit office on a new and necessary
question. Happily he has quitted office ; and with
him has ended a family administration combining
the recklessness of SHAFTESBURY'S, the dissen-
sions of HARLEY'S, the want of principle of
WALPOLE'S, with a nepotism of which, we are
glad to say, we can recall no precedent.