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TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 11, 1853.

I THE POLICY OF THE NEW MINISTRY.

THE hare announcement that the successors of the
DERBY Administration had been culled from every
section of the patchwork combination which formed
the Opposition, excited public curiosity as to the pecu-
liar mosaic policy upon which they could, by any pos-
sibility, unite to construct a Government. Specula-
tion was altogether at fault, for there was no unique
phase of political profundity which did not find its
representative,—from the professed Conservatism of

Mr. GLADSTONE to the ultra-Rrdicalism of Sir
WM. NIOLESWORTH and the members of the Ro-
mish Brigade. In such a medley of principles, from
which no solution of the difficulty could be obtained
from any recognised mode of reasoning, the only re-
source was the declarations of the several members,
and here confusion becomes worse confounded. It
was of course to be expected that former principles
must be surrendered, and many concessions made ;
but, after all these allowances,. the public
will be no wiser than when the investigation was
commenced. To begin at the beginning. The
Earl of ABERDEEN, as prime mover in the affair,
declared, with solemn pomposity, in his place in
Parliament, that he should not have sought the co-
operation of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, had he not be-
lieved him to be Conservative, and that he him-
self, being also Liberal, the measures proposed
would be Conservative as well as Liberal. So much
for the Premier's avowal, which might have had the
effect of disarming opposition to the return of most
of the members of his Administration. But what
say the members themselves as to their consent to
carry out this Liberal-Conservative and Conserva-
tive-Liberal policy ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL de-
clared on the hustings at London that his colleagues

11, 18 3.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELECTION

THE election which is now pending before the
University of Oxford has very naturally excited a

considerable degree of public attention, from the
peculiar circumstances of the contest. There has
been for many years past a kind of tacit under-

standing that the representatives of the University,
having been once elected, shall not be disturbed in
their seats, without some special reason for making
the change. This was the case when the late Sir
ROBERT PEEL was ejected for the part which he
took in admitting Romanists to Parliament by the

Emancipation Act of 1829; and it was this feeling
which induced many members of Convocation to
vote for Mr.GL ADSTO NE at the last election,because
they believed he had been opposed without cause.
Circumstances have, however, since occurred, to
change the opinions of many on this matter, and
the present contest may be viewed as being an ex-
pression, not of preference for Mr. PERCEVAL,
but of opposition to Mr. GLADSTONI

in the Cabinet concurred with him in the abrogation
of the Christian oath, and the admission of Jews to
the Legislature. He had not yet made up his mind
to the Ballot, but should devise some means of re-
forming the present mode of election. Sir JAMES
GRAHAM, who has been everything by turns and
nothing long,—who was Radical in his younger
days, Reformer with Earl GREY, Conservative with
Sir ROBERT PEEL, subsequently Free-trader, and
is now back to Radicalism again,—told his consti-
tuents at Carlisle—

" I scorn to deceive you. lam favourable to the ex-
tension of the suffrage, and I am favourable to the pro-
tection of the voter by ev.N-y means consistent with that
open, manly conduct which is the characteristic of Eng-
lishmen, and there is nothing that I will not do, in con-
cert with my colleagues, to give effect to that opinion ;
but I am not prepared to vote for universal suffrage and
the ballot."

But he added—
" Sir William Molesworth—who, in passing, let me
say, is my colleague in the Cabinet—differs from me in
respect to the ballot ; he has always supported the ballot,
and with the consent of his colleagues, and of Lord Aber-
deen at the head of the Government, it is open to him,
and he has stipulated to vote for the ballot."

So that in this new Ministry, a colleague of Lord

ABERDEEN, not a mere Under Secretary, but a

The Mi-

nisterial organs, in their ill-concealed mortification,
have enlarged upon the paucity of numbers voting
when compared with previous elections ; but while
this may be partly attributed to the shortness of the
notice, owing to the difficulty of obtaining an eligi-
ble opponent, it may also be owing to the luke-

warmness of those who were previously counted
upon as Mr. GLADSTONE'S supporters. Unwilling
to give him a direct opposition, they have no wish
for his return, and therefore refrain from voting—a
position by no means flattering to the candidate
who enjoys the patronage of the' organs of every
phase of political turpitude. The protests which
have been made against the re-election of Mr.
GLADSTONE, by the Venerable the ARCHDEACON
Of TAUNTON and the Rev. HUGH STOWELL of
Manchester, will show in some degree the spirit
which animates the Opposition. By the latter Mr.
GLADSTONE is objected to for his extreme views
on Ecclesiastical polity, which would unprotestantise
the Church by carrying out the ultra objects of
Tractarianism, or, failing in that, promote a sepa-
ration from the State, which would prove injurious,
if not destructive, to both. The former, on the
other band, opposes Mr. GLADSTONE, because of
the unnatural coalition which he has made with
every variety of political destructires. He is
according to the good old rule, by the company
which he keeps, and therefore very properly con-
demned. In any view of the case, the elevation of

judged,

such a man to power is inimical to the best inte-
rests of religion, for whether he carries out his own
views, or bends to those of his colleagues, be can
hold nothing in common with true Churchmen,
but prove a treacherous friend or an
As by the peculiar law attaching to University elec-
tions it may not conclude until to-morrow (Wednes-
day) afternoon, we shall not speculate upon the re-
sult ; but at least we may give credit to those men
who have laboured so indefatigably to remove the
stain from the University of being so misrepre-
sented. It is a significant fact that among the
votes against Mr. GLADSTONE are those of his
brother, Sir THOMAS GLADSTONE, and Dr,
GLADSTONI

nsidious foe

THE NATIONAL REVENUE.

THE statement of the National Revenue, which was

pub:ished on Thursday last, is one of the most

member of the Cabinet, has permission to vote for gratifying which has appeared for a long time
the Ballot, one of the most revolutionary schemes' past, showing, as will be seen by reference to
ever devised by Chartist agitators. At Leith, how- f the table in another column, that there is an in-
ever, the new Lord Advocate, Mr. MONCRIEFF, crease on the year of £978,926, and on the quarter
of no less than £702,776, as compared with the cor-

" You may depend upon it, that as I only care for responding quarter of the preceding year.
politics in so far as they advance the principles I nave statement has of course been eagerly seized upon
all along entertained, I never would have connected I
myself with 14;rd Aberdeen's Government if I did not by the advocates of the policy now in the ascendant,
feel that it is to all intents and purposes, and in every as one of the most convincing proofs of the wis-
possible respect, a Liberal, and NOTHING BUT A LIBERAL I
GOVERNMENT." dom and justice of their views. We are not, how-
So much for the Liberal Conservative policy of the ever, prepared to coincide with these opinions, nor
new Administration. The Premier declares it to be to adopt these conclusions. If Free-trade were
a union of both, and the Lord Advocate declares it really as beneficial as its promoters would wish us
to be nothing but Liberal, or he never would have to believe, they have yet to show why we have had
joined it. Almost all the Peelites have declared the to wait till 1852 for a practical proof of its benefit,
policy of the Government to be essentially Conser- i although it was adopted in 1846, and much suffer-
vative, while with equal consistency the Radicals i ing has been undergone :since that period. But
have claimed for it a character totally opposite. there are other circumstances which offer a far
The Whigs on the other hand have mostly held more intelligible solution of the cause of that pros-
aloof, refraining from expressing extreme views, perity, for which each class of politicians, while
but, in the true spirit of Whiggery, holding out they are congratulating the country upon the re-
vague promises of some undefined and undefinable suit, are claiming to themselves the credit. That
Reform in the representation, which shall make much of the favourable state of affairs is owing to
everybody contented, and actually realise the long- the confidence which was placed in the high cha-
indulged dream of purity of election. Is it possible racter of a Conservative Government, is shown by
out of this chaos of professions, this medley of the simple fact that no improvement was evident
antagonistic assertions, to predict any ono tangible until after the Earl of DERBY had shown in the
measure upon which the Ministry can be agreed ? last Session of Parliament that he was prepared to
The arena of discussion will be transferred from carry on the Government of the country. There
the House of Commons to the Council Board, and is also another important circumstance which must
the most interesting division will be that which have had immense weight in improving trade, and
takes place amongst the Ministers. These men consequently augmenting the Revenue, and that is
have boasted much of their patriotism in surren- the vast addition to the supply of gold from the
dering their convictions for the public good ; but discoveries in Australia, and the great impetus
who can estimate the extent of the sacrifice, when it thereby given to emigration. Before the Free-
, includes an extension of the suffrage, the admission traders so confidently claim credit for the realisation
of Infidel legislators, and the Ballot? Lord ABER- of their predictions, they must show even the
DEEN might have spared himself the exertion of slightest possible connection between their theory
endeavouring to conceal his turpitude by an inge- and the discoveries of gold,—a feat which no ordi-
nious circumlocution which was destitute of truth ; nary amount of credulity would enable them suc-
for it has only been a question of time to discover cessfully to accomplish. The truth is, that, owing
that he had turned Radical. His less scrupulous to the extraordinary movement to the Antipodes,
colleagues have divulged the plot, and the Conser- which could not possibly have been foreseen, the
vatives must be prepared once more to struggle for trade of this country has progressed in spite of
the preservation of the Constitution, which is to be Free-trade,—a fact which was admitted by Mr.
frittered away by these political tinkers. MUNTZ, the Radical member for Birmingham,
Thus much for what may be called strictly poli- who had sense enough to see the question in its
tical questions ; but the important subject of
national education is deserving of serious conside-
ration. The London Gazette of Friday contained
an announcement that the new Committee of Privy
Council on Education consisted of Earl GRANVILLE;
the Duke of ARGYLL, a Presbyterian ; the Marquis
of LANSDOWNE, the patron of the management
clauses ; the Earl of ABERDEEN, a Presbyterian ;
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the author of the Durham
letter ; Lord PALMERSTON ; the Bishop of MA-
DEIRA ; and Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT and Mr.
GLADSTONE, Tractarians. From which party, out
of this strange mixture, can the Church expect her
tr ue interests to be maintained ? It will be, perhaps,
a mere rivalry between Romanism and Dissent, in
which we may see more sacrifices made in order to
preserve a harmony between antagonistic forces.
In commenting upon this jumble of guardians of
religious instruction, the Morning Herald of Satur-
day says :

" Of course the governing principle of 1851—that a
general agreement was essential to joint and harmonious
action—is abandoned. The experiment of packing dog,
cat, and monkey, parrot, and hen and chickens, all in one
hamper, is declared to be a rational one. In the next
Cabinet we may hope to see Mr. Cobden, Sir R. H.
Inglis, Mr. Duffy, Colonel Sibthorp, Baron Rothschild,
Mr. Christopher, and Mr. Carter, of Tavistock, all
jumbled together. Indeed, we can see no very solid
reason why another old prejudice should not be given up,
and Miss Martineau be appointed to the Home Depart-
ment, while Mrs. Chisholm undertakes to manage the
colonies."
We have treated in another article of the prospects
of, our national faith when entrusted to such
guidance, with the additional danger of three
members of the Romish Brigade being members Of
the administration. In no one point is there the
slightest hope of advantage to the country from the
coalition, excepting only the confident expectation
of its speedily falling to pieces.

The DUKE of WELLINGTON, says the Times, has ac-
cepted the office of Master of the Horse to Her Majesty
under the new Administration.

proper light, and honesty enough to avow it. Emi-
gration has relieved our Shipowners for the present
from the consequences of the competition to which
they were exposed, and created a market for our
manufactures; but all this has no possible connec•
tion with a political theory which, whether for good
or for evil, has yet to be tested when the time of
trouble comes. It will be observed that on the

quarter's account there is an increase on every item
with the exception of Customs and Excise, upon
which the decrease is very small, while upon the
year's account the Excise shows an increase of
more than a quarter of a million.

THE LATE DUKE.—We understand that the will of
the late Duke of Wellington is to be proved under
£BOO,OOO. It has been decided that the funeral car is to
he placed in the Repository of the Royal Arsenal at
Woolwich, and the pall in Chelsea Hospital.