Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-01-29
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT
LONDON, JANUARY Z, 1853.

! England has at last obtained such Government
as appears to suit the exgencies of the times and
the wishes of the great bulk Of the people. The
new Cabinet comprises, or has ensured the support
of, all the high reputation, all the political expe
rience all the established craftsmanship, all the USE
full Parliamentary talent in the kingdom, with the
exception of Lord DERBY and Mr. D'IsRAELI on one
sde and Of Messrs. CoBDEN, BRIGHT, and RoEDucK on
the other 1t is said to be comprehensive COM
bnation of practical power than has previously existed
since the days Of PELHAM.
Mr. DIsRAELI has said that England does not love
coalition" and he is undoubtedly right speaking with
reference to such coalitions as have almost always had
experience of-coalons in which the contracting par
tss eeblped The expense a ~ psiasiRs t@*
easting uet Ofppents, and hen scrnmbHbg Tor place
prquisite and power; coalitions which, IL they had not
speedily terminated in the discontinue Of the combined
parties have led the disgrace and dishonor Of the
country We willing to think better, and to hope
better, Of the LANsDowNE-ABERDEEN Cabinet Its COM
position appears to be guarantee that party ques-
tons will be put in abeyance and it is time they wefe for
the people have long been impatient at the time wasted
the expense incurred the character sacrificed and the
interest neglected in the excitement of mere party strife
There special states of the political atmosphere out of
which coalitions may be said to naturally arse and in
which they play particular part with peculiar efficiency
When there is calm all great questions of political,
PLY prevails in England, of different shades Of opn-
ion may unite in vigorous executive Government
and effective conduct of that part Legislation with
which it is concerned than could be obtained in any
other way.
The elections in England and Scotland caused by the
of office in the Administration all over
with the exception of that for the University of Oxford
where Mr. GLADsToNE-the Chancellor Of the Exche-
queris warmly opposed by religious section of the
4 l.ll.-
Mr. PERcIvAL The result is doubtful Every other
Der Of Parliament who is member of the new Admins
raton has been reelected Some of the Irish elections
will, it is said, be closely contested.
There certainly is abundant proof that the Minis
try will be strong at home and it is equally certain that
whatever difficulties may have existed with respect to the
foreign policy Of this country they than half
removed by the simple transference of power from fee
be ricketty and unexpected Government to which
possesses the support and is competent to direct the
ergies of the nation.
! To fully comprehend the different positions Of England
in 1893 and 1853 would involve recaptuaton of the his
tory of Europe during the intervening sixty years. In
1898 England was in degree continental nation,
through her Hanoverian connexion. She has away
that mstone and breathes the eer and the better for
having done So She has little dread from all the old
clements about the balance Of power Nor has
any thing abou except through symPs<hy for
the oppressed in the changes which contneutai Powers
may make in the forms of their Governments. She may
lament that Russia and Austria should remain despoc,
and that Prussia evinces desire to become that
Italy has not abiding place for liberty Of conscience
and Of speech except in Piedmont that France again
bends the neck Napoleon yoke that Spain and Por
tugal are retrograding and Beig1 weak and insecure
But she has taken her stand high ground, and we
think her Administration win enable her to maintain
it her position is earnest desire for peace with all
nations, interchange of good Offices with all, rigid
avoidance Of interference in their internal affairs, and
determine that shanterere with question her
right to act herself in every thing relative to England
and Engshmen gives pleasure to say that England
is now th only great free constitutional State Europe Her
Government has become and popular as those
of other nations have rerograded further and further
wards absolutism Her only natural European allies
Piedmont which is nantine inexperienced, and feeble
and Belgium which is earfuy exposed In place of be-
ing united with Russia, Austria and Prussia, against
wildly democratic and aggressive France England
fifty years ago. Of being united with the free and
sttuonal France against all enemies, England
twenty years ago, England is far regards the
institutions and the character Of the nation-sandng
alone with only helpless rrogts by her side In
very powerful article upon this subject the Economist
i says:
"we do not for moment wish to assume that because
France has ateredher form Of Government she there
fore necessarily become active enemy still less that the
Northern Powers will remain faithful to engagements
solemny protcted and to alliances heretofore bonoraby
maintained But il is Of the utmost Importance that
should be blind ourselves either the fact that
events have wrought great change in situation
the peculiar features and consequences Of that change
The is simply, and without circumlocuton this All
the other great Powers Of Europe have become absolute
and arbtrary alone have remained popular and free
Austria Prussia, France Tuscany, Rome, Naples have
all had TO contend with insurgent patriot. in their
spectye countries, and have suppressed them with rgor
Gus Injustice with those patriots England is known to
sympathize necessarily and warmly, though hitherto in
effectively and with discrimination. To whatever extent
policy a Of obligation treaties or o principle
Of non-nerference may tie her from active cooperation
her rishs must 60 with the peoples who struggling
for their just natural and covenanted rights, who aspire
to emulate her freedom and TO follow her example With
foreign patriots, therefore, inevitably sympathze
from foreign Courts must at least be aenated The
Of Europehe King Of Prussia and the three Emperors
Of Austra and Russia-are menaced with two dangers
Democratic insurrection and French military ambition
Which do they dread mostl Which ought they dread
most? Which is most serious, imminent and lasting"
There many considerations which tend to mitigate
their dread Of the first Of these great dangers-tha
transient so far they concerned at least it may
well seem to be all this. The Ecoao,aist goes on:
But how does the stand with regard to the other
peril which menances themthc spread of liberal opin
ons the risk Of patriotic instructions and Democratic
revolutions The danger here is imminent deadly, and
permanent Hungary Italy, and Northern Germany are
three volcanoes ready for explosion and kept down
only by the scverest pressure and expense The
Governments nd knov will