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      VOL . in . No . 104 : ] SATUBDAY , MARCH 20 , 1852 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      Monday Arrived , has passed , arid the Derby-Disraeli Cabinet is still in office . Indeed , the Ministerial crisis proves to be- ^ of a much more protracted kind than ardent men were expecting . The Protectionists are provokingly slow to begin the reaction y and the Oppositioji does not seem to know very well what it is about ; insomuch , that there may be said to be a Ministerial crisis also in the Opposition . In the House of Commons , the week and the public action of the new Cabinet began with questionings ; Mr . James Wilson , asking Six * John Pftkington , las the new Colonial Minister , whether he intended to reverse

      the Free-trade policy as respects the West Indies ; and Mr . Charles Yilliejrs asking ministers generally , whether , they intended to reimpose a duty on corn . At the same time , in the other House , Lord Beaumont put the same question tp ^ Lord Derby . The replies were , in substance , that Ministers do not intend to do anything of the kind this session , but that they retain their original opinions , and will prepare for a gradual

      return to protective policy . In detail and manner , however , the replies varied . Sir John Pakington was direct : he should do nothing now——not even arrest , the periodical decline which the present law enacts in the rate of duty on foreign sugar ; but , ultimately , he reserved the right of hereafter doing whatever he might be " in a position" to do " for the prbmdtion of the objects he had in view . "

      In the matter of cprn , the position of Ministers is very different . Lord Derby avows that he did not wholly object to Sir Robert Peel's , measures , thou gh he thought they went too far ; he will not at once proceed to disturb them ; he thinks a countervailing duty on corn desirable , but he will not pledge himself even to that ; he will refer the question to the country , and will reserve to himself the right of considering what to do upon the

      expression of public feeling . He will not act even if he get a numerical majority in his favour , unless tt e manifest feeling be in favour of doing so . Mr . Disraeli ' s speech was substantially the counterpart . It ia to be collected from this statement , that Ministers have no thorough confidence in the cause they have hitherto upheld ; that they consider * ome of Sir Robert Peel ' s measures as having been wnal ; that they have no specific intentions ; but that they intend to commence n course of general reaction in politics and ceconomy , if they find [ Country Edition . ]

      themselves strong enough ; ofc * which they are far from certain . The position of the different parties in the debate was , such as to furnish no very clear insight into the future , Ministers were bold and confident in personal manner , but conciliatory and deprecatory in terms . Lord Derby spoke with much animation and dignity , and recalled to

      bis hearers some of his earlier feats of eloquence . Lord Grey ' s counter-speech was flat and feeble in the comparison . Mr . Disraeli was easy , confident , and quite at home on the Treasury bench ; he astonished the discreet by continuing in office much of the free air and the repartee that distinguished him in Opposition ; he convinced the House that it was not so wonderful for him to be

      in office , but that it was more evidently impossible than ever that the whole Cabinet could not stop there . Both the two Ministers held out prominently their desire for no hasty disturbance j asked not to be " interrupted" in proposing the usual measures of finance , the continuance bills , and Chancery reform ; asked it , not for themselves , but for their country ; and , general !)' , ma ^ e professions of candour , frankness , and a willingness to accept a real decision on the part of the nation . Their reactionary intention as well as

      tendencies , however , is unmistakably apparent . Protection they desire , and will restore as much as they may—such is our inference from what they say . Questioned on the subject of National Education in Ireland , Lord Derby admits that he contemplates some unsettlement of that highly successful system—an enquiry with a view to separating the Protestant and Roman Catholic ch ldren in lieu of having mixed schdols . In the peWation of his Monday ' s speech , Lord Derby ci es the word " Protestant" in a manner that

      in plies some appeal to the known religious feelin s of his party—ft Church and State spirit Arid Lord Harrowby ( better known as Sandon ) on ] y repeats the avowed sentiments of royal Ministers , when he says that the real question at issue is not whether the country will be Protectionist or not , but whether it shall be Democratic or not ; the functions of the present Ministry being "to keep out the Democrats , " with Lord John Russell at their head !

      Of Lord John ' s aJUare in the Monday ' s debate , it is enough to say that he followed up the policy of the Chesham-placc meeting with painstaking , but that members left the House during his speech , especially wl ^ n , ho plunged into statistics . Mr . Gladstone and Lord Palmeraton insisted upon

      a fair time for Ministers to take their routine measures , but denied their right to originate great measures before they should have established their tenure in office by an appeal to the country . Sir James Graham , quoting from speeches by Lord Derby and JMr . Disraeli , showed that they were bound in honour not to enter office unless they directly endeavoured to restore Protection . He

      spoke with great power , great effect , and a withering scorn of the new Leader of the Commons , implied principally by what he did not say ; as when he expressed his reliance on the honour of Lord Derby- —omitting to avow the same reliance on his colleague . The Manchester Free-Traders were represented by Mr . Villiers ; but they did not take a very prominent place in debate .

      Meanwhile Ministers have obtained , without opposition , their first vote in supply , the one for the number of men in the navy , including the " reserve" of 5000 men devised by the late Ministers . For some other movements , a select committee is the modest " first point of the wedge , " Mr . Napier obtained a select committee to inquire into the state of the disturbed part of Armagh , Monaghan , and Louth , with a view to altering the jury laws , trying ribbon cases by

      special juries , protecting juries from intimidation , and re-enacting the penal laws against the use of signs and passwords . The Manchester and Salford Education Bill—the sectarian version of public education—was referred , by motion of Mr . Milner Gibson , with the sanction of Ministers , to a select committee ; Ministers expressing doubts and hesitations precisely as to those parts of the measure which arc of more popular tendency ; and Lord John naively hoping that the committee thus sanctioned would lead to a settlement of the

      vexed question ! . Out of doors , Ministers have not been left altogether in peace . Sir John Pakington , an old advocate of transportation in his capacity of chairman at quarter sessions , has been visited by a numerous deputation of gentlemen from the four important colonies of Australia , calling upon him to discontinue transportation . He spoke fairly , and was evidently impressed , though he did cite the petition of the Western Australians for convicts , and even the exploded project of the Moreton * Bay penal / settlement . Sir John may beat the colonies yet , if they will stand it .

      And the routine of the Ministerial elections has not been unbroken , for Lord Nnas has been induced to retire from the contest for Kildaro , and his opponent , Mr . Cogan , is elected . He had

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 20, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20031852/page/1/