Some kind of fuss about Lord. Stanley is going on
which we confess our inability to see through.. A few weeks ago the Gelie seemed anxious to hear him speak out, namely, against Sir Robert Peel, Then the Post would fain have had hinras leader for a Protective Cabinet, or a Protective Opposition. And today the Times is cautioning him to be discreet, as if some indiscretion.were feared. The Leading Journal has managed its sup- port of the new measures so adroitly and effectively, that we should not be inclined to interfere, presuming that it must have good reasons for what it does. But we can scarcely believe its present tactic to be altogether so judicious. If Lord Stanley is bent on mischief, we doubt whether any appeal to his chivalry, patriotism, and ingenuous sense of past errors, would prevail, because we are not sure that such feelings exist to make due response. On the other hand, we suspect that any notice which seems to imply that a personal triumph is within his reach is less likely to deter than to tempt. The true safeguard is altogether of another kind: lord Stanley has been sufficiently long in office to show that he really possesses no talent for the conduct of attains. If his exclusion from place, even from the Premiership, depended on his forbearance, we should have little reliance niaan it: but who would be found so rash as to act with him?
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