6 DECEMBER 1851, Page 1

Our Ministerial squabbles and incompatibilities are not apt to obtrude

themselves on the general notice in the Parliamentary recess. But, though the public is at this season kept as it were at a distance from the carefully shut doors of the Cabinet, sounds of dissension from within, subdued by remoteness, do occasionally reach the ear. A sharp and earnest remonstrance with Ministers, which appeared early in the week in the in

,coluns of a friendly journal, respecting the folly of weakening themselves by internal squabbles, betrayed considerable fear of an impending break-up ; and reports from other and trustworthy, quarters Corro- borate this interpretation of the sermon mi brotherly love. As the incompatibility, pregnant with such alarming consequences to all who have or who desire an interest in the-retention of place by the present Ministers, was understood to be between the chiefs of the Colonial and Foreign departments, the public was not much, disposed to grieve over the intelligence. It was received. with something very like a parody on Macheath's song—" How- happy could I be with neither ! " The alarming aspect of affairs in Franco has probably by this time brought the belligerents to a more ami- cable temper. The feud is of too inveterate a standing to be abandoned ; but the fight will in all likelihood be postponed till a time when personal animosities may be indulged with less danger.