HINTS TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
IT is not long since we took occasion to speak favourably of Lord oft:g RUSSELL'S qualifications fOr the office of Ministerial Leader. We are not disposed to retract the praise then bestowed ; but, in all friendliness, we would inform Lord JOHN, that in two or three recent instances he has given cause of dissatisfaction to a nume rous body of his disinterested supporters. It was exceedingly disagreeable to find that he needed so much spurring to induce him to institute an impartial inquiry into the Wolverhampton outrage. His yielding to the old Whig Sir JOHN WROTTESLEY, what he would have refusel to Messrs. TIIOUNELY and VILLIERS, was not a good symptom. Then, his superfluous praise of the military was very ill-timed. His tone pleased no one so much as Sir HENRY Hsurn NGE ; who must have been delighted with his readiness to take for gospel any report which Colonel THORN might give of the conduct of the military. What a childish excuse, too, for declining to investigate the conduct of all the parties—that no person could be authorized by Gover ament to make a legal inquiry ! Why, what is a Home Secretary good for, who cannot procure the commission of the peace for any one whom he might select for such a purpose? And Iv AY could Lurd JOHN RUSSELL suppose that the people of this coo .ntry would rest satisfied with the inquiries of a military officer, or the Magistrates, who had a case for themselves to make out? . It was a gross blunder to make the oppose .ton to the Ballot a Government opposition. It should have been left an open question. We can tell Lord JOHN RUSSELL that he ' sill embroil some mem- bers of the Administration most seriously with their constituents, if he pursue this system on such ques'aans. No Ministry but a Whig one would ever have run counter so foolishly, and without the slightest necessity, to the wishes o's' one hundred and sixty of its own supporters. Did not Lord Jo] IN RUSSELL see that the aim of Lord STANLEY, and more especially of Sic ROBERT PEEL, was to get him committed to an act of decided hostility to the wishes of the great body of the more es.rnest Liberals ? Such traps as these will be set for Lord 301IN RUSSELL again and again ; and if it be his yolity or his inclination to please the Tories rather than the Liberals, he will constantly be falling into them. He has no safety but in uniform vigilance and suspicion. He may be open, candid, and fair; but experience should have taught him that his adversaries are the reverse. They would stop at no intrigue however unworthy, as they have repediated no slander however base, by means of which they could hope to gain a temporary or uncertain advantage in the game of political office- hunting. We say then to Lord .1 OIIN RUssELL—Beware ! you stand upon an eminence which makes it easy for all to watch you, and confers importance on all you say and do : even casual obser- vations are noticed, and indifferent actions perverted by the ene- mies of the People and yours. Above all, recollect that nothing can so easily awaken the suspicions and arouse the jealousy of your supporters as the slightest symptom of truckling to the irre- concilcable foes to political amelioration.
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