It is now openly admitted by Members of the House
of Commons who wish well to the present Ministers, and have hitherto supported them in almost every measure, that some change must take place-that things cannot go on as they are. There are several leading persons in the Cabinet whom the majority in Parliament would gladly see removed ; but perhaps the retirement of no one would be hailed with more satis- faction than that of 1,ord P A IMEttsTON,.-whose incapacity, and sub- serviency to the views of fOreign diplomatists, are notorious and disgusting. his connexion with the Ministry renders all they undertake suspected. Cut of the whole phalanx of the Whig Opposition!, Lord AI-THORP, previous to his accession to office, was the last man whom the public would have fixed upon as likely to make a good Minister of Finance. The public judged rightly. His Lordship has been involved in perpetual blunders. There may be sonic difficulty in procuring a successor among the Aristocracy, (for the House of Commons is averse to follow the lead of a pleheian), but redly the necessity for placing a man of business in the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer is so pressing, that some new arrangement, which would relieve Lord Atirlloar from his present post, ought to be made without delay.
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