Mr. Childers delivered up, and Mr. Bright received, the seals
of the Duchy of Lancaster at a Privy Council held last Tuesday at Balmoral, and the first Cabinet Council of the autumn was to have been held" yesterday afternoon. The topics to be discussed would be, no doubt, the conduct of the Ashantee war, and the date of dissolution,—whether it should be before or after another meeting of Parliament. In relation to the Ashantee war, as the Government has been compelled to fight, we think we may assume that it will decide to fight effectually,—any mean between peace and sharp decisive war being by no means golden, least of all, on the Geld Coast. As to dissolution, we wish we could anticipate a speedy one, which Would indeed be most desirable,especially if the olicitor-General of the Government should be refused the confidence of the Taunton electors ; for this Government has borne mortifications too long, till it seems almost, like an ascetic, to invite stripes. We are not sanguine of the result of an appeal to the country, but we think we may say that the tide would begin to turn from the moment that the Administration stood at bay.
