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THE EAST INDTA MAGAZ Eviowinl and Cowrmercial Sournal THE PREMIER AND HIS COLLEAGUES, To the wonder of ali Rnginuc, aud we may add of Europe, the Grey cabinet still holds ite avay over the destinies of the country, On the page of history it will ead like x Getion, got init rfaat, and we, the mombers of the living generurus its veritable sietins, ‘There is something melunchuly im the thought; yet, nol at Imcluncholy, Bot i is grotesque: and not so gtotonque, bat it is ealeulated to rouse indignation (tom ix depths. What ix the rey cabioet that England should longer crouch before ita in~ fuonce ? What rs the Groy cabine! that at home nod abrond—at our &rr-hearths and thronghont all Burupe——we stlow our name 16 scund Jike » sin mad ao shonuation, dike a ancena and a soot? We speak of frcedvan und the omipotanee of ths poople, bat whet in freedom and where is the omnipolenced if thos we Allow ourselves ta be bowad down by 104ilea corset Ta a British cabinet responsible to the lngisetaro, or, lke those precians teuaimories of continental potentates, he pleasure only of the despot? Thus, af least it would seem, since auch a cabihat exiets to exert oror ux the meliguancy of its spin, If any an, cor- tainly Lord Grey was lifted ialo power on the shouldera of the Wpople. Ip polities there is no room for the form gratings: _fetitnde ziven plaos 10 the sterner ssatiments of justice. But if xy ten. ever incurred the obligation of gratitede, It was Lotd y to the people of England, Hlgyealleageen, tov, were tet {b whom the mantis of popalar fovorittam had devoosded, and it fhe neither Lord, Aldhorp nor Lor! Rassell who weer the fint dafeoted ta hetray phe liberties of their ownutry. OF Mr. Bian- Iby fittlo wan known, little consequently anticipated, and tittle wppeintment, though more surprise fell, wher he sito throw down the gauntlot in defunce of the principles which marsballad hia nlso, in(S one of Be procdest pou of “the biegtom. Ste Jaws Grahanytbnd eon the regards af the cowtry froin hut Beat aia tea, Ves. en. Xo Beda a Tha Premier and his Colleagues seaming wibsfonce to the cause oferadical reform: hy be has lost those regards, ict the whispers of bis inward hoart inform “im. Lord Palmerston delivered pious haranget or. the neco- sity ME maintaining peace whb Rurope, and’ at the suse time, reserving the dignity of our position with the waligos of the cou tinent, and is, to0, was lifted into powor—he entrusted with the eale of the’ foreign olfice. Such was the cabinet; such, with Nite difference is its outline to day. ‘The partial revolation that bons occarzed among ite membors arguex nothing ax tu the change Lita intrinsic character; Lord Grey ts still preaier, Lord Al- thorp the principal of his colleagues, and while there ato ita leading feetures, the inoovations that have avison are seen, bot reno more then perceptilie, There is ane other, howrree, whore name mavt willingly would we havo kept aloof—-one which wo for exer hoped 10 have seon maintain the sphore of its proud supremacy. But that name too muat now be enrolled om ‘the commun list; #t has find its day Instro playod around it cbot even the name of Henry Brougham is shorn of its splendour, anid like a thing changed, sallied and despoiled, worse than oblirjon; is falien into sorn—LIlenry Brougham wor the idol of'tho peopl of England, They tonk him as they dreamt they bad found bim—closo to*tcir hearts, and thof lavished on him the eboicest, and hiphost and tho most precious gifis of their affec- tious. Ii,was not so with others. Lond Grey appeared to them tbangbty apd of * his order” und sthongh the aobleness of bi nature may have won homage af their admiration, yet that admiration was not Jove, waa nol thet adoring, intense, nad impaasioned Tove which they cherished and poarod (orth in the botom uf their own idotised Rroughars. Brougham stood among them, and 20 hhe wight hare ordered it, chat ube hosts would bare knelt and ‘worshipped al bis footstool. His might bays beon the nod that sould have beat England to its dictuun. But Brougham forgot the nature" thkt power on whose pinnacle be tan throned; his ‘oad reached the clouds and raight bave reartd itself to heaven, ‘but pride, and then ingratitude, and then treason came, and thea ‘porn heaven he was dashed to earth, to fix the exe only Vike the Yaine of « Roman state. So Brougliga, too, hs fallent A jWpofal fextare io the picture of the times!—But it is the giant, And.cot tho land which in that fall is hombled-—TBritain bas yet Phe Premier and his Collucgues 8 ‘other patriots, hough not citer Brougbenis, in whowe bosom to repoto the graatuess of her feiendship. . Of such} hoPever, is the oubiugt of sur country ut this day formedto such meu as Althorp, Bjpughats and (rey the adarinis- tration of bor firat and ost momentous interests, are confided, The seceasion of Be, Stantay ban given plice t a gorry subati- tule, Mr Spring Rice: while the withdeawal of Sir James Graham bas summoned to one of the most. if aot dificult, yet responsible positiond, a nnn of whuse pretensions to such a post the country Lay yet to be instructed —a nian of at most thateale soure species “of merit which is the surest testimonial af the porteation of none. And, lot it be enquired, dos Lort Grey seek among wich elements the restoration of Sik name ta the ational confidence: can he come forward with auck minions and demand « place inthe vouutry's respect? There can be no doubt. thera is ao doubt on any retionat mind, thet the vvils 10 which the goverament of the lavt Uaree, nearly fonr years, bus given rise are deep if nat irremediable. And if from the pastwe are to draw an earnest of the future, whut calamities may not be expected te invelve ua in their gloom ond ruin! ‘The prospects of the atin wudee a gotergment composed of auch incepalfe and impo. ‘ont instruments are, it must ten bo confeiod, unpromising and drear enough. But ene among thm all that ean be sail to exjoy the slightest sopport from popular suffrage: and that gone, too, Shona by Tittle design and to (auctions, corparatively of 20 Tittle consequence as to reader it a matter of scarce qiore tha & Dasty thought. Mr. Abercrombie'iv the gentleman to whom wa stiade. Why’wor such «man, ot sacha moment thrust into = tation eo far beneath bis abilities snd moral worth, and when bis popularity was ao valusble ns a prop to the other portions of the ing goveroment? Vetthe Premier anawer. But in tho mean while, what are the prospects of be country. Whether we tura ‘OW Attention to” the domestic, foreigo, or coldh Great Britala, embbyrassment meets us in all. Iu the firet ithe apectacte of a country worn down by dabt abd taxati its ebackled by monopolies ad commerci population, starving, dren to the commission,of appalling evimed; laws, whloh urging Into guilt, puuish even the innocent; parents “driven from Weir childven—Eahildyon from their bomes; afon Naked Aa lations of