Public affairs should be looked at through the bottom of a wineglass, and cries of discontent or grave words of remonstrance, should be drowned by the hurrahs and hiccups which wel come the after-dinner speech. ( Men, not Measures, is to be the watch word for the future, and all the hopes and fears, and anxieties and interests of a quarter of a million of people are to be crystallised into the consideration of whether or not one adventurer is to re tain bis power and his pay. Has he forgotten the time when his person was despised, and his principles suspected, when he used , to stand up m the House and harshly deprecate the tendency there was to cling to the old leaders, whose evil days had come upon them, but whose individual character was above all blame, and worthy of all respect ? , , Measures, not Men, w,as his watchword then^ and he and his sup porters were for ever harping, on that string. The. members were entreated to put personal considerations on one side, and not to take it for granted that because they did not like him, and could not bring themselves to trust him, he would not therefore do as well as anybody else to carry out their views. Now, however, it is quite a different thing. What he has most, to fear is not the antagon ism which a new and not too prepossessing man has ever to contend against; he has studied the art of pleasing with veiy fair success, and by the skilful distribution of »fayors hns worked upon the weaknesses of multitudes. His ascendancy over all his colleagues and the force of character and dogged determination which he has displayed m pursuit of his objects, have not been without effect; nor can it for a moment be denied that the prosperity which has been simultaneous with his administration,, has, endowed him with a transient popularity among those who are not accustomed to look far behind for experience, or far ahead for what has to be prepared for. No, — the task before him now is clearly to divert the, public gaze from a sober view. of measures and administration ; but he surely overstepped,, his mark m making this intention so. very plain to everyone. It is a. 