But he has no hopes of good government from the Whigs.

It is true that amongst them there is one very great man, Lord Palmerston, who is indeed the sword and buckler, the chariots and the horses of the party; but it is impossible for his lordship to govern well with such colleagues as he has--colleagues which have been forced upon him by family influence, and who are continually pestering him into measures anything but conducive to the country's honour and interest.

If Palmerston would govern well, he must get rid of them; but from that step, with all his courage and all his greatness, he will shrink.

Yet how proper and easy a step it would be! He could easily get better, but scarcely worse, associates.

They appear to have one object in view, and only one--jobbery.