Aberdeen should have no concern with the Government, for it would be much more difficult if he was in the Cabinet, and supposed to have any hand in it.[1] [Footnote 1: The Administration formed by Lord Palmerston was composed as follows:-- First Lord of the Treasury Viscount Palmerston Lord Chancellor Lord Cranworth Lord President Earl Granville Lord Privy Seal Duke of Argyll Home Secretary Sir George Grey Foreign Secretary Earl of Clarendon Colonial Secretary Right Hon. Sidney Herbert (and, on his resignation, Lord John Russell) Secretary at War Lord Panmure Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Gladstone (and, on his resignation, Sir G. Cornewal Lewis) Board of Control Sir Charles Wood First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham (and, on his resignation, Sir Charles Wood, who was replaced at the Board of Control by Mr. Vernon Smith) Board of Trade Right Hon. E. Cardwell (and, on his resignation, Lord Stanley of Alderley) Postmaster General Viscount Canning Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Earl of Carlisle Woods and Forests Sir Benjamin Hall.] _February 8th._--Now that all is settled there is a momentary lull, and people are considering what sort of an arrangement it is, and how it is likely to succeed. Many of those who know better what Palmerston really is than the ignorant mob who shout at his heels, and who have humbugged themselves with the delusion that he is another Chatham, entertain grave apprehensions that the thing will prove a failure, and that Palmerston's real capacity will be exposed and his _prestige_ destroyed. Some wish for a dissolution while his popularity is still undiminished, fancying it will give him a sure majority and will protect him against any change of opinion; but, unless the Derbyites give him an opportunity by some vexatious opposition, he can hardly dissolve, and if he did, though he would gain by it for a time, any change of opinion that might take place would be found no less in the House of Commons than in the country. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S MISSION TO VIENNA.