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Both Lords and Commons were to be made rak— ed, for his particular purpose in the first place, and safe for general class purposes in the next. In the main he sought to identify the two. He knew that without the sympathies of clam, his aims as Minister of a class could never be fully attained. Surround ing himself as he did from the first with a per sonal staff selected from the narrowest circle, he longed for the time when he should be able to enroll such a Parliamentary force as might render him independent alike of the fears of the Crown and the hopes of the People. At the general election of 1837 he believed that the opportunity had come for the realisation of his long cherished dream. A dissolution upon a single ques tion of evanescent interest was an unlooked-for piece of luck ; aristocratic nincompoops and nonentities might be threat into seats by the score, and a docile majority once obtained, it would be easy to keep up its strength by jobbing and recruiting. Nor was the Upper House neglected. There also unusual expe dients were made use of to obtain a personal following, and not without success. But it was in the Lower that the appliances of patronage were most unscrupulously resorted to, and the resources of electioneering trickery and intrigue were most openly brought to bear. Against the Liberal members for Manchester and the candidate for Salford, who had dared to oppose the re-actionary Minister, a conspiracy was successfully formed, and, chiefly by the aid of Tory votes, Ministerialist candidates were returned. The same reckless and shameless game was played else where, and it was only by dint of personal courage and weight of individual character that the long-tried leader of the Liberal party was saved from expul sion from the representation of London. Upon the whole, the triumph of Lord PALMEIMON seemed to be complete. Men of the middle-class, who did not wear his livery, fought everywhere at a disadvan tage ; and the net result gave to the Oligarchy the largest share they had had since 18.32 in the House of COOIO2OOI, and left the friends of progress in • =alter minority than they had ever been since then. Lord PALM/WON at length had a party at his back, • party of resistance. He had also, as he believed, many real adherents in the ranks apparently opposed to him ; and, upon every tentative division that occurred last Session, he was able to parade a sufficient number of his Bertellte• and Sroost• allies pour encourager (as attires. Conscious, however, that in his own nominally-over whelming majority there brooded a bitter sense of hurniliation,!and many of the elements of mutiny, the late Premier set himself boldly to the task of consolidating a force which should be personally de voted to his cause, irrespective of past ties of party. Ile had hitherto been the champion on flash war sions of the landed Oligarchy I he would now become its benefactor.' Compared with the ascendancy of class, the predominance of Whiggery or Toryism was nothing in hiseyes. lie had been himself both Whig and Tory, and was now Prime Minister of the Aris tocracy. Its knew that to remain at their head he must prove himself s lavish paymaster, and hence not only was every office of plebeian profit put in a course of sequestration for the benefit of the heredi tary few, but new regions of salary and sinecure were pointed out fur their acquisition. All the king doms of the eastern world and the glories of them were displayed before their eyes, and all the riches of these he said he would give them if they would bat follow and worship him. The tempter has got his reply ; bat are we quite sure that the offer may not be renewed in some still more insidious form ? Lord PAL MERTON is said to be politically dead ; bat the Palmer-worm of aristocratic jobbing never dies. It has had of late every good thing given it for food white the prodigal hand of corruption could bestow. It has grown fat and dainty, exigent in the gratification of its appetite, and, though sated with purloined delicacies and forbidden fruit, it was but yesterday ravening still for more. How will it be to-marrow, if Lad DIRBY should indicate any diapositiuo to restore to the middle classes their fair share of patronage, and should close again the gates of Indian patronage, which his predecessor has left ajar The man most know little of the traditions' maxims of caste, the ineradicable instincts of hereditary domination, the insatiable lusts of oligarchic power and pay, who doubts the I at this moment the overthrow of Ctsflor bosi • and - CLimRICARDIL - ism is not bitterly mourned and passionately resulted by the class which predominates in the present House of Co. ready to vote for a Conspires, foreign despot; but no law elf dreeney will prevent them from restoration to power of the nina ; their legitimate head. Natio. sense and the oat-spoken jadommat be able to baffle the hungry spirit DE•fit's Ministry is so weak thef t it callow stand an hour. Let In . overthrown for any legitimist make way for • popular sal it, and not for the mere brokers an exclusive class. We avow long to the ascendancy e 1 , mons. Th ey Wen re Bill to humour a for, reaeon, right, or & el conspiring for the r e s who was confessedly 1 1 . bat the awakened SOIL of the peopl e will be ) of intrigue. Lord De if seriously awaited, i then beware, if it be I cause, that it sh a ll m , . national Government, and undertakers of I that we look ere THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1858. Liberal principles and of Liberal men in the councils of the Crown ; bat we shall oppose ly every means in oar power any attempt at furtive or fac tious surprise. The first and great thing to be dame —that without which all else sane be worse than idle—is the thorough re-conaltruction of the popular party upon a broad and impetiahable basis. Until this is done, and done in such a manner as shall be recognised and understood by the country, all the cabals of clubs, and matneurres of Parliamentary sections, ought to be resisted and opposed. The original sin of Lord PALIIIIMON'S Ad- ministration was, that it started without a erred or a programme. It began without • text, and it has ended without a blessing. Whenever the Liberals are called again to power, it will behove them to set before the country such practical objects and such definite principles as all men can understand, and none can honestly gainsay. We will give • hint to the new Minister for Foreign Affairs—Lord MALMESBURY, or whoever else it may be—for which, if he is not, he ought to be thankful. Let him at once reverse Lord CLA RENDON'S roles about Foreign-office passports. The amount of daily annoyance and vexation created by these absurd regulations is fast assuming the dimen sions of a national grievance. The rules were framed for a totally different state of international intercourse from that which at present prevails. They proceed on the assumption that travelling in or to France is an occasional luxury of the rich, not an everyday matter of business or recreation with those who are by no means wealthy. Just look at the facts. France is full of English settlements, not only along the northern coast line but in the interior. The closest familities connect thousands whose habitual places of abode are on opposite sides of the Channel. Sudden sickness, sudden death, a thousand calls of sacred affection or urgently pressing business, are constantly calling for the immediate presence of English subjects in France. There is a vast commercial intercourse between the two countries. There is an immense thoroughfare over French railways from England to all parts of the Continent. What can be more absurd than to attempt to etforce a regulation which will render transit to, or through, France impossible, except to those who keep a banker, or ars personally acquainted with a justice of the pesos in the country, or a police magistrate in the metro polis ; a regulation which, even if these conditions are complied with, necessarily interposes a day's delay between the application for the passport and its con cession ? Just put the very conceivable case of a parent in London receiving a telegraphic message announcing the imminently dangerous sickness of his child at Boulogne. In such a case as this the delay interposed by the laws of time and space, even in these days of tidal trains and express steamers, is harassing enough, but until the introduction of the new system this unavoidable, and therefore uncomplained of, hindrance was all that had to be en countered. No passport at all was necessary, and the heart-sick traveller might at least take his ticket by the first practicable train. Now he must apply to his banker, if he has one, or, if not, to a police magis trate, if he knows one, or if not again, then he must hunt up some one or other out of the list of his own friends, or of his friends' friends, who may happen to be known to the indispensable functionary. How easy this achievement is in a city where there are some score or so of police magistrates to about two millions of population the merest tyro in COCKER may safely be left to compute. But supposing with infinite trouble the difficulty is overcome, and th e magisterial scribe is induced to fill up the necessary form, another day must still elapse before the un happy traveller can obtain his passport. The actual case here contemplated has not yet occurred, but it may occur at any moment, and those that are every day filling the police reports are in themselves amply suffi cient to prove the enormous amount of incon venience and hardship which these absurd and anti quated regulations are inflicting on the public. As long as the French Consulate, without notice or in quiry, supplied British subjects on application with French passports for the sum of five shillings, every traveller pressed for time and urged by business repaired to King William-street for permission to visit France. It was only on more solemn occasions, when a lengthened absence was meditated, or a family tour, that the British citizen applied for a passport to the British Foreign Secretary. It is this fact and this only which can account for the length ' ened existence of those troublesome and useless re gulations which are now filling this locomotive na ' tiara with dismay and disgust. For perpetuating this Downing-street nuisance no valid reason can possibly be assigned. The French Government has of coarse a perfect right to inflict whatever amount of inconvenience it sees fit on English subjects intend , ing to travel in France. The French Government, in spite of its repeatedly proved Motility, has a pro- found belief in the passport system, and is entirely justified in imposing the regulation that no British subjects shall be allowed to enter French territory without producing a British passport, rifted by a French consul. This is entirely clear and intelligi ble. We may think it absurd and inconvenient, but we have no earthly right to complain of it. The case is, however, quite different with j our Foreign office. The principle here is that every British subject has a prima /sent right to travel on the Con tioeut ander the protection of the British Govern ment. This is the plain good sense of theme. But the Downing-street people do not admit this principle. They lay down the rule thus: no British subject has even a prima facie right to travel abroad under British protection unless he can procure a certificate from a banker, a police magistrate, or a justice of the peace. This is the only class that legitimately falls within the Ciris Romans" category. No *doom are entitled to British protection abroad in any clam s the banker-and-justice-recommended class are en. titled to all that protection which the state exi gencies of the Emperor of Avarua sad the King of Ns PLEA will allow a high.spirited British Government to exert in their favour. Now we venture, with all deference, to sub mit that this is utterly absurd. Every British subject, as such, is entitled to a British pear port. The accident of a can's knowing or not knowing a banker or a jusace can have no more connexion with his right of travelling abroad than the accident of his being born in Northumberland and not in Middlesex. Foreign States have still the security afforded by that admirable passport and police system without which we have managed for so many generations to do so perfectly well in this country. It is no great eulogy on our police system to my that, whether regarded as a preventive or detective force, it is at least equal to the vaunted police of France ; and this in a country when pass• ports have never been known,andfree amain hasbeen afforded to sojourners from all the nations of the earth. Let Lord MALY/tint:l! then at once set about reforming the passport system. One simple role is all that is required : let an office be opened in Downing-street, with branch offices in other parts of town, for granting Foreign-office passports to all British applicants, without previous notice, at the Axed price, say of &a The adoption of some each simple suggestion will be an earnest of the spirit in which the new Government addresses itself to prac tical improvements. THE organs of the ex-Ministers in the press denounce all who condemn their truckling policy as desirous of a quarrel with the French ratios. The accusation is simply untrue. The animating motive of those who have been foremost in denouncing the abject submission with which the insolence of M. DE MORNY and the dictation of Count WALEWSKI have been endured by the ex-Ministers is sympathy with the French people, and the French people know it. The feelings with which they regard the French Government are, no doubt, different ; bat, even respecting them, the language of Englishmen has been, with few exceptions, remark ably guarded and moderate. No doubt, while the usurpation of the 2nd December was in progress, Englishmen of all parties expressed freely their opinion of it. Bat, since that act has appeared to be condoned by a great majority of the French nation, the general language of English men has undergone a change. They have not indeed learned to call crimes virtues; nor is it necessary. Such perversion of language the hollow politeness of society may tolerate in those who, as the Admi nistrators of one nation, have to associate and trans act business with the de facto Government of another; but upon the private citizens of a free State there is no call for such hypocrisy. Neverthe less, the people of England, out of respect for the French nation, have, since the Empire was sanctioned by the apparent result of a national vote, systemati cally diverted their remarks from the method by which the ExPEROI obtained his power to the use he has made of it. Their most severe criticisms have not exceeded the severity which in this country is considered warrantable in a constitutional Opposition. Their censure has been of that kind by which the EMPEROR might have profited had he dis passionately listened to it. In this spirit do we submit the observation we have now to make on the mode in which the trial of ORSINI, and the others arraigned with him, is about to be conducted. All French journalists, we are informed, are refused permission to be present at the trial. They are told that, as they are not to be allowed to take notes, their presence can be of no use. Orders have been sent to all the papers to abstain from publishing original reports of the trial. They are promised slips of the Droit and the Gazette des Tribunaux in due time ; bat thew, it is understood, are to be previously revised by authority. As for the English journals, we know that the representative of at least one of them has, for the first time, had hie application for admission disregarded by the presiding Judge. The Moniteur's system of Parliamentary reporting is, in this case at least, to be extended to a Law Court. The consequence will be that unprecedented teensy will occasion universal incredulity as to the fairness of the proceedings and the validity of the evi dence. The forms of criminal procedure in France are universally allowed to be the worst in the world for eliciting truth and ensuring just judgments. The trial of the conspirators at Angers obtained a bad eminence as the most un fairly conducted of French criminal trials. As reports of that case were allowed to appear, it will be inferred, from the unusual precautions adopted in the present case, that the proceedings are to be of a nature even worse calculated to endure public scrutiny than those at Angers. The trial of ORSINI and his associates will take rank in history with the mysterious judicial proceedings of the Inquisition. The guilt even of the guilty will be doubted. From this danger the Government of France may still escape if they throw the doors of the Court of Justice wide open ; if they permit-- invite—able and independent reporters for journals, which are from the mere circumstance of local position free from all suspicion of being subject to them, to see with their own eyes, hear with their own ears, and tell frankly, without surveillance and intimidation, what they have seen and heard. This advice is given in perfect sincerity, for far greater interests are at stake than the reputation and permanence of the present French Government. Society at large, in every country, has a deep and vital interest in the opportunity of obtaining an insight into the social circumstances and peculi arities of character which generate homicidal con spiracies. His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has left Claridp's Hotel foe the Pavilion, at Folkestone, where he intends staying a few days. The prince and his suite, with a party of officers from Shorncliffo, enjoyed the sport of hawking on Tuesday. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Beenstori entertained his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and a same circle at dinner on Monday Wt, at Prumia House. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe have left the Clarendon for Brussels. The Countess of Lucan has arrived at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkeetems. The Earl of Lisburne, M.P., has left Fenton's Hotel for Crosswood, Aberystwith, S.W. Viscountess Palmerston will not have an assem bly on Saturday nett, as announced in error on Tuesday last. Bir Henry and Lady Banbury have returned to town, alter a lesithaned sojourn at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkatona. The wife of Mr. I. Walter, M.P., gave birth to a sou. at 40, tipper Giroevewor-street, yesterday. We understand that the Right Ron. the Speaker will hold two levees (fa dress) this Berea. They will be held on the evenings of Saturday, the 13th of Marsh, and Saturday, the 27th of March, at the right boa. gentlemen's residence on Carlton floame-terrace. Lady Stanley of Alderley held her first assembly this masts last erentog, at the family mansion in Done street Previously to the sassinbly, Lord and Lady Stanley entertdeed at dinner—His Excellency the Portuguese Misate, and the Countess de Larredio, the Marquis of Lisaatiswir, the Earl end Countess of AMU, the Earl and Counter of Cork, the Earl of Gifford, Viscouat Randier°, M.P., Lady Duffer* Lord Duffer* the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, M.P., sad Lady Mary Wood, Az. Lady Colchester had a reception last evening at bar homes he Seduiley-smssre. Previously to the reception, Lord sad Lady Colebeeter satortabed at dinar the Marquis and lfferehiesses of Salisbury, the Reel and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma &Wiry, the Earl of Ellenborougti, the Earl of Hardwick', the Earl of Carnarvos, the Earl of Egliatoun, Viscount and Visocuatess Stratford de &doh& Viscount and Viscountess Ingeetre, Lord Bahama, the Right Hon. Spoor Walpole and Mn. Walpole, &a. The Countess (Frances)Waldegrave entertained at dinner last evening, at bar mansion in Carhowsaelms, his Exoellancy the Amheasador of France end the Commies de Pietism, his Excelleacy the &idiots& Maher, the Marquis end Marchioness of Stafford, the Earl mid Casale= of Bese. borough, the Earl and Counties of Shelton% the &ay Grenville, Viscount and Viacounts= Pahnenkia, the Right Hen. Sidney Herbert, M.P., sad Mrs. Herbal, the Hem. F. Myng, and Count Bnustlenburg. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company have appointed Mr. Willcox, M.P. their chairman, Sir Jamie Nabisco ham reeiraed. --- The Times observes of a letter which it published yaiteeday, and ',doh has 'mita coodderable attention "no writer is, we entirely belirma, what she protases to hi, 'Another Unkettuteto.' We are net andeavourieg to palm of • amine, earronted literary imposture upon our rewlers." We regret to learn of the death, on the 19th inst., a t at Licsarre-ce-Ses, at the wife d &r William Bald, 1i.C.8., Governer el )laps. THE NEW MINISTRY. One or two appointments spoken of in yester days Ezpren, u generally expected, have now been definitively made. Thus the list stands : FirstLordofthe Treasury Earl of DERBY. Lord Chaaoellor Sir F. THESIOER. President of the Council Marquis of SALISBURY. Chancellor of the Ex chequer Mr. DISRAELI. Foreign Secretary .. ...Lord MALMESBURY. Home Secretary Mr. Wateome. War Department General PEEL. President of the Board 1 Mr. HENLEY. of Trade President of the Board r..sri of mALENBOROUGII. of Control .. Lord Privy Beal Earl of HARDWICKE. Beard of Works Lord JOHN MANNERS. Presidentof thePoorLaw os Board - r.ESTCOURTSOTHERON Under-Secretary at the IMr. Santotta Flrz- Foreign Office Under-Secretary of the Y. Home Department " r - ""'"' Lords of the Treasury CoIo;I in TAT O LO RE. R. Secretaries of the Tree, I Mr. G. A. HAMILTON. sury Attorney-General Sir FITZROY KELLY. Solicitor-General Mr. CAIRNS. LordLieutenantof Ireland Lord EOLINTOUN. Secretary for Ireland Lord NAAS. Its said that the Earl of Dalkeith is to be the other Lord of the Treasury, and Mr. Edward Eger ton Judge Advocate. The Earl of Careen on is to be in the govern. meat. INDIAN MUTINY ARLIN, FUND. The following extract from a letter from thePrin dpal of the Lawrence Asylum at )(meowlee, acknowledging the receipt of the second remittance of 1,0001. from the Lon don committee, will show that the assistance was mach needed, and how opportunely it arrived • " Lawrence Military Asylum, Dec. 28, 1867. . . "I am instructed by the committee to express their sincere thanks to the chief oommirdoner for his kindness in forwarding the above amount, and to request the favour of your expressiog, in your official communication with the president of the Mutiny Fund, the deep seam the committee of the institution entertain of the kindnem and sympathy evinced by the committee of the fond, and for the valuable aid afforded, without which the whim would have closed the present year in deep indebtedness. I have, tto., " W. J. PARKER, Principal and Secretary, Lawrence Military Asylum." The nllllB of this morning contains some interesting par. ambits relative to the fund :—the whole amount of contd. butions has reached the sum of 342,9291. 18s. 4d., of which all but some 20,0001. proceeded from subscription la the United Kingdom. Of the aggregate offerings from foreign states France alone furnished upwards of three fourths, the list being headed by the Emperor and the Imperial Guard. Time enough has not elapsed to allow of the liberality of our colonies being yet completely realised, but the great bulk of the fund has now, no doubt, corns to hand. Of course, the chief exigencies are to be met with an the spot, and the committee therefore has despatched re mittance after remittance to the East for distri bution at the moment of need. Hindostan alto gether has Lad about 70,0001., of which 60,0001. went to Calcutta, and 20,0001. was brought home still more imme diately to the sufferers at Agra, Delhi, and Lucknow. Fifty thousand rupees available for the use of the Luckaow gar rison at the very minute of their release, and on the very spot where they Mood, must have supplied many a want and alleviated many a pang. Another considerable sum was lodged in the able hands of Sir John Lawrence, at Lahore, for distribution in the Punjaub ; and Bombay, not without its sufferers, though saved from the worst oeb.mities of Hin doetan, received some 16,0001. for the special ocesaions of the praddancy. The management of the fund," says the Mies, "has been such as to merit the acknowledgments of the contri butors. Four sub-committees working in unison have car ried out the objects of the undertaking. The committee for relief has met twice a week for the special and immediate business which its title implies; the finance committee has met once a week ; the ladies' committee, charged with all that feminine benevolence can best perform, has assembled at similar intervals; and a general committee, tally attended, has sat every Monday to superintend and harmonise the whole. Of the discernment which character ised the proceedings we shall be giving a specimen when we say, that whereas the local committee at Agra applied in No vember to the London committee for a sum of 10,0001., this very sum had already by anticipation been remitted to that very spot, and must have been realised there within a very few days after the request for it had reached this country. Of the financial arrangements we need only say that the entire expenditure incurred, advertisements included, has not ex ceeded per cent, on the sum collected, and even these moderate disbursements are actually oounterbalenced by the profits made in the purchase of Exchequer Bills. Certainly, the administrators of this fund were justified in deeming thensedras essepeteat to the management of the brained., end deelbslog the prodded agency of a royal commission. It seem tied to the 95,0001. made 'wallah's in India must be aided about 8,0001. applied to simi lar purposes in this country, so that, on a ge neral balance, some 240,0001. would remain for dis tribution, having been judiciously invested in the interim in government securities. The Calcutta committee, too, have • considerable balance In their hands, but the &emends upon all these reserves an only too likely to conthme. The re establishment dour authority in province after geovises, the recovery of one town after another, and the reefing tithe great road from Delhi to Calcutta will all teed to - well the arrivals at the capital of India, and, even ate tbst bat haven of security has been reached, there is the moo to be crossed, and want and sorrow again to be encountered ea this side of ft. Little fear, indeed, need be entertained of any rause@ of means, but the public is fairly entitled to some gratulation on this as well as other aspects of the great Indian Mutiny. We have bora. up spinet the heaviest odds of surprise, number., and treachery, and have crushed our foes at last. At home we have done our duty to the heroes of the st rag gle, have paid honours to the dead, and have provided relief for the survivors with no sparing hand." NXYRESS FROM PAItIb. (rsom OUR owa ow PA.EIE,WIDTMIIDAY EVENING. The positive news that Lord Derby has d e ft e /. tivt ly formed a ministry produced no effect on the Bonne one way or the other. The general opinion was that a pure conservative ministry could only be one of transition, and that a dissolution would be far from improving its chances of duration. The market was very inanimate:and the Rents closed at yester day's prices. Mobilier fell 7f. 50c. The Eastern railway fell 7f. 50e. In the other lines there was very little change. The Paris, while expressing its conviction that a pure tory ministry cannot list long, says: There L, however, every reason to suppose that Lord Derby will prefer to run the risk of a defeat than to avow himself beaten without a struggle. A dissolution of parlia ment on thefirat hostile vote, may, therefore, be expected. The Pays says: The character and known opinions of the principal =ta bs, of the; new cabinet are each as to manntre us molt com pletely as to the maintenance end consolidation of th e alliance. The name of the new Foreign Secretary warrants us in hoping that the relations between the two countries will continue to be sympathetic, and even cordial. The sentiments of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli are not doubtful; they have more than once blamed the foreign policy of Lord Palmerton, when he deviated on cer• lain points from the views of the French government. It is therefore natural to 'appose that the new cabinet will entertain as decided opinions am thooe of its predeoessor upon the refugee question, and that the satisfaction which has been given to parliamentary interests or passions will not not prevent the leaders of the conservative party from intro ducing into English legislation the amendments of which it stands in need. The Charivari gives the following report extra ordinary of a meeting of British residents, said to have been held yesterday, at the British Tavern, in the Rue Richelieu : The tortes present in Parts met yesterday in the great room of the Taverns Britanniqns, in the Rua Richelieu. The object of the =sling was to secure the neutrality of the Charivari during the time that Lord Derby may be occupied in forming a cabinet. Lord Turtlesoup presided. It was resolved that a deputation from the meeting should wait upon the editor of the Charivari at his office. The deputation in question came tone this morning, and we sub join the answer which we gave to Lord Turtlesoup, who was the spokesman : Lord,—Although we have to reproach Lord Palmer ston with many serious faults, you must be aware that it to palatal to separate from aid friends. Lord Palmerston's tall is evidently pleasing to our adversaries, and for that reason we regret It. Although we have not the honour to know either Lord Derby or Mr. Disraeli, we have no doubt that they are both perfect gentlemen ; bat the old word Toryism shocks us, and we should not feel justified in ema ciating ourselves. directly or indirectly, with any proceedings of Lord Derby to form a ministry," The deputation withdrew to convey our answer to the meeting at the Taverns Britannique, where it was impa tiently expected. The Bourse, se we are aware, drew very unfavourable inferences to Lord Derby's cabinet, from our answer. The cabinet may be formed, but we certainly do not believe in its duration. The new House of Commons is anything bat tory, it may in fact be said that there are no longer any tories in England; on what support, then, an • tory ministry rely? A telegram has this instant arrived from Lord Derby, offering Lord Turtlesoup a seat in the Wink It will be remembered that when the five great military commands were instituted a question arose which nearly led to Marshal Vaillanes (the Minister at War's) resignation—namely, whether the generals of division were to continue, as heretofore, to correspond with him or only with the marshals in supreme command. The question was decided in favour of the marshals. Marshal Baragosy d'Hilliers, who commands the Tours district, has simplified the matter as far as the town of Tours is concerned, by sending the gene ral about his business and taking his division into his own hands. General Baron Groben who commanded at Tours is made a member of the committee of cavakyand will leave immediately. A great many politinl arrests, some say as many se 200, were made in Paris yesterday. I do not hear any p►rticular signification attributed to them. The persons in custody are probably obnoxious demagogues who are to be transported under the new law of public safety. The Bordeaux journals mention a great many ar rests there. I mentioned some time since that arrests were going on all over the country, and they still continue on a considerable scale. They are mere matter-of-course measures. BEQUESTS FOR SUPPORTING SCRIPTURE READERS. —A northern journal states that the late Admiral Duff, besides hie valuable estate, of Drummuir and Hoperam, bee left about 80,0001. in money. The public bequesta me stated to be 1,0001. to each of the twelve largest tow= in England and Scotland for supporting Scripture madam. The towns in Scotland are Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Dun dee, Aberdeen, and Inverness ; and the bequests are vested in the mayor* and aldermen in England and the provosts sad magistrates in Scotland. The scripture readers must be members of the Established Churches. THE SIEGE OF Luckiow=. the first of the sur viving defenders of Lucknow who has reached Raped is Mr. L. E. Rem. He was fortunately able to metres hie Journal of the evens in which he was an actor, and which passed before him, during the siege. This narrative, Mill plan of Luclmow, and a portrait of Sir H. Lawrence hum $ I photograph taken on the spot, Is pril for Immediate publication, in one volume, by Masan rna sad Cs. i DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MESSRS. GODDARD'S, TES I MACHINE MOCLDERA.—Terterday lbeentlea a ilre bl•k• at In the manufactory of the Hawn J. nod J. Ciedied s machine mulders, us Shrophire-place, Passes-edzon, Toe. tanhant-court-road. A largo freonse, ass* 40 het . long, had been erected in the pal, aad was skied wilk the most costl c 4 timbers, such as wainntrtme, rosewood, maks • pamaple, and nearly every sort expensive woods. The workmen were startled at seeing smoke pouring kw liai eastern side of this building, and bah/ether had thee to di to it dames shot forth sad threatmed the serwesseng= mixes. The engines of the _parish, Leaden Wella.strest, Crewn- street, Farringdowelessi, _ l 2 4 llalikian s attended, as well as that of the West of Bailleed Immense Company. Under the direction of Mr. Soott, bead of the Menke, and segineers Flemming, (Maud, and the firemen exerted themselves sucostsfuJE cut of lis further extension of the flames, but the • in whittles fire commenced was burned down sad the Mersin ow sussed. The contents sad buildings were Waned ia the Hat Maned The-cake. THE BERKELEY lictrf.—We are informed that during next month the last of these hounds at the Mho. ham kennels, huntinuestions will be carried en pow ally by Sir Maurice Berkeley, end Colonel F. W. F. HEM ley, the member for the borough, who will reside here daring that period, the latter, we are able to state, being mow panted by his lady. In our proapeotive hunting under the new dynasty of The Cheitenrart Cotswold Runt," the gallant admiral and the token s who are both known for their ardent attachment to the sports of the field, will continue their dim support, thus adding another link to that chain of alienee which has so long existed between the house of Pernik, and the town of Cheltenham. An interchange of hum*, courtesies in the district of the two countries traversed br each pack of hounds is also mentioned, as well as the relied hy Colossi Berkeley and his lady, of the old " Hunt Ball." Mr. Cregoe Colmore, the master of the tenham and Cotswold hounds, is, we believe, now on a rid at the Castle, and is selecting young dogs for the futile pack a work in which he is moat liberally sided by both Oft Maurice and the Colonel.—Chetteshaes Eramearer. BARRACK COORERT.—With a desire of conk& bating to the comforts of the soldiers' mem, and of nemird tag the acknowledged evils produced by the present elooolez WWI system of barrack cookery, his W. Willis ma,Commandant of Woolwich GeiTirm, has kinodesed the newly targeted appraise t forward by Cola Grant, R.B. The object and of the as* stove having bean • detailed by General Mims le la Royal Hifftess the Commander-M-Chbf on his We visit to Wooled* the Duke was pissed to ar. move its immediate amen. The appiretua yesterday put into full the various of coo e a r IP= ea other frying, stewing, baking, &a, for the air V a l dine meals for - 1,000 dhes, wee satielbeD A kW p•wpweilfionlar oven, in soosasinas with IC e ll reilis scale of the ertablishmeat. der a old =ftlipages at the apparatus, the keel of whisk le sued sod by mesas of a mail rewlillir In dm neer, ort likewise aeries to cn* any MOM ale= arising from the crowded Male or,. 0n... V. either side ef the shaft in whist:A:ln le fad a 1ts a ken plies 'applies facUities for ellga s a;°. a. lesiva math* Decision did aot oak. t 11.4, • The Duchess of Manchester will be Mistress of the Robes. Sir John Pakington and Sir B. L. Bulwer Lytton will, as we have already stated, be members of the government. It is not yet known whether the health of the Dake of Northumberland will admit of his acceptance of the post of First Lord of the Admir►lty. The Chancellorship of Ireland has been offered to Judge Blackburne, but his anwer his not been received. The title by which the new Lord Chancellor will take his seat in the House of Peers is that of Lord Woodstock. Sir Frederic Thesiger has chosen this title because he was first returned to parliament for that place. Lord Harding° is to be the Under-Secretary for War. To-morrow a Privy Council will be held, at which the resignation of the late administration will be completed, and the new ministers will rewire the seals of aloe. To-morrow also parliament will ad journ for about ten days to afford time for the elections. We (Post) are enabled to state that the three vacant Garters in the gift of Lord Palmerston have been conferred upon the Dates of Wellington, Nor folk, and the Earl of Harrowby. Mr. Hayter is to be made a baronet. Mr. Griffith,, the Irish civil engineer, is also to be made a baronet. THE CRISIS. (Birmingham Doily . Post). Lord John Russell is pre-eminently the man for the sitttstioit. _ (Edinburgh Express). If Lord D fl eittil=lll fall to forma miniary with which he ma face we are mng nine that the teak will be committed to t he of Lord John Russell, who, with Bir James Graham and the leading Paelitee and Independent hberale, occupies a position that would enable him to deal with the French government in that firm and dignified MAIM which alone will sail* the opinion of the nooatry. (Ardor,' Dally 9sprw■). A few of Lord Palmerston's friends in the press hold by the oyiston that the defeated minister will very speedily be to alma They will soon and out their mistake. (Ths !reran.* Fflig). What if Lord Palmerston should have quietly connived at his own defeat? The thing is not at all improbable. • • • We most have Lord Pshnerston back immediately. - (The frighten Guardian.) were Lord Palmerston now to pursue the policy he began this tints last year on the Chines. question, he would again appeal to the country ; but that would only be to remiss from It a confirmation of the decision of the House of Com moos against him. The noble lord certainly mounted like a roeket lest year amidst splendid flashes and sparks and loud buss, to come down this year in darkness and solitude, very little =deed end very like a stick. In whatever meaner the presient aids fa ministerial affairs may turnout, Lord Pabsterston's eerier seems at an end. He may be pitied; but he never will be, and pprobably never has been, respected. The detest at the midsten opens en entirely new prospect to the liberal ppaarrttyy, sad will demand bons them a vigorous, wise, mad eompnbmalve policy. gbe Court. The Earl of Derby had an audience yesterday afternoon of the Queen at Bucldniham Palace, The Prinoo Consort rode on horseback, attended by his ninny in wafting. The Prises of Wales rode on horseback in the afternoon. Prince Arthur, with the Princesses Helena and Louisa, took a drive in an open carriage and four. The Toys! dinner party included the Prince of Wolof, the Each.* et Sutherland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Brisdalbano. the Earl of St. Germans, the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, the Han. Mrs. Biddulpb, and Mr. Gibbs. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance, played daring dinner _ . -..-- Overture, " Zanetta" Anber Recitative and Alr, "Haag awl Gnat" (Mount Sinai) Vales, "JrF •Star •• D'Albert. Selection, " Roes of Clilltine" Balla Polka Mazurka, "Brabant" __ _ Her ldefeety's private band afterwards performed in the Irewlefg.ressw the following compositions: Ordeal% "The Ross of Castilla" Halts. 881 . 060 4 " LB Part du Diable . Auber. Souvenirs d'AugleMrre Hardy. Feuds, 3rd AM, "L Pre sex Cline" Herd. TUB UNANSWEItED DESPATCH. We find the following statement in the Scotsman of yesterday. We suppose it is mean t i n ki n d ness to Lord Palmerston: The facts we are about to slate, though they have not hitherto transpired, may, we have good reaaon to believe, be taken as correct. Immediately en the receipt of the despatch the gown:meet, viewing the document se one which, though net demanding not even susceptible of a categorical reply, might or might not be formally answered, just ea policy memel to direct, resolved that, on the whole, it was better to mower It in writing. A reply, therefore, weir written, couched, it is understood, in pretty strong terms. Bat before being converted into a formal despatch, it was, ht the Bret instance, so is the case of all similar documents, read or, as it la technically celled, "communicated," to the French Am bassador, who expressed a very strong desire that it should not be !awarded In such a form as to necessitate Be publi ell. The mollve of Ude request was not that the reply wonkl I Wind tIA French Emperor or his Ministers, but that, in the Brea excited slate of pope's, holing in France, its publica tion would greatly lumen the eurterreanneets of the go eminent In conseqnsca of this representation, Lord Clesendos—we presume with the consent of his collesgues, and certainly with that of Lord Pidmerstca—ultimataly con. mated to allow the document to remain In the shape of what ie known as a "pslos conessessipiele," or more an efecial letter than a diplomatic despatch. It thsredkee did not come within the scope of papers laid before parliament. Mr. Adam Bittleatooe, of the Midland Circuit, is said to have been smutted by the late ministry to the vacant Indian judgeship. THE KING OP MUHL The following is an extract from a letter written by the wife of Major (then Captain) Hodson, from Delhi . " There is a report, which has been mischievously set about, and may have mischievous consequences—viz., that the King hes the whole of his retinue, and has returned to hie own apartments in the palace. "This is perfectly untrue. I went with Mr. Saunders, the civil commissioner, and his wife to see the unfortunate and guilty wretch. We mounted a fight of stonnsteps, at the bottom and top of which was a European gently. A ...II low door opened into • m 'om halt of which was partitioned o ff with a grass matting called chitac, behind which was a woman cooking some atrocious compound, if I might judge from the sun In the other half was a native bedstead—i. r., a frame ell. of bamboo on four legs, with grass rope strong across it; on this wee lying and smoking a hookah an old man with • long white beard ; no other article of furniture whatever was in the room, and I am almost ashamed to say that • feeling of pity mingled with my disgust at seeing a men recently lord of an imperial city, almost unparalleled for riche* and magnificem o e, con fined in a low, close, dirty room, which rho lowest slave of his househol d would scarcely have occupied, in the wry palace where he had reigned supreme, with power of life and death, untrammelled by any law, within the precincts of • royal residence se large as a considerable sized town, streets, galleries, towers, mosques, forts, and gardens, a private and &public+ hall of justice, end innumerable courts, =and staircases. Its zoligniacence can only be by the atrocities' which have been committed there. But to go back to the degraded King. The boy, Joanna Bukt repeated my name after Mr. Saunders. The old man raised his head and looked at me, then muttered something I could not hear, and at the moment the boy, who had been called from the opposite door, came and told me that his mother, the Seguin, wished to see me. Mrs. Saunders then took possession of me, and we went on into • smaller, darker, dirtier room than the first, in which were souse eight or ten women crowding round a common .charpoy,' . or conch, on which was • dark, fat, shrewd, but senanal- I looking WOOlBll to whom my attention yam particularly drawn. She t o ok hold of my hand (I shuddered a MHO and told me that my husband was a great warrior; but that if the King's life and bar son's had not been promised them by the government, the King was preparing a great army which would hays an nihilated us. The other women stood round in silence till her speech was finished, and then crowded round, asking how mazy children I had, and if they were all boys, examined my dram, and seemed particularly amused by my bonnet and parasol. They were, with one exception, coarse, low-casts women, as devoid of ornament as of beauty. Zeeust Mahal asked me (a great honour, I found, which I did not appreciate) to sit down on her bed, but I declined, es it looked so dirty. Mr. Saunders was much amused at toy refusal, and told me It would have been more than my life was worth six months before to have done so, and I have no doubt of lt." The general belief is that only three ex-Chan cellors can at the acme time be in the receipt of the pension of 5,000 k a rm. The act of the 2nd and 3rd of William IV., cap. 111, cede (says the Post) no limitation r to the number of thus parkas. It simply provides that In con siferation of the abolition of certain offioss, " the patron age and gift of which belonged of right to the Lord High Chanoellor," it should be lawful for his Majesty to grant to any person holding the office of Lord High Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seal, upon hie retirement Irma theatres, a passion for the terns of his natural life not exceeding 6,0X11. per mown. Therefore, by the meet appointment of Sir Frederic Theatre, Lord Creamer* equally with Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, and Lord St. Leonardo, will be entitled to receive the amount of pension already speeilml. Ten LATE Ryon MILEssE Muezum.—At the ' meeting of the Edinburgh Town Council en Tuesday, the Lord Provost reported the steps that had been taken to secure for the country the valuable geological museum of the late Hugh Miller. He elated that very recently after Mr. Miller's death he entered into communication with government with a view to induce them to purchase that museum. The government remitted it to certain gentlemen in Edinburgh to examine it, and report on its van= these gentlemen recommend that an offer of 5001. be made for the oollection, that sum being in their opinion, its valise. Sine* thee, however, a nobleman had offered 1,0001. for It, and an offer of 1,000 guinosa had come from Ortierloa. He had urged on government to amend their offer but had not succeeded in inducing them to do so. It had however, been resolved by gentlemen taking au interest in the matter to organise a subscription to raise 6001. to supplement the offer of government—assuming that any min isoy who might succeed the present would be at had willing to Ce t i: to E. Murchison bad written to his lordship, o Signiors wards the object, and soothe. gentleman had mooning offered M. Theo large aoa tributions, however, would not ha accepted, it baring bon resolved to limit the cube zipptt to U., so as to allow to • Larger number the opportunity of thus showing their regard for the mammy of the decreed. The museum, when as qtdred, would belong to the nation, end form part of the resent Natural Mem, Museum in the University of dinburgh. HOME COUNTIES ASSURANCE COXPANT.—Yefffer day a meeting wee held to appoint as odlcial manager to wind up this company's affairs sad liabilities, which amount to about 6,0001. Mr, IC P. Bud* watt appointed ofilcial muster. 1! 17.ve civi and and lIILI the