The Express. — London, England, 1858-02-22 00:00:00

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The ungovernable and undig nified burst of passion to which the ex-Pamunn gave way in his reply, the uncotirteons impatience with which he was listened to, and the vindictive cheering which greeted the announcement of the numbers on the division everything in the scene bore a strange and close resemblance to the last convulsive struggles of a sperm-whale in " the flurries," when the lance has been driven deep into its vitals, amid the exultant acclamations of the assailing boats' craws. Lord Pstutasrox has fallen by the hands of his own packed Home of Commons. The breach between him and the majority haa been attended by cir cumstances of reciprocal insult and defiance that render reconcilement impossible without atter loss of character to both parties. Lord PALMEnnoNr. success at the last election appears to have turned his head. During the present passion especially he has met all opposition with a degree of insolence such as no former Premier of England ever dared to show to members of the House of Commons. And the cheers which greeted the announcement of his defeat bespoke how deeply his insolence had been felt and resented. It is im possible to imagine Lord PALMERSTON'S again acting es Prime Minister in concert with the present House of Commons ; and what chance could a disso lution give him of bettering his position? He has been tried and found wanting in the one only capability for which men gave him credit. Nobody ever believed that Lord PALMER nom either cared for or comprehended the reforms about which the country is anxious. Nobody had one grain of faith in Lord Petnearrox's attachment to any one principle of oar Constitution. Nobody attributed large or sagacious views to him, even in his own especial department of foreign affairs. But almost all men were persuaded that he was animated by a strong and generous sense of the national honour, and with courage to uphold it. And it is on this very point that he has so lamentably shown himself craven and recreant. He might have recovered from a House& Commons' vote of censure for any other sin of emission or commission ; but to have undergone cen sors fee neglecting to assert the independence and dignity of England is irretrievable. The one clap trap to which he unfailingly had remorse to parry all attacks he never can utter on a hustings again. It would be as hopeless as Ephraim Jos kinson's attempt to play off his Cosmogony a second time on the Vicar of Wakefield. There seems as little chance for Lord Pax taxasrow in throwing himself upon the country ea in trying to patch up a peace with his rebellious House of Commons. His acquiescence in his de feat—his prompt resignation under a vote of censure, may be what a Yankee would call " playing Toe " sum." He may calculate on the inability et his Meals—Liberal and Conservative—to francs a Ca binet, or command majorities in the two Homes of Parliament. He may flatter himself that he is still the Inevitable, and that when the Qum has Ina the round of all the other party leaders, she must again fall beck upon him. But he will find that as everything earthly has an end, so has his career of dice. It is extremely probable that more than one ephemeral combination may be made, and break down, before a powerhd and permanent Ministry can be formed, but amid all the chopping and changing no eye will turn in the direction of Broadlands. The time has come for Lord PAL itturox to subside into the House of Lords, that lest asylum of outworn Ministers and impesahle aspirants to seats in the Cabinet. That Earl DERBY is to be Lord PAtaxerixor's snseemsor is a very secondary consideration. At the hands of no new Premier will any esmillerable body of the people tolerate a measure Intresbaced for the sole purpose of encouraging foreign despots to brave the indignation of their mubjects. If the new Premier will legislate for our great Indian dependency, it asst he in a manner that will assure wise and just government for Hin dman. sad guarantee England against any increase of the already too great power pawned by the Crown and its Ministers of corrupting Parliament at the expense of the natant' interest and honour. During a long tract etyma we have seen a number el Cabinets constructed eat of the old unvarying materials, by dint of the home-pee= of varied ossabinations. The personal prestige of all our atatarara has thus AMU le be pretty well Imd . ; and the amesupsseise is that the country is getting more intent upon nessenree than mss, Above everything it has hem., impatient of the degraded I at ' , dish the ex-itiaistre he. played in the ere of Continental Europe. It wants men who will seek to eoaciliate the Preneh nation without fawning Val the General of the Arai; now saaap e a plus and domineering over its who will repeal' the law Uses of foreign police spies in Ragland. and gash from sirgaaisirag our own polies ea the esuatienstal model ; who will support the eassec il th ed sante et Piedmont, Belem, and Subservient, he bayed to the despots of Europe by the late Illwistry) who will exact a strict reckoning from the Lag et !at mal-treatment of two anesent Bar illegally entrapped by li t , Irby boo I [(Ansa tor th limb subjects, • ti i THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1858. driven one of them mad—sal -treatment to which Lords PALMERSTON end CLARENDON are lICONERTMIL WHEN we want to know witoth* any government is of a progressive Ay:enter, ee of a narrow, selfish, monopolising turn, we look to Its famation. Fiscal improvement ia to much dreaded by a stationary as Red Republicanism by a retrograde Government. In the case of the East India Company there must be more to get over in order to elevate its fiscal policy than in any other scene of British empire, be cause it originated in a monopoly, and has been, until a comparatively recent period in its history, so emaciated with monopoly that its existence is now threatened on account of a mistaken notion that it still retains that characteristic. If there is evi dence anywhere of the Company being a mere remnant of a commercial association, unqualified for good government in the present day, that evidence most be looked for in its fiscal system. That that system should be better than that of the most advanced countries in the world, or es yet equal to that at home, it would be unreasonable to require ; because the tax-paying public in India is of so different a character from that of England, I Franc*, and America. What we want is evidence whether the rulers of India are adhering to their old methods of raising revenue for State purposes, or whether they are altering their methods; and, in the latter case, whether the change is in the direction of progress or retrogression. The evidence is very clear; and the taxes are so few that the case can be exhibited in a very brief way. Nearly two-thirds of the revenue is derived from the land, and we have already seen that one improvement has succeeded to another in the method of obtaining it. The taxes which make up the re maining third of the State Income come under only five heads. First, there is Opium. We put it first, not so moth on account of its yielding between four sad Aye millions sterling as because it is not, strictly speaking, a tax on the inhabitants, any more than tits lanttrevenae. The millions yielded by the opium duty are paid by the foreign consumers. . _ Again, the consideration of the welfare of the inha bitants enters into the case more prominently than in regard to any other impost except taxes on spirits. What has, under them circumstances, been the Com pany's course ? Various methods of restriction on the cultivation of the poppy in Hindostan Proper (where it flourishes most) were tried, up to twenty years ago, and all issued in increased smuggling, and in perpetual breach of the peace; in spying in the fields, and fighting on the roads, while the Com pany were undersold in their own markets, from the opium of their own territories being smuggled into all markets under the Portuguese flag. Under Lord W. BENTINCIE the system was changed. Instead of excise or other inquisitorial methods, that of licensing the sale was adopted, the license costing lees than the expenses of smuggling. The method of monopoly, in preference to that of en excise or an export duty, is still preserved in Bengal (the chief opium district), because, though an export duty might sustain its price in foreign markets, it would make the commodity so cheap at home as to endanger the corruption of the people in two ways ; by the facilities it would afford to smuggling, and by the temptation to consume opium as the Chinese do, or as the people of Norway and the United States, and, to a considerable extent, the English, consume spirituous liquors. Such changes as have been made in levying revenue from opium have been determined by the consideration how to reduce smuggling and the consumption of opium to the minimum. Then comes the other great and far more scanda lous monopoly—that of Salt. This commodity, not only innocent, but essentially necessary to a vege tarian population, ought to be as free as the grain or water they take with it. In its day the Indian salt monopoly has stood first on the list of iniquitous taxes on food. It is true, it is the only tax paid by the labouring class in India; bat this does not pre vent its being the worst that could be imposed. What has been done about it since the old days when there was a special mortality caused by a dearth of salt, and when the price of salt would have kept down a more aspiring people than the riots of India ? There is now, strictly speaking, no unqualified monopoly of salt in any district of India; and no actual monopoly at all, except in the Madras Presidency. In that Presidency importation is per mitted on payment of a duty equivalent to the Government profit on the manufacture. In the Bombay Presidency there is no Govern ment manufacture at all, but an excise duty imposed in the place of a large amount of objec ion able taxes, abolished by Government at a great sa crifice. The daty is less than a farthing • pound. In Bengal, the stringent monopoly was consider ably relaxed in 1836 ; and the present plan is to throw open the sale to all purchasers at the prise of the combined cost of production and the fixed duty —importation being free on payment of the same duty. The duty has been gradually lowered to three-farthings per pound. If it is asked, why not throw open the manufacture, if the Government resolves only the amount of the fixed duty ? The answer is, that the manufacture has been thrown open in the districts round Calcutta, subject to excise regulations. And yet so little ale has been made of the liberty, that it seems as if the Company's salt were as cheap as any that can be had elsewhere. Time will prove this; and it may be hoped that one of the earliesteffeets of new developments of industry will be to extinguish the salt duty altogether. Meantime it is clear that whatever has been done by Govern meat is in the way of relaxation, and that the im provements have been very considerable. The third article was Tobseco,which was formerly a monopoly in the Malabar provinces, yielding 60,0001. a year. This monopoly was abolished six years ago, without equivalent. The commodity is altogether untaxed. Next come the Customs. All who know anything of Indian history are aware of the onerous character of the transit ditties imposed by the native Princes. They, in fact, suppressed commerce, and would have kept the people barbarous for over if they had bees continued. The Company relaxed them, far and wide, and abolished the lad trace of them in their own territories in 1844. The native Prime who remain are gradually following their example. In Madre. alone the Company's transit duties yielded 310,00 W. a year, so that the writhe was great. Two years ago farther iaternal imposts were abolished, and none now remain but same town duties hare and then, levied for local parposes, and placed, wherever pos sible, ender local maaagement. As to external cus toms, they have been so rapidly redooed that little more is wanted to place the commerce of India alto gether on the basis of free trade. First, frontier dories were reduced er abolished t than duties on goods tarried in foreign vessels were abolished ; then the coasting trade wee thrown span—before we at home abolished our Navigation Laws. The three Presidencies were thrown into one for Customs pur poses; and the produce of native States in aliases with as is reeeived in our porta as British predate. Something remains to be done in liberating trade entirely ; but there can be no doubt about the pro gressive character of the rule under which industry has obtained thus mach emancipation. The remaining head is the Peet-office. The re duotionn and their success, moral and fiscal, have kept pace with these at home. A fair trial has been offered whether the people of India will write letters; and they ate so rapidly proving that they can and will, that the earliest pecuniary lose was less than had been anticipated, and is feat diminish ing. The management of the Poet-office system does not look like the work of a worn-out govern ment. By all accounts there is nothing better in any country. The general results of these fiscal improvements speak for themselves. Within twenty-one year, the exports of British India have risen 188 per amt.— the export of cotton to England having in that time increased 346 per cent. The only apparent limit of the exportation of Bengal rice is in the means of carrying it down to the coast. It is need less to add that the wages of labour have risen, and that cultivation has spread remarkably, while the population has increased fast under the seen- I city of life and the cheapness and continuous supply of food. The agricultural population of wide regions are out of debt for the first time in their lives. Of course, importation is improving. The advance is, in the same twenty-one years, upwards of 227 per cent. Great as this prosperity is, it is not now the main point. The question is, whether there is a principle of progress in the existing rule of India. The his tory of its taxation shows that in fiscal matters, there certainly is. eV court. Viscount Palmerston had an audience of the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Saturday afternoon. The Prince Comore rode on horseback rn Saturday morn attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour. he Prince Conant presided in the afternoon at a meeting of the commission for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. The tom misionsre present were Earl Stanhope, the Right Hon. the epee* the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, and Sir Ben- Janda Hawes. The secretary, Sir Charles Eastlake, attended. Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa took a drive in an open carriage and four. Her Majesty s dinner party in the evening included the Duchene ot Cambridge, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Turkish krabardor and Madame Husaren the bake and Duchess of Manchester, the Doke of Wellington, the United Staten Minister and Mrs. Dallas, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge, Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, and the Equerry in Waiting to the Durham of Cambridge. The Mad of the let Life Guard' performed during dinner. Overture, "Nschklaenge von Onion "*. Gads. . Feekeitang, " Composed for the marriage of the Princessyrederick Wiliam of Prussia" Waddell. Grande Flutists* "d'Eurisathe Weber. Quadrille, " Luxus " Letter. Welrnr, " Invitation a 4 Dime" Was,. The Queen's private toad allimele piss Is the drawing-room the following pines: Orrtnre, (Op. 85) " Guillaume T."" Bait To - Nook tho am. W. BessisL Cl.olthas. AOdsle ea Batik _ _ Hamel. Scene de Dean, "Li Bapidere" The Earl of Derby hid an audience of the Queen on Saturday evening. Yesterday her Majesty, the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Prbtoms Alice, end the Princes Helena, the Lifts and radium of the court, and the domestic house hold, attended divine service in the chapel of the paleoe. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing street. The Ministers present were— Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren don, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Connell set on Satur day. An appeal from Bengal, " Bunwurne Laul v. Rana ram Sing," was part hoard. Present : The Chanoeltor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Court of Probate, W Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir R. Ryan. The Marquis of Exeter left town on Saturday for &Bibby How, war %asked. The - Earl and Countess Craven and the Ladies Craven TM have town in a few days on a visit to the Count., of Sefton at Croiteth Hall, Lancaahire. The Countess of Sefton and Lady Ceeilis Moly nous hare left town far Crentath Hall, Lancashire. The Earl and Countess of Fife left town on Saturday last for St. Leonard's. The Earl Cowper left town a few days vino. for Panahanaer, Herta. The Earl of Eglinton received a select party to dinner on Saturday evening at bis residence In St. James's square. We are happy to learn that Field-Marshal the Lt el Simard, G.C.8., has quite recovered from his moot imalopookkm. Viaoon ntese Palmerston comas to town to-clay trim St. Leonard's, where her ladyship has been since Friday isa a visit with Viscountess Jocelyn. The Count and Countess de Jamas have arrived et Cliaidge's Hotel from Thocasatown Castle, Ireland. The Countess Flehvrikovraki and family have left the Brasinriek Hotel, St. Jams's, for Paris. Lord Ebury entertained the Marquis of Lans downe, the Earl Granville, the Earl of Berebotaugh, the Hari Orey, Lord Marcus Hill, the Right Hon. Hoary Laboncbere, the Right Hrs. R. Vernon Smith, the Right Hon. W. G. Haytar, Lord Stanley of Aldo*, Lord John Ramell, the Right Hen. Edward Ellice, the Hon George Bysg, and a edict party of politkal friends, at dinner es Saturday evining, at his lordabip's residua* 1 Peet-etroet. Loci and Lady Begot have left town for Blith est'', ilidordshire. Lady Lilford and Miss Edith Powys have left Parreaces Hotel, Bolgrava, fur Brighton. The Ladies Charteris have left Claridge's Hotel for Wariteld Pork, Berko. Sir Edward and Lady Carolina Kerriaon arrived at their new residence In Pkx•dilly a few &Lys since from &ems Hall, Norfolk. Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner on Satur day evening the Earl red Cuonasee Stanhope, Lord sad Lady Robby, the Earl Jews, M.P., Mr. and Lady Charlotte llgeelea, Lord Is Tabley, Tiaoount and Via wanton Beentagtea, Vie:east and Vinountent Torrington, Viscount Chiba, M.P., Laid and Lady Charles Ransil, Right Has. V. P. Vane, M.P., tad Mr. M. Maar, M.P. Mr. and Lady Caroline Townley leave town to day ea a tear et vlatia. Mr. Henry Baring, M.P., has left Pangaea's Meek Belgravia, for Paris. TIM Q;een imp appointed the Rev. F. H. Wil liams. ant sa dr • ter, Eirpetaal curate airCluiitcharth, Aga lourvahr-Lyse. A bottle born Berlin of the 20th, says--" The Prisms Pritirkk William wee outs at the awamet s t • masen of stseed music emu by the Priam sad We at Pewit the *meting or Ask Wadamday, where Madras Via dot Garcia rabid &aldose! Morels, but as the fallowing day (Thad's) she was obliged to excuse halt tram the dinar ems by the Prbwe sad Priaams et sod Irma tb ..sank at the Siag-Altellemie wt smaisg. Os that day her Dori Ingham was obliged to Mks is her bed ia asasseamme et • sewn mid, eisi remise will • ; bed, es he as I ham heard at prammt, thus is mare them a esid to be deplored, sad the weather has beta so ehimpable withia the lame hw days that it is almost extra eraser, to lad say out oat abated with admit to saws hem sr ether." _ . m Ta tirioXlM's Dom.—nil Right Res. the Spooks: of *snow el Ilimeoes gree his bebeil g a m' ekftedir, et kir hoer it Oarberdenese. tellserfes WWI' Masora reeei.libe levibetiew—Thellight WA. B. ANNA the at, Hi.. Amber Webde, bb Joie Led Jam Naasere, Lad Hew Sodom labrez, Lad , Viereset tibmert, Lard Med le. mike. Lard KAM I, Col. the Kea. Cedlirerembr tbb Lade Hoe. J. Hobby. the Eight Ham. Jar* X di sm . ataar7 A. Cole, seer-Adrairal the Nee. Arr UueeMy Mr W. JAM, boa. 11111i1MW Lytteeellir lorkehe Mr Mew Ilase-Adeatral Was*. CoL Tozio T tV; North, CAL 101411% llajor Commies Ikea Mr. Widtride, Kr. O. A. Hamar& Kr. Mato, Mr. A‘keisy, Mr. Pucka, Nr. Homy Me* Mr. Nowdoisio, Mr. MaMas, Kr. Whit. I SKIM eel Mr. Hardy. THE NEW MINISTRY. On Saturday Lord Palmerston summoned the I members of the cabinet to meet at his official real. dens in Downing -street to deliberate on the result of the division in the House of Commons the previous night, The ministers present were :—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanri earde, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labonchere, Lord Panmure, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The cabinet was summoned for three o'clock, and by a few minutes after that hour the whole of the members of the cabinet had as sembled. At half-part four o'clock Lord Palmerston quitted the Chamber of Council, and repaired to Buckingham Palace. His lordship tendered the resignation of himself and colleagues to the Queen, which her Majesty accepted. The decision of the cabinet to resign was a unanimous one. As was most natural under the circumstances, the interview resulted in her Majesty's sending for Lord Derby, who immediately repaired to the palace. On leaving the noble earl had interviews with Mr. Disraeli and others of his party. A telegraphic despatch was sent to Lord Malmesbary, requesting his immediate presence in London ; and yesterday morning, at an early hour, Lord Derby sent for Mr. Gladstone. After a consultation of some duration, Mr. Gladstone proceeded direct to the residences of his leading Peelite colleagues in the adminis tration of Lord Aberdeen. It is said that Mr. Gladstone gave in his conditional adhesion with little hesitation to the embryo government of Lord Derby. The chief condition was, that of his getting Sir James Graham, Mr. Sidney Herbert, and Mr. Cardwell, to join the conservative ministry along with himself. Mr. Gladstone found, however, —so it is said—that neither of the three gentlemen would listen to any proposition of the kind. Yesterday* an early hour, Earl Derby again waited on the Queen, and accepted the task of constructing a cabinet. This afternoon Lord Palmerston will an nounce to the House of Commons the step which he has taken, and an adjournment of the house till Thurs day or Friday will be moved, in order to give Lord Derby time for the completion of his arrangements. In the event of Lord Derby succeeding in forming a ministry, there will be • further adjournment to allow for the members of the new government, who have seats in the House of Commons, to be re elected. The Great Seal, it is understood, has been offered to Mr. Pemberton Leigh, whose fitness in all personal and professional respects for the highest judicial office in the realm no one will gainsay. In the event of his declining, the Chancellorship will probably be offered to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, whose practice before the House of Lords has for some time been unequalled by that of any one save Sir Richard Bethell. Lord Ellen borough will no doubt form part of the intended combination : and in debating power its strength would immeasurably exceed that of the late Ministry. Then comes the question, what is to be its policy or its programme ? It may be some time before this can be known. As the Con servative party have not sought the responsibility of government—as office has come to them by the suicidal treachery and corruption of a certain section of the late Administration, there may pos sibly be found a disposition in Parliament to exercise forbearance tower& them in the first instance. They are pledged to nothing so far, save the postponement of immediate legisla tion for India. They may safely, therefore, allow that troublesome and perilous question to drop. No Government can be expected, after what has happened, to renew the attempt to pass the Conspiracy Bill. The Estimate' of the late Govern- ment they will find ready, we presume, for introduc tion ; and they cannot well be successfully opposed upon items of which their adversaries were the authors. There are yet five weeks to Easter ; and during that time they may not be hard pressed. But after Easter will come the tug of war; and it is not easy to see bow a Conservative Government can satisfy national exigency without an utter sacrifice of con sistency. No definite arrangements have been entered into, but the following list is given by the Timer, on the authority of "plausibility, and in some instances, positive information:" Loan or viz TZILUItrZT. 1/311 Derby. CZASCILLOZ OF TEI Exotra. Kr. Giadatone. OW= Loan Caancau.oa BINCLITAZT Or STATE roes ) 11r Walpole. ?ZS HOKE DIPAZTIIINS..•• • Fos 171 POZITON DIPA.ZT- l Hr. PIZ= Fos ran Cower= Sir J. Paktnirtoo. Fos Was Lord Ellenborougle. Anwriairt PILIBIDINT or vu BOZZD or Taans } Mr. Halley. Passim": or vas BOA= or } Lord Stanley. CONTROL COUNCILLOR or ris DOCKY or j 84 Brier Leion. LLimurris - - Low) Brierafth Loma CzArnow's! Murcia OP rem How The Bed ',Meter&ld. Plan Comehmnow or ) 14it ma miabirs. WOODS AHD PoaLlo Wow Arroaxat-GarrisAr. Sir F. Kelly. SoLrerroz-Chatuar. Mr. Citrus. Jana 5-Anyonwrie-Ozirnsac Mr. 8. Warren. LORD-IJZIVIIIINANT or 11/XLAND 'Ma Earl of Eglintoun. CKIILF BICRITAST Lord Nom Loinetaxoncon or Inicurn Mr. Blackburn°. lIIIMER Boksa or Cowraot Mr. Baillie . FORZION DEPARTXIIXT Hotta 11r. Mowbray. _ _ It is said—but we (news) repeat our caution— that Lord Malmesbury will succeed Lord Cowley as ambassador at Paris ; and there is also another ru mour, that Mr. Disraeli will replace Lord Stratford at Constantinople, and Lord Stretford preside at the Foreign-office. That Mr. Disraeli should leave the lions* of Commons for a distant diplomatic appoint ment would seem altogether impossible. More was to be a meeting at Lord Derby's house to-day at three o'clock. The Earl of Clarendon called yesterday on Lord Palmerston, at Cambridge Howie, and remained two Yours. One of the morning papers states that the Prince Ceamort paid the Earl of Aberdeen the compliment of sensalting him on Saturday; " as also did Mr. Oladelame and several others of his lordship's old polities! friends, as well as some novel acquaintances, each as Mr. John Bright" The Emperor of the French mast have received the intelligence of Lord Palmerston's defeat some hem before her Majesty, aa it was iismediately Selogroplied to Paris from the home by Count hams, who, with several other members of the diplomatic corps, were present at the division, and appeared greatly interested and excited by the melt Immediately oa the numbers of the division Wog known, Lord Palmerston, as le customary, wrote a note of the result, and placed it in the do- Rialch•box, which was forwarded as anal to Bask. Ingham Palace, an would, in all probability, not be opened by her Majesty before half-peat six. "Lord Derby," says the Times," might have been more fortunate in the time of his accession to power. The stir of conservatism is certainly not in the ascendant. It rises in a malefic house.' Lord Derby undertakes to form • ministry on the very day that we learn how his protege' Yell has been carried In the garb of a Coolie on board a British man-of-war. The first despatch which he receives from the Bast will perhaps be from the exulting Bowing in stalled in the yamun of Canton. Mr. Disraeli, who's theme has been the late minister's 'laxity' in suppressing the Indian revolt, will also have to deal with the fact that Sir Cohn Campbell was by the lest news just about to make his final march on Lucknow, and crush the rebellion In its strongheliL The conservative lades will gain but little by a rekrance either to their own peat prophecies or their opponents' conduce of affairs, On the other hand, some very serious questions are bequeathed then by the late administration. We are wall aware of the facility of politicians in accepting the measures they formerly opposed, and carrying out the policy they formerly dinennesd. We know how easy It is to say that the time has came: that, though they still retain certain opinions, yet, as parliament has decided the other way, and the country ie committed, they feel it their duty to acquiesce, and so forth. Still, in this case the position of the new cabinet will be somewhat difficult. Will Lord Derby carry on the Chinese war, or give effect to the opinions which his party advocated last year In conjunction with the same allies by whose help they have gained their present triumph? Again, the government of India is a question which cannot be delayed. The House of Commons bee decided by en immense majority that a bill should be brought in transferring the authority to the Crown, and has rejected the plea that the present is en improper time for legislation. Will Lord Derby adopt the bill, and allege that his party only doubted the seamonableness of the oppor tunity, and not the merits of the measure, or will he, on the other band, join the phalanx which supports the Company, and re-establish or prolong the present system P Then eomee the great question of parliamentary reform. The House of Common and the whole liberal party are oom milled to the measure. Will Lord Derby declare against it, or take it up and make it his own P We have no conception of the policy to be pursued by the conservative leader, but we do net doubt that he relies upon a dissolution as one of his expedients in the hazardous political enterprise which he has just undertaken." The personal friends of Lord Palmerston do not speak of him as out of the field. Their language implies a belief that he is inevitable; that his sudden resignation will demonstrate for a few days the helplessness of the Queen and country without his aid, and that afterwards he will be summoned back with acclamations to pass a Conspiracy Bill, or any other which be may choose. If such were his lord ship's thoughts, him conduct in declining to recommend an adviser to the Queen would be partly explained. The result of the division of Saturday morning was in stantly telegraphed to Paris and the principal capitals of Europe. (nos ova own COPARIPONDINTB.) MANCHESTER, FIB. 20. There has been a strong feeling existing here against the Conspiracy BM ; but, after the apparent subser viency of a majority of the Commons to the government manifested in the divisions on that and the India Bill, people were talent by surprise this morning, when the electric tele- , graph told the defeat of ministers. Even many of the ad miters of Lori Palmerston, and supporters of his govern ment, have ill brooked the taunts they were compelled to hear, respecting the craven spirit indicted by the policy of their party ; and the more so, because, during the late war, they boasted much of their patriotism. Such men have felt much difficulty in squaring their old pride in the protection hitherto given to foreign refugees, and independence of foreign dictation, with their allegiance to party, and Use llemeheager Guardian thus expresses this feeling in the following remelts on the result of the debate :—" We eannet altogether wonder at the result of this debate; for English liberals may wall be aroused to anger against any foreign government which endeavours to make us give up that right of asylum of which they are so justly proud ; and we must confirm that we should have heard with satisfaction that, prior to the misting of parliament, the government bad replied with spirit to Count Walewskrs despatch." Ot course, to the friends of the late members for Manchester the announentseat wee the source of great satisfaction. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SLTVILDAT NIGHT. The intelligence of the defeat of the ministry last night in the Hones of Commons upon Mr. Milner Gibson's amendment to Lord Palmagoes Alien Bill has caused im mense excitement in this great district all day, as nearly all classes of persons were bitterly opposed to Lord Palmerston In twinging in the measure, and allowing Count Walewski' s despatch to go unanswered. Combined with the purified mous conduct of the government in the case of Watt and Park, the two unfortunate Newcastle men who have been so tortured by the Neapolitan goverment, the re-cation against Lord Palmerston is somewhat awful. In the meant temps , oldie people, if an eludes wee occurring, none of the north country borough members who have supported Lord Pal mereton's bill would stand even the last chance of being returned. A public meeting has been called for Tomb, night; and the bast evidences of the condition of opinion is the neighbourhood Is the fact that the first name that is attached to the requisition calling the meeting is the vener able Dr. Headlam, who for • great number of years was the leader of the liberals, and that every liberal paper in the town and diatrict have indignantly repudiated Lord Palmennon's waded in bringing in the bill. NORWICH, SATURDAY EVENING. The defeat of Lord Palmerston on his pet French Colonels Bill has been the great topic of convenation here to-day. It le hit that the verdict of the Home of Commons, that his lordship has been wanting to the national honour, is one which his reputation cannot survive, especiaßy as the jury, ea to speak, wee one most favourable to him, and may almost be said to have been impannelled by himesiL The old cry of " conspiracy" cannot be of any service to the govemment in this era NOTTINGHAM, Sarcrium.y. The news of the defeat of this bill wee received is this town to-day with unqualified satisfaction, DM of nearly all shadow of politioal opinion siewitqf with dislike Ulla despotic sad un-English 1011111M111. BRIMFIELD, SATURDAY. The defeat of the government is hue regarded with general satisfaction. Astonisluneat le expressed that a etateeman of Lord Pahnerston's professions should have so committed himself as to introduce the Ccospirsey Bill and support it with speeches in praise of a despotic government. A mailing mama the bill is announced to take place on Monday, and, if not countermanded in cousequence of this news, will be very large and inlenttiel. OXFORD, R _ATIMDAY. The true English feeling of the Home of Commons in throwing out the Conspiracy to Nosier Bill, as Friday night, was an agreeable surprise to the Omelette, and this holing was fully participated in by the hrmsre sad country pop% ohm/in the melt% es Washy. Yr. tangeton's vote for the us-English bill of Lord Palmenton has given gnat oases to his oonstitnishe of all chasm 1, gATORDAT. The news of the defeat of government took every one by surprise this morning. Lord Palmesstoa kas always been popular here, bat the improdoa mooed a great por tion of the Bowthatoptoa liberal party is that Ws coarse he.. been bodkin lately, sad that he required a cheek. Tam PALiniarox Mrsterzy.--The defeat of the LsVadadedeautica ea the Mere ituestlea (Mr. Cob aritaidatar) occurred ea the 3rd of Merely 1067. Oa that °emote* the majority opiate We wee eirtees, the aamben brig 263 sad 247. These would form (with tillers mad the Speaker) a home of 516 members, whereu, ca Friday leek the aumbes (heiladiag tense) formed • hone of 46$ Miamben. The shunt wire identity of the seekority will set ewer soda. THE " KcoNoxise AND LORD PALIERISTON. KT. °Mlles queetka is Lad PIIIMITTiIIa =light NM with • tebuirsell desereel by IiTS. *Mei se tatatedrete is Ike eabellease s.7 l4lter isialliss limit W• eassat aster wlth Lead liar mobs ilea it ii "iillisir •4 woo fi mmoro po or ~ minfrigsgst %F il m e s: leveed ihsi iiia irio illillsz nedii liar. Amid lia aloft snails. maia madam *ray* gild* false lapreathe lisas WI spread abseil. We emus balift is kis Mehra he eisaced, let we se di viscid tali ills issiailssa all Sallool seamed are amen own deeply hid whoa lbws Widmer usilisaiseillis Winos a C Ir ilaw. pis disii law as ever blo try sae Immo Is assesd IffillidslilsWaftrysrsisssi illid Pim , mar _ LATEST INTELLIGENCE. , INDIA. The following telegram from her Migrate Acting Consul-General in Egypt waa rewired at the Foreign Office Feb. 21, at 1.46 p.m. : ALEXANDRIA, Fn. 16, 1868. The Oriental arrived at Suez the 13th inst. Bhs brings Bombay dates to the 28th January. The Commander-in• Chief moved on the 14th January with the head-quarters of his army to position (Kanovry), occupied up to that time by Walpole's Brigade. That corps had been previously thrown forward to the Ganges, for the purpose of constructing a bridge at a point opposite the confluence of that river with Rnmguhr. Brigadier Walpole completed the required bridges and crossed the Ganges by it into Rohilcund. The Commander-in-Chief reviewed and inspected the brigade previous to its departure for Bareilly, whither it was to march for the purpose of clear ing the city of the rebels under Khan Bahadoor Khan. Sir Colin Campbell himself did not intend entering Rohilcund with the main body till he received from Agra a siege train, to be escorted down by her Majesty's 38th. The rebels who passed from Rohilcund into the Moozufernuggur district on the 30th January were beaten by Captain Rollwagen, and driven back across the river. The Calpee rebels are still in force, it is said, under the leadership of the Nana Sahib, and that this chief is threatening us in the direction of Nagotee. If this be the gradual concentration of columns from Jobbnlpore, Newa, and Mehore, there will soon be an end to this resistance. An engagement took place between Captain Mont gomery, the Superintendent of Police at Alimedneg. gur, and a gang of Bheela in the district of Chanelore, on the road to Mallagamur. Captain Montgomery, three other officers, and 60 men were wounded. Ilia telegram arrived at Malta and Alexandria by her Majesty's ship Urgent on the 20th February, at 11.60 p.m. (Signed) LYONS, Admiral CHINA. CAPTURE OF YEH. The following telegram was received at the Foreign-office, Feb. 21, at 10 cm.: ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 16, 1868. The Bengal has just arrived at Suez, and brings the following intelligence : Sir Colin Campbell had defeated the rebels [at) Futtyghar, and was waiting for a heavy siege train from Agra, on arrival of which he would move with his whole force, in concert with Jong Baba door, on Oude. Canton was taken the 29th of December. Commiasioner Yeh was captured on the 6th of January, also the Tartar general. Yeh was taken in the dress of a coolie. He was sent on board the Inflexible on the Bth. (Signed) LYONS, Admiral. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) sumwurn AND 111711 K mioaara.) MALTA, F. 21, Dates from Calcutta to Jan. 24 ; Hong Bong,Jan. 14 ; and Madru, Jan. 29. Calcutta : import and export trades improved. Money market improved, with increased confidence. Freights higher. Exchange, 2s. 2d. to 2a. 20. Madru : Imports unaltered; exports dull; freights lower; money market easy. Exchange, 2s. Old. to 2s. 1341. Hong Bong: Imports in Email demand. Exchange, 4s. 9d. to 4a. 10d. Shanghai: Silk dull; fair liminess done. Ex change, Be. to 6e. id. We (Times) have received the following telegram from our own correepondent via Corfu : " ALEXANDRIA, FZB. 18. "The Calcutta and China mails leave to-day with intelligence from Calcutta to the 25th of January; Madras, 29th; Canton, 14th ; and Hong Kong, 15th. " The news from the Commander-in-Chief's camp is to the 15th, when he had crossed the river, and was moving towards Bareilly. " The Coolies (?) had risen in great number. The Commissioner, with a party of Sikhs, had been obliged to retreat before them. " Reinforcements have been sent from Midnapore. "There is a report that the great Gude &min den have offered to surrender on condition of im munity. " The Tartar General and Yeh were taken pri soners on the sth of January. "Yeh has been sent on board the Inflexible, and remains a prisoner off Tiger Island. " The Cantonese were returning to the city. " The blockade has not yet been raised." UNITED STATES. (NT IZMIR AND MAGNETIC TILIOIATIL) (ROY ova owl oosssirowozwr.) LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Canada arrived this morning, having left Boston on the 10th instant, touched at Halifax on the night of the 11th. The Arabia arrived at New York on the 7th. Collins' line suspended. The Atlantic would not leave for Liverpool on the 13th, as advertised. Kansas affairs monopolised attention. In the midst of intense excitement the House of Repre sentatives came to a vote on the proposition to refer the question of the Lecompton Constitadon to a special committee of fifteen. The result was 114 in favour to 111 against, being a majority of three against the administration. Official information had been received, showing beyond a doubt that a free state legislature and free state aims had been elected in Kansas. Mass meetings were being held in the Atlantic cities in opposition to tie Lecompton Constitution. Nothing new in regard to Mormon affairs. Washington despatches say indications were clear that the Senate would vote for the administration of Kansas by from 6 to S majority. There is no other political or domestic news of importance. A resolution was reported in the Senate author rising the President to settle the pending difficulties with Paraguay. The New York stook market was firm and tend ing upwards. The latest sales were : Erie sharealii Michigan Central, 68; Illinois Central Boas; 951 ; New York Central Sixes, 88}; New York Banks had slightly lost in specie, but were atsod log their loans and discounts. Sterling &ahoy dill, at lion to 110. Cotton buoyant and hies". Middling on the 9th selling at Ile. Flom Inn. oorn unsettled. Provisions firm. Sarre advanced; to t. Coffee steady. Scotch MA, 26 to 28 dollars. Freights dull and LATEST vii HALIFAX. The steamer Indian arrived at Portland on au, 10th, and the City of Baltimore at New York on the 11th. The southern cotton markets were Wins/A exalted ; latest quotation for middling, I I to. a 4 The Canada brings 208,000 dela and specie. I' sag eve in I thoi MAI Car Con Chs Sod -bur • d