The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-30 00:00:00

belie pat to dstiu of all laborious ha this conatry are of sari --- a assiz - ; that mamas (I speak fun myself) can discharge them without wag sensible that much just fault may be tinted with the meaner ia which they are discharged. I bass not the Meet doubt that that applies to my noble friend. lam far tree Baying that he has such an exemption from all the in- Amities of humus nature, that he has been able te devise me/rater, and do everything in the right manner, and at the right time. But if you think that he hi. not dented \based with assiduity and great ability to the duties ei his °Mee, you are =Waken. (Hear, hear.) You may pees a vote te se 00000 my noble friend; von may shelter yourselves for the moment behind the opinion of the =e mcee; bet if yea could have your committee of inquiry, and if you could know the proceedings of my noble friend (and there are many who will give their vote for rash a sommittee to-night, who, if they had this knowledge, would shrink from giving it)—(hear, hear)—if you get a majo rity, and succeed is Goering him and the government to which he belongs with unpopularity and obloquy, I tell you confidently—and mark my words ! than by this time twelve months, when the state of the facts is disclosed, there will be, among the jest and generous people of Ragland, a strong reaction to his favour. (Hear, hear.) To come sow to the state of the army itself. What are the grounds alleged for this mein ? Yoe are going to condense my noble friend and the government on account of the condition of the army In the Crimea. You have an impression that there are no roads, so depots, no clothing, no houses, no fuel, little food, a went of ammunitien, and great confusion at Bala. klavt—(than from the °pp./6600)—and I mast not for. get to say, that the hospitals are defectively organised. (Hear, bear.) Now, I beseech the house to recollect for how l ong a time it is that these complaints have been rife in this country. If you go back, you will find that it is slue the middle of the month of December. Parliament wet on the 11th or 12th of December. The affairs and the state of the army were fully discussed in this house. The home heard the statement of my right hon. friend the Secre tary of War; they believed that statement; and I believe they were jastilled in giving it their credence. Complaints, of scene, there were at that time; but complaints there must be of every army is existsces ; and I thick you will epee that it was not the duty of my noble friend with reference to every eagle complaint, or to isolated rases of hardship, to writ* to • man like Lord Raglan, engaged as he is in s gigeaUo enterprise, with such vespocsibtlity epee him, just as though he were at the head of some ordinary department in Somerset House, and requesting him to make a report upon the matter of somplaint. The duty of my noble friend was to give heed to those complaint, and when they assumed web &character IS to show that, either from defective organi sation or other causes, there were grounds to believe the evils to be extensive, the,, to have made each represeatatieses se were necessary in Ike hope that the appliestioa of prudence and energy would remove those eels. I say that it wet the middle of December before the complaints seamed that character; and I sac bone out by this—that though there was discus-. lon in this house on the state of the army in the middle of Dumber, the house In general was satisfied with the state of the army. (Hear, beer.) Then from and since the middle of December these complaints have become rife—l may my, unhappily redundant. What was the duty of my noble friend ander thew circumstances, and what was the utmost he could do? Was he to recal Lord Regise ? (Hear, hese ) I hear a solitary cheer, but I apprehend that it is not the sentiment of the house. (Loud cheers.) Lord Raglan either deserved your confidence or he did not. Bat if he was to have your confidence, it was necessary that he should have it whole and entire. It is impossible fat may men to discharge the duties incumbent upon him, ' "Mb duties as have rarely been combined in the hands of Me ihihidual, salmi he feu the full confidence and full • aMplegitef the goverment sad parliament at home. Was die dales of Lord Raglan to blame ? Did the go mamma err in that? Did the incompetent Kittle. er of War show his lecorepetcncy in that choke ? Why, it was approved by the uaiversal voice of the coun try. (Hear, hear.) Were the events that followed of a mom to slake the esmildease of the country in Lord Rag hat Os Ibe essleary, you have voted him your saani momo—mot ally year nnanintens, but your enthusiastic Ibeebe Ilts his beillbet services la the field. (Hear, hear.) NM bee maferred upon him the highest homers dgesst whist le li her power Os bestow. Aar bead= the duty et Wed illi dm MM, laid Raglan ha. wombat gat', eel = Ile pesters, namely, the dog of giving Rh end to that alliance between Baglaad MB Few" efira lPs i r t is all very well for ea to speak in • Ibis hum bei moo him the practical task of leidelebies AM slim bee fella. (Hear, bear) I begone awe . mess* be ewe 'plai= ea the war yla which Lerd Ms asieldesil bet dames Re mys that it hum li t: alum every beetle V his mid no maintain sal mane that alliance; and be has not only maintained it in form, he has ealsested it with the warm spirit of generous attachment. (Hear, hear) I think there cannot be two opinions ow the way in which he has done that. You would not, therefore, I suppose', neat Lord Reflex, although letter may have appeared in some of the newspapers, or even articles written by the editors of news papers, stating that he ought to be recalled. (A laugh.) Then I want to knew what you would have done? Would you have recalled some of his subordinate officers, when the emplaints became rife? Would you have recalled the head* of the Medical Department, or of the Commissariat, eie the Qaartermaster's or the Adjutant-Genera's staff? (Hear, bear.) I fully admit that the facts made known to government, especially since the beginning of December, have been of such a character as it was impossible for them to overlook. But it was their duty not to recal the officers of Lord Raglan without communicating the complaints to Lord Raglan himself. The confidence they reposed in him made it their duty, their absolute duty, la plata of oommon justice and deceive, to sek Lord Raglan le investigate those complaints—to remind him of the power whir* he had in his hands—to let him investigate those ecimplaiats, and then act according to the but of his jadgmeat. I will wash the Minister of War has pursued. He bar received *ma Lord Raglan an answer to the statement he made in the month of December; and measure., we trust, have been taken which will lead to an improvement in the condition of the army. The boo in,ronet who spoke last says that it is easier to prevent than to remedy evils. I admit that is so ; but he has not shown that those evils could be prevented by anything that depended upon the government, or upon the war department. The offinn of the army are respon sible to Lord Raglan; Lord Region is responsible to the government; the government is reeponsible to the House of Commons. You may say, " All this takes a very long time, and in the meantime the mischief is going on." , That is perfectly true ; but the quit-eon is, can you fiad a shorter way to the remedy ? The government could not find a shorter er.y to the remedy by recalling Lord Raglan ; for the country would have cried out against it. They would not find a shorter way to the remedy by re-calling his dean without making any annutuaication to him, so that he might hear their statement of facts, u well as those which have been made known in this country. They would not pursue either of these Mane S. It is for you to say whether you will dismiss the government or not he lm they have had the opportunity of bringing these smelt matters to au issue in the only way which is open to them. (Hear.) When you move for a committee of the whole house to inquire into a great national espedi tion, what you mean to imply by that is a vote of want of confidence in the administration. Any proceedings which you may take in consequence of having passed such a motion yen will take with the whole power of the house and in the face of the country. Bet is it to be supposed, or is it not, that this inquiry is to be in trusted to a select committee ? I think every man must be prepared to answer " Yes" or " Ne" to that question. My right bon friend (Mr. Walpole) says a select committee ta to undertake this inquiry. But that is tot the prevailing sentiment. (Hear, hear.) The prevailing sentiment is much mere like that of the hon. member for Aylesbury, who says it is perfectly aSsurd to think of voting for such a motion. Well, but why does he vote for such a motion? Why, because it will despatch the government. Well, my bon. friend, if he will allow me to call him so, is not very nice in his choice of hastrameets. The priest of old, when he was going to sacrifice a victim, washed his hands and put on his sacrificial garments before be plugged his knife into the heart. But my boa. friend, whoa be hos that object in view, really does not seem mach WI NN is what audition his bands are. (Laughter.) The mob of Oa make in his view is simply that it will do roteltionsarlillaSOLlhe (Reaewed laughter.) He dose not it. be doss not defend it; he abandons it, be eelliellege it ; he Boys it is unworthy and ridiculous, and he b dela. It is all very well to say that there is no limita tion on your powers written in your journals. No doubt pen may if yen plum Molise to Masan any business is this home. Tea may mess that a select committee be ap• pelMeil to Inaba the Moines, of this house, and take the bees el OM semillse la lies et yaw ewe votes; you may if yen phase strip ponnelves of your baregralie fa sad devolve theft ea • few of your riasmissre. B i l k t i a that mower the of them who seek le we the army ? (How, .) Will that warm ohs wpm of these who wise le seeieleia the dignity sad Weems of the country. (Hoer, leer.) Will that answer the ppaarpeam el those who may wish Memoir's to be an dm aiettsslee, 1 and, as an abeieberadem, to enjoy the illefigellie of this hetes sad eel _ i at ? Does the ben. ember BR Mee bary really Hi • man of Milk! mil ifinfirallaria he third' the people of England will al low him to deal le that my Melt goseetime of this kind, sad the the leigeleb big of tbe goveseseel, bow's*, be way Rift eel go vereeeset, b s men es simile that the = tle will pet WO MS 'IS hew it is dew, the 1 Mashes the Medi If the be. !embosses den think that, I as ear* be le edelskes. We were tell by several speeches eseigla test it Ise rejected this sales we should I ewe di n throughout the treastay. (.' Hear, 1 Ws," bees the opposition.) Well, elf, oupposiag that be so, .1 want to know, if are to Oise pleasure by 'doylies this liedes. CS kind of ttrit will be ? It will is • plums headed ea the that you are ping to istelio We ells matter. The meetly will set embalmed the doetrise *at yes en so drives, that yen are m Mort of mew of mee t m i ca, that, la ebbe le dersemb a vessel meet gia you are dived le bee fib • neseW abase Imbed. f die Remo of Commas my, aWe will lees en *airy," depend gm it the amity will bases lop. Bat what you wish M that the *matey dionlid rot I pea. Well, if MO eseetry dose Move yar e lf Ile emeelsy womb be disappieted hi re! 410* 1 11 WO eiblen.llisa 1 at what MUM the disappemmas of she "Os, when they led, diet of all, that yes bow rated ter ell lalL*7, sad lbw that you wow troart It to tole Ow? What meths besiege bed by Levi Pereadeir le !vibe 4ir a -mint .wrilltirt - ea a - draw orriellar I tram mesas to delelPi• ih• flea enarall 411.61 THE EXPRESS, . TUESDAY - EVENING, JANUARY 30,r 1855. mode to say Wee se assist smashes, by whom the 1 It was aot he him to defend the Duo et Jenne f be Moan el nemeigedm mil* be milidismeed. e M beads 1 they bed bad the emcee ef tho elk !cob panted by lli*U4—beden mime, pelt hoters pelliail ealeasla, elle , his mileages' ia terms winch were me denbe still fresh is isemmees, ealgbe be bit by themeless, in seder , the ears sad the of the ease. He (Kr. Disraeli) to produce a medal eiscessiest. Bet I will sot expose ' did not subscribe to the estate of thaw, • ; homily the ease to such • risk. It is in • committee of the referred to them as o ar . ustlantie quarter, sad when hose doe we ea have • fair ease, because, therefore esastitutiag a or which at least deserved! affiffifififafTo ww ele eusise oral evidence at the bor." lineation. Been the noble dub el elegem who yet re. I Ihuollaresabult, sir, to this hese, that if they think the maimed, had deserted him as a little denting it energy dame b NM Ides it is nelleelisty = as as sod to the pre- and serieeeis. So far, howe Tim twa t wishing fo sondes there and be so ty to the choice this deL in ea saki, spiri'.. be (the right hon. geetlemaa) * nein for that purpose. The government felt bead to say, that though he could Rot but 11.111111.. Slaw- a week in office without enbutitting_to you ascribe te the mal - adralaistraties of his depareet nem= epee for the service of the emetry. Why do many of them dissrAg ea , the *swam of which pea iota Mel them in the way that the constitution points no one geld deity sad tow palliate, still be was by no Mel One you give me an example, in the whole of your moms eertaht that te,ge. was any other member of the Way, of a time when the Hones of Commas has thought tablet who, pined la the same *Mance, might tot have it uuusby of itself to put a period by means of a character carried oa affairs 'A 1.1 equally umensfactory manner. se sad so tending to deceive sad &led, the (Hear, tear.) T.be Dale of Newcastle was not the osealey ? .) Sir, I venture to say, in conclusion, you any mislay, wl•.o, la the administration of his office, se far nay drubs us et the character of ministers, bat we shall re- as that was coarsened, was entitled to the soda of parka main emillemliMparliantentoiadoe eraben of parliament, meat. (Hear, boar.) There was another Secretary of we have • itellieset interest with you in the character and State who, from the nine of Ws eine, was muck cm dignity ef ffile Seen of C 01115061. (Hear, hear.) Now, earned is the eoudiset of the war—he referred to the sable sir, what to tie anadation of that character and ot that lord, the Homo Seeretary, whose energy and et dimity i Yee ewer is a titian/ power, bet it is gigantic perhaps were the rely eampreation for the die ts* munnedella prudence, on account of the east of jug- asters we had ezperieseed, and for the salami. See sad or poopristy. with which you are commonly cot- ties which the Dion of Newcastle had seed. Mt to wield it. (Hear, hear.) Rely upon it that the That noble lord had the militia entirely under his mtherin- I House of Commons of this free country can no more afford teatimes; sad is February last he gave notice that he to disregard the rules which former prudence has certainly would ask leave to bring in bills foe the establishment dui laid down, to stoop to the use of indirect means, to delude Irish sad Scotch militia. There was not the slighteet the country with promises which it doe not mean to fulfil, oppoeitioa to a meaning so wise, se important, and so ingest. than can any other body, however inferior. It is as need- February paused away. Oa the 28th of March war was de test for the House of Commons, as it is for any elared—and it might be supposed that a iniaister who had body in this country. I would say it is more declared the militia to be the only sere basis of • reserve in needful for it, to remain within the lines marked this country, would thee, se leenr, lave Not no time in out for it by prudence, if it wishes to eon- bringing in the bells. bid e car. hem withal Midsummer tines on that proud maiming to which the Moan night that he predweeillit two bele which be had promised of these who ha.. preceded us have raised it. in February. (Hem bee) Suppe the Duke of New (Hear, hear.) If this motion is passed, no doubt it may castle bad done is, would It nee bare bees blazoned Is brieg great relief to the members of the administrati.n ; the catalogue of hie solimisistelestise? (Cheers.) bet it will impose upon you a sorrespondieg responsibility. And yet this was the Millen wbeee administration we You may not feel it. I see hare many who have had but a such • pongee of adrcbass and vigour, sad who was the short experience in this house, and who are called upon to only as that could make up fee the lasiessf his colleague. vote on a great guano!' without, perhaps, having had the (Cheers) He (Mr. Disraeli) did to &elm that the Duke mesas of folly weighing all that it involves. For my own of Newcastle was unequal to him Wise; sad all his col leen, I will simple my that I am satisfied that, whatever lessues,save the, right hos. weathers who had last spoken, geveraseest may arias out of the ashes of that which is, had admitted that sack was the feet. Bet plowed se the perhaps, about to fall, it will be the duty of every patriotic nob duke had been in • new ogles, whisk involved the einem to render it every support that is compatible with • mos t laborious duties, surely at a period of such crisis and sense of duty. (Cheers.) And, further, with respect to difficulty, it peculiarly became the duty of his colleagues those who are about to vote for the mottos, I say to have sustained hint with their counsel and sun it will be their duty—the duty of the men, *paths. Least of all was It booming in them, the duty of the party, be they who they may, if they shall when the noble duke soak beneath the di ffi culty be called upon to assist it filling the vacuum which they of his position, to rise in the Hone of Comment, to decry will have helped to create. I mean by adopting the motion his abilities, and to denounce his administration. (Cheers ) it will be their duty, I say, tot to shrink from the task. The house need not be reminded that the name of the noble But, whither the case shall be oo or not, I earnestly hope duke was not a popular one ea that side. The noble duke, that this hone, it the vote which it is about to give, will as • public man, bad ben bees •sad bred on the conserve recollect its responsibility to the country, and would well tire benches. (A laugh.) He had owed his sower to that consider the proceeding which it is about to adopt. For my party, and, is their opinion, he had conducted himself to. own part, I believe that mode of proceeding to he worse wards them with an acerbity that, is his present forlorn thee ueelms, as far as regards the army in the Crimea. condition, they could afford to forget. (Laughter.) But he (Hear, bear.) Your inquiry will real inquiry. If it did, it would lead to nothing bet con- the blame of public disasters upon the maladminister fusion, paralysis, increased disaster, shame at home, weak- don of an individual or the faults of • system. nee abroad. (Hear, hear.) It would carry no con (Hear, Lear.) Whatever might be the faults of that Gelation to those whom you seek to aid—it would system, when worked by &We men it had accomplished carry malignant joy to the hearts of the enemies great things. (Cheers.) He believed that the calamities of England. (Cheery.) And for my part, I shall ever re they all deplored had been brought about rather by an erre joke, if this measure is carried, that my last words as a norms policy, hot which the sable; sad not a solitary member of the government of Lord Abordeeo were words minister, tousteertaisly helm* sengeoeible. (Hear.) The of solemn and earnest protest against • proceeding which designs of the government had bee busily mmeaceived, and bee no foundation either in the constitution or in the pree- bad been attempted to is ambit w emtl at isadequate means tic, and proceedings of parliament ; which is unless and They had shown theengheiall conception and mischievous for the purpose that it appears to contemplate, nmeagement of their *Amos wesat et braise' of fi rmness, and which is, in my judgment , full of danger to the power, of depth, and of all thole eseenress which it became a go the dignity, sod the usefulnessuf the Commons of England. sernoieot to exhibit that hod slabs , ked is an enterprise of (Loud cheers.) each vast moment. (Chem) The Chantallor of the En- Mr. DISRAELI said the remarkable admission which chequer bad very often referee the ease of Waleberen. It had been pointedly sad by a very able man that the Ind Men made from first to last had rendered it anoints. government of that day were eo ignorant that they enders thry for him to hiding' in that now proems which rtes right toured by a coup do mails to take one of the strongest for honourable baronet had been reminded of by the tresses in Europe, and they foes& when about to mom honourable baronet on that (the opposition) side of plhh their project, that the foresee was fortified far Wee strangle than they believed. Now they had only to substi the house. The debate was commenced by a gen tete &Seaton! for Antwerp, and they would have the his denies to whom they always listened with attention red tory of this expedition. But it was held to be 111 grave Toped; and when so accomplished an orator suddenly in j t a,,,, doef then i n a ministry to have undertaken the ceased to address the house it might almost have been sup- siege of such a strong fortress w thout having previously posed at first that it was an artifice of rhetoric at once to obtained ample and accurate information of its means of move the resolutions before the house. For if ever ther e defence. (Hear, bear.) They bad learned from tM of .. . interest government that they were surprised at the resistances was • resolution on a great question nationas which had been offered by the place before which our ar submitted to the House of Commons which required no ar- min by their direction had set down ; and then they said patents to support it, no arts of oratory to recommend it, that the whole of the disasters which had occurred were Is it wu that which was proposed on Friday last. Before the he accounted for by the maladministration of • department, instead of being the result of their own unstatesmanthlue bon. and learned member roes, in punuane of his notice, conduct. (Hear, her.) The Secretary for the Celeillim e to bring forward that resolutioe, a noble lord, who who, when be succeeded to the goverement some minehe bad been within a few hours the chief minister of ago, charged the opposition with not bringing forward •vete the crown is that hone, made an important public of want of confidence, had retuned the other night to the same prostitution of political rhetoric. He (Mr. Disraeli) was declaration, which, in his opinion, rendered the not ashamed to ay that they had offered a timid oppo stop taken by the boo. and 1 d member not mien to the government, sec because t h ey were afraid only justifiable, but inevitable ; and it might have been of the consequences of their opposition, but because they thought imporsible after that declaration that any hoe. were timid in consequence of the unparalleled &Alevines member would feel justified in opposing the motion. The which they found accumulating over the country. (Hear, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in referring to the Wishbone bear.) They did consider that if this country was involved inquiry, had remarked that tiers were points of differences in s war, whatever might have bees the impolicy which of the utmost importance between the two cases. On that bad led to it, it was their duty cordially to support the point he entirelyisgreed with the right hon. gentleman. In government in carrying on that war with vigour and the nee of the Walchenn expedition no minister of the amp. (Cheers.) They had only resisted one measure crown came forward and said that the state of affairs, in his proposed proposed by the government, and that was one which had judgment, demanded inquiry —(bear, hear, from the Oppo- been universally condemoed by the public; but notwith sitioa)—that, with all the advantages of his official peanut, standing all the support they bad given to the administra. and o f his accumulated parliamentary expansion, there was tion it had brought down such disasters upon them that in that state of affairs smoothing unexplainable to him. the arms of the country bads been placed till that ma (Hear, hear.) Instead of that, they had the first minister ment in eiv perilous and calamitous a position. (Loud of the crown urging the inexpediency of the course which cheers.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer had spoken of was proposed. Now, instead of piussieg she right bon. the confidence which had subsisted between his colleagues; gentleman's parallel, let them take the broad and common hut the house mug have listened with tender surprise to sense view of the question, se the people of this country the revelation. It seemed that until within twenty.four had some tinse adopted. It was not denied that our gallant hou rs before eke noble lord made his statement his col. army had almost perished in a distant country to which it "'" leagues were not aware. of the sentiments of the late was sent. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the leader of the house. He (Mr. Disraeli) had listened to that amount of the loss had been exaggerated; that what IW&S speech of the noble lord—and be wss sure that such was sent oat was en army of 64,000 or 66,000 men, and that p. , th . e .ar f . eelingof the vast majority—with amazement. them wore 30,000 still. Why, even the alleged ensconce hear.) When he heard that speech it ninon on such an interesting question as the amount of loos %"' seemed to him that he was listening to a page formed a fair ground of inquiry. The right hon. gentleman from the seemoirsof Bubb Doddingtoo. (Laughter.) Bach said the Welchem inquiry differed from the present, loss an unconscious admission is the 18th century, woald much as the transaction to which it referred were con. have have been called profligate intrigue, . bat which, is our eluded. He totally misconceived, or for the moment forgot, more mealy-mouthed °entail, must be called . by a more the n f the motion. It was not a motion to inquire .., sonintto phrase. (Cuero.) In his opinion it was not into the cadet of the war ; it was not a motion which - "e" to be matched in that record which commemorated the required them to call before them French and English time when another Doke of Newcastle was a =Mister of witnesses, persons connected with different countries, and England, when the House of Commons wee led by owing a different allegiance ; it was a motion to inquire Sir Thomas Robinson, sad when the oppc sition was into the rendition of the arm y before Sebastopol, and who- actually carried on bc r the Paymaster of the Forces thee that condition bad been occasioned by the maladminis- end by the Secretary at ar. (Hear.) tration of the departments connected with the war. That was • simple isme, and it was one which could not be tried Lord J. RUSSELL—I did not intend to have addressed at the end of the war if the present war should last for the house upon this subject, nor do I now intend entering several years. If such an Inquiry was ever to take nine, it upon the general question, bat some personal allusions have could only be at this moment. (Her, hear) Well, thou, been made to an, which I teapot altogether allow to pass the right boa. gentleman dwelt on the inevitable failure of silently. I do not mese, however, to enter farther foto investigations' of this kind, and said that such investigations were clearly a mockery, when what was intended was con - the question of the differences of opinion between myself sore upon the government. That was not the opinion of and the Fint Lord of the Treasury, or the foundations of the Sir Samuel Romilly—• name which he hoped was statemen t. w hi t e hats bean made by the right boa. g en u s . still respected by_ the whiff Party who is the man th e Chancellor of Use Exchequer . Ido not metro debate co the Walcheren expedition observed' that that doctrine was that a man was condemned by vert the accuracy of any one of the statements; but if I being put on his trial. So far as be could collect, three were to enter into various details as to the letters which I main objections had, in the course of debits, been urged in wrote in the beginning of October to the Duke of New opposition to the motion. First, there was the objection castle, and the answers which I received from him, and the that the motion was a censure on the commander of the . nees respec ting my subsequent representations forces u the Crimes. Now, if he thought that by any Inge- we an.ta nuity the language of the motion could he coastrued into a ems that and various other rub sea with regard to the censure of Lord Raglan or of any general officer in the osadeet of the war, I think I field show that the state. Crimea, he should be the last man to vote for it. But he moat of my right hon. friend dna not complete the his weld not in any way apply to it such en interpretation. tag of tisa transaction. (H ut , hear.) But it appears to TIM motion referred to the condition of the amn— ia moral end physical nadition, and the question was moo be far bettert° 167 aide anywe d°. of my own eindice" how be that condition bad been occasioned by the fleas and to ash say fasts which might tend to a misembeet or the neglect of the government. The second pseudo whisk I thisk very laswavesient, of stating on a objetalism to this motion was, that it was of an unconstits subsequent ememisa tressestimes whisk have passe between Lionel eel lassavesient character. On that point he had members of the Cabinet. Aleswasit I have said thus much, already touched .in adverting to the saes of the Ido not knew that I should have risen for the solo purpose Walcherea es . He did ant think any lassareeisan of doing so; but I seal ass ft sully pass by a phrase of would arise hut the oirewastasco of a committee of the the right hon. psalm apposite ( Kr. Disraeli), where he HOlllll of Cesium visitiag the heights of ilebostepol said that the trammel:loss to obi* I had bun engaged with (Laughter.) The !u was whether theme shield be Lord Aberdeen weld be ~.adhered in the language an inqineres the of all army. Sub se lea of the last century as a " wept* Intrigue." (lier, ho Wined to be perils* eeestitatioaal, and iit hb bear) Now, if the right he.. gentlensea means that in nes it veld eat be temeausiset. The shied the habits of invective of the last watery a false impu was, that the sedoe amovoyod a MOON ape tenon of that nature would have been addressed by one the gossoment„ et implied a want of anaideaes statesman to another, I have so objection to the phrase; is the admisistratim In what srvernammat, Its asked, did it but if the right hoe. 'talkie.' means to say that a true imply • wen of oselimiamos t Was it is the government character would have bees glee to that trausstioa by tbose that seised sight rad forty hears ego ? The noble lord words, I beg leave most soiy to deny the imputation. late the AM Moiler of the mows is that house had (Hear, hear.) It has hammed ea IMO thee sae occasion quittodebet geoemsat. The salsa mild net be • do- that a Prime Minister le hoes eels/ egos so state to sae dismiss of mot of osalidaeom to the govaransat as it of his colleagues that the ale whisk ha hold might be =heed with the whim bud as a asenhar of it. Was it such more efficiently held, at the Meet, by sarriber member of a dooloselbs is Ohs salient as it aro foisted ? Wily, they the seam cabinet. I remember a transeem fa which I were told, about frau the Tommy beech, tae whatever was not engaged otherwise than as a sears @meter, might be tho lets of this miles, the rash was to but of which a full history.may «sera. bleat by the be followed Ves alsordes of all smilloseldesos. right he. gelatinous—l doss the owe of the Hari of (Laughter.) Mew maid a gresessaat ot to a vote Derby. The elks of Seorsiary for the (kiwis. we *aped of Seat of roldhomoo whoa I thee iasre.d Itself ia bosh task at that time, whoa a sessWaa of *elm meg that it was set worthy of usaideau t (Laughter. shads than thessaacipatioawasesisrdlewrise. It wee Herd had bees the lot .1 the Moss of Comm, of late then desirable that the Mike of lareary should be years. °Rashid it bum GAM wools wit its oseadeees NM by a man of the lellestse A th is e reaW, sad in sou with whose primitive is Isil bees seelbelated, the bleats of the isti of (Hook hoar.) but aorsithabeelmad it loos aid to solo Hs ea& Bari Grey bad no bositaties le slain sonlesisa to doom when it knew adieu ibe g.muNes are the NNW Lord Guderieh, and Lord Gollsoleit gee way to that essame. (Rear bar.) The somber. at the 'ablest who bad niceties. Well, I asset hole au that ins deasesiested a spoke; led mound this goodies. if She& boss aa • attack pro lollop. If it was a palliate intrigue, it must lima as member of the_goomessase—aa attack he berth k peolUgate Intriges to get possoseloa of the seals apes die Debi of Iffirossetio. Hs (Kr. Doom) met of the osisedsl department; but if it was a profligate pretest spilt cogeasy ualeit obi* singled belga* it we a triamotisa which enabled Lord Derby to oat sae maim 4 L adl ea ll =t, sad, wader *a presses lila &mark with tile ability which all adinifed, the plan of the ahoinistrarisa of his department, /sr the smeliplisa et the Asses. tr tt su i t t right bon. sighed MS • oneemo, from shish bie sellesises wore gasteuese Ye Melba to another —titWid ▪ sit. (Reis. bear.) Ho had been asked himself, and sham assealloi, sod the madast et Mr. Coining to imam edeeds eyes apieses the feet wee, would hon • • that Lad theltureall The soden or Dr. Cashing to Lord he wiresseldeg Os loath. He bad been asked obether Comilmaosti woe par ho au 'swift that Lord he Wide s "Near maws urn the Duke of Hew= was to the Wakheren expo eite OM imeaspisious day ea which the 2i lls tit me g state tied ea to :4. Weiser, se the huies bad hum timid, bet hoard that the mai be tho anu t he leads to ids wat the WIIP.SiSS uses la Magefit. -Ho bad Lord ' Hat it wee Ni se . He wom is. hoes assemiliZa me be ; es w olbsr 04 of the tossid, I utotto atterwande, that the cosaasior ham WA a Weil be °busiest be such aOm we eat , sad is the sad it appeared to Lord Cs.-, vets; but be had seemootol *at he would sour% a party dose" Olt lit. Combs had ...awed at as mer a prorks awns ass, by shileblOwel googemed 10 elect smelielambet of et Ihst asswellbaguta . tied • bid herb ites towO• lb. P r imilia a 6 iha o= " ag a Pal geors fe j 1 4=11 4 :4= 'l l t= rtiLibr. & I*l bl . Whisk . iamb vow ispeomildo ( • . . sessawkat Intricate, sad ray hapressies is that Hr. Ceasing wee not to blame, but hag ( any yesemblaare to my conduct to the Duke of Newcar.le. I wrote immediately afterwards, cm the very neat day to beg that letter might be shown to the Duke of Newesertl•—(beer, hear)—and, accordingly, is the very neat latter I received from the Earl of Aber deen, two or three days afterwards, be stated that both the Duke of Newcastle and the Secretory at War had been fully Informed of my commu nication, sad that both of them stated, as I should have selected, that they were willing to cement in any arrangement for the public mercies. Therefore, whe ther the arrangement that I proposed was a good one or a bad one for the publie service, there was no co•osalment whatever. I sever desired to eoneeal from them—l did not congeal from them, the opisios that I held. It was a pro posal, it might be called is favour. ethers might say it was for the advantage, but it was to Wpm a very onerous bur den on the Secretary of State for the Rome Department. I have seen so much of the evil consequences of mall sections, of families acting together, that 1 advisedly, of my own ' part, did not speak to others, sad I so far kept clear of any thing like tapir's, that I spoke to Lord Aberdeen aloe,. It was, as I thought, conducive to the public service ; and when my right hoc. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer says that at that time there was no general impression agaisst the administration of the Duke of Newcastle, I bog leave to say that that will prove by isbeequient reflection to have been &reason in favour of the arrangement. If the chases bad been made at that time it would only have been said that the Doke of Newcastle, who had only hitherto had no experience in an office which had attached to it so much importance at the beginning of the war, had taken another once of Secretary of State, and that the arrangement was made fur the public benefit, whereas if soy change had been made such as that hinted at the other day, it would have been supposed to have been the effect of public opinion, and the Duke of Newcastle would have been represented al the victim of public' opinion. I believe if the arrangement that I proposed had been fortunately adopted at that time, it would have been conducive to the public service ; that it would not have injured the reputation of the Duke of Newcastle, who mast always be tom sidered a man of sound judgment in public Mies, and well qualified to fill public once, although, as I stated at the time, I did not think he had an tbority sascisut to conduct, in spit* of every obstacle, the vast operations which the war against Rasais demanned. I have nothing farther to add. Ido not wish to go beyond this personal explanation, bat the charge of having beeo guilty of a profligate intrigue ass one I could not alit seder. (Cheers.) Lord PALMERSTON—There is one point in the speech of the right honourable gentleman oppoaits on which I hesitate not to szpress my cordial and ea tire coneurrenes. The right hon. gentleman has stated that the motion does not staple out the Duke elf Bleaseastle, as one member of the *ablest, for special mademaation, but that the whole cabinet, who are his millempos up to the present time, are equally responsible with him for these matters en which his conduct appease to be attacked, and it is on that principle that we stand to submit to the judgment of the house. We have stated that we consider ourselves to be jointly and in commas responsible. Therefore I disdain, on the part of the gee vernment, any of that unworthy proceeding which the right hon. gentleman has imputed to some one, and said, in the course of this debate, that we had endeavoured to throw epos one member that which, upon the principle of the aonatitutioe, ought to be shared by all. With regard to the Duke of Newcastle, I must in justice that I think public opinion has done him great Lajas Ilse, sad I am sure that a jolter estimate will be formed by posterity of the ability displayed by the noble duke in the service of his country. Much has been said about coalition governments. It is • very common opinion that the go. vernment which now stands here, being formed of persons who were not always of the same party, retained in itself the divisions which belonged to its original elements, and that we were always thinking about the balance of power and ',reneging ourselves according to the parties to which we might respectively belong. I can confirm amply what was stated by my right hon. friend the Chan sailor of the Exchequer, that in all the discussions which have taken place among the members of the government regarding matters with which as • government we had to deal, we never thought of the party to which we originally belonged ,but each man spoke his sentiments of the matter is hand, and there was no other diversity than that which would arise between men of the same party who take a different view, as mast necessarily happen among any given number of individuals. But I warn gentle men against giving eacouragement to what I must call clamour against coalitions, because I venture to my in the present state of political parties in this country, you will be able to carry on a government bat more or less on the principle o! coalition. (Hear, hear.) We do not deny that there are circumstances connected with the state and condition of the army in the Crimea which had been "Mkt big, and I may say, to a certain extent, so far as it goes, had been calamitous and deeply to be deplored. Those evils, however, had very much arisen from cir cumstances in some respects independent of the control of man ; in other respect*, from that inexperience which necessarily must be felt among the incidents of • government who ate called upon after a long Period of peace, when the different branches of tie military service have had no practical experience, suddenly to per form duties Of the utmost importance in • great and di& cult military operation. I admit, undoubtedly, that them is in the domestic distribution of the military depetteeet much in which improvement is urgently regains' i that there fe, also, in regard to the arreagemenin of these branches of the service which had been oinsineled with the execution of the details of military operations alemed, mush in which there may be great and material impovement. But it is hardly to be expected that after so lasso period of poste when the army has never been in • condition to act as a body, and when it was impossible io train up the differ ent branches of the service so as to be instructed in thous duties which tbeo must be called on to perform, whim placed with a great army in operation in the geld, confusion to a certain degree would not arise. With regard to many criticisms which have been made on the Illenduct of the war, I think it is enough to ask you to NS what foundation t hey stand upon. We have been told thee we ought to have gone to Odessa, and passed the win.'" *me, instead of at Sebastopol. Ton might as well tell on army that came to invade England, to pass the winter at Brighton. What would have been the condition of an English sissy at Odessa, an open and enter tified town, while Bosnia had all her military resources' within reach, and when Sebastopol would have been nap dered still more difficult to take ? If hon. gentlemen had called in question the object of the war, the house might{ have justly impugned the policy of government in regards the operations of the war, and we should have been pe pared to go into oar defence on that question; but I mon humbly think that the coarse which has been permed is likely to lead to • most dangerous and inconvenient prece dent for parliamentary preceedinp. We have been told that that which is now proposed is similar in principle to what took plus in regard to the Walcheren expedition. Why, over and over again the difference between the two cases has been explained. The inquiry into the Walcheren expedi tion was matte by the whole house, and not by a delegated authority up stabs; bat the groat difference consists la this, that that expedition was over—that the persons to be examined were here—that it was an inquiry into the COW duet of government, and not into the conduct of as army —the latter an inquiry which cannot be eon ducted unless you bring home the parties you wish to examine, or unless you mad a eons. mittee of safety to control the operations of the army abroad. The question we have to consider is one of the most important that has almost ever occupied the attention of parliament. It is not because it involves the existence or overthrow of government, but because you are about to set a precedent, dangerous if you carry it out, and disap pointing to the public if you let it drop, and use it merely as an instrument to overthrew the govern ment of the day. If this house thinks that this government is not worthy of the support of parliament, if this house wishes to see the government placed in other hands, the more constitutional course would be to have affirmed at mice that the government no longer pores. the confidence of parliament, and that they ought to gulp Moir power into the hands of the Sovereign. Bea a loans would have been simple and direct, and, if mould have led to no inconvenient precedent, would bees amearrent with the principles of the eesedhatiee, in mhos with the sentiments of this levie, aid the wawa it is adopted the better for all polies esaserawl. Bat I must say that the Walla now puma is owe which will do no honour to the home if adopted, lad is one which I thick will not only set • bad example bine, but will be allisaded with inconvenient results eves Owed. The coun try is now engaged ia a great and arduous coatest, and whatever may be the decision of the house an the pear meat as it now stands before you, I trust that oar die as suns may not be aggravated by the overthrow of the gmarameat and that, whoever may succeed that pe• Tereineet, we shall not exhibit to Europe the lamentable spode& of a country iuterrepthig a great national struggle by mere party squabbles, but that parliament will take plc from the nation it represents, and, as that natids is unanimous in its determination that the war shall be carried on with vigour end energy, es that nation ie convinced of the justice of the came, sad resolved that war shall not terminate until all the objects for which it was undertaken are secured, In the same way, I trust, that, whatever may be the deeleisa of this night, when this house shall have settled as to what government it will give its coofideme, it will thou give-its support to that goveranseat sod enable it to wry es the weer with deter mine:leo, and that we shall not chew to the world that a sosetiteitiosal goverment is Ices ebbs to conduct national affair, than governance constituted on a different principle, and that we shall not degrade the parliamatary principle by showing that we are not capsM of savants' the difasulties of • great crisis, end that a oaths can eery show energy. ontaistessp, sad vigour when deprived of those constitutional repreeestative forme which have been the pride, the boast, and the glory of this eountry. _Chan ) Mr. KUNTZ mud that if the hoses took the advice of the noble lord who had just eat down, sad sonsulted the widest of the people of ibis sountry, meld at MN to,. oat the t. (Bear, bear Thai hni M. the authority *molds bed the richer for landllP as so the athetempieta of the war, sad *meths he thee& they mid hoe se 41Mtelty in ratios ale ettlit hee. eteeeber he ifisfiald. The eye etisiboll mu is *A latara s the Iheyle baud to , it to relieve them from the present administration, which in its wesknes, had not only sacrificed the blood and treasure of t►is country but had diagnosed it. (Hear, bear.) He would only further say to the house in worse that ought sever to he forgotten, " England expects every man to do his duty." (Cheers ) Mr. HORSHAM sought a hearing for the purpose of explaining why he bad hitherto supported the government, but after several vain attempts he was obliged to resume his seat. Mr. T. BUNCOMBE bad one question to ask the hon. and learned member for Sheffield. The house had been told that if this inquiry were granted it would form a most dangerous:precedent, and that the main otject of the motion was the displacement of the government. Now there could not be a greater fraud command on the couotry than it the motion were made with such an object. The question then he had to ask the hon. and learned member for Sheffield was—lf the house conceded this inquiry, was it or was it not his intention to nominate the committee up stairs to let the people know who the parties were who were really to bluets in the recent disastrous events. Such knowledge was due to the house, to the memory of those who had fallen, and to those labouring classes from whom We had drawn the rank and file of our army, and who, MeTWWIST were not represented in that boas'. (Hear.) He trusted the hon. =ember would let the people know that his object was not merely to displace the gentlemen en the Treasury bench, or merely to &heels the political cards, for if he proposed, or the house agreed to the vote with any other motive, their decision would only be a sham and a disgrace to parliament. (Hear.) Mr. ROEBUCK—I shall answer the question as frankly as it was put. When I framed my motion I certainly In tended to carry on the i nqu i ry . I h ave seen or heard nothing in the coarse of the debate which has led me to change my opinion, and if the house will permit me I pro mise to carry my motion to its legitimate conclusion. (Loud cheers.) I hope the house will pardon me if I attempt to say a few words in reply to the ob servations of some of the opponents of my motion. (Hear, bear.) The objections made to that motion, stripped of all verbiage, an :—first, it is said that if I carry this motion I shall paralyse the action of the government, cramp its departments, and interfere with the command of the army. Now, let us first consider the first proposition. What are the circumstances under which this inquiry is propteed ? Ministers themselves admit the dis tress of the army to be heart-reading, while the house has given the ministry unlimited commend of money. (Bear, hear.) What is the condition of th a t army now, and What has been the conduct of the government ? Para lyse them ! Have they not been acting wider one con tinued paralysis ? (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Can they do worse than they have done, judging of the future from the post ? Can any resolution carry into the departments of government a single shade of ignorance, incapacity or inaptitude more than they have already exhibited ? (Hear, hear.) The ministers made it a portion of their defence that they had sent to Balsklava store s enough fur an army do u ble the number that was encamped There, and the fkmrrtary-at-War spoke of the distance being 3,006 miles, adding that the last six made all the diffi culty. Shall such an excuse be taken in this country, covered with its network of railways, and when the greatest exertions are spoken of as if they were mitten of every day occurrent e? (The hon. and learned member here paused, apparently in disposed.) After a pause he said—The country bad con fided the destinies of a great army to the government, and the ministers have failed in their duty to the country, so that the latter had no resource but to transfer its confidence to this house. (Hear, hear.) Are we now to fail them? (Cheers.) Will it be said that this house re fuses inquiry into the disasters of the Crimea be cause some constitutional or technical objection interferes ? ' Sir, I implore this house, if they have any regard for them selves, if they have any regaid for the opinion of the people, not to refuse the inquiry to-night. Let them re member that for this vote they will be called to account hereatter. The people of this country will say, An inquiry was proposed to you—a confession of incompetency was made to you—you refused that inquiry—you abdl wed your functions—you then are responsible to us fur the result. But I hope, air, the house wil not abdicate its functions. (Cheers.) If inquiry be requisite at any time, it is requisite now. We are told to wait till the expedition is over. That is to say, wait until we have lost our army. (Cheers.) But I say to you, inquire now, inquire while our army is in jeopardy, but not yet lost. The whole confidence of the people is now in whir house. Do not, thed, disappoint the expectations which they seat upon you. The hon. and learned gentle man' who seemed to have spoken these last brief sentences with extreme difficulty, then sat down. The hutisa immediately proceeded to a division, of which the following was the result : Ayes 3oi Non Majority against the goverament Thus was announced at half.past one, and it evidently caused a general sensation throughout the home, bat there was no cheering. The other orders of the day were then read and passed proforma. Mr. B. HERBERT brought up the supplementary army estimates, and The house adjourned at 25 minutes to two o'clock. MR. ROEBUCK'S MOTION. PAIRS. FOR •GAINeT Mr. Mundy Lord Waterpark Mr. Ker Seysier Mr. Portman Mr. Christopher Sir H. F. Davies Sir George Forster Colonel Caulfield Mr. Napier Serjesnt O'Brien Mr. Hudson Mr. Wells Sir Gore Booth Mr. Monsen Mr. Fuller Mt. Owen Stanley Mr. George Mr. Vincent Scully Sir Charles Burrell Sir Charles Lemon Mr. Renton Mr. Matheson Mr. Abel Smith Sir James G. ah i m Sir George Berkeley Sir W. Heatticute Mr. Cairns Mr. Heneage Mr. West Sir James Matheson Lord Naas Lord Cutleresse Mr. King King Mr. Chaplin Lord Annesley Mr. Hussey Vivian Mr. Books Stanhope Mr. John M'Gregor Mr. Pugh Mr. B.g•hawe Lord John Manners Mr. F. Dundee Lord A. Vane Mr. A. Pon•onby Mr. Townley Parker Mr. Fielden Mr. Hawkins Mr. J. Vivian Lord Bernard Mr. O'Flaberty Colonel Mumma Mr. W. Mt ffatt Major Mazwell Sir W. Somerville. DIVISION UPON MR. ROEBUCK'S MOTION. The following, among other members of the liberal party, voted with the majority lut even ing :—Mesare. T. Alcock, Hon. H. F. Berkeley, W. Biggs, Alderman Challis, M. Chambers, Sir J. Duke, Viscount Duncan, T. buncombe, Viscount Ebriogton, R. Gardner, Viscount Goderich, G. Hadfield, T. E. Headlam, L. Heyworth, E. Horsmaz, W. Hutt, Hon. P. !.T. King, A. H. Layard, W. S. Lindsay, E. Miall, F. Mowatt, G. F. Mute, A. F. Otway, Sir J. Paxton, A. Follett, Sir T. E. Perry, W. Sehole field,CaptainScobell,Sirl.Shelley,J. A.Smith, Sir J. Walmaley, E. Warner, W. A. Wilkinson, W. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, JAN. 29. The Queen walked in the grounds adjacent to 'the Castle this morning. The Maharajah Da!sap Singh took leave of her Majesty this forenoon, mid, with Sir John Login, left the Castle for Wimbledon. The Duke ud Duchess of Argyll, and Lord Ernest Bruce, took their departure for Load's, and the Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley for Canterbury. Donn, JAN. 29.—H.R.R. the Doke of Cambridge is expected to arrive at Dover to-morrow morning from Calais about nine o'clock. EXHIBITION OP -The CounoU of the Society of Arts has announced its intention to open in April next its seventh exhibition of patented inventions. The want of a gallery of inventions, showing the various steps which h►ve been taken to improve all elutes of machinery, has long been fen. la its absence the council of the society, in 1847, considered that it would be both interesting and instructive to bring together. temporarily, as far u possible, models, drawings, and descriptions, illus. trative of the inventions of the year. Succeeding coun cils have followed out use idea, and the result has been that the public has had placed before it, is a deficits form, the mechanical and scientific arrangements which have been proposed for effecting improvements in those departments which have occupied the largest amount of public attention The Mr. Hope whose death in Paris lass been mentioned in our columns was the plaintiff is the thee of Heys against Arnado. The suit. of mane, is at aa *ad. PEIIMANZIiT CAMP AT ALMattaitom—The Board of Ordnance have just invicid tenders to be sent in by to-mor row for the construction of wooden barracks at Aldershot Heath, in Hampshire, for the accommodation of 20,010 men, with the due proportion of omens, stores, de., the whole to be comp'eted by the 16th of hare! rent. They eke Write tenders to be sent in by the 6th of February he the erection of brick buildings at the same plaee, for stithom' quarters ard soldiers' barraclui for cavalry, infantry, sal erhUcry, together with hospital, riding-school, guard - NOM, he. The fint-named wooden barracks are to he way until the brick, whisk ere parlament, are 3 THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER The return of newspaper stamps just issued gives -he following results: Tint Qaarter. &nand Quarter. Daily News . . 319,191 348,044 Morning Herald . . 303,000 299,000 Morning Post . • 205,000 226,000 Morning Chronicle . . 162,509 186,900 Express . . 177,133 198,389 Glob. . . . 175,000 195,004 San . . . 168,000 192,000 Standard . . . 103,000 104.009 Vie eriprrxi. TO CORRESPONDENTS. • . Sawa eel of "The Express," containing' the /AMP eveetne's Gazette." is published every Tiede, and Iriaay eight. to 'tote !or poet. dvertleewenbitntendell for " The Express." coed on [realer raper, mast be at toe ()ace, 14, Bouverbartrest.. by Two o'clock eft Sty of paldimuc4. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIPS DAB—Morning, ob. Ile Altenom, Oh. 43m. To 4 sokaow—llorams, lb. Ile Alteboon. lb. Um. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD (IT INTERNATIONAL ymilown ♦IA THE NAOMI trawl vas CORRESPONDENT or ram DAILY NEWII.) COPENHAGEN, JAN. 30. M. Lindsberg'a proposal to employ only Holateiners and Laurenburgera in the Bundea' contingent, has been rejected in the Volkathing by a majority of - over 9 votes. A commission has been appointed to inspect tl fortresses. THE CRIMEA. The Times has received, via Bucharest and Vienne the following telegraphic despatch from the special correspondent in the Crimea : "CRIMEA, JAN. 22. " The weather is very fine and temperate. " Our army is still sickly. " Abundant supplies of all kinds are arriving. "There is no progress to report in the siege. "The French have taken most of our right attack. " Shot, shell, and warm clothing go to the front daily; but no hate. " The Emeu has arrived with the 14th Regimen but neither that nor the 39th have yet landed. " The Gorgon and Iligbilyer have arrived Balaklava. " The Russians are said to be in want of aMMUM Lion. They show, however, no signs of want, bui fire briskly. is Sebutopol received supplies on Wednesdt the 17th of January." THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. (IT DIAONITIC TILICIRAPH (PROM Tal COHRISPONDINT OP TUN DAILY 5411w8.) LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY This morning the Royal Mail steam-ship A! Captain E. G. Lott, arrived in the Mersey, with usual mails from the United States and British North America She sailed from Boston on the 17th lost, and lit fax on the 19:h, and has brought, besides the mat 123 passengers, but no specie. At the departure of the steamer business wa better, money gradually becoming easier and stocks improving. The cotton market was firm at an advance of cent., closing well. The corn market was inactive and dull. From New York we have California dates to Dec. 33, and the arrival of 31 million dollars in gold. We have to report that the banking house of Puge and Bacon, of St. Louis, has failed, also houses New Orleans (names of which are not mentioned this telegraph). The breadstuff market was very dull, stock hem and prices weak. There was a moderate demand in the provision market, but the prices remained unchanged. Freights were steady at former prices. Exchange on London, 1071 to 1081. THE VOTE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. LAST night's division, which gave a majority 305 against 148 in favour of Mr. ROEBUCK'S motion. settles the fate of the Ministry. From the hour when the reasons were made authentically known, that led to Lord I. RUSSELL'S resignation, the public mind has been steadily contemplating the consequences, as regards the general conduct of affairs, to which that event must be considered as forming the initiatory step. Nothing but the ex treme exigency of the case would probably have jus tified Lord JouN, in his own estimation, in taking a course which, being unusual, was liable to a thousand misconceptions. But that the exigency was such as demanded a departure from conventional routine and bureaucratic etiquette, the responsiv' voice of the whole country attests. What proved by the reading of the correspondence between Lord JOHN sad Lord ABERDEEN is, not that the Duke of NEWCASTLE was unfit to suffered to remain any longer War Minister (for that no human being doubted), but that the leader of the House of Commons, and second authority in the Government, was wholly unable, up to the last mo ment, to rouse the PREMIER from the unconsciousness Of danger and disgrace which his subordinates had drawn down, not upon him and upon themselves alone, but upon the country whose guardians they affected to be. The PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL had become sensible of the peril of official imbecility earlier perhaps than others; and feeling that he was in a position of pre-eminent responsibility, be tried awaken the PRIME MINISTER from his slumber . fond partiality, and his cleating dream of the eventual sufficiency of tape-tying ability. 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