The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P. I 'Fur. The i~: --.~ HOUSE OF LORDS.—FAIDAT, Lx. 96. TM Lotto Comtost.Loa took kb mat es Ms woolasok M 6 eoloak. every NM those PreWas esia — swa • Irmas promp ' THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The Earl of ABERDEEN shortly aftarwards said : My buds, it nay be coonaiest to per lordship new to nee,' infensatkos ►espetlag the cinnowtances seenested with the regressing of say noble friend the Pr..altlest of the Conseil Goo the situation which he held In her Majesty% govenfo l an• , H. Aso* 1 . under ties vr' mast. That retirement most materially aim; Yes Ma jesty's government ; and from the StAtiall sad oborranor of my noble friend, must bs of immerses W thomumbry. [So the noble earl was understood to say. bat dolma. - was net distinctly beard.] Illy lords, lam OM frilly yinseured with the motives which may have bulimia ay noble friend to adopt this course ; bat I swot do betas than nod the letter is which he offered hie resignation, and whisk I received from him os Tuesday List : " Cheaters-plasm, Jas. !3.113. "My dear Lord Abordoes.—Mr. Hosbuek has gives MOON of a motion to 'squire into the caldera of the war. I do sot see how this modes is to be resisted ; bat, se it in volves a as open the Was Departanste, with whisk mute of my colleagues are esasested, my oaly souses is to leader my resignation. I therefore have to MUSS you will lay nay humble eseigastiou of the Mee which I have the bower to hold before the Ouse, with the expreesita of my gratitude for her Majesty's kiadnees foe maay years.—l reads, my dear Lord Aberdeen, yours very truly, " J. Bvsaiu." Is seeordaooe with my "obis Mead's desire, I laid hie neignatios before her Msjesty, who has bees graelessig pleased to accept it. My lords, I have odd I was set fag peesesscd with the motives—with all the metier-whisk may have induced my noble Mead to take this step. I was perfectly aware that some time age—twe menthe ago—my Debi. Mead disapproved of, oe was diseatisted with, the sodas' of the government; but after the explaaatiese whisk took plea ea that °casaba, sad his soosteat Widget hods la shades the bedtime and preparing the smasaree et the gotenissest, up to the very day eta while pediment re.emembied, I was certainly somewhat surprised, as IPSO es deeply esseersed, at receiving the letter whisk I Imes just read to your lordships. My sable Mead may be at this amass' givisg—at all eves% it le his Wooden this day to give—in soother place a fall explasstkm ef the motives of his oesdad. It is sot for me to de more tham to express, as I do most safeigsedly, my deep regret at the step which be has thought it his duty to take. My lords, so we sea possibly feel more thaa I do the great Ism whisk her Ifejesty's pverameat must metals by rash ea my ut se this. (Hear, hear.) Indeed, say of your lord ships who may mailed what I said at the Somatic. of the peewit government will remember I expressly stated that I NM should have ventured to undertake the feenotiss of an adralaistration, had I sot secured the active so.opers- Via sad assistaaao of my noble friend. Now, my lords, sada *see cissueastasees, and I. ordinary times, I might, perhaps, adopt myself a different coarse; but is the pre. Best condition of the country, of podia affairs, sad of her Majesty's governmest, I feel it due to our owa hoses; oar ow. esesistancy, sad oar muse of duty, to meet the motion whisk Is to be made this sight I. another place, aad whisk will decide whether • gesture kto be pronosaeed da br Majesty's government or not. And therefore, my lords, even without the great and powerful, and aimed Wis. potash* &madams of my stable lriead, we have thought it dam to ourselves to meet this motion so ashamed, which las 'educed him to take the step I have just explathed to year lordships. (Hear, hear.) Hari GUT said. "Afore he milked a vodka it which he hod give* soden he might be permitted to s y that it was on ma y eats highly desirable that the the 'idolisation of the milieu' &prim/4 xf dYeasrlw := l l lig tebad ghee notice for Thursday, she if Ulm plass at es earlier period ; sad as lie = sills east wile lad gives • aides drr liesday bed with. down that adios, sad as Moeda, we sew aa apes day, b=mtel tad the diessmies as that day instead of l i . As by M ram of Ode Millis how he knew that he "said see Wei beds the sedge. he would prim It es ia swam slips, sed le Amid therefore mere ' that in the *win it this leas gnat sells hare arises boas the resent divides et reepeseibility is the admit'''. *ratios a the army, sad that the whole of the Miles 'mantled with this important Wench of the pinks sank* as sow distributed smoog different tees% mid Is be =seder the direct control of • shigissal win saga. department." Till "TIMES" [DENT, THE WAR, AND THE PRESS. apply's. to the Sail of Winona/say es the above illi g i bake of NEWCASTLE said be was nn his noble Melded weld MIAS Ma if be did not follow his on the =theuelise has may discussion as to whether they had mated by the pees to undertake the expedition to the Crimea, or had plead the English army in danger in imsseqessie. His *obis friend on the orose.besch bad given socks of • very stringent notion on this question for Friday night, and it would be his duty on that measles to Medicate the government quite irrespective of the ends* of the press. He concurred with his noble friend that the, plea of this country bad not acted on all occasions wi th ' judgapent and dievetisi. He should say that it had acted with • great lack of judgment and discretion in commuai. eating information. If communinting that ittformatios te the people of this country were all, ha should say let than have all the information that could be gives; but they must resa ll eet that that information bad bees eeveyed at the sun time to Ruda. He believed it to be • bet, that there wore pens* in this country who were in the habit of immentaleating to the Emperor of Rush by telmpaph fahrmativaa that was conveyed to the people of this country la the months, so that information might be known at Bt. Petersburg is the coup se of that very day. He did not ha pset want of petrotistn, bathe did say that the press of this country had exhibited • want of discretion. His noble Mead asked him whether • correspondent in the Crimea of sae of the papers had received any encouragement or amis. terse in the functions that he bad perforated. Now, It was perfectly nee, that an individual, who was certainly not en. titled to give each persiasiee, did intimate to one of the papas that their correspondent might, he thought, In the Int vessel that coevered troops to Malts, have a fres pis. sage. Before, !however, the easel sailed, that come to the knowledge of the government, and they sent down to Beatherepton or Portaarouth, he forget which, stating that it was winery to role, and that the gentleman in question, who he believed way then en the vessel, mast leave the vessel ; and accordingly that gehtlemsa did lean the vessel gad found his own way to Malta. As to the °thirteenths If it had be.. pot to him in the month of Dumber , be should have girth his positive contradiction te the state: went, and for this remora. It bad bet n his duty* give an answer. of course seder the conviction that he was eviler a perfectly true answer to an *nineteen which was made to bhn by thy editors of two newspapers at the ems mencement of the month of December, request's( that their correspondents should receive rations. It was his duty to inform there that it was smeary to the rules of the e• mmisearint, and that so on scald restive rations but those who were perform's. public duty, inilitsev or otherwise, end that therefore it was quite impossible that such rations could be given. One of thole gentlemen said that the correspondent refined to by his noble friend ere in the habit of receiving ration. Now it so happeeed that he (the claim) had been In iscsuannies ties with a gentleman who had bees la the Crimes, and on his authority be esetrithbeed that atatemeat. (Hear, hear.) Just Wien the meeting of parliuunt, however, he received • comathelmtisa hum another gentle man from the Crimea of another nature. He might :.ere stare that it wee only in Hthember that the sontatkuriat cams Bader hie Immediate alrestioa. Now the fast was that undoubtedly by • private geniis. sin, mina by the read of the department of the lemmuy, that genhosiar had received ratloas from the essembeerfat. Ha mould qtly my that the moment it urns ft his Meow. ledge that such • thing had been deco he istirentsdi he his right has. histid the bead of the treasury, seethe bead of the treasury , hat the chancellor of the sashetesit , the di& approval of the government of the course whisk had beta taken. He bored that that souse had sew bees Mame deem'. He did sot thin sada the eirenmetheem that Is should at owes give as seder that the redeem should be withdraw*, but be had trussed to the geed Imam el that gestismaa . - to megaton a whim. be have had. If coq es* MOW. made it wee not la /AMMO A as tworeepsedist to • newness or Is other trustier 'ohm to the Crimea. The ht set to ban given as @Anatolie te limp ad bc could only say, as far se he thee this gentles** was not atheatel by wield be his (the duke's) duty as lethe as I his monies lathes ie /them ale kin farther, whether be bad MOM • Lord Rastas of imammallia= the enemy la that way. He W ms. The lint that bed sessived wee Daman. Lori Eagles sent to him newspaper tint2seat bee admirably * doubt lea le Mist eagasy, •=iir i r *josh et it as that meets, e w e shill le of the erns had setordlostlyjahes. to die eillemit the netspepees. nab wadi net llama inlessiedies of dot eat bat kit e ism that had he set telt It t t i Z e t Inloetwo • est Ise 'Sitio of ell 'Abele sr ihr de.lideas that hod boss *sat by ten 'I to tie krieseaniesse that bad art gars to • Nets" men Ist emits • re mei wet side were In swop =Mit lOW hem the este palms be 0-- M' SD. .1.. wows, le Nish* U - Mesa isatasome• is fur d e to assziosswer sad esseroolt o trot nor their kria that whin. hewn"' ianenn to- *0 " onlaifitisi to the away, sad wnni was um ealy tbe Arreperer of Email, bob to the Orinessibot of no eames inn (Hear, bear.) The In EARNOWST bad sees It stated, that a Osisbnmodoot et as of the ppm and anoint sad luso tiltes= to Lard Enka, nos t_mlog • nomad ins with, mad that Lord lloptea hod istionted bit isiendea tit wending that pules sus et the asp, It assli asnet were persevered in. lie was .he understood •sets to a sooting of the sow t tpe og s gs 7,7ossinats Os wisp with ease see is au to glee thin mar raw as to the worse they should The Dab of NEWCASTLE said Ito hod sot say annnaisatioa of say nth istooths slog lan, see of smelt • westing haft MIS ba h SI Ws sells /dead referred le I - bat bit did this Len Mein bad, threes% ethers, sad ohs be her hisisslf. puma remonstrated with =ash who were of aewspapors NS be was ass aware dna a tbsoling as bad bees spokes elt MU lees wee he swore of soy sestina= having and Wenn kinew to lard Raglan. All he could say was, OM if say sotaa did behave in such • way, after bssbg bees enneastrated with is peeper pests, wit= soisisst intani, be should estrWr that Loma non be Joann i asollog him Inn Imo amp sad son Ind Ind= he to so lidos the gemmed if s tnsessadou snow Ind TlA>t was anorobtel to ask Oa sum of tho aeon is tbe asunimearist department who had snowed ths Masa eareepeodest to sae array mime. The Duke of NEWCASTLE maid that, so far as bs ponbia, be always thought it was the duty re isonnonat to take the blow of bosh natters to seleskesfiber Ohm en its their esbordioates ; but. at aos•Alasentasoississ wink bad Mesa sane to WO int Inns MN be wend be Ann to melee the rations woo tit • Finn Mon on was desidodly anastboden. son w thssolliwe essEn• to wasnin that the asap of Os inindaal who one was Or Manes Tnnlyos. TM Mann of SAL ft ISBURY son None isemagn se • errs, teem lIM order is sound, W wbith id listsskr, Ow Woe wasanated; it was Canis midis& Ihn the dinstis d tbeassusissariat *build beises - tole, Buss. boy hr War. Now wee it that the noble dan bm kir hos Miry, did not &sae, notwithates:4 ll4l 4 umlaute. to table say nesanna for that purpse ostll Deessaber The Dab of NEWCASTLE, said—The noble marquis Ma sized no the ordain messed with the treasury misses; time had bees so ishawdes of the minute, and there bad ha se Innen% by him or by any other party, of the dolts VIM IMO mooned by those papery. nelson sifoonsd la s quarter bee seta. THE FIPREBB. SATURDAY ETENING, JANUARY 27, 1855. Shin, sebsequeutly, the Colsaial-ofilse was divided, sto i deawhatent wss made to the skies of the It sr Deputises& by the 'take ; nor, as far as I am aware up to dal onntlin. to his maospesasat of the *Nos. Now, I thin' you will eft* th at, although another perm nriabt perhaps have best profaned es the Ant seastitertlea of an elks, is is • earl illesuat Wag to &spine a man with has discharged 1::tr ably end honourably, merely la the head that might be hued still more laciest. 17adoebtedly, IM pales anise must be the Int object ; but, is the ab 7rtatinicgreved deftest or alleged laeapasity, Ima see a esisieet retcafereath a cheap, whieb, hiked, I think hillaits by a scan nighties la d good faith. . . . . Ake:the while, thee, believing that say cheap like that proposed would be of doubtful advantage to the publie— kellag key strongly that it would be an net of an W and eeds, towards a colleague, and thinking, that all suck changes, unless absolutely no , ealy teed to weaken a govesuniest, i must rs peat that I scud set heaestly resesimead it es the Queen." Whoa my 'ebb Mind at the heed of the govsnitnent likliVllNa spin le ins ea the widest, awl asked whether I kisi to king the gaieties to ea issue, after a good deal of Winks I told him, that as he said he could not Wm* nommnisad the change to the Queen, sad that as I did net whit to disturb his government or to remove them hem Ass, I went not press the matter. I was streegth nod in that aphelia by the opinion of others of my col leagues, with messy of whom I have acted for many years, sad with others perhaps during the whole nuns of my Withal life, in the closest latiassey, who told me that the skew was 'inadvisable, sad that I t would weaken what I Mini to strengthen, HI gamed arty sash change. Now, =l, when I stead ban to justify my resignation, and am told that I timid have foremen some such MIN es this, I must my that the doubt which prime* on Ng nisi is minket I ought not at that time to bate wind that Amp, est bieught it to an issue. (Hear.) But sweep' these whe me sot to bring the question to an isms was my noble Mend himself (Lord Palmerston) who at die des el the earempatiesse war absent in Pans, but to whom I showed Is aka his return, sad who urged me, ant the innate' made by Lord Aberdeen, not to press the matter. That banging sees withstood to men, I had, however, funks to seasidet what was Os else with regard to measures. I haws to nand the beets that last year a Ono wee gives that Mw ansagessents would be made in the military depsemeate, with a view to their greater eft. dewy. I myself served es two oesmksiciaa, which were appointed for the poems et knotiviag sad consolidating these departamata, sad miens seggesHeas were made with that object at the time. Though it is now 22 years singe the Int of these samminissis was appointed, yet at the commessentat of a war that which was then but a riot Itairsilmay berme a watts, et orient asesseity, sot sits seetslilitisa sad la ....a ethos' departments was die to the Monett et the rabble, ma the credit of the othatry. (lim o km) The only change which I had best able to memo la the mice before Christmas was that the esetetheariat department had been placed under the War Meister. With regardto an further change I heard se minion of it till the pro made on &turd& lest. I reduced upon that pro posal,and having rupoa it. I tell my noble Mend at the head of the pverameat that I mmeidered it incomplete and insufficient, sad I gave him a pow which contained my views on the subject. That, the beets will observe, was very lately; but I had no reason to expose that my views would be adopted ; I bad thtreffsee to miler, when I came to relict on the course Mita should a dopt with respect to the motion of the hcm.sal learned member for Sheffield, whether I could fairly sad Meetly say, " it is too true that evils have taken pLa, ii is NM that many brave men have fallen at Alma, Inhermsaa e sell Belaklava ; it is true that many brave men have perished Ekes neglect—(hear, hear)—it is true that Me beset of the whole of England throbs with anxiety Mai Menet en this subject—(beer, hear)—but 1 can Mil yea that each arrangements have been made, Mat ame of such rigour and efficiency has taken • ~redact of the War Department—that such a mesolidatioa at offices has taken waft, as will enable him Wave the whale sad instant control of those departments, NMI all supplies shall be instantly tarnished, and alt aims instead, remedied"—l might then meet this mo ll'''. But I felt that I could not honestly yep after what I had written to my noble I maim it in this place, not tn Mt any Meth ea him, bemuse no one would impute it ma blame M him, be ant having taken an active pert in =los of the war—that there was any person with power of control, or sufficient energy of mind, or isellisimaly !Ovulated with the details, at the head of the Wee Itipastmeat. (Hear, hear.) I could not my, though as eetlrment had been ;reposed on Saturday last, either MM elllssildation of the military departments had been, antedto nisei, or that th ere was any prospect of their ' Mai earried into effect in such a manner that I could rawl/faith to the efficiency of those eirengements. sir, feeling this—and to me it has be.. moo paillol—but feeling that I had no faith in the efficiency el Sat pivotal, nd that I must steed up to oppose that me- OM ter dumb la the way of that which malty thought would alba a onaely for these sufferings and them distresses ; or, at losikitit tailed to do that, would point out the way to Mik elthellffiet and removal—feeling that such would be so duly, and that many members of the hones would look Mfr litt an assurance of that kind cm my part, and would vets as that essurence—(loud cheers)—knowing that loamy ambers of this house did so honour me with their confi dence .I felt that I would be betraying the confidence they placed Ia me if I gave that assurance when I did not feel that I could honestly de so. (Cheers.) It appeared to me that the government could not anted• to such a ama lgam as the bon. and learned member for Sheffield l otted tar. It appeared to me that it would not be, not say dignified, but consistent with the ==working of the constitution that there should sitting on that bench to govern the war and Ile alb* military departments, and at the same time sub *Mel to the check of a committee sitting up stairs—(hear) —Mss oilliSt‘r of war should have to consider what be wm to 410 ti set only to provide for the urge's necessities of tho boor, to provide ant wen for the numerous requisitions "Mk ems to him from day to day, but also the evidence that sight be furnished with respect to the conduct of the was Aar In ea sin months. (Hear, hear.) Ido not think that eadt ea arrangement would be consistent with the effiefessoy of the department. I, therefore j felt that I mould ilameo may one couclusioo, and that, sa l could not mist ea tatpity. and as I could not give the only answer which I Iheastit would be sufficient in order to cement the govern ment and stop that inquiry from taking place, it was my deity set to remain any longer a member of the goestmeat. It would be thcasetent then for others wise Mak that everything has already Mu done, or is baba done, that c mid be conscientiously required, to spree that motion. But for my own part, I mold not do that. I therefore wrote, in short terms, Mit& were not quite accurate with regard to the terms of tMe motion of the 23rd, the following note to Lord Aber dsou : " Chabans-plaor, Jan. 23, 1855. "My dear Lord Aberdeen,—Mr. Ro e buck has given settee of a motion to inquire into the conduct of the war. I do not me bow this motion is to be resisted ; but, as it in volves a censure upon the War Departments, with which some of nay sollesgoss are connected, my only course is to tender my resignation. I therefore have to request you will I lay my ►umble resignation of the office which I have the honour to bold before the Queen, with the expression of my gratitude for her Majesty's kindness for many years.—l remain, my dear Lard Aberdeen, yours very truly, " J. Roseau." That is the note I wrote to Lord Aberdeen. I received no gamer to it ; but on the following evening my noble friend informed me he lied been to Windsor sod takes my resigna tion to the Queen—that her Majesty had been pleased to accept the same, and was pleased to add, " with great concern." (Hear, hear.) This, therefore, is the statement I have to make as far as I ant immediately cosesthed. Thom ministers who believe they can successfully oppose inquiry, who believe they are right in what has been dose, and is doing, are perfectly justi fi ed in taking the coarse ey are punting. At the same time, I have heard there is a rumour —and I hope it is trac—that the arrangement I proposed in my first letter of the 17th of November, or rather in mr subsequent letters—that of planing the War Department is the hands of my noble friend (Lord Palmerton)—bas taken place. Sir, I shall ;mat:) , remise if that is the case. (Hear, hear.) I believe It will be a great benefit to the country that my &obis friend should bold that de t ; and I shall be glad to think that my retirement rem oleos has is any way contributed to that change. I think it mast is some way have contributed to it— (laughter) —for otherwise I have no doubt that my noble friend at the bead of the go. 'eructate, with that fairness and candour which belongs to and which I 'dew" found in him, would have as serted the letter I have just read. (Hear, bear.) Mena steams mast, I think, have in some respect changed, for that whisk Lard Aberdeen said he could sot have honestly recommended to her Majesty he has sow thought to be aftewasy. (Hear, hear.) This, therefore, must be a rabeequeat irrangemeat ; sad I shall be ow if my retirement from the less Important cies I held, has led to the appetatment of oy noble friend, of whom I mama speak in higher terms than I have already dime. (ilear,bser.) Set, sir, having stated thus much with reped_he myromitioa end the positions! the govern ment, all Saes% I have regularly no right to go farther, yet pimp rI shall take no part in the debate which is shoat blikepiges cet Steadies of the hos. sad learned comber the ld, and as it is not nay iatentioa to give a vote es tlEatisa, Inlay be perin sh :iti r so on somewhat farther. sey a few words with to the present state (Hear, imer.) I my, in the first place, that I Itslirmiell in the house, es bath ides (foe I asks se dirisslki whatever) are assigns that the war abseil be eseviel en, setts meeting at Leeds expressed it, by the nest Worn, aneaserea, till we obtain a lest and lesseivellie peas." (Hop e hoar.) I believe dist Am measures whist see the OM Wgerm la the peeeseellea of the war lad these bovine of pease which are meld doggedly and usequivesally Jest had besentable, are those which will meet with most fame her all parties in the house. (Hear, Nor.) I thinenehly believe that these who have head mond le V es illbsolesn't geleownest will as heartily videos la way Ilne ow MINA the gosenn arse es the el le thee pegnierat. (" Hear, hear," from the 0 s i Ne tt dingier I have to say is, that I do net the et @Abe abroad at warrants the ilegreegea I see ....1t,... (Hear, Item) No doubt the atieenste we base reechoed from the eamp before Sehaelepil are sellgently gloomy end dioisserteniag ; bet with regard to the great object of the war la whisk we in engaged, I believe on prospects are by no mean gloomy. Oe a former ooessien, whilst speaking on th e subject of the war, • inn erroneous construction was put on what I said fa speetk of Anima. I was represented as speaking la a depreciagory menu of the conduct and intestines et Austria. I wish to give every credit and important@ le the ;revenant of that country for what they have den. It is la sousequace of the large armaments that she made, of her 'gulping an army of 600,000 men. of bee outman, sad strengthening the points that wen weak, of her raising an enormous force of cavalry—it le la conesgssaos of than preparations that the Emperor of Ruda ha in the first plan abated mach of his penes sins—that be has been ready to consent to terms whisk lest August he utterly rejected—that be is new sesionly mouldering whether or not he will make those geneelikell which may obtain peace. (Hear, hear.) We ban thine fore, owing in a great degree to the admirable and ability of my noble friend Lord Clarendon , beee}e the advantage of Austria throwing her weight into the am getiations,with the knowledge that if such a peace am shear saved would be safe for Europe were not obtained, she would act with the allies and bring her 600,000 men in aid of the army at present employed. (Hear, bear.) We have la the nest plum to rely without th e "lighten hesitation, without the slightest doubt, on the fidelity of our ally the Emperor of the Fronk. (Hear, hoar.) From him, be sides ell other facts and all other aseneanals, I saw sad heard sash proofs during my late residence in his capital. that I cannot have the 'lighten hesitation in assuring the bone that then two countries—England and France— will remain united to the end of this great straggle. (Hear, hest.) Well, then, from these advantages I think we may hope one of two thisgs,—the one far more dish able than the other, bat the other an honourable coarse from which we should not Mirka—either that the Emperor of Russia shall make thou concessions which will be just • and honorable for England mad for France, and safe for Europe; or if he shall fail to make thus oonceetioas that there shall be such a force of European armies collected against him that final triumph must attend those armies. (Hear, hear) I °end not help expressing this conviction on this oesesion, bemuse I think whoever is to be the minister he may rely fleet on the patriotic feeling sad loyalty of this hstase— (hear, hear)—next on our unflinch ing ally, the Emperor of the French—(bear hear)—aad neat es the wisteria of the Emperor of AuAria, if Inn °arab& terms of pens cannot ,be obtained. (Hear, bear ) Perhaps, sir, as I have left Lord Aberdeen's g meat, I may be permitted to say that I cannot rehein from this opportunity of quoting the winds of Sir Robert Peel with regard to that noble lord, and stating ' that in my opinion they were fully justified. When Sir R. Peel was leaving aloe, be said : o My noble friend hes dared to avow that there is a moral obligation upon the Christian minister of a Christian coun try to 'sheen every effurt for the maintenance of peace before incurring the risk, not to say the guilt, of war. But while be has net shrunk from the manly avowal of that opinion, I will, in testicle to him, add this—and it is per fectly consistent with that opinioa as to the moral obliga tion of maintaining peace, while peace an be maintained with honour—that there never was a minister less inclined to sacrifice any essential interest, or to abate anything from the dignity and honour of this country, even for the purpose of securing that inestimable blessing." I believe that opinion to be perfectly jun. He has now entered into • war. Only a short time ago I had a long conversation with him on the terms of peace. I concurred Mall ha said, and am satisfied, and have the fullest reliance that he will sot consent to any peace that is not jest and honourable, and is not approved of by the general feeling end opinion of this country. (Hear, hear.) Let me now say a few words with regard to the government I have left. I cannot but say that I look back to my association with many measures and acts of that government with great pride and satisfaction—above all, with the greatest pride and satisfaction to that 'peen, full of eloquence and win doe., delivered by my right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in ;proposing the financial scheme of the government two years ago. (Hear, hoar.) I believe be therein developed the true prineiples of finance. And, as I said, It is a satisfaction to me that amidst that splendour of eloquence there was brilliancy enough to shed some part of its rays on those who were his colleagues en that nee lion. (Loud cheers.) I know it has been said that those who conducted the whig party had not in the distribution of power amongst the government that degree of iaduence which belonged to them from their character, their ability, and number. Sir, it Las always appeared to me that an unjust slur had found its way amongst the pub lic, and prevailed to a great extent in public opinion, to the effect that the whig party was an exclusive party—that they required all the power and patronage of office for themselves, and WM not prepared to support any system of administration in which they did not hold a part. I believe that opinion to have been unjust, and the conduct of the whig party during the last few years fully justifies that opinion of mine. (Hear.) I venture to say that no party ever behaved with more disinterested patriotism than did the Whig party who supported the government of Lord Aberdeen. (Hear, hear.) It is my pride that I belong to a party which, as I conceive, upholds the true principles of freedom and the juot influence sod balance of the consti tution, and, whether in or ontof office, it shall be my pride to preserve the principles and stand by the maxims which the whig party has laid down. (Cheers.) Lord PALMERSTON—It may bo expected of me that I should not allow the address of my noble friend to pass without some observation on the part of the government. (Hear, hear.) I must in the fleet place beg to assure my noble friend and the home that nothing could be more painful to me, officially aad personally, than the step which my noble friend has thought it to be his duty to take in separating hitesel from the government of which I am a member. (Hear, bear.) There has been • particular time when a temporary differeaee existed between my noble friend and enpolf ; but I beg to assure the house that the subject of that differeace has passed away from my mind, as I know it has passed away front his, and that whether I an with him, or whether we are divided in politics, the high ertimate I krmed of his character and talents, and the deep friendship that &tinned me towards him, never could be affected by the present, the put, or the future. (Hear, hear.) I mut admit that a public man has a perfect right, without any impeachment on the part of any one, to quit office when he thinks that his continuance in office could not be reconciled with his sense of duty ; and however much I may regret the loss of my noble friend, he is exempt from any reproach for having acted as he has done in the position in which he felt himself to stand. It is not for me to my whether my noble friend was right or wrong in acquiescing in the early part of lest year to the appointment of my noble friend the Duke of Newcastle; nor is it for me to say whether he was right or wrong in proposing in November that I should be substi tuted (or the noble duke in the discharge of the duties of Minister of War. My noble trised has truly staled that I was in Paris when the corremondence which he read took plan ; and lam ready to corroborate what he stated, that on my return he communicated the correspondence to me, and that when the question arose whether, in consequence of Lord Aberdeen's declining to adopt the recommendation of my noble friend, he should or should not deprive the Po vernment of his further "entice:, I urged him nett° quit the government in consequence of that refusal of LonlAberdeen. I thought it to be my duty to urge my noble friend, in con. junction with my *colleagues, to continue to the government the benefit of his services. My noble friend yielded to the recommendation of hie colleagues. Bat from that time to the period of his resignation I am not aware that be reverted to that proposition. From the time that the correspondence concluded, which was the 3rd of December, or about that period, and when, at the earnest and unanimous request of his colleagues, my noble friend consented to remain in office, my belief is that up to the moment of his resignation he did not renew that proposal. Now I am quite ready to admit that my noble friend may have felt some difficulty is meeting such • motion as that which stands on the paper for discuteion this evening, and that entertaining the opinion that seine alteration should be made in the war department, he may have felt some dif ficulty in resisting a motion, the object of whin was to pro duce and offset such a change. But it emus to me that my noble friend, in the remarks he made—independently of all personal considerations and penned preferences of one man over another—showed that there were grave eonetitutional objection to the modem, and that be might have objected to it on that ground. (Hear. hear.) It is innemible, he said, that a committee sitting, up-stairs to supervise and saperinteed the Irene ties of the government could exist with an easiest adminbtntieo of the den. But if my noble kind, naterelly awe properly might have continued to 11111.1fillia the opiniestbat • @bang, was necessary is the pen* whetheuld With, office of War Secretary, I venters to say that that °pinks ought to be repeated to the head of the government before-parliament met, and that he should give the governeent an opportunity of saying whether that preposition Obis would be accepted or an. My noble friend stated to Lord Aberdeen that he, in common with all mankind. 'Onto' that when pediment met some each motion Would be made, thealpeting the government. He mast have been aware that that which was in every one's mouth anispolva of in every newspaner, must be looked for. If he had said that some such motion appeared to him to be inevitable er, at least, highly probable, and that he mild not resist it raises some such change was made I. the de partment of war,tke government would then have had an op• portunity of retonddericg the objections made, and acqui escing in his proposition, if they thought fit to do so, or if they thought that the same objections continued which prevailed before, they wooldthn have beelines opportnity of determine, whether they would auntie the km of the services of my noble friend, or whether they believed that loin to be of such paramount importance, that they would amender office, and another government might be fouled. A resignation at that time, sad wader each eirounistasese, might have been effected ithout meat of say person concerned. Them would be time for making arrsaminients, either with &view drawl/Drag the seining government or forming a new gollumeat ; aad ash a course would have been in conformity leak the ordinary practice of *ninth this country. Bet the sane takes by my noble friend, I humbly submit, was net la anordeaes with the usual prattles of public awn. (Hear.) It wee ealealated 'suitably to plate the govereseat he let Weeks et mationsumest, width, Ikea a eentesse, set se he eassted. My wale fries& made we sere whilst hadheishist for the better sadheet of the war ; he put forward no dhoSet raesuraree for the hatter prosecution of the tree white were rejected and, the re- ooq gin t as:: to ties bog boon to tkb inotkoma a. IreiIMISMI to soy Mho oonabsosist await seek ladividool, and oasoossoa, that it t ZiMholing. it ism iss @goings h noble Mood asked may complaint from ben issmod to Ma sash essissaiistisei ears idi sr Ili et as alma ken a Es drsimmilimasah se 4 Ike Woos of tbs see smay. Ho Welt rirrisual Woes O ng O el r/ assidl as It vie bpswills te big hisehre weep to the Mlles 4 deploy br iftbesall' onselbg poly ow *sir Owl MUM iiiheih were so as almillevess es tits no. Sim of 11 Da samara tst be did resolve war of the saales, *5 wafts gamboge of the 4 searaosa deouripties. mad WM OW daily this. wbo are stembas of this ha e alma be saw** He aaald May say that OW „ m a x i % ; i m i t wan to as 0 MINS bad set besalgiegately 414111" IS isa ki7 th . g es so th • le o =l tads hod He said it with asap weir* that tam iv - do prf et det •••••••• to make aseljer eilpiest. %Hs 3 sea Na the day laipayesladay.e= the . is the' situp lid eery a Aida Ike leas qiigr es the 1 bar. s o for rassaisg for the Li set dosi it 4 ,:, ih . t pasts ar ski essa6ry. (He 1 0p1=% 66.0 41a. • it his duty *OM* make. -.. ~...- asy ease which obliged as t *- * 1. He had sow gives with seeciest deal. as Os aseduat of the war ; bet desks sty a the gesstions which hid boss pat, sad herald' soarooly • day is whisk I did sot both f les sessaohe whisk he hid se*, *said writ. a lour is ay sole blond, th e se HOUSE OF COI ►T, lAN. 26. The Br um took **Asir a UMW before 4 o'clock. There was a large attendance of mambas, whisk rapidly increased up to half-poet 4 o'clock—the greatest -zloty being evinced to hear the statement of Lord J. lisesell. _ NEW MEMBER. Mr. COLE, for the county of Permansgh, took the oaths end by seat. _ _ __ _ _ _ • _. . . TharOntead and Mr. Resist& were is their please very shortly after 4 o'clock, on the frost bits* below the gangway, on the miaieterial side. Lard J. Memel' entered the beam at 11111101 M Alf 4 o'cloak, and took his seat on ifs Mr* behind adaistere j amidst same faiat cheers from the Lord Palmerston, the Chancellor of the , Mr James Graham, and the other principal rakdiessa, did sot take their plates till half-peat 4 o'clock. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S STATEMRNT. Oa the voodoo that the orders of the day be read for the rupees of being postponed,; Lewd 3. RUSSELL rose, and spoke ea follows:—At the request of my noble friend at the head of the government, I have postponed to this day the statement wish to make with respect to my rtsignation of the flee I hasty bad the know to hold, that of President of the Council. I will go at ones to the matter, furies that the statement may be prolonged more then I mild wish that it should. Oa Tuesday last, when I was present is this basso. the hon. sad learned gentleman the mamba for Shefileld (Mr. Roebuk) gave notice of a motion for a select com mittee "to inquire into t►e condition el our army before Sebastopol, and into the eocduct of those departments of the government whoa" duty it has been to minister to the wants of that army." I of course had thought it probable that some member might move for an inquiry of this kiad. I had not, ►owever, folly considered the course that I ought to take thereupon—that cause depending much upon the nature of the motion, and I should say, likewise, partly upon the quarter from which it might come. The bon. sad learned member for fineilleld, it is evident, is in a position to evince no hostility to the government which he has sup ported; and I enuld cot conceive that he had any other object then that which we ought all to have at heart—the vigorous prosecution of the war. (Cheers.) Now, with reepeet to the power of inquiry—l think that is the most valuable privilege of this house. This house has no power of appointment—no power of directing the measures of the exiseutive. But, by the power of inquiry, it corrects abates ; it reforms mal-administration ; It strengthens those establlehments which may seem for ths moment to need sup port. (Hear.) A motion for inquiry, however, may be raided upon two grounds: the one, that there are no evils 'listing of salcient magnitude to call for inqairy ; the other, that suicient means have been taken to remedy those evils ; and that they will best be cured by other means than by a resort to OA inquisitorial powers of this hone*. With respect to the first of these objections, it is obvious that it was impossible to urge that. (Hear.) No one can deny the melancholy condition of our army before Sebastopol. (" Hear," from the opposition.) The account' which arrive from that quarter are sot only painful,—they are horrible and beartrending—(hear)—and I am sere that no one would oppose for a moment any measure which he thought likely, not only to cure, bet even to mitigate, those evils. (Hear.) And, sir, I mast say that, with all the of9cial knowledge to which I have had awes, then Is something which is to me ice:pliable is the state of that army. (Chun.) If I had been told, as • reason valises the expedition to the Crimea last year, that the troop, would be seven miles from the ma—oevaa wiles from a secure port, which at that time, when in eontomplation of the *audition, we hardly hoped to posses; and that, at that eaves miles distance they would he in want of food, of clothes, and of *eke', to snob a dogrel, thet they should parish at the rate of from 90 to 100 a day—l should have oossidertd such a prediction as utterly preposterous--such an objection to be entirely inapplicable sad unfounded. (Hear, hear.) And yet we are all aware of the notoriety of the melancholy condition of our ugly. It was not there. fore by denying the existent* of the evils that I could hope to *due this house to rebut the proposition of the hen. and leaned gentleman. Bat I had farther to reflect, if I was in so position to give • faint "no " to the proposal, not to express in vague and equivocal terms a wish that the motion might not be carriod, or to use any ensile with raped to the matter of its terms, with a view to defeating that motion. It was my duty—a duty, I trust. I have performed when I was in that situation —4o stand In the front of the battle—(bear, lieu) —end manfully to take my part in opposing the appoint. meat of that committee. (Hear, hear.) These I had to osasider whether I might not urge that second reason for Wining the committee to whisk I hove adverted--namely, tint immures had hew taken that arrangements were is peogrue, by which thus evil s would bt remedied, and by offish the administration of the war would be vigorously, sad. it was to be hoped, escoessfully presented. I should hare been sore disposed to giro that reason, became it le obvious that the coacessioa of a aonintittee of that sect-4 crousittse sitting for weeks, perhaps for meths, wield hI fatal loth' ellsiesey of those military audertaldap whist' it would alga, affect. There was therefore the strongest iadasonssat, if possible, to pot forward sash an aigootioa to Ilio'falnley which the hos. sad leaned gonikinen pro. peed. I feud, apes nfloodon that it wee impas sible he se to urge with ;feet, and. semillag le isp own ceassiesee, with truth, that etgesdia to the peptised esamittee. The house will, I Itepo, permit roe to refer to sans eireainstraces persaaal; se wq self, eitheogtt they hardly some within the ;mope al the statements "shish I have to caste. Whoa the ode, et fieeratasy of State for War was separated bent the diesel bereetery of Mate ter the Colonies, Lied Aberdsea though it eight to prop os to the Duke of Neweside to wept whisk of the two oillees be should least desire, sad the Duke of Newesetle, witbot ceepteadable arabitka, as I think, ro• plied that, having ezertsd himself la Attie( eat the very loge upedstiat, he should like to remain at the head of &peened whisk would bays the Croatia sad tho of that ezpoditloo, sad the sewed essaagenost of tba war. Lod Absrdesa caseated to that wish ; sad was s oessafriag party la thappoistateat. At the sae‘of . . . gaveramast,eil balm. diepased.' 4 that that atm' hold*, IS ea: sr duty that • "rat MO OM, Ntins IS *AO at hsilth (Ham hear.) I trim me to •:taks say part fa mg aty abssass thin was both nasho ham aad 2Tattiita say _., tb. Ikantary d State 6 Nieto Lairs, with mopes! to throoramemses whisimare. isilylakiag plass. It bee been said that I wentlsanchsa about the mealy at that time. (Laughter.) It is true that my boa. Mead, the member for Bristol, said to me on. day that, when the Mee separated for the holidays, it mad give great gratiestation to his Meads at Bristol RI mild attend a meeting of a literary society at that place. • day was named for the purpose ; and when I was eosaing Spew the arid, being at the boas, of my brother, he ia- Bimedi as that his neighbour* at Bedford would be big* podia VI =aid attend • literary meeting there. lan. with those two invitations; and I certainly did met mush time on the study of what I Meld say Nora. (Laughter.) As President of the Council thus meetings wen =I very slim from the object of the Vice which I held, But peed= from this to • me important subject, I must my that I have attended all the Mast councils that have mot. And, upon this aubjeet, I will state that I wiete Se] tag noble friend, Lord Aberdeen, to say that I sumpessil l there would be MUM at the beginning of October, sad that I slab be may to attend them whenever they met. aslie hind Yam& me that he should not ram ▪ Ilistiel all alma the 14th Oct. On the lYth of Or Wei a Mb= eennell met, and I thought it my duty to mod. Bat I. the course of that month and the beginning st trees melt of November, it struck me that a Uttar ad sdableillea a affairs relating to the war was required: (OW. IBM Oa Opposition.) I made spiny mind with iensidemilie Insult,. The matter Masted, in some de greet, the rtaidatien et • cameo who had net leg helm armed sem; but still I thought It a duty, end • sorra* palms sassed between my noble friend at the head et the governs's* mad myself, from which I ant obliged to read soles =trade la order to put the am is pomades of *spotted' upon whisk I came to lay Milks ea Tuesday mid= lest. The eorrespoadence itself le'long ; it eaten into details sad saute perusal matters whit* it is quite naseessury to quite; bat as it is, I mast request the home to liana to the application which I thought it Imo my duty to make. I wished, If possible, to pat the matter la • light that would bear ratherthe air of a different Wield unagement than any displeasing= of • colleague from oleos. I therefore stated the quid= of the War De partment In two points of view :—The one, as concerning the maspateats which it was necessary to make is erne queue. of the pledge given to this house last susios—(hear, hear)—that the whole of the War Department should be considered with a view to sash arrangements as should beet provide for its eilloieney ; the other point, that which re. pad to the carrying on of the war. (Hear, hear.) With rasped to the first point, I said I thought it was of the utmost importance that • pen= ,with the rank of privy coundlior should hold the Mice in this house, upon which devolved the moving of the war estimates, and by which authority he might be able to answer the =- dem dielcult questions which I foresaw mut OM beim the boon. I will not trouble :the house will soktttlti in that pert of the question ; but I proposed that WO Ass of Beentary of State sad Secretary at War Maid is OM by the same person. The date of that letter is the 117th of November, 1864 : " From the other point at view (I continued) the prospect is equally dear, Ws au in the midst of a great war. In order to airy as Mat war with elleiency, either the Prime Minister Naas be mastaatly urging, hastening, completing the sallitsey peepeastions, or the Minister of War must be strong smith, ▪ essarel ether depaelaisais. (Chem.) Every ettiessisal of ether Ministece—the plea of foreign interests to be stlemiled to, of naval preparations not yet complete, and a timmashil ethers, justifiable in the separate heads of depart iamb, suet be forced to yield to the paramount necessity eferseryfag on the war with efficiency of each service, sad 1111110011allaS of seam to the end in view. . . . If, limeade= the list considerations here presented lead to Me sessissits that the Secretary of State for the War Ds. Foremost meet be in the House of Commons, the latter eau aideratioas peat to the necessity of having in that Mace a man who, from experience of military details, from inherent vigour of mind, and from weight with the House Of Commons, eat be expected to guide the great operations of war with authority and success. There is only one lemon belonging to the goverment who combines these advantages—my conclusion le, that before Par ibas= meets Lord Palmerston should be entrusted OW the seals of the War Department. (Cheers.) That was the opinion which I gave confidentially to Lord Aberdeen. Before I read Lord Aberdeen's answer, I will say that, he having requested some days to consider a matter of so much importance, I wrote to him again on the 18th, to say that I quits concurred in that delay, and I added, "I wish, however, that before you decide you should show my letter to the Dake of Newcastle. It was my intention is writing the letter to avoid throwing any blame upon lathed, I think he deserves very great credit for the seep doss he has made. But he has not had the authority regal l alto for so great • sphere, sad has not been able to do all that might have been dons with larger powers of control." Lead Aberdeen replied—misstating my proposition, I =MI say-.that he could not agree to the proposal. On the 21st of NOMA*/ be writes thus :—" Tour proposal being founded en the supposed impropriety of Herbert moving the estb mates, and the eonesquent necessity of the Secretary of State for War being in the House of Commons, renders tie removal of the Dake of Newcastle from his present *Ra i unavoidable. But, although you would regard this u the Imitable malt of an official amusement, it is not to be sup. mud that it would be considered in this light by the public, er, indeed, by say impartial person. The dislooatioa of the , government would be so great, and the reason assigned fer it apparently so inadequate, that it could only be Moldered as a made of substituting one mat for another. Although you may be far flea entertaining any such desire, the Venue. Hen could receive no other interpretation. In justice to the duke I do not think that his colleagues, without very strong grounds, would wish to place him in such a position." Lord Aberdeen, in the other part of his letter, stated that he did not think that any man could undertake the duties which I proposed should be undertaken by one person, namely, those of Semetary of State for the War Department sail at the WIG time Secretary at War. He considered it to be necessary that • privy councillor's Mice should be Matsised, and that office connected with the fineness of the army, independently of the Secretary of State for the War Department. He stated also--a consideration well deserving of atteation—that it might be desirable hereafter that some military chief who was in the Roma of Lords should hold the Wee, sad therefore it would not be always held by a member of the House of Commons. After m elded= the various objections of Lord Aberdeen, I wrote on the Mit of November, 1864, as follows:—" I oesse, therefore, having cleared the ground of all the ob• 'freedoms to the real qualms, to what are the requirements of the great war in which we an engaged ? Setting aside all kistoeleal references, both on your part and mins, I think it is dear either that the Prime Master mast be himself the salve and moving spirit of the whole machine, or the Meister of War must have delegated authority to control other departments. Neither is the cam under the present umagesamt. The Cabinet has, it is true, in Its meat aseetags, done much to repair esalernwei; but • Cabinet is a cumbrous and unwieldy instrument for carrying on war. It at famish suggestions, or make a Maas upon • measure submitted to it, but it mast adadaister. What you west, therefore, I repeat, is a Minister al Wee of vigour and authority. As the wellies of the empire and the messes of oar present 'saint are seassemi, I have ao ample in saying so. Keep up, if you think right m a temporary arrangemat, • Suretary at War. Maks it elm that it is temporary— that is to say, only to last till more complete canolidatiou sea take plea; but let parilemeat and the country be aimed that yea have pissed the ceadaot of the war in the beads of the Attest ma who sea be fenced for that duty." In seam le this I ressived a long letter hese Lori Aber deen, from yid= I will read some memo, dated the bah el Nov. He says :—" After an, I think your letter plainly realms the mediae to the simple Issue of a personal pre- Imam sad the sehatitation of cue sea fir another. In seem S. my eaggestim, that some eassidentim was due Is the dubs ea the part el his mileage:se, you say that you understood the Mainlined= was founded on the principle - - 0101.1 "44110111111111111/ the public servlee. without m aid to the sallis of eccw ut. SWAIM position of ' vim& usipaitak Ws was the sus; ad I fall, slue Illekieg het Ile Doke se Mynah venal le the last nee 1e whit he Ng eeshlia M ith this le ft hewer. Ma I must Anne 114 at the howsillis et the swimsuit *sea Wise is *Mr DepurlMMS igessealimplated ; eadl jection of which he would be to eel what not be responsible for the wants, of which ha disepeeee"4"llll Oa the evening of Tuesday lest my noble friend gave eta motion in hie capacity of President of the nexeci — ",.., then h. tendered hi s res i gnat i on on the simple -. L . ' he felt unable to resist the motion of the hon. sae h ic i; member for Sheffield. If, as I mid before hie wee founded on the re f usa l o f the First 1,4111:4411, Treasury to adopt the chan ge he proposed in the W it pertinent, I think he would have acted better if be h. 7 reputed that ground in the letter in whelk lM dared his resignation, and had given the gee ee D an opportunity of reconsid er i ng that proposal it . (R i - tr the proved had been again made and ree cted. • the noble lord the me m b er f or L ondon had still j r epintea, he would then have resigned on peri le d, 2 which no one could have taen sayelsreest7 mast fre s say, that I think his colleagues are feel, not only regret fey the loss of one of the most it• and influential membe rs o f t h e government gad e hone, but they are also entitled te say that th e c c !: occurred in a manner wh o ll y unexpected, mad *l c eerding to the usual practice, they co u ld not lieu= pitted. So much, sir, for th e circumstause le IQ' my noble friend has adverted. With regard le the N e i; in which he has resigned, and the hasty and manner in which - the grounds of his resigeader e a rlill s nounced, I think it wee a departure from the gelec tip Pleb tics, which the _government would not have betabmit ee is expecting. Having said thus much, I from any further remarks on that poiut. In remake j_tehkirs; k* I have acted from a strong sense of hear," from Lord J. Rusi e ll)— an d not frem7B,7&e, towards my noble friend. In the Course of his has expressed a conviction that whoever may be with the conduct of the war in future will feel it bier 4 as far as his functions allow, to conduct it with vigour. Undoubtedly, air, it will be tarried on 111 M Her Majesty's government have felt it their duty, standing the great for they ha ve susta i ned by the wok of my noble friend, not to r un away from the nu* et% hen, and learned member for Sheffield. They Withal would have been disgraceful. If that motion be of 'eerie it is unnecessary for me to say what the week be. (Laughter.) But if, in the course of the get a k reasons shall be alleged sufficient ti iadus the hial to reject, it will then be for her Majesty's greaex ceit consider how far it may be advisable to adopt th ee " tione of my noble friend. (.. Hear," and lughtetrit future mut depend on the result of the motion; tett e whatever person it will devolve to perform the fanelsed Minister of War, I am persuaded be will fe e l it hie dew% act in the manner prescribed by my noble Mead The will be prosecuted in accordance with the fisheye/ thmei people, and I triist conducted t o a successful lisle. Wee& sir, Gill in aid not only the e n th us i ast :c feeliegsof tbegi tish nation, but also the cordial co-operation and NUN N of our great any the E mperor of the French and th French nation. It is one of the moat magnificent epee males presented by history to mankind, to tee th ei two groat nations united in such a came. Ifs have seen in former times great powers elated fie the purposes of injus nq tice or of couest, bat thi s la the first time in the history of mankiod that ill have seen two great nations cooperating cordially es see power in a cause so honourable to both. I feel, sir, the A most confidence in the energies of this country directed is co-operation with Apse of France. I sin pummeled tam my noble friend will prove a true prophet, and thatthe will be conducted so as to obtain an honourable sad a sah peace, which will secure not only the ilunour end dignity of this country, but the future repose and independence,. Europe. (Cheers.) The subject then dropped. MR. ROEBUCK'S MOTION. Mr. ROEBUCK, on riling to briug zotward the mot* ' of which he had given notice, appeared to be still labor* ing under the effects of his recent illness; he was saratal times obliged to pause, and at 1 ngth bad to Mt down after a very abort address. lie said that he perhaps might require to make some apology he addressing them ; but the motion itself requited no ape. logy. They had sent forth an army unequalled in akimbo by any that evor left the shores of this country; that army. by its deeds, has not only maintained but has increased the glory of the country. (it Hear," and cheers.) Now, bibs admission of the noble lord, it appeared that the army bid, by the neglect of the government at home, become in a OW dition that wrung the heart of the nation. (Hear, has.) When they considered what was the duty of the hours Salt suck circumstances, be felt that hie motion required ne apology. The noble lord (Lord John Russell) had jest toil them that he felt himself unable, as a minister of he Grown, to resist a motion which was only en exercise of ths incontrovertible power of that house ; but in the um breath he told them that he could net support the mei* either by his speech or vote. Ho has thus neglected a duty which ho ought to perform. H. ought to fore his private affections and personal considerations whoa sM only the army of England, but the very exams of the country, was at stake; but notwithstanding this de minion by the noble lord, be (Mr. Roebuck) would put motion on its broad merits. It naturally divided Willis% two parts—first, what was the prz.4.Lt condition of ths army before Sebastopol; second, how was that medals brought about? After the confession cf the noble Ica, there could not be two opinions as to the condition of the army. It appeared that it was wi . hotis shelter, without food, without clothes, and without ammunition. That wss the condition to which it was reduced by the incapaeity,os he believed, of those whose duty it was to administer to its wants. (Hear, bear.) He believed it was the incompe tency and incapacity of the government that had brought the army into such a state; and the incapacity that had brought about such results COI continued to direct affairs. All he had to do was to sub mit his question to the house; when he bad done so he thought he would have done Lis duty. (Hear, hear.) It might be thought requisite that he should me something as to the state of the army before Sebutopth He begged to ray that with the military part of the gum lion he had no concern. He was not able to judge of the propriety of an expedition to the Crimea, as he was not military man ; but be could judge of the conduct of sun when the army was there—and as a member of that home he was bound to his judgment. His first question was to to the numbers of the army now before Sebastopol. lie thought it was pretty well ascertained that fifty-four thaw sand soldiers bad been sent from the sheres of this country, equipped as they had never equipped soldiers before, who had done all that men could do to suppat the glory rd their country. He wanted to know what had be. come of that fifty-four thousand man? It sp• peered from the best and most authentic swabb that at present there were but fourteen thousand men berm Sebastopol actually under arms, and of these honest thousand but five thousand were in a state of health. He held in his hand a later from Constaotinopte, dated JUL IL The writer states " That according to the best accounts the whole effective force of infantry did not exceed fourteen theusand, while the artillery and engineers bad suffered similar diminution ; the cavalry no longer existed as a fors, for the whole of their horses had been tassel up for the transport of provisions." The writer went on to say "That within two months the British army before Selma topol would he totally destroyed." It was reported that a distinguished general, just,returned from the seat of war, had declared be was firmly persuaded the' a great disaster Ifle about to befall the army before Sebastopol. Fourteen those sand men only remained out of fifty-four thous Ind ; he wanted to know what had become of the forty thousand that bad disappeared from the ranks of the army ? If they had Daly fourteen thousand, having sent out fifty-four, it RS/ a mete question of figures to know that forty thousand must bats disappeared. He asked what he* become of that forty thousand? (Loud cheers.) (The hon. gentleman ham appeared overcome by weakness. After some moments be continued.) That being the condition of the army, the next question was how that condition was brought shoat? It had been brought about by incapacity at home and ine* peaty abroad—incapacity on the part of those whose day it was to administer to their wants. At that moment the shores of the harbour of Baleklava were covered with storm, which a country possessing means of transport beyond en other cation was enabled to ley down there ; there were storei sufficient for an army twice ea peat. They had been base ported 3,000 miles across the ocean, but the last ewes miles unfortunately Intervened, and the army was deprived ofeverything. How had that been occasioned ? Pint, by an insufficiency of prevision here, when the army bad boss sent to the Crimea ; secondly, by the inefficiency of them to whom that army was confided when it reached those shores. (The hon. gentleman paused for a moment, and continued)—l feel, air, that my strength will not permit sass to go further; I beg, therefore, in pursuance of my mg" to move " For a 'elect committee to inquire into the or dition of our army before Sebastopol, and into the conduit of thews departments of the government whose duty it has been to minister to the waste of that army." After the boa. and learned gentleman had resumed hie seat, some minutes aspired before any member rose to ad dress the house. There were loud cries for a division. At length Mr. 8. HERBERT roes, and said that he felt slats hesitation in rising at that moment, on account of the psis which, in common with every member, he felt at twit. swim the physical impossibility node, which the his. and learned gentleman had toned himself of continuing the modem of which be had given notice—a notice whisk let was fully entitled to give from the position in which hie teleats had so deservedly plead him. He regretted it still more, is it placed him in a position of some &Seeley,