The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-05 00:00:00

THE NEW RETST U ARNMP OF NEWSPAPER 1, S i The Mira of sewipsper stamps jest Wised •i t y.,. the Mowing roans : NM Quarter. Mle•4d Daily News . . 319,191 648.044 Mooing Senla . . 103,000 200,000 Mersin Post . . 206,004 224,00 Ilorsiag Chrosiale . 162,600 Iscoos Itzpress . . 177,133 196,389 . . . 176,000 196,000 Sao . • . 108,000 199,000 SisadAr4 . . 103,0 v, 104.000 ............., Q,fht TO 411ESPONDENTS. • Ilemod Tditiod •r a lizoreme," esit the lane Millifter ril" . A friary Theaday aad day Mild. la dn. Mr poet debardidosodlia l s o Alid tar ",L, Ea pram; Laudon Evastait papas mad lid la tito M w. N. Beamerreatresa. by Two Vein& es th. der al yobbo* A. lIT'JH 'WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIM DMA —Karst. 4k. 11. Arterliool3. 41. fla. Twrlalarie—ilarniag, 416 43a altaraws. 41. 67a. SONDON. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 5. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD The French Minister of War has received the fol lowing despatches from General Quashed : " BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, lAN. 24, received at Bucharest, Feb. 3. "The weather hu become milder end more favour- able. The troops have supported their recent trials with admirable firmness, and the extreme severity of the season has not shaken their confidence one instant. We have reason to hope that the intensity of the winter has already disappeared in the Crimea. We are resuming the works before the place with fresh activity." " SEBASTOPOL, lA,. 28. " General Uhrich and the Voltigenre of the Imperial Guard have just arrived. The troops are animated with an excellent spirit, and are fall of enthusiasm. The weather continues fine : we take advantage of it for completing oar works. " By a telegraphic despatch of the 27th, via Mar seilles, I announce to you the arrival of General Niel and Colonel Waubert de Geniis." The French Minister of Marine hes remised the following telegraphic despatch from Vioe-Admiral Brost : " MONTEBBLLO, JAN. X "The weather continues very fine. Oar batteries have received orders to keep themselves in readiness for re-opening their fire."—Daily News. The Times has received the following telegraphic despatch from its special correspondent in the Crimea, dated Balaklava, January 27 :—" There is no firing on our side. The weather is frosty at night; very mild, and flee during the day. The siege works are advancing. The army is still sickly. Prinee Mentehikoff has gone northwards. The Rus sians make constant sorties, and continue firing upon the French lines and pickets. Supplies are gone up to the camp in abtutdszos. The French Eighth Division has arrived. The British ship Sphynx has also arrived. Lord Raglan visited Balaklava on the 24th of January, and had an interview with Admiral Lyons. He inspected the trenches on the 25th. There are only eight Russian battalions near Tchorgoon." A despatch hu been received at Berlin, from St. Petersburg, dated the 4th, and which Mates that Prince Mentchikoff had sent the following tele graphic despatch to his government : " SEBA STOPOL, JAI. 28. "No change has taken plass in the state of affairs before Sebastopol. From time to time the enemy throws shells and rockets into the town, but the damage done is unimportant." BERLIN, FAIDAY. Tss P►ywian meat in the Colors* (image. of Jan. 31, to the effect that Duke George of Mecklenburg had made lash overtures to the King of Prtunia in the name of the Emperor of Russia, and asserts that no communica tion of the kind, whether verbal or written, had been made. MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE. asilesler..t of the war cannot bear inquiry. The fleet I duty., thsrefore, of Parliament and the country clearly is to take ears that none of the Ministers directly Trim is some danger that Parliament and the public may have their thoughts turned from the practical question, submitted for their solution by the sauces of Mr. ROEBUCK% motion, s 4 the conse quent resignation of Ministers. For the last week Re have been absolutely inundated by a spring -tide of personal scandal and gossip the aim, or at least the effect of which is, to divert attention from the question really at issue, by profitless espersions and recriminations. The apologists of the late PREMIER and his War Ministers have adopted the tactics of the solicitor who, satisfied that his client was inde fensible, threw a note acmes the table to his counsel —"There is no cue : abuse the plaintiff's attorney." No attempt is made to exculpate Lord ABERDEEN, or the Duke of NEWCASTLE, or Mr. SIDNEY HER BERT; but Lord JOHN RUSSELL is " abused" through every note of the Billingsgate gamut. It is admitted on all hands that our military opera tions in the Crimea have been scandalously mismanaged. With a view to ascertain the cause of this, Mr. ROZBUCK moved, in the House of Commons, for a select committee to inquire into the conduct of the war. Ministers (with one exception) de clared that they would resist the motion, on the ground that, if carried, it would be equivalent to a vote of want of confidence in them. The motion was carried by a majority of 303 to 148 ; and that in spite of the most active " whip" that has been known for many years. The remarkable feature of the vote is not the largeness of the majority, but the smallness of the minority. The decision of the House of Commons is exactly to accmdance with the opinion of the public at large, as is dolorously confessed by the worthy pluralist who holds eummendani the offices of member for Westbury, Linder Secretary of the Treasury, and editor of the ..Tcorionsist. In last Saturday's number of his journal w e are told, " the vote of Monday night was disrepeable, because it was given in mere deference to public clamour —a most edifying declaration on the part of a' gentleman who once professed to be " a Whig and something more." Immediately after this vote pathed the House of Commons, Ministers, in a body, tenders d their resignations to her Majesty. The opposition offered by Ministers to Mr. 110 - Buclen motion, and their resignation when it was carried, ie a oonfession on their part that their sta. THE EXPRESf3, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1855. • •4.7Z : THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. • - Load hha Raped has reosived visite from Vilooqnt rabbinica, the Marquis of Landow.., the Earl of Camden, and the members of the late government, at his house la Chesham-place. It is mid the noble lord will have an early audience of the Queen to-dap—Deily News. far tort sismaaagemant, which has cost the country the lives at ea many , beet and bravest eons, which has iillea the land widows and orphans, and l ow noi estimate of our military *reel mitertateml foreigners, shall be allowekto form #itrt of anyitea Ministerial arrangement. The duty next in import. ante and urgency is to see that the inquiry voted by so overwhelming a parliamentary majority is emeled into effect without mystification or evasion. With regard to the Earl of ABERDEEN INC OW Siamese twins late of the War Department, it is scarcely denied, even by themselves, that all the labours of the latter have had no result, and that the former kept them in Ace merely from a desire not to hurt their pummel natty. Mee who can be contented to go through the terms of business, although they must be emote= that nothing (or worse than nothing) eines from ureic efforts, or to keep much incapables in Aloe merely from a desire to spare the feelings of friends, regardless of every consideration of national in terest or honour, are not the men for a crisis like the present. The Earl of ABERDEEN and the Duke of Nivrcurrix have shown their sense of this, by imitating the well-bred dog, who walks out of the room when he ens preparations making to kick bine down stairs. It is, therefore, rather sum., se listen to the pertinacity with which the retention of the residuary section of the Siamese twins of lb. War Department is insisted upon. We never end of an attempt to form a government bevies tailed, without seeing the failure attributed to the s.f_al of Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT to take part in the aereepormet assigned as a reason. It is dear that there is a determination in some quarter to keep or 161 him in; and yet it is certain that, in the responsi bility for the inefficiency of the War Department, he must go halves with the Duke of NEWCASTLZ. The admission of Mr. SIDNEY HIRBEAT to the new Cabinet would be tantamount to a declaration that the management of the army and the war is to con tinue just what it has been, and the country will look upon it u such. It is the duty of Parlianssat to protest against any Government of which any d the three self-confessed incapacities shall form a wt. Again, we hear from various quarters peva* that the inquiry moved for by Mr: Houma AA be allowed to drop. The reason assigned is that the object of the motion has been already obtaleel. k the resignations of the Duke of NEWMAN:Li eel the Earl of ABEEDIEN. The object of the skim Ike not been obtained, so long as there is a possibility el any one of the culprits socessary to the grey Ede. management of the war remaining in DOVabg• street. The two most prominent offenders have pleaded guilty, but that is no reason why the other culprits should be allowed to escape. Another rea son for insisting upon the prosecution of the incivility Is, that, until the causes and modes of the minas, nsgement are known, with certainty and in detail, k is impossible to set about the work of reform. It it, indeed, alleged that the inquiry is impossible. because it will require witnesses from the Crimea. who cannot be spared; but the mismanag► ment at home can be inquired into even though the investigation of what has been does OEM abroad should have to be postponed. And, as Int what concerns the Crimea, enough of officers hate been sent home invalided to furnish all the inforsir tion required. If the inquiry is allowed to drop, the House of Commons will stultify itself—will lay i open to the charge of having allowed the motion le be carried merely for the purpose of indirectly eel serving personal ambitions and gratifying personal grudges. The question really at issue is not whether the late Government was broken up *don les regls-♦s courtly etiquette would dictate ? but whether it has been justly broken up, and what kind of a Cia vernment is to be installed in its place ? The question, Who are to be Ministers ? is momentous; but infinitely more momentous is the questioe, Who are not to be Ministers ? The country is divided in its opinion of the claims of the men .proposed for admission into the new Cabinet; but the country is unanimous on the point of the men who ought to be excluded. No government can enjoy the national confidence, no government can work for good, in which any of those statesmen form a part who have dallied with the war, until the land has been filled with mourners, and the national reputation sunk in the estimation of the world.—Doily Nan. THE DOCK COMPANIES OF LONDON. The river Thames is called in legal documents Her Majesty's Port of London.* It is, therefore, a national property. The QUEEN is in the position of the collective nation. Au attempt is being made which, if successful. will have the effect of making the Thames "The Dock Companies' Port of London." It is this which elevates the opposition made by the wharfs to the movement in contemplation by the Docks oat of the position of a mere private squabble between contending interests. It is really a national question. The Docks made a bargain with the nation. Give us permission to use a portion of your great . water-way, and we will recompense you by arrangements which will greatly facilitate commercial operations. The nation gays the permission, but at the same time made express stipulation that not one single privilege which they possessed as the real owners of the great waterway should be given up. The portion of the river in the Docks was still to be considered as a part of " Her Majesty's Port," and as such subject to all the rules and regulations to which the remainder of the river is submitted. Have the Docks made a bad bargain ? Certainly not as we shall presently show. The Dock shares are con sidered at the present moment one of the best invest ments for money. East and West India Dock stock wea l in Januar', 1841, at 96f ; in 1853 the same stock was sold at 170. London Dock shares rose in the same period from 67 to 1281. St. Hatharine's Dock shares experienced a rise from 953 to 100. In the same period the dividends of the East and West India Dock Company experienced a rise of 13 per cent., those of the London Docks a rise of 2 per cent. The business of the St. Katharine's Dock Company bad increased 23 per cent, during the ten years ending in 18.53. The Dock Companies, then, have made a good bar gain. They have created colossal fortunes for the shareholders, by means of the privileges granted them. If they could show that they had made a miscalculation, that the great expense of the works which they have erected for the accommodation of the public has diminished their dividends, and that, therefore, some modifications of the conditions to which they agreed is necessary, something might be urged in their favour. But in the full blush of their prosperity they come forward and say, we must have not only the use of the river Thames, but a pro-1 perty in it. We consented, when we obtained our, deeds of incorporation, that the water in our docks' should be considered a part of the port of London, but we desire to be freed from that stipulation. We have made a great deal of money; we want to make mbre. And to do this, we want to levy a tax which neither the Government nor the Corporation of Lou don hays ever thought ef levying. We must have the right of imposing a tax upon all lightermen who float their lighters epos that portion of the Thames inside oar decks, tathoYdh the peatoon diti pnVPAl which Or deeds of Incorporations were 'g a med pee ele * 'horrid cot inrpon, nu* I Rai. Aldine& lighterage, preemies on the privilege so jealously to them int 411 Acts of Parliament relative to this: lithject, have,*ever gobs the construction of the &As, removed the goods of their customers from verges in dock, without charge, to wharfs chosen by the consignees of goods themselves, w i s h thi s privilege to be abolished. We want, in fact, to fine merchants for landing goods on soy other wharfs than oar own, although we admit, th at t h e m a y way to get to our wharfs Is by the means of that public highway which we have pledged ourselves to aspect. It becomes, then, as we have said, a question of national intemt to decide whether the Docks shall be permitted to remind the solemn agreement they formerly made. The Dock Companies are great wharfingers. Their object is to be the only wharfin gen. If they succeed in their object, every mer chant wanting to use a private wharf will have to pay the Dock Companies a toll, if the vessel, of the cargo of which he has a fractional share, happens to lie in the docks. Let it be remembered that the vessel has already paid all those dock dues which are claimed as being necessary to repay the eurpany for its pecuniary investment. A consignee bevies only a fru-timid interest in a cargo can, of mune, make no terms as to where the vessel containing it shall discharge. The vessel is met on its entrance into the Thames by touters on steam tugs belonging to the Dock Companies, who offer the skipper all kinds of advantages, if he will make use of the docks t or, perhaps, a large portion of the cargo may be consigned to a merchant who has a share in oos of the docks, and has made a sti pulation that the goods shall be landed from the dock in which he has as inte rest. In this cue all the other consignees, or at least such portion of them as wished to have their goods landed elsewhere, will have to pay the company for permission to do so. They can only avoid the tax by using the dock wharfs. It is quite clear that such a process will confine the mono poly to the docks, and give them the exclusive um of the Thames. The rights of the Crows and the Corporation will thus be practically infringed upon, l and the trade of the port will be extinguished under the blighting influence of monopoly.—Daily News. Vbe Court. The Marquis of Lansdowne had an audiesos of the Queen, at 9 o'clock on Friday evening, at Bucking ham Palace. On Saturday the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty. Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen, shortly before 2 o'clock p.m. Viscount Palmerston had an audience of her Ma jesty, about 3 p.m. The Earl of Clarendon had also an audience of the Queen, soon after 4 o'clock p.m. Lord John Russell had a second audience of her Majesty, at 6 o'clock p.m. At s quarter before seven o'clock, the Queen and Prince Albert, aecompanied by Prince Arthur, left Buckingham Palms for Windsor Castle, attended by the Marchioness of Bly, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Lord Alfred Paget, Captain the Hon. D. de Roe, and the Master of the House hold. Lord Ernest Braes ooaduetad her Majesty to her carriage• Tkigairee and Prises proceeded to the teratlau of the Great Western Railway at Paddington, and travelled by a special train to Windsor. WINDSOR, Soso Ay. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with Prince Arthur?and the Lady and the Gentlemen in Waiting, arrived at the Castle at ball-past seven o'clock last evening from London. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Sir James Clark, and Major- General Knoll's. Her Majesty's Private Band attended after dinner. The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, and the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Deana Windsor performed the wrote; and administered the Holy Communion. Major-General Knollys arrived yesterday, and leR the Castle to-day. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Satur day in the council chamber, and heard an appeal from Jersey, " Akin. v. Weetaway," and commenced the bearing of an appeal from Bengal, .. Babe° Bhugwan Does v. Leech aseesutb Rao Helen." The lords present were the Lords hulloes Haight Brune and Turner. the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Sir B. Ryan. We are requested to state that Lady Molesworth's party, flied for Wednesday, the 7th, is unavoidably pee -1 posed. WHA WANTS Ma?"—At a public dinner in Deafer=line. as Friday last, when the health of her Ma jesty's sninieters was drunk, with the curious oonfeialon that the party did not know who tbey were, Lord Elgin said :—" I think I am in duty bound to show you how I have bemt engaged daring my absence, in what school I have bees studying, and bow far the discipline to which I have been subjected is likely to make me a proper and awful wrong *maw yosirselves." This h a new version of the old Edinburgh cry—" Wha wants me ?" GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTB.—Mr. Arthur Higge, of Uncles-house, Northumberland, and of the Inner Temple, London, barrister on the northern circuit, has been appointed stipendiary magistrate for the borough of Brighton. Mr. Robert Coles has been appointed sub-in spector of factories, in the room of Mr. I)aviee, super amounted. Mr. Ernest A. pintas Belford, clerk of the first class in the office of the Comptroller of Inland Re is Dublin, has been appointed Reeeiver.Generel of Stamps in Dublin, in the room of Mr. Robert Tyrrell, damaged. Captain John Townshend, R.N., ie appointed paid aide de-camp to the Queen. Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, K C. 8., is appointed naval side de-camp to the Queen. Captain the Hon. Charles J. B. Elliott is appointed com modore of the mooed class. Captain Leopold G. Heath is appointed to be principal agent for transports in the Medi terranean. Mr. Willie= Edmund Heath is appointed third class clerk in the storekeeper's department of the Admi ralty. Mr. Hin-y Moseley M'Kay is appointed third class clerk in the Director-General's department of the Admi ralty, 8 'unmet-house. Mr. James Scott, and Mr. Tudor Trevor, have been appointed clerks in the Payasaster.Gene rare °Moe, WhitehalL—Obsereer. CIVIL BERVICR—The following promotions have been made in the Customs Service, in consequence of the superannuation of Mr. C. Cotton, Collector of the port of Hull :—Mr. James Sperm,. Collector at Southampton, to be Collector at Hull. Mr. William Henry Buckle, Comp troller at Liverpool, to be Collector at Southampton. Mr. 'Joseph Baldwin, Collector at Stockton, to be Comptroller at Liverpool. Mr John Shelley, Comptroller at Plymouth, to be Cokecter at Stockton, Mr Arthur Stewart, Comp. troller at Omnock, to be Comptroller at Plymouth. Mr. Robert Wdlingste, Collector a. Kirkcaldy, to be Comp troller at Greenock. Mr. John Andrew, Collector at Lan caster, to he Collector at Kirkcaldy. Mr. James Turner, Comptroller at Shields, to be Collector at Lancaster; and Mr James Irwin, Principal Coast Offer at Blyth, to be Comptroller at Shields, The undermentioned gentlemen have been appointed Clerks in the Accountant and Comp troller General's Ofilceinland Revenue, 8 .merset House:— Means. Louie Wooclifield Levien, Joseph Boyd Crippe, Charles F. Porch, John K. Puushon, Henry Quiocy Smith, Frederick Ash Freer, Jeremy Pemberton Riply, Lewis H. R. Lyne, Daniel Ryan, Charles Chantrell, Puratll Pur nell, and Ashton J. R. Smith.—Observer. The following circular memorandum has been issued for the guidance of the Recruiting Department. —Horse Guards. 'matey 31, 1865.—The General Commanding-in- Chief directs it to be notified that whenever recruits are permitted to purchase their discharge, before Maoism the districts In which they were enlisted, or at any period pre vious to their final approval, the portion of the bounty still unpaid is to be deducted from the regulated amount of eons penestioa, whatever may be the rate of bounty at the time. Is all such cases, however, the superintending °nicer and party will be enti led to the same remu.te►ation and reward as if the rteruit had actually joined his vestment, and been finally approved.—By command of the Gomel Command ing-ie•Chief, G. A. Wernnam.r., A G. SATURDAY. Mom the Observer.) Lord John Russell wafted upon her Majesty by eimunand, at Beckinema Pease, on Saturday afternoon. The noble lord arrived shortly before two o'clock, and remained for some dam with her Majesty. lord Palmer ston afterwards bad the honour of an interview with the Qum and shortly afterwards the Berl of Clarendon arrived at the Pekes, and had the honour of an audience, and remained he some time in consultation with her llalestp. Soon after Lerd John Russell's audience of the Queen, his lordship visited Viscount Palmerston and Idr. Gladstone at their respective residences. Lord John also visited other members of the late cabinet, besides despatching various letters to the influential members of his party. idr. Sidney Herbert was in long consultation with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Later in the day the Duke of Argyll visited Mr. Gladstone, and, after leaving, the noble duke visited the Earl of Aberdeen. At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, Lord John Russell bad an interview with Sir George Grey, at the Privy Council-office. Sir James Graham, owing to a cosi/nuance of his Jodie pssitisa, has be.. ea s hi s to ..&e any part in the ministerial The utmost activity, also, prevailed during the whole of the day among the members of Lord Aberdeen's adminis trellises. Even the ex-premier himself, though suffering from a alight indisposition, left Argyll-house, end proceeded to hie °Sae in Downing -street. It is not true, as stated in the Globe of Friday evening, that Lord Clarendon had interviews with the Queen at Buckingham Palace on that day. The statement, which appeared in the Glob* of yesterday (Saturday), that a special despatch had been sent from the Queen to Lord Derby, and that he had waited upon the Queen at the Palace, is a fabrication of a more misleading and mischievous character. In another place, the Observer haa the following remarks : "After Lord Derby's retirement, Lord Lansdowne was taken into consultation at Windsor C.istle. Several inter views followed between that distinguished nobleman and his friends, which ended in Lord John Ruuell's presence at Buckingham Palace, when the Queen on Saturday saw Lord Clarendon and Lord Palmerston for the first time, of course by the Royal command. From these movements it has been inferred, as well es from other sonnies of informa tion, that Lori John Russell was—after Lord Derby—en- Muted with the task of forming en administration. And we believe that outward appearances do coincide with actual facts—and that Lord John Russell bad been engaged in negotiations to form • government, and that up to four or five o'clock yesterday (Satur day) ho had not gives up the task, but was given up to Monday to complete his arrangements, and to submit his Cabinet to the Queen. The appearance of Lord Palmerston at the Palace yesterday afternoon for the first time, as well as of Lord Clarendon, gave rase to suspicions that Lord John Russell bad broken down in his negotiations; and so much is known, that he met decided refusals from Mr. Sidney Hubert and Mr. Gladstone, and that, under such circumstances, he had declined the difficult task. There then remained Lord Palmerston—so long delayed, although so evidently desired by the country. Lord Palmerston has been to the Palau before the Queen took ber departure for Windsor. We do not know that he has been entrusted with the formation of a Ministry ; but we do know, that if he be so entrusted, he will do it ; and that he is exactly the sort of man that is wanted just now." At six o'cloek, fast previously to the departure of the Queen for Windsor Castle, Lord John Russell called for the third time at the Palace, and, it is understood, formally acquainted her Majesty withehis failure to form • Ministry. YESTERDAY. Yesterday (says the Morning Put) Viscount Palmerston wu engaged in the preparation of a new Cabinet. Lord Cranworth received a communication from the noble visconat in the course of the day. The Earl Granville, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir William Molesworth were among those who received letters from his lordship during the day. Lord John Russell received a despatch from the noble viscount early in the day. The Earl of Clarendon received visits from several of hie political friends yesterday. The noble earl called upon the Earl of Aberdeen, at Argyll-house, during the afternoon, and late last evening received a visit from Viscount Palmerston. The Duke of Argyll visited the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday afternoon. The Marquis of Lansdowne received a visit from Visoonnt Palmerston last evening. The noble vis count drove from Lansdowne•house to the Earl of Aberdeen's residence in 'Argyll-street, and had an interview with the noble earl. MEETING OF THE DERBVITES. A meeting wu held on Saturday night at Mr. Disraeli's, at which Lord Derby explained to his political friends the course which it wu desirable to pursue in Parliament in the present emergency- Lord Derby (says the Morning Chronicle) wu un derstood to express his earnest desire that no factions opposition should be raised against Lord Aberdeen. THE NEW CABINET. Lord Palmerston is expected to officially acquaint the House of Commons this evening with the latest political movements, even if he is unable to give the names of the new ministers. The Daily News says:—" After a week spent in fruitless negotiations for the formation of a new Cabi net, the public will learn, not without surprise, that a majority of the late Ministers are to resume their functions. Lord Aberdeen is to be succeeded by Lord Palmerston as first Lord of the Treasury : who is to succeed Lord John Russell as President of the Council we are not yet informed. By some it is sup posed that the Ex-Premier is not unwilling to take the post thus vacated : all we know for certain is that Lord John bu positively declined to re-enter the Coalition." Of the personal composition of the Administration under Lord Palmerston nothing is at present known to us (Times), but we earnestly hope that it will intro- duce a yonioger and more efficient class of men to office, and break the spell which has been so fatal to the honour of our arms and the reputation of our government. The Morning Chronicle says:—" Viscount Palmer ston will be the First Lord of the Treasury, Mr. Gladstone, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Sidney Hesbert consenting to take office under him, as well as the Earl of Clarendon and other older political allies in the late Administration." The Herald says that a Conservative government cannot be postponed beyond a few weeks, and then the Earl of Derby must become Premier. A corre spondent of the same journal, who is favoured with large type, &c., says, " Unless we are misinformed, her Majesty hqs reason to know that her confi dence in Lord Derby and his friends would not have been, and will not be, misplaced; and that the nob:e earl is perfectly prepared to obey any summons which may be sent him, and construct a Cabinet which shall proceed with the war in down right earnest, and infuse unwonted system and vigour into all our departments. Lord Palmerston is understood to have disclosed his willingness to serve under the Earl of Derby, and we no no rthly reason why is should not ; nor did he. till had oossalted the alarmed Gemini, Sidney Her rt and Gladstone." LORD LYNDHURST'S MOTION OF CENSURE ON THE LATE GOVERNMENT. The following resolution to be moves by Lord Lyndhurst, stands on the paper of the Rouse of Lords for this evening : " That In the ;pinion of this house the expedition to the Crimea was undertaken by her Majesty's government with inadequate means, and without due caution or sufficient inquiry into the nature and extent of the resistance to be expected from the enemy ; and that the neglect and mis management of the government in the conduct of the war ►as led to the most disa,trous results." SIR JAMES GRANAhrS ILLNESS. Sir James Graham is suffering from a painful dis ease, which has rendered a surgical operation neces sary. The operation was successfully performed by Sir Benjamin Brodie, and it is hoped that the right hon. baronet will soon be convalescent.—Port. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The attractions of the Crystal Palace have, during the past week, bid • nallset defiance to the dreadful weather, and seen day has exhibited a respectable return a emote, whore curiosity must indeed have been strong to induce them to take a journey of six or seven miles into the country in the face of an easterly wind, and with the thermometer almost at Zero. Toe effect of tios building, when partially covered with snow and glittering with frost, was singularly beautiful ; and the visit Jr well up in fairy tales might have easily imagined it to be the dwelling of some giant enchanter, the antediluvian family of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins being the dragons perpetually on guard at the entrance. The artificial water wee daring the week covered with ice, and formed a safe skating ground. This was soon found out by t ie London parineurs, great numbers of whom finked daily to Sydenham, to enjoy, on so favour able a site, their exciting sport. King Frost has, however, now gone, and taken with him all his brilliant icicles; but it is to ba hoped he has left the ground in a fit state to throw up the bloom of the large stock of the camellia japonica with which the gardens are ornamented. The interior of the building looks compara tively solitary, and the large screens bane up at each end, to keep the heat round the palms and orange trees, do not improve the general effect ; but the enclosures thus formed afford comfortable accommodation to the band and the limited salaams; and the latter daily enjoy • select con cert from the newly introduced reed instruments which are universally admitted to be • great im provement on the sounding brass and tinkling cymbals of former times. The courts for exhibitors are rapidly approaching completion, and really look very gay and attractive, all that is necessary to complete the effect being a number of well arranged stalls covered with tastefully selected goods. The Sheffield wart, although of nondescript design, is as brilliant as a scene in a pantomime, and will, in consequence of the mirrors with which it is surrousdsd, be no doubt a popular lounge with the fairer portion of the visitors. The other trading courts are also nearly finished, and will, if properly managed, stand a good chance of becoming at length a source of profit to the company. In the end of the palace devoted to the fine-art courts all labour has long °eased, and it is only in the Alhambra that a mysterious•looking red cur tain conceals a still unfinished portion of the de sign. Here the artistic student and visitor of taste may now revel amongst the chefrd'cesetv of soulpturs end architecture undisturbed by the idle crowd, and unjostled by the provision baskets of the skimmer visitors• The various objects of art can now be seen and studied at leisure, and many of the smaller treasures will be noticed, which in more crowded times would not have been observed- Amongst these latter, attention cannot be too strongly di rected to the beautiful collection of cabinet pictures in water-colours, the work of Mr. Vest, and painted by that gentlemen to the order of the Crystal Palace directory. They are one hundred and thirty or forty in number, and are the traits of a tour through all the great ocatineutal galleries. They comprise copies of all the great Beh eads, Titian', Habeas, Ole., in Europe, and in every case a very successful attempt is made to communicate • satisfactory idea of the style, drawing, and colouring of the master. To those who only know the great galleries by the descriptions of the hand books, a careful inspection of this elegant little collection will be invaluable, while the more travelled visitor cannot fail to acknowledge their great artistic merit and fidelity. Might we suggest to Mr. Digby Wyatt, who rules supreme in this department, that a splendid work in chromo-lithography might be compiled from even a selec tion of Mr. West's drawings ? A beginning has already been made in the fine-art campaign, by the publication of a most attractive *sties of coloured lithographic views of the interior, under the inspection of Mr. Wyatt, and the skilful manipulation of Messrs. Day and Sons ; and should this first attempt be as saceeestal as it deserves to be, encouragement will be gives for the more ambitious publication we have suggested. Turning from the fine to the industrial arts, there is something immediately within the southern entrance well deserving the visitor's attention. This is • Crimean tent, furnished with the admirable little stove which the Patriotism of the Belmont Candle Company has contrived for our poor soldiers in the Bast. It appears to be admirably adapted for its purpose, and has that first desideratum in camp furniture—great portability. The invention eonsists of a small iron bon stove, end its peculiar advantage is that it can be heated by candle flame. To obtain this in sufficient quantity, flat cakes of cocoa steering are provided, each of which contains sin wicks, of which the whole or part may be illuminated according to the quantity of hest re quired. The cost, where only one cake of fuel is required. will be a penny en hour; whoa two, twopence, and so on. If the stoves be fed once in eight hours an even heat will be obtained throughout the twenty-four hours of greater or less degree according to the quantity of feel employed. This wonderful little stove will boil, bake, or stew; while all the time it warms the hands and dries the clothes of the trench-weary soldier, so that it is hardly possible to imagine a greater boon for our troops before Sebastopol. It is gratifying to be able to add that government have in this instance accepted the proffered usistance of practical men, and that lugs numbers of these stoves have been order. d, the contractors liberally supplying them at cost price, without a farthing profit- From these useful revolutions in ankieg there is a natural and easy transition to the refreshment department of the Crystal Palace—of which the directors have, it appears, had enough, although the receipts during the past season reached the enormous total of fifty thousand pounds. Tire whole has new been handed over, under an equitable arrangement, to Misers. Staples, of the Albion, and the name of that eminent firm is a sufficient guarantee that this all-important department will be properly organised and amply supplied. One thing, however, the contractors must recollect—and that is, that it is from the shilling and sixpenny customers the great balk of the receipt s must come, and th►t therefore it will he for their interest to provide for the working elassee, who will no doubt flock to the building in the fine weather holidays, good wholesome and palatable refreshment on the most moderate possible terms. It will not do to exile the men in moleskin and their families is gloomy wildernesses under ground, there to eat the scrape that fall from the rich man's table above stairs. Attention must be paid not only to their appetites, but their feelings ; and if this be done, there is every reason to believe that Messrs. Staples will have no reason to repent of their contract. It must never be for gotten that all the great commercial nemeses of the present century have been achieved by well-directed appeals to the great shilling public. The Right Honourable the Speaker entertained the following gentlemen at his first parliamentary dinner on Saturday : The Rt. Hon. Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8 ., the Rt. Hon. Earl of Mulgrave, the Rt. Hon. Viscount Drumlaurig, Lord Elcho, the Rt. Hon. Lord Ernest Brace, Lord Alfred Hervey, Right Hon. Sir George Grey, G C.B.i the Secretary at War, the Judge Advocate, the Rt. Hon. H. F. Cowper, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Rt. Hon. H. G. Hayter, Rt. Hon. Sir William Moleeworth, Rt. Hon. Edward Cardwell, Rt. Boa. Sir John Young, Hon. Henry Mtn, Rt. Hon. Sir Begja . . _ min Hall, the Attorney-General, the policitor-General, Mr. Peel, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Chichester Porteseue, Admiral Berke ley, C B , Mr. Grenville Berkeley, Mr. Lowe. The Rev. Mr. Gaoler and the Secretary were present. The following gentlemen were unable to be present: The President of the Poor Law Board, the SJlicitor General for Ireland, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, and Mr. Bernal Osborne, The Leeds subscriptions to the Patriotic Fund aow amount to 12,3001. PRIVATE VIEW OF THE EXHIBITION OP THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. The spring campaign of the fine arts has as usual, in the salons of the British Institution. Pall-mall; and after as careful a consideration as a half-day divided among 560 works would admit we are disposed to consider that its prospects are good, that there is a decided tendency to progress en the part of exhibitors, and that the dilettanti conductors of this gallery may be allowed the flattering unction that for the season they are assisting " the promotion of the fine arts in the United Kingdom," thus carry. ing out the object of their incorporation. At the poet of honour in the north room we find our old familiars Sidney Cooper and Creswit.k. Th e one presents an unexceptionable cow and some fresh, crisp, very woolly sheep ; the other a charming English "Cottage Home." These works of the admirable artists evince, we are pleased to say, that they have not yet passed the apex of that "Montague Busse" one elope of which is toil and study, tho other carelessness and decay. • Mr. Bouvier's picture, " The Changeling" (4)-- perhaps a commission from a decorative potter—is unworthy of his excellent bit of sentiment, the " Thorny Path" (261). J. Wilson, jun., gives to " A fresh Breeze off Broadstairs" (40), and " The South Foreland" (311). The treatment of Mr. Wilson's subjects is never faulty; hie seas are all dancing and sparkling in the light ; for uur mere vocation's sake we might suggest a little more definite geology, and another key of colour as a change occasionally. " A Watering Place" (26), the joint production of F. R. Lee, KA., and 1. S. Cooper, A.R.A. is a bad whole, and unworthy o f both; Irbil. Mr. Lee in his Scotch landscape (34) has very truth fully rendered the hard, chilly, leaden mountain atmosphere. The involuntary shiver of the spectator bears witness to the clever hit of the artist, who has, however, thrown away no time on the production. T. Denby's " Ladies of the Woods" are anatomi cally correct and very nicely painted, but the lady. like birch trees are too spare to be agreeable objects. Mr. G. Jones, R.A., must have some secret power over the honourable proprietors of the gallery to have procured the prominent intrusion of his fright ' ful sketch, No. 45, into its present position, ' " Free Sittings" (56), a careful church interior, and the " Wheatsheat" (80), by F. U n d er hill, ex hibi t great breadth and power of colour, with unmistake able "intention" and nerve. We fancy the drawing of the arm of the little one under the wheat-shock w slightly defective. The joint may be out of order, or the shade misplaced, but when pictures are found aloft that are worthy of all the "lines" in Christen. dom, artists must forgive us, and once for all we claim this grace, if our eyesight betrays us into error. Mr. Dawson's " Brocas Clump" (57) is a rich toned cork ; its outlines most correct, and there is no timidity in the master's hand. Perhaps the haze which pervades the picture is a trifle too heavy. No. 62 we consider perhaps the best of the Mews. Williams' productions. It has a merit common to L the works of this artistic family. It is of a pleasing i class—we fear of too saleable a class to allow a/ much hope of material improvement here. "Hear Thou in heaven thy dwelling-place" (63 by Mr. Sant, is a fine work ,of the Lawrence school. The drapery is rich, the painting of the hands firm ; and good, and the devotional expression perfect. , "The Road to the Homestead " (64), by Mr. J. S. Raven, we may set down as a masterly landscape, . daring and successful. We have fine tree anatomy, a curious semi-opaque screen of dark green trees, a . "sunbeam that has lost its way," some solid, freely painted, leafless stumps—in fact, all the accessories of a woodland scene, depicted with great spirit and truth. Mr. G. E. Hering's great picture of the Lego Maggiore (69) is a line, evenly painted panorama, and the aerial perspective successfully bears the eye to an almost illimitable distance. " Clovelly " (81), by S. P. Jackson, is a free and bold coast scene of the Stanfield school. The stonework of the pier is very carefully studied. We would suggest to the spectator that a focal length of 10 or 12 feet be taken as the point of view for this picture. Mr. Dearle exhibits two good and clever pieme—. the " Salmon Trap" (No. 46), and a " Welsh River—. Evening" (85). Both were evidently painted on the spot, and evince • feeling for nature and successful study; but it seems to us the colouring of the trees, in No. 85 especially, is feeble, and lacks decision. The " Cottage Door" (84), by Mr. Cobbett, is a de. lightful piece of the true English school. All that is excellent and artistically useful among the fancies el the pre-Raphaelite school has been adopted by Mr. Cobbett, and grafted on to his style with much tests and success. In Mr. Cooke's " Venice" (108) he is himself, and, for the sake of the " Trabacolo •round," we excess the presence of his Zuyder Zee (7) We never saw a more charming performance of Mr. Goodall in his own peculiar line than the "Interior' (113), and felicitate him on his undiminished power of handling and of interesting. Mr. T. Earl (130) and Mr. T. Hill (131) exhibit interesting and clever interiors; the former is a little too solid, perhaps because out of his own domain; but his talented confrere of Suffolk-street has quite spiritualised the little Irish cabin. Mr. Barraud's Evangeline is rightfully and ten derly conceived. There is much good treatment, bat the tone altogether is too flat and chalky. We must notice Mr. Joy's historical picture at another opportunity, and pass to Copley Field log, who has a Southdown view (No. 148), a Seaside piece (223), and four others. We believe it would be as flat heresy not to admire Copley Fielding as it would be uncongenial. He is alwayrs true to nature—broad and expressive. We would now and then prefer certain of his subjects to have been in water colours, but there is no bit of moor. land fell, or reach of stormy waters of his painting that an observer may not have set n the double of in nature. This is the great secret ot a painter's sue cess, that he should force upon us the pleasures of memory, and flatter our taste by giving embodied form to what were but our crude recollections. "The Sybil," by Mr. Desanges (153), is a most anmystic sybil in good sooth. She is a charming thing of every-day flesh and blood, soft eyes, round face, and beautiful hands. She is well painted, and her features recal some well-remembered aid popular French lithographs; but we must protest in her own sweet name against her great brawdy shoulders. Mr. H. Selou's "Od Bias" (155) is hard, as are his works in general. The buoyant flippancy of t►e hero is well made out in pose, face, and figure, while the choking of the obese licentiate is most unpleasiugly natural. Mr. T. Danby a " Trophies of Youth" (161) is, perhaps, the landscape of the Exhibition. There is a religious repose about the deep emb-somed pool, broken only by the simple and interebting figures, that will not fail to stay the steps of all, and make many a passer-by wish he could linger and medi tate in a scene so fall of poetry. Hard by is Mr. Branwhite's " Winter's Afternoon • (175), a work wot thily as the above admitted to the honour and profit of the " Line." The only objection to this picture be, that ; the spectator cannot teel the wintry chill he ought. There is a rich warm glow over all—perhaps a thought too bright ; but again, allowance must be made for the fall in the tone which must soon ensue. The work is hard, dashing, and elaborate ; the rugged, leafless boughs are en twined uncompromisingly, yet naturally; the dis tances are • xtensive, and well kept. The poor cattle cleverly dashed in on the margin of the frozen pool mutely illustrate their own disappointment and despair. Lance and his Fruit are here in force. A wondrous pile of comestibles scatters gold and blushes over a large caabas (168). Not to admit them as the no plus ultra in this walk of art would be arrogant hypercriticism indeed. And who that ever liked a " little doggy " can fail to covet our little pet by Keyl (182). For ourselves, we were minded to call him out of his frame, and pat him, then and there. Here we must pause at present, but there is matter in reserve for another article.—Daily Netee. (To be oontieued.) THE ORDER OF THE GARTER.—It is understood that a Chapter of this Order of Knighthood will be held by her Majesty on Wednesday next, at 'Windsor Castle, for the purpose of investing the newly appointed Knights Com panions of the most noble order, including the Earls of Carlisle and Aberdeen, with the insignia, the usual ear worms having been leaned to the Knights of the Order SO attend a chapter on that day. ,'• "el