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

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Tx VISDAT. The United Committees of the Germanic Diet loudly proposed that, instead of a general mobilisa tion of the Federal army, the principal contingents ehould be made ready for war. This was the Bava rian proposition ; it was supported by Prussia, acceded to by Austria, and carried. M. Bismarch Schunhausen, the Prussian Minister at the Federal Diet, has banded in a declaration which unveils to a considerable extent the tactics of his Court. The Prussian Court not only incident ally declares that the conference. between the repre sentatives of Austria, France, England, Turkey, and Russia will have no European character unless Prussia be represented there, but give* a pledge " to obtain for the Confederation the same participation which it has reserved for itself." The declaration closes with this remarkable lan- Page Ilia Pruuiau Majesty believes that be shall be able to obtain f..r the confederation, and for each of its members, a guarantee against all pretensions con• buy to the dignity and interests of Germanys even if the hope of an accommodation should not be 'Wiped Majesty will endeavour, with a view to such ea accommodation, to obtain from the belligerent courts, by confidential negotiations. guarantees t►at Germany shall not be drawn into a war except for the defence of its own interests. But apart from, and independent of, his efforta, kis Majesty sees in his own power and that of Germany sufileieot guarantees for the maintenance of the dignity, the honour, and the rights of the common country. HONOURS IN THE FRENCH ARMY. The Mosiieur of yesterday contains in its official part the names of those who have been confirmed in the grades in the Legion of Honour (officers and chevaliers) to which they had been pro. visionally nominated by General Canrobert, and the names of the non-commissioned officers and soldier' upon whom a military medal had been conferred in the same way. As the names amount in all to nearly 900, and u the Chris tian name, the fact of a wound if wounded, and the exact grade, previous honours, &c., are even— ts list more than covers the first page of the Mewl teur. The list of chevaliers includes some physi cians, more than one Zonave, several sergeants, cor porals, grenadiers, sappers, &c. BRUSSELS, TarRIIDAY. Advice' from Berlin and Vienna report that great anxiety is felt to ascertain the manner in which the Austrian government will receive its recent check in the Ditt. It is feared that after the position taken up by Prussia, Austria cannot act up to its rights as a European power without breaking up the con. federation. It is believed that no determination will be come to before the new English Ministry has been constituted.—Doily News. PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, Tar:mkt Closing prices:—Three per Cent. Rent's, for massy, 67.50; for account, 67.70; ditto Four•and-a-Half , per Cents., for money, 93.25. Bank Shares, 2,990. The Three per Cents. are fairly supported, but the Four-and•a-Half per Ceuta. hare closed I per ant. lowa than yesterday.—Daily News. no • Gam& et Vienna states that, bailee the Todd& d Ober Polo, two Nom ANA aide= me ebe le amble at &patios* weber the mama d Osumi rifisiee. fe emote *VW die esommitillows d Ilhoglowerei. wed fo loboirebewlew d Pe aka the tiff of tbe Odom. Plisdanallins Ismer Venel Li Mamma ore b bad soar the Sim of the lest of the Meek ees in the OW el and to hiM the wain to the Mime of The Pisimintem detach ment will be mistimed by British sal Fees& troops. It is probable that Omni Gnosis, who, mem weeks ago, recamoitred the Gulf of Kaffa, will jam the Piedmoateee "moral Lord Raglan and General Baguet ere to operate on the right bank of the Tchernays, and Ghana Caarobert, with the staff end the mane, is to remain before Sebastopol, in ceder to support and cover the operations. Zootoolca. Soclnt or Lon•os.—At the nestbly psoral used's:, bald yesterday, at tbo Sodety's Resat is Hesorer•gearo, Robert Rodeos, Esq., P.R.8., Who disk, Masers. B. B. Cold, mad G. W. Dell, wry dead Felbws of the Society ; sod Masers. B. W. Guy, IL,P., T. Walker, Hardier Giant, sail Latimer Clark INN proposed as 'waists@ for die rallowskip. MIL Cesaut.—Tits npperaty Av. Pm*. OWN 1 that /b. Cardea's beekb lee been eerkesly kayaked by Ite sigi Vemest whisk be Me @beady eskers' kir the abiesties et Mbe Asbuthsot, red smuts that, he Ibe geolkues pemeeky peeler to tie amity, Lk *We amid poem stemerfer to the Lott 'assumed, 11/41114 /se hie mime hes amber esehtemeest. THE SLANDER UPON THE QUEEN. TEE instinctive love and veneration with which Englishmen cling to their Sovereign was much weakened during the reigns of the Third and Fourth Gunton, by the knowledge that the personal likings and disliking, of these monarchs influenoed them too much in their choice of Ministers. The Monarch of a free state, like England, ought to be above personal prepossessions. By indnlgisg them he lows himself to the rank of a subject. He mewls be King of a people, and becomes merely thelsoder of a party. For the Sovereign to indulge personal piques, in a matter of such vital importance to the State as the selection of his respon sible Ministers, is to degrade the Crown in the eyes of the people, and weaken its legiti mate authority. For a subject to endeavour to represent the Sovereign as sympathising with the personal animosities of certain party leaders, and mingling in their cabals, is little short of treason; inasmuch as it may possibly place the Crown in antagoaistio relations to the people. Our readers will perceive at once that these re marks have been suggested by the indecent and unmanly attempt made yesterday by the Times to represent the QUEEN as mixed up with, and taking an active part in, the personal squabbles and rad minations arising out of the present Ministerial crisis. "The QUEEN herself," says the Times, " is known to have expressed to Lord Jolts RUSSELL her genes of condoot so much at variance with the common principles of truth and honesty." We believe this statement to be untrue. The unscrupulous character of the Times is so uni versally known, that we have no doubt the groat majority of the people of England will concur in this opinion. They will not believe that their QUEEN sea have so far forgotten what she owes to herself sod her country, as to stoop to write a scolding letter Man ex-Minister, on the strength of ex porte state ments made by the colleagues with whom he had panelled, without stopping to hear his version of tbs story. The audacity of the falsehood is almost beyond conception. The people will judge of the conduct of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his late colleagues for themselves, upon the evidence laid before them ; they cannot help doing so if they would. It is possible—it is almost certain — that they will decide in favour of Lord JOHN. The hot haste of the Times to throw the QUEEN'S name into the scale against him shows how much it fears that the popular verdict will be in his favour. This being the case, it is clear that, in order to 'observe their own party purposes, the managers and inspirers of the Times have not scrupled to expose their SOVEREIGN to the risk of incurring popular odium, without any fault on her pert. Such conduct is traitorous in subjects towards a QUEEN—is base and dastardly in men toward. a woman. There is, however, this advantage to be gained from the indecent and unmanly outrage offered to the QUEEN in the columns of the Times. It shows to what lengths the aristocratic factions who strive to monopolise the high offices of state—to convert the houses of Parliament into political "hells," where the tables at which the clerks sit are rouge et noir tables, and Ministerial appointments the stakes—and their tools in the press will go in order to traduce and vilify a political rival. If they display their malignity and mendacity thus shamelessly in public, to what extent will they not indulge them in the obscure shades of clandestine intrigue? If the public could for a moment believe that the QUEEN had written soak a letter as the Times describes, they would ssib it is because his late colleagues have been so ewer re pre occupy the Royal mind with impressions unfavourable to Lord JOHN Rusar.u., in order to prevent his having . . an unprejudiced hearing front his Royal Mistress. This would corroborate the suspicions which have gone abroad that the Conservative section of the late Coalition have kept themselves aloof fron► their Liberal colleagues as an organised faction in the Cabinet, and have laboured assiduously and unscru pulously to enlist the Court on their side by every art of sycophancy and misrepresentation. It would serve as an additional motive to the independent and intelligent classes to make their voice heard through that hedge which usurping and selfish aristocratic factions have interposed between the Crown and the people. -- _ _ - . . . One thing is certain ; and it is here stated not for the information of the SOVEREIGN, who, there can be no doubt, has been grossly belied by the Times, but for the information of all paltry, courtly intriguers, who imagine that the people will servilely model their opinions of any statesman upon those attri buted to the throne. The people now judge of public men by their actions, and will not submit to have cut and-dry judgments prescribed to them by authority. If the people have reason to believe of any statesman that he is wise, honest, and patriotic, they will insist upon their representatives suppotting him and his policy, even though the greatest person in the realm should unfortunately be prepossessed against him. GEORGE 111. was long allowed to exclude Fox from power because he hated him; GEORGE IV. was long allowed to deny CANNING his deserved position, because he hated him; but, even in times when the power of the people was lees, these eminently obstinate monarchs were at last compelled to receive ea ministers the men they disliked. Now that the people know their rights better, aed are in a better condition to assert them, the exclusion of • sagacious and patriotic statesman from office, in deference to the personal feelings of the monarch, would not be tolerated for an instant. This is said not in behalf of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, or any other individual, but as a truth of universal application, which Court butterflies, and intriguers hackneyed in the ways of Gales, will do well to lay to heart.— Daily News. iliE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER TM Totem of ',imam stamps jail bum' Oa Jo Isilowiog fooslis : pint Quarter. Semi Quarter. Daily Jews . . 319,191 348,044 110raiag Ilona . . 303,000 WOW Mersin Post . . 206,000 224,00$ liattbas Models. . 162,600 188,000 arms . . 177,133 198,389 OtO. . . . 176,010 196,011 ilas . Steadarg . . 163,000 182,000 . 103,000 104.000 THE DUBE OF poaderous or jaunty, had drawn together an unusual concourse of senators, fair ladies, political fops, and critics and gossips of every degree. The Duke of Nsw- CASTLE, it was understood, had undertaken not only to defend himself against the imputation of having by his incapacity brought obloquy and rain on the Cabinet of which he was a member, but, as his friends gave out, be was, by the reading of private letters, and the disclosure of private conversations, to blast for ever Lord Joins RUSSELL'S character for manli ness, veracity, and honour. A morning oonteroporexy, whose diligent and untiring rancour against the late President of the Council has never been concealed, strove hard, with its customary love of fair-play, to prepare the pnblio mind beforehand for the belief of any tale of treachery or tergiversation which might be told to the Peers. Commenting on a substantially unfair, though literally correct, statement of Mr . GLADSTONE, on Monday last (and which, perhaps, it was unwise in Lord Joie; to have suffered to I pass for the moment unexposed), the Times broadly accused the noble lord of having used equivocation in his recent statement regarding the War Depart ment; and the Duke of NEWCASTLE was ill-advised enough to insinuate that on more than one point Lord Joint had misstated the facts of his own con- duct and language regarding him. We frankly own that were such charges capable of prcof we should not only join unreservedly in pitying the luckless ex-Minister of War, but we should unhesitating!, acknowledge that Lord JOHN was not the man we have long been accustomed to take him for. What ever may be deemed his faults, the noble member for the City of London hu never been suspected of in sincerity or meanness. The reproach of many amongst his Whig followers has often been that he was imprudently out-spoken; that he was apt to offend the prejudices of lukewarm sup porters by his unconscious keenness of phrase; and that his chief defect as a party leader was that he wu not versed in the histriooiC arts that en- able some of his competitors to seem all things to all men. And this may be a deficiency and a want in cliques and clubs, and coalitions of really incon giuous elements. To the people it is and will ever be his best recommendation. They believe that he is in earnest, and even where they think him wrong, the people respect and trust him. But what is this we hear—that the veteran leader of the Liberal party in the House of Commons has suddenly turned liar and coward, and that in order to escape the consequences of his own too great forbearance towards a colleague, who had no particular claim on his personal consideration, he has had the folly and wickedness to make a fraudulent statement of facts, recorded in wtiting b to the House of Commons! The accusation is almost too absurd to merit de tailed refutation. But, u the impenetrable dulness of the Duke of NEWCASTLE, and theunrelenting antipathy of the contemporary to whom we have above alluded, have driven us to notice the matter, we will fearlessly say that, if the whole truth be told, the miserable insinuations of duplicity and equivocation will vanish like the morning mist, and utterly disappear. The charges of equivocation are threefold. Lord Joint, when speaking of the original nomination of the Duke to the War Department, happened to use the expression, " I yielded to hie commendable ambition" to have the post of most difficulty and distinction; although, as he added, be thought it should have been offered to Lord PALMERSTON. "This cannot be true," exclaims his ungrateful Grace," for nobody ever proposed such a competitor in the cabinet ; and I made a flourish of professing to be content with either Colonies or War, or with neither, if the public interest, in Lord ABERDEEN'S opinion, required it." Why what does this prove, except that when the public voice last May was calling aloud that Lord PALMERSTON ought to be new War Minister, the imperturbable conceit of the Peelite Premier in expectancy never heard the national shout? and that because Lord JOHN refrained from urging in the Cabinet his comparative inexperience and inferiority in every point of view to Lord PALitansrow—therefore he must really approve the fond and unfortunate preference shown for him by Lord ABERDEEN ? Lord JOHN could not have " yielded," because he neither insisted beforehand that the Duke would fail, nor tried to realise his foreboding by embarrass ing or thwarting him. By the Doke of NEW CASTLE'S own suicidal confession, last night, the ex-President of the Council acted cordially with him while they were together in consultation respecting the war; and, when at a distance from town during the autumn, he wrote to him in a friendly tone, pointing out what he thought erron and suggesting remedies. These instances we are told were few; and when the attempt to apply them proved in one particular cue impossible at the moment, Lord JOHN wrote, frankly admitting that the obstacles were in surmountable, but generously adding, " You have done all that could be done." Will our readers believe when we tell them that these words consti tute the second count in the indictment for men dacity, equivocation, and fraud ? "Why did Lord Joust RUSSELL suppress the fact that on the Bth of October he addressed to me these words of commendation ?" In other words, his Grace would have the world believe that the expression was used in • general and comprehensive, not a special and limited sense; and he gives the extract so shorn of context as to render the meaning ambi guous. And this is the candid man wbo has been made a victim by the wily and perfidious Whig leader I But the crown and climax of all is that which the dexterous muter of Oxonian dialectics first called attention to. When Lord JOAN RUSSELL found that no storm of national indignation could make the Palm Minister understand that a new Secretary In War wee required, and when he despaired d .neisding matters in any other way, he amegoisi various changes in the department. He h a d asipaded, sole maths previously, a consolida tion al do lisordserbiribe War and the Secretary ship at War into one office. He had done so by the advise d • nobleman who had himself filled the latter sfwr end on whose practical judgment he relied. 1 individual subsequently changed his opinion, sad satisfied Lord JOHN that what he had originally recommended had better not be attempted. Mean while, the disasters of the Crimea began to convince eves the Duke of NIWCASTLI that some great change was desirable. In a moment of penitence, or panic, it occurred to Lord ABERDEEN to recur to the old suggestion foe the eonsolidation of the two Seem taryships, and Lord lons was asked did he wish to revive the proposition. Hs replied that he did not, and stated his reasons. " Therefore we were entitled," says Mr. GLADSTONE, " to believe that oil idea of any important change in the War Depart ment wee a defunct proposition t" Was ever sophistry like this? Because Lord lonic changes his mind on a question of tape, the ex-Chancellor of the Exche quer coolly ignores the fact that a change of hands and heads was urged by Lord JOHN — when the misfortunes of Balaklava were beginning—and never revoked or withdrawn. We do not hesitate to declare that this will turn out to be the case; and that the fact will so appear the instant Lord Joan has an opportunity of replying to the esvillings and quibbling. to which his words have been subjected. Too forbearing we have before Loan Auirarsx's statement in the House of Lords last night, regarding the late administration, and Lord DERBY'S announcement of his failure to form another, will doubtless be read with more interest by the public at large than they were listened to by those who were present on the occasion. Nothing very new or very striking was expected by those who have been accustomed to hear the dis courses of the ex-Premier ; and mat of those who crowded the galleries and the bar of the Howe of Peers bat night had previously learned from various sources that the mission of Lord Delay wee, at least for the time, at an end. Beyond the formal avowal of this fact, the Tory leader's speech contained nothing of any significance or importance. He made his hearers laugh more than once in deed at the expense of the out-going Mi nisters, and entered a general demurrer to the aka pronounced by Lord Anima= on the success of his policy and the prosperity of the nation. But neither from the Premier that was, nor from the Premier that many believed was to be, did a thought or a sentiment fall, upon an occasion sufficiently sug gestive, which any one will be able to recollect if he should try a weak hence. In truth, however, it was not the expectation of anything tithe sort that Ailed the House last evening at an early hoar. Something mach more racy and provocative to the jaded appetite for parliamentary Emission than ministerial declarations, whether THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1855. said we think be was; and a precious recompense he has received. But now let us in our turn ask those wbo talk of supprenio yeri, whether a fact of no trivial weight has not been held back in the discussion hitherto, which, when known, will show the unfairness of attempting to ascribe the proposal to supersede the incapable Duke to personal or patty motives P Did no other member of the Cabinet write to Lord Aberdeen to the same effect f—Daily News. LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR DE LACY EVANS. Yesterday, at oue o'clock, a deputation of electors of the city of Westminster waited upon Osneral Sir De Laity Evans, by appointment, at hie residence, in Bryan one-square, for the purpose of presenting that gallant officer with an address, ezpressive of their admiration of the heroic servicra he hu recently rendered to his country in the Crimea, and of their gratification at his safe return to hit native land. The deputation, in which the leaden of the liberal party in the city of Westminster were most honourably repre sented, was headed by Mr. Thomas Prout. The address, presented by Mr. Prout in a neat speech, declared that its subscriben regarded with pride the various mllstery ser vices which the gallant general had rendered in pest wars, and especially in that now proceeding, and esprs ' , sit their joy at his return, with a prospect of an early rtstori.tion to health. Sir Ds Lacy Evans having received the address, said, — Mr. Prost and Gentleman,—l eaa assure you it is impos eible for me to express the feeling of thankfulness and gra titude which the presentation of this address and the tenti manta it contains impress on my mind. It would be impossible for me to receive any compliment more grateful to my feelings—(here the gallant general's emotion for • moment overcame his utterance)—than this address from gentlemen who have known me for nearly a quarter of • century, and who supported me during a long period when I was an object of calumny. (Here Sir Ds Lacy became again much affected, and, recovering himself, he continued) —Yon will forgive my weakness, because I certainly do feel more gratitude to the people of Westminster than any men in this kingdom eau do to the constituents who have tent him to parliament. It was both under evil and good report that I have been supported by this great constituency for now nearly, as I have said, a quarter of a century. (Hear, hear.) I felt very grateful indeed to you on various occasions far sending so:comparatively undistinguished a person as your representative to parliament. I was always impressed in the highest degree with your consideration for me, but I felt it still more on my return from • former service which I thought was an honest and honourable service —(hear)—a service in support of those principles which you profess and act upon, and in support of principles which throughout ray political life at least I have done my best to promote . . _ (Hear, hear.) This service was represented by ration powerful persons as a dishonourable service, but you, by your verdict, on my return home from that campaign, pronounced it an honourable service. (Hear, hear) Your sentiments towards me were best evinced before the country by the triumphant majority of 1,100 by which I was returned over a most distinguished general officer of the Peninsular army. That was certainly a proud test of your approval of my conduct, and I feel to this hour moat grateful to you for it. (Hear, hear.) But I remained under the ban of those high authorities for sixteen or seven teen years ; notwithstanding which, you still continued to retain your good opinion of my humble services aid your approval of my professional career. (Hear, bear.) Cir cumstance' of • most momentous character required this country to send an army into the field about a year back, and on that occasion also I found that generous good feeling again evinced on your part by giving me leave of absence from my parliamentary duties. I believe there is hardly an instance on record of • constituency giving a sort of carte blanche to its representative to absent himself on two separate occasions from the discharge of the important duties devolving upon a member of parliament. That leave you did.me the honour to grant. I recollect in this very room a portion of these whom I have now the pleasure of seeing around me cams to me to express their satisfaction that I was going on • service with which the best interests of the country and humanity ware identified. Gentlemen, I have had a humble command during the operations that have subsequently taken place, and I confess I consider myself most abundantly and unexpectedly fortunate in the reception which you have kindly given me for any services I may have rendered to my country. Ido not in any manner wish to have the presumption to attribute to myself this strong manifestation of your kindness. I believe in doing so you are not merely exemplifying your kindness to me personally as your representative, but also your strong feelings of sympathy for my comrades who are now strug gling in that contest from which I have recently returned. (lieu, bear.) Ido not heaitate to say there is no instance on record of a young and inexperienced army that have shown rester bravery and devotion to their country, thaw that which landed some few months since in the Crimea. (Hear, hear.) I may be permitted to say that of my com rades, but it would be presumptuous in me to attribute more than a very small share to myself. This is not an occasion, aid really my feelings will not permit me, to speak with entire ease on this subject. We are indeed engaged in a most arduous struggle. It is not for me to offer any opinion on the conduct of the war. I had only • particular share in the transaction, and I do say, for the portion of the army placed under my control, I shall never cease to feel the greatest admiration for the officers, non commissioned officers, and soldier, that belonged to the second division, which I had the honour of directing. (Hear, hear.) lam sorry to say that many of them are no mote, but such is the fate of war. I earnestly hope that the noble sympathy evinced by onr countrymen at home for the sufferings and privations of the army will have the effect o r alleviating the hardships and difficulties they have been enduring, and such, indeed, has already been the result. (Hear.) lam certain that that sympathy must power fully contribute to sustain the spirit and courage of our army, evinced as it has been in every public meeting and every social circle in this country. Ido not think anything diatom be referred to in put times can equal that fine, generous, patriotic expression of feeling that has prevailed throughout this country on the present occasion. What ever the difficulties we have had to contend with—whether we went to the right place or not—or whether we went a t the right time or not—considering the power of this coun try, morally, numerically, financially, military and naval, for my part I have very little doubt—particularly with the' 'Diana et that loyal and brave people, the French, who are acting with us—l have not the slighest apprehension of the ultimate result. (Cheers.) Deeply sorry I am that many distresses may be endured and many losses sustained bye prolongation of this struggle ; but it Is quite possible—probably it is but the truth—and in my opi nion it is our duty and our policy, that we should look to a prolonged contest. This is one of those great epochs of which we read in history, where a great power endeavours to muter and put down the liberties of other nations ; end it is indispensable to those who value liberty, national inde pendence, and the progress of human society, that the con test should be pursued—whatever the sacrifices may bs— to a victorious end. (Cheers.) I have only again to assure you that I feel the deepest gratitude for this additional mark of your kiadnees ; and I shall ever bur it in memory to the last hour of my life. (Chun.) Sir JOUN SHILLIT, 'cr., begged permission to express his high gratification at the return of his gallant colleague, from whom he had at all times received the kindest assist Ince and on-operation. He felt it a great honour to have been permitted to accompany the deputation upon the occa sion of the graceful welcome they had accorded to Sir Di Lacy Evans, with whom it had been his good fortune to have had any difference, either of opinion or of feeling, since the day when he was first honoured by being returned u his colleague in the representation of Westminster. Sir Ds LACY EVANS was glad to avail himself of that opportunity of expressing his warm acknowledgments to his excellent colleague for till great kindness he had shown to him during his absents, and for the friendly interest he had entertained for him. He thought it was most fortunate that when he was obliged to absent himself from their service that their remaining representative was a man so young, active, and devoted to his duties. (Cheers.) Be fore he eat down he would avail himself of that opportunity of referring to a matter which had escaped him is his previous observations—he meant the duties appertaining to generals of division. Thus officers stood next to the commander of the Inn% whose functions were perhaps of a more intellectual shataster, but physically *sty were not so urgent as those inroad upon a general of division. The duties of the Idea were more arduous than even those of generals of brigade and the inferior officers. However arduous the duties of colonels of regiments, for instance, they had none of the responsibility attaching to a general of divisiony where the whole rested on one head. It had not unfre quently happened to himself to have been oa horseback three or four times in one night, which, at his time of lila, as they would readily understand, was not a convenient or agreeable thing. He had been five months under a very indifferent teat, and although he had borne it to the last, he ultimately broke down ; and he now found that his successor, who was ten or twelve yeah younger than himself, General Pennofather, one of the finest officers In the whole army, bad within a very few weeks after his scardon to the command, been obliged to be absent from *knew (Bur, hear.) Hs had him self seen mush et war, hat he never before knew a cam paign in whisk general of had been exposed to such THE EARL OF DERBY, VISCOUNT PAL MERSTON, AND THE PEELITES. (From the Morning Herold.) Once more en obstacle is interposed to prevent the people of England from obtaining what they have shown their full determination to obtain—namely, a strong and united Administration—united in its determination to carry on the war ag►inst the domination of Russia, and strong i• the all bat unanimous support of the British people. This obstacle has been interposed at a moment critical be pond all former precedent—critical to the safety of the state —critical to the honour of the nation, and, above all, aided to the salvation of our army now perishing upon the from heights of Sebastopol. This obstacle it is necessary that the nation should be aware has been interposed, if not by, se least for the benefit of, a portion of that degraded faction which the unparalleled and overwhelming majority of ORS MOND/LED AND I , IFTY•SEVEN hu already driven with obloquy from the councils of the Queen. It was bad enough that Lord Derby felt himself coerced by the emergency of the crisis to seek the aid of one who has fur two long years been the coadjutor, if not the cone teller, of the men whose terrible crimes have occasioned the present condition of the empire. We can well conceive, however, that Lord Derby made vast allowances for the position in which the individual to whom we allude was Owed, seeing the vital emergency which required the speedy—nay, the instant formation of a ministry able end willing to save the remnant of our troops, to restore the remnant of our troops, to restore the honour of England la the eyes of the world, and to rescue the Sovereign from the fearful situation of appearing to ha people as attempt ing to rescue a ministry upon which the country has now placed its brand and its sal of reprobation. Such we conceive to have been the motives which induced Lord Derby to require the assistance of a man to whom many of his followers felt strong repugnance and valid objections; but what are we to think of the conduct of the individual to wbom such an opportunity had been afforded of exhibiting the highest patriotism, if he dared to turn it to the purpose et giving obstruction to the endeavours which an invincible ewes of duty alone could have induced Lord Derby to Make, by dragging again into the councils of our Queen psalms who within a very few days have been specially ejected from them by the overpowering force of public opi nion ? Nay, if we have heard aright, this individual abso lately wished to condition for the placing at the head of the War administration a nobleman more obnoxious as an administrator to both soldiers and officers than aoy other person who holds a nit in the legislature. The facts to which we have referred are so currently sad confidently asserted, that we feel ourselves bound to com ment upon them, although we 'till hope that no English man could so far forget his duty to his country, his Sove reign, and the army, as for such a purpose to interrupt arrangements absolutely necessary to the welfare of all three. There is no use in concealing names. The nobleman, whom rumour asserts to have acted as we described, is Lord Palmerton. The individuals belonging to the Pulite section whom he is said to have wished to attach to himself for the purpose of—diaguise it as he might, such was the feet—weakening Lord Derby's Administration were Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Sidney Herbert ; whilst another, wheel we cacao! 'appalls our readers have not already recognised from oar description, is the conciliating, the practicable, the successful administrator, Earl Grey, who, in the Home Office as a subordinate, in the War and Colonial Depart ments where he was dominant, accumulated an unparal leled amount of mismanagement and actual disaster upon every transactiou in which it was his fortune to be en gaged. We will not affront the Earl of Derby by the supposition that he for one moment could have hesitated about the ac ceptance of such propositions, involving, as they did, insult to the memory of our sacrificed soldiers—insult to the people, who bad declared their abhorrence of those who had uttered up the holocaust—and insult to the So ign whose earnest wish to acquire the aid of a friss and popular admi nistration has been threatened for the moment by a heartless and profligate ictrigue. We conclude by asserting, that without the aid of any one of the individuals we have alluded to, Lord Derby has the most ample means within his grasp of forming an Adminis tration powerful, able, %sated, and capable of commanding thoroughly the aid of a sufficient number of members to set faction at defiance, even in the present House of Commons, relying, as he may do, upon the undoubted fact, that it driven to a dissolution, he will receive the hearty support of the nation in carrying on the people's slur. On this great truth, however, the penon whose duty it may be finally to form an Administration may rely—the taint of Peelistn in his Cabinet will be fatal to it. With regard to Lord Palmerston, we warn him, that while the original construction of the coalition was disgraceful to the individuals who formed, and degrading to the nation that brooked it, even for a time, the attempt to reconstruct it by deve•tailing and patching together the rottenest portions of the now happily shattered mosaic, will bring down upon his head the wrath of an aroused people, And to Lord Derby we may say that, admitting for one moment the absurd supposition that he could clasp the hands red with the blood of our army, and to take the Peelitea to his councils, he would by that mere act utterly I destroy the party which is still proud to hail him as their chief, but of whom the great majority will never, under , any circumstances, degrade themselves by sitting on the same benches with Mr. Gladstone and his accomplices. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The Earl of Derby, having failed in his endeavours to form In Administration, left town yesterday, at an early hour, fur the purpose of resigning into the hands of the Sovereign the task with which he had been entrusted. The noble earl returned to:London in the afternoon, and, en roses to his residence in St. James's-square, called upon Mr. Disraeli, with whom his lordship had had on interview prior to leaving London for Windsor. At two o'clock a Queen's messenger arrived at Lans downe-house, bearing a despatch commanding the attend and of the Marquis of Lansdowne at Windsor Castle. The noble marquis immediately left London for Windsor, and remained the guest of her Majesty last night. The prevailing impression in all well-informed circles Is, that the neat step on the part of the Sovereign will be to send for Viboount Palmerston, with a view to his lordship's undertaking to form a new Cabinet —Morning Post. OP &LAM COMMUNICATION WITH lILTILITIVII.—GINZHAL POST OPTICS, Jan., 1856. , The government of the Mauritius having established a Avis-packet to convey the mails once • month between that island and Ceylon, in connexion with the Overland India Mail despatched from Lfinclon via Southampton on the 20th, and oil Marseilles on the 25th of each month, all letters and newspapers for Mauritius, not specially ad. dressed to be sent by any other route, will in future be for warded to Ceylon, for conveyance thence by the colonial mail packet. Letters for Matiridue, sent yid Ceylon, are liable to the following rates of postage, which m• 7 be paid in advance or not, at the option of the sender Mar seilles.—Not exceeding or . in weight, British, ed. ; foreign, 6d.; total, 11d. Exceeding oz and not exceed ing on., British, 6d.; foreign, 101. ; total, Is. 44. Ex ceeding ox. and not exceeding or., British, Is.; foreign, Is. 3d.; total, 2e. 3d. Exceeding ox. and not excee din g I oz., British, le.; foreign, Is. Bd.; total, 2s. Bd. Exceed iag I oz. and not exceeding 1} ox., British, 25.; foreign, 2s. ld. ; total, 41. Id. Newspapers, 3d. tech. Yid South ampton.—Not exceeding 3 on., 6d. ; exceeding oz. and not exceeding 1 oz., le. ; exceeding 1 or. and not exceed ing 2 cm., 21. ; exeeeding 2 oni. and not exceeding 3 cm., 35.; exceeding 3 oss. end not exceeding 4 cm., 4e.; news papers, free. Letters intended to be sent via Southampton must be so sddreseed.—Rowtrand BILL, Secretary. THE MUIDEIt IN DERBYSHIRE—The coroner's Wok,, held at Somerset's, Derbyshire, *gibing the death of Jelin Massy, an Irishmen, who was robbed sad mar ched em 11: 4 2h g way in Sleet Moor-lane, was concluded on when a *Met " murder " was =aping ihe three sass (Barrett, Wall, and Don nelly) whims the &seas* Beim his death had indicated as the iCa e r she se bad Nib* eel 3ratilted hint. Dena, r ens al the sea wbe bad been seen in the Nest en the sighs albs murder, sad neither be ger the ether tee weld seismal ix their time daring the peeled Inteseesing betwesedesir Leavitt, a beer•homee and =s=thentselvas as their hisses, the surdas having lei in the intend. hardships as in this owe. (Hear, bear.) There were offioer of great experience attached to the army, and young officer, were springing up from day to day, and each battis made them more familiar with their duties. He had ob served that some of the newspapers called the officers " old superannuated fellows, " and others said they were "ignorant young fellows." It was very difficult to suit the tastes of every one —(a laugh)—but he thought that, after • little time, and after some improvements bad been made in the systom—particularly the system of purchase-.- against which he had always contended—they would have • very good body of Olken ; but it was indislensable that those improvements should take place. (Hear, hear.) In the meantime, however unsatisfactory the way in which advancement in the army had been hitherto dispensed, he must say he had known officers belonging t, the members of the aristocracy who were as brave and as devoted as any men who ever encountered an enemy in the field. He bad some of them under his own orders, and he had never seen more bold and dashing fellows in his life. (Hear, hear.) As a general rule, however, it was experience, instruction, and devotion to the army that should prevail ; and he hoped that as the public voice was now being pronounced 'somewhat loudly on that subject, im provement would take place, and he believed they were ea the eve of better times for the army. (Cheers.) He had lelt it h s duty to add these few general reumake, With respect to the great diatreu which was represented to exist in the army, he could only say that whea he left the Crimea it bad not extended to the extreme degree in which it was now said to prevail. But still he was afraid there must be much truth in those statements, seeing that they were so unanimous ; but he trusted they might hope for better things from dray to day. The general concluded by remarking that be thought the present ministerial crisis was much to be regretted, inasmuch as it might tend to inter fere with the public business at a most urgent and critical moment. The hon. end gallant officer resumed his seat amid the congratulations of the members of the deputation, Sir JOHN SHELLEY, M.P., said as General Evans had referred to the ministerial crisis, he could not help observ ing that it seemed to him that if ever there was a moment when all sides of the house, and the leading men on both sides, should drop trumpery personal considerations and put their shoulders to the wheel to get the country through the great struggle in which she was engaged, the present was that moment. lie considered it was the duty of every member of parliament to support the government, how ever it might be composed, oolong as that government was determined to carry this war to a successful termination. (Cheers.) The deputation then retired. DEATHS AT SCUTARI. _ Nominal return of deaths in hospital reported at the Cemmacdent's-office by the medical authorities : PEROZANTS. William Carroll, Ambulance Corps, Jan. 14; Thomas (lava. , 88th Regiment, diarrheas, Jan. 15; James Neil, 38th Regiment, febris, Jan. 16. John Mathew', Soots Fusilier Guards, diarrhma, Jan. 11; JAMBI M'Gec, 90th Regiment, gelatio, Jan. 15; Henry Warren, 4th Regiment, Jan. 16; George Taylor, 17th Lancers, diarrlxes, Jan. 16. raIVATES. David Jackson, 4th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 13 ; Patrick Hughes, Scots Fusilier Guards, diarrhoea, Jan. 13 ; John Doe, Scent...oilier Guards, diarrhea, Jan. 11 ; John Brown, Scots Fusilier Guards, febris inter., Jan. 9; Alfred Holden, tad Battalion Rifle Brigade, cholera, Jan. 10; James George, lit Battalion Rifle Brigade, Jan. 14; William Grady, 63rd Regiment, Jan. 14; William Chappell, Royal Artillery, Jan. 14; William Baron, 46th Regi ment, Jan. 14; O. Biefoot, 21st Regiment, Jan. 15; Alexander M'Nab, 17th Lancers, diarrhea, Jan. 14; John Brent, Royal Artillery, dysentery, Jan. 14 ; Patrick Hennessy, 4th Regiment, fads rem., Jan. 14; William I'otter, 30th Regiment, vulnue, Jan. 14 ; Alexander Wells, :30th Regiment, diarrheas, Jan. 14; Leonard Hillier, 21st Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 14 ; W. Sanders, 50th. Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 15; William Carroll, Royal Artillery, Jan. 14; William Robbins, 28th Regiment, febrie, Jan. 14; Daniel Robinson, 41st Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 11; Frede rick Dadge, Royal Artidery, diarrheas, Jan. 14; Robert Baldwin, Royal Artillery, diarrhea, Jan. 14 ; Geo. Mackie, Scots Fusilier Guards, diarrhoea, Jan. 14; Robert Blair, lit Foot, diarrhea, Jan. 14; John Goodall, 7th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 14; James Stoddart, 7th Regiment, fads, Jan. 14; John Gaunt, 7th Regiment, diarrheas, Jan. 14; John Lemon, 20th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 14; Henry Hoddinott, 20th Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 14; Charles Connor, 28th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 14; John Cooney, 30th Regiment, •tiarrheea, Jan. 14; John Chappell, 33rd Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 14; Wil liam Morton, 33rd Regiment, diarrhea, Jen. 14; Hugh M'Mullen, 41st Regiment, gelatio, Jan. 14 ; Robert Brea nen, 44th Regiment, febris, Jan. 14 ; Richard Emery, 46th ! Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 14; George Wouloat, 50th Regi ment, alias, Jan. 14; Patrick M`Keon, 77th Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 14; Alfred Watson, 77th Regiment, dy sentery, Jan. 14; George Mille, 79th Regiment, dysen tery, Jan. 14 ; Edward Warley, Ist Battalion Hile Brigade, diarrhea, Jan. 14; James Bates, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, dysentery, Jan. 14; Wm. Blinett, Coldstream Guards, vulnus, Jan. 15 ; Daniel James, 23rd Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 15 ; Henry Cowley, 50th Regiment, dysen tery, Jan. 15; William Woodgate, 65th Ri giment, Jan. 15; J. Smith, Stour Fusilier Guards, dysentery, Jan. 16 ; James Radford, Ist Royal Dragoons, diaarhees, Jan. 16; William Lane, Scots Pushier Guards, diarrhea, Jan. 16; Simeon Snore, 47th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 16; William Norman, Coldstream Guards, gelatio, Jan. 16; Thomas Abbott, Royal Artillery, diarrhea, Jan. 16; Ro bert Lamb, itoyal Artillery, diarrhea, Jan. 15; James Gell, Royal Artillery, diarrhea, Jan. 15; John Davis, Royal Artillery, diarrhea, Jan. 15 ; Thomas William, Grenadier Guards, dysentery, Jan. 15; Patrick Cooper, 7th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 16; Thomas Williams, 19th Regiment, rheumatism, Jan. 15; Borah Nichols, 19th Re giment, dysentery, Jan. 16; William Ashpool, 19th Regi ment, diarrhoea, Jan. 15 ; Edwin Kelly, 20th Regiment, febris, Jan. 15; Joseph Fookes, 20th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 15; Lawrence Sexton, 21st Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 16; Thomas &afield, 23rd Regiment, diarrheas, Jan. 16; John Fisher, 30th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 15; Alexander bi'Danald, 38th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 16; James Hall, 38th Regiment, rheumatism, Jan. 15; Mark May, 38th Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 15; James Murray, 44th Regi ment, hepatitis, Jan. 15 ; Thomas Wayne:, 46th Regiment, diarrheas, Jan. 16; John Parker, 46th Regiment, diarr heas, Jan. 15; Daniel Wall, 46th Regiment, febris, Jan. 15 ; William Hixon, 49th Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 15; James Fletcher, 62nd Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 15 ; John Pennegar, 63rd Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 15; Thomas Logos, 63rd Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 16 ; John Begley, 77th Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 15 ; Mina Gaynor, 79th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 16; Henry Martin, 2nd Batt. Rill', Brigade, diarrhea, Jan. 15 ; John Body, 2nd Be tabors Rifle Brigade, dysentery, Jan. 16; George Ileaketh, Sap pen and Miners, dysentery, Jan. 15; John Burcham, 7th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 16; Thomas Summer, lit Royal Dragoons, diarrhea, Jan. 16; George Thompson, Ist Foot, diarrhea, Jan. 16; John Mulligan, 28th Regiment, Jan. 15; Robert Jeakins, 17th Lancers, synocha, Jar. 17; Henry Abraham, 88th Regiment, febris, Jan. 16; James Sharp, 97th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 16; I'. Morris, 28th Regi ment, dysentery, Jan. 17; Edwin Greens, Coldstream Guards, febris, Jan. 16; George Maitley, Scots Fusilier Gds., dysentery, Jan. 16; Danl. Moriarty, 4th Regt., f brie , Jan. l6 ; Michael Hallanan, 9th Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 18; Patrick Bohan, 9th Regiment, dysentery, Jae. 16 ; William Shine, 21st Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 16 ; Andrew Hamil ton, 21st Regiment, ch. rheum., Jan. 16; Edward Pierce, 21st Regiment, diarrhea, Jen. 16; John Ingram, 28th Regiment, dysentery, Jan. 16; Michael IsPCarthy, 28th Regiment, diarrhoea, Jan. 16; Christopher Robinson, 41st Regiment, diarrhea', Jan. 16 ; William Ilewson, 44th Regi ment, diarrhea, Jan. 16; John Lechery, 46th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 16; Richard Sherwood, 46th Regiment, diarrhea", Jan. 16; Hugh Cappell, 46th Regiment, amputa tion, Jan. 16 ; Bartholomew Collins, 60th Regiment, diarrhea, Jan. 16; William Craig, 55th Regiment, dysen tery, Jan. 16; Petal Deist, 95th Regiment, rheumatism, Jan. 16; James Crook, 63rd Regiment, diarrhoea, Jan. 16; Joseph Reid, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, dysentery, Jan. 16; Henry Fitzpatrick, Ambulance Corps, febns, Jan. 16. DRAMS ON BOARD THE COLOMBO. Sergeant D. Freeman, 41st Regiment, Jan. 14. Privates J. Bridger, 6th Dragoons, Jan. 10 ; P. Watts, 2nd Dra• goons, Jan. 10 ; .1. M‘Glee, Royal Artillery, Jan. 12 ; J. Smith, 2nd Dragoon, Jan. 13; M. Jones, 2nd Dragoons, Jan. 13 ; T. Barnes, let Foot, Jan. 10 ; C. Walker, 62d Regiment, Jan. 14 ; R. Brown, Scots Fusilier Guards, Jan. 14; G. Henry, 97th, Jan. 15; J. Coe, Grenadier Guards, Jan. 16; J. Kane, 6th Dragoons, Jan. 16; T. Tate, Scats Fusilier Guards, Jan. 15 ; H. Clarke, Scots Fusilier Guards, Jan. 16; M. Weymouth, Coldstream Guards, Jan. 15; W. White, 6th Dragoons, Jan. 16 ; G. Walls, Scots Fusilier Guards, Jan. 16; J. White, 2d Dragoons, Jan.Pattison, 2d Dragoons, Jan. 16 ; J. Snorter. no regiment given, Jan. 17 , Allen, ditto, Jan. 17. SWUM or DRAT'S ON BOARD THE THANES. ON !AB •A011 PROM TEE CRINRA. Privates John Buchannon, 4 7th Regiment, Jan. 9; Peter Johnston, 42nd Regiment, Jan. 11; Samuel Gann, 49th Regiment, Jan. 14 ; Th 3 mas Jones, Scots Fusilier Guards, Jan. 11 • John Davidson, lit Battalion Rifle Brigade, Jan 10; 'William Morris, 19th Regiment, Jan. 8; John Savory, Royal Artillery, Jan. 9 ; William Jackson, 66th Regiment, jam. 9; Edward Cooper, 49th Regiment, Jan. 7 ; C. Leamington , S cots Fusilier Guards, Jan. 11 ; Alfred Caldecott, 97th Regiment, Jan. 13 ; Charles Winston, 9th Regiment, Jan. 13 ; Robert Chiven, Scots Fusilier Guards, Jan. 13; Samuel White, let Battalion Rifle Brigade, Jan 13 ; J. Rolfe, Royal Marines, Jan. 7 ; Richard Wills, Royal Marinas. Jan. 8 ; William Bullock, Royal Marines, Jan. 7 ; John Newell, 23rd Regiment, Jan. 6 ; John Gran , 23rd Regiment, Jan. 6. Tina PRINCIPALITIES. —The Lithographic Cor respondence of Vienne states that the commission charged to examine the new relations in which the Principalities are to be plaosd, is to cemmenoe its deliberations in the vane of the pewit week. 1 1. 1., 1 1 i., i i , r i 1 ; I • r 1 1 ~, i I .1,