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Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. Vijx Vrvgg• LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1855. POSTSCRIPT. LORD DERBY AND LORD PALMERSTON. As it is necessary to a proper understanding of the political position at the present time that the circum stances connected with the unsuccessful attempt of Lord DERBY to form an Administration should be correctly stated, we publish the following facts, which may be fully relied on : On Tuesday night, at ten p.m., a royal messenger came to Lord DERBY from the Queen, bearing a despatch from her Majesty, fixing the hour of half past eleven on 'Wednesday morning for an interview of his Lordship with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. At the appointed hour his Lordship had an interview with her Majesty, and being commissioned to form a Ministry, he obtained the Queen's per mission to ask Lord PALMERSTON to join him. Her Majesty sanctioned this arrangement, but we need scarcely say that all those statements which have appeared in some papers of the Queen having im posed conditions on Lord DERBY that any persons whatever should unite with him, are wholly false. Lord DERBY immediately went to Lord PALMERSTON, and received his assent to join on his own account, but with this condition, that Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. HERBERT should join also. Lord DERBY assented, and those Right Honourable Gentlemen were therefore invited to take o ikie under Lord DERBY, but we believe an intimation was expressed that Mr. GLAD STONE would not bold his late office as Chancellor of the Exchequer. From his interview with Lord PALMERSTON, Lord DERBY received an impression" that the proposed arrangement would take effect, and he waited on her Majesty to report what had taken place. The Queen returned that afternoon to Windsor. Late at night, Lord DERBY received answers from Lord PALMERSTON, Mr. GLADSTONE, and Mr. S. HERBERT, refusing to join Lord DERBY, but promising their support to any Ministry which he might form. This promise of support, however, it is well known is of a purely formal character. We believe that Lord PALMERSTON declined to join on the ground that the support he might individually be able to bring to a Government formed by Lord DERBY would not he of any material service to it. Lord DERBY, having seen Mr. DISRAELI, went to Windsor on Thursday morning, and announced to her Majesty as he stated in the House of Peers the same evening, that he could not construct such a Government as the necessities of her Mkjesty's service required. But he intimated that, should other combinations fail, he would place himself at her Majesty's service, so that in no case need the Queen fear that a Government would be wanting to conduct the business of the country. Foua of the officers of the lately formed Baggage and Land Transport Corps have started for the East. Colonel McMurdo and others will follow. Colonel Napier is to remain at home, with a staff, to superin tend the recruiting and the formation of a depot at 'Woolwich. 1..1••••• - ••••• THE PRESS. THE WAR. Letters from the Crimea to the 20th inst. reached London in the course of yesterday afternoon. They report little progress in the siege operations, and re peat the often-told tale of suffering, sickness, and loss among the British troops before Sebastopol. The following are extracts from a letter of the above date, written by the excellent correspondent of the Morning Herald : The enemy's garrison in Sebastopol has, daring the last tws or three days, been showing frith in the lines in very considerable strength. At first the demonstration excited some slight uneasiness, as being considered the prelude to a general sot tie upon the whole of the allied position, and measures were accordingly taken to render it, like past attempts of a similar nature, utterly abortive tand unsuc cessful. The enemy, however, showed no disposition to quit their lines, and after remaining about the works two or three hours gradually dispersed into the town. On both the 17th and 18th their dispersal was much accele rated by the fire from the French mortars, which managed to drop 10-inch and 13-inch shell wherever the enemy were thickest. Since the last post and until the 16th there has been an intense frost, which, while it lasted, surpassed for its severity anything we have yet felt. During the day the thermometer seldom rose above Di deg., hut with the night a keen wind swept over the snowy waste which froze the very blood of those exposed to it. No terms I can use would give even a faint idea of what the sufferings of our troops have been and still are. Hundreds are frost bitten in the hands, feet, and face; the cholera is still among them, and scurvy and dysentery spread more and more each day. The men hove no fires, the miserable stock of roots and shrubs which used to enable them to get a warm drink are now quite exhausted, and no ma terials for firer; of any kind are to be found in camp. I ant informed that for two whole days throughout the great mass of our lines not a fire vas lit, though the mercury then stood at nearly 20 deg. below freezing point. On each of these days, as if in rockery of their Buffeting's, the raw coffee beans were served out to the men as usual. The road which some time ago the French completed for us. conjointly with the Turks, was begun too late. The earth visa so soddened with rain and cut up by inces• sant traffic that the stones thrown over the track have settled iuto ruts and holes, and the path is now almost wore than ever. The Adelaide has arrived with the 82nd Regiment on board. The 39th Regiment has left the Golden Fleece, and taken up the quarters at the head of the harbour lately occupied by the Itith Royal Irish. The Simla has arrived with a number of horses. The Trent was at Con stantinople, and expected up here each day with 250 mules. These animals are worth any money to us in our present position. Advices from Constantinople of the 22nd tilt.' state that the English Consul at Trebizond bad obtained a pro clamation from the Oitoman Government abolishing the traffic in slaves. The Turkish police, with the authorisation of the allied powers, had visited the dwellings of several Italian refugees, and arrested those upon whom arms had been found. Several French soldiets had been assassinated in Galata. The Baltic fleet are to assemble at Spithead the first week in March. Instructions have been received at Elsi nore to have accurate returns prepared of the quantity of coals and other stores pow deposited there, so that the extent of further necessary supplies may be correctly as certained. According to the Military Gazette of Vienna the Pied. montese troops, under General Lamarmora, are to land at Kaffa under the protection of the Black Sea fleet, when the detachment will be reinforced by others from the British and French armies. The Turkish ambassador at Vienna has received fall powers to assist at the conferences. Special plenipoten tiaries are expected, as well as the powers which the Western powers are to give to their representatives. A ukase has been issued by the Czar ordering the issue of paper money redeemable by the State three years after the conclusion of peace. The Journal de St. Petersbourg announces that the Czar has given 25,000 roubles to the officers of the Black Sea fleet to repair the damage caused by the explosion of a bomb in the library of the fleet at Sebastopol. IN THE CASE OF MR. WM. HENRY BARBER, the solicitor, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, on Wednesday, applied to the Court of Queen's Bench to fix a day to hear a motion for the renewal of his certificate, on the ground of new and important evidence, upon which the learned counsel observed he entertained a very confident expectation that the application would be successful. The court fixed the second day in next term (Tuesday, April 17) to hear the motion. A COMMUNICATION has been received by the City Markets Improvement Committee from Lord Pal merston to the effect that his lordship disapproved of some of the rules framed by the committee for the regulation of the new market in Copenhagen fields, on the ground of their not being sufficiently stringent, and further that his lordship approved of Tuesday for holding the market instead of Monday, as determined by the committee. SATURDAY : LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE. HOUSE OF COIIIKONS.—I'a;DiT. VOTE OF THANKS TO SIR DE LACY EVANS. A very full house assembled, for the sole purpose of thanking Sir De Lacy Evans for his gallant conduct in the Crimea. About half-past four the gallant general entered, and was received with loud cheers, the house rising tt) receive him. The SPILAKER, alter recitiag the paragraph of the com mon vote of thanks to the army relative to Sir lie Lacy Evans, said, " It was with feelings of pride and satisfac- tion that this house welcome the return of one who, at the Alma, encountered and overcame almost insuperable diffi culties, whose energy and valour were conspicuous in the conflict of the 26th of October, and who, on the heights of lukermanu, displayed a dauntless courage, mingled with a chivalrous generosity, when, rising from a bed of sickness you carne to the assistance of the general in the temporary command of your division, sharing the danger and nobly declining the honour. Your conduct has been marked by the highest honour the house has it in its power to confer. I have now, at the command of the Commons of England, to deliver you their thanks for your conduct in the several actions in which the forces of the country have been engaged." Sir Di LACY EVANS appreciated deeply the honour con , (erred upon him. There was nothingof which a Briton could be more truly proud than the recognition of his services by the representatives of his country. It was a novelty to him to be thus received, for he certainly thought that he had been as good an officer twenty years ago, and had carried on more difficult operations with a more important command, and, as he ventured to hope, with equal SUeeefiS. He would especially tender his thanks to those opposed to him in politics, for their concurrence in the presen; vote. He must 41d that he should not have had the chance of the high distinction now conferred on him but for the gallantry of the second division under his command. He must say on the subject, that he read the official statement of Lord John Russel, with unfeigned astonishment, and when he remembered that half of that division had perished on the field, he should be wanting in his duty if he did not place the matter on a better footing. Lord John Russell evidently considered himself a better general than Lord Raglan, for his description was totally at variance with the despatches of the commander-in•chief. The second division had been conspicuous in the three great combats of the Alma, the 28th October, and Inkertnann, and it was the only division present in all three, and de manded that notice from the Minister which it did not obtain. He begged pardon for making these statements, which he had been obliged to do. He would have wished to nave added a few words on behalf of the gallant men whom he had left on the scene of action, but he trusted he should have an opportunity at, another time. He felt deeply grateful for the honour conferred upon him, con vinced that such a reward, conferred on so humble an individual as himself, would have its effect in animating his fellow•subjects in the performance of their duties. Lord Pitsienwros observed, that never was the Speaker more faithfully the organ of public opinion than on the present occasion. He moved that the eloquent anti feeling address of the Speaker to the gallant general ought to remain as a perpetual encouragement to his comrades on the field of battle, and that the speech of the Speedier, together with so much of the reply of the gallant general as related to his acknowledgment of that speech, be en tered on the journal of the house. Mr. Wstrout, cordially concurring in what had been said, seconded the motion, which passed unanimously. The North American Fisheries Bill passed throne , committee, and the house adjourned till Monday. 11 FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, January 31. 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