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. . - / .„, (e-, .._. ,•...' : 4 . ,: i . ) et ......„ 0 -4._,r•-/ i-je ' 4.0--erii....- ) 62 ---- A..,:,'_, C.a.- • A3p-aze ze , , • No. 92.—VoL. 111. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1855. PRICE SIXPENCE. (WITH SUPPLFMENT.I t".. 12 C Vrt s s. mediately to the palace and informing her Ma principle as recent times have preseuted us . . jesty of thc prospect of a result anxiously desired with too many examples of—be broken up, we shall regard the future course of events with . --at this critical moment by her Majesty, viz., the the gravest apprehension. The Conservative • formation of a strong Conservative Government. party of late years, though it has had little LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1855. About midnight, after a suspicious delay of part in directing the actual administration of ten hours, a communication from Lord PAL- affairs, has had great influence in preventing crude changes, and in checking that systemat ic OFFICE, memos was received by the Earl of DERBY, corruption of which so many disgrace ful closing in a very unsatisfactory manner the examples have lately been made public. Were Friday Night, Feb. 2. negotiations, and forwarding communications this party to be dissolved, its salutary eon- from Mr. HERBERT and Mr. GLADSTONE in the trolling power would be lost, and with the MINISTERIAL CRISIS. same spirit. utter wreck of all political principle, and the disruption of all party ties, parliamentary con- WE have reason to believe that the Earl of The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was on Thurs- tests would sink into vulgar strife for place, • DEBBY did not decline to form an Administra- day evening summoned to the Queen at and the Legislature would lose the respect of .s t tion when graciously consulted on that subject Windsor Castle, where he remained last night. the people and the moral authority which now by her Majesty. On the contrary, we are This morning the Noble Marquis had a second attaches to its decisions. assured his Lordship pledged himself that audience of her Majesty, after which he re - When Lord ABERDEEN placed the resigna- tion of himself and colleagues in the hands of under no circumstances should her Majesty turned to London, arriving in Berkeley-square the Queen, her Majesty had simply to con- be left without a Ministry, and that he and his at eleven o'clock. The Queen and Prince Bider whether she should call to her councils a friends were perfectly prepared to form one if ALBERT afterwards came to town by special representative of the majority of :305, which over- 11 threw the late Ministry, or a representative of all efforts failed to construct a strong Govern- train. During the course of the day the the minority of 148, which supported it. As a i merit, which the interests of the country re• Marquis of LANSDOWNE had interviews with constitutional Sovereign, the course to be pur- quired. With this view, we bear that the Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, Lord sued was too plain to be mistaken, and, un- Earl of DERBY advised her Majesty to have JOHN Russets. and Lord PALMERSTON, and sub- satisfactory as the result has proved, we tha t this course was taken by i recourse to several combinations before the sequently proceeded to Buckingham Palace, heartily rejoice the Queen, as t will serve tis dispel a concep- .1 Queen should appeal to a party which, though where her Majesty had already arrived from Lion which has lately got abroad, that there singly the most numerous in the House of Windsor. was an influence at Coi• adverse to the s s Commons, cannot command an absolute Eight o'clock, p.m. formation of a truly indep . dent Ministry. . ' majority :n that House, and had already been It is reported that Lord JOHN Resszee has In sending . for Lord DEese s ~ S' s n walked in the straight, broad patli s ig '. .nstitution, • 4 1 defeated by the combined sections. bee n " sen t f or ," an d is engaged in forming a and fu lfill ed, we w ill ven t ss • • • the hopes The application by the Earl of DERBY to Government. and expectations of a s :. s a . e . jority of her 'V •At Lord PALMERSTON to join the intended Ad- Assuming the truth of this rumour. it would people. .. - ministration and take the lead of the House seem that a reconstruction of the Coalition is In the Peers , Lord DERBY could have 14. of Commons was one of these combinations, despaired of. Had such been the intention, no expectation that he would meet w it h ~ , either Lord PALMERSTON or CLARENDON would serious , or at all events wi t h inconvenient, hoe- and was an arrangement, we have reason to have been calledlin. It is probable that Lord Laity. His decision must have been regulated believe, pressed upon the Noble Earl by Mr. JOHN will attempt a union with those friends by the fact that his party was in a minority in Disaazei, with whose pretensions to that post from whom he separated himself in joining the Commons, and that it was liable to be , it might seem to conflict. Lord ABERDEEN. Neither Lord PALMERSTON outvoted unless he could increase its strength nor Mr. GLADSTONE are likely in that case, to by the adhesion of some statesm an with a There was only one feeling in the Conserve- take any office in a Cabinet, which would be considerable personal following. For our own t. •1, ,`. five party, namely, to merge all individual composed of purely Whig elements. part, we should have viewed the presence of , claims for the sake of giving the country the Lord PALMERSTON and his friends hi a Derby . . . . 4 advantage at this critical period of a strong WE do not regret the failure of Lord DERBY'S Cabinet with great distrust. We are not in- s.l I • sensible to the weight of experience which -,.. Government. There were no sacrifices which attempt to construct a Government by union mus t a tt ac h t o an administrative and parliit- : 4... I the Conservative leaders were not prepared to with Lord PALMERSTON. That attempt was mentary career of forty years, in the course of make, so long as the arrangements they led to dictated by a sense of public duty, and was which his Lordship has filled many offices, and i were consistent with personal honour and the made in compliance with the wish of a con- joined Ministers of every shade of po litical . opinion ; but we should have thought it very essential principles of the Conservative party. siderable number of Conservative members of questionable whether his Lordship's peculiar We have understood that the application of the Legislature. Through the refusal of Lord talents and experience, even when elided to Lord DERRY was most favourably received by PALMERSTON the formation of that great neces- the votes of his friends, would have made sity of the time, a strong Government, is, we amends for the uneasiness with which this Lord PALMERSTON, the Noble Lord expressing fear, wholly impracticable. We do not under- fusion must have been regarded, and the ' 1 his readiness to serve under Lord DERBY, and rate the mortification which this abortive division which it might have introduced into his sense of duty, which ought to influence result must occasion to the party which ac- the Cabinet. Lord PALMERSTON'S proceedings public men at this moment in rallying round knowledge Lord DERBY as their leader. But in connection with the late Government have it is only right that the extent of his failure not tended to raise his character. No intern- their Sovereign. His Lordship, we are assured, should be defined. He has failed to effect a gible explanation has ever been given of his stated, as was anticipated, his difficulty in junction with Lord PALMERSTON—nothing sudden retirement from the Aberdeen Cabinet joining the Administration alone, and the more; and a failure on this ground is infinitely a year age, and his equally sudden return to names of two of his friends, Mr. GLADSTONE more consolatory to us than if it had arisen it We have witnessed him for some months • . from dissensions or jealousies among his own past, a constant defender of all the acts and Mr. H ERBERT , were men ti one d as th o se Party, or from the inordinate pretensions of of that Ministry. He was satisfied with its of persons be wished to accompany him. Na • . any . Members of it. While that i arty remains construction and measures up to the period of obstacles were urged to such an alliance, both united and true to itself, we shall never despair these Rt. Hon. Gentlemen having been ori- of the security of our constitutional system, or its dissolution. In a word, we think that Lord DERBY I S Government would have been egOki. ",, . •: • . finally, and for a long period, members of the of its inherent power to eventually overcome tailsy stronger without Lord PALMERSTON.an Conservative party. The interview with Lord i g all obstacles which may exist to the formation his friends than with them ; for the .re PALMERSTON was so satisfactory, and promised of a firm and truly national Government. strength of a Government at the proseirt But should that party, from any circumstances crisis would depend much more on the unity to be so conclusive, that th e E ar l o f D ERBY , it whatever—from the weakness or selfishness of of its councils and the complete confidence appears, felt himself justified in returning im- individuals, or from any such dereliction of felt by its members in each other, than upc4 ~ ! ~ • 110 • - _,__ --- - - • .4... I