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

IP r* \1 Ni ARK ET COMAIBACIAL INTELLIOLIV E. CITY, TW 0 o'CLOCK. The eotthn market a t Li verpoo l , on Thursday, *fled °f quietly. Th e sa l es amoun t e d t o 7 , 000 b a l es , which 500 were taken for export. 360 bales ~,1 1€ti litle and 'Mantilla reelised sd. to ( 4 11 •1 300 NYPtian 5 1d. to Bd., 700 z;urat 3iel. to 44‘!., 411(140 Sea Island 12d. to 16d. The tendency in tll4llai lwaY Share Market was downwards. It w if a ppears by a statement from Mr. Josep h . it almr, of Liverpool, that during the past month f lib 343eft that port for Australia 14 vessels, o 4 ells, with 3,591 passengers. The present tiL ito te a of frei g ht there are 40s. to 455. to Sydney ; t S. t° 45 8. to M e lb ourne, to the B ay ; an d 50s. °OOB, to the Wharf ; and 40s. to 50s. to Adelaide. , Z eic lutre h as been very little animation again this of la the co l on i al produce markets, but holders fi L e ree of th e principal staples have evinced much rttl:9BB. For West India sugar there has been a inquiry, and an advance of 6d. per cwt. has la. Inl et' Plitee - Refined has been wanted at 425. for mantle llra Pe• Mauriti us , th oug h q uiet, has corn )l34 L l f ull 'values, and in foreign the dealings il ati e " Peen limited. • Coffee has been steady for k inds ve as well a s p l an t at i on. C ey l on an d co l ony o li 4°l t he latt er h ave b een i n reques t. Th e p u h mon meg , 0 11it ea passed off steadily, and at the einna class Z eB full prices were obtained for . third for L'4(lligh some reduction was submitted to has fa t and second sorts. A good business are (1 41 done in spices generally, but nutmegs ht not to P e r lb. cheaper. Rice has been dull, u eott: we r, and cocoa has obtained good rates. iet,„ 4 , Ste ady, saltpetre dull, and also jute, but 'me ruled firm. T a ll ow h a s been somewhat ti oc1 1114 ) and at presen t i s ra th er heavy. The ar,C,, l ee are expec t e d to go o ff t o l era bl y well, tT v4tan ding the general dullness of trade. 4 13°4 t he state of the Ma uchester trade, Messrs. CTr eenhon, and Irving make the following 4itstel;!the c ommencement of the month, with a al f ig h h e t 1 4,11 W, le favour of a firmer tone, the action % li t as diet er been unfavourably progressive, inasmu rsoent f alltir ei r TA and apprehension consequent u? L et ltall ie ,,',:'ave not only induced greater ceutio n n n and . taken. l an, but created a feeling of increased h lh ader all the circumstances, however, ts our h et vc reit:lents remarkably firm. Indeed, p ion With those is surprising, when viewed in connection 413 41 1 ,, -40 of the Australian, American, East Indian, the etiser foreign markets. The transactions of 11 4, 1 -44411 have beenthavery large extent, indeed, they tyre treeeded the expectations of many. We ., conclude t 41 04 s t! h ave been of much greater extent ilanw i been reasonably calculated upon. Stocks d kialetar %ie'rielllllyenathee cannot be noticed as having possessed l character ; and prices, in a ttie r 4l 4% have undergone little material change, eta°4ll,Behe°acerns goods or yarns. In the course of . the e q cot e Y did, from an improved tone in t f h fi e rm L nes :- 1% 1 4 4t tll4ll Market, acquire a greater degree o . a ' l ion:lent they exhibit a downward tendenc; ,likke:; ll pf the month, however, is marked by greater Peel 00 7, 8 nk Prices generally • and, although the ive 'XL ruarket n • tains ' increased firmness, it has effect of 'nln imparting greater firmness here. t'teler,•l,Lad rthe country trade has been most cir 'CuLdrin the month. On account of ov.er erthelaintlit:tia ( I l t cp g ortantdepar . tment, such is now being h and B eie firms are said to be discharging many 1/ 111 l Th e . e.. 0110 li w ing are the London quotations for the by Atentities of the United. States, as furnished -64" ' 1) Co. 1 1 / 4 1,_. • • ell, Son, and o. . t b re . Z i„tat e . A Redeemible. Per Cent. s'lxtietat e ,i ` Per Cent. Bonds 1862... 98 99 b fit eek %tett" Per Cent. B on d s 1863...105 106 - "a4a. 6 per C e nt. Ins cri b e d .. • Pee ...... .1867-1868...104 105 5 . , ... . ...... ... I t a aillichZ-}a Cent ... 73 75 A , 41 7 1 at1474.4 Ater Cent. B on d s 187 7... 77 80 "abate ,° Per Aar Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) 1868...101. 103 Alab a %' pe r (`'ellt. (Sterling Bonds) 1)2 ii t , ; „ l 9 4 _s p er t oper oT, t, (Sterl. Bonds) 1858-9-66... 6: , 1 tiat lrgi e lli k 4 6 Per Cut, (Sterling Bonds) 1888.. .880... Z o i2 4 3' 6 p er ( „ 11 _t. Bonds keet ‘'eut. ll'e v r ,seal 6 per LOANS OF arms. , 83 ue ean 6 Cent .................. 78 an 1) 0. 8 Per Cent. Bonds. 107 a... 410 e„t RAILROAD BONDS. ral 7 per Cont I,liaglo‘uPder) Cont., 1875... 65. i 661 Ist Mortgage (Ster- 1860 ... 90 4:4rtiaiolv,Pila Central R. Rd. 6 CAmi o t i t 1880... 86A Cent. let ALL 4 eß t6 ."C snd Erie 7 per - .. . .L - 868-1869-106 101 Ngage . .Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort -1883... 77 78 7 Cent. Convert ible 1862... 68 70 T ; t ait e ll (4 4 -Mie n :a ' l 7 3. per Cent. let Mort erre tr_esehen Branch) ..1868... 75 ..... kelt: L 4 4,le and Alton 7 per --en • .. 1867... 75 tl4.4:et'a Pert tittt4...r- o - m - ... Moscow .-- ... that immense offPtoVisions and other necessaries were -tirg ' 84 4 e ‘i t e4Pat elled from that city for St. Peters- The Funds r Parts of the Russian empire. 114 g h ke looking better, and there are i t he safe entertained that a Liberal, but at I ' l e , rlned trine a strong, Ministry will be ' rr elnie r 4 ., 11c1 that Lord Palmerston will be under all circumstances this is looked I -14117 a th e City as b e i ng a l mos t th e are no Consols have realised 911 I, and I la've t ie - ` 1 for transfer. The bargains for time s ee n eu e r , rl f 91 i to ‘ l ,-. The New 3 per Cents. have 15 - . - " e ll 011 to 92k, and the Reduced 91± to 114Ve be e S tock is firm at 212. Exchequer Bills 114. ~„"e ll quiet at 4s. to 75., and India Bonds at , o ererei ntia. T:.rkireigli Securities have been neglected. The With 31113°114 have been 761- to 3, being firm, but lid j e b e rY little doing. Spanish Threes are 36 D a, ueferre d 17 ,. P ortuguese 5 per C ents. ti b eell et,marked 441. Equador Stock is at 4. Tr Per Cent s• h ave b een at 93k. lit oo l l:,: i°11 "ing are the nominal prices of foreign , tee' 2i"--Grenada Deferred Borah, 5 to 6 ; Mexi- D ero ' 4 l. to eat ; Peruvia n , 70 t o 72 ; ditt o Three t , 11 ,, t .) 50 to 52 ; Portuguieee Four per Cents., ditt o 1 ) ; Russian Fire per Cents., 100 to 102 ; 41,461711r-and-a-llalf per Cents., 89 to 91 ; Dee 0 -q Neer Deferred, 17.1 to 17±; ditto Three ditt o ; ts. ) 3 61 to 36± ; , ditto Ce rtificates 4± to ; 100 he ;rive, 4 to 4i. 'Pki,„ -ai lway Share Market has been rather Ningalthough there is scarcely anything ° rtl • lp ,„.. h e Great N o rthern, North Western, -1111 k1 Q -44 1 te rn, South Eastern, and Midland are all ‘ ll rAter. The unfavourable traffic returns 41 411; i : 4 :It fort n i g ht , ow i ng t o th e wea th er , are '4laree-:il et uarket for the present. The Canadian k . e' l a at a in request. vk lead • e rather brisker. Cobre are quoted ex ~pith 1 )1 y he Banks are higher generally and •43512 de ° a - l e , d o ing, Canada Company's shares have in at 115. 114 4 Stt /111siDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLO (Frog,, the °Val List. ; 1 1114k r ,ogtockBurdness done 212 .... 11)er Rel," - .......... ... .... ......... 913 q, r3 "qi.t. Ann!ii . ties tadi e Per e caa TeT Annipties .014%68 i o e p r o inn_ . itieS • %401:', 11 d i er tw o() • 14 fireliAcconnt, Bth February la r 1,111 • ......... . .................. 4 7 deOREIGN FUN AT ONE O'CLO , ;K. h 4 % iW e :l ° Elonds, .... ........ 1811 44i x-',"baa, Per Cent . Ne w' Deferred per' dejit" l7l D it' s°4 ( l 4 6 e t o for r con Ln Account.. Ntel Avide nd 44 t x _ nn the above navaihle r in London. 4 0 A c `"`nge, 2=4 per t,ent. C I nor Cent: Certbie,ates. q 9 'q IN P°f°4 HALF-PAST TWO. mok3l B bat " . 0 , February Am-mitt 9lB )1. 14 1 , 4111 8 144 - Giu " u.—we regret to state that the Well na. the First L or d o f the t. Yest er day as rep or t e d. 4 co4llllB EXH IBITION.—The Society of Arts has formed to , reittee to organise a grand expedition of artisag ei, ".qn Paris Rxhibition in the summer. The e i xneter istentlearte are to be supplied with lodgings, guides, and rta r ; 3 ' and every accommodeion. The terms T h e will be published at an early date. of i! l e Project for uniting the principal railway stations an hil t : l l 4 bn with the City, by meaas of a subterranean o bile notice Pule"' hal at length been prominently brought before supported by the Great Western Railway 17:1,-tikAnY, which takes an interest in it to the extent of boa„.""/,,, , , and by placing four of its directors on the io 4. "-Uhe line will run from the General Post-office r the ~, Martins-le-Gramd to the King'e.cross Station o tiotr,,gat Nrthern, thence to the Ruston-square Stl tort ,`. the North-Western, and thence to the Padding to n,e,ation of the Great Western. Tho capital required b o _ e ll this object is 1,0040001.; with the power of 4roWine, - • CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) FRAUDS IN THE COAL TRADE. John Bates and Charles Klux', two respectably-dressed men, surrendered to take their trial upon an indictment preferred against them by the Great Northern Railway Coal Company for fraud. Sr. Bodkin and Mr. Giffard appeared for the prose cution, and Mr. Ballantine and I.Vlr. Parry were for the defendants. Mr. Bodkin stated the following case to the jury : The two prisoners stood charged with a fraud upon the public of a very injurious character, and one which the company whom he had the honour to repre sent feel it their bounden duty to bring forward, as the two defendants had, by representing themselves as the agents of tha Great-Northern Coal Company, grossly imposed upon several persons, and sold to them coal of an inferior value to that for which they had paid. The defendant Bates is a greengrocer and coal-dealer, carry ing on business in Seymour-street, and having a cart of his own. King had, it appeared, taken a back room in a house No. 28, Bidborough-street, King's-cross, near the station of the Great-Northern Railway Com pany, which he styled his office, and represented himself as agent to the Great-Northern Railway Coal Company. Upon the 23d of October, a person named Wilcox wrote to Mr. Herbert Clarke, the agent to the Great Northern Railway Ooal Company, at the coin parry's offices at King's•cross, to send him a ton and a half of the best Silkstono coal. Mr. Clarke wrote to say that the company could not execute the order for that class of coal until about a month after, but that they could send some Wallsend in a shorter time, which Mr. Wilcox then ordered. Previously to the order having been executed, the defendant King called at Mr Willcox's house, to ask for orders for coals. Mrs. Willcox saw King, and she told him that they had ordered them, but they had not come. King said that it was all right, as he came as an agent from the office. Upon the next day, a carman came to her with a ton and a half of coals, and brought a ticket purport ing to come from the Great Northern Railway Coal Com pany, and signed "J. King, seller." Mrs. Willcox paid 21. for the coals, which were then delivered on the next day. Mrs. Willcox finding that the coals were not what they ought to be, made an application to the Great Nor thern Railway Coal Company, and the fraud was then discovered, and, upon an inquiry being instituted, it was found that the coal which had been supplied were some of the value of about 17s. a ton, which had been sold by the company to Bates. The cases, of which there were several, were being proceeded with when we went to press. LLOYD'S SHIPPING---(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Feb. 2.—Wind and weather this day at noon, strong breeze from tho eastward, with a sharp fresh FALMOUTH, Feb. I.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Hartley, from .St. John's, N. 8., for Sunderland. COWES,' Feb. I.—Wind, E. Arrived—Aluma, Zanzibar, for Hamburgh. OFF PENZANCE, Jan. 31.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived— Boletta, from Rio Janeiro, for Copenhagen. The Bone Pere (schooner), of Nantes, from Havre to Newport, went on shore near here during a thick snow storm, and has become a wreck ; crew saved. NEWPORT, Feb. I.—Wind, N.E. Sailed—Cascades, for St. Thomas.— The Alarm (schooner), of and for South ampton, caught the bank, and fell over on her beam-ends, but righted again, and is strained and leaky. BEAUMARIS, Feb. I.—Arrived—Peeping Toro, from Prince Edward's Island. GRIMSBY, Feb. I.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Margaret Littlejohn, from London, for Kirkcaldy, leaky. BELFAST, Feb. 2.—(Per Elec. Tel.)—The Alamne (ano ther report says Atumne), schooner, of Workington, is on shore at Ballycastle, and is expected to become a wreck. STIIANRAER, Feb. I.—The Briton (s), flout Glasgow to this port, calling at Ballantree, struck and filled before she could be run on shore ; she is full to the guuwall at low water ; craw and passengers saved. NOTICE TO MARINERS.' BLACK SEA.-KAZATCH ADTD KAMIESH BAYS, CHER. SONESE. Hydographic Office, Admiralty, London, Jan. 27, 1855. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Royal yacht has broiled into the steam-basin, and as soon as the new east dock of the steam-basin is ready she will go in. The Duke of Welling,ton, 131, will proceed from Ports mouth to Plymouth to be docked, as stated some three months ago. The Eurydice, 2G, Capt. Ommanney, will return from Bermuda to England early in April, and be ready to proceed to the White Sea. The Esk, 20, screw eorvettee, Captain Birch, is ordered from Portsmouth to Plymouth, on her way to the Black Sea. The Sampson, 6, paddle frigate, Captain Brock, was pnt out of commission at Portsmouth on Wednesday, and her crew were granted leave. The crew of the Retribution, Captain Fisher, will be paid wages at Portsmouth to-day, and granted leave while the ship refits. The Excellent, gunnery ship, during the snow-storm on Tuesday parted the southern arm of her moorings, which has been replaced. The crew of the Magicienne, 16, paddle, Captain Van sittart, are to be paid wages at Devonport, and have leave for such time as they can be spared. The Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich and the Black Eagle and Vivid steam-vessels were paid down at that port on Thursday. The Perseverance screw steam troop-ship will be paid down to-morrow at Woolwich, and the crew turned over to the Falcon, 17, screw steam•sloop, at Portsmouth. The Rhadamanthus paddle-wheel steam store-ship arrived at Woolwich on Thursday from Glasgow. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—Arthur R. Wright (1854), has been ap pointed to the Ariel screw steam-sloop at Portsmouth ; Augustus T. J. Bullock (1852), to the Calcutta, 84, at Devonport. Paymaster Edward J. Bennett (1851), fromthe Cruiser steam-sloop, to the Meander, 44, at Lisbon. Mr. W. Ilenwood, Inspector of Shipwrights in Ports mouth dockyard, is promoted to be foreman at Sheer ness. THE TRANSPORTS. LIVERPOOL. The Great Britain screw-steamer is being fitted up at Liverpool for the conveyance of about 1,650 infantry and 30 horses. She will be ready in about 10 days, as will also the new screw-steamer Etona, belonging to the Cunard Company, and being fitted at Liverpool for the conveyance of stores and 170 horses. The Imperador screw-steamer took her departure yes terday evening from Liverpool for P em broke, where sh e will embark a detachment o f th e 31 s t Regiment. Thence she will proceed to Queenstown for a detachment of the lst Royal Dragoons and of the 48th Regiment, making in all 940 men. She is said to be the beat-fitted vessel for troops which has passed under the notice of the Ad aliralty agent at Liverpool. The Telegraph, Liverpool and Dublin Paddle-steamer, will leave Liverpool in a few days for Balaklavap with stores and about 120 commissariat drivers. The Indian, a new screw steamer, and sister ship to the Canadian, is daily expected at Liverpool from the Clyde, to be fitted up for the conveyance of cavalry, SOUTHAMPTON. The Royal mail steam-ship Severn, chartered hospital ship, went out to the river at South preparatory to her departure for auspton yesterday, Woolwich, in accord ance with orders received. Previous to h er getting away a telegraphic message was forwarded to Southampton to delay her sailing, in consequence of there being several bales of warm clothing which it is the intention of the Government to forward to the Crimea i n this ship. The Severn therefore still remains at Southampton, althoughral she has been ready fur sea for several , days. She is well supplied with medical stores, heus, and every comfort necessary for the purposes otiwbich she is to be devote d. The American clipper-ship White F a l c on, laden with wooden houses for the French soldi ers in the Crimea, hauled out of Southampton docks y ester d a y. She is to screw steam-ship Lady al $o at daylight this morning, „cornp anied by the Jocelyn, 4 40 laden with hats and stores. The general screw stearn-s'nip Orwsus adjusted com , passes yesterday. This fins ship is at the service of th e Govcrum m43' eut whenever they requ i r e her assistance. - The Calcutta, screw, is bein— g ove rhauled, and will soon be ready for sea ; she possesses every necessary to make a valuable vessel in the transportation of troops. MI L Captain George T. Gordon (18 4 6), at present in com mand of the Duke of Wellin gton , 131, screw steam ship at Portsmouth, appo i n ted to the Victory, 101, as Flag gtszoaputt has t been. to vice. Admiral Sir Thomas J. Cochrane, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief on that station, vice Captain John C. Dalrympl e gay, appointed to the Hannibal, 91, screw steam -ship, ex the Black Sea station. 2,000 Mi n i e r ifl es, Yesterday and on WedaSsd a y the contractors, both British and foreign, sent in above rifled carbines, and revolvers t o the Tower for examina tion. b.yv fr a y the Horse Guards to increase the strength of the Irab Hussars to 800 sabres, in consequence of their being required to augment the cavalry forces in the Crimea. The 15th Hussars only returned last autumn from Inlia, where they were em ployed iu the Madras Presid e ncy. Since th e i r arr ival in England they have beer quartered in Exeter, in which city they received - Clot remounts, and are Tibia nearly 500 strong. The 1 6th Lancers (the heroes of Aliwal) are also under ord ers for the Crimea ; this regi ment has also recentlY, retu rne d from India. The depots •f the gth, 17th, 39th, and 89th Regiments have been constitute d Into a provisional battalion, under Lieutenant Colonel Slack, an d the hospital for the com bined corps has been op ene d in Limerick, under Dr. Gore. Draughts of 100 men from each of these depots were medically inspected an Monday, previous to their departure to join the se rvice companies in the Crimea. An interesting cerere un ., took place on the parade ground at Pembroke d o _ ck last week, upon the occasion of the presentation '5 4 r four medals for good aid long service t o f our soldieri present under orders r ° Major Kelly, who is f the 31st Regiment, who are at if a ctive service in the Crimea. io / sand, delivered the medals to the soldiers, and 46, ) " In • . • The Charlotte Jail , tre,sed them in appi opriate terms. mouth harbour this fr e ight-ship, will go into Ports ittacrning to embark detachments of the 67th and 69th Virnents for Barbadoes. DEATH Cl ' , GENERAL HAMERTON. The Clonneel papas announce the death of Gen. John Millet colo n el of the 44th Regiment. The e ' , is country residence , Orchardetown, coun ty of Tipperary, on Satur d a y last, after a brief ill ness. The General en t took il a m place er t° n ' al, Was A soldier fro hi e youth, having en tered the army at the early age of 15, an d distin guished himse lf i n various engagements i n E g ypt, the ail-, West Indies, a N during the Peninsi - , ler war. At Waterloo he b ra vely led on the second bat %salon of the 44th, in which galla n t regiment he had graduk te d t o th e rank of lieutenant-c o lonel, and was left for de on t h e fi e ld, having receiv e d several severe wounds in tle head and thigh. Owin— g to the attachment of a faithful non . commissioned offi cer, s er geant Ryan, who brought his wounded and , ins ens ible commander under the care of skilful medi cal treatment, he slowly recovered, and with his devoted follower returned to his native country. Captain C. G. flutter, who died at Bombay on the 18th of December , served during Sir C. Napier's campaign aaainst the mountain and desert tribes s it ua t e d on the right bank of . the Indus , early in 1845, with a detach - Tie was Commandant of the Mili tarynle detach went t O a O r .YllSleLhtion at Poorundhur, and was brother of the two Captains Butler, one of whom fell at Silistria, and the ether a t Inkertuan. SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATES. ORDNANCE. Supplementary estimate of the charge which will pro bably be incurred during the year 1854-55, for Ordnance services :--, BARRACK SUPPLIES, &C. Barrack Sul plios—Great-eoats and boots and shoes for the troops Warm and w aterproof clothing and waterproof articles f o r the troops £207,000 382,500 £C49,500 21,321 £21,321 Supplemental to vote 6 of the Oidnanco esti mate for 18 A-5 5 ••• ......... Total.. Office of Ordnance, Jan. 29 , 1855. AdmirajtY, Jan. 29, 1855. - Suppleluental to vote 2 of tho Ordnance esti mate for 1851-55 .... WAIFS. Wages for extra time at the several depart ments a t Woolwich • SuPOtemental to vote 5 of the Ordnance esti -1114,t0 for 18 51-55 C STORES. s r arm ..... 66,000 - ",r,'•41 ordnance, shot, shells, &c. e quipag e arid miscellaneous stores - 234,800 Huts for troop s in the Crimea, 54,8001. ; stable huts for 5,000 horses, 19,0411. ; hospital huts for 2,000 patients, 12,0691. Huts for 50,000 men, to be erected in garrisons or at Aldershott 176,000 Huts for 3,000 men at Heligoland 12,930 Foundry for Lancaster shells 25,000 15,000 Building for machinery for small arms 732,140 £1,402,961 H. D. Ross. • W. MONSELL. THOS. HASTINGS. NAVY. Statement of excess of expenditure for her Majesty n avy for the Year 18 5 3-54 : Dequ i re d to be voted in order to defray the e xcess of the naval expenditure, beyond the g rants for the year ended on March 31,1851, as shown on the annual account of the naval receipt and expen diture for that year Ali estimate of t he sums re q uir ed to pro vide for the estimated excess of the n aval e x penditure for the year ending !arch 31, 1555, beyond the ordinary And supplementary grants for the year 1854.55 ...................... . ..............J .E1,933,104 0 0 . R. G. GRAHAM'. W. Cowm. £77,099 10 3 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly general, meeting, held ye,Rterday, at the Society's House in Hanover-square, Robert Hudson, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair, Messrs. E. S. Codd, and G. W. Bell, were elected Fellows of the Society; and Messrs. R. W. Grey, M.P., T. Walker, Hardinge Giffard, and Latimer Clark were Proposed as candidates for the Fellowship, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE MINISTERTAL CRISIS. • (Front the Times of ail; day.) tatives supporting him and his policy, even though the greatest person in the realm should unfortunately be prepos sessed against him. George 111. was long allowed to ex e l u d o 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 less, these eminently obstinate monarchs were at last Com- Paled to receive as ministers the men they disliked. Now that the people know their, rightsl3ettcr, and are in a better condition to assert thorn, the exclusion of a sagacious and patriotic states. man 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 butter flies, and intriguers hackneyed in the ways of office, will do well to lay to heart. (From the Morning Herald of this day.) Once more an 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 Ad ministration —united in its determination to carry on the war against the domination of Russia, and strong in the all but unanimous support of the British people. This obstacle has been interposed at a moment critical be yond all former precedent—critical to the safety of. the state —critical to the honour of the nation, and, above all, critical to the salvation of our army now perishing upon the frozen heights of Sebastopol. This obstacle it is necessary that the nation should be aware has been interposed, if not by, at least for the benefit of, a portion of that degraded faction which the unparalleled and overwhelming majority of one hundred and fifty seven has 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 for two long years been the coadjutor, if not the councillor,' of the men whose terrible crimes have occa sioned 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 placed, seeing the vital emergency which required the speedy—nay, the instant—formation of a Ministry able and willing to save the remnant of our troops, to restore the honour of England in the eyes of the world, and to rescue the Sovereign from the fearful situation of appearing to her people as attempting to rescue a Ministry upon which the country has now placed its brand and its seal 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 ,whom such an opportunity had been afforded of exhibiting the highest patriotism, if ho dared to turn it to the purpose of giving obstruction to the endeavours which an invincible sense of duty alone could have induced Lord Derby to make, by dragging again into the councils of our Queen persons who within a very few days have been specially ejected from them by the overpowering force of public opinion ? Nay, if we have heard aright, this individual absolutely wished t. condition for placing at the head of the War ad ministration a nobleman more obnoxious as an administrator to both Soldiers and officers than any other person who holds a seat in the Legislature. The facts to which we have referred are so currently and confidently asserted that wo feel ourselves bound to comment upon them, although we still hope that no Englishman could so far forget his duty to his country, his Sovereign, and the army, 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 Pal_ merston. The individuals belonging to the Peelite section whom he is said to have wished to attach to himself for the purpose of—disguise it as ho might, such was the fact—, weakening Lord Derby's Administration were Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Sidney Herbert ; whilst another, whom we 'cannot suppose our readers have not already recognised from our de scription, is the conciliating, the practicable, and success ful administrator, Earl Grey, who, iu the Home-office as a subordinate, in the War and the Colonial Departments whore ho was dominant, accumulated an unparalleled amount of mismangement and actual disaster upon every transaction in which it was his fortune to be engaged. 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 offered up the holocaust—and insult to the Sovereign whose earnest wish to acquire the aid of a firm and popular Administration has been threatened for the moment by a heartless and pro fligate intrigue. 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, united, and capable of commanding thoroughly the aid of a sufficient number of members to set faction at defiance, even in the present House of Com mons, relying, as lie may do, upon the undoubted fact, that, if driven to a dissolution, he will receive the hearty sup- Port of the nation in carrying on the people's war. On this great truth, however, the person whose duty it may be finally to form an Administration may rely—the taint of Peelism in his Cabinet will be fatal to it. With regard to Lord Palmerston, we warn him, that while the original con struction 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 re-construct it by dove tailing and patching together the rottenest portion of the now happily shattered mosaic, will bring down upon his head the wrath of au aroused pebple. 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 take the Peelites to his councils, he would by that mere act utterly 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 sit ting on the same benches with Mr. Gladstone and his accom plices. (Front tke Morning Post of this day.) The public will learn without surprise that the Earl of Derby has declined to form an Administration, and that Lord Lansdowne has been summoned to Windsor. It may therefore be safely surmised that the overwhelming force of public opinion hag carried the day, and that a Ministry will ar - o'nee be refined, 'of which Lord Palmerston's name will bo the guarauteo to the nation. In this result the country at large will sincerely rejoice, while}, our Allies and our enemies will look upon it as the certain indication of a most vigorous and thoronghly:English policy. Such an issue was disiinctly foreseen by all persons practically acquainted with public affairs. Some, indeed, were surprised that the leader of the country party should have been sent for by her Majesty ; but a reference to the division list of Monday night will showthat it was the large preponderance of the Derby party that gave such exceeding weight and breadth to the censure beneath which the Aberdeen Ministry fell to the groimd. Lord Lansdowne and Lord Palmeritollir,the only other names that have been canvassed as likely to have been sent for—lay under a technical though not real disability, because they were members- of the con demned Cabinet. However strongly, therefore, her Majesty might feel that probabilities were against Lord Derby's suc cess, there existed the strongest grounds why the ohance, such as it was, should be accorded to him and his followers. He has tried his best and failed. This result materially sim plifies the crisis. It leaves the large body of the Conserva tives at liberty to accord an independent support to the in coming Ministry. They will feel that no injustice has been done to their leader or themselves, that they have had their turn, but have not been strong enough to take it, and that, consequently, any, attempt to - impede the success of the ‘ii nister who may be able to form a Cabinet would be factious, undignified, and unpatriotic. The presumptive evidence has all along been against Lord Derby's success. His ownparty was not strong enough, either in numbers or official ability. He must either have brought in old colleagues, many of whom have already been tried and found wanting, arid whose presence would have sunk his ship in the very first storm that might blow over the often troubled waters of the House of Commons ; or he must have enlisted a long line of recruits—raw men, as far as office is coricerned, which would have been a still worse alternative. The only Ministry that can or ought to stand at this moment is one that is obviously and demonstrably capable in the eyes of the country. It must bo incontestably strong in these particulars, at the least—in its Head ;in its War Minister; in its Foreign Secretary ; and in its Chancellor of the Exche quer :to which we may add this sine qua non—it must com mand the.cordial confidence of our Allies. The material of such h Ministry it "%vas impossible for Lord Derby to find in the ranks of his own party. His only chance lay in a coali tion. With the co-operation of certain known and tried men, b e might have succeeded. The names of Palmerston, Claren don, and Gladstone would have saved his Ministry. But we do not want a three-legged Cabinet which stands upon the redeeming qualities of a few undeniable men. We want a Ministry that in all its parts—head, body, and members— is o ne; coherent and co-operative —that stands upon its own merits, and needs not to quote the pre-eminent qualifications of one portion as a set-off against the obvious incapability of the other. A Government so constituted might last for a while, but it must eventually fall as a whole before some violent opposition, provoked by the shortcomings of parti cular portions. The mischief of such falls is, that the innocent go down with the guilty, tbe competent with the incompetent, and the country becomes deprived of the services of her great mon through the incapacity of her lesser ones. A coalition of able men; differing in many patfticulars from one another but consenting to act together with cordial unanimity for the obvious geed of the country, has a priori everything patriotic to recommend it. A coali tion between capables and incapables must be short-lived. Yet that was the only kind of coalition Lord Derby could have concocted, and, unhappily for him, the incapacity would have been almost entirely amongst his own friends. He could not, therefore, hope to succeed, however patriotically he might have been disposed to waive all personal questions and private feelings, and, uniting with those from whom he is often dissOciated, to devote his unflagging-industry and brilliant powers to the public service. But he did right to try, and it is more his misfortune than his fault that he has not succeeded. But his failure is no misfor tune to the country. Better a thousand times that he, or any other Statesman, should fail in forming an Adminis tration, than, having formed one, to fail some short time hence in carrying his measures. We have already said, and we repeat it, that the Cabinet now to be formed must be formed with a view to an existence at the least conterminous with the war, so far as anything human can be so made. It must see its way clearly through the intricacies of the present perplexities, right forward _to their disentanglement, to the strengthening of what has been proved to be weak, to the ad justment of what has been proved to be disorganised, and to the surmounting of those obstacles which have stood in the way of the success of its predecessors. Let us hope that a Palmerston Administration may, in accordance with prophetic • public feeling, . achieve all this. There's much virtue in a name, for it presents to the mind the long chain of antecedents which illustrate its owner ; and how ever sincere in his desires for peace the excellent Earl of Aberdeen, however patriotic and experienced Lord Derby, there is in that one word Palmerston a magic influence with which none can compare, and which speaks, in its world - wide fame, of the most glorious days of British foreign policy, which revives the • memories of William Pitt and George Canning, and which is identified in Persia, on the Caucasus, at Alexandria, 'at Athens, or at Constantinople , as at St. Petersburg; Vienna, or Berlin, in America, In France, or in England, with the highest principles of liberal progress and constitutional liberty, and, above all, with the duo influence' of England, and the prodigious interests of her vast empire. (From the Morning Chronicle of this day.) Lord Derby has acted wisely and patriotically. On finding that he could not form such a Government as he conscien tiously deemed equal to the emergency, he at onto abandoned the task with which her Majesty had entrusted him. It now remains to be seen whether Lord Lansdowne or Lord Palmer ston will meet with a more favourable reception from our leading and tried statesmen. We only know of one who, from position or influence, can or will throw any impediment in their way, and this we deeply regret for many reasons. Public morality 'has fallen to so low au ebb, and so many political reputations have been wrecked of late years, that Lord John Russell's last escapade, independently of its more direct effects on our foreign and domestic relations, may be regarded as a national misfortune'. He must have acted under some extraordinary hallucination, or he could hardly have failed to anticipate the judgment which would be passed urea such conduct, even without the itid of the corresrond- _ ence which was read by the Duke of Newcastle last evening, and of his Grace's lucid statement and conclusive vindication. Lord John Russell's most zealous advocates now admit that he must be content to do penance for a period. The only I mode of recovering, in some degree, th e es t eem au d confi dence of his frie nds, would be for him to repudiate at once all notion of an immediate return to office, avow an intention to give a cordial support to the besl 'Govern ment that can be formed ou a Liberal or Liberal-Con servative basis, and honestly exert his influence with his remaining followers to do the same. Mr. Staftbrd has flung his Admiralty peccadilloes into the back ground by his mission of charity to Scutari, and by his touch ing and simple narrative of what he did and saw. Lord John Russell would do well to imitate his example ; and it would be for the public service if he could persuade Mr. Disraeli to pair off with him for the remainder of the session and go too. The main obstacle to the satisfactory solution of the Minis terial problem would be thus removed ; and a stable Admin istration might be constructed' with comparative ease. The sooner the arrangements are completed, and the fewer the changes, the better ; for an infinity of misohisf might ensue from a prolongation of the crisis, or from the delay and con fusion that might result from the shifting of posts, or from the introduction of a number of new hands. At the same time, occasion might be taken to rectify some errors that wore committed, and some injustice that was unwittingly done, in the formation of Lord Aberdeen's Government. Thus Sir William Molesworth should be removed to au office in which his profound knowledge and admirably-trained mind could be turned to account ; and Mr. Charles Villiers' claims, as the enlightened champion of free-trade principles, should be more suitably recognised than by continuing him in the post of Judge Advocate. _ . Others (Mr. Henry Fitzroy and Lord Elcho, for example) accepted' places in Lord Aberdeen's Ministry confessedly inferior to their well-founded pretensions, but it is one obvious advantage of a coalition Government that the in ferior offices are filled by a higher class of men than in a pure Whig or pure Tory one. Indeed this is the very cir cumstance that excites the ire of disappointed aspirants like Mr. Rich. ' There will be a terrible outcry," wrote Wind ham, in reference to a projected broad-bottom Ministry, " amongst the smaller fry on both sides. When two large bodies come together, the insects on the surface must be crushed." Malcontents of this description received a tole rably broad hint from Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, who was loudly cheered when h e th us pointedly replied to Lord John Rus sell :—" The noble lord the member for London, on Friday last attempted, not triumphantly, to vindicate the Whigs from the charge of being an exclusive party that required all power for itself ; and he found a solitary instance for the refutation of that charge in the magnanimity with which the Whigs had consented to that division of power which his de sertion now recants and condemns. But, in plain words, his vindication only amounts to this, that where the Whigs could not get all the poiek, they reluctantly consented to accept ha'.f." _ _ What with Liberal-Conservative and Liberal claimants, the Whigs Proper must henceforth content themselves with such a share of power, great or small, as they can command •by their talents and their public services ; nor will they have any reason to complain of being put upon short allowance; so long as they are represented by so many eminently distin- guished and tried friends of civil and religious liberty. But it is utterly impossible, we repeat, for any durable Ministry to be constructed, except on a coalition basis; and there is no fear that one of Lord Lansdowne's or Lord Palmerston's making will bo open to the same objection as the last. It is prepostereus to accuse Lord Aberdeen of weakness because he could not, by a mere exercise of volition, compel unanisaity between statesmen of co-equal authority, two of whom had claims on the Premiership ; and before Lord Palmerston can be exposed to the same trial, his Cabinet must include both Lord John Russell and Lord Aberdeen. That a Liberal-Conservative Government under Lord Palmerston, with Lord Grey as Secretary of War, and Mr. Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer, would receive the support of the House of Commons, wo entertain no doubt whatever. The division on Mr. Roebuck's motion was merely the echo of the senseless popular outcry against Lord Aber deen and the Duke of Newcastle, and, so far as the Liberal portion of the majority are concerned, it may be considered as a declaration in favour of the noble Viscount. If, how ever, this House of Commons, which was elected under Lord Derby's auspices and through W. B.'s instrumentality, should prove factious or unmanageable, a dissolution is the obvious remedy; and a bold appeal to the constituencies would effec tually prevent either Lord John Russell, Mr. Disraeli, or Mr. Bright, from upsetting or embarrassing a Ministry honestly bent on the vigorous prosecution of the war for the attainment of an honourable peace. (From the Morning Advertiser of this day.) So then the attempt of Lord Derby to form a new Adminis tration has signally failed. The humiliating announcement was made last night by the Noble Lord himself, in his place in Parliament. We congratulate the country upon the fact. It would• have been a great misfortune for the nation had we witnessed the advent of a Derby Administration at such a crisis as the present. Wo congratulate the Queen, no less cordially than the country, on the abortive attempt of the Noble Lord to form a new Government. Her interests, we need not says are identical with those of her subjects—and if she , have enlightened and faithful counsellors around her throne, they will not fail to impress this great truth unceas ingly on her mind. And now that all hope has vanished of tho formation of a Derby Cabinet, we repeat, what we have so often said, for a long time past, that Lord Pahneraton is the man, and the only man, for the Premiership. In the earnest hope that ho may not be induced, by either the wishes of those in high quarters, or the solicitations of private friends, to repeat substantially the error he committed on a former occasion, we adjure Lord Palmerston to remember, that it is to his too ready compliance, on a former occasion, with the wishes expressed by the Court, that he would rejoin the Aberdeen Administration, after he had seceded from it, that we are indirectly to ascribe all those evils which have resulted flora the mismanagement of the war by the Coalition. His duty plainly was not to return—no matter by. whom asked to do so—to that imbecile Cabinet. Had he persisted in his resolution not to reunite himself to Lord Aberbeen's Government, that Government would have inevitably perished, and the country have been spared all that miserable incapa city, and that crimin:4 neglect, which have well nigh annihi lated one of the most-gallant and finest armies the world over saw. It is right Lord Palmerston should be reminded that he has thus incurred the awful responsibility of being, indirectly, a party to all that has happened in the Crimea. And will ho be prepared to add to a load of responsibility already, it might be supposed, too heavy to be borne, by repeating, as we have said, substantially the gigantic error he committed in December, 1853 1 If he joins any incompetent Ministry just now, and enables suck a Ministry to exist, and conse quently to do mischief, he will thereby do deliberate violence to humanity, morality, patriotism, and constitutional prin ciples. Without him no Government can at present b, formed, and therefore he is bound by the highest and holiest Obligations which can influence the mind, to . keep reso lutely aloof from all Ministerial combinations, no matter by whom made. He can by that means compel those in high places to confide to himself the task of constructing a new Cabinet. These are not times for - the practise of any false delicacy. If others above him have claims on his loyalty and devotion, he has also claims on their con sideration. The obligations and the duties are reciprocal. He is bound to have a regard for his own character. No man is to be expected to sacrifice his character to please any one. But above and beyond all, Lord Palmerston is bound to recollect what are the claims which his country has upon him at this crisis. The claims of country are paramount to all others, and must not be sacrificed to personal or private considerations, no matter of what kind. In countries like ours, which are governed on constitutional principles, the people are not made for monarchs, but monarchs for the people. It were well for all our Ministers of State were they never to become oblivious of this great principle of the British Constitu- tion. The important truth must bo proclaimed by the press with greater force and frequency than ever—more espe cially when our representatives shrink from the discharge of the duty—that the people are the source of all-legitimate power. If this principle had been inculcated in Parliament in the way in which it ought to have been by those whom we have sent to that assembly to represent our principles, there would not now be that unwillingness which all deplore, in one branch of the Constitution, to confide to the man, to whom every one points as the fittest person for the purpose, the task of forming a new Administration. The time, we reppat, has come when an independent press must no longer mince its words. We feel that at such a crisis as the present it is our duty to express ourselves in language about which there can be no mistake. We repeat then, with regard, to Lord Palmerston, that he is bound alike by the ob ligations which he owes to the country and to himself not to accept of any secondary office in a now Ministry. Not only has he personal claims of paramount urgency to the position of Premier, bUt the dictates of an enlightened patriotism sug gest that he should not rest satisfied with any subordinate place in Downing-street. It is only as the head of the Go vernment that he can render effectual service to his country at this momentous juncture. • With another Prime Minister he would not be a free agent. It is only as Premier that his great administrative capacity, his hostility to Continental absolutism, and his ardent patriotism, could be exhibited with effect. Lord Palmerston ought to have been Premier long ago. And but for his excessive good nature, and his gene r o u s anxiety to please others, ho would have been Premier in De- Camber, 185 - 3, when - ho seceded from the Government of Lord Aberdeen. Our earnest advice to Lord ralmerston at that time was, not to listen to the counsels a-id entreaties of those who urged his return to the Home-office ; for we felt as tho roughly convinced as if the contingency had been already an actual fact, that, had he only refused to join the Aberdeen Administration, it would not only, before ten or twelve days had elapsed, have fallen to pieces, but that he would have received the commands of the Queen to form a new ono in its stead. Lord Palmerston is again out of dice. Let him re solutely resist all efforts to coerce or to cajole him into the resumption of any seat in the Cabinet, of her than that which appertains to the Premiership ; and before many days have elapsed all personal prejudices against the noble lord—no matter in what quarter they may exist—will be made, by the force of circumstances, to give way to the universally and energetically-expressed wishes of the country, that the r e i ns of power be committed to his hands, in order that he may ' guide us through a crisis the most momentous which e ver. oc curred in the history of Britain. (F ro m the Daily News of this day,) Lord Aber deen 's statement in the House of L or d s l ast n i ght, late administration, and L or d D er b y ' s announce .e to form another, w ill d oubtless be read regardingeiioti•od fhis sh failui announce ment more interest by the public at large than they were list ened 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 discourses of the ex-Premier ; and most of those who crowded the galleries and the bar of the House of Peers last night had previoualy learned from various sources that the mission of Lord Derby was, at least for the time, at an end. Beyond the formal avowal of this fact, the Tory leader's speech contained nothing of any signi ficance or importance. He made his hearers laugh more than once indeed, at the expense of the out-going Ministers, ' and entered a general demurrer to the eulogy pronounced by Lord Aberdeen 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 suggestive, which any one will be able to recollect if he should try a week hence. In truth, however, it was not the expectation of anything of the sort that filled the house last evening at an early hour. Something much more racy and provocative to the jaded ap petite for Parliamentary discussion than Ministerial declara tions, whether ponderous or jaunty, had drawn together an unusual concourse of senators, fair ladies, political fops, and critics and gossips of every degree. The Duke of Newcastle, it was understood, had undertaken not only to defend himself against the imputation of having by his incapacity brought obloquy and ruin en the Cabinet of which he was a member, but, as his friends gave out, he was, by the reading of private letters, and the disclosure of private conversations, to blast for ever Lord John Russell's character for manliness, veracity, • and honour. A morning contemporary, 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 public mind beforehand for the belief of any tale of treachery or tergiversation which might be told to the Peers. Conuneuting on a fiubstautially unfair, thoughliter- . , The interest of the Ministerial and personal explanations delivered last night in the House of Lords was so surpassingly great that it threw into• the shade even the momentous politi cal events of the hour ; the fall of one Cabinet and the failure of another agitated the Parliament of England less vehe aently than the manly defence of the Duke of Newcastle, eel the overwhelming refutation which he hurled at the head of hie late colleague arm accuser. Nor is the interest in such gaiters unreasonable or misplaced; we may have difficulties to surmount, we may have omissions and iniscarriaees to re- Or, but no crisis in public affairs can be so formidable as to ioduce the British Parliament to suspend an inquiry which affects the honour of its debates, er to delay an act ofjustice to one of its members. The Duke of Newcastle's explanation has, according to all ordinary rules, irregular, - it intervened between the two statements of Lord Aberdeen and Lord Derby • it was a direct reply t o a s p eec h delivered in the o ther house of Parlianient, and it disclosed to an unusual ex tent the confidential transactions and correspondence of the late - Cabinet. Her Majesty had, however, been pleased to isleaso the Duke of Newcastle from the obligation of secrecy, or the expresseenrpose of making this vindication of his own character, and, under the circumstances of the case, such an elplanation was indispensable. If it be put to any impartial man to say, after having read the Particulars of this transaction, whether he had rather stand before the people of England and the judgment of history a s the Duke of Newcastle or as Lord John Russell, n ot ono man he a hundred would hesitate to choose the fate o f a Minister who has fallen at his post, surrounded by his colleagues, rather than that of a politician who has terminated his official eareer by flight, mil sheltered that flight under a misrepresentation. The one may have been unfortunate in the selection of his instruments, but the 'other has been fis sil:ere in his dealings with his friends. The Duke may have c arried his candour and disinterestedness to a fault, but that is a fault of which Lord John Russell can never be accused. The Duke of Newcastle has been unsuccessful in the task of restoring order and efficiency to military and administrative departments so rotten and faulty as ours have turned out to be; but no one has impugned his zealous industry in the pablie service, - his generosity, or his honour: When we took the liberty in the autumn to advert to the prolonged absence from town of the Court and the majority of the Ministers, it w as because we know that the Duke of Newcastle and Lord claret:dela were left almost alone to bear the whole burden of war, though it now turns out that Lord John 'Russell was still evincing his profound solicitUde for the success of the army by despatching from Mints or from Scarborough a few impracticable snggestions or qaernlous complaints. Lord Derby indulged last night in one of his accustomed sallies oe the domestic felicity enjoyed by such a Cabinet, and on the effect of such disclosures as' these ; but, in truth, if the history of Lord Aberdeen's Administration be ever faithfully recorded, it will be found that the disunion of the Cabinet was duo to one cause only—the petty but incessant attempts of Lord J. Russell to supplant the chief minister and to ob tain a position over his colleagues. Mr. Roebuck's motion appeared to him a favourable opportunity to strike the blow which was to restore him to tee Premiership ; but the blow was a foul one, and, though it chattered the Cabinet, it has inflicted a far deeper wound on Lord John Russell's fame. The existence of the late Administration was in his eyes no more than a period of transition, which was to restore him to the position he had already forfeited, and to that object ho has sacrificed without hesitatioi his fidelity to his colleagues aud his duty to the country.. The facts distinctly proved last night by the Duke of New castle from authentic cormsponience or competent witnesses contradict in many important particulars the statement of Lord J. R usse ll , an d it seems incredible that s uc h a s t a t emen t should have been made in thi presence of at least half-a dozen persons able, ou the fret occasion, to demonstrate its inaccuracy. It appearsiin ,i ceci himself i the first eiithel place,t y ha t t n up t o h n e the separation of the War and Colo n i a l D epartments the Duke of Newcastle 1 hands of his colleagues, deelating his readiness to r e tain either or neith er o ffice, and tint it was by their unanimous d ecision, not by his choice, that he took the seals of the new Department for War. It is shove that down to the Bth Oct., and consequently during the wiolo of Lord John Russell's autumnal recreations, he continued to write to the Duke— " You have done all that could to done, and I am sanguine of suc cess." On the 17th November, when Lord J. Russell first urged a furthe s change iu the War Departments, the Duke and Mr. Sidney Herbert placed their offices entirely at Lord Aberdeen's disposal, and. urge d him to do what h o th oug h t best for the public service. On the 16th of December Lord J. Russell informed the Prime Minister that he had changed his views and abandoned his farmer plan. 'At the Cabinet held on Saturday, the 20th ofJaeuary, three days before Par liament reassembled,. Lord J. Pafse ll himself brought f orwar d for the re-organise. another pla n fioa of the military depart multi, more nearly resembling the scheme of Lord G rey. This plan was agreed to by the Du k e of Newcastle aud adopted by the other members of the GOVerDlnellt, with the exception of one or two insignificant details, on which Lord John had made a blunder. Yet, to the astonishment of his colleagues, Lord Joins has since asserted that he had no reason to suppose that the reforms which had been under consideration would prevail, and that he was enable to assure the House of Com mons that arrangements were being made to remedy the state of Use army—the fact being, that Lord John's own plan had at that very time been aereed to, and that the Duke of Newcastle had already announced to Lord Aberdeen his ab solute determination to resign office altogether, on account of the unpopularity attached to his a dministration of the War Department. Under these circumstances, the sudden an nouncement of Lord John's flight from the Treasury beach excited the unfeigned amazement of all who knew the facts of the case, and we must add that these facts are wholly irreconcileable with the motives he thought proper to assign for his resignation. The truth is, that of all the proposals connected with the war Lord John Russell has made to his colleagues none have been rejected, and of the objections ho has started none have been overruled. The causes which led him to destroy the Government at this difficult and perilous crisis iu the affairs of Europe must therefore bo sought alto gether in his own personal ambition. 4111ing the assembled Peers of England to witness, and in tie presence of all the late Ministers of the Crown, who have personal knowledge of all these accurrenees_theeDnke.of .Newcastle proved to de monstration that most of the alleetatiotus of Commons by Lord John Russolrorrecnrs --- Subject are at variance with the truth, and that the obloquy arising from this transaction does not remain where ho attempted to cast it. It has been our p a i n f u l duty, i n commenting on the ac, counts received from the army,"to animadvert as forcibly as. we eould on the numerous instances of mismanagement, whit. have .exposed our troops to dreadful hardships and losses, lowered our military reputa tion abroad, and compro mised the success of the Crimean elpedition. But we have never said one word which could be construed into a personal imputation on the Duke of Newcastle more than on the othor members of the Government and the chiefs of the army. On the contrary, we knew with what indefatigable energy ho has worked while other members of the Government were not even within reach of London ; and we could not but draw, and have ever drawn, a favourable contrast between his laborious zeal in the public service aud their supercilious in difference. Great mistakes have been committed in the choice of the men selected to carry on this war, both at home and abroad ; and the Government has been justly blamed for not reorgan ising the administration of the army, embodying the militia, forming a reserve, and proceeding to place our military estas blishmeets at once upon a full war footing. - But on all these points Lord John Russell must be content to share the cen sure which his colleagues have incurred, and it is because these evils and omissions were not more promptly remedied that the task became impracticable. The Duke of Newcastle has failed, but it was the system as much as the Minister which broke down ; and no Minister will succeed in guiding this country to the glorious termination of a successful war until the military establishments have been thoroughly re formed. We think, therefore, that the Duke of Newcastle overstates the accusations which aro or can be preferred against himself ; aud we arc confident that no man will read his manly aud becoming defence without sympathy and re spect. Several vessels with troops and stores bound for Kazatch and Kamiesh Bays, on the north side of Cape Chersonese, having been stranded, or endangered, by striking upon the shoals extending off the coast, through incautiously ap proaching the shore, and owing to neglect of the existing charts and sailing directions, the following temporary notice is published for the guidance of the mariner : In rounding Cape Khersonese from the southward keep - Vllll, upon of a itearer and lower bluff, until the lighthouse on the cape bears E. by S. S., or Fort Constantine is seen open of the north coast of the peninsula. Then an E.N.E. N. course will round the cape and all the shoal water off the points, none of the rocky ledges extending more than 23 cables off sh ore. Dv~ insia (Double), or Kazatch (Cossack),to theeastward and Kamiesh of theYe)a Bp e a . ys, T f h o e r r m e tishealrhstralargge in Large open ing from 15 to 20 f a th oms , a ns t u a d d mud d y s distance and efj h milewhere stranger a t n h g e s r e n s t h r o a u ri l ce d bring a bottom of ng up or lie to, until communicated with by the guard-boat. In entering Kazatch or Kamiesh B a y s the N.W. point, and the middle point which separates them (wh(which now be recognised by an earth battery upon it), should not be approached nearer than 2 cables' lengths. And no vessel should run up the western or Kazatch Bay without a pilot, for this double bay, which looks clear and wide from outside, has a reef of sunken rocks, extending three cables' distance in a north direction from the tongue of land which divides the head of the bay into two parts. The channel on either side of this sunken reef is only from to a of a cable's length wide ; has a depth of from 7 to 9 fathoms, with a bottom of stiff sandy mud ; as also in the upper part of Kamiesh Bay. In the outer part o these bays the ground is less tenacious, being a muddy sand with gravel and shells ; and no anchor will hold in a less depth than 7 fathoms. As a general rule none of the points on the North side of the Chersonese Peninsula should be approached nearer than 2i cables' distance. The south coast of the peninsula is steep too ; Cape Feolent is a high perpendicular cliff, black at its lower part, but capped by a white calcareous stratum that in clines gradually to Cape Cherson, which is low, the base of the lighthouse at its extremity being only a few feet feet above the sea level. The light now shown at Cape Chersonese is a fixed pale light, instead of revolving as formerly ; it stands at an elevation of 116 feet above the sea, but is not visible beyond a distance of about seven miles. All courses and bearings are magnetic. WHILE'S-BACK LIGHTS, ENTRANCE TO PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Portland Maine, Dec. 20, 1854. On or about the let day of June next (1855), the present lower light, exhibited from the Whale's-back Lighthouse at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, N.H., will be dis continued, and there will be substituted at the same time for the present upper fixed light, a fixed light, varied by flashes, of the fourth order of the system of Fresnel. LIGHTS AT CAPE ELIZAMETH, MAINE. Portland Maine, Dec. 20, 1854. On or about the Ist of June next (1855), the present fixed light and the present revolving light at Cape Eliza beth, Maine, will be discontinued, and at the time of the discontinuing of the two lights, fixed light, varied by flashes, of the third order of the system of Fresnel, will be exhibited from the tower from which the present fixed light is exhibited. The tower of the revolving light will not be removed, but the two towers will be left standing as at present, to serve as a distinguishing mark of the locality by day. - THE MUSEUM OF ORNAMENTAL ART AT MARL BOROUGH HOUSE. The numbers attending, &c., during the month.of January, were as follows :-8,706 persons en the, public days, and admitted free ; 251 persons on the students' days, and admitted as students on the pay ment of 6d. each, besides the registered students of the classes and schools. The museum is new open, free, on Saturdays, for the convenience of schools, &c. A FALSE ALaum.—Yesterday, at neon, the most in tense excitement was created in the City, in consequence of the report of what appeared to be several successive discharges of artillery, and it was imagined that the guns at the Tower were being fired for some glorious victory. All were anxious to know the cause, and it being too early for the second editions of the morning papers, mes sengers were despatched to the Tower to ascertain what joyous event was being celebrated ; the result of their inquiries turned out to be that in consequence of there being a large number of rifles and other small erne to prove, several were discharged simultaneously and successively. The first division of the 94th Regiment marched from Chatham garrison yesterday morning to the terminus of the North Kent railway, and proceeded by rail a t 8 a.m. en route for Windsor. The division comprised eight companies, under the command of Captain W. H. pore, with Captain Bruce and Captain Marne, Lieutenants Malthus and G. L. Hedley, and Assistant-Surgeon Stoney. The head-quarters of this regiment leave Chatham for Windsor this day, under the commend of Colonel -Dennis, with Captain Pratt, Lieutenant Lewis, Lieutenant Buchanan, Lieutenant Gaskell, Ensign Har ris, and Surgeon Patrick Gammil, with the whole of the staff. The bead-quarters will consist of five com panies. NEW GOVERNMENT MUSKET FACTORT.—The Govern ment having resolved to be the manufacturers of their own small arms, an extensive factory is now in progress of erection at Enfield Lock, Middlesex. It will contain the following arrangement of departments : Smithery, brass foundry, picking-room, annealing-room, desiccating room, metal-room, engine , and boiler-house, packing room, and packing-case department, storekeeper's offices, browning-room, grinding and polishing-room, casehard ening-room, and tool-making department. The contract for the same is taken by James Haywood, of Derby, who has recently completed the New Manchester Mar ket. The contractor is bou*d to the completion in six months. The. process of setting out the ground has commenced. - The railway train which left St. Etienne on Sunday morning, for Lyons, went off the rails not far from the station of Vernaison, Eleven carriages broke their axle trees, but as the train was goi n g rather gently at the moment, from the line running in a curve at the spot, no further inconvenience was caused than a delay of about two hours, whilst other c arria g es were b rought up. The cause of the accident is said to be the b rea ki ng of one of the rails, which was too weak to b ear the great weight in the carriage, i (From the Daily News of this day.) p o f o sas subject.ei e The instinctive love and veneration with which Englishmen cling to their Sovekeign was much weakened during the reigns of the Third and Fourth Georges, by the knowledge that the Personal likings and dislikings of , these monarchs influenced th e ' too much in their choice of Ministers. The Monarch of a free state, like England, ought to be above personal pre . He ceases to bo Kin By indulging them he lowers himself to the rank „ merely th. leader of a party. Fo g r of th --axles in a matter of such vital selection of his r f osponsible Ministers, is to de . .... o y r es Othe peoples .and weaken its eapeolSovereignl importance andtb eteoo indulgenit h e a grade the Crow i ll the e a subject to endeavour to represent elations to the people. and mingling in their cabals, is little l enders, ming %this - with the personal animosities asmuch as it may possibly place the takin g l c e i gi .o tima i t n e a a l u ita tli g personalSo t f at certain as l party the oSuerievai a gi e i r ass authority. L that these remarks have been suggested : S" the indecent attempt short of treason ; .I,rceive. at one . and unmanly _ n... tines to represent the Qteea hi b ig : li ne r . ° au active part in, the personal .sent n% arising out of the , pie Ministerial crisis. " The 4:76, 1 , . says the TiMes, "is made sci yesterday knownmi u x a e b d b le with, h w aa i nv t h as , expressed ari to 0 L ner s 0 l f , , , °l'd John Russell her sense of: conduct so much at variance with th e common principles of t r uth and honesty." We b eneve thi s statement to be un true. The unscrupulous character of tb e Times is so nuiver °Wit th e t, o'reatmajority of the opinion, They will not believe that their Queen can have so far i:anost beyond conception.. e r a e l o l y pleo f known, El4 i t an h that willwe h c a o v n e c ur n o idn. this forgotten what she to stoop to write'a scold ing letter to an ex-Minister, on. the f ex parts statements Made by the colleagues with- h strength o w om .he had quar relled, without stopping to. hear his version of the story. herself a c ity o f a and the falsehood s c e o h u o n o t a ry The people will judge of the conduct Of Lord John Russelland his lato colleagues for themsel o T w he es : e Ss upon the evidence laid before them; they cannot helpdoing so if they would. It is possible—it is almost certain—that they will decide in favour of Lord John. Tho hot haste Of the Times to throw the Queen's name into the scale against him shows 1 -- .how much it fears that the pop ular verdict will -,, in his ,iavour. This being the case, it is clear that, in order to subsorve their own party purposes, the managers and inspirers of the Times have not scrupled to expose their Sovereign to the risk of incur ring popular odium, without any fault on .her part. Such conduct is traitorous towards a Queeu_is base and dastardly in men towards a woman. There. is, however, this advantage to be gained from the indecent and unmanly outrage offered to tho Queen in 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 shame-' Jessly in public, to what extent will they not ind u l g e them in the obscure shades of clandestine intrigue.? If the 'public could for a moment believe that the Queen had written such a letter as the Times describes, they would say, it is because his late colleagues have been so eager to pre-occupy the Royal mind with impressions unfavourable to Lord J o h n R usse ll, in order to prevent his having an unprejudiced hearing from his Royal Mistress. This would corroborate the suspicions which have gone abroad that the Conservative section of the late Coalition have kept themselves aloof from their Liberal col leagues as au organised faction in the Cabinet, and have laboured assiduously and unscrupulously to enlist the Court on their side by every art of sycophancy and misrepresenta tion. It would serve as an additional motive to the indepen dent 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. Ono thing is Certain ; and it is here stated not for the ; in formation of the Soverign, 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 attributed 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 ropiesen- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1855 +AtA • ' ally correct, statement of Mr. Gladstone, on Mon4glt- raat-lane%; which, perhaps, it was unwise in Lord John ar b -- Bred to pass for the moment unexposed), the Tintait accused the noble lord of having used equiVoiegtiou in his recent statement regarding the War DepartmentlN n d the Duke of Newcastle was ill-advised enough to insinuate that on more than one point Lord John had misstated the facts of his own conduct and language regarding him. W e frankly own that were such charges capable of proof we should not only join unreservedly in pitying the luckless ex- Minister of War, but we should unhesitatingly acknowledge that Lord John was not the man we have long been accus tomed to take him for. Whatever may be deemed his faults, the noble member for the City of London has never been suspected of insincerity or meanness. The reproach of many . among his Whig followers has often been that he was im prudently out-spoken ; that ho was apt to offend the preju dices of lukewarm supporters by his unconscious keenness of phrase ; and that his chief defect as a party leader was that he was not versed in the histrionic arts that enable some of his competitors to seem all things to all men. And this may be a defieiency and a want in cliques and clubs, and coalitions of really incongruous elements. To the people it is and will ever be his best recommendation. They believe that he is in ear nest, 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 to wards a colleague, who had no particular claim on his per sonal consideration, he has had the folly and- wickedness to make a fraudulent statement of facts, recorded iu writing, to the,House of Commons - ------ • The accusation is almost too absurd to merit detailed refu tation. But, as the impenetrable dulness of the Duke of Newcastle, and the unrelenting antipathy of the contemporary to whom we 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 John, when speaking of the original nomination of the Duke to the War Department, happened to use the expiession, " I yielded ,to kis commendable ambition" to have the post of most difficulty and distinction ; although, as he added, he thought it should have been offered to Lord Palmerston. " This cannot be true," exclaims :his ungrateful grace, " for nobody ever proposed such, a compe titor in the Cabinet ; and I made a Sourish 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 Palmerston—therefore he must really approve the fond and unfortunate pre , ferenco shown for him by Lord Aberdeen Y Lord John could not have " yielded," because he nei ther insisted beforehand that the duke would fail, nor tried to realise his foreboding by embarrass ing or thwarting him. By the Duke of Newcastle's own sui cidal confession, last night, the ex-President of the Council acted cordially with him while they were in consultation re specting 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 errors and suggesting remedies. These instances we are told were few ; and when the attempt to apply them proved in one particular case impossible at the , moment, Lord John wrote, frankly admitting that the ob stacles were insurmountable, but generously adding, " You have done all that could be done." Will our readers believe when we tell them that these words constitute the second count in the indictment for mendacity, equivocation, and fraud I " Why did Lord John Russell suppress the fact that on the Bth of October he addressed to me words of commendation f" In other words, his Grace would have the world believe that the expression was used in a general and comprehensive, not in a special- and limited sense ; and ho gives the extract so shorn of context as to render the meaning ambiguous. And this is the candid man who has been made a victim by the wily and perfidious Whig leader ! But the crown and climax of all is that which the dexterous mas ter of Oxonian dialectics first called attention to. When Lord John Russell found that no storm of national indignation could make the Prime Minister understand that a now Secretary for War was required, and when he despaired of mending matters in any other way, he suggested various changes iu the department. He had suggested, some months previously, a consolidation of the Secretarystip for War - and the Secretaryship at War into one office. He had done so by the advice of a nobleman who had himself filled the latter office, and on whose practical judgment ho relied. This in dividual subsequently changed his opinion, and satisfied Lord John that what he had originally recommended had better not be attempted. Meanwhile, the disasters of the Crimea began to convince even the Duke of New castle that some great change was desirable. In a moment of penitence, of panic, it occurred to Lord Aberdeen to recur to the , old suggestion for the consolidation of the two Secro taryships, and Lord John was asked did he wish to revive the proposition. He replied that he did not, and stated his reasons. " Therefore we were entitled," says Mr. Gladstone, " to believe that all idea of any important change in the War Department was a defunct proposition 1" Was ever sophistry like this ? Because Lord John changes his mind on a ques tion of tape, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer coolly ignores the fact that a change of hands and heads was urged by Lord John—when the misfortunes of Balaklava, were beginnin 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 John has an opportunity of replying to the cavillings and. quibblings to which his words have been subjected. Too forbearing we have before said we think he was ; and a precious recompense he has received. But now let us in onr turn ask those who talk of sup. pressio yeti, whether a fact of no trivial weight has net 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 party motives t Did no other member of the Cabinet write to Lord Aberdeen to the same effect ! (From the Mornzng Herald of this day.) Lord Derby hss declined the task which had been delegated to him by. his Sovereign. The duty of forming a Government at this moment, when the late Cabinet, as much by their ad ministration as by their retirement, have thrown all things into confusion; is far from an agreeable task. It is not one which any nobleman would readily undertake, except from the most urgent considerations of duty. The late debates on the war, consequent upon Mr. Roebuck's motion, have dis closed the terrible disorganisation and mismanagement which still prevail at Scutari and at the Crimea; in the army, in the hospital, in the commissariat--in short, in all quarters and provinces of the war. An apprehension pretty generally exists that worse disclosures have yet to come ; and now that they are removed from office who were most interested in putting a fair face upon matters, and the whole truth must come out undisguised, the heart of this nation is doomed to quail; and its ears to tingle, with dark and ominous annimnce ments—yet to come. It cannot, then, appear surprising that Lora Derby prefers remaining in his present exemption from the frightful fespon sibilities of office unless he has a power coequal with his re sponsibilities. It is not our part to attribute motives or point out the obstacles which short-sighted and selfish ambi tion may have had in defeating designs entertained by the Sovereign, and entrusted for their execution to this able and energetic nobleman. It is enough that Lord Derby himself does not see clearly how he can execute the commission thus entrusted to him, with credit to himself, with honour to the Queen, and with safety to all; and, therefore, he re turns into the hands of the Sovereign the authority with which he had been invested. We cannot blame him, much as we, in conjunction with a large portion of the nation, would have been glad to see a nobleman of Lord Derby's standing, intelligence, activity, and chivalrous bearing, placed in that position which Lord Aberdeen has too long occupied, with little credit to himself and extreme detriment to the nation. We cannot blame Lord Derby, we repeats fully as we are convinced that, had he been placea at the head of the Administration of the country, there would have been no repetitions of the blunders, short sightedness, and incredible neglect, such as characterised the proceedings of the Coalition. His genius would soon have extricated us from the horrors into which the war has sunk us ; from that degradation which, as a nation, we cannot but feel, when comparing the boast and bravadoes with which the Cabinet and their adherents began the siege of Sebastopol, and the humiliations, the childish cries for help to others, which their conduct has reduced us. But a stronger reason than any ,of these would have induced us to welcome Lord Derby's accession to power ; and It is this— that sooner or later the reins of Government Must fall into his hands. Until that period comes the nation can expect no permanent and no vigorous Administration. For what are the alternatives before it 7 A Whig Govern ment or a Coalition Government. Or, to speak more cor rectly, a Coalition Government, in which Whiggery forms the more predominant and more active element. A pure Whig Administration is out of the question ; it has been tried and failed signally. A re-construction of the old Whig party, with fresh and youthful blood, is an impossibility, even were i t a C y o n h te v u o s l a a r t e e th . ioy } p 'o l i a • c w o a d i t n e v thee s ri t i r n n : t g l e 7 c :e r ra b t o i res o t e stlsWhigsthere any succession to supply the vacancies in their ranks which time is daily snaking I There aro none ; no recruits to step into the gaps of Whig oligarchy. Lord John has effectually knocked his own party on the head ; he has sung the placebo over Whig monopoly as effectually as ever did Sir Robert Peel in a kindred instance. Then as for a Coalition. What, we ask, are the hopeful elements out of which such a piece of joinery can be con structed / Then Mr. Gladstone; like Garrick between tragedy and comedy in the celebrated picture, will be subjected to the solemn warnings and the monitorial acerbities of Lord Grey on one side, to the jaunty, noisy Pahuerstoni anisms of youthful seventy-three on the - other. Can ho reconcile tho two with each other? Can he reconcile either with himself ? Lord Grey's colonial administration, or rather mal-administration, , defeated Lord John's Cabinet, and raised Mr. Gladstone and his party to eminence. Mr. Lowe, lately the under secre tary of Mr. Gladstono's own creation, was the gadfly ex pressly deputed from Australia to visit this country to hum and sting, to denounce by public speeches, and , through the columns of the press, Lord Grey's ministerial inca pacity and his impraaticable temper. It is no secret that the Times, now • unaccountably anxious to foist Lord Grey into power, opened its files for so clever an advo cate of colonial independence ' and so bitter an adversary of the unpopular Lord Grey. It is no secret that the most acrid reviews of Lord Grey's colonial policy are to bo found in the same columns. If, after all, Lord Grey can unite with the of lasting durasatpti:LnaidablNeootr Peolites, then, as the Reman poet declares, there is no rea son why doves should not take to the water, and fish graze in the trees ; political honesty and political consistency have become a farce and a bye-words people of England do not like Coaflotri::::;fnaaiew3ttaiholtminhlset• But has not this country had sufficient experience of A t to he n h , history Coalition that it must needlessly " repeat the dose 9" Ilse it not seen already Mr. Disraeli's dictum verified, that the of this country bears testimony, clear, frequent, and forcible r t d h p at ai n m o ers C t o o a n lit s io p n op c i m i be ty zs 3 enough, that judgment,ur t rs o e i n a f averting him, yet we cannot e s y u e e s h t to combinations abili ties evenwpilirascuticccaebelde.inAseninidudtettoluonulg.gh we do not wish to prejudge Psi merston's abilities are more fitted for brilliant coups de Min war and adopting a than patient s tatesmanship. However conspicuous his genius when war seemed inevitable, far more application, to business and all its details than Lord Palmerston possesses will be required to extricate us from our present perilous po- N ra m ig a o y i o .o r h o e u a Ea ti i a l o i l i i :o e n a f e:r i e . g d m et i o ilci r t e hc o e ' sition, to unravel the skein, to land us in safety from the mbroilment and 'confusion into which a Coalition has thrust us. It is for these reasons, then, that we should gladly have seen Lord Derby at that post to which his rank, abilities, and character fit him more than any other man, and to which cir cumstances must drift him eventually, even without any exer tion on his part. He has done wisely, and ho has certainly consulted his own dignity and ease when ho refused to mix ! up with the party squabbles, the Downing-street intrigues, 1 and the party plots out of which Lord John has just crawled with soiled hands and a damaged reputation,