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VaYed by Laurent's orchestra :—Over -00 A 'alleiei Tatton,; Waltzes: Wellen am' Wogen, i '.l l T 4, 18 lor c e ,=arn a e v a „T ; Verraahlung'a Toaste, . 4tr t uu r ; en iL t a 1 '11, 11 1,1 1 , { "lott e ,' the Dm de Venice tby desire), H. Lan rent, ik ti `4, Anne ' e .l. l e lPel per;ormers; Quadrilles: Jerome (+ the secrer d'Or Bongnol ; the Highlanders, H. \ (11;,, t ill t q v4 i agn.. r; ° , 7 l, BV i l e e, the tr i cy o l u l sg ß u e e n t at!ssY e : Th Z Po ott l a k v as es, \ ko,,,At l i;), P . 1 (nrst ti n m a Z r Streather ; gallop, Dover kt : . toi. ) , ii 2rnl atio ,, royale. Principal Cornet-a-Piston, 51. 'AtjaCcler the relative to music to be ti obtained . at the Ad„,. 0 chestra. oors open at Eight , e•ra. 31 --`ssi Oh, One Shill Ding. \‘'N, 1, p , i , . - '')END STAR B ._ et s A, ti tael a t 4 .,`: P ' , Ult,.. -- . 01 Greenhithe and rurfleet Piers. xEltA e . r s AS underlined (weather permittln; e MR. GRAVESEND. Sutvnavg. -- g z 1 N 4 4 g ' h.. - I L-street Station to all parts of Londo,, I LA.CKWILL, on the arrival of the to the Fenchurch-street Station. Its 11I t PA ._ u s? DIDTA. ARUBA , 218 T Frs., 1335. c o, :in,: 1,114!k/trA;btaloichxpti:b4..e.:,),To_ f wau DIRECTORS of the EAST . C. F ur ° tik:flannekril' Y .do hereby give Notice, that the Rate of Stone, TottaSeat 0 tnoto r s ota the receive Cash for Bills on Bengal and 1 np00 7f . 7 . t date, and until tanher notice, be 2s. Id ter, Carnden - '". --- th '„ , yam , r and for Bills on Bombay 2s. 134 d. the Com- at eleven, a . .o t : t ot nee, Basing . .71.11 KS I. MELTILL, Secretary. I ' . 44.1 3 , it I'°- NI Gll2 SmiTEr glire b s, Gll2 S MONT BLANC grocer— ~ . , , A ,at 8 • „,. • B.IIL rea 2 ()clock, and Every Night (but Saturday) S. naive, r , Her e , 4, S.; Gallery, is. T Representations , W . Wrenn, , kA ti "efaly, Th _ ne Morning ~... ecatee y. ay, and Saturday, at 3 o deck. 'bard, Rocbestel,.. - Queen's-road? „ n PSII ,, ' , kie„ . nasgate-street i , , , :!t44-11i)lil• 0.0 s ._ . i ..... lei bret 0 S OUTH WESTERN LAIL- T. Bayley, C e.. ' t re WO" - t , wls tu PARCEL R ATES BY PASSENGER tity-squa s „ ~. t _, trier 711)s. weight are now charged 6d. each wait, Si tit % r" London RishblonPt•S__ , %% kik the b otch and any Station on this Railway, merc • 3 1 1 •7,„ . es p ester and Salisbury,lines; and to teta- 1, L. Goldsinit ' i ff, '' , &ree ls Linder 2 lbs. weight are now charged 6d. 7, J . Nv, Lof , 0 fr: ke, g iii iicies za...... , p hire, ir° i , ' 7 at th ' t rite* Sending Parcels are requested to de- orcesters CIO L air 441 e f°ll °Willi Offices in London :—Parcel Office. 'le, ThorneY ~g e hk i ' , lce.4,' 7.10 . ia, x i William-street, City ; Blossoms i.rch 16, E. .t - ci?" 44 ' fleet " ' lieapeta l e ig ...- A, a ~,,i ,'l(f or „ltre et , ; No. 90, High-street, Borough ; 1 22, 9 1 - c r eo". , n i ,„ ,, ood s ~!,Regent Circus Cellar, 13%, Alders- -22, S. D an' : lAO,- :43' , ije r ,,, 4,..31; Old White Horse Piccadilly ; .. Wyllie S. 431, It .' resb a „,' . hallies-street (for Goode only); Swan with W H. itarlCA ~ „ t oi ,„'?ed., tr ,•,. streq; Spread Eagle. Graceehurch/ street ; Vi , ,t,,, t1 „) . only et ; White Horse, Fettisr-lane; Golden Cross, ,41)lie ltd G 3-1 Office, Regent Circus ; Geortie and Blue ATIONS. 4 ir eit ' l ran's ',I bce % mei reen Man and Still, Ox ord-street. 11asgovr. „ , tlh.. e tt4, s , ,3l t ,r . e . so es m r mendel to avail themselves of the i N ,..an tli ttge3 thad it o w ern Railway Company have no con- do m... , k ti rreet deity uPott, nor can they be responsible for the isgoVr, bin to ~ arY ef, Goods or Parcels booked at any ---;-------- / ZS Ft ' ,:t 4 l ellil ' ae - i? l trrY, on purchasing goods, tic., in London, E.Erfg• 214,. 'ray c,;,,,oniering them to be addressed " per South '''D 'EY," and forwarded through one of the 1i,.. - lty 9 '' , tl tql order of the Directors. n. 20. prio', l o tl he st zts , ARCHD. SCOTT, Traffic • Manager. d er 'bou -,, r ed, "° ll , January, 1855. 3 P Dien „ P b 3 ; ne? ~ es 0 , R SVP Iricadn nForile;;Cb or, :e 't , lll ,:e iti'l :k• el'l.4itt RAILWAY.—HALF-YEARLY L an nii rn salt i l, , lth ETINEL—NOTICE IS HEREBY G ' VEN, roa4 i alt, it Amy: Ordinary Meeting of the Shareholders in , /I, ,t s t f ?,,, '4 c:. , ompany will be held, pursuant to Act of 20. . ' r , no p!„, ~ ' LAft,,a‘n.;lil, Chamber, within the Town Hall, of the . foil ( " Jr : ber d, i1 , t 4 ° 4 1 11." 1 " ) , , , , 0' c 4 DNESDAY, the 28th day of February g 1 , P er OP of .'tr e T'ael A e .,Sore, to the afternoon precisely, le receive the Sateen TO A ole m e three Directors in the place of Mr. glecta-r r se. k ia , 4:04,4, - -3 . , Mr. William Came, and Mr. George Smith, i rosnii ';' 'r n ift„,,i, • ' Ll'e rt , e, by n i : o a t od . an Auditor in the place of Mr. Alf'', d amid 1 :,Td0 4 , beal , ' a ge o r at lon, and to authorise the borrowing of Tilebond, and for the other purposes of general we c ° ,o p i Bean s 03 ,11 0 F; 1 / 4 ,, . ei r wi ll be take n a t O ne o ' clock prec i sely. 0 0,,5i to t a lo la il l .: l, ch I ;4 T rl it _AORDINARY MEETING. grindia ,/' 4?„; O IN ,V l t,,,,Z i e toi ; o: that the said Meeting will be made Special ' „,.."' 5.4 , o od Ai ka t itle_llailiv a lder tnE an agreement for the Joint Working ..'" 00 1 b 0 0 yp t io • t t a th e 0 7 tinder a Lease ror a term of seven Nears to ......... •'' , ~,.,l0 I,•e e t ' , ening of the line I id th to r ' t from ymou rttro, o ' w h'te) " 0 " , t.,,,, 4 Y C : at wester, ' • - -1 „,,,i; ," .1 , k l , -48, ° -Pariy, an ,, - Railway Company, the Bristol and per ••••• is), c fe l tor til l a B _,. e the South Devon Railway ,1 mpanx„ is F1 10 . 17 ' 'Si ..3 ct to the conitions specified in such ',,tt A B"rei ttnig the ms, et 6?6 li \ I went same tot he proprietors for thtir ti be t , b et . ~ r 9: 31 kt o N to ti_ R a i i .,, ,, :e,..n the Cornwal Railway Company, and ii:eyof considering the ~ 43 , 1 0 ,i 1 /SO , pa r . 4 ,,,,,at pl a y Co mpany, for making certain arrange- ,' :,1,0 '' ;St tit earbalnent pro talons of the following (i tot 44 1 1 4. ,, the eeMpbrettlhonisoVotmh:VOYA , vi a z l i— iißillior t ° iit th It alie. g % Mier 1 • Railway and e miDa Prov sions as to the sh/ire c , apttal of rival ni ti ' ri j I , ' di tt 1 he SebreZ, Z°. ant i'r 0 ' -‘111 ::1: and for other purposes,' when a ~. I to the meeting for approval. 0 fros t ' ics 0 o+ l ' 1 4N Is r O c b 9 '4 4, ', aIICHAEL WILLIAMS, Chairman. in lati, pile,,e? 'tht4lN hu ng Oir__, W. M. TWEEDY, Deputy-Cha"rman. done la •g'• 4 , 4 te r r r `'•un'ti and the Auditor are eligible, and will bel' ) ' " tae tool 1 0ction trifler 41t , 1 , , t . in for. Tor y ,\ - t sid 14 4 ° 1 11 \ 1 1 be Closed on the 13th, and not reopened Leg A , ,„, e arly Meeting on the 28th of February. velue• oe; , , It. "9' order of the Board. • easier. f• ,/, l, tit .41 ' 4 7041„, , „, WM. H. BOND, Secretary. ,r, " T ruro, Bth February, 1855. ~.et arf a b '' ° O F l a 1 , 01, _ grey an ~ eii/ , 0 I) - TEAIt d, .1313 0 ".4 1 , , k %tan, SOF HORSES FOR SHEERNESS. Potersba'byelfil; tit ent of th e n e Storekeeper General of the Navy, an ; 1,,, Riga 3 " ' p clf ' 1 11b1; . be merset..p4ce, 21st Feb , 1855. ••''',J 0 e dit 'di g i t - - 4 191.0 b 4 ..... •'i sti 81 4, ho .aa m era for Executing the Office of Kenji:o l)e .. eft . It.. ti . ..- 1. ,1 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain .... , lip" , h n 'alatp nel ..... • 0,1 ', t tr kas eat, , ~, GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, 0' 1 , 8 110 11° 0 ' ‘kt lall • n 'aY be a. Iwo o'clock, they will be ready to treat , Efue -v 00, 1 8,8 0 , „ at s h __ willing to Contract for supplying her fi . no for. 1 , 1 007, rif ,!! t l 4 . of ti, TEAMS7rn ess with i n f . for. Za Kr/ ‘,it t e tend er OF HORSES. • Ll , t4e t'4 ' 4 01 af ter eau be seen at the said office. iro tergibt eed...•..40 0 1 Va,"ttt, "s "t o'clock aakes ••••,.. f illi . f 4, 4 ,!,ti ' d, R ,• ' Party e n the daY of trePAY, Itteeilll any talends, or an agent f'dr him stuly autho- Englife'''' ~.,0 I ' ktty,',4 ba the de 'bltot b foreign ~/0 / , 84 I r . rt:44;arl dressed to the secret the Admiralty, • /if 1 1' Zta a li n e i a t Z_rea s ' a l°!'ner the words i.'reoler for Teams," and ) ...... ~,o, / _ o otrierset-plaoe, accompanied by a letter ke s t7t 4 e,t-C t isible ...... " edn the issue, enalghag to become bound, with foal .•••"' sl4i il k • ""e shin of sfll. for the due performance of ~, i' ,F "I` N ''........."........ E.—Y - o:4' 0 1, 4 4 1 -0. 'ti f „ , 0 A t ti ~1,ft.,,' ilea , s k% j - r r ,„ tar .. "/' ',"" 1 i',,q4.,„"'ie '' sla r,,stte • y r,. t t --SAMUEL ALCOCK and rn •• • • ',,' e l i -e- , ' iin .4Q - .i, tt ..... ." ... , k r ti L ;:fy.. t, L 'i , L . L re tki . !item, Staffordshire, being desirous of ......,..... 0 '1" 4 7 i4ii'' , ,Ole e a T il of an to possess a memorial both of the a ...... ~ ~, „ I tAp„ ~ 4 1, ~ ,t,,Ntai. , e and generals sympathy displayed by , ..... ..',.,',, 'el '''S litia • Setel'ilLt ~r n jT brave soldiers, have • published a no ......• ~. lB tlai,,vrt;; Le or the horrors of war, as well as of ia .. ......e',. •1 1 " 1 4,7 A , t 'n alleviate them, evidenced by the Royal , .. ..... •' , ~" . i ii 2•, 'he t 1 11 1 1 8 interesting work can be had at all ..........„,.., / '`, 4 b the kingdom. metro •• ' • ;redlt 1 'le 4,0 k '''‘' 6t. e b 1...,_ a A ,s AY'r e % • li .'ll ' rrt e ).•`'' "S ''k , ork. , d i ,„,...::/ , ,fll, 4 0 , 1 1 , et a , t e rY / 4 74 4 0 , PATRIOTIC JUG. LeipiDa o 'oip - :r II tt, -, to - orcish . el pi -158 1IIRE ADVERTHIER " FEB. 17, 1855. ces O F 1 10 11 1 11 1 ‘t e tited t P e ha t e kr in calling attention ' to od G AI Di.. i 1 , 0,.c the atri„ e e, ( ma Co ~ I , , ern e 14tise,,ttes , which we consider highly credit- an D ollars •• l' tel,',,(4)l 4 ,'estin a '''ileh has suggested and the skill which , fo r •• '•,. • ili rep - 'gli of P alOrm, W .?rk. Me/ ars. Alcock, of the Hill Pot- i s for, -•• , t p '•ea te l pent ed a han aao `ue stirring events of the war in the )I,: r l'h i • O n o l 'lnata„.7 ) , l e eilina jug, on either side of which _____.....••••• - • 1 ~ appropriate to the subject intended brut' fortifkLma. t 1' 'clert•s soldi - uona,;" Siege of tiebastopol is the subjest. UV' a p.," 0 de ;,,, -1.8 , som e to the distance: the siege is in pro- nnta l r ' ~ 4,,fprregi-'o"u're vi e to the trenches, others the f ie-- •/ i t rade 11 .° befm. y portrayed : one figure conspi- -0 n ) , l'ilt,',r l thi s ~ Pondeei n „,' a Woundsd soidier,- reclining P 4tc • k t h(: , re he i s t b on the ' home and the little ones' tl ' i t t i t t l l,,!t.h ili, l tale of ~. 0 all appearance for ever wide The 5,, ,, ,4 all a . ana, a „,.fie news reacmn g the now wed wife Trma porT 11 l l' . i , I stN,, 5 r ieLL _ • their first grief; but a ray or light is visible. LL D i i paeche , ' i r ,, , •th t, . 4 cr, ..,,-; bearing a grateful nation's tribute in tote ii L sli L4L .,, , r. friligh o ._ .L. ‘,.eih. The little ones cling round the _.....--"" , Oin, 'l4 an d --a noble guarantee that England Wili be as ----- - ''. tl - ' 4 O '''d t h \ _ Ol . „. 8, , ~,, doors o her brave sons departed, and as a father tkit; . 111 so beautiful a form tenches BA feelings and Lieerflo 1 r e s'' itt ,l niZldren. Our patriotism is aroused sr the sight of LivefP °° Kte, b e> .', The figures are executed ia tine engraving, and .„atol't I 'hi t !lla t , ti ra, :1 1 ,lb:one. The gay colouren and rich gilding of .. gouttia" . " e ,t,„, ,, ,„ ~, i foot of the jug form t. striking contrast to the P t° . ckk iii)The other designs, We doubt not that the ~ souffle ° ,,/ Will be in great 'r e quest." ... Dov er •• t i •e k ql Tre ki , I 1,"• 1 4 ,/, - -di a, ,• • utt' ",' She -tu n rp '••••11. PRINCE ALBERT. h .. no Pllta iet ? ~;, i .y e., 111 lt /.• z4si l,: t ., ii, tn. - ,0 i etev, , , e "Tie r , tl tA 0 ,, I */ ~,;zI S HNIC INSTITUTION. i ' t t l b * ~I , i , r e sio, l ) , ,, i f r i o l 'ing, j l k e l W„Akti, W ednesday and Friday Evenings, at ~. Dov er g eir.;) 'e ",, the , 21 4t1, r) L\ri ° ,,,i0it, • ~.. autett",e',' •' Ihi r l ,! ,, e al g reat I't• "4 e n i) by Dr. BacutioreNza, illustrated L.. Solit il t f,e , ~„ eee Per*, .E at, comtnenciag on Wednesday vo i.) 1 . t. 4 mAtl4, / ,, eq, .Of I fy 4 e;' ll l l ll3priate Music from Haydn's Ora- . rid 1 i,S . rte ty 'S, Nei l !. w a nd and Chorus of Fi ty Performers, Ith SOO 1i.214,."5414 t,,,`• , ;) of the Royal Italian 'Vera. Prin- t - ftLEADON, Mr. MUSGRAVE, and / ' r te -r, , ?eb iki.,Sf' !Lt n oilt,,• 22, a , , - 1 , l'ill sr ,, ,, l.T,Ns - , a,,,, L Eight. DRAMATIC READING li. Sott # 0 0 "1 et \ sSIaL b .Ab .1 Ng p ' JULIET WI sou li or 1 ,4 '''' PEO,,,e Ski ° , LYING VIEWS of the " I s""ft COS NfORAM A.S, theCONCER T /11 Def, ~ 1 Ar, )„ sw, ~. ',,c - ,1 k, ,uttipp . , 4 s, and all the LECTURES, as usual. ' noon .'..1/' :ti,aoaZqslb,o - I iit4,t4,114 Iq NI Fore Cabin. r,......_ k 4, t1\4:1117:! t 0nd0n........ •. 101. .. Is. 2d 1 / 4 I tit4kt,ta and In all or Woolwish Bd. .. Os. 10d , k tt ii, °t l 2 4, '0"..5./.lseb,s 4 o di n a t t h e s, P s i s ers Os - 3 81 6 x 4 Month O s s ,.31. 8 0 d S. ; i '4 l ' Ito ' oi:,,,be had of . &lectors on board the ) 1 1.0 14 ' T it Pier her esend. 1 , N. 44 44 :t : 4 414 \i!,4 I t Dt lot k lt a f i T as ti t ESl OF YOUTH AND MATUR t I f T or Y 3O t i ir (1 , 1 ....._ i t am tod p ;rth cases; free by pos t \ IN ) .13. By n , U S DEBILT,T v. \ t tik l'r 14° Ola, fill‘i . , e , t , actk ai and Cure.—An T e :,, ay on gpe r .. ~ m t,....._ Observations k :g• by Il li,4 mne ilt , of the ri' safer and more on a of the Generative ‘ / 4 '41 4 e oQ r Yezcf,4, f ,.. th '... MiC i r ' o e s a :o es pe in detecting and klpil ‘N"lcilk,4lktiittig.t.t, •wh-etieorn, thseinrealfrocmausesoliardyeiffieacbtitesf ii,, • 'peri`ote. followed by practical remarks, toundett \ t ‘ o 4. ° 'o4leal vtr e t n io the treatment of Impuissance e , is t - Z . el, th en on v5.,e37? Spermatorrhoaa, &c. To th whi b kk 1tr0441. i m u l icn e ty4 t pogy fr of Mmarrig/ practice, tiNerZugles advoc ate d gy m v arious e writers p en ' 1 \ 1 ,444 14 b ,P s. 1 / 4413 .... kl/44,"4:::) h 15 ' ..s t i L AIiERT. M.D. Il i. No t ly i t ml e atrk tuat QUAIt E, LOND 0 N, - N1 " 0 41.2 11, er of ki , Hemmer of ths University of Edit 1.1 ,. 141, 0 j, - .471,,, a , lioe London hospital Medical Society. vq4 arN - Z l 't t his 411. 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The amount of payments made to his Royal Highness's use was 39,2251. ; of the receipts 26,0121. accrued from the rents and profits of courts ; 2,9201. from the produce of the Royalti . coal mines in the county of Somerset ; 9 7:271: from Royalties and reservations on dues and and quarries in Cornwall ; and rents of mines n d fund, under the Ist d nuity received from the con. -- 16,216/. from an an and 2d Victoria, cap. 1 oate 120, in lieu of the tin coinage duties, post groat- LADVERTIP- and white rents. effected •-• .4;MENT.)—Many thousand cures have been lent^ without medicine, by Du B a rry' s Delicious Revs. ...Arabica Food, of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, paralysis, Stc. 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We purposely abstained yesterday morning from ad verting to the dissension which was already known to exist in the Cabinet, because we were unwilling to anti cipate and to expose the humiliating spectacle of a Go vernment divided almost as soon as it had assumed the responsibilities of office, and some faint hope was still entertained that more prudent and patriotic counsels would yet prevail. That hope has not been fulfilled, A Cabinet Council was held yesterday before the early sit ting.of Parliament; and the result of this meeting was that Mr. Gladstone, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Sidney Herbert announced their intention to relinquish their respective posts in the Administration. The motive as signed for this resolut.on, unjustified and unexplained by any circumsta n c es w hi c h did not equally exist when Lord Palmerston formed the present Ministry, is stated to be the strong objection entertained by these gentlemen, both in principle and in practice, to the inquiry by a select committee of the House of Commons into the pre sent state ofithe army, and into the causes of the disas ters in.the Crimea. But, if this be the only ground of their secession, it appears to us, and we think it will appear to the country, quite insufficient to explain their conduct. The vote of the House of Commons on Mr. Roebuck's motion destroyed Lord Aberdeen's Govern ment, and established, by an irresistible majority, that a Parliamentary inquiry should be made into the causes of these misfortunes. Opinions may be divided on the expediency of such an inquiry, and we know that among those who voted for the motion of Mr. Roebuck many foresaw the difficulties which would attend such an investigation. But this much is certain—that the will of Parliament and of the people of England was never more clearly expressed than in favour of this inquiry ; the nation feels that it hai a right to ascertain the causes of a calamity which has sacrificed an army and tarnished our military reputation ; and, though it may be difficult to conduct such an inquiry with prudence and success, it would be incalculably more dangerous and impracticable to attempt to refuse it. This proposition was self-evident when Lord Pal merston took the Government, and-Mr. Sidney Her bert, in his address to the electors of South Wilts on his re-election last week, distinctly admitted the necessity of inquiry. Indeed, we question whether any man could show his face on the hustings at this moment in any part of England who should be so bold as to deny it. This being the known state of affairs, the vote which st.iod recorded on Mr. Roebuck's motion, and the impending nomination of his committee, were the first topics which must have engaged the attention of the new Government and of all its members. On the first wind of this inquiry Lord John Russell decamped, and the Duke of Newcastle soon afterwards retired ; but Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Sidney Herbert, and Sir James Graham took, or retained, office under Lord Palmerston, without having made up their minds to stand by him during the very first difficulty which awaited him. Of all imaginable courses, this appears to us to be the least defensible and the most absurd. Although no one contests - the brilliant oratorical powers of Mr. Gladstone, or the administrative abilities of Sir James Graham, we do not hesitate to express our conviction that the present Ministry may be strengthened rather than weakened by their with drawal from office. Whatever the talents of this coterie may have been, such was the ambiguity of their lan guage, the obscurity of their motives, and the incon sistency of their actions, that they detracted from the Parliamentary strength and popularity of the Government more than they contributed to it by their services. They, perhaps unfortunately for them selves filled all the offices more immediately connected with the business of the war, and they have consequently borne the larger portion of responsibilty and resent ment. Such a coalition was possible under the cautious direction of Lord Aberdeen, but it could not survive his fall. Lord Palinerston's Cabinet may gain considerably in force and union, and in the confidence of the Liberal party, by the separation of these members, provided the head of the Government is resolved 'to supply their places with the ablest practical men he can find in the House of Commons. We cannot, however, take leave of this episode in the history of parties without observ ing that it appears likely to terminate the separate poli tical career of that section of politicians who are coms monly described as the followers of Sir Robert Peel. In dividually, they cannot fail to play hereafter a consider. able part in public affairs, for they are men of indisputable eloquence and ability; but they must themselves be sa tisfied by the experience of the last few weeks that their influence as a separate party is at an end, 'and that it cannot be renewed without injury to the public service and to themselves. They will gradually be absorbed in one or the other of the two great political parties which permanently divide this country, and their utility will be increased by a nearer connexion with the lower benches of of the House of Commons and the masses of their fellow countrymen. We may here add, however, that Mr. Card well and Lord Canning have not yet followed Mr. Glad stone's example; we hope they will avoid so grave an error; and, as neither of these Ministers was a member of Lord A berdeen's Cabinet, or connected in any way with the war administration, they are entirely free to act in the present emergency upon their own sense of duty to the country ; nor have they any pretence, beyond a sense of personal friendship, for quitting the Government at a moment of great difficulty. Whatever Lord Palmerston and his remaining col leagues may have thought of this strange desertion, we apprehend that it has in no degree weakened their de termination to carry on the government with all the vigour of which they are capable. They doubtless feel that it would be an indelible disgrace upon themselves to shrink from the task, arduous as it is, which the So vereign confided to them after the failure of Lord Derby I and Lord John Russell ; and they will avoid as long as possible the renewal of those scenes of abortive effort which have so long held in suspense all the powers of the empire. By this singular but not unpropitious turn of fortune, Lord Palmerston has at his disposal three of the principal offices in the Government, and is enabled to repair some of the omissions which were so conspicu ous upon his accession to oflace. It can no longer be al , leged with any appearance of plausibility that he is not the master of his own Cabinet, and not free to select his colleagues and his instrunrE.htb: The times we live in demand a Itadileg Minister and a more direct authority both in ilouncil and in Parliament and much of the sullen excitement which b r o o ds ever the country wood be removed if we'could aistoseer a clearer course of action for the Govertittent, and a more definite ob• ject for the hopes a'nd efforts of the nation. The icr portance assumed by Parliamentary aettinittees of in quiry, and the invasion of the tinctioni of 'executive government by the Hoeg+) of Commons, are Mere cations of the popular determination to enPi.tly at all hazards that energy to the aoverthhtlit which the Mi nisters have not adequately displayed, and that assembly, which is so turbeleiit hnd hostile under a Minister 'Tim is always creving its forbearance, would bedtime the vigorous and faithful support of a leader who boldly and in plain sincerity appealed to its and to the country's patriotism. We know not by what subtleties of reasoitin4 Mr. Gladstone ma y h ave sat i s fi ed h i mself and C onv i nced his friends that it was consistent itith public duty to aban don the poet he had accepted only ten days before, and, possibly, in the memorable epitaph he pronounced over confident i t t h h er e e c n u e l h ia n r e f n o d r a ce et to wi h il is h o e wn fate. But we are the, late Administ ra ti on some express i ons thitht he* be condemned by th e instinctive honesty an d goo d sense of the English e t n w t will hbeenthite hmasoerheadkiesapoeeffeaitt: applied in ; tion, rally t r a o n u d n t d ia a t the e Parliament o r i v i a e r m n ie m n wavering adherents and its dubious all;- ..es. This de— (17 "Lrt the Times of this day.) re ,- - y ought to be one of no sma ll anx i e ty to this ..entry. It was appointed for a collision between the House of Commons and a new a ofertiment, the former baying pronounced with Unprecedented force in favour of an inquiry before a tribunal of its own members, and the latter, from the day of its birth, having endeavoured to dispense with that inquiry ; or to take it into its own gentler hands. As one Government bad fallen rather than acquiesce in a scrutiny which it alleged to be not only offensive to its own dignity and inconvenient to the public service, but even contrary to the spirit of the cow , stitution, so there wits every 'prosileet that i n Government would foildar the alinpie. this seemed 1 all the More inevitable, inasmuch as the new Govern silent wits, as Mr. Disraeli has described it, the "identi cal successor" of the last, consisting of 'itettili fil . 6 W arn ; members,—tbat is,, of the very Men wbo conceived them selves censured and. &Imaged by the proposed inquiry, and whO bad therefore once already gone out upon it. It iiitta about as singular a knot of affairs as even the 'tar nite phases of British politics could produce, and, if we may be excused a metaphor at such a crisis, one felt, only as late as Tuesday morning, in the situation of travellers in a mountain pass, who see the rocks closing around them, and cannot for the life of them understand where is the opening through which they are to proceed. We don't pretend to say that the mode of extrication that has occurred is one to give unmixed satisfaction. Under the circumstances, however, we are convinced that any is better than none, and we, for our part, are prepared torcongratulate the country on the result. The three principal " Peelite" members of the Cabinet, Sir James Graham, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Sidney Herbert held out against the committee of inquiry, on the ground, as we are informed, that it was not only a censure on ' themselves, but also that it would impede the public ser vice at a time when freedom of action and confidence were especially required. On Tuesday, as we were th en made aware, th e y had placed their resignation in the hands of Lord Palmerston ; but at a Cabinet Council held yesterday to give them an opportunity of withdraw ing it they declined to do so, and are no longer members of the Administration. Rumour has filled the vacancies. Sir Charles Wood is, it is said, to succeed Sir James Graham at the Admiralty, where he was once Secretary ; Mr. Cardwell is to succeed Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Baines to take Sir George Grey's place at the Home office, while Sir George Grey replaces his cousin at the India Boart!. Minor changes will of course fuhow. Meanwhile Lord communication we believe, has alr ea dy' been in comnnication with Mr, Roebuck, and th e y have agreed on a committee of a somewhat different cast from that of which notice was given for to-night. We really cannot see what else was to be dOne. Par liaments may be very troublesome, and public inquiries very inconvenient ; Czars and Emperors may be able to manage very much better, and it is possible that the proposed committee is a stretch of the constitution ; but we must take things as they are. We cannot do without the House of Commons. Lord Palmerston, in the course of an unusually long and varied political career; has had occasion to feel the power, not to say the caprice, of the House of Commons, as'mach as any man living, and he is well aware that it would be simply an act of suicide to persist in saying "Nay," when the house has so em phatieally said " Yea." The house has said what it wants, and he is there to do what it wants, and, if he refuses, it will undoubtedly find others to do its work: We - may all rest assured there will be a Committee of Inquiry, and the only question about the matter is its constitution, and, consequently, the temper with which it will proceed to its business. The members to be pro posed this evening, with the concurrence of Government and Mr. Roebuck, are, we believe, already settled ; and we trust it will be found that due security is taken, on the one hand, for a free, full, and searching inquiry ; on the other, that it shall be conducted as much as possible without inconvenience to the public service, or betrayal of secrets, if' any there are, to the enemy. If the in quiry be directed, in the first instance, to the physical condition of our-forces in Pit East, we 'cannot see who is to be taken from his duty, what department is to be hindered, or what hint of importance need be given to the fee, by an inquiry into the operations and mutual relations of the Commissariat, the Naval and Land Transport Services, the Medical Department, and their connexion with the higher &Ai:finer - its of the Exchequer, the Ministry of War, and the Admiralty. What a tale, for example, has already come out in the history of the green coffee berries, and how little has the public ser vice been interrupted or an enemy served by the dis closure ? Why should not the rest of the investigation be conducted in the same manner ? No doubt, it ean, if people will only go the right way to work. The fact is that there is nothing about which people are so ignor an t as th e manne r of doing business in our public departments—whose duty it is to do certain things ; who gives the order ; who executes it ; whose consent or co-operation is necessary ; who is answerable for the delay, if any ; what limitations there are to such an officer's authority or resources. For example, when complaints came from the Crimea that the poor soldiers could do nothing with their green coffee berries, the Lords, Commissioners of the Treasury appear to have been " moved" by somebody or other to stir in the matter, and they made a minute ordering that their Secretary write to the Secretary of the Admiralty re questing him to " move" the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to direct that early steps might be taken •for providing and shipping 225,0001 b. of roasted coffee. It took, however, six weeks of moving, countermoving, requesting, writing, directing, expediting, hastening, sealing, signing, providing, and shipping, before one single pound of roasted coffee was actually put on board a ship. When that ship sailed, whether it called any where, where it stopped, what became of its cargo at last, are further questions that may very likely lead to the same results. But all the people con cerned in this affair are not only anxious to do their duty, not only men with bowels of compassion for their fellow-subjects, but they are the very people who in private society will complain the most of the in terminable hindrances and inextricable perplexities -of the public service. No doubt Mr. Gladstone would take care not to lose five minutes, if he could help it, in succouring our brave soldiers in the Crimea. No doubt often as he has had to talk by the hour about coffee and sugar, he never felt so much their importance as when it became his duty to get off a supply to the Crimea as soon as could be. No doubt, Sir James Graham, even from a bed of sickness, would rise to despatch the needful stimulant to our perishing defenders. No doubt, Sir Charles Trevelyan has the same humane sympathies as his chief.. No doubt, every official concerned in this matter is only too ready to comp.ain of the delay, some= where above or below him, or in some other department he knows not where. Surely ths is a case for inquiry, with a sieve to a thorough departmental reform. The only thing it earl be compared to is that distressing, though strangely grotesque nialtdy j called St, Vitus's Dance. The poor sufteret daniicit &limy a piece of bread to his mouth without flourishing it iff all imagi nable directions, up and down, sideways, zigzag, Cir cuitous, till it describes a journey of many yards, and takes half a minute and no small expenditure of muscular energy to do what is usually an unconscious and almost instantaneous act. The poor creature tries to go out of a room, but cannOt do so without performing all sorts of eccentric and highly Uha necessary evolutions before the door, visiting both doorposts again and ag a in, and finally leaving the door open, and his errand incomplete, of perhaps tumbling down on the threshold. Nobody who had it child in this melancholy case won't hesitate to send for the doctor and inquire into the nature and proper treat ment of the malady. That is what the House of Com mons Is doing with respect to this political St. Vitus's Dance, which \ infests every department of the public sere vice, and makes us all look more life madmen of idiots than sane, and—as we flatter corselves—particularly sensible people. (Front the Morning Post of this day.) We arejanabled to state that Mr. Gladstone, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Sidney Herbert aie no longer members of the Palmerston Administratioa It is no doubt deeply to be regretted that men of so much ability ; and of such power to serve the public, should feel it necessary to withdraw their services at such amoment. It is for tunate that we have a Minister wits zeal and strength enough to supply their places at mce—that their re tirement involves no crisis —and tlat their spirit and principle will still move in support the Government. The fact is, that these members of the old Adminis tration could not separate themselves from its mis deeds. They considered themselves to have been too much identified with the pzst conduct of the n, therefore, on war to sit in office while that corduct was discussed ci P n a ir lm ed erst i o n n t ' o s . wise accession to the desire of almost unanimously expressed to have past physical condition of our army before Sebastopol. That committee, as originally by Mr. Roebuck) was absurd and proposed ineffective. It has been amended, and the following t a Lohro c er o d m ilin m on iti s tee of inquiry into the names now constitute the body :—Mr, Roebuck, Ma brunimond, Sir Sohn Pakington, Mr. Layard, Mr. E. taie e , sen., Sir G. C. Lewis, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Bram ston, General Peel. Colonel Lindsay, and Lord Sey mour, , , These are ifiti *Ames oi men who make the Elook as good a thing as a Blue Book can be Made. The ob l s l n y ro in:P n o n s ti s et. ibis to o .o r x e i s h t i ise n t whicha.tino , : t house will feel that it has in them strong and able court of inquiry—thnt it vO.ll have from thema verdict o; . +. whkh reliance can be placed. T he concession was it t o dinpinwehudlte which haavirt wasbe o4‘ r a ea e dlaCtaB. the country is satisfi e d w ith the n'ew hfe—the new vigour —the new measures of the ex isting Government. It or feels th e practical strength of the plans proposed by Ld Palmerston and Lo r d Pan mure. It disgustss i ttnd il6ot t i 0,4 Oi 4 adid hallueina tionSgin'' war,ixe visions of Lord Elleaborotiah, who seems to view no country but as a battle-field-4o look upon no inch of ground but With reference to its capabilities for infantry—to t h ink of lid oun. except with regaru the to- p ossi bility o f forcingt r y - a . it ruse a gigantic campaign /gal,ns, aaussia—to regard India, not as a hardly-won possession, held in peace solely by our military superiority, but as s: and at any junc maintained an d t a ri a bu u t ic a k ry er of m tb ea is . oaunrdtarobol abler, aanndd the aug rn enta kct .u p en t ' . tirhye, Lord i'me aeda P Yn a st n oo l f n s u wii r al j e rP ' s iby ß ya il tw l a f h o ni r nyh t h t mt Am endment i nend ent of the the bringin g ' lion of our army than would be into reality it b i n e t g t e o r f , • t dreams into whim Lord Ellenb orough s the most brilliant A sure y f o S r e t r h v e i c r e e c i u a wandered on this question. The present is a time at which, above all thing s , is wanted a strong head to a Cabinet—a strong h an d i n the Ministry of War. These-are the points which most require force, attention, and sagacity. The post s aa . cated by the retiring members of the Cabinet are not of a nature to need the highest administrative power, nor are they of a kind which it is dificult to Suppl y from those members among whom Lord Palmerston can apply without fear of failure. He will have no difficulty i n filling these places with perfectly good and able men, None of them, fortunately, are n the condit ion of the army, Neither our finances, ner i our navy, nor our 'C Tolooial Department, have hear dly his last vac ated, and Mr. Sid ney especiany is only nominally Herbert postpones his trial in a higher place than th at On the past Co n d uct which h e h a d f o rmerly filled., ll of Mr, Glad s t o n e , as the a ncelior of the t ac h e• dlier, We have more than once had occasion t o ex press the strongest disapproval• lie was not, i n our t ANA 'Opinion-, the bhatcelyr hn . v 'go had not the " .• • 'e ~ea truth, wuicu is Mainly noeueu by that officer in time of war. He was fond of experi ment, and his mind had a turn for dangerous indulgence in theo r i es an d crotchets. W it h a ll hi s ability, he was, in our opinion, not happily placed in the Government, and his ab sence w i ll prove no great l ess. F or Sir Same% Graham the same cannot be said. He undoubtedly filled, as well as it could be filled, the important offic e which he held, and we most deeply regret that, in addi tion to his administrative ability he should not have possessed enough of generosity, of patriotism, to have faced the appointment of a committee which it was idle to resist —that he should not have felt strong and secure enough in the 'excellent working of his department to say, " Here are my deeds, judge them who will." This is not a view which these gentlemen have had the confidence in themselves or the courage to take. They feel a sting in the committee of inquiry, and on that they withdraw themselves from the work that the country has for them. They have not the manliness to face the jury, and they fly from it, leaving to their col leagues and to their successors the more honourable task of freeing the country from the gloom and uneasiness into which it has fallen. One point is at least gained by this retirement, ill-judged as we deem it. The last look of the old Ministry —the condemned Ministry— disappars with Messrs. Gladstone and Sidrhy Herbert. With the appointment of their successors we shall wel come a new, and, we believe, a strong Adminiffation. The Right Hon. MILNER Giesosr, who explained that that society had met, according to its usual custom, in order to give the public an account of its stewardship. The opponents of all taxes on knowledge began by setting four different objects before . 411emselves, viz.—the repeal of the duty on foreign hooks, the repeal of the excise duty on paper, the abolition of the newspaper stamp, together with the security system, and all restrictions upon the press, excepting those imposed by the law of libel, and the abolition of the impost en advertisements. They had already succeeded in achieving the last of these objects, and thereby conferred considerable advan tage upon the public, but the full benefit of that remis sion could not be secured until the whole of the complex and obnoxious system with which the tax on advertise ments had once been interwoven had been thoroughly swept away. Whatever encouragement that agitation had received from other quarters, it had certainly ob tained none from the established newspaper press of the country. In fact, the press had offered it the cold shoulder, although its aim wa3 exclusively the public good, and not any desire to assail existing interests. The association, however, he was happy tcesay, was ra pidly approaching its hour of triumph. A bill had been brougikt in by Mr. Gladstone—whom he must . describe, if report spoke truly, 45 the "lite" Chancellcr oT the Exchequer—to abolish the compulsory stamp Gn news papers, and entitle all printed matter up to the weight of 4 ounces to be transmitted by post at the charge cf Id, , The measure would also - abrogate the security system, and all those odious gagging statutes passed in the dark days of a Castlereagh Administration, and known by the name of the " Six Acts." These propositions might be considered to be the leading features of the measure, but there were also clauses in the bill which were evidently introduced out of regard to what might be called the vested interests of the established press. (Hear, hear.) It had been contended that the right of retransmission without an additional charge was- a privilege highly valued by the, established press. The bill offered, in consequence of that claim, to the established press, that if they chose to print a portion of their impression upon stamped paper, that portion of the impression shall be transmitted and retransmitted without any adetitional charge for a period of seven days. (Hear, hear.) As it was considered that there were some large papers—he believed there was one in that metropolis well known to them all— (hear, hear)—which exceeded four ounces in weight, there was a clause that papers of a certain size of superficial square inches, even though they ex ceed the weight of four ounces, should have the privi laze ofretransmission during seven days— (oh, oh)—with out any additional charge. (Oh.) That latter provision was to be in operation for a period of ten years. (Hear, hear.) He was extremely surprised that there should be any opposition from any quarter to the plan as pro posed on the ground of interest, but he should not be surprised at there being opposition to it on the ground of principle. For one, he should have preferred a simple measure, repealing the stamp and the security laws, and establishing a postage charge for printed matter, to be paid at eac h transmission; but the plan proposed was most favourable to the established papers, because they were left all they now enjoy practically, namely, trans mission and retransmission for a period of seven days, at the cost of their stamping only a portion of their im pression, whereas they now enjoy that privilege of re transmission at the cost of stamping their whole im pression. (Hear, hear.) The plan was undoubtedly a great !soon to the public, in the way of removing ob stacles to the diffusion of knowledge, and, instead of being an injury, it conferred an obvious and great ad vantage upon the established papers. (Hear.) They could only explain any opposition to the measure on the ground that there was a fear of the competition of the cheap penny newspapers. (Hear.) That association wished to see daily newspapers brought within the reach of the humblest classes of the community, and not con fined to the affluent ; and they believed that the repeal of the stamp duty would have the effect of insuring the cheap and expeditious diffUsion of intelligence of all piissifig, events, as well as of extending the influence of the best ladled engaged in journalism among the great mass of the people, sind thereby mitigating the evils arising from the want of a Comprehensive system of national education, which the dissensiove unhappily ex-. isting among different sects of religionists tondered im poasible In this country. There was no knowledge so useful add gO necessary as a knowledge of the events of ' the day, and of tfie reasons alleged for the legislation of the day, and it was impossible that this knowledge could reaeli the masses except through the medium of a cheap prase. If there was a compromise in the Government bill, it contained a gteaf deal of good, and Mr. Gladstone deserved great credit for having grappled with the ques tion, and he was sure that he bed yielded on this ques tion from conviction; and not in deferenee to what was called clamour. (Hear.) •It was his duty to submit terms d pdade to their old friends at the Board of Inland Revenue. (Laughter.) They would let bygones be by gones ; their warfare was at all end and he could not help saying that any odium that might have attached to the officers of that boaid was entirely ovng to the bad system they had to carry out. He believed thog!a officers had simply endeavoured to do their duty, He knew, tad ; that the Attorney-General would not have liked to figure before his fellow-countrymen In the character of the pro secutor of the press; and as endeavouring to prevent cir culation of news, particularly at a time when enrs.tmy was perishing in the Crimea, rind thousands of th'e pourer classes were filled with anxiety fof the fate of their fele: , tives Who were with the army. That Was not the posi tion which a Liberal would like to fill. (Hear, hear.) He hoped they would Hot be called insatiable people, but he could not help saying that he, and those who acted with hint, Viptild riot be satisfied until the paper duty was repealed. Thtiii was the natural result of the repeal of the newspaper stamp duty; and he had great hopes they would succeed before long in removing the paper duty. It night be said that a time of *lir was not the time to remove taxes ; but he contended that a time of gredt mtpenditure was exactly the time when they should endeavour to faise the revenue in the least Uppressive manner. 14ow; they insisted that the same tirdount of revenue might be Mind in a much less objeCtichiahle Mecie than' by the paper duty, and they were, therefore, justified in calling on the Government to repeal it. (gee, Ile was bound at the same time to say that, howeveF intatiable they alight appear, that society ought not to be conteni ' te feet up'ett its oars until the Government were induced td stirferider thei remaining instalments of their demand, arid yield *ha': viere bin the natural and necessary corol laries of the just coneassions they had already made. (Cheers.) Tl4e fi r naticial, report of the society hatin4 been read bY p t r nalcificf ilia first resolution, whieb le! tr ref n et w 4 A ; y rr was as follows : • . "That the paper duty is a tax on knowicage ,that,,by hindering the use of new raw materials, it li m it s thle sup- - ply and enhances the price of paper, and thus restricts the' field for the employment of capital and labour ; and that the increased expenditure of tho country imperatively de mands that a less injurious mode of raising money be re sated to than an excise duty on so important a manu facture!' . It was denied that the duty on paper was a tax on knowledge. But it clearly was, inasmuch as it was a tax upon the materials used in the dissemination of know ledge. It might just as well be said that the tat on pig" iren was not a tax on the iron manufacture, or a tax on calico not a tax on calico-printing. (Hear.) True the Government did not taxa schoolmaster or an author as such, but if it taxed the tools with which one worked, or hampered the other in his attempt to put his works before the public, they clearly imposed a burthen upon them as much as they did upon any other classes of pro ducers whose industry they checked by fiscal regulations. It was said again that the paper duty was not really any tax on knowledge because of its small amount, but let them recollect how large fortunes were made up of very small items. It might be very true that the amount of the tax which fell on a primer, for instance, might be very small ; but when the publisher came to sell thou sands of primers, the tax being taken off would leave such a sum in his pocket as would enable him to employ a better man to write his primers, and he would thus be able to produce a better article, and one more suit able to the instruction and the education of the people. (Hear, hear.) But he denied altogether that when they came to add the several profits which had to be paid on the duty to the several parties through whose hands it passed before it reached the consumer, it would be found that the tax was anything but a trivial matter. Besides that, they must take into consideration the hindrances which this tax placed in the way of industry, It pre- tun most advantageous methods of employing " 4 isunroYed processes by capital, and the intr oduction _ 2 4 .41 t lessen e... lesse e.. which the cost of product ion _ ...“ on , and Mr. A. PELL ATT , M.P., seconded the rese..—; eipressed big dOnVidtinn, after 25 years experience of the practical wdking of i i he dieted Jaws , that it was the greatest Cut-se that Could possibly befall the manufac , turer to be subjected to the galling and vexatious bond age of the I n l an d Revenue Board. He also adduced statistics of the eiptt n iaien Whleb, h . 64 produced pruced in the glass manufacture of this country since b wff" tion from fiscal burdens, and predicted that a similar impetus would be given to the consumption of popsy Of all kinds by its emancipation from excise restrictions. The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. CoEDEN, M,P., next addressed the meeting. He .said he little thought, when he saw Mr. Gladstone only 48 hours before, proposing the measure which they had all so much at heart, that the right hon. gentleman, would so soon have ceased to hold office in the Govern. - ment. He regretted Mr. Gladstone's retirement, be cause he had th e hi ghest respect for his general a; Reel - 1 s as•for his fi nanc i a l abilities but he did not believ e tha, what had o ccurred would endanger the safety of the bill I, l ' becauie the right hon.. gentleman was a statesman whoa ( , riv.icting they (mid reach, and, whether in offma c r c - ,' i it, they would doubtless have the Flp;i)) rt o 11 commanding eloquen ce an d a bili ty to insure its passin 's . These sudden and k a l e id oscop i c changes in the Gov"' r g TAXES ON 'KNOWLEDGE. The annual meeting of the Society for Promoting thk Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge was held in the large room, Exeter-hall, yesterday evening. Tt having been announced that Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Milner Gibson, the leaders of the movement, would be present and take part in the proceedings, a numerous attendance of ladies and gentlemen assembled. The chair was oc cupied by Imeat, hosvevor, could not but excite one's wonder and surprise. We , were, it was true, engaged in a war, but rea ll y war app eared to be nowhere carried on with such vigour as in our own Cabinet ; and if our statesmen were to go on slaying themselves and destroying each other in that way, we nem t soon resort to a Foreign Enlistment Act to secure a Ministry. (Laughter.) The chair man had told Ole 1m that there were certain clauses bearing a character of compromise. But he had always said, "Let us do away with the compulsory stamp —let us abolish the security system—the system as sumed that when a man began the business which admi nistered most to moral and social progress, and to the advancement of civilisation—which assumed that such a man was going to be a scoundrel—that he was going to libel somebody, and that, therefore, he must give secu rity that he must not carry on the trade of a literary assassin. (Cheers.) Let us see an end to that legisla tion which sprung from that dark political age of our country when Castlereagh ruled the land, and when the gagging acts and the Six Acts were passed. Let them sweep away the laws that for a century and a half had accumulated to stifle the press. Let them do this, and, he would not quarrel with the measure, though it might contain a few clauses bearing the character of a com promise and adapted to conciliate existing interests. He believed, however, that the existing newspaper press set a higher value upon the privilege of repeated transmission by post than it was justly entitled to. He cared not whether the carriage of half an ounce more or less for a period of ten years was allowed to an exist ing newspaper so long as the main object.of that asso ciation was gained ; and, indeed, he would be glad to buy off the opposition of a powerful journal upon these terms'. It was a delusion to suppose that the bill would seriously diminish the privilege of repeated free transmission of newspapers througliqhii - poat now-one joyed, became the man who paid sd. for a paper bought it not for himself only, but for the use of several other Persons, residii,g at a distance from him, and who had at Present to wait three or four days for the news ; whereas the cheaper newspopere that would be started under the and every man could atFord to have his p enn y news p a p er regime Would he imeeediately accessible to everybody, for himself. Noleady iv America, where the press was thoroughly popularise:4y p'ould buy a newspaper a day old at any price, and with .a free press in this country no intelligent American wocld be startled by seeing any such notices in the shop window , .; as "yesterday's Times at half price." In New York the carpenter, the brick layer, and the shipbuilder had hie daily newspaper brought as regularly to his door as had our great merchants and bankers in Lombard-strea ; and after the penny stamp was remitted he believed the Times would enjoy as great a circulation as it did now, because there would always be a demand among the wealthier and more limited classes for the high-priced papers ; and it would be no injury to those papers if a cheaper article was provided for a larger class Of readeis who were not ire the habit of reading a daily paper at all, but who, if their taste were first culti vated might by and.by aspire to peruse the dearer and better journals. The hon. gentleman went on to observe that since he had entered the arena of that movement they had been assailed by individual organs of the press in a manner for which he was totally unprepared. Newspaper conductors who had co-operated with him in the agitation against the corn laws, the moment that free trade in newspapers was proposed, instantly forgot their principles and turned Protectionists—(laughter)— but he believed that in a few years' time these persons would feel precisely as the landowners and farmers had done, that they had taken a very shortsighted view of their own interests in this matter. (Hear, hear.) The press, which was incessantly criticising the conduct of public men, was itself remarkably sensitive when any one touched upon the fallibility of its writers and con ductors. He himself once ventured, at a mechanics' in stitute in Yorkshire, in attempting to persuade some high Conservatives to allow newspapers to be admitted to the reading-room, to remark that the leading edibles were not the whole or the most important part of a paper, but that it was the facts they nar rated that he highly valued; when he was instantly pounced upon as having attacked leading articles generally, and told by his critics that it was all very well for him to want to gag the press—that no doubt he would like to put an end to the leader', because it was by them that he was trimmed up from, time to time when he needed it. (A laugh.) Now, he was not par ticularly this-skinned, and, next to the late Mr. O'Con nell, he was, perhaps, the best abused man in the coun try ; and yet, he could say that in proportion to the efforts he had made to liberate the press from the fiscal burdens which weighed it do - vn was his desire to see that free and fearless criticism of the conduct of public men and of public measures to which be was absurdly charged with being inimical. (Rear.) If the law now in ope ration in France, by which newspaper writers were re quired to append their names to their articles, were attempted to be introduced into England he should stoutly oppose it ; but he was not quite sure that politi cal writing would not be as salutary in its influence when it was known who it was that conducted the journal in which it appeared as it could be when anony mous. In conclusion, he had sufficient confidence in the intelligence and morality of his countrymen to be lieve that in the long Tun the best conducted and most useful newspapers would be those which would thrive best under that system of free trade which in less than a month hence he hoped to see established among us. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman sat down by moving the second resolution, viz. : . " That this meeting has heard with satisfaction that a bill was introduced last night by the Government to abo lish the compulsory newspaper stamp and the security By ;tem, and to admit all printed matter to a cheap rate of postagd." M r . J. BRfSHT, M.P., in seconding the resolution, said that he had asking himself why they had met that night, because t:_ley had heard that co att nger the battle h tle ad bad bt - en won, and that the ei'lemY, if not been converted, and had e over to their side. Still. there were tine persons (thoug::, han e p a i s ly u ,the te y h could not do much fides who thought the 2'ra of Go vernment would not aclrance the public , a" - ,Pal, but he be lieved they entertained this opinion because the did not properly consider the subject. The hon. gentleman il'en proceeded to treat the question of taxation upon news papers in a commercial point of view. He reminded the meeting that, on the newspaper sheet, which cost three farthing; there was imposed a tax of one farthing, which was equal to 3 , 3 per cent. Then there was another stamp of one penny', or 133 per cent., so that by the time the paper was damped for the machine the sheet of paper ben a tax upon the original cost of the manufacture of :11 - ) less than 166 per cent. This was a pressure of taxa: ation upon an article of commerce, which was lisrdly paralleled by the imposts levied on other manufactures. And until the measure of last session, if a respectable Iteonin offered herself to be engagel as a cook, or if a poor w,i.doW*o boy wished to obtain an engagement to run errands fur his daily bread, and published an advertise ment to that effect in a newspaper, he was laid hold of by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and charged 18d. for the paragraph. (Hear, hear.) Running down column after column of a newspaper. they could not calculate the actual percentage imposed by the Govern ment upon the original cost of the paper, regarding the matter entirely as a branch of industry. (Hear, hear.) Articles bad appeared against the proposed measure in the Dispatch and Examiner, and papers ;11 , it bad got a little shame with them, and that did not tike to write anything against them, transferred those absurd articles into their columns, as if they could do any datrriaae to the great cause in which they were engaged, They did not pretend to benefit the existing newspapers, though if they got a benefit they would be g-2 o , d of it ; but there were many suppressed newspaper e c ;tors ; there were many in that meeting—there was no trade 9n which so many disasters had fallen as on the newspaper tri;:le— and they would call those men from their obscurity, ru ,d, may be, from their ruin. (Cheers.) Their were many no studying in college who had got minds and hearts to instru:t their fellowmen, and they would call them from some task Cf badly-paid labour, and place them on a high and broad platform, where men could see and follow them, and no Chancellor of the Exchequer, no Board of Inland Re venue, should repress their efforts to serve their country men. (Cheers.) They had an increasing population, won derful industry, vast wealth, churches and chapels on every hand, and books, too, the finest and the best in the world ; they had parliamentary discussions for six months of the year on every kind of subjects, and yet it must be admitted that a very large portion of their population were in a condition of gross and pitiable ignorance. (Hear.) They had schools, too, and the children even of the humblest classes found their way at some perioJ or other to some kind of schools. It had always occurred to him as a curious thing, that the number of m en an d women who could read did not bear a fair proportion to the nureherof boysand girls that were at school; but when they considered that those children on leaving school re turned to a home where books were scarcely to be seen, they could not wonder that a great proportion of them, by the time they had grown up, had entirely forgotten what they had learned with so much difficulty at school. He wanted, therefore, this great and universal instru ment of education to be turned on for every house, like water and gas, conveying light for the mind and `he soul. He desired that something should theipopulationr rt different e t.ri:is glory ilgl,saprodrne fo . from he t e the It i., i7rcs. ' "-gent for Mta~. - 41finii.,..., peopler 4 b n e ads d . o sh n a. If that dot , . ry ba t it o was, tl.ii,icetiae r tl a a n i r cl a b‘ t vo i c ati o u st n n o ::th A hly a i — ;l oltil s : 7i ims c; or buutz_li .4 wi. _ , posed ,... that , every man should pay a pstinT tat for Rh" ; to ii: the e hi c s ou cl n ii i, l t d l to n s i 4T t ol tt ,; li would not every' Intl Mid woman nst such a propositiatti and this pent - tax wai as grew barrier to education as if it were imposed fur liberty to senli n child to school. Hear, heAr.) The tax was also most unequal and un just, and r ejtalicial to the public interests. There had appeared in the London EXaMineP an article against them and he wished they bad the writer of it there. (gear.) Lie wrote it in some dingy room or other, for he had r.exer found an editor's room that was comfortable. (A augh.) Nobody knew who the writer was. Ile (Mr. :'Bright) might have met him that day in Pall-mall, and vet knew nothing of him. When they, on the contrary, had :anything to say to the p ublic or tho ress, they e nrme beforo the c , nn t r y and were ready top answer for everything they did. He wished *the writer of that ar• tide was there on that particular night, because he said 'Vat 111 r. Glad bad " yielded to a limited, but ac r`~,.,. tive, agitation, in which no considerable number of the working men or of the educated of any class had joined." (Oh, oh.) Why, there were several. thousands listening to him (Mr. Bright) that evening. (Cheers.) The writer had also said that Mr. Gladstone had made up his mind, in consequence of the importunities of Mr. Milner Gib son, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Bright; to put an end t unrestricted free transmission through the post ; but he did not mention the fact that the Government was at the same time about to take the hand of death off a number of papers that were now nearly destroyed in con sequence of this tax. He would now call attention to what this gentleman said, when 20 years ago he was ad vocatieg the repeal of the tax, which at that time was fourpence. Lord Monteagle, whets Chancellor of the Exchequer, reduced the tax front fourpence to one penny —and if some of the gen tl emen w h o a d voca t e d th e ques. tion in Parliament at that time had been as earnest as as his colleague (Mr. M. Gibson), the whole fourpence would have then been given up. But what did the Examiner say when the fourpence was brought down to one penny ? He said, " This.is a considerable abatement of the most impolitic impost that ever was devised." He believed the paper still belonged to the same pro prietor, and was now under the same influence as it was then. (Hear.) The writer proceeded to say:--"Every restriction upon information is a sin against principle, and to to the extent 'of its operation is unjust and injurious." He then said :—"A. tax even so low as a penny will keep the price of newspapers abovethe means of many of the poor, and the question is why they should remain excluded from the knowledge of the business of the worli, which has been brought within the reach of those above them in condition.' He then said that the apprehension that the reduction would rivet the remain ing tax was! groundless, for, as the benefits of a free circulation of intelligence were felt, it was hardly to be expected that the demand for the removal of all impedi ments would die away. (Hear.) They were acting exactly in accordance with that which the editor of the Examiner, in 18313, wrote and advised ; and they were assembled there that night to support the policy he had recom mender. (Cheers.) Some person said the Examiner WAS growing older, and certainly they had had a great deal to do with old people lately. (La ughter.) He believed that this was the most important agitation in which he or any of those around him had been engaged. For it would elevate the working classes more than any other, and would give far greater power, and a far wider di rection, to nublic opinion than it bad ever had before. For the triumpbout_positiou..-Aolf_omgc, 2 _43 l. " _.,,,,,,.-;-• -: ~„ ..t. attained they were deeply indebted to the age i . MMIN • . , ' , ..1.1_ 4 41.:4V77 , and keen logical power of his right hon. friend Mr. Gibson, which could not rail to convince the House of Commons that it was impossible to make a decent de fence for the newspaper laws as they at present steed. Their gratitude was also due to another right hon. gen tleman. He heard that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was no longer in office; and he regretted thi s , no t be cause he agreed with that right hon. gentleman in all his principles or in the whole of his policy, but because he had always found him accessible to reason, to argument, and to facts, and especially so upon tie very subject they were then discussing. To Mr. Gladstone would belong the credit that was due to Lord Metcalfe for striking off the shackles of the press in India, for, at that particular juncture, when public difficulties were thickening around, and when the public voice was heard in no very harmonious tones, the right hon. gentleman I had dared to come forward to make the press of this ceuntry as free as the platform, and to permit the public intelligence, the public reason, and the public voice .to dictate with increased power to Cabinets and to Path:ea:lents. (Cheers.) Mr. G. Dawserr, M.A., supported the resolution in a humorous speech, in which he denied that the press was either "ribald" or venal. He considered it as unjust to charge th,' newspapers with supporting the war because it brought them more fivepences, as it would be to accuse the grocer 01 Advocating an inglorious peace because it enabled him to sell more tea and sugar. Neither was he very fond of the American newspapers, the type of which was very bad, and its matter just now very disgusting, because it laughed at England, the old bald-headed dad, from which the child derived all the good it possessed, and all its Saxon bone and muscle and sinew. He advocated the freedom of the press, because it would tend to make every man a politician, and put an end to the rule of routine and red-tapery which had just now brought the country so low in the eyes of the world. (Cheers.) The second resolution having been put and carried unanimously, a vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman, and the meeting separated. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCIL The Neptune, 120, sailing-ship, Captain Hutton, fa taking in stores at Spithead, to fit her for sea. There iss still a report that she conveys the Wiltshire Militia Re giment, and drafts of regiments of the line, to the Me diterranean. The Edinburgh, 61, screw, Captain Hewlett. It is believed that Rear-Admiral Baynes, third in command of the Baltic fleet, will hoist his flag on board this ship. The Dee, paddle steam store-ship, Master Commander Pullen, having landed the boilers belonging to the Re tribution, as well as some machinery, hauled out of dock, and sailed this afternoon for Woolwich. The Oberon, 3, iron paddle, Lieut.• Commander Free land, swung ship to-day and ascertained the deviation. of her compass. The lEolus, 42, was brought down the harbour to-day and placed in the fitting-basin. She is ordered to be completed with all despatch, to take shot, shell, and ammunition for the Baltic. PORTSMOUTH, WSDNESDAYIN The wind has been all round the compass to-day, and much milder. We had a slight fall of snow from the south-east, where the wind is now, with a disposition to westwardly. DEVONPORT, WEDNESDAY. The Nankin, 50, Captain the Hon. Keith Stewart, which arrived here on Thursday last from the eastward, was paid wages in advance on Monday, and sailed yes terday for the East Ladies. The Exmouth, 90, Captain the Hon. F. Pelham, was . paid wages on Friday, and on Monday put to sea on :a cruize, to shake down her rigging and try her machi nery. She is destined for the flag ship of Rear-Admiral Seymour. '7 / The Conflict, S, screw, Captain A. Cumming, and Cruiser, 10, screw, Commander Hon. E. H. Douglas, arrived here on Monday to make good dei'ects. The Conflict will be taken into dock at Keyhasa this day (Wednesday.). _ _ Dragon, 6, Captain Stewart, at this port, was taken out of dock yesterday (Tuesday), as was also the Nau tilus apprentice brig. Archer, 14, screw, Captain Heathcote, which arrived 'lei° on Saturday last, will be taken into dock this day (w e d,lesday) to make good defects. Builder:, 6, paddle, Captain W. K. Hall, arri'vod here on . PijclaYlast. She has no def ec t s , and remains in the Sound, ready for any service for which she may be required. Rosamond, 6, paddle, Commander S. S. L. Crofton, was taken into dock a't Keyhani yesterday. In the Sonnd.—Bnil:iog.' In Harbour,—lmprerrn able r Royal William, Duk e o f Wellington, Nile, Dra g ,ln, Mnicieune, Vulture, Euryalis, Cornwallis, R,os,ammd, Harier, Archer, Cruiser, Conflict, Beileisle, " ( vl_ , h, Avon, Nautilus, Resistance, Cunfiance, and the 'Tortoise and Devon, lighters. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants Charles S. Fitton (1855), recen tkv pro- moted from mate of the Vulture, paddle-wheel s team_ frigate, is appointed lieutenant to that veil ; FA - 111)6s W. Bennett (1854), to the Himalaya, screw steam trt )op. ship, at Portsmouth. Surgeon Hugh T. S. Beveridge, M.D. (1844), recently serving iu the Sampson, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, to the Hawke, 10, screw steam-ship, at Chatham. Paymaster George Teait (1855), recently promoted from clerk of the Caesar, 91, screw steam-ship, to the, Arethnsa, 50. Clerks in Charge—John Seldon (1848), from the: Impregnable, flag-ship, at Devon port, to the Wenzel,, new steam gun-boat ; Brice W. White (1848), from the, Victory, flag-ship, at Portsmouth, to the Recruit, new: steam gun-boat. MORE VOLUNTEERING AT CHATHAM FOR, THE CRIMEA. no los No C 2ri , o n roi s : i . sii dab ne e gi: r sthi l es e x s Provisionalue issued excitement it o emt n eTnu Tuesday da prevailedattya Battalion, ieevne,n owing i amongst ng,t ot e t he th e he troops r e ofigoesper gar rison that the whOle of the depots of the Indian and British regiments were to be on the general parade ground of the barracks by the following morning at eleven o'clock, and that every soldier, be he an officer's ser vant, or engaged in any other occupation, must b. present in the ranks ; the officers also were directed to attend with their corps. Another order was also issued, commanding theguard muster to assemble at half past eight o'clock. These orders being unusuarcreated great interest among the young soldiers. Accord- ingly, this morning (Wednesday), the battalion, to the number of 3,400, including serjeants and privates, as sembled on the parade, and they formed in open columns of depotF. Every man was at his poet. The commandant,. Colonel Henry Jervis, with Colonel Phillips, second in command, and Staff-Major Jackson, with other officers of the garrison, came on the ground, and Colonel Jer vis read a letter to the troops which he had received from Major-General G. A. Wetherall, K.H., deputy adju tant-general, who had been directed by Lord Hardinge, K.C.8., to allow the battalion to be open for volunteer ing into the following regiments, about to proceed for service in the Crimea—viz., 3d Buffs, 54th, 72d High landers, 82d, and 92d Highlanders. The n umber of men required for each corps was not named. The_. letter directed that the volunteers mus t be able-bodied men, none to be under 20 years of age. They must well understand their drill, and be fit to take the field_ e t c o ti b o e n f i . f ; a l p / p . re to ve b d e , joining the regi .T, % h i ed bimmediatelyexpectedeyafftoerr ni " c i d n i n e t a e o l e n r in in t s g h P eir k- all m ents. It . --ri li m ited, and that every one w ho d ti :: other w l a / s . t g o ee b e e ra p ny aid would not have be'-- ~..., ,- - e nt the prof fere d serv i ce ; an d thought pro s a . dra wn per_ b z a nn w '' n it (ILl,leartened the young men as there wa gladly entered foi the corps. 1 who would have ROYAL MARINES. Captai❑ Searle, of the Plymouth division, is ander orders to proceed to Portsmouth to embark in her Majesty's steam-ship Blenheim, vice Nolloth, promcted. ----- The General Screw Company's Steamer Calcutta, chartered by the Government, and fitted up for thquaneit con veyance of troops, is now rea d y for a. A ty of stores for the army and navy, in the East, has been put on board of her at Southampton, • , u