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rbtrb lawttton+ SUN OFFICE, Seven. o'Clock. TATTERSALL'S. (THIS EVENING.) LIVERPOOL CUP. 3to 1 agst Shoreham (taken) 4to 1 agst Cock Pheasant (taken) sto 1 agst Bianca (offered) 6 to 1 agst Seducer (taken) 6 to 1 agst Goorkah Bto 1 agst Ammonia (taken) 12 to 1 agst Cock of the North GOODWOOD CUP. 5 to 4 agstlston (offered) 9to 2 agst Baroncino (taken) GOODWOOD STARES. 10 to 1 agst Surgeon General (taken) 11 to 1 agst Quince (taken) 15 to 1 agst Epaminondas (taken) 16 to 1 agst Supplicant (taken) 16 to 1 agst Goorkah (taken) 25 to 1 agst Venison (30 to 1 taken) DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Dramatist (taken) 22 to 1 agst Artillery (taken) 30 to 1 agst Yellow Jack 40 to 1 agst Wild Irishman (taken) HARROGATE RACES_ (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Chlorin filly HARROGATE HANDICAP The Rajah Phoenix . Cardsharper Tom Perkins and the Huntsman also ran IMPERIAL PARLIAAIEKT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS EVENLY:G.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wf'io!snck five o'clock. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition front the merchants, bankers, and others residing at Kensington, lomplaining of the great delay which occurred in the de livery of letters in that district, and praying for inquiry into the subject. Lord CANNING said that an inquiry would be in stituted with a view to remedy the evil complainod of. Lord BERNER'S presented 'fvo petitions against any further grant to Maynooth. SECOND READINGS. On the motion of Lord REDESD:.-kLE the fo!lowing bills were read a second time :—Gatesbead and Rexhani Roads ; Liverpool Improvements ; Birkenhea , t and Liverpool Docks (Trust Property of Birkenhead Docks. Trustees, &c.) ; East Kent Railway (Ex ensiot, to Do• ver) ; Keighley and Kendal Road ; Liverpool Dock ; Dublin, he., Roads (No. 2) ; Westminster Inipros ernetr t; Lof.doLderry &Culeraine Rail way; Surrey Gas; Bl . adto Corporation Water ; Airdrie Rural Police (No. . 1 2) ; Royal Conical Flcur Mill, &c. THIRD READINGS.. The followincrVill;;;Zresevera.lly read a third time and passed :-I)erbvshire, Staffordshire, and <<r'orce*ct,Pr•_ shire Railway (No. - 2); Stockton and Darlingto f , way (Amendment) ; Honiton Roads (Amendment) ; Merton College Estate.__ LONDON NECROPOLIS AND NATIONAL MAUSOLEUM. This bill was real a third time, On the motion that the bill as amended do pas=, Lord BERNERS presented a petition from Sir B. Brown, complaining of cert a i n prov i sions in the bill _ The petition was read at length by the clerk at the table. Lord BERNERS complained that the company h.r.cl diverted a large portion of ground for the cemetery to purposes not comprehended by the original act under which the company was consfituted. After a short discussion the bill passed. TIIE VIENNA CONFERENCE. Lord LYNDHURST begged to ask the noble earl opposite If it was the intentuin of the Government to give any information relative to the late proposition of Austria with regard to the third point. • Earl GRANVILLE said it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to lay on the table ail the papers connected with the subject upon which the noble and learned lord desired information. • OATH OF ABJURATION BILL. Lord LYNDHURST gave notice that he intended to postpone the second reading of this bill from Thursday next till the Tuesday following. [LEFT SITTING.] MOUSE OF COMMONS.--(THIS EVEN-3.-NG.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. The Lords' amendments to the Aboyne, Ballater, Braemar, and Cairnwell Road Bill; the Gateshead Quay Bill ; the Halifax Gas Light and Coke Company Bill ; and the Royal London Militia Bill were considered and agreed to. PETI rioNs. Petitions were presented by Mr. Brady from 3lam ersmith and Bankside, and other places in the re stro polis, praying for the repeal of the Sunday Beer Act ; by Mr. Horsfall, from Lancashire, for improvement in the position of assistant-surgeons in her Majesty's Aavy ; by Mr. Roebuck, several petitions, in favour of the mo tion he intends to bring forward next Tuesday week ; by Sir G. Pechell, from a large number of inhabitants of Brighton against the Sunday Beer Bill ; by Mr. M. Gib son, from Manchester, against the Limited Liability Bill. BOMBARDMENT OF OLD TOWN, CALABAR. Sir J. ANDERSON rose to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether her Majesty's Government had re ceived any report of the bombardment and destruction, on the 19th day of January last, by her Majesty's eteam- Rldp Antelope, Lieutenant Commander Young, of Old Town, at Calabar, on the coast of Africa, by which the property of British missionaries residing there was des troyed ; by whose authority Lieutenant Young ini _ , and what were the reasons assigned for u ee a proceeding, and if it was by the orders of her a PstY'aGovernment that the British Consul there had interdict e d th e i n h a bi tants f rom re b u ildi ng th e town. Sir C. WOOD said the Government had received ac counts of the bombardment in question, which had taken place a son fort the tak e in eqnest of her Majesty's Consul. The rea treaty by taking that course was that the original stain from In which the natives were bound to ab fringed, and consequently, by wholesale had been in the bombardment°nsefeuaently, at the request of the Consul, In reply to Colonel i3 Alaken place. HEALTH BILL. Sir B. HALL szud 11`/Til, late peliod of the se he thought that, considering the Bill stood for to-morel"' and that the Public Health hadveheweek, and looking also at the fact that the house importanetn good enough to allow him to pass one very siderable progress p with measure and to make con be i t to e ther, he should not be justified in of the session. (Hear, h bill at this period to go into committee pro fee ma, ear) He proposed h insert alterations and move that the Tuesday nex t, t o ill be reprinted in c ou e or der that it might be circulated throughout th e countr b durine . the recess. It might be n e p a y r rY, however, to Board of introduce a short bill to continue th e C Health for one year longer, with a mediceaelnt ounsel and a medical officer. THE VIENNA CONFERENCES. Mr. M. GIBSON wished to put a question to the Prime Mini ster. It had been stated p ub licly in th e circular whic h Count Bun! had addressed to the diplo matic agents of Austria, dated May 25, that considering the circumstances under which the Austrian proposals hail been rejected, it appeared to the Emperor of Aus tria to be his duty to give to the Cabinets of P ar i s and London another opportunity of considering the plait, and the consequences t o Europe of itsrejection. Count Buol stated that full explanations of the plan, with the motives of the Austrian Government, had been commu nicated to the Governments of France and England. He wished to ask if there was any objection to lay before the house those communications, or any correspondence that had t a k e n place betwe en the Governments of Eng land, France and Austria relative to the Austrian pro posall ' Lord PAIMERSTON stated that the Government bad already determined to lay upon the table the whole correspondence b.a.rin,upon the Austrian proposal. That correspondence---* -preparation, at.d he h ope d in a few was now in .. of the day s would be ready to be laid cn tie ta blehouse. (Hear, hear.) THE TE Mr. LIDDELL A as - DISTURB INCES. ited whether in cases outrages committed b was given to persons nYe, whether assemblages power of popular from the hundred in W aiured to claim compen•iation m om l He asked the 4 S uck outrages wer° co ra : enceuraged resticn Whether in Cd, ,, ;8 Of that kind, member of that house. ce its speeches made IT 3 °t " Hear ," and "order.) ,hear, ' "chair, The SPEAKER said the hon. member permitted to make use of such epre . I could nct be was ho aware any member of theta-ens' Neither blamed for what took place yesterday. ( ( T e e 1 \ ad been Mr. LIDDELL withdrew the expression,ars;' ask from what quarter compensation could be 3' for such damage as that committed yesterday c `t'ed / (gear.) Sir G. GREY sa id the question of the hon. member rnber being strictly a legal one, he declined to a nswer i t in his place in Parliam en t. (Hear.) ORDER OF MERIT. Captain SCOBELL asked the First Lord of the Treasury, the Government having repeatedly, during, the last six months, stated, that it wal intended to in stitute a military and naval "Order of Merit," appli. cable totvLry rank in these services, what is the cause of a delay so lengthened and ungracious, and during a period which has been, and continues to be, so remark able in instances of conspicuous personal valour in battle, so worthy of the promised and appropriate dis tinction, and : ment of the t' ' The SPE lc it would extend back to the commence - A v IE by the hGla R said, in allusion to the question put • nion of hit . . own, and could not, in accordance with the . member (Mr. Liddell), it contained an opi rules of '' ae house, be put upon the paper. Lord PALMER STON, in reply to Capt. Scobell, said the t the cause of the delay arose from the necessity of havi• ng ample time to consider the details and arrang ing th, em satisfactorily. T HE DISTURBANCES IN BELGRAVIA. Sir !J. PAKINGTON asked whether it was in conse quo/ ice of any order given by the Home Secretary there -firer e no extra police on duty yesterday when the mob eel .0 derno'iishing the windows of various houses in cer tai n neje ibourhoods of the metropolis ? (Hear.) Sir G . GREY said he should be sorry for the house -to thin' i c. it necessary such a question should be asked of :him> ! And he thought it would be hardly necessary for lim ' to say no such order as that alluded to had been giv , .n. He had no idea, nor had the chief superintend ;l en./ of police that such a sudden turn would have been to ken with regard to the populace, but as soon as ll , was known a reserve force was ordered out, but not ' in sufficient time to p reven t w h a t occurred. The damage , complained of was eff ec t e d w i t hi n a quarter of an hour. More damage was done in Tottenham Court-road and Hampstead-road than in Belgrave-square,Welton-street, and Eaton-square. SUPPLY OF CARTRIDGES. Sir J. SHELLEY asked the Clerk of the Ordnance whether, previous to commencing the establishment of the Cartridge Manufactory at Woolwich, the Govern ment made application to the paper-making trade for tenders for the supply of cartridges? I Mr. MONSELL said that tenders were invited, but ' that under the circumstances it was found advisable to make the cartridges at Woolwich, where they had to be loaded. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. In reply to a question from Mr.CRAUFURD, Mr. PEEL said that a proposal had been made for a general exchange of English and French prisoners. The question was now under the consideration of a board of English and French officers sitting at Paris. MILITIA ARTILLERY. In answer to a quettion, Mr. PEEL, who was very inaudible from the noise in t'ae house, said the Militia Artillery was destined for garrison duty as a coast defence, and made some other re /narks with reference to the English and Irish Militia, which we were unable to hear. THE ARMY MEDICAL OFFICERS. Mr. A. STAFFORD gave notice that to-morrow he should ask whether Dr. Andrew Smith had retired, and whether, after the Sebastopol Committee report, Dr. Hall still remained medical inspector in the Crimea. ;Hear, hear.) CALL OF THE HOUSE. Mr. ROEBUCK ga%e notice that to-morrow he should move a call of the house fur the 17th cf July. (Cheers and Lang'uter.) THE HYDE-PARK DEMONSTRATION ON SUNDAY. Mr. ADDERLEY considered that the reply of the Hoane Secretary to the question of his right hei. fiiPiii (Sirr J. Pakington) was very unsatisfactory, ar;(1 he w'othed to ask the right hon. baronet (Sir G. Grey) a farther question. He wished, first of all, however, to observe --. (Order, order.) He would not occupy more than a couple of minute, relative too what he him self saw yesterday. He saw the whole of the riot which took place in Grosvenor-place. It was this : •i A parcel of fifty or sixty boys collected in the middle of th e s t ree t , • an d commence d b rea ki ng the surrounclinc; windows, and the larger number of the I alders and abettors of those boys were persons who were evident!y respectable, and might have been much better employed. (Cheers ) At that time there was not a police-officer present—(tsar, hear)—although, as the iight hon. baronet (Sir G. Grey) was aware, there were lar:Ye, depoti of police in the inimecUate vicinity. Imme diately after the riot ceased, however, the police male their appearance, and occupied the street' to prevent any further hostile invasion, and remained there for the re mainder of the evening. He wished to ask what orders were given to the police with regard to their con duct ,yesterday ; and if the right hon. baronet did not think proper to give them, he (Ur. Adderley) should move that they be laid upon the table of the house. (Hear.) He also wished to ask the Home Secretary what was the number of prisoners appreihmded, and further, whether in the event of any siini:ar disturieence next Sunday, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood were to take measures for the protection of their own houses, or whether they were to look to the police for that purpose ? (Cheers.) Sir G. GREY said the account given of the riot by the honourable member agreed with what had been stated to him by the commissioners of police, and also by others on the spot. He had been asked whether the police were not in the vicinity and might not have been available to prevent the aggression of the people. He had been informed that there was a sudden rush down Grosvenor-place and Belgrave-square, where the hon. member's own residencl was amongst those which suffered, and where large crowds of people were actively employed in the work of destruction, whilst many others who, he trusted, were not actually blameable with the rest, served to obstruct the passage of the road between the persons actually committing the mischief, so that although the reserve of police was put immediately in motion it was impossible for them to force their way to where the offenders were actually engaged. Thereupon a message was forwarded to the police stations south of Belgrave square, from which a body of police were at once de spatched. The boys who committed the mischief suc ceeded in getting away, and the few who were appre hended were arrested by an acquaintance of his own; and, if the other persons who were there for amusement had followed his example, they would have been much better occupied. (Cheers.) With regard to the orders of the police, the instructions were to arrest every per son guilty of an act of violence. Captain D. PENNANT asked whether the right hon. baronet was aware that Admiral Seymour, in an attempt to prevent the wanton destruction of property, hid been knocked down by the mob ? . _ _ Sir G. GREY said he had heard of that fact with deep regret. Captain D. PENNANT asked whether the inhabitants of that neighbourhood would be infringing the law if, in case of a similar disturbance next Sunday, they co-ope rated for the purpose of putting a stop to similar mis chief ? (Hear.) Sir G. GREY said that in case of similar disgraceful proceedings next Sunday, the Government would take every precaution in its power ; but that the Government would be very happy to co-operate with the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, to prevent any such outrages as were perpetrated yesterday. LIMITED LIABILITIES BILL. In answer to a question from Mr. Melds's, Lord PALMERSTON stated that it was his in tention to proceed with the bill. EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion that the bill, as amended, be recon sidered, Mr. E. LOCKHART moved that the bill be recom mitted on the ground that the discussion having so abruptly terminated on Thursday, its provisions could not have been properly considered. The LORD-ADVOCATE considered it as a most ungracious attack upon the measure as it at present stood, believing that all its provisions were calculated to produce the best effect, and that they bad been most fully considered. _ After some observations from Mr. HADFIILD and Mr. BLACKBURN against the Mr. VANSITTA RT also opposed the measure, as serting that the provisions were unpopular in Scotland. As to the Roman Catholics in that country, he looked upon its provisions as insulting. The SPEAKER then put the question that the bill be recommitted, upon which the house divided, when there appeared — For the recommittal of the bill B2 Against it 147 Majority against the recommittal 65 The LORD ADVOCATE then moved to insert a clause providing further provision for those schools that were not already provided for by the bill. After some discussion the clause was withdrawn. The LORD ADVOCATE then moved to insert another clause to the effect that the bill should not affect any endowment, legacy, or bequest in favour of the existing parochial schools in Scotland, and that it should not interfere with the existing privileges of parochial schoolmasters. osed to inert as c ia la o u ß se D , after v so o m c e A co T n E ve t r h sa e t h ion p , re w p as agreed to. a b n e o m th e e a r e cl t a e us t e h t e o t e h e e h e e e ff l ec e t, em th at religious or mora l teac hi ng o f th e master, it shal ititfeeaniyn complaint n t t o s l h t a h h l e e l lawful to the board, on the report of the school corn mitttee' to direct su c h com pl a i n t to be inquired into by the school committee, with the assistance of the inspec tor and o f such other persons as the board may appoint, and who may be willin to undertake such duty. It shall not b e l awful for any parochial or public school g master, appointed under this act, to hold any other office of profit without the consent of the Board. Al‘lfrt.erßsLoAm Cat:l(oabßasUheroßvualNatiodon,iravnibsdiyedeemrgerittlllshtleDictF.laiEuLspe , highly ob jectionable,Mr. MIALL opposed the bill, believing that it was not a measure for the benefit of the p , ople of Scotland but for the P resbyterians; as it contained many provisions in favou r of their selfiehness and into lerance. He would, therefore, far rather that the system of education as at present existing in Scotland should be continued than that that education should be submitted to ti ,e tencier mercies cf the noble lord. (LEFT SITTiNG.) A letter from Eisenach, of the I.,t,Etates th a t the Duchess of Orleans is con fi n ed t o her ' r 0 s ition. ohs by indisp o . The sanitary condition of the Turkish c^ntingent, comm anded by English officers One o cersande f hoctanelp officers, a ce t t l3 B ~.u k. _ (earret'lehtaosgd7eieadtlY in there. p, Col. B l n, The new Viceroy of Sicily has published an ordon 'lance, by which all who wear a beard are enjoined too.; once to cut it off. Some be i donel.-rEns, July G.—There has been a fair steady train 1 in th e warehouses during the current week. well ta 4 l , Of the largest London and Scotch buyers, as been in the from other parts of the country, have to wn , and there has consequently been whose cork activity n 4 . 1 " I a good bui,ines dose by those houses wh . oles& e t m ex '''''s are amonr , the London and other q u iet, as th e P er :' The count' y trade houses are rather tween the seam on r m ' t hne is the transiti on p eriod he material chan ge . The "Port trade continues without NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Powerful, 84, ;Captain T. L. Massie, arrived at Spithead on Saturday night from Sheerness, to embark supernumeraries, &c., for the Mediterranean, for which station she sails to-morrow. The Cruiser, 14, screw corvette, Commander the Hon. G. Douglas, embarked the Russian prisoners brought home by the Hereford shire on Thursday from that ship at Spithead on Satur day, together with their guard, and proceeded with them for the Devonport depot fcr Russian captives, after which the Herefordshire went into Portsmouth harbour the same evening and disembarked her invalids. The Sprightly, steam tender, Mr. G. Allen, acting master commanding, embarked from Cowes, on Saturday morn ing, draughts of the 4th and 20th Regiments (from the depot at Parkhurst), and put them on board the Char lotte Jane, freight ship, for passage to Malta ; this ship also embarked by the Pigmy steam-vessel a draught of the 50th from Portsmouth dockyard for the same desti nation with whom she sailed from Spithead yesterday morning. The iron steam-vessel Myrmidon, 4, Lieu tenant Commander Maunsell, left Spithead for the coast of Africa station with despatches and supernumeraries for Commodore Adams, the Commander-in-Chief on that station, on Saturday evening. The Cambria steam transport hauled alongside of Portsmouth dockyard on Saturday afternoon to embark draughts for the Turkish Contingent, consisting of 30 officers and 70 men ; also 6 carabineers and 101 horses for the Crimea, which go on board to-day. The screw steam-transport Imperatriz, Captain Henry T. Cox, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the East. She left Balaklava on the 10th ult., Constantinople the 17th, Malta the 24th, and Lisbon the 3d inst. She spoke on the 18th of June the screw steam-transport Charity, in lat. 40.02 N., long. 26.12 E. standing up the Dardanelles ; and on the same day, in lat. 40 . 02 N., long., 26 . 12 E., passed the Deva at an chor ; on the same day passed the Imperador 12 miles south-west of the entrance to the Dardanelles, both standing south-west. On the 24th she left the Pedes trian, Sultana, Saldanha, Zebra, Carnock, Prince of Wales, and Blake transports, alt at Malta. On the 30th she passed the Harvest Queen, Nuova, Syl phide, Baretto, Junior, and Shooting Star transports, with about 60 sail, in the Straits of Gibraltar, bound to the eastward. On the Ist of July she passed the barque Suez, the barque Ann Brest, and the brig Caroline abreast of Capu St. Vincent, and the John Bowes, steam-transport, coming out of the Tagus ; on the sth, the American ship Minnesota, in lat. 40 . 27 N., long. 2•26 W., from Baltimore for Bordeaux ; and on the 6th, a French frigate standing to the southward. The Im peratriz put in at Lisbon for coals. She has brought to England Veterinary-Surgeon Gooch, Royal Artillery, and one gunner ; Lieut. J. L. Clarke, Royal Artillery, and one gunner ; and Staff-Assistant Surgeon Gamble, from Balaklava ; Captain Donovan, of the 331 Regi ment ; and Mr. Spencer and Mr. Norgat, Hon. Com pany's Service, from Constantinople ; two civil servants and seven seamen convalescents, from Balaklava; and Mr. Stewart, seven seamen and firemen, convalesces 6, I rom Malta. The scrow-transport Union, No. 166, arrived at Spit head yesterday afternoon, but brought no news of im port or invalids. The transport-ship Lillias, 1,468 tons register, Capt. Miles, from Liverpool, arrived in Kingstown on Friday, to embark draughts for the Crimea. The troops went on board on Saturday. The Meteor, 14-gun floating battery, Capt. Frederick B. P. Seymour, left Greenbithe on Friday last, at 10 a.m. She had received ail her stores, powder, and shell, and two of her 95 cwt. guns. A' court-martial assembled on board the Waterloo, 120 guns, flag-ship, on Saturday last, to try Captain Arthur Forbes and Mr. Richard H. Warren, the master of the Calypso, on a charge of having run the said vessel on shore on the 21st of February last, on the Diamond shoal on the north-west coast of the island of Antigua. The senience of the Court was to the following effect : " That the Court is of opinion that H.M.S. Calypso took the ground in consequence of due care not having been taken by the commander and master on approaching a dangerous coast, neglecting the Admiralty instructions relative to ca,3ting the lead, and far their using an u;.- authorised chart, by which a miscalculation might have been made of the distance run. They are clearly of opi nion that both were to blame, and they do adjudge Cap t,,in Arthur Forbes and Mr. Richard H. Warren to be severely reprimanded ; and, further, that Mr. Richard H. Warren be put back on the list of masters for the term of two years." The Court expressed their highest satis faction at the efficient manner in which each cf them had most judiciously acted, after the accident, in getting the ship off again. The Calypso is to be paid off on Wednesday next at Chatham. The 3d battalion of 60th Regiment (the King's Royal Rifle corps), under the command of Lieut.-Col. Bedford, will proceed by special railway train at 3 p.m. to-mor row, from Dublin to the Curragh of Kildare, there to encamp. Major-Gen. J. C. Chatterton, K.C., is expected to ar rive at Limerick shortly, to assume the command of the troops in that district, in succession to Lieut.• General Fleming, C.B. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. By the det.th of Admiral of the Red the Right Hon the Marquis of Thomoud, G.C.H., the following promo tions take place on the flag-list : Admiral of the White Sir John Ackworth OmManney. K.C.8., to be Admiral of the Red. Admiral of the Blue the Hon. Geo. Elliot, C.C., to be Admiral of the White. Vice-Admiral of the Red Thomas Brown to be Admi. ral of the Blue. Vice-Admiral of the White the Right Hon. George Earl of Cadogan, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red Barrington Reynolds, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue the Hon. Montague Stop• ford, to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain Stephen Lushington, of the Albion, and in command of the Naval Brigade before Sebastopol, to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. By this 1,t4 promotion a good-service pension reverts to the gift of the First Lord of the Admiralty. APPOINTMENTS. Captain Sidney Colpoys Dacres (1840), who Vf as lieu tenant of the Blonde, and employed on shore in com mand of four guns and a division of seamen, co-operat ing with the French army at the taking of. Moray Castle, and commander of the Salamander, on the north coast of Spain, and frequently engaged with the Carlist forces, and was last year captain of the Sanspareil, 71, screw, at the attack on Fort Congtautine, has been appointed cap tain superintendent of the Royal Clarence Victualling. yard, Gosport, and to the hospital at Ilaslar, vice Cap tain Smith, C. 8., promoted to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Captain the Hon. James R. Drummond (1846), who was Captain of the Retribution at the reconnaissance of Sebastopol Harbour, and at the bombardment of Odessa, and also present at the attack on Fort Constantine, has been appointed to the Albion, 80, in the Black Sea. Captain William Moorsom (1851), who was Lieute nant of the Eudymion during the operations in China in 1842, and was last year Captain of the Firebrand, 6, steam frigate, and landed with the Naval Brigade at the' siege of Sebastopol, and honourably mentioned in the gazetted despatches, has been appointed to the T r ib une, 31, screw, in the Black Sea. Captain Edward A. Inglefield (1853), who was acting commander of the Comus in the action off Obligado in 1845, for which he received confirmation, was in com mand of a private screw-steamer, the Isabel, and per formed an Arctic searching voyage in Smith's and Jones's Sounds, in 1852, and was commander of the Phmnix in the Arctic supply expedition of 1853, has been appointed to the Firebrand, 6, steam-frigate, in the Black Sea. MILITARY, &c. A detachment of 40 gunners hnd drivers of the Royal Artillery proceeded on Saturday to Bristol to join Cap tain S. Calder's Company, No. 7 of the 9th battalion, under orders for Scutari, to be kept there as a reserve. One officer, 4 non-commissioned officers, and 21 gun nerd and drivers of the Royal Horse Artillery are also under orders to proceed to Scutari as a reserve. The War Minister has made the following - appoint ment in the Royal Artillery, viz., Colonel E. N. Wil ford to be Director of Artillery Studies. A further body of 3,000 men, to be stationed for train ing at Bristol for the Land Transport Service, is imme diately to be raised. The depot will be at Horfield Barracks, Bristol, where the other bodies of this branch of the service were trained. Of these there are scarcely any left, the last compliment, SOO strong, having been sent off a few days ago. Each man is fully armed, hav ing a revolver pistol in addition to musket and bayonet. The following companies of the Royal Artillery have been or lered to be filled up to their complement of 14 non-commissioned officers, 120 gunners, and one trum peter each, and to leave their present stations, and pro ceed to Sheerness and Shoeburyn4s, viz. : Captain N. 111ackay's Company, No. 6, of the Bth Battalion, from Portsmouth, to Shoeburyness. Captain H. A. Vernon's Company, No. 6, of the 3d Battalion, from Plymouth to Sheerness. Captain the Hon. W. Yelverton's Company, No. 1, of the 9th battalion, from Alderney to 'Shoeburyness. Captain A. G. Burrow's Company, No. 4, of the 4th battalion, from Shoeburyness to Sheerness. Captain E. H. Fisher's Company, No. 1, of the 7th battalion, from Dover to Sheerness. In consequence of the above removals Captain F. B. Chancellor's Company, No. 1 of the 14th battalion, which was under orders for Shoeburyness, is cancelled, and it will proceed to relieve Captain F. H. Fisher's Company, 7th battalion, at Dover. Captain C. Waller's Company, No. 2, of the 14th battalion, is to proceed to Dcvonport to relieve Captain H. A. Vernon's Company, 3d battalion. THE MILITIA. In consequence of instructions received last week the West Norlolk Militia were ordered to start for Alder shott without delay. The regiment loft Norwich by the Eastern Counties Railway on Tuesday morning by the early train. As early as half-past 4 o'clock the men began to assemble ma the Castle-hill, and from this time until the departure of the train was occupied in taking leave of their wives and sweetheaits—the latter appa rently forming by far the more numerous class. The Royal South Down Militia, commanded by Co lonel the Marquis of Downshire, will arrive in Dublin by rail from Newry on Wednesday next, the 11th inst., to replace the 3d battalion of the 60th Rifles. The Antrim Militia (Queen's Royal Rifles), commanded 1, Lieutenant-Colonel Ferguson, will arrive at Newry from Belfast on Thursday next, the 12th inst., to replace the Royal South Down Militia. The Royal North Down Rifle Regiment of Lliiitia, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Montgomery, will arrive at Belfast from Newtownards on Friday next, the 13th inst., to replace the Antrim Rifles. The Sligo Rifles have given a number of volunteers to the line during the past week—all smart, able young men, who have attained a high degree of efficiency in their military duties. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ( From the Times of this clay. ) We did think that when Lord John Russell, after his other numerous and varied appearances in public, sud denly broke up the Aberdeen Ministry, brought in his old rival Lord Palmerston, started as PleMpotentiary to Vienna, and on the way accepted the Colonies, he had outdone even himself in the novelty and celerity of his transformations. But his lordship is now presented to the public in a fresh metamorphosis which beats all the rest. He went out a British Plenipotentiary to the Con ference at Vienna, and returned an Austrian Plenipoten tiary to the Court of St. James's. True, it is not very clear what is meant by "full powers ;" but, in whatever capacity Lord John went out, in that capacity he came home, with the single exception that he had changed employers. In both missions he was equally unsuccess ful, for be neither persuaded Austria to agree to our terms nor our own Government to agree to those of Austria. He has been projected from London to Vienna and from Vienna to London with equal effect. But when the two missions thus successively discharged are compared in their results, Lord John will be found to have undoubtedly done a vast deal more service to his Austrian than to his British employer. He has enabled Austria to appeal to the authority of the British Pleni• potentiary, pompously adorned for the occasion with a Secretaryship of State, that she has fulfilled the obliga tions of the Treaty of December 2, and is released from her promise to assist the allies in defence of Turkey. The engagement, of course, with regard to the Third Point was not to surrender her own judgment entirely into the keeping of the allies, but to take a fair part in the Conference for drawing up an ultimatum to be ten dered to Russia. She might have found a great difficulty in satisfying the world that she had taken that fair part. She might have left herself under the imputation of an illusory and dishonest proposal, having evidently no other object than to enable her to say that she had done her best, that she had made a good offer, and if the Western Powers bad thought fit to refine it, the re spensibilty lay with them. We may, perhaps, still think this the case. We may think her development of the principal limitation so cumbrous and impracticable as to be ridiculous, and meant only to save appeera.oces. But, whatever we may happen to think within our selves, Austria can now say, "Your own Plenipotentiary, a Secretary of State, the man in whose honour and judgment the Sovereign and the people of Englaed have ever placed most confidence, thought otherwise. He thought it a fair offer, and a sufficient interpretation of the principle involved in the Third Point. By whom should we be judged, except by the man you have chosen yourselves 7" That is the result of Lord Jehn Russell's return misaion to this country, and the important ser vice he has rendered to Austria. No wonder that, when Lord John Russell found him self making as little way in the Conference at London as in the Conference at Vienna, and that what he brought back was as worthless as what he took out, he felt eo inclination to parade his second failure. Te fail in one mission for his own Sovereign was enoueli ; to fail in another, eratuitously undei taken for a foreign Power was no trifling discredit. Lord John must have felt himself in the position of the young hero who took an old horse to the market and brought back a gross of green spectacles. It is true that neither was of great value, but the former was what it professed to be, and the latter was a make-believe. A proposition that, whatever fleet Russia kept in the Black Sea, the Weq ern Powers were to keep up another there equally ter rible and costly, can hardly be called bona fide, and we can imagine the surprise and disgust with which the Primrosefamily in Dovvning.street must have listened and looked on as their messenger opened his return budget. But what was to be done ? The whole Ministry was sure to be called to account for the close of the Conference, and here was one of them—the most important of them— who had committed himself to the opinion that the Con ference need not have closed, and that it rested with us to follow up a good tender. So it seems to have struck them all as a happy thought to say nothing about it for the time. Perhaps Sebastopol might fall soon, in which case there would be a general indemnity for errors. So a grand silence was observed as to the Austran proposal, and, when it came to Lord John Russell's turn to give an account of his mission, he carefully omitteci all men tion of his second negotiation. In place of it, lie gave us a strong philippic against the Macedon of modern times, leading us all to suppose that he saw no alterna tive but to carry on the war. Had he seen his mistake —had he felt that be had been under Austrian chloro form, but was now himself again, that might have ex cused a little temporary reserve about the matter. But all this time, during all the debates in Parliament, and ' alterations of victory and defeat in the conduct of the war, we have had a Secretary of State who solemnly be lieved the war to he causeless, and his country in the position of an implacable and irreconcilable belligerent, All this time Lord John Russell was sustaining two characters, outwardly the indignant Plenipotentiary, in wardly the disappointed Cabinet Minister ; outwardly the peacemaker who had dono his best to secure A. 1,- trvit the aiad tame fatal a obstinacy ßuss of is own theia,inwa h enly country and i pntriot grieving t os rulers ; to the eye and ear denouncing Russia and sur rendering Austria to the hard judgment of British poli ticians, inwardly regarding Queen Victoria and her ad visers as the only obstacles to the peace of Europe. Now, in these days it is deliberately attempted to ex tend to Ministers the impeccability of the Crown. The people, forsooth, and in particular the anonymous press, is not to destroy confidence in public men. Who 'ever does so can have no other reason than that they aspire to the helm themselves, and wish to rise ou the general wreck of political reputations. But this is no occasion for abuse or depreeiation, or any display of worked-up animosity or pretended scorn. It is the sim ple question, how are we to understand our public men? Wbat are we to take them fort What are their duties as to veracity or reserve ? The seceding members of Lord Palmerston's Cabinet tell us they think the war unnecessary and criminal, and nobody doubts them ; for, in fact, their conduct had long led us to expect that this was the ease ; but it is startling to find one of their successors quite of their opinion. It is startling to find while we are desolating the earth with fire and sword, burning whole towns in the Baltic and Sea of Azoff, de stroying the food of millions, .and pressing on a war that will probably cost the human race half-a-million souls yearly as long as it lasts—after all, the war' is as much an open question in our Cabinet as the Ballot or Marriage with a Deceased's Wife's Sister. We will not say we have no "confidence" in our Government, be cause in that case we incur Lord Palmerston's solemn rebuke but we will say that we don't know which of them are carrying on th e war conscient i ous l y, and. which of them against his conscience ; which of them thinks the Czar in the wrong, and which Queen Victoria; which of them only halt, and - that the less important half. War is a very horrid affair at the best, and requires that a man should be thoroughly nerved and braced for it.. It is a thing that a man must do in good earnest, or he will be sure to do it ill. The least misgiving paralyses the arm and staggers the resolution. If, after all, half the Cabinet think they are simply murdering their species on a very large scale, we wholly de spair of those vigorous an d d ec i s i ve measures f rom which success is alone to be anticipated. Lord John is not the only Macbeth in the Cabinet, or he would not long remain there. There must be others who don't quite like their work, and who relent in mid blow. After Lord Palmerston's homily on the use of our pens, we will not deprecate confidence in these men, but we will venture to ask—what are we to confide in ? What is it that we are to believe ? We believe Lord J. Russell when he tells us that, having rejected fair terms of peace, be holds us to be responsible for the horrors of the war. But, if this is his opinion, do we want a man of such an opinion to be one of our Queen's advisers and not to carry on the war? No. It is confidence in the word of a British statesman which satisfies us that Lord John Russell should retire, and leave the conduct of the war to those who think it a just one. (Prom the Times of this day.) In the course of the extraordinary disclosures made by Lord John Russell on Friday evening he entered into some additional details on the proposals and con duct of the Austrian Government ; and he boasted that, at any rate, be had made it his business to ascertain what Austria and Prussia were ready to agree to. He appears to us to have succeeded in that portion of his mission as ill as in every other part of it, but his speech on Friday does unquestionably furnish a more plausible apology for the conduct of Austria herself, since she may fairly say that the proposal she had made was sufficient to redeem her previous engagements, inasmuch as both the French and the English Plenipotentiaries expressed their approval of it, not as diplomatic agents only, but as members of their respective Cabinets. This argument ad homines does not, however, touch the real question, for, as it now turns out, France and England were re presented at Vienna by men who differed on the most essential point from the policy of those who sent them, and who practically betrayed the objects of their mission. The Austrian Government itself appears to be of opi nion that its recent measures for the reduction of the Imperial army and its present relaeions to the other Powers of Europe stand in need of some explanation, and accordingly an article has been published by an official journal at Vienna, which is attributed to the pen cf a statesman of high reputation, and has since been transferred to the columns of the French Monitcur. The first object of this communication is to explain the nature of the reduction which has just been effected in the Austrian army. The ordinary period of service for the men drawn to serve in that country is eight years, but they remain liable to serve for two additional years in what are termed the reserves of the army. These re serves, consequently, form about one-fifth of the whole army, but they consist of men in the strength of man hood and of veteran troops. The Emperor has discharged the reserves of the 3d and 4th corps d'armee, amourting to about GO,OOO men, and one of the grounds assigned for this measure is the necessity of sending home this body of men, chiefly belonging to the peasantry of the empire, before the harvest. To this excuse the Austrian writer might with perfect truth have added that, in spite of the efforts which have been made and the expense in curred to put the Imperial army on a respectable foot ing, the result has been very unsatisfactory, and that the losses sustained by the Imperial forces from disease and want of food within the co:;fines of their own territories during the past year have been so frightfully large as to equal the ravages of a campaign. The recent visit of military inspection made by the Emperor Francis Joseph I has disclosed to him a state of things which may in some degree account for the extreme reluctance of the Aus trian Cabinet to encounter the forces of an enemy. But, although the Austrian Government admit that they have made what they term a halt in the course of policy they had hitherto pursued, they are anxious to persuade us that they have not made any retrograde movement ; and, while they do not agree with the Western Powers in their resolution to carry the war to the limits which may be hereafter determined by the success of our arms, they profess to abide by all the conditions for which they have hitherto argued. We regret to say that even this explanation of their conduct and position will not support discussion, and that the humble position they now claiin to occupy is as much beneath their former professions as it is above their pre sent actions. The Emperor Napoleon told them the other day in plain and forcible, language in his speech from the throne that the meaning of the treaty of the 2d of December was, that Austria would enter into offensive and defensive engagements with the other belligerent Powers, if the negotiations which were then about to open did not arrive at a successful termination. Not only is that engagement implied in every line of the treaty, from the preamble down to that article which exacted from Prussia her active co-operation, but the same intention was expressed in repeated public declara tions of Count Buol. For instance, as long ago as Sep tember last the Cabinet of Vienna stated officially that the restoration of peace upon terms which should secure the future tranquillity of Europe was a necessity for Austria, but Austria could not expect to obtain that result by the sacrifices and exertions of other Powers. Again, at the opening of the Conferences in March, Count Buol emphatically assured the assembled Plenipotentiaries of Europe that the Emperor of Austria was resolved at all risks to abide by his engagements to the belligerent Powers, and to persevere in the policy he had adopted until it was brought to a successful issue. No language could be stronger or more precise, and as long as there is meaning in words these declarations will remain on record, to prove that the Austrian Govern ment had at that time formed and expressed an inten tion to which it has not subsequently given effect. It has been fully acknowledged by Austria that the Vienna Conferences failed by no fault of ours, but because Russia refused to submit to the application of the third point in the four bases which she had pre viously professed to accept. In the very article of the Vienna official journal to which we are now referring it is admitted that the third poi n t was not adjusted, and that the fourth point, which the Austrian Government now considers to be one of equal if not still greater diffi culty, was not entered upon at all. It is therefore clear to demonstration that the objects contemplated by Aus tria have not been attained, and in making a halt at the moment when her active co-operation became necessary . she virtually receded from an engagement. We are therefore entitled to say that Austria has done either too much or too little, and that the position in which she now stands is precisely that which it is least easy for her to defend or to retain. If she was not firmly resolved to persevere in a policy designed to reduce the power of Russia by adverse and even hostile measures, she not have signed repeated protocols and treaties to that effect, and it was absurd to lavish a year's revenue on military preparations without an object. If, on the con trary, she had formed a resolution to adhere to that policy which would have been, as we firmly believe, the cheapest, the most honourable, and the most useful to her in the end, then she should have made the limita tion of the naval power of Russia her cases belli. Instead of this she pursues a policy which is adverse to Russia without being identified with that of the Western Powers, and which neither intimidates one party nor conciliates the other. The Austrian journalist argues that the ad vance of an Austrian army into Poland would not lave altered the course of events in the Crimea ; that may be questioned ; but Austria bad it in her power to act in Bessarabia, and, after investing Ismail, to conclude the campaign at Odessa. L'ord7John Russell states positively that if the Western Powers had assented to the last Austrian proposition, and Russia bad refused it, the Austrian Minister in St. Petersburg was to have retired in 48 hours, the mili tary convention with France was to be signed, and the Austrian army was to be placed in such a position that it could commence a war at any moment. Yet, even then it seems an immediate declaration of war was not stipulated for or agreed to by the Cabinet of Vienna. Austria appears even in this case to have relied, as she has done throughout, on the possibility of obtaining by a demonstration what can only he secured in reality by combined action. That is the weakness of her case, and the reason why her policy, after promising so much, has achieved so little. She bad in her hands a few months ago, by reason of her geographical position, her military strength, and her independent attitude, the best cards which any of the great powers possessed, for she might at no great sacrifice have claimed the merit of restoring peace to Europe, and to a great ex tent of determining its conditions. But she has flung away an opportunity which does not often recur in the reign of a Sovereign. If the Western Powers triumph in the present contest, Austria, and with her the whole of Germany, has forfeited her claim to take part in the negotiations or conditions of peace, while, if the efforts of the Western Powers are unsuccessful, and Russia is able to withstand their combined strength, it is certain that Austria and Germany will be wholly incapable of opposing any serious resistance to the influence of Rus sian policy or the force of Russian arms. If Lord JoLn Russell had held at Vienna language worthy of a Bri tish Minister, or if he had even been able to express himself .in the language of diplomacy with vigour and precision, we still believe that these arguments might have prevailed. His utter failure in the performance of the duties he undertook, in order to retrieve, if pos sible, his damaged reputation, has proved not only dis creditable to himself and injurious to his country, but mischievous to the general interests of Europe ; and, after hearing his speech on Friday night,* no one can wonder that Lord John Russell's appearance at Vienna excited the astonishment and derision of all those who were engaged in these important transactions. (From the Morning Herald Of this day.) - • Eleven years ago we stated that "the want of high and noble feelings amongst almost all classes of the community is one of the worst symptoms of the fatal disease which seems to be gradually extinguishing that noble character which it was once the boast of England's people to value above all earthly possessions." At that time we were scoffed at, and called " wild politicians ;" but we fancy that the course of events since the year 1844 up to the present time has shown to many within this land that the evil which we then foresaw, and the toleration of which we denounced, has produced most of the misfortunes which we anticipated, and that if it be not checked, and that right suddenly and sharply, worse will come of it. We think, without going back to the details of the melancholy and disgraceful chicaneries, treacheries, ex posures, and recriminations which have marked the last ten years of our Parliamentary history, the present po sition of affairs may serve to show to what a condition of things this utter want of high principle in public men and of proper appreciation of its mtee, , sity among the people at large, has brought what once was the highest minded nation upon which the sun shone. The question now arises, is it impossible to redeem the time ? A very short while since we should have answered, with the Roman, "It is too late." At pre sent, however, some few symptoms are abroad that those who have hitherto been careless and insensible to warn. i:.gs are beginning to arouse themselves to a conscious ness of the fearful peril in which the country is involved. The first of these favourable symptoms is the utter re probation into which are fallen the followers of the great apostle of dishonour, he who first introduced into Eng lish public life the abominable doctrine that there were two standards of morality. In other words that a man might betray his friends, deny his principles, falsify every word and deed of his former life, and yet remain perfectly trustworthy, if it were only in his public capa city that he enacted a part which in private life would have consigned him to well-merited infamy. The English nation tacitly assented to this destruc tive abnegation of truth and honesty, and verily they are now reaping their reward, for succeeding states men have not failed "to better the example" of Sir Robert Peel. Let us now see how matters absolutely stand at the present moment with regard to the character of public men, and, worse still, of the House of Commons itself, which inevitably shares the want of reverence which attends the eondnot of the majority of the members of which it is composed. As a beginning, we have only to mention the names of Lord Aberdeen, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Sidney Herbert, and Sir James Graham, and ask, in what language can an expression of the national opinion of these gentlemen be couched which would not have been legally libellous before Lord Campbell's aet permitted the justification of libel ? We are a loss to answer the question. The disclosures, however, of Friday night have caused the delinquencies of these persons "to pale their ineffectual fires" before the singular audacity of the an nouncements of Lord John Russell. We premise that one of the worst features of the gradual moral degradation of public men has been the amazing increase of the practice of allowing of the ex istence of what, in Parliamentary slang, are called " open questions" in the Cabinet. This system, already too prevalent, was brought to its culminating point by the experiment of the Coalition Cabinet. We need say no more. The public are at length aware of what the necessary effect must be of such a moral anomaly as that agglomeration of discords. The vote which brought the Coalition into existence was stated by Mr. Cobden on Friday night to bare cost the nation " 50,000 British lives and 100,000,0001. sterling." We only hope the hon. member for the West Riding did notfunderstate the case—for we believe we are only now at the beginning of the losses and misfor tunes which have taken their rise from that miserable transaction. Open questions in the Cabinet in former days were considered to be allowable in affairs which in volved only slight differences of opinion, and in matters of mere expediency. The Duke once said England conld not have a " little war," how the veteran would have stared had any one told him that the time would come when a war with the greatest military power in the world would be considered a "little " question, and this not from the magnanimity and powers of England, but from the feet that in the minds of her statesmen every thing, even to national and personal honour, had become subordinate to the single consideration of keeping a place and holding a faction together. Of the truth of this England has bad lately two no table examples. The first, when the venerable Lord Lansdowne, being supposed to a ct as adviser to her Gracious Majesty, in loco parentis, took advantage (as ie is confidently asserted) o f his p os ition to recommendt present Pramier not to join Lord Derby upon a nY terms, "for that if he did the Whigs could never again hope to resume office I" The second was on Friday night, when Lord John Russell stated in effect that although perfectly convinced just and ought to 4 that the Austrian propositions were have been accepted, still, when defeated on that subject in the Cabinet, he was content to carry on the war for fear of breaking up the Whig Administration, by imi tating the resignation of M. Drouyn One of the most fearful features of this startling an nouncement was the calmness and apparent matter of ordinary occurrence and manner in which it was made. The innocent girl of 10 years old, confessing that she had punched out the eyes of her schoolfellow's doll could not have made the disclosure with greater sang froid than did Lord Joh❑ his announcement ; and this he did in the very spot where, twelve months ago, he had en acted the part of the Cato of the Russian war, declaring " delenda est Sebastopol," and calling upon " God to de fend the right," which it now appears he considers the wrong. How is such a state of things to be explained ? Is it possible that the moral perceptions of the &ass to which he belongs—that of jobbing Whig statesmen — are so utterly blinded by wandering in crooked and dark ways that a man of his position in the country is incapable of perceiving the heinous—nay, almost in credible wickedness of aiding in carrying on a war which costs thousands of lives a day, and of the propriety, ne cessity, and justice of which be is not only doubtful but incredulous ? But Lord John goes further, fur he ab solutely justifies his conduct. Now, be it observed, the noble lord does not arrive at this monstrous conclusion by means of the astute dialectics and casuistry of Mr. Gladstone, who is ac customed "like the formal vice, Iniquity, to moralise— two meanings in one word," and who has absolutely reached a state of quasi honesty, from the incurable ob liquity of intellect by which he persuades himself that chicanery is honour. No such thing ; Lord John pro. fesses common sense ; and yet such is the moral condi tion to which the " total want of high principle in pub lic men" bas conducted him. Let us look round for a moment upon the effects pro duced on the public mind by the contempt which the people are beginning unequivocally not only to feel, but to express, both for their rulers and the Legislature. At this present moment the mob in Hyde Park unmis takeably dominates over both the distrusted Parliament and the weak and unprincipled Administration ; it de clares its will on Sunday, and on Monday its behests are obeyed. Within the week meetings—large meetings—have been held both at Sheffield and Birmingham, calling for the impeachment of Ministers ; and at the latter town when an orator demanded, " *here is the great inquest of the nation ?" he was responded to from the bottom of the ball by a shout of " Lmch law." • At the same meeting the Primier was convicted, tin der his own hand, not only of conniving at the existence of an Austrian police in this country, but of knowingly allowing innocent men to be punished for denouncing its agents. . . . — We submit to our readers that such symptoms are not to be despised, and that the only refuge from the consequences which they portend is to be found in the establishment of a Government composed of men on whose firmness the people can repose confidence, on whose truth they can rely, and whose integrity they can respect. Let Mr. Roebuck insist on a call of the house. 'From the Morning Chronicle of this clay. ) Once more is the existence of an Administration com promised by the untimely candour of Lord John Russell. The noble member for London has attained an unhappy celebrity for saying the wrong things in the wrong places ; and certainly will not have belied his reputa tion by the expose of Friday night. His speech on that occasion was indeed most unfortunately timed, so far as the credit, or perhaps the stability, of the Govern ment is concerned. If confessed a little earlier, and with somewhat less manifest proof that the confession was only made because the secret had been already de tected, the discordance of opinion between the late Pleni potentiary at Vienna and the rest of his colleagues might not have assumed so very serions an aspect. There would have been far less gravity in the fact, but for the mystery in which it was so long environed. Six weeks since the noble lord returned from Vienna, bringing back with him no treaty of peace, but a bundle of protocols to explain the reason why he had failed in his attempts to conclude one. Yet neither in these pro tocols nor in the long speech which he felt obliged to make on the subject in the house was the public informed that be did bring home, if not a peace, at all events a proposition that, in his opinion, formed the probable basis of pacification, and which the Cabinet of whom he formed a member had peremptorily rejected. He thought then, and thinks still, that the last suggestion made by Austria contained elements that might have been deve loped into a "satisfactory treaty of peace." But the Premier and his remaining colleagues pro nounced against the opinion of our Colonial Secretary, for reasons which Lord John allowed to appear, when he added, that although the treaty would prove satisfac tory, it was likely to be " unpopular." But though hie project of pacification was repudiated, the noble lord not only retained the seals of office, but concealed the fact that any differences of opinion existed between him self and his brother Ministers. To every hint of Cabinet divisions the Government, by all its members and through all its organs, returned a prompt denial, assum ing even the air of injured innocence when assuring the house and the country that they were not less united than energetic in prosecution of the war. If such secrets ever could be kept, the, session, and' perhaps the war itself, might have terminated before the nation dis covered that its destinies were guided by divided and distracted councils. Here we cannot help remarking upon the singular Nemesis, which has attended every attempt at evasion or misrepresentation on the part of the British Ministry. Wrong with them has, indeed, never come right. In order to excuse a culpable waste of time and langour in their preparations, the Government constantly enlarged upon the vast importance of enlisting the sympathies— or, if possible, securing the co-operation—of the German Powers. It was necessary to wait, we are told, until the Austrian "pear had ripened." In order to give some ostensible colour to this plea the late Vienna, Con ferences were inaugurated, since even Lord John himsef assures us that he never hoped to educe any practical result, in the shape of a treaty, from this pompous and delusive gathering of diplomatists. When the abortive close of the Conferences was undeniable, the Ministry were obliged to keep up the delusion by exag gerating the promises originally made by Austria, and accusing that country, by implication, if not in actual terms, of treachery towards England and France. This charge of bad faith elicited the vindicatory note of Count Buol, who naturally dilated, as being the strongest point in the Austrian defence, upon the fact that his own Cabinet had actually contrived a proposition of which the British plenipotentiary bad expressed his individual satisfaction, promising to support it with all the weight of his influence at home. Thus, step by step from the original perversion of the truth, has followed the detec tion which now overwhelms the Government with dis grace. - Nor can the public forget that the present is at least the second instance in which confession and repentance, on the part of the now Colonial Secretary, have followed, not the commission of a fault, but its discovery ! His sorrowful contrition or his virtuous resolves have been manifested only to his colleagues beneath the seal of • Cabinet secrecy, until detection became inevitable ! Then, and not before, Lord John Russell hastened to display himself in his true colours to the world. Then it was found, for the first time, that the noble lord was ' so much better and wiser a man than his fellow Minis ters—that he had seen and denounced the error of their ways, blaming them for apathy, or remenstratingagainst their acts, besides generally urging them to the course which they did not follow, and, by not„following it, in volved the nation in terrible disrsters. Yet, while pur suing a career so fatal, and so contrary to his individual judgment, the Administration never witnessed the actual secession of their colleague, until their faults and failures have been found out. It was thus in the last autumn he retained his post, ostensibly an attached and concurring partner of the Aberdeen Ministry, until the country rang with indignation at the I consequences of their mismanagement, and Mr. Roebuck's motion brought discovery and respon sibility into immediate prospect. Lord John then resigned ; and, moreover, took care to let us know that he had detected the ministerial blunderings, as well as sought to displace the ministerial blunderers, months before. And now again he conceals the fact that be had recommended a basis of pacification to his colleagues which they had not thought proper to adopt, while he did not think their rejection of it a cases resignationis. If Count Buol had never written his too veracious circu lar, how soon would the country have learnt that the Plenipotentiary had returned from Vienna with the out lines of a treaty in his pocket, which the Secretary of State allowed to Le rejected We regret to follow out an inference so little credit able to any public man. But we fear it its unquestionable, that Lord John Russell has been too clever for his colleagues. As the patrons of a sport nearly as honoUr able and only less exciting than the game of politics would say, he " runs cunning." His political " book " has been made up so adroitly as to leave him a safe winner in every event. If Sebastopol had fallen in November last, the Pi esident of the Council would have shared the eclat of the triumph. As the fortress held out in December, while the British army was suf fent]," the extremest r:gours of a winter campaign, he retired to the back benches and claimed credit for having long beforehand foreseen the existing calamities, and done his best to avert them. Just now the discovery of his plan seems to have been prematurely made through the indiscretion of Count Buol and the vigilance of Mr. Milner Gibson. But the scheme was not the less a good scheme, although, like the Russian submarine tor pedos, it has blown up at an improper juncture. It was evidently designed to lie perdu for a time, leaving Lord John to play out the part of buta War Minister so long as the war waspopular if ever the people got tired or disappointe t d ., ; e and anxious for peace, then to give him the to stand i de d t f h e e r th means as fora r asatisfactory s veteran at pacificator, peace long who ago, g h o a , had pro vided members of the Cabinet would but have accepted acr them. It would be idle at this time of day to examine the terms of the proposition to which Lord John R usse ll ve his adherence. Whether actually unsafe, as L or d ga Palmerston declares, or merely "unpopular" for the moment, according to the belief of the British Envoy, the scheme has been finally repudiated. The propo:al is negatived, and there's an end of it. The question now pending is, not how the Palmerston Government name to select such a Plenipotentiary, but how they can re tain such a Colleague ? Here i s a Comrade who does not stick by the ship, but sh ows a recurring propensity to skulk into some boat towing astern, with a knife always ready to " cut the painter" in case of disaster. The services of such a comrade in working the vessel can be but slight, while the . spectacle of his timidity and precautions either upon friends or enemies can he litt!e satisfac tory. All the world knows the reason why l it has" been found unsafe, to leave Lord John Russell out of any Liberal Administration. But, as the proverb says, "Gold may be bought too dear.'; Far as the seogion bas advanced, it may not close before Lord Palmer' has made the discovery that too high a price h as f paid even for the high alli a nces and strong rei n 4 meats—social, official, and parliamentary—br oc e his administration by the House of Bedford. SPORTING NOTES. RETROSPECTIVE. The attentioa of sporting men was fully employed: week without being fatigued. Northern turfites sod: at the celebration of the meeting at merry Carlisle, 14 Southern turfites and those of the Midland CO till found pleasant employment at Newmarket a nd all,' banks of the Severn at Worcester. The incidents marked the respective gatherings were in cert ° l stances prospectively important. Old Rataplan sll:4* Cumberland Plate by a "fluke," for Coaretng stopped at the very moment when th e „ seemed literally " all over but shouting., appears that Withington, who was riding him, 1111 s: a telegraph post for the winning post, and lane, had won, easily pulled up ; Prince, however, 1° , 6 ; perceived his error, and bringing old Rataplan tip side of him beat him by a head. Courtenay doomed to misfortune, for on the succeeding dal' race for the Lottery Stakes, ' when he looked " li a ; the winner," he struck into the heels of Blare e 1 last turn, and came heavily to the ground. If the supply of sport at head-quarters was soil; amidst the fine sunny atmosph ere , an d under toed of the plantation trees, the p rocee di ngs w ere. Pirl and enjoyable. In my communication, dated 11/ ': night, I briefly referred to the running for th e Stakes, and the general ch a r ac t er i s ti c o f th e gO e f 'i On Wednesday evening book-makers with relit tions left Newmarket for Worcester, and the Gbh field therefore was decided before only a thin att eP of turfites. The defeat of Bird-in-Hand excited 11° : pries, for the fact of his being dead amiss was ' ir ous. Still odds were laid on him at starting. success was a slice of luck which her owner clAr The winner was, it may be remembered, pnt auction a few weeks ago at Tattersall'il, but did obtain a purchaser. The zeal of the Worcester Race Committee a ° ,: jealous care which they evince to sustain the pop s t of their meeting, deserve to be acknowledged in FL commendation. Not a detail o f management is FL which can add to the accom mo d at i on o f t h e pablr, every expedient is adopted which can render the% i tions of the gathering strong and enduring. .. 1 " -J ft the fields were not numerically important, yet tie; was remarkably interesting. Isaac Day an d the were in full force, winning the Trial il a ndi ( m A , the National Reunion Handicap with Octavil ,r ty Selling Stakes and the Ladies' Plate with V r . Domino won the Worcester Stakes aft er a eb` lf ` o to" with Herald by a head, and this performarke e his stable companion Goorkah to be talked connection with the Liverpool Cup. Th e 11V 41 4 , Stakes only requires comment from the circurnsttp " pretty pot" on Param being most unace i upset, and from the fact of the objection' was subsequently made to the winner. came in first, but being somewhat amb i6 : l l, described as "out of a half-bred mare," Mr. J 3 i, owner of the second horse, claimed the stakes teeth of this objection, however, Vine was P ° 0 ! auction and sold for 100 guineas. The chairin as a committee refused to entertain the objection, be °11. ,; of the rules of the meeting stat e d th a t a ll 4b r e o should be made in writing before 11 o'clock on t he t ' ing of the race. A rule so impracticabl e , anti °. :O with so many obvious inconveniences, will, . 1 tt o , abolished for the future. Mr. Bell delivered ao protest against the stakes being paid to tiro ° Vine. The Cardsharper and Whitelock affair 0s v, settled. By the owner of the former it is a erdii the referee called in had no power to decide t /Os and that he was, tuo, totally ignorant of tho practice of borse-ran:incr. The matter will 10 ci c, before another tribunal,' but, fro m f ac t s w hi c h J 1 4 %1 to my knowledge, I have n o h es it at i on in 0)7111 the ultimate verdict will b e g i ven in f avou r (I ' O lP lock. Mr. Mather has made hi mse lf very P,,°,10 Newcastle by the charitable purp ose t o w hich Co' his success. He presented to the Clerk of ti' e t be 1001., a moiety of which was to be given to d i fund, and the remainder to be distributed amt a , institutions for the sick and destitute in the to, o p Speculation on coming events has been jeo, two or three significant changes. For the 6 'oo Stakes, Surgeon General has been in brisk whilst Epaminondas has also received marked c , s td, For the Liverpool Cup Cock Pheasant is ag'ain a despite the rumours which were cir c ulated, 3 „ rffeet had, I believe, no foundation in truth, to the he was lame. Bianca had an upward tendeP Seducer is in high favour. 3 1e. I shall-reserve my remarks on th e LiverP°°l until to-morrow. July 9. 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