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

116-1411-Y -- Al ARK ET AND NithilanClAL INTELL IGEN( E. The c CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. 4 sotto market at Li verpool, on T h urs d ay, " 44 5(1 an . il ;-f ' -le "Y• The sales amounted to 7,000 bales, P,:ethich 500 were taken for export. 360 bales 1 , 4 , ct arra Maranham realised sd. to 61d., 300 , 4 7,,, 11a r , s id. t.,,, Bd., 700 Surat at 30. to 40., thevSea Island 12d. to 16d. The tendency in /141111.4 Y Share Market was downwards. Wh . apPears by a stat emen t f rom M r. J osep h th ir i e talc , )Of Liverpool, that during the past month 14,3, t hat port f or Australia 14 vessels, of ht 44 Th ~ eng t°4B ) with 3 ,591 passers. e p 40 8. t ' fr eight th ere are 40s. to 455. to Sydney resent 42 45 5. to Melbourne, to the Bay ; and 50s. 6 : , t0 the , sc .. Wharf ; an d 40 s. to 50 s. to Ad e l a id e. Ireek,...° Chas been very little animation again this of,: colonial produce markets, but holders fitsl ) ;: °f the principal staples have evinced much 14,6 r ti B ' Per West India sugar there has been a 144121117) and an advance of 6d. per cwt. 42 has litouutuee• Refined has been wanted at has Com la, N e d 1.),8' Mauritius, though quiet, . kre been t Yalues, and in foreign the dealings iiii4t4ils:tslvelillitiaisthd. Coffee has been steady for plantation. Ceylon and colory 'it alic, : the latter have been in request. The pub teen sal es Passed off steadily, and at the cinna :las% ti l e n t , f , llll prices were obtained for third hag firac? some reduction was submitted to bee 4 (31:1 Se cond sorts. A good business 44 ld • p c , i lL i ! e 11 1 spices generally, but nutmegs t ac t lew - '''' cheaper. Rice has been dull, bu N to4 er, . stea d 'led cocoa has obtained good rates. , ile riap ItaiTY, saltpetre dull, and also jute, but i4 egal,; rill ed first. Tallow has been somewhat wool 841 ) 'le at present is rather heavy. The ill with t e t : aye,. expected to go off tolerably well, 2: f tip oi , „ Ilu org the general dullness of trade. n ki i" bee state of the Manchester trade, Messrs. t oPett.' °.reethon, and Irving make the following .-.. , iiizi LiSoe!till ceitmencement of the month, with a slight ,!1111:41:a/°ur of a firmer tone, the action of h th a e s ftLkett tut 'ell unfavourably progressive, inasmuc h t fis h ." 4, bore 4Pprehension coasequeat upon recep Z47 4 pecti o _ve not only induced greater caution and cni ,l. t u, but created a feeling of increased hes - kl r t tet 44 41 . !r_ 4 , 1 . 1 the circumstances, however,. ta poruer. widositio:?ls the firm. Indee d , I kit 111 0 , 34 ' IS surprising, when viewed is connection hembliktly 0 °I the Australian, American, East Indian, 4ontii ither foreign markets. The transactions of i..,44t.boectgave,,ben to a - very large extent, indeed, they kto ii hate l'ifs e xpectations of many. We conclude 41 Itit t i i 4 ve ),,_ uee ll of much greater extent than w hat it, th e _ "ell reasonably calculated upon. St ock s _ teriarth cannot be noticed as having possessed Il k . 4 *4 Y sec character ; and prices, in a 1i tt 4 0.% e: l 3 hare undergone little material change, /se , ilit i e ps goods or yarns. In the course o f . t h e r. i tt: t ° :t.ott ur lfforn an improved tone in o t f h fi e rra L n iv e e s., t w ill. ) he ittot4eli they exhibit a . downward tendency ' . hoL.4lBsia prices onth, however, is marked by greater 46 117.44)1 1 „I generally ; and, although the ivher themg th ""ihrket maintains increased firmness, it h as is' L 'ese,S 44e d e f!,, ee t t , °f imparting greater firmness . e. * 4 4 10 - . ed c h. 'Qs country trade has been most cm ihtiatlf - 1 41 g the month. On account of over- Th e - th:s lutlcrtant depart ' enent, such is n . ow being ib i kt hitit t i,, ° ll l* Arms are said to be discharging many o. ° !oa t h,- NO 4,,_ 7 41 . g are the London quotations for the k ai Ztte a i l of the United States, as furnished t r t74 441 N u : $3811 ) Sou, and Co. Redeemable.: — Per Cent. !Illtt: 4 ll3 l4 4ttt e 6 6 Per ° Bonds 1862... 98 99 I , ZSt.,,,it - titte it PCer Cent. Bonds 1863...105 106 At c4 : 4 4 „_/15,;;;... .Per Cent. Inscribed r f sSh6 is '''''' ;-.1;,i ............. 1867 7. 1868.. : : 1?-1 105 A /4ZlC4Zttt Pairj,e,,ent. iiOnds ...... 1877... 77 80 P. 4.14 ,444 5 o,.'ent• (Sterl. Bonds).1868...101 103 ingi l4 5 ' l , - ; Vkt". (terling Bonds) ... 91 . 92 terthnla 3 pe:tr,Nt:,,„•••• 1863... 82 is 6 h e r -4t . ‘°Lerl. Bonds) 1858-9-66... 83 144°. V .- .. eelit.L'%terling Bonds) 1888... 85} 863 per etv..koild, . 1886... 84 86 ! 1 1 °4 ., t real 6 h Cent, .... .... 1868... 88 89 „,Orle N t'e S C ent. 411 s Or 'CITIES. ' l O. 4 -- " a • per o;4' .. . ..1857-1865... 83 . Bo a 8. ..1557- 1893.. 1893... 78 80 Il liit Is 0 clo. • 4 ',. 11(18 ~, a . 1874... 78 S ,entrai 7.. do. BONDS. )1 1 44 ' Per eetAlerieent. 1875... 651 663 " '')l ode) .. ', let Xor.tgage (Ster t 11114 e a 1860... 90 & " k and P a l It• itd . 6 ........ 1880... 863 873 ops ..... , ' lO 7 Per Cont.ll.st Moit.- k•t vd,':4ii...1.,;..i_ .. .. . ..... ..,. 18 68-1869...100 101 optholt .......... Y.......7.1j. -QA11 .7. n 1883... 77 78 txt% tkr ria 7 P. Cent. Cenye;tiblo 1862... 68 70 11115,...(%,}iia11a 7 per Cont. Ist Mort -1 ki*, c Atit - ; B 2 l ,Bran c h) 1868... 75 Nth • ' 11 (l Alton 7 per Cent. let_ _ _... 75 L'teeo tk ." 1867 N2POtl co u nt ... e fr om Moscow state that immense I :' t an t t t i v ° , l ' Pro Yisions and other necessaries were tt, 44,1"eaPatched from that city for St. Peters hett -ver Parts of the Russian empire. tts4t uncle/I° D 1413 l esking better, and there are the ~a„, ent er} • - !at m ., - -46 tible -"ate-kl. that a Liberal, 11 mad me and th at °troug, Ministry will be Ilterililier: finder an Lord Palmerston will be Olt - II th e eT cir cumstances this is looked 411 Soh n t he C it Y as being almost the lik,' 91 1 i f °lls°lB have realised 91i I, and ° beet i 4t o °r transfer. The bargains for time ' C it 'lgo li to i. New 3 p er Cents. hav e 4 1* ttel9ll t The 91i to o 2344 h S tock • ' ° 92 i and the R e duced - 1 I ell . ls firm at 212. Exchequer Bills s, i h it quiet la A '' r aln -" "*S. to 78., and India Bonds at l'„ . t ura. 4 :4114 Seel,4l:4,lo3ourities have been neglected. The t oe, Bail llc is have been 76k to a, being firm, but k ii kd til,'t a ; f -°-tr ig• Spanish Threes are 361, k, ''' bee,, e 'rred 171. Portuguese 5 per Cents. p- marked 44i. Equador Stock is at 4. ktZ l h 4:- "eta. have been at 931. t k4 l4 :...,o: wi ng are the nominal prices of 'foreign h t . 2 t to a rena Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Alexi, , °4 4t 4 " i t 3 Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; ditto Three 4,, ') 50 t o 5 Ntt o ' R u ss , 2 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 4 I. , ' a b. Five per Cents., 100 to 102 ; oti Nato Iht 4 Ne %"4 and per Cents., 89 to 91; li,Q , ll i t t ./r Deferred, 17i to 17i; ditto Three ; I I 1 1 8 4 4' 56 / to :1 a A 6 i ; ditto Certificates, 4} to 4i ; io t Z 4 k ti c '% to 4i. dip I I :4Y S hare Market has been rather 4 - 0 7, i: kitl,. o f ., ugh there is scarcely anything s ha de ter* teat Northern, North Western, kti hott e ri :' (311th Eastern, and Midland are all t i t tc'as, t 1, ~The unfavourable traffic returns Asqaek-4;Lktight, owing to the weather, are i I'6 at . for . for the present. The Canadian ~'1 , 1 1 41 1„ 1 k . , a „ 1 , 11 r equest. ibta,"l4l%•tla,..tert,"3:l,eeNr brisker. Cobre are quoted ex -L t (V tici 4 Banks are higher generally and titrph ' t in Y. Canada Company's shares have ~4 18) , ,, 1 4 115 . ....1. 1P1Ny,.......,.........._........._ 0, 4 TH.'S DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. • Itt Pi t a toek '•° ""t •/L • t 10 0' 4 t. i.'..... the °/icm 14 . ) fleetness done 41, LIN -,(6::`•••• ...................... 212 1014. Cokeo7, 4n uuitien 9li t t qtalle4elit. i s , 4 - " l nuitities 9l i .0,... we.tioteaities 7 4 4t4 eti t°° ° .......... 414,144titt ji l t ti itii . iWrii;rY***.... 9ll 3 ‘1)114,14,140. ... ........ ...... • ,41tra': kotit?° 1.0R E1 . G ... N .... P1TN .. DS THIS DAY. I tt h. p et el . . .... . b)) l ' 4 h h o Per CC,: Per Cent., Con. 1811 443 i koilL l 4 acu , 3 _ ,1, ! , e? b I .P'r Cent tp zt , tive ( s ' )rr ecl, 3 per Cent l7k Oh 14411 4 41/rer ed) Itt o ] tgaik,b, :e C ert. of Coup. not fun 4 thlt t 11 13 th e ' Z e Per c ent ___ 1 ) .4 ki 11'14, 441 "'lt... ............ 76/ i i It o ,e 1)40. an the above payable In London. ' sp eerft • Per Cent. 12 Gull Cor tleteates......, g!'lloi s THREE O'CLOCK. itto.i., ............ . ...................... 9 1i 41110 7 Acc nil n t ki lI A 4 , 04 , A ,,,,,,,, ~......___—____ so '4114.°4. th":1 4 .?" 3 1,...----. We regret to state that the 1 1 isrda irst Lord of the Admiralty was not l t044/4 Y_ 44 reported. tc) it:4ll4lh liltrrioit. ki thh ;qt 1, -16 to 0 of artisans - -Tha Society of Arts has formed mitr i t t 4ri g ti zg,nie e a grand expedition r ‘ c tto, ire t o ;7.4 ibition in the summer. .The excur- NO , r e " supplied with lodgings , and f , l'hgeltlerit,"rY acc ommodation. The ter guidems,sinter ;l ji: Proi,:1111 be published at an early date. . h,,.4i,itt,2:114;;,fi)r aniting the principal railway stations " 4 1' ‘ 4 , h 4 the Cit by sof a subterranean to 4 . 1411 Ikt l„ Y' ales 4 41 04 otie, gth by, prominently brought before 4 4. 0 n t1 Y. i l • lIP P °I- ted by the Great Western "UMW i 1.4-0/ 4t ph tak„ • t tinit to the extent of 4 1, 1 it),..i4 e1 ' l'Y Placingn four of its directors on the tct qa,rti.,4l4 will run from the General Post-office ,' ( ' l l., P ht j%i-m 4-le-Grand to the IC . 's•cross Station of .°4 "‘ - t' 4 , l '.il .1\z°,711t,e7,,,, thence to the Euston - square Sta- A.: 1 ' 1 1 ot ~ ' ‘,..? e:caii. and thence to t.'' :I' zdin,- L. ,, e au , '' tili 4 1- (neat Western. The capital. required , NI o.).ct i 3 1,000,00 • the power of W.; with CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) FRAUDS IN TUE COAL TRADE. John Bates and Charles King, two respectably-dressed men, surrendered to take their trial up on an indictment preferred against them by the Great Northern Railway Coal Company for fraud. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Giffard appeared for the prose cution, and Mr. Ballantine and. Mr. Parry were for the defendants. Mr. Bodkin stated the following case to the jury : The two prisoners stood charged with a fraud upon the public of a very injurious character, and one which the company whom he had the honour to repre sent feel it their bounden duty to bring forward, as the two defendants had, by representing themselves as the agents of the Great-Northern Coal Company, grossly imposed upon several persons, and sold to them coal of an inferior value to that for which they had paid. The defendant Bates is a greengrocer and coal-dealer, carry ing on business in Seymour-street, and having a cart of his own. King had, it appeared, taken a back room in a house No. 28, Bidborough-street, King's-cross, near the station- of the Great-Northern Railway Com pany, which he styled his office, and represented himself as n eat to the Great-Northern Railway Coal Company. Upon the 23d of October, a person named Wilcox wrote to Mr. Herbert Clarke, the agent to the Great Northern Railway Coal Company, at the com pany's offices at King's-cross, to send him a ten and a half of the best Silkstone coal. Mr. Clarke wrote to say that the company could not execute the order for that class of coal until about a month after, but that they could send some Wallsend in w shorter time, which Mr. Wilcox then ordered. Previously to the order having been executed, the defendant King called at Mr Willcox's house, to ask for orders for coals. Mrs. Willcox saw King, and she told him that they had ordered them, but they had not come. King said that it was all right, as he came as an agent from the office. Upon the next day, a carman came to her with a ton and a half of coals, and brought a ticket purport ing to come from the Great Northern Railway Coal Com pany, and signed "J. King, seller." Mrs. Willcox paid 21. for the coals, which were then delivered on the next day. Mrs. Willcox finding that the coals were not what they ought to be, made an application to the Great Nor thern Railway Coal Company, and the fraud was then discovered, and, upon an inqairy being instituted, it was found that the coal which had been supplied were some of the value of about 17s. a ton, which had been sold by the company to Bates. The cases, of which there were several, were being proceeded with when we went to press. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DI Y.) LONDON, Feb. 2.—Wind and weather this day at noon, strong breeze from the eastward, with a sharp frost. FALMODTE{, Feb. I.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Hartley, from St. John's, N.B. for Sunderland. . _ COWES, Feb. 'l.—Wind, E. Arrived—Aluma, Zanzibar, for Hamburgh. OFF PENZANCE, Jan. 31.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived— Boletta, from Rio Janeiro, for Copenhagen. The Bone Pere (schooner), of Nantes, from Havre to Newport, went on shore near here daring a thick snow storm, and has become a wreck ; crew saved. NEWPORT, Feb. I.—Wind, N.E. Sailed—Cascades, for St. Thomas.— The Alarm (schooner), of and for South ampton, caught the bank, and fell over on her beam-ends, but lighted again, and is strained and leaky. BEAIIILLRIS, Feb. I.—Arrived—Peeping Tom, from Prince Edward's Island. GRIMSBY, Feb. I.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Margaret Littlejohn, from London, for Kirkcaldy, leaky. BELFAST, Feb. 2.—(Per Elec. Tel.)—The Alamne (ano ther report says Atumne), schooner, of Workington, is on shore at Ballycastlo, and is expected tobeeome a wreck. STRANRAER, Feb. I.—The Briton (s), from Glasgow to this port, calling at Ballantree, struck and filled before she could be run on shore ; she is full to the gunwall at low water ; crew and passengers saved. NOTICE TO MARINERS. BLACK SEA.-KAZATCH AND KAMIESH BAYS, CHER SONESB. Hydographic Office, Admiralty, London, Jan. 27, 1855. Several vessels with troops and stores bound for Kazatch and Kamiesh Bays, on the north side of Cape Chersonese, having been stranded, or endangered, by striking upon the shoals extending off the coast, through incautiously ap proaching the shore, and owing to neglect of, the existing charts and sailing directions, the following temporary notice is published for the guidance of the mariner : In rounding Cape Khersonese from the southward, keep Cape Feolent, a high perpendicular cliff, open of a nearer and lower bluff, until the lighthouse on the cape bears E. by S. S., or Fort Constantine is seen open of the north coast of the peninsula. Then an E.N.E. N. course will round the cape and all the shoal water off the points, none of the rocky ledges extending mere than 2i cables off shore. Dveinaia (Double), or Kasatch (Cossack), and Kamiesh (Reed's') BAvc. fOIUI the nrst Larger opening to she eastward of the cape. There is anchorage in from 15 to 20 fathoms, at a distance of a a mile off the entrance, on a bottom of muddy sand, where a stranger should bring up or lie to, until communicated with by the guard-boat. In entering Kazatch or Kamiesh Bays tho N.W. point, and the middle point which separates them (which may now be recognised by an earth battery upon it), should not be approached nearer than 2i cables' lengths. And no vessel should run up the western or Kazatch Bay without a pilot, for this double bay, which looks clear anal wide from outside, has a reef of sunken rocks, extending three cables' distance in a north direction from the tongue of land which divides the head of the bay into two parts. The channel on either side of this sunken reef is only from to of a cable's length wide ; has a depth of from 7 to 9 fathoms, with a bottom of stiff sandy mud ; as also in the upper part of Kamiesh Bay. In the outer part o these bays the ground is' less tenacious, being a muddy sand with gravel and shells ; and no anchor will hold in a less depth than 7 fathoms. As a general rule none of the points on the north side of the Chersonese Peninstla should be approached nearer than 2i cables' distance. The south coast of the peninsula is steep too ; Cape Fooled; is a high perpendicular cliff, black ai its lower part, but capped by a white calcareous stratum that in clines gradually to Cape Cherson, which is low, the base of the lighthouse at its extremity being only a few feet feet above the sea level. The light now shown at Cape Chersonese is a fixed pale light, instead of revolving as formerly ; it stands a t an elevation of 116 feet abo se th e sea, b u t i s no t visible beyond a distance of about seven miles. All courses and bearings aie magnetic. WHAIR'S-BACK LIGHTS, BNTRANCE TO PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Portlend Maine, Dec. 20, 1854. On or about the Ist day of June next (1855), the present lower light, exhibited from the Whale's-back Lighthouse at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, N.H., will be dis continued, and there will be substituted at the same time for the present upper fixed light, a axed light, varied by flashes, of the fourth order of tie system of Fresnel. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1855. LIGIITX AT CAPS ELIZABITH, MAINE. Portland Maine, Dec. 20,1854. On or about the Ist of June next (1855), the present fixed light and the present revolving light at Cape Eliza beth, Maine, will be discontinued, and at the time of the discontinuing of the two lights, (a fixed light, varied by flashes, of the third order of the system of Fresno', will be exhibited from the tower from which the present fixed light is ex hibit e d . _ _ The tower of the revolving, light will not be removed, but the two towers will be left standing as at present, to serve as a distinguishing mark of the locality by day. TRU MUSEUM OF ORNAMENTAL ALT AT MARL BOROUGH HOUSE.—The numbers attending, &c., during the month of January, were as follow. :-8,706 persons en the public days, and admitted free ; 251 person. OR the students' days, and admitted as students on the pay ment of 6d. each, besides the registered students of the classes and schools. The museum is new open, free, on Saturdays, for the convenience of schools, &c. A FaLsa .A.Lamr.--Yesterday, at neon, the most in tense excitement was created in the City, in consequence of the report of what appeared to be several successive discharges of artillery, and it was imagined that the guns at the Tower were being fired for some glerious victory. All were anxious to know the cause, and it being too early for the second editions of the morning papers, mes sengers were despatched to the Tower t• ascertain what joyous event was being celebrated ; the result of their inquiries turned out to be that in consequence of there being a large number of rifles and other small arms to prove, several were discharged simultaneously and successi rely. The first division of the 94th Regiment marched from Chatham garrison yesterday morning to the terminus of the North Kent railway, - and proceeded by rail at 8 a.m. en route for Windsor. The division comprised eight companies, under the command of Captain W. H. Dore, with Captain Bruce and Captain Marne, Lieutenants Malthus and G. L. Heciley, aid Assistant -Surgeon Stoney. The bead-quarters of this regiment leave Chatham for Windsor this day, under the command of Colonel Dennis, with Captain Pratt, Lieutenant Lewis, Lieutenant Buchanan, Lieutenant Gaskell, Ensign Har ris, and Surgeon Patrick Gammil, with the whole of the staff. The head-quarters will consist of five com panies. NEW GOVERNMENT MUSKET FACTORY.—The Govern ment having resolved to be the manufacturers of their own small arms, a❑ extensive factory is now in progress of erection at Enfield Lock, Middlesex. It will contain the following arrangement of departments : Smithery, brass foundry, picking-room, annealing-room, desiccating room, metal-room, engine and boiler-house, packing room, and packing-case department, storekeeper's offices, browning-room, grinding and polishing-room, casehard ening-room, and tool-making department. The contract for the same is taken by James Haywood, of Derby, who has recently completed the New Manchester Mar ket. The contractor is bound to the completion in six months. The prosees of setting out the ground has commenced. The railway train which left St. Etienne on Sunday morning, for Lyons, went off the rails not far from the station of Vernaison. Eleven carriages broke their axle trees, but as the train was going rather gently at the moment, from the line running in a curve at the spot, no further inconvenience was caused than .a delay of about two hours, whilst other carriages were brought up. The cause of the accident is said to be the breaking of one of the rails, which was too weak to boar the great weight in the carriage! NAVAL AND MILITA1?1" INTELLIGENCE. ..-..-..,.,...i( 01ir1............ The Royal yacht has hauled into the steam-basin, and as soon as the new eaah dock of the steam-basin is ready she will go in. The Duke of Wellington, 131, will proceed from Ports mouth to Plymouth to be docked, as stated some three months ago. The Eurydice, 26, Capt. Okmmanney, will return from Bermuda to England early in April, and be ready to proceed to the White Sea. The Esk, 20, screw eorvettee, Captain Birch, is ordered from Portsmouth to Plymouth, on her way to the Black Sea. The Sampson, 6, paddle frigate, Captain Brock, was put out of commission at Portsmouth on Wednesday, and her crew were granted leave. The crew of the Retribution, Captain Fisher, will be. paid wages at Portsmouth to-day, and granted lead e while the ship refits. The Excellent, gunnery ship, during the snow-storm on Tuesday parted the southern arm of her moorings, which has been replaced. The crew of the Magicienne, 16, paddle, Captain Van sitto.rt, are to be paid wages at Devonport, and have leave for such time as they call be spared. The Fisgard flag-ship at Woolwich and the Black Eagle and Vivid steam-vessels were paid down at that port on Thursday. The Perseverance screw steam troop-ship will be paid down to-morrow at Woolwich, and the crew turned over to the Falcon, 17, screw steam-sloop, at Portsmouth. The Rhadarnanthus paddle-wheel steam store-ship arrived at Woolwich on Thursday from Glasgow. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—Arthur R. Wright (1854), has been ap pointed to the Ariel screw steam-sloop at Portsmouth ; Augustus T. J. Bullock (1852), to the Calcutta, 84, at Devonport. Paymaster Edward J. Bennett (1801), from the Cruiser steam-sloop, to the Meander, 44, at Lisbon. Mr. W. Henwood, Inspector of Shipwrights in Ports mouth dockyard, is proznoted to be foreman at Sheer ness. THE TRANSPORTS. LIVERPOOL. The Great Britain serew-steamer is being fitted up at Liverpool for the conveyance of about 1,650 infantry and 30 horses. She will be ready in about 10 days, as. will also the new screw-steamer Etona, belonging to the Cunard Company, and being fitted at Liverpool for the conveyance of stores and 170 horses. The Imperador screw-steamer took her departure yes terday evening from Liverpool for Pembroke, where she will embark a detachment of the Slat Regiment. Thence she will proceed to Queenstown for a detachment of the let Royal Dragoons and of the 48th Regiment, making in all 940 men. She is said to be the best-fitted vessel for troops which has passed ander the notice of the Ad miralty agent at Liverpool. _ _ The Telegraph, Liverpool and Dublin paddle-steamer, will leave Liverpool in a few days for Balaklava, with stores and about 120 commissariat drivers. The Indian, a new screw steamer, and sister ship to the Canadian, is daily expected at Liverpool from the Clyde, to be fitted up for the conveyance of cavalry. SOUTHAMPTON. The Royal mail steam-ship Severn, chartered hospital ship, went out to the river at Southampton yesterday, preparatory to her departure for Woolwich, in accord auce with orders received. Previous to her getting away a telegraphic message was forwarded to Southamptoa to delay her sailing, in consequence of there being several bales of warm clothing which it is the intention of the Government to forward to the Crimea in this ship. The Severn therefore still remains at Southampton, although she has been ready for sea for 'several days. She is well supplied with medical stores, beds, and every comfo r t necessary for the purposes oti.which she is to be devoted. The American clipper-shits White Falcon, laden with wooden houses for the Fritsch soldiers in the Crimea, hauled out of Southampton docks yesterday. She is to leave at daylight this morning, accompanied by the screw steam-ship Lady Jocelyn, also laden with hats and stores. The general screw steam-ship Crcesus adjusted com passes yesterday. This fine ship is at the service of the Government whenever they may require her assistance. The Calcutta, screw, is being overhauled, and will soon be ready for sea ; she p assesses ev er y necessar y t o make a valuable vesse in the transportation of troops. MILITARY. Captain George T. Gordon (1846), at present in com mand of the Duke of Welliagton, 131, screw steam ship at Portsmouth, has been appointed to the Victory, 101, as Flag-Captain to Vioe-Admiral" Sir Thomas J. Cochrane, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief on that station, vice Captain John C. Dalrymple Hay, appointed to the Hannibal, 91, screw steam-ship, ex th e Black Sea station. Yesterday and on Wednesday the contractors, both British and foreign, sent in above 2,000 Mini. rifles, rifled carbines, and revolvers to the Tower for examina tion. Orders have been issued from the Horse Guards to increase the strength of the 15th Hussars to 800 sabres, in consequence of their being required to augment the cavalry forces in the Crimea. The 15th Hussars only returned last autumn from India, where they were em ployed in the Madras Presidency. Since their arrival in England they have been quartered in Exeter, in which city they received their remounts, and are now nearly 500 strong. The 10th Lancers (the heroes of Aliwal) are also under orders for the Crimea ; this regi ment has also recently returned from India. The depots of the Bth, 27th, 39th, and 89th Regiments have been constituted into a provisional battalion, ender Lieutenant Colonel Slack, and the hospital for the com bined corps has been opened. in Limerick, under Dr. Gore. Draeghts of 100 men from each of these depots were medically inspected on Monday, previous to their departure to join the service companies in the Crimea. An interesting ceremony took place on the parade ground at Pembroke dock last week, upon the occasion of the presentation of four medals for good aid long service to four soldiers of the 31st Regiment, who are at present under orders for active service in the Crimea. Major Kelly, who is in command, delivered the medals to the soldiers, and addressed them in appropriate terms. The Charlotte Jaise, freight-ship, will go into Ports mouth harbour this morning to embark detachments of the 67th and 69th Regiments for Barbadoes. • DEATH OF GENERAL HAMERTON. The Clonneel papers announce the death of Gen. John Millet Hamerton, colonel of the 44th Regiment. The event took place at his country residence, Orchardstown c ounty of Tipperary, on Saturday la s t, a ft er a brief 'ill ness. The General was a soldier from his youth, hiving entered the army at the early age of 15, and distin guished himself in various engagements in Egypt, the West Indies, and during the Peninsular war. At Waterloo he bravely led on the second battalion of the 44th, in which gallant regiment he had graduated to th e rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was left for dead on the field, having received several severe wounds ix the head and thigh. Owing to the attachment of a faithful non commissioned officer, Sergeant Ryan, who brought his wounded amid insensible commander under the care of skilful medical treatment, he slowly recovered, and with his devoted follower returned to his native country. Captain C. G. Butler, who died at Bombay on the 18th of December, served during Sir C. Napier's campaign against the mountain a nd desert tribes situated on the right bank of the Indus, early . in 1845, with a detach ment of 200 men. He was Commandant of the Mili tary Sanitary Station at Poorundhur, and was brother of the two Captains Butler, one of whom fell at Silistria, and the ether at Inkerman. SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATES. ORDNANCE. Supplementary estimate of the charge which will pro bably lee incurred during the year 1854-55, for Ordnance services : BARRACK SUPPLIIS t &C. Barrack Supplies—Great-spats and boots and shoes for the troops 2267,000 Warm and waterproof clothing and waterproof articles for the troops • 382,500 Supplemental to vote 2 of the Ordnance esti mate for 1854.55 ViIAGIIB. Wages for extra time at the soyeral depart ments at Woolwich Supplemental to vote 5 •f the Ordnance esti mate far 1864-55 STORES. Small arms 66,000 Iron ordnance, shot, shells, &o. Camp equipage and miscellaneous stores 234,860 Huts for troops in the Crimea, 54,800/. ; stable huts for 5,000 horses, 19,041.1. ; hospital huts for 2,000 patients, 12,9691. Huts for 50,000 men, to be erected in garrisons or at Aldershott... 175,000 Huts for 3,000 men at Heligoland 12,930 Foundry for Lancaster shells 25,000 Building for machinery for small arms Supplemental to vote G of the Ordnance esti mate for 1834-55 732,140 Total £1,402,961 H. D. Ross. W. MONXELL. Office of Ordnance, Jan. 29, 1855. THOS. HASTINGS. NAVY. Statement of excess of expenditure for her Majesty's navy for the year 1853-54 : Required to be voted in order to defray the excess of the naval expenditure, beyond the grants for the year ended on March 31,1851, as shown on the annual account of the naval receipt and expen diture for that year Az estimate of the sums required to pro vide for the estimated excess of the naval expenditure for the year ending March 31, 1855, beyond the ordinary and supplementary grants for the year 1834.55 £1.938,101 0 0 J. R. G. GRAIIAM. Cownut. Admiralty, Jan. 29, 1855. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly general meeting, held yesterday, at the Society's House in Hanover-square, Robert Hudson, Esq., F.R.S., in the Mess s. E. S. cAti, M](l G. IV. Bell, were elected Fellows of the Soc.:it:4; at,(l. Mews. R. W. Grey, M.P., T. Walker, Hardinge Giffard, and Latimer Clark were propelled as candidates for the Fellowship. SPIRIT OF Tali PUBLIC ,TOU.RNALS. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. (From, the Times of this day.) The interest of the Ministerial and personal explanations delivered last night in the House of Lords was so surpassingly great that it threw into the shade even the momentous politi cal events of the hoar ; the fall of one Cabinet and the failure of another agitated the Parliament of England less vehe mently than the manly defence of the Duke of Newcastle, and the overwhelming refutation which he hurled at the head of his late colleague and accuser. Nor is the interest in such matters unreasonable or misplaced ; we may have difficulties to surmount, we may have omissions and miscarriages to re pair, but no crisis iu public affairs can be so formidable as to induce the British Parliament to suspend an inquiry which affects the honour of its debates, or to delay an act of justice to one of its members. The Duke of Newcastle's explanation was, according to all ordinary rules, irregular ; it intervened between the two statements of Lord Aberdeen and Lord Derby • it was a dir ec t rep l y to a speech delivered in the other house of Parliament, and it disclosed to an unusual ex tent the confidential transactions and correspondence of the late Cabinet. Her Majesty had, however, been pleased to release the Duke of Newcastle from the obligation of secrecy, for the express purpose of making this vindication of his own character, and, under the circumstances of the case, such an explanation was indispensable. If it be put to any impartial man to say, after having read the particulars of this transaction, whether lie had rather stand before the people of England and the judgment of history as the Duke of Newcastle or as Lord John Russell, not one man in a hundred would hesitate to choose the fate of a Minister who has fallen at his post, surrounded by his colleagues, rather than that of a politician who has terminated his official career by flight, and sheltered that flight under a misrepresentation. The one may have been unfortunate in the selection of his instruments, but the other has been in sincere in his dealings with his friends. The Duke may have carried his candour and disintereetedness to a fault, but that is a fault of which Lord John Russell can never be accused. The Duke of Newcastle has been ensuccessful in the task of restoring order and efficiency to military and administrative departments so rotten and faulty as ours have turned out to be ; but no one has impugned his zealous industry in the public, service, his generosity, or his honour. When wo took the liberty in the autumn to advert to the prolonged absence from town of the Court and the majority of the Ministers, it was because we knew that the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Clarendon were loft almost alone to bear the whole burden of war, though it now turns out that Lord John Russell was still evincing his profound solicitude for the success of the army by despatching from Minto or from Scarborough a few impracticable suggestions or querulous complaints. Lord Derby indulged last night in one of his accustomed sallies , on the domestic felicity enjoyed by. such a Cabinet, and on the effect of such disclosures as these ; but, in truth, if the history of Lord Aberdeen's Administration be ever faithfully recorded, it will be found that the disunion of the Cabinet was duo to one cause only—the petty but incessant attempts of Lord J. Russell to supplant the chief minister and to ob tain a position over his colleagues. Mr. Roebuck's motion appeared to him a favourable opportunity to strike the blow which was to restore him to the Premiership ; but the blow was a foul ono, and, though it shattered the Cabinet, it has inflicted a far deeper wound on Lord John Russell's fame. The existence of the late Administration was in his eyes no more than a period of transition, which was to restore him to the position he had already forfeitsd, and to that object he has sacrificed without hesitation his fidelity to his colleagues and his duty to the country. The facts distinctly proved last night by the Duke of New castle from authentic correspondemo or competent witnesses contradict in many important particulars the statement of himself entirely to demonstrate int the th Lord J. Russell, and it seems incredible that suc h a statement should have been made in the presence of a t l east half-a dozen persons able, on the fi ce r d st occasion, hi its inaccuracy. It appears, in e first place, th a t _ upon the separation of the War aid Col onial Departments the Duke of Newcastle placed hands of his colleagues, declaring his readiness to retain either or neither office, and that it was by their unanimous decision, not by his choice, that ho took the seals of the new Department for War. It is shown that down to the Bth Oct., and consequently during the while of Lord John Russell's autumnal recreations, he continued to write to the Duke— " You have done all that could bo done, and I am sanguine of success." On the 17th November. whoa Lord J. Russell first urged a further change in the War Departments, the Duke and Mr. Sidney Herbert placed tleir offices entirely at Lord Aberdeen's disposal, and urged him to do what ho thought best for the public service. On tie 16th of December Lord J. Russell informed the Primo Minister that he had changed his views and abandoned his former plan. At the Cabinet held on Saturday, the 20th of January, three days before Par liament reassembled, Lord J. Russell himself brought forward another plan for the re-organisation of the military depart ments, more nearly resembling the scheme of Lord Grey. This plan was agreed to by the Duke of Newcastle and adopted by the other members of the Government, with the exception of ono or two insignificant details, on which Lord John had made a blunder. Yet, to the astonishment of his colleagues, Lord John has since asserted that ho had no reason to suppose t o John's remedy own plan the that the reforms which had been under considerati on would prevail, and that he was unable to assure the House of C om - Newcastle had already announced to Lord Aberdeen his ab gen solute determination to resigt office altogether, on account h st a : ( t i nes a t otf t h h tai a lt very aairnayn e m tmh e f o ta e s e n twbe agreed ellengb e t ti n o h g , a t ni n o d a rdd t e h at the D u k e o f of the unpopularity attached to his administration of the War Department. Under these circumstances, the sudden an nouncement of Lord John's flight from the Treasury bench excited the unfeigned amazement of all who knew the facts of the ease, and wo must add that these facts are wholly irreconcileable with the motives he thought proper to assign for his resignation. The truth is, that of all the proposals connected with the war Lord John Russell has made to his colleagues none have been rejected, and of the objections he has started none have been overruled. The causes whichled him to destroy the Government at this difficult and perilous crisis In the affairs of Europe must therefore be sought alto gether in his own personal ambition. Cballing the assembled Peers of England to witness, and in the presence of all the late Ministers of the Crown, who have personal knowledge of all the., IsTAo,o,,itle proved to -de monstration that most of the allegations made in the House of Commons by Lord John Russell on this subject are at the t variane...ew i ,tio th n6eg n does. not .r dt imilnwhere ; hat the -oblo hquo t y aaitt. ii sinf ted from hw trto cast it. • It has been our painful duty, in" commenting on the ac counts received from the army, to animadvert as forcibly as we could on the numerous instances of mismanagement, which have exposed our troops to dreadful hardships and losses, lowered our military reputation abroad, and compro mised the sue ens of the Crimean expedition. But we have never said one word which could be construed into a personal imputation on the Duke of Newcastle more than on the other members of the Government and the chiefs of the army. On the contrary, we knew with what indefatigable energy ho has worked while other members of the Government were not even within reach of London ; and we could not but draw, and have ever drawn, a favourable contrast between his laborious zeal in the public service and their supercilious in difference Great mlstakos have been committed in the choice of tho men selected to carry on this war, both at home and abroad ; and the Government has been justly blamed for not reorgan ising the administration of the army, embodyi ng th e m iliti a, forming a reserve, and proceeding to place our military esta blishments at once upon a full war footing. But on all these points Lord John Russell must be content t o s h are th e cen sure which his colleagues have incurred, and it is because these evils and omissions were not more promptly remedied that the task became impracticable. The Duke of Newcastle has which broke down ; and no Mi nister will succeed i n gu i d i ng fail ed, coun but this tlyto terminationtithewgasloritho.uessys"laBmuch as the Minister of a successful war until the military establishments have been thoroughly re formed. We think, thereforo, that the Duke of Newcastle overstates the accusations which are or can be preferred against himself ; and we are confident that no man will read his manly and becoming defence without sympathy and re spect. (From the Daily Nev,, of this day.) The instinctive love and veneration with which Englishmen cling to their Sovereign was much weakened during the reigns , by th e k now l e d ge th a t th e these monarchs influenced them or t ms h n e nta T ola h l i mi r ki d an t ega n s d i an F nt o dh u o r di t r h i soi G hdto e i ionorgogs of Georges Ministers. The Monarch of them het lowers himself to the rank to be above personal pre pa o f s r s e e e s s s i t n a n t s e B i like indulging England, u o of a subject. Ho ceases to be Icing of a people, and becomes merely the leader of a party. F or the Sovereign to indulge i: ou sttib to endeavour e pe Ministers, s no to animosities l e s p r t d e o e n e t - al of certain parts' leaders, and personal piques, in a matter of such v it a l importance to the legitimate Sta State as th a e u s t e h l o e r selection ofF rasubject hisre grade the Crown in the eyes of the people, and weaken its the Sovereign as sympathising withsmin mingling i n th e i r ca b a l s, i s littl e short of treason; inasmuch as it may p lace the possibly l Crown in antaganistic relations t o the Our readers will perceive at oncl o il e a . t these remarks have been suggested by the indecent and unmanly attempt made yesterday by the Times to represent the Queen as mixed up with, and taking an active part in, the personal squabbles and recriminations arising out of the present Ministerial crisis.' " Tho Queen herself," says the Times, "is known to have expressed to Lord John Russell her sense of conduct so much at variance with the common principles of concur in n o t u l b d t a thenpi opinion, truth and honesty." We b e li eve this stat emen t t o be un true. The unscrupulous charac ter of the Ti mes i s so univer sallygreat majority of the people They will not believe that their Queen can ha v e so far fo rgo tt en w h a t s h e owes to herself and her country , as to stoop t o wr it e a scold ing letter to an ex - Minist er, oa th e strength o f ex par t e known, of En England we h have n o will statements made by the colleagues with whom ho had quar relled, without stopping to hear his version of the story. The audacity of the falsehood is almost beyond conception. Tho people will judge of the concha of Lord John Rueselland his late colleagues for themselves, upon the evidence laid before them; they cannot help doing so if they would. It is possible—it is almost certain—thst they will decide in favour of Lord John. The hot haste of the aintall to throw the Queen's name into the scale against him shows how much it fears that the popular verdict gill be in his favour. This being the case, it is clear that, in order to subserve their own party purposes, t h e mana gers and inspirers of th e Times have not scrupled to , expose their Sovereign to the risk of incur ring popular odium, without any fault on her part. Such conduct is traitorous towards a cueen—is base and dastardly in men towards a woman. There is, however, this advantage to be gained from the indecent and unmanly outrage offered to the Queen in the Times. It shows to what lengths the a ristocratic factions who strive to monopolise the high offices of state —to oonvert the houses of Parliament into political 1, " where the tables at which tho clerks sit are rouse et noir tables, and Ministerial appointments the stakes—and their tools in the press will go in order to traduce and vilify a political rival. If they display their malignity and mendacity thus shame lessly in public, to what extent will they not indulge them in the obscure shades of clandestine intrigue ? If the public could for a moment believe that the Queen had written such a letter as the Times describes, they would say, it is because his late colleagues have been so eager to pro-occupy the Royal mind with impressions unfavourable to Lord John Russell, in order to prevent his having an unprejudiced hearing from his Royal Mistress. This would corroborate the suspicious which have gone abroad that the Conservative section of the late Coalition have kept themselves aloof from their Liberal col leagues as an organised faction in the Cabinet, and have laboured assiduously and unscrupulously to enlist the Court on their side by every art of sycophancy and misrepresenta tion. It would serve as an additional motive to the indepen dent and intelligent classes to make their voice heard through that hedge which usurping and selfish aristocratic factions have interposed between the Crown and tho peoplo. Ono thing is certain ; and it is here stated not for the in formation of the Soverign, who, there can - be no doubt, has been grossly belied by the Tines, but for the information of all paltry, courtly intriguers, w h o imagine that the people will servilely model their opinions of any statesman upon those attributed to the Throne. The people now judge of 1n1 , 1,‘; - wen I.y thir actions, and not ''ubtuit" to have cut and-dry judgments proscribed to them by authority. If the people have reason to believe of any statesman that he is wise, h9uoet i And patrietic s they will roller upVA their TOStriQll. tativee supporting him and his policy, er , n though the greatest person in the realm should unfortunately be prepos sessed against him. George 111. was long allowed to exclude Fox from power because he hated him; George IV. was long allowed to deny Canning his deserved positioi , because he hated him; but, oven in times when the power of the people was less, these eminently obstinate monarchs wre at last com pelled to receive as ministers the men they disliked, Now that the people knew their rights better, and are in a bitter condition to assert them, the exclusion of a sagacious and; atriotic states. man from office, in deference to the personal feelings of the monarch, would not bo tolerated for an instant This is tfitid not in behalf of Lord John Russell, or any alter individual, but as a truth of universal application, which Court butter flies, and intriguers hackneyed in the ways of office, will do well to lay to heart. (From the Morning Herald of this day.) Once more an obstacle is interposed to prevent the people of England from obtaining what they have shown their full determination to obtain—namely, a strong and united Ad ministration—united in its determination to carry on the war against the domination of Russia, and strong in the all but unanimous support of the British people. This obstacle has been interposed at a moment critical be yond all former precedent—critical to the safety of the state —critical to the honour of the nation, and, above all, critical to the salvation of our army now perishing upon the frozen heights of Sebastopol. This obstacle it is necessary that the nation should be aware has been interposed, if not by, at least for the benefit of, a portion of that degraded faction which the unparalleled and overwhelming majority of one hundred and fifty seven has already driven with obloquy from the councils of the Queen. It was bad enough that Lord Derby felt himself coerced by the emergency of the crisis to seek the aid of ono who has for two long years been the coadjutor, if not the councillor, of the men whose terrible crimes have occa sioned the present condition of the empire. We can well conceive, however, that Lord Derby made vast allowances for the position in which the individual to whom we allude was placed, seeing the vital emergency which required the speedy—nay, the instant--formation of a Ministry able and willing to save the remnant of our troops, to restore the honour of England in the eyes of the world, and to rescue the Sovereign from the fearful situation of appearingto her people as attempting to rescue a Ministry upon which the country has now placed its brand and its seal of reprobation. Such wo conceive to have been the motives which induced Lord Derby to require the assistance of a man to whom many of his followers felt strong repugnance and valid objections ; but what are we to think of the conduct of the individual to whom such an opportunity had been afforded of exhibiting the highest patriotism, if he dared to turn it to the purpose of giving obstruction to the endeavours which an invincible sense of duty alone could have induced Lord Derby to make, by dragging again into the councils of our Queen persons who within a ♦ery few days have been specially ejected from them by the overpowering force of public opinion I Nay, if we have heard aright, this individual absolutely wished to condition for placing at the head of the War ad ministration a nobleman more obnoxious as an administrator to both soldiers and officers than any other person who holds a seat in the Legislature. The facts to which we have referred are so currently and confidently asserted that we feel ourselves bound to comment upon them, although we still hope that no Englishman could so far forget his duty to his country, his Sovereign, and the army, for such a purpose to interrupt arrangements absolutely necessary to the welfare of all three. There is no use in concealing names. The nobleman, whom rumour asserts to have acted as we described, is Lord Pal merston. The individuals belonging to the Peelite section whom be is said to have wished to attach to himself for the purpose of—disguise it as he might, such was the fact— weakening Lord Derby's Administration were Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Sidney Herbert ; whilst another, whom we cannot suppose our readers have not already recognised from our de scription, is the conciliating, the practicable, and success ful administrator, Earl Grey, who, in the Home-office as a subordinate, in the War and the Colonial Departments where he was dominant, accumulated an unparalleled amount of mismangement and actual disaster upon every transaction in which it was his fortuno to be engaged. Wo will not affront the Earl of Derby by the supposition that ho for ono moment could have hesitated about the ac ceptance of such propositions, involving, as they did, insult to the memory of our sacrificed soldiers —insult to the people who had declared their abhorrence of those who had offered up the holocaust—and insult to the Sovereign whose earnest wish to acquire the aid of a firm and popular Administration has been threatened for the moment by a heartless and pro fligate intrigue. _ . _ We conclUde by asserting, that without the aid of any one , of the individuals we have alluded to, Lord Derby has the most ample means within his grasp of forming an Adminis tration powerful, able, united, and capable of commanding thoroughly the aid of a sufficient number of members to set faction at defiance, even in the present House of Com mons, relying, as he may do, upon the undoubted fact, that, if driven to a dissolution, he will receive the hearty sup port of the nation in carrying on the people's war. On this great truth, however, the person whose duty it may be finally to form an Administration may rely—the taint of Peelism in his Cabinet will be fatal to it. With regard to Lord Palmerston, we warn him, that while tho original con struction - of the Coalition was disgraceful to the individuals who formed, and degrading to the - nation that brooked it, even for a time, the attempt to re-construct it by dove tailing and patching together the rottenest portion of the now happily shattered mosaic, will bring down upon his head the wrath of an aroused people. And to Lord Derby we may say, that admitting for ono moment the absurd supposition that he could clasp the hands rod with the blood of our army, and take the Peelites to his councils, he would by that mere act utterly destroy the party which is still proud to hail him as their chief, but of whom tho great majority will never, under any circumstances, degrade themselves by sit ting on the same benches with Mr. Gladstone and his accom plices. (From the Morning Post of this day.) The public will learn without surprise that the Earl of Derby has declined to form an Administration, and that Lord Lansdowne has been summoned to Windsor. It may therefore be safely surmised that the overwhelming force of public opinion has carried the day, and that a Ministry will at once be formed, of which Lord Palmerston's name will ho the guarantee to the nation. In this result the country at large will sincerely rejoice, whilst our Allies and oar enemies will look upon ft as the Certain indication of a most vigorous and thoroughly English policy. Such an issue was distinctly 'foreseen by all persons practically acquainted with public Some. indeed, were surprised that the leader of the country party should have been sent for by her Majesty ; but a reference to the division list of Monday night will showthat it was the largo preponderance of the Derby party that gave such exceeding weight and breadth to the censure beneath which the Aberdeen Ministry fell to the ground. Lord Lansdowne and Lord Palmerston—the only other names that have been canvassed as likely to have been sent for—lay under a technical though not real disability, because they were members of the con demned Cabinet. However strongly, therefore, her Majesty might feel that probabilities wore against Lord Derby's suc cess, there existed the strangest grounds why the chance, such as it was, should be accorded to him and his followers. He has tried his best and failed. This result materially sim plifies the crisis. It leaves the large body of the Conserva tives at liberty to accord an independent support to the in coming Ministry. They will feel that no injustice has been done to their leader or themselves, that they have had their turn, but have not been strong enough to take it, and that, consequently, any attempt to impede the success of the nister who may be able to form a Cabinet would be factious, undignified, and unpatriotic. The presumptive evidence has all along been against Lord Derby's success. His own party was not strong enough, either in numbers or official ability. He must either have brought in his old colleagues, many of whom have already been tried and found wanting, and whose presence would have sunk his ship in the very first storm that might blow over the often troubled waters of the Haus° of Commons ; or ho must have enlisted a long line of recruits—raw men, as far as office Is concerned, which would have been a still worse alternative. The only Ministry that can or ought to stand at this moment is ono that is obviously and demonstrably capable in the oyes of the country. It must be incontestably strong in those particulars, at the least—in its Head ;in its War Minister ; in its Foreign Secretary ; and in its Chancellor of the Exche quer :to which we may add this sine qua non—it must com mand the cordial confidence of our Allies. The material of such a Ministry is was impossible for Lord Derby to find in the ranks .of his own party. His only chance lay in a coali tion. With the co-operation of certain known and tried men he might hate succeeded. The names of Palmerston, Claren don, an d Gladstone would have saved his Minist r y. But we do not want a three-legged Cabinet which stands upon the redeeming qualities of a few undeniable mon. We want a Ministry that in all its parts—head, body, and members— , is ODO, coherent and co-operative—that stands upon its own merits, and needs not to quote the pre-eminent qualifications of one portion as a sot-off against the obvious incapability of the other. A Government so constituted might last for a while, but it must eventually fall as a whole before some violent opposition, provoked by the shortcomings of parti cular portions. The mischief of such falls is, that the innocent go down with the guilty, tbo competent with the incompetent, and the country becomes deprived of the services of her great men through the incapacity of her lesser ones. A coalition of able mon, differing in many particulars from one another but consenting to act together with cordial unanimity for the obvious good of the country, has a priori everything patriotic to recommend it. A coali tion between capables and incapables must be short-lived. ; Yet that was the only kind of coalition Lord Derby could have concocted, and, unhappily for him, the incapacity would .have been almost entirely amongst his own friends. He could not, therefore, hope to succeed, however patriotically he might have been disposed to waive all personal questions and private feelings, and, uniting with those from whom he is often dissociated, to devote his unflagging industry and brilliant powers to the public service. But he did right to try, and it is more his misfortune than his fault that he has not succeeded. But his failure is no misfor tune to the country. Better a thousand times that he, or any other Statesman, should fail in forming an Adminis tration, than, having formed one, to fail some short time hence in carrying his measures. We have already said, and we repeat it, that the Cabinet now to bo formed must be formed with a view to an existence at the least conterminous with the war, so far as anything human can be so made. It must see its way clearly through the intricacies of the present perplexities, right forward to their disentanglement, to the strengthening of what has been proved to be weak, to the ad justment of what has been proved to be disorganised, and to the surmounting of those obstacles which have stood in the way of the success of its predecessors. Let us hope that a Palmerston Administration may, in accordance with prophetic public feeling, achieve all this. There's much virtue in a name, for it presents to the mind the long chain of antecedents which illustrate its owner ; and how ever sincere in his desires for peace the excellent Earl of Aberdeen, however patriotic and experienced Lord Derby, there is in that one word Palmerston a magic influence with which none can compare, and which speaks, in its world-widefame, of the most glorious days of British foreign policy, which revives the memories of William Pitt and George Canning, and which is identified in Persia, on the Caucasus,:.at Alexandria, at Athens, or at Constantinople, a Petersburg, Vienna, or Berlin, in America, in France, or in England, with the highest principles of liberalt prgis.ues ' and constitutional liberty, and, above all, hhe du einfluence of England, and the prodigious interestswi of her vast empire. (Prom the Morning Chronicle of this day.) Lord Derby has acted wisely and patriotically. On finding that he could not form such a Government as he conscien tiously deemed equal to the emergency, he at once abandoned the task with which her Majesty had entrusted him. It now remains to be seen whether Lord Lansdowne or Lord Palmer ston will meet with a more favourable reception from our leading and tried statesmen. We only know of one who, from position or influence, can or will throw any impediment in their way, and this wo deeply regret for many reasons. Public morality has fallen to so low an ebb, and so many political reputations have been wrecked of late years, that Lord John Russell's last escapade, independently of its more direct effects on our foreign and domestic relations, may b e regarded as a natioiial. misfortune. Ile roust hate acted under some extraordinary hallucination, or he could hardly have failed to anticipatB the judgment which would be passed upon ouch conduct, oveli without the Pad oY Ple correspond• ence which was road by the Duke of Newcastle last evening, and of his Grace's lucid statement and conclusive vindication. Lord John Russell's most zealous advocates now admit that he must be content to do penance for a period. The only mode of recovering, in some degree, tho esteem and confi dence of his friends, would be for him to repudiate at once all notion of an immediate return to office, avow an intention to give a cordial support to the best Govern ment that can be formed on a Liberal or Liberal-Con servative basis, and honestly exert his influence with his remaining followers to do the same. Mr. Stafford has flung his Admiralty peccadilloes into the back ground by his mission of charity to Scutari, and by his touch ' ing and simple narrative of what he did and saw?- Lord John Russell would do well to imitate his example ; attl it would be for the public service if he could persuade Mr. Disraeli to pair off with him for the remainder of the session and go too. The main obstacle to the satisfactory solution of the Minis terial problem would be thus removed ; and a stable Admin istration might be constructed with comparative ease. The sooner the arrangements are completed, and the fewer the changes, the better ; for an infinity of mischief might ensue from a prolongation of the crisis, or from the delay and con fusion that might result from the shifting of posts, or from the introduction of a number of new hands. At the same time, occasion might be taken to rectify some errors that were committed, and some injustice that was unwittingly done, in the formation of Lord Aberdeen's Government. Thus Sir William Molesworth should be removed to an office in which his profound knowledge and admirably-trained mind could be turned to account ; and Mr. Charles Villiers' claims, as the enlightened champion of free-trade principles, Should be more suitably recognised than by continuing him in the post of Judge Advocate. Others (Mr. Henry Fitzroy and Lord Riche, for example) accepted places in Lord Aberdeen's Ministry confessedly inferior to their well-founded pretensions, but it is one obvious advantage of a coalition Government that the in ferior offices are filled by a higher class of men than in a pure Whig or pure Tory one. Indeed this is the very cir cumstance that excites the ire of disappointed aspirants like Mr. Rich. " There will be a terrible outcry," wrote Wind ham, in reference to a projected broad-bottom Ministry, " amongst the smaller fry on both sides. When two large bodies come together, the insects on the surface must be crushed." Malcontents of this description received a tole rably broad hint from Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, who was loudly cheered when he thus pointedly replied to Lord John Rus sell :—" The noble lord the member for London, on Friday last attempted, not triumphantly, to vindicate the Whigs from the charge of being an exclusive party that required all power for itself ; and he found a solitary instance for the refutation of that charge in the magnanimity with which the Whigs had consented to that division of power which his de sertion now recants and condemns. But, in plain words, his vindication only amounts to this, that where the Whigs could not get all the Tower, they reluctantly consented to accept half." What with Liberal-Conservative and Liberal claimants, the Whigs Proper must henceforth content themselves with such a share of power, great or small, as they can command by their talents and their public services ; nor will they have any reason to complain of being put upon short allowance, so long as they are represented by so many eminently distin guished and tried friends of civil and religious liberty. But it is utterly impossible ; we repeat, for any durable Ministry to be constructed, except on a coalition basis; and there is no fear that one of Lord Lansdowne's or Lord Palmerston's making will be open to the same objection as the last. It is preposterous to accuse Lord Aberdeen of weakness because he could not, by a mere exercise of volition, compel unanimity between statesmen of co-equal authority, two of whom had claims on the Premiership ; and before Lord Palmerston can be exposed to the same trial, his Cabinet must include both Lord John Russell and Lord Aberdeen. That a Liberal-Conservative Government under Lord Palmerston, with Lord Grey as Secretary of War, and Mr. Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer, would receive the support of the House of Commons, we entertain no doubt whatever. The division on Mr. Roebuck's motion was merely the echo of the senseless popular outcry against Lord Aber deen and the Duke of Newcastle, and, so far as the Liberal portion of the majority are concerned, it may be considered as a declaration in favour of the noble Viscount. If, how ever, this House of Commons, which was elected under Lord Derby's auspices and through W.B.'s instrumentality, should prove factious or unmanageable, a dissolution is the obvious remedy ; and a bold appeal to the constituencies would effec tually prevent either Lord John Russell, Mr. Disraeli, or Mr. Bright, from upsetting or embarrassing a Ministry honestly bent on the vigorous prosecution of the war for the attainment of an honourable peace. (From the Morning Advertiser of this day.) So then the attempt of Lord Derby to form a new Adminis tration has signally failed. The humiliating announcement was made last night by the Noble Lord himself, in his place in Parliament. We congratulate the country upon the fact. It would have been a great misfortune for the nation had we witnessed the advent of a Derby Administration at such a crisis as the present. We congratulate the Queen, no loss cordially than the country, on the abortive attempt of the Noble Lord to form a new Government. Her interests, we need not say, are identical with those of her subjects—and if she have enlightened and faithful counsellors around her throne, they will not fail to impress this groat truth unceas ingly on her mind. And now that all hope has vanished of the formation of a Derby Cabinet, we repeat, what we have so often said, for a long time past, that Lord Palmeseton is the man, and the only man, for the Premiership. In the earnest hope that he may not be induced, by either the wishes of those in high quarters, or the solicitations of prirate friends, to repeat substantially the errorhe committed on a former occasion, we adjure Lord Palmerston to remember, that it is to his too ready compliance, on a former occasion, with the wishes expressed by the Court, that ho would rejoin the Aberdeen Administration, after be had seceded from it, that we are indirectly to ascribe all those evils which have resulted from the mismanagement of the war by the Coalition. His duty plainly was not to return--no matter by whom asked to do so—to that imbecile Cabinet. Had he persisted in his resolution not to reunite himself to Lord Aberbeen's Government, that Government would have inevitably perished, and the country have been spared all that miserable incapa city, and that t...iluihnia negleet, which hay.c well nigh annihi lated one of the most gallant and finest armies the world ever saw. It is right Lord Palmerston should be reminded that ho has thus incurred the awful responsibility of being, indirectly, a party to 'all that has happened in the Crimea. And will ho be prepared to add to a load of responsibility already, it might be supposed, too heavy to be borne, by repeating, as wo have said, substantially the gigantic error he committed in Doce s mber, 1853 f If he joins any incompetent Ministry just now, and enables such a Ministry to exist, and conse quently to do mischief, he will thereby do deliberate violence to humanity, morality, patriotism, and constitutional prin ciples. Without him no Government can at present bs formed, and therefore ho is bound by the highest and holiest obligations which can influence the mind, to keep reso lutely aloof from all Ministerial combinations, no matter by whom made. He can by that means compel those in high places to confide to himself the task of constructing a new Cabinet. These arc not times for the practise of any false delicacy. If others above him have claims on his loyalty and devotion, he has also claims on their con sideration. The obligations and the duties are reciprocal. He is bound to have a regard for his own character. No man is to be expected to sacrifice his character to please any one. But above and beyond all, Lord Palmerston is bound to recollect what aro the claims which his country has upon him at this crisis. - The claims of country aro paramount to all others, and must not be sacrificed to personal or private considerations, no matter of what kind. In countries like ours, which aro governed on constitutional principles, the people are not made for monarchs, but monarchs for the people. It wore well for all our Ministers of State were they never to become oblivious of this great principle of the British Constitu tion. The important truth must be proclaimed by the press with greater force and frequency than ever—more espe cially when our representatives shrink from the discharge of the duty—that the people arc the source of all legitimate power. If this principle had been inculcated in Parliament in the way in which it ought to have been by those whom we have seat to that assembly to represent our principles, there would not now bo that unwillingness which all deplore, in oso branch of the Constitution, to confldo to the man, to whom every ono points as the fittest person for the) purpose, the task of forming a new Administration. The time, we repeat, has come when an independent press must no longer mince its words. Wo feel that at such a crisis as the present it is our duty to express ourselves in language about which there can be no mistake. We repeat then, with regard to Lord Palmerston, that he is bound alike by the ob ligations which he owes to the country and to himself not to accept of any secondary office in a new Ministry. Not only has he personal claims of paramount urgency to the position of Premier, but the dictates of an enlightened patriotism sug gest that he should not rest satisfied with any subordinate place in Downing-street. It is only as the head of the Go vernment that ho can render effectual service to his country at this momentous juncture. With another Primo Minister he would not be a free agent. It is only as Premier that his great administrative capacity, his hostility to Continental absolutism, and his ardent patriotism, could bo exhibited with effect. Lord Palmerston ought to have been Premier long ago. And but for his excessive good nature, and his generous anxiety to please others, he would have been Premier in De cember, 1853, when he seceded from the Government of Lord Aberdeen. Onr earnest advice. to Lord Palmerston at that time was, not to listen to the counsels and entreaties of those who urged his return to the Home-office ; for we felt as tho roughly convinced as if the contingency had been already an actual fact, that, had he only refused to join the Aberdeen Administration, it would not only, before ten or twelve days had elapsed, have fallen to pieces, but that he would have received the commands of the Queen to form a new one in its stead. Lord Palmerston is again out of office. Let him re solutely resist all efforts to coerce or to cajole him into the resumption of any seat in the Cabinet, other than that which appertains to the Premiership; and before many days have elapsed all personal prejudices against the noble lord—no matter in what quarter they may exist—will be made' by the force of circumstances, to give way to the universally and energetically-expressed wishes of the country, that the reins of power be committed to his hands, in order that he may guide us through a crisis the most moraentout which ever oc curred in the history of Britain. the Da ff y Nye of thi3 c l a y.) regardingwe n il e h d tr to f A b h y i Ithos ef ailu re t in the House of Lords last night, ni enadministration, and Lord Derby's announce btehicleFl reao:nelTh'sse the will doubt]. ess be read men more interest by the public atlarge than they were list ened present • on l the occasion. Nothing was expected by those who have ivh t o o d to hear the discourses of the ex-Premier ; been accustente most of those who crowded the galleries and the bar of and very new or very striking the House of Peers last night had previoualy learned front various sources that the mission of Lord Derby was, at least for the time, at au end. Beyond the formal avowal of this fact, the Tory leader's 'peach contained nothing of any signi ficance or importance. He made his hearers laugh more than once indeed, at the expense of the out-going Ministers, and entered a general demurrer to the eulogy pronounced by Lord Aberdeen on the success of his policy and the prosperity of the nation. But neither from the Premier that was, nor from the Premier that many believed was to be, did a thought or a sentiment fall, upon an occasi on sufficiently suggestive, which any one will be able to recollect if he should try a week hence. • • In truth, however, it was not the expectation of anything of the sort that filled the house last evening at au early hour. Something much more racy and provocative to the jaded ap petite for Parliamentary discussion than Ministerial declara tions, whether ponderous or jaunty, had drawn together an unusual concourse of senators, fair ladies, political fops, and critics and gossips of every degree. The Duke of Newcastle, it was understood, had undertaken not only to defend himself against the imputation of having by his incapacity brought obloquy and ruin on the Cabinet of which he was a member, but, as his friends gave out, he was, by the reading of private letters, and the disclosure of private conversations, to blast for ever Lord John Russell's character for manliness, veracity, and honour. A morning contemporary, whose diligent and. untiring rancour against the late President of the Council has never been concealed, strove hard, with its customary love of fair-play, to prepare tho public mind beforehand for the belief of any tale of treachery or tergiversation which might be told to the Retro Commenting oa a miPtitutivaly UnfAirs tbollgla4ter. ally correct, statement of Mr. Gladstone, on Monday last (Pa which, perhaps, it was unwise in Lord John to have suf fered to pass for the moment unexposed), the nmes broadly accused the noble lord of having used equivocatien in his recent statement regarding the War Department ; and the Duke of Newcastle was ill-advised enough to insinuate that on more than one point Lord John had misstated the facts of his own conduct and language regarding him. We frankly own that were such charges capable of proof we should not only join unreservedly in pitying the luckless ex- Minister of War, but we should unhesitatingly acknowledge that Lord John was not the man we have long been accus tomed to take him for. Whatever maybe deemed his faults, the noble member for the City of London has never been suspected of insincerity or meanness. The reproach of many among his Whig followers has often been that he was im prudently out-spoken ; that he was apt to offend the preju dices of lukewarm supporters by his unconscious keenness of phrase; and that his chief defect as a party leader was that he was not versed in the histrionic arts that enable some' of his competitors to seem all things to all men. And thismay be a deficiency and a want in cliques and clubs, and coalitions Uf really incongruous elements. To the people it is and will ever be his best recommendation. They believe that 'he is'in ear nest, and even where they think him wrong, the people • respect and trust him. But what is this *e hear—that the veteran leader of the Liberal party in the House offgratnous: has suddenly turned liar and coward, and that in order to escape the consequences of his own toe".greritt forbiarance - 10- . wards a colleague, who had no particular claim on his per sonal consideration, he has had the folly and wickedness to make a fraudulent statement of facts, recorded in writing, to the House of Commons The accusation is almost too absurd to merit detailed refu tation. But, as the imiienetrable dulness of the Duke et Newcastle, and the unrelenting antipathy of the contemporary to whom we above alluded, have driven us to notice the matter, we will fearlessly say that, if the whole truth be told, the miserable insinuations of duplicity and equivocation will vanish like the morning mist, and utterly disappear. The charges of equivocation are threefold. Lord John when speaking of the origin a l nomination of the Duke to the War Department, happened to use the expreseion, " I yielded , his commendable ambition" to have the post of most difficulty and distinction ; * although, as he added, he thought it should have been offered. to Lord Palmerston. " This cannot be true," excl a i ms hi s , ungrateful grace, "for nobody ever proposed such q, compo, titer in the Cabinet; and I made a flourish of professing to be content with either Colonies or War, or with neither, if the public interest, in Lord Aberdeen's opinion, required it." Why, what does this prove, except that when the public voice last May was calling aloud that Lord Palmerston ought to be new War Minister, the imperturbable conceit of the , Peelite Premier in expectancy never heard the national shout I and that because Lord John refrained from urging in the Cabinet his comparative inexperiende and inferiority in 'every point of view to Lord Palmerston=therefore ho must . 6 . 11 Y approve the fond' and unfortunate pre• ference shows rv, hiss. by Lora Aberaeen Loidl John could not have " yielded," becalm. he net thor insisted beforehand that the duke would fail. nor tried to rea li se hi s f ore b o di ng by embarrass ing or thwarting him. By the Duke of Newcastle's ownetu oidal confession, last night, the ex-President of the Council acted cordially with him while they were- in consultation re specting the war ; and, when at a distance from town during the autumn, he wrote to him in a friendly tone, pointing out what he thought errors and suggesting remedies. These instances we are told were few ; and when the attempt to , apply them proved in one particular case impossible at the moment, Lord John wrote, frankly admitting that the ob stacles were insurmountable, but generously adding, " You have done all that could be done." Will our readers believe when we tell them that these words constitute the second count in the indictment for mendacity, equivocation, and fraud ? " Why did Lord John Russell suppress the fact that on Via Bth of October he addressed to me words of commendation I" In other words, his Grace would have the world believe that the expression was used in a general and comprehensive, not in a special and limited sense ; and he gives , the extract so shorn of context as to render the meaning ambiguous. And this is the candid man who _'has been made a victim by the wily and perfidious Whig leader But the crown and climax of all is that which the dexterous mars -1 ter of Oxonian dialectics first called attention to. When Lord John Russell found that no storm of national indignation could make the Prime Minister understand that a new Secretary for War was required, and when he despaired of mending matters in any other way, he suggested various changes in the department. He had suggested, some month's. Previously, a consolidation of the Secretaryship for War and the Secretaryship at War into one office, He had done so by the advice of a nobleman who had himself filled the latter office, and on whose practical judgment he relied. This in dividual subsequently changed his opinion, and satisfied Lord John that what ho had originally recommended had better not be attempted. Meanwhile, the disasters of the Crimea began to convince even the Duke of New castle that some great change was desirable. In a moment• of penitence, of panic, it occurred to Lord Aberdeen to recur to the old suggestion for the consolidation of the two Seers taryships, and Lord John was asked did he wish to revive the proposition. He replied that he did not, and stated his reasons. " Therefore we were entitled," says Mr. Gladstone, " to believe that all idea of any important change in the War Department was a defunct proposition 1" Was ever sophistry like this ? Because Lord John changes his mind on a ques tion of tape, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer coolly ignores the fact that a change of hands and heads was urged by Lord John—when the misfortunes of Balaklava were beginning— and never revoked or withdrawn. We do not hesitate to declare that this will turn out to be the case; and that the fact will so appear the instant Lord John has an opportunity of replying to the cavillings and quibblings to which his words have been subjected. Too forbearing we have before said wo think he was; and a precious recompence he has received. But now lot us in our turn ask those who talk of nip• pressio veri, whether a fact of no trivial weight has not been held back in the discussion hitherto, which, when knoWn;vrill. shov the unfairness of attempting to ascribe the proposal to supersede the incapable duke to personal or party motives I Did no other member of the Cabinet write to Lord 4berdeta , to the same effect I (From the Morning Herald of this day.) Lord Derby has declined the task which had been delegated to him by his Sovereign. The duty of forming a Government at this moment, when the late Cabinet, as much by their Ad ministration as by their retirement, have thrown all thing: , into confusion, is far from an agreeable task. It is not ono which any nobleman would readily undertake, except from the most urgent considerations of duty. The late debates on the war, consequent upon Mr. Roebuck's motion, have dis closed the terrible disorganisation and mismanagement which still prevail at Scutari and at the Crimea; in the army, in the hospital, in the commissariat--in short, in all quarters and provinces of the war. Au apprehension pretty generally exists that worse disclosures have yet to come; and now that they are removed from office who were most interested ins putting a fair face upon matters, and the whole truth must COMO out undisguised, the heart of this nation is doomed to , quail, and its ears to tingle, with dark and ominous announce ments—yet to come. It cannot, then, appear surprising that Lord Derby proton remaining in his present exemption from the frightful reapers+ sibilities of office unless he has a power coequal with hie re sponsibilities. It is not cur part to attribute motives or point out the obstacles which short-sighted and selfish Arabi. tion may have had in defeating designs entertained by the Sovereign, and entrusted for their execution to this able and energetic nobleman. It is enough that Lord Derby himself does not see clearly how he can execute the commission thus entrusted to him, with credit to himself, with honour to the Queen, and with safety to all; and, therefore, he re turns into the hands of the Sovereign the Authority with which he had been invested. We cannot blame him, much as we, in conjunction with a. large portion detriment te Lordoot i f ro) ieml t ao h reni e nDngtge n ort i cb t per i tuloahapncei, placed dn w d would standing, hlavbrat littlev eebas intelligence,eni etentgilbtwmi ac ti v ity,ct ohhei himself Lords,. rdus noblemanand a d e r c d h e i ov Aberdeen has extreme chivalrous on. Derby, we repeat, fully as we are convinced that, had he been placed at the head of the Administration of the country, there would have been no repetitions of the blunders, short sightedness, and incredible neglect, such as characterised the proceedings of the Coalition. His genius would soon have extricated us from the horrors into which the war has sunk us ; from that degradation which, as a nation, we cannot but feel, when comparing the boast and bravadoes with which the Cabinet and their adherents began the siege of Sebastopol, and the humiliations, the childish cries for help to others, which their conduct has reduced as. But a stronger reason than any of these would have induced us to welcome Lord Derby's accession to power; and it is this-- that sooner or later the reins of Government must fall into his hands. Until that period comes the nation. can expect no permanent and no vigorous Administration. For what are the alternatives before it ? A Whig Govern ment or a Coalition Government. Or, to speak more cor rectly, a Coalition Government, in which Whiggery forms the more predominant and more active element. A pure Whig Administration is out of the question ; it has been tried and failed signally. A re-construction of tins old Whig, party, with fresh and youthful blood, is an impossibility, even were it contemplated. For whatever strength or hopes the Whigs may have, are they placed in the rising generation I Is'there any succession to supply the vacancies in their ranks which time is daily making 4 There aro none ; no recruits to step into the gaps of Whig oligarchy. Lord John his effectually knocked his own party on the head ; he has mint the placebo over Whig monopoly as effectually as, ever did Sir Robert Peel in a kindred instance. Then as for a Coalition. What, we ask, are the hopeful elements out of which such a piece of joinery can be con , . strutted ? Then Mr. Gladstone, like Garrick between tragedy and come dy in the celebrated picture, will be subjected to the so l em n warnings and th e mon it orial acerbities of Lind Grey on one side, to the jaunty, noisy Palmerstonianisms of youthful seventy-three on the other. Can he reconcile the two with each other ? Can he reconcile either with himself I Lord Grey's colonial administration, or rather nal-administration, defeated Lord John's Cabinet, and raised Mr. Gladstone and his party to eminence. Mr. Lowe, lately the under ifecre. tary of Mr. Gladstone's own creation, ivas= the gadfly , ex pressly deputed from Australia to visit:4 l s country to hum and sting, to denounce by public speeches, . and through the columns of the press, Lord Grey's ministerial Inca pacity and his impraaticable temper. It is no Secret that the Timm, now unaccountably anxious to foist Lord Grey into power, opened its files for so clever an advo , cats of colonial independence, and so bitter an adversary of the unpopular Lord Grey. It is no secret that the most acrid reviews of Lord Grey's colonial policy are to be found in the same columns. If, after all, Lord Grey can unite with the Poelites, then, as the Reman poet declares, there is no rea son why doves should not take to the water, and •fish graze in the trees ; political honesty and political consistency have become a farce and a bye-word. But has not this country had sufficient experience of a Coalition that it must needlessly " repeat the dose ?" Has it not seen already Mr. Disraeli's dictum verified, that the people of England do not like Coalitions ; whilst the history of this country bears testimony, clear, frequent, and forcible enough, that no Coalition can be of lasting duration I Not even Lord Palmerston's popularity or Lord Palmereton'a abili ties will succd in rendering such combinaons palatable or even practicable. And though we do not fish to prejudge him, yet we cannot shut our eyes to th e fact that Lord Pal merston's abilities are more fitted for brilliant coups d e ma k more than patient statesmanship. Howeve r cons p icuous his genius far may have appeared hitherto in a vertin g war an d adopting a vigorous and energetic course w hen war seem ed inevitable, far more caution, fa the snol s kein , e jud gment, business and all its details than Lor d Pal merston possesses will be required to ex tricate us from our p resent I )erilous po sition, to unrave l embro il men t and confusion into whi c h a Coalition has thrust us. It is for those reasons, then, that w e s h ou ld g l a dl y h ave .to land i n application, to safety from the seen Lord Derby at that post to which his rank, abilities, and character fit him more than any other man, and to which dr-. cumstances must drift him eventually, even without any oxen. Lion, on his part, lie has done wisely, and he has certainly consulted his own dignity and ease when he refused to 1474 up with the party squabbles, the Downing-street intrigues, and the party pl o t s out of which Lord. 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