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MR; ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC TO-NIGHT at 8 o'clock, and Every Night (but Saturday). I Stalls,3s. ; Area, 2s, ; Gallery, Is. , The 31ernin% Representations Wit take place every Tuesday and Saturday, at 3 o'clock.—Egyptian .11 1, PlceadlUy. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, DECEMBEX, 1851. THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL will receive Tenders for the supply of WAX, COM , OSITION, and TAL LOW CANDLES,, and OIL and SOAP, for the use. of this office, during the year 1855. The Tenders must be delivered at the Secretary's Department of this office, at or before noon, on Saturday; the 23d Instant, and they Jaunt be enclosed in sealed corers, addressed to "Her Majesty's Postmaster-General," and endorsed, "Tenders for Candles, &c." T AE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 39, King-street, Clleapside, London. Established 1834. SPECIAL NOTlCE.—Ass:;rances effected before the 31st Instant Will share in the Profits at the end of next year. SAMUEL BROWN. Actuary. BANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Established A.D. 1844. PARTIES desirous of IN - VESTING- MONEY are requested to examine the Plan of this Institution, by which a high rate of Interest may be obtained with perfect security. Interest payable in January and July. PETEII MORRISON, Managing Director. ;Prospectuses and Forms for opening Accounts sent frecion application B RITISH EMPIRE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 37, New Bridge-street, Blackfilars. Empowered 'by Special Act of Parliament—Accumulate - 1 Fund, 60,0001.—Annual Income, 30,0001:—The entire profits divided trien nially—No charges except the Annual Premium—Policies indisput able except in cases of fraud ; and after three years the assurer may receive the surrender value, or obtain in exchange a Free Policy.— Loans granted on approved security. J tMES INGLIS, Secretary. BRITISH EMPIRE 3117TUA1 FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 37, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. At the Annual Meeting of this Company, August 31, 1854, the fol lowing Resolutions were passed unanimously:— - Ist. That this meeting cordially agrees with the recommendation of the Directors, that 12% per cent. on their premiums be returned to the insurers. 2d. That this Meeting congratulates the public on the signal suc cess which has attended the formation of the British Empire Fire Assurance Company on the mutual principle. That it views with approbation the steady and economical, yet diligent manner in which Its business has been conducted ; and calls upon all its numerous fellow-Insurers to co-operate zealously with the Directors in making known the merits and advantages of the Company. Guarimtee Fund 200.000/. Entire prollts divided triennially. Complete Mutuality. Policies issued, 12,314 for 5,461,2801. FRANCIS CLOWES, Secretary. SCOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND and LIFE ASSIT,RANCE SOCIETY. Established A.D. 1815. licad Oftlee—Edinburgh. 5. Bt. Andrew-square. • Parties proposing tobeenme -Members of this Scciety are reminded that Policies effected before the close of the presont year wi I rank at all future Divisions of Profits as of a full Year's Standing above those delayed till 1855. JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager. Wsi. LINDESAY, Secretary. Edinburgh, December, 1854. N.B.—The amount of assurances which may be undertaken by the Society upon Individual Lives has now been extended from 5,0001. to 7,0001. LONDON HONORARY BOARD. George Young, Esq„ 47, Wimpole-street and Mark-lane. Charles Edward Pollock, Esq., Barrister, Temple. David Hill, Esq., East India House. John :Murray, Esq., Albemarle-street. Samuel Laing, Esq., Chairman of Brighton Railway. Sir John Thomas Briggs. Admiralty. Leonard Horner, Esq., Home-ollice. John Tabor, jun., Esq., C.E., Queen-street-place. LONDON AND T 1 SUBURBS. CENTRAL AGENT. Hugh M`Kean, 4, Royal Excharge-buildings, Cornhill. DISTRICT AGENTS. Captain R. S. Ridge, 49, Pall-mall, Agent for the West End District. Benton Seeley, 2, Hanover-street, Regent-street. Ferdinand Grat, 13, King-street, Southwark. PROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION. LIFE ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT. Notice is hereby given.that the FOURTEENTH ANNUAL GENE RAL MEETING of the Members of the MUTUAL LIE RANCE DEPART3!ENT, will be held at the London Tavern. Mishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on MONDAY, the lath day of January, 1855, at Six o'clock in the Evening precisely. The following Managers, in accordance with Rule 7, go out of office by rotation, but being eligible, offer themselves for re-elec tion, Mr. Alexander Dawson. f Mr. James Lintott, and Mr. Samuel Jepps. 1 Mr. Richard Price. By order of the Board. WILLIAM THOMAS LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate street, London, Dec. Bth, 1854. BENEVOLENT DEPARTMENT. Notice Is hereby given, that the FOURTEENTH ANNUAL tIENER 4L MEETING of the MEMBERS and FRIENDS of the BENEVOLENT DEPARTMENT, will he held at the London Tavern, Bishopegate-street, in the city of London, on MONDAY, the lith day of January, 1855, at Half-past Seven o'clock, or immediately after the conclusion of the Meeting of the Members of the Mutual Life Assurance Department, appointed to take place on the same , .Evening, at the same place, at Six o'clock. JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq., M.P., In the Chair. 15, Moorgate-street, London, Dec. Bth, 1854. By order of the Board, WILLIAM THOMAS LINFORD, Secretary. N.R.—The annual accounts of both departments may be inspected at the office one week prior to the general meeting. DIVISION OF PROFITS.—AII persons Assuring their Lives (on the Partjelpathig Scale) is the I'ROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSUR sNCE ASSO CIATION before the end of the present year, will be entitled to Share in the next QUINQUENNIAL DIVISION of PROFITS to Dec. Elst, 18e7. BONUSES paid in Cash, er added to the Policy, or applied to Reduce the Annual Premium. The steady increase of business, and the extremely favourable rate of mertaqty among the Company's Assurers, fully justify the Board in anticipating a still further im provement on the liberal amounts already declared by way of Bonus. Residence abroad and foreign travel permitted on extremely mode rate terms. A liberal sum given for surrendered policies. For Prospectuses showing the peculiar advantages of the Astocia tion, and for all further information, apply to the local agents, or at the Chief 0111ce, 15, Moorgate-street, London. WM. THOS. LINFOIiD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate-street, Dec. 4th, 1554. PATRON -11. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Continued improvements, increased attractions, fresh deco rations. Re-lighted under the Patents of John Leslie, Esq. Miss GLYN will READ OTHELLO on Thursday, the 14th inst., at light. LECTURES on CHEMISTRY, by J. 11. PEPPER, Esq. LECTURE on NINETEII, by Mr. COOPER, the ARTIST and COMPANION of LAYARD, illustrated by PANORAMIC VIEWS taken by himself. Opening of the New Hall, with LEC TURES by Dr. BACRIIOFFNER, Illustrated by the Hydro-Electric Machine, the most splendid and successful Electrical Apparatus in the World. A Beautiful Series of Forty-five COSMORIMIC VIEWS of RUSSIA and the Costumes of the Inhabitants. The DISSOLVING VIEWS maintain their sold reputation, witk Ecenes of the War, Sebastopol, &c. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE, as usual. The Large Theatre is open on Saturday Evenings from Half-past Seven till Ten, with Mr. CRAWFORD'S VOCAL IL LISTRATIONS of the PATRIOTIC SONGS of SCOTLAND, the American Enter tainment, and Mr. Wand's Band. Admission, Is. ; Stalls, 2s. and 3s. ; Sckools and Children under Ten years of age, half-price. " The wise new prudence from the wise acquire; And one brave hero fans another's fire." AWise General on the eve of battle makes a proper disposition of his forces beforehand, and does not wait till the enemy has made en attack, and thus, by fore thought and due preparation, reasonably expects a victory ; thus he who has a desire to attain a healthy, and consequently 'happy eld age, dons not indolently wait for the attack of the enemy, which is sickness, but is constantly on his guard against Isis 'insidious approaches, by paying proper attention to the state of his health Many would fain occasionally use medicine to assist nature in her operations, but, like a mariner at sea Without his compass, knowing not where to steer, they first try this and then that, ant meet with nothing but disappoint ment ; to these how welcome must he the important fact, that PARR'S LIFE PILLS purity the system mildly and almost Imperceptibly, so that there is no reaction or tendency to con !ldeation afterwards, as is the case with the purgatives Admi nistered by many apothecaries. There are instances of persons with diseased livers and tender lungs who have passed years of Misery, pain, and apprehension, but who, after taking Parr's Life Pills, have actually been made whole, the liver having resumed its proper functions.—Sold by E. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Churchyard ; Barclay and Sons, Earringdon-street ; Sutton and Co., Bow Churchyard ; Hannay and Co., 63, and Sangar, 130, Oxford-street, London ; and by all respectable chemists and Medicine vendors in town and country. In boxes, price Is. lid., 9d., and in family packets, I ls. each. *.* Ask for Parr's Life Pills. TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR, No. I, Is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhcea, and Exhaustion of the System. . • TRIESEMAR, No. 2, effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health Of a vast portion of the population. TRIESR IkIAR, No. 3, is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and will/3h all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell, And of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet table *without their use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at I Is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Laßemand, Roux. &c., &c.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Robert John ston. 68, Cornhill; Hannay and Co 63, x o - 0 frd street • and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price Sc., illustrated with cases; free by post for 30 stamps, NERVOUS DEBILITY; Its Causes, Symptoms , and Cure.—An Essay on Spar anatorrhcea, with Practical Observations on a safer t and more successful mode of treatment of the diseases of he Generative cause detecting and solittnd System, obtained by the use of the Microscope effect of founded hctbits, distinguishing, by urinary examination, the real ary Itzissance, every variety of complaint. whether arising f rom excesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical r o e f frin s , on twenty years' experience in the treatment Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea, ace. from empirical practice, and added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, To which cautionary hints on the evils emanating and on the dsngerous remedies advocated by various wt.. ..2 1 's on these important disorders. By SAMUEL LA'MERT. M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Ball, London, tic., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting itc,m certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have proauced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the healt4„ happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It is absolutely necessary thatall men should know, that there are Principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. The Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have unfortunately teen too generally confid to the care of ignorant empiric., who inflict great injury oat o ed se who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had, price 2s, of Messrs. Piper, Brothers, and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; H a nnay, 63, Oxford-street ; Horne, 19, Leicester-squsre; Mann, 30, Cornhill ; or free by post for thirty stamps to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bed ford-square. At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from 81z till Eight. SPECIA.L NOTICE.—UntiI March 1, 1855, E. MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS will be CLOSED at EIGHT O'CLOCK EVERY EVENING, except Saturday, when they will be open till 11 o'clock. CATTLE SHOW. This annual display is one of the sights for which London is cele brated. The productions of the country and the wonders of the world centre in the metropolis. Science, art, manufactures, and agriculture are represented in the City—there their best samples are " o the Cattle Show never omit their visits t o th e shoTwhen visitors and sd t establishments of E. MOSES and Sox, and their West-end Branch has an overwhelming share of patronage. E. MOSES and Sox have and their all enit'themselves the greatest ase manufactures e oth u e r e l n in s p s e u e b ti m o n i t t l o n f g t e o s r t s a , b e l i i i s d lun fe e honoured by a careful observation of their stock and commercial arrangements, well aware that their business needs onl derstood to be appreciated, and fully convinced that the ptnrizbeepurno-. ductions of all countries are incorporated with their own mann 'as impossible to particularise the variety of styles, excel facittir f en ces, and points of superiority in the i r manufa ct u re , as it is by o o r d d s. s to convey an adeq uate impression of the cheapness of theftr words to It is only necessary to remark that E. MOSES and Sox are the first in sew inventions for attire, the most punctual in their business transactions, and the most successful in securing to their patrons and the public the best ar ticles at the mo•t reasonable charges. E. Moses and SON have added to their Oxford-street Branch a Hosiery Department, elaborately famished with articles of the most elegant manufacture, and of the most useful kind. There the Caine conveniences and advantages are afforded as are gwe ss ren a at their City Establishment, and those un iform plans of busine pursued which i, and have given such universal sa l isfaetion. trade. At E. Moses and Sox's City Establishment a Wholesale Depart ment of nnli d extent is kept, where e ver y person may make the e most profitable investment eithe r far the home or export virrt to guard the - -- ' , a . C&UTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret h, ntradesman-lit e falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment.;. public against imposition, havint learned that tieil and for the same concern," has been resorted to in many obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have OUT OF Lot‘DON. NO CONNEXION WITH *NT OTHER. 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Just Published, thoroughly revised, 55.; or, with an Appendix or' index of Names coatalned in the Volunte, Is, 6d. in addi. tion, THE ROYAL ICALENDAR, and COTJRT and CITY REGISTER, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies; containing an improved and enlarged • Peerage and Its ronetage —The House of Commons, with the latest alterations—the Queen's Ministers—Royal Household—Government Departments — Ambassadors, British and Foreign —Navy and Army—Law and Civil Officers—Ecclesiastical Establishments Universities Literary, Scientific, and Religious Societies—Charitable and Commercial In stitutions—Magistrates, Hospitals, &c. London: R. and A. Sattaby, Stationers'-court ; and other pro prietors. Just plibtialaerliTiew edition. SIEGE of SF.V.(StOPar, and BALAKLAVA WTYLD'S NEW MAP of the SIEGE OPE RA.TIONS at SEVA.STOPOL with the Position of the Allied Armies, the Fertifl'ations, Russian Outworks, and Lines of Fire or the Batteries (French, English, and Russian) : on a large scale, embracing the Harbour of Balaklaya, showing the Approaches and the Point of Attack. One sheet—la sheet, 2s. 6d. ; is case, 45. ; on rollers, varnished, 7s. 6d. WILD'S MAP of the CRIMES, showing the Roads, Passes, &e., 31., 53., and Is. GC WYLD'S PLAN of the BATTLE of ALMA. Is., 25., and 3s. James WyA, Geographer to the Queen. Charing-cross East, next door to the Post-oMcc ; and 2, Royal Exchange. BATTLE OF INKERHANN AND SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. QTANFORD'S NEW MAP o f SEBASTOPOL and Country round (SECOND EDITION), including Bala. klava, Kamara, Kadikoi, the Belbek and Chernaya Rivers, shows the Positions of the Allied Camps, the Allied an.l Russian Bat teries, Forts, &c., with number of guns ; the Position of the Turk tali and other Redoubts ; the Head-Quarters of ,Lord ltaglm, General Canrobert ; also, the Position of the opposing Forces on November !th; the Russian Attack of October 26th, &c., &c. Compiled front the New Admiralty Charts, and Authentic Sketches hy Captain WETHERALL, D.A.Q.M.G.. and other Officers, is published this day. Price. in 1 large sheet, coloured, 25.; per post, 2s. Id. Case, 4s. 6tl. ; per poqt, Is. . _ London : Edhard Stanford, Map-seller and Map mounter to Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 6, Charing-cross. Stanford's List of the Best Maps and Prints of the Seat of War in the Cnmea may be had on application, or by post for I stamp. STRICTURE OF THE URETLIR t. Jttst Published, price 55., by post, free,..ss. 6d., - - rr PATHOLOG Y aid RATIONAL LL TREATMENT of STRICTURE of the URETHRA ; with numerous Cases illustrative of every variety of Urethral Obstruction, and their special Modes of Treatment and Cure. By F. B. COURTENAY, - Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. " We know of no man to whose care we could with ireater confi dence entrust the treatment of a serere case of stricture of the ore thra."—Medical Circular. London : H. Bailllere, 219, Regent-street. rro LOVERS OF FISH.- 100 real YARMOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package included. The above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps, or P. 0. 0. (preferred) for the amount. Send plain address, county, and nearest station.—Address, Thomas Lettis, jun., Fish-curer, Great Yarmouth. OYSTERS. —J. SWEETING is happy to inform his Friends and the Public that his BURNHAM RIVER NATIVE OYSTERS are as line as last season. 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A popular exposition of the principal causes (over and careless feeding, &c.) of the above harassing and distressing complaints, with an equally intelligible and popular exposition of how we should live to get rid of them ; to which is added, diet tables for every meal In the slay, and }toll instructions for the regimen and observance of every hour out of tie twenty•four. Illustrated by numerous cases, &c. 2. LIGHTS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. " Ha which that bath no wif, I hold him lost, Helpless, and all desolat. Ile that bath no child, Like sun and winde."—Chaucer. Subject : Marriage, its expectations and Necessities —Development of the Affections—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded Unions—Marital Incongruities—Mutual Unsuitableness—Mental Incompatibility and Physical Defectiveness —Advantages of Inter marriage—Theory of Gestation —Hereditary Resemblance—Mode of determining Legitimacy. 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Important caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imitation. LUPE Pt _A I_4 PA II LIAM F' T HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) The anxiously-looked for opening of Parlihment took place this day, her Majesty the Queen inaugurating in person what will, in all probability, be one of the most important and deeply interesting sessions recorded in the Parliamentary annals of this country. The morning was exceedingly fine, the sun shining out with a, brilliancy rare at this period of the year. From en early hour the streets leading towards Whitehall and the Park were crowded with persons hurrying to obtain a good place for viewing the Royal procession ; and long before two o'clock the Mall in St. James's-park, White hall, and Parliament-street, were so thronged with spectators that circulation would have been im possible but for the good arrangements enforced by the police. Along Parliament-street a number of bal conies were erected, which were crowded with ladies. With the well-known punctuality of the Queen, the Royal procession left Buckingham Palace at a quarter to two o'clock. Her 11.1ajesty was accompanied by ?sines Albert and the usual attend trite. All along the route the manifestations of flopular respect for the Queen were warns and frequent; the cheering, at .various points being loud and enthusiastic, which her Majesty and the Prince COnsort qcknoWledge-d repeatedly. The Chamber.of ,the House of Peers was thrown open soon after 12 o'clock, and from that hour up till the arrival of her Mejesty the officials of the house were Occupied in findingseats fur those who had obtained tickets of admission, or ushering P eeresses to their allotted positions in the body of the house. Very many of the Peeresses appeared in deep mourning, too plainly indi eating that they had lost seine relations in the terrible struggle going on in the Crimea. All the galleries were filled with ladies, while, as is usual on these occasions, the bishops' benches to the right of the throne were ap prOpria.ted to the use of the Foreig n A m b assa d ors. I t was observed that Mr. Buchanan, the representative of Ain - erica, a fine portly-looking-ma n , was attired in the simple evening dress of a gentleman. Although the scene of the opening of Parliament was associated with mourn full recollections of the past yet it had lost none of its former splendour, and the picture which the interior of the house presented was truly superb. Several of the judges, attired in their state robes, surrounded the Lord Chancellor, and soine half,dozen of the bishops were ie their places, including the Archbishop of Canter4ury and the Bishop of London ; but the army was scarcely represented—indeed there seemed to be an utter absence of military uniforms, excepting, of course, those worn by the Ambassadors. The attend ance of Peers was exceedingly numerous on both sides of the' house. The Earl of Aberdeen, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Clarendon, and other of the Ministers were present, At a quarter past two o'clock the booming of cannon announced the arrival of her Majesty, and a few minutes afterwards her Majesty entered the house, preceded by the Earl of Aberdeen bearing the sword of State, the Marquis of Winchester carrying the cap of maintenance, the Marquis 'of Lansdowne carrying the crown, and the Lord Chancellor. Her Majesty having ascended the throne; she was graciously pleased to command her subjects to be seated. The Usher of the Black Rod (Sir Augustus Clifford) was then 'directed to summon the House of Commons to at tend at the bar, and immediately afterwards the Speaker, attired in his State robes, and attended by the Serjeant at-Arms and a large body of members, appeared at the bar accordingly. HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. The Lord Chancellor then handed her Majesty the Speech, which she read in her usually clear and distinct voice as follows : " MY LOIDS AND GI:NTLMIEN, " I have called you together at this unusual period of the year, in order that, by your assistance, I may take such mea sures as will enable me to prosecute the great War in which we are engaged with •the utmost rigour and effect. This assistance I know will be readily given ; for I cannot doubt that you share my conviction of the necessity of spar ing no effort to augment my forces now engaged in the Crimea. The exertions they have made, and, the victories they have obtained, are not exceeded in the brightest pages of our history, and have filled me with admiration aue grati tude. " The hearty and efficient co-operation of the brave troops of my ally the Emperor of the French, and the glory acquired in common, cannot fail to cement still more closely the union which happily subsists between the two nations. " It is wf.th satisfaction I inform you that, together with the Emperor of the French, I have concluded a treaty of alliance with the Emperor of Austria, from which I antici pate important advantages to the common cause. " I have also conclueed.a Treaty with the United States of America, by which subjects of long and difficult discussion have been equitably adjusted. " These Treaties will be laid before you. " Although the prosecution of the War will naturally en gage your chief attention, I trust that other matters of great -interest and. importance to the general welfare will not be neglected. "I rejoice to observe that the general prosperity of my' subjects remains uninterrupted. The• state of the revenue affords me entire satisfaction ; and I trust that by your wis dom and prudence you win continue to promote the progress of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures. " GENTLEMEN OF TUE HOUSE OF COMMONS, " In the estimates which will be presented to you I trust you will find that ample provision has been made for the -exigencies of the public service. i ‘ MT LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, - - - " I rely with confidence ,on your patriotism and public spirit. I feel assured that iu the momentous contest in which we are engaged you will exhibit to the world the example of a united people. Thus shall we obtain the re spect of other nations, and may trust that by the blessing of God wo shall bring the war to a successful termination." This -closed the ceremony of opening Parliament, and her Majesty returned to Buckingham Palace i❑ the same order that she came. Their lordships re -assembled at 5 o'clock. The house at this period presented a very animated ap pearance. A considerable number of ladies were in the Peeresses' galleries ; the space below the bar was fi lled by members of the House of Commons and their friends, whilst "the house," properly so called, exhibited a goodly attendance of Peers. Amongst the Ministers and other Peers earliest in attend ance were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Duke of New castle, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Earl Granville, and Lord Stanley, of Alderley- At 20 minutes after 5 o'clock, The LORD CHANCELLOR rose and read the Queen's Speech from the Woolsack. The Royal Speech having been again read by the Clerk at the table, The Duke of LEEDS then rose to move the Address. He said he was sure both Parliament and the country would gladly respond to her Majesty'a appeal to the coun try for means of carrying on the war. (Near hear.) With respect to the treaty w hi ch her Majesty had announ ced as , concluded with the Government of the United States he was sure the country would rejoice at it. As re garded that other -treaty betw een Austria. and F rance and Eiglaud, which the Royal Speech also announced as concluded, it must bo regarded as a great ste towards bringing about an honourable an d a lasting peace. Referring to that portion of the Roy a l Speech which alluded to the of our bravo alli es, th e noble duke paid a high gallantry tribute to the indomitable cou rage and bravery of Our own troops and of our allies at Balakl ava. Never had the unanimous spirit of the country shone forth more brilliantly th an now, ani mated by the ju s ti ce of our cause. The collections now being made for the relief of the wives and widows and children of our brave defenders exceeded anything of the kind ever before known. The noble duke (who was very imperfectly heard in the gallery) concluded by moving, the Address in the u sua l form. - Lord ASHBURTON (in the absence of the Earl of Abingdon through illness) seconded the address. He trusted the Empero r of Russia would not be so misled as to imagine that this county would not carry on the war y because of stint o f money or stint of men. (Hear.) This was due both to our gallant allies the French, and to Austria, who ran so great a risk in embarking in this contest. It was due also to our brave army,and to the entire British people, who had shown such a recuiness to sacrifice life and fortune in the cause. (Heal.) The Earl of D ERBY-34y lords, if upon this momen tous occasion, on which her Majesty has, at an unusual period, called us together, to deliberate upon subjects of the highest and gravest importance, stet merely to this country, but to Europe and the world ; if, under such cir cumstances, it was my wish to raise any objections to, or cavil at, the terms of the proposed address; or if it had been my intention to propose any a mendment, or to enter into any controversy, I should have preferred that some of her Majesty's Ministers should have had the opportunity of ex plaining their views, and answering for the conduct pur sued by the Government, in order that I might have, at all events, the opportunity of replying to the statements which I might have heard. But upon this occasion, and even were the address in reply to the speech from the Throne even snore open ,to objection than I conceive it to be, I should think it my duty to abstain from moving any amendment or adopting any stop calculated to produce dis sensions among your lordships. (Cheers.) I have thought that, honoured as I am 113 the confidence of a large num ber of the members of your lordships' house, I ought to take the earliest opportunity of declaring, on the part of the great Conservative body of this country, the views which they take; and the course which they are prepared to pursue, in this mome n t ous cr i s is of our hist ory (Cheers.) My noble friend s who moved and seconded the address' have, so far as I and my friends are concerned, done us scant justice in supposing that anything like hostile pro ceedings was contemplated upon such an occasion as the present.. (Cheers ) The present is no time for discussing whether this war could have been avoided or not—it i s no time for considering whether a different course of proceed ing would have effected'our objects without being involved in all the dangers and calamities of war, in which as a na tion we are now embarked. In that war,the whole nation, as one man, sympathises with the Crown and the Go vernment. (Loud cheers.) In the prosecution of that war, the nation as one man are pressing forward with a unani mity of feeling and an abnegation of every selfish considera tion which is almost unparalleled in the history of our con try, and, as far as I can see, in the prosecution of this war, it is not the Government which are pressing forward the country, but it is the country which is urging upon the Government the necessity of carrying it on witevigour. (Cheers.) I rejoice,' my lords, to see the altered tone o f the present speech of her Majesty, as compared with that prepared for her by her Ministers in the last session. 1 rejoice that, at last, the gravity of the circumstances has forced itself upon the mind of the Government ; that even relßElt 13, 1854. the noble earl at the head of ,the Government, le medicia , m2' fn. —(a laugh) —appears now to see that therii: is no other caiirse to be taken but that which is the safest, the most direct, and the most honourable, because the most consistent with the principles of justice. (Cheers.) At the opening of the last session of. her Parliament, it was with surprise that I heard, in the speech which her Majesty was advised to deliver, how little the Government appeared to anticipate the probability—nay, the almost certainty—of the war which was then impending over it, and with what calmness it spoke of various measures of internal improve ment and innovation about to be introduced and carried through both Houses of Parliament. I remember then that the noble lord now the President of the Council, iu . - bringing forward a me a sure f or reforming the constitution of Parliament, stated that a war with Russia need .not bo comidered a matter of so much importance as to interfere with the ordinary deliberations of Parliament- 7 -ns , y, more, he thought that the time upon which wo were entering— that of war with Russia—was one which of all others was the best to select for the amendment of the constitution of Parliament, and thought it would be a spleudid moral spectacle to Earope and the world to see that we con sidered it as a matter of such trifling importance and con cern that we could manage it with a side-glance, while our main attention was directed to the arrangement of our in ternal affairs, and, among. other matters, the revision of our Parliamentary- constitution. (Laughter.) Various other metteuree suggested iu the speech from the Throne were brought forward, while the Government was all the time drifting helplessly to a state of war. Even when the war was declared, there was no end of the extravagant anticipations held out of the marvel lous successes to be achieved by a handful of men. Of all the great measures proposed last session, few indeed of them were carried into effect, in consequence of its being found that the feeling on the subject of a war with Russia was one which the hearts, minds, and feelings of the whole country were set intently upon, and to the exclusion of all other questions. There is now, lam lieppy to see,, a very different tone in the speech from the Throve. It recognises the present as a great and important occasion—as a "great. wee—calling for the united efforts of the whole country, and taxing its energies to the utmost. Nearly the whole of the speech is -devoted to that single and all-absorbing. 'topic, and expressing a confident hope that the asssistance which Parliament will grant will enable her Majesty vigor ously, and God grant successfully, to prosecute the war to its close. It is of course aenatter of congratulation to be informo I, upon the authority of a speech from the Throne, that the state of the revenue is highly satisfactory, and the country in a prosperous condition. Undoubtedly, so far as the agricultural interest is concerned, the blessing of Providence, which has given us a bountiful and abundant harvest, combined, bye curious and unprecedented coinci dence, with a range of prices higher than under such cir cumstances ever was. known, have added greatly to the means of those (Erectly interested in the land, and have placed them in a situation of greatly increased prosperity. I hope the case is the seine in other branches of industry. I learn with satisfaction that it is so from her Majesty's speech, because, unless I am greatly mistaken, the present prosperity of some of the manufacturing' districts is not such as could justly be made the subject of congratuletion in a speech from the Throne. Ido not mean that there is not a fair amount of business doing, and a fair am mat of profits realised, but I know that iu Manchester and some of the surrounding manufacturing towns a large number of the mills are working short time, and others are com pletely closed, and, almost for the first time, facilities exist in Manchester for recruiting in aid of her Majesty's forces. This may be owing partly to the feeling on the sub ject of the war, but it is also duo to the fact that a large number of persons are unemployed. Her Majesty has also informed us that she has concluded a treaty with the United States, "by which subjects o f long and difficult discussion have been equitably ad justed.." It must, of course, be a matter of satisfac tion to know that any subjects of difference, still more of long standing difference, have been equitably adjusted between ourselves and a community so closely connected with us by ties of language, podty, and in a great mea sure of laws, and whose good feeling towards us at the present moment is of particular importance. With re spect to the other subjects which are to occupy the atten tion of Parliament during the course of the present session, the sort of et ceteras which are now substituted for those more magniloquent promises of the last session, they are included in tee very modest paragraph—"l trust that other matters of great interest and importance to the gene ral welfare will nut be neglected." What these impending measures may be Ido not kuow. They are, perhaps, in the secret knowledge of the Cabinet; or, for aught we know, they may be hidden from the discrimination and knowledge of the Cabinet itself. Upon this topic we may therefore safely express our most cordial concurreuc i with her Ma jesty's speech, for I am confident that whenever any " mat ters of groat interest and importance" are introduced to us by her Majesty's Government they will receive due con-, sideration. (A. laugh.) I proceed now to that allfengros sing topic which occupies the greater portion of the speech. I must be permitted to express my most cordial concur rence in the approving words from the Throne of the hearty and efficient co-operation of the brave troops of our ally the Emperor of the French, and in the expres sion of the hope that common dangers, common perils, common glories, and common victories may cement more strongly than ever the alliance which at present subsists between the two countries. Anti if anything could add to my satisfaction on the suhjeot it would be seeing that its importance is recognised lay Ministers who a very little time since entertained totally different opinions on the subject. I doubt not that the opinions and wish so ardently expressed by her Majesty have been fully con curred in by the Right Honourable the First Lord of the Admirhlty and the Right Honourable the President of the Board of Control. (A. laugh.) I rejoice also that the noble earl at the head of the Government can feel and can understand that there are great and important, advan tages to be derived from an intimate alliance between this country and France, although its destinies are not swayed by one of the old dynasties. The harmony which prevails between the troops of the two countries is also a source of great gratification. It is impossible to con ceive a more pleasing state of things than that the two na tions, which have for many years been accustomed to regard one another with feelings of enmity, have not only laid aside altogether those feelings of enmity, but are now our rivals in glory and brothers in arms in fields of a de scription such as those in which they had formerly encoun tered each other as foes, breast to breast, and hand to hand; and upon these occasions, as former occasions would have led to conclude, to respect the valour of each other, just as the present experience leads them tb regard each other as brothers in arms, and as friends having interests, ambition, and rivalry if you will, but rivalry without jea lousy, but having one common object—recognising the merit, bravery, and good conduct of each other, and cheer fully striving together in the teeth of victory as brothers insarms, and feeling no other sense but that of a cqmmon one of glory. (Cheers.) Words would fail me, as they would any member of your lordships' house, to express the debt of gratitude which we owe to these gallant and de voted men. (Loud cheering.) But in order to carry com fort and satisfaction to these gallant hearts some testimony is due from the assemblea. Parliament which would express our admiration and gratitude for their services. When I remember that of that numerically small force sent from this country not many months ago—when I remember that probably not ono in ono hundred of the private soldiers, and not one in ten of the officers, had ever beore hoard a hostile shot fired—when I remember that they went forth at the first outset of the campaign to pine away in inaction, and while disease was thinning their ranks and depressing their spirits—if, indeed, aught could depress their in. &imitable courage—when I remember that so , raised and commanded, that such forces, so unusually small, so weakened, and so dispirited, they were led to invade the country of a- powerful enemy—when I remember that they were lest out with scanty equipments, carrying nothing with them but what WAS abso lutely necessary for their rearch, and scarcely sufficient for their equipment, and due provision and sustenance — when such a body of men, under such circumstances, found themselves in front of a body numerically superior, en trenched upon heights, fortified with all the skill and all the power which the might and military genius of Russia could supply—fortified upon:ground, the natural diffical ties of which were such as to impede even an active and' unencumbered men unchecked by an enemy in his ascent —but when those heights were bristling with batteries, when from those batteries storms of shot and shell mowed down their ranks as they ascended.that blood-stained hill of glory--when I remember, too, that in the face of num bers not inferior to their own, who against all the diffi culties of position, against the most powerful artillery, weakened in numbers, and falling by scores, the gallant survivors still pressed on with indomitable courage and unconquerable valour ; and who, under such circumstances, hand by hand, that body of men, who had never before heard a shot fired, repulsed a veteran army from the heights so held and so fortified, as that it had been the boast of Boissia that no army could dislodge them in less three weeks—when that grand charge—when that great success was secured by such an army in th.ree hours — when, too, I see afterwards hbw these men, outnumbered, the positions being changed, when they were changed frdm the; besiegers into. the besieged, assaulted by an enemy !seven times their number--(cheers), —having,no doubt, some advantage of position, attacked after successive and con stant labour in the trenches, suffering from cold, from pri vation, from hunger, in some cases from all but nakedness, with, too, all the disadvantages of a surprise in the dark ness of a foggy morning, and when those men, who won the heights of Alma in the course of three hours from a veteran army, resisted the assaults of another army nume rically seven times stronger than themselves, and for eight hours waged the unequal conflict, sometimes even without ammunition, and yet maintained their position, s upported and reinforced by a portion of their gallant allies when, I say, I lookat th esedeeds of arms—aye, and when, — too I look even at that unfortunate but astounding ca valry charge in which we suffered 53 severely fer our gal lantry—l say, my lords, no words can do justice to the valour and the courage and the endurance of our army. When we read the history of this campaign—when we read it not as politicians, but as men, and as Englishmen—l say there cannot be a heart which does net throb with honest and gener ous pride that these much enduring, all daring, all -achieving men were our countrymen, were Bri tish subjects like ourselves. I say there will be no eye in which a tear does not spring unbidden when we reflect that so many of these gallant men are numbered with the dead. (Great cheering.) - My lords, I will not dwell fur ther upon the subject, upon the glory which has been achieved, upon the noble sacrifices which have been made'. Our country will know how to value the services of those who still survive. Whatever may be the honour, or what, ever may be the mode in which this country may show its gratitude to those who, under suehuseequal circumstances, and placed in such difficulties, have sustained, upheld, and increase) the honour of the British flag, those rewards and those honours will, I am satisfied, be granted with no • ard hand, but with the universal approbation and cor nigg dial approval of the country. (Loud cheers.) I knownot whether I may 13,4 be going almost beyond Parliamentary li cens e, if, while speaking of the honours to be conferred, and justly conferred., upon our gallant officers and soldiers —I know not whether, I say, I may not be trenching on the prerogative of the Crown, but this I know, that when at the head of the army of our ally there has been a general who has acted with ours in the most cordial and uninter ripe t d harmony , of whose advice we have had the benefit, and by whose assistance we have largelyprofited—l know not whether I am making a R uggestion which I ought not to make, when I say lam satisfied that nothing could be morn grateful to the feelings of the army and to the country, and nothing could be more due to the gallantry and cordiality [ PRICE SD. , with which the whole of the French forces have supported ours in the great contest, than, if it were possible, to confer upon General Canrobert some of the military honours of this country. (Cheering.) I have attempted to do justice. to my own feelings with respect to the merits of the gal lant army and the sacrifices the country has taken upon itself. 1 wish that I could hero close the observations which I have to make. But I hope that it is not incon sistent with my determination of not bringing forward any topic likely to create dissension on the question of the address if I feelit necessary to comment upon what ap pears to me to be some of the shortcousingsof the Govern ment, and some of its deficiencies, to which I propose to allude, not so ranch for the purpose of censure as for in suring the attention of the Government in the future. (Cheers.) I am anxious to avoid saying a single word which may be calculated to give the slightest encourage ment to that powerful adversary against whom we are de termined as a nation to contend to our last man and to oar last - shilling. (Cheers.) My complaint against the Government is, that they have from the commencement of ' th 6 war left, as it wore, everything in a state from hand to moleth—that they have never anticipated in due time the magnitude of the struggle in which they were about to ho engaged, and never made adequate and timely provi sion to meet, nct the immediate exigencies of the day, but to meet those exigencies which the fortune of war might hive imposed upon them. (Cheers.) I have always un derstood that in war, as in everything else, the first maxim was to leave as little as possible to chance, to bo provided against every pessible contingency, to make your prepara tions, extravagant if you will, but upon such a scale as that any single matter going wring may not have the effect of causing you to change your whole plan: In the conduct pursued by her Majesty's Government they appear to r ave left from day to day the task of providing for each succes sive exigency as it rose ' and, therefore, in every case being too late. " Too late" has, indeed, been the fatal word ap licable to the whole conduct of the Government in the course of the war. You were too late in the declaration of; i war—too late in regarding the passage of the Pruth as a casuabeli—too late in sending our troops to the Black Sea— too complaisant to Russiain not sending our fleets to co-ope rate with those of France at the proper time—too late in entering the Black Sea—and wrong in not preventing the massacre of Sinop°. And. when we- did go to war, what was the course pursued by the Government? On the Gth 1854, a few days beford the declaration of war, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, knowing that the war was imminent, took an increased vote for something like 10,000 men in the army, and a small number in the navy, and his calculation of the increased expenditure consequent on the war was, as ho stated, the sum of 1,250,0301.—that being the estimated expense, at 501. per man, of transporting 15,030 troops—where ? To meet the Russians ? To defend Constantinople? Nothing of the sort. To take them to Malta - and bring them back again. (Laughter.) The notion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer appeared to be that all that was necessary to carry on the war with Rus sia was to double half a year's" income-tax in order to ob tain the means of sending 25,000 men to Malta anti bring ing them back again. (Laughter.) These were the pro visions in reference to which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer said the Emperor of Russia, when he saw them, would be indeed aware of the energy with which the peo ple of this country were determined to carry on the war. Now, my lords, what was the course taken by the Govern-. meat last autumn ? One remembers, and with mingled feelings of satisfaction and regret too, the mustering of those gallant men. the elite of the British army, from 25,003 to 30,e00 strong, who were sent out from this coun try, and in regard to whom the Government took credit for unparalleled exertions, that they had been able, in so short a space of time as three menthe, to send out a force of 30,000 men. Now,.really, I do not deny-that the exer tions of the Government were great in getting this body of men together in that time ; but this I say, when you speak of this country sending forth a body of 33,000 mon as an achievement which is to be considered a miracle of the national resources, you aro really detracting from the rank of, this country in the scale of nations. Why was not this step anticipated by two or three months ? You sent out 25,000 men, and then you folded your hands and sat down. But if any disaster heel happened to those 25,000 men, where were your resources? (Hear, hear.) You were then depending on raw recruits ; you ware teeing what you could to make a slight addition to the army ; but you sent out these men, and you sent them out in conjunction with the French army ; but did you suppose that neither disease, nor thesword, nor want, nor any other misfortunes were to occur to that gallant hand of men ? And if such misfortunes were to occur, where was a body of men to come from to reinforce them ? Where were your Mediterranean garrisons ? Wore they in creased ? Where was your second army of reserve ? (Cheers.) You had it not; you had no army of reserve ; you had nothing to call an army of reserve. But, perhaps, it will be said—though even that will not be an answer to the question—the objects for which those troops were sent out were the defence of Constantinople, the relief of Omer Pacha, and to prevent the Russians making further inva sions on the Turkish territory. It was not possible, how ever, that the war could be limited to such objects, nor, if it had been limited tosuch objects, was it possible to achieve any peace, still less au honourable peace. I remember on the 19th of June, inanswer to my noble and learnedfriend Lord Lyndhurst—whom I regret not to sae in his place now—my noble friend opposite (the Earl of Clarendon) de clared, as indeed he had declared before, that the objectof the war was not to afford protection to Constantinople, but to settle at once and for ever the question of Russian su premacy, which had been growing in iraportence for years —not to say centuries—and which must now be once and for ever settled. From the first, then, you contemplated something much more extensive thanthe mere relief of the Turkish provinces from Russian invasion. It will not do to tell me thatlthe whole object of your campaign was answered from the 23d of June, time time when the siege of Silistria was !raised. Even before that siege was raised you had avowed ulterior objects far which it was quite manifest that a force of 25,000 men was wholly inadequate. But when that siege was raised what had you to say ? The siege of Silistria was raised on the 23d of June, when the Turkish troops were in straits and were beginning to withdraw from the ticcupatien of the provinces. Did any alteration of your course fellow on that altered state of things ? The truth is, !that we had some information from the Govern ment even in July last that the expedition to the Crimea was decided upon. In July the noble lord, new President of the Council, made a remarkable statement in the House of Commons, declaring that there could be no hope of gaining an honourable peace so long as Russia retained the menacing position which eke held at Sebastopol. That announcement was made by Lord Join Russell on the 24th of July in the House of Commons ; and we know subsequently, from information given by various members of the Cabinet, that the expedition had at that period been decided upon by the Government. My noble friend oppo site (Lord Grauville), at the beginning of October, in an address to the Staffordshire Yeomanry, was one of the members of the Cabinet who furnished that information to the public' out of doors ; and Lord J. Russell, on the 27th of October, stated that immediately after the siege of Silistria was raised it became a qu,estion to the Govern ment at home what course was to be taken with regard to Sebastopol. I should have supposed that the Government would have decided upon that long before the siege of Silistria was raised. (A. laugh.) But it appears that it was not, until after the siege of Silistria was raised that the + Government began to say " What next" (Laughter ?) Now, by the contestioa of those two noble lords—one in this house, and the other iu the House of Commons—it was the Government who, notwithstanding the ropreten tations from generals of high distinction, iu almost every country, of the almost insuperable difficulty of capturing Sebastopol, urged upon the allied forces the necessity of making the attempt ; and so urged, it became doubly the duty of the Government that no provision should be ne glected which could tend to diminish the difficulties with which the enterprise on which they were about to embark wasteeet, and which could render the task not only prac ticable, but comparatively less hard of fulfilment. Now, what steps were taken from the latter end of June, when you began to consider " What next," for reinforcing that army, originally of 25,000 men, for the more extensive field operations upon which yon were deter mined to place them ? I believe you sent out at that time 5,000 men ; and from time until the day after the battle of Inkerman, when the 46th Regiment landed at Balaklava—ptitting out'of sight the driblets of men who went to join them from time to time—they never received anything like a reinforcement ; and that battle of Inker man was fought by not more than 8,000 out of about 15,000 British bayonets, which then constituted the whole of your force that was left in the Crimea. (Hear, hear.) My lOrds, I may select another instance. In what state did. you send out your troops to Varna ? I have before use an account of an eye-witness, a gallant friend of my own, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, and who is exceedingly anxious that in the discussions of this day the merits of the army should be properly recognised. He de plores the giving up of all the necessary appendages with out which the army there could neither take care of itself nor move against the enemy—the want of a commissariat, and the blunders committed in the shipment of stores with out anything like method or order ; and he adds that no thing but the spirit and zeal-of the English officers could have sustained them amid the difficulties and privations with which they were beset. The army was in consequence detained in inaction, and subjected to all the dangers attendant upon living in the pesteferons climate in Varna. It might be necessary, ?ellen the army marched towards the lines of the Alma, or from Balaklava to Inkerman, that they should carry with them the smallest possible incum brance ; it may cot be possible for an army to carry any thing like superfluity it‘the field; but for the deficiencies in our hospital accommodation at ,Varna and Scutari, if there were such deficiencies—and that there were such de ficiencies I think no one eau now doubt—there can be no defence, because the Government had ample means of pro viding the requisite supplies. I know we were told that a larger number of army surgeons were in attendance upon our forces than bad ever ace empanied any previous expedi tion, and that when the public sent stores of linen raga and lint, they were told by members of the Government that there was the greatest abundance of medical stores and medical officers; and yet when those ladies were sent out - to whom it is impossible for lankuage to do jus tice—sacrificing as they did all that could be attractive, all the conveniences and luxuries of life, and giving themselves up with heroic self-devotion to mitigite the sufferings of our wounded and dying soldiers in crowded and pestilen tialfirst hospit a l s in a foreign country—what was the very _ demand made by those ladies? Why it noes an urgent importunate request, addressed to the B ritish public, tod send out those very articles which the Government had said before were there in the greatest profusion. H In the course of one dayeleven men sunk from exhaustion, in ustion, in consequence of a single bottle of trine not he at hand_ for their relief. I say, my lords, this is a subjecte: in regard to which the Government have incurred a heavy responsi bility ; and I think it is my duty, as a peer of Parliament, and deeply interested in the well-bein g of those pliant men, to comment on these matters, and to ask the Government not only to deny, but to disprove those charges, if disprove them they can. (Hear, hear.) You sent out—but too late again—on the 1 5 th Octob er, I believe for the first time, a supply of winter clothing—you embarked it on board a magnificent vessel—how managed how m a nned , and how con ducted, I will ask the noble duke to explain. You sent out a large quantity of winter clothing, and with it a large quantity of medical stores and comforts. Those medi ca l stores ought to have been landed at Scutari, but, Owing to their having been deposited in the hold of the ship beneath that part of the cargo which was composed of ammunition for the army, the vessel was obliged to go on to Balaklava without landing them at Scutari ; and there, after losing two of her anchors, she was for seven d a y s perm i tted to drag out at sea, with a cargo onboard of inestimable value, of the value in money of something like hitlf a million. (Hear, hear.) lam told, my lords, that for seven days that vessel was dragging in thirty fathoms of water in the open sea outside the roads of Balaldava—(hear, hear)—and the consequence was the loss of that mag nificent vessel and her whole cargo of stores and cloth ing. (Hear, hear, hear.) lam told on authority, which I think is valid, that representations had been made to the First Lord of the Admiralty that the commander of that ship—the Prince—was notoriously so incompetent, and had proved himself so incompetent upon the voyage to the Baltic, that, in the opinion of a distinguished officer, if that vessel was sent out in command of that officer she would be lost. I was told that that officer was asked to make a statement in wi iting—that he did make it in writing and forwarded it to the First Loiet of the Admi ralty—and yet that vessel was sent out in command of that very man. Ido not say that it is a fact within my own knowledge, but I aek the noble duke if that were so? I ask, also, why a vessel lying in that state for seven days was not taken into the harbour of Balaklara at any risk ? (Cheers.) My lords, in making these cominents, I have done so for the purpose of affording the Government an opportunity of repudiating or disproving them; and I make them also with the view of their avoiding such wet dents in future. But, my lords, I cannot have a strongei proof of the want of reasonable forethoucht on the'pert of the Government than in the circumstances under which we aro this day assembled. Parliament stood prorogued until the 14th of November, and I think on the 10th of November a council was summoned; and the result was that Parliament was further prorogued until the 14th of December, without its being then announced that. it would then meet "for the despatch of business." It is clear, then, that on the 10th of November the Government had no intention of calling Parliament together at this time. The universal interpretation of the omission of the words I have mentioned is, that there will be a further proroga tion ; but on the 20th of November "a change had come over the spirit of their dream," and the Government im mediately summoned Parliament to meet (not on the day to which it had been prorogued) but two days earlier. (Hear, hear.) I want to know, my lords, what was the sudden emergency that called for this =usual proceeding, and what were the circumstances which occurred on the 20th of Novem bee to make it necessary to assemble Parlia ment, which did not make it equally necessary on thenlOth. Undoubtedly they had received the news of the battle of Inkerinan ; but am I to be told that this was the reason for calling us together? Did you calculate that you were goings to take Sebastopol, or to ra ise w ithout any addition to that small force which rem ained after the battle of Inkerman? The Government have not. yet condescended to inform us as to the exigency which justified this step ; we are told in their organs that they do not want money; but ads hinted that it is intended.to take powers to enable a portion of the militia to volunteer, and to occupy the place of some of our foreign garrisons. If that bo the case, was the necessity for that measure not, foreseen before the battle of Inkerrnau ? (Hear.) I a a y, my lords, the Government stand convicted of a want of fore. kuowlodge of the exigencies of the country np to the time at which they summoned Parliament toi meet. I hav e spoken of the deeds of glory performed bythe gallant army in the Crimea,and mostgailantlyhava they been supported by the sister service ; but I observe there is no reference • in the Queen's Speech to the great achievements of the Baltic fleet. Yet never did so mighty a force navigate that sea—it was one of the most powerful armaments which this , country ever sent forth. It formed the pride and boast,of the country, and very considerable powers were given. tothe admiral for proclaiming war. (A laugh.) The signal i that was given cannot be forgotten. We all recollect the ine, junction that was given to the seamen on board that lieg e , "-to sharpen their cutlasses, and the day was their own",- (a laugh)—andthat if the Russian fleet did not coma outto meet them, they were to see whether they might not move into the harbour of Cronetadt. That fleet wassent out, and what have they done? Individual officers belonging to it have exhibited highly meritorious examples of seamanship, but, so far as results are concerned, the results are literally nil. You certainly crumbled down a half-finished fortress, but you are not able to occupy it, and tha ships com posing that fleet are at this moment dropping home one by one from the scene of their labours. I apprehend the Government knew beforehand the strength of Cronstadt. I apprehend, also, that they knew the character of the Bal tic, and that it is not altogether an unknown sea to British navigators. And what did they do ? They sent out, in the first place, a fleet of such superior metal, and I s;of inch overwhelming force that it would have been an act of madness for the Russian fleet to meet them in the open sea ; and, in the second place, they sent outs fleet of such a draft of water, that it was absolutely impossible for them and the Russian fleet to come into contact. Ths result was that our fleet in the Baltic had all along been condemned to a state of ignominious activity, reminding one of the story of the duel between Sir Richard Strachan and Lord Chatham— "Lord Chatham, with his sword undrawn, Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan. Sir liichard, longing to be at him, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham." (A. laugh.) Now, my lords, I say those things, not for the purpose of discouraging those gallant men who, whether in the Baltic or the Black Sea, on land or on shore, have done their best to maintain the honour of the British flag. (Cheers.) But if we are to come to a successful issue Hs this great and serious war—if we aro to conquer an ho nourable peace, depend upon it—knowing the resources of the Russian empire—knowing the character of that great man—for he is a great man—who wields the power of that great empire —you will obtain no peace unless you conquer. (Cheers.) You must obtain such advantage and such superiority as to compel him, reluctantly as it. may be, to submit to your terms of peace. But if you do not achieve some great success, you may have a long and. a disastrous war, but an honourable and a successful peace you cannot achieve. (Hear, hear.) There is only one more topic, my lords, in Majesty's speech to which I feel compelled to allude. Her Majesty announces with satisfaction that she has concluded a treaty, in conjunc tion with the Emperor of the French, with the Emperor of Austria, from which she hopes to obtain important ad vantages. I confess that this is a paragraph which creates. some considerable doubt in my mind. There can be no• doubt that, in the prosecution of the general objects of the war, we shall gain the co-operation of Austria—a mat ter of the greatest importance and of signal benefit ; but. looking at the course which Austria has hitherto plumed, I must bo permitted to hesitate in expressing my satisfac tion at this treaty until I have an opportunity of becom ing acquainf ed with the nature and probable effect of the stipulatious it contains. Austria has had a very difficisla game to play; I make every allowance for her position - she has played a not very dignified part, but she has played, it with considerable dexterity, and she may now feel it to be for her interest to lay down the mask which she has hitherto assumed, and to threw herself into the arms of the Allies. 1 trust it may be so ; but up to the present mo ment—although I remember it was a favourite phrase of her Majesty's Government that they had pretreated nego tiations, and by protracting them they had secured the immense advantage of the co-operation of Austria and. Prussia—l have yet to learn, in practical result, what, benefit we have derived or wh at co-operation we have had. from Anstiia—still less from Prussia. So far as I can make out the course pursued, that of one power has be , a a course of doubtful neutrality—of the other, of doubtful hostility, but practically of hostility. Looking at the put which Austria has hitherto taken in this campaign, Ism not at all sure that she has not been in a great measure the cause of your want of success. It was not until after the siege of Silistr:a that Austria volunteered the assistance of her intervention in any shape ; but when that siege had been raised—when the Russian army was in fall retreat— when Omer Paella was at the head of a triumphant army, with which, at all events, he could have found occupation for a large portion of the army of Russia—at that m. merit Austria came in— whether without the sanction or with he previous knowledge of her Majesty's Government I know not; but she concluded a treaty with Turkey, the effort of which was to give her the occupation ani control of the Principalities—to cover, in point of fact, the Russian retreat. —to prevent the advance of the Turks—and to commence the deinol alis. t nof that hitherto victorious army, anti to set at liberty the whole of those Rues , an. forces which had previously been opposed to Omar Paella, and for which he might have found employment in Bessarabia or the pro vinces, and to pour upon eur forces, already outnumbered by the army they were besieging, thyme troops, niaounfing to four, five, or six times their own nivnber. All this hap pened, it appears, in consequence of .the intervention of Austria. (Rear, hear.) When I see -bat has hitherto - been the effect of the intervention of Aust: la, 1 must be permitted to doubt until I see it, how far we shall derive advantages from the treaty now concluded. We m ay her entered into engagements , and bound ourselves t o tions which it would be very difficult to accomplish, but which we should be bound in honour to carry out. Id o not p t k il ir ti w on w s h h a e t h p a r s o e m n i t s e e r s e u a s n tri a dI had, tk s in m k a it e is o it r n 3 0 0 n w a h b a i e t s to ti call upon the House of Lords to express their satisfac-, tion at the conclusion of a treaty, the contents of which are known only to her Majesty and her advisers, who may, therefore, express their satisfaction upon the sUbject—a satisfaction which it is impossible that we should express. because we know not one single point of the treaty. (Hoar, hear.) I point out this because I am certain that it will appear so unreasonable to noble lords oppoeite!that they will consent to such a modification of the toms of the address as will avoid calling upon the houselor An expres sion of stisfaction with that of which they knowxiething, and will be content with her Majesty's expression -of satis faction at having, in concert with her Ally the finxperor of the French, concluded a treaty with the Emperor .of Aus tria. I shall not move this in the form of an amend meat, but I suggest it, to her Majesty's Government as a Insane of avoiding all difficulty with regard to the unanimous adoption of the address. (Hear, hear.) I feel it to be doubly important that for the prosecution of this war we should have not o nly, as w e have, the cordia, deli but this we should also have the opiniondeliberate, and steady sanction of the people of t his country,ea. of Parliament express difference as to the mode in which the w in the most unmistakeable language, thatarnohaqsuebeetsi e c teudu,aouriisoncsonof hthat we with con ducted, m o i n g s h t de have clrat a n a° o u f 1 11 -' a r e li am e n shall t interfere t. —that the world shall . see spec tacle all partycot. give her Majesty's Government everysup o p f or a t ignmourt nation ew e r sinking all political an i mosi t ies, sinking" tentlons, and uniting heart and the inflnence they can: ()tar eot their disposal , with all t roseeute the war, head , with all the means e confidence in those eferalloawy-ucooutnetory.tternrienaino p i v s e e n a a n i i t o h n o g u t g h h e i w r t that they can require. (Cheers.) I the tank liberal supper who have the management of ive te them oat that I am speaking the l sentiments of the country, of my ownfriends the and m a any yf ,applies pariam Parliament when w ny h e s nu support Ipsoaryt whichthat,f i a a r u ti eaecet grudging p sa o r r y t f n o t r w t , successful ar, itwulta the countrysecuti eof this great and int that will urge forward Mieist3rs to spare no pains, to omit ne exertions, te leA k e every sacrifice and every effort for the purpose 'el-securing a just and honourable peace, in consequence of successful distinguished operations. (Cheers.) To those gallant tnen y a e o nifhit considerable , fi n o i g ( m i h e rti beenti a a n b b g t l l ° oe the a c e rta i n persever ancedifficulty battles who are now, under srheeia.dnscircumstances rnumbersdcoedupa osugtahtlehl ttulone themc, i e r o r a e l l circumstances of difficulty end o a d f n : g l t r country,iwaiesin:dh codcalculatingimu rage I pe w r o se u v ld era sa n y ce reward atrhde of fnd your is labours.appro a approaching i n T g h ey eyesou , w o h f e y n o : u y ‘ d pa is tren u c r e a , gu y in et en a urrphoensyymoup—atthhieeshoer your T ro Y u h c e o e s t uh e anna co l untrymen i t r s t me l n a e ep o mat the a t ur of support of you r countrymenyourcountarreyminen with you. unparalleled exertions. Men, women, and children are ex hausting their stares for the purposes of reliving your dis tresses, and ministering to your comforts and assuaging your sufferings. Fresh reinforcements are at hand. Your courage, your daring, your steady and obstinate resistance, anti your unflinching perseverance, shall not only be ac knowledged, but shall serve as a moral and an example to the country, which is proud of baying you for soldiers. Go on in the gallant course which you have begun. Have yet a little more patience to struggle against the unavoidable difficulties which are opposed to you, and believe that the hearts of your coun t r ymen are with you. There are laurels for those who have fallen, and when you return from with expedition which, with all i ts harassing difficulties, wth all its dangers and i ts labo ur s, wi lt be and mus t be sue. - ,J - SOLICITORS. Messrs. Tatham, Upton, Upton, and Johnson, 20, Austin Friars. 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