The Sun. — London, England, 1851-02-24 00:00:00

, 12,0 , 89 teliverttoyl —• week [ t ° "B 58 1 j gd t fr .• 079 ais 4 lll4•l:t w rie2. •.. 08:9 84 troitt ,j„„ - ". • 1,031 1 •• • 70,414 et TO "" •• •• • • 52s Od ;in eVE 1847. 1848. 1849 lIP aki n i% he de man d i s in to very sluzgish state, but we "Ave lio champ to notice in the votstions. Etet At per atone by th e Carea.me. ,infe a. 5. to e . d. 1 8 . d. t o .. rior•- • 2 0 2 2 • , tutton, inferior •. 2 8 210 .......• ' 4l3 dling •• .• 2 4 2 6 ; - 3 0 3 8 Primelarge .. 2 8 3 0 ! is,""4 .. Prime small •• 3 2 :t 4 Pork, lArza.. • . ...• 2 6 3 6 .•- "•••• • - 3 2 4 0 1, neUatTZU AND SPITALTXELDS.. , s. r er the time of year, these rust kets are heavily sup 119,liertfwoit21, e P s otat . oes in eXcellent . condition. The demand, r• occially as Bread is extremely low in price, ta,s. a very depressed state, and prices are not supported. 1 0 " wee rimports wt,re only 109 tons from Rouen and sacks Autwerp. York 3 h L. Per Ton. Per Ton. k otr , t , - .,.;•egents. 70s to tO, Essex Shaws ... 55s to 75s IV . ''' "'Tents- 60s to 70s Kent Regents.... -s to - s Isb eadi & Cant brid Essex Regents... -s to - s F orei ,ge . ....... 608 to 75s Kent & Essx. I\ , lid. -s to -s Linc o l n ' n *,,•,••••-•:. 50s to 60s Kentish Red Kid. -5 to -s hero '"alrs.• Cambridge ditto Shaws ...... 55s to 75: Glia•s .. ..... .... -s to - 5 W, r 3 OPCOU G LI HOP DTARILET. fo r h ave a steady, but by no means brisk, inquiry / 4 VPeted samples of Hops, at fully laq week's prices. oe () " . .er kinds very little is oing at late rates. Factors' r is l ees for ready money_Esst Kpnt poekers, 31 16s to 61 21G lirr csvt; ditto bags, 3/ 4i to 5155; Mid Kent pockets, Be n s t t° Si 15s; ditto bags, 21 0) 41 103; Weald of SuL P°ek ets, 31 6s to 412 s ; ditto bags, 2/ to 3/ 10s; --"x pockets, 312 s to 41 per cwt. Sio WOOL. t de Our last report the public sales have been well q /t o:l n i 4 ,?d by buyers, and nearly the whole of the colonial fo , -- -' e ' l have ebangsll hands at very full prices. Fine of l' i - h 'gil WWII have met a steady competition, but most but t e low parcels have been withdrawn. The auctions tuors'erateihate to-morrow. By private contract there is Last - ," ° !_g in British Wool, at extreme quotations. llomb -ee ls . ' B imports were 10 bales from Ghent; 148 from . 11 w ,, ~., 40 from Adelaide, 67 from Hamborgh, 67 from o' victoria, 115 from Constantinople, 607 from the "'Pei arid 111 bags from &Thos. Sin e , •,,.. TALLOW'. trk t . alotiday last only a limited business has been to C t eted in this market but we have no material change 4 ee tothe quotations. To-day, P.Y.O on the spot iit s ti ellio g itt , 8 '7B tj(i per cwt. For forward delivery very pasrativehi- D ing- - Town Tallow, 37s per cwt net cash; ---Z" 242 d per Sibs. 1851. 10,390 32,418 40,147 42,691 528 0,1 40s 0.1 ,36s 6d to 37s 6d to 51s 6,1 to rs Oill Os Od Ito Os Od 1,164 2,046 1,744 1,911 81,975 , 78,792 72,839 74,519 - L8! i 569 I 166 I 1,111 84,264 103,377 87,515 I 91,692 54s 6d 43s Od / 38s 6d / 398 6d AMINIMIFINOM th e Z EN' S BENCH. —(THIS DAY.) :Pset,.l, l ",was occupied during the morning in trying ' 4 41. 44 e ara case, which was devoid of any public COm, (aitinlON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) 1- 1 1 at Nisi Prins, before Lord Chief Justice tvE s , JEavis and a Special Jury.) Lor:lox RAILWAY COMPANY V. LONDON AND This NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. bee " 2 4 an action brought by the plaintiffs for a usf(l- covenant. The declaration stated that the Itosp",,!ata had a reed to lease the West London line es m • •'e de fendan g ts, paying 60,0001. as a third of the tik - b; ti leclit, 1 80,000/ , and allowing the company half eve r ri`hit of working ' the line. The defendants, how- Itte tt l h t ° ll l the period of snaking the contract, had never teoe te d to work the line either with passenger or t ra s me. rikc °Proceedings were at great length, and scented I t° last through the whole day. alef e IiEQUER.—(T HIS DAY.) T1 ° 1 .6 the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Common Jury.) - rt was o ccu pi e d t hi s m orning with an action lalpellß galli arrest, the details of which were of an un - ature. 11 14 , pe, A p le ; o3 Ro - '-8 rREET.--(THIS DAY.) ‘ 4 4C, C/e XETS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Joseph itte it „. : "ati placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with k tit." ll to pick the pockets of several ladies in Hyde ktter,i-e"censtable, 184 A, stated that a b out f our o ' c l ock o tl ay afternoon he was on duty near the Crystal HYde-park, when he observed the prisoner hi„ 14Y eral ladies, and feel the outsides of their (,-: W itness watched him, and aster following him bi 1 4 4 ) , vlsta uce he saw the prisoner put his hand into a isl Dom, iC'et• Witness then rushed forward, and took -410 4 " st °dY• The prisoner was searched at the but nothing was found upon him. /44.,d,drisone tor, morrow who stoutly denied the charge, was re arltil -. tp . Sof the PEACE, andJUSTICES' CLERKS 81 a) :1 9 s, 7'll -E EDITOR OF THE SUN. c - As b Bill introduced into the House of o . m l 4 Y thb f ~-over ent, for the purpose of restricting °- si Peac n e m and Justices' Clerks from con gver--`tal Prosecutions, is upon a correct pin bbou,A `" go further, namely, to restrain Jut elerlti:‘—' f rotn g concerned (beyond their duty Jut -4F ‘,/, as s olicitors in parochial appeals. 4 1 la s OBSERVER. THE EDITOR OF TEE SUiV: b lits s Akie house I now occupy has thirty-two win 200' in t " pays nearly 12/. window tax. Sir Charles ntipll' : toPoses that I shall pay 8/. in future. My next do our has a house with the same number big being " wiser than the children of light," ,7 i4 - , °c „k,eti some of his until he reduced his tax to :!, P s t , cl 3:". lie will now open up his windows, and ;/, 41 . a year for my 81., our houses being exactly 1 P4 4 ; ` 1 : 1 all respects. 4 ltit e ' "IP our Chancilor to exlain the wisdomand of this arrangem G nt.—l am, p Sir, yLurs &c. THICK BEAD. T 811t...0 THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 2 1 1 e N 7 .l aring had my attention called to a paragrap h to an newspaper of Thursday last, the 20th inst., a fire on the premises of Mrs. Fletcher, it wherein you state, " that it is suspected that it 14 :. * ters! th e result of accident," and that the same Nleh ` ll Were on fire a s h ort time ago, and there were f blitreng suspicions on the part of the fire offices o Z i es,; lll ' I hp g to inform you that there were not Al t le - . 13r are at the present time, such suspicions as rnaleuste and have published to the world. _ t 4 4, add that the premises and tw•lc do not belong r• Pletcher ag e d widow as a yout te, but to Mrs. Fletcher, aho dy, and has carried on an extensive 41148 Leeds f niture broker, fn. upwards of j ted Yeart " - I a ' n3 a , s Sir, your obedient servant, EDWARD MAUD. APho ll '!:h• 22 1851.-Drni a9:4"" r Z e g r r t e is p ' : ;. in question was copied from the -r A , 441 atie - ,7, 18 THEATRE.-0a Saturday evening -evo6,,,ltlermance, in aid of the Copper-plate ,, Printers' 'tokl.tcte-ci",.",:tnnd, was given at this theatre by gentlemen tit - 's h ,„,"•"/I and interested in the trade." The , entertain; 1:1441.411,et'au-pZetjc_e,d with Sir E. B. Lytton's play of the La d y Df . t ios: n ttotr r % l by Messrs. Bustin, Thtmas, Pringle, and has:: Whose T he Part of Pauline was sustained by Miss irtioub -" Imitation of an eminent actress was too close to ._ . ° Wll '‘2 ,, etV ed ; had this N oung lady , de u m s led more upon much more. 2 , Parit' e ° ,. l :c o r she would have pleased f 4 ;7 114 Pe114 , _ t , . rtni lane Theatre, was the Madame' if e • stir ep the L a o n n u , is without doubt the best delineator of the tot i ' Hart w stage. Tobin's lioncyyta - m, in which ~t 4n tled . 1 ell, Bennett. Seare s and Christian appeared, to kilt 14 - 4ng night's amusement. —The ifj.ttlto.A.ebf‘,.tanT.toN.AL AUCHERY MEETING. ll'liapl a , `L__ a ducting this meetin wi.se last toxopho enced t '' '': T a held at Edinburgh, have •. just officiall an '4,erih heir intention of holding their eighth annual ga *let pefe a z t p t r : s a i tn e ington, in June next, in accordance with the th e ;.; Lord L. i u,_ In a requisition signed by Lord Guernsey, N it i l r.ari of tii - e V, Lord Isiewoo i r s t e , the lion. C. Bertie Percy, Wise, ....eve. - V , Mr. H. C. R 4111)01.4!8ertO t i e r. o f7.:A ; C M alci r ecO l it, .and Mr. B. Granville. _ The fon will amount in value i to s pe lt 4001., amongst which will competition some local prizes, exc u "ellty of w . and gentlemen bond fide residing in the A -kr arwlek. (14 ..-LONSTER. TA t tottitt from the cel b LE CLOTH.—M. Suer has Co lop k0r1..1,0,._ Liverpoolrated firm of Jeffery, Morrish, and yards , 0, nicv, a,a_e,, , a table . cloth one hundred . l el 'a ITulv e lB rsl o sy co n v ip e o r si t u h m e , princ , ipal banquetting table in V .- Abt p at Gore-house. . i Ztt%teat., ALNIERSTON'S ASSEMBLY.—Vicount and ;Ls: ge'tess Palmerston gave a magnificent enterta_i e n n m e en tn t ItO‘,,Y evening at their house in Carlton-gard , 't,.,4414,(4` Highness ' the Duke of Cambridge, and a • distin- I z ttte. jt ethirecLe of the aristocratic world. The guests . invite . d ~ i rrince included his Excellency the Russian , M i t , : Nail ki-" the Baroness BrunnOwihis Excellency t h e Sarni %h-l'lnister the Marchioness o Ailesbury, the Marquis of tli t i csird e, t t,, Earl Le Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Earl Bruce, ,ii.. A lnit °.!: Besborough Viscount Jocelyn, ALI ~ and v ' P,llo e lts,ocel D, Lady ' Ashley, Colonel the Hon. George ti 11, 4';',,,r., Ind Mrs. An.. n &c. After the banquet Lady ti t et r _Lati r - ,,,l.,°Pened hr salons ° for . the reception of visitors. Of i Ni t . n . '„„`"P Was honoured with the presence of a very nu ' u s dap, including many of the political characters $I ta''' IWAI;4ITUL ACCIDENT AT THE WATERLOO-ROAD bt - i °llt at ° i,7 4148 morning beetween nine and ten o'clock a h , ‘ - ' 4 44 „1.-c-ns accident took place at the Waterloo-road ter '-uft rter "„` t,he South Western Railway. Richard Bangs, a Ned i; he ooy f the railwav company, while en fa%„rett,, sne P m oit l io - n of his duties at . the platform, endea h ' 4) (1n; -r ° s s the line to the other side of the station, and ~ t- e ta ridges the engine and tender, by some means, caused 4 3 ; 14 4 r t - ,, 4 ae 2 to meet each other where they had been dis -I:lneed•te,and before he could get out of the way he was f r 'lt hither' the buffers. His screams bought several ,oni servants to his assistance, when ho was released ra i t l e t ti B tlf t eal e f u h l es li t osit . io n , h i d aving n been completely crushed flat The pour fellow was re -11:,,n bv t° l, Bt • Tho a'n ' t 'l).3‘. and on his admission . was ..,' , Io g, --1-r umrads stheHospital, surgeon, and Lis assistant, .7.rinii-,i'tertnined that°'th ' senior' injuries were of a most '4ll4l'i:4d complicated e nature. T:.is day at noon he was T L •Q , hut faint hopes were given of saving his life. 10t i t'll " I) UTIES. It is stated that the contracts talteoPtilynig timber to her Majesty's dockyards are to be Iv ord s 4 t Prices which willnot'nciude the duty; in other 11,111_ , that the tinil • i 1 served in without any duty too t ;i g b een _ ai . upeneniits tr , i r be he practice hitherto has been be t„ D r P n IY dury. o pai(t timber, and the result of the change will . the e„,. a .k_ e the navy estimates ' look loser, at the expense e bil''',orns revenue.— Shipping Gazette. t° ant 0 4 , 114 eq' THE IiON. MISS 1)E Ros.—We regret P t er oft nee the demise of the above young lady, the daugh r,lllZhcloaelil L s ady De Ros , , and niece to the buke of Rich- L,,1 ity la,t tpireet at the /Noble Lord's town residence, on ,lAv, , after a short illness, in the flower of her youth. 1 4 r t 0. informed informed th at the Marquis of Salisbury 'RI L,L",__cientl ii y subscrib e d the sum of 201. to the funds of 'ivt'ullutro Zonp-kitchen. bst oce ago. litst 110 1 700 • . !SO i 5l 6 5 f bl 3 45 , 461 ed. of, be or- eft elf co; ,od THE SUN, .LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1851.+ MINISTERIAL CRISIS. SPIRIT of tile PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—When Lord John Russell announced to the House of Commons on Friday evening the postpone ment of the financial measures which stool for discus sion at that moment, few of those who beard him cons. prehended at once the full purport of this intimation, and fewer still, even of his own adherents, knew that already, before the accustomed hour at which the pro ceedings of Parliament commenced, the Administration was dissolved. Doubt, indeed, hung over the result of the impending debate. The strength manifested by the Opposition on a recent eceasion, the vindictive desertion of a small band of Irish Ronsanists, the separation of the Liberal party itself from the Ministry on the preceding evening, were signs of an rmburrassiog present and a menacing future. But the house of Commons have since learnt with a degree of astonish . - ment which still pervades the country, and which has yet to be removed by Ministerial explanations, that in this important political conjuncture, and on the eve of . . instant bathe, the Command, r-ir.-Chief had fling down his truncheon, and was app ireetly walking eta of the lists. We shall not presume to aetieipate the state ment, promised by Lord John Russell himself tor this evening, of the causes which irresistibly led him to this conclusion. But without atte inpting to judge a great political act still so imperfectly understood, we shall en deavour to place before the public the facts which heir most directly on this novel aud perplexing state of affairs. Various causes affecting the general policy of the Administration had no doubt their due weight on the mind of Lord John Russell ; but it may be inferred, from the answers given by his Lordship to several questions on Thursday evening, when he pledged himself to bring forward eiffereet'measures as head of the Government, that, a / t the commencement of the debate on Mr. Locke King's motion for the extension of the franchise, Lord John did not contemplate o. spon taneous and immediate renunciation of power. It was evident, in the course of that debate, that the cold re ception given to the tardy pledge of a revised Reform Bill, to be introduced in the session of 1852—the with drawal of the Conservative phalanx from the side of Government—and the hostile votes of 100 habitual ad herents of the Whig Ministry, told with surprising effect on Lord John Russell, and that he felt the deser tion of so large a portion of his friends more keenly Olin the attacks of a host of adversaries. Under the in fluence of those feeling he appears to have acted on the following morning. The Cabinet was suddenly con voked; but so little was the momentous character of the situation of affairs known to the other mem bers of the Government, that three leading peers in the Administration—the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Minto, and Lord Carlisle, were not present on the occasion; and the course actually adopted by tee Prime Minister was less the result of a full and deliberate resolution by his colleagues than of the per sonal determination which he is understood to have ex pressed. That determination was necessarily unknown to some of his Cabinet--sad those not the least consider able—for they were not even present; and if in such matters rumour can collect ought of truth from external indications of opinion, that determination was no less warmly combated by some others who discerned the effect, rather than the cause, of so rapid a movement. The whole meeting of the Cabinet Ministers lasted little more than half an hour, and at the conclusion of it Lord John Russell proceeded to place his resignation in the hands of her Majesty—an act tantamount to the resigna tion of the whole Government in the person, of its chief. It will be for Lord John Russell to inform Par liament and the country this evening of the powerful motives for his conduct which he has doubtless already submitted to his colleaeues and to his Sovereign. But it may here be remarked that what ever those motives were they did not mainly consist in apprehnsions of the effect of the Pro tectionist opposition to the financial scheme of the Go vernment. If the First Lord of the Treasury thought that scheme worth anything, and if he hoped to stand fairly , with the country on those important questions of taxa tion which come home to the universal interests of the community, the Budget was at least worth a night's debate and the chances of an adverse vote, which he realized by anticip :lion. But, in point of fact, at the moment when this sacrifice was consummated, no such apprehension forced itself upon his convictions. The tone of the Protectionist meeting held on Friday at Lord Stanley's house had been extremely moderate. The tactics, if not the forbearance, of the Tory leaders taught them that a successful attack on the chief financial re sources of the Exchequer would prove a most dangerous approach to office; and it was known by the Government itself, before the House of Commons met that day, that Mr. Retries' amendment on the in come-tax would not assume a very formidable shape. That specific motion, therefore, can have had no more than an indirect effect on Lord John Russell's resolution, though it may not unreasonably be concluded that a Budget which every one condemned, and an anti-Papal measure which nobody approved, were matters to give additional impetus to the slight shock on Mr. Locke King's motion, and that but for the general embarrassments of Ministers that untoward incident would not have proved fatal to their stability. Perhaps the country may have reason to rejoice that a crowning struggle between Lord John Russell's Administration and its combined opponents was thus avoided, since a Protectionist victory might have brought into power such a Government as would convulse the nation. Nevertheless, the first Effect of the dissolution of the Cabinet was to induce her Majesty, by the advice of Lord John Russell or of other counsellors, to send for Lord Stanley with a view to the formation of a new Govern ment. That nobleman proceeded to obey the Queen's commands in conjunction with Mr. Disraeli; but before many hours had elapsed the Protectionist leaders wets) understood to have renounced their undertaking, either from the invincible difficulty and peril of the task, or because the power of dissolving Parliament was not unreservedly conceded to them by the highest authority in the realm. It will probably be found that the firmness and judgment of the Queen have b-en exerted to save the country from the extreme in convenience and agitation of a general election at the present time, and to avert a contest of parties which might inflict lasting injury on ehe Constitution itself. At a later hour on Saturday evening Sir James Graham and Lord Aberdeen were summoned to attend her Ma jesty, and it was generally believed that those statesmen would take a part in the formation of the new Adminis tratien. It was, however, desired that the communica tions at this stage of the negotiations should be made in the presence of Lord John Russell himself; and in the course of yesterday a protracted, and we hope a satisfac tory, interview between these eminent perms took place at the residence of the late Premier. Lord Aber deen was again summoned to the Palace last evening, but has not, we believe, hitherto consented to accept office. With personal or party interests we have nothing to do, but we express no more than the universal conviction of those who are most anxious for the peace, the welfare, and the security of the nation, when we affirm that an arrangement which should place in conjunction with a portion of the late Government and with the Liberal party those eminent men who most nearly represent the opinions and the policy of the,late Sir Robert Peel, affords the only rea sonable prospect of a strong, t fficient, and progressive Government. A mere att:mpt to bring back to office the Cabinet which has just rallen to pieces under the leadership of Lord John Russell would stamp tins whole of this singular transaction with the character of a des picable intrigue, and would only render the violent de struction of the whole fabric at no distant period more certain. 'The country requires an improved Admiuis tratiou. The country asks for men capable of giving effect to the principles which Lord John Russell has professed. The late Ministry bad too much of the spirit and narrowness of a coterie to conduct the people of England in their progress, and the executive council of the nation requires a wider range of character and powers than are to be found in a domestic circle. We believe that such a Ministry can be formed if personal pretensions and party exclusiveness do not mar the work; and we are confident that such a Ministry, pre pared to do its work with public spirit and genuine ability, would command the support of Great Britain. CHRONICLE.—The resignation of the Ministry, al though tendered on Friday, and known to the world for the first time on Saturday morning, has already faded into the remoteness of history. The public curiosity, which, in default of more exciting occupation, might have busied itself with the causes of so sudden an ac• knowledgment of defeat, finds stronger attraction in speculating on the future than in analysing the causes of an accomplished result. The immediate occasion of the crisis tr Budget, gLe, was )tkueo ne rKt i ih t e he eg, exclusively bevriot uh se ei me universal the impossibility ee ersetehl m i litetjyo condemnation rity obtof ainedf the by Bill for resisting Papal aggression. But the complica tion of difficulties in which the Ministry had involved it self scarcely admitted of any other solution. The sacri fice of Sir Charles Wood and the production of a more popular Budget might have satisfied the House of Com mons for a time; but the rapid spread of the Irish re sistance to the Aggression Bill made the entire position of the Cabinet untenable. The majority in favour of a 101. suffrage in counties was an expression at the same time of the discontent of the ordinary adherents of the Government, and of the resolution of the Protectionists to withdraw the support which they had so often af forded to the Ministry. We publish in another column a collection of the rumours which have gained more or less credence since the commencement of the crisis. Up to the present time it is probable that nothing is settled, and that the leaders of parties are little better able than their followers . toforetell the final result of the various negotiations which may have been commenced. It is known that .her Majesty has successively required the advice of Lord Stanley, Lord John Russell, L )rd Aber deen, and Sir James Graham. Interviews have also taken place between various leading politicians, includ ing the late Primo Minister. It is just possible that Lord Stanley may attempt to form a Government with the aid solely of the " Country Party." It is, however, far more probable that some portion of tie Whigs will retain office in conjunction with the representatives of the policy of Sir Robert Peel. Whether Lord John Russell or Lord Clarendon will represent the Whig party in the new distribution of offices is a question on which, in the absence of trustworthy information, vre consider it unprofitable to speculate. In any case it may be assumed that the supernumeraries of the Ca binet—the Mintos and Gyases, the Hohhouses end Clinnthi— will make room for more efficient and influ ential incumbents of the offices which :hey have so long enjoyed. The rumours of which we have spoken are Only important as indicating the balance if parties, and the tendency of public opinion. The wishes of the country have already been expressed in a manner sufii significant. There is no doubt that a Minis ry torujed under the guidance of Lord Stunley, though re pudiated by the country at large, would be welcomed by a single class of the community in a vague expectation of relief. The landlords and farmers in many districts are , still unconvinsed of the impossibility of restoring Protec tion. Lord Stanley and Mr. Disraeli would, for the moment, present to their minds the imago of wheat at 565, and possibly of the reduction of the malt tax. But even in the counsels of the party at the Carlton Club and in St. James's-square, we believe that the political prospects of the proposed Ministry are already bet ter understood. The leaders, and those of their followers who are eager for office, are thoroughly , aware of the necessity of . abstaining froni interfe rence with the tariff as it sands at present. By reductions of expenditure, combined perhaps with some minor financial changes, they would attempt to remove a portion of the income-tax without subjecting the re venue to a deficit; and they might still form the strongest numerical section of the House of Commons, if their supporters would unanimously adopt their views. But a portion of the county members, end a powerful fraction of the majority in the House of Lords, are more in earnest in their advocacy of protection. After the debate of last week, L Hardwieke and Lord Malmes belly would be compelled to form a new Opposition under the Duke of litcrimend, in preference to fullowino Lord Stanley in a neural and temporizing p o licy. If the Cabinet is formed on ptinciplzs which would giv., it a chance of enduring for a month, the built of the Pro tectionist party must be alienated. It is, wo believe, al ready certain that the dilemma between headlong rash ness ,and open desertion of the cause has already made the task which Lord Stenley took into consid. ration too hopeless to be carried any farther. Amongst other considerations, it is impossible to' forgot that although the recent crisis offers facilities to a Liberal Administration for dropping the impolitic and impracticable crusade against the Roman Catholic hier archy, Lord Stanley is personally pledged' to advocate a more vigorous measure of repression than the Bill in troduced by the feeble and divided Government which has just fall, n to pieces. The reports which have been circulated illustrate, as we have said, the wishes and hopes of that preponderating section of the community which cares greatly more for the general policy of an Adminis tration than for the persons of those who compose it. The union of the most vigorous and progressive section of tho Whigs with the Free-trade portion of the late Opposition forms the obvious solution of the difficulty into which the forced resignation of the Ministry has plunged the business of the country. I: is probable that many difficulties may be found in arranging the terms of a union which would be generally acceptable to all really liberal politicians. If we judge rightly of the indi vidual interests of the statemen who are likely to form any combination of the kind to a bich we refer, their personal wishes would have been entirely op posed to the precipitate dissolution of the late Govern ment. The country perhaps is yet scarcely convinced of the helplessness which characterized every act of Lord John Russell's Administration from the time when he unhappily lost his great rival and generous protector. Every fresh oscillation between rashness and timidity lost him the allegiance of some accustomed supporter, and alienated even colleagues who had long adhered to the recognised representative of the hereditary league. The position of those statesmen who may now or here after unite with the Liberal portion of the Whigs would have been better defined, and more independent, if time had been afforded for entirely loosening the old ties of party attachment. It is doubtful whether Lord John Russell has been influenced by the motives to which a faithful adherent ascribes his resignation; but if, as the only Whig journalist asserts, he has thrown the busi ness of the country into temporary confusion on consi derations exclusively factious and personal, it can not be denied that a melancholy ingenuity may have been exhibited even in so petty . a feat of legerdemain. It is for his successors, whoever they may be, to take care not to imitate the cunning which :party journalists ascribe, perhaps unjustly, to incapable leaders. If a Government can be formed which, with a prospect of sufficient support in the House of Commons, will agree on a large liberal policy, no party considerations ought to stand in the way of a result almost unanimously de sired by the country. The policy of the new or re modelled Cabinet can at present only be defined by nega tives. A new and entirely differentsßudget must be produced; and it would be inexpedient to criticise by anticipation a financial policy which :Cam scarcely fail to form an advantageous contrast with the project for which it will be a substitute. Even if Lord John Russell retains his seat, ho will probably take as little share as for merly in the fiscal arrangements of the Government. Whoever may be Chancellor of the Exchequer, he will at least not propose the imposition of Sir Charles Wood's commuted window-tax. The anti-Papal agita tion must also be abandoned by any Ministry which hopes for permanence. The present Bill, with its virulent frivolity, has incurred both the contempt of the ' zealots whom it was meant to satisfy, and the indignation of the outraged Roman Catholics whom its authors hoped to cajole. The new Go vernment will, we doubt not, commence its career with a determination to direct its legislative influence as well as its administrative energies into the channel into which they naturally flow. The firmocial interests of the country, though not the object 4, their exclusive care, will occupy their earnest and constant attention. The rivalries and reciprocal encroachments of religious bodies will, we hope, be watched with. a wise impartia lity, in the certainty that the State can never interfere in matters of faith without a violation of religious liberty and a compromise in turn of political iedepeedence. HERALD.—We were right in our conjecture on Saturday that Lord John Russell and his Cabinet bad resigned. They have resigned; and her Majesty, on Saturday, sent for Lord Stanley. his Lordship waited on the Qum at three o'clock, and had a long interview with her Majesty, who asked his Lordship if he was ready to undertake the formation of anew Administra tion. Lord Stanley undertook the duty, and although very many rumours were yesterday sfloat as to rival coalitions, &c., the tfact is, that at the hour at which we write the cf , mmission to form a Ministry remains in Lord Stanley's hands. Lord Stanley,returning from the Palace, did not reach his house until six o'clock on Saturday eveninp, and was occupied ,1237 necessary cor respondence until a late hour of thellight. There is, therefore, no truth whatever in the rtumour that a meet ing of the adherents of Lord Stanley to j k place on Sa turday at his house, and ti at a difference of opinion there occurred which induced his Lordshipio decline the duty which he had previously undertaken. No such meeting took place. These are the simple facts in connexion with this important crisis, so far asqtlie leader of the country and Protestant party is ceneerned. We hope we shall be enabled to publish the, result of the nego tiation between the Sovereign and Lord Stanley in a late edition. ADVERTISER. The intelligence of Saturday morning verified the report of the reeignatiOn of Minis ters, to which we alluded in our impression of that day, as being in circulation on the previchis evening. So the Whig Cabinet has at last fairly stranded. It was visible to all that it was among the breakers ever since the in troduction of the Premier's unfortePate Bill for repel ling Popish aggression and punishing Popish audacity. Eventually, and that at no distant day, it must have perished amidst the storm of public indignation which the temporising measures of Lord John Russell had evoked in the country; but the moment Sir Charles Wood's Budget was ushered into existence we foresaw, and the very next morning, as our readers will remember, we foretold, the immediate dissolution of the Whig Go vernment. Our prediction now stands fulfilled. The Russell Administration has ceased to live. It heaved its expiring groan on Friday afterneoi.: Never did Ministry more richly deserve the fate which has befallen it. It was a Ministry of false pretences. It professed to be a Re form Ministry—an Administrationwhich identified its ex istence with popular progress. Itseyery act belied its pro fessions. Its deeds were at irreconeileable variance with its words. From the first hour of ;its existence till the last, it was engaged in warring with those very prin ciples, to the promotion of which every one of its mem bers bad previously pledged himself, and on the faith of which they severally, for a seasop, enjoyed the confi dence of the public. It is a remarkable circumstance that the very last act of Lord Jobie s ßussell's Ministerial life was that of strenuously opposiug the extension of the elective franchise, though admitting that the.mea sure of electoral e nlargement proposed was, abstractedly, just and reasonable. It was " the ruling passion strong in death." Such a Ministry, with such a head, could nut fail to lose all character. Its continued existence was a perpetual outrageon notions of moral rectitude, or even of conventiona l p ro p riet y. In such a Govern ment the nation could h ave no c onfidence. Its dissolu tion was a thing which the country had latterly come to all our regard as a consummatio n devoutly to be wished. occurred, no ene is f A ou n n d d ntoow thdat a t tear event has over the demise of the Whig he she Cabinet. No one regrets ts dep arture , exce pt suc h i as had a personal interest n as continued existence. These persons will,doubtless , lament its decease, but they are not the class of men to strew flowers over its grave. In vain, would we look for the roan who regards with reverential feelings the memory of th e Mi n i stry w hi c h last. closed its career on Friday The public mind, as might be expected, is now filled with profound anxiety, as to who is to be the successor of th e N o bl e L or d . Opinions vary on the pAlla. In many instances the wish is tether to the thought. Lord Stanley is thought in most quarters to be the embryo Premier. Lord Clarendon is named by sT ne . Sir James Graham by others. Just now the thing is ell s peculation. Nothing certain is known as to who will . be the. future Premier. The revelations in Parliament this evenin g , w ill pro b a bly throw some light on the subject. ,In the meantime, were we to follow the example almost universally set us, and to indulge in conjectures, we should hazard th e pre diction that Lord John Russell will be his own successor. The expression may sound very much like an Irishism, but that matters little. We are strongly impressed with the belief, that the Noble Lord sustains just now the somewhat contradictory character of being at one and the same moment the past and proximate Premier. A very little time will suffice to show whether we are right. Let us not be misunderstood. We are not ignorant of the fact, that Lord Stanley was sent for by h er M a j esty on Saturday. Nor do we deem itimpossible that the Noble Lord will be rash euouge to undertake the con struction of a new Cabinet. But we have no idea that a Stanley Administration c ould last.. i A month or two probably less, would be the limits of its existence. We can hardly think that Lurd Stanley himself could be weak or vain enough to suppose that a Government firmed by him could exist fur auy length of time. If formed, it eau only live to die. It can only come into the world to go out of it agnin. It can but breathe to expire. In such circumstances, we should expect . to see Lord John Russell re-called to the councils of his Sovereign. It we are correctin the assumption, that Lord John Russell is destine'? to return to office, the nation have s right to demand that he shall give them some gu arantee that he will pursue a very different course from that which he has hitherto done. Sir Charles Wood will not return to power. That, doubtless, will be one happy riddance; for, in addition to' his having betrayed all those Liberal poli tical principle's which he previously professed to enter , tats, he has proved himself to bo the mis s i ncom e potent financier that ever made any pretensions to a knowledge of figures. His own coachman would CLOSE OF THE SAILORS' STRIKE IN THE NORTH. The strike amongst the sailors in the north against the Mercantile ,Marine Act, was abandoned on Satur day, the Board of Trade having given up the new re gulations fur the traiintennrce of discipline on board ship, and pr, - )ruis,ei to consider some other grievances cumpldinei of by the men. On Friday evening a large meeting ( f Newcastle and North and South Shields seamen was held at South Shields, and, after hearing the report of the delegates who had been to London, aTtel had an interview with the Board of Trade, the following reso lutions %ere come. to:— " That as the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade have abolished the 22 regu!a tions, and as Government is unable immediately either to suspend or et:reel the other, and several parts of the recent Marine A c:s, to which we neither can OCT will submit, excepting in so far as such submission shall conduce to the eventual repeal of the obnoxious clauses in question, we resolve to proceed to era, and to our usual employments, under protest, on Saturday, Feh. 22, afternoon tide, acting, however, in concert with the other northern ports, laid in accordance with the princi ples of our friendly associations. " That the following i.ersoree he a committee to pre pare a form of protest, v z : William bnow ball, Thomas White, John Williamson, Daniel Stewart. and Ale xan.ter Hamilton. That it be signed by masters, mates, and men, this and the following day, et.d that copies be left with the secretaries till every seaman now at sea has had a❑ opportunity of joining. " Resolved, that this meeting solemnly pledges itself to sup; ort the friendly associations in every legal way; and specifically that it will strain every nerve to secure the support and entry of all sailors sailing from this port who at.the present moment are not members of the association, and aUI in planting similar associations in every port of Great Britain and Ireland, the objects of the associations being threefold—first, to main tain wages; secondly, to agitate this grand question of sailors' rights, and to petition Parliament for re dress; and thirdly, in case of Parliamentary inattention to or rejection of our petitions, to organise a grand and universal system of passive resistance, through which, by suspending the whole commerce of the country, we may compel Government ,to do us justice. 3,000,000 British sailors, if united, would move the world, as they have conquered it before now." On Saturday forenoon an immense procession, con sisting of at least 4,000 seamen, paraded the streets of Shields with bands and banners, and after burning Mr. Labouchere in effigy, sung " Rule Britannia," arid went quietly to their ships. An immense number of vessels would leave the Tyne on Saturday and Sunday for all parts of the world. The seamen of Sunderland, Seaham, and Hartlepool, terminated the strike yesterday. The wages to he received throughout the district is 4/. 10s. a voyage in winter, and 3/ 10s. in summer i❑ the coal trade; and 31. a month and small stores in the foreign trades. RIOT OF SEAMEN AT YARMOUTH. YARMOUTH, SUNDAY MORNlNG.—Yesterday a serious riot, arising out of disputes between the shipowners and sailors, took place in this town, and so alarmed the au. thorities that the military were sent fur from Norwich. Since the passing of the new Mercantile Marine Act there has been considerable dissatistaction among the seamen of this port, as they considered that they were thereby subject to unnecessary fines and other griev ances. Meetings of both shipowners and sailors have been held to adopt petitions for the repeal of the Act. These meetings led to dissensions on the subject of wages, and the seamen who have hitherto received 60s. per month or voyage during the winter, and 505. in the summer, formed an association in order to obtain an equalisation of wages all the year round. Relative to this matter a meeting of shipowners was held, pursuant to a requisi tion to the Mayor, presented by the committee appointed by the sailors of the port. During a long conference between the shipowners and the committee the latter formally, on behalf of the sailors, demanded 555. per month or voyage both summer and winter, instead of the old arrangement. There has been no attempt on the part of tic shipowners here, as in Lynn and other places, to reduce wages. The movement bee been entirely on the part of the sailors, to obtain an advance of their earnings on the whole year. The shipowners positively refused to accede to any alteration of the old arrangement, and declared that it any was attempted they would consider all understand ings between them and the men at an end, and they would feel themselves at liberty to obtain men where they could get them on the cheapest terms. The conse quence of this declaration was a general strike of the seamen. Yesterday morning Mr. Barber, a shipowner, preferred an information, before the Mayor and magis trates, against a sailor, who, after engaging to go a voyage, had refused to do so. The man was brought up in custody, and on being questioned said he would go if properly protected. Ilisressel was lying at Lowes toft, and under the direction of the magistrates a steam tug was brought up the harbour to a point opposite the Town-hall, for the purpose of taking the man to Lowe stoft. The mayor and magistrates, accompanied by the police, started from the hall with the man, for the pur pose of escorting him to the vessel, but were imme diately attacked by a crowd of seamen, and a regular fight took place. The authorities managed to get the man on board the tug, and to send him away. Ten or twelve of the rioters were apprehended and placed in the station-house. The crowd of seamen retired fur a short time to consider what was to be done, and they determined, if possible, to rescue their comrades. For this purpose, they turned cut in great force, and, amid a concourse of 2 000 people, carried the mast of a ship to the station-house, and began to use it as a battering-ram, in order to break down the door and to rescue the prisoners. The station-house was de fended by the police, about twenty in number, also by several men from the revenue cutters, and several of the coast guard, and eight or nine militia men. The tumult increased, tho authorities caused the Riot Act to be read, and 100 special constables were sworn in. Not withstanding the efforts of this extra force the riot continued, and the seamen seemed determined to force the station-house. At this time there were only 20 policeman, 9 militia men, and 30 revenue cutters' men, with the coast guard, and the special constables, to oppose about 2,000 people. The mayor and magis• trates, fearing that the force at their disposal would be overcome, and that property and life would be eudan gered, sent a telegraphic message to the commanding officers of the 11th Hussars, stationed at Noreich bar racks, stating that a serious riot had taken place, and requesting a sufficient military force to besent by special train. This message reached Norwich station at 4.30 ran, and through the exertions of Mr. Martin, the su perintendeut of the Norfolk Railway, a troop reached Yarmouth at 6.15 P.M. Another troop followed imme diately afterwards, bah being under the command of Capt. Douglas. When the first troop arrived at Yarmouth, Mr, Martin found it necessary t clear the station, a mob of people having assembled there, threatening to pull up the rails and disconnect the telegraphic communication. The Mayor (Captain Pearson, RN.) was then sent for to the station; he soon after arrived, and authorised Captain Douglas to proceed immediately to quell the riot. The military at once rode into the town, and having received orders quickly cleared the streets. In a few hours quiet was restored, but the troops continued to parade the streets during the night. This morning all remains quiet, and it is expected that the military will return to Norwich in the course of the day. THE SMITHFIELD-MARKET REMOVAL BILL —On Saturday the Bill brought into the House of Commons by the Government for the removal of Smithfield-market was printed. The preamble states, " Whereas for preventing the evils attendant on the holding of the market now holden in Smithfield, it is desirable that in lieu thereof a more spacious cattleiarket with a meat-market and conve niences connected therewith should be provided in a suitable place more distant from the c en tr e of the metropolis." There are thirty-seven clauses in the Bill. Her Majesty may ap point Commissioners under the Act, and they may provide a cattle and meat market, and build slaughter-houses, &c., and lairs for cattle, and maintain and repair roads, &c. Amon.. other things the Commissioners of Police are to regulate route and time for driving of cattle within the Metropolitan Police district. - THE SEA SERPENT AGAIN.—The New York Journal of Commerce states—" Captain F. Bernssee, of the barque Frances Watts, at this port from Rio de Janeiro, in lat. 15 N., long. 55, saw a serpent that passed within thirty or forty feet of his vessel, and appeared to be about sixty feet on the water., It passed so near the vessels as to be distinctly seen. Its motion was up and down, like the swimming of a leech; not horizontal like the motion of a snake or eel. It appeared to be as long as, and shaped like, the mainyard of the barque, tapering off towards the extremities. Its progress through the water was very rapid. When first seen it was approaching from the S.E., and it passed the barque heading N.W., without any apparent alteration of its course. Its head differed from that in the drawings published of the one seen by Captain M'Quahe, of one of her Majesty's ships, nearly two years since, and its whole body was on the surface of the water, and distinctly seen. No fins were seen. Its colour was apparently very dark green. The gentleman who handed us the above is well known to us, and remarks, I have known Captain Bernssee for many years, and can vouch for his integrity and veracity.'" THE CENSUS, 1851.---A number of additional papers have just been issued relative to the census of the population to be taken by the 31st of next month. These papers include returns relating to public worship, to educa tion, and to literary and scientific societies. SUICIDE IN THE BOROUGH. —Yesterday morning, during Divine service, a female servant, aged 20, in the family of Messrs. Jones, Brothers, curriers, 194, High-street, Borough, committed suicide by nearly severing her head from her body with a carving -knife. It is stated that for some time past the deceased has been labouring under mental and nervous excitement, occasioned by peculiar religious scruples, which preyed on her mind, and produced such a change in her demeanour that Messrs. Jones had deemed it advisable to send for her family; and it was arranged for her sister to have come to town on Monday (to-day) for the purpose of removing her from her situation. THE MARBLE ARCH.—At the time when Buck ingham Palace was first placed in the hands of Mr. Blore, with a view to its improvement, the arch was, as it has con tinued to be, a subject of difficulty and discussion. It was at length determined to abandon the expensive style of decora tion commenced by Mr. Nash; to patch it up at as little cost as possible; and, after finishing it in a plain manner, to leave it standing where Mr. Nash has placed it, satisfied with exclaiming, " Thou canst not say I did it." Among the fragments of Mr. Nash's intention was found a handsome frieze, executed by some of the first sculptors of the day, and intended to adorn the upper compartment of the arch. Would it nut be worth while to consider, whether, in finish ing the arch in its new site, the original plan might not par tially be carried into effect, adding to the beauty and im portance of the work, by removing these pieces of sculptured marble, and others now scattered about, to their original des tination ? A bronze Victory, or car and horses, resembling that on the Brandenburgh Gate at Berlin, would be a material addition to its general atfect.—Builder. THE FISHINGS.—We regret to say that the Ness still continues unproductive, and the other northern rivers do not seem to be much better stocked. Only cne or two fish have yet been taken in the Club's waters. - A few clean fish have been caught, we believe, at the head of Loch Ness. In the Findhorn, the season's operations have as yet been Wet 111.1111CCe438fUl.— Inverness Courier. have framed a better Budget than that which has made his name ridiculous, ever since . its development on Friday week. It is, therefore, no small mercy to get for ever rid of one so utterly unfit for the management of the financial affairs of the country. But it is right Lord John Russell should bo reminded that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was not the only defec tive stone in the Ministerial structure. The whole build ing was crazy; and no member of his Ministry was more so than the Noble Lord himself. Even had Sir Charles Wood not made so bungling en affair of his Budget, Lord John Russell's own conduct would, ere the lapse of a fortnight, have brought down the edifice about the ears of himself and colleagues. The country has, therefore, a right to insist, before he is recalled to the councils of his Sovereign, that some security shall be given it that he will not persist in treading in the same steps as before. If he is allowed to come back into power without some such guarantee, the nation may be doomed to witness a repetition before the Easter recess, of the same state of things as now exists—a state of things most disastrous, socially and commercially, to the country. Let the Noble Lord only return to office without any pledge be ing exacted from him, of his readiness to pursue a dif ferent course, and we shall see him before many weeks resisting, as he did last year, those motions for further retrenchment in the public expenditure, for triennial Parliamants, and for amendments in the representation of the country, of which notice has already been given. We shell, in a word, see him, as much as ever, the strenuous opponent of popular progress. This must not he. The nation have the game in their own hands. Now is the time for them to speak out. popular constituencies bring the pressure from without to bear on their representatives. Let the elec toral body insist, that those whom they sent into Parliement to promote popular principles, shall exact from Lord John Russell, before giving him the slightest countenance, much less their votes, a distinct positive pledge, that ho will introduce, without delay, and stake his Ministerial existence on them, such measures of re presentative reform as are confessedly desired by the country. _ _ POST.—As we have uniformly predicted and demon strated, the expiry of the income-tax, conjoined with the existence of a surplus, has brought to a crisis the Government formed on the basis of free trade. Although there was no vote of the House of Commons actually passed in condemnation of the Budget produced by the free-trade Chancellor of the Exchequer, still the feeling shown by Members of the House on the subject of it, — the opinions expressed by the public press of all parties, and most of all the reception given to Sir C. Wood's pro positions, by the city of London, the stronghold of free trade—were warnings sufficient for a high-minded Minis. ter; and Lord J. Russell, in the conviction that his Budget was a failure,,and probably for other reasons as cogent, though less obvious, laid at her Majesty's feet the resignations of himself and of bis Cabinet. He ad vised her Majesty to send for Lord Stanley; and, although since the boy Jones was sent to sea, we have no means of knowing what passed between her Majesty and this nobleman, the result is nevertheless matter of notoriety. Lord Stanley felt that with his own party unaided, he was not yet in the condition to undertake the for mation tf a Government. Were he to do so, it would be necessary for them to carry out fully the principles that he and his friends have been advocating; and with a House of Commons pledged, as the present is, to the principle of tree trade, he could have little hope of com manding the requisite majority. On the other hand, the boldest Minister might well hesitate to recommend an immediate dissolution; nor would it be constitutional to resort to such a step until the temper of the House now sitting should first have been tried and found irre concileable with the satisfactory conduct of public affairs. We may well suppose that Lord Stanley's declining to undertake the formation of a Government at this junc ture was based upon considerations such as we have thus briefly stated; and no one can refuse to him the praise of following, in this instance, the dictates of a sound diocretion and a high-minded regard for the true inte rests of the Crown and of the nation. What, then, is to follow? The facts, which will be found duly recorded in another part of our paper, respecting the audiences granted by the Queen to various statesmen, whose at• tendance at the Palace her Majesty had been pleased to command, do not enable us even inferentially to afford a conclusive answer to this question. Lord Aberdeen, it is said, has acted only in his capacity of Privy Councillor, having expressed a strong disinclination to take any office. On Saturday evening, it would appear, that after Lord Aberdeen and Sir James G ra h am had been in the royal presence for a considerable time, Lord J. Russell was, by her Majesty's command, added to the conference, which lasted until a very late hour. If we were to draw any conclusion from this circumstance, it would be that some ground had been discovered on which the joint Ministerial action of Lord J. Russell and Sir James Graham might take place. But assuming this, it would be unfair, and indeed impossible, to offer any opinion of the merits of a Cabinet, the result of this combination, until we should know something of the principles on which it might be based. The voice, however, of Parliament, as far as it has been heard through the medium of Mr. Dis mire recent motion, and that of the public, as expressed by the press of all parties, would seem to turbid a lengthened existence to any Cabinet which should re• fuse to give fair consideration to the condition of the owners or occupiers of land, or which should make the continuance of the income-tax the basis of further financial experiments in free-trade finaace. Another free trade budget of this character would inlellibly share the fate of Sir Charles Wood's. It is impossible that a statesman of Lord John Russell's experience and saga city can fail to see this. A new Government, in which Po elite Free-traders should replace the Free-traders of Lerd Grey's school, would have to work out of port with an adverse wind rising and daily increasing, and to steer the vessel of the State amid shoals and breakers sur rounding her on every side. He must be a bold and skilful pilot who shall attempt a task so full of fearful hazard. Will such an enterprise be undertaken by Lord John Russell? No one doubts the courage or the ca pacity of that statesman, but there are difficulties which amount to impossibility, and these, we think, are of them. The country will refuse the income-tax as a permanent substitute for import duties levied for the purposes of revenue. For the purpose of class protection, no doubt, the country would refuse import duties too. But the struggle is not between free trade and ex cessive, or unfair, or partial protection, but between taxation based on injustice, and levied by a process un equal, inquisitorial, and intolerable, and taxation which is collected from imports, so as not to check the pro gress of international commerce, nor to cause the price of commodities to press on the means of the consumer. Who are they who are strongest in their opposition to the income-tax of Sir Robert Peel?—the middle classes of England—all those who depend on their own skill, industry, and intelligence to furnish them maintenance, and to better their condition. All these have declared strongly against using the income-tax for any purpose but to meet a state xigency; they will not allow free trade to be further carried out under cover of what was granted for a different purpose. They will never approve a Budget which makes the cheapening cf ar ticles the paramount consideration, and throws the burthen of the public expenditure upon hard-won in come. A second Budget on this basis must, we repeat, share the fate of its predecessor; or, if carried by dint of great exertion and influence in the present House of Commons, it will be so by such narrow majorities as must make the Government ashamed of the measure. And out of doors how will such a Budget be recsived ? Those n ho vote for it will be marked men, bearing the clamp of the odious tax against their names; their vote in its favour will not be forgotten when they present themselves again to their constituents to solicit a re placement iu the positions they occupy by the favour of this clLnded middle class. But if a reunion of all who have taken the free-trade pledge be not a combina tion of parties that will meet the crisis end satisfy the country, what have we to look forward to? Is Lord John Russo 11 to fl }under on through the session with an ad interim Government? God forbid that he should be induced to the necessity of accepting such an undignifie d, degrading métier. It is the duty of Lord John Russell, in the great position ho occupies, to cast about and watch the signs of the times, as well as the sentiments and feelings of parties. The great interests of his country should be his study, not the means of satisfyi,pg this public man or that, and carrying votes in a House of Commons by tact, and a skilful avoidance of treacherous ground. And what is it that a broad view of the finan cial crisis we have just passed, and of its antecedents, must suggest to a reflecting mind? Is it not a warning to halt in the headlong course of free trade? Is it not a proof that the country will not have the income-tax substituted for more customs duties—that it is beginning to recognize the wisdom of the American and of the continental policy, which uphold customs duties on im ports for consumption of all kinds, as the first and least objectionable of all taxes for a commercial nation? Flaying this warning—and witnessing at the same time the growing strength and increasing confidence of that party in the House and in the country which seeks openly to promote confusion and bring about revolution— must not a statesman in Lord John Russell's position, and of his known moderation and good sense, see strongly marked before him the outline of the time when the friends of order must range on one side, to stem the tide of revolution, and maintain the happy constitution, in Church and State, which has given to this United King dom such pre-eminence amongst the nations of the world? Is this time only approaching, or has it come? If only the former, is it not the part of wisdom to an ticipate, rather than to wait until the vessel is actually among the breakers? And does not the present crisis both make apparent the real sources of danger and give the opportunity of making provision against these threat ened consequences? A Government of due strength to meet the exigency can only be formed by an union of the moderate Whigs with the whole Conservative body, whose sentiments, habits, and associations bind them indissolubly to the came of order. The country wishes for an association on this basis, and everybody sees and hopes that sooner or later it must take place. What now sands in the way of such a combination of the friends of order? Nothing whatsoever but the single disagreement upon the question, whether Customs duties that bear on prices are or are not proper taxes to levy on this commercial nation? This is purely a question of political, economy; yet it has divided states men, high-minded men, whose views upuu all other ques tions very nearly coincide, with a bitterness equal to that which set the red and blue factions of Constanti nople together by the ears in the days of Justinian. Has the time net come when public men can view this glevien rationally, so as to agree upon a middle course? DA I Lle.7 NE W S.—Within the last eight-and-forty hours the needle has gone round to all points of th e _ political compass. Lord John Russell ha vin g declared that his Cabinet could not go on, and that it was not for him to reconstruct another, her Majesty summoned Lord Stanley, as the chief of the most numerous party in opposition. His Lordship , it is said, felt himself mole Piet plexed than flattered by the offer, and de clared, that not having placed the Ministry in a minority, he had not incurred the responsibility of ,providing fur the administration of the country. He would, however, consult his freuds. Rumour continues the story, by alleging that the Marquis of Granby was the principal friend to whom Lord Stanley had recourse. He repre sented to the Noble Marquis, that in the present failure and impossibility of other parties to form a Ministry, it was possible and open for the Protectionists to form one, with the proviso, however, that they should, at least for the present, waive protection. To this Lord Granby and his friends very honestly, we think, de murred; and Lord Stanley forthwith returned to the palace to resign into the Queen's hands the trust with which he had been honoured. On the same even- ing of Saturday Lord John Russell and Sir James Graham were together in the Queen's cabinet, for the purpose of trying if a joint Administration could not be formed. Yesterday (Sunday) they were again at the Palace, and it was known that Lord Aberdeen strenuously exerted himself to bring about a fusion. Lord Aberdeen, in doing EO, is said to have waived every ids a of the Foreign-effiee for himself, and, indeed, was averse to taking any cffice. The terms, upon which an eeeord and a coalition were proposed, were said to be the introduction of a new Budget by Sir James Graham as Chancellor of the Exchequer, wed some modification of the anti-Papal Bill as regards Ireland. Sir John Hobltouse, under a nese title, has been already pre cipitated up to the House of Lords. The Duke of Newcastle, it is supposed, would take his place. Mr. Sidney Herbert and Mr. Cardwell were also to have seats in the Cabinet. To make room for them and for their seconds requires, however, a very considerable change of fittings, much more easily pro posed aed agreed to in the gross than accomplished sa tisfactorily in detail. There still remain, however, many great and serious difficulties, more than possibly may be overcome before the Speaker takes the choir to morrow. The greatest of these, no doubt, are the reluct ance of La.d John Russell to sacrifice auy portion of a Bill which he considered the minimum of dignified resist ance to Rome, and to retain office by the admission of a new element and a new party into the Cabinet, which, however liberal on questions of free trade and of public economy, are still no friends of either electoral or eccle siastical reform. On a great many questions, indeed, the Peelites have had the tact of not committing them selves; so that we know much more of the ability of these men than of their principles or views. At presente he public and the Premier must, on a great many points, take them on trust. Whilst had Whigs, Peelites, and Reformers served a campaign on the Opposition benches, a much fairer estimate, and a much stronger amalgamation of men and things into a party might have been accom plished. There is, however, one idea dominant in the Parliamentary, and even in the extra-Parliamentary mind, and that is, the dread of a dissolution. So many politicians are for the present without principles, and so many more without money; so few parties have behaved well, and so few men have entitled themselves to the gratitude of the public, that no good, it is thought, could come of facing it. A Parliament newly elected would cer tainly excel the existing one in religious zeal. Whigs would be ousted by fanatics, landlords by tenant-farmers. The Irish elections would prove a resuscitation of Donny brook Fair. A general election would dim the glassy sur face and disturb the tranquil atmosphere of the Crystal Palace. To the dissolution, therefore, every one cries avaunt. And yet, it Lord John will not lend his coun tenance to the coalition, Lord Stanley must again be called, must dissolve, will be beaten, and a Liberal Mi nistry must re-dissolve, and England present throughout 1851 the aspect of a prolonged political tempest. Change, however, there must be. If Lord John Russell could, like the vizier in the "Arabian Nights," steal forth in disguise, and perambulate the streets and clubs, and in dependent circles where men of business congregate, he would, amidst a variety of impressions, discover a mani fest gladness and exultation at the idea of the Family Compact being broken up, and at the number of Whig names in the list of plecemen being thinned. Whilst saying this, let us express surprise that at a moment when it was found necessary to strengthen a Ministry and give it a broader basis, the hereditary statesmen of the empire should not recur to that party which first upreared the banner and fought the battle of free trade. At a crisis like the present, through which free trade came triumphant, and to put an and to which reduction of expenditure and electoral reform are pro mised and invoked, it does seem preposterously ungrate ful, that their most popular, most energetic, most ta lented, most true and sincere champions of this principle should be overlooked. The Duke of Newcastle is a very good man; and peihaps a dozen or a score of voters might follow him to the field. But we do not see that either his presence or his party are of that resplendency or magnitude as to throw into the shade those who muster one hundred upon all questions of progressive reform. We are now speaking without book. We do not pretend to be the organ of any party, being eon: tended with representing those broad principles which bind Liberals together, setting aside the peculiar views and predilections which separate them. We have had too many causes of difference of late with eminent Re formers to pretend to be the depository or the organ of their personal sentiments. They would be the first to repudiate a wish for office, the foremost to deride the possibility of their making part of an aristocratic Cabi net. But, in despite of what they may think or say, we do maintain that it is a disgrace to England and a con tempt of its popular justice and discernment, to see that men, who achieved the greatest of social and economical ameliorations, should be seduluuely thrust and spurned from the threshold of power, which the possession of an aristocratic name daily enables even the political ;yro to overlook. A philosophic statesman like Lord John Russell, who can overlook the dull routine of official life and public service, must see that there is something fen dameatelly wrong in the working of a political system that re-petrates such ingratitude, and that in the middle of the ninteenth century persists in confiscating popular eminence and talent, for tic exclusive illustra tion and enrichment of lordliees. MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived ut Beck;nghsui Palace troth Bowood on Saturday morning, and Lai an interview with her Majesty. Lord John Russell ar rived at the Palace :shortly after the Marquis of Lans downe, and had also an interview with her Majesty. At halt-past 2 o'clock, almost immediately after the departure of the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord John Russel!, her Majesty wrote a letter to Lord Stanley, commanding his immediate attendance at the Palace. The letter was forwarded by a special messenger to the residence of the Noble Lord, in St. James's-square. Lord Stanley arrived at Buckingham Palace at 3 o'clock, and was immediately admitted to an audience with her Majesty, with whom his Lordship remained in close conference fur more than an hour. After Lord Stanley bad left the Palace her Majesty wrote a second letter to the Noble Lord, who had not reached home when the Royal missive reached St. James's-square. Lord John Russell returned to his official residence, in Downing-street, at 3 o'clock. During the afternoon his Lordship had interviews with Viscount Palmerston and other members of the Cabinet. At five o'clock a letter was addressed to the Earl of Aberdeen by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, re questing his Lordship%; immediate attendance at the Palace. Lend Aberdeen was not at home when the letter reached Argyll-house, his Lordship having left town for Blackheath at two o'clock. The Noble Earl returned to town at six o'clock, and immediately replied to the note of the Prince Consort. At half-past five o'clock a " private and immediate" communication was forwarded to all the members of the retiring Ministry by Lord John Russell. At six o'clock Lord John Russell proceeded to Buck ingham Palace to have a second interview with her Majesty, with whom his Lordship remainedin conference nearly two hours. Immediately after the departure of Lord John Russell, a dispatch arrived at Buckingham Palace from Lord Stanley in reply to her Majesty's second communcation to that Noble Lord. At half-past nine o'clock the Earl of Aberdeen ar rived at the Palace. The Noble Eat). had an interview with her Majesty and the Prince Consort, and re mained at the Palace until nearly midnight. On Saturday afternoon a communication was received at the residence of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, in Carlton-gardens, from Lord Stanley. In the evening a special courier lett town with dispatches for the Right Hon. Gentleman, who was to have arrived at Paris on Friday last. Mr. Gladstone is expected iu town this morning. A Ministerial dispatch was forwarded to the Earl of Clarendon, at the Viceregal Lodge, on Friday night. A meeting of about eighty of the Protectionist Mem bers of the Lower House took place at the residence of Lord Stanley, in St. James's-square, on Friday after noon. At this meeting the Ministerial crisis was not even anticipated. Yesterday morning the Marquis of Lansdowne received visits from Lord John Russell and the Earl of Carlisle, at Lansdowne-house. Sir James Graham paid a visit to the Earl of Aber deen at an early hour yesterday morning, at Argyll house. The Earl of Aberdeen visited Lord John Russell yes terday morning. The Noble Earl was accompanied by Sir James Grahams At a later period of the day the Earl of Aberdeen visited Lord Stanley, at his residence, in St. dames's square. At five o'clock last evening a letter was addressed to the Earl of Aberdeen by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, requesting the Noble Earl's presence at Buck ingham Palace. Lord Aberdeen arrived at the Palace by appointment at nine o'clock last night, and had an audience with her Majesty and the Prince Consort. ---- - COURT CIRCULAR• a L Lansdowne d ß o u w e ta k e . Buck had an interview with the Queen M:nrqsu ingham Palace. a is tu o rd f y afternoon. Lord Stanley had an audience of her Majesty on Sa turday Hi s Royal flighness Prince Albert , attended by Lieut. - Colonel the Ho n. Alexander Gordon, rode out on horse back on ziaturday morning. The Royal Family took their usual airings en Saturday The American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence, the D u k e of Wellingt on, the Itiarqtzis of Breadalbane, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Douro, Earl Fitz.villitan and Lady Charlotte Wentworth Fitzwilliam , and Viscount and Viscountess Enfield had the honour of dining with her Majepty on Saturday at Buckingham Palace. Yesterday her Majelty and Prince Albert walked early in the garden ot Buckingham Palace. The Royal Family took ttier accustomed (xercike yesterday forenoon. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, the ladies and gentlemen ot the Court, and the domestic household attended Divine Service yes terday morning in the Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attend , d by Lady Fanny lleward and the Baroness de OPReth) left town on Saturday morning for her residence, Fteg. more. The Marqis of Lansdowne arrived in town at an early hour on Satarday morning from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. The Noble Marquis soon after his arrival paid a visit to Lord John Russell at his residence in Cheslaarn place. Mr. Headlam, M.P., had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday at the Colonial -office. Major Hill, 2d West India Regiment, had also au interview with the Noble Earl. Sir T. Fremantle, chairmain of the Board of Cal tome, had an iutervi,tw with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer on Saturday, at his official residence, Downing strcet. The Judicial Committee of the Prjvv Council sat on Saturday. Present—the Master of the Rolla, Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duegy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir Edward Ryan. Judgment was given in_ an appeal from Canada " Que. hec }'ire M ln;urance v. olson and St. Louis." An sp peal frotn Bengal. " Babo - a Sheodees Narain v. Musen mat Khawalbas Koper" (part heard), was concluded. The Duke of Welligrton attended the early service yesterday at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon preached by the Rev. W. Cureton. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORU ASSOCIATION. the 19:h, some prccecdink s were taken en i l n Ve th ile the way y of providing for the removal of Smithfield Market. The subject trust to a cer tain extest be known at Bradford through the intrir vention of Punch. Even the inhabitents of your distant town must have some conception, that when they come to London, it would be convenient that they should not meet fat bulls of Basan trampling through the principal thoroughfares, and charging over the bridges, followed by a detachment of parish boys taking their first out-door lessons in the plea sures of malevolence. I am certain that it the citizees would leave the matter to your northern genius, you would suggest that the sensible site for a live cattle market, was to place it on the circumference of the densely occupied ground, where land is com paratively cheap, with access by sea, and a passage to the other side of the river which it might use without marked inconvenience to the public: all of which is only a description of the ground in the neighbourhood of the Commercial Road, with the Thames Tunnel stretching out its arms and crying " Come use me." The access by sea, is of daily in creasing importance ; for the fact happily is, that there is a growing importation of cattle from abroad, which at the same time gives cheap beef to the Lon doners, and is paid for with Bradford goods, as by this time I hope I have taught your little boys to know. On Thursday great events began to show them selves above the horizon. Mr. Locke King moved for leave to bring in a Bill to make the Franchise in counties in England and Wales the same as that in Boroughs, by giving the right of voting to all the occupiers of tenements of the annual value of ten pounds. The explanation came out slowly, and there was evidently something that nobody was anxious to say. The first thing which might occur to a super ficial observer, was that it looked like a repetition of the blunder in admitting the Chandos clause. But by degrees the principle appeared admitted, that in most cases the less a man's rent, the less he is under the influence of his landlord, and that the occupiers of ten-pound houses not in boroughs, are principally small tradesmen, who if they were turned out of one house would take the next and be no worse. A con firmation of this was, that the agriculturists and Conservatives showed no intention of supporting the proposal. The Prime Minister in replying announced his intention next session to propose a Bill for the Exten sion of the Suffrage. So here is a new Reform Bill within view, to set off against the efforts of the Pro tectionists at the General Election. The reason for the Bill's being deferred was plain enough, namely that it should have time to work, and there should not be a General Election now. Upon so fair a state ment, policy and courtesy would have prompted not pressing the proposed Bill. But there is little of either among Reformers. A vague desire to try a Protectionist Government, like the little boy wh• puts his toy into the water to see if it will swim, appears to be their leading guide. Everybody knew there were a hundred Reformers in the House, and scarcely anybody else. So they had the pleasure of carrying their motion by 100 against 52. Reform will come, like heaven, when it pleases God. But truly it will be of grace and not of works. On Friday considerable sparring on the subject of Puseyism. What is plain is, that bishops are kept to do very little, even when they are disposed to act. At half-past five the Prime Minister rose and put off the consideration of the Budget till Monday. Nobody seems to have any certain clue to the cause. 1 am afraid it threatens Bradurn goods being at a dis count. If this i 3 the end, the fault is with those whom nothing else would serve. You will have the Pro tectionists on you yet; and the Free Trade and Radical leaders have done all they could to promote it. Why did they du you this mischief ? It may be sport to them, but it is death to you, who in six months will be all on thin porridge as the result. The Incotne-tax too, as I have often told you, is an effort to make the rich pay a portion of the taxes ; and see how, when a Government proposes it, the men sent on preterce of guarding popular interests, rush to expel the Government that takes your part. The House immediately afterwards adjourned. On Monday night more will be known, for which you must with patience wait. I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. London, 24 Feb., 1851. The Right Hon. the Speakei gave his second Par liamentary dinner on Saturday The following gentlemen were present :—Mr. Disraeli. Bankes, Mr. Herrics, Mr- Bereaford, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, Mr. Miles, Mr. Stuart, Lord Granby, Sir John Tyrell, Mr. Packe, Captain Boldero, Lord Naas, Mr. H. S. Waddington, Mr. Alderman Thomp. son, Lord Bernard, Lord John Manners, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Grogan, Mr. Halley, Mr. Pole Carew, Colonel Knox, Mr. Christopher, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Quintin Dick, Colonel Taylor, Cecil Forrester (the Hon. Colonel), and Sir Edmond Filmer. The Right Hon. Sir Francis T. Bering has caused a notice to be put up at the Admiralty, that he will not re ceive officers on Tuesday next, the 25th instant, the day in tended for holding his first levee. The Rev. llibbert Binney, Fellow and Tutor of Worcester College, Oxford, is appointed Bishop of Nova Scotia. We are informed th!lt, had the discussion on the income-tax been proceeded with on Friday evening, the fol lowing resolution, as an amendment, was to have been moved by Mr. Disraeli:—" That the tax upon property and income having been proposed with a 'rim to supply a then existing deficiency in the revenue, that deficiency having now ceased, and an actual surplus now appearing, the said surplus shall be applied to the reduction of the said in come-tax." THE ORDNANCE ESTIMATES roil. 1851-52.—Th° total estimated amount which will be required to defray the expenses of the ordnance department, including the non effective services for the year 1651-52, is 2,4 . .1,4971.—viz., 2,238,Z49/. for effective services, and 173,248/. for non-effec tive. The amount voted in 1850-51, was 2,434,4171. The increase for 1651.52, compared with the preceding year, is 30,2831., and the diminution 55,2031., making the nett de crease 22,920/. for the coming year. The 30,283/. increase is on account of works, buildings, and repairs at home. The following are the deductions :—Commissary and barrack sup plies, 5,580/. ; ordnance-office, 11,0111. ; establishments at home, 8,0761 ; wages, 6,203/. ; ordnauces stores for land and sea service, 16,7221.; scientific branch, 1,150/. DON'T BELIEVE IT UNLESS You LIRE.—It has been ramoured that Messrs. Pickford and Co., the great car riers, have been desired to send in a tender for the carrying of all the Government measures during the present session. It is expected the saving of time and expense will be prodi gious, if the arrangement can 'be effected; for it is found that there is nothing so dear, scow, and uncertain, in carry ing the Government measures, as the present Parliamentary train.—Punch. i? t : c oo!, power ve3 , e d oft I'ledri—ri9e"dgtkioilYßattersea i n a cab. As the .--. _ ......... Thursday evening, MALICIOUS ATTEMPT. o th t e he ll works 0 r a k l a s n Ct f i - iatoour t c lt p h a e n h y o a u t s hous e re Battersea,cently about seven o'clock, a cboiniasttorru.cteldnbibyrntihaetioFniwreA and p M'• m Alley, with others of the three-quarteis of a mile from the for the the company om p p u a r np3o: ate of Vauxhall, d e ni r o o fi n c r s e :t e r ds a b e ble a time necessarily elapsed before they company's servarotsn, p re found four out of the • ' They then six rooms of arrived. is composed on fire, the ceilings and flooring which the house . premiseswork works, a to a considerable extent, and the joists on fire, burnt a way and s o me places burnt through. The application of two th i e f hand-machines, however, immediately arrested the o mischief; and the damage ocea-ioned by the tire, which, but r in on g s t id e er ti a for this timely assistance, would probably have led to the destruction of the premises, may, we understand, be repaired for a few pounds. No cause can be assigned for the fire, but that of a wilful attempt to destroy the building, and if pos sible bring discredit upon the invention. [ADVERTISEMENT.)—After Thirteen Years of Suf fering a Bad Leg has been cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mrs. A one Smith, of Hemel Hempstead, suffered with wounds in her leg for thirteen years, during which period she was under some of the cleverest surgeons of the age, both in town and country, and notwithstanding all their experience none of them could heal this dreadful bad leg. Mrs. ninh , finding all their remedies useless, was persuaded to give heHollo way's Ointment and Pills atrial, and these medicistes cured : Ointment in an incredible short space of time, and she now feels in boastiug of the wonderful efficacy of Holloway's Holloway's and NlL—Sold by all Druggists, and at Processor the amounts different t to Establishment, 244, Strand, London. pleasure *ng the years 1849 IMPROVEMENTS IN PAM& a d n i l tr l ic B t s s o oof the Hotel de Vile comprise 323, of which the approaches 98. The average price paid by the 8S ; those to the Louvre4ls _isms for one metre ; the total thef Paris numberfor t he of f shaokuestesf-diempmp(u,rloirsibeemd e n i n t s city to the owner was 89 f c,9,000 francs. The liou , es thus cutlay amounted to three persons each. This amounts, oc cupied, at an expulsionaverage, of 15, _ _ 0 OU people from their dwell therefore,' to an ui _ res. , justly allures to the necessisy of thus removed from their abodes, with pulled down had formed about about 4,845 abodes or lodgings, oc huge. The Fren • ii improved character.—Builder. others of an The m ension•house of Sir Thomas Whichcote, Aswarby-park, Was broken into during the night of Bart., of last. The thieves effected an entrance by boring a Tuesday' hole through a panel of the door of the steward's office; they providing the people, then got access to the cellar, where they regaled Stiemeelyee; but we have not heJrci whether any article of value wed taw; ANTLY'