The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-17 00:00:00

SUPPLEMENT TO TIIE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. SECOND EDITION. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] Northern Daily Times Office, Eight O'clock, a.m. THE MINISTRY. The Times understands that the cabinet will meet to day to consider the steps that must be taken to supply the vacancy so suddenly and unexpectedly occurring in the ranks of the ministry. The office which Lord Palmerston has resigned is one which can on no account be suffered to remain vacant for a single day longer than is absolutely necessary. The Times speaks of Lord John Russell as Lord Palmerston's successor. The Morning Post is assured that Lord Palmer ston will be able td vindicate the course he has • pursued. It certainly was not a little surprising that a contemporary should yesterday morning suddenly announce the resignation of. the Home Secretary, before his vacation of office could be completed by her Majesty's acceptance of the tender of his seals of office ; yet this, even though a flagrant breach of etiquette was a matter coin• paratively trifling, when compared with the imaginary statement by which it has been accom panied. A false statement maliciously put as his, appears to the Post solely for the purpose of prejudicing the public mind against Lord Palmerston by misrepresenting alike his mo tives and his actions, when the Times states through two columns, and with every inversion of phrase, that "Lord Palmerston is not a parliamen tary reformer," and that he resigns because he will not form part of a " reforming ministry." When the Times asserts this, it asserts what is entirely untrue. The Post; on the contrary, is led to believe that Lord Palmerston has been ready to agree to a very considerable measure of reform, though he did not chodSe to be a party to proposing to parliament measures of change, which, in his opinion, went beyond the necessities of the time, and which he thought inexpedient. The Post complains of the gross violatio of the secrecy of the cabinet councils, and wants to know how the public is informed through the Times of the appointment of cabinet committees, and what has passed or is pretended to have passed in them. The statement in the Times to the effect that it seems inexplicable that Lord Palmerston, having worked with the committee appoited to prepare the bill, should only have made known his objections at the conclusion of their labours, is again quite as false. The Post • affirms with confidence, that it is untrue that Lord Palmerston's objec tions were not stated plainly and distinctly from the first moment, when the measures to which they related were proposed and discussed. The article again strongly complains of the false statements made to represent Lord Pal merston's motives, especially when it is considered that a period of perhaps some weeks must elapse before he can have an opportunity of publicly justifying his conduct to the country. It is a course of false play, which, though it might have been expected from the hands of foreign con spirators, who again and again contrived such artful intrigues against the minister of England, is totally unworthy of any Englishman. The article concludes as follows :—" We may be sure that nothing ut a strong and insuperable SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1853. objection on principle to the conduct of affairs could have induced Lord Palmerston to resign the seals of office at a time when, if ever, the states men of England should give voice and action to the prescriptions of public opinion, and by main taining the obligations of international good faith, should be as one man in the determination to arrest the dangers which menace the peace of Europe. Unfortunately it has been at this time that Lord Palmerston has found it necessary to resign, in order not to be accessory to a mischief which his sagacity showed to be inseparable from the designs in which his colleagues persisted, The question between Lord Palmerston, his late colleagues, and the country, is one which can only be fully and fairly judged on that statement which will, at no distant date, be before the only authority competent to the task—the con stitutional tribunal of parliament. The Chronicle repeats that Lord Palmerston retires on the question of reform. The Herald says Lord Palmerston has left London for Bowond, the seat of Lcrd Lansdown, and that it is whispered at the West-end, that the noble Marquis will immediately resign his seat in the cabinet, if he has not done so already. It is announced that Lord John Russell will be Home Secretary A messenger has been despatched to Scotland, to summon Lord Panmure to London in order it is said, to as certain the feelings of the Whigs, whether they are willing to support Lord John's new Reform Bill. It is understood that the principle of the new bill contemplates the disfranchise ment of all boroughs of under 500 voters, and transferring the seats to manufacturing towns and counties. The Herald has also a letter letter to prove that the statement that Lord Pal merston withdraws owing to the reform bill is false, and that foreign politics were the real cause. The Daily Times mentions the contemplated retire ment of Lord Lansdowne, and says the eastern question will certainly be considered the cause of Lord Palmerston's resignation. PART., FRIDAY.—The four-and-a-half ?per cents. closed 101 f 10c. The three per cents 74f 85c. VIENNA, FRIDAY EVENING.—The Turkish embassy has received advices warranting the conclusion that the combined fleets have entered the Black Sea to present further hostilities. SEMLIN, DEC. 11TH.—Official advices state that the Russians attacked the Turkish entrenchments at Kalafat. The Vienna paper Austrian Correspondent, in a private despatch, says—" Persia has declared war against England." The Hebe, an English merchant ship, had been fired into by the Russians, and then boarded near Trebizond. The Russians are said to have lost two of their largest vessels at Sinope. The town was totally destroyed. Printed and Published by CHARLES WILLMER, of 21, Oxford Street, at his General Printing and Stationery Establishment, 19, South John Street, Liverpool. SATURDAY, DECEMBER,' 17, 1853.