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not included in the Cabinet, represented by Mr. BouvERIE,
are reported to have informed him (Lord JOHN RUSSELL)
that they were not prepared to vote against Sir BULWER
LYTTON'S motion." The Times adds, " This removed all
doubt as to the result of the impending division." It left
poor Lord Joan no alternative but to " adjust his mantle ere
he fell;" with the best grace he might ; and lie resigned. The
preceding delineations of Whig perfidy and meanness are
drawn by " liberal" artists, and from their knowledge of the
men, and also of the facts referred to, the picture, however
humiliating and repulsiveLis entitled to belief.
Of late Lord JOHN RUSSELL has become somewhat noto-
rious for the nature, the freedom, and the peculiar fashion of
his explanations. Another scene, it is to be hoped the last one,
yet awaits him as an expository commentator on the sayings
and doings of his quondam colleagues. The eloquent phil-
fipple he delivered on the occasion of dismissing Lord Pee •
MERSTON from the Foreign Secretaryship, which that noble-
man held under his lordship, is too recent to have been for-
gotten, or to require repetition ; he may, however, and in all
probability will, indulge in a few supplementary strokes just
to complete the portrait, and as it were bring it down to the
present day. His able performances in the portraiture of the,
Earl of ABERDEEN and the Duke of NEWCASTLE will scarcely
require either repetition or retouching to render them crack
specimens of delineative, if not very friendly, art ; but, when
he comes to fill in the portraits of Mr, BOUVBRIE and that
honourable gentleman's coadjutors, something racy, as well as
spirited, may be reasonably anticipated. His tour de force,
however, will, in all likelihood, be reserved for finishing the
high-minded devisers ofthe "round robin," or which the radical
scribe of the Daily News represents most unfairly as " fit
only for sailors in a mutiny on shipboard." No human con-
stitution, however, is equal to the tasks in this line to which
his lordship subjects himself, and even the amateur vigour of
voluntary performances of the kind referred to have a
debilitating effect on the performer; and to this condition
of humanity Lord JoHN RussELL forms no exception..
This fact was made painfully manifest on Friday evening,
when he essayed an answer to a question put by Mr.
DISRAELI, on the preceding night, when Lord JOHN was not
in the House. It had been currently reported during the day
that the answer would be given, and at six o'clock, when the
sitting commenced, every thing gave' indication of an ex-
pected statement of importance. The body of the house was
crowded by members; in the Peers' Gallery there was a con-
siderable gathering of peers, including the Earl of ALBE-
MARLE, Lord W/NIFORD, and Lord .CAMPBELL; and every
eye was fixed on the spot occupied by the expected orator.
After one disappointment, the audience were so far gratified
by his Lordshin addressing himself to the task in hand,—the
expected explanatiOn. The display was anything but a
pleasing or exciting one: He was evidently out of spirits' and
out of humour. Hespoke in a tone of voice indkativeof ex-
treme dejection, and so low as to be scarcely audible: His
speech,• which was butt a brief one, produced but Ellie effect,
and was heard very imperfectly. He reiterated his statement
that he'considered the Austrian proposals might at the time
have been accepted with advantage. The statement fed upon
listless and- incredulous ears•;. and when he came to the-aver-
ment that he thought they could not now be adopted with
propriety—and that consequently he- was for a vigorous
prosecution of the war, his declaration was received with
contumelious laughter ; even b 3 own friendh of the old Whig.
party smiling ftornfully at the attempted double. That very
pure tribe now affect to view what he thought and they ad-
mitted to be strokes of profound cunning, as childish indica-
tions of weakness and deceit which never imposed upon any
one. They profess- now to say that-by his last' false move
he has rudely destroyed all faith in, his capacity as a states-
man ; and what is more, that he hash destroyed adlconfidence
in his sincerity and truthfulness as a man—that he-has com-
mitted political suicide. So complete- a political and moral
prostration has seldom fallen to the lot-of any individual who
held a prominent place the national eye.
In the meantime, the result of Sir E. E. Lrrrox's-metion
is anxiously canvassed i7.e, the political circles of all parties.
On the part of the Government out-and-out supporterse, it is
said that, by a skilful application of his carefully-sttelieltac-
tics;—and now that he has- got rid of Lore/Joan; as a kind
of "Old Man of the Sea," who rode upon am/vile(' the 'lack
of his administration,—Lord PALMERSTON will defeat the mo-
tion by' a' considerable majority. On the other hand, they
maintain that, if hard run on-a division, or even if -beaten, he
will not resign, but have recourse to a dissolution, appealing:
to, the country on his determination to prosecute the war
with vigour and alacrity. Many individuals, however, and
the parties, who have probable means of-knowing, declare
that the-whole Government must go with Lord Jonx-Rus-
SELL ; that the country is heartily sick of one and a/2 of them,
and will Admit• of no compromise in getting rid of them.. A
few, whn. gvnfava 4, knew P3Lant.ly ilemr fha 22.44Ler Kgratzi will
have it that, the Conservative party have the game entirely in
their own hands. These individuals. maintain that an influ•
ential deputation of the Conservative party left London im-
mediately, on its being known that the PALmzusTorreabinet
had resolved to eject Lord Jour; and that that deputation
proceeded directly to Knowsley, to consult with the. Earl of
DERBY, who- received them most kindly and entered into
their views with alacrity. -A prevalent statement among the
promulgators-of the last-mentioned rumour is to the. et
that a strong-Conservative Government will be immediately
formed, among the first of whose-proceedings will be an appeal
to the constituencies. Whatever shall come out of it, _the
Whigs seem: disposed to put their house in order, as jar as
they are ableeand to provide apartments, i‘possible, for the
more necessitous. and clamorous-of their friends.- On Priday
a report obtained confident circulation in Lincoln's innAhat
Chief Justice Jnsvis,-of the CommonPlcas, will immediately
resign his seat, and be succeeded by Sir A. Cocicznan, Lord
PALMERSTON'S Attorney-General...
As on similar previous occasions, everything has giveraplace,
in the public mind,, to a consideration of the government
dead-lock— Even the war itself, out of which all the contre-
temps of recent occurrence -have directly or indirectly sprung,
:has for the. instant, ceased to occupy. the chief place in general
Attention- Still: the morsels of intelligence which coma fre-
quently, although in no inatancefraught with mush informa-
tion, or-made the bearers of very important results, are never-
theless so far satisfactory that, while detailing no great -or
startling achievement, they are destitute of evil tidings, and
are on the whole favourable to our ultimate success.- The
attacking works of the English have been pushed, with suc-
cess, considerably nearer the Redan ; one account states that
the cemetery so gallantly taken by our troops on the 18th of
last month, and so unaccountably resigned after having been
heldfor fourteen hours, was re-occupied by our men on the
following day, and still remains in our possession. Int,the
meantime, from various sources,. information is received repro-
seating the state of the Russian army as very deplorable, and
their losses, in the. way of transmitting reinforcements to the
Crimea, as gigantic and overwhelming. Our new commander-
in-chief appears to be labouring on, undismayed by difficulties
or opposition, both of which he appears to disregard. The
health of our troops iszepresented as in all, respects-satisfae-
tory on the whole, and everything appears to wear the air of
approaching success. As-regards the proceedings of General
PRLISSIER, opinion seems divided in the Crimea and in Paris,
as in soma degree in this country. In most respect& he is
regarded as, a brilliant and dashing_ soldier who has no
idea of fear, and some say too little. of consequenees—such
a general, indeed, as would lead a brave army through
any amount of obstacles and opposition in the field, and as
one in every respect equal to any emergency which can be
successfully opposed by indomitable will, and overcome by the
most uncompromising activity,, and the most daring enter-
prise. While such is the prevalent opinion respecting his
general merits and qualifications, military critics, and espe.
daily in France, where they are both numerous and accuts,
concur in representing him as. impetuous and rash, and as a
man not well fitted for the conduct of such an enterprise as
the reduction of a fortress like. Sebastopol. In confirmation
of this theory, they point to numerous instances, in which
they maintain that the successes he has achieved in the
Crimea are not eve,/ to the sacrifices at which they have been
attained ; and, astln irrefragable evidence of the accuracy of
these views, they point with melancholy significance to the
sad tissue of blunders which commenced, accompanied, and
concluded the desperate conflict of the 18th of June. One of
these gentlemen, in speaking on the subject of Perassua's
qualifications, delivers himself as follows :—" The rapidity and
decision of the French Generalissimo's movements are pro-
verbial. ' Take me that battery, though it cost twenty lives,'
he says, and the troops rush to the exploit. The battery is
not taken, but forty lives are sacrificed. Well, then, try it
again at the expense of two hundred.' Four hundred fall !
Still the feat is not accomplished. ' Let the whole army go to
it—we must haie it at any cost.' " Although these strictures
are, probably, over-severe, they are, unquestionably, so
far countenanced by facts ; and men of calm judgment, as
well as the most intrepid bravery, question sharply the tee-
tical wisdom which, commencing an attack with inadequate
means, is compelled to repeat it with quadruple or octuple the
force. The failure, in the first place, they say, is attended with
a totally useless expenditure of means, and a depressing waste
of life; and they maintain that even the ultimate success so
achieved is diminished in value by the loss of prestige which
attended the repulse

From the Baltic the intelligence received at the end of last
week, though not very decisive, is on the whole more en-
couraging. The destruction of a town ht Finland, on the sth
instant, bears testimony to the active exertions of our fleet in
these hyperbOrean regions ; and the receipt of a despatch from
Admiral DIMIDAS, in which he communicates an account of a
discussion with. tl* Russian authorities relative to the privi-
leges of flags of truce, indicates still more strongly the desire