The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-19 00:00:00

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING.
TILE war debate, with its multiform array of resolutions and
amendments, its singular revelations of unexpected policy, and
its odd display of party statesmanship, has already been all
but forgotten in the welcome narrative of success which has

attended the altered tactics of our fleets and armies. The
news of one signal success has trod so rapidly on the heels of
another, that the busied and delighted people of these islands
have had no time to waste in canvassing the merits of a fruit-
less debate, and not much more to listen to one, the chief and
only merits of which were that success or failure in its osten-
sible object would be of equal unimportance; that object being
the active prosecution of a war which the energies of our
soldiers and sailors put it out of the power of a ministry to
thwart or accelerate. The progress of the war in the Crimea
continues as signally successful as its first burst was unex-
pected. The success has been so marked and tangible, that
those who a few brief weeks ago despaired of the reduction of
Sebastopol, now speculate freely upon the measure, to be ulti-
mately adopted, when the Crimea has been wrested from the
grasp of Russia. Such has ever been the instability of -popular
opinion. Fickle as the eneiles of Fortune, it is always- in
extremes : and those s'ho yesterday were sunk in the
depths of despair, to-morrow will be revelling in anticipated
triumph. Apart from the mere breath of popular opinion on
such matters, those whose views have been stedfastly fixed on
the objects, for the accomplishment of which the struggle was
originated, still see those objects in, the dim distance—illu-
mined, no doubt, by rays of brighter promise, but still too far
remote to be easily clutched. It millet be presumptuous,
however, in those whose hope was never's& far downcast by
evanescent, though sharp adversity, as to.despair —and who
have not been so elated by brilliant, though; it maybe; geeing
success, as to deem the task of curbing Maslen. aggression) an
easy one, to look with studious eye upon the ultimate resurt..
If the game is not altered by the introduction of some-Liner- 1
pected element, the fate of the Crimea, as a Russian territory',
will speedily be in the bands of the Western lkwers: With.
ample supplies of men and military stores, and such. an im-
proved position in the Allied affairs as have all f ten brought
about within the last few weeks, the Russian feeee• in. that
peninsula must soon be expelled or subjugated. When this-
shall have been achieved, then comes the puzzling ettestions,•
what is to be done with the Crimea 2—who is- to set'
bounds to Russian domination hr the Euxine ? Already
the reduction of the Crimea is well advanced. Aetetrie;•
our costly and faithful ally-to-a-certain extent, having kleellY
reduced its army and fallen back upon its old neuerrifity,
enables the AUTOCRAT to advance every available regimenthe•
possesses against us ; but are we not mastereof her chief means'
of transporting and feeding them, by the Sea of Azoff ? N
we are not as yet in full command of Perelev a few revolving::
suns will see us in that proud position, and, with 200,000',
troops in the Crimea and the sea open to theme-Russia will be
unable to keep up or feed a force sufficient tort the Allies.
True, it is understood that the Russians muster about 100,000
men in the field, besides those shut up in Selizstopol ; and
further it is said, in all likelihood with truth; the-tithe army
in the field is advantageously placed, and, stronglec defended
by well-constructed fieldworks. The superiority of Ise Allies
in the field has been too surely demonstrated, to. admit of
doubt as to the result of a conflict with (veal numberee- The
last successes of the besiegers places under their commend the
eastern slope of the town, and enables them withaussiatvgans
discharged from Russian works which theyhavecaptured tz-vweep
the line of communication between the town and the north eitore
of the bay, by which they have hithertereceived their suppinres-of
men and provisions, as well as shot, and other munitions-of
war. The Allies have now extended and secured their EBBS-
far in advance of their former position as assailants aids-
Russians in the field. They occupy an important post beyondi
the Tchernaya, which, menacing Inkerman and Bakshi Serves,
compels the Russians to keep the fieldto preyent the completer
investment of Sebastopol. On the extreme east,. we have note
only secured the Sea of Azoff, but have gained so-good a foot-
ing in Kerteh and Arabat, as to afford every means ©f''
threatening Simpheropol, and menacing or even, capturing- I
Kaffa, the ancient Theodosia. These are ire themselves.
advantages as great as the destruction of' magaeiness and the 1,
cutting off of supplies, by which their achieveneent was accom-
panied, and present so many opportunities of molesting and
harassing the Russians at different points, without allosinges,
moment's respite to the garrison of Sebastopol, aseto Iced to
the ennieetnre that the final strueele fnr nns.c.pArinn n f the
fortress is an event of no distant occurrence.. /ndeedeit its said
the time of the great blow has already been fixed, and; that the
positions of the various columns of assault, and thee-ergs com-
posing them, are named. Everything betokens rising energy
on the part of the assailants ; and; judging by the progress
which has been made within the last few days, it, is not by
any means improbable that the present week may witness the
Allied flags waving in triumphs over the dilapidates :and con-
quered ramparts of Sesbatopol.
With such justifiable ground.s.for-antieipating success in this
arduous enterprise, the forerunner of the captureofthe Crimea,
if not the immediate harbinger of peace, thevestion of—What
is to be done with the Crimea.?—presents itself for consideration
with accelerating urgency, and vastly-increasect importance.
Discarding the new cant of doing nothing to-humiliate our foes,
sensible men believe that,in humiliating Ressia,and diminish-
ing her power, is to be found• the only safeguard against the
spirit of reckless aggression by which her conduct to her
neighbours has been aetaated. Such parties, iu,thus lopping
off a portion from the territory of Russia, see nothing, in
wresting the Crimea from, her grasp, beyond stripping her of
the fruits of yesterev's rapine, In doing this, and in ex-
cluding her from a harbour in the Black Sea, they recognise
no other principle than compelling restitution from the robber,
and securing a " material guarantee" against his future ag-
gressions. Those who view the matter and who counsel thus,
say,—Let the Crimea be taken, and retrained. Allow the
French possession of Sebastopol, while. we secure the peninsula
of Kertch, together with the harbour and bay of Kaffa ; and
reinstate the old Tartar princes in their- capital of Bakshi-
Serai. By doing this, say they, the beet guarantee will be ob-
tained against Russian aggression upon Turkey. Such a
course of policy would find no countenance in the support of
GLADSTONE and GRAHA.3L, of HEIIItERT, GIBSON, BRIGHT,
and CORDER, and the other SIIHHiSSIONIST leaders, who.
insist,. with such perverse assiduity, that no humiliation
shall be offered to Russia, and that nothing shall be,
done which could brand her conduct as fraudulent,—here
negotiations as deceitful. Indeed, it is already rumoured,
that intrigues for bringing about such a terminatitoa

,o the war as would have this effect have been set on fOot

in Germany. Apprehensions of French success in the Fog,
as tending to a renewal of the first:N.l.polatox's designs agailast
German independence, are sedulously cultivated atßerlin,and
it is said receive affectionate culture in Belgium, mit. that

shoots of this unnatural plant are carefully nurtured in,•,some

of the petty courts. The extraordinary sentiments uttered in
Parliament by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and Messrs. 4psypNß
and S. HERBERT, are said to be wonderfully in harmony with
those which form the current flow in the Courts of Berlin and
Brussels, the great object of the policy of which, is,to bring
the war to a close so soon as the capture of Sebastopol, shall
have been effected, in order, it is said, to break. up.the Anglo-
French Alliance, which is viewed with much suspicion by the
courts referred to, and all whom they can, influence. It is
further rumoured that these potentates haze been intriguing
to set Lord JOHN RUSSELL in the van as I,"remier of the Eng-.
lish Cabinet, and look forward, at no distant day, to see la
lordship treat Lord PALMERSTON to such. another touch, of
his quality as he recentl; exhibited towards, Lord. ABER_VEHH..
_ . _

The rumour has assumed various forms, and is thus alluded
to in the Morning Herald :—" We believe that the differences
to which we have alluded do exist between Lord Ps,,lxEßoslos
and Lord JOIIN ; and we believe with, a morning contempo-
rary, that a party does exist in the Cabinet which would pre-
fer an Austrian and Prussian, if not a Russian alliance to that
which now happily exists with our present gallant coadjutors
in the East."
Connected with this rumour, and the probability of the re-
sult it contemplates, great stress has been laid on the remarks
made by Prince ALBERT at the Trinity House banquet, where
he proposed the toast of " HER MAJESTY'S Ministers." In dis-
charging this somewhat unwonted duty, the PRINCE CONSORT,
departing from the prescribed line which has generally pre-
vented hini from interfering with any matter, or entering
upon the discussion of any subject which could be supposed to
reveal any political bias, His Royal Highness expatiated at
considerable length upon the claims to forbearance, sympathy,
and good-will of their fellow-countrymen, presented by HER
MAJESTY'S Ministers, at the present crisis of affairs. Some
parties, indeed, have indulged in ill-natured criticism on the
distinction, and the manner of drawing it, which the royal
orator displayed in pointing out the difference existing in
despotic Russia and our own free country. The former, he
said, was at once able to seize upon the improvements in
mechanical and chemical scienco, which have " sprung up
under the generating influence of our liberty and our civiliza-
tion," and to bring them into use with " all that force which
unity of purpose and action, impenetrable secrecy, and uncon-
trolled despotic power have given her." This advantage
of secrecy and decisive action he contrasted, in the following
terms, with our own political arrangements, which some
affect to say appear marked by indications of regret,
if not of positive disapprohltion, " The QUEEN," said

he, " has no power to levy troops, nor has she any at her
command, but such as offer their voluntary services.
Her Government can take no measure for the prosecution
of the war which it has not beforehand to explain in Par-
liament. Her armies and fleet can make no movements, nor
even prepare for any, without their being publicly announced in
the papers. No mistake, however trifling, can occur, no want or
weakness exist, which is not at once denounced, and even
sometimes exaggerated with a kind of morbid satisfaction. The
QUEEN'S ambassador can enter into no negotiations without
the Government having to defend him, by entering into all
the arguments which that negotiator, in order to be success-
ful, ought to be able to shut up in the innermost recesses of
his heart. Nay, at the most critical position, when war and
diplomatic relations may be at their height, an adverse vote in
Parliament may at a moment deprive the QUEEN of the whole
of her confidential servants." The picture here minutely
painted is by many denied to be a true one, particularly as
regards the ambassadorial functions and defence. Negotiations
are not interfered with in Parliament till they have been
brought to a close ; and if within the last few weeks a con-
trary coarse of operations has been witnessed, the fault lay
not with Parliament, but with Ministers, who declared the
negotiations finished, although it afterwards suited their con-
venience to aver that they were not concluded. In point of
fact, the criticism to which their diplomacy was subjected,
and the condemnation which it underwent, arose out of the
suspicion engendered by the fast and loose style of
their own declarations, and their own notorious disagree-
ments. As regards HER MAJESTY'S inability to levy troops,
except through their own voluntary act, there are not wanting
. statesmen of authority, who believe, and their belief is sym-
pathised in by the public, that the devoted loyalty, unswerving
fidelity, and chivalrous daring of those volunteers, is not
faarpassed by the bravery and attachment of any horde of
organised serfs which have ever been &Wen to, battle beneath
the Rnisian banner ;. nor will their acheivements, in the brunt
of battle pale- before•the deeds of any Germau levies who ever
took the•field,.whether- in accordance with their own will, or
in obedience-to. that of another. The rematilreof Royal
Highness 'mere at least unusual, and no small riamber of sedate
and thinking. men promunee them unfortunak in' so. far ark
they have a tendency to commit their author as approving CA'
disapproving of constititational peculiarities with! which
Englishmen are• naturally jealous• of any interference;• and
which a sounderpolicy would havoinduced him to aloid: His
observations did more. than even= this, however, they had• the•
efihot of throwing the might of the•orown into that baihneein
whiCh the Ministry-had been weighed and found wa:tting.•
That Prince ALREE:I, ever intesali3dl to do any of Obese'
thhvgtl.er to express an.opinion favontable to the continental
despotlim, and adverse' to British' ftcedona, * exceedingly
unlikely;, but that it has-been liable to,suth misconstructicn;•
and been, commented on accordingly, isPaisttong presumption
of its inettediency.

The public leatures of thefpast'weeklseeteen in no smal
dgree connected with the recent movement-Tort-he agitation
or Administrative Reform. Mee first meeting:4)f the Associ-
ation; which hes just been formed to effect that purpose, was
held, on Weckeesday- evening, in, Drutsalane Tfie etre. The
stage,- on the occasion, was occupied by a large' gathering of
the chief prometera - of the movement, conspiorens among
whom, were two, earls and thirty members el parliament,
Jeelading-the • unhesitating Mr. LAYARD; and a considerable
sprinkling of military and naval of tiers; some medico gentle-
men,. and a - squadron, of grievance-mangers ' from, the' Irish
cohort of malcontents-which musters nightly in the-Ifintee of
Commons:- Boxes, pit, • and galleries were 'filled by,' motley
g,roues of the -admirers, of anything which .promises, excite-
menti. and :these,- as each. suceessive pointrwas made •by thefew.
speaker who addressed the assembly, qv:lauded till echo rang.
again. The chief speakier of the evening-wee Mr: Lomitay
who, with, his usual are..ena d assertion, eontriVed consider-'
ably to overgolour the pictures which he Ciliew: • At- an ear/y.
period of his colloquy, he zverred that, if he !night be permeated
to divide the nation .into•tato t parts as connected L with ete•
movement; ." he should seeplaced on one sire all the arseraoft'
common senseirespectabillty,.-and wealth—al who, .by theh'
own toil, perseverance, and, sweat of brow hoped - to- Fake,
themselves and do good pablie service--opposalon. the other+.
side, to a small party, who claimed for themselves' a monopoly.,
of the government; and whoevegetated and grave,' fat upon
those corruptions and evils which;; please God, this association,
determined, irpossible, to 'remove." In the coarse .of his
he denllr several heavy-lit:eat various naembersof the
st and present administratior.e-with becoming attention to'
his own laudaKcire he -referred to, the Sebastopol,! committee,
and alluded witlb stinging -virulence to the amount Of patron-
age,'.place, and pay monoporrembiby the RussEriose' Gages,
and ELLIOT& IleadHlitted thorfact so often pressed upon
attention, yet so earnestly .dented2ttliat the LiberalAuarty.,had
made a great mitts ke in preSsingAhe reductions in; payment
of the public services too far... Aes -he had no reeolisition to .
propose, and as hiS-speech would have been incomplete with-
out a peroration in.which isomer-sting :should be hand, he
injected the venomof his eratory-hitcoa diatribe agr.iiist Lord:•
PXVISERSTON,, whole declared wes-E'llioe first Prime Minister
who had ever jested -at the snaking:A of the countey,r. and
solemnly averred that "le had neverseen the nobliisliard in
earnest except whendie was vilifeing, the people," Oratory so
rank as this, may, indeed, tickle tibrearsetthose whoikvenent
theatre galleries, but ib is hardly thiesortsuited to ate. intelli-
gent audience—it may foster- sekieniekeep alive dhcontent,
and be., instrumental, in.placing saeli, farthing candle ltikirian cy
before the dazzled eyes of a bewiklercal people—but -...ssuctslly
it wilLnever be the •lath to light. thent,on .the avaTto real
improvement, indisjelimay or colleetively-Q-. From beginniisg to
end: Mr.. LAYARD'S harivingue wa-t, &sande of, practiabinag-
ment or recommendation ; it was- a vapid tissue of plAitueles;
von. et prceterea:niiiii, in which tin egatiam of. Mr. TWIARD.
shone with conspicaons .glimmeal gm:the midst of fiethiek
darkness by which he amintentionallp.sorronnded it.z. Mr.
LIND3AY, the next speaker, .appeareel to considerable-advan-
tage-, after the frothy- eloquence of theintrepid archeologist
lie bad at least otzetepractical, geievance to bring before his
audience, and he did, it with .plain but telling breviiiye. He
said,
.about six weeks ,ago he . was .asked ,by Sir Du Lacy
E.Y.1033 if the scarcity of shipping wag still, as great 38' it ' had
been. His reply was, that skieiping.:raight be hadloany
extent. Sir DE LACY,EVA.NS . said Alia •stateinent was most
strange,. as more than a month beforeha had been desixnes of
sending out, 3,000' horses to his-sdiyieien in the Clinics',
.and
had been told it was .impessle..to.flud ships to carry them_
out,. As much surpeised at this. store,as the gallant (Ater had
been at his, Mr...Lasinsax,- made .iecoairy, and found that a
friend of his own, had lately; written to Lord.PAsizeonr.,
offering in twenty-four hours!. time, to supply a magnificent
fleet of the finest; ships ,in ,tha,world, capable of Garryi4g out
2129.0 horses, at the low rateof.sixteen or seventeesseshillings.
per ton registered tonnage.. To. this, the usual newer,
.that
the offer would, be.- con4dered, was returned., Some, tima
afterwards, another offer was, made to Government to find, a.
fleet capable- of taking out 2000 horses ; beh so fares .the
speaker understood, the larger portion of thehorses -referred
to by Sir Ds Lacy, Evarsai had not been sent,out yet. 3.cow
this, if try*. to . the letteri, and not a merefeney sketelalike.
some of Mr. 144X".4.1tn!,5, richly-embellished, facts, was wally,
something.like a tangible' ground of complaint. Alai Alter,enn
partemi*,.however,. a, good maxim, andheving. hearda good
deal about the deficiency encountered bit GoverMuent& lin, their
attempts to procure horses, as well se not having heetal'ite.
nished with any data to point out thkmaneYeNherkso large
a "-meant" may be at once procresed, it may, he as well to
suspend judgment in the matter faea.mouient...
The subject of Administrative Reform.wa,s.lerought before
the. House of Commons on Fride,e evening, by I*.a.LAYARD, on
which. occasion he introduced, his long.threatened motion.
I,n a, long and weary diatribe,.. he recapitulated; the statements
he had made on the same subject in divers. places previously,
and wound up by an assaalt upon: the Ministry, warning the
nation that the partial ssecesses which. have of late crowned
the allied arms in the Crimea, were no, certain forerunners ef.
ultimate success. Sir E, B, LYTTON moved an amendment on
Mr. LA.YARD'S proposal ;, it was to the effect that merit should
be the test of success, in,securing public appointments, andalso,
that merit shouldbe encouraged by fair promotion mad legiti-
mate rewards, 1;e. sincerely urged the question on the-conai-
deration of the house,. as ono of great importance to the best
interests of the country,laut he condemned while be. repudiated
the language used by Mr. LAYARD and others, out of doors.
As not unfrequently happens with those who, endeavour to
realise the play of " She Would and She Would Not," Mr.
GLADSTONE could not agree with either the motion or the
amendment. His panacea for the evil was the . ejectment of
Ministers, which could be repeated, he contended, as often as
'departments were filled by incompetent persons; "They make
a solitude and call it peace," was a charge brought against the
Rothans in their thirst for conquest—the ex-Chancellor of the
Exchequer would incessantly create vacuums in office, that they
might be well filled ~ After a protracted discussion, the debate
was adjourned till this evening.
On Monday last, Mr. SAMUEL WARREN, Q.C., brought a
case, 11Lusar v. BEWICKE, before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P.
WOOD, in which, as counsel for the plaintiff, a common day-
labourer and gardener at Louth, the learned gentleman en-
deavoured to establish the claim of his client to property
worth £50,090 a year. The case, in some of its particulars
at least, bears resemblance to that which he has supposed in
his splendid work of fiction, " Ten Thousand a Year."
MANBY seeks to establish his claim as heir-at-law'tO one
DOROTHY WINDSOR, who was the lawful- possessor of,pro-
perty in Newcastle-on-Tyne and in the county of Northum-
berland, which is now worth the princely revenue referred to.
This DOROTHY, a widow, formerly DOROTHY STOTE, daughter
of Sir RICHARD STOTE, Kilt., died without issue in 1766, and

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