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DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1859.

HONESTE A UDA X.

THE House of Commons, on Saturday morning,
having, as we stated in our last, by a majority
of 13 in a house of 638 members, adopted the
amendment to the Address, declaring that her
Majesty's Ministers do not possess the confi-
dence of Parliament, Lord Derby, as a necessary

consequence of this decision, lost no time in
placing the resignations of himself and col-
leagues in the hands of Her Majesty. The
Queen having accepted their resignations com-
missioned Lord Granville to form an Adminis-
tration, considering that his lordship would
be able to facilitate the union of the two
great sections of the Liberal party under Lord
Palmerston and Lord John Russell. Lord
Palmerston at once expressed his readiness

to act under Lord Granville, but Lord John
Russell intimated that, though willing to

serve under Lord Palmerston, he would serve
under no other Premier. In these circum-
stances the Queen sent on Sunday evening
for Lord Palmerston, and after an audience
which lasted an hour and a half, Lord
Palmerston proceeded to Richmond to confer
with Lord John Russell. The remainder of
the week has been occupied with negotiations
with the leading members of the Liberal party,
and it was announced on Friday that Lord
Palmerston had succeeded in forming an
Administration which will command the support
of the majority of the House of Commons.
The Cabinet will consist of Lord Palmerston
as First Lord of the Treasury; Lord John
Russell, Foreign Secretary; Mr. Gladstone,
Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Campbell,
Lord Chancellor; Earl Granville, President

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of the Council; Sir G. C. Lewis, Home
Secretary; the Duke of Somerset, First Lord
of the Admiralty; Duke of Newcastle, Colonial
Secretary; Sir C. Wood, Secretary for India;
Mr. Sidney Herbert, Secretaay for War; Duke
of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal; Earl of Elgin,
Post-master-General; Sir G. Grey, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster; Mr. Cobden,
President of the Board of Trade ; Mr. Milner
Gibson, President of the Poor-Law Board; and
Mr. Cardwell, First Commissioner of Works.
The other appointments include Sir Alexander
Cockburn as Lord Chief Justice of England,
Mr. Lowe as Vice-President of the Council;
Lord Clarence Paget, Secretary to the Admi-
ralty; and Mr. C. Fortescue, Lord Wodehouse,
and Mr. Massey, Under-Secretaries to the
Colonial, Foreign, and Home Offices respectively.
The 3fouittur has published an official account
of the battle of Magenta, from which it appears
that the concentration of French troops on the
Po deceived the Austrians into the belief that
they intended to cross that river. The battle
was fought with desperate valour on both sides,
and the village of Magenta was taken and re-
taken no less than seven times. The brunt of
the battle was for some time sustained against an
"eerwlielming force by the French Zouaves and
the grenadiers of the Imperial Guard, com-
manded by the Emperor in person. The large
number of prisoners taken by the French is ex-
plained by the fact that the Hungarian regiments
laid down their arms during the battle. Since
the entry of the French into Milan the Austrians
have evacuated Piacenza, Lodi, Leven°, Ancona,
and Bologna, abandoning at the former place all
their provisions, cannon, and ammunition, and
blowing up the citadel. On the departure of
the Austrians the Papal Legate immediately
quitted Bologna, leaving the Government of the
city to the municipal authorities. A commission
was thereupon appointed by which the King of
I Sardinia was proclaimed Dictator. The cities of
Forli, Faenza, Imola, and other municipalities
of Romagna, as well as the city of Parma which
was abandoned last week by the Duchess, have
since proclaimed Victor Emmanuel, and de-
clared their adhesion to the national cause. In
the north Bergamo has been taken by Garibaldi,
who is now threatening the Southern Tyrol. The
Emperor of the French has erased the Adda,
and advanced his head quarters to Gorgonzola;
and the Emperor of Austria is about to assume
the command-in-chief of his army, with Count
Schlick as second in command, in the room of
Count Gyulai. The latest news states that the
French are about to attempt a landing in the
Adriatic between Venice and Trieste, and that
both the allied and Austrian armies are prepar-
ing for another general engagement, which it is
feared will be more sanguinary than even the
battle of Magenta.
It is announced that M. Kossuth has left
England with a French passport, given him by
superior orders, and that he will be employed at
once in acting on the Hungarian regiments in
the Austrian service, and, if possible, producing
a revolt in Hungary itself. At the same time
we receive a proclamation from General Klapka,
published at time French head-quarters. The
meaning of these proceedings is not doubtfuL
The Austrian Empire is to be attacked beyond
the limits of Italy.

THE resumption of the reins of Government by
Lord Paucearros, and the general character of
the Administration which he has formed, will
scarcely fail to give very general satisfaction to
the country. By a ready acquiescence in what is
understood to be the recommendation of his
Royal Mistress, in compreheniing within the
new Ministry a fair representation of all the
sections into which the Liberal party is divided,
the Premier has given undoubted proof of a
desire to move onward in the march of progress,
which will tend greatly to reassure those who
have hitherto been pleased to look upon Lord Pat-
ti sawroN as a Tory in disguise. If it be true, as
has been said, that Lord PALM suirrotee fatal
fault has always been that he was unable to dis-
tinguish between true and false public opinion,
there seems little reason to fear that he will here-
after suffer any humiliation on that score, seeing
that the varied composition of his Cabinet is
peculiarly fitted for the correction of any such
misooncePtions ; while his extraordinary vigour
and powerful talents, notwithstandiug his
advanced age, will constitute, probably for years
to come, a tower of strength for that great party
with which he is now, more than at any former
period, fairly and closely identified. The con-
sent of Lord JOHN RUSBILL, the father of
Reform, to set under Lord Paimasarox, has
certainly not been given without a very clear
and mitisfeetory indication from the Prime
IdLinister at a bona Me intention to carry out a
decidedly Decal polioy-4 policy every Cray to