The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-09 00:00:00

.PERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS,—TauItsDAT, Fn. 8.
The Lem Ciusfausa took his seat at 6 o'clock.
Lea Puma took his Best as theministarial bomb as
ikereeary for War. The liarl of Abeam and the Duke
et Newastie took their places inanalabaly below the
miaisterial beach.
The Doke of NEWCASTLE presoak& a 'stiles from
New Zealaad, ea the &objets of the claims of the New
Leaked Company.
THE NEW MINIS TRY.--TELE WAR.
Lord LYNDHURST rose sad said—l have to mMOs
attaatioa of your lordahips to the motion wash stea
paper is sty aune reepeetiag the war ia the Cases. Yea
lordships have observed from the toms of that mem that
it applied to the late grianuant gamily, sad wee net
-abraded to bear ezelesively saki say Mole kasha et
it. This was is madame with the statewide! the able
. *WU is at the bead of the ediasiiretiste elk *Oa
Mt he assiaseed all the imam. the late w
ok
were releasable for the seeded of the war—a Make
which I believe moot easily be controverted. (Hear.)
Lakin to the aompeaties of what is apposed to be the
sew anklet:aim, I lad it essete at dittoes mem-
bon, sad that twelve of these, imolai' the asks
amount himself, have been mseaters a the kte,
sad meequeatly are baked I. the reepeoskility
to whisk I have adverted. Still, ay Lord., coasiderieg the
deplorable state of affairs, and emideriog it almost ha.
possible at the present time to font any other advalaistaa.
ties, I feel that we should be doing wrong to make any
• maim that would disturb the first movements of
a purament thus situated. (Bear, hear.) On the
-eentiery, I think we ought to unite heart and
soul, if I my 90 uprise malt in endeavariag
to assist them to active our late disasters, and to restore
the lest tharaeter of the country. (Hear.) Under them
eirweetstaacee, therefor*, I feel that I 'hall best discharge
the duty I owe to your lordships and to the seamy by
abstakies from proceeding with ay inteeded tootles.
lianas of CLANRICARDE said ha speed is
• ' every word which had fallen from hi noble and lanai
fried, and he only rose for the purpose of making • sag.
ration that, as the house at its tieing was likely to adjourn
• for some days, the gorsroment should be prepared, whoa
they reassembled for business, to maks sae statement re.
speaks the actual condition of the army in the Climes
imp to the latest pou led.
Earl GRANVILLE nova that their lordships should
Aisne until Friisy next, elating that Lord Poimeestea,
• after throe days' esertions, bad stomata in tallies the
emaistits ontrusted to him hi her Slajesty fee the sea-
' Ursula& of a Cabinet. The list of the new Malay led
that day bees approved of by the Queen. In the admisisers
ties of internal stoke, the Roble earl added, the prineiples
of all sew t would be ideatical with thump oldie
het, bet thief energies would be directed tower& ear-
Tying out the object it width the heart of the natio. was
set, namely, the vigorous prosseetlea of the war.
' The Earl of DERBY said—The motioa width my able
" triad hoe jest made affords ore the opportunity, sad kw
• gam ea as the duty of giving to your lordships and le the
• • sliwatity at this, the earliest moment that presents Mit,
sidtiellMlldia as it may be in my power to giro ragout
..
lag the siommeleame in which I have bons a perusal pa
die the limistiss of the late goverameat. In °raker, sin
sail time, I skald at onee have felt is so he my
p Wl* tho sesponsibility thaws upon me, and
• Ile patty whisk lamested me with their sealidenos
. abed ast Waned the aspassibility, bemuse the main
01011 seared the fell of the goararent did at mooed
*Swifts, yet as the mastics was visibly tarried by their
tulle„ I felt that it would he my duty to soma the am.
admit vote. Bat I wee Musa to ~ides ears.
Mil7a red wittiest rim to crawlmecrawlessolderstiff".aset
i pear Otis" Mat the huseasts of the saintly
and what advise, mkt the dommelanism.
to the seassim. fly krin lam sonesive as a
nobler ambities—aene mere wsethy the satietykrersory
Use praise sad km of hametty—than to etaad is the
high and limenrablii pot idea statist Moister of the crown,
and Mier of the comas of this forest empire,
Uhea aniseed sad supported by colleagues having sail 7 of
apilen and eastimeat on all great questions—weea es-
oestera sad sustained by personal friends, and supported
by a party in this and the other house of pulisineat, who
woad give to masks atalater the assurance that tamp oa '
NM
Oatielliallia MO Vallellal minion he my reckon a
. *air same to mar ant kit policy, and really a well as
y to direst*, sourest nlations and Musa
yet this great empire. (lieu, hear.) Oa the Other
I hal** to allipt that situation—de
der
lag is thil Mart of an uncertain majority—am-
.peel to eat Ems thi measure ad pars off that—to era-
°eider, with regard to oath, not what was for the walkup of
. the motry, bet what was likely to @oscillate the support or
to obviate the objections of some halUdosen men— (bwing)—
and to look upon it as a great triumph of skill if he met
with but few and insignifleant defeat imor,
hear)—this was a state d things which ebsuld
set satisfy as hadependent iniciatiir' and which .said
. vase Ihiskag eta prove advantagronsto the crows a to
ISO= of the soestry. (Chars.) Bet to enter ims
• Ida sal responsibilities of office not with a previous,
tillimegiViebil an uneertair mid wavering. majority, but
Ia in the other house of parliament, sad to he
e-
day to day, at their caprice, or from the ocenbi-
Of milieu parties, who, with their wand majority.
waited teethe moment when It could be used with effect
r)—to be a minister epos sufferance—to bold such a
position with it Nutty of's/wing your owneiews—to ex-
am your hiss* to the mortificatiou of defeat, and the
• imantgtoth=clotatent of unacamplished measures—
to hold the kitty of office under such circumstances
was is sneak sesseff to an intolerable and galling Beilii-
Ws, sashay se sasa of honour and character would colon. ,
it emus himself to cheers) sad was a peskiest such
ano ma sheabl undertake ezeept from motives of the
llt patriodukee from the suiessity of self sacrilleo

mule.
his put. (Hear, hear.) I therefore er-maidertsd it to be Illy
• duty maturely and deliberately to weigh, before I assumed
the responsibilities of office, which I know it was the intui-
tion of her Majesty to put epos me, what my position mu'
- with regard to parlianieutary rapport both in this, and
espeeially ia the other house of parliament. (Hear, hear.)
It is tree that I might have filled many of the offices of goy
'eminent ia a way that w3uld have commanded approbee
tem. lo that office which above ell, at this moment, is of
• paramount importance, and, if properly exercised, of the
greatest power and responsibility, I should have had the
support and the efficient aid of a noble friend of mime—not
• himself a military man, bat possessed of a mind mineotly
military--ezperieneed, practically versed, and aonvemuitia
the operations of war in distant elimee—(bear, hear)—who
had proved himself an ab:o and suceenfel administrator in
war upon an *Massive scale—(hear, bear)—a Roble lord
(alluding to Lord Ellenborough) whose energy, whose
ability, whose dauntless eloquenos would have given ample
marines to the country of the efficiency of the manner in
which he would have performed his duties; while, If one
characteristic of my noble friend is more universally known
and tecogaised than another, it is, that ender his
superiateedeace corruption sad improper influence
found no plus. (Cheers.) It is true that in the
other house of parliament, in addition to those
whom aid and fountenanco I had heretofore obtained,
•I misht have had the assistance of others, whom, when
they are ezoluded from office, it la the custom to panegyrise
as the necessary infusion of new blood—but who, ekes ad-
mitted to office, are generally stigmatised se the enlistment
of raw recruits. (Hear, bear.) And amongst those to
whom I could point with satisfaction, u likely to render
ma support and assistance, were I in office, I may mention
the brilliant eloquence and commanding talents of my bon.
friend Sir Edward Lytton. (Hear, hear.) At the same
linte, I was compelled to look not to the men aka., not to
the capacities of those who might have filled the higher,
or even the inferior teem of tWi government, bat to •
more vulgar—bat witless important consideration—namely,
the numerical strength which my government mild cm-
mead. (Hear, bear.) I have had the honour—to which,
to the latest period of my eaisteue, Isbell look back with
pride, however long or short that connection may
Ust—l have been h,noured, and I trust I am ho-
*owed still, with the confidence of a body of
most respectable, highly-qualified gentlemen of this
sountry—• body amounting to 270 or 280 members
of perliameat, hosed together by that which is the:only
sun one of all political ties—mutual confidense in each
other and in their leaders—(sheen from the oppooltio0)—a
immunity and identity of opinion, and a feeling of iadi-
viAtial sad mutual personal r. sad. (Hear, hear) • But
when I look at the numbers as they were determined by
the last general eloctioe, I find that the governs nt of
that day bad the advutop of the support of something
like 300 members of the Ruse of Commons. I state it to
the credit of that great party, sad the fidelity with which
they adhere to their engagements or ties, that at the pre-
sent moment, after the eepiratiou of about two yens, the
simbor of those who are prepared to support me in the
penrimerit has hardly at all diminished, and up to the pra-
m* asmisat I &veld eeciton um the cordial support in the
lOW bode of 280 gontlaosea. Bet what happen* Ito the
shenfiddldli al which I was at dis bled whew I bed the
of
=l.O WM= Vlte"-pTerra:mimenatnlerty4ar
Idirdse of
_pegs% seek as might at any time
Ulm irk. (Host, heir.) And what num bed Ito
• missed that that same combination would sot arise
sal (Hear, heel)) It is the same Home of Commis.;
ere the same ledivideals ; they are the same yard.. ;
sad, far es las Judge from the construetina of the hoe
gmenateeit, and as far en I Ma Jed.* from • the
selemeit eimmessish el the Idesuitim=ll_ll
thin are sop atoll los Um sues ••
Panith by Irina I we. famed from farm (Ow. bean )
Ide net rev I essilmsdi dim the as. f.s of Ogee lodes
flog thansrest lOW Idle vim; but I say 1 had MD as
111101 be a ise useless IS I ma Moe *el hi Is Isit pimp
I abseil ust ems ehe we. of aetllt. (lbw bem)
I knew it bee bees add that, weft roost eisria*
stem" esy vemennneet ...emirs th. memedbilline of
elks, sod reopmed to *wry ea the wens war In es* a
rues as to prove Ads Ostualastasa to Wag it ti e sewer