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LATEST
NEWS FROM ABROAD

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PARIS, THUISDAY.

The Monitor of this day contains the following:
" The latest news from the Crimea states that the
weather was very tine, and the snow had disap-
peared everywhere. News from Balaklava had ar-
rival up to Feb. 12, conveying the intelligence that
the siege works were carried on at all points with
the greatest activity. The railway between Baa-
klava and the English camp had already advanced
very much.
N Karma', FEB. 10.—A great many vessels have
arrived with troops. _ _ _

" VARNA, Fas.lo.—More than 30,000 Turks have
arrival, and are entrenched near the town. A fur-
ther contingent of troops is to leave Baltschik imme-
diately for the Crimea."

AT length we believe that we may announce that
the Coalition is Really at an end. Rumours prevailed
after to Cabinet held on Tuesday that a disagreement
had arisen between the Whigs and Aberdeenitee

regarding the Committee of Inquiry. To-day, it will
be remembered, had been fixed by Mr. ROEBUCK for
the nomination of its members. It was necessary,
therefore, that some definitive resolution should be
come to ; and it wu clew to the most superficial ap-
prehension, after the manifestation of feeling in the
Hones on Friday night, that further resistance to its
appointment must be unsuccessful. Under these
circumstances, there were obviously but two alter-
natives—to acquiesce in the nomination of the com-
mittee, or to resign. A majority of the Cabinet decided
in favour of the former course, while a minority
preferred the latter. Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. SIDNEY
HERBERT, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and Lord CANNING
persisted in considering theme elves bound in honour
to their late colleagues, the Duke of NEWCASTLE and
Lord ABERDEEN, not to assent to what they declared
to be a direct vote of censure on them. They had
consented, although involved themselves to no small
extent in that censure, to suffer them to drop .stern;
but when it was proposed to cut the rope of a com-
mon responsibility by which they were still con-
nected, and to let them fall off irretrievably, they
deemed it more consistent with private friendship
and public honour that they should quit the ship
also. Accordingly, in the course of yesterday, the
CHANCELLOR of the ExcesQuzit, the SECRETARY
for the COLONIES, the FIRST Loan of the ADMIRALTY,
and the POSTMASTER—GENERAL placed their reels-
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nations in the hands of Lord &Lummox ; and
there appearing no prospect of changing their in-
tention by further discussion, and no time to waste
in defer, his lordship forthwith proceeded to let
disessedgmations before the QUEEN.
Our readers will hardly be surprised to learn that
Lord PALMERSTON neither professed to share the
scruples of his out-going friends, nor to have any
disposition to follow their example. He is Prime
Minister of England ; he has grasped, after forty
years of political competition, the great prize for
which British statesmen contend. He has won it
in spite of great obstacles, and he is not the man
to let it go, after a fortnight's possession, without
a struggle. If he cannot govern as the head of one
sort of Cabinet, he is resolved to try
whether another sort may not answer his
purpose better. The vacant offices have, we under-
stand, been already offered to certain noblemen and
gentlemen of the Whig party. Lord Paimmurrox
having found a piebald impracticable, is determined
to try bow one all of the same colour may work
under his guidance. He has, indeed, been admo-
nished, if report speak truly, within the last few
days that his Whig supporters are little disposed to
acquiesce in any new admixture of party elements.
While the Duchy of Lancaster was still vacant, the
post was offered to Lord BRAFTESBURT, the Paratiza's
Son-in-law; but no sooner was the noble Earl's
acceptance known, than murmurs of a menacing kind
arose, and to Lord BRANTEsstrairs surprise he received
an intimation that reasons of State required the
appointment of a noble Whig. Unless we are
much misinformed, invitations have been now
addressed to Lord BRirMoUR and Sir FRANCIS
BARING to help to fill the vacancies occasioned
by the withdrawal of the Aberdeenites ; and we have
little doubt that similar offers have been or will be
made to other members of the most exclusive of aris-
tocratic parties. Meanwhile, other resignations are
impending in the household, and in various subordi-
nate departments. Another week of precious time,
and how much more it were difficult to say, will be
absorbed in another attempt to refit the drifting
barque of Administration. We shall not hastily pre-
judge the result; but we tell Lord PALMER/MN
plainly that if his second attempt be not made in a
wholly different spirit from his first, he will fail a
second time, as he has failed now. If he refuses to,

listen to the angry voice of a nation, that warns him
against exclusiveness and privileged pretension to
monopolise the whole executive of the State, he never
will succeed in retaining the dignity and power of
Prime Miaister. A Coalition Cabinet has twice
been wrecked upon these shallows within the last
month : no Whig crew that ever put to sea will, in
our present weather, be able to escape them.
By a curious coincidence it so happened that, at
the very time when Mr. GLADSTONE and hie friends
were severing their connexion with their Whig
colleagues, a remarkable scene was actually taking
plans in the Tory amp having direct and significant