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

THE EARL OF DERBY, VISCOUNT PAL-
MERSTON, AND THE PEELITES.

(From the Morning Herold.)
Once more en obstacle is interposed to prevent the
people of England from obtaining what they have shown
their full determination to obtain—namely, a strong and
united Administration—united in its determination to carry
on the war ag►inst the domination of Russia, and strong i•
the all bat unanimous support of the British people.
This obstacle has been interposed at a moment critical be-
pond all former precedent—critical to the safety of the state
—critical to the honour of the nation, and, above all, aided
to the salvation of our army now perishing upon the from
heights of Sebastopol. This obstacle it is necessary that the
nation should be aware has been interposed, if not by, se
least for the benefit of, a portion of that degraded faction
which the unparalleled and overwhelming majority of ORS
MOND/LED AND I,IFTY•SEVEN hu already driven with
obloquy from the councils of the Queen.
It was bad enough that Lord Derby felt himself coerced
by the emergency of the crisis to seek the aid of one who
has fur two long years been the coadjutor, if not the cone-
teller, of the men whose terrible crimes have occasioned the
present condition of the empire. We can well conceive,
however, that Lord Derby made vast allowances for the
position in which the individual to whom we allude was
Owed, seeing the vital emergency which required the
speedy—nay, the instant formation of a ministry able end
willing to save the remnant of our troops, to restore the
remnant of our troops, to restore the honour of England
la the eyes of the world, and to rescue the Sovereign from
the fearful situation of appearing to ha people as attempt-
ing to rescue a ministry upon which the country has now
placed its brand and its sal of reprobation.
Such we conceive to have been the motives which induced
Lord Derby to require the assistance of a man to whom many
of his followers felt strong repugnance and valid objections;
but what are we to think of the conduct of the individual to
wbom such an opportunity had been afforded of exhibiting
the highest patriotism, if he dared to turn it to the purpose
et giving obstruction to the endeavours which an invincible
ewes of duty alone could have induced Lord Derby to
Make, by dragging again into the councils of our Queen
psalms who within a very few days have been specially
ejected from them by the overpowering force of public opi-
nion ? Nay, if we have heard aright, this individual abso
lately wished to condition for the placing at the head of the
War administration a nobleman more obnoxious as an
administrator to both soldiers and officers than aoy other
person who holds a nit in the legislature.
The facts to which we have referred are so currently sad
confidently asserted, that we feel ourselves bound to com-
ment upon them, although we 'till hope that no English-
man could so far forget his duty to his country, his Sove-
reign, and the army, as for such a purpose to interrupt
arrangements absolutely necessary to the welfare of all
three.

There is no use in concealing names. The nobleman,
whom rumour asserts to have acted as we described, is
Lord Palmerton. The individuals belonging to the Pulite
section whom he is said to have wished to attach to himself
for the purpose of—diaguise it as he might, such was the
feet—weakening Lord Derby's Administration were Mr.
Gladstone and Mr. Sidney Herbert ; whilst another, wheel
we cacao! 'appalls our readers have not already recognised
from oar description, is the conciliating, the practicable, the
successful administrator, Earl Grey, who, in the Home
Office as a subordinate, in the War and Colonial Depart-
ments where he was dominant, accumulated an unparal-
leled amount of mismanagement and actual disaster upon
every transactiou in which it was his fortune to be en-
gaged.
We will not affront the Earl of Derby by the supposition
that he for one moment could have hesitated about the ac-
ceptance of such propositions, involving, as they did, insult
to the memory of our sacrificed soldiers—insult to the
people, who bad declared their abhorrence of those who had
uttered up the holocaust—and insult to the So ign whose
earnest wish to acquire the aid of a friss and popular admi-
nistration has been threatened for the moment by a heartless
and profligate ictrigue.
We conclude by asserting, that without the aid of any one
of the individuals we have alluded to, Lord Derby has the
most ample means within his grasp of forming an Adminis-
tration powerful, able, %sated, and capable of commanding
thoroughly the aid of a sufficient number of members to set
faction at defiance, even in the present House of Commons,
relying, as he may do, upon the undoubted fact, that it
driven to a dissolution, he will receive the hearty support of
the nation in carrying on the people's slur.
On this great truth, however, the penon whose duty it
may be finally to form an Administration may rely—the
taint of Peelistn in his Cabinet will be fatal to it. With
regard to Lord Palmerston, we warn him, that while the
original construction of the coalition was disgraceful to the
individuals who formed, and degrading to the nation that
brooked it, even for a time, the attempt to reconstruct it by
deve•tailing and patching together the rottenest
portions of the now happily shattered mosaic, will
bring down upon his head the wrath of an aroused people,
And to Lord Derby we may say that, admitting for one
moment the absurd supposition that he could clasp the
hands red with the blood of our army, and to take the
Peelitea to his councils, he would by that mere act utterly
I destroy the party which is still proud to hail him as their
chief, but of whom the great majority will never, under
, any circumstances, degrade themselves by sitting on the
same benches with Mr. Gladstone and his accomplices.

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

The Earl of Derby, having failed in his endeavours
to form In Administration, left town yesterday, at an early

hour, fur the purpose of resigning into the hands of the
Sovereign the task with which he had been entrusted.
The noble earl returned to:London in the afternoon, and,
en roses to his residence in St. James's-square, called upon
Mr. Disraeli, with whom his lordship had had on interview
prior to leaving London for Windsor.
At two o'clock a Queen's messenger arrived at Lans-
downe-house, bearing a despatch commanding the attend-
and of the Marquis of Lansdowne at Windsor Castle.
The noble marquis immediately left London for Windsor,
and remained the guest of her Majesty last night.
The prevailing impression in all well-informed circles Is,
that the neat step on the part of the Sovereign will be to
send for Viboount Palmerston, with a view to his lordship's
undertaking to form a new Cabinet —Morning Post.

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