The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-03 00:00:00

YESTERDAY'S MONITEU.R.

Yesterday's Moniteur contains, in its official part,
the Minister of the Interior's report to the Empress
respecting the Societe* de Charite Maternelle ; the
nomination of General Levasseur as senator, and an
Imperial decree appointing a commission charged
with the verification of the expenses connected with
the service of the public treasury, &c., for the year
1853. With regard to the benevolent societies named,
M. Blank informs her Majesty that in the year
1853, the year in which her Majesty became pa-
troness, the number of poor mothers relieved
was increased from 9,703 in the previous year to
10,504. The Imperial gift of 100,000 fr. has given
an impetus to the charity. It seems that there were
in 1853 fifty-six societies in all, and that the receipts
in 1853 amounted to 625,780 fr. The societies which
have rendered the greatest amount of assistance are
those of Paris, Bordeaux, and Lille. The report for
1854 is shortly to be submitted to the Empress.
In its " non-official" part the Moniteur gives the
text of the official notification by the English and
French Admirals of the strict blockade of the Rus-
sian ports of the Black Sea.
To silence the rumours originated by the evil-dis-
posed, the Moniteur gives some statistics relative to
the number of sick and wounded in the French mili-
tary hospitals at Constantinople. From this state-
ment it appears that since the 15th of November the
number of sick and wounded in the seven hospitals
referred to has been between 3,500 and 4,000,

never exceeding the latter number. With regard to
the deaths in the hospitals, the whole number from
July 20, 1851, to the 20th ult. was under 1,000.

The Moniteur mentions the fact that an inhabitant
of Gorlitz, Germany, has sent the sum of 12,200 fr. to
Constantinople for the relief of the wounded Turks;
and states also that 600 officers' huts and 2,450
huts for 69,400 mea and 210 stable huts for

10,000 homes, have been despatched to the Crimea
within the last few days for the use of the French
army.

We find also the following despatches in the
Moniteur :

BUCHAREST, JAN. 31.
The difference which hai arisen between Omer Puha and
some members of the Divan has been entirely removed.
TRBBIZONDE, JAN. 2.
The last news from Erxerount confirms the abandonment
of Bayuld by the Russians. They have retired by way of
Wean and Jonas&

CATTARO, JAN. 17.

On the 14th the inhabitants of the Montenegrin villages
bordering upon Jablack attacked this fort. The assailants
were repulsed by the Ottoman troops after they (the u.•
'giants) had sustained great losses.

PARIS BOURSE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

Closing prioes:—Three per Cent. Rentes, for money,
68.10; for account, 68.25; ditto Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., for money, 85.75. Bank Shares, 2,990.
The French funds show a rise of fully i per cent.
since yesterday.—Daily News.

THE PATRIOTIC FUND AND THE FEMALE ORPHAN
ASYLUM, LANDTTN.—Yeeterday a special general meeting
of the guardians of this charity was bold to consider an pop•
plication from the Committee of the Patriotic Fund. TM
chairman stated that some time ago they had placed at the
disposal of the Duke of Cambridge, their president, are
presentations for the orphan children of thole gallant nen
serving in the Crimea. They bad now received an appli-
cation from the Patriotic Fund Committee to take
fifteen orphan children, at present in the care of the
latter. The arsetary said that Captain Fishboarne, in
his interview with the guardians, stated that there had
bees 9,010 on 10,000 deaths is the British army, and that
on ea average 00 soldiers were dying daily, consequently
there would be • great nosy orphans to provide for. The
asylum was intestW to accommodate 160, but at present it
mateiged 163, independent of the 5 to be presented by the
Duke et Cambridge. After some conversation, in which
Mr. L. Redhead, Mr. Freeman, Mr. H. Maydslay, Mr.
Holland, and other guardians took part, Mr. Forrest moved
a resolution to the effect that the guardians deeply deplore
that the bye-laws compelled them to decline the offer of the
committee of the Patriotic Fond to provide a temporary
home for the orphan children of our soldiers who have
Men in defence of their country in the Etat. The resolu-
tion was unanimously adopted.
A Rumex Bov:rm.—A oorreurdent of the Om-
atihotioeseel writes ftom:the Crimea, 'A sortie of a peculiar
kind took pleas in the night of the 12th. The Busetani
troop of volunteers had been formed and directed by Gene-
ral Osten-fieeken, and was composed of tall brave fellows.
After discharging • volley, they rushed licward on our
trenches, desponded into then in spite of the most vigorous
resistant*, and being provided with lassos, Washed to long
crooked sticks, they endeavoured to secure our men, and
carry them off prisoners. They did not, however, sticeee",,
in their purpose, for after a close hand to band combat is
a narrow trench, where the bayonet, the butt-end e°, the
market, the lamas and the fists were wed, they retired,
isresin our bands tea of their men deed, and two
wonaded. Oar low was • sergeant, r.
on& mos. of who. the two first were kille"J while put,
nig the Iludose on of the tsesebee tweed.. the tc,"."

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IA CABINET.

THE news from the Crimea continues to be of a
sombre complexion. We continue, however, to
adhere to the opinion which we expressed a few days
ago—that there is no cause for despondency; that
our reverses, the result of administrative imbecility,
ought only to stimulate us to redoubled exertions. It
is our duty, in the first place, to rescue the survivors
of our Crimean army from frost and famine ; and, in
the second, to recommence the war on a larger scale.
Private letters from the Camp before Sebastopol
convince us that it is not yet too late to save me
army. The Officer of the Light Division,
whose description of his visit to &Ulan
we published on Tuesday, will not be see,
pected of mincing matters, or attempting to screen
official delinquency, yet he writes:—.' We are
very badly off indeed, as regards the condition of
the men—nothing can be worse. But the staffs of
the different departments are much more active;
roused, I suppose, by the pressure of your public
opinion at home. The Commissariat is to supply
fuel ; and they have obtained more ample means of
transport by the arrival of a seasonable addition to
their number of mules and bat-horses. The hos.
pitals are better supplied with medicines and medical
comforts. If the men can only get a few huts, the
winter boots, and warm outer clothing, their condi,
tion will be much improved, and disease will rapidly
diminish." These are the words, not of one of those
parasitical hangers-on at head-quarters who have
been writing, and getting others to write, letters re•
presenting the state of affairs in the Crimea en beau ;
but of an earnest, conscientious denouncer of abuses.
The ray of hope which has broken in upon him is
faint indeed, but it does afford a glimmering of light.
And the views he expresses are corroborated by
our Special Correspondent's letter of the 19th ult 4
which we publish to-day. The indignant voice of
the English public has reached the Crimea, and it has
done what incapable Ministers have declared impos-
sible : it has frightened the Quartermaster-General's

department into some show of life and activity.
The English public which has done so much for
the army in the Crimea must do more. It must
insist upon bringing our statesmen who aspire to
office back from personal altercations, and the indul.
gence of contemptible personal rivalries, to the
question really at issue. It is all right and proper
that the public should know whether any of our
public men have been to blame in the Ministerial
disruption, and who aro the culprits. But that is a
question which can wait. There will be a time
hereafter for our statesmen to whitewash themeelvea
and blackwash their rivals; but what the country
has a right to demand at present is that, laying
aside personal piques, they set themselves to con-
struct without loss of time a " strong Government."
And by a " strong Government " we mean some.
thing very different from what many who have the
phrase most frequently in their months have in their
minds. We have been told that a Ministry composed
of selections from the Derbyites, Pcelites, and Con-
servative Whigs, would be a " strong Government."
We have been told that a Ministry composed of the
ministers who clung longest to office,with the addition
of Lord GREY, would be a " strong Govern-
ment." In both cases, the phrase a " strong
Government " means nothing more than one that
could command a majority in both Houses of
Parliament. But the " strong Government" which
the crisis demands is one which, possessing in such
majorities the instruments with which it is to work,
has within itself the inherent strength and energy to
wield them with effect. None of the patchwork

combinations which have been recommended on the
score of their being able to command Parliamentary
majorities are of thin character. They are made up
of some of the men of whose incompetency in office
the country has had sad experience ; of some
who, halting between two opinions—like Isseema,
or the ass "crouching beneath two burdens "
have contributed mainly to the keeping of these
men in place; and of some mere men of parade
like them. Already has the experience of the
last two days shown to what an extent mere personal
considerations weigh with all of them; gladly would
they have coalesced but for the anxious thought,
"What will Mrs. Grundy say ?" The moment calls
for men who can defy and despise censure, because
they are too much engrossed with their anxiety to
assert the national interests and honour to heed the
baying of the curs of faction.
If aspirants to office have not nerved themselves to
task their abilities to the utmost to carry on the war
to a satisfactory termination; and, to that end, to
call forth and employ, if necessary, all the resources
and all the energies of the country; they do
well to hang back. But if a sufficient num-
ber to form a Cabinet can raise them-
selves to this elevation of resolve and actioe,
they need have no fears of being inadequately sup-
ported. Those who differ from them on every other
question will gladly support all their measures for
the vigorous prosecution of the war. They need not
waste time in consulting whippers-in, or the oracular
expounders of electoral influences. Good and well-
digested measures will command majorities ; for no
Parliament will dare to obstruct such measures with
the eyes of a roused and indignant nation rivetted
upon its proceedings. All that is wanted on the part
of a Ministry, in the present crisis, is conscious sin-
cerity of purpose, and unqaailing courage. Daring
will command success.
We are well aware that our lot is cast in an age
of comparatively feeble and timid statesmen. There
are no CHATHAMS or BUSHES among us. But surely
an emergency which has inspired dainty and delicate
women to forego the comforts of home, for the per.
pose of tending sick and wounded soldiers in crowded
lazar-houses, in a far foreign land, ought to have the
power to rouse our statesmen to unwonted daring
and effort. It is not in abilities that they are deficient,
bat in strength of character; the contagious enthusi-
asm of the time may compensate for their natural
deficiency. A RUSSELL, a PALMERSTON, a GREY, a
CLARENDON—it they would lay amide for the time
the indifference to opinion of one, the self-seeking
of another, the spleen of the third, and the indecision
of the fourth, might form the nucleus of a Cabinet
quite adequate even to the arduous business of
the hour.
Of all these men, Lord JOHN RUSSELL is the
one whom we are most anxious to see im-
mediately in office. We are still convinced
that he is the most reliable of all our living
Lidieberws)dlvedstattis
leante;
Couarbin"
etrts,tatTiinishearim
ofis fithrme
coasurAtileshis
rock." His presence in the Cabinet would be to
us a certain guarantee for the war being con-
ducted in a comprehensive spirit and with the requi-
site vigour; a guarantee for which nothing else can
be a substitute. We see too clearly indeed the might of
the influences which are being brought to bear against
him, in the circles which, owing to the torpor and
Bask of self-assertion of the educated unprivileged
dames, pewees' in general the power of deciding who
are and who are not to hold office, to feel perfectly
confident of his immediate advent to power. The in-
triguers for place have been irritated by Lord
JOHN'S having brought about the debacle which
been poisoned by his insidious and unscrupulous
1
maligners. Cliques and coteries in the City, who
' looked forward to the peee4g of WARM in the

resent eosin which would promote their private •
interests or gratify their privets wiabes, are wroth
with Lord Joux for raising a dismission that may
divert attention from than. All then motley allies hays
aimed a simultaneous bowl spinet him; and there
are some among the general public who, notwith-
standing their experience of Lord Joules faithful
and dicing services for forty years, have with min-
able cowardice listened to aspersions and shrunk
from asserting his integrity. All this will be amply
mode up to Lord JOHN ere long; and we trust that,
notwithstanding his indifference to office, we may
soon me him reinstated. We have no means
of knowing what course his Lordship papaws
to steer, but his friends make it no 'scat
—and we, therefore, conclude that they have
authority for what they say— that if Lord
PALIIIMISTON had noneded in forming a Govern-
ment. Lord IOW( ITU prepared to support Lord PAL.
IIIIISTON as a private member of the Hone of
Commons. We have blamed, and we still blame, Lord
Joint, for allowing an overstrained generosity to
Won him to spare some when conduct towards
him has shown them as unworthy of his leniency,xs
they are incapable of comprehending its motives.
But it is right that the country should know that if
there is undue delay in the formation of a "strong
Government," the fault does not lie at the door of
Lord lonic Rttssra.L.—Doily New..

The Press (generally known u " Mr. Disraeli's i
organ "), of this day, has the following version of
Earl Derby's failure :
" We have reason to believe that the Earl of Derby
did not decline to form an Administration when
graciously consulted on that subject by her Majesty.
On the contrary, we are assured his Lordship pledged 1
himself that under no circumstances should her Ma.
jesty be left without a Ministry, and that he and his ;
friends were perfectly prepared to form one if
efforts tailed to construct a strong government, which
the interests of the country required. With this
view, we hear that the Earl of Derby advised her '
Majesty to have recourse to several combine-
Gone before the Queen should appeal to a party
which, though singly the most numerous in the
House of Commons, cannot command an absolute
majority in that Moues, and had already been de-
feated by the combined sections.
"The application by the Earl of Derby to Lord
Palmerston to join the intended Administration and
take the lead of the House of Commons was one of
these combinations, and was an arrangement, we
have reason to believe, pressed upon the Noble Earl
by Mr. Disraeli, with whose pretensions to that post
it might seem to conflict.
" There was only one feeling in the Conservative
party, namely, to merge all individual claims for the
sake of giving the country the advantage, at this
critical period, of a strong government. There were
no sacrifices which the Conservative leaders were not
prepared to make, so long as the arrangements they
led to were consistent with personal honour and the
essential principles of the Conservative party.
" We have understood that the application of Lord
Derby was most favourably received by Lord Pal-
merston, the noble Lord expressing his readiness to
serve under Lord Derby, and his sense of duty,
which ought to influence public men at this moment
in rallying round their sovereign. His Lordship,
We are assured, stated, as was anticipated, his diffi-
culty in joining the Administration alone, and
the names of two of his friends, Mr. Glad-
stone and Mr. Herbert, were mentioned as those
of persons he wished to accompany him. No obsta-
eke were urged to such an alliance, both these Right
Hon. Gentlemen having been originally, and for a
long period, members of the Conservative party. The
interview with Lord Palmerston was so satisfactory
and promised to be so conclusive, that the Earl of
Derby, it appears, felt himself justified in returning
Immediately to the palace and informing her
Majesty of the prospect of a result anxiously
desired at this critical moment by her Majesty, viz.,
the formation of a strong Conservative Government.
About midnight, after a suspicions delay of ten
hours, a communication from Lord Palmerston was
received by the Earl of Derby, closing in a very un-
satisfactory manner the negotiations, and forwarding
communications from Mr. Herbert and Mr. Gladstone
in the same spirit."

The Morning Herald said yesterday that if Lord
Derby invited the Peelites to his councils, he would
'd by that mere act destroy the party which is still
proud to hail him as their chief." Now, the Times
of this morning stouts that the noble earl took ad.
vantage of Lord J. Russell's " treatment of those
gentlemen (the Petite.) to address to them proposals
which they thought it inconsistent with their honour
and their principles to entertain." The Times says
further that " beyond the retirement of Lord Aber
deem, Lord John Russell, and the Duke of Newcastle,
or perhaps of Sir James Graham, it is probable that
no
essential change will in the end be found to have
occurred ; but these changes may suffice materially
to alter the distribution of offices and the efficiency
of the government."

The Morning Post has the following account of
yesterday's movements:
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town, from Wind-
KO Culls, yesterday morning, and had • long interview
with Mr. Gladstone, who had been summoned to Lans-
downe House to meat the noble marquis.
At 11 o'clock the Marquis of Lansdowne drove to the
residence of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, in Belgians.
square, from whence his lordship proceeded to call upon
Lord John Russell, with whom he had • lengthened later
view.
The noble marquis then proceeded to Buckingham Palm*
to have an audience of her Majesty, who had arrived in
London, from Windsor, in order to facilitate the pressing
ezigencies et the crisis.
From Buckingham Palace the Marquis of Lansdowne
proceeded to the residence of Viscount Palmerston, en the
Terrace, Piccadilly. His lordship bad a protracted Wm:-
view with the noble viscount, and afterwards again waited
upon the Sovereign at Buckingham Palace.
In the rouse of the afternoon Lord John Russell went to
Buckingham Palace, in obedience to the command of her
Majesty. We believe we are correct in stating that the object
of the noble lord's visit to the Queen was to afford her Ma-
jesty en opportunity of personally ascertaining the opinions
Of the late Lord President of the Conseil on the present
Mate of political parties, but certainly not with a view to
entrust to his lordship the formation of • new Cabinet.
At sin o'clock last evening Viscount Palmerston and
Lord John Russell waited, by appointment, en the Marquis
of Lansdowne, at Lansdowne Hones.
The statement that the Earl of Clarendon had been Wit
for by the Queen is simply • fabrication.

Tin WAR WITH Rusaia.—Yesterday, aotna offi
eial despots/ma were published in • parlimiatary
received by the government fro. the w:11 the Mr..
fish adouies containing addresses by 1 aumblier
sad °mad approving of the war with gala.

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130013 TOE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC SOLDIEDJI AT
TIN Stat or WAL—Through the kisdnew of the Rev.
Oa Chaplain General the Yam. Richardson, the catholic
have been enabled to forward, fres of oast, to
ell
lie 2
the Rev. lobe Sagaluswe catholic chaplain to
Ile Edda may in the Crimea, seism! eases of books,
liallera W nearly a ton in weight, for the use of our brave
Milftat religion before Sebastopol and in the his.
pmb et Ralaklava and Scutari.

Vain. JAN. 27.—Tbe railways are encumbered
Oft misse et mow. Tba pale ant all two days bald ad,
t=Li it
filliima oat Wel maim of osatataaloallas.
midi in Bailing la uppermost la the
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