The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-07 00:00:00

BOMBARDMENT OF

SEBASTOPOL RECOMMENCED.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Juu 7, 1.45 P.Y.

Lord Panmure presents his compliments to the
Editor of the Daily News, and begs to inform him
that the telegraphic communication is again open be-
tween Varna and the Crimea, and that he has received
intelligence that the bombardment of Sebutopol
recommenced on the afternoon of the 6th jut.

THE "HAND-TO-MOUTH" ADMINISTRA-

TION.

A FORTNIGHT has not elapsed since the flatterers
of the Government congratulated them on being in
a majority of one hundred in the House of Commons.
Because the resolution of Mr. DISRAELI had been re•
jeoted on a division by that number of votes, every
stupid sycophant felt, or affected to feel, convinced
that the present occupants of office had obtained a
renewal of their lease of power. They were on all
hands told that their position was thereby assured.
They had successfully resisted every demand for a
definite declaration of their future policy abroad, and
every appeal for a reform of their administrative
system at home. Parties were so broken up.
and divided in Parliament that nothing was
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to be apprehended there; and as for the public, how-
ever sulky and dissatisfied it might be as a whole,
there was no individual or set of individuals popular
or powerful enough to direct its discontent formidably
against the PALMERSTON Cabinet. . All that was
necessary for the residue of the session would be to
adhere to the plan of saying nothing and doing
nothing ; or if, in the irritation of warm words and
warm weather, any manly or genuine expression of
sentiment should unadvisedly escape the lips of a
particular Minister, to have another ready with a
bucketful of evasions and retractations to extinguish
the stray spark of pluck on the spot. Only let
another month or six weeks be wasted in this way,
and Parliament might be prorogued for six blessed
months at least, during which the Army in the East
and all other troublesome things might be left, se
they were last year, to take care of themselves.
The majority of 100 had made all right for many a
day to come.
A fortnight has not yet passed, and already the
fine gold of these flatterers has become dim. Far
from counting with confidence upon an available
hundred or so, Ministers once more begin to doubt
whether they may safely go to a division, even upon
a resolution like that of the member for Kidder-
minster. At the close of Tuesday night's debate,
the Premier naively proposed, that instead of
a further adjournment, the three propositions
of Bir F. BARING, Sir WILLIAM HEATHCOTE,
and Mr. Lown should be each and all of
them withdrawn, in order that at some unassigned
day hereafter, when the last Vienna protocol should
have been laid upon the table, an address to the
Crown might be moved declaratory, in a formal
manner, of the readiness of Parliament to sustain her
MAJESTY in the further prosecution of the war. The
general scoff with which this piece of impudence was
received by the House quickly made it clear to the
most obtuse tenant of the Treasury Bench that the
House, though languid and weary of the protracted
discussion that had already occupied four long nights,

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as no mood to be trilled with; and Lord PAL-

KINSTON thought it prudent to acquiesce in Mr. Roe-
BUCK% motion for an adjournment of the debate till
this evening, taking the chance of any accident, pre-
text, catastrophe, or other god-send that might occur
in the interim. The whole is but another disre-
putable page in the history of what will hereafter
be called—The Hand-to. Hough and Haphazard