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London, England, 1855-01-27 00:00:00

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THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
The Earl of ABERDEEN shortly aftarwards said : My
buds, it nay be coonaiest to per lordship new to nee,'
infensatkos ►espetlag the cinnowtances seenested with the
regressing of say noble friend the Pr..altlest of the Conseil
Goo the situation which he held In her Majesty% govenfol

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mast. That retirement most materially aim; Yes Ma-
jesty's government ; and from the StAtiall sad oborranor of
my noble friend, must bs of immerses W thomumbry.
[So the noble earl was understood to say. bat dolma.
- was net distinctly beard.] Illy lords, lam OM frilly
yinseured with the motives which may have bulimia ay
noble friend to adopt this course ; bat I swot do betas
than nod the letter is which he offered hie resignation, and
whisk I received from him os Tuesday List :
" Cheaters-plasm, Jas. !3.113.

"My dear Lord Abordoes.—Mr. Hosbuek has gives
MOON of a motion to 'squire into the caldera of the war. I
do sot see how this modes is to be resisted ; bat, se it in-
volves a as open the Was Departanste, with whisk
mute of my colleagues are esasested, my oaly souses is to
leader my resignation. I therefore have to MUSS you
will lay nay humble eseigastiou of the Mee which I have
the bower to hold before the Ouse, with the expreesita of
my gratitude for her Majesty's kiadnees foe maay years.—l
reads, my dear Lord Aberdeen, yours very truly,
" J. Bvsaiu."
Is seeordaooe with my "obis Mead's desire, I laid hie
neignatios before her Msjesty, who has bees graelessig
pleased to accept it. My lords, I have odd I was set fag
peesesscd with the motives—with all the metier-whisk
may have induced my noble Mead to take this step. I was
perfectly aware that some time age—twe menthe ago—my
Debi. Mead disapproved of, oe was diseatisted with, the
sodas' of the government; but after the explaaatiese
whisk took plea ea that °casaba, sad his soosteat Widget
hods la shades the bedtime and preparing the smasaree et
the gotenissest, up to the very day eta while pediment
re.emembied, I was certainly somewhat surprised, as IPSO
es deeply esseersed, at receiving the letter whisk I Imes
just read to your lordships. My sable Mead may be at
this amass' givisg—at all eves% it le his Wooden this
day to give—in soother place a fall explasstkm
ef the motives of his oesdad. It is sot for me to de more
tham to express, as I do most safeigsedly, my deep regret
at the step which be has thought it his duty to take. My
lords, so we sea possibly feel more thaa I do the great
Ism whisk her Ifejesty's pverameat must metals by rash
ea
my ut se this. (Hear, hear.) Indeed, say of your lord-
ships who may mailed what I said at the Somatic. of the
peewit government will remember I expressly stated that
I NM should have ventured to undertake the feenotiss
of an adralaistration, had I sot secured the active so.opers-
Via sad assistaaao of my noble friend. Now, my lords,
sada *see cissueastasees, and I. ordinary times, I might,
perhaps, adopt myself a different coarse; but is the pre.
Best condition of the country, of podia affairs, sad of her
Majesty's governmest, I feel it due to our owa hoses; oar
ow. esesistancy, sad oar muse of duty, to meet the motion
whisk Is to be made this sight I. another place, aad whisk
will decide whether • gesture kto be pronosaeed da br
Majesty's government or not. And therefore, my lords,
even without the great and powerful, and aimed Wis.
potash* &madams of my stable lriead, we have thought it
dam to ourselves to meet this motion so ashamed, which
las 'educed him to take the step I have just explathed to
year lordships. (Hear, hear.)
Hari GUT said. "Afore he milked a vodka it which
he hod give* soden he might be permitted to s y that it
was on ma y eats highly desirable that the
the 'idolisation of the milieu' &prim/4 xf
dYeasrlw
:=lllig
tebad ghee notice for Thursday, she if
Ulm plass at es earlier period ; sad as lie =
sills east wile lad gives • aides drr liesday bed with.
down that adios, sad as Moeda, we sew aa apes day,
b=mtel tad the diessmies as that day instead of
li
. As by Mram of Ode Millis how he
knew that he "said see Wei beds the sedge. he would
prim It es ia swam slips, sed le Amid therefore mere
' that in the *win it this leas gnat sells hare arises
boas the resent divides et reepeseibility is the admit'''.
*ratios a the army, sad that the whole of the Miles
'mantled with this important Wench of the pinks sank*
as sow distributed smoog different tees% mid Is be
=seder the direct control of • shigissal win saga.
department."
Till "TIMES"

[DENT, THE WAR,

AND THE PRESS.

apply's. to the Sail of Winona/say es the above
illigibake of NEWCASTLE said be was nn his noble
Melded weld MIAS Ma if be did not follow his on the
=theuelise has may discussion as to whether they had
mated by the pees to undertake the expedition to
the Crimea, or had plead the English army in danger in
imsseqessie. His *obis friend on the orose.besch bad
given socks of • very stringent notion on this question for
Friday night, and it would be his duty on that measles to
Medicate the government quite irrespective of the ends*
of the press. He concurred with his noble friend that the,
plea of this country bad not acted on all occasions with '
judgapent and dievetisi. He should say that it had acted
with • great lack of judgment and discretion in commuai.
eating information. If communinting that ittformatios te
the people of this country were all, ha should say let than
have all the information that could be gives; but they
must resalleet that that information bad bees eeveyed at
the sun time to Ruda. He believed it to be • bet, that there
wore pens* in this country who were in the habit of
immentaleating to the Emperor of Rush by telmpaph
fahrmativaa that was conveyed to the people of this country
la the months, so that information might be known at Bt.
Petersburg is the coup se of that very day. He did not ha-
pset want of petrotistn, bathe did say that the press of this
country had exhibited • want of discretion. His noble
Mead asked him whether • correspondent in the Crimea of
sae of the papers had received any encouragement or amis.
terse in the functions that he bad perforated. Now, It was
perfectly nee, that an individual, who was certainly not en.
titled to give each persiasiee, did intimate to one of the
papas that their correspondent might, he thought, In the
Int vessel that coevered troops to Malts, have a fres pis.
sage. Before, !however, the easel sailed, that come to the
knowledge of the government, and they sent down to
Beatherepton or Portaarouth, he forget which, stating that
it was winery to role, and that the gentleman in question,
who he believed way then en the vessel, mast leave the
vessel ; and accordingly that gehtlemsa did lean the vessel
gad found his own way to Malta. As to the °thirteenths
If it had be.. pot to him in the month of Dumber,
be should have girth his positive contradiction te the state:
went, and for this remora. It bad bet n his duty* give
an answer. of course seder the conviction that he was
eviler a perfectly true answer to an *nineteen which was
made to bhn by thy editors of two newspapers at the ems-
mencement of the month of December, request's( that
their correspondents should receive rations. It was his
duty to inform there that it was smeary to the
rules of the e• mmisearint, and that so on scald
restive rations but those who were perform's. public
duty, inilitsev or otherwise, end that therefore it was
quite impossible that such rations could be given. One of
thole gentlemen said that the correspondent refined to by
his noble friend ere in the habit of receiving ration. Now
it so happeeed that he (the claim) had been In iscsuannies-
ties with a gentleman who had bees la the
Crimes, and on his authority be esetrithbeed that
atatemeat. (Hear, hear.) Just Wien the meeting
of parliuunt, however, he received • comathelmtisa hum
another gentle man from the Crimea of another nature.
He might :.ere stare that it wee only in Hthember that
the sontatkuriat cams Bader hie Immediate alrestioa.
Now the fast was that undoubtedly by • private geniis.
sin, mina by the read of the department of the lemmuy,
that genhosiar had received ratloas from the essembeerfat.
Ha mould qtly my that the moment it urns ft his Meow.
ledge that such • thing had been deco he istirentsdi he his
right has. histid the bead of the treasury, seethe bead of
the treasury , hat the chancellor of the sashetesit, the di&
approval of the government of the course whisk had beta
taken. He bored that that souse had sew bees Mame
deem'. He did sot thin sada the eirenmetheem that Is
should at owes give as seder that the redeem should be
withdraw*, but be had trussed to the geed Imam el that
gestismaa
. - to megaton a whim. be
have had. If coq es* MOW.
made it wee not la /AMMO
A as tworeepsedist to • newness or Is
other trustier 'ohm to the Crimea. The
ht set to ban given as @Anatolie te limp
ad bc could only say, as far se he thee
this gentles** was not atheatel by
wield be his (the duke's) duty as lethe as
I his monies lathes ie /them ale
kin farther, whether be bad MOM
• Lord Rastas of imammallia=
the enemy la that way. He Wms. The lint that bed sessived wee
Daman. Lori Eagles sent to him
newspaper tint2seat bee admirably
* doubt lea le Mist
eagasy, •=iirir *josh et
it as that meets, ewe shill le
of the erns had setordlostlyjahes.
to die eillemit the netspepees. nab
wadi net llama inlessiedies of dot
eat
bat kite ism that had he set telt It
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Inloetwo • est Ise
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'I to tie krieseaniesse that bad art
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" onlaifitisi to the away, sad wnni was
um ealy tbe Arreperer of Email, bob to the
Orinessibot of no eames inn (Hear, bear.)
The In EARNOWST bad sees It stated, that a
Osisbnmodoot et as of the ppm and anoint sad luso-
tiltes= to Lard Enka, nos t_mlog • nomad ins
with, mad that Lord lloptea hod istionted
bit isiendea tit wending that pules sus et the asp, It
assli asnet were persevered in. lie was .he understood
•sets to a sooting of the sowttpeogsgs7,7ossinats
Os wisp with ease see is au to glee thin mar
raw as to the worse they should
The Dab of NEWCASTLE said Ito hod sot
say annnaisatioa of say nth istooths slog
lan, see of smelt • westing haft MIS bah SI
Ws sells /dead referred le I -bat bit did this
Len Mein bad, threes% ethers, sad ohs be her
hisisslf. puma remonstrated with
=ash who were of aewspapors
NS be was ass aware dna a tbsoling as bad bees spokes
elt MU lees wee he swore of soy sestina= having and
Wenn kinew to lard Raglan. All he could say was,
OM if say sotaa did behave in such • way, after
bssbg bees enneastrated with is peeper pests, wit=
soisisst intani, be should estrWr that Loma
non be Joann i asollog him Inn Imo amp
sad son Ind Ind= he
to so lidos the gemmed if stnsessadou snow
Ind TlA>t was anorobtel to ask Oa sum of tho
aeon is tbe asunimearist department who had snowed ths
Masa eareepeodest to sae array mime.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE maid that, so far as
bs ponbia, be always thought it was the duty re
isonnonat to take the blow of bosh natters to
seleskesfiber Ohm en its their esbordioates ; but. at
aos•Alasentasoississ wink bad Mesa sane to WO int
Inns MN be wend be Ann to melee the rations woo
tit • Finn Mon on was desidodly anastboden.
son w thssolliwe essEn• to wasnin that the asap of Os
inindaal who one was Or Manes Tnnlyos.
TM Mann of SALft ISBURY son None isemagn se •
errs, teem lIM order is sound, W wbith id
listsskr, Ow Woe wasanated; it was Canis midis& Ihn
the dinstis d tbeassusissariat *build beises- tole, Buss.
boy hr War. Now wee it that the noble dan
bm kir hos Miry, did not &sae, notwithates:4ll4l4
umlaute. to table say nesanna for that purpse ostll
Deessaber
The Dab of NEWCASTLE, said—The noble marquis
Ma sized no the ordain messed with the treasury misses;
time had bees so ishawdes of the minute, and there bad
ha se Innen% by him or by any other party, of the
dolts VIM IMO mooned by those papery.
nelson sifoonsd la s quarter bee seta.

THE FIPREBB. SATURDAY ETENING, JANUARY 27, 1855.

Shin, sebsequeutly, the Colsaial-ofilse was divided, sto
ideawhatent wss made to the skies of the It sr Deputises&
by the 'take ; nor, as far as I am aware up to dal onntlin.
to his maospesasat of the *Nos. Now, I thin' you will
eft* that, although another perm nriabt perhaps have
best profaned es the Ant seastitertlea of an elks, is is •
earl illesuat Wag to &spine a man with has discharged
1::tr ably end honourably, merely la the head that
might be hued still more laciest. 17adoebtedly,
IM pales anise must be the Int object ; but, is the ab-
7rtatinicgreved deftest or alleged laeapasity, Ima see
a esisieet retcafereath a cheap, whieb, hiked, I think
hillaits by a scan nighties lad good faith. . . . .
Ake:the while, thee, believing that say cheap like that
proposed would be of doubtful advantage to the publie—
kellag key strongly that it would be an net of an
W
and eeds, towards a colleague, and thinking,
that all suck changes, unless absolutely no-
, ealy teed to weaken a govesuniest, i must rs-
peat that I scud set heaestly resesimead it es the Queen."
Whoa my 'ebb Mind at the heed of the govsnitnent
likliVllNa spin le ins ea the widest, awl asked whether I
kisi to king the gaieties to ea issue, after a good deal
of Winks I told him, that as he said he could not
Wm* nommnisad the change to the Queen, sad that as I
did net whit to disturb his government or to remove them
hem Ass, I went not press the matter. I was streegth-
nod in that aphelia by the opinion of others of my col-
leagues, with messy of whom I have acted for many years,
sad with others perhaps during the whole nuns of my
Withal life, in the closest latiassey, who told me that the
skew was 'inadvisable, sad that It would weaken what I
Mini to strengthen, HI gamed arty sash change. Now,
=l, when I stead ban to justify my resignation, and
am told that I timid have foremen some such
MIN es this, I must my that the doubt which prime* on
Ng nisi is minket I ought not at that time to bate
wind that Amp, est bieught it to an issue. (Hear.) But
sweep' these whe me sot to bring the question to an
isms was my noble Mend himself (Lord Palmerston) who
at die des el the earempatiesse war absent in Pans, but
to whom I showed Is aka his return, sad who urged me,
ant the innate' made by Lord Aberdeen, not to press
the matter. That banging sees withstood to men, I had,
however, funks to seasidet what was Os else with regard
to measures. I haws to nand the beets that last year a
Ono wee gives that Mw ansagessents would be made in
the military depsemeate, with a view to their greater eft.
dewy. I myself served es two oesmksiciaa, which were
appointed for the poems et knotiviag sad consolidating
these departamata, sad miens seggesHeas were made with
that object at the time. Though it is now 22 years
singe the Int of these samminissis was appointed, yet at
the commessentat of a war that which was then but a

riot Itairsilmay berme a watts, et orient asesseity,
sot sits seetslilitisa sad la ....a ethos' departments
was die to the Monett et the rabble, ma the credit of the
othatry. (limo km) The only change which I had
best able to memo la the mice before Christmas
was that the esetetheariat department had been placed
under the War Meister. With regardto an further
change I heard se minion of it till the pro made on
&turd& lest. I reduced upon that proposal,and having
rupoa it. I tell my noble Mend at the head of the
pverameat that I mmeidered it incomplete and insufficient,
sad I gave him a pow which contained my views on the
subject. That, the beets will observe, was very lately; but I
had no reason to expose that my views would be adopted ; I
bad thtreffsee to miler, when I came to relict on the
course Mita should adopt with respect to the motion of
the hcm.sal learned member for Sheffield, whether I could
fairly sad Meetly say, " it is too true that evils have taken
pLa, ii is NM that many brave men have fallen at Alma,
Inhermsaae sell Belaklava ; it is true that many brave men
have perished Ekes neglect—(hear, hear)—it is true that
Me beset of the whole of England throbs with anxiety
Mai Menet en this subject—(beer, hear)—but 1 can
Mil yea that each arrangements have been made,
Mat ame of such rigour and efficiency has taken
• ~redact of the War Department—that such a
mesolidatioa at offices has taken waft, as will enable him
Wave the whale sad instant control of those departments,
NMI all supplies shall be instantly tarnished, and alt
aims instead, remedied"—l might then meet this mo-
ll'''. But I felt that I could not honestly
yep after what I had written to my noble
I maim it in this place, not tn
Mt any Meth ea him, bemuse no one would impute it
ma blame M him, be ant having taken an active pert in
=los of the war—that there was any person with
power of control, or sufficient energy of mind, or
isellisimaly !Ovulated with the details, at the head of the
Wee Itipastmeat. (Hear, hear.) I could not my, though
as eetlrment had been ;reposed on Saturday last, either
MM elllssildation of the military departments had been,
antedto nisei, or that there was any prospect of their '
Mai earried into effect in such a manner that I could
rawl/faith to the efficiency of those eirengements.
sir, feeling this—and to me it has be.. moo
paillol—but feeling that I had no faith in the efficiency el
Sat pivotal, nd that I must steed up to oppose that me-
OM ter dumb la the way of that which malty thought would
alba a onaely for these sufferings and them distresses ; or,
at losikitit tailed to do that, would point out the way to
Mik elthellffiet and removal—feeling that such would be
so duly, and that many members of the hones would look
Mfr litt an assurance of that kind cm my part, and would
vets as that essurence—(loud cheers)—knowing that loamy
ambers of this house did so honour me with their confi-
dence .I felt that I would be betraying the confidence they
placed Ia me if I gave that assurance when I did not feel
that I could honestly de so. (Cheers.) It appeared to
me that the government could not anted• to such a ama-
lgam as the bon. and learned member for Sheffield
lotted tar. It appeared to me that it would not be,
not say dignified, but consistent with the
==working of the constitution that there should
sitting on that bench to govern the war and
Ile alb* military departments, and at the same time sub
*Mel to the check of a committee sitting up stairs—(hear)
—Mss oilliSt‘r of war should have to consider what be
wm to 410 ti set only to provide for the urge's necessities of
tho boor, to provide ant wen for the numerous requisitions
"Mk ems to him from day to day, but also the evidence
that sight be furnished with respect to the conduct of the
was Aar In ea sin months. (Hear, hear.) Ido not think
that eadt ea arrangement would be consistent with the
effiefessoy of the department. I, thereforej felt that I mould
ilameo may one couclusioo, and that, sa l could not mist
ea tatpity. and as I could not give the only answer which
I Iheastit would be sufficient in order to cement the govern-
ment and stop that inquiry from taking place, it was my
deity set to remain any longer a member of the
goestmeat. It would be thcasetent then for others
wise Mak that everything has already Mu done,
or is baba done, that c mid be conscientiously required,
to spree that motion. But for my own part, I
mold not do that. I therefore wrote, in short terms,
Mit& were not quite accurate with regard to the terms of
tMe motion of the 23rd, the following note to Lord Aber-
dsou :

" Chabans-plaor, Jan. 23, 1855.

"My dear Lord Aberdeen,—Mr. Roebuck has given
settee of a motion to inquire into the conduct of the war. I
do not me bow this motion is to be resisted ; but, as it in-
volves a censure upon the War Departments, with which
some of nay sollesgoss are connected, my only course is to
tender my resignation. I therefore have to request you will
I lay my ►umble resignation of the office which I have the
honour to bold before the Queen, with the expression of my
gratitude for her Majesty's kindness for many years.—l
remain, my dear Lard Aberdeen, yours very truly,

" J. Roseau."
That is the note I wrote to Lord Aberdeen. I received no
gamer to it ; but on the following evening my noble friend
informed me he lied been to Windsor sod takes my resigna-
tion to the Queen—that her Majesty had been pleased to
accept the same, and was pleased to add, " with great
concern." (Hear, hear.) This, therefore, is the statement
I have to make as far as I ant immediately cosesthed. Thom
ministers who believe they can successfully oppose inquiry,
who believe they are right in what has been dose, and is
doing, are perfectly justified in taking the coarse ey are
punting. At the same time, I have heard there is a rumour
—and I hope it is trac—that the arrangement I proposed in
my first letter of the 17th of November, or rather in mr
subsequent letters—that of planing the War Department is
the hands of my noble friend (Lord Palmerton)—bas taken
place. Sir, I shall ;mat:), remise if that is the case. (Hear,
hear.) I believe It will be a great benefit to the country
that my &obis friend should bold that de t ; and I
shall be glad to think that my retirement rem oleos has is
any way contributed to that change. I think it mast is
some way have contributed to it—(laughter)—for otherwise
I have no doubt that my noble friend at the bead of the go.
'eructate, with that fairness and candour which belongs to
and which I 'dew" found in him, would have as-
serted the letter I have just read. (Hear, bear.) Mena-
steams mast, I think, have in some respect changed, for
that whisk Lard Aberdeen said he could sot have honestly
recommended to her Majesty he has sow thought to be
aftewasy. (Hear, hear.) This, therefore, must be
a rabeequeat irrangemeat ; sad I shall be ow
if my retirement from the less Important cies
I held, has led to the appetatment of oy noble friend, of
whom I mama speak in higher terms than I have already
dime. (ilear,bser.) Set, sir, having stated thus much
with reped_he myromitioa end the positions! the govern-
ment, all Saes% I have regularly no right to go farther,
yet pimp rI shall take no part in the debate which is
shoat blikepiges cet Steadies of the hos. sad learned
comber the ld, and as it is not nay iatentioa to give a
vote es tlEatisa, Inlay be perinsh:itirso on somewhat
farther. sey a few words with to the present
state (Hear, imer.) I my, in the first
place, that I Itslirmiell in the house, es bath ides
(foe I asks se dirisslki whatever) are assigns that the
war abseil be eseviel en, setts meeting at Leeds expressed
it, by the nest Worn, aneaserea, till we obtain a lest
and lesseivellie peas." (Hope hoar.) I believe dist Am
measures whist see the OM Wgerm la the peeeseellea of
the war lad these bovine of pease which are meld doggedly
and usequivesally Jest had besentable, are those which
will meet with most fame her all parties in the
house. (Hear, Nor.) I thinenehly believe that these who
have head mond le Vesillbsolesn't geleownest will as
heartily videos la way Ilne ow MINA the gosenn
arse es theelle thee pegnierat. (" Hear, hear,"
from the 0
siNett dingier I have to say is, that
I do net the et @Abe abroad at warrants
the ilegreegea I see ....1t,... (Hear, Item) No
doubt the atieenste we base reechoed from the eamp before
Sehaelepil are sellgently gloomy end dioisserteniag ; bet

with regard to the great object of the war la whisk we in
engaged, I believe on prospects are by no mean gloomy.
Oe a former ooessien, whilst speaking on the subject of the
war, • inn erroneous construction was put on what I said
fa speetk of Anima. I was represented as speaking la a
depreciagory menu of the conduct and intestines et
Austria. I wish to give every credit and important@ le the
;revenant of that country for what they have den. It
is la sousequace of the large armaments that she made,
of her 'gulping an army of 600,000 men. of bee
outman, sad strengthening the points that wen
weak, of her raising an enormous force of cavalry—it le
la conesgssaos of than preparations that the Emperor of
Ruda ha in the first plan abated mach of his penes-
sins—that be has been ready to consent to terms whisk
lest August he utterly rejected—that be is new sesionly
mouldering whether or not he will make those geneelikell
which may obtain peace. (Hear, hear.) We ban thine
fore, owing in a great degree to the admirable and
ability of my noble friend Lord Clarendon , beee}e
the advantage of Austria throwing her weight into the am
getiations,with the knowledge that if such a peace am shear
saved would be safe for Europe were not obtained, she
would act with the allies and bring her 600,000 men in aid
of the army at present employed. (Hear, bear.) We have
la the nest plum to rely without the "lighten hesitation,
without the slightest doubt, on the fidelity of our ally the
Emperor of the Fronk. (Hear, hoar.) From him, be-
sides ell other facts and all other aseneanals, I saw sad
heard sash proofs during my late residence in his capital.
that I cannot have the 'lighten hesitation in assuring the
bone that then two countries—England and France—
will remain united to the end of this great straggle.
(Hear, hest.) Well, then, from these advantages I think
we may hope one of two thisgs,—the one far more dish-
able than the other, bat the other an honourable coarse
from which we should not Mirka—either that the Emperor
of Russia shall make thou concessions which will be just
• and honorable for England mad for France, and safe for
Europe; or if he shall fail to make thus oonceetioas that
there shall be such a force of European armies collected
against him that final triumph must attend those armies.
(Hear, hear) I °end not help expressing this conviction
on this oesesion, bemuse I think whoever is to be the
minister he may rely fleet on the patriotic feeling sad
loyalty of this hstase—(hear, hear)—next on our unflinch-
ing ally, the Emperor of the French—(bear hear)—aad
neat es the wisteria of the Emperor of AuAria, if Inn
°arab& terms of pens cannot ,be obtained. (Hear, bear )
Perhaps, sir, as I have left Lord Aberdeen's g
meat, I may be permitted to say that I cannot
rehein from this opportunity of quoting the winds
of Sir Robert Peel with regard to that noble
lord, and stating ' that in my opinion they were fully
justified. When Sir R. Peel was leaving aloe, be said :
o My noble friend hes dared to avow that there is a moral
obligation upon the Christian minister of a Christian coun-
try to 'sheen every effurt for the maintenance of peace
before incurring the risk, not to say the guilt, of war. But
while be has net shrunk from the manly avowal of that
opinion, I will, in testicle to him, add this—and it is per-
fectly consistent with that opinioa as to the moral obliga-
tion of maintaining peace, while peace an be maintained
with honour—that there never was a minister less inclined
to sacrifice any essential interest, or to abate anything
from the dignity and honour of this country, even for
the purpose of securing that inestimable blessing."
I believe that opinion to be perfectly jun. He has now
entered into • war. Only a short time ago I had a long
conversation with him on the terms of peace. I concurred
Mall ha said, and am satisfied, and have the fullest reliance
that he will sot consent to any peace that is not jest and
honourable, and is not approved of by the general feeling
end opinion of this country. (Hear, hear.) Let me now
say a few words with regard to the government I have left.
I cannot but say that I look back to my association with
many measures and acts of that government with great
pride and satisfaction—above all, with the greatest pride
and satisfaction to that 'peen, full of eloquence and win
doe., delivered by my right hon. friend the Chancellor of
the Exchequer in ;proposing the financial scheme of the
government two years ago. (Hear, hoar.) I believe
be therein developed the true prineiples of finance.
And, as I said, It is a satisfaction to me that amidst that
splendour of eloquence there was brilliancy enough to shed
some part of its rays on those who were his colleagues en
that nee lion. (Loud cheers.) I know it has been said
that those who conducted the whig party had not in the
distribution of power amongst the government that degree
of iaduence which belonged to them from their character,
their ability, and number. Sir, it Las always appeared to
me that an unjust slur had found its way amongst the pub-
lic, and prevailed to a great extent in public opinion, to the
effect that the whig party was an exclusive party—that
they required all the power and patronage of office for
themselves, and WM not prepared to support any system
of administration in which they did not hold a part. I
believe that opinion to have been unjust, and the conduct
of the whig party during the last few years fully justifies
that opinion of mine. (Hear.) I venture to say that no
party ever behaved with more disinterested patriotism than
did the Whig party who supported the government of Lord
Aberdeen. (Hear, hear.) It is my pride that I belong to a
party which, as I conceive, upholds the true principles
of freedom and the juot influence sod balance of the consti-
tution, and, whether in or ontof office, it shall be my pride
to preserve the principles and stand by the maxims which
the whig party has laid down. (Cheers.)
Lord PALMERSTON—It may bo expected of me that
I should not allow the address of my noble friend to pass
without some observation on the part of the government.
(Hear, hear.) I must in the fleet place beg to assure my
noble friend and the home that nothing could be more
painful to me, officially aad personally, than the step
which my noble friend has thought it to be his duty
to take in separating hitesel from the government
of which I am a member. (Hear, bear.) There has
been • particular time when a temporary differeaee existed
between my noble friend and enpolf ; but I beg to assure
the house that the subject of that differeace has passed
away from my mind, as I know it has passed away front his,
and that whether I an with him, or whether we are divided
in politics, the high ertimate I krmed of his character and
talents, and the deep friendship that &tinned me towards
him, never could be affected by the present, the put, or the
future. (Hear, hear.) I mut admit that a public man has
a perfect right, without any impeachment on the part of
any one, to quit office when he thinks that his continuance
in office could not be reconciled with his sense of
duty ; and however much I may regret the loss of
my noble friend, he is exempt from any reproach for having
acted as he has done in the position in which he felt himself
to stand. It is not for me to my whether my noble friend
was right or wrong in acquiescing in the early part of lest
year to the appointment of my noble friend the Duke of
Newcastle; nor is it for me to say whether he was right or
wrong in proposing in November that I should be substi-
tuted (or the noble duke in the discharge of the duties of
Minister of War. My noble trised has truly staled that I
was in Paris when the corremondence which he read took
plan ; and lam ready to corroborate what he stated, that
on my return he communicated the correspondence to me,
and that when the question arose whether, in consequence
of Lord Aberdeen's declining to adopt the recommendation
of my noble friend, he should or should not deprive the Po-
vernment of his further "entice:, I urged him nett° quit the
government in consequence of that refusal of LonlAberdeen.
I thought it to be my duty to urge my noble friend, in con.
junction with my *colleagues, to continue to the government
the benefit of his services. My noble friend yielded to the
recommendation of hie colleagues. Bat from that time to
the period of his resignation I am not aware
that be reverted to that proposition. From the time
that the correspondence concluded, which was the 3rd of
December, or about that period, and when, at the earnest
and unanimous request of his colleagues, my noble friend
consented to remain in office, my belief is that up to the
moment of his resignation he did not renew that proposal.
Now I am quite ready to admit that my noble friend may
have felt some difficulty is meeting such • motion as that
which stands on the paper for discuteion this evening, and
that entertaining the opinion that seine alteration should
be made in the war department, he may have felt some dif-
ficulty in resisting a motion, the object of whin was to pro-
duce and offset such a change. But it emus to me that my
noble friend, in the remarks he made—independently of all
personal considerations and penned preferences of one man
over another—showed that there were grave eonetitutional
objection to the modem, and that be might have objected
to it on that ground. (Hear. hear.) It is innemible, he
said, that a committee sitting, up-stairs to supervise and
saperinteed the Irene ties of the government could exist
with an easiest adminbtntieo of the den. But if my
noble kind, naterelly awe properly might have continued
to 11111.1fillia the opiniestbat • @bang, was necessary is the
pen* whetheuld With, office of War Secretary, I venters
to say that that °pinks ought to be repeated to the head
of the government before-parliament met, and that he
should give the governeent an opportunity of saying
whether that preposition Obis would be accepted or an. My
noble friend stated to Lord Aberdeen that he, in common
with all mankind. 'Onto' that when pediment met some
each motion Would be made, thealpeting the government. He
mast have been aware that that which was in every one's
mouth anispolva of in every newspaner, must be looked for.
If he had said that some such motion appeared to him to be
inevitable er, at least, highly probable, and that he mild
not resist it raises some such change was made I. the de-
partment of war,tke government would then have had an op•
portunity of retonddericg the objections made, and acqui-
escing in his proposition, if they thought fit to do so, or if
they thought that the same objections continued which
prevailed before, they wooldthn have beelines opportnity
of determine, whether they would auntie the km of the
services of my noble friend, or whether they believed that
loin to be of such paramount importance, that
they would amender office, and another government might
be fouled. A resignation at that time, sad wader each
eirounistasese, might have been effected ithout
meat of say person concerned. Them would be time
for making arrsaminients, either with &view drawl/Drag
the seining government or forming a new gollumeat ;
aad ash a course would have been in conformity leak the
ordinary practice of *ninth this country. Bet the sane
takes by my noble friend, I humbly submit, was net la
anordeaes with the usual prattles of public awn. (Hear.)
It wee ealealated 'suitably to plate the govereseat he let
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set se he eassted. My wale fries& made we sere-
whilst hadheishist for the better sadheet of the
war ; he put forward no dhoSet raesuraree for the hatter
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