The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-13 00:00:00

OPINIONS ON PRINCE ALBERT ON PUBLIC

AFFAIRS.
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At the annual dinner of the Trinity Corporation,
on Saturday evening last, at the Trinity House, his Royal
Highneu PAINCI ALBS= proposed the health of her Ma-
jesty's Ministen in the following terms:

Gestlemen,—The toast which I have now to propose
to you is that of her Majesty's Ministers. (Cheers.) if
i there was ever • time at which her Majesty's government,
by whomsoever conducted, required the support, aye, not the
support alone, but the confidence, good will, and sympathy
of their fellow countrymen, it is surely the present. (Loud
cheers.) It is not the way to S*CCM in war, to support it,
however ardently and enthusiastically, and at the same time
OS tie down and weaken the hands of those who hetes to
MAW it. (Cheering.) We are engaged with a
Mighty enemy, who is using against us all thou wonderful
powers which have sprang up under the g flag influence
door liberty and our civilisation. You find him with all
that force which unity of purpose and action, impenetrable
anweey, and uncontrolled despotic power, have given, while
IPS Walk 119 SSW him under • state of things intended for
pima, eel An the promotion of that very civilisation, the
dhprhsg of public discussion, of the friction of parties,and of
69 popular matzo' on the government and the state. (lieu,
kwar.) The Queen has no power to levy troops, nor has
tie any at her command, but such as offer their voluntary
iteevieee. (Rear, hear.) Her government can take no
Oheasure for the prosecution of the war which it has
Met beforehand to explain in parliament. Her armies
eel fleet can make no movements, nor even
peepers for any, without their being publicly announced in
albs papers. No mistake, however trifling, can occur, no
1 coat or weakness exist,whioh is not at once denounced and
*NS sometimes exaggerated with a kind of morbid satiefac-
ffiell. (Loud and continued cheering.) The Queen's am-
Ilemadur can enter into no negotiations without the govern-
meat having to defend him by entering into all the Uri-
smuts which that negotiator, in order to be succestful, ought
e• be able to shut up in the innermost rectums of his heart.
(Loud cheers.) Nay, et the na, at critical position, when
war and diplomatic relations may be at their height,
an adverse vote in parliament may at a moment
deprive the Queen of the whole of her confidential nts.
Gentlemen, our constitutional government is undergoing a
heavy trial, and we shall not get successfully through it
unless the country will grant its confidence—patriotic, in-
telligent, and self-denying confidence—to her Majesty's
government. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I propose to
you te drink the health of Viscount Palmerston and her
Majesty's Ministers.
The tout was drunk with great cheering.
Viscount PALNIUSTON replied—May it please your Royal
Highness, my Lords, and Gentlemen: I beg, on the part
of my colleagues and myself, to return to you our best and
sincere thanks for the honour you have done us in drinking
the toast which his Royal Highness has been kind enough
to propose, and fur the lettering manner in which you
have been kind enough to receive It. I can assure you that
there is no roof under which that tout could be more agree-
able to our feelings than the roof under which we have now
had the honour to have it proposed. We are assembled
under the roof of a body whams duties are intimately con-
nected with those arrangements which form one of the most
important elements of cur national wealth, and which also
lay the foundation for one of the most important sources of
our national etrongth. There is, indeed, • unity of
operation between the government that may have to
administer the affairs of this country and the
body which hu done us the honour to receive us, which
also tends to make that honour which has been conferred
more agreeahle to us, for it is the function of the Trinity
Corporation to provide pilots for those thousands of keels
that plough the waves that wash our shore ; and, on the
other hand, to erect thou lights which warn navigators
from dangers which they would otherwise have to encounter,
and which point out to them the havens where safety is to
be obtained. (Hear, hear.) Well, gentlemen, the duty of
ministers is of a somewhat similar description. It is the
duty of ministers to guide and to enlighten, and we well
know, taking the example from yourselves, that, pro-
perly to guide, we must begin by enlightening. Gentle-
men, we are now entrusted with the command of the vessel
of the state, and I am proud to say that that noble
vessel was never in better " trim," was never better formed,
never bad on board a more noble crew than at the present
moment. It is full of men animated by the most exalted
devotion to their duty, and determined to bear in the
" battle and the breeze " with honour and safety that royal
standard which floats nobly and gloriously over their heads.
(Cheers.) We have certainly up to the present moment
had storms and difficulties to encounter, but I am convinced
that, with the assistance of that crew which I have men-
tioned, those difficulties and disasters will be ur
smounted, I
that by • " strong pull,a long pull, and a pull altogether," an
shall be enabled to bring the vessel of the state safely through
annendtanpecaohol: h(iterheeinnthae huarieborourraofhlaigobnnoesuras Lie
batnedu
ptimaperma-
to say that a government, especially in such periods as the
present, ought to receive the generous confidence and sup-
port of the nation. I am bound to say that we have
thatre-
y
ceeopoiurvnuedtryus , and
inst:le se
course port,
uthr
flesh no a own a nhui r aci mhbowl and
!et
ffeteellinPitg*oeourfroua teesvy, fromto nation
sthepursue,
and we should indeed be unworthy of that support, we
should be little deserving the high position in which it has
pleased her Majesty to place us, and in which we are
supported by the Confidence of the parliament and by the
support of the whole British nation we should be un-
worthy of that oosfidenee and support if we were not de-
-1 termined to exert our bast energies, and to direct the
towardswhi w obtainingear e ethnagtagveide:
bi:shtieheneelregniees
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thbee
ceco::nar'strYtiscttenit, I will not say with the
1 thoornioouurs ra"ndultgloofryth, °but with the safety of the British

The allied troops on the Tohoneys front remain
very much in the position they occupied on the 28th
inst.—the day of the advance from the lines of Bela-
kleve. The Sardinians ere still on the extreme
right, the Turks on the right, and the left wing,,
stretching to the plateau of Beisetopol, is composed'
of French and Turks. Turks, too, slightly inter-1
mixed with French troops, form • reserve is tee I
rear. The French Cavalry hes advanced ep from
the plain end taken up its position in the antra
The Sardinian Lancers on the right are encamped
in the rear of their contingent In the evening they
advance to do picket duty against Tchorgoun-.4
task in which they are assisted by our own meshy,
who, for that purpose, march up nightly from the
lines of Belakkes. Though the position of the
temp is the same in the mein, still there has been
a geed duel of shifting and arranging of camps ;1
end the het few days, though they were poor
in snots, have not been idle. It seems to
be General Canrobert's intention to bring bier'
encampments into perfect line of battle, and to push
the troops on the enemy from the positions they [
occupy on the hills commending the valley of the
Tchernaya. There is also reason to believe that the
next advance, whenever it shell be made, will be
made with the assistance of British troops, for the
Guards are under marching orders, and the
Division are preparing to move from the post
for @even long months, they have held io the Ilabos.
topol front. Up to the present the 31st Regiment
one represents the British infantry among the troops (PRAY THI COWSPONDINT OF THZ DAILY WIITIS.)
that are to unlock the gates of the mountain fortress PARIS, TOZODAY EVININO.
upon which we look down. There is no confirmation of the taking of the
The Hamden lines, which the army under General
We
know is about to take, are very strong by nature. Melakhoff Tower, reported by the Vienna telegraph.
IWe know moue of the Russian engineers to sup- There is a rumour to-day of Generals Morris, nos
pose that they hen availed themselves of all the ad- quet, and Caorobert, having an era
Liprandi
vantages of the position on our extreme left at Inter- THE RUSSIAN SHIPPING AT SEBASTOPOL. and forced him to surrender. Rumours of this kind
menu; 'the steep chalk rock rises at some distanceare sometimes the echoes of telegraphic despatches
from thd Tchernsys, and appears almost as if me General Folksier's despatch of the 9th illustrates RUSSIA.
ture, in a fit of military segineerinti, had what has been said of the manner in which the cap- which the government doe' not publish immediately
taro of the Cereensfe Redoubts affects the Russian
fashioned the rook for defence. It springs outward on the receipt of them, but they are mote often in-
shipping. The position in which these vessels have ST. PRIRIISBURG, Irma 2.
in cavaliers, bats out in bastions, and runs backward ventions founded upon a speculation on probabilities.
now sought shelter, Artillery Bey, opening from the The appalling intelligence of the sanguinary night
in zig-sag lines. The ascent is like that of a slightly
Great Harbour, and indenting the town of Sebastopol contests of the 22nd and 23rd of May, with the The Bourse was heavy to-day, the Moniteur not
sloping wall; the tops ere fist, as if made into is the last refuge of - frightfully long lists of the killed—for the attack confirming the news of the taking of the Malakhoff
plateaus he bringing guns into position. These are rim'. whet remains of the was carried on with such embitterment by the French Tower, and Consols coming lower. The Rents fell
...ser's Black Sea fleet. The nearest French batteries
the low, jutting hills on our extreme left—on our leftthat the far greater part of the Redeems were killed 20e691r.
from which it is to be presumed that General Pelimitir outright by the bayonet, and the number of wounded _., closing at3dc. There was more firmness
and centre the mountains recede, but are much either
and quits es steep es thane on the extreme t. means to attack it are these of the left attack, near is, therefore, not worth speaking of—followed almost at the close than at the opening. The railways were
end rem of the Cemetery, and opposite the Quarantine Bastion. immediately by the losses at Rates, Yenikale, all somewhat higher. lam informed that the Credit
Agsinst our right, where the village
IlTaiorgoun masks the defiles that lead into the Genitchi, and Soujoukkaleh, have not failed to make Waller has established a branch ofiloe at Vienna,
interior, the range of mountains immediately opposed THE MEDITERRANEAN. a most painful impression here, end to cast a gloom and another at Amsterdam. This security rose 10fr.
to as, is lower, but higher moleskins in the rear OM- ----- over every countenance. The hitherto ineffectual to-day.
itip this front rank, exactly as if our Guardsmen MALTA, Jews 7. attempts of the Allies to reduce Sebastopol had cre-
ws standing behind a line of Sardinian Rifles. The We continue busy with the arrival and departure and a general belief that that fortress was perfectly The ball at the Hotel de Ville last night was the
Rowans, at rime mine appear to think of transports, which are constantly on the move, some to impregnable. So it may be, in the way in which the most splendid ever seen even in that the meet fa-
that our chief mimic& will be made
' from one left, the mat sad a few to the west. sine was hitherto conducted, but the evident change veered locality in the world fora vast public enter-
where increasable mountains are to be climbed and Oa email'. the &do the Hisssisla *frivol hem in the tactics of the besieging armies, end the first teinment of the kind. The suites of rooms have been
batteries to be taken. AU this day they were busily ()Mater. with home, ac., sad, titer a few hem, Pro' successes so remarkable, have gone far to dissipate so often described that it would be tedious to dwell
the illusion which prevailed here of the invincibility upon
engsged to still more add to the advantages of their eewied to the Crimes.
citglar, lg the eyelet rifle-pis to command the Oa the 4th the Propeller arrived from Balaklan. She is of the Russian arms, and give way to the unpleasant their magnificence. The gnat novelty on this
'an the alteration in the square of Louis
fords • cherusys. They seem to chide es, ot the railway establishment steamers, and through the sensation of distrust and uncertainty.
-that an atDa
tack upon their hit, the passing through kindness of the proprietors, Mr. Willies. tiptoe, his wife On the other hand, the appearance of the hostile XIV., which instead of being an open garden as
the defiles, end crowning the heights of Taiorgrae, and hew', get a passage to England. His estate is near fleets off Cronstedt appears to cause no alarm, as the heretofore, was converted into an lamed's, reception
requires a degree of pnerelship of which the allied ftbasl•Pol• general impression is that, should the ships attempt hall, richly carpeted, and covered with a rose-coloured
armies,up to the present, haveaciven no evidence. We The Great Tassula is ben, sad, hiving leaded the an attack, they will only run into the face of com- canvas roof. The architect of the Hotel de Ville has
on the other hand rely upon morel Csnrobert and soldiers she brought out, she is sow embarking others, sad plate destrection, and experisies the most signal
defeat, for the strength of the defences and the been at work for months past in effectuating this
our own African brigediers to whom this mountain reeved. to-morrow to the seat of war.
war is familiar; we look hopefully upon the nut On the 6th the Orisoce and Kangaroo steamers arrived, courage of the garrison admit of no doubt transformation, and without entering into the question
numbersisopot light troop that are at General Canto- having had a pleasant to
oat, and with the Ems, an The peaceable end bloodless conquest of the exten- raised by some of the municipality, whether a hand-
bert's rl* ;we expect much of the Zoneves, three very large steamers, proceeded with reisforeenants sive territory to the north of the river Amax—s ter. some appendage to the municipal edifice has not bees
much of our light diviston; and perhaps still more to the Crimea. ritory equal in sin to the whole area of Germany— deprived of its proper character by meretricious
from the skill end agility of the Sardinian Rifles. Oa the same day the Etna towed the Uttar transport, is now officially confirmed by the bkutric correspou- additions, the result for the special purposes of last
Whenever these troops advance from their present N. 200, to Genes. The Asides arrived from the Esse. dent of the Northern Bee, end is considered as an n' ht's hes festival was highly successful. The
company
position, it is hoped that the burden of the attack Among the diens landed hers by the Great Tasmania, event of gnat importance for the future • for, though "D
" • though passed through this newly made salon as they so--1
will rest epos 'Monona. to remain with the depot of the Edo, is Lord Alexander at the present moment there mots only one solitary
and many waited fora full hour before mount-
will rest
the new MDT is a subject of intense Russell; and the Mon. Captain Pillow, who has been some " winter house," there are two most excellent bar- rived,
interest to the old one. Horsemen and foot pewee, time hers, proceeds to joie the Rifles. boun capable of becoming, when fortified, what rug the staircase leading to the ball-rooms, to enjoy
gels from the heights of Sebastopol crowded the plain The detachment, matinee& Isere are mastantly drilled, Sebtatopol is now in the Black Sea with nfennor to the fragrance of the fig to
which apparently
yesterday sad today for a holiday at Whitsuntide. and rapidly formed into soldiers knowing somethiag of their Turkey, as it will give Russia the command of the gnu out of the soft carpets, with which they vied
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
And surely nothing can be more acceptable at this deg ; and the plane •Noes to agree well with thew They are Bee of Japan, end open the door for the aggressive curiously in colour, and to breathe the air cooled by
season of the year than an extent of territor¢, tad principally kept in the forts, aces little distance from the spirit of the Muscovites to Oaths quarrel with, and plashing fountains- This drswing:room rden
fw this oompaay's railways (exclusive of the South Junction
such terri --strewed with flowers, travelled over eitf. whelk keeps tam , good deed out of geeepseteee. finally subjugate, the net empire of Japan, and pole visited repeatedly by the company in the course o the neleivey.—Tbe working expenses and other ouvoinge of
stated below) la the fortnight endingJ_une 3, have amounted
by dole:4m , laden with odours, sugroting sibly Chins. at th tate of 65 37per cent. the
wed evening. Although,lbelieve,all these preparstionshad to 11,4161. 41. 10d., or s oci
fresh idea, offering fresh views, sodet.‘:;ridlinar out 681 e b, ltd so
hors of a speed
y liberation toms,
this and MONTINSOaO.—A letter from Cettine (Monte- emphatically be celled a policy of the future. Though fortnights have already been stated at
.102,
It cannot be denied that the policy of Rusk may been made immediately with a view to the reception usela for the fortnight. The expenses for the ten previous
of the Lord Mayor at tb.e Universal Exhibition fries,
fetid gaol on Sebastopol heights. The te in the rime of the 29th May, fa the Assefriets (Matte, says : she has both her eyes attentively turned towards his lordship kept in eta backgrond last night, the li if
is is 113 9971. all. 9d ,or at the rate of 66.22 p• • the
•h . The rating Prime and princess of th" "tutu' ig " Europe, and watches narrowly the march of events of Portugal bele it the honoured guest of the evening. mile,: trails in the whole period. 3'4 r cent. on
front are now again Plana" of the '' thrtsig____. tat week with tin principal dignitaries of the country and . ,. .- the .__ -
that the total for the int eleven fortnights of A.._ salt year
• proportion of the
the plain to B vs--en easy and Pasant relel• :he senate to Rieks•Conoric, where Geyer,' wee in em, everyf country B .
OS= --an nothing escapes oven- His juvenile Mr,jesty one ct, sonthyJunetion and Aluincham. me' jos secretes. . , ......:
from which they were shut oat ever Niece tile 25th were aseembled, %haat° my. di_ Sow.* who had lest year 0 her we -pill-die°
October last. In short, evetyhody.lerill. 8.. So., malag a * cal foe the firsteleven f tni hts
with eakettend to fight ggettget the Teaks. The Prince passed turns with a keen glance to the east, as a fruitful procassie;o throuih the rooms, bet he went sway
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."w realiaia_, 'd the unrelaxed diem o the thrs—the throne chair in the grand ball-room, surrounded by 4,026 i. Is. 2d. :or As eleven fortnights ending June 3, or at
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tion at the present moment is peculiarly interesting
ea a sign of the severe immure under which the power
of Russia is visibly collapsing.

The following is an extract from a private letter :
Before Sebastopol, May 29.
We have just returned from llertch, and were
saluted by 21 guns on our arrival here. The Russians
destroyed a great deal of powder, and burnt an im-
mense quasfity of coals. We leave to-morrow for
Anspa. The shops were all open in Kutch when
we went in, and the ladies walking about. This has
given us all good spirits. Out batteries are nearly all
finished: they are much nearer the city than before,
well armed, and we expect to open fire on Thursday,
and I feel sure we shall do a great deal of execution.

FRANCE.

nation.
The noble lord resumed his seat amid much cheering.

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