The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-04 00:00:00

RESIGNATION OF LOYD PALMERSTON.

air B. ]TALL said be did not rise for the purpose of
offering any opposition to the address which had just been
moved by his him. friend the member for Anglesea, but as
he observed that the first paragraph of that address rekted
to the foreign policy of this country, and as great and im-
portant amiss had taken place in the ministry of this
sonany, especially in that department of it which related to
the administration of foreign affairs, he trusted that he might

be excused, if be took that, the first opportunity that the
session afforded him, of raking the noble lord at the bead
of the government to give the house and the country some
explication of the causes which had led to those chan,
He mustrevert to the openiag of parliament on 31st Jan.,1860.
Parliament was opined by royal commission, and the commis.
'loners were directed t., state that this country was in a
condition of peace end amity with all foreign powers. A
debate took place as the address, an amendment having
bees moved,and although there were 607 members present,
not one word was said with regard to the foreign policy of
the country, nor any objection made to the administration
of foreign affairs by the noble lord who was then at the
head of the office for foreign affairs. In a short time
afterwards a motion was made in the other house of porlie,
meat, on what was called the " Greek question," but which
wen din etc(' againstthe whole of our foreign policy, Ind more
=ly against the administration of the noble lord.
elution was carried by • large majority against the
government. Soon after that motion wee earned con-
demnatory of the foreign policy of the government, and
especially of the course taken by the noble lord the Foreign
Secretary, gentlemen ou the other side of that house were
taunted with not bringing for ward a motion in accordance
with that which had been carried by their political friends
elsewhere, and on their declining to do so the hon. member
for Sheffield brought forward a motion which was carried
by • large and triumphant majority, and by means of
which all parties on the other side of the house united and
voted against the party on that (the ministerial) side. The
resolution which was moved in June, 1860, was to this
effect:—" That the principles on which the foreign policy
of her Majesty's government has been regulated have been
'web 116 were calculated to maintain the honour and dignity
of this country, sad in times of unesiunpled difficulty to pre-
serve peace between England and the various nitions of
. 'the world '—thus at once, by a large majority,: affirming
the principles which the foreign policy of the noble
lord at the bend of the government was influenced, and
their administration by the noble lord then Secretary
for Foreign Affairs; and he (Sir 11. Hall) would beg at-
teak's le a tape of that debate which was much discussed
la diadem. end meek spoken of out of doors. It was said that
at that petted a Gebel bad been formed, which was ezeiting
and raesteuting earls fur the removal of the noble lord
the Secretory or rennin Affairs freer his office. There was
• foreign cabal ape* talked of. and working to carry out
the object which Imi now bee. achieved. An allusion was
made to that cabal he a remarkable passage of the speech
of the noble lard at tam lead of the government in that de-
bate, in which be selbased le such • cabal, sad expressed
his unquulided eppeholies of the administration of foreign
ollidra by the sena Be mid " It has been said that
while my whir friend bee burn foreign secretary the
reentry has always hem as the eve of war. I can only say
that of the SS year. slam we had a war, upwards of le
yeses the (=airs th; country been
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Such were the words 711 brield
J. lineedlt when adeepatios the awe of hie brow
colleague. fle added Oat there might be • esbol. bet
he stated lest la ell that the noble lord (Lord Palmerston)
had done, withfog amid be more admirable than the policy
he bed permed, as well se the mode of its isseestism.
Si used that asesioa. The sod hod trbamphed
is Om Imam, sad received the lIIIMITSI of the
representatives of the people, and also the approba-
te& of the people set of doors. Oa Tuesday, the tad
Felimery, prliamest bed bees opened by bra Majesty, and
she had stated the* ate emetlmeed " the meet I
!deadly relations with forsiga peeress." /niriag the lest
sand not a word had been said egaiset the trelsa pelley
of the government. Parliament limed is the nee* of
=Who could have sappemil tket Mesa they met
that the government would have lea OM if Os ablest
LP=rs He would now cell steeeties le sem »-
facts, in doing which be wean refrain !em am-
meet or reference to rumours whisk wont as eostredietery
as they were various, his object being to being fats before
the bees, and to elicit informatics is to the ad muses
whisk had led to this change. On thelichDeameber an
event took place in Paris of the camp of they IMO
ignorant, but with the result el they were
acquainted. Oa the 24th the neigaades of the
este lord was aanedied in the Those newipaper. On
the 28th of January die ambassador of this esestry at the
mart of Priam woe either recalled or teacart. lie would
new ate& M ossehar matter. He did met New If It was
of impetuses to the question' but he weak! modes it in
order that the nobbling at the head of the (emollient
might refer to it in ea answer he might make, and sato if
there wee say for the report that a cabs' wee et
work. He bar dated diet the resignation °fake soils
Lord was easesesed ia the 72ress of the 24th of D4Olllll/11T.
It was a cords feet that a letter wee written at Vienna oe
the preceding day, the 23rd, which wee printed is the
Broder Go ma ea the night of the 24th sad published
the
the sesesies of the WA h, whisk essemesed dourly
the bedded slimaksel of, or reelinalles the
molds Mid. Ho would quote what was sealed, whisk
wee es this ewes—" It is repented that secret segetistiess
ha* ben sealed as be is atilt pails, isßag-
bag, sakss.l Oh is View,
the eldest of whiskwhiskk Maas Aimsms between
the two marts, sod the withdrawal of the DAM
This was written the day before the Nib bed nelised,
sad wee circulated in Visalia the day ode Met mm
wee made public in limbed.
_This woo killewed atirket"
ea
by placards put forward by the gobeeeneet---(heite. bow)
—announcing the resignation of the noble saillsed, snout
palsied by tepidlye of the most eat
which were sanctioned by the pri=terdsVirai
country. (Hear, hear.) So the matter rested until this
day. Her Majesty opened parliament, and was advised
to say that " she continued to maintain the mast friendly
relations with foreign powers.- The &distiller was put is
the superlative degree on the present teinaloe, and if this
country was in such amicable r. lames with foreign coun-
tries, why was there this change of the foreign minister

Lord J. RUSSELL—I am quite willing to answer the
appeal which has been made to me by my hon. friend, but
I swat de 10 without entering much into detail with re-
gaml M *Meal easurreaeee, and generally with regard to
iereiga again; and I hope the house will grant me this in-
dulgence, that if other topics of the speech from the throne
are alluded to and explanations required from me, I shall
be allowed to make them. (Hear, hear.) I will now
proceed to answer the question of my hon. friend
I am entirely ready to admit the correctness of what
he has stated with regard to what I said is the debate in
IWO on the affairs of Greece, and that I expressed the ut-
most confidence is the administration of (ensign affairs by
my noble friend. I will say more, that it is not by words
only that I hate ssown my sense of the energy, of the
ability, of the knowledge of the interests of England in her
relations a ith all parts of the world, which were so pre-
eminently the qualifications of my noble friend. I have
more than once testified this opinion in other ways than by
words, and I will state that when the administration of

1839 was formed by Lord Melbourne, his first proceeding
was to scud for me and ask me what office I was disposed
to accept; and he added that be supposed I should be in-
clined to accept that of Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
I replied that I would not accept that office unless his con-
venience would he suited by such an arrangement, and
that Lord Palmerston, who was then, 1 believe, out of par-
liament, was eminently qualified to fill it ; but that I was
ready to accept the office of Secretary for the Home Depart-
ntent if that arrangement would he thought to be beneficial
to the aovernment. I then showed my acne of the qualifi-
cations of my noble friend. Again, in December, 1845,
and in July, 1848, when I was called on by ber Majesty to
submit to ber a plan for the formetion of an administration
fur her sanction, I earnestly pressed tho necessity of
placing my noble friend at the head of foreign af-
fairs be the person best qualified to hold the