The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-24 00:00:00

Out lip; are now forbid to speak

Those Once familiar words.
Genera-illy speaking, there appeared to be more anxiety as
to the interruption a dissolution of parliament would give
to trade, than to the fate of any party in office, or likely to
take it. Nu doubt if a ministry were to come into power
who should attempt to restore protection, or to legislate for
landlordism under the pretence of relieving agricultural
distress, a different spirit would be evoked. Our working
classes have found that untaxed bread, cheap coffee, and
cheap sugar, are too sweet to be resigned; and any attempt
at a retrograde course in this direction would probably raise
a spirit of resistance fiercer and more intense in its bitter-
ness than anything which has yet been witnessed. One
great cause of indifference to the fate of the present minis-
try is the feeling that they have thrown away splendid op-
portunities—that having gone into office with a power at
their back which would have enabled them to fulfil every
promise made when in opposition, they have wasted that
power in impatiently kicking at the friendly pressure behind
rather than in manfully battling with the enemy in front.

RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS.—LEEDS, SATURDAY
ETENINO.—The news of the resignation of the Russell
ministry reached Leeds this morning through the medium
of the electric telegraph. Though the postponement of
the budget had prepared the public mind for some such
crisis at no distant period, it was by no means prepared
for so sudden • change. The news produced an immense
sensation, and gave a great cheek to business operations.
The general opinion seems to be that Lord John Russell
had, in the present state of parties, no alternative but
to resign ; and, if we may judge from Leeds, it seems not
improbable that, should a protectionist minist7 succeed his
lordship in otfice, and attempt the reimposition of a corn
law, they will arouse a spirit in the manufacturing districts
which it would be dangerous to provoke.
SPANISH SOUTH AMERICAN LINE OF STEAMERS
—Measures have been taken for carrying into execu-
tion the project of organising • line of steamers be-
tween Spain and her American colonies. Two vee-
win the Caledonia, of 450, and the Hibernia, of 550•
horse power, have been purchased in England of the
Cunard company on account of the Spanish govern-
ment. The days of departure cannot be precisely filed
until the removal of the quarantine now imposed upon all
arrivals from Cuba. The tariff of conveyance is classified
under four beads, according to the style of accommodation
The amounts charged from Cadiz to the Havannah range
from 2,000 to 4,000 teals, or from 526 to 1,052 francs.

THE NEWCASTLE MEMORIAL LN FAVOUR OF KOB-
SCTII.—The Mayor of Newcastle has received the following
answer to the memorial recently addressed by the inhabi-
tants of this town to Lord Palmerston, praying his lord-
ship's intercession in favour of the Hungarian prisoners in
Turkey: "Foreign-office, 15th February, 1851. Sir,—l am
directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the :nth ultimo, inclining a memorial from
the inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, soliciting his
lordship's intercession on behalf of the Hangvtaos now
detained M Kutityali ; and I am to leanest that you will
state to the memorialists that her Majesty's government
have not failed to give their attention to the matters to
which that memoriol relates, but that their endeavours
have not hitherto been attended with the desired sneer s.
I ern, sir, your moot obedient humble servant (signed),
H. D. .ILnznoroze.

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
THIS DAT.

At the latest moment it is stated that Lord John
Russell has just been sent for to the Palace; but it is
doubtful whether he will take office. In case of his
refusal, it is said that Sir J. Graham, the k Duke of
Newcastle, the Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Earl of
Clarendon, and the Hon. l'ox Maule would endea-
vour to form a ministry.