The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-25 00:00:00

MAILRIAUE AFFINITY BILL.

The Fairl of I. 0 ERMANS odd that he had • motion
for to-morrow (chi.) evening, which would not involve any
party. efinUilenitiona, namely, the sieond mailing of the
?damage Affinity ; and aa he should he unwilling to
bring it (award in the almienee of the Lord Chief Justice,
who would on \Turku...lay proceed on his circuit, he would
beg the noble3rqui• to piaitpolie the adjournment until
to, ninriow (the, day).
. .

Lord e4;iritm.l:and the Archloi4lop of CAN Tr. aa caT
having roneunvd,

Th;frlarqurr of LANSDOWNE amid he would accede
to the wi.hrw of the noble lord,

toUNTY 41/URI'S VATF:NSION BTLL.

lord BROUGHAM pritrimcd the introduction of this
bill until Humbly oral.
TOE NNW VIICE-CIIANCIRI,LOR.

lln tho motion of Lon! I. t'.. the bill for the ap-
philitmolit nl• a new Vice-Chancellor woo n•od a melon,
tone ; intl. the mantling under hating been disie•nstd
nab. the 101 l went throegh committee, and nat. ordered to
le r. ad a third time 4►mmrow.

ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
IMPROVEMENT BILL.

Thi. bill ICI.. f;ntit;lTlntin; rekrred
to_ a wkrt IVnllllllt 11.1•.

Their lorddliju adjourned at a quarter before sit
o'clock.

MOUSE OF CONINIONS.-MONDAT FEL 24.

The Si' tle4 the clutir th.• uutal hour.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

Strrinn lir (N. Bala rmil ; Briton Ferry,
ilmks, and Railway ; Cameron's Coilhmok Stearn Coal
and Swansea nut Louglior Itailway; Christehureh (South-
wark) l'ari.h , European and American Printing Tele-
graph Company, &r.; Gnat Wl,lllll ItailWay (arrange-
menty with f..(1.1% ore to the purchase, &e. of the Wilts,
Smerms, and Weeruouth Railway.); Killarney and
Valencia Railway; London and Blarkwall Railway (trim
London and Illaekwall Exten.ion Railway to Tilbury, Ste.);
Manchmter Watervfork. ; :tlanetoster improvement ;
Maryport and Carli.le linilwry; Midland Railway (pur-
slime of Leeds and Bradford -Railway and inecea.e ~f
capital); Richmond and Lancaster Turnpike Wind (western
district) Continuation of Term. de.; Sheffield and Mos-
'sop Road ; Sub-marine Telegraph Comminy between Eng-
land and Frans; Tenterden mml Woudebureb Roads ;
Wividiscouilie Turnpike Roads, Bills.
NEW
_

Mr. SMITH C 111111.1.1 trtuk the oaths and hi, seat as
inandner for North Staffordshire.

NEW WRIT.

On the /notion of Mr:ltTry.itanew writ wa• ordered
For a aseinher to serve in parliament for the borough of
liarirkh, in the mom of Sir J. C. Ilubhunae, who ha
axe pted the Chilternilurulreils.

INCOME TAX.
Mr. COWAN ow notate that, in committee of war
and mturt., hr ohould more that the income tax be Riper-
maletl by a filed rate on all trades and prof Winne.
RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS.

.....
rrhe following appeared in a Second Edition of last even-
ing's Express] :
Lou) J. RUSSELL'S EXPLANATIONS.

The time had now COmr for trailing the ardent of the day,
and the benches, both ministerial and opposition, which
had liven gradually tilling since four o'clock. presented an
unusually thronged and excited antivenins.. The. least
incident was wired upou, and one is hit II created • roe lerous
burst °filtering and laughter was the entrance of Mr. M.
liDti who walked up the house and inadsertently (sweatie-
r,...) tatelown in Lord J. (Lumen's usual seat At live o'clock,
Lord J. RI.SSELL rose, and amid the moat breath-
ier+ earner, addressed the house as follows:—Sir,—On
Friday evening List I peurdsed the house that I would,
on this day, state the na.euns that induced me to propose on
that evening an adjournment of the Committee of Ways
and Means to the present time. I now rise
to acquit myself of that engagement. The house
will remember that immediately after the com-
mencement of the session • mot Lin was made by the hon.
member for Buckinghamshire calling upon her Majesty's
man mere. in take immediate measures fbr the relief of the dis-
tress prevailing among the owners and occupiers of land.
Every membered this house, and every person in the country
=tilt base considered that that motion was emotion to take
out of the hands of her Majesty's present government, the
emaduct of the measures which it is the duty of
a government to propose. 'the honourable member
fee Bucks took a perfectly parliamentary course
OS that subject. He stated that he had in vain
appealed to the government during the previous session,
and that be now had no resource but to appeal to the
House of Coltman,. I do not in the slightest degree cora-
plainest the course, adopted by the hon. member, I merely wish
to state whist mast be the effect in the view of every one, if
that motion had been succeedul. Two hundred and silty-
nine members of this house voted for that motion, and two
hundred and eighty-three against it, and, therefore,
the majority of theme present consisted of only fourteen
members. Nom, sir, upon • question of that kind
brought forward in hostility to the government at the very
commencement of the semion, the Chancellor of the Ea-
iskequer having given notice of his intention to bring for-
ward the financial statement of the year, • majority of only
It roust tend to weaken WIT government. it being
impossible to carry on the business of the country
with so small a majority in the House of Commons. But
it appeared to me, that although the majority was small,
yet that if there was a determination on the part
of all the members forming the majority to main-
tain those principles of commercial polici which
in effect were in question on that day, at that
union might have made up for the seta Incas of
the majority, and that the government might have
conducted sucavalully the affairs of the country.
But en the 20th February a motion was mad. with
raffsid to a certain question of parliamentary, reform ; and on
that question, though in a thin house certainly, there being scare...4y more than • hundred members present—the go-
vernment was beaten be a majority of two to Oqt. Now,
sir, if that had oceurn-d in ordinary circumstances, I might
have thought that it was owing to the thinness of
the house, and to those who were in favour of the
Motion having brought down a considerable number

in support of it. and that probably on the discussion of the
bill, which must have been introduced founded upon that
motion, there would have been a majority fn accordance
with the views of the government. But in thopircum-
stances in which we were placed, I did aonsittar, that
though honourable gentlemen may have actesksnWily with i
• view to the particular question before the hollow, a. not at all
with reference to the result upon the ,minWy I did think
that, though that being their intentligea art views, yet is
effect having the whole of the fikimcial and other mea-
sures before us, and the probability, as I am inclined to
think and belie ye there was, that on those other measures
and on other incidental questions we might meet with
defeats--(hear, hear)--I came to the conclu-
sion that the government was not in a position to conduct
satisfactorily the business of this house during the present
session. (Hear, bear.) I thought that it was for the public
interest that if that was the case the house should not be
called upon to go into discussions of our financial measures,
and to form decisions on those questions, when it was pro-
bable that the government would not be able to go suc-
cessfully through the session. I thought likewise that it wu
a dangerous and very disadvantageous thing for the country
that a government should continue liable to defeats from time
to time, having but a very small majority at any time, and
carrying on therefore but a lingering existence during the
great part of the session yet to come. I therefore assembled
the other members of the cabinet, and stated to them that in
my opinion the best course we could take, as a ministry, was
to tender our united resignations to her Majesty,and to leave
her Majesty free to form another administration. (Hear,
hear.) Sir, my colleagues in the cabinet concurred with
me in that opinion. (Cheers from the ministerial side of
the house.) One very important member of that cabinet,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord President of the Council,
was at the time absent in the country, and I did not formally
tender our resignations on that day (Friday) to her Majesty
without having first cow-ulted him. Therefore it was that
I asked the house to consent to an adjournment till to-day.
(Hear, hear.) Early on the following morning the Marquis
of Lansdowne came to town. He met me at Buckingham
Palace, and stated that he concurred with me entirely in
the view we had taken. I thereupon proceeded at once to
lay before her Majesty the unanimous resignations of the
members of her administration, which resignations her
Her

Majesty was graciously pleased to accept. ... „ Majesty
wail also graciously pleased to inform me that it wail
her intention to send immediately to Lord Stanley, and to.
entrust him with the charge of forming a new government.
Later in the day—in the afternoon—l was requested to
go again to Iluckingham Palace, and, on arriving there,
I was informed by her Majesty that Lord Stanley
had stated that he was not then " prepared
to form a government. Iler Majesty then asked me to me I
dertake the charge of reconstructing a government that
might be able to obtain the confidence of the House af
Commons. Sir, I thought it my duty, in these eircurn-
stances to attempt the tusk her Majesty was graciously
pleased to impose upon me. And I assured her
Majesty that I would undertake it, though I was
perfectly aware of the many difficulties surrounding ouch an '
attempt. The house will, I think, agree that I should only
add to those difficulties and be at the ',ante time acting most
improperly if I were to state anything further on
this oceasion. (hear, hear.) I have only, therefore,
to request the house, without pasting to any discussion or to
any judgment as to what has taken plate, to adjourn until
Friday next, when I trust some definite result will
have bees come to ; and that I shall be able
to say either that I have succeeded ur that I
have abandoned the task that I have undertaken. In either
case the house will then learn what is likely to be the re.
suit. (Hear, hest.) I beg, Sir, now to move that tide
house eln adjourn till Friday next. (Cheers.)
Mr. DISItAELI, who ruse amidst cries of "Order," sad
other symptoms of impatience, said I feel it my duty, after
the statement of the feeble lord, to occupy the attention ofl
the house for a moment. It is most true—and, indeed, a
matter of public notoriety—that Lord Stanley has had
an audience with her Majesty, and when he shall receive
her Majesty's gracious permission to state what transpired
at that audience, he will do so publicly and in a constitu-
tional manner in his place in parliament. But there is
I one observation which fell from the noble lord I feel it my
duty not to pass unnoticed. When the noble lord states that
Lord Stanley stated to her Majesty that he was not pre-
pared to form an administration—
Lord J. ItUsSELL—Not " then " prepared. (Cheers.)
Mr. DISRAELI—Not " then" prepared to form au admi-
nietration. the correction of the noble lord does not affect
what lam about to state. I must express my conviction that
when the noble lord said that Lord Stanley stated to her
Majesty that he wax not then" prepared to form an ad-
ministration, he made a statement to the house which
on further re Setting he will, I think, acknowledge was not
founded on what actually occurred. (Hear, hear.)
Lord JOHN ItUSSELL—After what the hon. gentle-
man has stated, I will only say that Lord Stanley
will no doubt at the proper time when he shall
think fit to do so, and have received the permission
of her Majesty, state what really occurred. My belief is,
that the statement which will then be made by Lord
Stanley will bear the construction I have put upon it.
Mr. ROEBUCK—I have one observation to make as to
the extraordinary statement which the house has just heard.
We are about to adjourn till Friday. The noble lord is
about in the meantime tee endeavour to reconstruct his'
cabinet. The noble lord may fail, and then, with-
out the House of t'ommons having the alighteet opportunity
to express any feeling of its own, her Majesty will be
obliged— I may so use the phrase without disrespect—to
send fer somebody else to make an administration, Now, I
do hope that the noble lord who has hitherto as the leader
not simply of a great party in this house, but as heading
and representing a great ponciple, that he will not forget
in all the proceedings which are about to take plate that
that principle is now in his hands—that in a great measure
what will hereafter take place as to the great principle of
financial arrangement in this country will depend on the
proceedings he may pursue ; and on him will be the respon-
sibility if we have again to tight the bottle of free trade.
(Cheers.)

s-The niotinn that the house at its rising do adjourn till
Friday was then put and carried ; and in a few minutes
atter the house adjourned at 20 minutes post •5.

NAVY ESTIMATES FOR TILE YEAR 1831-52.
An estimate of the Rums; required to meet the ex-
ovals.% which may he incurred in the Naval Department in
the year 18.11,52, showing the increase and decrease us com-
pared with the sums voted (or the preceding year, under
the following heads; viz.:
lISTRACT.

Required ta be Last vote
must tor the tor Me
service of the year Anancial year
IR.M..V. inso.st.
3% to seamen and marines £1,433,723 £1,344.070*
Vietudis for ditto
Admiralty-office
Giueral Itegister and Record-
office of Seamen (transferred
to Board of Trade)
Scientific branch
tier Majesty's establishments
at home
.
tier Majesty's .. .
abroad ....

Wages to artificer, &e., em- -
ployed in her Majesty's esta-
blishments at home
Wages to artificers, &e., em-
ployed in her Majesty's esta-
blishments abysmal 35,956
Naval stores, &c., for the build-
ing and repair of ships, &c 812,193
New works, improvements and
repairs in the yards, &e 299,389
Medicines and medical stores
Miscellaneous services

Total for the effective service £4,213,871
Half-pay to officers of the navy
and Royal Marines
Military pensions and allow-

slur; 488,442
Civil pensions and allowances 159,589

Total for the naval service £5,684,0.59
For the service of other depart-
ments of the government
Army and Ordnance Depart-
ment* (conveyance of troops) 143,200
Grand total
't Abate : General Register andftecord-ollice
of &wizen (transferred to Board of Trade

9,772 t
49,703

134,5V1

23,713

339,839*
27,680•
175,698..

C 4,354,015•

751,206
490,34.5
167,086

C5,772,652*

135,700

9,772

E 5,898,560
Net decrenao E181.093
Registration of Seamen 0,712

L 171,321
F. BARING. WILLIAM COWPER.
Admiralty, Feb. 14, 1851.
• These sum* include the votes on the supplementary
estimate for the Arctic searching expeditions, eke. (1850-51),
amounting together to 55,9291.
t See Parliamentary Paper, dated Mayl7, 1850, N 0.356.
N.B. The old store and extra receipt moneys have been
paid over to the Exchequer, instead of being reserved as
1" credits in aid."