The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1850.

(IProia the flues.)

The eonserestives mat yesterday sioning, pur-
suant to settee, at the Calton Club, end fond themselves
streedingly unanimous es to the impolicy of a diesolation,
To the noofficial sad unexeectent madam of the party,
with no private objects to answer, we believe that nothing
is so unwelcome as a general election jest now. Bet Lord
Derby has other to deal with, and while the rank and file
of hi, followers were casting 'teem, looks at one another in
the rlaba, be was otherwise engaged Is Downiag-street and
Buckingham Palace. • • It is stated, laded, that, giv-
ing way apparently to ressetment, salaistas are resolved to
stand their ground all pieced in a minority on a direct qtrs.
lion of coefidence, and in that ease to appeal to the people.
In other words they will not resign without a dissolution,
They have does their test, they cossider ; they have brought
a bill to a second reading which no other goveroment
has done fur the eight years the matter hie been
fen mit Won ; they have declared theniselres ready
to consider and want ressoneMe amendments ; and
if the house bee now stopped the businees on the very
threshold, upon it most rest the reeponvibility of inaction.
Oa such a coarse of proceeding Walden are, doubtless, pre-
pared for a great variety of opinions. It will be contrasted
with the bearing of the minister who woo lost placed in a
minority by a pee es of combination exceedingly similar to
that complained of In this butanes. Even if there be
nothing undignified in the first attempt to brave a victorious
opposition, still a defeat, once Inflicted, may be followed up
with equal success, end Lord Derby may have to make his
tbruatened appeal ee the enduring victim of several discom-
&OM, Ineead of the iodigoant repudiator of one. This is a
quotient that the cabinet =let decide for itself, but it must
sijezt a free application of that parliamentary criticism
whrh Mr. Disraeli claims as a valuable part of our polieical
traditions. It is difficult to see what will be the immediate
seat of each a dotermisation, whether the combined foe will
Wink it oemeaary to follow up the attack, and what is to be
the fats of the reform question meanwhile. For any light
on three ccetingetciee we most wait Ull Monday evening.

(From Um Kornis, Fost.)

In consequence of the defeat of the Wash, a• Friday
morning, Lord Derby yestemisy gammemed a cabinet
council to consider the cows. which govwrament ought to
pursue. The remelt of the camel be immediately commu-
nicated to the Queen. and the noble bed stated to his plata
in the Meuse of Peens last night, that on Monday he would
fully inform parliament o the decision at which the govern-
ment had arrived, sod of the advice which he has tendered
to her Majesty. This is the Rum of positive news with
re•p•ct to the mints er:al crisis. No may add to it that Lord
Derby bas called a meeting of the conservative p.rty foe Mile
day. beyond this all le conjecture. We think it, however,
probable that Lord Derby has not yet reeigceri eflics, and
equally probable that if be has suggested a dissolution to the
Que.'s, his proposition hoe lxec deemed unlesiraLle in
the present state of affairs. We shall not beeurpriref if the
able lord wakeful appeal to his party to cantinas their sup-
port to him, and if ha deem the critical state of Europe a
soilicimt justification for not hsatily relioqislahlng office.
(From the Press.)

They may, It appears to us, under thew circumstances,
without any inhiegeasent of constitutional usages, elect
either to nisign and leave It to other to form an admicistra-
Ike, er Very may ask the sovereign to give them the oppor-
tunity of making an appeal to the country, or they may re-
mota at their pests; at all mats till ouch time as they can
biles loan WOO the present Manningooniplicetionv in Eu-
rope, standing, from a mos of duty, in the meantime, in the
position of challengers egaleat all Demers, and aweluiug the
brunt of a direct vote of censure urn their general policy.
The firm of the three contuse would, no doubt,
be the one moth in c neonates with the kerngs
&Moistly excited at the moment by defeat, and
It might sot improbably be the most emberreerhig
tt those politicians who have combined to effect It. It
Todd be co:instant with political wage; end no one maid
&say, should each ha the determination of Lord Derby's
Cable*, that they bat laid diem with dignity the power
wti.•h they smutty-1 with dbleterestedneas and patriotism.
At the am* time, if Mr. Dieraelee eloquent representation
of the present centilitre of the European difficulty tc c >meet
—and we me no roaeoa to doubt tt—the government have a
duty otter than that which they owe to themselves, founded
are higher and more impotent ecinaidoestions—a ditty to
than civilised world sad ts humanity. It recta with them to
&elide to which they will give the rreferenee. la their
breams is the feeling, and to their judgment we leave the