The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-15 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 16.

THE assumption of the Sovereignty of India has
entailed a solemn responsibility upon Great Britain.
Unless the authority exercised over Hindostan is
exercised to promote the happiness of its inhabi-
tants, our nation commits a crime of the deepest dye.
It is not to be tolerated that the Legislature should
accept or reject a measure for the future government
of India solely with a view to the effect that its
adoption or rejection may have on the balance of
political factions in this country. Yet the retainers
of Lord PALMERSTON, in the Press and in Parlia-
ment, avow with the most cynical effrontery that
they urge the rejection of Lord DERBY'S India Bill,
and the adoption of Lord PALMERSTON'S, with no
other or more elevated view than to ensure the over-
throw of the present Ministers and the restoration
of their predecessors to office.

It may be doubted whether the public at large is
likely to be much moved by the virulent denuncia-
tions that are harledagainst all who persist in de-
claring that they see little to choose between the
DERBY and the PALmitzsTom Cabinets. It is pal-
pable to common sense that the Ratter Ministry is
a Tory Ministry with Radical professions, and that
the PALMERSTON Ministry was a Whig Ministry with
Tory practices. There are many who would be well
enough pleased to lend • helping band to upset the
ibrmer, if they saw the slightest chance of their get-
ting anything better in its stead, but who do not
think their trouble would be repaid by the simple
substitution of Lord PALMER TON for Lord DERBY.
It i• nut so much, perhaps, that the general public
are even yet entirely disabused of their pre-
posterous belief in Laid P•ustasroN's Liberalism.
It takes a great deal to convince JOHN
BULL that any man for whom he entertains
a liking is but • dexterous pretender. There
is no doubt much about Lord PALMERSTON

calculated to win the good will of the =effecting.
More, perhaps, than any statesman of the day be
has conquered his position by his own inherent ener-
gies, independent of accidents of birth and connexion.
Then there it an off-hand dash about Lord PALMER-
STON, which confirms his hold on the admiration of
Bnglishmen, who are particularly liable to be
fascinated by any one who tells them, good-
humouredly, that he does not care a straw for their
good opinion. It required all the insolence which
Lord PALM ELSTON for some time persevered is
lavishing upon the present House of Commons,
to awaken in its members that spirit of
self assertion which led to his fall. And his
retest demeanour has been so judicious that
his past offences are already well-nigh half
forgotten and forgiven. If it were merely the
reetorati .n of Lord PALMERSTON to power, it may
be feared that all his sins against the honour of the
country in its foreign relations, and against its most
cherished preservatives of freedom in its domestic
institutions, would not stand for a moment in the
way ors vote of the House of Commons which might
depose Lard palsy and re-instal Lord Psatuntroq
in office,. Bat then comes the reflection that Lard
Emmen/von would not return to Downingatreet
alone. He would lead along with him, in long
retinue, the unabashed CLANRICAILDR, the despot-
Worshipping CLARENDON, the pertly impotent
VELSON Semi, and the no less offensive
though less prominent train of the OSBORNIES,
the Lowe., and tho Witsoes. This reflection
gives pause both to Parliament and the public when-
ever the passible restoration of Lord PALMERSTON
to the head of the Treasury Board is mooted. The
diboicsair• ex-Premier then amasses, in their appre-
hensive imaginations, somewhat the aspect of the
exorcised demon, who returned, to find his lodgings
swept and garnished, in the company of seven other
Inane spirits worse than himself. And men say to
themselves, that though it must be confessed the
Dian Ministry is not a thing to be proud of, it is
certainly no worse than a CLA REN DON CLA NRICAR.DI

Cabinet. The ery of " PALMIRSTON to the rescue°
emereisse, therefore, no bewildering indent:e over
their minds. They can devote themselves to the
consideration of how they can ensure the adoption of
the best Fallible form of government for India, un-
disturbed by any passionate longioge for the eleva-
tion of Lord P•LME11870!1.11 tail.

In fact the public are rather amused than other-
wise with the effrontery of the attempt to hold up
Lord PALMERATON and his fellows in office, as ths
especial champions of Liberal principles. When
the Ti.... appeals to the " Liberal party," the
Liberal party recalls the taunting language in which
that journal, before the commencement of the see-
sion, pooh-poohed the idea that any reform of oar
representative system was wished for by the nation.
They recall the disparaging epithets with which the
principle of popular election, in the case of the Council
for India, her been systematically assailed in the
columns of the Times. It is too late for Mr. THOMAS
Duct-name to make a pother about the posthumous
publication of a Reform Bill, which he would per-
suade its the late Cabinet had prepared before its
demise. All the waters of the Thames cannot wash
out from the hands of the PAL/ macros Cabinet the
vile stains of complicity with the Neapolitan Gleretll-
- in the nine months' torture of the two English
engineers captured on board the Cagliari. All the
perfumes of Arabia cannot sweeten the seals i
putation of the men who pusillanimously truckled
to the dictation of the WALEWBIII despatch. This
nation is pervaded by an earned conviction that if a
reliable Liberal Cabinet could be formed there is a
Liberal majority in the country that would gladly
rally around it ; and by an equally earnest
wish to see such a Cabinet constructed, Bat deo

country has been taught by sad experlrooe that
something more than a mere assemblage of uomins4
Liberals is required to form a Cabinet that my
serve as the nucleus of a powerful Liberal party,'
and the country will not badge one inch to gO
through the sad and degrading mockery of
mating up a rotten and rickety CLASEN DON-
CLANsicLium Cabinet as a substitute for what is
wanted.

The Liberal majority of the nation, in short, can
and will " bide their time." They are not
afraid of anything the Deasy Government can
do. They know that their own unorgaaised
strength, even without leaders, though power-
less to attain new privileges, is all-powerful
to prevent any serious encroachment upon those they
already peems. They are patiently but warily
canvassing the claims and qualifications of all our
public men. They are waiting till time and amen-
stances Woe any existing obstacles in the way of
a combination among statesmen in whose principles
and aims there is no essential discrepancy. They
are reminding each other of the administrative
abilities of a Gruffest, and the intelligent industry
of a HEILBLIT or a NEWCASTLE ; they are pointing
to the rapidly ripening intellect and hereditary
energy of a STANLEY ; they are asking why
a GIBSON, or a BIIOIT, or many another
independent Liberal might not co-operate with men
like these. Nay, more, all eyes are turning slowly
but certainly in the direction of the one, the
only living statesman whose well-earned position in
the political world points him oat as the man whose
claims to be the leader of such a combination no
ens scald or would contest. We have never been
flatterers of Lord lonE RUSSELL. We have frankly
and freely opposed him when we thought he ought
to be opposed; we have as frankly and freely fought
his battle when we thought him unfairly assailed.
Members of a younger generation, looking at
public affairs from a different standing-place
on the social scale, our political views nacre-
' sexily differ on some points from those which
Lord JOHN conscientiously entertains. But political
cooperation necessarily implies reciprocal comeli-
ness. Though Lord JOHN may not be prepared to
advance so rapidly or so far as we could wish, we
know that he is sincerely bent upon advancing ; and
what is perhaps at the present crisis yet more to the
impose, we know that he will not relinquish one
iota of those liberties we already enjoy ; that he has
inscribed on his political banner the motto of
HAIITDEN,—" Vestigia Rolla retrorram." It is
alleged by some of his ill-willers that Lord
Jute's Whiggery is of a somewhat narrow
and antiquated cast. Be it so : the consistent tenour
of a long and active life proves at least this, that he
has faith in his own principles—a rare merit among
modern statesmen. Therefore it is that—es confi-
dently as one may speak of anything in the future—
we believe that Lord JOHN is destined to be the
rallying point of English Liberals. Some time may
yet elapse before the event makes good our words,
but we have not the shadow of a doubt that it will
tie is. The same malignant and senseless outcry—
that Lord JOHN is the Marplot of the great Liberal
party—was raised against the late Earl GREY when
he stood aloof from the coalition of the
Whip and Canningites ; sod yet Earl GREY was
subsequently the leader under whom the Reformers
triumphed in 11131-2. When Lord RHIN RUSSELL
threw himself upon the citizens of London—alone,
unaided—the mere sound of his voice dispelled in a
moment the cobweb falsehoods regarding him that
had been woven so industriously and perseveringly.
And so it will be when the time comes for him to
summon around him the elite of our living statesmen,
and the younger hopes of the Liberal party, to form
a strong administration on free and constitutional
principles.

ebt Court.

The Queen held a levee yesterday afternoon at
Be. James PAK*.

Mis;ty tbs Prime Cowart salved bass Bock-
slam, Mortal by tb• Ladies sod 011•1110111
awl won reolived by dr Lb, Great Maws of
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The Doled Minded by Ike H. James
HaeSsedd owl Lord woe peret at the isms.
Tier Skeary's Hedy the Rm. Corps of Geode-
ness•MeAreso wassizia=the Stele mimes, under the
comma of lir
The lieleoßers, Lloremat-adoesle Nevin end Cooke
were m duty with dr amp.
The Teems of the Gerd were commeeded by Captor
Herbed. dr lama in
no 4m. Priaftesork seN•indejiZ „._
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Duke of mired tbe Threemrosak _
the Desiree of Mmalsmter itistnes of the leiss• Lady
Charolall, Lady la Wair4si ; the Morgue el Samar, ILO.,
Lord Seward; Eml Drawer; Lord Cheralasishe; the Duke
of Beetdort, Muer of the Horse ; the Marquis el Aimmorn,
K.G., Groom of the Ekole to Ms Sr jal Mears ; Lord
Clamed Ramillom Trimmer of tir Hooseeuld ;_Visoonnt
Newport, Vlsaasberirsa; Cored the Right Hem Cecil
Foreseer, Comptroller of the Household ; Earl of Sheffield,
lard la W • Lord George Leary Lord la Welting
Royal
to ide • Coker the Hon. 84r Charles B.
a= Hoerr of lesr'delesey's Privy Purse ; Lieutenant-
P. Camedelt, Orem is Wasting; Major-General
Wyldir, firocom in Weida( to his Royal Highness • Colonel
the Hoe. A. N. Rood, Eqrsarry la Waluog ; C4tain Du
Plat, Equerry it Waiting to his Royal Highness ; and
Hems. Farquharson sad Macpherson, page. of Harm In
Wattag.
The Quire wore a train of .the silk, brocaded in sneer,
trimmed with elver bleeds and bows of cerise ribbon. Tie;
precast of white satin, trimmed with bottillonnes of tali,
sad diver blonde. Her Majesty's heed-dress wee composed
eldiamomis and flower..

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video' la the efteennen Os Manus at South Kensington,
attended by the Leaks end Heatlensen in Wiliam. After-
wards bar Majesty, with the Primeness Alice sad Helena,
dove out in ea open amine. In attendance were Lady
Churchill, Conceal the Hon. A. N. Hood, sad Lieut.-Col,
Cavendish.

The Prinos Consort rode out on horseback, attended by
Captain du Plat.

la the evening her lisfeety's diem' pirty inhibit the
Ditcher of Heat, the Dyke of To mb% the Semlialsa
ifinister, Marquis d'Anglio, the Pony's= Wainer ein
Counters de Lovrodio; the Ruin Mann; Berea
Brawny; the Berl sad Gonna of Arad Laity
COOSSIIIMOO V i ikn, the EMI et Beihra,_imed Ilsaame,
Lady Pew Howard, Viozont sad Simonton Newport,
Viecent sad Vimournwe Bardnigo, the Bet Hoe Bir
Wetherell.
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Drawing-room the following gismo :

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A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present
were:—The Berl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli,
Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Hari of klalmeabury,
Lord Stanley, General Psel, Sir John Pskington, the
Earl of Ellenborough, the Right Hon. J. W. Hen-
ley, and Lord John Manners.

A deputation. cessieting of the Right Hon. W.F. Cowper,
Mr. Chambers, Mr. Swords; Mr. Everitt, end Mr. Roth
(dimetais of the Woes Railway CallyeanYL at=willed b/
Mr. Austin. the seerstery, sad Mr. Peed, the tor to the
eorapsay, had on interview with the Right Hon. J. W.
Hear, yesterday, at the Bard of Trade.
A meeftg of the Plume Committee of the Royal Com-
mwion 'the Exhibition of 1561 wee bald yesterday at the
Palace of Westminster. Then Win presset Earl Oreavale
(chairman). the Right Her C. B. Addarley, M.P., Hr
William Cubit; Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Edgar Bowing
(secretary); Mr. H. R. Williams; financial dither to the
ocentaleeion, alio attended.
A deputation front the Corporation of Manchader had an
interriew with the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., at the
Council-051m, on Tuesday, with reference to the Msacheeter
Corporation Water Bill. The deputation were introduced by
8w John Potter, M.P.. and Mr. J. A. Turner M.P., sod
consisted of Alderman Su. E. hidere;sm Shuttle-
worth and Pilling, attended by the Town Clerk of Man-
chester.

A deputation consisting of Poor Inw Ofßoers belonging to
the wishes of St. George the and Bt. Matthew,
Bethnal-green, and the Whitechapei and West London
Unions, had en interview with the ight Hon. T. &therm
EStO3Ult yesterday, at the office of the Poor-law Board, on
the subject of forming a superannuation fund for poor-law
officers.

The Duke and Duchess of Bnceleach sad family
will leave Bowhill, Belkirkehire, for Montego Howee,Whlte-
hall, oa the 24th instant.

The Duke and Duchess of Montrose and Lady
Agues Graham come to town early in the ensuing week for
the mem

Franoes Marchioness of Londonderry and Lord
Adolphus Vane Tempest, M.P., have arrived at the Pavilion
Hotel, Folkestone, from Boulogne.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley
arrived on Carlton Hoass•terrace yesterday, from Chohnon-
delay Castle, Cheshire.

The Marquis and Nfarchioneu of Aileebnry have
arrived in town, from &remake Lodge, near Marlborough.

The Earl and Countess of Digby have arrived at
Clatidgee Hotel.

The Counter Delawarr and Lady Arabella B.
Plea have arrived in town, from Brockhunt Perk, Seam.
Viscount 'And Viscountess Combermere have re-
turned to town from Combermere Abbey, Cheshire.
Viscount Falmouth his left the Clarendon for
liereworth Coale, near Maidstone.
Lord Rendlesharn has left the Clarendon for
Suffolk.