The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-01 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCE 1.

MIL ROEBUCK has again failed to precipitate a
general engagement between the two great parties in
Parliament. The debate last night was in every
muse of the term inconclusive. Nobody seems to
have been for a moment under the delusion that any-
thing decisive could come of it, there or then : SO
each of the wordy warriors pursued his own line,
and aimed for the most part at the objects of his own
particular aversion. The learned member for Shef-
field hardly took the trouble to make out a case for
the course he pronounced to be the only right one.
He stated no new facts, adduced no novel arguments,
and io short went through a part which,baviog Madly
undertaken, he would not formally renounce, with
the air of a man who feels that he has mistaken
his time, and that all effort to bring about any
serious collision most be wholly vain. Sir JOUN
PAYINGTON was still more apologetic for having been
so ill-advised as to give notice of a rival proposition
of censure on Ministers for appointing a military
board of inquiry. He bad two or three paramount
mama for not going on with his motion, any one of
which would probably have been regarded by his
friends as amply sufficient, but none of which by
itself was evidently deemed by him safe to be trusted
with the freight of his political reputation. In the
first place he had discovered that by the terms of the
House he could not move an amendment upon a
motion (itself an amendment) made on going
into committee of supply. To most people this
might have seemed a tolerably adequate excuse.
But not so thought Sir Joint. He bad pro-
found misgivings about the justice of debating
the subject of the Crimean Commissioners' report
while the matters involved therein were sub judice
before the newly appointed Board. Neither does he
appear to have been content with this obvious reason,
which might, one would think, have occurred to so
circumspect a gentleman a week ago; be therefore
gave his audience a third alternative as to hie motives,
by the avowal, dimly intimated, that things were
not ripe as yet, but that a day would COMO when he,
the right honourable member for Droitwich, would
say something awfvL
We ►ave neither time nor temper to review the
desultory inanities and dull personalities of the
subordinate speakers in the debate that followed.
One sad and tedious exception demands • passing
notice : we allude to the long and ill-judged oration
of the UND6R-SECRZTAR7 for WAS. We warned
Lord PALMERSTON at the time splint the
folly of putting this ice promising young man into so
difficult and important a poet. There may be situa-
tions where he could do no harm, and possibly do
some good. BM in days of war without and war
within, to set the least dexterous, least eloquent, and
least discerning of speakers in the front of the battle,
is inhuman. Really Lord Peuoraerox ought to think
of it. By the limes of Cummone, Mr. FREDERICK
PEEL'S speech last night was evidently regarded es a
pendant to Mr. ROBERT Lowe's of the previous
Monday. The net amount of mischief realised by
the latter was more promptly made apparent ; we
doubt if the damage it was in the long run tabulated
to do will be found as great as that to be set down to
the account of his competitor in parliamentary
blundering. After the retreat of Sir J. PARINOTON,
the part of good sense and goad taste would have
been to swept the respite, and adjourn whatever was
to be said in defence of the worse adopted by oo-
vernment until a mom convenient and appropriate
season. But the infatuation of the Utrozn-Szcza.

TART led him into a peering forth of the whole ae-
tents of his red box, a considerable portion whereof
consisted, strange to say, of disparagement and de-
preciation of Colonel Touocx and Sir Joint
M'Nett t. His bearers listened in wonder, as well
they might, while statement alter statement in the
invaluable report of these upright and metal officers
we. criticised and impugned by the official month-
lino of the Government that had specially
appointed them. The opportunity wu a tempt-
ing one, and it NY taken advantage of to the
fall by Sir Di LACY EVANS. Many of the
futs and incidents stated by him will be read with
painful interest, and some of them will of nesse-
oily open new and animated controversies. Is the
spirited vindication of the Commiseioners, and the
generous tribute to the actual good effected in the
Crimea by them, we cordially concur ; but we
cannot help regretting other portions of the gallant
member's speech, and the tone of pique andresent-
sent which pervaded it.
We deeply regret that mo experienced • soldier
and senator as Sir DE LAC! should have set an ex-
ample so pernicious, if not perilous, to all order,
justice, end authority, as the sudden and capricious
disclosure of matters only known to him in his confi-
dential character as the commander of &division in the
field. The seine between himself and Col. GORDON,
when the latter brought bite, as he states, an,
incoherent, and it might have proved fatal, order to
advance into the valley of the Tcheroeya, was most
vividly described, and produced, as it was intended,
a Kraig impression on the House. But without
entering for • moment into the disputed accuracy of
Use narrative, or affecting any peculiar sympathy for
the person whose conduct is thus quesdoned, we
may be permitted to ask what public functionary,
civil or military, can hope—wo do not say for sue-
tainment in the discharge of his dutiss—but fee com-
mon fair play, if transactions many months goes by
are to be, without notice, made the ground of the
gravest accusation against him in an amenably
of which he is not • member, and when his rain ce
hie rescue may begone the symbols of fierce party
muffin IP Whatever be the reel merits of the ease of
incapacity alleged by the member foe Westminster
spinet the Deputy-Quarterneaster•Oensral, it is
clear that they demand a calmer investigation aid a
ceder atmosphere than that of Parliament. The
utility of the Board of General Officers was never
made so palpable as it has been by the vehemence of
many of its lest night's assailants.

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