The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1858.

Mr. Two As BARING —la not likely to be induced
to take it. It is well known that he refused
to do so in 11152, notwithstanding great impor-
tunity, and we have very little doubt that he would
use again.

Tnosz who yesterday evening crowded the gallery
of the House of Commons, in the hope of hearing
from Lord PA`..nr.a.sioN some explanatory state-
ment as to the recent reeignation, were doomed to
disappointment. The late Prime Minister, rising
amid the silent expectation of en unusually thronged
and excited audience, simply announced, what every
one of his hearers already knew, that be and his
colleagues had, on Saturday, placed their resignations
in the hands of the QUEEN j that her Mutter' had
accepted them ; and that Lord DERRY was then
engaged in the construction of a Ministry. Under
these circumstances, his lordship moved the
adjournment of the House to Friday next. For
the present this is all that can be known with
certainty regarding one of the most singularly rapid
and unexpected devolution of power which the
annals of Parliamentary history can furnish. Be-
tween this and next Friday the whisperers and the
mystery-mongers will have it all their own way.
Every day, every hour, will wittier the flight of a
fresh brood of political canards from those prolific
breeding-grounds of Pall-mall and St. James's. Those
who take delight in this species of amusement will
be diligently supplied with all the excitement that
ean be derived from large-type lists of Cabinet
Ministers and Under-Secretaries—which duly
represent the hopes of the interested, the guesses of
the ingenious—the private information of the " best
" authorities "—everything, in short, but the facts of
the ease. In this last trifling respect there is a
high probability of failure, for the simple reason
that no facts exist. The impossibility of seeing the
Channel fleet, " because it's not in sight," has been
acquiesced in by many generations of playgoers as
• somewhat unanswerable inference ; it would be
cruel to apply the same strict reasoning to the
impatient spectators in the great political theatre,
or to argue that when no appointments have yet
been made their positive announcement must be
regarded as premature. It is pleasanter, till we are
driven upon facts, to amuse ourselves with fancies,
and to allow the rumour of the morning to be
authoritative till it is supplanted by the report of the
afternoon,--doomed in its turn to be knocked down
by the undoubted intelligence of the night.
Lord DERBY is engaged in constructing &Govern-
ment. So much is certain; and we are well satis-
fied that it should be so. Without affecting to
assign places for the colleagues to whom he may be
expected to apply, it may safely be presumed th►t
he will hardly succeed in finding a President of the
Board of Control more incapable than Mr. VERNON
Srarrit; an Attorney-General more iguorantof consti-
tutional, criminal or international law than Sir RI-
CHARDBITHELLi or• Privy Seal more eminent for all
that should not distinguish a British Peer, than the
most noble Cue& Joint DE-Bolton, Marquis of
CLANRICARDE. That many difficulties imminently
beset Lord DERBY—that many more are loom-
ing &heed of him—is sufficiently obvious
to all: it will be for himself and his
friends to determine whether they can muster
the requisite courage to oppose them. With regard
to the Conspiracy Bill, that is doomed by the indig-
nant judgment of the country. The CHIEF JUSTICE
of England emphatically denounced last night, in
the House of Lords, the doctrine—reported to have
been advanced by the late Arron'Ev-GIENEnat--
" that foreigners are able to do in this country that
" which our own subjects are unable to do, and that
" what would be a crime in natural-born British
" subjects is a matter of impunity in foreigners."
Lord CRANWOUTH could only defend his late
colleague on the hypothesis that it was impos-
sible he could have said what he was reported
to say. It is sufficient for Lord DERBY'S
purpose that, according to the preponderating
balance of legal opinion, our own laws are adequate
for all reasonable purposes of punishment. This is
all that an English Minister ought to want. This
is where he should take his stand. Let our own old
laws be pat to the proof: if on trial, and in the de-
liberate judgment of the fifteen Judges, they are
found to be inadequate, a case for altering them will
have arisen. Till then, let them stand firm and un-
shaken. Such is the position which the country
expects to see taken on this Conspiracy Bill by any
Minister who now undertakes the responsibilities
of office. With regard to the India Bill, another
of the supposed stumbling-blocks of the new Admi-
nistration, the difficulty is surely more imaginary
than real. It would be an exaggeration to pretend
that the feeling of the country on this point is to be
compared with that deep and vehement torrent of
suspicion, and alarm, and anger, which has just
swept away, in the apparent plenitude of his power,
one of the most personally popular of recent Minis-
ter'. But this rises in a great measure from the
remoteness and the intricacy of the subject, not from
any intelligent conviction in favour of the Palmer-
stonian Bill. The country is by degrees awaken-
ing to a sense of the danger likely to
arise from introducing into India a How
Guards army, instead of a working army,
and handing over the civil patronage from the
picked men of the middle classes to the younger sons
of the aristocracy. It is conceivable enough that an
expectant House of Commons, at the bidding of a
reckless Minister, should eagerly lend itself to a
scheme which would make parliamentary services
and political jobbing a recognised title to the official
spoils of India. But it does not follow that the
country at large would entertain this project with
enthusiasm, or even regard it with equanimity. It
will be a perfectly safe and popular course for any
Minister, to postpone all legislation for India until
the existing mutiny is finally 'oppressed, and to no
Minister would that task be so easy as to Lord
DERBY.

We have meson to know that the majority against
the Gasernment on Friday night would have been larger
than it was but for We het that several members mistook
the lobby, and went out for Ministers when they supposed
they were voting for Mr. Milner Gibson's resolution.

The Monileur of yesterday publishes a full report
of the debate in the House of Commons on Friday. It thus
announces the result —" A member of the English parlia-
ment, )Ir. Gibson, on the second reading of the bill to sup-
press conspiracies formed in England, presented an amend-
ment, which we publish elsewhere. This amendment, whit►,
however, in no manner whatever implies the rejection of the
bill, wail adopted by 234 votes against 216."

The Moniteur says:—"On the news of the
vote of the House M Commons reaching Paris, Count d•
Penigny, who is on leave of absence, receive' orders to
return Immediately to hie peat."
Niw AmenturnAnowg.—The following is • list
of the adminietra.Nosa, wit* and tory, which have lead
°Mos In England sinew the year 1830, with the dates of their
installation and dissolution, vis..—Earl Grey's administra-
tion, 1830.34; Viscount Melbourne's (that), 1834; Bir
Robert Peel's (tit)), 1834-36 i Vhorent Malboariere
(second). 1835-1841; Sir Robert Pm!! (second), 1841.46;
Load J. Russell's, 1846-62; Earl dDerby's &la), 1868 ;
Earl of Aberdeen's, 1863-66; Vibrant PaMerstea's,
1866-68. The outgoing ministry has held dike just three
Tears. Lord 3. Russell rMaina the rules dimmer nearly
six ywo, sad Mr Robert Peel about Am The lad tory
aim Lad Derby was woe I• slim a twelvemonth.
Mr. Colvile poked in wean of Mr. Milner Gibson's resehi-
dew. sad agalwit the loran.tIMINDi of the Conepireey BM,
'kb the Has. Kr. P

EARL DERBY% CABINET.

The Conservative skid• are leaving no rational I
effort marled to form • strong sad melted •dminletr•tioa.
The Carlton and Conservative clubs byte bed with fre-
quented by the members this morales, sad the greatest ba:dgg
and animation prevail. Broughams sad she are liming
about; and the minor agents of the old Derby trey see
constantly met with, full of business saF =welled,.
During the day one statement at jest, which is
something more than • rumour bee been mad►
By the report of the pomading la the Court of
gesim's Beath this day, printed tn Wither column, it will
be seen that Lord Campbell formally announced this
morning that Si, F. Timelier had retired from the
Britiah Bank ease, by reason of his appointment to the
distinguished position of Lord Chancellor. The bar gime-
telly expremed much gratification on hearing the news.

" The first thing," nye the Times, " we hear of
Lord Derby's cabinet is that Lord Ellenborough, who has
got on so remarkably well with the Indian directors, is to
have the Board of Control; and, to induce the directors to
swallow the control of a man whom they have recalled from
India, the India Bill is to be thrown to the winds. Such is
the value of parliamentary time and labour in the hands of
amateur statesmen. Of course, Lord Malmesbury returns
to the Foreign-office, and the British nation having per-
formed only a ball prostration to Napoleon 111., and made
only half amends by enduring his objurgation in silence, is
now to complete its submission by putting Napoleon's
private friend end apologist in the Foreign-allot
If we are now to be civil to the French Em-
peror, Lord Malmeebtu7 is the beet Muter of the
Ceremonies for the purpose. The Ministry of War is,
it is said, to be gives to General Peel, who has shown such
wonderful powers of keeping on good terms with everybody
by making everything pleasant, and allowing nobody, ex-
cept the newspapers, to be in the wrong. When he first
takes his seat on the Treasury bench we trust he will show
that the Commander-in-Chief of our Chinese expedition/eve
the best proof of his qualification for the post by leaving it
and coining home. As Mr. Gladstone will not be Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Mr. Disraeli will succeed Sir Cornwall
Lewis, with the uncontested leadership of his party in the
Commons. Sir F. Thesiger, we are told, Is to be Lord Chan-
cellor, and if so, nobody, except perhaps Lord Campbell, will
grudge him such long-deferred honour. Theonly serious rebuff
Lord Derby hu received, it is said, has been from his own
eon. No wonder that a young nobleman of such talent and
respect should object to be made a yearly sacrifice to filial
love. Had Icarus seen his father Dredalus mount up to the
skies, and the come down in a slower of feathers, he would
probably have hesitated to put on his own wing'. Lord
Stanley has come down once in this fashion, and apparently
declines to do so again. Such is the cabinet,--such in what
it has, and what it has not, that the radicals have resolved
to inflict on the country, in spite for Lord Palmerston's not
having stood out more expressly, fully, absolutely, and
indignantly for the unrestricted right of asylum, whoever the
favoured objects, and whatever use they might make of it."
The Morning Herald says it was not until late yesterday
afternoon that Mr. Gladstone, on the part of the Pealing,
declined to insist Lord Derby in his arduous teak. Conse-
quently "the noble earl has had but a few hours
for carrying out his arrangements, which will, in
all probability, be completed in the course of the
day." Having failed in his /Sorts to reunite
and reconstruct a conservative government "upon that
broad basis on which it stood in 1841," Lord Derby's next
duty (says the Herald) was to form a practical, =end,
and en honest administration, composed of gatemen asps-
Me of conducting public affairs with credit. "The materials
for such a cabinet ere to be found in the ranks of the late
opposition, and in the course of • few hours the list of its
principle members will be announced. Conjecture is, in
the meantime, busy, and various rumours, none of which
deserve the slightest degree of credit, are in circulation.
Upon one point we can afford the most eatidectory
assurance.. The career of Lord Derby's adminis-
tration, as in the can of his former attempt in 1852, will be
marked by real progress and improvement. Without the
cant of profenion, It will be eminently successful in practice.
The new premier and his colleagues have ever been the
advocates of that enlightened progression which secures the
welfare of all classes of the community, while it has nothing
in common with revolutionary tactics or destructive assaults
upon time-honoured institutions end prindplee"
In another article the Herald assures us that the new
cabinet will Include " members of the highest rank as states-
men, orators, and scholars; men of the highest profindand
skill in all the subtleties of the English law, men of schen*
and chivalrous loyalty; to many of whom the name at
England has been for centuries endeared by the the of blood
and of race—her honour being one with their own. Others,
too, will not be wanting whom long years of experience have
profoundly versed in all the intricacies of foreign and domestic
policy."

The Morning Poet refers to the present political situation
in the following terms :—" The houses of parliament having
adjourned till Friday, there is every probability that by that
day Lord Derby will have succeeded in forming a (*blast. A
second failure would be fatal to his pretensions as a party
leader, and to the claims of his followers to that organise-
don which is the first condition of opposition as it is of go-
venuuent. All that is certain, however, is that Lord Derby
has applied to Lord Grey for his 00-operation, and that he has
been refused. It Is equally positive that Mr. Gladstone
has declined to form put of the noble lord's ad-
ministration. It b deo said that Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe is unwilling to accept a meet In the new cabinet.
tinder these circumstantial, Lord Derby falls beck on the
Derbyite party, properly so-celled, and must reconstruct the

administration of 1862. The disiributioa of dame has sot
yet, we believe, been made ; we cannot, thanks% yet tell to
what extent individual statesmen ma; taunt to their (mem
positions, but virtually the cabinet of 1862 willing revived to
1868. It will almost infallibly be destined to lead the same
life of mendicant minority, continually begging for suffer-
ance. It must die the same death. Tha common sense and
the weight of the country are with Lord Palmerston, and
these must ultimately have their effect."

DESPATCH FROM HER MAJESTY'S

in coninpondeann between you and myself. I accordingly
reply to you availing myself, &c. A neceraery communica-
tion.

" Hesn-fung, 7th year, 10th moon, 29th day (14th Decem-
ber, 1857.)"
Lord Elgin acknowledges, from on board the Furious, at
Whampoa, the oommissioner's communication. His lordship
seas in that document no disposition to accede to the mode-
rate demands of England, and consequently informs the
=minion& that he has celled upon the naval and military
oommanders to prosecute with renewed vigour operations
against Canton. We than have the following from
" Commissioner Yoh to the Earl of Elgin.
(Translation.)

"Yoh, Imperial Commi
Two Kwang, ic., makes

nor-General of the
in reply.

" On the 24th instant, I received your excellency's letter
of the same date, and acquainted myself with its contents.
"In my answer to your earlier letter I replied to every
proposition, point by point, specifically and minutely ;
(yet) In the letter under acknowledgment you say that you
have failed to discover in the communication which you have
attentively perused, any indication of a disposition to accede
to the moderate demands preferred on behalf of the goveen-
ment of Great Britain. I shall endeavour to re-state clearly
to your excellency what I said before.
" To go back : in October, last year, Mr. Consul Parkes,
without any cause, commenced hostilities, attacked the forts
along the different approaches, and thrice sent troops to firs
buildings and dwellings in different directions. The gentry
and people had suffered sadly by this, and on your excel-
lency's arrival in Hwangtung lest July, as I have heard,
presented &petition to you on the subject. No steps having
se yet been taken in the cue, crowds of gentry and people
have come to my court discontented, and imploring onto write
to your excellency to make equitable decision therein; and
Wanes I did not address your excellency on the
'abject, they were going to Hong Kong again to clamour
for redone at your excellency's place with all their might.
By various shifts I have dissuaded them (from this prooood-
ing), attributing what happens entirely to Consul Parkes'
want of sense on a particular occasion, that your excel-
lency might be spared this trouble (or difficulty). This
(shows) the best disposition on my part to be ' conceding.'
" (In the next place) ever since your excelkney's coun-
trymen began to trade at Canton, the merchants of China
have, in every instance, conducted themselves towards them
with propriety. To the proposition in your former letter,
commerce shall resume its muse,' I gave the fullest assent.
How, then, emu I be charged with 'refusing I" On the
eontrary, there is plain proof that, I promised (to concede
what was seed).
" As to the passage in the letter under acknowledgement,
' if the commissioner shall meet these demands by silence,' in
my last reply I answered every question in its own order;
in no wise then was I ' silent.' And as to the other peassge,
' language of retrocesslon end refusal,' I shall instance my
remarks on the late Plenipotentiary Bonham's abandonment
of the discussions respecting admittance into the city. My
last reply detailed clearly how, tor his satisfactory adminis-
tration of that question, be was honoured with the praisee of
all dupes of your countrymen; in no wise then did I use
language of retrocession and refusal.
" To conclude, our two nations regard themselves as on
friendly terms with each other. This being the case, there
can be nothing which makes it impossible for us to consult
together and arrange satisfactorily by what means, in the
words of your excellency, ' commerce may resume its
coarse;' (which declination made) what becomes of my re-
fusal to accede to terms of accommodation ?

" Pray ist your excellency, who has a aurae of justice,
sad an experience of bturinsee, rube more closely examine
and carefully re-peruse my last reply.
" I accordingly reply to you, availing, leo.

" (December 25, 1837.)j
In a brief note to the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of
Elgin observes that the above communicstion oonoedoe no-
thing either on the question of indemnity or on that of the
right of entrance into the city. "I think it therefore better,
as the imperial commissioner has been formally apprised that
the matter is now in the hands of the naval and military
authorities, that I should abstain from replying to it."
Notes are appended to Cauminkner Yeh'e second der

patch, in which Mr. Wade, the.trendstor, further *nista in
making the original Chinese intelligible.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

MOW 0171 OWN

PARTR. MANDAT EVZNIAIII.

The tone of the French government press is de-
cidedly moderate and conciliatory; but it continues
to take it for granted that, under whatever ministry,
some bill for amending the English law relating to
conspiracy must of necessity be passed.
The Pays having prepared a stately article on the
subject of the proposed monster meeting in Hyde-
park, publishes it, and ignores the fact which was
known in Paris yesterday morning, that, in conse-
quence of Mr. Milner Gibson's amendment having
been carried, the meeting did not take place. It
thinks public meetings very shocking things, de-
scribes them as " pale copies of the old French
clubs," and has not the least doubt that the scheme
for the meeting was organised by the foreign re-
fugees in London !
This evening's Pays says, in a postscript, "At the
moment of going to press, we hear it rumoured that
Lord Derby finds the utmost difficulty in forming a
ministry."
The Bourse opened with great agitation, and was
exceedingly crowded. The Rents was first quoted
at 69fr. 20c. and 69fr. 15c., but it rose suddenly at
two o'clock to 69fr. 40c., in consequence of the se-
cond telegram from London announcing a recovery
in Consols of t from the fall of t there which had
taken place in the morning. The ministerial crisis
in England was the sole subject discussed, and there
was of course a great variety of rumours. The pre-
valent opinion at the end of the Bourse was that
Lord Palmerston would after all remain in office,
and this idea tended greatly to restore confidence. A
report circulated in the morning that Lord Stratford
de Radcliffe was likely to be in the ministry of
Lord Derby, bad frightened people very much in-
deed. Ultimately the Rents closed at 60fr. 40c. for
cash and 60fr. 43c. for account, with a fall of lbe.
in each case. Mobilier was firmer, and rose Bfr. 75c.
The Northern Railway fell 10fr., but the other lines
closed with a good deal of firmness at not more than
2fr. 600. lower than yesterday.
The following " communicated note" has been
sent to the French journals :

The public is informed that travellers coming from
abroad will not be allowed to enter the territory of the
empire, Wean they are bearers of passports delivered by the
authorities of the country to which they belong, and bearing
the vita et a French diplomatic or consular agent. The
French vise must be renewed for every journey into
France.

M. Cornuan, late prefect of the Landes, who, it
will be remembered, was appointed Secretary-
General to the Minister of the Interior when General
Espinaase was made minister, was married to-day at
the Madeleine, to Mdlle. Vinchon, daughter of the
late M. Vinchon, member of the Institute.
As Prince Napoleon was going to the Tuileries
two days back, his horse slipped and fell in such a
way that the Prinoe's leg was somewhat crushed.
Fortunately, the limb was not broken, but the
Prince was so injured that he is confined to his
chamber.
Marshal Bosquet, on his return home from a ride
on horseback on Saturday, was seized with a sudden
rush of blood to the head. Medical assistance was
sent for, and the Marshal was bled, and his state
now inspires no uneasiness.
So much has lately been said in England about
the Moniteur, and the way in which it is managed,
that I think it worth while to call attention to a
specimen of the fairness of Moniteur reporting.
Right columns and • half of that journal are de-
voted to a report of the debate on Mr. Milner Gib-
son's motion. Sir Robert Peel's long, and certainly
not uninteresting speech, is compressed into twelve

lines, at the end of which there occurs this passage,
.L' Orateur continue au milieu des conversations et
de l'inattention de la cliarribre. Now I should really
like to know, and the question is, I think, not an
impertinent one, where the Moniteur got this infor-
mation. I have been at the pains to look at the
reports of all the London papers that were not seized
on Saturday, and I find them all thickly studded
with " hear, hear," " laughter," " cheers," and most
of them conclude with " loud cheers." The young
baronet has yet to shew himself a statesman of his
father's calibre, and his friends will probably admit
that his speeches are often open to criticism on the
score of taste, but unless the authority of the Moni-
tear is to outweigh an overwhelming amount of in-
dependent testimony on a question of fact, it is un-
deniable that on this occasion he at least succeeded
in commanding the " attention" of the house.
Madame Szarvady (Wilhelmina Clause) who since
her marriage about four years ago has been lost to
the musical world, gave the first of a series of con-
oerts at the Salle Pleyel on Saturday, and was rap-
turously applauded. Her performances of a chro-
matic fantasia and fugue of Sebastian Bach, and a
sonata of Beethoven's showed that the wonderful
talent which delighted Parisian society when she
was quite a child, has been not only kept up daring
her retirement, but matured and improved.