The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-26 00:00:00

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS

At the time of going to press no intimation had
reached us that Lord Palmerston had acceded to
the entreaties of Lord Aberdeen, and consented
to resume the seals of Secretary of State.

That_ office has been vacant for more than ten
days. It has been refused by Lord John Russell;
declined by Sir George Grey; and cannot be re-
sumed by Lord Palmerston except upon conditions
which every true Englishman would approve ; but
which, it is said, are, unfortunately, not consistent
with the honour and convictions of her Majesty's
remaining ministers.
Let us hope for the sake of her Majesty, and
considering the season of the year, that they may
yet accept them.
Several of Lord Palmerston's late colleagues
have paid him visits during the week. Mr. Glad-
stone was the last. We understand the right hon.
gentleman abounded in reasons why Lord Palmer-
ston should return to Downing-street. He distin-
guished between the opinion of the " Triumvirate"
(Lord Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, and Sir James
Graham) and the remainder of his colleagues whom
nobody ever consulted, but who were prepared to
assert their independence. We hear the right hon.
gentleman was extremely ingenious, and would
probably have been successful had he not ad-
dressed an individual who was in the habit of
thinking before he acted.
The cabinet is divided into two parties, the major-
rity having pronounced against the tyranny Of " the
Triumvirate." _ _ _

Lord Granville, being too late by the train, was
not present at the council on Thursday, which
delay, considering that the ministers were five
hours and a half in deliberation, was an adroitly-
managed accident.
Lord Lansdowne, though he holds no office, and
does not attend the cabinet councils, remains, we
are assured, one of her Majesty's ministers, which
is considered not the least remarkable feature of
our matchless constitution.
We understand that another cabinet will be held
on Tuesday next. .

The country still continues to enjoy the blessings
of a strong government—Press of Saturday.

The BEST PATTERNS and the NEWEST STYLES of
READY MADE GARMENTS are to be had

At Wm. EARP and CO.'S, 59 and 61, LORD STREET.
A seaman, named Campbell Johnstone, was allowed to
compromise a case of ship desertion at Belfast, by payment
of a sum of £5 to the Sailors' Home.
ACCIDENTS.—Between nine and ten o'clock on Saturday
night, William Edward Wilson, the second mate of an
American vessel, the Empire State, met with a severe acci-
dent, by which his thigh was broken, and he has received
other contusions. Wilson was ascending a ladder belonging
to the vessel, which is now lying in the Sandon graving
dock, when he accidentally fell backwards into the dock.°
At present it is doubtful whether he will recover. Late on
Friday night, a woman, named Mary Quinn, living at 55,
Thomas-street, was crushed between a cart and tie wall, by
which her arm was fractured, and she received some other
injuries in the ribs. Yesterday afternoon a man named
Robert Brewer, Tinemore-street, was conveyed from the
Rosehill bridewell with a fractured skull. He had been in
bridewell all night. The statement is that he met with the
accident on Saturday, in Byrom-street, by falling, while in a
state of intoxication, on the back of the head. When he is
sufficiently recovered, we presume, he will be taken before
the magistrates, and the charge for which he was apprehened
and detained investigated, and not suffered to disappear, as
the man did, who was so grossly misused in Lord-street, a
short time since. From what we can learn of the character
of the wound, it may have been inflicted by a stick.
Loan PALMERSTON.—The Observer of yesterday says :
Lord Palmerston has not ceased to hold the seals of principal
Secretary of State, and we have the happiness to be-
lieve that he will continue to hold them still. He. has
transacted business at the Home Office during the week. it
is highly probable that the Government will appear at the
opening of Parliament in the same form and condition, in
which they concluded this year, one of the most practically
useful and triumphant sessions on record.

THE LATE GENERAL SIR A. MA.CKENZIE has left a variety
of munificent bequests for religious and charitable objects.
Among them are—to the church pastoral aid society,
£1,000; to the consumption hospital, £1,000; to the Scot-
t'sh hospital, £500; to the Northern infirmary, Inverness,
„ea° ; in tht, poor of and of D:ufncali, Cl6O raeli :

Rath tlistria tienevolt-nt institution, CJOIJ, tirviral annuities
anti minor I,equests are then directed by the will to lw made,
and the residue of the property, which was proved as under
£BO,OOO, is left equally to his nephews, Sir Roderick Impey
Murchison, and Mr. K. Murchison.—lnverness Advertiser.