The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-07 00:00:00

OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM FIELD-

MARSHAL LORD .RAGLAN.

(FEOII LAST EVENING'S G.A.ZETTA.)
WAR-DEPARTMENT, Flo. 6.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle received on the 24th
of November, 1854, from Field-Marshal .the Lord Raglan,
G.C.8., a despatch and its inolosure, of which the following
are copies :

My Lord Duke,

Before Sebastopol, Oct. 29,1854.

I have the honour to transmit to your Grace the copy of
a letter from General Canrobert, forwarding a certificate
of Brigadier-General Rose having been wounded in the
face by the splinter of a shall, a when in attendance upon
his Excellency in the trenches, and containing the expres-
sion of the estimation in which the Brigadier-General, his
Aide-de-Camp Major the Honourable St. Gaorge Foley,
and Major Claremont, are held by him and the officers
with whom they are associated.
I cau speak strongly in favour of those three officers;
and I trust I may be permitted to avail myself of. the pre-
sent opportunity to state that the Comniandeur Vico, Who
is attached to my Head Quarters, is ever desirous of yen.
dering me any service in his power, and by his zeal, acti-
vity, and intelligence, he is enabled to be of essential use
in the communications which I am constantly obliged to
have with the General-in-Chief and the officers of the
French Etat-Major.

It would certainly be most gratifying to me if your
Grace would be so kind as to bring under the notice of the
Empernr of the French the opinion I entertain of
Commal4dour Vioo, the advantage I derive from hi
assistance.—Lhave, ke.,
Hie Grace tho Duke of Newcastle, ko

ILAULAN.

Au Quartier•General devant Sebastopol,
Le 24 Oetobre, 1851.

MILORD,
J'AI Phouneur de 'roux adresser, dans les termes vonlas
par los reglements militaires, uno piece destines a certifier
les ciroonstances clans lesquellos le Brigs,dior-General Hugh
Rose, Commissairo do S 3, Majesto Britanniquo pros du
Quartier-General de PArmee Francaise, a ote blesse dans
ses range.
Permettez-moi d'ajouter a cette piece, officielle rex-
pression de la haute estime quo cot officier-ge-
neral, le Major Claremont et le Major Foley out, su'
se consilier parmi nous, par leur bravoure, la droiture do
lour caractere, et les services gull nous rendent.
L'Armee Britanniquee ne saurait etre represent.° plus
dignemont aupres de son alliee. -
Veuillez agreer, Mylord, l'exprission de ma haute con-
sideration.

Le General Commandant en Chef l'Armee
Franc:tin en Orient,
(Signs) GENERAL CANROBERT.
A Sa Seigneurie to General Lord Raglan,
Commandant en Chef l'Armee Anglaise.

Jo sonsigne, Docteur en Medecine, Medecin-Major,
attache au Quartier.General do l'Armee d'Orient, certifie
que le 14 Octobre, 3.854, Monsieur Hugh Rose, Brigadier.
General, Compagnon de l'Ordre du Bain, Commissaire de
Sa Majeste Britannique pres du Quartier-General de l'Ar-
mee Franoaise en'Onent, a ote atteint, par suite de l'explo-
sion d'un obus, d'un plaie contuse a la face, en visitant lea
tranchees avec le General Commandant-en-Chef.
Au camp sons Sebastopol le 18 Octobro, 1554.
Le Medecin.Major,
(Signe) F. GUESNAY.
Approuve :
Le General Chef-d'Etat-Major General
do Armee,
(Signe) C. DE MARTIMPREZ.
Vu:
Lo General Commandant-en-Chef,
(Signe) GENERAL CANROBERT.

WAR DEPARTMENT, FEB. 6.
His Grace tho Duke of Newcastle received, on the 2d of
October, 1851, from Major-General Harry D. Jones, of the
Royal Engineers, a despatch, of which the following is an
extract :

"H.ll. Ship Duke of Wellington,
Na ban Roads, 25th September, 1854.
" I take this opportunity of bringing under your Grace's
notice the very great assistance I derived from the ser-
vices of Captain Rodney Mundy, R.N., during the opera-
tions against Bomarsund. This officer was permitted by
the Tiee-Admiral commanding to accompany me, and
I have to express my thanks to Captain Mundy for the very
active, able, and zealous manner in which he discharged
many important duties which I requested him to under-
take; •his knowledge of the French language proved ex-
tremely useful on many occasions, when communicating
with the French authorities.'?
WAR OFFICE, FEB. 3.
The Right Hon. the Secretary-at-War has received from
his Grace the Duke of Newcastle the following list of
Casualties amongst the Non-Commissioned Officers and
Privates in the Forces under the- oommand of Field-Mar.
shal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B, from the 15th to the 18th
January, 1855, both days inclusive.
CORRECTED NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COM-
MISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES MISS-
ING FROM 12Ta TO 14ra JANUARY, 1855,
INCLUSIVE.

MISSING.
JANUARY 12.
68th Regiment of Foot.
ivate John Lawrisson, omitted in last return
For 3263, read 3488 Private Edward Mason
J. B. BUCK
ant-GeneraI.ESTCOURT,
Ad j

RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROG 15Til TO 18TH
JANUARY, 1855.
4th Regiment of Foot-4 rank and file wounded,
38th Regiment-2 rank and file wounded.
lat Battalion Rifle Brigade-1 rank and file killed.
iank and file killed ; G rank and file
wounded.
J. B. RUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adjutant-General.

NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES KILLED, FROM
15Th TO 18Tu JAN., 1855, INCLUSIVE.
KILLED.
JAN. 15.
lst Battalion Riffo Brigade.
Private Jarneq Leggett.
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT,
Adjutant-General.

NOMINAL RETURN OF NON-COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WOUNDED FROM
15Ta TO 18TH JANUARY, 1355, INCLUSIVE.
WOUNDED.
JAN. 15.
38th Regiment of Foot.
Private Michael Bird, Rove-rely

JAN. IG.
4th Regiment of Foot.
Private Richard Homing, severely
Private Alexander Moir, severely
Private Leonard Brooks, slightly
Private William Dawson, severely
38th Regiment of Foot.
Private Cornelius Hunt, severely
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOUBT,
Adjutant-General.

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It is said of Albert, philosopher and statesman as well
as Prince, that among his familiars he is in the habit of
speaking of his wife's reign as the last that England will
see or endure. Seeing the working of our constitutional
a spectator, and in its iheary merely, and not having had
the advantage of imbibing its genius into his instincts,
or assimilating it by the slow digestion of nativity and
"manner-born" habit to his mental system, it is difficult ,
for him, a stranger, to conceive how a monarchy can '
survive unlicensed printing, free discussion, open meet-
ing, vote by ballot, and household suffrage. He has
yet to learn that our public opinion, and constitutional
system, like the huge rocking stones of .Stonehenge, a
mystery to the engineer, may be moved by the touch of
a child, but may not be subverted from its base by the
strength of a thousand Titans. The monarchy is stronger
now than it was in the reign of Charles H., than it was
fifty, aye thirty, years ago. Before the revolution it
was based upon devices of our constitution and shored
up by surrounding instifetions—novrit stands firm upon
the broad foundation of public opinion—the deliberate,
sifted, amply shaken and discussed convictions' of the
great body of the people. The trash that was effused
about its expensiveness has long been shotten into the
limbo of the inane. Every addition to the population.
divides the burden of the cost—the disbursements of
the exchequer for the monarchy proper do not reach
sixpence per head of the population. Indeed the privete
patrimonial estate of the Sovereign, had it been properi'f
managed by the nation, would have amounted to much
more than the salary which the State in its wisdom has
substituted as an equivalent for the appropriation of it.
The temporary popularity of the Republican system ,
among enthusiasts waned, from the time it began to be
suspected that the Government of the United States
was not so cheap as had been supposed ; and that,
taking into account the fact that not only had a fedora/
Government to be paid, but a Senate and Congress of
paid legislators for every State, governors, secretaries,
treasurers, supreme and district and county courts ; in-
deed
the charges of 26 "sovereign States," three or four
threeLlles and increasing "annexations," burdened with
Ired million dollars of State debts. an
0--4:---'
army, and ,
"liberty, equality, and gaternity " had not so much
reason to exalt its horn above' the old-fashioned machine - -
of King, Lords, and COmmons, with ten times the po- . : -.-
pulation to govern over every part of the globe. - Chaxt-
ism is gone,. forgotten, dead and damned at Snig's End..
There are no troops in the country, yet nobody has any
fear of disorder. Our masses have adjourned to Bala-
klava, and the most remarkable thing about them, next
to their devoted valour, is their discipline under influ-
ences that might have destroyed it, and their uncom-
plaining faithfulness and cheerful loyalty to their officers.
The whole machinery of Government and legislation
has become so obedient to the helm of public opinion,
all men have become so obsequious to it, that the people
care for none of their old watchwords, and think less
about how improvements are to be made law than
what are improvements. No. It is not in the direc-
tion of the monarchy that the shoe pinches. We are
' all loyal now. Class legislation is practically at an
end. It is clearly seen whatever the people want to have
done will be done ; and so politics have of late taken a
very practical, and no longer a speculative political shape.
We have attained to the test of political perfectibility,
the state-craft millennium of old Euripides :
This is true liberty, when free-born men,
Having to advise the people, may speak out;
Which he who can-and will deserve high praise;
Who neither can nor will may hold his peace.
Heaven knows that the people have as many advisers as
Job, or the hare with many friends ; as for "speaking
out," stump orators are as thick as blackberries, in Par-
liement and out of it. ' No man (still less any woman)
believes he can't speak ; and the number who won't are
infinitesimally small. Tacitus was a Roman and Epicene
a Greek. Except deaf mutes, we are all tolerable talkers
in England in this 19th century of Exeter-Hallery, the
London Tavern, and tremendous cheering. The point
at which we seem
.to have arrived in the discussion of
our constitutional theory is this :—We are satisfied to
retain the monarchy ; we cannot well do without a peo-
ple; we begin to suspect that great bazaar of slack jaw,
called the House of Commons, to be neither ornamental
nor useful, but only a. grievous infliction
-on the long
ears of strangers in the gallery, and the aching eyes
of column- devourers ; and the Times has settled it
in its mind that " the Second Estate is a futile and
ineffectual imposthume mpon the body politic, that
must be cut out like any other wen or carbuncle,
that the symmetry 'of society may be restored. It is
now fully 200 years since John Milton thus spoke out:—
"Loris and Commons of England 1--Consider what na-
tion whereof it is ye are, and whereof ye are the gover-
nors ; a nation not slow nor dull, but of a qiiick, inge-
nious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and
sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point,
the highest that human capacity can soil. to. What
could a man require more from a nation so pliant, and
so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there
to 'such a Cowardly aid pregnant soil but wise and faith.
ful labourers,- to make a knowing people, a. nation of
prophets, sages,- and worthies." Well. We have paid
ourselves the very pretty compliment of thinking that
Nye are all these tine things that Milton said we might
be. Bet fur all that the Char is too many for us, both
in the Cabinet and in the field. We can neither "fleech
the file nor fecht him," and Mr. Ferrell Roebuck "put
ee-a;en on the notice paper" to find out the cause.
Lord John Russell ha,i turned King's evidence. He has
peached against his colleagues and his order. He says
the Gordons and Clinton, and Herherts are not fit to
lead thenation in war or govern the country in difficulty ;
and lie won't march through Coventry with them, even
although-they should sand Aim to Coventry. Confident
in the strength and genius of the peoplee—alarmed at the
r nwi. ot
with st
hyaeond
e eap
0. theota
itlthen
ne.l.
aa
?tut
ogsnehr
uo
fuoclf
Should
to I
y;
well's secretary, tine
Si lit: ot
em, ph
ee
t me nac)y• fiotfl yt; hce e.
il
vni their
governors
aLoti
shoulde
suppre.ss all this flowery crop of knowledge and new light,
springing daily in this city I Should ye set an oligarchy
to bring a famine upon our minds again, when we
shall know nothing but what is measured to us by their
bushel I Believe it, Lords and Commons ! they who
counsel ye to such a suppressing do as good as bid ye
suppress yourselves I". It is not our intention here to
examine the justice of the conclusion here pointed at.
The fact that the people have settled it in their minds
'that aristocratical privilege is an evil—is a theme large
enough for one discourse. Patronage is abolished
throughout the entire offices in the gift of thellEast
India Company. Nothing but qualification, ability and
zeal, are henceforward of any avail in attaining to the
high position of a curried liver, a bad temper, lacy of
rupees, and a bungalow at Cheltenham. Our other coos
lonies will no longer submit to be governed by " mother
country" nominees, and they now select their officers
from their ablest settlers. The Cabinet put before an
ungrateful public an honest and excellent measure for
administering :the patronage of our domestic civil ser-
vice entirely on the principle of clettc)7 digniori—opening'
the career of fortune to merit, and affording to every
citizen an equal chance of reaping- the rewards of desert.
The Army, the Navy, the Ordnance, the highest offices
of State, were still preserves of the aristocracy, to ,which
indeed they might admit a few plebeian game-keeperse
but only for the purpose of beating off democratica'
poacher'; keeping the p!easures of the grand battu of
pieces entirely to themselves. Amid disease, disaster,
extremity, defeat and death, the nation demands a victim
now, as it did when it shot Admiral Byng • and, helped
-to its conclusion by the revelations of Lercljohn Russell,
it has settled it in its mind, and has resolved to appler
the conclusion to its future policy,, that the militia aof
are no longer fit to direct war from the Cabinet, or to
command and carry.it on in the field. 'The democratic
constitution of the French army is compared and con-
, trasted with the oligarchical composition
.of ours---St.
Arnaud and Canrobert, Bosquet and Omer Pacha, a." 1"
measured with Raglan, Cardigan, Cambridge, andLucane
—the good order, sound health, efficiency and comfort
of the former are attributed to the strict impartiality of
promotion and the facility with which it opens its
honours to real merit in the lowest ; while the conteere
sion of our splendid troops into a demoralised mob etf
starving grumblers or fever-eaten patients, is assigned
solely to the utter ignorance, incompetency, and unta!th.
,
fulness of officers promoted, not for their service! actg, bu.
their birth, and appointed through interest, not cm
count either of their knowledge. or ability. That is the
" fixed idea" which has been worn into the public min' i
1-4 the events of the war, -the diatribes of the Times, and
the ex-officio information laid before Parliament by
that volunteer Attorney-General of Providence, the
late President of the Council. Henceforth thee
prestige and privileges of the order of Peers in this
country aro gone--ani, substantiajly, we cannot believe
that the institution itself canlong remainbehind. In fact,
aristocracy without perquisites is simply ridiculous.
There are still nominal Lords in France, even in Gore .
many and Russia ; but they but crawl'about and creep
under the huge lets of absolutism, to Slid themselves din.
honourable graves. - Here they have had real power and
prerogative--place kept for them, distinction and strata.
meat reserved for their exclusive acceptance—experi-
ence, knowledge, ability, diligence, genius, all put aside,
that their nursed and dandled order might mount into
the avenues of greatness and wealth. The nation says
that aristocracy has annihilated 40,000 of the finest
troops in the world, and dishonoured England in the facer
of ally and of enemy—even brought danger, perhaps de-
' feat and dishonour, upon the country—it says that it is
sick of aristocracee--" the Lord deliver us from aristo-
cracy !"—aristocracy is a futility—a plated Brummagem
article that only glitters in the shop window, and turns
yellow and brown when it comes to the rubs of usc—
therefore, aristocracy, begone from rsal business, from pub-
lic lifes from government, or war, or place or power, hitto
the obscure of mere Belgres inn Alinackism and consti-
tutional tutionel carriaee driving in the Pink, to s;.,e and
seen, iu searcliof an appetite for dinner!
longer endure
The insolence of office and the sptuilyeie
akes 1
,
That paticelt merit of the un.lvootr I t
" debaters " ctiss
That is undoubtedly the conclusion, let
We shall no
The people aela
pate ever so 'nee about titrp 1
:f reasons why we have'
for success, and will noso,. ):sear They will have victory,
failed, be they over so 1. -,cas
t is the vice of mediocrity that
it is always unlxicl;7,
not excuses. They
''3wylijich is the euphuism for unable
of genius, that-it has no difficuie
.nu.as—that, like Alexander, it
ties—that it swal:
r, forcestl:vdsthe S • ' ' •
aiid unwise—the , virtu®for 1
compels f"t"---r 2
tory. They say to Newcastle, and nerbert, an ag
and Dundas, anti Napier, " Get ye home I frame, no e"
cases ! Eno' 14b, -you have failed ! Where are our
r
legions ? W, t esellil cashier and cashier leader filter
leader, until the) man comes forth on
whose helmet an
tbat we look
eagle perches e it is no longer among lords
to find him i". eereekty Dispatch.

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remain in abeyance, and that, too, at a period

when even minutes are, of vital importance to

gratify the vanity of these men, whose co-opera-
tion will be more dangerous than their most
active hostility.

We readily accord to Mr. GLADSTONE the title
of a ready debater, a man well qualified to make
" the worse appear the better reason," and capable

of carrying with him persons anxious to be con-
vinced, and seeking only for plausible excuses to

satisfy their own, by no means exigent consciences.

But no man has ever in an equal time committed
so many grave mistakes, or put himself forward as
the advocate of more erroneous principles. While he

remains in the Exchequer, we may look in vain
for the fiscal, financial, and monetary reforms so
urgently required by the country. Better even
the dull imbecility of Sir CHARLES WOOD than the
active perversity of Mr. GLADSTONE—tiIe stub-
born incapacity of the man who would not move
at all, than the undue rapidity of him whose
movements are almost invariably in the wrong di-
rection. The frogs, when they had for some time
endured the visitation of King STORK, deplored
his less obnoxious predecessor the Royal Los;
and strange as it may appear, Mr. GLADSTONE has
proved that there may be even a worse Financial
Minister than the present President of the India
Board.

minds, No, no ; that has not been the Noble

Lord's fault hitheito ; tricky he is, but not a
coward. Rather he has chivalrously defended

colleagues eyen when known to be personally at

variance with them. Had he felt their cause de-

fensible, we believe he would have faced without

blenching a majority of three to one.
Perhaps the best test of his treatment of the
Cabinet is—What would have been the result
had Lord JosN's preposition to substitute PAL-
11110TON for NEWCASTLE been adopted ? No ono
can doubt that it would have saved the Ministry.

But is it not Mr. GLADSTONE who is alleged to
have constituted the impediment to every Mi-
nistry ? It is w„m.erred that Lord PALMERSTON
wo„Li nave acted with Lord DERBY but for the
refusal of the Right Hon. Gentleman to co-ope-
rate ! That Lord JonN RUSSELL, in like
manner: fv,u. a th A insuperable ob-
stacle ; while he has been the stumbling-wo-cx
in the way of Lord PALMIRSTON, which has led
to so many delays and difficulties. If so, we
think his importance is greatly exaggerated, and
that his assistance to any Government would be
scarcely worth the price at which it can only be
obtained.

The public would have regarded it as an indica-

tion of earnestness, and either Mr. ROEBUCK
would never have brought forward his motion, or,

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Mr. HERBERT, too, was one of those against
whom the censure of the House of Commons was so
unequivocally pronounc ed. Hi s heredi taryPro-Rus-
sianism was well known, and strong objections were
entertained to the presence in the Cabinet, and that,
too, in a department closely connected with the
administration of the War, of the nephew of Prince
Woßortzow--the sister's son of the Governor of
Southern Russia. The question " Why spare
Odessa 1" has been frequently asked. Could the
desire to preserve uninjured the splendid and costly
palace of the uncle of a Cabinet Minister of the Eng-
lish Secretary at War, havehad anything to do with

if he had, the House and the public would have

demanded a fair trial for Lord PALMERSTON, and

refused to hold an inquest upon the past while
the present was a guarantee for the future.
The true history of the case, looking at broad
features and discarding all the peddling incidents,
is, that while Lord JOHN, as is his wont, in pub-
lic, always said the most generous things he could,
indeed we believe more generous than true, of
his Premier, the War had not long become an
anxious and distressing matter before he and the
Peelites, at least the Premier, the Duke of NEW-
OASTLE, and Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, were at practi-
cal and growing variance. The Whig section of

the Cabin_s', were more in earnest in the War
than the other party, while it had so means
of giving effect to that earnestness. This
leaked out pretty plainly in the letters and con-

versations from the middle of November onwards;
and we fully believe Lord Jomes statement that
he had no reason to think his proposals for rec0n-
_,.....-4-:„- 4-1,. War Department would have re-
ceived fair consideration. He saw a aeterumm-

tion to resist all change on the ground of
personal consideration for the• Duke of
NEWCASTLE, and knowing the almost im-
possibility of overcoming such feelings in a man
like Lord ABERDEEN, he tacitly made up his mind
not to moot the question further, nor to hazard
the harmony of the Cabinet by repeated interpo-
sitions. What Parliamentary or other claim the
Peelites had to such a monopoly of Cabinet power
it is difficult to see.

Galatz.

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Lord JOHN'S defence, or further explanation, on
Monday night, more than corroborates this gene-
ral view of the case. Ho gave it as his opinion
that the Earl of ABERDEEN was the chief cause of
the Duke of NEWCASTLE'S incompetency, and that
with a different Premier, the Duke would have
succeeded. "Had the Prime Minister been a man
whose pursuits and disposition would lead him to
hasten the necessary preparations for war, the Duke
of Newcastle would have been found perfectly com-
petent for the department he held !" Again, when
Mr. LAYARD pointed out the danger from an in-
crease of Russian strength by land in the Crimea,
he observed " that was a very important question,
[ but /cannot say that it met with that sufficient atten-
tion from, Lord Aberdeen which I could have hoped."
These are Lord JOHN'S words, and when we bear
in mind the proper reluctance of both sides to bring
Cabinet consultations and differences before the
public, we must think they furnish complete proof
that the popular opinion of Lord ABERDEEN was
known by Lord JOHN to be the correct one ; and
that the result is, that our army in the Crimea
has been almost sacrificed to Lord ABERDEEN'S
want of interest in the War, and his determination
to sustain Peelite predominance in the Cabinet.
He proposed Lord PALMERSTON, in fact, to
save Lord ABERDEEN certain that the only
possible means of rectifying past mischief was
either an efficient War Minister, or a War
Minister like Lord PALISIEBB.STOIi, who would
be a substitute for the Premier's inefficiency.
These general considerations pressed painfully on
the mind of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, while, on the
other hand, he naturally shrank from upsetting a
Government in time of war if it could be avoided.
Hence his seeming, indeed his real, vacillation.
But how, in such a state of mind, he could have
been Leader of the House of Commons, in resist-
ing Mr. ROEBUCK'S motion, we cannot see. He
was compelled to resign. Fe had to choose be-
tween the claims of a Cabinet, and the claims of
Truth. Ho preferred those of Truth.

that unfortunate decision ? At all events, the
knowledge that the CzAn had a person over whom
he might, through one of his leading subjects,
exercise great influence must have had a con-
siderable effect on other Powers. Why, then, is
he to be retained ? •
Of Sir JIVES GRAHAM we can scarcely say
that the head of the Admiralty is so completely
unconnected with the management of the War
as to be exonerated from the implied censure
passed thereon ! The Administration of the
Navy in the Euxine ! and the Baltic ! ! must be
subjected to stringent investigation, and we con-
fess that we see little difference between the re-
tention of the War department by the Duke of
NEWCASTLE and the Admiralty by " the Lord of
Netherby."
But everything yields in importance to
the alleged determination to keep Lord Aim-
nirsal in some office. If that be attempted, fare-
well to every hope of Lord PALMERSTON' S success.
Anything else might be tried, but that would be
too bad. It would be what our northern brethren
the countrymen of the ex-Premier, term " Cauld.
hail het again !" an arrangement To-rolbing to the
foelincia of the nation. Lord PALMERSTON may
he assured that Lord ABERDEEN is the JONAH that
must bo thrown overboard, if he hopes to steer
the vessel of the State safely into port.
As yet we only know that Lord PALMERSTON
is to be the Premier, and Mr. HERBERT Home
Secretary—the only other change being, as it is
said, Lord PANKURE, better known 'as Mr.
Fox MAUL; to the War Department. This
is the old leaven still, and will not, we fear, be
suited to the emergency. We want new blood—
vigorous and energetic. We cannot say that as
yet any symptoms are perceptible of the want
being supplied or the groat difficulty removed.
The "cards have been slightly shuffled," but that
is all. The exchange of a few offices, and the
substitution of Lord PANMURE for Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, cannot be said to give the strength and
stability to the Cabinet so urgently demanded by
the nation.

Simpheropol.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDO%.
Tars DAY —Morning 3 min.after 5 Evening 17 min.aft. 5
To-lonnovri:Atorning 36 min.after 5 4 Evening 52 rnin.aft.

THZ WEVIHZ.R.—Stru Orium, Feb. 7.
TEMMOMIATES, IN TER SHADS.
40—highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest this morning and during the night.
43—this day, at noon.

BABOMETZB, 29'86.
WIND, N.—Light breeze, with dull, cold weather.

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1855.

THE NEW MINISTRY.

The Ministerial crisis is now at an end. The
following list of the new Cabinet has been put in

circulation :
First Lord of the Trea- Viscount PALMERSTON.
sury
Lord Chancellor Lord CRANWORTH.
President of the Council Earl GRANVILLE.
Privy Seal
Home Secretary
Foreign Secretary
Colonial Secretary ...
Minister at War Lord PANMURE.
Chancellor of the Ex-
Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE.
chequer
First Lord of the Ad- Sir JAMES GRAHAM.
rairalty
Public Works Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTU.
In the Cabinet, but
Marquis of Idaiszoowrin.
without office
President of the Board
Sir CHARLES WOOD.
of Control

It will be seen from our Parliamentary report
that the writs for Tiverton and South Wilts were
moved this morning. The new Ministers met at
Lord Palmerston's this afternoon, and after-
wards repaired by special train to Windsor,
where her Majesty held a Privy Council, for the
purpose of investing them with the seals of office.

We certainly have been, and are, anything
but partizans of Lord Joni". RUSSELL. He is
too cold and sneering an aristocrat to conciliate
the attachment of the people at large, and of the
journalists who advocate their cause. Ever ready
to enlist their aid by eulogiums on democracy
when in Opposition, and by most liberal exordiums
to his speeches when in office, he has almost uni-
formly affronted those whose co-operation had
raised him to power, by the niggardliness of his
practical offers. Few of the popular measures of
late years have not found in him an antagonist
till resistance was useless ; and when he seemed
to accept the popular wish, he was always a
hearty supporter of some provoking or insulting
limitation in favour of aristocratic exclusiveness,
and in opposition to the people's rights. The
principle which he avowed a year after its
passing to have been that which guided his
Reform Bill machinations is the one
which appears to have impregnated all his
public acts. We refer to his declaration
when the act was found to work more for the
aristocracy than for the many—that he had
always intended to give the predominance to the
landed aristocracy. We hold such an intention
to be high treason against sound liberal principles.
His duty was to give the citizens of the country
their rights impartially, and if, that being done,
the aristocracy, with all their advantages of posi-
tion, wealth, and influence, could hold their own,
by all means to let them do so. We have even a
grave quarrel with Lord JOHN for his declaration
that he did not wish to deprive Russia of any of
its (stolen) territories—a principle as mortifying
to those who wish him political distinction as his
celebrated finality dogma. • We deliberately hold
that every man of the slightest pretensions to
statesmanship ought to wish Russia to be deprived
of all her conquests in the North, West, and
South, and pre-eminently of Poland, Bessarabia,
and Circassia.

"Patience, and shuffle the cards 1 " The nation
must perforce act on the advice given to DON
QUIXOTTE by the Eidoion of Durindante in the
Cavern. It must perforce haVe patience while
the leaders, or would-be-leaders, of the future
Government are " shuffling the cards," and
striving to meet the crisis by new combinations of
the old "pack." The popular branch of the
Legislature is already manifesting strong symp-
toms of discontent ; and naturally so, for from
what has been suffered to leak out, we cannot
discern any prospect of a satisfactory solution of
the existing difficulty, or anything that will make
amends for the very prejudicial, if not destructive,
procrastination that is taking place.
As we have recently stated we do not blame
Lord PALMERSTON for the delay. Other parties,
who suffer their own personal feelings to interfere
with and impede the public service, must bear the
blame which they have so justly merited, and will
most assuredly fall on those who hung back, on
trivial or inadequate grounds during the present
emergency. But we do condemn him for
not displaying greater vigour and determination
when he has the uncontrolled direction of affairs

—for not fully availing himself of the unlimited

powers with which he has been entrusted, and at
once diverging from the beaten track—the ordi-
lutry tricks of Cabinet-making.
Ve assume that he is in possession of such
Powers, that a carte blanche has been placed in
his hands, that he has been wholly emancipated
from the trammels of Germanism, and is not, by
a Mezentian Process, irretrievably fettered to the
capqd mortuunt of Aberdeenism. We have too
great reliance on the Noble Viscount—on his in-
dependence and manliness of character—.to suppose
suppos
that he would undertake the arduous an
impor-
tant duty with which ho is charged on terms
alike detrimental to his own reputation and
to the national welfare. If he has not stipu-
izted for perfect freedom, he is not the man we
have supposed him to be, and, we will add, not
the man suited for the existing difficulty, the
pilot with ability sufficient to weather the im-
Pending storm ! We must, therefore, assume that
be Possesses unlimited authority to enter into all
the arrangements which he may consider essen-
tial for the formation of a strong Government.
It must, therefore, be with his own free will, ex
mero mote that he has been negotiating with
the condemned portion of the Cabinet—with GLAD-
EITONX ! HERBERT ! ! GRAZE I ! I and ABERDERN ! ! ! !
and that he has permitted the public business to

We cannot, however, sympathise with some
recent ferocious attacks upon the Noble Lord.
We must confess that the endeavours of his col-
leagues and th© press to hunt him down have
issued in convincing us that in the present case,
in all that is substantial, he is fairly vindicated,
and that he has failed, if at all, only in the tech-
nicalities of his resignation. He admitted an
error of etiquette on that score ; and as the Duke
Of NEWCASTLE was praised for his 'confessions, we
do not see why Lord JOHN should not enjoy the
same return. As to cowardice and desertion of
his c9lleagues, we certainly replied sin our 91411

TITS SUN, LONDON, 'WItrINESDAY NVXNING, FRIEIItrAR, V, 16613.

LATEST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

WARSAW, FEB. 5.

Intelligence from Sebastopol of the 29th Jan.

has been received here.

Nothing important had occurred.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 28.
The Sultan intends raising a national loan, by

voluntary subscriptions in Turkey.

BRUSSELS, FIB. 5.

M. trgedom, who is again charged with a spe-
cial mission to the Court of St. James's, has met
General Wedol, but has not been able to proceed
to London on account of indisposition.

The following despatches were received in Paris

yesterday :
Eight Austrian merchant ships arrived at

They were received by the Russians with a fire
of musketry. The pilot of the brig Cleedenoven

Russian troops are ravaging the Dobrudseha
under the eyes of General Coronini.

MARSEILLES, STH.

consistory, spoke as follows of Piedmont :—" What
a painful thing to say ! at the moment at which we
speak, venerable brethren, a law is proposed in the
Sardinian States which has for its object to destroy
regular ecclesiastical institutions, and which
tramples under foot and effaces, as far as possible,
the rights of the Church. But we reserve to our-
selves to treat this grave subject as it merits, and
to act as the case may seem to require."

It is positively stated that, as g.nr 41'w 'Cul

tifications of Eupatoria are completed, Omer
Pacha will march on Sebastopol, and then,
doubtless, a grand battle will be fought.

The Russians have fallen back on the side o.

VIENNA, 6Th.

The telegraph via, Czernowitz brings accounts
from Odessa to the Ist. At that date the thaw
had commenced. There was no ice in the port,
where 10 Austrian vessels were at anchor ; three
of them have since left with their cargoes.
The last accounts received at Odessa from
Sebastopol announce that it rained during the
day, and froze again at night.

The Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael were
expected.

A letter from Vienna, in the Breslau accette,
says The hope of recommencing the con-
ference for peace on the 6th now seems aban-
doned, and a new date namely, the 15th, is
spoken of in diplomatic circles. It is ♦ery evi-
dent that Austria paid but little attention to the
pacific assurances of Prince Gortschakoff, since
the Cabinet of Vienna sent off to Paris and Lon-
don, the day after the declarations made by the
Russian envoy, a note calling on the English and
French Cabinets to complete the treaty of Dec. 2,
by coming to an arrangement on the military mea-
sures which were to be taken."

Advices from the Crimea via Constantinople
and Marseilles confirm the Russian despatch pub-
lished yesterday, and show that our guns are still
silent before Sebastopol. From the fact that Sir
George Brown had left Malta for the camp, it was
inferred that active measures were in prospect.
The Third French Division had taken its place in
the English trenches. A Sardinian general arrived
at Constantinople on the 28th, to prepare for the
reception of the Piedmontese army, which will be
ready to embark by the time the English trans-
ports in which the troops are to be conveyed shall
I have arrived.

The Press of Vi';',°os4,;a stated some time ago that
Prince Stirbey W 3,4 forming a enrpc ;if In, 000
men to reinforce the Turkish army. But a letter
from Bucharest of the 25th ult. in the Constitu-
tionnel asserts that, though Omer Paella four
months back demanded such a reinforcement,
nothing has been yet done towards forming it.

The Hamburg lfews contains a letter from
Copenhagen ,of the 2d, which says :—" The
Folksthing adopted this day, , notwithstanding
the opposition of the Minister of Public Worship,
the proposition of the finance committee, tend-
ing to diminish the salaries fixed for the bishops
by the preceding Minister, M. Ousted."

LETTERS FROM THE CRIMEA.

On the night of the 20th the enemy kept up a
sharp fire on the French lines, and this morning I
hear that the French have made an attack upon a
small position held by the enemy, which they have
taken and retain. Some few days since the enemy
were observed from Gordon's battery, about 6,000
in number, without cavalry or artillery, but with
waggons laden and a rear-guard. They were
marching from below Fort Saverneir, in the direc-
tion of the Post-house. About four p.m. yester-
day, nearly 2,000 Russians were seen marching
into Sebastopol, and about the same number goiMg
out. It was probably one party relieving the other.
330 sick were taken down from the camp the day
before yesterday, and put on board ship. They
ware taken down in artillery waggons, and by the
French ambulances. Each Frenchman receives,
on arrival, a glass of rum, and they bring back for
the English two bags of biscuit on each of their
mules. The French have twice our strength nu-
merically, and yet they can take down the greater
part of our sick and bring us back biscuit. The
troop; now receive wood from Bourghas, where it
is brought by direction of Omer Pacha from the
interior. The snow is gradually disappearing.
It has just been reported that the enemy has
made a show of cavalry in the Inkerman this after-
noon. The whole army has now plenty of warm

clothing.
The agents of the Crimean Army Fund had an
interview with the Quartermaster-General yester-
day. No part of their stores has yet arrived.
Yesterday a large convoy, apparently of provi-
sions, entered Sebastopol by the north side of the
harbour in mid-day. Two new batteries were also
unmasked yesterday, containing four guns, to all
appearance set up to bear on the Woronzoff road
and No. 1 battery on our left attack. These bat-
teries are between the garden and the redan.
The weather still continues very mild, the snow
has nearly disappeared. Our hutting goes on very
slowly. There are not yet enough to cover the sick.
The Trent came in late last night. She brought
267 mules, and harness complete, with 86 mule-
teers, gun platforms, carpenters' tools, and 400
boxes of oranges. The mules are for the ambulance
corps principally.
H.M.S. Gorgon, with 200 of the Rifles, has also
arrived. The Cleopatra and Brandon have sailed
with sick to Scutari, and the Negotiator, transport,
is gone to Bourghas for wood.
Sir George Brown is expected to arrive in a day
or two.

The roads and the camp are in a fearful state.
The breaking up of the recent frost, and the
melting of the snow has made the roads " knee
deep." The enemy fired a great deal last night,
but. nothing more than usual occurred. GOO of the
enemy's cavalry have moved from near the Flag-
staff, which is on the north of the Tchernaya, down
into the Inkerman.
The Imperatrice, with drafts for the Ist, 4th,
7th, 20th, 23d, 28th, 44th, 46th, 77th, 95th, Ist
Battalion Rifles, and two medical officers ; in all
15 officers, and nearly 900 men have arrived.

CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Jan. 23.—The following
has been issued :
" GENERAL ORDER.

"Head-Quarters before Sebastopol,
Jan. 18, 1855.
"At a general court-martial held at camp before
Sebastopol, on the 12th January, 1855, in pursuance of
an order of Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.8., com-
manding the forces, dated the 9th of January, 1855 ;
Lieutenant A.H.H. Mercer, 89th Regiment, was tried
upon the following charges --
" Ist. For neglect of duty, in having, on the 29th
day of December, 1854, left a detachment of his regi-
ment, of which he was sent in command, for the pur-
pose of bringing up stores, and for not having returned
to his regitnent until about noon on the 31st December,
1854.

" 2d. For having, on the afternoon of the 29th day
of December, 1855, and whilst absent from the detach-
ment of which he had been sent in command, been found
drunk at or near Balaklava'.'

" Of which charges the Court found the prisoner with
regard to the Ist guilty, under extenuating circum-
stances ; and, with regard to the 2d, not guilty.

" SENTENCE.

"The Court having found the prisoner guilty of the
Ist charge preferred against him, but under extenuating
circumstances, and having acquitted him of the 2d
charge, do now adjudge him, Lieutenant A. H. H.
Mercer, 89th Regiment, to be reprimanded.
(Signed) " W. G. ROMAINE,
Officiating Deputy-Judge-Advocate.
"C. W. RIDLEY, Colonel and Major,
Grenadier Guards, President.
" Approved and confirmed,
(Signed) " RAGLAN.
"16th January, 1855.
" REMARKS.

"Lieutenant Mercer ',las been acquitted of the 2d
charge preferred against him, and has very properly
been found guilty of the Ist charge, namely, of neglect
of duty,' but, in the opinion of the Court, the offence
was committed under circumstances which diminished
the criminality of it.
" From the character which Lieut. meteor has re-
- 11,1.1 .),;,v :vlO LOL ,orreetn,s ;11 the perform-
ance of his duties, the Commander of the Forces is
willing to believe that Lieut. Mercer would not have
been guilty of this neglect of duty had he been in the
enjoyment of his usual healtt, and the lenient sentence
of the Court is on that ground approved and confirmed.
"The most injurious effects have been already found
to ensue from officers sent on duty to Balaklava quitting
the men of whom they are sent in charge, and for their,
own private affairs delaying their return to camp.
" Lord Raglan trusts that Lieutenant .Mercer will
not again be guilty of an offence which is not only in di
rect disobedience of an order recently published to the
army, but it in the highest degree detrimental to the
welfare and discipline of the soldier.
" Lieutenant Mercer is hereby reprimanded, and
ordered to be released from arrest, and to return to his
duty. (Signed) " RAGLAN."

The undermentioned officers have joined the Medical
Staff, dated Jan. 7 :-
Ist Class Staff Surgeon Beatson.
•
2d Class Staff Surgeon Walshe.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Weir.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Shylock.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Madden.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Webb.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Dickson.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Jardin.
Acting Assistant Surgeon O'Callaghan.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Rook.
_ Acting Assistant Surgeon Corbett.
Acting Assistant Surgeon White.
Leave of absence is granted, on medical certificate, to
the undermentioned officers :
Lieut. Harvey, 9th Regiment, 18th to 31st January.
Lieut. W. Deedes, let Battalion Rifle Brigade, 18th
January to 10th February.
To go on board ship at Balaklava.

THE CAPE SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday. The General
Screw Company's steam-ship Natal, Capt. Boxer, arrived
from the Cape this morning. Her news hay been anti-
cipated by the arrival of the Calcutta steam-ship from
Australia. The Natal had a full cargo, chiefly of wool
and copper ore, the latter from the newly-discovered
mines at the Cape. The quantity of copper on board
was about 200 tons.
THE LATE HORRIBLE MURDER AT CHATHAM.—The
investigation into the circumstances connected with the
diabolical murder of Mrs. Catherine Bacon was resumed
yesterday morning at ten o'clock, by Mr. Thomas Hill,
coroner for the district, at the York Tavern. The jury
having deliberated with closed doors for some time, re-
turned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Elizabeth
Laws."

BILLS 01 EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY NOTES.—A
bill, brought in by Messrs. Keating and Mullings, pro-
poses to facilitate the remedies ou bills of exchange and
promissory notes by the prevention of frivolous or ficti-
tious defences to actions thereon. It provides that if
the defendant do not obtain the leave of the Court or
judge to appear, the plaintiff -nay sign judgment. This
leave to appear may be given on the defendant's dis-
closing a defence to the action of affidavits satisfactory
to the Court, or if reasonable ground be laid. The pro-
visions of the Common Law Procedure Acts of 1852 are
incorporated with this act, which is confined to Eng-
land.
THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The Royal mail clipper
ship Boomerang, Captain Brown, belonging to Messrs.
James Baines and Company's " Black Ball" line of
Australian packets, left the Mersey yesterday, at 12.35
p.m. for Melbourne, with 497 passengers and a full car-
go, consisting of 1,200 tons of general merchandise on
board. She also carries out the February European
mails, which are unusually heavy, comprising 327 bags
of letters and newspapers, which her owners engage
under a penalty to deliver in 65 days. Although only
a month in port after completing her last voyage
the Boomerang has, during that period, been fitted
up in the most comfortable manner, and every improve-
ment possible for the passengers' convenience introduced.
She was towed to sea by two powerful steamers, which
would, however, only be able to take her a short dis-
tance, as with a fair wind from N.E. reported blowing
in the Channel she will soon leave them behind. On
the last trip the Boomerang made the line in 16 days,
and as she starts in fine sailing trim, and with a capital
wind, there is every reason to hope she will realise the
anticipation formed of her. The Blanche Moore, Capt.
Evans, built by Mr. Donald M`Kay, of Boston, will
succeed the Boomerang, to he followed on the sth of
April by the celebrated Marco Polo, lately chartered to
carry the April mails from England to Melbourne.

EMBEZZLEMENT DY A LIVERPOOL COMMISSION AGENT.
—At the Liverpool Police-court, yesterday, before Mr.
J. S. Mansfield, Robert Merri4, commission agent, was
brought up upon a remand, to hear further evidence in
reference to some moneys alleged to have been embezzled
by him, the property of Messrs. Potts, vinegar mer-
chants, Southwark, London—but, no one appearing to
press the charge against him, he was at once discharged.
SUICIDE—LLAUGHARNE, Feb. s.—The greatest gloom
prevailed here last evening, iu consequence of a lady of
great respectability, Mrs. Frank Stackpole, poisoning
herself after returning home from church. Mr. and Airs.
Stackpole only returned home from Port Natal last
summer, It is said that she took some strong poison
which she used to keep to kill snakes.