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RESIGNATION OF M. DE DROYUN
L'HUYS.

Majesty's councils resolves itself into a genealogical inves-
tigation. The reason is to be found in the Peerage, not in
Hansard. His claims will be traced to his relationship
or connection with the families of Devonshire, Sutherland,
Bedford, or Carlisle, or with some of the few inferior
dynasties which the conventional usage of these noble
houses may have admitted into a partnership with the
family interest.

(From the Times of this day.)
The resignation of a Minister under the form of Govern-
ment now existing in France has not the same importance
which such an event may possess in a constitutional mo-
narchy, or in a State in which the Minister of the day
enjoys the plenitude of executive authority. But, although
the absolute power of the French empire resides in
the personal will of the Sovereign, it cannot bo a matter
of indifference when a Minister who has served that power
with fidelity and judgment retires from its service on a
question of policy or of personal susceptibility. Both these
causes have probably contributed to the resignation of M.
Drouyn de l'Huys, the late Minister for Foreign Affairs in
France, who has just quitted the post he tad filled for
nearly three years with considerable ability and success.
The talents of M. Drouyn de l'Huys may have been over-
rated, for the despatches which bore his name and extended
his reputation are well known to havb proceeded from the
pen of another gentleman in the Department of Foreign
Affairs; but he is fairly entitled to Cir., credit of straight-
forward dealing with this country, and to the honour of
having successfully established Ulf, diplomatic relations of
singular fortune to negotiate treaties of alliance both with
the Crown of England and with that of Austria; and, al.
though he was engaged in transactions which have led to
the French empire with the rest of Europe. It was his
a fierce and protracted contest, these events did-not alter
the moderation of his opinions or the prudence of his cha-
racter. But in the office over which he presided these
qualities were not always paramount, and the personal
relations of the Minister with those who
participated in
his labours were cold, jealous, and disagmeable. M.
Thouvenel, in particular, who was appointed tOgipply his
place during the mission of the Minister to Irtepeik had so
much reason to resent the treatment he teal :lrom his
official chief that he placed hie_r_esignation ys ago
in thethands of the-Eraperhtc"
that IL Thouvenel waH rgagto to a far hig • Tying
named to the Embassy at Constantinople, and M. Drouyn
de l'Huys withdrew from office within 43 hours after his
return to Paris.

The Cabinet at present consists, if we mistake not, of
fourteen members. They are—

1. Lord Palmerston.
2. Lord Lansdowne.
3. Loird John Russell.
4. Duke of Argyll.
5. Lord Panmure.
6. Lord Granville.
7. Lord Clarendon.
8. Sir George Grey.
9. Lord Harrowby.
10. Lord Cranworth.
11. Sir George Lewis.
12. Sir Charles Wood.
13. Sir Wm. Molesworth.

14. Mr. Vernon Smith.

At first sight the list appears to justify the charge of an
aristocratic exclusiveness. There is just one untitled per-
son in the whole set. A little examination will show that
the exclusiveness is not that of a class, but of a clique.
Everybody knows that the houses of Bedford, Devon-
shire, Sutherland, and Carlisle are so united among them-
selves by repeated intermarriages, as to form one family
set. We do not pretend to more knowledge of the rela-
tionships of these noble families than is published to the
world in the Peerages. Bat we protest we do think it
singular that of the fourteen persons to whom the fortunes
of England are entrusted in the Cabinet, ten should be the
immediate connections of this fortunate family connection.
Lord Palmerston, by his marriage into the Melbourne
family, linked himself with this conspiracy of cousins.
Let- usr however, take the ease of the Sutherland con-
1. The brother of the duchess is Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland.

We do not, however, suppose that this dispute is the
sole, or even the principal cause, of the resignation of the
Foreign Minister of France at so important a crisis. In
speaking of M. Drouyn de Lhuys' visit to London, before
he proceeded to join the Conference at Vienna, we re-
marked that on his arrival here he was disposed to take a
lower tone than the British Cabinet were disposed to adopt,
although he subsequently assented to all the views enter-
tained by our own Government. As long as Lord John
Russell remained at Viennl this harmony continued un-
broken ; but in the course of two or three days subsequent
to the departure of the British Plenipotentiary M. Drouyn
de Lhuys appears to have discussed and arranged with
Count Buol a proposition of terms of peace widely different
from that on which the alliel courts had previously agreed.
This scheme, whatever it nay be, was unhesitatingly re-
jected by the head of the French Government as soon as it
was made known in Paris and the British Government
were equally satisfied that no honourable peace could be
concluded on such a basis, for the effect of this condition
was barely to limit the naval strength of Russia in the
Black Sea to the force she already possessed before the out-
break of the present hostilities. M. Drouyn de Lhuys ap-
pears to have thought that peace might have been procured
on these terms ; but, as this was not the opinion of the
Government which he serval, or of the allied Government
with which he was acting, this difference of policy led to
his retirement from office cn the termination of his Vienna
mission.

2. Lord Granville is first cousin of the duke.
3. The Duke of Argyll is son-in-law of the duke.
4. Lord Harrowby is first cousin of the duke.
5. Lord John Russell is cousin of the duke.
6. Lord Lansdowne's father married a cousin of the duke.
It does, we say, seem strange that in a nation with thirty
millions of inhabitants, when we come to choose a Cabinet
we select out of that small body supposed to be the wisest
of the land, six of the immediate connections of the Duke
of Sutherland.

But this is not all. The whole Cabinet is filled up by
ramifications of the family connection. Many persons, no
doubt, have wondered why Mr. Vernon Smith, an untitled
person, is introduced into the Venetian Council of Ten.
The answer will be understood when we say that he is
married to a cousin of Lord Lansdowne. Sir Charles Wood
is in the same way a Cabinet Minister for no other reason
on earth than because he married a daughter of Lord Grey.
He, of course, is cousin by marriage to Sir George Grey.
The Home Secretary, again, has strengthened his family
interest by the introduction of Lord Harrowby, to whose
cousin he himself is married.
The only exceptions to the rule of relationship are to be
found in the Chancellor, who must be a lawyer. Lord
Panmure, who was only offered his present office when
Lord Grey, one of the family connection refused to accept
it. Sir W. Molesworth, a remnant left by the Peelite intru-
sion which was submitted to in 1852 ; and, perhaps, Lord
Clarendon, although, we believe, Lord Clarendon owes his
official position to some relationship which the Peerages
do not disclose.

It is not only on the ground of the inadequacy of these
terms that we are satisfied the Western Powers could not
with honour or consistency accept them. To desist from
the war without having succeeded in the object we pro-
posed to attain by the expfdition to the Crimea, and with-
out having materially lessemdthe power and pride of Russia,
would simply beto increaseler influence throughout the East
and the central States of Europe and to lower the reputation of
two nations which have hitherto claimed the first rank in
military and naval warfare. To that result the people of
England, and we believe tiat we may add the people of
France, are not prepared to submit ; such a peace would
be fatal to the Governments by which it might be con-
clude:l, for it would he judged of, not so much by the
terms we might actually obtain from Russia, as by our
failure to enforce those conditions which have been
solemnly declared to be essential to the future security of
the Ottoman empire and of Europe. Moreover, in sug-
gesting these terms the Cabinet of Vienna does not appear
to have possessed any assurance that they would be ac-
cepted by that of St. Petersburg, and the allied Powers
would thus have seemed to sue for the peace which they
have every right to dictate. Under these circumstances,
whatever may have been the opinion of M. Drouyn de
l'Huys, the Emperor of the French and the Queen of
England had no alternativebut to reject such a proposition
and to prosecute the war urtil fresh overtures are made by
the submission of the enemy. This incident is in reality
no more than the epilogue to the Confererce of Vienna,
and it disposes of the last elusion which that negotiation
may have raised.
To supply the place of the late Minister of Foreign
Affairs the choice of the Emperor of the French has at
once fallen on Count Walowski, who has fot several years
filled the office of Ambassador at this Court. In some re-
spects no better choice could at this time be made. Count
Walewski has laboured with great assiduity and good
faith to promote the alliance of the two Govern-
ments and the two nations ; he is intimately ac-
quainted with the political views of the Butish Ministry;
and: he has uniformly endeavoured to give energy
to the piosecution .of the war. But it is not im-
-ha this change may produce
,perceptible
off volition* of Frame. 'with verde. of the
oth States of Europe, and that the policy of the Empire
may be modified by the loss' of one of its most cautious ad-
visers. The choice of the Emperor is restricted within
the narrow circle of the immediate adherents of the Impe-
rial family, and M. Drouyn de l'Huys hal an independence
of pOsition not easily to be supplied. The Embassy of
London also becomes vacant by this charge, and the names
of M. de Persigny, M. de Flahault, ant M. de Rayneval
have been mentioned for this appointmeit. We abstain,
however, from offering any remarks on tlis subject, in our
ignorance of the decision which the French Cabinet may
take; it cannot be doubtel that the Emperorof the French
will desire that his representative in this country should
combine the highest personal distinction with great poli-
tical judgment and experience, for it is more than ever
necessary to our success that the strictestconfidence and
union should regulate the councils of our aliance and the
operations of our arms.

If this be not so, the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs
is attempting to found a family influence of his own. Few
persons, we suppose, will say that Sir George Lewis
is Chancellor of the Exchequer for any other reason than
his being the brother-in-law of Lord Clarendon.
Let the honest people of England, before they condemn
the exclusiveness of the aristocracy for the evils which
exist, iu common justice, remember that we are now go-
verned by a family conspiracy, the very principle of which
is to exclude from office all, whether belonging to the aris-
tocracy or the people who caauot vindicate their title to it
by relationship to the family connection which calls itself
the Whig party of England.

( From the Morning Advertiser of this day.)
Yesterday the town was considerably startled by the an-
nouncement that M. Drouyn do l'Huys bad resigned the
office of Foreign Secretary, and had ceased his connexion
entirely with the government of Louis Napoleon. When
the circumstances under which the resignation took place
became known, the uneasy feeling was mingled with sur-
prise: It is said that grave differences of opinion have
taken place between the Emperor and his late Foreign
Minister, with regard to the manner in which the latter
acquitted himself as plenipotentiary at Vienna. His Im-
perial Majesty, we are told, has expressed his strong dis-
approval of the disposition which his representative at the
Vienna Conferences, manifested to accept dishonourable
and delusive terms of peace from Russia, and that he con-
demned M. Drouyn de l'Huy's too great confidence in the
good faith of Austria. Count Walewski, the French Am-
bassador at our Court, yesterday quitted London for Paris
where he is to take the portfolio for Foreign Affairs.
As Lord John Russell took substantially the same
view of matters at the Vienna Conferences as M. Drouyn
L'Huys, and concurred in the acts of the latter, the pre-
sumption is, that the noble lord cannot remain in the Pal-
merston Ministry. Louis Napoleon would consider his
lordship's retention of his place as a protest against the
opinions which his Imperial Majesty has expressed. The
Paris correspondent of the Times, in the second edition of
yesterday—which we suppose will be repeated in its general
impression of to-day—says,. indeed, that the Palmeriton
administration, as a whole, is believed in the French capi-
tal to be on the eve of dissolution. "It is considered here,"
says the Paris correspondent of the Times, "as probable
that, should M. Drouyn de L'Huys quit the cabinet, a
change will take place in the English Ministry also. It is
notinEng England only
whothat w
disappointment
opposedent is
to
felt with Lord
now
Palmerston.
exult at the general disgrace into which he and his collea-
gues his
appear to
un-
willingly
adniithatvhe fallen, and
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provedwarhimmesstelpfaruttitsearnlys
in
competent to the task which ho had taken on himself.
Nothing can exceed the astonishment of the French at men
being retained in their posts, at home and abroad, who
have all but ruined the noblest cause that ever mankind
was engaged in. At all events, the fall of the English
Ministry is anticipated here."
This cannot be very encouraging to the Palmerston
Ministry or its adherents. And as if to fulfil the predic-
tion of its downfall, with the least possible delay, Lord
Ellen borough last night gave notice of his intention to move
a vote of censure on it on Monday next. Mr. Layard, too,
was evidently in high spirits last night with regard to the
damage which ho expects his resolutions to do to Minis-
ten ; for he made a great effort to obtain an early day for
bringing them forward. The Premier, as if dreading the
effect of the hon. gentleman's resolutions, declined to place
any day at his disposal. The member for Aylesbury will
not, however, be thereby diverted from his purpose. He
will avail himself of the earliest opportunity which the
forms of the house will afford, to bring forward his resolu-
tions. It would be, perhaps, too much to expect, with
such a combination of the oligarchical interest as there
will be against him, that Mr. Layard will carry his mo-
-1 tion. But the debate may, and probably will be, suffi-
ciently damaging to complete the process of dissolution
already so evidently begun.
The great point for the people now to consider is, who
are to be successors of the present Ministry. Tho country
must bo on its guard, lest it be again juggled by the for-
mation of another oligarchical Cabinet. Let the voice of
public opinion now demand that we shall have no more
Ministers of Lords, but we shall have an Administration
composed of men of merit and capacity, with regard to
their rank in life.
The friends of the " Familr" interest aro, we know, in
the habit of asking, with a jeer—as if they alone could
govern the country—where else are the materials to be
met with, out Paf which to form a Ministry ? The mate
rials exist in abundance—only they have never hitherto
been sought out. At the risk of exciting a smile on aris-
tocratic countenances, we will mention four gentlemen, all
of who-o names, curiously enough, begin with the letter
" L," who, with great credit to themselves, and advan-
tage to the country, would fill four of the most important
offices of State. The men and offices are—
Mr. Layard Minister at War.
Mr. Lindsay
Mr. Laing
Mr. Lowe Secretary for the Colonies.
We feel a thorough conviction, though, we say again,
the thing may evoke an oligarchical smile of derision—
that these four gentlemen would severally fill the offices
which we have assigned to them, in a manner which would
cover their names with renown, and which would confer
the greatest benefit on the country. They are all men of
intelligence, integrity, patriotism, energy, and ability ;
and these are the qualities which are required in these
into whose hands the administrative interests of the coun-
try aro confided. Nor, unless we greatly mistake the
signs of the times, is the day distant, when some, if not
all of these men, will be found filling the very situations
in the Government of the country, with which we have
connected their names.

From the Morning Post of this day.)
The most recent advices from Paris place it beyond a
doubt that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Drouyn
de I'Huys, has thought it incumbent upon lim to place his
resignation of office in the hands of the Emperor, and that
it has been accepted by his Majesty. It farther appears
that Count Walewski' who hastily left Leiden yesterday
morning, is to succeed to the vacant portfolio.
The resignation of M. Drouyn de I'Huys will be viewed
with universal regret, for in the most difficult and arduous
circumstances of the tangled and long negotiations which
have resulted from the Eastern question, he had won infi-
nite credit and ala,sting fame; and, although it is wellknown
that the Emperor hirrilself personally directs the policy of
France, and sways the destiniesof thegreatnationwhichhas
appointed him its ruler, it was nevertheless understood
that a man of M. Drouyn de l'Huys personal position
as one of the wealthiest men in France, of his known pre-
cedents, of his grasp of mind and independence of thought,
could not hold office without exercising a large and salu-
tary influence in the direction of those affairs of which we
have so frequently read the lucid exposition in his eloquent
and famous notes.
We must wait for explanation of the circumstances at-
tendant upon the change in the French Ministry from the
official columns of the llfoniteur, but at the same time it
may be well to observe that there is reason to believe that
the step taken by M. Drouyn do Lhuys was dictated, in
great measure, by motives and susceptibilities the result
of personal views in connection with his recent mission to
Vienna.
Lord J. Russell fully expressed the position of affairs at
Vienna on the adjournment of the Conferences, when he
said the other day in the house, that the plenipotentiaries
had " exhausted their instructions," that is, they had fully
proposed, and had received complete rejection of, the posi-
tive and ultimate terms agreed upon in London, when the
French Minister for Foreign Affairs paid a flying visit to
this country, for the purpose of finally and precisely ad-
justing our demands, before ho proceeded in pat son tu pro-
secute them at Vienna.
The Conferences having at length been adjourned sine die,
in consequence of the rejection of our propositions, and
our refusal even to discuss the absurd proposals of Russia ;
there were, nevertheless, it is notorious, several attempts
made at fresh propositions, that is, at fresh modes and
methods of interpreting and giving force to the third
point, which is, after all, the most vital matter in dispute.
It is believed, whether correctly remains to be seen, that
to a new proposition started by Austria, the French Mi-
nister gave an adhesion so complete
that he even com-
mittedhimself to procuring its acceptance at home; but
if this wore so, it is easy to comprehend that, if the
new proposition did not, according to the views of the
Allies, interpret and give force to the third point, then
M. Drouyn de Lhuys must have placed himself in a false
position, from which he could only be extricated by a re-
signation of the office which he held.
If this be the case, it is certainly not a little extraor-
dinary that so distinguished a diplomatist should start for
a certain place with the most definite and specific deter-
mination of obtaining one thing, and should allow himself
to be betrayed into bringing home another.
For the explanation of all this we must wait ; but, in
the meantime, it is certain that in France the fall of a
Minister does not indicate a change of policy, and it would
and
s hin
alesst
ion well-
founded dis-
posed
may
be most erroneous to suppose, on the one hand, that, in
consequence of the retirement of M. Drouyn Lhuys,
France is less ready to maintain our film alliance and to
carry on the war as long as it is necessary ; or, on the
other, tthhpaatenataheoeuwFr
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desirableakeanis
a oneee
honourablewhit
be attainable.
If we needed further proof of this than our knowledgeof the consistent policy of ,the Emperor, we might derive
regretted
woulde been
it from the appointment of Count Walewski to the office
vacated by the late Minister. His intimate relations with
our Government, his complete knowledge of England, and
the active part he has borne in the political tranasactions
olslt, t
beo which,
ae muchbn
of the two great Western Powers, • peculiarly fit him for
theil high
called, and to succeed the distinguished statesman why
it
appear, r
se
asha s
Count
will, personally,
Walewski will be in London.