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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 n®w Cabinet has been put in

circulation :
First Lord of the Trim- Viscount PALMERSTON'.
sury
Lord Chancellor Lord CRANWORTIL
President of the Council Earl GRANVILLE.

Privy Seal
Home Secretary... Right Ron. SIDNEY HERBERT.
Foreign Secretary Earl of CLARENDON.
Colonial Secretary ... 1-1-wrrRGE GREY.
Minister Ski War L :;11CRE.
Chancellor of the Ex- i don. W. E. GLADSTONE.
chequer
First Lord of the Ad- -r
Sir GRAHAM.
miralty
Public Works Sir WILLIA3I MOLESWORTII.
In the Cabinet, but Marquis of LAN3BOWNS.
without office
President of the Board
Sir CHABLER 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.

" Patience, and shuffle the cards 1 " The nation
must perforce act on the advice given to DON
QUIXOTTE by the Eidolon 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
moat 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
whenfo rbneoht fasultlhy aveuanilcigonntrolled direction of affairs
himself of the unlimited
powers with which he has been entrusted, and at
once diverging from the beaten track—the ordi-
nary tricks of Cabinetmaking.
We assume that he is
in possession of such
powers, that a carte blanche has
been placed in
bis hands, that he has been wholly emancipated
from the trammels of Germanism, and i s not, by
a ezentico process, irretrievably fettered to the
?It morticton of. we
cap Aberdeenism have too
great reliance on the Noble Viscount—on his in-
dependence and manliness of character—to suppose
that he would undertake the arduous and impor-
tant duty with which he is charged on terms
alike detrimental to his own reputation and
to the national welfare. If he has not stipu-
lated 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
he 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
mere mote that he has been negotiating with
the condemned portion of the Cabinet—with GLAD-
STONEi Iia,BEET U GRAkILLM ! and ABERDEEN H I I
and that he has permitted the public business to

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-the 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 LOG;
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.

But is it not Mr. GLADSTONE who is alleged to
have constituted the impediment to every Mi-
nistry ? It "is asserted that Lord PALMERSTON
would hare acted with Lord DERBY but for the
refusal of the Right Hon. Gentleman to co-ope-
rate ! That Lord Jolior Russnr.r.,, in like
manner, found him the insuperable ob-
stacle ; while he has been the stumbling-block
in the way of Lord PALMERSTON, 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.

Mr. HERBERT, too, was one of those against
whom the censure of the House of Commons was so
unequivocally pronounced. His hereditaryPro-Rus-
sianism was well known, and strong objections were
entertained to thepresence in the Cabinet, and that,
too, in a department closely connected with the
administration of the War, of the nephew of Prince
WonoNzow—the sister's son of the Governor of
Southern Russia. The question " Why spare
Odessa ?" 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
that unfortunate decision ? At all events, the
knowledge that the CZAR 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 JAMES 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 tho 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 Am:
BEEN in some office. If that be attempted, fare-
well to every hope of Lord PA.LKERSTON'S success.
Anything else might be tried, but that would be
ioo bad. IG ‘ vuid 6.; :111E4 S-Lualien
the countrymen of the ex-Premier, term " Could
kail het again !" an arrangement revolting to the
feelings of the nation. Lord PA.LMARSTON may
be assured that Lord ABERDIEM is the JONAH that
must be thrown overboard, if he hopes to steer
the vessel of the State safely into port.

As yet we only kuow that Lord PALLMNIESTON
is to be the Premier, and Mr. HERBBET Home
Secretary—the only other change being, as it is
said, Lord PA NAIITRE, better known as Mr.
Fox MATILE, 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 great 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.

We certainly have been, and are, anything
but partizans of Lord JOHN 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 feund 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
South, and '
and Circassia.
conquests in the North, West, and
Pre-eminently of Poland, Bessarabia,

recaxt ferocious attacekr' sYmpathisa with some
We cannot, howev
Upon
the Noble Lord.
endeavours ®f his col-
leagues and the press to hunt
present case
issued in convincing us that in th
e
i ,
ilinidown have
in all that is substantial, he is farly vixdicate,
and that he has failed, if at all, only in the tech-
nicalities of his resignation. Ha admitted an
error of etiquette on that ecore ; and as the Duke
of NEWCASTLE waA praised for his confessions, ws
do not see why Lord JOHN should not enjoy the
same return. As to cowardice and desertion of
his colleagues, we certainly replied in our own,

minds, No, no ; that has not been the Noble
Lord's fault hitherto ; tricky he is, but not a
coward. Rather he has chivalrously defended
colleagues even 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 JOHN'S proposition to substitute PAL-
MERSTON for NEwCA STLE been adopted ? No one
can doubt that it would have saved the Ministry.
The public would have regarded it as an indica-
tion of earnestness, and either Mr. ROEBUCK
would never have brought forward his motion, or,
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-
.
)Ic, always said the most generous things he could,
indeed we believe more generous than true, of
his Premier, the War had not long became an
anxious and distressing matter before he and the
Peelites, at least the Premier, the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE, and Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, were at practi-
cal and growing variance. The Whig section of
the Cabinet were more in earnest in the War
than the other party, while it had no 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 Jollies statement that
I he had no reason to think his proposals for recon-
structing the War Department would have re-
ceived fair consideration. He saw a determina-
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 is 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.
Lord JOHN'S defence, or further explanation, on
Monday night, more than corroborates this gene-
ral view of the case. He 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 Icannot say that it met with that sufficient atten-
tion from Lord Aberdeen which I could have hoped."
Thom are Lord Joule'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 bean almost sacrificed to Lord ABERDEEN'S
want of interest in the War, and his determination
to sustain Peclits predominance in the Cabinet.
He proposed Lord PALURSTON, in fact, to
save Lord ABILILDREIT certain that the only
possible means •of rectifying past mischief was
either an efficient War Minister, or a War
311 i st ar like Lord PALMERSTON, who Would
be a substitute for the Premier's inefficiency.
These general considerations pressed painfully on
the mind of Lord JoEN 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, wo cannot see. He
was compelled to resign. He had to choose be-
tween the claims of a Cabinet, and the claims of
Truth. He preferred those of Truth.

A.RRITAL OF THE TYNE.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Royal Mail Company's new steam-ship
Tyne arrived at this port this morning.