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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY .20, 1855.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

MR. ROEBUCK'S MOTION.
( From the Times of this day. )

The subject of Mr. Roebuck's motion has received as great
a variety of treatment as the enterprise to which it refers.
In the Fast the question is, " How are we to get into Sebas-
t,,pol ?" and chief after chief, army after army, attempts the
solution, hitherto in vain. Iu the House of Commons a suc-
cession of minds of no ordinary power have been engaged in
informing us how the nation should follow out the finding of
the Sebastopol Committee. Tho report is before us, and, as
it happens, unexpectedly to most people, it is one to which
hardly an exception can be taken. It is full; it is honest;
it is safe • it is cautiously and even kindly expressed, and
disappoints much sinister foreboding. What is more than
all, there is a report ; the Committee did not sink under•the
task; or quarrel hopelessly, or throw an undigested mass of
evidence on the table of the house somewhere about the mid-
dle of August. ' But, thispart of the business achieved so
much better and so much earlier than was expected, what is
the next step ? What use is the house to make of its 'lr' .n.
work ? Every member who has yet risen to address the h
on the subject appears to have been under the impression 4
ho had some key of his own which baffled everybody e
So one has treated it as a judicial question, another as a per
sonal question, another as a constitutional question, and others
by other tests of their own. These experimentalists appear
to have thought that on some new showing of their own,
which has hitherto escaped the vigilance of a whole nation
for the whole of this year, it would turn out that the existing
Government ought to walk out of office, or all the members
of the late. Government ought to be impeached, or_ possibly
some still more surprising measure to be forced on the'
nation. For our part, we do not mean to tax the con-
fidence of `our. readers in behalf of some patent escape
from the difficulty ; ..we shall not . vex our brains for
an answer to the enigma ; for this, simple reason—
that •we do not admit the difficulty 'at all, or
believe there to be ani enigma. We never regarded Mr.
Roebuck's motion before Christmas as a question of confidence
till Ministers, unwisely as we think, chose to make It such.
When the Aberdeen Administration was broken up, we did
not for a moment think that anybody threatened by the in-
quiryswas incapacitated for office ; in a word, we never ex-
pected anything else from the Committee than the improve-
ment of our naval and military administration. That is all
we now expect; and, if it is necessary for the House of Com-
mons to follow up the report by adopting resolutions, we
would rather see those resolutions divested of apolitical, and,
as things have turned out, as much as possible of a; personal
character. •

fp OVAL.POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
-tk For one night only,. WEDNESDAY, the 18th instant, at.
Eight o'clock. A ORAN I) MUSICA.I. ENTERTAINMENT will he
given by, Ur. GEORGE 13UCKLAND, assisted by the following
eminent''Artisas Clari Fraser, Mr. T. Young, Mr. r enry
Buckland, Mr. novel' ein, and Mr. Vontem Smith. The Selection
will consist of Glees, Duets, and Songs from the most eminent com-
posers.

ARGYLL ROOMS.—lmmense success of the
new dance, LA VARSOVIA.NA : Music by H. LAURENT.
—Danced every evening.

1-)SIYA.L. SURREY ZOQLOGICAL GARDENS
t.) The Proprietor has great satisfaction in announcing that he
has succeeded in forming an engagement with Mons JULLIEN to
give a series of SIX GRAND CONCERTS, commencing Tina DAY
(Monday), Juiy 16th, and concluding on Saturday, July 21st, in
which the principal celebrites of Mons. Jullien's Orchestra will ap-
pear, together with several artistes of European renown, engaged by
Mons. Jullien during his last visit to Germany, Italy, and France,
who will have the honour of msking their first Appearance on this
occasion. Two Military Bands of the Guards are also engaged,
forming, with Mons. Jullien's Orchestra, the most magnificent En-
semble de Alusique Nfllitaire ester presented to the public. Princi-
pal instrumental performers :—Messrs. Paumann, Lavigne, Winne,
Arban, Collinet, Frach, Howell, Sonnenberg, Pepins, Simar, Prat-
ten, &e. The following artistes of continental renown will make
their first ap earance:—Mons. Leloup, cornet-A-piston (from the
Guides of theßing of the Belgians) ; Herr Reichert, flute (from the
Conservatoire of Brussels) ; Herr Nablsh, trombone (from the Royal
Chapel of the sing of Saxony); Signor Martini, ophicleide (from
La Scala and the Conserwtoire of Milan) ; Mona. Guerin, bombar-
done (from the Guides of the Imnerial Guards, Paris). In the Zou.
axes' Pas de Course, the trumpet parts will be performed by MM.
Constant, Chirles, Modrut, Legrand, H. Bovin, and A.,Bovin. The
Repertoire of New Music, composed by Mons. Jullien since his last
Concerts at Cioventlotrden, will ineltide the Zonaires' Pas do Course:
or the As cult Galop ; La Rose et la Violette Valse, dedicated to
their Majesties the Queen of England and the Enipress of the French ;
the Belle of the Village Valse, with Echos on the Lake. The Con-
cert will conclude with the Allied Armies Quadrille. performed. at
Drury-lime and-Covent garden Theatres for seventy consecutive
nights, before the most crowded ,audiences ever assembled in those
national establishmenta ; arranged expressly for military music,
and for introductien into the magnificent Spectacle of Sebastopol
Principal Cornet, Herr licenig. Conductor, Mons. Jullien. Admis-
sion, Is. ,

ARLY. CLOSING. ROYAL SURREY
ZOOLOGICAL G IRD ENS.—The Proprietor having received
num rows applications to anpronriaie a Saturday Evening for the
amusement of those connected with large estxb'ishments, avails
himself of the opoortuni7 of Mons. Jullien's engagement, awl the
unprecedented attractions of the Siege of s'ebastopol, to accede to
their wishes. TO-'w ORROW (SATURDAY), therefore, will be a
GRAND EVENING GALA.

In all this diversity of treatment last night it was assumed,
for the convenience of the speakers, that the errors of the
late Government consisted in certain, great Cabinet determi-
nations. Were that the case, we should certainly agree with
Mr. Whiteside that the error, or iather the crime, must fol-
low every member of the Cabinet wherever he goes. With
Lord John Russell, we should certainly hold Lord Palmer-
ston and Lord John himself quite as deeply involved as the
Duke of Newcastle and his colleagues directly concerned in
the conduct of the war. We are aware, too, that it would
not be always easy to distinguish between the conduct and
the administration of the war ; and that, strictly speaking,
the responsibility of the whole Cabinet must extend to both.
But throughout the whole of this lamentable story the errors
and deficiencies have been not so much in the general con-
duct of the war as in its details, and in the practice of the
several departments. We are not aware of having ever im-
pugned anything that was likely to be a Cabinet question.
So far from imagining crimes so Ministerial, so large, and
so capital as to extend from a War Minister to a Secretary
of State, and even to a Commissioner of Public Works.
we did not even think the Minister directly concerned
in the conduct of the war bound to resign, or not to
accept office in the Government founded on the overthrow of
Lord Aberdeen's. Could we now believe that the war itself
was a colossal error, that the descent on the Crimea was even
as great a folly as the Walcheren expedition, we might then
take a part in these high questions of personal responsibility
—we might even insist, with Lord John Russell, that Lord
Palmerston, too, had the taint of the Crimea. But we re-
peat, that, from first to last, we have ever laid the blame on
the system, as it is called ; as, for example, on intricate and
excessive routine ; on the employment of men past learning,
and even past work; on the tyranny of cumbersome Boards
and veteran Committees; on the want of unity ; on certain
traditional errors reigning in departments and even over
whole branches of the service ; and, to a much less extent, on
the inexperience of the chiefs.
If an impeaehment, an ostracism, or a censure so severe as
to amount to aperpetual want of confidence were intended by
Mr. Roebuck's resolution, then we have only to say that the
nation decided the question last December, when it quietly
permitted the majority of Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet to re-
sume office in a new combination. The inference is so mani-
fest and so unavoidable that Mr. Whiteside, in order to escape
it, is obliged to maintain that the case is now different from
what it was then, and that the nation knows a great deal more
than it then did as to the mismanagement of the war. For
this purpose he quotes passages from the report, which he
describes as if they were a new revelation of horrors. For
our part, however, we cannot say that the report does more
than confirm the correspondence in our own columns—cor-
respondence, be it remembered, which not only preceded the
downfall of the Aberdeen Ministry and the return of several
of its members to office, but actually led to those changes.
We are not prepared to say that the case is now essentially
different from that which seemed in December to admit
of so ready and inoffensive at solution. It was very bad
then. Lord John Russell justly described the accounts from
the Crimea as " horrible and heartrending," as indeed they
were, though in one particular class of suffering—that from
ei:posure to cold--the bulk of the calamity came after Christ-
mas. But while we were very anxious for a searching in-
quiry, we did not desire that the Duke of Newcastle, Mr.
Sidney Herbert, and Sir James Graham should be impeached
It seems natural, indeed, as a a atter of taste, that the Duke
of Newcastle should retire from office, and ho consulted his
'own feelings by doing so ; but we do not remember that any-
body of candour and common sense suggested at that time
that Lord Aberdeen's other colleagues had permanently for-
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feitecrthe confidence of the nation. We remain of the same
opinion as then. In the main we believed, and still believe,
the mismanagement of the war to have been what is called
"administrative"—that is, in the practices and customs of
office, in the routine of departments, and, above all, in that
want of a united and effective War Ministry which we had
deplored, and which Parliament had not sufficiently rectified
before Easter, 1854. That, we are satisfied, is the deliberate
conclusion which the House of Commons draws from the Re-
port of the Sebastopol Committee ; and it has now shown by
a decisive majority that it will not permit a document of such
national value to be used merely to assist factious ambition,
or gratify personal feeling.

( Prone the Morning Herald of this day. )
" Guilty or not Guilty " such was the simple issue placed
before the House of Commons by Mr Roebuck's motion. As
such it has been accepted by Sir James Graham and Mr. Sid
ney Herbert, on the part of the delinquent ex-Ministers— as
such it must be accepted by those members of Lord Aber-
deen's Cabinet who continue to direct the war which they
contributed so successfully to bring about. One would
suppose, on listening last night to the defence of Lord
Aberdeen's Secretary at War, that ho was addressing
an audience who had still to learn all the important
facts connected with the Cfimean expedition, inst..ad
of an assembly unhappily too familiar with that nar-
rative of mismanagement,' misery, and disaster. Mr.
Sidney Herbert occupied himself for an hour and a
half in profitless endeavours to traverse the report
of the Sebastopol committee, on the ground that
the facts it elicited were isolated, and by no means indica-
tions of extensive neglect or disorganisation. The committee
was unquestionably defective ; it neglected many valuaVe
sources of information ; the inquiry pursued by it was not
sufficiently searching ; and evidence, on the whole, was indif-
ferently selected and arranged. But no man except one
whose public character has suffered to the extent of Mr.
Herbert's would venture to challenge admitted and indisput-
able facts, or attempt to deny that light has been thrown,
terrible and distinct, upon the conduct of an expedition the
most disastrous that ever left the shores of England, not ex-
cepting that with which the name of-Chatham is unhappily
immortalised. We did not, it is true, require a Parliamentary
committee to find out for us that our troops were flung upon
the enemy's territory destitute of almost every appliance
for a campaign—that they famished iu thousands for
want of food and clothing—that others perished in hospital-
ships, and on board transports, which became floating pest-
houses; that private benevolence and private charity sup-
plied those comforts and means of support for the sick and
wounded which it was the duty of the Government to pro-
vide ; that the management of the three great departments,
the commissariat, the transport, and the medical, was with-
out example for stupidity, ignorance, and recklessness. We
did not want a committee to find out all this for us : facts in
abundance in the simple language of the sufferers streamed
down the columns of every newspaper in the land—but we
wanted to trace the evil to its source, to know who were re-
sponsible for the ruin of our army and the waste of our re-
sources. To this inquiry the Sebastopol committee addressed
itself, and after a patient investigation it has fixed the guilt
indiscriminately upon the Cabinet of Lord Aberdeen, each
and every of them.
It is asserted, indeed, that the responsibility in question is
departmental, and that, therefore, then ensure in this respect
affects only the department of the wa The errors of the
Duke of Newcastle we really believe were errors of judgment.
It has been abundantly proved that he administered his de-
partment with unremitting industry. But the Duke of New-
castle complained that he was left at the close of the past
year—after the news of the battle of the Alma had reached
this country- —to his own unaided counsel. This is the Duke
of Newcastle's defence—while he was toiling at his de-
partment, his colleagues were amusing themselves. Shall
it be said that Ministers who advised, however reluc-
tantly, the invasion of the Crimea, incurred no further re-
sponsibility in the conduct of the expedition? Shall it be
said, that, having counselled the expedition, they had
nothing further to do with it, and no concern or responsi-
bility in its success or revel s.-3s ? We confess with the
straightforward member for Birmingham our inability to dis-
tinguish- in such a case between one adviser of the Crown and
another. Mr. Muntz does not allow his good sense to be im-
posed upon by a distinction without a difference. We ven-
ture to say that the majority of the British public are of Mr.
Muntz's way of thinking. The censure contained in the re-
port reaches to every member of Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet, or
it touches none of them.
The feature of the debate was the powerful speech of the
member for Manchester. Since the terrible philippics of Mr.
Disraeli in 1846, directed against the great apostate, the
house has not listened to moi e scathing invective, or more
trenchant denunciation than was hurled last night against
Lord Palmerston from the lips of Mr. Bright.
hasT thehgeivreensumltinoifsters a
division upon
triumph at the expense of thoseupon Go 'oral Peel's amendment
who, like Sir James Graham and Mr. Sidney Herbert, are,
to say the least, formidable malcontents. On this occasion
the Government put forth its strength, and it may require
all it can collect before the close of the session—the stigma
contained in the report of the Sebastopol committee still
clings to those against whom it was hurled.

Chronicpleersofuatdhiinsgdtahye.
oifnthe vote of censure. Two
(From the Morning
CoLmomrdonPsatlmo
searsntcotniohnahsissu
evasion
nd
nights of prolonged debate closed some time after two this
morning by a division, in which the Ministerial subterfeise
House of
was adopted by a majority of 289 to 182 votes. The issue
thus accepted, as Mr. Disraeli remarked, is little creditable
to the-House generally, and still less so to the Ministers.whn
have not dared to challenge a direct negative to Mr. Roebuck's
mOtl •
en. It stands, therefore, vp9u record that the Xalmer-

ston Administration, when their conduct was censured and
their ability impugned, ventured only to beg the Legislature
not to pronounce any opinion on- the subject—and that the
Legislature has granted their petition
Strenuous efforts were made by succeeding apologists for
the Go verninent to rally the decaying allegiance of the Liberal
party, by reiterated assertions that the success of the pending
vote would bring in the Opposition. Upon the House, as
the result has shown, the argument may have told with some
effect, aided' no doubt by -the persuasion that if Lord Derby
came in he would immediately dissolve Parliament. Honour-
able members who dreaded to face their constituents con-
sented to swell the -Ministerial majority against their own
convictions. The step has but a little postponed the day of
reckoning. To the country the alternative thus presented
has no terrors. The motive that suggested such timid vacil-
lation to their representatives will be understood and remem-
bered.
Lord Palmerston, it, is acknowledged, has not fulfilled the
expectations of the country, or shown even the wish to can-
cel by better conduct the sentence, heretofore pronounced
against him. The censure expressed by Mr. Roebuck does
not therefore refer to a bygone offence. It imports that the
Prime Minister by -his 'recent behaviour had not deserved the
continuanee of the immunity he had so long enjoyed.

Prom the Daily News of this day.
► Upon the Whole the debate will be regarded as sad and un-
satisfactory, and as one of the saddest and:most unsatisfac-
tory episodes in our Parliamentary history. Full of irre-
levancy and ill-temper, feeblenesi and faction, it exhibits the
House of Commons, as now constituted, it a less reputable
point of view than any' which it has previously occu-
pied. Mr. Roebuck, by the admission even of Mr. Sidney
Herbert, did but his duty in bringing under the judicial cbg-
nisance of the:House the' report of its own Committee. But
from the outset there was manifestly an indipOsition to meet
the questien candidly or courageously: The member for
Sheffield was not Supported as he ought to have been by theN
whose zeal was burning for inquiry,' and whose patriotism
was loud so long as nothing definite was to be done ; but
who on the occasion when, if ever popular pledges ought to
havo been redeemed, were content to leave the brunt of the
battle to be borne by two or three -of the Tory opposition
and 'by the hon. and learned member for Sheffield. This is
n)t the way to make a Parliamentary party.

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a subject are essentially comparative, and if we institute a
comparison between our enemy's position and our own we
shall find, much cause for satisfaction and none for misgiving.
As far as factacan be ascertained in such a case, there is every
'reason to believe that the Russian Government, which began
the' ontest with powerful and well-organised forces, amassed
and arrayed for this very contingency, has already felt the.
pressure and exhaustiOn of wnr. As pie showed the other 1
day in our remarks upon Mr. Seymour's book; the limits of
age within which in Russia militlry service could be. exacted
have been considerably extended, exemptions- fermerly sub-
sistin,g have been revoked, and the burden arising both from!
the diminution of labourers and the increasing numbers of
those thrown upon them for sustenance, in the -absence of
their own protectors; has became serious in the extreme
We, on'the other head, after starting from a peace establish-
ment, and resolutely weathering all the dangers and difficul
ties arising from imperfect preparations, are 'gradually de-
veloping our resources with such success that no less than
30,000 recruits—all, of course, by voluntary enlistment—have
been added to the army since the beginning of the year. In
faet, when a short time ago attention had, been publicly called.
to the difference between our forces in 1854 and our forces in
1814, it Wits ppenly replied that the commencement of a war,
was naturally the time 'of 'our greatest weakness, and that •
from the peculiarity of our institutions,we gathered -strength
as we went on ; and this—though, perhaps, the rate of pro-
gress is not absolutely satisfactory—has certainly been the
case. We have gained upon Russia •in her own territories
and in front of her strongest fortress. We have now in the •
Crimea a more numerous and effective army, a more powerful
artillery, and a stronger force in every respect, than Fit tad
When weliega,n the war; While Russia, _with all her 'legions,
is driven to. evacuate position after position from sheer in-
ability to maintain them. These are facts which should far
overbalance anytransient difficultiesexperiencedin organising
the additional battalions we require—all that is necessary is
to turn the popular. spirit and the
.national resources to good
account by timely, foresight and prOviiion, to economise the
lives of our soldiers by vigilance ancVeare, and to second their
-exertions by the vigorous display of that mechanical science
which makes one maw worth many. •

A KING OF SHREDS !
(From the Times of this day. )
The busy and rapid passage of events, the anxieties of the
campaign; and the certainty which at last has fully dawned
upon us that Austria has exhausted alt her valour in fruitless
conferences and endless military promenades, have diverted
the attention of the public from the proceedings of that coun-
try which, by a rather overstrainedcourtesy, we still continue
to call one of the five great Powers of Europe, and one of
the leading States of Germany. We say by an over-
strained courtesy, for, Heaven knows, there is nothing
either great, leading, or powerful about the attitude or policy
of Prussia. Her large army is condemned to perpetual inac-
tion, her Chambers can scarcely rise to the dignity of even a
discussion on foreign affairs, and seem totally incapable of a
vote or a resolution, her people are silent if they do not ac-
quiesce in her downward course, andher Court anil King seem
fashioned exactly to suit the dull and stagnant state of affairs
in the midst of which they exist. Everything in this remark-
able country seems to be constructed for the express purpose
of counteracting that object which it might have been sup-
posed intended to premote. Prussia has Chambers to stifle
free discussion, a press to misrepresent public opinion, an
army to do anything except fight, a Court which is neither
courtly nor national, and a King who seems to have been
made on purpose to show how many accomplishments, talents,
and even virtues may go to the making up of a man, who
is certainly the greatest failure and the greatest anachronism
of these our times. A King of Prussia, though not without
disadvantages, is placed in a situation which gives the most
ample play to individual character and genius. He has a strag-
gling, disconnected kingdom, and is oppressed by the vicinity
of a mighty and ambitious empire, from which he is only
divided by a geographical frontier. The greater part of his
dominions has a rigorous climate, and a soil not exuberantly
fertile ; but the inhabitants are brave, loyal, and intelligent,
animated by a truly national spirit, free, in great part, from
the trammels of the Roman Catholic Church, and susceptible
of almost any degree of material and social development. He
is a member of :large confederacy, the first place of which
is as yet undecided, and remains to be seized by the
hand of the boldest or most skilful. Under such con-
ditions' a King not merely in name, but in mind, a man
raised by superior resolution above his fellow-men, might
find boundless scope for his energies and his talents ;
but, alas, no such man is King Frederick William.
To a superficial glance it is difficult to find a character
more richly endowed with all the attributes of intellectual
and moral Worth. Never did nature bestow, her favours with
a more prodigal baud than on this very personage, whose
inconsistencies have made him ridiculous throughout Europe,
and turned the eyes of men with something like impatience
towards the far less shining qualities of his successor. It is
no flattery to say of the King of Prussia, in the words cited
by our correspondent the other day, that he is both good and
clever ; only his is a goOdness which makes him easily imposed
upon by designing men, and a cleverness which seems to de-
stroy instead of constitute a capacity for managing great
affairs. No one can deny to the King of Prussia the czelit
of being amiable, moral, and religious, anxious to do his duty
towards those whom Providence has placed under his care
and keenly alive to the responsibilities which thicken round
the head that wears a crown. Lord Byron attributes to the
Emperor Alexander a sort of frost-bitten generosity, and the
King of Prussia possesses in like manner a kind of sickly theo-
cratic, monarchical liberalism. His intelligence tells him that
a people like the Prussians cannot always be held in leading-
strings, his quick wit shows him the fallacies and absurdities
of a sham representative system, and he is not without ami-
able aspirations to make his people happy iu their own way ;
but then there step in the exalted religious sentiments and
the overstrained monarchical dogmas that have taken posses-
sion of his mind, and he stops, irresolute whether to take
back all he has conceded or to advance in the direction in
which he was of his own accord taking faint and irresolute
steps when overtaken by the revolution of 1848. Ile is far
too able not to perceive the danger and disgrace which her
threatened conversion into a Russian satrapy would bring
upon his kingdom; but, then, he is too amiable to disregard
the ties of blood, and too sensible of the " solidarity of kings"
to admit the idea of drawing the sword against a leading mem-
ber of the Holy Alliance. He is believed to be by no means Ras-
sian in his sentiments, and feelings, and yet, from habit and
from a certain sympathy with all that is exalted and fantas-
tical, he has formed his associates out of a miserable faction,
which, forgetful alike of its own honour and of national feel-
ing, lends itself to the unscrupulous advocacy and avowed
promotion of purely Russian views. Yet, while these are his
associates, his Prime Minister is selected from among those
who lean to the side of the Western Powers, and between
these two extremes the mind of this singular personage oscil-
lates with the pertinacity, if not with the regularity, of the
pendulum of a clock. Such a man, with his high position,
his wit, his eloquence, his liberal sympathies, and his mo-
narchical predilections, his Russian friends and his anti-Rus-
sian Minister, his impulsive feelings and his tardy resolu-
tions, seems marked out by Providence as the very agent and
emissary of revolution, more formidable than a hundred
blundering Mazzinis, vapouring Kossuths, or blustering
Ledru Rollins. He is a propagandist the more formidable
because he sits on a throne—a missionary the more persua-
sive, because his advocacy of change is unconscious and in-
voluntary. The existence of such a man in high power and
position, almost unchecked by constitutional fetters, is in
itself the strongest argument against the enormous faith of
the many made for one, the most spirit-stirring protest
against the vast injustice of leaving the destinies of millions
in the hands of one capricious and irresolute man. Such as
the King of Prussia is, with his literary tastes, his high
mental cultivation, his wit, and his amiable
_social qualities,
he would have been a hundred years ago a first-rate sove-
reign of a tenth-rate State —an Alphonzo d'Este, patronising,
pampering, and imprisoning Tasso, or a Grand Duke of Saxe
Weimar, buying to himself a facile immortality by feeding
Wielauds, &balers, and Goethes. Their equal in conversa-
tion, but little their inferior in genius or in knowledge, he
would have gracefully headed such a society, and might have
aspired to convert his paltry Court into an imitation of
the joyous circle that glittered around Rene, the Troubadour
King of Provence ; but, as the head of a great nation, as the
generalissimo of a large and well-disciplined army, as the
nominal depository of one-fifth of the power which regulates
the affairs of the world, the King of Prussia stands in a posi-
tion which the good and amiable qualities he undoubtedly
possesses only render more anomalous and unsuitable. Clever,
but irresolute; amiable, but capricious, all his qualities seem
to neutralise each other, like .the brilliant colours on a
painter's easel, which, if worked together, only form a single,
neutral, and indefinable shade. We for ever catch ourselves
wondering either that he is no worse or no better, that he is
not.more Russian or more Prussian, that he does not lean
more to Manteuffel than to Gerlach—to Gerlach than to Man-
teuffel ; that, being a Liberal, he does not carry out liberal
views, or that, being an Absolutist, he does not give full
scope to his Absolutist predilections; that, admitting we aro
right, so moral a Prince does not support us ; that, being so
tenderly attached to his sister and his nephews, so devoted a
relative does not support them. Bat we must even cease
wondering ; for, not until we can stereotype the shadow of the
passing cloud, give permanence to the tints of the rainbow,
or substance and shape to airy nothings, shall we be able to
understand that subtle, versatile, self-subverting character
which, with so much ability and so little credit, so many good
intentions and such paltry results, wields the wayward des-
tinies of the spell•bound kingdom of Prussia.

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Camperdown Douglas •o . • ' *II -,.)11";
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Manchester, Bishop Carlisle, Bishi.
York, Archbishop Bantry t
Peterborough, Bishop Kilmore, Dish),
Huntley Hopetoun
Errol - - - Sinclair
Zetland Gray ' 1
Clanricarde lily /
Broughton - St. Leonardo '' -
- Donegal Mauvers • -
Forteseue Ravensworth \
. &acid Forester
Portman Cardigan 4
Denman Sheffield .- '"
Abereorn Lyndhurst
Poltimore Lucan
Breadalbane Lonsdale • '
Cowper Carnarvon 1,
Dufferin Malmesbury
Methuen Portaalhigton ; .
Sutherland Howe 1
Kiutore Kilmaine 'a
Durham Willoughby de Eresb
Mostyn
Meath TDealurnPlieeym°re
Mien • . •- Wilton
Grey - Cathcart
Campbell Crawford
Wellington Strathmore
Ellesmere Lilford •
Pairs - Pairs . .35 .e-
Present -36 Prefent.. BO
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-Jury 19.

ARMY (CRIMEA).

Order read, for resuming adjourned debate on question (17th
July), That the question then proposed, " That this house,
deeply lamenting. the sufferings of our army during the
winter campaign in the Crimea, and coinciding with the
resolution of their committee, that the conduct of the Ad•
Ministration was the first and chief cause of the calamities
which befel that army, do hereby visit with severe repro-
heneion every member of that Cabinet whose counsels led
to such disastrous results," (Mr. Roebuck,) be now put.—
Previous question again proposed, " That the question be
now put " (General Peel).—Debate resumed : previous
question put, " That that question be now put."—The
house divided : Ayes, 182 ; Noes, 289.

AYES-182.

Adderley, C. Follett, B.
Alexander, 3. Forester, Col.
Arbuthnott, GM ' Franklyn, G.
Archdall, M. Fuller, A.
Axkwright, G. Gaskell, J.
Bagge, W. - Gladstone, W.
Bailey, C. Goderich, Via.
BatMe, H. Gooch, Sir E.
Baird, J. Gordon, A.
Ball, E. Graham, Sir J.
Baldock, E. Graham, Lord W.
Barrow, W. ' Greens.ll, G.
Batesou, T. Greene, John
Bective, Earl Grogan, Edward
Ball, J. Guinness, B.
Bellew, T. Gwyn, H.
Bentinek, Lord IL Hadfield, G.
Bentinck, G. Halford, Sir 11.
Beresibrd, Rt. Hn. W. Hall. Gen. J.
Bignold, Sir S. Hamilton, Lord C.
Boldero, Col. H. G. Hamilton, G. A.
Booker, T. W. Banbury, Hon. C.
Brady, J. Hanky, J.
Bromley-Moore, J. Herbert, S.
Bright, J. • Herbert, Sir T.
Brown, IL Hil.lyard, R. C.
Buck, L. W. 11111, Lord A. E.
muck, G. Jones, Adm.
Burrell, Sir C. Jones, D.
Burroughes, 11. Kelly. Sir F.
Burrowes, R. Kendall. N.
Butt, G. Kennedy, T.
Cabbell, B. Knatchbull, W.
Cairns, H. Knight, F.
Cardwell, E. - Knox,Col. B. W.
Canute, Sir J. - Knox, W. S.
Cayley, E. Lani,ton, W.
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Chambers, M. Lay-aril, A. H.
Chandos, Marquis of Lennox, Lola A.
Child, Smith Leslie, C. F.
Cobden, R. -Lindsay, W. '.
Codringtou, Sir C. W. Lockhart, W.
Cole, li A. Lowther, Col.
Coles, 11. B. Macartney,fa
Cottony, T. Macgregor, Jas.
Corry, if. T. L. ilakuire, J.
Crook, J. Malins. It.
Davies, J. L. Manners, Lord J.
Dillwyn,'L. ' Maxwell, J.
Disraeli, B. Meagher, I'.
Drax, J. Meux, Sir H.
Duffy, C. G. Miall, E.
Duncombe, lion. A. Miles, W.
'Mac:m.l3e. Hon.W. Michell, W.
Danne, Col. Montgomery, H.
Elmlcy, Vie. Mowatt, F.
Evelyn, W. Mowbray, J. It.
Farnham; E. Mailings, J.
Fellowcs, B. Mundy, W.
Fergusson, Sir J. Nnntz, G.
Flliner, Sir E. Murrough, J.
Fitzgerald, W. Naas, Lord

Neeld, John.
Neeld, Joseph
Newdegate, C.
Newport, Visconti!.
Noel. G.
North, Col. J.
Oakes, J.
Otway, A.
Pakentiam, T. H.
Pakington, SirJ.
Palk, L.
Palmer, Robert
Parker, R.
Peacocke, G.
Percy, J.
Ricardo, J.
Robertson, P.
Roebuck, J.
Rolt. P.
Rushout, Col. 0,
Scholedeld, W.
Scobell, Capt. G.
Scott, F.'
Smijth, Sir W.
Smith, J. B.
Smith, W.
Smith, Abel
Spooner, R.
Stafford, A.
Stanhope, J.
Starkie, Le 0.
Stracey, H.
Stuart, W.
Sturt, H.
Sullivan,. Michael
S‘Vift-, R:
Thesiger, Sir F.
Tomlin, G.
Tudu%ay, R.
Tyler, Sir G.
Tyrell, Sir J.
Vance, J.
Vansittart, 0.
Venter, Sir W.
Vernon, L.
Vivian, J. E.
Vyse, Col.
Waddington, D.
Waddington H.
Walcott, Admiral
Walpole, S.
Welby, Sir G.
Whiteside, J. -
Whitmore. H.
Williams, W.
Wise. A.
Wyndham, Gen.
Wynn, Lient.-Col,

TELLERS
Jolliffe, Sir W.
Taylor( Col.

NOES-285.

&eland, Sir T. Gaiwey, Sit' W. alveira, B.
Acton, J. Gardner, It. Osborne, It. .
Alcock, T. . . Gladstone, Capt. J. Ossulaton, Lard
Anderson, Sir J. Glyn, G . Paget, Lord
AhnesleY, Ear, Of Goodman, Sir G. Palmer, Bounden
Antrnus, E. Gower,' F. Palmerston, Visor.
Bagshaw, J. Grace, 0. Paxton, Sir J.
Baines, Et. lion. M. Granby, Marquis of Pechell, Sir G.
Ball, J. Gregson, S. Peel, Sir R.
Baritig, H. Grenfell, Chas. Peel, F.
Baring, Sir F. . Greville, Col. F. Peel, Gen.
Baring, F. Grey, Sir G. Pellatt, A.
Barnes, T. Grey, R. Pennant, Col. E.
Ilarringtcn, Viscount Grosvenor, Ld. R. Perry, sir T.
Bass, T. Gurney, J. Philipps, J.
Beaumont. W. Dare, H. • : ~ Phillimore. J. G.
Becket, W. Bail, Sir B. Thillituore, It. J.
Berkeley, Admiral Mulkey, T. . Pigott, F.
Berkeley, 11. F. Harmer, Sir J. Pil kington, .1.
Bethell, Sir R. Harcourt, G. - PonSonhy, A.
ilidduipb, R. M. Castle, Alex. Price, Sir R.
Biggs, W. Ilsstle, Archd. Pritchard, J.
Bland. L. Heacila-n, T. Ramsdell. Sir J.
Boaham-Carter, J. Ilea theote, Sir G. 1 t eed, J.
liouveria, Bon. E. P. Heathcote, Sir W. Repton, G.
Bowyer, G. lleneage, Geo. H. Ricardo, 0,
Bramston, 'r. W. Herbert, 11. Ricardo, S.
Brand, H. B. W. Hervey, Lord A- ' Rice, E. •
Brockielsurst. J. Heywood. J. . Rich, IL
Brotherton, J. Beyworth, L. Richardson, J.
Bruce. Lord E. Higgins, G. 0. Robartes, T.
Buckley,Gen. Hogg, Sir J. W. Rumbold, C.
Burks:, air T. ' Rolford, U. Russell, Lad J.
Butt, I. Holland, E. Russell. F. 0.
Byng, G. Horafall, T. Russell, F. W.
Campbell, Sir A. Borman, E. Sadleir, James
Castlerosse, Viscount BOW ard, C. Saoleir, John
Caulfield. Col. J. Howard, Lord Swage, C.
Cavendish, C. llughes, W. Scrope G.
Cavendish, G. Hutt, W. Sanity, F.
Cecil, Lord It. Ingham, R. Sc•illy, V.
Cliambers,'T. Jackson, W. &smear, Lord
Chaplin, W. Jennyn, Earl Seymour, 11.
i:heetham, John Johnstone, J. t cymour, W. D.
Chelsea, Viscount Johnstone, Sir J. Shane, R.
Clay. Sir W.. Bt. Keating, R. Shea, Serjt. W.
Clinton, Lord It. Kerrisou, Sir E. Shelley, Sir J.
Cobbett. J. M. Kershaw, J. • Sheridan, R.
Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. Kinnaird, A. Smith, J. A.
Cocks, T. S. Kirk, W. Smith, M.
-)Offin, NV. Knightley, R. Smith, B.
Cogan, W. IL F. Labouchere,itt.llon.llSmyth, J. G.
Coote, Sir cl. a. Langston, J. H. Somerville, Sir W.
Cowan, C. Langton, H. G. Sotherou, T.
Cowper, W. F. Lee, W. Stafford, Marquis
Cranierd, E. 11. J. Legh, G. C. Stanley, W.
Crossley. F. Lemon, Sir C. Steel, J.
Dashwood. S'r G. H. Lewis, Sir G. C. Stephenson. R.
)ceder, W. Liddell, H. G. Stirling, W.
Dents-,n, E. B. Lindsay, Col. J. Strickland, Sir G.
Devlin, tin E. Littleton, E. Strutt, E.
De Vera, S. Lockhart, A. E. Stewart, Sir M.
Dive t, E. TrowVl-11. Sutton, J.
Drumlanrig, Viscount Luce, T. Tancred,ll.
Duckworth, Sir J. T. Lushington, C. Thompson, G.
Duke, Sir J. Mackinnon. W. A. Thornely, T.
Duncan, Viscount M'Cann, J. Thornhill, W.
Duncan, G. Mangles, R. D. Tile, W.
Dundas, G. Manners, Lord G. Tolleuaache, J.
Dundas, F. Marjoribanks, D Tovrnshend, Capt.:.
Dungarvan, Viscount Martin, J. Traill, G.
East, Sir J. Massey, W. Vane, Lord 11.
Ebrington, Viscount Matheson. A. Vernon, G.
Egerton, IV. • Masterman. J. Villiers, C..
Egerton, E. C. Matheson, Sir J. Vivian, 11. H.
Ellice, E. • Milligan,- R. Walsh, Sir J.
Elliot, J: Mills, T. Walter, J.
Emlyn, Vis. . Milner, Sir W. Waterpark, Lord
Esmonde, J. Milnes, M. , Watkins, Col.
Ewan W. Milton, Viscount Wells, W.
Ewart, J. Mitchell, I'. Whatman, J.
Fagan, W. Moffatt, G. Whitbread,.
W.
Fenw Eck, H. Molesworth, Sir W. Wickham, .
Fergus, J. Monck, Viscount Wilkinson, W.
Ferguson, Col. Moncreiff, J. Willcox, B.
Fergusson. Sir R. • Monsell, W. Williams. M.
Ferguson, J. Moody. C. wriloughby, Sir H.
Fitzgerald, Sir J. Morgan, 0. Wilson, J.Wood, Sir C.
Fitz Gerald, J. Morris, D. Wortley, J. S.
Fitzroy, Hon. 11. Mulgrave- Earl Wrightson. W.tltzwilliam, C. Newark, Viscount ..,,,__,._,... W.
ititzwilliam, G. Norreys. Sir D. ww,'3Y4'l7M, .
Forster, C. North, F.
Forster. J. Northcote, Sir S. TELLERS
114,10 r, W.
FFooxrt,ewsc.iie, C.
000:1,Biinieennnisil'ir1)..r.
Freestun, Col. Berkeley ~G.
Freshfleld, J. O'Flaherty, A.

PAIRS ON ME. ROEBUCK'S MOTION.

AGAINST.
Mr. Marshall
Mr. her . Mr. J. O'Connell
Lord Burghley Lord Shelburne
Sir George-Booth ' Mr. Laing
Sir J. Pardo Buller
Lord A. Lennox . Mr. E. Denison
11r. Dent
Mr. Ferrer
M
Sir George Forster r. Devereux
Sir Edmund Hayes Mr. Fielden
Mr. Pack° Lord Elcho
Sir .r. Bailey , Mr. W. Patten
Sir George Berkeley Mr. Drummond
Lord Bernard
Mr. C. O'Brien
Colonel Maunsell
Mr. Long . Mr. Mackie
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jun.
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Sir P. Egerton
Mr. C. Bruce
Lord Maundeville Lord Grosvenor
Sir G. Montgomery Mr. G. Duff
Captain Bunbury Mr. M. Dl2llllO
Sir E. Lytton . Sir J. M. Taggart
Mr, Shirley Sir Thos. Winnington
Mr. Bennett - Mr. T. Greaves
Mr. Napier • • Mr. O'Brien
Mr. Smollett Lord Dalrymple -
Mr. Portal . Mr..lfutchins.
Mr. Hawkins ' c Captain ToWnsbond.,
Mr: Irton ' Mr. Foley
Sir J. Trollope Mr. Hindley
Mr. Marks Hamilton Mr. Collier
Mr. Colville Mr. Beamish
Mr. Frewen . Mr. Macaulay - •
Mr. Floyer , • • Mr. Heneage
Mr. Greaves .• . . :Mr. Tynte
Mr. King King _ Captain Magan
Mr. Christie- --- -
. - Mr. Keogh . _
Lord. Galway . .. - - - - Lord Uxbridge
Mr. Davison .- -- - .. Mr.„ Urquhart
,Mr. Hlickluirn-- '.,- - • . - Mr,-Heathcota - -
14r. George- --- 1 --'-- . - .Mr.4Deariy - •
Lord Lisburne Mr. Walter
Sir P. Maddock Mr. Heald
Mr. Cbribtopher Mr, R. Currie
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