The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-25 00:00:00

THE MINISTRY AND ITS SUPPORTERS,

A meeting was held yesterday afternoon at the official
residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Down-
ing-street, which was numerously attended by all sec-
tions of the Liberal party in the House of Commons.
Being a private meeting, reporters were excluded, and
we are therefore unable to give a detailed account of the
speeches delivered on the occasion. Lord Palmerston,
in a speech of some length, vindicated the policy of his
Government* asserted the unanimity of his colleagues,
and stoutly maintained their resolution tomosecute the
war with vigour until terms should be °Mined calcu-
lated to insure a safe and honourable peace. The pre-
cise nature of those terms his lordship claimed for the
Government the right of determining according to cir-
cumstances ; but those of his audience who expected to
hear any definite statement on this momentous question
went away very little wiser than they came. The meet-
ing was afterwards addressed by Messrs. Lowe, Layard,
Bright, Cobden, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir James
' Graham, Mr. Laing, and other gentlemen, who gene-
rally concurred in censuring Mr. DlsrarAi's resolution,
though considerable difference of opinion was expressed
as to the amendment of Sir F. Baring. The tone of
the meeting, though by no means harmonious, was,
perhaps, as favourable to the Government as could be
expected tinier circumstances so little calculated to
inspire confidence.
The following is a list of the members (numbering 203)
who attended the meeting :
Graham, Sir J. Moncreiff J. Shelburne, Earl
Herbert, S. Thomason, G. King, L. ~
Wool, Sir C. Gardner, It. Perry, Sir E.
Molcsworth, Fir W. Wickham, H. Itatusiten;Slr J.
Macaulay, T. B. Price W. Kinnaird, A.
Lewis, Sir Q. C. Hludiey, C. Portman, W.
Ellice, E. Kershaw, J. Denison, E.
Villiers, C. Crook, J. Howard, Hon. C.
Bouverie, lion. E. P. Headlam, T. Ehrington, Viscount
Hayter, W. Acton, Joseph Ellice, E., jun.
Mulgrave, P.arl of Chambers, T. Marshall, W.
Hall, Sir Benjamin Brocklehurst, J. Lowe, It.
Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir G. Rich, H. Warner, E.
Russell, Lord J. Kirk, W. Trail!, G.
Gibson, M. Baxter, W. Baring, H.
Cobden, R. Oliveira, B. Cobbett, J. M.
Bright, J. Duke, Sir J. Milton, Viscount
Horsman, E. Stanley, W. Dundas, F.
Hervey, Lord A. Mangles, K. Lindsay, C.
Castlerosse, Vls. Biddulph, Col. R. M. Mills, T.
Hastie, Archd. Heywood, J. Cavendish, G. C.
Russell, H. Morris, D, Lemon, Sir C.
Laing, S. Cheetham, John Craufurd, E. H. J.
Goodman, Sir G. Brotherton, J. Coffin, W.
Townshend, Capt. J. Ewart, J. Tynte, Col. C.
Pechell, Sir G. Phillimore, R. J. Cockburn, Sir A. J. E.
Ferguson, J. Fitzgerald, J. Monsell. W.
Scobell. Capt. Caulfield, Lt.-Col. J. Peel, F.
Hankey, T. Bonham-Carter, J. De Vero, S. E.
Matheson, A. Walmsley, Sir J. 'Wells, W.
Matheson, Sir J. Russell, F. C. Scrope, G.
Bland, L. H. Collier, R. P. D mgarvan, Viscount
Anderson, Sir J. Ingham, R. Ricardo, S.
Beaumont, W. Forster, John Berkeley, Adm.
Harmer, Sir John Ewart, W. Sheridan, R.
O'Brien, P. Wyvill, M. North, F.
Harcourt, G. G. Ricardo, 0. Berkeley, Hon. H.
Langston, J. H. Seymour, Lord Jermyn, Rt. kin. Earl
Gregson, Samuel Cowan, C. Esmonde, J.
Seymour, D. Phillimore, J. G. Brand, II B. W.
Luce T. Vane, Lord H. Bethell, Sir R.
Mackinnon, W. Atherton, W.' Robartes, T.
Biggs, W. Milner, W. M. E. Seymour, H.
Strickland, Sir G. Norreys, Sir D. Williams, W.
Tattered, H, Muntz, G. Price, Sir It.
Heard, J. Littleton, E. Peel, Sir R.
Paget, Lord A. Forster, Charles Davie, Sir H. R. F.
Herbert, P. Waterpark, Lord Grosvenor, Ld. R.
Duncan, George Clay, Sir W.. Bt. Wortley, J. S.
Adair, 11. Layard, A. H. Duff, G.
Grace, 0. O'Flaherty, A. Marjoribanks, D.
Elliott, J. E. Rice, E. Cardwell, E.
Keogh, W. Bruce, H. A. Gordon, A.
:`,avendish, C. C. Walter, J. , Smith, M.
Scully. V_ Clifford, Lt.-Col. MM. Osborne, R.
Lee, W. A Icock, T. Ball, J.
O'Brien, J. Scholefield, W. Johnstone, Sir J.
Foley, J. li. Hogg, Sir J. W. Fitzroy, Henry
Bulkeley, Sir R. Dent, J. Reed, J.
Thornhill, W. Fitzwilliam, G. Ferguson, Sir R.
Shafto, R. Bell, J. Bruce, Lord E.
Grenfell, Charles Fortescue, C. S. Clinton, Lord R.
Dalrymple, Vitcoant Rumbold, C. Duncan, Viscount
Crossley, F. Goderich, Viscount Wilkinson, W.
Freestan, Colonel Smith, It. Berkeley, G.
Heneage, Geo. F. Baines, Rt. Hon. M. Wilson, J.
Chaplin, W. Stafford, A. Barnes, T.
Thornely, T.

AVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Another change in the order for sailing of the block-ships
under Rear-Admiral Baynes was made yesterday. They got
up steam y:sterday afternoon, and at 5 o'clock weighed and
dropped out to St. Helen's Roads, nearly within gunshot of
Spithead, instead of going to the Nore direct, as previously
ordered. Rear-Admiral Baynes was very unwell en Wed-
nesday night. All the ships of the fleet yesterday morning
" dressed " in honour of her Majesty's birthday, and at noon
fired a general Royal salute. Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas
Cochrane, K.C.8., hoisted his flag in the Fire Queen *min-
tender, and, accompanied by Rear-Admiral Superintendent
Martin,
steamed through the fleet, giving Rear-Admiral
Baynes his final orders. Yesterday they proceeded to Cowes
to pay their respects to her Majesty at Osborne.
The Enterprise,Captain Collinson, was towed out of Sheer-
ness basinonTuelay, and her officers and crew were yester-
day
conveyed to Chatham by the steam-tender Wildfire to be
paid off.

The Tartar, 20, screw steam corvette, Captain H. Dunlop,
arrived at Sheerness yesterday at 6 a.m. She left Faroe
Sound on the morning of the 18th inst., leaving there the
Duke of Wellington, bearing the admiral's flag, the Ajax,
Blenheim, Arrogant, Conflict, and Archer.
The Imperieuse arrived there on the day previous, and
left the same day for England, with orders to touch at Kiel.
Smallpox was raging very badly on board the Duke of Wel-
liivrton and the Arrogant.

The Geyser and Archer have taken a large number of
prizes , • 24 to 25 have already been reported to have been
captured by them, all laden with va'uable cargoes of tallow,
hemp, bristles, die., most of which are now on their passage
home. _ _ _

On the day after the Tartar left Faroe Sound, she ex-
changed numbers with the Orion screw steam line-of-battle
ship.
The damage done to the Tartar by her late collision will
require her tope docked. She was struck on her port side,
two ports abaft the gangway port, by the Imperieuse stem
on, by which her mainmast was broken into three pieces.
Mr. William Moore, London pilot, has been appointed to
take charge of the transport Rob Roy, as Baltic pilot.
The Weasel gun.boat, Lieutenant Robert G Craigie, tender
to the CmsAr, left Sheerness yesterday, at 4 a.m., direct for
the Baltic. _ .

The various works in the dockyard at Pembroke are being
carried on with energy. A new frigate is to be immediately
built upon the slip lately occupied by the Sutlej. Her arma-
ment will be 50 guns, and her length over all is to be about
240 feet, and she is to be built for the screw propeller. The
Repulse, 90-gun ship, has been thoroughly altered for adapta-
tion to the screw, her after frame timbers having to be moved
for the purpose. The Brunswick, 80, is to be launched in the
course of the summer. The dry dock is to be lengthened and
widened, at a cost of 10,0001., and two new slips are to be
constructed, with a boat basin, at an expense allowed this
year of 15,0001.
The Meteor floating battery was commissioned on Wednes-
day by Captain Seymour.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steam-ship
Alma, No. 1 transport, has arrived out at the Crimea, and
disembarked her troops, consisting of 1,030 rank and file,
with 25 officers, under the command of Colonel Gordon
Drummond.