The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-05 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1854.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Hannibal, 91, screw, Commodore Hon. F. W.
Grey, arrived at Gibraltar on the 23d ultimo, from Ply-
mouth, en, route to Sebastopol.
The Ajax, 60, screw•, Captain Warden; will be ready
for sea on the 14th instant, at Portsmouth.
The Meander, 44, Captain T. arrived at Lis-
bon on the 22d ultimo, from Falmouth.
Fortunately the leak in the Cossack, 21, screw, Cap-
tain Fanshawe, has been discovered and repaired at De-
vonport. It was found to be connected with the engine
cock-valves, &c. _ .

The Hecla, 6, paddle, Commander Hawker, has com-
pleted coaling and got her topmasts on end. She will
go out of the fitting basin, Portsmouth, to-day or to-
morrow.

The Geyser, 6,. paddle, got up steam yesterday in the.
basin at Portsmouth to prove her boilers and machinery.
She is coaled and ready for the pendant.
The Vivid; Admiralty steam-tender, pendant..
Comman-
der Allen, left last evening for the eastward with super-
numeraries.

campaign, if an immediate assault proved impracticable;
but the resources•of England have not been found in-
sufficient even for the heavy outlay which has now be-
come indispensable: Tile costs of the winter campaign
will be provided for, and yet 1854 will have passed
without any increase of the National Debt. The second'
year of the struggle will not be incumbered. with pay-
ments on account of the, preceding campaign. If similar
vigilance 'had been exercised at the close of the last cen-
tury, thepublic burden-E.; imposed in the later pirt of the War
would have been far less. oppressive. In 1815 the taxes
raised to pay the interest of money borrowed since '1793
amounted to about 24 millions, .or to the expense of
a regular campaign. ' If loans shoUld at last be found
requisite, it is far more clearable to resort •to them at
the end of the contest than at the beginning.; for the
.country will he the better able to meet the interest of an
increased debt, when the ordinary expenditure is once
more reduced within its usual limits.
A great effs)rt may be made.Withotit recourse to a
loan.
.In the early part of. the present year the French
Government borrowed a sum. of 10,000,000/. At the
same time an annual• increase of taxation .to that
amount Was voted by the English floui!e of Com-
mons. Mr. Gladstone would have satisfied or silenced
many critics, if .he
.had adopted the course . which
was, probably for sufficient reasons, taken by our
Ally ; and a loan of .10,000,0001., to be repeated within
twelte mouths, would have been applauded in the City
as a proof of conformity to the sound traditions 'of the
past. Yet candid critics ought to be satisfied. The
Minister has anticipated their demand by providing that
an annuall-subsidy Shall be raised during the whole period
Of the war, be has only differed from his advisers in taking
the money which he wants direct from the ultimate pay-
master, unencumbered with charges for management or
for interest: The great dealers in capital still remain with
their untouched hoards as a further resource incase of
need. In the meantime;-kS'Aver; their funds have been
usefully employed in trade and in manufactures, in
the construction of railways and of steam-boats. Nor
must it be forgotten that that portion of the national
wealth which is abstracted by taxation is, for the most
part, less productive than that which is absorbed when
the Government has occasion for considerable loans.

It is perfectly true that, at the certain point, the
payment of taxes becomes oppressive, and the nation
can better endure the appropriation of its accumulated
capital than a further drain on its income. This was, in
fact, the real issue between Mr. Gladstone and his op-
ponents ; and when the interests of posterity, and other
ornamental portions of the case, are for the time kept
out of eight, few sober reasoners will doubt that the Mini-
ster was justified in his practical conclusion. The taxa-
tion of 1854 still falls far short of that of 1815. It is
evident that a more numerous and more wealthy com-
munity can well bear a smaller burden than that which
the improvidence of the past had accumulated at the
end of the last war. The double property tax is ex-
tremely unpleasant, nor can the addition to the malt
duty be regarded as in' itself desirable ; but the imposi-
tion of these burdens for a single year relieves us from a
perpetual annuity which would probably have amounted
to 370,0001., absorbing the whole produce of one or more
of the minor taxes which interefere most seriously with com-
fort and industry. The second payment of the waiz taxes
already imposed will,by the end 0f1855, have redeemed an-
other annuity of equal or larger amount. In three years
Mr. Gladstone's first war budget will have left the coun-
try exempt from a perpetual charge of about a million
and a quarter. If the war should unfortunately continue,
the same calculation will apply ; nor must the accumula-
tion of compound interest be forgotten. The annual
payments on account of existing loans would have been
necessarily met out- of the taxes of future years, leaving
a constantly-Decreasing balance applicable to the public
exigencies. _ _

It is not impossible that further supplies may be re-
quired even in the ensuing spring ; but if it should be
necessary to contract a loan, the prescience displayed
in the Budget of this year will be only the more fully de-
monstrated. The revenue will at least contribUte largely
towards the expenses of the war, and one year's interest
will have been saved. The expediency of borrowing must
depend partly on the elasticity of the actual revenue,
but principally on the amount which may be needed.
If fifty millions were required, all the world would con-
cur in the necessity of a loan. Prudent men, on the
other hand, would rely on additional taxation for the
means of providing one, or two millions. The practical
limit will lie between these extremes ; bat many consi-
derations must determine the exact point at whiclf it is
to be fixed. It is not undesirable that the Government
should enter on the inquiry with a certain bias in favour
of the course which involves the greatest amount of self-
orning Chronicle.

THE CHURCHES MILITANT.

(From the Weekly Dispatch.)

MR. EDITOR,—Every man has his opinion upon the
present war, not only as to its origin, justice, and policy,
but also the manner of conducting it, the wisdom of the
military movements, the quality of weapons and stores,
and the preparations to be made for its future progress.
Questioning, as I do, the competence of 999 out of every
thousand who deliver their oracular judgments upon
matters of detail, I am willing to trust those whose busi-
ness it is to manage them, until mismanagement is
proved, when I shall cry out as loudly as any one for
replacing those who aro not by those who are deserving
of confidence—much more of confidence there must be,

if we are to wage this war successfully. Our represen-
tatives, it is to be hoped, will bear this is mind when
they meet, and not be incessantly badgering the Govern-
ment with their questions and criticisms, as they did
during the last session. The premature disclosure of
the intention to attack the Crimea, into which Lord
John Russell was worried and entrapped by this species
of tactics, is a memorable specimen of the damage which
may thus be done to our own cause, and of the aid
which may unintentionally be rendered to Russia by the
bustling vanity and the loquacious impertinence, aided
in some quarters by the party spirit of British members
of Parliament. We are put thus in the position of the
card-player who shows his hand, while our opponent
conceals his, and startles us with a trump just as we
expected an easy trick. Let us put the best men we
have to the work, and then strengthen their hands as
efficiently as we can. This will not condemn us either to
silence or idleness. It will leave many open questions,
and something for everybody to do, if they will but help
on the struggle according to their capabilities.
For instance, the Church might employ itself very
usefully, if those of its agents who are seat abroad would
but deal rationally with the sick and wounded, and if
the great mass of them who remain at home were to de-
vote themselves to the intellectual and moral culture of
the people, to the promotion of prudential habits, and
to the dissemination of geographical, historical, and
other facts, instead of hammering away at their theo-
logical conundrums, and abusing the Queen for listen-
ing to secular music from a French band on Sun-
days, as was recently done by that Manchester fire.
brand, the Rev. Canon Stowell. But the war has
an ecclesiastical aspect as well as a military
one. It is a war of Churches. The Russian troops in
the Crimea have been reinforced by a brace of bishops
and a corps of priests. We are sending out one batch
after another of chaplains and missionaries. Allah and
Maheriet, and the Virgin Mary, and the Protestant
Divinity, are all in the field, as well as the Greek Di-
vinity with St. Nicholas. Heaven is between the two
fires of the praying Powers. There is war above, as well
as war below. As the calibre of our guns is tested, so
is the strength of our devotions. And if there be any
truth or meaning in the language (profane I hold it)
which priests and parsons use, on both
is both sides, Divine fa-
vour about to be displayed by the fate of battles, and
heavenly mansions will be won or lost by the success or
failure of storming fortresses.
The battle of Inkerman tells terribly against theßusso-
Greek Church. The character of an act of devotion was
previously given to that scene of carnage. Mass had
been solemnly chanted by the bishops. A prelate had
explained to the troops how the English are the enemies
of God. To fall in the field fighting against them was
called being "chosen of God for a glorious death." Men
and weapons were sanctified by Divine benediction. And
yet they were beaten. Beaten by men who rushed to
the field without saying their prayers, and on the Sun-
day too. Heaven smiled upon the Sabbath-breaking.
And our Churches return thanks for the successful of-
fence against God, as they often tell us any work is, if
dope upon that day. I confess that all this is as sicken-
ing to me as would be the sight of those corpse-covered
hills and valleys on which went down that Sabbath sun.
One smiles respectfully at the honest corporal, who
writes to his mother that he prays God to be on the side
of the Allied Army, adding, " and I think he is." That
man was nearer truth than he who professed the faith
that Deity always favours " les grandsbataillons." But
men who have bad educational opportunities for largpr
views have no right to equally tender treatment,, How
does our ecclesiastical staff conduct itself in the camp ?
We have their own reports. There is along and minute
one in the Tunes of Wednesday, from the assistant
chaplain to the second division of the British forces in
the East. His great concern with the dying seems to
be to ascertain whether they have the true faith. This
appears in a variety of forms. He says of one case, "I
found poor Colonel Blair in great pain and breathing
with difficulty, not expecting to survive the night. He
had been wounded through the stomach. He was in deep
concern for his soul, and timidly desirous to lay hold of
the hope for sinners. He joined earnestly in prayer.
Oh, how solemn to witness the soul's anxiety in its fast-
ebbing moments ! and how anxious the ministerial task
(in so sudden a call) to guard against a false peace, and
yet not withhold the free promise of perfect peace through
Christ." Now, I would ask any man of common sense,
who is not in holy orders, nor thoroughly under his par-
son's thumb, whether this be a fitting treatment for a
dying warrior ? What can the " soul's anxiety" or the
chaplain's anxiety do at that moment either for the past
or the future ? Those who have studied the theological
vocabulary will know what the chaplain's language
means. " False pence" is a trust in God which does not
recognise. the chaplain's dogmas. " Perfect peace"
that associated with a knot of mystical doctrines. And
are these matters to potter about when the life-drops are
falling fast, and the breathings are numbered ! The
soldier's life cannot then be revised and lived over again.
The soldier's character cannot then be remoulded and
cast in A different forp, The sold4er creed cannot then

be reconsidered, its heresies corrected, or its orthodoxy
completed If the chaplain has nothing comfortable to
say to the expiring hero, perishing in Lis country's
wise, unless it- be interlarded with .his Church's secta-
;Han conundrums, he had better hold his tongue and be-
take himself to some More useful occupation than that
of perplexing the dying in their last moments. The
stabs of RUssian bayonets should exonerate from wounds
by the sharp points of a creed.
It is 4ifficult to say which Church—Greek, Russo-
Greek, Catholic, Protestant, Episcopalian, Puseyite,
Evangelical, Presbyterian, or Islamite, comes worst off
in the great battle of prayers which they all assert to
be so divinely. .powerful. St. Nicholas had to run for it
at Alma and Inkerman. Allah allowed the Turks to

be peppered'at Balaklava, and to lose the batteries they
should have defended. The Virgin Mary saves sailors
froth shipwreck ; but the late storm in the Black Sea
-was too strong for her. Nor have the devotions of all
the British Churches combined yet conquered the Cri-
mea. Do all these facts go for nothing ? Are they
.cntitled to no influence over what is saict to people
from pulpits on Sundays ; Providence has dualt impar-
tially with all the Militant Churches ? It .has told
them all, in a voice of thunder, that they arc wrong in
their doctrines of the power of prayers—that they are
deluding the people—and that although by God's laws
established, over universal being, the true,. the right,
and the just shall eventually triumph over the false,
barbarous, and oppressive, yet that Churches, priests,
bishops, and all the paraphernalia of ecclesiastical pre-
tension have very little concern or influence in the mat-
ter.

Canon Stowell is a canon that ought to be spiked for
firing on the side of the Russians. Now, when union
amongst ourselves, and union with Catholic France, are
most essential, he seizes the opportunity to open his
heaviest batteries against Popery and Papists. He
ascribes the very existence of the war to the Jesuits. He
denounces any Royal civility towards the French Em-
peror. And he calls on Disraeli to lead on the " Pro-
testant" paity to the repeal of the Maynooth Grant and
other acts of aggression on those whose co-religionists are
fighting our battles and shedding their blood like water.
We talk of John Bright. Why Canon Stowell has not
the excuse for himself of John Bright's peace principle ;
nor is John Bright, like him, the paid servant of the
State to do duty on its behalf in the Church. Yet
there are bigots and ninnies in Manchester who look on
while the one is burned in effigy, and who uphold the
other in sowing dissension, stimulating persecution, de-
preciating the Queen, distracting her subjects, and thus
doing his very utmost to serve Russia in the polluted
name of the Protestant religion. Nor is he without
fellow-labourers of the same clique. Dr. Gregg ascribes
the "frightful outpouring of blood" before Sebastpol
"as a consequence" to the more lenient spirit of our
legislation towards Catholics. He declares that the send-
ing out Roman Catholic chaplains and nuns to the East
will " offend the British people and. may provoke the God
of Britain." So then, amongst the Czar's allies we may
reckon that section of Church religionists in England
and Ireland which follows the teachings of Dr. Gregg
and Canon Stowell ; and whose organ is the Record
newspaper. It is well that events have shown these
fanatics in their proper colours. What their Christianity
is worth has long been evident. We are now enabled to
appreciate their decency, their loyalty, and their patrio-
tism.
The devoted heroism of the battle-field, with all its
sanguinary stains, has more religion in it than the cla-
mours of the Militant Churches ; and there is yet the
finest specimen of all in the hospitals of Scutari. The
best embodiment of Christianity which these passing
scenes present is in Miss Nightingale and her band of
nurses. They come not to trouble the dying with
creeds and catechisms. Their mission is one of unmin-
gled mercy. No vow binds them to duty, but a spon-
taneous obedience to the law of love. They do not,
like certain chaplains, pick out colonels and majors to
attend upon ; their services are for the humblest of those
who fought and bled in the common ranks. Their mi-
nistrations breathe a peace which no priestly benediction
can bestow. They soothe the mind while they mitigate
the pains of the mangled body. With no unchi istian
incantations they draw down the spirit of health to
abide in the receptacles of the suffering. The wistful
eye, as it follows their movements, is moist with tears
of gratitude. No distinction of creed or country draws
a boundary line to their universal charity. From no
offensiveness of anguish do they recoil. The thought-
ful preparation, the gentle care and tending, the unfail-
ing assiduity, are for all ; and onwards they move like
the Angel of Pity, Who is said to track the footsteps of
sorrow whithersoever they may lead. Humanity canon-
izes them, and a halo beams around their heads. Across
interposing seas and mountains our voices re-echo the
blessings which are breathed on them from the hearts of
those victims of war to whom they minister.
PUBLICOLA.

TIIE GALES IN THE BLACIZ agA.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 20.—The disasters of the 14th
are greater even than we anticipated. The following
names may be added to the list of those totally lost at
Balaklava—Gertrude, Pride of the Ocean, Pyrenees,
and Ganges. The total loss at Balaklava is :--
Lost. Dismasted.
British lB 12
French
18 more British are :aid to be lost or dismasted at Eupa-
toria or the Katcha.
Commander Bayntoun, perished in the Prince.
Dr. Spence is also said to be lost. He came out to in-
quire into the state of the medical service...
The Sampson, Retribution, and Vesuvius will come
down to Constantinople for repairs. The last is leaky,
her beam ends are started, and she is not trustworthy
for sea.
A Turkish line-of-battle ship is a total wreck off Eupa-
toria. The flag-ship is dismasted.
The crew of the Henri Quatre are said to be in the
bands of the Russians. Numbers of French and British
sailors were taken by the Cossacks on the west coast.
The Bellerophon rode out the gale at Eupatoria, and
is quite safe.
The rudders of the Queen, 110, and the London, 90,
are badly rung ; but they may be kept at Sea, at least
for a time.
Five French line-of-battle ships have lost their rudders
and received other injuries ; they will be brought down
to Constantinople in tow.
General Liprandi broke up from Balaklava with his
army on the 14th, and retired beyond the Tchernaya,
breaking down the bridge.
The Danube steam-tender is thrown up high and dry
in Kamisch Bay.
It is said to be decided that Admiral Stopford shall
proceed with the British sailing vessels to Sinope to pass
the winter.
Oaptain Inglis, of the Engineers, was lost in the
Prince. It is said that several officers are lost in the
vessels off Balaklava.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
About 10 a.m. the transport No. 20, the Ganges,
began to drive—she having parted her cable. Right
astern of her was No. 1, the Pyrenees, which she soon
fouled ; and a most fearful sight it was. Spars snapped
like rotten sticks ; jibbooms, bowsprits, yards, masts,
all shared the same crash, the two ships grinding
together in a most awful manner. Of course No.
1 soon began to drive, as well as No. 20, and both,
locked together, bore down upon the poor Sampson.
Soon they were foul of her, and the same work of
destruction began, and in ten minutes they cleared from
her, and there lay the bold, defiant little Sampson, shorn
of all her beauty, with not an inch of anything except
her funnels standing, her masts having gone with one
awful crash, and fallen inboard, so that we are most
anxious, though most fearful, to hear of the damages
they must have done in their fall. Her bowsprit is
also gone short off. In fact, she is a complete wreck.
Parting from her, No. 20 brought up, and we hoped
was safe, while No. 1 still drove on towards the shore, and,
much as we pitied her, help was, of course, utterly impos-
sible. While this was going on inside us, just outside us
two French liners (the Jupiter and Bayard) fouled, but
fortunately, or by good management, got clear, with
only a slight smashing of boats and their quarters, and
brought up with four anchors each. About noon the
gale was at its highest, and there was then a cry that
the Terrible had parted. a cable, and was among the
breakers. Every moment we expected she would go on
shore, but soon the paddles revolved, the remaining
cable was slipped, and, right in the teeth of the gale,
steamed out the splendid Terrible. This was the most
cheering sight during the whole of this eventful day,
and a glorious sight it certainly was to see that
steamer going through everything, and proving the
mighty conquest of man over the elements. Our situa-
tion all the time was most critical. Right ahead of us
were four French liners, one or two of which had already
driven, and if any of them parted their cables our de-
struction was inevitable ; and, to make it, if possible,
worse, there was the knowledge that we could do
nothing, but must patiently abide our lot, whatever
Providence thought fit for that lot to be. We had done
our all—the result was in God's bands. About two
o'clock the view all around was most distressing ; about
a dozen transports were driving, four or five had cut
away their masts, while only five or six were riding at
all hopefully. Near us was a little brig, which we
remarked as doing capitally, when, all of a sudden,
her masts went over the side ; still she rode on, but
now, alas l the little ship lies on shore with scarcely
two timbers holding together, so utterly has the sea
broken her up. Near us also was the Lord Raglan, a
splendid ship, just new, of about 700 tons ; she, too,
rode on most capitally. Close astern was the little
Beagle ; how she escaped being swamped is to me n
marvel, as, although we were not above 100 yards from
her, continually- from the height of the sea we could
see nothing but the tops of her masts ; still she rode
on, and although she rolled enough to roll every-
thing out of her, yet she seemed to keep her-
self pretty dry. Astern of her was the Algiers ;
she rolled, if anything, worse than the Beagle, and
carried away one cable ; still, she held on, and
this morning steamed out into safe anchorage. All
the steamers had their wheels and screws going,
which of course made them much safer; by taking a

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good deal of the strain from the cables. At night-
fall there were five transports on shore, and others in a
very precarious state. A most fearful night we passed!
Every now and then a sea struck the ship with such
violence that she staggered from end to end, so that it
seetned impossible for iron or hemp to hold her. About
2.30 a.m. a rattle was heard,-and we all fancied a cable
had parted ; fortunately, however, it was a false alarm
—all three still held on.

WEDNESDAY—The Lord Raglan is on shore, but taken
there in a most sailnr-like manner. Directly her captain
found he could not save her, he cut away his mainmast
and mizen, and, setting a topsail on her foremast,
ran her ashore stern on, where she lies quite upright,
and has now (3 p.m ) rig;ed sheers over his hold, either,
we suppose, to save his cargo, or to lighten his ship.
The shore is teeming with soldiers, who, however, seem
very friendly ; so touch so, that an order has been given
not to fire upon them, fearing lest they should murder
the poor shipwrecked wretches if we do. They are, of
course, taking into Sebastopol any men and plunder they
can get ; but I suppose that is all right;
5 p m.—The Firebrand has just fired on the coast.
It seems the wretches were prevented troin doing harm
by their impotence, not their will, for they have just
brought down field pieces and fired on the wrecks, and
the Firebrand is trying to keep them off. We were
rather premature in supposing the Russians had become
civilised all of a sudden.
THURSDAY, ltith.—To-day broke very fine, with still a
stormy breeze from the S.W. ; the Firebrand still busy
keeping off the Russians, who continue hovering about
the shore ; and some capital shots she makes, dropping
shot and shell right into groups of eight or ten, and scat-
tering them most effectually ; the boats are all busy
getting men off the wrecks, and we hope that very few
lives are lost here. About half-past 8 a.m. the captain of
the Lord Raglan, a most intelligent sailor-like man, came
on board ; he has great hopes of saving his ship, which is
nearly unhurt, and he says that the Russians were most
anxious to persuade him yesterday to go on shore, but
he declined, very fottunately, as every poor fellow they
caught, half drowned and unarmed as he was, they
handcuffed and sent off. He says that directly he
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lighted his lamp they opened a fire at his skylights,
but fortunately without doing any damage ; he says,
too, that his men, of whom he has 30, behaved most
splendidly, and he has brought them all off. On leaving
us he returned to his ship, and if man can save her he
will do it. One French barque is full of soldiers, and
at them the enemy kept up a continual fire ; the poor
wretches could not leave their position, owing to every-
thing being washed away, so that they bad to cling to
the bulwarks for safety, thus affording an excellent
mark for the Russians, who took great advantage of it.
And yet the savages call themselves Christians I At
noon No. 1 was set on fire, we presume, by her crew,
who we know had left her after saving all they could,
there not being the slightest chance of getting her off,
and she is now 7 p.m., burning most brilliantly, and
shedding a lurid light all around her. A splendid,
though fearful, sight is a ship on fire. It belongs to the
same owner as the Lord Raglan, and seems to have as
energetic a commander ; certainly the next best thing to
saving her, which was impossible, was to burn her.
A working party has just started for the Lord
Raglan, and there seems to be every hope she may
he saved, but no other transport. No. 20 was burnt
last night, and both she and No. 1 are now smoking.
It seems they were not set on fire by their captains, as
we supposed, but by accident. I believe, however, that
most of the cargoes were saved. The French fleet have
all either taken their departure or are on the eve of doing
so. The admiral, we hear, is almost broken-hearted
with the loss and disabling of his splendid ships. It is
rumoured, too, that we are to go into winter quarters,
leaving the steamers and Bellerophon, which, with five
French screws, will make us a match for anything Rus-
sian, if they dare show their noses outside Sebastopol.-

MEETING OF LIBERAL ELECTORS AT
LAMBETH:

Last evening Mr. Williams, one of the members for
Lambeth, met a large number of his constituents in the
large halt of the Horns Tavern. Mr. Williams presented
himself to the meeting in company with Mr. Murrough,
M.P., and supported by many influential residents of
the borough, and was received with great and repeated
cheering. The hon. gentleman reviewed in detail the
political events of the interval which had elapsed since
he last met the electors, and, at the close of the address,
had the satisfaction of receiving a vote of approbation
and of thanks for his services. In the course of the pro-
ceedings Mr. Williams was asked by an elector to state
his views of the English and Scottish beer bills of last
session, and, in reply, he stated that he was opposed on
principle to both, and would endeavour to procure their
repeal.
Mr. FREDERICK DOULTON then moved a resolution, to
the effect that the war with Russia had not been carried
on with a due regard to the interests of the Allies, and
condemnatory of the admission of the Austrians into the
Principalities as an act of extreme folly, if not of ab-
solute treachery, which, by the stoppage of the advances
of the Turks, had been the chief cause of the needless
sacrifice of our troops in the Crimea. The resolution like-
wise expressed alarm and disgust at the recently signed
treaty with Austria, as not being likely to prove benefich
to the Allies, while it would probably prove inconsistent
with the restoration of Poland, which was necessary to
preserve the stability of Europe. It further declared
that the conduct of Lord Aberdeen had proved him
unworthy of the confidence of the British people, un-
fit to hold any office of trust under the Crown, and
requested Mr. Williams to exert himself in support of
the spirit of the resolution, and to give his adherence
to any set of men who would carry on the war to the
honour of England and the promotion of the liberties
of Europe.
Mr. H. SLACK, in an energetic speech, seconded the
motion, which was unanimously adopted, amidst loud
and reiterated plaudits.

REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE.— Last night a
numerously attended meeting of the electors of Maryle-
bone was held at the Colosseum Tavern, Portland-road,
for the purpose of considering the propriety of recom-
mending the Right Hon. Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt
as a candidate for the borough. !fir. Michell moved a
resolution, approving of Mr. D'Eyncourt as eminently
qualified to represent the borough in Parliament, and
inviting him to issue an address to the constituency.
Mr. D'lflanger, jun., moved an amendment to the effect,
" That as a meeting of the reformers of the three pa-
rishes comprising the borough was to take place, to
select a fitting candidate to represent their principles,
it would be inexpedient to support any candidate by
express resolution." After a very stormy discussion, in
the course of which it was denied by Mr. MiEvely and
other speakers, that Mr. D'Eyncourt had commenced a
canvass, the amendment was carried by a large majo-
rity, and the meeting separated.