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London, England, 1854-06-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1354.

The Honourable Gentleman the Member for
Aylesbury has given promise of the fulfilment of

our most sanguine expectations.
On Tuesday evening, the 20th of June, we
spoke as follows—one sentence will be sufficient
out of a whole column of equally pertinent ob-
servations. We said :

" Reviewing a// the Ministerial acts and all the
" words which have fallen from, the lips of Lord
6` Aberdeen, in reference to the war, in regard to
" Russia, and in particular allusion, to the North-
" ern Autocrat, we can only wonder that some
" resolute and honest member of the House of Com-
" mons has not long since risen in his place and
" boldly demanded the impeachment of the First
" Minister of the Crown in the presence of Parlia.
" ment."

A resolute and honest member of the House of
Commons has at length risen in his place and

virtually demanded the impeachment of the Firs

Lxd of the Treasury.

It was, as we have already observed, on Tues-
day evening, the 20th of June, that we spoke,
through these columns, the very words forming
the above quotation.
And it was on Friday evening, the 23d of June
(yesterday), that Mr. LAYARD announced his
intention to move, on Thursday next, a resolution
so newhat to the effect here subjoined :

" That, in the opinion of this House, the lan-
" guage held by the First Minister of the Crown
" is calculated to raiss great doubts in the public
" mind as to the objects and ends of the war,
" and to lessen the prospect of an honourable and
" durable peace."
It was rather a significant circumstance, that
the House received with " loud cheers" this de-
claration of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for
Aylesbury, of his determination to bring forward
at last a detailed inquiry into the Ministerial con-
duct, both by words and by acts, of the E trl of
ABERDEEN, still unhappily Prime Minister of Eng-
land, and in so doing to at length necessitate a
formal discussion of the foreign policy of the

Government.
The incident referred to, it may not be un
-worthy to
k rema,r , took place at the commence-
ment of
the
of proceedings in the House of Com-
mons' sitting yesterday. And therefore it is not
altogether incomprehensible how it should have
so happened that towards the close of last night's
sitting in the House
of Lords, the Earl of ABER-
DEEN should have risen and.
said----" On Mon-
day I shall move for the production of a
despatch, addressed by me formally to the
Russian Government with respect to the Treaty of
and I will take that
Adrianople ; opportunity of
removing some great misapprehensions which, exist
in reference to some observations that I addressed.
to your Lordships the other night." Wonderful. !
so very wonderful that the announcement of the
Premier was received by one feeb!e, little` insu-
I atrd, modest, chilling "Ilear"—unlike Loud
cheers" which had previously greeted _Ur. LAYA.RD'S
intimation to the Lower House of Parliament.
So that my Lord ABERDEEN, hearing what Mr.
LAYARD bad threatened for Thursday, proposes to
move on Monday for the production of a
despatch arldressed by him formerly to the
Russian Government in reference to the Treaty
of Adrianople. In reference to the Treaty
of Adrianople ! As if the question before the
country were not the settlement of one of the
mightiest and most momentous struggles the
earth has ever witnessed, and not the revival of
any old-world drivel about the waste paper of that