The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Captain Sir Everard Rome, Bart., having nearly re-
covered from the effects of the accident on board his
ship the Calliope, 26, rejoined her in:Plymouth Sound on
Saturday morning. On arriving alongside, the crew
pontuneously manned the yards and rigging, and gave
three times three hearty cheers, which much affected the
gallant officer. The Calliope, and Fantome, 12, Com-
mander Gennp, were afterwards mustered and iespected
and paid adv4nce, by Commodore Lord John Hay, C. 8.,
and on Sunday both ships sailed for Sydney and New
Zealand at 2.30 P.M., with a fine breeze from the north.
They call at Rio en route.
Paymaster Thomas Shanks (1809), and formerly of
the Vanguard, has been appointed to the Impregnable,
78, flag-ship at Devonport,
vice Ozzard, whose term of
service has expired.

The Arab, 12, Commander Morris, lately paid off
from the East Indies, tprung her foremast so badly that
she was obliged to have a new one at the Cape; and
now the Kingfisher, 12, Commander Harvey, having
sprung her foremast on her passage from the Coast of
Africa, is obliged to be paid off at Devonport instead of
Woolwich. She has been towed into harbour.
Powerful, 84, Captain Hon. R. S. Dundas, C. 8., went
alongside the Portsmouth yard jetty on Saturday, and
began to dismantle. Yesterday morning she got out
her upper deck guns and her spare spars. She will be
completely unrigged, and probably dismasted and
cleared out, for, paying off on Saturday, if her books
are ready.
Prince Regent, 90, rehoisted her pendant on Satur-
day, when her new complement of Marines re-embarked.
Captain Harris commissioned her. The Commander
(Caldwell) will not join until the Powerful is paid off.
The Prince Regent bas already 400 names on her books,
including about 40 of her old crew, about 70 from the
Powerful, and her officers and boys.
Avon steam-tender, Mr. Veitch, in charge, returned
to Devonport from Portsmouth, on Saturday morning.
Resistance troop-ship, Mastsr-Commander Bradshaw,
having embarked her troops at Queenstown, on Satur-
day, sailed for the Mediterranean and West Indies.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Cumberland, 70, Cap-
tain Seymour, flag of Vice- Admiral Sir George Sey-
mour, Commander-in-Chief on the North American and
West India station, arrived at Spithead yesterday to
receive advance. There are no movements to-day.
PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.--The Kingfisher, 12, Com-
mander Henry Harvey, which came in on Wednesday,
with her mast sprung, from the coast of Africa, will pro-
bably be ordered up Hamosze• to be paid off, in pre-
tination.
ference to going en to Portsmouth, her original des-

--Th-O-Alecto steam-sloop is to be paid advance at this
port, prior to sailing with the mails for the coast of
Africa.

The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's pac-
ket Bosphorus, Captain Hall, is hourly expected with
Good Hope. The late
easterlythe firstmanadilnforrotmhertlhye Cwainpdesofwili
probably retard her
homeward passage a day or two.
On Tuesday afternoon the Red Rover trawling. sloop,
Captain Brown, when lying about eight miles south of
the Eddystone, with her trawl-net down, was run into
by the John E. Adams, of New it"n L.
-s outwardbound,
with German emigrants, and would have sunk had not
the fluke of the ship's anchor caught the sloop's main-
sail, which it tore into ribands, breaking the gaff, and
carrying away the mainsheet, topping lift, reef, pen-
nants, &c. The John E. Adams is accused of running
into a mackerel lugger off this port last year, and drown-
ing one man. About three years since an American
ship ran into the Ariel trawl-sloop, and drowned all her
crew—four hands.
On Thursday evening a pilot boat landed here Cap-
tain van der Borden, of the Dutch huker
ragg (Tagus),
belonging to Vlardingen, which port she left laden with
tar and cheese, bound for Lisbon. On the 23d of Feb., at
ten o'clock in the evening, she was run into by a.strange
brig, which passed on; by the voices of her crew she
was judged to be an Englishman. The huker showed
lights, but the brig had none. The Tagg was struck en
the bluff of the bow, and became very leaky. The
pumps were manned, and several of the cases of cheese
were removed aft, so as to get the leak out of the water,
but these efforts were unavailing, a
and the crew were
obliged to take refuge on board another Dutch vessel,
the Welcome, from Lisbon, bound to Holland. Soon
after joining her they saw the huker go down. Provi-
sions falling short, Captain van der Borden landed here
to proceed by rail and steam to Holland.
THE MEDITERRANEAN,
We have correspondence frum the Mediterranean,
dated Malta, Feb. 24,
The commander-in-chief, Vice-Admiral Sir W. Par-
ker, G.C.8., was at Malta, with his fleet. The flag-
ship, Queen, 110; Ceylon, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral
Harvey; Calrdonia, 120, Albion, ao
-a, Ganges, 84, Su-
perb, 80, Racer, 12; Terrible steam frigate, Scourge
steam-sloop, Firebrand steam-frigate, and Medina and
Antelope steampackets, were in the highest order, daily
exercising their crews with sails and spars, field-piece:,
great guns, and smell arms, and boats with guns mounted,
frequently performing evolutions at the mouth of the
harbour.
Spitfire steam-vessel is ordered to he got ready for
surveying service; Commander Spratt, formerly Lieu-
tenant of her Majesty's ship Beacon, is to have the com-
mand. The Porcupine was intended for this service,
but was found to want a very extensive repair in her
engines.
31r. rolisrd, second master of the Medina, has been,

MARCH

for the second time within six weelo, subjected to a
court of inquiry. On the latter occasion (17th ult.) he
was ordered a passage to England, and on arrival will
to placed at the disposal of the Lords of the Admiralty.
Mr. Cook, the second master of the Albion, had been
appointed to the Medina temporarily, until the pleasure
of their Lordships as regards Pollard is known.
Racer, 12, Commander Beddoes, was inspected on the
21st. and was every day expecting to receive her orders
for Corfu. where she will relieve the Frolic, 16, Com-
mander Vansittart, ordered to rejoin the Admiral.

SHEERNESS AS A PORT OF DEFENCE,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir, —ln consequence of the riot among the seamen at
Yarmouth on the 24th of February, the Black Eagle and
the Lightning war steamers were ordered thence from
Woolwich, with directions to call at Sheerness to re-
ceive detachments of Royal Marines, consisting of 1
lieutenant, 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, and 25 privates for
each vessel, from the Trafalgar and Ocean.
When the order to prepare the detachments reached
the Trafalgar a requisition was made by the cfficer com-
manding the Royal Marines on hoard for 60 rounds of
ball cartridge for each man. The reply was, there were
none on board! He then suggested an application being
made to the garrison at Sheerness for some ammuni-
tion. The application was made, and the reply was,
that as the whole ammunition the garrison possessed
only amounted to 16 rounds per man, none
could be spared. At last a small keg was obtained
from the Ocean, which was handed over to the Trafal-
gar's detachment, as they were first ready, and they
were dispatched in the Black Eagle before noon. The
Trafalgar has not a single round of cannon ammunition
on board, nor any other vessel in harbour except the
flag-ship, which has a small quantity for the morning
and evening gun. The garrison is equally destitute of
ammunition. The nearest magazine is at Upnor Castle,
near Chatham, 12 miles up the tidal river Medway,
with no direct road to it by land. The Lightning had
to remain at Sheerness till the Admiral's steam tender
had obtained some ammunition for the detachment from
Upnor Castle, before she could proceed to ber destina-
tion. Is not Sheerness, its important dockyard, and the
valuable ships at the entrance of the Medway, in a de-
fenceless state2—l am, &c.,
AN OFFICER OF TWENTY YEARS' STANDING.
Chatham, March 1.

MR. MACREAD V'S FORGE I FULNESS OF

BIS BROTHER ACTORS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.

Sir,—Living on the skirts of the world, it was once
my vocation to bustle in, I now and then, from the
" loop-holes of my retreat," observe the changes of the
moon, and note the passing events. On more than one
occasion you have done me the favour to give insertion
to my impressions on the fleeting " bubbles of the day,"
and I now venture to trouble you with a few observa-
tions on Mr. Macready's dramatic death, his retirement
from the stage. To use the words of our great Shak-
spere—

" -nothing in his life
Became him, like the leaving it : he died
As one that had been studied in his death,
To throw away the dearest things he ow'd
As 'twere a careless trifle."
This must be apparent to every one who reads the great
man's speeches at Drury-lane Theatre and the Hall of
Commerce, in neither (with the exception of an ambigu-
ous compliment to Mr. Phelps) is there the slightest al-
lusion to the brothers of his art, who had assisted him
for so many years in ail his
"Battles, sieges, and fortunes."
Surely among the number of his old associates, some
few might have been remembered with respect, and a
kind word might have been found to hare recorded his
appreciation of the efforts of the meritorious, although
humble men, who, in his last campaign, enabled him
to present his plays to the public with, to say the
least, credit and respectablility. Not so, the great
tragedian's sovereign contempt for the professors of the
stage, the " beasts," * as he delights to call them,
entirely swamps his gratitude ; he shares with his
titled friends in the " prejudices against actors," and al-
though himself a very humble actor's son, cordially
despises his less fortunate brethern (many of whom
are his superiors in birth and education), and rejoices in
leaving them. Of Mr. Webster, again, as you very
justly observe in your paper of to-day, some slight
praise might have been recorded for his unceasing
labours to support the legitimate drama for so many
years, if worldly courtesy did not suggest a kind re-
membrance of the money that passed between them.
When John Kemble took his leave,

" His old associates,
Tie partners of his toils, his feelings, and his fame,"

gathered round him and received his parting thanks and
good wishes. At Charles Kemble's retirement, 'twas
the same; and when Mrs. Glover left us, the whole pro-
fession mourned. With these bright examples before
him, to glide out of the world without one friendly
word to his fellow-labourers, proves that a great trage-
dian may be a very little am. Sir, your obedient
servant, or AN OLD ACTOR.

BroMpton, March 3, 1851.
* Surely this must be an error.—ED. Morning Post.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen yes-
terday, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
went yesterday afternoon, at a quarter before four o'clock,
to the building for the Exhibition of the Industry of all
Nations, in Hyde-park. Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness were accompanied by their Royal Highnesses
the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Pri❑
cess Alice, and ,were attended by the Viscountess Can-
ning(Ledy in Waiting), Lord Alfred Paget (Equerry in
Waiting), and Colonel Bouverie (Equerry in Waiting to
tee Prince).
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday morning, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
Their Royal Highnesse7 Prince Arthur and the Prin-
cess Louisa took a e,rriage drive yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Prin-
cess Helena to* their usual exercise yesterday, in the
garden of Buckingham Palace.
The Earl and Countess Granville, Lieutenant-Colonel
Hon. C. 13. Phipps. and Captain W. B. Hamilton. R.N.,
had the honour of dining with her Majesty and Prinee
Albert at Buckingham Palace yesterday evening.
The Queen's private band was in a,tendance in the
Palace after dinner.
A meeting was held at half-past ten o'clock yesterday
morning, at the private residence of Lord John Russell,
in Chesham-place. Belgrave-square. There were pre-
sent Lord John Russell. the Lord Chancellor, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Mint°, Sir George Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, Sir Charles Wood, Sir
Francis Baring. Lord Broughton, the Earl of Carlisle,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. Fox
Maule.
Mr. Labouchere was not present at the meeting, the
Right Hon. Gentleman not having arrived from
Brighton.
The meeting broke up about twelve o'clock, at which
hour Lord John Russell went to Buckingham Palace to
have an audience of the Queen. _ _ _

A meeting was held yesterday afternoon at the official
residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-
street. There were present Lord John Russell, the Lord
Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, Sir Charles
Wood, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, the Earl of
Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon.
Henry Labouchere, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule.
Mr. Fitzsteph&n French, M.P., had en interview with
Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

DEATH•OF THE EARL OF HARRINGTON.
We have to announce the demise of the Earl of Har-
rington, intelligence of whose dissolution reached town
yesterday afternoon from Brighton. His Lordship ex
pired at half-past two o'clock yesterday morning, utter a
short but severe illness, several of his Lordship's nearest
relatives being present at his decease.
The deceased Charles Stanhope Earl of Harrington,
county Northampton ; Viscount Petersham, county
Surrey ; and Baron Harrington, county Northampton,
in the peerage of Great Britain, was eldest son of
Charles, third earl, and Jane Seymour, daughter and co-
heir of Sir John Fleming, Bart. He was born Bth April,
1780, and was consequently close on the attainment of
his 71st year.
In September, 1829, he succeeded to the earldom on
the death of his father, and on the 7th April, 1831, he
married Miss Maria Foote (the celebrated actress),
daughter of the lite Mr. Samuel Foote, by whom he
leaves issue an only daughter, Lady Jane St. Maur
Blanche Stanhope, his only son, Viscount Petersham,
having died at the early age of five years.
The late Earl was the intimate friend of George IV.
when Prince Regent, and was a Lord of the Bedchamber
to that Sovereign, also to his late Majesty William IV.
The deceased peer entered the army very early in
life, as did his brothers, the late lion. Major General
Lincoln Stanhope, the Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope,
and Sir Charles Francis Stanhope' for his commission
as ensign bears date the 2d December, 1795. He was
lieutenant-colonel of the 3d West India Regiment, when
he retired on half-pay in August, 1812. He attained
the rank of captain Nov. 21, 1799; major, Jan. 24,
1803; lieutenant-colonel, June 25, 1807; and colonel,
June 4, 1814. Since his marriage his Lordship has led
a retired life, rarely mixing in those circles of fashion
of which for many years he had been considered one of
the leaders. _ _

By the demise ,of his Lordship, the earldom, and
family estates in Derbyshire and Cheshire, devolve on
his next surviving brother, the lion. Colonel Leicester
F. C. Stanhope, C. 8., born 2d September, 1784, and
married 23d April, 1831, Elizabeth, only child and heir
of the late Mr. William Green. _

The families of the Duke and Duchess of Bedford,
the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, Mr. A. and Lady
Caroline Sanford, the Mcalpi3 and Marchioncia of Kil
dare, Lord and Lady Southampton, Mr. G. Repton,
M.P., at d Lady Jane Repton, &.e, are placed in mourn-
ing by the lamented death of the respenteci Earl.

The progress of knowledge is slow ; like the sun
we cannot see it moving, but after a while we perceive that
it bas moved, nay, that it has moved onward.—Eliza Cook's
Journal.

THE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AND LORD STANLEY.
—A great meeting of the delegates of the Protection so-
cieties from all parts of the country assembled at the South
Sea .1-fouse yesterday. when a resolution expressing a deter-
mination to reverse the free-trade policy of the late Sir
Robert Peel was unanimouely agreed to. Another r.esolu-
tlon, expressing the confidence of the ass oc iatio
den in ithn
e
policy of Lord Stanley, was also adopted, and a putat ion
was nominated to wait on the Noble Lord to communicate
the terms of the resolution.—Herald.
FOREIGN Icr.—The first arrival of foreign ice
this year has just taken place by a vessel arrived in the river
from one of the Norwegian ports, with an entire cargo, cm-
P114143g orieral lagareciii of tens TrciSht 9f the Article.

4, lB5l.

MINISTERIAL CRISIS.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TlRES.—There are people in the East, so at least
travellers say, who for a trifling gratuity will allow
themselves to be buried for a week, or a month, or a,
long as you have patience to wait, and who en being
dug out and warmed up will be as much alive as ever
they were. That is the very feat just exhibited in
Downing-street. For the benefit of her Majesty and
the British public a dozen statesmen have allowed them-
selves to be wrapped up end buried for eleven days,Oand
were yesterday exhumed, apparently not much the worse
for it. Where the feats are so similar it is not wonder-
ful that there should be some correspondence in the cir-
cumstances. In the case of the Eastern performers, it
somewhat detracts from the prodigy that they never
have been very much alive. It is, alter all, a torpid,
cold, and toad-like animation that they possess, and the 3
improve on the natural poverty of their constitutions b 3
the habit of holding their breath, and keeping as low as,
possible all their natural functions. Granting the feat
to be real, it is not the inhumation of a healthy and vi-
gorous man, with his lungs in full play, and his blood
leaping in his veins. Now, could the Whig Govern-
ment have suffered an eleven days' trance if it
had been enjoying healthful and vigorous vitality ?
It must have been reduced in condition, and
have been an adept at spontaneous collapse. We
are not told, nor is it likely, that the Ineian ori-
ginals come out of the grave stronger than they went in.
Can we expect mdre of our own conjurors? Have Lord
John Russell and his colleagues entered into a more po-
tential existence by having undergone the ordeal of
eleven days' annihilation ? The process has occasionally
been found a specific for preserving what life there was.
"To counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to
be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life
indeed." But that is the utmost a man can do by shut-
ting his eyes and holding his breath. When he gets up
and shakes himself he finds that he has the same aches
and pains, the same encumbrance of flesh and weakness
of lungs as ever he had. Whatever the exact nature of
this mysterious interregnum—whether the Cabinet was
frightened into hysterics by Mr. Locke King—whether
it had inhaled chloroform for an operation on the Ec-
clesiastical Titles Bill, or had been mesmerized by Mr.
Disraeli, there must be an equal absence of positive re-
sults, and the Cabinet must be the same thing this day
that it was immediately after the division on the county
101. householders. But the public are to suspend their
judgment to next Friday? Oa that day it appears we
are to have an entirely new start. The world began
again after the deluge, and the session is to begin
again after the "crisis, " which is supposed to
wash away all remembrance of the past. This is
taking life easy. The sun-dials say tempts
,fugit, but
her Majesty's Ministers flatter themselves that they can
arrest the flight of time, and let five weeks slip away
without any loss of position. But in order to bring us
back really to the very point we stood at this day month,
two things are necessary—first, that the past should be
forgotten; then that all the parties concerned should re-
turn to what they were. The first condition could easily
be fulfilled by reducing the preliminary session to a sort
of antedeluvian antiquity ; Mr. Locke King must class
with deinotheria, and Mr. Disraeli and his Irish brigade
find their places in the saurian family. A few fossils
must be all that remains of those portentous divisions
that drove Lord John to despair. Unhappily the crisis
will have no such Lethean power. The lessons read to
us during the past month are still fresh in the memory,
and will infallibly be acted on. If Lord John Russell is
more alive to his situation than he was at the beginning
of the session, so also are the Protectionists, the Peelites,
the Papists, and the Reformers. This is the second
round of a stand-up fight, and as the Government was
beaten in the first round, its chance is so much the
worse in the second. ,Unless we are very much mistaken,
none of these parties think that any claim has been esta-
blished on their gratitude or forbearance, for it is not the
habit of mankind—not, at any rate, of politicians—to lie
on the ground to be walked over by their rivals. In
Parliament, in particular, it is rare to find a morbid
taste for the Opposition side of the House. On the
whole, then, we venture to think that the experimental
session just ended will not be forgotten, or lost upon
faction. As little can we imagine that we all are what
we were a month ago. So, although the greatest cap-
tain of his age has been employed to give the word of
command, "As you were," we tear that obedience is im-
possible. The crisis has been graced with an unusual
display of sentiment, and some of its passages have
been really affecting. Compliments and condonations
have been freely exchanged; so, of course, all parties
are now expected to help in strengthening an Adminis-
tration which it turns out, by the process of exhaustion,
is the only possible one. The disappointed candidates
for power are told, " Sir, you have had your chance, and
you could make no use of it; so be generous, and give
us that strength which you cannot use for yourselves."
This argument may be logical, but we are not
so sure that it is founded in nature. As a matter
of fact, whether creditable or not, people are not
always anxious to assist their fortunate rivals. We ex-
pect a good deal of generosity of the feminine sort—
more forgiving than forgetting. Sir James Graham will
once more call Lord John Russell his " Noble Friend,"
but he will not forget that his Noble Friend has been
reduced to ask his assistance. Lord Stanley will not
forget that Lord John Russell has been nearly beaten
by the Protectionists in the Lower House, and is always
at their mercy in the Upper. Mr. Locke King will not
forget, though he live ten thousand years, that he has
beaten a Government by a majority of two to one. The
Roman Catholics will not forget that they hold the ba-
lance of parties, and can defeat Ministers on almost any
question they please. The Whigs, of course, would only,
be too glad to pass an act of oblivion, if it could be reci-
procal, but there are some considerable parties in the
Commons who have nothing whatever to do but to remem-
r, and whose memories have been sharpened to a pre-
ternatural accuracy. Aristotle describes the high-
minded man and the low-minded man, and very pro-
perly ascribes to the latter a long memory for disasree-
ables. But later moralists have detected that the virtues
of his high-minded man required some assistance from
fortune, and that his low-minded man was also some-
what the creature of adverse circumstances. A man
who can avenge himself soon makes a clean memory,
but a man who cannot is forced to keep long scores.
Shylock could relate a long list of civilities that had
doubtless escaped the recollection of the bestowers. His
memory, indeed, was somewhat painfully overcharged,
and longed for the opportunity of delivering its burden.
Lord John Russell's numerous enemies may perhaps
practise no other forbearance than that of the viudictive
Hebrew when he said—
" And for these courtesies
I'll lend you thus much monies."
How much is to be done next Friday ? All the mea-
sures far the session are to be reproduced, and the im-
provement is to be such as not only to make up for the
previous failure, but also to create a stock of character
for a falling Government. Lord John Russell is to have
sown his wild oats for the session, and is to be actually
better for that employment of so much valuable time.
If their measures are still to be selected and elaborated,
her Majesty's Ministers have to accomplish in three
days what they have failed to do in six months. There
are things, of course, which it is easier to do quickly
than slowly. To get through a quickset hedge, to
storm a breach, to take a dose of castor oil, or to snuff
out a candle with one's fingers, requires precipitancy
!either than deliberation; but in the present instance
there are some other parties concerned, who will possi-
bly not consent to be carried out of breath. When Lord
J. Russell asks Parliament to move the qnicker because
it has lost time, it will be likely enough to ask for whose
conveuience this is demanded, and what it is to expect
in return for this partial surrender of its deliberative
powers. His Lorthhip must not expect his credit to be
increased by his late stoppage. There is no second
lease of political confidence without additional claims to
it. If the Cabinet, as it now seems, is to consist of the
same men, it must present some decided improvement of
measures; otherwise we shall soon find ourselves as we
were a week ago.
CHRONICLE.—The long Ministerial interregnum
closes with a transition or tentative Ministry. The
same individuals who have held office for five years with
the general toleration of the country return to power as
being the most negative and neutral of parties, and
therefore exposed to the smallest amount of actual op-
position. Lord John Manners undertakes to promise
them the modified support of the, Protectionists on all
indifferent questions, though, perhaps, the Government
would set a higher value on his political engagements
on behalf of the Country Party, if he had not at the
same time constituted himself, with little modesty, and
without a shadow of reason or authority, the exponent
of "the universal feeling of gentlemen on his side of
the House." But, be this as it may, it cannot be doubted
that the House in general will be inclined to facilita'e
the operations of a Government which, for the time,
contrives to hold office by a sort of apparent
necessity. Having never wished to displace the
late Ministers, we cannot be unwilling to give them
even a more candid trial than their professed opponents
can offer them. It was in some degree because they
were blindly rushing upon destruction that we so strongly
censured the suicidal policy which was forced upon them
by their leader. Continuing steadily to denounce the
s
errors which we have hitherto denounced, we shall,naa
heretofore, abstain from any factious oppositions, to
Ministry which professes many sound principles,
sion, to carry them out in its practice.
which may, perhaps, intend, on some favourable
ludicrous
termination termination of the crisis had been foreseewnasince
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evening. Lord John Russell was then aware
Stanley's failure and his own tenacitysbe.
of the Roman consuls,
made any new combination impassible.
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to fear that the restoration of the late Government is but
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The cosubiennacteiwouentof circumstances which has frus-
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Ministry was,
and foreseen by Lord John Russell at the moment of his
trated all attempts at
resignation. Threats had recentlyt been held out that a
re Parliament would, in case of need, be
punishedrbv a dissolution; and the premature breakiint
up of the Administration was represented, by the special
partisans of the retiring Premier, as another form of a
similar policy. Lazy supporters were to be frightened
into activity, and uncertain adherents to be rallied into
the Whig ranks by the panic fear of losing their accus-
tomed leaders. On trial the experiment was found to
fail, although it proved, as was expected, that there was
still time to recall it. The Liberal };arty in the House
has had the opportunity of expressing a discontent and
distrust which have been greatly increased by the
wretched imbecility exhibited in an insincere with-
drawal from office, and by the new twist of the " Ag-
' gressiels" policy. Out of doors pot a single meeting

has been held, and scarcely an individual opinion has
been expressed, in favour of the recall of Lord John
Russell. A fortnight ago he was encumbered by his
no-Popery pledges, and by an unpalatable Budget. Ile
has now yielded to fear what he refused to reason, and
has mutilated even his frivolous and inoperative Aggres-
sion Bill. A better Budget may be contrived, but it
will be clogged with the recollection that it has been
forced upon those who propose it. A dissolving party
has been effectually shaken to pieces by the shock which
was to startle it into reunion. For every good purpose
the Ministry is weaker than when it was compelled to
resign by the forcible feebleness of its chief. In one re-
spect it is possible that it may be stronger in mere votes,
as a large body of the Protectionists seems likely to sup-
port it as being the most helpless and squeezeable of an-
tagonists; but support from opponents can only be pur-
chased by the suspicion and alienation of former adhe-
rents. There arc many Members who hay.) voted for the
Whig Government chiefly because it was threatened by
the numbers and the union of the Protectionists. But
if an understanding is established between the opposite
sides of the House, the advocates of progress and of free-
u-ade will feel themselves released from their allegiance.
Oa the whole, we are satisfied that no advantage to the
party will have been attained by the late resignation.
The injury to the country produced by this barren agi-
tation is sufficiently serious and evident. The freshness
of the session has already been wasted without any real
commencement of business. The Budget, and the
promised reforms of the law, are still to be produced, if
cot to be prepared. It was sufficiently vexatious that
the foolish Aggression disturbance should interrupt and

. anticipate the business of the country; but, thanks to
I Lord John Russell's management, even the No-Popery
chimera has still to be hewn into the shape which it is
dnally to assume. The egg, predestined to be addled, is
sot even yet deposited. Lord Stanley's plan, for shelving
the whole question in a Committee, may perhaps, after
all, be adopted, as a pledge of the new alliance. That it
is more statesmanlike than the blustering of the Durham
letter, and not more dishonest than the retrectation of
the pledges which were contained in that memorable
document, and which were virtually broken by the intro-
duction of the sham Aggression Bill, will be admitted
with little difficulty. But it will be well for Parliament
cautiously to consider the consequences of such a mode
,f escaping from a false position. As the blunder must,
sooner or later, be acknowledged and abandoned, it is
inadvisable to prolong the agitation by a process which,
after all that has taken place, must necessarily assume an
irritating and controversial character. Inquiry might
have been practicable before the Durham agitation; but,
After the appeals which have been made on both sides to
sectarian animosity, it could not possibly lead to profita-
ble results. Lord John Russell's characteristic inten-
tion of ascertaining from Archbishop Murray the maxi-
mum of persecution to which he is prepared to submit,
is fortunately not the only alternative. If a prudent
statesman could by possibility find himself involved in
the difficulties which Lord John Russell has contrived to
accumulate, it is by no means easy to say what course
he would adopt to relieve himself. But, at least, it may
be asserted that he would endeavour, if possible,
!o bring the discussion on Papal Aggression
to a close; nor, even if penal legislation was
altogether unavoidable, would he consult the
destined victims of his measure on its terms.
While we admit and applaud Archbishop Murray's
habitual loyalty and moderation, we can by no means
allow that his virtues should be considered in legislating
for the body to which he belongs. If he has been
threatened with injustice, the Bill would have been
equally unjust in its bearing on his turbulent colleague
of Tuam. Some surprise has been expressed at the
opinion declared, both by Sir James Graham and by
Lord Aberdeen, that although the proceedings connected
with the new hierarchy were offensive and insulting,
they ought not to be met by legislative action. Yet it
is scarcely the custom of England to reply to insolent
language by Acts of Parliament; nor will Lord John
Russell's mutilation of his Bill, in deference to
the objections of a favoured individual, meet
with the approval of sober-minded politi-
cians. Loyal subjects are entitled to no more
than justice, and troublesome brawlers to no less. It is
not difficult to perceive that the policy of the more am-
bitious portion of the hierarchy at present exactly cor-
responds with that of their most indignant opponents.
The wish of zealots to persecute scarcely outruns the
desire of their adversaries to be persecuted. In either
case the object will be attained by concentrating the
attention of Parliament and of the political world on
subjects alien from their proper occupations.
Since the return of the M;nistry to office, Lord
John Russell has already made a false step in his
Aggression policy. The second reading of the Bill
is to be proposed on Friday, in the form in which it
was originally laid on the table. But, as this is
one of those measures, the entire principle of which
is involved in its so•called " details" and as the most
material of these are confessedly objectionable, there is
an obvious impropriety in asking the House to suffer it
to pass through so important a stage, even with a pro-
mise that its provisions shall be altered in Committee.
The second and third clauses, as they stand at present,
are represented by their responsible author, however in-
accurately, as acts of gross oppression and persecution.
In consenting to vote for the mord reading the House will
be affirming propositions which have been already aban-
doned by the Minister as unjuttifiable. It would have
been better to introduce an amended Bill than to make
this new and unnecessary demand on the confidence of
en insulted ard imPutient Legislature. But it seems
fated that eta ry step in this labyrinth of blundering
shonldlesdto its own separate error.

LIERsieLD.—It is recorded in the annals of the French
Emil-ire, that when, about neon of that dry afterwards
immortalised by the victory of Marengo, the Austrian
columns had penetrated to the centre ef their position,
and defeat seemed well nigh inevitable, Nspolei n, asking
one of his moss crusted lieutenants " what he thought of
the battle?" received for answer, "tithe battle is already
lost; but there is time to win another before night."
lioeury tells us how prophetic were ties words of
General Desaix, end the anecdote has been preserved,
not so much, we imagine. on account of its importance
in irselt, as because it strikingly illustrates that general
law, applicable alike to politics and to war, to the con-
flict of arms and to the conflict of opinions, which tells
us that despondency in failure, or security in success, are
equally misplaced where accident and fortune so often
interfere to bring to pass the most unforeseen events,
and to disconcert the profoundest calculations. " Ce
qui arrive toujours c'est rinzprevu," and the last
ten days have furnished no exception to the rule.
Within that space a Government, feeble indeed
and disunited, nor possessing in any degree the
confidence of the country, but to which the
differences of its opponents and the general disorganiza-
tion of parties appeared likely to ensure a somewhat
longer duration of existence, has fallen in consequence
of no assault from without, but by an act of political
suicide. Within that space a statesman possessing un-
measured influence over the House of Lords, in the
Commons supported by a compact band of more than
250 followers, and backed up by all the weight and
power of the great agricultural interest. has been com-
pelled, after a struggle brief' in point if time, hut con-
ducted with ability end prudence, to which unwilling
justice has been done be his most determined cpno-
nents, to abandon for the present the ten rept to foam an
Administration. Net less mortifying, though far more
easily accounted for, was the failure of that third party,
the " trimmers" of our oge, who during five years have
arrogated to themselves, and undoubtedly have at
times possessed, the power of diclding the fate of
eloubtful questions is the Lower Douse of Parlia-
ment. When permitted to try their hands at the
work of Cabinet making, they found themselves un-
able to cnnecancl the assistance of a single indi-
vidual beyond the very narrow circle of their own
pesrtsroannagle, soutpepnoteftuelr sh.
singularity of all that went befere. In the dearth of
ietNoroyr" iosutthoef laketepsirt)aggewoitfh this
advisers, and amidst the chaos of parties, there has re-
appeared the name of one iliustrioue person, whose
actions in farmer days are inseparably connected
with the history of his country, but who new
to the public at large seemed as much
permanently removed from the political arena
as though gates of Westminster. Abbey lied already
opened tothe
receive the remains of the greatest of modern
generals. It was well worthy of that genuine and dis-
interested patriotism, which, even more than his military
glories, has distinguished the career of Wellington, that,
man
easniutnarteivdaucd, and ales now
at an age far more advanced than that of any other
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episodeboth sides, have been assigned for temporary ill-success.
Notwithstanding the Ministerial disclaimers (which, in-
deed, however emphatically delivered, hardly amount to
a denial), wo cannot reconcile it to reason or common
which seems
sense to believe that a Government like that over which
Lord John Russell presided was, or could be, driven,
we will not say from power, but from office, either by
the accidental minority on Mr. Locke King's motion, or
even by the more serious attack of Mr. Disraeli and his
friends. With respect to the first, it has been often re-
marked that the number of these who demanded an ex-
, tension of the franchise had not, in any the Brightest de-
gree, increased since last year; that, therefore, the move-
ment in itself was not one whit more formidable than
before, and that the real author of the 'Whig defeat was
the Piime Minister himself, who virtually gave in his
adherence to the principle which he professed for the
u-isEnt tieresist. It is nut wonderful that the steeditat
SUlipottets of Lis Government ehould have preferred go-
ing, quietly home to their dinners refli)or)tch,ao luoiteluteg
to speeches of no particular interest, t it
decided, nothing. Y 4
division. which meant, and which
hue, ing. It
',emus to us very natural that many
shouldmaVddin of lay objected
to record their votes at the. g the Premier
motion which, as he had told them,
against that very in •
they were n-xt year to be summoned up to support end
carry . threugh.
'Still. more flimsy is
en pretext put
for war
d in tho second place—to the effect that a majo-
rity of fourteen was not sufficient to enable
Ministers to
conduct the business of the country with success. For
it is notorious that out of the large number of Members
who went out into the Protectionist lobby, some, at
least, were influenced in their vote—uot by any conside-
ration founded on the merits of the question beiore them,
but purely by a desire to retaliate upon the Cabinet for
their conduct on the Anti-Papal Bill. The Permier
himself seemed conscious of the weakness of his ex-
cuse ; for he more than once repeated, that though
mither the one event nor the.other.weuld separately have

indueed him to resign, yet that the joint occurrence
of the two had left him no alternative. Plausible as this
defence may be, it is hardly sound; for a far shorter ex-
perience than that of Lord John Russell might have
told him, that although neither Radicals nor Protec-
tionists might approve, abstractedly, of his Government,
yet that a permanent union between two such discordant
parties for the purpose of turning,him out was, to the
last degree, improbable. And if so distant an approach
to defeat as was implied in the division lists of the 13th
of last month were held sufficient to justify—or, rather,
to render necessary, a resignation—(for no Minister has
a right to abandon his post so long as it is tenable con-
sistently with honour)—we should very much like to
hear upon what principle the Whig Cabinet—composed,
for the most part, of the same individuals—of 1839 is
to be vindicated from a charge of gross and
unjustifiable adherence to the emoluments long
after it had ceased to wield the authority of
Government. The obstinate indifference to de-
feat, exhibited ten years ago, contrasts oddly, to say the
least of it, with the very remarkable delicacy now dis-
played. The real fact, then, unl-ss we greatly mistake,
is thi—Lord John Russell, with a divided Cabinet,
having given promises which be could not ptstibly fulfil,
and seeing before him difficulties which he durst not
face, slipped out of the dilemma in the easiest, if not
the meet dignified, manner, leaving to his successors
the task of piloting the ship through the breakers,
among which, under his guidance, she had all but gone
to wreck. It is, we think, Fentenelle, who, describing
the position of a friend who had contrived to involve
himself in a very serious serape, thus relates the
method of his extrication:—"ll s'en tira en herniae
habile. Savez vous ce qu'il fit ? Il mourut." After the
same fashion Lord John Russell has thought it better
to cut short his political career with his own hand
than—although not for the first time—to undergo the
humiliation and the pain consequent on a repetition of
such scenes as attended the long agony, and preceded the
reluctant dissolution of the Melbourne Ministry. Pro-
bably the impartial historian of later days will decide,
that as on one occasion the Whig leaders protracted the
struggle too long, so on the other they gave it up too
soon. But if we could believe that their conduct on the
presentoccasheh had been prompted only by ajust, though
tardy recognition of their incompetence to govern, or by
a sudden discovery that the public had grown weary of
their continuance in office, we should be the last to visit
with severity so amiable a weakness. But we believe the
case to be quite otherwise. Undeniably critical as was the
position of the Ministry, little as they were loved abroad,
and less respected at home, we doubt whether popular
indignation, or even popular contempt, would have
operated so strongly upon their sense of shame as to
lead them, unless some other more potent influence had
been at work, to quit those seats which, once occupied,
are ever so reluctantly abandoned. In one word—we
believe the Whig resignation to have been a clever, but
not very creditable manoeuvre, got up on the sudden,
partly in order to entrap the Protectionist party into a
premature trial of their strength, partly to show to the
country the impossibility of doing without a set of men
of whom it had begun to evince most unequivocal signs
of distrust, and partly to effect a junction, at the ex-
pense of three or four of their own incapables, with such
men as Lord Aberdeen and Sir James Graham. That
the " dodge"—we really can give it no more dignified
name—has not benefited its contrivers is already obvi-
ous: that it has not injured those against whom it was
directed we shall shortly endeavour:to show.
DAILY NEWS.—The worst of all revolutions, say
the French, is a restoration. There are many who will
apply the remark to the Ministerial crisis having re-
sulted merely in the return of the old Ministry to office.
For the friends of the Whigs were as anxious for a reno-
vation of the dead parts of the Administration as their
foes could be. But the unreadiness of any and of all
parties, either in Opposition, or semi-Opposition, to meet
the religious and financial difficulties of the moment, has
rendered a change of Ministry impossible, and a modifi-
cation, for the present, equally difficult. This is deeply
to be regretted for the financial interests of the country,
which required at once the grasp of a bold, and a steady,
and an experienced hand. All the great men who ever
took a comprehensive view of the financial condition of
the empire, included the condition of India and its re-
venues in their survey. Sir Robert Peel did so especially
when ho first introduced the income-tax. But the result
of a syncope at present in financial legislation will be
to adjourn all questions relative to India, not merely for
a year but twenty years ; in other words, adjourn re-
form for an entire generation. Law reform will no
doubt share the fate of financial reform. Whilst the
colonies, which have watched witi anxiety the meeting
of the Legislature, some of which had sent delegates to
represent their case, and all of which expected impor-
tant resolutions from the Minister—all these colonial
expectations will be disappointed; and the most unsatis-
factory answers will go abroad to our foreign depen-
dencies that England has been two much occupied by its
Crystal Palace, and too much put out of its way by Dr.
Wiseman's impertinence, to be able this year to give
consideration or relief to its colonies. The questions,
however, which have come to predominate over all others
are those of the Papal pretensions and of Ireland. For
it is impossible not to see that they have become blended
and entangled together, and that the one aggravates the
other to a most painful degree. Now, however, we had de-
sired to see this Ministerial crisis result in the admission
of the successors and disciples of Sir Robert Peel to the
management of our domestic finances, and of those of
India—and whilst, at the same time, we could not deem
any Cabinet entitled to the confidence of the people in
preparing a measure of electoral reform, until some
Members of the great Reform party were called to the
councils of that Cabinet—we all along have held aid do
still maintain tte opinion, that on questions of religious
tolerance and equality, and on the measures which, fur
the sake of pub is liberty and peace, should be intro
duced for the regulation and restriction of racer:iotal
power and station, the le? is no statesman so fully entitled
to the confidence of liberal men as Lord John Russell,
We should consider it most fatal to entrutt such a ques-
tion as the present to Ltrd Stanley. Indeed, his pro-
posal to shelve it, either by empty resolution, or by a
commission, which would terpetuate inquiry, and with
inquiry, religious irritation, of these proposals, the one
is too illusory, the other tooinsane, to be discussed. Great
as is our respect. for Mr. Hume cod Mr. Cobden, we do not
think it would be for either their advantage or that of the
question, to entrust it to them. We well know what
undermined the old utilitarian party in this country, and
what completely Marred the popularity that might have
been attained by Benham, and Bowring, and Roebuck.
And we know of nothing that could prove more fatal to
that now enlarged, invigorated, and promising party of
popular men, than that they should come before the
nation with a line of policy, and with arguments to sup-
port it, that could render it possible to accuse them,
even falsely, of religious indifference. If we deprecate,
for a world of reasons, Laving this religious question in
the hands of either Lord Stanley or of the Radicals, we
have equal repugnance to entrust it to Lord Aberdeen
and Sir James Graham. Their view of it is, in the first
instance, a cowardly one. They evade the difficulty
by avoiding and throwing it over altogether. The
meerest schoolboy could solve any State difficulty in
the -same way—that is, not solve it at all, but leave
it to assume strength, and return to be grappled with
under far greater disadvantages. Besides, looking
back to the past career of these politicians, we find
that they are the very men who caused and aggravated
this quarrel with Rome. All must recollect the Bill
which the Whigs brought in for establishing diplomatic
relations with Rome. It was highly pleasing to the
Pope and hiscardinals, and, had it passed, would have
led to an amicable understanding. It pleased, however,
Lord Eglinton to introduce an amendment, forbidding
:
the Pope to send here any ecclesiastics as envoys. This
was turning the compliment me) an affront, and, not
merely an affront to the Pope, but a cause of disgust to
the cardinals and members of the Papal Court. Yet
who was the chief speaker its favour of that amendment?
Who carried it by his vehemence against the Whigs?
Lord Aberdeen. Nosy had the original Bill passed with-
out the arnendtnent, this Papal aegreesion never would
have taken pities., for then the Papel envoy must have
consulted the Briiisli Government. The true, the original
cause of our present embarrassment is no other, therefore
than Lord Aberdeen. Mr. Gladstone' too, supported,
the amended Bill. And as to Sir James Graham, he
took as little notice of it as he did of the first reading of
the present Bile And it is now this very party, this
very Lord Aberdeen, who denied to the Pope the privi-
lege of being represented in this country, ho it is that
comes clamouring
torial titles to papal delegates. He indulges is the
theatrical exaggeration of coupling Lord John and the
Bull with Calvin's burning Servetus, and the Duke of
Alva decimating the Protestants of the low country.
Were not this the merest twaddle, we should call it the
language of disappointed faction. Men such as these,
who can blow hot and cold on the same question, who
drive their opponents into errors of which they take ad-
vantage to trip them up, whilst effectiug anxiety to re-
lieve them—these are not men to whom could be en-

trusted the raja of providing the security of the coun-
try and the dignity of the Sovereign against Papal aggres-
sion. As far, therefore, as legislation in religious matters
may become the duty of Parliament, we pin our faith
far more in Lord John Russell than in any living states-
man. There are many politicians who might undertake
with more vigour or effect other branches of administra-
tion. There may be Prime Ministers more conciliatory,
more comprehensive, less entangled in the network of
family connexion. A leading statesman with a character
to make,
may be more bold than one who has accom-
plished s long and not inglorious career. But for con-
ducting the government and legislature of the country
through the mazes of its contending sects,
maintaining
the great principle of toleration, advancing that of
equality, reprcsairg the clamours of the fanatic,
discountenancing the arrogance of the high
priest, there is no one whom sve could put
a par tith the Member for the City naLondou. If
wen look farthar and closer than the matter imme-
diatelye
under Parliamentary consideration; f w
airier how the caw() of Protestantism and religiouscon-
sider
freedom is to be best strengthened against, the constitu-
tional and argumentative hostility of Rome; if we think
how be; oar Universities can be purged of superan-
nuated bigotry, and rendered eflic;ent for tho education
of Protestant- youth ond of the Protestant clergy; how
best the groat positions of the Church are to be pre-
served from those Posnyite priests who, having sold
themselves to Rattle, hesitate to go over till they can
bring their fled:a too—if we desire this, bu desire it
unaccompanied by reaction, or persecution, or injustice,
then mny we hail the continuance of Lord John Russell
in that pest, in which the confidence of the Sovereign
has placed him, and where even the late political earth-
quake has left him standing.

Old injuri.,!s are seldom cancelled by new benefits.
—Eliza Cook's Journal.
A meting of the Finance
—ntamittee of the Royal
Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 was held yester-
(s4y at the building in Hyde-park. There wereAresent
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