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lierg, on return from Lucknow and Cawnpore, by Gen.
Sir W. F. Williams.
Lieut. E. L. Trevor, by the Marquis of Downshire.
The Hon. Henry Walpole, by the Rfght Hon. Spencer
Walpole.
Lieut. E. J. Walker, on appointment to the Royal
Artillery, by Major Walker.
Lieut. S. Waring, by the Marquis of Downshire.
Capt. F. T. Whinyates, on appointment to the Royal
Horse Artillery, by Colonel Binghadi..
Lieut.-Colonel Hindley Wilkinson promotion, by
the Marquis of Domelike.
Ensign C. C. Wilson, by Lord George -Lennox.
Ensign Winkworth, by Colonel thiMarquis of Down.
shire.

Mr. Wm. Rayner Wood, by Viscount Palmerston.
Mr. Bertie Williams Wynn, by Field-Marshal Vis-
count Combermere.

GOVERNMENT PROSECUTIONS OF THE

PRESS.

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you by and bye." (Cheers.) He wished .EU.-d‘stafa3o/1
publicly his conviction of the entire innocence#
Dr. Bernard. The jury would have disgraced'thdine---t,-.47-7-'77
selves for ever if they had consigned his honourable
client to a scaffold. (cheers.) He had. attended'.
Mr. SlaCk'S lecttire with: a- view to borrow soiled- ,
thing for the defence of Mr. Truelove. He should .!
discharge his duty fearlessly and conscientiously ;
and he had no doubt the jury would' do the same.
(Loud cheers.) •
Thanks were voted to the chairman, and suitably 7
acknowledged.
Dr. BERNARD' being loudly called for, briefly- -
thanked the audience for the good feeling expressed .
in his behalf. He observed that there were .two
parties in England, as everywhere else ; but_ he was )
glad to find that the loveri of fisedoin were muck
the most powerful. He publicly thanked Mr. Jeer
for his able advocacy of his cause. If meetings like -
this were held all over the country, the liberty of
Mr. Truelove would be secured. (Cheers.),

THE P.ALMEBSTONLAN ORGANS.

(From the Morning Star.)
The journals which do the work of the official
Whigs are in an uncomfortable dilemma: The' -
Globe, the Observer, and the • Post have sworn a
hundred times that a Derby Administration is itri- •
possible, and. that Lord Palmerston is the only -
Statesman and the only Minister ; and yet, all the
facts before us, and before them too, demonstrate,
beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Lord Derby__
is in .office, whilst Lord Palmerston is in oppo-
sition with a personal following every day, dimi-
nishing in number. A glimpse of this unpleasant -
fact is breaking in upon some of our .contempos
raries, and leading articles and correspondence
are admitted which show the general irritation
that pervades the Whig system. In politics, as
in medical' practice, it is important that the oom. -
plaint should be undPrstood before a remedy can
le hopefully employed : we greatly fear that in.
the case before us the malady is not compre-
hended, and that the true prescription is; as yet,
unwritten. • .
It is assumed that the dislocation Of tbe •f i great -
Liberal party" is to be traced solely, or mainly, to
a personal question between Lord Palmerston and
Lord John Russell, and to the rival ambition a
those prominent members of the Whig ranks. It
is remembered, as indeed it cannot be forgotten,
that, in 1851, Lord John Russell dismissed Lord

A lecture was deliVered last evening 'at St.
Martin's-hall, by Mr. Ns J. SLACK, barrister-at-
law, in aid of the fund which has been established
for the defence of Mr. Truelove, Mr. Tchorzewski,
and others who may be prOceeded- against in like
manner. The committee, originally formed for the
defence of the two gentlemen above-named, state
that they have reason to fear that other prosecu-
tions are contemplated by the Government ; they
have, therefore, resolved themselves into a Press
Prosecution Defence Comenittee ; and their efforts
will be directed to the protection oft such
persons (being prosecuted for offences • in•
volviug the liberty of the press) whOse case
shall upon consideration be- deemed .-worthy
of suppoe. The object of the committee is
not merely to protect individuals from the oppress
sion of prosecutions conducted with the weight and
authority of the crown, having at its disposal the
purse-string of the nation to oppose to the slender
means of a private citizen ; but they deem it a pub-
lic duty to intervene, lest the sacred principle of
the liberty of the press should suffer in the persons
thus made the subjects of state prosecutions.
Mr. P. A. TAYLOR having been voted to the
chair, said the subject was one which excited a deep
feeling in all classes. Every true Englishman would
agree that it was the right of the people freely to
discuss and declare their opinions respecting the
overthrow of tyranny and the establishment of
liberty in any country. (Cheers.)
Mr. SLACK said the attacks of government on the
press were new to the present generation, and his
object was, by means of his lecture, to inform the
public of what had been done in past days. He
claimed the fullest right of fair and full di-cussien
for every citizen ; and if the right of discussion was
conceded at al', the right to discuss a sutject in all
is bearings followed. Since the bad days of the
Georgian era, under the Sidmeuth and Castlereagh
1 regime, this right had been unquestioned ; but the
government prosecution of two beoksellei s had re-
cently created alarm. He trusted the juries on those
cases would do their duty as fearlessly as the jury
had done in a late case. (Loud cheers.) He as-
serted the right to discuss questions relating, to re-
bsllion, revolution, and tyrannicide. Unless this
wero niaint tined, we should sink into a silence as
deep, as dark, and as fatal as that which prevailed
on the continent. (Hear, hear.) The ancients, who
abhorred assassination as much as ourselves, praised
tyrannicide. Even the Old Testament was full of
examples of tyranuticide ; the book of Judges con-
tained so many that he wondered the despots of
Europe bad not, forbidden the reading of it in
church .s. (Cheers.) It was monstrous that an effort
should be male to prevent the people from as-
certainin, how tar the examples there recorded
were applicable in our own times. The lecturer
then quoted nunark:able casts of tyranuicide in
Grecian and Roman history, and introduced Lord
Denman's version of the celebrated ono of Calisra.-
fm, which was rec.ived with great enthusiasm.
Sbakspeare concurred in the admi, atiost of tyran-
nicide, as shown by his character of Brutus ; so did
Akeoside, in his " Pleasures of the Imagination."
With these great examples before us, were we to
be precluded from investigating any case that oc-
curred, simply because it was notagreeable to regal
ears ? (Herr.) Good sovereigns did not fear such
discussions; it was only the bad ones who were in
danger, and they only sinnetimes. The same doc-
trine was taught by the Right Hon. B. Disraeli,
-Mier Majesty's Chancellor of the Emoli..g.npr, who
said in one of his works :
" B!e,,see, be the hand that dares to widi
The regicidal steel that shall redeem
A nation's suffering with a tyrant's blood."
(Cheers.) The lecturer then referred to the case
of Orsini, and the conduct of the Emperor of France
(Louis Bonaparte, as he called hien) with regard to
the late Roman republic, and contended that he
had forfeited any claim to allegiance from the
Italians by robbing them of their freedom. Vattel
laid it down that the oppressed were always at war
with their oppressors. No wonder that the blood
of the Italians boiled at their injuries, and that
their oppressors were afraid. (Cheers.) If modern
tyrants were without remorse they had at least
their fears. Let England tell Louis Bonaparte to
leave our booksellers alone—(cheers)—and if he
sought safety from Italians, let him restore them
their liberties. Aristotle, whi!e denouncing tyrants,
pow • ted out the means which they took to uphold
themselves—as not suffering meetings, executing
great works in order to keep the people well em-
ployed, multiplying taxes, and enr]eavouring to
enrage their subjects in war. (dear, hear.) Mon-
tesquieu, Locke, Beccaria, and Dr. Thos. Brown,
all justified violent means for getting rid of
tyranny ; but violence was the last necessity of a
righteous cause ; tyrannicide was an act of polirical
surgery, only to be resorted to when milder means
failed. Tie Church of England had triad in vain
for two cecturies to make a martyr out of a tyrant;
but Cromwell had his monument in the people's
hearts, if not in Westminster Abbey. (Cheers.)
The alleged libels now prosecnted by the Govern-
ment were innocent compared with some letters
that had appeared in a daily paper under the signa-
ture 'of "An Englishman." These letters were
not prosecuted ; but Mr. Truelove and Mr. Tchor-
zewski were prosecuted because they were poor
booksellers, keeping small shops. (Cheers.) The
reas'u was that Louis Bonaparte's power was not
then secure ; now that the tyranny was consolidated,
such publications were prosecuted. But our liberties
would never be safe until public opinion was pre-
pared to intet•diet such prosecutions altogether. Our
foreign policyhad been to bully the weak and crouch
to the strong ; and the same policy was adopted in
the selection of victims for prosecution. (Hear.)
There was in reality no greater liberty of the press
by law, in England than in Morocco, but for pub-
lic opinion the press might at any time be
crushed beneath judge-made law. How often it oc-
curred that innocent persons were ruined by the
necessary costs of their defence ? (dear, hear.)
The lecturer then detailed the circumstances of the
prosecution against Peltier, and contended that
the Emperor of France ought to have been left to
institute his own prosecution against the poor re-
fugGe and the bookseller ite the Strand. (Cheers.)
It was profoundly melancholy to see our govern-
ment lending a helping hand to a successful tyrant
and to know that two of our countrymen had been
suffered to lie for months iu• a Neapolitan dungeon
because our government was in alliance with con-
tinental despots. (Cheers.)
Mr. NICOLAY moved a vote of thanks to the lec-
turer, and. alluded to Mr. Edwin James, who was
in the room. This was the signal for a burst of
enthusiastic cheering, and there were loud calls for
" Mr. James." The learned gentleman complied,
by advancing, and taking his seat on the platform,
when another ovation was bestowed on him.
The CHAIRMA.N, in putting the vote, said there
was truth enough in the lecture for a hundred libels.
(Cheers.) The strangest passages had been cheered
by every one present ; he could only say they were
a pretty good party for the Old Bailey. (Cheer..)
He did notbelieve that the government would. dare
to press these prosecutions, but meantime
as
necessary to provide a sufficient defence Bring,
The The vote of thanks was carried with
and suitably acknowledged
Mrb sr. 'Bernard was
kf.lcileering,
A gentleman having stated that _
present, he was alsocalled forwardiaatnfod
rcinlamheowuraor:llyy
cheered. On appe wring on theli
shook hands with his advocate, Mr. James, and
took a seat by his side. aislareanoliwteide
Mr. E JANEES rose,
taillet.hancleressariidnghwe
and kept up
wesuch an ovat'on. Next to the
thought of receivingf.3)aviin7 discharged his duty as r.n
consciousness of
advocate courageou,. yaud conscientiously, the good
feeling of the English people was the approbation
be raostpriz..d. (Gneers.) He had rejected a retainer
from the Crown in the late prosecution, because he
beiievcd that an obsolete act of Parliament was
sought to bo put in force to please a foreign despot.
lie believed that the verdict on that occasion was
justified by every principle of law, justice, huma-
nity, and tight. The j wises had never dared to tell
the jury on what an obsolete law it was sought to
sacrifice Dr. Bernard's life. He hoped English
juries would never submit to be told by judges,
" You find the facts, and what the law is we'll tell

Palmerston from office in consequence of his cone
duct in connection with the coup' d' Hat in Paris ;
that, in 1852, L rd Palmerston tripped up the Go-
vernment of Lord J. Russellon the question of the •
militia ; that, in 1855, Lord J. Russell was
Lent to Vienna on a grave diplomatic mission-,
and is believed to have been treated by Lord
Palmerston with an unfairness akin to treachery
in relation to it ; that the famous resolu-
tion
on the Conspiracy Bill, moved by Mr.
Milner Gibson, and which destroyed Lord
Palmerston's Administration, was supported by
Lord J. Russell ; and tha: the chance of a restora-
ton of the Palmerston dictatorship has been much
diminished by the moderate and judicious course
taken by Lord John Russell with regard to the
proposed legislation for India. And, remembering
all thin, it is not at all surprising that an estrange-
ment should exist between political leaders .who,
for seven years past at least, are supposed to have
employed themselves in the amiable task of sup-
planting each other. We admit the facts. These
chiefs of the Whig party have long been rivals.
They have sought to compass each other's political
annihilation ; they have probably not been very
scrupulous in their dealings with one another, and
they' are now, not rivals only, but enemies.
If we or the pubic could have any doubt on this
matter, our centemp raries can have none. They
know what has b:en the conduct of the Whig press
towards Lord John Russet!, and whence, in their
treatment of him, they have drawn their inspira-
tion. In a recent article we dealt with the con-
duct and the motives of the Times, the Advertiser,
and the .Post. We tracked their editors to the
dinieg-rooms and the glittering salons of the most
eminent members of the late Government, and
showed how their patrio`ism was influenced by
the blandishments which the titled and the.

great have, in all times, known how to lavish_
upon their depraved and c:livenient tools. Let
us add to this list of journalists the conductors of
the Globe and the Observer. They have been, for

many years, the humble servitois of Lord pal-
meraton. Whether they have been admitted to
the Paradise of Cambridge House or not, we do
net are to inquire. They may have preferred
something mere substantial, if less flattering ; and
solid pudding may be more to their taste than
compliments and empty praise. Do not let
us be toll that it was natural for the Whig press
to support Lord Palmerston, the leader of the -
Whiss. These journals supported him when he
was not the leader' of the Whigs, and depre-
ciated and assailed Lord John Russell, who
was their acknowledged chief. For many years
past, the London Whig newspapers, with the •
exception, perbai s, of the Daily News and the
Examiner, have taken sides with Lord Palmerston
and against Lord John Russell. The Morning
Chronicle, under Sir John Easthope, was not a
Whig so much as a Palmerston organ, and its pro-
prietor became a baronet. Aud it is impossible to
review the course of the journals writing profess-
edly in the interest of the Whig party without
coming to the conclusion that they have been con-
nected
with Lord Palmerston by some other tie
than that of au honest approval of his career, and
by soma influence which he and they have suc-
ceeded in concealing from the public. Doubtless
Lord J. Russell has observed this. The fierce attacks
of the 'Times, the feebler hatred of the Post, the
coat se hostility of the Advertiser, the flippant inso-
lence of the Globe, and the dull malice of the
Observer, have not passel unnoticed ; and the
source of all this as not been unsuspected or un-
known. Can it then be a matter of surprise that
between Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston
there is a chasm which every day is making wider
and deeper—a chasm which no art of journalism
and no necessities of party can bridge over ?
Admitting the existence of this estrangement,
we are not, however, prepared to admit that it is
the sole or the main cause of the dislocation of the
"great Liberal party." There is another cause
which it does lot suit the official Whigs or their
organs of the pres to acknowledge. The Reform
Bill brought a new power in the House of Com-
mons, which is now about to make itself heard
and felt. For a quarter of a century the emolu-
ments and the authority of office have been shared,
as of old, between the two parties into which the
ari,tocratic and territorial families have divided
themselves. The members for the great towns have
been content, or compelled, to support the Whig
Cabinets from a want of po A er to assert and assume
the position to which their numbers and the interests
they represent, had. entitled them to aspire to.
From the great triumph of the Whigs on the
passing of the Reform Bill up to the dissolution of
the late Government, we have seen almost the same
men and the same names in every Whig Ministry—
Russell, Palmerston, Grey, Wood, and Labouchers
in one House ; and Lansdowne, Clarendon, and
Granville in the other. However groat their failure
up to 1841, we find them again, their days of puri-
fication ended, fresh for office in 1846. However
weak and worthless their career up to 1852, they
are statesmen without rivals in 1853 ; and notwith-
standing a war needlessly begun, disgracefully con-
ducted, and concluded without result, they con-
tinue, in the main, our rulers up to 1858. The
whole "Liberal party," the 400 members..wh_f
profess to be Liberal have not approorotik(2
all this. One half of diem, at least, v
disgust, based have
on with regret or with
wished for a change. A countryo
b cannotot the go,,
an
Statesman-
Woods end
tem-
perate wisdom of Lordwith
ship was not born
be a toy for the
England is not alwaysotwtoill not expire with them.
Laboucheres ; and i tijbeinGsrdeYs, and .
gratifica-
tion of Lord Russell or Lord Palmerston,
arlity: wfoirll
its
so
ownl onge Monger
treatbe ledn,atdiooncilsel Lig
• ts but to su nc
bserve the ambition of a few
.lieannell,aglgiri:iat,itg!)
to whom has come down as a prey
the industry, the resources, and
the renown
great nation. The Whig fami-
lies gn eo
oft
of
aof the people. They use the
itahnae
illeelei t a
people but do not go wth them. They offer
Parleinientary leaders to the "great Liberal party,"
but refuse t) lead toward the objects of that party.
In this consists the real cau e of the dislocation of
the existing Parliamentary Opposition, and not in
the quarrel between Lord Palmeraton. and 1 ord
John Russell. A Derby Government may be
impossible, and the Whigs may return to power,
but an Administration, composed. of old 'Whigs and
old names, and working but for old objects, will
only follow the course and meet with the fate of ita
predecessors. It will be weak because it will be
dishonest, and it will,: speedily fall because it will
be despised.

COLOMBO, March 29.—HerMajesty'e ship Chesapeake
has succeeded in recovering the shaft of the Alma and
much of the specie that went down in the wreck of the
Ava. The steamer Australasian is refitting at Trine°.
malee. The Columbian arrived at Galle on the 20th
instant, Fringing details of the 92d Regiment,,wbo were
subs, quently taken on to Bombay in the steamer Italian.
By this opportunity we received English news to the
16th of February, and via Bombay we have intelligence
to the 20th. The Maria Soantes arrived at Gaffe op the
221 with recruits for the Honourable East India Com
parry's army. The steamer Jason, With 22 officers and
1,003 men, reached Galley esterday.