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EAST INDIA HOUSE, 1817 FEBRUARY, 1853.
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TILE DEFEAT OF THE MINISTRY.

The resignation of Lord Palmerston's Govern-
ment was much discussed on Saturday as a proba-
ble contingency, as soon as the public had an
opportunity of perceiving the importance of the
decision of the previous night. As a fact, however,
it was not known until yesterday morning, when it
was announced in the leading Sunday papers. The
Observer contained the following statement :
"The government of Lord Palmerston is at an
end. At the Cabinet .Council, which assembled
yesterday (Saturday) at 4 o'clock, Lord Palmerston
took the opinion of his colleagues, which was given
unanimously, and without hesitation, and he pro-
ceeded to the palace, where he laid his resignation
in the hands of the Queen, and be returned to his
colleagues, who sat in deliberation for an hour
after his return. Of course it is impossible to know
what passed in the presence of the Queen—but we
believe that it is protty well understood that Lord
Palmerston will announce to-morrow to the House
of Commons, and the same announcement will be
made in the House of Lords, that the Ministers
only hold office until their successors are appointed.
We believe it will be at once acknowledged that no
other course was open to Lord Palmerston and his
colleagues. It was not merely the vote of the
house, but the manner and tone of the debate, that
rendered it impossible for them to take any other
course than that of instant and unconditional resig-
nation."

Lord Palmerston arrived at the palace shortly
before 5 o'clock. His interview with the Queen
was brief, and we believe his lordship departed
from the ordinary practice of retiring Premiers in
not advising his Sovereign as to the quarter in
which she might best apply to find a successor to
office. Her Majesty, whose constitutional know-
ledge could dispense with the aid thus withheld,
sent for the Earl of Derby, and appointed an inter-
view with him after divine service yesterday morn-
ing. The result of the interview, with its sequel,
will be authentically stated to-night in Parliament.
No doubt is felt that, little as Lord Derby is
inclined to undertake the toils and cares of office,
for the sake of his credit, as the head of a party,
he must now seriously exert himself to construct a
government. In the Tory camp hope and fear
mingle and alternately prevail. Many high offices
in the state were readily allotted yesterday by the
more speculative Conservatives. Lord Malmesbury
would take charge of the Foreign-office, where his
intimate friendship with the Emperor of the French
it is thought would prove useful, not to speak of his
experience in that department. Lord Ellen borough's
special knowledge of India would qualify him for
the Presidentship of the Board of Control, if he
were not wanted for td.r3 Ministry of War, which
s um) assign to him and others to Lord Stratford de
Re:knife. In these arrangements the Privy Seal is
given to Lord St. Leonard,t, and Sir Fre lerie
Thesiger is made Lord Chancellor.
Appointments such as these are easily made ;
the real difficulty is to get an administration which
shall be able to make a figure in the House of
Commons. Everything here turns upon the deci-
sion of Mr. Gladstone, the only member of the Peel
party of whom the Tories have any hope. The aid
of Mr. Cardwell and Mr. S. Herbert, it is under-
stood, is not to be obtained ; but with Mr. Glad-
stone to lead the House of Commons, the experi-
ment of a conservative cabinet would be made.

Meanwhile, the personal friends of Lord Palmer-
ston do not speak of him as out of the field. Their
language implies a belief that he is inevitable ; that
his sudden resignation will demonstrate for a few
days the helplessness of the Queen and country
without his aid, and that afterwards he will be
summoned back with acclamations to pass a Con-
spiracy Bill, or any other which he may choose. If
such were his lordship's thoughts, his conduct in
declining to recommend an adviser to the Queen
would be partly explained.
The result of the division of Saturday morning
was instantly telegraphed to Paris and the princi-
pal capitals of Europe.

MANCHESTER, FEB. 20.
There has been a strong feeling existing here
against the Conspiracy Bill ; but, after the ap-
parent subserviency of a majority of the Com-
mons to the Government manifested in the divi-
sions on that and the India Bill, people were taken
by surprise this morning, when. the electric tele-
graph told the defeat of ministers. Even many of
the admirers of Lord Palmerston, and supporters
of his government, have ill brooked the taunts they
were compelled to heir, respecting the craven sprit
indicated by the policy of their party; and the more
so, because, during the late war, they boasted much
of their patriotism. Such men have felt much diffi-
culty in squaring their old pride in the protection
hitherto given to foreign refugees, and indepen-
dence of foreign dictation, with their allegiance to
party, and the Manchester Examiner thus expresses
this feeling in the following remarks on the result
of the debate :—" Wo cannot altogether wonder at
the result of this debate ; for English liberals
may well be aroused to anger against any
foreign government which endeavours to make us
ent
give up that right of asylum of which they are so
justly proud ; and we must confess that we should
have heard
o
f withpari
jasmatnisnfta,cttiohiet
gtiolavte,rnm had prior to the
re-
plied with spirit to Count Walewski's despatch."
Of course, to the friends of the late members for
Manchester the announcement was the source of
great satisfaction.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SATURDAY NIGHT.
The intelligence of the defeat of the ministry last
night in the House of Commons upon Mr. Milner
Gibson's amendment to Lord Palmerston's Alien
Bill has caused immense excitement in this great
district all day, as nearly all classes of persons were
bitterly opposed to Lord Palmerston in bringing in
the measure, and allowing Count Walewski's des-
patch to go unanswered. Combined with the
pusillanimous conduct of the government in the
case of Watt and Park, the t o unfori unate New-
castle men who have been so tortured by the Nea-
politan government, the re-action against Lord
Palmerston is somewhat awful. In the present
temper of the people,
if au election were occurring,

none of the north country borough members who
have supported LordPalmerstoli's bill would stand
even the least chance of being returned. A public
meeting has been called for Tuesday night ; and
the best evidence of the condition of opinion is the
fact that the first name that is attached to
the requisition calling the meeting is the vener-
able Dr. Headlam, who for a great number of years
was tho leader of the Liberals, and that every
Liberal paper in the town and district have indig-
nanlly repudiated Lord Pa?m.?rston's conduct in
b.inging in the bill.

NORWICH, SATURDAY.
The defeat of Lord Palmerston on his pet French
Colonels Bill has been the great topic of conversa-
tion here to-day. It is felt that the verdict of the
House of Commons, that his lordship has been
wanting to the national honour, is one which his
reputation cannot survivo, especially as the Jury,
so to speak, was one most favourable to him, and
may almost be said to have been impannelled by
himself. The old cry of " conspiracy" cannot be of
any service to the Government in this case.

NOTTINGHAM, SATURDAY.
The news of the defeat of this bill was received
in this town to-day with unqualified satisfaction,
men of nearly all shades of political opinion viewing
with dislike this despotic and un-Euglish measure.

SHEFFIELD, SATURDAY.
The defeat of the Government is here regarded
with general satisfaction. Astonishment is ea-
pc that a statennan of Lord Palmerston's pro-
fessions should havetAso committed himself as to
introduce thrt_•onAtrapy sin and support it with
spaeChei in praXicof a despotic Government. A
meeting against the bill is announced to take place
Monday, and, if not countermanded in consequence
of this news, will be very large and influential.

OXFORD, SLTURDAY.
The true English feeling of the House of Com-
mons in throwing out the Conspiracy to Murder
Bill, on Friday night, was an agreeable surprise to
the Oxonian, and this feeling was fully partici-
pated in by the farmers and country people attend-
ing the market on Saturday. Mr. Langston's vote
for the un-English bill of Lord Paltnerston has
given great offence to his constituents of all classes.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.
The news of the defeat of Government took every
ono by surprise this morning. Lord Palmerston
has always been popular here, but the impression
amongst a treat portion of the Southampton liberal
party ,is that his course has been headlong lately,
and that he requ;red a cheek.

seasonableness of the opportunity, and not the
merits of the measure, or will he, on the other
hand, join the phalanx which supports the Com-
pany, and re-establish or prolong the present
system ? Then comes the great question of Parlia-
mentary Reform. The House of Commons and
the whole Liberal party are committed to the mea-
sure. Will Lord Derby declare against it, or take
it up and make it his own ? We have no concep-
tion of the policy to be pursued by the Conserva-
tive leader, but we do not doubt that he relies upon
a dissolution as one of the expedients in the
hazardous political enterprise which he has just
undertaken.

(Front the Morning P 031.)
In consequence of the vote of censure passed on
Friday night by the House of Commons, a Cabinet
Council was held on Saturday afternoon. The
Ministers were unanimous. It was impossible to
hold office for one moment under the imputation
of having betrayed the honour of England. Lord
Palmerston at once proceeded to Buckingham
Palace to place in the hands of the Queen the col-
lective resignation of the members of the Adminis-
tration. As was most natural under the circum-
stances, the interview resulted in her Majesty's
sending for Lord Derby, who immediately rep sired
to the Palace. Yesterday he again saw the Queen,
and he has undertaken the construction of an
Administration.
This afternoon Lord Palmerston will announce
to the House of Commons the step which he has
taken, and an adjournment of the house till Thurs-
day or Friday will be moved, in order to give Lord
Derby time for the completion of his arrangements.
Such is the morning's news. We think that it
will prove as surprising as unwelcome to the coun-
try. The most popular Minister since tile days
.of
Pitt suddenly falls, the victim of an unreasoning
freak of faction. We will not impute, in this in-
stance, to the m:ijority any scheme of coalition. It
is not a bargained banding together of parties, but
it is again the " fortuitous concourse of "atoms" of
the Chinese debate. Those atoms, possessing each
but atoms of support in the country, then combined
to censure Lord Palmerston for upholding the hon-
our of England against " the inoffensive Chinese."
They meet again to condemn the Government for
equally upholding the national honour, in remedy-
ing a defect in our laws, and in showing some grain
of sympathy for the lives of soveieigns in alliance
with ourselves, and for the prosperity of neighbour-
ing countries.

Lord Pahnerston—of all men, Lord Palmerston
—it is pretended, has sacrificed, the honour of Eng-
land. Lord John Russell is the judge, who slunk,
cowed, from Vienna. Mr. Gladstone is the judge,
who deonted his colleagues and his responsibilities
in the most trying moment of the Crimean war.
Mr. Disraeli is the judge, who, when last in office,
knew how to face even the smallness of the Grand
Duke of Tuscany. Fitting judges, who found in
Mr. Milner Gibson a fitting executioner. For this
gentleman—the very incarnation of Radical
"funk," the apostle of peace at any price—it was
reserved to stand up as the champion of Brumma-
gem blustering. The advocate of submission to
invasion—" for they would let us work our mills"
—is the suitable representative of false honour and
grotesquepatriutism. His, however, is the triumpl-,
and the man whose name was a necessity at every
election but a few months ago succumbs to indivi-
dual resentment and the abiding envy of faction.
It is exactly three years since Lord Palmerston
assumed the office of Prime Minister. We need not
hero record the acts of his Government. It is not
forgotten now, anti it will live in history hereafter,
how he undertoJk the management of affairs when
no other man was competent to it. In the darkest
do.y.of the Crimean war, when disaster threatened,
when defeat loomed obvious as the consequence of
timed and incompetent management, " the English
Minister" stepped forward to take the helm. He
vindicated the renown of the country, and in his
energetic hands the aspect of affairs completely
change d. Peace was concluded on satisfactory
terms, and at the termination of the war, our object
thoroughly attained, the anus of England, military
and naval, stood at a point of efficiency unequalled
in the annals of the country. The conclusion of war
was, however, to Russia the opportunity to obtain
ley fraud much that she had failed to obtain by
force. Again it was the clear sagacity of Lord Pal-
merston that defeated her every effort. Bolerad
and the Isle of Serpents are names too well known
to fame for us here to recount the circumstances
connected with them—how our diplomacy insisted
on the spirit and letter of the Trebly—how our
fleets remained alone in the Black Sea. The Premier
was not then accused of " truckling to France" at
the risk of sacrificing the French alliance. He stood
against the world for the honour of England, and
the country backed him. France complied, and
Russia, defeated, yieldedevery point. In the affair
of Neufchatel, again, it was Lord Palmerston who
'maintained firmly and successfully theindependeuce
of Switzerland against the claims of Prussia, backed,
at first, by France. But it really verges on the
absurd to attempt a defence of Lord Palmerston
against the accusation of a want of English
spirit. Yet, in the present instance, such is
the libel. He would, indeed, have been want-
ing in generosity and justice had he ,:neglected to
remedy the obvious defect in our laws ; and in
the attempt to remedy it he was supported in the
House of Commons by a majority of two hun-
dred. Yet, on the motion for the second read-
ing of the " Conspiracy to Murder Bill," the mo-
tion was lost, and a vote of censure was passed on
the Government for having failed to answer the
despatch of Count Walewski. Orally it had been
answered ; but how, verbally, c )uld the Govern-
ment have answered it ? It could but have acknow-
ledged as true that foreign refugees iu England had
repeatedly conspired to murder the Emperor Napo-
leon—that successively assassins had left those
shores—that the implements of assassination had
been manufactured in England—and, in idle last
instance, the English subjects had been compro-
mised iu the horrible plot ; but, havire,r, acknow-
ledged this, it would have been unfitting, undigni-
fied, and unconstitutional in the Government of
Lord Palmerston to have anticipated any decision
of Parliament, or to have entered upon a matter
which would have had the semblance of a negotia-
tioe repectine the laws of England with a foreign
Power. And fer this he falls—for this he is c
demned. The country will yet decide between the
victim, the judges, and the executioner.
Into Lord Palmerston's home policy we will not
on this occasion enter ; few will deny that it has
been eminently popult r. The energy with which
the great revolt in India was met is still a theme of
admiration—that huge insurreciion is on the point
of suppression, and Lord Palmerston's proposals
for the future and better government of our vast
Asiatic Empire were received by a majority of no
less than 145 so recently as Thursday last. In the
full tide of successful administration, after victory
heaped upon victory in Parliament, and an unpre-
cedented ratification of his policy upon an appeal to
the country, Lord Palmerston is suddenly clucked,
stopped, and overthrown by a combination of spite,
jealousy, and faction. His Government, however,
will illustrate one of the brightest paces in the
history of England. He has nobly earned the gra-
titude of his countrymen. He falls conscious of right,
an example of that highest of virtues which to
us means far more than the blaze of glory or the
trumpet of Fame. He has " done his duty."
Lord Derby assumes power under no very blight
auspices ; bis party, if compact, is but a decent
minority, and his support iu the assumption of
office is derived from Radicals, Peelites, and Whigs,
who will embarrass him on the first opportunity.
But internal difficulties and home questions may
well fade before external considerations. Unless
we are completely blinded we cannot fail to see the
serious difficulties which menace us abroad as the
infallible result of present events. The French
nation cannot but consider the recent decision of
Parliament as a vots directly hostile. We see it in
the papers and correspondence from Paris which
have already reached us. We must not altogether
forget that if we have some claim to the exercise of
passions and the play of ill-feeling, so also have
our neighbours ; and if we have admired and de-
lighted
ian ee and
i nthe brilliant
cordial
co-operation,
-soupl tear
awt
oinch, have followed
8
pause before the tremendous consequences
may ensue from mutual folly and ungoverned
prejudice.
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We have yet to learn that the deers ___e
House of Commons is ratified by the countfyl
notW
believe that it will .not be so ; and we s a 1
in every con-
be surprised if public demonstrations
that the sym-
siderable place in Great Britain prove mayw
which
and the fall of Lord Palmerston,
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Promotion of the great
principles of English policy,
-eminently the advocate, and to
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(From the Morning Herald.)
Lord Derby, with his well-known chivalry, has
come boldly to the rescue, and, in spite of the perils

and difficulties in which Lord Palmerston and his col-
leagues contrived to involve the state, has accepted
the onerous post of Prime Minister of England. At
this moment the noble earl is engaged forming his
Cabinet ; :and we do not anticipate that he will
meet with much difficulty in completing his arrange-
ments, so that new writs will be speedily issued,
and Parliament adjourned for a short interval.
The Ministry will be composed of statesmen re-
solved to defend the best interests and the welfare
of England, and to uphold her honour both at home
and abroad. The determined attitude assumed by
Lord Derby at the reopening of Parliament ; his
declaration, uttered amidst the acclamations of the
assembled Peers, that the honour of England must
be maintained, her liberties preserved inviolate,
and her policy rendered free and independent, at
once pointed him out as the coming man. The
public speedily responded to his patriotic appeal,
and politicians entertaining the most opposite
opinions hailed him as England's deliverer. His firm
and beneficent rule in 1852 is not forgotten, nor
are the repeated admissions of some of the noble
earl's most violent opponents, that the summery
and unjust diemissal of his Government at the close
of that year was one of the greatest misfortunes
that ever happened to this country. England was 1
at that time at peace with all the world, the funds
were at par, home industry flourished, whilst
foreign and colonial commerce was in a state of
unexampled prosperity, and halcyon skies smiled
upon all members of the community and upon every
interest. England had not known such a period of
prosperous tranquillity for many a long day, and she
has witnessed nothing in the least degree similar
since. From the hour that Lord Derby resigned
office in 1852, to the
.present moment, war and
confusion have been in., the isacendanf. . With
-Russia, Perks, ahinae,ealid We native races of
India we have been actually 'esiibioiled, petty re-
criminations
have been carried on with the tyrant
of Naples, and the alliance with France, which pro-
duced so many good effects, and promised so richly,
has been imperilled. In whatever direction we
turn our eyes the approach of danger may be de-
tected, and the public naturally enough long for
deliverance. That has at last been found, and in
this respect it would be impossible to calculate the
advantages secured by the decisive majority of
Friday last.
Lord Palmerston's foreign pc licy first brought him
into notice, and obtained for him a certain reputa-
tion, and in his utter and hopele,7s break down
perishes one of the most extraordinary delusions of
the last half century. The diSgraceful affair with
Greece almost produced a catastrophe; but the mem-
ber for Tiverton being then in his prime, and being,
moreover,
p re. The
exosupossessed otferarirbele failuresadylA
it,mainn the Crimea
once to avert
the
once more brought this legislator's name before the
public, and, in spite ot certain misgivings and very
painful suspicions, he received the dictatorship.
The result did not fulfil the expectations formed by
his more sanguine supporters. The war against
Russia was not under his direction waged yips.-
ously. Recent events in India show plainly enough
that had Sir Colin Campbell been appointed to the
command of the British forces in the Crimea the
retreat of the Russian army would have been cut
off. Kars was alt ()pother abandoned, and ;he wily
Muscovite was permitted to get in Asia more than
an equivalent far what ho had lost, or was supposerl
to have lost, in Europe. A disgraceful peace was
patched up, and the excuse given by this Minister,
who had won all his popularity as the defender of
British interests and the guardian of British hon-
our, we.s, that France was unwilling to prosecute
the contest, therefore he had agreed to an unsatis-
factory termination of the same. To this hour the
treaty of Paris has proved an apple of discord
amongst the nations ot Europe, and whilst Austr!rt
sets one of its provisions at defiance Russia boldly
evades another. Such is the perplexity that has
arisen out of this masterpiece of Whig cunning that
fresh conference; are to be assembled, and a third
attempt is to be made to effect either a settlement
or a compromi-e.

And ss:11 ,t :hall be said of the undignified struggle
with Naples, the rashly-provoked wars with Persia
and China, and the total abandonment of British
interests in Central America ? Are these to be re-
garded as the greatest achievements of one who
boasted of being the Minister of England Is the
desertion of our gallant countrymen and vro.nen in.
India to be received as a proof of bit vigilance ; or
are the frequent declarations of his comrades, made
with his sanction, that the mutiny was but a pass-
ing cloud, to be accepted as evidence of his saga-
city 7_ And if no Minister of late days so miserably
mismanaged affairs, and torn to pieces hi.osown re-
putation, surely none ever maintained his position
in a more discreditable manner, er prostitn'ed
power to such base uses I What shall be said of
twelve now peers created in a premiership of three
years' duration, or the way in which patronage has
been distributed in Ireland ? These are not things
that can be kept a secret, and the more the light
breaks in upon them the worse must they appear.
And, as if to set the seal to his own shame, and to
destroy at one fell swoop all c sufidence in Whig
pledges of purity of intention and devotion to pub-
lic interests, Lord Palmer ston received into his
Cabinet, and appointed to au important position
in the same, a member of the peerage whose ante-
cedents were not of the moat commendable cha-
racter. As the news of the fall of the Palmerston
Administration circulates from one end of 'he king-
dom to the (Adair many an honest patriot will ex-
claim, with grateful joy, "Thank God the country
is rid of a Cabinet that numbered Lord Cianricarde
among its members !"
Lord Palmerston's premiership has played havoc
with his reputation. Before ho grasped the reins lie
was something, now everything is destroyed. Wmar3
And embroilments are the legacy which he be-
queaths to his successor, and he has been expelled
from office simply because he could not govern. The
statute book can boast of no useful additions, the
results of superior statesmanship, and his short
reign will be remsmhered as the most calamitous
and gloomy in the annals of the nineteenth century.
Gi eat credit is due to Lord Derby for having un-
dertaken the task at such a j uucture. It is enough
however, for this statesman to know that the country
is in peril, and that his aid can be of service. The
blood of the Stanleys flows in his veins, and danger
and difficulty were the elements out of which was
v.-oven the lofty reputation of his house. Members
of this family have, from generation to generation,
proved themselves the lealiest defenders of the
State. All the present Lord Derby's laurels have,
however, been gained in the bloodless strife of
peaceful ;times. He bears a great name, and for
unblemished honour and integrity stands second to
none. Th• feeling of the country is in his favour,
and a House of Commons elected under most un-
favourable circumstances last March, will accord to
him a fair trial. At any rate, his Government
must stand or fall upon its merits ; the nation will
not again permit this accomplished statesman to be
thrust aside to make room for weak, but ambitions,
politicians. Lord Derby can claim as a sacred
right the sympathy and respect of all good citizens.
He has not sought this honour, but is summoned
as a deliverer. The country may confidently look
forward to the enjoyment of the benefits to be de-
rived from enlightened statesmanship, for the
" orl;anised hypocrisy" has been destroyed, and a
fresh period of Conservative progress commences
from this auspicious hour.

e r knownva
bas at length
Lord Palmerston's Administration lies
ought rather
resigned. Our relations with Fbr
this catastrophe
to be strengthened than injuredt y.
At the hour when
of Lord Palmerston's Minij-
(From th• AtOrning Chronicle )
we write, nothing is definitely_ebe
adopted by her
as to the course likely t
successors to the resigned
Majesty, in
thechoosingtiv
es
Earl of Dolby should have
Ministers. That
owever, almost a matter of
of the.
•s acting more like
been sent for Ras, however,
course. Nowkmperor of the French has always
towards the most conciliatory character. When
Whig doetrinaire
'Ministers wentabout crazy
fana-
tics than Cabinet _ / the coun-
try hesping insults on France and her chosen
Rulers, they were brought to their senses by the
Conservatives. During the brief Derby-Disraeli
Administration of 1852, the same party effaced
from the mind of Napoleon 111 'all memory of
those insults, and laid the foundation for that
cordial alliance, which has so much contributed
to the glory and prosperity of the two countries.
been
As to their present sentiments, they may b 3
divined from the speech of Lord Derby at the
opening of this sw.sion, and the strong desire
expressed by the leaders of the party in the
Lower House to give the French Government
every satisfaction that would be consistent with
the maintenance of English honour, and the invio-
lability of our laws.
The same general influences must prevail, even
were the new Government to take the shape of a
Coalition, or if an attempt were male to reorganise
the Liberal patty under Lord John Russell, plus
those requisites which it lacked under the Palmer-
ston regime—principles and a policy. Lord John
knows the responsibilities of Statesmanship, and
f
the dderence due to the sober public opinion
policy
of
f or
e officiallyco n