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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EA/ FINING, MAY 13, "1858.

ing dissolution, Lord PALMERSTON alone will be
answerable for it. The only circumstance which
could justify CARDWELL'S motion has been re-
moved by Lord ELLENRoxoram's resignation, and
it is now only a factious artifice to attempt to
saddle the Government with an indiscretion for
which that Noble Lord has frankly stated that he
alone is responsible.

The Palmerstonians exhibit neither moderation
nor decency. They are hungering and thirsting
for office with all its agremens, and they care not
by what means it may be obtained. The conduct
of Lord DERBY and his friends when in Opposi-
tion was very different indeed. They acted fairly
and properly, and relinquished many opportunities
of annoying, and perhaps overthrowing their
political opponents. They manifested a sincere
regard for the national interests, looking to the
welfare of Great Britain rather than party affairs.
But now all that is changed, and even the welfare
and happiness of 150,000,000 of our fellow-sub-
jects are rendered subservient to the petty
manoeuvres of th• family clique.
It is said that there has been a coalition—that
the Peelites, or some of them, have come
to terms with the Palmerstonians. Mr.
CARDWELL is the band selected to fling
the firebrand. Should it succeed he is to be the
new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir JAMES
GRAHAM, it is stated, is to be the Minister for
India, and Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT Colonial Secre-
tary. But there is " many a slip 'twixt the
cup and the lip." The compact will not be ratified
by the nation, or sanctioned by the independent
Liberals. Lord ELLENBOROUGR acted fairly and
honourably. With his great experience and
foresight he could not avoid seeing the
grave mistake into which Lord CANNING
had been betrayed, and could not, consistently
with his duty, abstain from giving expression to
his opinions. No person has dared to support
the policy of wholesale spoliation and universal
confiscation, not even the aspirant to the Exche-
quer Office, the would-be financier has not ventured
to justify the proclamation that might drive an
entire nation to desperation. It is only its
puili-
cation that is complained of, and the circumstances
connected with that publication have already been
fully explained. It would have been a serious
error if the Government bad sanctioned the con-
fiscation policy of Lord CANNING. He was not
an officer of theirs ; and probably on that ac-
count, and that only, he was treated with too
much consideration. It was merely hinted
that he should temper justice with mercy ;
that he should distinguish between the mutineers
and murderers and those who believed that
they were taking up arms pro aria et focis, and
fur the restoration of their legitimate sovereign.
It was the friends (!) of Lord CANNING who corn-
palled the publicity of the so-called censure which
elicited the facts of the case. They are the parties
really responsible, and must sustain the entire
burden.

While recognising the chivalrous and highly
honourable conduct of Lord ELLENBOROUGH,
we think that he committed, and his colleagues
sanctioned, a serious error. He should not have
resigned, nor should it have been accepted. We
believe that the people would have endorsed his
policy, and that they would have rejoiced in re-
taining the services of so able and experienced an
administrator.

Lord CANNING'S proclamation was published
without waiting to know the feeling of the Govern-
ment, to which he ought to be the servant, but
strove to be the master ; and all the prejudicial
results that must have followed that inauspicious po-
1i oy would have occurred, if the answering despatch
were suppressed, or we should rather say, not pub-
lished ! But whatever may be the feeling on that
point—whether Lord ELLENSOROUGH was right or
wrong in the publication, no one impeaches the
correctness of his views respecting the actual facts.
He has resigned, and his colleagues are neither
open to the censure or entitled to the credit of
the course. Alone he did it, and he has
nobly insisted on bearing the penalty. Nothing
but the most factious opposition, the most greedy
craving after office could justify any further pro-
ceedings. But it is impossible to measure the
anxiety for office amongst a certain class of poli-
ticians, and although it would be deeply injurious
to the nation, we could almost wish that the
sibbath-day conspirators might have a tem-
porary success in order that the House of
Commons might be purified, and that
the various constituencies might have the
opportunity of rejecting with disdain, men
who should never have obtained their suffrages.
Should the malcontents succeed, there will, of
course, be a general election, and that will pro-
duce a large infusion of new blood into the House
of Commons, and render it, what it cannot at pre-
sent be said to be, a fair exponent of the opinions
and wishes of the people.

There has been another meeting of independent
liberal members of the House of Commons, and
it is said that some difference of opinion prevailed
as to the course to be adopted with reference to
Mr. CARDWELL'S factious motion. We can

scarcely conceive the cause of such dif-
ference, or how any consistent and in-
dependent liberal could desire to create
a Palmerstonian Dictatorship or restore the
despot-loving Lord CLARENDON to office. But
there are wheels within wheels, and the real
motive power, the operative influences, are as yet
unknown.

We think better, however, of the party, than
to suppose that they will suffer themselves to be
made the tools either of Peelites or Palmer-
stonians. We cannot conceive that Mr.BEIGFIT Will
seek to drive the inhabitants of Oude to despera-
tion, or that Mr. ROEBUCK would consent to
wholesale spoliation. Mr. HEADLAII does not
desire to establish a dictatorship or a perpetual
Premier. Nor will Mr. FORSTER whip
either in or out, to produce a family
Cabinet with CLARENDON, CLANRIOARDE, WOOD,
and LEWIS, holding high positions, and
the rival WhigQ, Lords PALMERSTON and
eT°h L drawing lots for the Premiership.
T
higher mission. There is a nobler
prize before them.
If they act fkirly and honour-
ably, without prejudice or bias, they will
prove their value, and teach those who
treated them with contumely and no-
glect a salutary lesson. All that Lord DERBY
the Liberals. He offers goof measures. He
asks is fair play, and he seeks it at the hands of
maintains the honour of the country both
at home and abroad.
absolute rwic)-
No party in either
Clouse of Parliament has an a
ity ; and there is always the
possibility
of an undue combination, or rather conspiracy,
succeeding. But, as Mr. DISRAELI once
remarked, "England does not love coali-
tions." The feeling within the House differs
widely from that abroad, and if the voice of
public opinion is to be attended to, the Right
Honourable and Honourable Gentlemen must alt -
gether change their tactics. We look, however,
r with confidence to the consistent Liberals, and

trust that the course to be adopted to-morrow
will fully- justify the reliance hitherto placed in
them by the community at large.

We understand that there will be another
meeting, tc-morrow, of the Independent Liberals
at the House of Commons.

Sir HENRY LYTTON Br:LITER'S nomination as
the successor of Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE at
Constantinople, is beyond all question the most
judicious, as it is certain beyond all doubt to be
' the most popular among all Lord MALMESRURY'S
' new diplomatic appointments. It is the selection
' of one of the most skilled diplomatists of his age to
one of the most difficult and responsible posts
' that could by possibility be confided to an Am-
bassador. It is the choice not only of the right
man for the right place, but precisely, too, at the
right moment, The fitness of things has seldom
been more strikingly, as it has perhaps never been
more satisfactorily, illustrated iu this most com-
plicated and exquisitely balanced of all the politi-
cal departments. The nomination of his Excel-
lency Sir HENRY BULWER as her Britannic MA-
JESTY'S envoy to the Sublime Porte, takes rank,
in truth, at once among the conspicuous success
rapidly achieved by the DERBY Government. It
will be long remembered, we believe, as last but
not least from that remarkable catalogue—the list
of the triumphs won within the narrow space of a
single quarter of a year by the Liberal-Conserva-
tive Administration. The release of PARR and
WATT from their long Neapolitan incarceration—
the resolute diminution of the Income Tax in
spite of a formidable but evaded deficiency—the
prompt concession of the old bugbear Property
Qualification, as a first instalment of Parliamen-
tary Reform—the determined rejection of every
idea of diminished expenditure in the maintenance
of our military and maritime armaments—the
preservation of our alliances, simultaneously with
the direct vindication of our independence ; these,
and other remarkable achievements, have within
less than three months secured to a Cabinet sud-
denly called into existence out of an abrupt and
wholly unexpected emergency a reputation com-
pounded at once of liberality and resolution, of
patriotism and promptitude. Together with
these eminently noteworthy acts boldly adven-
tured upon forthwith immediately upon the in-
stallation of the new Ministry, there have been
others of a no less significant character, proceedings
which have confirmed that reputation in the na-
tional judgment, giving it a colour as well as a
form ; in some instances expanding credit to
popularity, and in others even heightening respect
into admiration. It can hardly be surprising,
however, that much, even in so short a period,
should have been accomplished by a Government,
having as its chief a leader no less daring and
chivalrous than the Earl of DERBY—a Chancellor
of the Exchequer in every way, whether as a de-
bater, or as a financier, alike skilled in fiscal finesse
and Parliamentary rhetoric, like the right Hon.
Member for Buckinghamshire—a Foreign Secre-
tary as energetic as Lord MILMESBITRY—a Colonial
Minister, as full of promise, and as affluent iu
device as the Noble Lord the member for King's
Lynn—a Home Administrator as statesman-like,
in every thought and action, as Mr. Secretary
WALPOLE : to say nothing of this Cabinet having
simultaneously substituted, for Sir CHARLES
WooD, at the Admiralty—an administrator as
earnest and indefatigable as Sir JOHN PAKINGTON.
Determination, civicism, energy, promptitude—
with such a change—were the very results natu-
rally, if not inevitably, to be expected. And so
it certainly came to pass, that no sooner were the
DERBY Ministers installed in office than they at
once began the series of labours upon which we
have seen them rapidly adventuring, and the chief
among which we have here once more succinctly
enumerated.

In no department of the Administration, how-
ever, have larger alterations, modifications, repa-
rations been effected, since February, than in the
particular department presided over by the Earl of
MALMESIURY. A despatch that ought certainly
to have been written by his predecessor, was writ-
ten by him, immediately upon his installation in
Downing-street, as Foreign Secretary. British
subjects, who ought, as undeniably, to
have been long before restored to liberty and
their own land by that same predecessor of
Lord MALMESBURY, were quickly extricated from
imprisonment by Lord MALMESBURY in his capa-
city as the official protector (in fact and not simply
by name) of the much talked-of civis Britannicus.
Another British subject, in the person of Mr.
HODGE, was, with equal speed, elsewhere relieved
from durance vile by the Noble Earl the chief of
the Foreign Department. Under his auspices,
moreover, old alliances and new alliances have
been alike satisfactorily maintained ; and yet,
simultaneously with the accomplishment of all
this, Lord MALMESBURY has, in the short space of
one quarter, contrived to remodel and reorga-
nise a considerable portion of the whole diplo-
matic service of England. Scarcely, in the first
instance, and at one fell swoop, has Lord MAL-
MESSURY redistributed five great embassies, when
he nominates to a sixth, of the very first im-
portance, one, moreover, invested with the most
solemn responsibilities, the most judiciously and
sagaciously selected of all the diplomatic servants
of the Crown appointed afresh under the Earl of
DERBY'S Administration. No one assuredly will
gainsay the accuracy of this assertion. What-
ever may be thought anywhere of the substitu-
tion of Lord R. LOFTUS at Vienna in place of Sir
H. SEYMOITR—of Sir J. CRAMPTON at St. Peters-
burg in the room of Lord WODEHOUSE—of Mr.
HOWARD at Florence in the room of Lord NOR-
MANEY—of Mr. BUCHANAN at Madrid in the
room of Lord HOWBEN—and of Mr. ELLiorr at
Copenhagen in the room of Mr. BUCHANAN—it
will scarcely be denied by any caviller, however
captious, however exacting, however depreciating,
that in choosing Sir H. BULWER as Lord STRAT-
FORD DE REDCLIFFE'S successor the Noble Etrl at
the head of the Foreign-office has hit upon the
man of men who ought, beyond all others, to have
been selected particularly at this juncture as her
MAJESTY'S dipl Anatie representative at Constanti-
nople.

His Excellency will Lae with him to the
Golden Horn very nearly 30 years of diplomatic
experience. His distinguished career as a diplc-
inatist having begun in his extreme youth, in
1829, when, as attaché, he was nominated suc-
cessively to the embassies at Berlin, at Brussels,
and the Hague. His first post of import.ince,
however; was the second of those three, that of
his special mission to Brusselq, whither he pro-
ceeded in 1830, and where it was he watched,
with youthful but sagacious vigilance, the progress
of the Belgian revolution. Secretary of Legation
and Chargé d'Affaires in 1835 in that same capi-
tal, ho there continued in that two-fold capacity
for two years—namely, until 1837 (wore than
20 years ago), when he went as 'Secretary to the
very Embassy over which he has now, in 1858,
been chosen to preside, the conspicuous and im-

portant Embassy at Constantinople. There it
was, when simply Secretary of Legation, that his
Excellency negotiated the commercial treaty
between the Porte and England. S,ubsequently

named, in 18397-a.decade from the date of his.
entrance into the servics—Seeretary to the Em-
bassy at Paris, he was three times interim. Minis-
ter at the French Court during the occasional
absence of the Ambassador. In 1843 he himself
inaugurated his career as Minister Plenipotentiary.
That notable career is the reason for his present
nomination. As Ambassador at Madrid, as Am-
bassador at
Washington, as Ambassador at E lo-
rence—and yet more recently, and, if possible,
more remarkably, as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary in the reorganisation
and reconstitution of the Danubian Principalities
Sir HENRY LYTTON BIILWER has, during 15 years,
so acted in those remote regions as to win the
admiration of his country and the approbation of
his Sovereign. This approbation her Most Gra-
cious MAJESTY signalised ten years ago by his
Excellency's investiture with the dignity of Knight
Grand Cross of the Bath ; but it has now been
yet more signally marked by his admission, on the
11th inst., to kiss hands on being appointed her
MAJESTY'S Ambassador at Constantinople.

THE CAMBRIDGE HOUSE PLOT. - A
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT.

The candour with which we always treat our
political opponents, obliges us to notice the anxious
desire which the Palmerstonian place-huntexs have
manifested to allow no act of theirs to pass un-
hallowed. Thus it was that &Inclay was the day
selected for the meeting at Cambridge House,
at which the plan of operations was settled,
and, by a felicitous combination, the services
of an Evangelical Intriguer were secured to re-
commend the spoilation of Oude to the cordial
approbation of the louse of Lords.

In justice to Mr. CARDWELL, we are bound to
observe that the Right Honourable Gentleman
showed the same laudable desire to consecrate his
designs upon Downing street, and that he did his
best to celebrate Ascension Day by the restora-
tion of the Place-hunters to office.

MR. INWARD GLOVER'S ANNUAL

CO! CERT.

Those who say the Enghall are not a musical
peop'e "begin their nomenclature much too soon,"
fur certainly the aspect of our present metropolitan
musical stars afford favourable augurship touching
the state of our harmonic ascendancy. We need not
take a weary walk to meet with numberless temples
where Apollo is i aramount lord and master, and to
hear unequivocal significations that we have music
in our national soul. We have opera on all sides—
in all shapes. Her Majesty's Theatre, redolent
of Meyerbeer and Mozart ; the Royal Italian,
rising like a groat placeuix, about to be also vitalised
with the same classical elixir of musical life ; and
Old Drury seriously adapting Verdi to the popular
vernacular. Then we Lave St. James's-hall,
Exeter-ball, SI.. Martin's-hall, Canterbury-hall,
Sacred Harmonic Societies, Philharmonic Societies,
Musical Soirees, Crystal Palace Concerts, and
Handel Festivals; with German bands, demi-pianos,
and barrel-organs unlimited. Surely these afford
something like indications that we are not quite
deaf or dumb on the subject of sweet sound ; and
though our " Torn Tugs" may not indulge in the
classical strainssof Tasso, as they pull up and down our
mulatto-complexioned Thames ; yet we are not
deficient of vocal spontaneity of a rather imposing
kind, poured from the throats of myriads of little
and big boys, who delight in making the grand
streets of this noble city echo to the romantic
themes of "Jump Jim Crow," " Pop goes the
weasel," or " Old Dog Tray." With these fully
developed symptoms of 'musical plethora we cannot
submit to be denominated as a people " fit for
treason 4, stratagems, and spoils ;" and if positive
and particular evidence were required to prove our
love of the divine art, the audience composed of
" the pe >pie " at-ending Howard Glover's gigantic
concert at Drury-lane, yesterday morning, would
be quite sufficient witness. We never beheld a
stronger exhibition of delight and appreciation, and
though, with genuine John Bull heartiness; there
was a tendency among " the gods" to encore every-
thiow, we could but admire the advanced state of
intelligence and conduct which caused them, on the
slightest intimation, to reconcile their genial im-
pulse with cinventional decorum, to listen with at-
ten ion and applaud with discretion. The concert
was an exc, llei,t one for the purpose it was intended
to serve, and in every way eminently successful.
Among the more prominent demands on our
attention we may specify the "Duo Brilliante"
from Les Huguenots, for pianoforte Pnd violin,
played by Miss Arabella Goddard and M. Sainton,
which elicited rounds of rapturous approval. Miss
Dolby in the beautiful aria " Mille Volte" was
splendidly efiective, and Madame Rudersdorff, Miss
Messent, Miss Louisa Pyue and the other lady ar-
tists did ample justice to their various parts, ex
citing enthusiastic applause. Madame Gassier
displayed her wonderful power of note execution
in a fantasia on Irish airs which evoked an encore,
as did also the ballads sung by Sims Reeves ; by
the bye we should like to find the individual who
can hear this great and pure tenor singer, and dis-
pute our right to being musical.
The Misses Roweroft made a most gratifying
debut. Their pelf. =mice of " Carlo Vive," " I
would that my love," " The Young Recruit,"
' Bid me Discourse," and other compositions gave
some scope to allow a criticism of their powers.
Miss Julia Roweroft possesses, we think
the finest vocal rrg in of the two, and will
doubtless s'ng well when time and experience
shall have matured her natural gifts. Miss
Rowcrofc has a slender and delicate soprano
voice which she manages with taste and skill, and
we may truthfully congratulate both the young
ladies on the highly favourable impression they have
made on the public. M. Benedict, Mr. Alfred
Mellon, and Mr. Howard Glover were the conduc-
tors and accompanists. It is consequently need-
less to say the arrangements were most admirable
and perfect, The whole concert was a most satisfac
tory entertainment, regarding equally the quality
of the programme, the ratio of the prices, and
the gratification of the audience.

A Cabinet C.runeil was held yesterday at the official
residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Down-
ing-street. The Ministers present were—the Earl of
Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury,
the Earl of Hard wicke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord
Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, the Right
Hon. J. W, Henley, and Lord John Manners.
It was reported after the Cabinet had separated yes-
terday that Lord Stanley would succeed Lord Ellen-
bormigla a; President of the Board of Control, and that
Sir Bulwer Lytton would be appointed Secretary for the
Colonies, the difficul,y of securing his return for Hert-
fordshire oeing averted by his advancement to the Peer-
age. We believe, however, that these statements are at
least premature, and that it is nut yet decided how the
vacancy eaused by Lord Ellenborough's, retirement will
be filed up.

The Earl and Coun,eFs of Derby'entertained his Ex-
cellency the Duke r f Malakhoff at dinner last evening at
their 'Division in St. James' -square. There were present
to meet the gallant ambassador their Serene Highnesses
Prince and Pr ncees SaX+3 Weimer, the Marquis of Har-
tiogton, the Earl cf Maline,bury, the
,Earl of Jersey
and Lady Clernentina Villiers, the Countess of Wilron
and Laiy Katherine Grey E..gerton, Lord Otho Fitz-
gerald, Colonel the Hon. Fred. A. Thesiger, &c.
THE [RESOLUTION OF CENSURE ON THE MINISTRY.—
We are enabled authoritatively to announce that Mr.
Bright will give his best support to the Administra-
tion, in opposition to the resolution of censure that
Mr. Cardwell is to move on Friday evening. The
weight that the hon. member for Birmingham carries
with Lim in the house cannot be exaggera'cl. Mr.
Milne, Gibson will vice his adhesion to the Mini-
sterial side.—Court Circular.

The Cologile Gaulle states that the Emperor of Russia
has dacided that theatres shall be established in the 19
chief ;owns of the governments of Greiat Russia, four in
Little Russia, four in the Baltic provinces, five in the
kingilom of Kasan, three in the kingdom of Astrakan,
five it S,,tithero flu a a, eight in Western Russia, Fin•
laud, and Sibe ia, and five in Poland. All these theatres
are t, receive subventions. Sukouls for super.or instruc-
lion are also to be established in all the chief towns of
g6Ve nln nts and other I,rge !laces.
\SESTMINSTER Jaws' FREE SCHOOL —The annivr-
sarydinner was lit I I at Willie's Rooms, St. James's, on
Tue;day lest ; Mr. J. Roebuck, t.el.P , in the chair, sup-
ported by Sir Anthony Rothschild, Mr. Alderma,l
Saletnot e, Mr. R.,upell, M.P., and a numerous party of
gentlemen of Jewish and Christian creeds. The chair-
man dwelt with much empha.is upon the political and
eittational status of the Jewish community, sad was
sums.sful in ob!aining a charitalle response, an amount
of 450/ being ccillected for the funds of the institution.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government emi-
grant ship General Hewett, 1,055 tons, Captain Louttid,
sailed from P ymoutle on Monday, 10th inst., for Ade-
laide,to:4.
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,PL-VrEST NEWS.

politer magazine in that city in November last ;
but that from motives of equity it would contribute
160,000 florins to the subscription made on behalf
of the sufferers.

Baron de Scheele, who for some years was Hano-
verian envoy to the Germanic Diet, and Prime
MI nis ter and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Hanover,
and who in 1853 retired into private life, has just
been appointed by the Prince of T( ur and Taxis
Director-general of the Post-uffice at Frankfort-on-
the-Maine.

A letter from Stockholm says :—" M. Due,
the Minister of State, no longer appears to have
any chance of being appointed Minister at Paris ;
on the contrary, Baron Bonde, first gentleman of
the Chamber, and ex-intendant of the Theatre
Royal, is spoken of for the post. It was after a
mission of the baron to Paris that General Can-
robert visited Sweden, and that the treaty of
alliance between that country and France was
signed. It is said that high influences in Paris have
been used to bring about the choice of Baron Bonde
for the important post now vacant."