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MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS.

The following is from the Committee of Mexican
Bondholders :
" The committee have received advises from Mr.
Whitehead, dated the lst ult., transmitting a decree
signed by the President on Ur) 23d, and published in
the official Gazette of Mexico on the 29th of January,
which embodies an agreement negotiated by Mr. White-
head with the, late Minister of Finance, Senor Lerdo, for
carrying into effect the third article of the decree of
14th of October, 1850. . The committee have also re-
ceived this decree officially through the hands of the
Mexican financial agency here. A tranthtion of it will
be sent to-morrow. It is very valuable as a distinct re-
cognition of the port agents of the bondholders in Mexico-
as collectors and receivers of the revenues assigned for
the payment of interest on the debt, and is likely to re-
sult in greater security for the future. But, though the
ne w decree came into fore's on the day of its publication,
it will practically remain inoperative for some time yet as
regards an increase of remittances, because the Mexican
Government has encumbered the revenues from the Cus-
toms by orders and anticipations to the amount of some
$2,000,000.
"There was a rumour that the Mexican Government
would receive from that of the United States a pecu-
niary supply of from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, which
the public connected with some alleged arrangement
about the Tehuantepec route.
" The packet brings no remittance for the dividend
fund, but $B,OOO have been sent by the agents at Mazat-
lan by her Majesty's ship Trincomalee to Panama.
" San Luis de Potosi bad been evacuated by the insur-
gents, but Tampico continued to refuse admission to the
governor appointed by Government, and the Spanish
Legation bad left Mexico in consequence of the alleged
inactivity of the Government in bringing to justice the
murderers of the Spaniards near Cuernavaca.

LARGE FIGURES or SPEECIEL—Mr. Cobden fixes the
population of China at 300,000,000. The Duke of Argyll
said on the same evening that it was 200,000,000. Here
is the difference of only 100,000,000 I A hundred million
souls (if the Chinese are allowed to have souls), are cer-
tainly not much in taking the census of a country. Now,
we propose that the two gentlemen be sent out on a mis-
sion to ascertain what the precise population of China is,
and not be allowed to return home until they have satis-
factorily settled the difference between them. In the
meantime Mr. Rowland Hill can occupy the Duke of
Argyll's place, and, as for Mr. Cobden, it will be no
great loss to the nation if his plaoe is not filled up just at
present.—Punch.
FACTION FIGHTS IN PARLIAMENT.—La Verita (Paris
paper), after referring to the recent debate on Chins,
makes the following pointed comments :—" This slight
glance at the intrigues of English members of Parliament
and the political conduct et Lord John Russell can only
inspire us with one thought—namely, that it is with the
Parliament of England as it was formerly with the
French Chambers, where the affairs of the country, the
most important interests of the community, were rele-
gated to the second rank, in order to give place to the
play of personal vanity and ambition. The coalition of
parties in the House of Commons forces one of its /min-
a•pal members, and doubtless many others with him, to
vote sometimes in one way and sometimes in another, ac-
cording to the exigencies of personal interest, and not
with regard to the interests of the State. Who will be
Minister after Lord Palmerston ? The Whigs or the
Tories, or else one of those thousand shades which at
this moment compose the infinitely divided opinions
of the English Parliament ? Such is the question
in agita•ion, and the serious questions on which
the debate hinges will be resolved acc,rd
ino• to the chances of such or such a candidate for office,
and not according to a true and right regard for the in-
terests of the country, and in conformity with the eternal
laws of justice and political morality. This is a sad
spectacle ; this is, indeed, the dark side of the Parlia-
mentary system of government—speechifying preferred
to business, and the country sacrificed to petty personal
ambition. Such is the moral to be deduced from the
debates in Parliament, and we really think we have
reason to congratulate ourselves that we have not to
suffer the same inconvenience in France,"

Spirit of the Public Journals.

• (From, the Times.)
Had it been possible to make an immediate
appeal to the country on the result of the Division
yesterday morning her Majesty's Ministers would
only have met in Cabinet to resolve on a course so
evidently to their advantage. They would not
have given an hour's opportunity to the political
sections who have just made the discovery that
union is force. As we have it on the authority of
one of their chiefs that
"England does not love
Coalition," the sooner England is invited to express
her feeling on the charac'er of the present extraor-
dinary specilien the better. A dissolution is not,
however, possible at this moment. Parliament
could not reassemble before the expiry of the Mu-
tiny Act in April, and her Majesty would then be
left without money and men for the service and
defence of the Stat.. To day, therefore, the Pre-
mier will propose such temporary arrangements as
will allow time for an apperl to the con,tltuencies.
A Three Months' Mutiny Act, instead of the usual
one for a year, and the necess ,ry- votes for the same
period, would answer this
perco-e, and unless the
three branches of the Coalition wish to ad t to the
existing difficulties they will throw no obstacle in
the way. No doubt there are people who look on
such an interval as a sort of Saturnalia, when, like
shipwrecked seilorS rushing to t'ee liquor, they may
indulge in any proceedings, however factious and
futile. It is not on behalf of the Government that
we deprecate any course of simple annoyance. The
new Coalition has a cbaract-e: to mike, and it will
not do that by throwing everything into confusion,
es well at home as abroad. We believe that Go-
vernment-has no other wish -than t 3 hake the oei-
nion of -the aOuntry on Alio question ra.ised by its
opponents, and so tar carry ()tit their wishes. •-1-11-
will, on its side, abstain from all new measures,
only going on with those on which Parliament
has fully declared itself. The remission of
the " War Ninepence," and, we pre•ume, too,
the other parts of the new Budget, will be
proceeded with ; and if the House of Com-
mons, under its new inspiration, should think tit
to
will haverecedef the
romitspresentdecision on these points,
it opportunity
of doing so. Under
these arrangements it is evident that a dissolution
may be expected in the course of the present
month, and a new Parliament in May.
The constitutional ceremony we are about to go
through is, in fact, a trial of her Majesty's advisers
at the bar of the people. The House of Commons
does but perform the part of a Grand Jury, and,
as it has not thrown out the bill of indictment pre-
ferred by the triple accuser, that bill goes at once to
the jury of the na ion. When that nation, how-
ever, hears of the task which devolves upon it, we
are inclined to think it will be rather at a loss to
know the precise question to be answered. What is
the offence 1 What is the substance of the solemn
interrogatory, " Gailty or not guilty ?" put to the
Government now at the bar of public opinion ? The
question and we doubt if
the
likswas
a ne
ver put extraordinaryt
o the
Britishne ,
people before.
It is simply this—Has Lord Palmerston 's Cabinet
forfeited the confidence of the people, on account
of a series of acts committed on the otter side of the
world six weeks before they were here even beard
of, and by public servants appointed under a-former
Administration The present Cabinet neither ap-
pointed the men nor advised the measures, nor had
anything whatever to do with them. At Christ-
mas, when all the world was in the country, Mi-
nisters went down among the rest, and there read in
the papers, some hours later than the London, and
Birmingham, and Manchester world, that an unfor-
tunate dispute had broken out at Canton. The
greater part of the proceedings that have occupied
the attention of Parliament during the, last ten
days had occurred several weeks before the least
inkling of them could come to this country ; and,
from first to last, including the firing of a river-
side suburb of Canton to prevent its being a per-
petual ambuscade, everything took place long
before the arrival in China of a despatch from the
Government at home. In fact, had the scene of
the narrative been the Moon, or had it been a
chapter from the "Arabian Nights," the present
Cabinet could not have had less to do with it. It
did not even appoint the men, for they were be-
(Nests from a former Cabinet, and stand upon their
own merits. ,in which they can well bear all the
scrutiny the public choose to require. Here, then,
is the question which the people of England are
called on to answer Lord Palmerston's Ad-
ministration to be condemned and displaced for
what it never did and could not do ;—for what it
only heard of when everybody else heard of it ;
for what was done by men whom It did not appoint,
and with whom it has npt yet been able to hold
any communication We have only heard of one
question at all like it, though hardly so foolish a
one, and it was put by certain persons who made
"
a great pretence of religion and j nstice— Did
this man sin, or his father, that he was born blind."
Of course, it will be said that as Government
accepts the issue, declining to agree in the condem-
nation of these proceedings and the consequent sur-
render of their authors, it is responsible for them.
Strictly and constitutionally Government is respon-
sible for everything that is done by its servants,
even if it be in fact wholly beyond its control, or
even its knowledge. They, however, who have
carried this doctrine to the theoretical perfection
exhibited by yesterday's vote must have borrowed
a hint from the system of that Celestial Empire
which they have taken under their patronage.
We read in Mr. Meadows's work :—" One of the
principal defects of the polity
of the Chinese
Empire is :he existence and operation of numer-
ous provisions in the code entitled Code of the
Board of Civil Office for the Punishment of
the Mandarins,'
whereby the mandarins are
made responsible for a vast number of things
over which they cannot possibly exercise any
control, and in
which punishments, more or less
severe, are laid down for them in the case of
rulers failure." But we must not travel out of the very
case-before us for a parallel, only not quite so un-
reasonable as the new English practice. One of
Yeh's pretences for seizing the crew of the Arrow
was that there was au old man on board whose son
threatened
ia sfo n. was a pirate, and,. as the son could not be caught,
the old man's head was wanted instead of his son's.
Certainly a father may in smile sense be held ac-
h Bae t
homeaccot
appointment• dai nee
ct oboi thef
its
iCodes t,bo be
icolotetulranttharb responsible
ft
prede-
cessors, and for the acts of the officers so appointed.
This is to hold the son accountable for the father,
over whom he can have no control. It is true that
Government does refuse to remove or censure the
alleged offenders, and does accept their acts. We
too, we believe, should have done the same in their
case. We are persuaded there was no other alter-
native, and when the whole story is before the
world England will think so too. We shall not at
present drag our readers over the ground they have
so often traversed during the last week. We may
say that, assailed with deliberate outrage by one of
the greatest miscreants ever heard of, threatened
with more, denied reparation or, what was more
important, any guarantee for the future, in the
very presence of daily atrocities, and with a fanaeic
population, ever ready to rise up against them, her
Majesty's servants in this trying situation acted
according to their discretion for the honour of the
British flag, the observance of treaties, the interests
of their country, and the cause of civilisation.
No doubt, beset with horrors, and latterly assailed
with poison, assassination, and every form of
villanyt they bad a trying time of it. Yet they
did their duty to the best of their knowledge, and
we shall require better and less factious arguments
to convince us that they were wrong. It is, then,
for not joining in the censure and abandonment of
these men that the British people are invited to
expel the Government which, among other ser-
vices, has brought the war with Russia and now
that with Persia to an honourable termination, and,
with the exception of China—and must we add
Naples ?—has not a single quarrel with any other
Government in the world.

(From the Daily Noes.)
The debate and vote on Mr. Cobden's motion
cannot fail to elevate the reputation of Englaud and
her free institutions in the estimation of the world.
The discussion and its result prove that the moral
sense of the representative branch of our Legisla-
ture is pure and healthy—that in judging of inter-
national relations it has not one measure for our-
selves and another for other peoples. It is as ready
to condemn and denounce English abuse of supe-
rior strength as Russian.
Some puny attempts have been made to dispa-
rage the character of the House of Commons' vote
on the China question, by representing it as the
result of a mere factious combination. We do not
deny that party feelings and party objects may oc-
cwion illy have mingled in the minds of the de-
baters with higher aspirations. It is obvious that
a large proportion of the majority belong to one
party, and a large proportion of the minority to
another. It may freely be admitted that the elo-
quence of Conservative leaders may at times have
been rendered more caustic and uervvirlining by

the consciousness that they were riva's for political
power who were subjected to its scathing influence.
And it does not admit of denial that rattly an un-
willing vote was given in the minority from reluct-
ance ta breakthrough all party associations or al,an-
, don old friends in the dilemma in which they had
involved themselves. Man will be man, and human
weakness will mingle with his most generous emo-
tions. But we fearleAsly ass, rt that the general, the
pervading, motive of the ma;ori,y arrayed t.) de-
nounce the bombardment of jOinton. was a high
minded determination ti efface from the scutche ni
of England the blood-rust left on its surraeo by that
lawless courage. What other motives could induce
Sir Francis Baring and lord Robett Grosvenor—
men remarkable for steady, quiet, uno-teutatious
adherence to their hereditary politics—to wrench
themselves loose from the habits and associations
of their whole lives ? What else c )uld in ince a
man so suscep ib'e of family affection as Lord John
Russell t ) separate himself for the lime from his
whole kith and kin ? What personal advantage
can such men possibly promise themselves om the
course they have pursue 1 ? Common s nse tell, u 3
that the low an t unworthy designs imputed to
them, and to the other Liberals who voted with
there, are the unseemly birth of the foul imagina-
tions of m-rzienary drudges of faction, who can
only see the reflection of their own vileness when
they try to look into th® purest souls.

The hearts of men are inscrutable. No man can
say what the inmost thoughts are of the speaker
who may be giving utterance to the loftie:t senti-
ments. But men can tell whether the sentimeots
expressed are just or unjust. And it is impossible
to read the five nights' debate w;theitt being im-
pressed with the moral superiority of the views and
sentiments expressed by those who arraigned the
proceedings in the Canton river, over those which
fell 'from the lips of the apologists of those proceed-
ings. Even though we were to take the most
humiliating view of the case, and regard bo•h par-
ties as mere actors, we should be compelled to ad-
mit that the speakers on the side of "the majority
evinced a more correct estima'e of what ought to
be the language of virtue and justice—that they
said the truth whether they themselves believed it
or not. But it is impossible to follow the debate
through all its windings and turnings, and adhere
to this painfully low eAitnate of those who took
part in it. There is on tie part of the majority
a frank and f arle s grappling with the question
at issue, a determination to place it before
their auditors in alt its details and ramifica-
tiens, that bespeaks coufidnice in the justice
of their cause. And there is on the other
side a constant endeavour to gloss over facts, to
escape from the issue really submitted to thrin, and
to diverge into irrelevant discussion,, that b trays
an uneasy consciousness of being in the wrong.
The temporary alliance of the discordant elements
of the majority is honourable to all. They were
brought together by an irresistible ;impulse to vin-
dicate the fair fame of England, by ropudiatino• in
her name the buccaneering operations in the Canton
river. None of them will ever need to blush for
having thus frankly and lathes tatingly acted upon
the maxim—"Fais que devra, vient que pourra."
The people of England will ratify their verdict.
Whoever holds the reins of government must shape
his course in the East in conformity to the rec ded
declaration of the House of COM:I3O,IP. All that
now remains for the friends of justice awl huma-
nity is, to keep watch lest the vote of Wednesday
morning should be allowed to become a dead
letter.

(From the Morning Herald.)

We cannot, of course, pretend to any very pecu-
liar or official information in referenee to pending
events ; but we think, nom what we have heard—
andeveuts find currency--that Lord Palmerston's
visit to Windsor yesterday will produce the result
that before twenty-four hours have elapsed, an offi-
cial announcement will be made, either orally or
in Gazette print, that the present Premier will ap-
peal to the country for iti approbation (?) of his
conduct.

The ability of Lord Palmerston no one can deny.
Its misdirection we 111114 t regret. `Lie country will,
we believe, in a Very few days—if we are lig,lit;y
informed, have to deal with all the great 'fact.;
which have recently agitated it, and which will
agitate for yeari this great empire, uuleis settled
by the settlement of a Conservative Administration
in power, placed there by the opinion of the people
—the dominion of right, and pie aged to princptcs
We have no fear of Lord Derby I

As no public announcement was yesterday made,
either in Parliament or out of it, of the intent,ons
of the Cabinet ; and as it would be idle for us to
pretend to penetrate the score's of the party to
which we are opposed, we shall not a 4 tempt to pre-
dict or to assert anything ; but shall merely point
out certain necessities of the case, which seem to
lead to almost inevitable conclasionq.

First, then, we incline to the opinion that the
Palmerston Administration is at an end. We doubt
the possibility of an immediate dissoluticn, with all
the financial business of the country untouched.,
with no one tax adjusted or re-adjusted, and with
all the estimates waiting for discussion. We repea,
that to disband Parliament for the whole of March
and half of April, with affairs in this plight, seems
to us nearly impossible. Nor is it likely, on the
other hand, that the members would consent to go
on with the ordinary busine,s of a session with a
condemned Government and with a dissolution in
Juno impending over the house of Commons. This
assembly has a right to say to the Alinistry,
" Either bow before our censure and retire, or
else, if you appeal to the country, make that appeal
at once."

In this position of affairs our expectation is, that
Lord Palmerston will bend to his inevitable fate,
and will to-day announce that his resignation is in
the hands of her Majesty.
Should this prove to be the cage, the history of
thiis crisis, and the way in wbich it has been pfo-
duced, will be one of the most remarkable in the
British annals. _ _ _

' The blow has been struck by a man who, for two
years past, has been held in something like con-
tempt. , • Mr. Cobden, for a considerable period,
has,been held to ba "effete and "gone by ;" and
'Punch has levelled more jokes and caricatures at
himtthan even at 'Mr. Disraeli himself. Yet has
this disregarded and scorned man found strength
enough to overthrow " the great War Minister:
Look, too, at the names of some of that majority
which has overthrown a "Liberal Ministry." Here
are a few of the culprits :
Thos. Alcock. Lord Goderich.
Sir F. Baring. Lord R. Grosvenor.
J. Bell. Lord J. Russell.
T. A. Bellew. Hon. P. L. King.
G. Bowyer. Sir J. Paxton.
J. Crook. A. Pellatt.
W. J. Fox. J. L. Ricardo.
G. Hadfield. J. A. Roebuck.
L. Heyworth. Capt. Scobell.
T. Kennedy. W. Tits.
S. Laing. E. Warner.
W. Laslett. W. Williams.
A. H. Layard. Sir T. E. Perry.
J. Locke. R. Cobden.
E. Mi.all. T. M. Gibson.
One singular contrast deserves to be noticed. In
1852 a great contest took place in Middlesex.
Lord Blaudford was the Conservative candidate,
and Lord R. Grosvenor the Whig. Now, in
Tuesday night's division, Lord Blandford voted
in favour of Lord Palmerston, and Lord R. Gros-
venor against him !
However, let us quit the past, and look forward
to the next moves on the political chessboard.
Should Lord Palmerston shrink from the fearful
s'raggle which an attempt to retain his seat would
bring on, and should he this afternoon announce
his retirement, the next important question would
be—To whom would her Majesty turn for counsel
and assistance in this difficult crisis
We, as Conservatives, naturally regard the pre-
ference as almost belonging to Lord Derby, on the
obvious ground, that no other individual has so
numerous a body of attached friends and supporters
in both Houses of Parliament. The universal ex-
pectation would be, that the first summons from
Windsor would be sent to St. James's-square.
But, let this difficult duty be impos:sd on whom-
soever it may—Lord Derby, Lord Aberdeen, or
Lord J. Russell—that individual will immediately
find troubles and difficulties spring up on every
side. The Conservative array is too weak without
the aid of Mr. Gladstone and his friends ; yet their
alliance, while it brings great strength in some
respects, brings some weakness also.
Twenty-one Conservatives voted with the Govern-
ment on Tuesday night ; and if asked the reason
why they did so, nearly every one of them would
have replied, "Because we do not want to bring
Mr. Gladstone into power."
We may be told that it would be wiser and more
patriotic to keep silence on these delicate points.
But our conviction is that the truest pa'riotism, is
shown by a frank, but respectful, avowal of differ-
ences and difficulties.
What will be the reception of a Derby Adminis-
tration, with Mr, Gladst9nesas leader of the House

of Wramoni ? Will the reunion of Sir. R. Peel's
followers with the main body of the Conservatives
give to the new Ministry a majority in the Howe
of COMM ns?

This• is, at least, doubtful. But will a disioi,
tis)n in June set matters right ? That depends on
the reception which Mr. Gladstone's name meets
with in the country. _ _

It is a keen perception of these difficulties which
leads Lord John Russell to predict with confidence
that the Premiership will be his before Midsummer.
In his view the failure of a Conservative Cabinet
is certain ; and then he considers that his turn
must come, and that the country must accept him
as it; dictator, simply because no other course is
open to it-.
This is the anticipation of a very self-confident
msn. OV,e's, and more judicious reasoners, avow
their conviction that Lord John Russells chance of
success is far smaller than Lord Daily's or even
than L rd Aberclee.'s (however preposterous the
last thought miy appear). They tell us thit Lord
John's popularly with the Whigs thtms,,,lvts is
nearly gone, and that at Br okes's he is scarcely
tolerated. Trey hold it to ba impo,sible for him
0 gather round him a decent Cabinet.

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Ou the who!e, the advent —of a Conservative
M,n-stry seems very nem.. The chief difficulty
seems to be to quiet the apprehensions or several in
Parliament, and of rainy, peraous out of Parlia-
ment, who dreal, more than almost auy other
thin the in reduction of Tra,ctariau influence into
the high lliees of the land.

(From the Morning Advertiser )
Out of evil cometh good. The ultimate result,
of the numerical disoomtiture of Ministers yester-
day moreinz will be to strengthen the hands and
encouraoi the heart of Los l Palmerston. The
country will view the matter in its true light. The
country is not a fiction. The country has no fac-
tious ends to serve. The country-4's not in qu9Bt of
place. Fac ion has for the moment triumphed in the
louse of Commons. Place-hunters have, as they
imagine, made a great advance to' the attainment
of their object. Mr: Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone
are speculating with great confidence' on their early
alquisition of the reins of power.
• It were well if they were somewhat less sanguine.
"There's many a slip between the cup and the lip."
So says the proverb, and every day's observation
verifies its truth. The country will never submit to
see Lord Palmerston made the victim of the most
disg,racefal combination recorded in the annals o t this
or of any other country. Only reflect for a moment
on the fact, that the names of the heads of each
of the five hostile parties into which the house
of Commons is divided, will be found in the list of
those who voted against Ministers. Mr. Disraeli,
as the leader of the Conservatives ; Mr. Gladstone,
as the head of the Peelites • Lord:John Russell, as
the chief "of the Whigs ; 1111 r. Cobden, as the re-
presentative of the Manchester school ; and Mr.
Roebuck, as the leader of those very independent
handful of Liberals in the house, who manifest
their independence by always voting against any
Government which chances to be in power—all, all
grace the list of Lord Palmerston's foes.
There is something absolutely odious in a combi-
nation. like this. The country will turn away from
it with loathing, We repeat what we have said from
the first, that the boutbarJment of Canton was,
under all the circumstances, a barbarous act ; and,
therefore, that Lord Palmerston committed a gt eat
error in policy, as well as iu justice, in adopting
and making his own everything which Admiral
Seymour and Sir John Bowring .thought proper to
do. But that only showed an exaess of generosity
on the part of the Premier. Thera was something
noble in the feeling which prompted him to
stand by the servants of the Crown—so far distant
from home ; but Lord Palmerston ought to.be re-
minded—and the adverse vote of yesterday morning
must have taught him the lesson—that generosity
may be cart ied too far. It ought never to be exer-
cised at the expense of justice. .
Still the error which the Premier has committed
in this instance did neither require nor jus-
tify the factious hostility which he has had to
enc4uuter from the mendacious clnsp.lrators wha
leagued against him in this debate. . Are all the
past 13atriltic deeds of th 6 noble lord to be forgot-
ten because of one error, and that arising from the
noblest of feelings ? The Disraelis and Gladstones,
and the hungry brood who bark at their heels in
their eager pursuit of place, may so reason ; but
the country will feet and act otherwise. The people
will never forget that to him alone we owe the

position which Great Britain occupies at
thi, mowent among the nations of the civilised
world.
The country knows, and feels profoundly grate-
ful in the contemplation of the fact, that but fur
Lord Palineiston .Russia would at this hour be
playing the despot over the 1.-ngth and breadth of
Europe. It was he, and he alone, that so signally
defeated all her diplomatic tricks, aided though she
was by France, in reference to the Bolgrad multi
Bessaralyan questions. Not only can he trium-
phantly say, " Alone I did it ;" but we can add,
that there is not another man among the many
millions of her Majesty's subjects who could have
done it. Had Lord Aberdeen, Lord Derby, or
Lord J. Russell been in office during the last two
years, England would be, at this hour, in effect, at
the b'ck of the Czar. We should have been vir-
tually the serfs of the Autocrat of all the
Russias. Louis Napoleon would have had his
wishes gratified respecting the extinction of the
freedom of our Press ; and ere a few years more
had elapsed this country would have been in the
same state of political and social degradation as
that in which we see France so deeply sunk.
Russia will never forgive Lord Palmerston for
the marked and merited punishment which, he has
inflicted cn her ; nor will there ever be the slightest
diminution of that mortification which she feels at,
the masterly manner in which he dealt with, and
defeated, her diplomatic cunning, with regard to
the recent Paris Conferences. She has vowed re-
venge ; .and Russia, as all the world knows, never
relents. Nor does, she ever renounce her once che-
rished objects. In accordance with her traditional
temper and tractics,.she has resolved neder to give
sleep to her eyes; nor slumber to her eyelids, until
she has made Lord ,Palmerston her victi9a. She
will pursue her vindictive course till the last 'hour
of the noble lord's political existence. Even then
her thirst for Vengeance will not be slaked.

(From the Morning Post.)
As the immediate consequence of the defeat of
the Ministry on Tuesday night, a Cabinet Council
was held yesterday.
As soon as the Council had broken up Viscount
Palmer-ton left town for Windsor Castle, whence
his lordship will return to-day. It is impossible to
suppose that a Minister of the energy, the ability,
and the popularity of the Noble Lord, supported,
as he is, by a large majority of the Upper House of
Parliament, can submit to the dictation of so
factious and unprincipled a coalition as that which
obtained an unfair triumph on the question of the
hostilities in China.
We feel therefore convinced that resignation is
not the point upon which Lord Palmerston has
taken the Royal pleasure.
Of course, it is impossible to say, till the wishes
of her Majesty have been ascertained, what is the
precise course t) be pursued ; but we own that we
see no resource in the present emergency except an
appeal to the country. ..
It is not difficult to anticipate the result of such
an appeal. The love of fair play inherent in the
English character—the gratitude for a great struggle
successfully maintained, and crowned with an
honourable peaca—for a large and
.unexpected
diminuti.m of the public burdens--for the interests
of Eagland promoted and her reputation vindicated
—for the alliances which have consolidated the
tranquillity of Europe, and combined the two great
nations of the West in the cause of civilisation and
liberty—for a home policy, reformatory and pro-
gressive, awl a foreign policy, glorious because
thoroughly English—cannot fail to find an echo in
the right feeling and honest action of the consti-
tuency of the country.
It seems a singular and most unaccountable fa-
tality that it is at the very moment when a satis-
factory treaty of Peace is signed with Persia by
h
Government of Viscount Palmerston—thus prov-
ingte the desire of the Cabinet to put an end to every-
thing like war and contest in the East—that
it is at
the very moment when the Neuchatel affair afford i
a more promising aspect—tt at it is at the very mo-
zenntdwehnct.nothf eHfaomngilyKofonthg, the much-
slandered uc slandered super-
of the island (Mr. Chisholm the A
Anstey), and other
numerous victims among the British are suffering
totha tbythteheHous,
from a wholesale system ofpoisoning
perfidiousoCommons, ai:l
t
combination of three parties
termined—let the two hundred and resorted
, has facetiously de-
sixty-thfhee
reaebbyerousChinese
gentlemen disguise it as they will
peeiniasbUlya noe
Government. The issue now
is
rr°ount a discreditable
longer between the Government of
Pal-
merston and the House of Commons,
thpices of
bute between.
h House of Commons elected under yes
try at la SI ild
t4' Earl of Derby and the cowl.

.417 vt.
this be determined by the qpy(e-tiVii*V,
fears whatever for the ultiriatt::' ;71X-
long felt and thought, in coil .• •,,C1734 4 :b.
that a House of Comm .ns e c
pices of the famOus W. B , o
riety, though containing maay,esihkaal.) n ble
individuals, was not rea'ly such a House of Com-
mons as truly and unmisbskably represented the
opinions and views of the 'country at large. It will
proba'dy be better for all parties—better for the in,
ter stn of peac economy,-and•practicable retrench-
ment—that the people should be called on, at no
very distant day, to say whether they prefer dux
views, feelings, and principles of the 2i't7
gentlemen who 4ustained the Miflis,er who prose-
ent:Rd n orelt war to a gl )rious issue, or whether
- sti to have a Derby, Gladstone, and Cobden
Coalition.: How the country feels and thinks can-
not, we believe, be a matter of much doubt. Though
sensible and moderate men regret that several use,-
ful bills must be, in the event of a dissolution,
pee poned—thit some legal reforms must be aban-
doned, and a great deal of priVate Parliament ry
buithess, comprising dock, harbour, and railway
hills, must be delayed—yet the inconvenience,
though great, undoub a lly, can only be temporary,
whila the ultimate benefit mus', in our vleiv, be
slid and permanent. We blieve a better and a
more homogeneous Howe of Commons must be re-
turaei at 'Cie next vieral election, let a dissolution
come when it may, which will better appreciate the
Policy of the Government, ani better sustain the
honour and inter Cs of the mutry.

A HARBOUR OF REFUGE ON THE

NORTH-E'ASI' COAST.

The fearful loss of life and property in the North
Sea during the January gales has attracted a good
deal of attention in the mercantile communities to
the imperative necessity of forming a harbour of
refuge somewaere on the north-east seaboard be-
tween th , Yarmouth roads and the Tyne. Various
prof Tots are under discussion, each locality advo-
cating its own particular scheme. Redcar, Hartle-
pool-bay, and northward of the Tyne, Newbigg-m-
-bay, have been suggested as eligible sites. Mr.
Murray, the engi Oen- of the Sunderland-docks, has
a magnificent scheme to form a'harbour of 600
acres in Hendon-bay, by the side of the ocean.
track from London to .the coal ports ; and the River
Ty.le Improvement Cominiss,oners also urge that
they should have aid from the Treasury to ex.end
the pier-works now in course of fqrmation, Si as
to make the noble estuary of the Tyne a har-
bour of refuge in gales of wind. Mr. James
Mather, one of the River Tyne Improvement
Commissioners, adduces the folio ring facts in a
petition he has presented to the House of Lards
in proof that such a place of shelter should be made
by the Government. He says a harbour of refuge
on the north-east coast of England would save an-
nually from destruction a large number of British
seamen and a great amount of shipping property.
That out of 1,141 wrecks and casualties (according
to the "Admiralty Wreck Register" for 1856) 576,
or upwards of one-half, took place upon the east
coast. And on this coast for 260 miles, from Yar-
mouth Roads to the Frith of Forth, there is no
harbour of refuge for vessels caught in gales flora
the eastward. That in the year 1852, within a
radius of 70 miles of the river Tyne, about one-
fourth of the wrecks of the kingdom occurred; and
that in a single easterly gale in October of that
year, within 20 nautical miles of the Tyne, 69 lives
were sacrificed in a few hours. That in the begin-
ning of January, 1854, by another easterly gale,
110 wrecks occurred in three days within the same
radius, by which upwards of a quart-r of a mil-
lion sterling of British shipping and other pro-
perty was destroyed and a large number of British
seamen was sacrifice d ; and at the mouth of
the same river, which was sought by a large fleet
for shelter during the gale, 36 wrecks occurred, one-
fourth of which only belonged to the port. The
crews of the wrecked vessels, with the exception of
one, wore, however, all gallantly saved by the life-
boat. That in the terrible gale from the north-east,
upon the sth of January in the present year, within
a radius of 50 miles from the Tyne, and in the same
bay, 94 ships went on shore or foundered, by which
in a few hours 167 lives were miserably destroyed
and a large amount of property was entirely lost.
That within 20 nautical miles of the river Tyne,
where these terrible dims' ers are crowded so fatally
together, a great amount of shipping is perpetually
ou the coast, trading to and from the three north-
eastern rivers, the Tyne, the Wear, and the Tees,
with their tributaries. The five ports on these rivers,
it is recorded in the last year's Parliamentary Re-
turn on shipping, had upwards of 8,100,000 tons in-
wards and outwards, of which oue-half belonged to
the Tyne, being about one-sixth of the entire trad-
ing tonnage of the kingdom, and more than that of
the Thames. That during the year upwards of 57,000
vessels from those ports were thus exposed day and
night in all weathers upon the dangerous north-
east coast, whose harbours are hermetically seal( d,
the sooner and the more closely the heavier the
gale. In such gales those of them at the time upon
the coast not able to keep the sea or enter a har-
bour speedily founder or are dashed and wrecked
upon tnis disastrous leeshore. That, in addition'
there is al =o a large number of vessels at no die-
tance in the North Sea RisQing alone the coast, or
bound to and from the Baltic and the north-
ern ports of Europe, which, with these already
specified, do not amount to less than 120,000 yes-
' sels a year thusi- exposed. That the south coast ? f
England, according to the last Parliamentary re-
turn (1856, No. 122), had less than 3,000,000 of
trading tonnage (the Tyne itself has upwards of
4,000,000), which his been provided by the Go-
vernment with four harbours of refuge still con-
structing, and having cost already nearly 2,000,000/.
sterling, annually increasing, while the more than
9,000,000 of tonnage of the north-east coast is left
entirely without a harbour of refuge.