New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-15
ENGLAND.
The Ministerial Crisis.

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The Ministerial Crisis.
No Ministry has yet been formed to replace that
OF Lord John Russell
Negotiations have been on foot in two direc.
lions. The resignation did not finally take place
till Saturday, Feb 90, the Marquis OF L ansdowne'
the President of the Council having been absent
from London on the day Of the final defeat in toe
House OF Commons. The Queen at once accept
ed it and sent for Lord stanley He did think
himself prepared then to undertake the construc-
ton of Government. At least SO Lord John
John Russell stated 10 the House Of Commons on
Monday night, two days after his resignation
Mr.. DIsraeli denied the correctness Of the state
ment, but did not say what Lord stanley's reply
70 the Queen really was. At any rate be did not
accept the offer Of her Majesty
Hereupon the Queen had to fall back on Lord
John Russell again and let him see what ne could
do. Nobody else, it seemed, could do anything,
and there must be Government at some rate
Lord John tried to engage Sir James Graham to
enter the Ministry, bringing with him the inaa-
ence Of the Peetes, bat this failed. Then toe
Queen sent for Lord Aberdeen, bat he declined
the honor for want Of strength in Parliament
Then Lord Stanley was sent for again, and now
decidedly consented to try bis hand
A Stanley Cabinet would apparently have been
equivalent to E return toprotection, and so it was
regarded by the press and public. However,
Lord Stanley whether from conviction that the
pure policy Of his party has become impractical
bic, or from the necessity Of finding strength
outside Of that party, because it contains no man
of decided talent, except Mr. Israeli, and TO
man Of experienced Statesmaaship at all, sought
an alliance with Sir. Gladstone, NJ. P. for the
University of Oxford, a member Of the last Peel
Cabinet and a thorough Free Trader. This was,
Of course, equivalent TO saying lat the noble
Lord was willing 10 abandon Protection, If not
altogether, at least in part. Bat the Coalition
could not be formed and Lord Stanley was com
PEELED to abandon the task of forming Govern
meut This was hailed with shouts Of exutation
by the Free Trade organs, as a sort Of last dying
confession Of impotence on the part of the Pro-
tectionists.
After the failure of all these efforts and nego
tiations, the charge Of the Administration neces.
sarily REQUIRED to the Wings, meeting Of the
members Of the resigned Government was held
at Lansdowne House on Friday, Feb. q, TO de.
liberate on the state Of affairs and decide, if pos
sible, on the course to be pursued. OF the up.
shot Of that conference We are not informed. The
Times Of that day. in its leader, urges, not in so
many words, but quite positively the withdrawal
of Lord John Russell and the formation of Min
istrv without him. In such Ministry the natar-
al leader would be Sir James Graham.
On Friday the 2sth ult, Lord John Russell an
noupced that he could NOT unite Sir James Graham
and the Earl of Aberdeen in Ministry with him
self and then reviewed and defended the policy ne
had pursued, while at the head Of the Government.
On the papal aggression, free trade, and the ex-
tension OF the suffrage he had not, and could not
change his principles. The Marquis OF Lans-
downe said ia the Lords that Sir James Graham
had tried to form government but in vain, aud
that the Queen intended to advise with the Duke
of Wellington as to the crisis.
The Ministerial Crisis has given vacation 10
Parliament Neither House did anything during
the week except the Lords, who on Tuesday re,
iected the bill allowing marriage with deceased
vife's sister The principal opponents OF the OIL
were the bishops, and they resisted it on religious
and biblical grounds.