The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-18
AFFAIRS IN EUROPE.
Administrative Talents or Lords Derby, Aber.
deem and John Russell.

Administrative Talents OF Lords Derby, Absr-
deem and John Russell.
From the London Times, Feb. 81
We presume IL Is intended in the way OF consolation
20 she pubic, or rather Of congrasuistion for WIN 1t
are called " the improved accounts from the Cri
mea, mat We were favored with Q rather lively
scene In The Lords last night. Hitherto there has
been great deal of shyness as to all vulgar festivi
TIES, Inequalities, ard that sort Of tning. Toe
Christmas holydsys have been observed as per-
Petuai so.csJ-no county balls, no grand dinners.
ana iAIsefy. as Is happened, not even fox hunting
But matters, doubtless, are needing for example,
tne electric telegraph reports only IA degtees Of
cold" IN the Crmea even II the weaIner does not
change there, the COMMANDMENT Chief undou btedly
Will go now ls the time to extract some OF the
sweeter uses OF adversity and this was done by Lord
Derby last oight. We can MY suppose that his lord
ship 10 really in some what better spirits to the
war than most men are. He really does not think
the campaign ttartully and irretrievably msma.
raged. 81 the accounts horrible and heart-reud
that he can afford TO amusa their lcrdships With
1.-THE picture Of an interior" raise smile at the
very proper and natural remarks OF the late Pre-
mier on &C lsbors Of his colleagues, AT tonk more
OF the iuI eia OF the Ministry than Of that other
disastrous coz summation now Impending. We are
aware Ola k'no OF perversity in human NATURE
species OF is-scton against the more imperious ap
peals to our sympathy Is is not PRECISELY kaown
with what particular sentiment Nero fdded when
Rome burnt; but that 1t is possible to be gay under
the catastrophe Of great army freezing TO death
we may see by the example of last night. We
sa chief s habit is IN the
does, always laugh. Doubtless, his own fu-
neral ora;ion, When he comes to pronounce
1t, VIII be diversified by as many good things
as those he intersperses in Lord Aberdeen's
Like Sir Thonss More, he would jest on his scafod
Indeed, the present occasion Is not altogether 80
different. If Lord Aberdeen had been pronouncing
his own funeral Grafton, 20 also did Lord Derby.
He had 70 relate how her Majesty had given him
her commission to form a ministry, and how that
he had doue his very best to form one, and had
succeeded how thai one more opportunity had &C.
IT pass, for want Of friends for want Of popularity
for want OF liked principles for want of everything
except gift Of eloquence, which knows no times
nor seasons and IN che fatal facility Of speaking
all sides, has lost the clue to the right one.
II anything is proved by tois unhappy exhibit.
tcn Of IN uncontrolled humor tits that Lord Derby
10 wholly incapable of comprehending the present
situation. ard feeling Il as he ought to do. The
solely because it did not chow sufficient energy,
promptitude. resolution and Hrmness in the con.
duct Of the war. II has been responsible for the
manasemint Of the war, and that management has
was most to blame, the Earl, or the Duke, or ths
whole Cabinet, or Lord Raglan, or his staff; the
British people look to the government atIho me- and
expect TIA. government to 90 the work, to give
OF complaint against the government, which has
not indeed cone much, but need have done nothing,
could 1t only have pointed to the flags Of the allies
fore, is quite in the rgnt to remind the impssen.
public OF what ais government has done apart from
the operations Of the siege. Nothing was mora
proper than shat be should pronounce friendly
s "a. aDs the sesy g on the the
Of the Exchequer, on the unwearied patience and
tact by which the Foreign Secretary has brought
Austria into the position Of ally given already
an actual co atingent of great value from the King
of Sardinia and cemented our relations with the
Emperor OF tie Ffench. Il was not less proper,
nor was IL With less truth, that Lord Aberdeen
spoke in terms of high praise OF the Duke Of New
castle assduity and talent unfortunately defeated
by the want Of those higher qualities demanded by
q crisis OF uu parsll led urgency. All this quite
compatible wis cheerful resignation to that Par.
bamentary % ntence which has pronounced the late
Cabinet waiting. and 81 nmoned some one ess to
take its place. Yst Lord Derby has thought fit 10
put wholly out Of sight the DISMISSAL scene in the
Crimea 20 forget it, to dismiss 1t alike fr om the
thoughts OF his head and the feelings Of his heart
for the sole porpose of treating this as mere Min
isteriA catastrophe, the downfall Of coalition cao
net, dame ing to the credit os the statesmen com
promised Ia 1t, though, as /; happens noe bringing
Or the Two we hardly koow which is least to be
adnired-tbe vacilations whi h left Lord John R1s
sell in dolbt so many months what to do, what to
propose, wha: fault 10 find, If any, with whom, II
nJbody and that only ceased when the duty OF
decision gwen place TO that Of loyalty and honor
or the ffivoify which can profess 70 bs wholly in
ditierelt. wholly incapable Of deciding which minis
ter comes out the best in the Cabinent disruption.
the jest will per NIT az far as he can be consider
ed serious at ALL in favor Of the duke, but then ne
evidently thinks the joke considerably enhanced by
the Circumstance that the chief sufferer il the
who least deserves IT, aud that Lord John Rus.
sell, who has played his colleagues this shrewd
trick, has done 80 with 30 very bad case. Per
baps, We shall be told that we exsggerate the
feeling OF the country. Had we said week ago
that the House OF Commons would pronounce
cepsuie on the administration, and turn it out by
majority Of two to one, We should have been told
that No exaggerated its feeling. But time Is now
turning out inc greatest innovator, and we do not
hesitate TO say that the country at large Is in very
grave moot. and will soon STOW itself in . much
graver mood If it sees public Affairs treated With
the levity exhibited By Lord Derby last night. It
cares nos for one parliamentary combination more
shan another, and viii not think the internal feuds
Of Cabinet or its last confessions worth even the
humoF bestowed Upon them by the conservative
war With the utmost vigor, and wants the man to
do its work. For the sake OF the right man II Ia
prepared to swallow good many scruples, but
there ia sort Of man It certainly will not invite
to the solemn duty Of rescuiDg cur army, vindicat
ing our b,sor, and keeping Russia within bounds
and that is an incurable jester.
Confirms, between the Military Systems OF
Eng land and France.
From the London Times, Jan. 20
II would tax the best read historical student to
produce more complete case cf pOllticaI collapse
than that which IT Is England's i'll fate, sore cost
and, We had almost said, foul dishonor TO witness
this day. The vast prestige Of that naval aud mill
tary organization which We have been nursing 10
sedulously for these forty years, at the cost Of
ELS 000.0 900 a year, has gone 9Th touch at the
moment OF trial. We explain emphatically and at
once the prestige OF that orgsnizstion"-for Eng.
land has still that IL had forty years ago, and four
hundred pears ago-it has q hardy, industrious and
generous race, that no enemy from within or with
out can VITA impunity provoke, and which will die
But never was anything more rapid than the pre-
sent renuneiation Of that huge impcsture-our mi.
litary system.
In the fullest reliance on the native energies OF
the British people, and kaowin1 that they need NJ
fair dzsuises and want the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, We say that the British