Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-05-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOsSyP.

very stencil in the nestrils Of the people he
governs We learn by private advices re.
ceived In Washington by the last steamer,
that he con.omplates resiguiug, aud have
every reason from what We hear, as coming
from other parties in London connected with
public affairs, that there is truth in this rumor.
The London correspondent Of The Boston Post,
writing By the same mail, tells Of the actual
reign alton Of Lord Panmnrs, the head of the
British War Office, who has become, If posi-.
bic, even more odious than Pslmerston, owing
TO the fragrant deficiency of the service over
which he presides, as manifested in the re-
cults, go far, of the eo .ts of the allied armies
to reduce Sobsstopol.
Il strikes as, On the whole, that the English
people and press hold Palmerston and Pan.
mure to responsibility which is not theirs legi-
timatsly, as ct times they seem to be regarded
as accountable for all the short comings Of the
campaign. We think this unjust, ipsomuch
as it is signal fact hat the SIX months fight.
ing In the Crimea hss NOT brought to light the
existence Of energy, genius or attachments,
military of course We refer to, In the oharcc-
ter Of any officer in either tho French or En-
glish armies. One and all, The gensral officers.
and all others whose positions there might
lead Of they were moulded Of the right mstal)
to distinction through signal services, seem to
be organized on the dead level of common
place nediocrity.
Menchikoff and Omer Pasha have aionc
shown military genius and resources of mind
and character and energy, signalling them
as great soldiers Of the age. So far as England
Ia Concerned, this remark able deficiency is not
confined to her military circles, as with the
exception cf John Bright, she is now without a
single public man in civil life who may fairly
lay claim to originality and nerve Of thought;
and it is still questionable whether he is no.
al Improbable statesman, having bsen bred
in the Quaker school in public affairs, which
has so far failed to rear up in England sin.
gle man who has proved himself competent to
deal successfully with the business of states
manship and to manage the mass of his fellow
men to advantage.
England is indeed in q bad way, the ten.
dency Of her affairs being to create in the
minds Of her people q firm determin alton
sooner or later to change her whole govern
mental system.
The establishment Of the electric telegraph
from London to Bslaklava, with the exception
Of gap Of few miles, is opsr iting tc render
the people much more discontinued with their
Government. Already the Times Is complain
irg that The war Office, by Withholding for a
day th. news it receives from the army, is
creating the impr ession that matters are grow
ing worse in the Crimea. At noon, Lord Pan.
mure is believed to receive an account of wha,
has been done a few hours previously before
Sebsstopol, with a reques. for instruction.
what to do the same night. In other words,
the establishment of the telegraph throws upon
the ministry the entire responsibility for what
may happen before the besisged city, without
the existence Of a possibility that If the Allies
triumph, they (the ministry will reap their
due share of the glory. Under such eircum-
stances, the idea that any Government can
hold the confidence Of British public opinion
for months Until the war in The Crimsa NJ AZ be
ended, is futile. We are, therefore, evidently
destined, for SEINE time to come, to hear Of FIRE.
qusnt changes in the British ministry.
S York At Lee, Esq-We spprehend that
this gentlenan's memory is at fault with refer.
enoe to portion Of the history of his conleo.
ton with office in Washington. He says in the
card which a friend of his published, yester-
day, in the Star as an advertisement:
During my official connection with the
General Government, l have inv ably on
posed the indiscriminate removal Of competent
and faithful clerks on account of mere parti.
zsn opinions "
Taking it for granted that he means by this
to say that he has invariably boon opposed to
removals on political grounds only, We have to
remind him that there is evidence on file here,
showing that he applied, over his own signe.
ture, for office on partisan grounds; that his
friend, the Hon. Luciu, Lyon, of Michigan
expressly asked il writing that a Wing should
be removed to make place for him; and that
Wing s0Gs removed to give him the plaos in
the chloe Of the Register of the Treasury to
which he was first appointed in this city.
70 imagine that on having his memory thus
refreshed he will continue to proclaim his hos.
'iIity to the practice Of giving clerical places
in Washington on political grounds, flor which
We confess little favor. indeed, would be to
entertain the opinion that no is for it whom he
may be prO1tted by it, and against 1t when It
may, by possible chance, gore him.
Mr.. At Lee, In the card in question, denies
that he Is q member Of the Know Nothing
order, but makes no denial of the identity of
his present sentiments with those reclaimed
by the Know Nothings, a leading one Of which
avoWs the purpose Of prescribing from Office
every person who differs from them politically.
How, while We have no love for the fashion
OF removing men simply on account Of their
political principles, it strikes US that the very
last man in Washington who may rightfully
complain against It is g. York At Lee, ESQ.
The Hsrpsr's Ferry Elsotion.-Ws have a
lettaP from a oentleman IN uo,n.,,s p>-.-