Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

of 10. Such result, on such subject, left
the late Premier and his colleagues no option
but to resign, and accordingly next day Lord
Palmerston waited on the Queen, and placed in
her hands the seals of Office, but it Is added
that, contrary to etiquette on such occasions,
he did not advise Her Majesty for whom to
send, the inference being that be expected to be
recalled in short time, with additional eclat.
Probably he thought Lord Derby was not in a
position to form ministry. Lord Derby lost
no time in consulting the leaders of the con-
sentative party, and he has filled the leading
Offices of state with the best available talent at
Lis command. Lord Derby on the 1scnt, as
on former occasions, calculated ON the adhesion
of the Peelites-the Duke of Newcastle, Sir
James Graham, Mr.. Gladstone, Sydney Herbert,
and Mr.. Cardwell-but the offer was met by
immediate and pointed refusal. 1t is true that
Mr.. Gladstone name figured in the first pub
lished programme of the Derby Ministry, as
Chancellor of the Exchequer, but the statement
Was wholly inaccurate. Lord Derby, in the
course of Saturday afternoon, after he had re-
ceivcd the Queens commands to form q govern
mcnt, did certainl write to Mr.. Gladstone, but
there wasno personal interview. In the course
of the same afternoon, that eminent statesman
forwarded to Lord Derby note courteously OK
pressed. stating emphatically and on the instant
his refusal to join the new government. De
privcd of all assistance then from quarters tc
which he had looked for support, his lordshiI
had no alternative but to fall back upon the
members of his former administration"
CHINA.
The Cantonese submitted and evacuated the
city on the 30 of December.
The Governor of Conton was taken prisoner
as well as Yeh and the Tartar General. The
Governor (PihqueI was subsequently installed
as Vice Governor of the city, with powers SINH
lar to those welded previously by Yeh Thu
Allies were to continnc their protectorate unit
satisfactory terms were made with the govern
ment at Pekin. A commissioner, composed o
two Engshmen and one Frenchman, had beer
charged with the supervision of the government
and had issued proclamation inviting the poo
pie to return, assuring them of protection.
AT the departure of the mail everything wa
quiet and there was fair prospect of the tax
ing off of the blockade, and the resumption o
trade, within week.
In the assault there were numerous hand-t'
hand encounters The British lost one hundred
and the French thirty in killed and wounded.
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bat plumber was forbidden.
The United States ships-of-war Minnesota
Mississippi, Portsmouth and San Jacinto, wer
at Hong Kong Jan IA.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Globe understands Lord Cowley will be cCntin
ued MS English Ambassador to France.
Letters from Paris represent that bette
feeling existed with regard to the relations will
England, founded upon the appointment o
Lord Malmcsbury to the foreign Office, and thu
personal friendship existing between D Israel
and the Emperor.
An immense number of arrests are said t.
have been made recently in Paris and the prov
inc2, among them three members of the Pari
bar, belonging to the Republican party.
Th3 trial of conspirators commenced on til,
2jth, before the Court of Assizes Of Seine
The Indictment is very lengthy, and circumstan
tial. The prisoners are all young men, with tn
exception of Pierri, who is middle aged. The
jail seemed composed, and listened with attei
ton to the proceedings. Gomez denied any pal
ticipation in the act and only knew of it at tn
last moment. Rudio confessed cverything-h
threw one bomb, and eliminated the rest of tn
prisoners. Orsin accepted the full responsible
lty of the part he had taken in the affair; cor
fessed he wanted to kill the Emperor, and wa
ready to die he never confided his intention t
Mr.. Allsop, said Mr.. Bernard brought tn
bombs to Brussels, but did not know for wha
purpose they were intended would not sa
anything as toqthc other prisoners.
Pierri denied all participation in the conspira
cy until the day the attempt was made, an
then raponted.
PARIs.-Friday. The jury bas given vel
dict of guilty as regards four of the accused
The Court pronounced the sentence of death o
Orsini Rudio and Pierri Gomez was sentence
to penal servitude for life.