Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-03-16
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

| Our telegraphic column last week informed our
readers th, Ministerial crisis has occurred in Eng.
land. On Monday, the 22d ultimo Lord Pamerston
in the Huuse of Commons, and Earl Granville in the
House of Lords announced that in consequence OF
the decision of the House of Commons in regard to
the refugee question and the conspiracy BILL the Min.
sters had on the 20th rendered their designations to
| the Queen, and that the same were accepted they
] also announced that the Queen had summoned Lord
Derby TO her councils and that he was engaged IN
| the formation of Cabinet.
| Both Houses adjourned till the 26th in order to
| rive time for the construction Of new Ministry,
| which was announced in the London Times OF the
| Oath, as follows:
| Chancellor of the Exchequer-Right Hon. Benja.
min d'lsraeli.
Lord Characteristic Frederic Thesiger
President of the Council-Marquis of Salisbury.
Lord Privy Seal-Lord HardwIcke.
SECRETARIES OF STATE.
Home Department-Right Hon. Spencer II. Wal.
pole.
The War Experimentation. Peel.
First Lord OF the Admiralty-Right Hon. Sir John
Pakington.
Postmaster General-Lord Colchester.
President OF the Board Of Trade-Right Hon. j.
w. Henley.
President of the Board of Contro-Earl of Ellen.
borough.
First Commissioner Of Public Works-Rght Hon.
Lord John Manners.
Under Secretary for Wsr-Major A. II. p. Stuart
Wortey.
Lord Leutenant-Earl OF Eglingon.
Lord ChancellOr-Right Hon. r. Backburne.
Chief Secret8ry-LOrd Mas.
The Duke of Newcastle, Lord Grey and Mr.. Glad.
stone to whom overtures We're made by Lord Derby,
declined to Join his Cabinet
II was supposed that the great offices of the House.
hold would be given to the Marquis of Exeter; the
Earl Delaware and the Earl Of Chesterfield.
The members of the Government not in the Csbi.
net include the Duke OF MOntross az Chancellor Of
the Duchy of Lancaster, Mr.. Carnes as Solicitor Ge
naral Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald as under Secretary for
retary Of the Colonies, Lord Hsrdinge as Under Sec
MIR. LOTUS e. Otway is appointed British Minister
to Mexico, and A. RI. S. Lumbley Secretary Of Ls
CATION at Madrid.
mons new writs ordered for the seats occupied
by members Of the Cabinet Both Houses had ad-
journed until March l, when they would further ad.
journ to the I'm.
derstsnds that Lord Cowley will be continued az
English Ambassador to France.
According to the Psris correspondence Of "Le
Nord," the immediate return of the Count de Per-
s;yuy 10 London is regarded as proof that the Gov
the English Cabinet with apprehension, or consider
that the late vote OF the House of Commons in any
respect impairs the Anglo,French Alliance "Le
Nord" adds: at is even probable that the New Ca
bnet. after having replied to the despatch of Count
WaIewski, will take the initiative in new PROPOSE.
ton for satisfying the reclamation Of France"
Prior to the adjournment of Parliament, despatch
from Lord Cowley, the British Minister 10 Pars, to
Lord Clarendon, was communicated to both Houses.
The despatch was written in consequence of the reso
luions adopted by the Commons imputng blame to
the Pamerston Cabinet in not replying 10 the note
from the French Government. The following is the
despatch:
"PARIs, February 2l, 1858.
my LORD: Having learnt by telegraph that Ger.
tain resolutions imputinY blame to her Meestys
Government for Cot having made any reply to Count
Wslewski's despatch TO Count Persigny, dated the
Goth of January, had been affirmed by majority of
ths House of Commons, think it a duty TO your
ordship to place record, that, although have not
been charged TO make any official communication 10
have been enabled by your lordship's private in
strucons to place before the French Government the
sentiments, views, and intentions of her Msjesty's
Government far more fully and cannot but believe
more satisfactorily, than would have been the case
had my language been clothed in more official garb
"When Count Walewski's despatch was written the
irritation against the supposed apathy OF England in
matter so important to France The preservation OF
the Emperor life was excessive. Rightly or wrongly
the idea prevailed that every conspiracy against ms
Majesty had been organized in England, and that te
British laws gave security to the consPirstors' NO