The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-12

CRISIS I'm tFle English Cabiuet-RumOrsd
Resignation Of Bart Russell rhe Duke
of gOmerseG TO be Sent FOr-rh story
COntrndicGed.
Frsrp tie Londoa Times, february 20.
1t would be idle to disguise the fact that the
course OF Government since the meeting OF Par
lament has been such as to excite the gravest
anxiety amoug the friends OF liberal admins
ration. People have gone about assuring one
another that everything was going well, but
they did so in tones which illcorresponded with
the words OF encouragement they uttered. The
Administration has not been called upon to do
much, its trial has been but short, and yet what
il has done has exhibited spirit of vacillaton
and uncertainty which augured i'll for IFS future
1t has seemed as il anything ike unity oil prin-
ciple was absent from It's deliberations; The
Cabinet has been divided against Itself; what
one man has proposed another has rejected and
no one has been able TO guess what would hap
pen tomorrow, because IL was impossible to say
what spirit would then be predominant. We
cannot be surprised, then, to hear 1T rumored
that, under such circumstances, Lord Russell
has asked her Majesty to relieve him from duties
which have proved too irKsome Tor him. and has
begged permission to resign once more the office
of First Minister OF the Crown We are not in
a position to affirm positively the truth of this
rumor but the existence of such rumor so
substantiated is fact in ITSELF and we shall pro-
ceed to discuss IL and Others which have OBJ.
tanned equal authority as if they were well
founded
If a strong liberal government, either under
Lord Russell or some capable successor, can be
maintained, we should, of course, greatly prefer
it, but il this is rendered impossible by internal
difficulties, we may call attention to another ad-
vantage which would accrue from a tory inter
regnum. The country is at present en-
barrassed by what we may venture to cali,
by metaphor borrowed from the
naval service, "Yellow Admrals" Men who
have come to the fore by mere seniority
and the course of promotion, who inspire no
confidence, aud have neither knowledge nor
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Vidious to mention them individually, but it is
only necessary to recall the names OF ministers,
past and present. to be aware that there are
some from whose claims both the great parties
hard to displace them; but if they were once
relegated to obscurity no one would think OF
recalling them to position of distinction. ..
We desire, above all things, good, sound,
strong, liberal government. There are plenty of
things for it to do. There is ireland to be set
tied, colonial policy 10 be determined, a
foreign policy still in progress OF transition,
the permanent question OF reform to be laid at
rest; but IT these things cannot be accomplished
at once, we are content to wait for q season,
that they may be accomplished more effectually.
No one of these can be settled without united
Cabinet, possessing definite policy, following
the inspiration oil a single leader; and although
the promise of sucn a result may at present be
dim and uncertain, we think we discover signs
that period of darkness and of termination
might bring 1t to light.
CONTRADICTION OF THE RUMoR.
From the London Globe Fe6ruary2 2S.
We have authority to state that there is no
foundation of any sort Tor the rumor that Earl
Russell had begged permission of her Majesty to
resign, and recommended the Duke of Somerset
as his successor The whole story from begin
ming to end is pure fiction.
From the Pal Mall Gazette, February %.
We believe there is not the slightest founda-
lion for the statement in the morning papers,
and SnpculatiOn the 5trUptiOn Of Cow
ernment may, therefore, be abandoned for the
present
Reported Illness Of the Queen.
The Pail Mall Gazette had given currency to a
report that Queen Victoria was indsposed, but
the Daily Telegraph asserts that the report was
without foundation.
The London correspondent of the Manchester
EIdnli71er says:-'Although | see that the state.
ment of her Maesty's indisposition Is vehe.
mently contradicted in one of the morning
papers to which one would hardly look for m
formation about the court, | fear that the Pail
Mall Gazette was well informed and that the
Queen is by no means well. She has had a
severe shock in the death of Sir c. Phipps; ana
she is iaboring under severe and trying anxiety
about Prince Leopold The health Of his Royal
Highness is beyond all doubt in a very critical
condition; and it would even be quite safe to use
a still stronger word"
The RussO-Amertean Entente COrdIaIe.
ANOTHER BANQUET TO GENERAL CLAY, OUR MINIS
TER, AND THE CRoNsTADT FLEET.
From the Liverpool Post February 20.
Americans and Russians have been again fra
ternizing-this time at Cronstadt-the occasion
being the siXty-third anniversary OF the Sailors
Club of that city. General Clay aud the Secre
tary of the American Legation were the guests
of the evening. The General occupied the placs
of honor. He had ON his right the Governor o
Cronstadt, Aide-de-Camp General and Admiral
Novosslsky, aud on his left Rear-Admiral Lessov
sky.
After toasts to the Emperor, the Grand Duke
Constantine, and the Minister of Marine, Genera
NoVossisky proposed the health of Genera
Clay to the strains of the american Hymn,
executed by q choir of excellent musicians
Afterwards Admiral Lessovsky addressed to the
after having traced parallel between the his
tory of the American and Russian fleets, anC
called to mind the sympathetic reception giver
to their squadron in the United States he pro
posed toast to the prosperity and power OF the
fleet and sailors of America. General Clay re
sponded in brief but cordial speech, translated
into Russian by Admiral Lessoysky.
He declared how happy he was to ackuoW
LEDGE mere, as at Moscow the sympathetic re
ceptlon they gave him in the name OF the Rus
Sian nation, and how much the friendly relation
80 happily existing between the two countrie,
had received new force and new consecratioI
by late events. The Polish revolution in Russis
and Secession in the United States have been fol
the two countries new experience, out o
which they have come vIctorously. Genera
of that agreement and the prosperity of tn,
Russian and American fleets. General Clay Was
Immediately nominated by acclamatiOn nonorar,
member OF the club.
The Excitement I'm Ireland.
FENIANIsM IN THE BRITISH ARMY
Dublin February 27) Telegram to London Times.
This morning the orderly officers and sergeant