Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-03-29

From the London Star, Mar

From the London Star, March 4.
The rupture in the Cabinet which we an
ticipated has taken place.
General Peel, Lord Cranborne and the
Earl of Carnarvon refuse to go "a far in the
way of lowering the suffrage as their col
leagues in the Ministry, and therefore they
resign. There was Cabinet Council meet
ing on Saturday, at which the proposed
Reform bill was, it is understood, the CHIEF
topic of discussion, and as the majority oil
the Cabinet we're inclined to save theil
places by meeting the wishes of the liberal
party as to the borough franchise, the
three Ministers whom we have named ten
dered their designations. Whether the
government will be able to patch up its
Cabinet and go on with the work it pro
fesses to have taken into hand remains tC
be seen.
/ 1t has been stated that Sir Stafford North
cote was to go to India as the successor o.
| Sir J. Lawrence. This is very unlikely
Sir Stafford Northcote is one of the few
members of the Cabinet in whom the party
have confidence, ard it is not probable thai
he will leave his seat in the House of Com
mons to take post for which, as far as
we are able to jndge, he is not eminently
fitted
! From the London STAR March s.
| In the House OF Lords last night the
Earl of Derby made statement in refer
ence to the Ministerial difficulties. II
amounted to this The Cabinet, in deter
mining to deal with reform, had two alter.
native plans. To one of these two of the
members of the Cabinet objected altogeth.
er, but at length gave a reluctant consent
to the other. That other was stated to the
House of Commons and was approved by
nobody. Thereupon the Cabinet recon
sidered its proposals, and though the adop-
ton of the more enlarged plan involved
the sacrifice of three colleagues, that sacri-
flee was determined upon. Lord Garner
voh followed with an explanation, in the
course OF which he said that he should not
have OBJ lection to household suffrage in al
boroughs with more than q certain popula-
ton, yet to make the franchise alike in
large and small places was abhorrent to him.
Earl Granville and Earl Grey continued
the discussion, and the Earl of Derby
wound it up with speech, in which he
justified the course taken by the Ministry.
Arms for Parson BrownlOw.
In the Senate, on Monday, Mr.. Fowler
the Secretary of War to furnish to Cover
nor Brownlow, of Tennessee, arms and
equipments for $500 militia.
Mr. Buckalew said the State of Tennes-
see WAS entitled to arms under the general
law the same as the other States and he
would like to knowthe reason for this special
bill
Mr.. Fowler said Governor Brownlow
wanted them to arm the loyal militia, Union
men were being constantly assassinated,
and murdered and these arms were necessary
for their protection.
Mr.. Patterson would ask his colleague
to state what Union men had been assassi-
mated.
Mr.. Fowler said a whole family, every
male member but he did not think it ne
cessary to go into this matter.
Mr. Patterson asked if rebels had not
been murdered ?
Mr. Fowler would like to know if his col
league was setting himself up as the defend
er of rebels.
Mr.. Patterson said he was not, but he
would like to know if rebels also had not
been murdered ?
Mr. Fowler said he hoped so-hoped
some of these arms would be used for this
purpose.
Mr.. Salisbury wished to record his vote
on this BILL and therefore asked for the
yeas and nays.
The bill was then passed by yeas 35,
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