The Express. — 1853-12-19 (London, England)

PARIS. SENDAI EVENING. Lord Palmerston's resignation is thus officially noticed in the Monitetsr : .  ----The news arrived be-day from London confirms the report circulated yesterday that Lord Palmerston had resigned the poet he held in the English cabinet as Secretary of State for the Home Department. This retirement, as all the English journals are agreed in stating,* is the consequence or a dif• (creme of opinion that has arisen in the cabinet upon a question of parliamentary reform. Foreign policy has nothing w:tatever to do with the noble lord's resoluion, and this incident cannot, we are  assured (nous en aeons Cassumnee), in any respect affect the understanding so happily established between the French and English governments regarding the great interests which pre-occupy Europe. It will not, however, be thought strange that our regrets should accompany in his retirement from the cabinet a statesman who has so actively contributed to bring about this contort, and whose sentiments have at all times been pleasing to his Majesty the Emperor's government (et des sentiments do qua le gnuvernment de S. 31. l'Entitereur n'ajainalis en get' d se toner.)  Although the studied official language of the above note &tiers widely from the expressions rind by the Patrie last night, the fundamental idea is the same, and I have good reasons tor believing that the two paragraphs proceed from the same pen. There is as yet no official rupture, but Lird Palmerston has taken with him in his retirement all the sympathy that existed between the English Cabinet and Louis  • This is a mistake The English journals arc by no mums agreed on this point.  Napoleon. Of this you may be sure, let theintet7"-."1 from the fact be what they may. According to the despatch published in the 3/,. (cur this morning, the Russians have already de. ducted 4,000 from the 5,000 Turks they at first pre, tended to have killed at Achalzik. ith the siege exception of the disaster of Sinope, all the netts brought here by the last mail from Constantinople it favourable to the Turkish arms in Asia. lutelligeaaa of the taking of Tiflis, the capital of Georgia, teas daily expected. The Turkish army was prey hard upon it, and had penetrated very near ta Koutais, in ancient Colchis, now the capital of Imeritia. Abdi-Pacha's forward movement was greatly favored by the diversion operated by Scharnyl, With respect to the affair of Siuope itself, although the accounts are generally hurried and evidently incomplete, several letters concur in stating that at least two of the Russian ships of the line were sunk by the fire from the fort. The ltussians attempted% land but were vigorously repulsed. It may perhaps have already occurred to you that had the Itussiaa, gained such a complete victory as they ptet„d, they would have taken possession of the important town and fortress of Sinope, instead of sailing away as fast as they could for Sebastopol. A highly important fact, as bearing upon the conduct of Rosie, is disclosed by these letters. The Turkish shire were not, as has been pretended, in the act of trans. porting ammunition and troops for the purple of attacking any Russian possession. The battle did not begin in the Black Sea, and it is not true the the Turkish flotilla ran into the harbour of Sieope ia escape from the Russian fleet. They had beta tying at anchor fur Arleen tlagi, and the Russian ships of the line stole in under cover of a fog, and opened a murderots fire upon them in the harbour. Thus, the tine dzi unction drawn by the Tinael (if it were ever worth anything) falls to the ground. The Russian attack was not an ordinary operation of de• fensive warfare. It was as decided en get of aggression upon the Turkish territory al it is possible to conceive: it was an insolent de& ante to the French and English fleets, crippled is they are by the deplorable policy of the French and English governments, and if there was ever any gin. eerity in the arguments put forward in hectoring language, though in a hypothetic form, for emerge. tic action, those arguments are now more than ever valid, and without the encumbrance of an hypothesis The cholera, in Paris, which since its breakingoot in the autumn, has never been very virulent or widely spread, has sensibly diminished within the last few days. M. Arnold Scheffer, the brother of the celebrated painter, Ary Scheffer, and a well-known writer in the National, under the management of Armed Carrel, is just dead.