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      T ) AIN 1 TUXi is the story of the last days of JL the Aberdeen Cabinet ; although ~ we are glad to get over a crisis which appeared to be necessary in order to release the country and its military administration from the trammels of routine . On the whole , as it departs—while we cannot follow all its members with our confidence . -while we must distinctly reprobate the conduct of that leading man whose movement occasioned the disruption—we must admit that its character stands high amongst Cabinets for integrity of purpose and the general purity of its administra-

      tion . The debate which , on Monday night , came to a conclusion so fatal to the Government , differed in its last stages from the earlier part . Mr . Hois * buckr broke dowa . with . illness ,. and could not sustain liis motion for inquiry into the administration of the war with reference to the disasters in the Crimea ; nevertheless , Mr . Sidney Herbert did something to soften the charges floating about , and to land them on the system rather than the

      chief Ministers . By Monday , however , it l ^ egan to be understood that the Whig defection had settled the division before the debate- Even in the hands of Mr . Gladstone the defence of ministers flagged . Members of the Government openly deserted . Mr . Osborise proclaimed the Horse Guards and the whole military system to be " rotten from top to bottom . " What need ,

      then , of Mr . Disraeli ' s debating attack on individual Ministers ? What need , we might almost say , of Mr . Stafford ' s unadorned and uncxaggdrated report of the state of things in the hospitals and the camp ? The House had practically divided before the debate recommenced and it only remained for the tellers to report that the motion which Mr . Roebuck could not advocate was carried by 305 to 148—a majority of 157 . '

      The result was received without a cheer . There were no party triumphs ; there was no desire to pursue the defeated . The Whigs , who had succeeded in their " dodge , ' were half ashamed of their success , and could scarcely crow over their defeated . colleagues . I 3 ut the House of Commons , agreeing with the country , declared , by the motion , its total hatred of the system under which the war had flagged , and . its resolve not to continue a Ministry vhich had not boon successful in putting nn end to ttmt system . Wo will not have

      it any longer—that is what the majority of 157 means . " The next ministry ?"—that became the urgent question . The House of Commons adjourned till next day , again adjourned till Thursday , and then till Friday , —sitting on that day only to witness the presentation- of -thanks to Sir De Lact

      Evans . The House of-Lords listened on Monday to Earl Gbev ' s revised proposition for a military " board , " like the Admiralty Board , which he withdrew because of the Ministerial crisis ; on Tuesday the Peers marked their annual observance of King Champs I . ' s decapitation by not sitting ; and did not meet till Thursday . In the mean while the Queen sent for one statesman

      after another . Lord Aberdeen went to report the resignation of his own Cabinet . Lord Debby went by summons to receive authority for forming a new Ministry , and went again on Thursday to report that total failure ; which he reported to the House of Lords in the evening ; In the -mean while a cry had grown up in almost every quarter —it had been preparing for some weeks , if not months—Lord Johx himself echoed it—every town in the country now reverberated with ita cry for Lord Palmerston . And it is now fully expected that he will form a Cabinet , possibly with Lord Lansdowne as nominal Premier , to

      strengthen the cast with the authority of respectable tradition ;—by way of padding between the intractable Secretary and the tender dignity of the Court : between the disgrace of December , ' 51 , and the triumph of February , ' 55 . As we write , Lord Clarendon- is " sent for , " and the defeat is lapsing into a modification . On Thursday evening , besides the Ministerial explanation , there was a personal explanation by

      the Duke of Newcastle . This capped the evidence against Lord John Russell . We now have the statement of four of his colleagues—tho Duke , the Premier , tho Chancellor , and the Home Secretary ; and the course pursued by Lord John is clear . While performing the part of a " provincial lecturer , " as tho Times says , ho caught tho ideas of that ungrateful organ —picked a plan for remodelling tho army departments out of tho archives of the Duke of Richmond—touched it

      up—Scnt it to Lord Aberdeen , and required its adoption by the Cabinet , almost confessedly , for the purpose of ousting tho Duke of Newcastlm . Subsequently , on tho advice of a friond , in conversation with Lord Aberdeen , ho . said that ho had chunged his mind , and the subject dropped .

      In the mean while there arose a general Whig expectation that , by hook or by crook , the Peelites would be expelled from office . When Mr . Roebuck ' s motion was notified , the opportul §^^ r «^ offered by which the Whigs , resigning thiar >|» pill ^ , " drew the linchpin from the carriage , " « fcn . d ^ t 3 | e whole fabric of the Cabinet fell dpwn . Gene ^ l iii * dignation and surprise , and demandibfexplanfitioja j on which Lord John says that the Duke of Kew--eASTLE 4 tad -so strong a wish to retain the : War department , as to make his colleagues reject the plan of consolidation ; that other suggestions were not adopted ; and he , L ~ . John , left the Ministry because he could not defend its War

      administration , which he would have altered . JSow , it turns out that if the plan was not adopted , it was not rejected , but withdrawn . The Duke had no strong wish to retain office , but offered to resign it . Lord John ' s suggestions were carried out , and , indeed , anticipated ; but he suppressed the reasons why they were , jlelayed .- In short , "he kept his colleagues in the ' d ^ rk 7 " b ^ re ' ^ e ~ Bifdare " nly abandoned them ; and after he bad executed that unprecedented evolution , he endeavoured to keep the public in the dark . The Duke of Newcastle had tho misfortune to be personally attached to an inevitable failure . The evidence for

      a correct judgment of his own share , however , is rapidly accumulating ; and the noble disinterestedness with which , for the service of the country , he placed himself , first , at the disposal of the Prime Minister , and afterwards at tho disposal of Parliament , will mark him out , if not as a model for a War Minister , as an example of patriotism and single purpose which has become rare amongst statesmen . We remember few Parliamentary episodes more affecting tha n tho Duke ' s vindication , more jarring than the shrill jests of that mauvais plaisant , Lord Dehby .

      Our contemporaries appear to labour under apprehension that the crisis in this country will obstruct the progress of tho alliance on tho Continent , arrest tho be movements , and precipitate a disgraceful peace . We cannot vonturo to contradict that fear , and yet wo do not entirely share it , for the very reasons which have made us hold a reserve in tho confidence given to tho Allied Powers . Franco is not a commonwealth , nor is Austria . Whatever sagacity and good faith may rosido in tho Governments of Paris and Vienna , tho qualities are personal and not institutional . Tho conduct of affairs , therefore , resides with individuals , and not with the public . Now ,

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      " The one Idea which . History exhibits a 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race a 3 one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Sumboidfs Cosmos .

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      VOL . VI . No . 254 ] SATURDAY , FEBHIJAUT 3 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .

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      Continental Notes 10 * « M- « ma- Living Greece 114 NEWS OF THE WEEK— PAOB Confession of the Murderer Bar- The Situation—not Comfortable 108 Five Fictions 115 Imperial Parliament 98 thelemy , 105 The National Party Tried by its Colonists and Travellers 116 Second-class Railway Carriages in The Murder in Foley-place 105 Opportunity 103 Enstland 101 Our Civilisation , 10 a The War Henceforward 109 THE ARTSPire at the Royal Arsenal , Wool- Sir Charles Hotham ' s Dilemma 10 S The Dark Mirror .. 110 „ . . . , „„ „„« ,- -ii * wieh - 102 Foreign Legions in the United To the Duke of Newcastle 110 Gluck and Johanna Wagner 117 The Division on Mr . Roebuck ' s States 106 The " Stranger" in Parliament ... ill Motion 102 Libel . —The "Times" and the « .. —« .., * .-.,, The War "" 102 South-Western Railway Com- OPEN COUNCIL- „ . „ . « . ^ -r , „ . -,-, * The TenthHussars 104 pany 106 The Moral of the Ministerial Births , Marriages , and Deaths ... 117 Now Order of Military Merit 104 The Public Health 10 G Crisis ... 112 «« MMCDrrAi . „ ., „ . Awfval of the Duke of Cambridge 104 A Medical Adviser 10 G How to Carry on the War 112 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSIS ^ gggfg " sa ^ EEEEEEi "sssm - c aagg ^ e ; :, » ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 3, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2076/page/1/