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! T \ ELE Palmekston Cabinet takes the place of A the Aberdeen Cabinet , and although the bulk of the two Governments is the same in its personnel , the aspect is quite different when we have the inspirited vivacious countenance of Lord . Palmerston at the head , in lieu of the sober , re-. spectable , but scarcely hilarious countenance of Lord Aberdeen . The Cabinet appears to have been constituted on Wednesday last , and it involves some changes besides those of chief . Lord
fJoHX , who had been commissioned by the Queen to form a Cabinet , does not appear to have obtained so much success in collecting support as Lord Derby did , nor does he take a place in the present Cabinet . From what has been said in public , it might be supposed that if Lord John had appeared in it , it would not have included Mr ; GiiADSTONEj or several others that -are now there . By taking Lord Aberdeen ' s place , Lord Palmerstox vacates the Horns-office , and is
succeeded there by Sir . George Grey . Other arrangements leave the two secretaryships , "for " and " rti" war , vacant ; and they ai'e consolidated in the person of Lord Panmure—a Whig of some experience in the War Department , of considerable ability , but no longer young , though twenty years younger than the ever youthful PAiiMERSTON . However , as Lord Panmure was the person whom Lord John consulted on the subject , and as Lord Palmerston
is the man whom he pointed out for controller , it is to bo supposed that Lord John at least is contented with the result of his retiring from the Treasury bench to the back bench . Tho Presidency of the Council , vacated by Lord John , is resumed by Lord Gbanviixe , who vacated it to please Lord John when Mr . Strutt was ousted to make room for Lord GRANviiiLK in tho Chancellorship of Lancaster . Mr . Sidney . Herbert succeeds to the Colonial-office .
The present Gove rnment has tho appearance of being stronger for working purposes than the Aberdeen Government . Lord I * ai . merston is a man to manage bettor , if ho does not always got his own way ; and there will be at least tho appenvnnce of greater efficiency and unanimity , if there is ' not the . reality . Probably , however , the senso of a great opportunity may operate ns a spur , and wo may get some real work out of tho Pahmicrston Cabinet .
Amongst those who retain their post is Sir James Graham , Chief Lord of the Admiralty , who returns to office under the fiercest challenge that any public man has received for a long while . The challenger is Sir Charles Napier , who accuses Sir James , as we may express it , of " conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman , " and certainlyjiot becoming a Minister of State . The tribunal in which this charge was- preferred was curious : it was the Mansion
House—not the police court , indeed , but the banqueting room . Returning . 'from the Balticnot victorious , no bells ringing , no eager people to take the horses from his carriage ; irritated , bursting with the sense of injury , Sir Charles is invited to grace the hospitality of Lord Mayor Moon ; and to the Moon accordingly he pours forth his plaint . The story is this . Sir Charles went to the Baltic in a fleet which he pronounced to be " splendid" before he saw it , but which proved to be ill-disciplined and ill-manned ; he had muclrtrouble to get" it to the "scene of action
in safety ; when there , he found some slight difference with the French Admiral , and with the clever French General of Engineers , whom he accuses of sending home " base" reports . He looked at Sweaborg , but found it unattackable ; yet he sent home a statement of the means requisite for taking it . The false report of the fall of Sebastopol had raised expectations in this country , and * now began that series of " insults " of which Sir Charles complains . He had " goading" letters from the Admiralty , asking him why
ho did not take Sweaborg ? Insults followed insults , until " humiliated and degraded , " he was dismissed . " And now from the banquet in tlie Mansion House he challenges Sir James Graham , either to retire into private life or to remove him from the Navy List . Pending Sir James ' s reply , Admiral Berkeley states in Parliament that Sir Charles Napier has not been " goaded , " has not been " dismissed . " His assertion is denied point blank on tho simplest matter of fact !
Lord Cardigan , " in the very uniform he wore at Balaklava , " was a conspicuous contrast , in his unaffected and affecting modesty * to tho hero of Bomarsund , that unsatisfied Byng of the Baltic , who has been consigned to half-pay , pour encourager les autrcs , as an examplo to admirals who aspire to tho command of a fleet of heavy line-of battle ships in shallow seas , with a Coalition flag at the fore . Lord Cardigan appeared to tho company a hostage of death , ns ho told , with a chastened and almost solemn sadness in tho voice and on the brow of tho fiery Rethrew , tho sudden epic of that sublime despair . War is not all evil , it it can lay the true heart of bravo mon bare to their countrymen , stripped of artificial
disguises . It has been remai'ked that many a curled darling of society has returned from Alma and Inkerman , saddened into the stern simplicity of manhood , having lost in that rude companionship of arms all that was not the man . - As to the recriminations of the late Ministers , they have quite lost their interest . Lord John made more _ explanations on _ Monday ni ght , without however altering the relative position of himself or the Duke of Newcastle . He has nowdiscovered that the Duke " resigned " before Mr . Roebuck ' s motion , and that the Cabinet generally
was not informed of the fact . In truth the fact did not exist . The Duke had not " resigned , " but he had told-the Earl-of Aberdeen that , happen what might in the House of Commons , he should resign after the motion . This was to tell the Premier that the Duke would not run away from the inquiry , but that after taking his share of that trial he would disembarrass the Ministry of his presence , and continue to assist it as a Peer in his place in Parliament . The Duke ' s conduct is exactly the reverse of Lord John ' s ; and the reason for not announcing his intention beforehand is equally contrasted with the reason fpr _ Lord John ' s resigning .
Accusations against the Government continue to pour from the Crimea , where it is said that the number of the effective force is reduced to 11 , 000 ; Colonel Dunne , however , reducing the number to 2000 . The reports are exceedingly contradictory . According to one account , the English cannot defend their own lines ; according to another , the whole line of the Allies is ready for the attack . Pushing the two accounts to their ultimate results wo are told to expect , simultaneously , that the English army will " melt away , " and that it will storm Sebastopol . From the Continent we have more Prussian Notes—Notes issued in Berlin , or received there . There is another Prussian mystification addressed to the German Courts , and there are two more despatches by M . Drouyn de Lhuys . One , warns Prussia , for the last time , that she may make a separate treaty with the Western Powers if tho terms are such as to entail upon her exactly tho snmo obligations as Austria hns taken upon horsolf ; tho Three Powers meanwhile proceeding with perfect unity of counsel and act . Iho other note , besides once more exposing tlio position of Prussia to herself , makes two important announcements of fact—that the relations between tho Courts of Berlin and St . Petersburg are understood to bo peculiarly delicate ; and that Kussui is ready for a campaign in Transylvania . J here is a report , both in Vienna and France , that tho Fronch Government is to march an army across Austrian territory to take that position on tho frontiers of Poland which Prussia has not yet promised' to take as ally—tho frontiers of that Poland which the Emperor Napoleon has agreed to re-establish if necessary .
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"The one Idea which History exhibits aa evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Hun-jaiuty—tke noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Behgwn ; Countiy ; and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldifs Cosmos . ; ,
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New Metropolitan Commission Revolution by the Aristocracy ... 132 Monumental History of Egypt . 133 NEWS OF THE WEEK— tagb . of Sewers—Mr . F O . Ward ' s "Why we Support Sardinia 133 A new Bookselling Dodge 139 Imperial Parliament 122 Statement , 129 To Bomarsund and Back 133 Books on our Table 140 The War 123 Our Civilisation 130 General Guyon and Sergeant Promotion for Sergeants 125 The Public Health 130 ¦ -Sullivan 134 THE ARTSContinental Notes : 126 Russian Account of Inkerman ... 130 The Thief Factory 134 The British Institution 140 The Hospitals in the East 127 The Times on the Aristocracy ... 130 Tho Stranger" in Parliament ... 13 o Sir Charles Napier and Lord Car- The South-Sea House 130 - „ -..-..-,, « .,-.,, digan at tho Mansion House ... 127 The Duke of Newcastte-rr .-r .... — . 130- OPcN COUNCILliord Elgin and his Canadian Miscellaneous 130 General Milbitz 135 Births , ' Marriages , and'Deaths ... 141 Policy 128 Postscript 131 French Opinion of tho English public affairs- LITERATURE— COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSArmy 128 ruDLiv . nrrnino Archdeacon Denison and Coftvoca- The Palmerston Cabinet 131 Summary 13 G City Intelligence , Markets , Adtion 128 Exam flies to England 131 The Chinese Empire 136 vertisements , &o 142-144
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YOIi . VI . No . 255 . 1 SATURDAY , PEBRUARY 10 , 1855 . [ Price Sixpence .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 10, 1855, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2077/page/1/
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