The Express. — London, England, 1858-02-06 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—Fin DAY, Fn. 5. The Lena Cassicact.cut took km seat ea the woolsack at ars Abe. PETITION. Lad DUNGANNON prewsted two gwitioas from dr awe, of two rural desneriso, ise is the diocese of St. Are*, wag the otter to that of Lichfield, ageioet the Religious Wor ship Act ilsersittweot Bill. THE PASSrORT SYSTEM. Earl ISTANBUL% said dist, swig the Secretary for foreign Afire in, the house, he wished to draw unmans to this subject. He hal seem it stated that the Frrneh torero meet was desirous of 'askew isms alteratious with respect to the issue of purports by French consuls in this The result would be, that Li fugue the French consuls ° v u tai in this country only time passports to French subjects, and not to Britisu subsets, em toad beret. fore been the awe. He wished to know what rystun was to be w ined with raped to the c‘nsule of other nations besides Frame. In ..,nsequetios of this, he apprehended consider able thooirentenre might mai z e to British subjects who Weft take pase;orts from r ezaoiple and when they wished to return throoch France, would find their per ports sot &violable. Now that doe a c :mews had arisen, it affueded a (Avowal* opportunity to put an sad to a great aneis4y, that of British ail je , is Ong abroad with foteign passports. It w.uld be couremeot •f the British subjects west abroad with purports from their owe goverment. Thin sees a time when It was difficult to get a Forefgeathee passport, for the price was then in,rdirsittely high, while ethic foreigi ministers hosed l ample, •ithout amigo Mal He remembered when the dig .:e ft. a Foreign-odlos= port was no bee than .I. 175., but the bed ethos been redired to is. dd. Under the.. dromestentate be wi.had to askkisnObleftiend whamming nand be taken sow that this oceurreene bad taken yam. Be thought it • faunal" opportunity L r instituting a sow system sad he was sure it would be for the (NITIZIOIi Warne that British 'objects should, as a rule, travel with passports obtained from their own posonment. The Earl of CLARENDON, in answer to his noble friend, had only to ray that villain the last few days the French govanmett had infunned 'hem that they intended to pat ea sad to the ey.tem under which their consular agents in this country had been In the habit of riving passports to British subjects. And he mast say that he wished tosxpreus his alum concurrence with the view taken by the F etch meat, if they intended to rely at all ea any safety that passport system would afford, fur under the system lamely pursued by them say person t alling himself a Bntoati entject could obtain a passport without any inquiry into his nationality, stall leas as to his character, end there was no description of the individual. so that the passport would pass from band to hand, sad therefore foreigners who might be thought dangerous to their government travelled through France as British subje,ta. Now, certainly, there could be no more absurd thing than when the other day two men with a ninth, of jewellery sane to Southampton, and were there arrested, they having stolen the jewels la Paris, 'and the French jewel' were found on them, thank they had passed through Fiance with pseenets. The Eng lish government had never interfered with this system. Ia some Instances great inconvenience hot arisen from these =beiag given to Britishsubject•—labourere—whe, that labour was wanted abroad, went to France, and then finding they were not wantet were pared back to this country at the expense of the British government. In this country they attached no importance to passport"; any body might come to this country without • passport, sad might leave it without a purport, and there was, of course, no intention to interfere with that system. Nor was there any intention to interfere with foreign governments giving peseports if they chose to consider those pompons as neefW. He thought that pasty srts given In this way by foreign consuls would be found bale to the objector pointed out by his noble friend. British travellers with French passports would be liable to interference, and though this government could not interfevo to prevent this system, yet he could have no doubt that British subjects would find it to their advantage to have British passport", for they most have more weight on the continent. It would be seem that ;he government not only gave all facility for obtaining Britisa passports, bat ey ad- vised that they should be obtained, so d h e h a d no doubt that British subjects would find it more vat:lenient to have Bri tish passports. As to the price, it see tram that some years ago the prune of British passport" was inordinately for the vela* of it, but 21. 15s. wee levied fora fee ft, tinting it from the flommary of Sta e for Foreign Allies ; but the price now was only is 6d., f which de. was foe s stamp, and the additional 2s. 6d. was : of more than einengh to defray the expense of the 'stabile/al:Dent. Tbsy did sot require such an establishment for the gt =nal good, bat only for the convenience of those travelling, and therefore the establishment should be self-supporting, or nearly so. - - - THE ENGLISH ENGINEERS IMPRISONED Ilf NAPLES. Earl GREY presented a p eti tion from the English mil seers now awaiting their WW in Naples, sad wee eadenteed to may that though he could not call oa the government to interfere directly, yet he could not present the pendia with out expensing en opinion that there were grounds lbe die adamant at the manner In which them two imam had been treated. Two British subjects, who had bees arrested out of the dominion' of the King of Naples, had been sub jected tea coarse of treatment rigorous, if not cruel ; for some mouths they hod been undergoing punishment which in this country would be wandered sufficient for ma Awe of some magnitude, though innocent. There wee every reason to believe that those permits had committed no offerme whatever. He could not help thinking that the government had been preexisted from interfering for their benefit by the very ill advised coarse which they bad pursued towards the Neepo• titan goverment ; that they had been prevented from inter ior* in a way to bring their grievances under the notice of the Nespobtan government. The Earl of CLARENDON mid that although he was aware that, according to the rules of their lordaWisi house, he wee out of order_ The Earl of DERBY —Tilers is s (ruction that the peti tion do lie ea the table. TM Biel of CLARENDON wee re ry sled to know that be was sot treepeasing on easy rule of their lordships home, bat, after the observatioas of his noble friend, he thought it necresary to trespass for a trer moments on their lordahlps' tines ; and as ids quetion of the British 'netnews ha d justly emitted very great awl interest in this conatry, he trusted that their herd hip would permit lea to stela the circumstances which bed come to his irledge eat be could ammo his noble hied that thaw mest het Mit mind ia tempest ham the iniernmgas it.., roltime with the Neepthem gommiesnt. Be mast do the lleilitent ermen the justice to say that their aeeeasdrlfass on the subject had hem madame. The tads were, that on the nth is.. last, the Cagliari, a saner maths from Omes to Tunis, and of coregia . arms, MIAMI at the Wad P. sixty miles from The alarm bud ban sand MY and they head they attednd end emegterrred the smell garrison, sod Med the commender. They released soma pri emirs, end teak them as board, with some arta , and 000 or 400 meow and some amens and premeds/ ter a dam in the ?impolite& where they WNW. and abendoned rapes meek Alm the bed ahmiluned the meal the p de tended to take hen to Berke mad Werra the of whet led pseud ; but before he =s li t L,is. her err nowt bby~ ewe Voopotitin frigates, aid sea en band s. of than awl .mused the seed to the spin elite *Opts B. liaised eh* sells mobil Mind tad laid. Ws leek Pete out at the Noltien dotainicem bdai use ran is skis trom the Nimpaten comt, sad seaspeantly it In kapott= waters; and the Seadinien hawks sessestard that, bed mule a elesaul CIS his swans for the nellenalles of the neuM of mum Wade tad el the nu The he bawd slam beteg an LOA engliser ea bred the se • fats triad he had rest from the hem member ter Bowed* Mee hammed him that them w. Bmgfiab tiltiis beard eased Watt, and Maeda** be wrote ll eeds awed at Naps then* him to glue ovary smielmos end le that Mithriduel, awl et the ems Ise teemed dish ..gear, k wee fthly hoselable that be = kwaleas guilty of my evil imam Altar that be reacted • letter from Hr. Park, the leer of Ihs ether swiless as, sfVkar instreellons in re =hies see eke malto the seen!. The sisal S hin this he se amt persised to bare sees te ass sod he wee Inetnisled to writs to H. o_, the mintatar af help maim awl dessitol that the temed ahead have souse le than, end that he amid is allowed to seiset for than legal ir k mg US the kW shwa is baelard. N. Ostlb replied est aeosedis le the Neapolitan law ea insereslarise oaks pidiwirrir weak be oesiseal is as* and sick this. mks bed been aid the le of Isolleisset drawn, it saws wee the sedum np pemlt =l"rito hare sties Os Sae who were with altire, and that he sestil set she scaption in foss et BMW enhkele ; he add that the Uhl would be pedalo awl that an mimed* might be sedated. Inquiries were mode when as Wel wadi awe on, and H. Warn°, tbe psearatesprirel, bassi the rierassal at tbe Utter awl d °Saw that the robtless of the ilk• =Zekla i lli s =bi .0 MO than. Hs (the Bel of sok te Hr. Park, pepostas him to sid eflhis err, amid he paprail his • Berea doehrd th Ciseada)e semi le ~ u tizeg i o r p . him then the case wee the that mused peat &ttie pewsami, and eselled • ORM smelles the whole isantry ; awl Oa* k was net the of themeveranwst to kiwis with the ho z..... and It H. law la cisme sit S. las ease elide the sees of kw skip tees Is 110,11 *V rand pesky Nee as t Asa le Illefhlkkhade, osi Sea • pee* delay ta Oa He salead *es M. Cunt • set esersos 1 . 11 lilt " IdbY abseil tele plea la g in = Rem nos at the sew ef lb' Cooped bad beta Ws ski ; mei the thedbas . osesessne, ie the Tessa at bar Mir= frripara. awl Ids the &splits ot thine Inas swam that Os bed atiebis ~r e Os rats; sad were Swart thestles dim ef these UM wow rat le the e lleire dile slid sal be see at Napa ee f i i . metandim swift thee son se that al . watt) bed sa lia • Ms Ms ass WU% w a Tileh lased kit they see sesieest of the branesliat ; bat toed 7 bed al l 7 WWI/ tat* Eolith.. a Lim In the aldte haw it yea se keit desseess wawa piessis noed iket the Wain lidlerwanii IN THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1858. be unable to understand him, requested her to write dove what they were required to du, and this paper wee thrust into Watts's hand, and with pistols at their heads the engineers were obliged to wink the engines, end that wee all that they had to do with it. He had seen the indictment within the last Sew days, and it was satisfactory to know that it contained no charge whatever scainet the engineers, and that there could be no doubt of their acquittal, if the trial Ina conducted with ordinary fairness and impartiality. The first count was founded on this Inter of Mies White, and the stecond was that they were without passports; though it had not been usual to give purports to foreign enginesre on board vessels ; sad the third was, that the engineers must have had sympathy with the luso:gents otherwise they wodd have carried the ship to Tunis landed of to the Neapolitan dominions, the Neapolitan government being, therefore, Apparently pawned with the belief that the vowel was emend by t.e man at the engine and not by the man at the wheel. (Laughter) He had made this statement to show Ida noble friend and the public what steps the govern ment had taken with respect to this exec, which had been the count of so mach anxiety to the government as well as great and genteel interest to the whole country. He hoped and believed that no slept had been omitted which could tend to alleviate the sufferings or accelerate the trial of those men. The government had acted under the advice of the law officers of the crown, and they could not doubt the right of the N.spolitan government to a ruler amenable to Neapolitan laws enthuse who were conceeneddinitly or indirecey in thetexpe eition. It bed been maid that they ought to have taken more verorous meson:es, bat they had no right to claim that the Neapolitan government should depart from the ordinary proceed ot law. Thsy had indeed admitted the friends c 4 these era to me them sooner than the law allowed. He wee Auld that the pie :era had undergone considerable headship, bat he did not believe that, according to Neapolitan notions, they had been ill-heated. He did not know that he had any mere facts to state, except that, looking to what most be the only endow* that could be adduced against them, he tended that we might expect that our unfortunate country men would & speedily acquitted. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. Earl GRANVILLE said he roes to perform the agreeable duty it royalists • motion, to which he anticipated the coe dial unanimous assent of their lordship. He roes to move that an humble address be pummeled to her Malestj on the happy nuptials of the Princess Royal with his Royal Highneas Prince Frederick William of Prussia, sad to =sure her Majesty of the satidactioa which their I alliipe hones fat at this marriage of her Royal Highness. The Balks at Lop had estubisid its loyalty and its sympathy with her Majesty on this ocorsion; they had done so by every mesas in their power, by popular deusonsendioes, by the langsage of public writers, and of public bodies ; and It now se el for perilmneut to perform the same pleasing duty. He hilt it leas necessary for him to dilate oa the facts, as eo many of their lordship had had opportunities more than the petrel public of remarking those qualities which have made her present Majesty so popular in this country, and which made her the subject of affectionate regard in every domestic circle in the country. (Cheers.) Some of their lordships had had the opportunity of remarking those qualities and character of mind sad heart in the Princess which led to the belief that she would, by the discharge of her public and private duties, wake happy the union which lied been sanctioned by her choice. There was no doubt that in other countries the power of this country was much increased or diminished by royal alliances, ill ad&don to making the happiness or misery of individuals. Oa the pewee occasion it was not necessary to anticipate anything of this kind. He did not know any thing more striking than the feeling shown, and the interest taken, in this event. He happened to know, from his Royal Highs= Ptiace Frederick William, that he had felt move touched than pen by the land huzzahs of the multitude, by observing in *very Owe where he had been, that all dunes of the commuaity who crowded round the carriage had used the little phrase 'God bless you," which they addressed to the Princess Royal, as if they were addressing one of their own relations in passing. He thought that they might an ticipate that on this very day the illustrious young couple were being received with similar enthusiasm fa the country which was now her Royal Highness's adopted hoe= ; she could not but think that when the same chord had been touched in the two countries, it showed • friendly feeling between the two nations which it was moat desirous should exist. He was rs att . it e sum that their lordship. would all agree lathe ex- Lajasof their most affectionate sympathy with her nthis occasion. (Cheer. ) The E a rl DERBY aaid that , in concurring with the mod= of his table friend, their lordships were only giving edict to that which was, without • single exception, the feel leg of the whole people. He did not blow that it had hap pened in the history of the world that any royal princess at so early an age had secured to herself so large a portion of the public sympathy as the illustrious princess so recently married, and he believed that the public sympathy shown was fully justified by the private character and public virtue of that princess. It was not only her amiable dispo sition and sweetness of temper, but the punctual and faithful discharge of every duty, which challenged their admiration. (Cheers.) He did not believe that any princess had ever excited a more unanimous feeling in her favour, and he was quite sure that the whole country _would join in the feeling that would in fl uence all their lords hip in expressing an ear nest and anxious hope that a long term or happiness awaited her in the country to which she had gone—happiness =- bounded, except that it might never be so great as to induce her to forget the country of her birth. (Cheers.) Lord BROUGHAM was understood to say that he could not allow this motion to pass without expressing his protest against the Royal Marriage Act. The motion wee carried nem. con. Earl GRANVILLE said it would be gratifying to her Majesty that the address should be presented by the whole house, and:therefore he proposed that the house should meet at 2 o'clock to-morrow, sod proceed with the address to her Majesty at three. Bd.NKRUPTCY LAW. Lord BROUGHAM said be wished to lay on the table a bill to abolish imprisonment for debt, to extend the laws re lating to bankrupts to the cases of non-traders, to gice further remediaa to creditors, and to *scum the punishment of fraudulent debtors. LW CAMPBELL wu delighted to learn that his noble era homed friend proposed to abolish the absurd distinctions whfti bsil so long existed between traders and non-traders. If se invelmat gars up all his property to his creditors, whe ther he were • trader or not, he ought to be released. He was glad, too, that his noble and learned friend proposed to deal with the ow of fraudulent debtors. The facilities now sanded by law for fraudulent trading were moat demoralis ing to the commercial community. Lord BROUGHAM entirely agreed with his noble and leaned friend that one of the greatest scandals of the law at Mual was the doorwhich it opened ( o r f rau d u l en t tra di ng . amenduent white he proposed would greatly lessen the facilities which were elbrded for such trading. The bill was then hid on the table and reed • fret time. SPECIAL SERVICESIN THE CHURCH or the board of guar. lions of the Broraegroye poor law oaks, for an alteration oi the parochial amesemento. SCEDAT SPECIAL dravtcra. —By Mr. Nivrozorris t from the inhabitants of Morpheme, for the continasnos of special .amiss. Bnciss Orstczas.—By Mr. By ttrn, from the grefaing ditty excise traders residMg in the district of Crediton, Devon, and Tiverton; Mr. Local, from Honiton; all in favour of increamod pay to miss officers. minded the house, this aims has net been brought about so much hum political motives as from the impulses of nature and affection. Practi cally, the domestic feelin g h as b een ex hibi te d mos t strongly on this occasion, became the nation wished to seise the opportunity of expressing their affection for the royal Flt m trTum and beca und u" er w t rich y b eg e hlnfve f d e , lt t ere that, h; L a pd.r tha as much respect for the happiness of the hearth as for the splendour of the throne. (Hear, hear.) In the new Greer which opens to the Primate Royal all the accidents that can combine for the happiness of en individual are present. She certainly bears with her the good wishes of the parliament end people of England, and when the day comes for her to fill that brilliant position to which the noble lord has referred, i have no doubt but that Englishmen will them be as proud of the Queen of Prussia ea they now are of the Queen of England. (Cheers.) The right hon. member concluded by seconding the motion, which was unanimously named to. Lord PALMERSTON said that be should move the meeting of the house at 2 o'clock to-morrow (this day), when he should be authorised to state when it would be her Majesty's pleasure to receive the address. THE REFUGEE QUESTION. Mr. ROEBUCK rose to move the adjournment of the boom in order that he might be able to ask the question of which be bad given notice. He said.— That question Is to know whether there has been any com munication between the two governments of England and of France with respect to the alien laws of this country, or with respect to any portion of our criminal code. The house, I believe, will understand the reason why I put this question. They must have heard that since the event which I am sure inspired every Englishman with feelings of regret and dam , edition—the recent attack upon the life of the Emperor of the French—there have appeared in the pages of the Monitaur certain addresses to the Emperor of France from the French army. Those addresses, naturally enough, were expressed in terms of strong condemnation at the attempted violence against the Emperor's person, and also great indignation at the authors of the attempt so made. Now, sir, if these ex premieus had rested there, I should be the first to sympathise with and give my cordial concurrence to every sentiment they contained. But from the French army there came also accusations against England—(hear, hear) — as though England were a participant in that attack upon the person of the Emperor of France. (Hear, hear.) I will, with the permission of the house, state the im mediate object of my question. lion. gentlemen sre aware that the Moniker is not an ordinary paper ; it is in fact the Otratt• of the French government. (Hear, hear.) Every thing it utters is under the immediate inspection of the French government, and that government is the Emperor. (Hear, hear.) Therefore what appears in the pages of the Moutteur is the reflex of the opinions of the Emperor of France. (Hear.) Well, sir, in the pages of the Moniteur there appear these attacks upon the English people ; and one colonel of a French regiment of the line—tull, I suppose, of military ardour, and that loyalty which he ham no doubt ex hibited to every ruling monarch that has appeared in France— asks the French Emperor to be led against that haunt, that den, the repaire, of homicide, meaning England. Well, that language is published in the pages of the official Moniker . It is published in fact by the French E m p eror. That is his opinion ; and I wish now to state my opinion. (A laugh from the front ministerial benches, answered by loud cheers from other parts of the house—more particularly from the benches immediately behind ministers.) The French Emperor is the person to direct against England accusations of being the den of conspirators ; and who could speak with greater knowledge of the fact than himself? (Cheers.) Has he not enjoyed the protection and hospitality of England ? (Hear, hear.) Has he not, too, while so enjoy ing that protection and hospitality, acted the part of a con spirator himself ? (Load cheers.) Did he not leave these shores armed with the great name of his great predeoemor— the name of the great Napoleon—did he not, armed with that name, and with a tame eagle—(a laugh)—go to Francs and there attack the throne of King Louis Philipps— and did he not murder the man who in the performance of his duty opposed him ? (Renewed cheering.) And this is the man who chooses to publish in the pages of the Moniteur accusations against England for being the haunt and the den of homicides, where conspiracies are hatched, and which ought, therefore, to suffer invasion. (Hear.) But it is not confined to that—the brother of the Emperor of France (the Count de Horny) has chosen in the Legislative Chamber of the French nation, to accuse England of being participant in this attempted crime. And not only he, but the Count de Persigny, the ambassador of Franco— is' England, in the presence of Englishmen—ham dared to maks the same accusation ; aye, sir, and in the presence of Englishmen he has not beet answered—(hear, hear)—the only reason that I can conceive being, that the persons who heard him did not understand him. (Cheers, and a laugh.) But I cannot believe that any Englishman could hear his country so libelled, no matter by whom, without in dignantly repelling the accusation. (Cheers.) Those persons who heard the Count de Persigny accuse England of being participant in the criminal proceedings to which I have alluded ought thereon immediately, and on the instant, if they understood him, to have answered him. (Hen.) They did not ; but I will. (Hear, hear.) I will say to hint that no man more than I estimates highly the alliance between England and France ; but there is something I estimate still more highly, and that is the honour and position of England. (Cheers.) And so believing and so feeling, I would have told him that there was nothing in the character of English. men that in any way soarer condoms to or lends • sanction to asesisination , there is nothing in the history of the country from the beginning to the end that can justify such an accusation. (Hear.) No English King has fallen by the hand of the assassin, though Kings of France ham. (Hear, bear.) We have condemned a King to the block, it is true, but it was in open day. (Cheers.) Neither have we ever sent or hired anybody to kill any other sovereign for our own national ealisfactUm—pri rattily I mean, and by assassination. (Hear, hear.) My answer to Count Persigny would have been that the people of England are above assassination. When they feel indig nant they express it, and go to war, ifneceesaiy, to vindicate their honour ; but they do not seek to avenge themselves privately, or by secret expeditions in steamboat', or, by mem sins, make private attacks upon any foreign government, or any foreign sovereign. (Cheers.) They do not make con spiracies in London to pull down a government in Paris, Their course is open and honourable in dealing with their enemies as with their friends. (Cheers.) When I came into the house yesterday, I heard in my ear aranagelag like an inspiration about a contemplated change in the Alien Act. It was said that at the soli citation of the Emperor of the French we were about to alter the Alien Act. I will say nothing of the in gratitude of the man who now saki us to alter a law by which be has profited so largely. But England owes her position amongst the nations of the world in consequence in a great measure of the manner in which she has treated the people of all nations who have sought the asylum of our shores. Napoleon, Metternich, the Bourbons, and Louis Philippe, have all sought and obtained a safe refuge here ; but no man said, no man had a right to say, that we should alter our laws because we gave them that refuge ; and I say, if we change the law on this occiudon we violate the first principles of our constitution, we degrade ourselves before the world, and are so longer the English people that oar fore fathers were. (Cheers.) Well, I come to the house with my ear full of this inspiration. What was my surprise to hear from the noble lord an announcement that be would on Monday move for leave to introduce a bill for altering the Alien Act in regard to conspiracies. What suggested to the noble lord the necessity of such a change Was it that any person of authority—for the noble lord, with all his ao emplialunents, is not a lawyer—(" hear," and a laugh)— had told the noble lord that the law of England could not reach conspiracies, or that the punishment which the aim- Horsed law of England awards to such crimes was Man& eked ? For at least a quarter of a century we have been doing all we could to render the criminal law of England leas bloody than it had previously been. A quarter of a century ago our criminal code was the most cruel is Europe; but from that time to this we have by experience learned that a mild punishment certainly administered is the most effectual 'inventive of crime. (Hear, bear.) Our own domestic ex perience has taught us that. (Hear.) What is now suggss*sd by the noble lord ? That we should retrace our steps ; that whereas conspiracies have hitherto been visited by fine and imprisonment, we should alter and bring beck the law to the old standard of cruelty which we had abandoned. (Hear, bear.) My question to the noble lord is one of very significant importance. If England wishes to hold her place among the nations if she wishes still to maintain her own indepostiest position: no solicitation of an ally, no threatening of anybody, ought to leed us to alter our laws. I have been told that, u a justi fication for the insolence with which England has hem treated in this matter, the noble lord's speech at the Mansion boom last November has hem brought forward. (Haar, her.) God forbid that the people of England should be ads answerable for all the indiscretions of the noble lord ("Hear," and a laugh.) I do not say, I do net believe' Sat the noble lord 1,1111 imprudent as that oeseeice ; but a& ealgistg that he was, no nun knows better thew the Rae peter of France how very little the red imposer** haling ef the people of England. (Cheers and °minter cheers.) If there wee on that omit= a little memos--a little 'spearing on the pat of the noble lord, it can scarcely be said that the people of England, as a nation, is to suffer for the bed taste of the Minister. (Hear, hear.) We had publicly expressed our detestation of the attack on the Emperor of France, and I want to know, there fore, what could have induced hint to turn round upon the people of England as he has done, and manifest that hosti lity which he has, through his own press, his own minister, and his own ambamador shown towards this oottatry ? (Hear, hear.) The question I hare to put to the noble lord is—has there been any correrpoadence with the court of France or the minister of France on the subject of an Alien Bill, or upon the subject of any alteration of our criminal code (Cheers.) Lord PALMERSTON—I can have no difficulty in an swering the question of the hon. and learned gentleman. There has been a despatch addremed by the Preach Minister of Foreign Affairs to M. de Perim, the French ambas sador here, bearing upon the late tranaactions at Paris, and urging upon him the necessity of applying to her )Lejesty's government to take such measures es they in their wisdom might think fit in reference to the cinmmatanoe ; not to dictate any measures, bat simply to put the csee to her Ms- Jassy's government to deal with as they might think proper. That is the nature of the despatch, and I can have no difficulty whatever la laying it before parliament. (Cheers.) But, sir ' in replying to the hon. and leered gentleman, I feel bound, in the first place, to repel the charge which the hon. end learned gentleman has made against the Count de Pereigny. Count de Per ' slimy never mewled the British nation of conspiring with arensins—(hear, hear)—or with intending to give protection to armadas. He stated distinctly to her Majesty's govern ment—Count Persigny stated to me—in reference to the strong expression of feeling which had been made in his owe country, that we must feel with him that allowance must be made for it in the circumstance that had celled It forth—that the people of the continent, not knowing the ware of our laws, and applying to WI the principles by which they are bound, naturally form expectation. which those who know the pereiples and working of our system of government are aware cannot be carried out. The hon. end learned gentle men wishes to anticipate a discussion which would more pro perly arise on Monday next, when I shall move to bring in the bill of which I have given notice. I shall not allow myself to be led by his example into a premature &a mnion of that measure, but when I propose it I shall be prepared to Mate its nature, and the rear= upon which it is founded. But I moat protest against the ground the hon. and learned gentleman has taken. The hon. and learned gentleman rinds to my violent and intemperate speeches and though they might have been read in France, he Irma urge that on their account the parliament of this country ought to be prevented from taking any s te ps which other wise, upon the merits of the ere, parliament might think proper to adopt. Why, speaking of intemperate speeches, I might well say to the hon. and learned gentleman, " Qua tulerit Graochoe de sedition querentis (Cheers.) If any man alive more than another is in the habit of using violent language against foreign oountriee it is the hon. and learned gentleman, who indulges occasionally in the most unbridled license against almost every government and almost every man alive. (Cheers, and " Oh, oh.") If there is anything upon which we pride ourselves in this ciountry to is our freedom of speech, and that leads us so frequently to pea over the violent effusions of the hon. and learned gen tleman—thus respecting the principle, though we may disap prove of the manner in which he exercises it. (Hear, hear.) I say, it would be most undignified in the people of this ocantry--nay, it would be most childish conduct in the people of this country—if, because of certain violent expres sions, certain intemperate addressee made against the people of England, they were to allow themselves to be swayed from the course they might otherwise think right to pursue in reference to their internal legislation. (Hear, ' hear.) We ought to make due allowance for the irritation which has been naturally excited in France. I will suppose that there issued from Paris on more than one mastodon murderers attempting similar atrocities here to those which have been attempted in Paris : would not the people of this country feel the greatest indignation, and would they not be likely, in speaking of such attempts, to go beyond that precise aocuracyjof expree 'ion which nations ought to be guided by in their transac tions with other nations. (Hear, bear.) I trust, therefore, however we may disapprove of these violent expressions of feeling in France, that we shall make allowance for the circumstances under which they were made—that we shalt comider what would have been our own feelings in a similar case, and under similar circumstances—and that we shall not be led away by considerations of what may have been said by individuals in France or elsewhere from that course which, upon the merits of the question, we may think fit to fol low. (Cheers.) Mr. HORSMAN had listened to the speech of the noble lord with great attention, and must say that be regretted the manner in which he had referred to his hon. and learned friend, and the manner in which be had =swan& his hon. and learned friend's question. He (Mr. Honmen) had in tended to take no part in the discussion, but he felt that they ought not in justice to allow such imputations to be cast upon any member of the house u, upon a question in which they were all interested, he thought had been most unfairly cast upon his hon. and learned friend. His hon. and learned friend did not complain that there were individuals in France who had insulted the national character of England, but that r- neer to the Emperor of France , and who must have oosfidemoe, were those who had concocted this cheep spinet the people of this country. (Cheers.) Them &debtor' of the French colonels had been published in the Nonileur, the government paper, and eirculated under the gove rnment influence throughout Priam, to show to an excitable people what ems the leagoage the Emperor appeered to approve as =deemed to him in regard to the attack which had been made upon him, sad to show to the people of Europe what were the terms la which they might =woes the demand had been made upon the government of England for future security against the repetition of the mime of which the French government very properly complained. (Hear, hear.) The whole grievance of him hon. and learned friend was, that it was the government of France—the authoritiesof France—which had made these charges ; and on that ground it was that he attached an importance to them which he would not had they emanated from mere private individuals. (Hear, hear.) And then, as to the manner in which his hon. and learned friend was in the habit of deporting Mundt in that hones. He had, like his noble friend, sat many years in that house with his hon. and learned friend, and so far from being surprised at his expressing himself in strong language, he should be much more surprised if, with his under the circumstances to which he had called attention, n he i o h n, had not done so. (Loud cheers.) No doubt his hon. and learned friend had frequently expressed himself strongly, but it had always been the expression of honest feeling and con scientious conviction, i=spendent of party ties and party obligations. (Cheers.) His hon. and learned friend was in the tubbed resting his censures broadcast through the house, but they had all become convinced from long experience of hie integrity of purpose, and that while he was careless of what enemies he made, no man in the House of Commons was more free from personal atomism than his hon. and learned friend. (Loud and general chars.) lie felt, then, that his hon. and learned friend had been somewhat severely dealt with by his noble Mod. (Hear.) lila hoe, and learned friend had expressed sentiments that evening whiall ware his own, for which he was responsible, and he wee not the man to shrink from the roponeibility. (Hair, hear.) But to say that his !magnate was habitually an stung that he Was an example of what ought to be avoided end was deserving of blame, he (lir. Horsiness) could only repeat that, after a very long experience of his hon. and learned friend, he believed that his worst enemy could not pick a hole in the whole of his political career, or cast a stain upon that parliamentary life which he had sus tained with so much honourand integrity. (Cheers.) Heunder stood his noble Mend to say that there had been one despatch from the government of France upon the subject of his hon. and learned friend's gpsindon, and that it would be produced. (ere seat Be ffid not loam whether an answer had been sat .)tiger dorm* but he before they oar= to diseerica cm Mosby, thst they would have all the pp= cm the enkret rid am the table. (Hear.) It wadi else he &akar t h at dry deed" have the opinion of the lan effigies of the orows—bseemee, tl it should be baud est thee tamelemeries agreed in the opi nion uproar& by very high higal amthorides eimathsre, it would be clearly mnifest thee the allsretbra d the law they wore to be aired to random was sad that the eMeft law wee cruder kr ell parposes. wee a point to wink be Washed gnat impartomes. Do he would not Wicker Ur dissmarm, let keeled they Wadi lave ail the isheredem Wee& before thus hadedsliwere said vs dial midi the rertion, se that they be to be& as le the progerty al the red s sal el dm - ooncessiam whim h morel gale goveransrt l of i dde worry wry primed Is rim Yr. ROEBUCK (who was met with. ay ef NCOsetion") hoped the noble lord would cceelfer the mart be wan now &heat to make, dot the dope& of the French govern ing= amid he rid upon the table, and also the mow etbsells4edy's government to %am soon se poesible, so that lam. meriere might have it hi their hands before they were add upon to eater on the discussion next Mon day, (max; boo With regard to what the noble lord had said of Idea (Kr. Roebuck), lc pawed by him " like the idle wind, which he regarded not." He asked the noble lord to esperiem le bed amid that weld bar out the re aside ird hid pleas xi the league. he was thiso aura, Meer, bass.) B. *elm have uttered lisneg ie r ine he defied the mobile lontle show that ha bed *dad bremep—(drere)—mar led he used nook irsamege en dr remat , M) He wail ask the labia lord sad re Im emesiom re to rende em r what ha Ind ord. Mar, beer.) Be lmd mid did Ragirrd had bra linsulted, and that the insult alms from the Emperor of France. (Hear, bear.) Wee there any violent language in that ? (Cheers.) That was • strong statement no doubt—but was not the evidence i n su pp ort of it strong also? (Hear, hear.) Why, the people of England bad been threatened before—even in his time—not that he could recol lect it, for he was • child when It occurred. The great man who bore the name now held by the Emperor of the French —the first Napoleon—he, from the opposite shore of the Channel. threatened England with invasion ; and though he disagreed in the policy adopted by our ancestors on the occasion, be could not but admire their towering thought, and the thoroughly courageous demonstration with which the menace of the great Napoleon, surrounded as he was by his legions, and fresh from the victories of Jena, Austerlitz, and Vienna was met. (Hear, hear.) We hurled defiance at him—we fought him and conquered him ; and should we, who then had treated with contempt and defiance the menaces of Napolloos le Orated, quail before the threats of Napoleon ii IWO. (Crete of question, and immense cheering.) Lard PALMER/310N would lay the despatch from the French government on the table to-morrow (this day). No answer to It had been sent. (Hear.) Mr. ROEBUCK then withdrew hie motion for the ad journment of the house, and the subject dropped. THE HAVELOCK ANNUITY. The house having resolved itself into • committee of the whole house, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, after re capitulating the proceedings th at had talon place in the short aced= before Christmas, in reference to the bill for granting an annuity to the late Sir H. Havelock and the proposal to extend that annuity to two lives instead of one, observed that unhappily it had not been in the power of the government to give effect to the promise they then made, for at the very time when her Majesty conferred the honour of the baronetcy upon the gallant general and the annuity was voted to him by that house be had already teem a victim to his exertions in the service of his country. liar Majesty'. government being, however, anxious to carry into effect the recommendation of the crown and the understanding come to by the house, had decided upon proposing an annuity o 1,0001. a year to the widow of the gallant Lena Her Majesty had already conferred upon t general's wife the same' honour which t he would enjoyed if her husband had been actually created a baronet when he died, although the creation had not taken place—and they also proposed to grant a similar annuity to her son, the present Sir H. Havelock, who had been created a baronet. (Cheers.) He thought under the circumstances that the house would not object to grant this ennui to Sir H. Havelock, even it he had been an tindiatingulshed man, oonaldering the eminent en vies of hie gallant father ; but it was not so, for he bad proved himself by his own gallant dosds well worthy t o sue coed to his father 's name and fame. He had distinguished himself in the military profession in India, and looking simply at his own merits, therefore, he thought the home would feel itself fully justified in conferring upon him this token of their approbation. The right honourable gentle man then proceeded to read from the official documents the records of the present Sir H. Havelock's services, "Brevet-Maj or Havelock entered thearmy (Queen's service) as ensign in 1846, became lieutenant the 23rd of June, 1848, and captain on the 9th of October, 1857. The Commander in-Chief had great pleasure in recommending hint for his promotion to a company shortly after the action at Cawn pore, and recently for brevet rank of major, no lees as a reward for his own gallant and meritorious services than as tribute to the memory of his gallant father, by whose side he fought in those numerous engagements which rapidly followed each other in brilliant succession , and terminated in the relief of Lucknow. Major Havelock was decorated with the Victoria Crete for his cool bravery at Caw . nme . t . t : It was on that amnion that Major Stirling, a and distinguished officer, fell at the head of the 64trree7 gimnt. Major Havelock's horse was shot under him at Bunerut (lunge on the 29th of July ; he was severely wounded in the right arm by a musket shot at Lucknow, and has beenrepeatedly mentioned in despatches. In the com bat at Campers Lieutenant Havelock was my aide-de camp. The 64th Regiment had been much under artillery fire, from which it had severely suffered. The whole of the in fantry were lying down in line, when, perceiving that the enemy had brought out the last reserved gun, • 24-pounder, and were rallying round it, I called up the regiment to rise and advance. Without any other word from me, Lieutenant Havelock placed himself on his horse, in front of the centre of the 64th, opposite the muzzle of the gun. Major Stirling, oemmanding the regi ment , was in front, demounted, but th e lieutenant contin ued to move steadily on in front of the regi ment at a foot pace on his hen s . The gun discharged shot until the troops were within a short Mama, when they fired grape. In went th e corps, l e d by the li eutenant, who - still steered steadily on the gun's muzzle until it was mastered by • rush of the 64th." The resolutions he had to move, and to which he hoped a unanimous assent would be given, were—. That the annual sum of 1,0001. be granted to her Majesty out of the Cowell dated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, the said annuity to commence from the 6th day of February, 1868, and to be settled in the most beneficial manner upon Lady Havelock, the widow of the late Major-Oettersl Henry Havelock, of Lucknow, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, for the term of her natural life."—" That the annual sum of 1,0001. be granted to her Msjeety out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, the said annuity to commence from the 6th day of February, 1868, and to be settled is the most beneficial manner upon Sir Henry Marsh= Havelock, Baronet, eldest eon of the late Major-General Henry Havelock, of Lucknow, K night Com mander of the Mort Honourable Order of the Bath, for the term of his natural life." Sir J. PAKINGTON thought the Chancellor of the Exchequer had correctly anticipated the feeling of the house when he anticipated its unanimous concurrence in this pro position. Amongst the events of the mutiny none had umpired more sincere or more universal regret than the death of the late General Havelock. (Hear.) He believed that throughout the country a feeling of gratitude was entertained towards her Majesty for the honour she had conferred on Lady Havelock and her son, and it was the general im pression both in and out of parliament that her Majesty's government were doing no more than their duty in recom mending the Howe of Commons to bestow these annuities on the widow and son of the late gallant general. (Hear.) He an** agreed with the right hon. gentleman, and he be lieved the home would have concurred in this motion, even if Major Havelock had been an ordinary individuel ; but CS the contrary, It was known that he was treading gallantly in the steps of his father, and every one must hope that he would continue his career of glory, and long enjoy the re ward given to him by his country. Mr. KINNAIRD bore his testimony to the feeling with which the country would view this reward to Major Have look. He held in hi s h an d en extract of a letter 0= Oen. Havelock, in which he expressed his anxiety that he bad not been able to make an adequate provision for his family—for after 42 years' service be had only been able to immolate 4,0001, which, together with a small Immo on his life, was all that he had to leave. He wu sure that when this was known by the country, there would he • warm and universal recognition of the propriety of the course which had been pursued towards the family of General Havelock. Mr. BYNG expressed his cordial approval el the rue intim, and, at the same time, was anxious to express his sorrow for the lose, and his admiration of the 'swims of General Havelock, whose character se a soldier, whether for li a rax, energy, end strategeoloal skill, had never been our . With the private life of General Havelock it would gelLuptuous in the house to dial but it might be per rir. to say that he was the period type of • Christian hero, sad though t he he had not lived to be aware of the recognition of his services by an admiring Bove !sign and • grateful people, he had at Lest en joyed the COUJICIOIIIIIOYI of his having done his duty, and that his bat act was that of rescuing • heroic and enduring garrison from a fate at the contem on of which every one mast shudder, Bo long as the hest Chran virtue, brilliant courage, and the highest Lary capacity were esteemed, as they always were, in England the memory of General Havelock would be loved and admired. Mr. GRIFFITH was far from desiring to disturb the unaahahy of the bowie with respect to this vote, and there could he no doubt that the proposition of the government would be ratified by the feeling of the country. But he wished to point out how the proper functions of the house had been ovaiaid by the forms of proceeding in such matters. The bill was introduced yesterday, and they were in commit tee, and bang a money bill no amendment could be made. Lit year the proposition of the government was not approved by the hones, and yet there was no opportunity of making any alkestion in it. There was a dilkulty in the way of the house representing its own wishes ; and it was only from the accidental dream/Amos of the lamented death of Gateral Havelock that the house had had time to a gemlike for his widow and his sm. If the bill bed rand last year this could not have occurred. It was a question whether there should not be the pieties to maks for the widows el ienmals and officers who had disl u them selves is eenters. It was the first wish end thought otGenersl Havelock, and must be the drat thought of every general on dangerous amise, that some provision should be seemed to his tunny. Mr. W. WILLIAMS amid that there was not a person in the house more ready than be to grant public money for eminent manias dins to the country, and no Nervioes could hays been greater than those performed by the bee General Havelock. He roes, not to oppose the motion, he be thought that Lady Havelock wee eminently entitled to a peados, but to cell attention to the greatly increased re ward ea compared with that dime year. Then it was pro posed to give en annuity to General Havelock for his Ills ; and it was the wish of the house that it should be extended to Yea eon for life% and there wee no opposition to that If the proposition had been to grant General Havelock 2,0001. • year, ha (Mr. Williams) would have made no otgeetion, for ha Awed it was the highest policy to reward sink pub- Beservices such as those of Gomel Havelock. But the ground laid by the Chancellor of the Exche quer for granting 1,0001. a year to Me,* Havelock wholly failed. The right honourable gendorm might have pointed est • thousand officers as month entitled to renk Whe:ti than nillarmuli Mejar ygitarl* th ia l :E ala fle. - 0 71 . c. Zed Ace'222ll'i '''''.. lia l= "lock. = • ad ass cr ot tel l ei r l ahem had perai m .gnus Aer z i d bat a slender im — rtica=meabt Oat Calomel Orealmil won entYisd to aWm Mid lima label revived. The rata boa. gra tiara bed optima demi coop of Me* Havelock. Why time INS all a ama he that any, allow er moldier, trio had not dillideved mm mail wane meta This vex a melba Ice ea p esalliaell (M OOOl. rat %rad abet was ortamay pro- Mr. divide.) Kr. ITIWDZOATI villa boater lim lan park /plot illaiseldia ce the I.& awes kg Lai" Man ENGLAND. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said he hoped their lordships would assent to the fire reading of a bill which be had to propose. the object of which was to t e, under certain circumstances, sad with certain lint special services in causexion with the Church of Rog-land. t would be in their lordships' recollection that a noble earl whom he saw in his place (the Earl of Shaftesbury) introduced a bill with a somewhat similar object at the close of the leant sitting of parlismait. His rev. brethren sad himself were of opinion that the object which the noble earl had in view wee far too important to be abandoned ; but they were also of opinion that the bill which he proposed wee liable to some objections which did not appear to have occurred to the noble earl himself. He had, therefore, to lay on the table a bill which they thought would accomplish the noble earl's ob ject without exciting any suspicions that it would interfere with the acclaimer's' order and discipline, which it wee appreheeded would be the effect of the noble earl's bill It would afford the highest gratification to his eight rev. brethren and himself if the noble earl would con cur in the bill ; and •if in consequence the object were arried into effect. They were quite aware that the noble earl had no other design than the promotion cif religion, mid the eons_ ring to the church of England these advantages width, in the altered situation of the country, and with the latnese population since the parochial system was ariginabed, were required. He would now with the W a r ketiehipa, lay the bill on chi; table, and he persa i ho seica ped it Mehl be reed a second time on Monday next. Lad CAMPBELL said, being a sincere advocate of the =h e ar would put it to the noble earl whether it wee not that he should postpone the second reading of his bill, which stood for Monday until they had had en oppor trinity of examining the bill about to be laid on the table, and meertaining which was the beet. The bail of SHAFTESBURY said be thought it would M beet to wait till Monday before determining whether or not be would proceed with his bill. Lord CAMPBELL thought that the interval between that evening and Monday was too short for the consideration of a soliject of such grave importance. be Archbishop of CANTERBURY observed that the bill we , • ahort one, and be ho it would be in the hands of their ip s on th e folio day. The bill wee than laid on the table read • first time TEE EAST INDIA COYPANY. Lted lIIONTEAOLE hoped them would be no objection IS the pert of Use government to lay on the table the mime = id width bed taken Ore betimes the First Lord of the sad the Directors of the &at India Company with rlto the bum government al India. o,stidlble mower was given to the noble lord's ober endow. The kediships adjourned at six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY, FLT. 5. The !basest( took the chair at a quarter to 4 o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. WALD MAIt took the oaths and his ACM for North Neresaaptambin, La the room of Mr. Augusto" Stafford, CORPORATION REFORM. The librilfe of London and Middlesex appeared at the kr, eel presented a petition from the Lord Mayor, Alder men, end Common CoaaaQ the city of London, yeah Oa boom to per a till which wee promoted by the Um. TM petition vas ordered to lie on the table. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Lunn or Rummy@ Weser tr.—By Mr. Bow.ra, tree =Ws members dam united church of England mil IMAM, risking at litre DORM Mr. 0. Basciorr, tram akombors of the relebliere church et Leeds; preying he ma eimidnumt sad extend= of the act for wenn the Unity of religious warship. ?mac/Luz easissauorre.—By Mr. J. POUR, km NOTICES OF MOTIONS. st-Ez CANAL.—Mr. Y 611)711111; t LFriday fortnight, to ask the government whether It was intended to offer op- Etta tioa to the project of a canal woes the Isthmus of CAVALIY 701 INDIA.--CASAiII VIVIAN, for Monday next, to ask a question relative to the digitated of cavalry rein forcements to India. BLEW!! RoTHsCHILD.—Lord JOHN BANIIIILL, on Mr. Dtmoombs's motion for the admission of Raton Rothschild to his seat in parliament without taking the oaths, to move the previous question. CHURCH Raise.-Bir J. TAIL/INF:IT, at the earliest op portunity, to bring in a bill fa the remission of awa rds'. GOVIRNMENT or IN I.A.—Mr. T. HAZING, on Monday next, to move resolution* deprecating any change in the go vernment of India. until time had been given for the most fall end searching inquiry. RETURNS ORDERED. INDIA.—On the motion of Mr, K INNA inn the following return was ordered :—Copy of papers connected with the case of the Sep* who in 1819 was removed from hie regi ment, then stationed at Meerut, on embracing Christianity ; mid on the motion of Colonel Byrne, return of the number of cadetships and different classes of individuals upon whose sons all cadetships for India have been conferred by the directors of the East India Company and President of the Beard of Control in the amid yews from 1840 to 1867, both inclusive and copy of India judicial despatch, 4th No vember, 1867, No. 61, and Madras judi c i a l de spatch, 30th September, 1867, No. 13, relative to pOliee. PRNSIONS or Orrtczas* WIDOWIL—On the motion of Sir. GRIFFITHS, copy was ordered of a letter, dated the 12th day of December last, addressed by himself to the noble lord at the head of the government, advocating • pennon to lAdy Havelock, and to other wires and widows of officers to whom • provision is granted by parliament for distinguished services. CASE OF MR. CAVANAGH. Colonel FRENCH asked, pursuant to notice, whether it was the intention of the Minister for War to advise her Ma jeaty to confer any mark of favour on Sergeant Cavanagh, of the 88th, for his gallantry in passing through the rebel army with important information from Lucknow to Sir Colin 84 . J. RAMSDEN thought that the hon. and gallant member must be under some mistake as to the identity of the individual to whom the question referred, as, on exa mining the musts-roll of the 88th Regiment, it was found that there wee no sergeant of the name of Cavanagh in the regiment. He believed further that, from the position of the regiment at the time, It would have hem impossible for any soldier in it to have been within the walla of Lacknow, the regiment being at the time with General Windham at Cawn pore. On referring to the general order of the Governor- General of India, be found mention made of a Mr. Cavanagh, sad lintel* by reading a paragraph in that order he ahould be able to - show the gallant member that the services of that individual had not been forgotten. The order wee dated 10th December, 1&57, and stated that the Commander-in- Mel had mentioned in terms of just appreciation the valu able aid which he had received from Mr. Cavanagh, of the uswevenanted civil service. The Governor-General offered hie spidal thanks to Mr. Cavanagh, whose conduct should be bans la mind by the government. Should the Governor- General follow up this notice by any recommendation to the home government, such recommendation would of mune receive all the attention it deserved. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (IRELAND). - GRAND JURIES. - Mr. HUME asikedtheisiret;r7l4 State for Ireland, whether he meant to introduce a bill this session, and, if so, how soon for the better regulation of the weights and mea sures of Ireland also, whether he meant to introduce a bill for the amendment of the grand jury laws of that country. Mr. It. HERBERT raid he had already even notice of a bill for the fairs and markets in Ireland, which bill would include tthe regulation of weights and measures. A bill for the regulation of grand juries In Ireland would also be introduced, so soca as the state of business permitted. TRANSFER OF LAND. Sir F. KELLY asked the Attorney-General whether it wee the intention of her Majesty's government to bring in say bill for the registration of titles, and the facilitating the treader of lead The ATTORNEY•GENERAL said be had hoped to introduce a bill founded on the report of the real property commission on the subject of the registration of titles, as he believed that such a measure would have been most beneficial, and would have rendered the tranafer of land as easy an that of government stock or railway shares. He had prepared such • bill, but great difficulty had been felt u to the proper principle of legislation in a quarter which was entitled to the greatest respect, and to which be was bound to defer. He could not say, therefore, that there was at present any possibility of the bill being introduced. He was happy, however, to say that mamma to facilitate the trans fe r of land, although of lees extended operation, would shortly be laid by the Lord Chancellor before the other House of Parlia ment. _ _ THE ARMY—WARRANT OF 1854. General PEEL asked the Under Secretary for War, what steps were to be taken to remedy the erns which he admitted on the part of the military authorities hare arisen from the operation of the warrant of 1864 P Sir J. RAMSDEN said that the subject had been for some time under the consideration both of the Wer-office and the Commander-in-Chief. They were fully aware that the warrant of 1854 had not answered expectation, but the difficulties in the way of alteration were so great that the authorities had not, as yet, been able to corm to any deci sion. ROYAL BRITISH BANK. Colonel STUART aged whether it was the Intention of government to institute any legal proceedings against the hes directors of the Royal British Bank P The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had never hesi tated in his intention to carry on a prosecution against those =WIn the most effective manner. His only doubt Ind hether he should not also institute other prosecutions of a similar nature. (Hear, hear.) THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S MARRIAGE.—ADDRESS TO THE CROWN. Lord PALMERSTON—I gave notion yesterday evening that I should this day move an address to her Majesty, com- Satinber Majesty on the marriage of the Princess g Aecordlng to the strict rule of th e house I could not that motion until after the order of the day, but perhaps le themes the house will omelet to give me precedence. The orders of the day were then Lord PALMERSTON-81 r , I no= a r i e * perform a duty which is no less gratifying to me than I am persuaded it will be soceptable to the house, namely, to move that thin house shall address her Majesty congratulating her Majesty on the recent marriage of the Pewee Royal to Prince Ihederick William of Prussia, than which there has bee no event since the marriage of her Majesty herself, which has so muc h enlisted public feeling, and which has excited so much thereat throughout the whole British nation. (Hear, hear.) And, ' sir, thee could be no greater proof of that, than the Immense multitude which, a few clays since, assembled In the streets of the metropolis amid the Inclemency of a winter's day, with the mow falling, and a bitter wind, a ssem bl e d t o g i ve a last fare well to the Princes Royal on quitting the shores of her native country. (Hear, hear.) It was, indeed, natural that the people of this country should feel that interest in any thing that related to the Princeton Royal. She was the first. born child of that marriage which bad excited so much interest in the nation, and, although the events of childhood sad of early years are In general not much known to the woad at large, yet the nation has, by some means or other, watched and known the progressive development of the amiable qualities of her royal highness; they have see how the warmth of her affections has bun matured by increseing years, and how an admirable education had formed and cultivated her Wad (Hear, hear.) Bir, it is often the fate of princes and nerthat their =reeve are the results of mere l y poli ry:igetnenteo. They are brought together at the altar havinf known nothing more of each other than such reports as might have been conveyed of their mutual intellectual qualities, nor anything of each other's features except such idea as could be conveyed in a painted miniature. But the illustrious pair of whom we are now spealMg have been more fortunate. They indeed belong to that dm of whom it is said that— " Gentle eters unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their feelings blend." They have had the advantage of knowing each other for a considerable period, they have had the mesas of animating maturely the high qualities that adorn both, and, that knowledge of character, and the esteem which is founded on that knowledge, will, I trust, be the surest foundation for their future happiness, and the best security for that domestic joy which I am lure it is the wish cf every one should endure. A marriage such as that of the Princess Royal mast realise the fondest wish of an affectionate mother; and there is this also in the circumstance , that although her =Highness. is probably destined hereafter to fill a int and distinguished position, yet, for the present, there will be nothing in her station to prevent her frequent visits to this country, or to interfere with those domestic meetings which are so agreeable in all families. I feel that I should do injustice to the sentiment sir the house if I thought any argument neasinryto induce them to come to as easalmons vote, and I shall anWore conclude by pro posies the address which I have placed in the Speaker's 7, " net an humble address he presented to her Majesty, to congratulate her Majesty on the happy nuptials el bar Ro_yal Highness the Prince's Royal with Ins Royal Uighur Prises Frederick William of Prussia ; to assure her Majesty el the satisfaction which this hones feels at ma event so gratifying to her Mejesty, and which they trust will be so conducive to the domestic bananas of hat royal highne_m ." (Cheers.) Mr. DISRAELI—Sir, I am sere that her Ilejeety's faithful Comm saver united in an address to the mown with mat semplele cordiality than on the ream masks. (Ram) M is my Groin hes Ma more essaselohle mi mese liameallog M massieguilea mimed esprerisa of bag with red Is tble lb, *mai loards plo d* villa Ms lanais' dr Idris et ped owl powdel m ak & n. thatfiled, SS It is the elempad b u d b atQ the Mt seem* he 11101•11 rum, m a di, sum,' Immo which woe eared en dot or reeks wee cared, beams Mee was a gamed sanvietlia am the peat of the °miry, that as the noble lord hen re- the part of his conatit vernment for having Jock. The statement provision General Ha itunily Wu b Inadequ the mind and the A But he held that it wi devotion of men's lie that of General Havel vided for after their d that our officers shot had been long felt the' try should provide fur great services and rid relieve the minds of General Havelock had what his country WI would have been nu personal reward. The CHANCELLI thought it right to rem the noble member for I that the government house was now in con annuity to Lady Have was that the house wa a resolution on which If the hon. membe on this subject he woi future stages of the bil =launders - tending, by remarks he had wade. he laid the ground nitrite of Hajar Haveli his lamented father, s tinctly stated the , he granted this annuity to irrespective of his pen was for an annuity to expressed wish ef the b his son •,* that is, ti lives. The governor house, but that was that widerstariding bad General Havelock had things had changed, at tention should not be ei (the Chancellor of the house a different moo wishes of the house ; a the pereenal merits it would no doubt it should be carried eery to add that t wee not an inefficient, i by his vigour and come self en honourable posit to say that there were gniahed .but that Majt personal merits. Thew Lions, which be did not con. (Hear, hear.) Mr. INGRAM said pension was rightly I charged on the revenues these pensions, those wi He thought that the p rection ought to feel its Won to Lord Dalhousie India, and why should a At the same time he wa lock did not richly dew The CHANCELLOI was always the case that have their pensions It wee so in the case of others. With regard to India Company, the ca on the revenues of Indu who bad received the ea well charged on the revs Mr. GRIFFITH .aid government for the pmi sympathised more in the be did but it did ham house precluded discusei The resolution was rimmed. MEDICAL CHAI MrtfillißiliFt ' fa the early pert of the imapetioaa on the eutje the bill end introduce an the order for the second EAST Mr. V. SMITH, II to move for kayo to the Beat India Comp* Kingdom for the eery He said that the bill wbi leave to introduce bad b genies which had arises] and it wmild probably ear the confusion which exist should oome to parlianser bill was strictly limited parpom only, and erten he should propose ovi The house might not per powers of the East In& rather singular. In li powers of borrowing, sub Control, but in England exercise borrowing powe the first of which was I Their payers of borrowin acts to seven millions the extent of four million powers to borrow three nary coaxes of Indim by that event, but The government in necemary for expenses I gave notice at the comme of money was to be remit) received in money, or bill of regulating the supply superabundant they wet exchange, and when thej stimulated by raising tb manner in which money tinned until the recent rams had naturally lie government there had extra would be requii hone was available Ix Mete of affairs the East It could make all their region government in India gem drawn on India, and t supply of ballioa. The would be drawn th ey al and they mid th at they w • farther supply of a crows if necessary. The gayer that in coneequenoe of per Cent. Loan had require • further en coley in which the Board this. Their expenses we the transmission of all tl India, and they had been was only by means of the this diMculty. The coed lows (se we understood): counts, about one million lion in the Three per Cent thosand In Exchequer B called into existence, and here make a short stateme the year 1869, and of the ftw ,859. The right hi tons of Toles. reed • state ceipt and disbursement, aocnrately • singlegtem.e7 9,500,000/. would be reqn It was in order to provide now asked for powers to tl • sacked amount to Gov be required would be abet government would probed a million, he proposed to g The oily other alteration i the loan might be received that any objection ma don, for the home had the disturbances in It meetbg the emergency. mesas of providing for tl with the Chancellor of the enticed* it had been tb the money would be by di propoed therefore that th As dare would be so ma was desirable that this bit and he was sure the hone infra`` iy progress, and a ahodd be happy to afford Thensomelty for Bucher( as no surprise on the mot this lilt wen not introdo Christmas was, that tm as pr ti should ht foram time before Apri , 1858, fo Mr. T. BARING said I gentleman that there coup the home to afford all sae gency In India, and money. the preservatio country Bat he mt at the node which the goo loan. le should rather h gentlemen would have pi claration that her Majesty' idea of legislating for India said that the bill would gi' India Company for two an it was not proposed to lots fm: two years. To whoa crnoted, and on whom a The nob:e lord at the bead distinct 'once that it win plane India directly no What government was to hon. gentleman did not wanted, nor in what mane gathered from the etateni P I