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was say truth in Cies stetement, this empition was the , more easily eoemated b..r. One of the impactors stated that if we tell the people who ealsrtar time views as to the ob ject sad intention of the roveresseat—ediries them to eitneelle tier children User take on hoed—the mark* is Megiesil end sot foil arra , bat if ws :ell to.. that the goverment cow maids Bum to do to, the they look upon se a dime airs, sad sebutit. Therefore I take. my startingpolM, mid allow my eabordiasses to J.. the came. that we ehosto let it he ander strad that there is an orthr, f the reveremen• that they renlil miaow flier childrrn. and that they oottbt to be Wield it would we rammer 1 them to do that which is not good Sr ' than But harry laid down this principle, re take mos tq inform them that the primmer hare ao treaties to Interfere with their religion. And this, to the rep-rt stated, via the mode el grassegag rippled by Mr. Reid is the sortie west minium. He is. Wonted that theft &re. tore sad ilieree ef eistostion =lthreagh the country entirely the aid al the p.. ad that the astera authorities wore directed to assist them. They male their marts to Übe government, sad the government befog cecni•ont of what they did, adopted thiir recommendations. He het seen a litter recently front in same at Behar, wt.. , said that to bin opini”n one of ths thief teems of net outbreak was the system of adman= way istroduretl by the gt.vtrot eat, end the writer proaseded to soy that in mmerfnence r.f them proceedings the arattry became erred, and the myatartuua distritatialt of the Chobrboltaos tuned. The noble earl, h conchrion, again iniporsmid upon ths et...rimer the aboorate mersity of anteater all interterrl..• with the religiose snipes of the nitres of ladia. Besl - GKANvILL& who woo mood Woporiootir was mideretood to deny the iallerence of the noble se to the canoes of the late nratiny, omen that the mutineer* bcloaged Lie ay to Oude. tato which k oar eyeeens of 'ducat, n bad not as vet mac had. He Onaville) believed •het ..te of thi highest duties of the British ' , merriment was the o location of the natives of India, • principle. which had Nen recognised se fee hack ee 1811. when a charter rim crew. d far the encouragement of the cultivation of wecern litenitem in that country. Tel years after a grant at 10,0001. wee made. and a committee of pal , l:c interaction was appointed by which much valuable evidence war collected. He believed that tli; - ;:tel its theta made thistly failed bemuse too me, b e tires* was thermal in treaslatiag Hagfish 0, motile works into the cleesical leaguers of lad* aml also in sensequeem of the difficulty of getting professore Mk to explaie them wten a. trader d. ease of the greets* hapthemesits that bed ever takes place to India tray the bitssimetion tithe Emilisb lemma and western literature, and the cialthstrwa of the venthsrefer and &atonal leagues's shim emseary. The.. who remembered the committee to whitithe abated, and the admirable evident* given would temembeir the them diet was lath by most intellieent mom en the ammeity ref aillmemow to that system. A memerimble demote it was seat est, inoulosnag the mincipie that It was the arty of Ecgland to educate the people of Isita themeth the medium of the English and vernacular ffloffiloffee. and by Rtvicg Maltikate to acisn..ls of all detio milmthirma, on the rondo* n that they should be subject to the seessiesal inapectors Now, in that despatch they. were no :roe than seven different pomace% all declaring that government did act intend to interfere in the slightest degree wttb the religions teaching in the schools, end it also contained a re--runemdation for the establishment of an university on the m•dil of that of London. as bring the belt adapted for the teaching of all relinous deno Tbia despatch the sent • sad every one knew what the awash had been. The rer , rt of Sept., IRK was on the whole eatiafactiory, sad one meek wee to hire (Earl Granville) eminently satin tore, asmely, that the schools had been established meinly on tb, seff-supporting principle. But there wno doubt then education and religlon had in goose way got mixed up in the minds of the natives, end there was one passage in the repe-rt which seemed to indicate that the inspector had not acted with enficient oimiesspection. He could not concur with the noble sad as to the danger of estuarine the people e f India. He had heard from Mr. Holiday, in Calcutta, and a person high in judicial functions is &missy, that the natives connected with the edivstional eatabliehmente had all remained faithful to the iiritialT.go yTitmest, and that ihairoopsw7rTet7r/TrisetT, oe their arrival at Bonthey, to B.d thimmelves Need and sated to dinner by the le whom they bed loin wt oat ti &limey. (A laugh.) peop There was ow whit, how ever, upon which tan veer every one wee =antts, and that wan the inexpedien7 of teschise persons whom we could not trust the eetennt,... breaches of the art of war, and he bad been told, sea pr , ..f of the soundness d this precau tion, that at the siege , f NW the strategy end military d era • mien°, of the natives were in no Merrier to oar own. His belief was that cur nlerillS, h in some mars greatly arrived by the skill of the had in the main bees due to our moral supenortty end the greater strength and courage which were derived from climate, western civil nation, and free inetitutimm. It war not our duty to l down the native., but to elevate them in the social t scale, and therefore be thought that our educat;orial efforts should be persevered in, without however trenching on the prrjaglees or belief of the natives. The system, in .hors, ronst be persevered tn. but carefully watched, is order to me that the inspectors did not 'saved the Titles which had been laid down far them. THE HAVELOCK PENSION. Lord in moving the ascend of thia hill, briefly recapitulated the services of the late flir Henry Havelock, from the tiro his entering the service in 1823 dowel to bus lamented deula at the close of last year, and all of which have already been fully reported. The noble baron proceeded to say that the other house of parliament had by on unanimous verdict roe hid to bestow upon Lady Have lock such a pension as the bill provided, and upon the eldest son a similar great. The reward fell short of the eminent simian of the late °ouzel Havelock, but at the slum tines marked the national gratitude in a way which was not =- worthy of the nation. (Cheers.) The motion was agreed to ■earnw tor oradweiste, and the third reeding of the bill wee lead for Moadep next. The home adjourned at a quarter pest 6 o'clock. HOUSE OF CO MMONEL-FRIDAY, Fn. 19. TIN Hcoae trot at lour o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Boni Rr•nia7oi:Ll7.i;k;ardaecil.7ooe Union Canal Company's Railway Bill; Mersey Docks and Harbour (Con solidation of Acta) Bill ; Yerasy Docks and Harbour (New Works) 131 U. NOTICES OP MOTION. THE MVTINY IN INDIA. Mr. RICH gavisnoiiee that oathe motton --.7 for the adjourn moat of the house cm this day week he should call the atten tion of the house to the recently-reported engagements between our troop' and the mutinous Sepoys, and ask the Pnwiekatt of the Board .1 Control what orders had been item to our soldiers with regard to giving quarter or not to the mutinous &port found in arms. BREACH OP PRIVILEGE.—MR. ISAAC Burr. Mr. ROEBUCK—I am about to give • notioe of an eatraordintry nature, and I wish to solicit the attention of the home to it. On Monday I shall present a petition to the house from en Individual charging a member of this home with a breach of the privileges thereof. I think I may as well elate that the member In quertion is Mr. Isaac Butt. He is charged with a breach of the= t eges of this home, and I intend to present petition hint with mob breach of privilege, and to move, ma it • matter relating:lo the privi of the house, to appoint • ormunittee to inquire Into the done of the petition. If nothing is stated now to induce me to alter the day, I beg to give moth' that I shall on Monday present a petition charging • raise of Mulhouse with her mg been guilty of a breach oftheprivfleges thereof, and to more he the appointment of • committee to inquire into the allegations of that pram. 64 O. GREY—Perhaps it would be better if the petition was 'elated and placed in the hands of members before the home im caned on to girt an opinion with regard to the ap pointment of a committee ((inquiry. Mr. ROEBUCK—I Mould be ready to do that, but I Wise* it would be contrary to the roles of the house to do ge. The plonks manly deem that • breech of the privileges al the boom he been committed by a member of the boom, which statement I may say that I believe to be true, and fa each are it is =eel to grant a committee of invertigation. If the house thinks difirrencly, although I have not the pri des with me, I will see tdit it is emit to the printer Imme diately, and have it circulated with the rotes. Bat I still think I an, right, and that a the petition rarely contains an allegation that a breach of the privileges of the home has been committed by one of its members, a coomnitese of in quiry should be granted. W A LI'OLI—I will appeal Won, sir, in reference to that question. No doubt the bon. and leaned rat/masa is right in saying that on the presentation of a pedalo' ow. lag the conduct of a member of this hors and the of the house, be io entitled in wilt right to go 6b 4is mats of tie facts of the case. Bat I Nano that, es • matter of practice, and as a matter o! justice to the person dinged with coeurettlng the offence, end in justice to the home, it has been usual—end if it has not been usual. Ii waned be &enable that it should be the ractice—that notice Amid be given, in coda that an opportunity may be given b. the ...agg, to prepare for his defect*, and to cable the home se glee • for and dispassionate coostderatioa to the question. Whet I would suggest 4, Cut the yetltita be promoted either now or cc Monday ; nut if it mated now notice should be gives for Monday of • motion kr a Gleaming* of inquiry and if it is presented ma Mon day, that notice should then' be given for • futwe day, when It would be taken into coneideration. t Yr. be h... sent a copy of the piAtion to the boa. eassibst caaorsid. I here not got it Ma am, but I ral mod it to the printer immediately, so that before the sight le ova it willte in the heads of members ; awl I nog glee Notice that cm Monday I will preset it, and move for a Wert committee to inquire into the allegatkas conblasd in it. Mr. MILES—I would mimes° to the how sad hernial gestiessa bather Monday would not be too ado, Has being Friday, for the pefiti.a to be mad t; be In the hands of acallan bap,e t h e a hmsdce emu ea. The SP KA K ER-1 we uld suggest to the ton. and herald saber that the cowl, he original, propeoal would be the most coati anima, with one slight atieratioa. Ha notice that be rid present die puck s o . N on Zn a r bi l: than SOOTS that it In printed, sad g a d o . of • 67 ca white he will move for a select commlne• 14. ROEBUCI—I WI do that. PROBATE lIN AND AD MINISTRA KINGDOITLION IN THE ITZD ■COWAN bowl to ask the law enema he ateeload, heir' sougeoltvely whitlows's,* s a me ID the bat Amin of be BMW W met = 6 l atulabireaks Wm oat is mai bind rispeatively, lb* THE EXPRES.S,, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1858. interim sew to introduce ere er more hills whereby pro bates sad labors et seheisistraties la Ice to 4 end bread. sad a etsineetka al mentor la whether cif terra or Wester waceerks, the be valid end elleemsl, sad the berite hum the rent &sup of dr kw be extended Ira enjoyed throughout .11 the Celled K V LORD ADVOCATE wee wedenrod to say that the oaken wee under ocerlderstion. BOOKS OF THE IRISH NATIONAL SCHOOLS. lir. BLACK bona t o sak the SF to the Trawury what proceedings hed bean tam is to the publication of th e (nab school books; irk if be any objection. to lay Mon the table of the hoses the ecereponamce between the Geeernanent and the Corriestoese• of National Education la Ireland, with the Tummy nabob thereupon • con of letter hem Mr. Themes to the Chancellor of the Excehquer, on the sore ect, dated July 14, HST ; and Sir Charles Trevelyan's reply, dated July 28. 1857? r. WILSON—The contract entered into with the Coro- Worn of Harrel Edmonton In Ireland terminates at the end of the present mirth ; and it is sot the intention of the government to mew it, except in so far as retards their own schools. In future they will not be allowed to *apply the public with books, but the copyright will be threes era to publishers grarelly. I ary add that during the arrow of the bet eerbset the dread for these books hes bees so greet that the wake lord has increased from SACO to 20,000 a yes,. - - TITLES TO LAND IN SCOTLAND. Mr. DUNLOP begged M mit the Lord Advocate whether It woe his hates*e to inhoduee during the present sermon any mieenre he farther e tgrg end rendering leas eopenaivs the tides to land is The LORD ADVOCATE—I have • measure on the sub ject in preparation, and I hope to he able to introduce it im mediately aftee Easter. ROBBERY OF INCOME TAIL RETURNS IN THE mind at on • for sinasioe l as to the expediency of per mining ths bill to be hesoglit in will continue, now that the hour hem ths apprlimity d see ing its details ; and ream that it gleano wiestainal dharetionary power to the executive —that it only Friar • moss punishment for an offence of • grove cheracier—that whys WI the one hand it rat= the pi •Ay /11_1fuglead, on the other hand it mitigates the penalty irdstrA, sad redness the law in the two Wends to the sore condition—l trust the house will cease= NC the bill a mead reeding. (Heir.) Mr. having been put, r.StiBo N said he was not one of those who had klionred under the misapprehension to which thnoble lord had rohned, it such misapprehension did exist. He thought the noble load had taken a very proper coarse in putting the hoses la pommies al his views u to the exact aim of the assarre, with the view of removing any misconception Wilda night previa. But with regard to certain converse time, coo.fiial or otherwise, that were said to ban yard between the noble lord at the hoed of Ike government and th e minist e r of FISZIOIN he el opinion that matten of such grave import ones—mattes Minting perhaps the honour and reputation of the country, ought not to have bees left to mere casual coarremira—(chears)—but ought to have been planed on reseed, so as to show the world the position which England - had assumed in the nations. (Cheers.) In yeopedng the amendment of which his had given noton Its had no desire to provoke any angry controversy between the people' otEng• land and the French nation. (Cheers.) He gram', valued our relations with that country, and if he were to utter a single expression having a tendency to produce angry irri tating discussion , he should not be acting amading to his own convictions. He had not been an admirer generally of what bad been called the " spirited " foreign policy of the I noble lord at the head of thegovernment. But he wouldfraakly avow to the noble lord that he had frequently consoled him• self with the reflection that whatever disputes might arks from the policy of the government with varier parts of the world, the noble lord would be no party to any drgarous controversy or disputa with France. He repeated, he had consoled himself with that reflection, being one of those who valued beyond all things, as necessary to the civilisation, the happiness of all Europe. a permanent friendly understanding between the nations of France and England. (Cheers) He would now endeavour to meet one or two preliminary objec tions, and put the house in poeeeesion of the exact parlia mentary meaning of the motion which be was about to "Mints to the house. It had been objected by the enemies to the bill that his amendment was not sufficiently decided, and that he ought to have proposed the ignominious rejection of the bill. On the other hand, it had been urged by those who entertained • favourable view of the bill that this wee an indirect mode of defeating it, and that the more candid coons would have been to move that the bill be read a second time that day three months Them objections were founded on • miss prehension of the object he had in view, which was to invite an egression of the opinion of the house strictly relevant to the bill. If the house agreed to his resolution, that would not necessarily defeat the bill ; it would arrest its progress for the moment ; it would be simply expressing an opinion relative to the nab jectiC would be competent for the hour to proceed with the and pass it into alaw, notwithstanding th at his reso lution been agreed to. Opinions wars undoubtedly diverse on the measure. As far as he was concerned he should gin his rota to the, motion for throwing it out. But the position he now took was, that they ought not to read the bill • second time before having given expres sion to en opinion ea to the mode in which the government had conducted the affair which had led to the introduction of the bill, and as to whether it was not the duty of parlia ment to declare that moms answer should have been given to so important • despatch as that which was laid on the table of the house by government, and which therefore our legitimately before them. An hon. friend of his, who ob jected to this resolution, said, " You want to take an oppor tunity of passing a sort of indirect—be did not say censure, but indirect- opinion on the management of affairs by go =lament, upon an amendment on the second reading of a bill, thus getting on your aide for this purpose persons who are not hostile to the bill, but who upon the whole do not approve the course that government has taken." Now, in answer to that, he had to say that he should have been glad to have brought forward his resolution as • substantive motion, but he had not the command of the time of tin house. He could not bring forward mamma when he thought fit, and he very much doubted whether he should have obtained from government an early opportunity of bringing the resolution forward. Hs believed that he was =proper course, a course that could be justified by t, to asking the house to arrest, for that day only, the progress of trireme measure, in order to arms the opinion which he bad set forth in the resolution, that this important dispatch of Count Walewaki's should have received a solemn and deliberate's!! swer from her Majesty's govern ment (Hear, hear.) 'What was the resolution ? The first purge was in these words:—" That this house boars with much concern that it is alleged that recent attempts upon the life of the Emperor of the French have been devised m Eng land end its detestation of such guilty enterprises" He that every member of that house would give hie cordial concurrence to the sentiment embodied in those words. (Cheers.) He would ventureto say, that throughout the length and breadth of this lend the attempt to weireinate the Emperor of the Frisch, had been viewed with universal desecration. (Cheers) He therefore felt, no doubt, that he had the cordial cesearrenos of the house in the first paw= of this omelet- I lion. The next passege was in thre words, "That this house is ready at ill times to amid in remedying any defects the criminal law which, alter dm investigtin, are proved to exist." He put in the words " at all " because he quite agreed with the noble lord at the bead o the govern ment, and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, that if it were proved that our laws were defective we ought not to be deterred from making the requisite alters tka because other persons might have com mitted indiscretions, or because a ruggeetion might have come from foreign governments. But then we ought not, he thought, to make a change in our criminal law without due investigation. (Cheers.) We ought not hastily to maks this change in the law of conspiracy even conspiracy to murder. Conspiracy, per se was unlawful in tention, or, as it had been called, an unconsummated inten tion. Th ati was a vague and uncertain offence to deal with. Thar* was no rhinos with which a man might be charged where there was so great a chance of injustice being done, and therefore it behoved the house to be careful as to the ex tant of the penalty they impend. He thought it was Sir Matthew Hale who said that " is a net in which you catch a dove se well as a hawk." eei therefore, that it behoved them to be very careful that they did not maks dangerous change, in the law of England with refer ence to the law of conspiracy. He spoke with hesitation, not with confidence, on so grave a subject, as to what might be necessary changes in our criminal law. Ha would Mond his opinions rat.her on high authority, rat men of great ex perience, such as the Statute Law Commissioners. He found that this vny question of the law on conspiracy to murder had already been brought formally under the consideration of the Statute Lew Commissioners. At a meeting which they held on the 73rd December, 1856, at which the Lord Chan cellor, Lord Wriothealey, Mr. /hikes, the Attornerthmeral, the Solicitor•Gemeral, Yr. Guavas, Mr. Coulson, end Mr. Balsam Ker were present, a letter was read from the Attorney-General for Ireland, in which the attention of than distinguished public officers was celled to the difference between the law of Ireland and the law of England with reference to conspiracy to murder. In that letter Mr. Fitsgerakl said, " There is a considerable difference between the law in the two countries, and particularly in relation to conspiracy to murder." This passage called the attention of the Statute Low Commissioners to that part of the criminal law which waa now under discus ica and notwithstanding that, they found that the Lord Chancellor in the bills for the oonaolidationand amending the criminal law of England had omitted to make anchangs in reference to the offence of conspiracy to murder. He thought that this ought to have some weight with the house, "snug it was so trent a determination either on the part of the Statute Law Commissioners or on the part of her Majesty's government. It might be said that these bills were for the purpose of oonsolidahng, and not amending the mid lew b ‘ it A that , pmen was t n a o mi t the t caes .c.d . In y the .idi report ia amen oc sa r t r m i p ca ti. to commit murder. Some of thus are highly penal, whilst ths remainder are mom admimmiours at common law. It is obvious =atom all attempts to commit mud= should be al the tare sirs d alma Section 26, tberekrw of this coesdlislien KR reins all such attempts fame This showed that thin wee apowerof amendment as well as of assolidealle, and therefore he must suppose that theLsoldhearder end her Majesty'sgovernment thought fit . after a ddlbsrale *dry by the Statute Law Commissioners not to .she say deem in the law of conspiracy to murder. Well, be did Da sell to commit himself to any opinion as to wheat= the law as in new stood was precisely what it ought to be, but this he thought was evident, that with refer ees to the recent suet which had taken Ore in Paris, the law el England was sakient in all respects to deal with par i ties vine bed reeptred towards that act, and had aided and abidedie in sr whiled incited peruse in Paris to an attempt to soasehmile. Whet did we see now ? Did we not see that • wird lei bens Weed by her Majesty's government far the snort si • press amid All,op, oh:S or ia aiding sad abeig hi thesauri teersoiste dr of the Ruth f Did we not sae ales that en dee t in Eng ler' bM been bungle bins the piss regkarate, and that presseilege led bra Ulm with • virr el dig him to roredlanor devoted al hie having msi or incited to this see K. bared the law, es it now rod, gave more power sour pusses who bed sided sod abetted tn this at tempt aft vu glom by des MO. Under the 9th George IV., o. if, say abed el law Majesty In this country who was an eassesery _bed= the est Sei Is he un to punished emu In =lnt el his lila, bat orftlay to the Mat of peed aurvilede it we roved spier him And he believed that the Idelmekeedho =les le the hod had held that web" Os Una mimic of be , Meaerq ' were included A peruse who wesereddent =lids the dminime of her Majee who were bald, therehre, &whir such readence to owe allegiance to her amen sad lava If that were so, it appeared to him that at the premed time dark law was ample to deal with any per use who bays been concerned in this country in bringing about that dredtal wrest which has lately taken place in puls. But dare wry say doubt on this point, he for one would not be the ma, he frankly said, to stand in the way of soda se alteration of the law as would enable them to deal with aserra, be they Englishmen or be they alder who mnM ipovd bpsnilleient evidence to have aided fa the cemridoa ci this &MU= act. So much for the MU ; but he wee not now asking the house for an opinion upm it— Hat would ease sites his resolution bad been dealt with. He was not esker the house for an °deka on the but us* whether it was right that day to read it : m = time, He red inks leave to Orals that the noble lord at the head of the government, and the Secretary for the Home Department, bad held arguments In reference to this change of the law which were sot quits consistent with each other. First of all theyr upon theca the maxim that they ought to do what wee r Without reference to what th ey bad been said to • which was aic mach es to say they had beta !biked to do it: " T o a certain ex tant be ocesourred is that view, though he mast own there was • sponse of awkwardness in doing an act under dorms. However let that pees. But after pressing upon them that maxim, t he noble lied and the right hon. gentleman told them were always going to propose this change of the law, if are had been no French despatch and no calamitous mitt in Paris. But if this dispatch had nothing to do with the present bill, why had it bees plated in a formal manse, on the table of the house, as it were to lay the foundation of the subsequent ptomaine which the legislature wee to Mks. (Hear, hear.) He would undertake to say, that in the fir st spe of the noble lord, when he introduced the bill, they would not find one single 2 1 114bl e s . as to its being always the intention to propose this or as to having had their attention drawn to it for some time. That appeared to him to be • second thought. At least the two arguments were not consistent with each other, and if it was the intention to remedy the alleged defect in our criminal law, it was quite to read them • lecture about the necessity of discharging th duties with out any reference to the indiscretion of others. He now came to the third paragraph of his resolution. He did not know whether the house bad gone with him so far as to agree to his two first paragraphs, but he would take leave to maims that they had no objection to them. The resolution then went on to express regret that government had not answered Count Walewaki's despatch. An expreadon of regret did not necessarily Imply censure, bemuse they might regret unavoidable circumstances ; but he regretted whatever might have been the cause of this omission to answer Count Welewski's dispatch, because he thought they stood before the world as admitting, as it were, the tenth of some of the charges contained in that deepetch. (Cheers.) And more than that, seeing that that despatch called in question the policy of England in reference to the right of nyloin—(hear, hear)—that it reflected upon the mode in which England had thought fit to permit the right of asylum to be enjoyed by foreigner', he said it was the duty of the country to have replied court ded r , , with dignity, but firmly, and to have defru, and on record e land inprinciples which have gui ths policy of England in reference to the right of uylum._ (Cheers.) Did not it look as if they were ashamed to dahod that principle when they found it indirectly celled in gnation, and the insinua tics passed over in silence ? He believed that great misap prehension existed throughout Europe as to the exact nature of our law in reference to the right of asylum. Count Waleweki maid in that despatch •Itis no longer the hos tility of erring parties rnenifeetiug itself by all the excesses of the press and every violence of language; it is no longer even the labour of the factious seeking to agitate public opi nion and to provoke disorder ; it is assassination reduced to a doctrine, preached openly, practised in repeated attempts, the most recent of which has just struck Europe with stupe faction. Ought, then, the right of asylum to protect such • state of things? Is hospitality due to assassins ? Ought English legislation agree to favour their designs and their manceuvrea, and can it continue to protect persons who place themselves by flagrant acts without the pale of common law, and expose themselves to the ban of humanity Why, if no answer was returned to this despatch it was an admission by silence—Cheer, haar)—that we bad openly sheltered assassins, and had actually favoured their designs. But was that true P It was not. England abhorred assassi nation, as his honourable friend the member for Sheffield said, as much se any nation on the face of the earth. If assassins bad existed in this country it was no fault of ours. We had murderers and robbers of our own, who were not deterred by our own criminal law, or by severe puniihment, from committing crime. But was it to be said that, because individual criminals were to be found at a particular titre in a country, that therefore the:oountry, as • nation, sheltered those criminals, and that its ;laws favoured their designs ? No, this was not a fair or • 'vest insinuation against the law, the policy, or the people of England. (Cheers.) He said, then it was a duty which the executive government of this country were called upon to discharge to defend this country from these insinuations, by a proper, a firm, and a dignified answer. (Cheers.) He was nary to see the indifference that had been manifested by members of the government to this great principle of liberty, which no doubt lay at the foundation of English policy and regulated the right of asylum in this country. He was sorry to me the readinssi with which, during the conference at Paris, Lord Clarendon gave a silent acquienence to the resolution condemning, or at any rate aiming at, the liberty of the prow Net only did he say nothing in defence of that great princi ple of liberty of the press, whirl we valued so dearly, but he actually subscribed his name to that resolu tion, and the only answer which the noble lord gave what called upon to explain that signature wee, " Would you have my I d ord Clarendon make a soma They were all so harmo- nious; why not let this rentter,which might Indio dimeerons controversy, pees off unnoticed r It was lito mai met et thing now. (Hear, bear.) This opium doopatob of Omni Walewski's was not to be answered, boom the sassy might lead to unpleasant embassy. HO be sestmilid that we ought in defence of the bosom el Regime, of We principle of our law to risk this anima eastromoy ff we meant to maintain oar position se • silos la the Iwo of the world. (Cheers.) He said, then,_ that the ought to be answered. It might be said ilia it was to answer it. (Laughter.) Wall, he Wollii gaols the honourable gentleman who sat Wilds blot es that to show that there were than who were grows' to mow it. .• I frankly own," said the right her tram ike WOO shim •• I never read a despatch which wee sae ba to a minister to answer than this one." (Hear, hems .)) there was a very importantiview of this question, vVelt vas thrown out incidentally by Mr. Dalai, when he =an the first reading of the bill. He said if they bad the of Count Walewski on the table, and at the alms eras the answer of the British minister worthy of the offeeteedo fen his opinion, the government would have met nth me anny, and the matter would have been discussed Wow tics two nations with a temper which they all doled, Hs thought there was great force in that observation. He had no doubt whatever that if Count Waimea had bow lost at the with a proper and • beninloanttlir the part of her hisjesty's:tverumot the, _ gladly, without any f g of namos yr et it have set to work ass Ms pia el endeavouring to find a remedy for thy amid Ad might exist in their minima kw. They wool have approached the subject in • bathe bits& to say ths least of it. (Hear, hear.) The comedialimg pert ot his PlllO. lotion stated that the house cannot but regret that her Ma. jetty's government, previously to inviting*, homes to amend the law of conspiracy at the prompt time, ha not telt It to be their duty to make some reply to the important despatch re ceived from the French government, dated Paris, Jan. 20, 1868, and which has been laid before parliament. Now , he wanted to call the attention of the noblelord at the head of the government to the course he had been in the habit of taking in reference to what were called friendly communiee tions to other countries in reference to the state of their in ternal law. Perhaps no man in Europe had had greater experience in the mode of malting communications to other countries as to the condition of their laws, and the necessity of a chang e in their internal than the noble lord, and he would appeal to the noblga l r ' whether he had found other countries prepared to tales that friendly advice, as it was called, without resisting? (Cheers.) He thought he would find that eve aguverb meat with whom he bad carried on some osrresa that description, set him en example as to how he einall deal with friendly mirk* with reference to a chomp is ado law. He spoke of the case of Naples. (Hem, hest.) HO once reed in a paper • foolish idea put out, he sialMby some eccentric person, about the assassination of the of Naples. If the King of Naples had called the noble lord's attention to that incitement to assassination he had no doubt the noble lord would have read him a lecture on the neces sity of good government, and would have pointed out to his that the way to avoid all these dangers was to do juatios among his people. (Hear, hear.) Now, in a des- E t ch of May, 1866, from Lad Clarendon, which -the-bye was precisely of a similar character to from Count Walewald to Count de Persigny the despatch being to our minister at Naples, with a reed that he would read it to the minister of that coustry. Clarendon ailed that he wee actuated by afrieseilibelag la offering advice for the regulation of the Internet elan et Naplea, and in the administration of justice there, which would relieve Europe from muddy. The minister of Naples replied that he would communicate that despatch to the King, but he said the King could not, consistently with his dignity, allow foreign powers to interfere with the internal government of his country. (Hear, hear.) But the minister at the King of Naples was not content with this convereaties, but he thought fit to put his view into writing, and he sent a formal despatch to be communicated to th e English govern ment, from which he would read an extract. He said " the English goensimemt must be aware that the Krtuogg el the Two Skates. seashous in esasseing the Ind every other math all not slat in any *reign power the right of Masan= lathe Inland admlohimMon of Naas, and still lam la einthrhig the adnimilsidill of junta. Hs cermet have ressthee to the smimanoma_ _syggested tal the wells» of his slam sal his elm avow Imasts tin making of them Is Ids nyel aka. The arise of powers wth aims be sanived with gratitude, but they will ask smusthred that what suite ems state way bs erylimals to another." (Chars.) Pros the male beds is Ws matter 01 Mouthy essessothilms, eft ethee linu ght he vidibas bees the Obi b ads MO I/ lbw MOW tr ill° bed emelkses bus so sod mile bow boa se eppepipis sa this (Sser, Pr IL) The =livid.= Seth was aye • voila 1, el Omura awl the ths iseththerse l = U vas me • Imam bthesek§s pthemmei et Nem& gthealla They mums nags meth Ithilmoth end smmrmr 11641 0 1 larv ale% a im veal serrated sei et assitikkkg Wrath dig pop* isheithl the bow est thrdep heOs el th —hi e thee, essatry. a aldna *sem The weld ed they without bthas swan elk, by smith, alb as wink' w~ths met lase la Ithe iethilly the • Pre as the no hada very horsetail Wanes is threasi the Eopinion, sot leen fora asetpoded. Mee, hthr.) Es right hon. gentlemes) bed keg been a reader 01 the • end he bad ohm bad hie awn *Wow very auk infineened by what he pereal in that fountel. Hs wadi take the liberty of the of the noble lord at the he realsji short extract from the 2111110 with renames toad d the government, whey w oh seemed to hint to be aimed at with womanly' stounoy. Brand Ilos, Kszaus—The et Mr. GlBSON—January 22, 1850. (Laughter.) Well, be did not @appose that the noble lord bad much changed since then, and he believed the Timm was conducted by the semi persons and by the same editor. (Laughter.) The passage was follows There is no constituted authority Eul o with which Lord Palmerston has not quarrelled-. (a laugh —there is no insurrection that he h as not betrayed. The t partisans of Sicilian, Italian, and Hungarian ftedepadanos, bare certainly no especial canoe for gratitude to a minister who gave them abundance of verbal encourage. meat and thin abandoned them to their fate." (Hear, hear.) " Oa the other hand"—mark this—" when Lard Palmerston had made up his mind to court the good will of a foreign power, no sacrifice of principle or interest is too greet for him." (Laughter and cheers.) The pump concluded in these emphatic, term From first to last, his character has been the want of a firm and lofty adherence to the known interest, of England, and it is precisely from a want of such guiding lawn of conduct that our foreign policy has into a tissue of caprices, machinations, pony cant= and everlasting disputes." (Loud cheers.) It was bearer, he (the right hon. gentleman) thought the mode in whit* this affair bad been conducted was of all others the one most calculated to bring on disputes with France that he had called in question the course which they had adopted. (Cheers.) He quite agreed with the noble lord (Lord 1. Russell) that the irritable discussions which had token plass in that house might have been avoided U • moreudicious course had been pursued. Cheers.) He believed that if a per reply had been sent t o the despatch of CountW it was possible that the house might never have been called upon to legislate at all, or to enter t m tezz controversy with the French nation. (Cheers.) For be felt himself entirely precluded from expressing any opinions with regard to the government of the Emperor. That was • matter for the people of France; and he, at least,, would nut set the example of entering into questions cony ' nomad with the manner in which the government of France was canted on. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord had told them that the government of France rested upon the choice of the French people; and he (lb. Gibson) knew that there wee an assembly which was said to be elected by universal suffrage and vete by ballot. (Laughter and cheers.) It wee not, therefore, for him to call in question say part of the made in which the government of France was administered. (Cheers.) He would confine himself to his legitimate duty of calling in question the discretion which had been shown by oar own government; and he would tor; si g= his resolution in the hands of the Sp ea k er . H e that be had only discharged • legitimate and constitutional duty, and that he had done so at • time which was fitting. (Hear, hear.) Thanking the house for the ldndneis arse attention with which they had heard him, be begged to move—" That this house hears with much concern then it is alleged that recent attempts upon the life of the Emperor of the French have been devised in England, and expresses its detestation of such guilty enterprises ; that tide 1:40111e ready at all times to midst In remedying only defects in the criminal law which, after due investigation, are proved to exist, yet it cannot but regret that her Majesty's govern ment, previously to inviting the house to amend the law of conspiracy at the present time, has not felt it to be their duty to make some reply to the important despatch received from the French government, dated Paris, January 20, 1868, and which has been laid before parliament." (Loud and repeated cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT seconded the motion. Mr. BAINES next 'poke, but 6L observations were at tint scarcely audible, in consequence of the noise made by hon. members leaving the house. He could assure the right hon. gentleman that If the tendency of the bill had been to change any constitutional principle it would never have had hie support. All that it did was to attach to a crime of a very dangerous and malignant character a punishment more adequate to its gravity than could be exacted under the exist ing law. The truth was, the hostility to the measure had been conceived before hon. gentlemen knew what it Ina They had taken a prejudice against it beforehand, because they apprehended that it would be something in the nature of an Alien Bill, whereas it was nothing of the kid. The defect in the law having been made manila by a horrible crime in Paris which had undoubtedly bun hatched in this country, it became them as speedily a pa able to put matters on a more satisfactory footing. It lad been said that conspiracies to murder were unknown in this country, but he recollected several cases which had accused while he was himself in practice at the bar. It was true that the parties were not tried for conspiracy, the crime haring been completed, but in trying them for murder the fact of the conspiracy had been disarmed. With regard to the Empe ror of the French, it would be admitted that he was the choice of the people, and that he had been a meet honourable and faithful ally of this country. (Hear, hear.) It was argued that they ought not to proceed with the bi d on account of the rashness of language which had been used in France. But he thought they ought to make 'allowance for the natural state of panic and exasperation in which the late attempt had thrown our neighbours. A reference to history would show that our sweaters were guilty not only of rash language but of rash legislation when attempts were made on the lives of Queen Elizabeth, James 1., and William 111. Again petitions urging manna of greet int upon the house had sometimes been couched t wi rl! snap which was actually insolent, and they had been rejected on that account; but would anybody say the house ought to have refrained from legislation on that accoull7 He thought that no mean had been shown why they should adopt the resolution of the right Het hon. gentleman, or why they should not proceed with the bBl , end be hoped, theedore, that the house would agree to the mood melba. Mr. WALPOLE had waited anxiously till that moment, expecting that something would have fallen from the govern ment that might have enabled him to continue the support which he bad given to the bill by his vote on its first intro duction, and which he would give to it again, if only the noblelord would:vindicate the honour of his country. (Cheers.) It was impossible to regard the measure itself with any feel tags of deep apprehension; and indeed no argument could be adduced against it which would not be a libel upon hunanity. (Hear, hear.) But In the speech of the right bon gentleman, who had risen be supposed to answer the speech of the mem ber for Ashton (Mr. Gibson) not a single reason had been assigned in reply to an address which was well worthy of attention whether as regarded the tone and temper:manifested in it, or the sound principles which it contained. (Hear, bear.) The right honourable gentleman (Mr. Gibson) bad not treated this as a question involving our relations with France; ter he had distinctly stated that it must be treated se a question between the House of Commons re pramaing the people, and the executive government who were charged with having neglected their duty. (Her.) If they wets merely discussing the merits of the Nl—se the right bon. gentleman who had just sat down had done, with out adverting to a single syllable which had fallen from the member for Ashton— (hear, beer)—if there was no question before the hors but thepropriety of the bill—it would receive his support as embodying an alteration which he believed would be desirable. He should, in fact, have supported the measure upon the plain and intelligible principle that it called a thing by its right name, and apportioned to it a punishment commensurate with . the magnitude of the ;rim. He meals" Mid be should have supported the MU, and he would yapped it now,if the noble lord would take ogre that - they were not nkanderstood in the country sad throughout the world. (Hear, hear.) Great questions had been raised in this discussion—the canoe of freedom, the rights of humanity, the honour of England. From the bottom of his heart he believed that they who op posed the 1111, considered by Itself, had done so upon grounds which were not just. Thom was nothing in the measure to impeach that tof asylum which this country had always extended to The bill might have been supported on the ground common humanity, for it was not 4ht that the crime of conspiracy to murder should be treated ta the manner in which ft was by our protect law. Hs would share with the noble lord, therefore, any odium he might incur iarting the measure, believing it to be right in ,• but than it must ho on the condition that the of England was Ent vindicated. (Cheers.) The despatch of Count Walewaki asked her Majesty's govern ment to alter our laws, the requisition to do so being in the following terms: " Her Britannic Majesty's government an assist us in averting it by affording us a guarantee of security which no Mats an refuse to a neighbouring state, and whkh we are anthceised to expect from an ally. Fully relying, reareemr an the high seams of the English cabinet, we refrain hi en Indicating, in any way, the measures which it m re 7 see fit to take in order to comply with this wish. We it for estimating the decisions which It shall ai dr i sa r berel ' adoulatai to attain the object ; and we stn firmly persuaded that we shall not have sppeolsd in vain to its conscheoce end to its good will." (Bear, hear.) That was a requisition which was something like a demand ; bat it was a requisition that did not eland by itself. It was lri_stlur • statement captained in a previous port of the despatch, a stratoment which he sowerted was contrary to the troth. The despatch mid—" It is no longer the hostility of =lopsided individuals, manifesting itself by aLI the mores of the proms end all the violence', of language ; it is no longer even the work of the factious, mitre to rouse opinion and to provoke disorder; it is assamlaation elevated into dookine, preached openly—(hear, hear)--pree- Used in repeated effsmpte, the most rsoeat of which has jolt struck Europe with seassament." (Hoer, hear.) Ths re quisition was thaw headed apt, a statement yid* was net true. (Loud obeers.) Was • aseassination elevated into doctrine" by the people of this country ? (Chews.) fumed nation never hod been "elevated into doctrine" here. (Cheers.) Oa the contrary, there was no people cm the whole surhce of the globewhohated and deWftdasseestretton more. i ahem.) The despatch went on sek— noh " Ought, crf": T ro i ; :scores not. b (C= c ) ito " Is ho:m l • See to amembis r No ;of course not. (Mina) Ou t the ft , Oek legislature" k, tie "English '— (eheers)—" on& the Beglisk *Mature to ondribnie to hvour their how ssdtbs r phew, and can it conlatne shelter pastes who by their flagrant sole plea tharmiese beyond dm pale of common Tie* sad under the ham el hummity F' (Hem, hear.) That wee the isquilion whit bid come into Ms emby, and which they wee ammedieg by this MIL (Cheers.) But ore* If *wink no tlethetr Men cm the sa*set, the higeowlen would arles lathe Weds( Europe eat they bedi no meow is stabs; sad it weal be said that at Wry MI ben Inked le lerldete so fir, Off might, if isswary, lie bleed le LOW farther. Umbra oily boa we wed eh.* ghee le oowi Weimar' I& 'dub, and b lei New freinthe noble Wawa allbs4ig es e mnalleffi lw!lly lbe Ward*, ride ef town ra AY labless. stoma ei be en; end he Olfr. W4nis) would mike wry lffe But leg Ihrt slab etas Ale pm* =ir) Wes lbe Whim el di We* ef f e. (Cherre.) Zs rimed OW be wall WIWI: wee Wiry enemas fir ar esballee el Seceder( Mien • awe Ammo be Ws irk far / 1 Mil WWII& (Leal chew.) Abu lbe WM ea the CITY. On the motion that the itonM at its riling do adjourn to Mende y next. Mr. CRAWFORD mid—l wish to Ca the attention of the Imo to a matter which ha. incited a good deal of indig nities in that part of the metropolis which I represent. I ninth to the feat et • snraber of eonfidential returns Bent in Mgr Cammieeitren of Lamer Tax having been atruseted and expeeed Y eloper masts paper. I beg to sok tr. Se cretory to the Treasury whethse the government hea directed eny inquiry to he made into the straimetances connected with this abstraction, and, if them I any correspondence on the subject, whether it will be kid en the table of the home. Mr. WILSON—I am pony Weep that some weeks ap it am to the knowledge of the Cammieekmers of Inland Re venue Ant attain Mame tax Moran under Schedule D, whisk had bun made by certain anreantile firms ht the City of London, were in use ma warts piper in a shop, I think, in Thames-strest. The attention of the oommiesioners having be.. called to the fact, an inquiry was immediately instituted. BM it is proper to Masa that the papers in question were sew in the custody of the govvrament or the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, but the Marna are kept by the Commis sioners of Income Tax for the City of London, who alone are responrible for their safe coated . It appeared that a bundle of th ine returns was from the office of the corn mtrelenen by a woman whose duty it was to attend to and elenn the office; and I am happy to addll that step were immediately With to recover the papers, and that the great bulk of them have been recovered, and are in the hoods of the oommissiontra. There it no objection to the production of the ecereepoadeeioe. MINISTER OF JUSTICE. Mr. EWART begged to put a question to the First Lord of the Treasury, to explanation on the subject of the appointment of • department or minister of justice. He had pot a question on this subject to the noble lord a few innings since, and the noble lord replied that in this country it would not be desirable to appoint • minister of justice like that of France. and who bad the appointment of the mash Outs. He (Mr. Ernst) quite agreed with the noble lord, and, indeed, no one had ever raised such • question in refer nee to such a department. The noble lord said that per haps there ought to be a board for the revision of acts of par ' Inman. This latter suggestion was as far below the recom mendation of the Common Law Commissioners as the former one was above it. Lest year the right hon. member for the University of Dublin moved a resolution by which the house rented so the formation of • separate department of • of justice. The Solicitor-General and the Attorney agreed in the necessity tench *measure, and the noble lord agreed to the reeolution, end maid he would endeavour to hare it carried into effect. He wished, therefore, to sib the noble lord whether he was about to appoint any department to supeeintend manna for altering and improving the law at this country ? THE TREATY OP PARIS. Lad J. MANNERS mid, as the noble lord could only apish once, be would now put a question to him, of which he bad given notice, relating to the executian of the 12th Wide of the Treaty of Faris The only practical effect of the treaty of Paris on the Asiatic provinces of the Black Be, was that a terrible war bad wince been raging between Bemis end Circaesia. It had been stated that in the course of last autumn a document had bean sent to the representatives of England and France at Paris asking assistance for the Cir eamoMia in this war. He wished to eel the noble lord who-. air any such document had been received in Paris, and if there was any otOeMion to lay it on the table; and also whether anything had been dime hi of the 12th article of the Treaty Paris, and so whether there any objection topuai any correspondence on the subject ? - - - - - Lard PALWERSTON—I will first answer the question of wry has. trod (Mr. Ewart). Iffeiesty's government have fait it to be their duty to carry into ear as ter as they eau the wires of the hones as erred in the rescrisa which was adopted last year but my has. friend I am sr sir be aware that the resolution contained an ewers which was exceedingly ambiguous. It said that it ma &Wrath that • Department of Justice should be setehlished. Now that might either mean a depart ment to superintend the execution of the law, or a department to superintend the formation of the law. I think my hon. friend will agree, as rapids the first, that in this country it is not in aoc ard aa with our constitution to have a department to superintend the execution of the law, which Emotion la placed an the courts of law, and that it would be an improper core to attempt to control their furor in that respect. With regard to the second ques tion, the establishment of a department for the purpose of harmonising and revising the enactment of the law ; to this there can be no objection. But the amogement of each a department involves some difficulty, and I am sorry to say that at the present instant we have not satisfied ourselves with regard to an arrangement which would be satisfactory to parliament and the country, and which, if properly ao erplished. would be of considerable advantage. With re ran* to the question of the noble lord, I submit that it would have been more convenient Of he had given more reale Information as to the question he was about to put. TM nor lord first wishes to 'mow whether any representa tions roue& by certain Circassian chiefs to the Conference at Pali sad to the French and English governments ; what arms weregiven to those reprearations, and whether there would be wry objection to lay the correspondence on the table. I must request to be allowed to communicate with my noble friend the Foreign Secretary as to whether the documents an such as it would be proper to lay on the table. But, speaking from recollection, I may say that there was a rem erasion from certain Circassian chish, stating that they had been attacked by Russia, and asking assistance, moral gad physical of the powers which had 1191116 at war with Eris. With regard to this it should be borne in mind that the Ctrearans did not think fit to co-operate with England and Francs during the war with Russia, and they had not say claim to favour from us as auxffiaries. But as far as regards right to exact from Russia oondltioes for ,the te of the eastern coast of the Black Sea, the de meads frombelligerent powers must depend on success in war. Our success in the Crimea was complete, and we had a right to demand conditions with regard to that portion of the Black Sea. But the core of operations did not extend to the eastern shores of the Risk Bee, and we did not stand to any mi litia of merry err which authoring us to require hue Err ettpribma with regard to the popula tfen %bee bialiklag the eastern shores of the Black Um The orwer, whin* verbal or in writing, to the odic, ee 11 Wes, was that we did not feel that we wee maw tilleptka to the parties who made the applhallin tail pane itztba been concluded with Russia, we wire ail piped Imam war with that power to tunnort thin plain, brow, arch we might regret the natio* ia tibia thay deiel thimivas to be placed. Now with nod ntheetheritnalea—the 12* arrh tithe treaty of Pre pinata eat the wain of the Meek eta, fa to the seanani al all masondiedil be anteilial se Or se vitiate opinion weak and thal OS per Is Black flea should he to the err es of all the notions, abject to the srahllshd regabline of customs, goer tine, and polies. Well, the Reim government speed thi=sea** that nig la *en One porta be/ they cud ems, quatrain, ad pie, sad Am win the a* pits withhich wbe Os hisessane asell be permitted. Her lisferes ameneleatel whet these restriction, that the ihweha air mama ware bound by that aWa aninellas of the Melly e!a ail **Jaen ea the maws armee dile Ma in t ww.. were to the pa den of Retie, le the neawatie al sa williwa We 11111111 On than win aria* pub whish annuolease lemeirittb the talaitt if the teisby, wide was ia revolt apart ths Raisin panamob—ftel tip were gong ea between Rare at irrnees, eat tbet it wee at that time to establish theine-hooses at and that without Cuserreess it wee e=u s i that goo& rid net be abeletit Cannalwahne upon that pe ire win pets at been= Ire liskiates govern ment sr the gerrent Irk • bet we lave near been told thee ms Rah. reenawal ere about to a Onihrbonse at Pell. de an think that in the present state ele tbe corresporre the pedant= of these noses would be arturies to a eseihdery asereart et the labar. We de net admit that the Err bre pas party es awl Se article tithe Wean tants. lbw animal awed thaelhair wee pima 11011 linpiery, eau that at as dile* thee ennineeele in bey will be elb tir ememerciel interwine ta nen dos than bar as sin as they hay* eiblibbei an= -haven, =t il in e b yip be ised t ad legs that period will he ark waist *ea we was as bet tad t o ex p ec t. On ea re ban; It are be that foreign eurree seen be atria ea ia th at when *we ire* asiberbrawa. Oallhe ether 104 the pear swat le sheet le radii rierbeues mernmaents fe every Fr width le wane& he foreign nonce, eta where there le a popubdua, warehoun tad ether oat mines la which couleur can be carried on. • (Hier.) DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Mr. NAPLER mid that a year ago e;i7sadtese to lee mejeety was weed upon respecting the administration el the arnica of justice, to which address her Majesty media that she would give directions that the subject await node, that attention and consideration which its importance de masidod. He afterwards had some communication on the sa=with the Attorney-General, and, in July last, when was brought against the Statute Law Commie- Lesre, the noble lord at the heed of the were mast requested that it might not be pressed, as there would soon be a department of justice ; and the Attorney-General stated that he was perrearleg a scheme which he hoped to be ebb to make public beton the end of the session. At present the whole thing impaled to be at an end, and if so he wished to give notice of lib intim lion to all the notice of the hoar to the subject. (Hear.) Mr. L. KING hoped to receive some ammo* Erma the Attorney-General that a measure was in preparation. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that ao one wee better aware than the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Napier) of the sincerity of his Wings on this question. He did Pre pare a plan to give effect to his intentions, but the del sot wee that it was too general and embodied too many subjects. • measure embracing some portions of the subjects had received the approbation of some of the membe rs o f her Majesty's go vernment, and would soon be submitted to thehouse. Elbows conviction of the neoemity of a department of this kind was strengthened when he considered not only the state of the law generally, but the state of the law in our colonial posses sions. Ile would promise the house that his best attention should be given to the subject, and trusted that would be the last time when he should be required to give an assurance that the thing should be done. Tear, hear.) COUNTY POLICE. Mr. LIDDELL maid that a stun Wee granted out of the consolidated fund for the support of the county pollee on cer tain conditions. la biortbumbirland the magistrates had such a force aa they considered necessary, but ekelnspector reported that in his opinion the force was inththrft; end the certificate for obtaining the necemary WM had beam with held. Ile understood that with respect to the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in the town end county of Newiastle-opon-Tyne, similar reports had been out up by the inspector, but that in the oast the certifi cates had not been withheld. He 'tithed to know whether that statement was oconsct, and whether the which bad taken place on the subject would re= d a el t l la c il table. Sir G. GREY replied, that in the first instance the inspector considered the number of police appointed by the magistrates quite inadequate in point of number, and therefore it was impossible for him to certify. Since that time • considerable number had been added, and if they were kept up the certificate would be rented without any hesitation. The correspondence would be completed in the COUrbe of a few days, and he would then lay it on the table. _ . CHINA. Lord J. RUSSELL said he asked the goverment the other day to oceennunicate to the house the terms pro gledbanled,the was and the Chinos c4mn o; i :h .l e m" Ch e ine th b ee ek au reC ot= He supposed this time the gorerament wore in pommies of the and he hoped they would be laid on the table before the house was called nix@ to take the navy esti mates into consideration. (Hear.) CONSPIRACY TO MURDER BILL. Lord PALMERSTON—In moving the second reading of this bill, I wish to maks a very few obeervations in addition to those which I 'dinned to the hones on moving for leave to introduce the bill. In the first plain, I would say that great pains have bean taken to spread the notion that this is an alien bill. (Hear, hear.) That fraprasion is totally unfounded, sad is totally different from the nature of the measure. It is not an alien bill. The bill gives to the go vernment no arbitrary power whatever, and contains no enactments applicable to aliens which are not applicable; to all her Majesty's subjects. (Hear, hear.) I can not deny that which I stated on • former oc casion, that her Majesty's government wars led to look into the condition of the law relating to con spiracy by the calamitous event which recently took place in France. Upon looking into the state of our law we found that in England the crime of conspiracy for the oommindon of murder wee, as I stated In • former debate, a crime prac tically almost unknown to this country, and therefore no special law had been framed to meet that offence. Ths crime of isoospiracy to murder wee only punished to the same wormer as the offence of conspiring to do any other act which was • wring. As I stated on a former occasion, conspiracy to commit • trivial offence, such, for instance, as hissing • bad actor, was placed in the same category as the gram Amos to which I have alluded. We thought on looking into the law that that was not a proper state of things. (Hear.) A crime hod been committed. There could be no doubt that a • to murder bad been hatched in this country. We t the English law flied too alight a punishment to so grave a source of crime. On the ot her hand, when we looked to the state of the law in Ireland, we found • law which had originated in unhappy times, when animosities ma high, when violescas were committed, and when todketioately the crime was one of no very unfre quoit esennewess, to which attached the heaviest possible tof death. We thought, look- Crlho gs"ws piemest=state of Ireland, that it IMO not desirable Bosh • law should continue, and we considered it desirabb to mitigate the penalty in Ireland, whi/st, on the other bead, we raised the penalty in England. For istpurr phew mend the bill now under the consideration of the Mem - Tie bill, I my, is of general application. It 1 doom net pied eneheively against aliens. It only places 1 slim on Oh beim on which they ought to stand—namely, on is am haft es all her Majesty s subjects within the Nish (flese Ma man goes into a foreign wintry he is bead to salm i to Ms laws of that country. He cannot en peel to enjoy phew which are not accorded to the natives, cost" met nabmi be is laws which, in the linden al the Iseshismsr impend an the native inhabitants of the = 4 Mime ii acids( in this hill which gives to the geweennunt any arbitrary pine whatever, either to irill to her Majtety's subject' or to aliens residua wfthh the helm It gives no power of =phi& There is noels, In the bi which interferes in the tightest degree with thrtlaw of hospitality by whisk we have Invalidity bees gelid with respect to foreigners main sit whim is this ermatry. Any foreigner, whatever his nation may ha 1 —whatever may be his political creed—whatever may be his political offenoee against the government of his country—may under this bill as without this bill find • safe and secure asylum within this realm so long as he =forms to the law, and submits to the law of the land which he has &omen for his residence. (Hear, hear.) Neither dose this law give to the government any arbitrary power whatever. The polity which it im poses met bs • penalty awarded by • court of justice— wanton by a court of judos upon proof of the came com mitted, sad Mindoro, with respect to the judgment of the offence, or the award of punishment, the mstrathe govern ment will bare nothing whatever to do. I causive, there fore, that it is • grievous misrepresentation to give this mm sun the nick-creme of an alien bill. (Hear, beer.) It Is, as I have beim mid, no alien bill. It is an impartment of the law at the kind, with regard to an offence which up h • maim lime might have been known to the law of Ire had, bat which I am sorry to may has been senuaitted In this kingdom, and committed, I am sorry to my, not simply by forvigners resident in this country, bosses* there is too much reason to fear that the investigs- Ikea which have been carried on atrewhire here tended to slow that British subjects have not been altogether exempt from miniality in this matter. (Hear, hear.) That fa one =on which I thought It desirable to make • few amora -Idl now advert to another point. Objeotion has beta taken to the course pursued; by her Majesty's govern met, Nat the ground that we ought to have written end sent ewe very greet, Isisoloquent, and indignant answer to the despedii of Osai Milewski to Count de Perim, which was headed to her Majesty's government and laid on the tile of the house. (Cheers.) Now, sir, what pissed la regard to the despatch was this . it was y by the French atabassadardo rs 2 melds p p the Foreign-elle% de is the Praha andronselor that which he, met I, eiekie mem ber. of her Majesty's government have over sad err again explained to all the foreign represenhim who have ap proached the subject at all, • ohms in sae law with regard to the amyl= granted is ses they mert not en havemet,became it was valerly hime Tisit ser, Moo Th ey often been OM, and it wee as OM wooden verbally, that vs never have ear ham foreigners for aiming against kedpi &am= co i had been times" to gad Ms esmay arising from ties Mina Si ilnikplors a la this somay—dist it wadi be a new law—an maot mist Misily mil milt* asw--fted h midi Thee as in wad smismosemast in lading ankh hedge gomemaele, Imam the if mar bad eahma la which Amiga gov=le n ziral aspahisa if foragners on empl the der Is =ham anowerel " that, having L I ash roma ter enspaion, they maid not put the law Into oometiom sad thee naturally maid have raised war disagreeable Illeeneiene between Mislead end t e r e ,. vernments. (Hoar.) That was eimisimil te the ambassador by my noble Mead. ham plum maz we ought to have with& an raw le that AIM (Chasm It would have been mass le sigma GM in e* had over and ow wia hem se hay engibed. g, a, oh.") The (*remnant *id bare annemend be the government whet limy iindel le de, best I de net think that moil lam been • way pew mime. We told Ms F=l dot the mem' Ma @beady been under our sof flat we skull hie Os mom which we deems! meet senehesnt with our ewe bantam tad our titre MINIM If ear pseq_bni !puma of liniiii Whist um for sit isdlbig it le Memnon gamiemaani, beano they might Jamey mg tie woe wades M mfdasry amen, t o dm& in WNW naensuissed a ememmitation whisk lad bees hawk bid Ulm us. (" Her kw " end 11 Bat I kid that vie we penteilregsbea„‘ on that I say time is no paned `r is Ise a dispatch, which maid bare haa maim whoa peat agitation perraid ~ lit Primere—ereid only hare aggravated the king whisk we Assisi to see imolai kadf—ar would have hi UN appreeke of emagiejo i r ba n , • tmeignnonsneent whet We Milinden Is salink ii' Do s i . rimeL Nis net sight to admit em messes le fees ramose* in order to see abase they wan be v ia v im we en msg. In matte of internal regulation we me ant bound to give any amount to bags govern ments. I therefore, that the opinion which the house I