The Express. — London, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

Views there was despair a enme.. bet Rme not the lass laWise. Then was a part of tkis Ith which had been agoaght befotv the hoses for the AM tine-the minister gg the crown proposed te reline May one of her gg e kety:s subjects Irons the *Met enpreseatiy. He would * gem give • vote that the oath el ememarry should be done we , with, as he believed it to be one of the safeguards of lie asuos. This alienate* was proposed by the nolile lord et the new the usual channels for conveying information to teg publie were euladed from the house; and he believed g ig gessly say one was aware that the oath, as it now stood in bia, was imply as oath of allegiance. He called ga the bows to take are what they wire d ring. Let them Mk at history. Were Wei: liberties ever safe when they pre under Rimsa ea-kolic dominion ? He ettribired much dike prosperity which blessed the country to its Christian gal protestant character. Mn. SUET L thought that if the kw. pentlentan had looked se the title of the WU, he would have found in that title a enstatios of • great pert of the assemption is whWb his proareded. This was • bill to alter the oaths le be sk i s by members set prohseing the Ramat catboat NW 0. 8 , sad Wes game the 6th slam, which run thus: WM NOW Sands est serreard in salmi et be sprig dis te s e pm or rumba eine Mom ef Ommeh wines the Rum modteds rolihhe se be beti toMa darer t isse. allbelthe pensions et se eat Lei year elf lbe /weft Whiled let be tee Lan b WM klkWnet arm Cathie BMW*? ma Aa irles tYmth ria.reby iggeinteaseg em keine betimes end enagetW =6 .1-1- wtglus..l l6 4= t r mas • et rthe penalem, Ong ay moment, he Win megrim Fiftieths amen seta.. rallgisa s = wag insflerbsemaperthment Wiest Wag gash oath is by seek an mils oname, If a Rama sabots epee to the table ell the bees and took the oath prescribed for preessimelle a is world be • virtual recantadea of his religion, been= be meld take is oath which, a Roman catholic was betddde• Item taking, and by taking the proweteat tooth he at wee gleamed to the protestant faith. He fogad by this eel that the oath to be taken be ell other awes of her Melody's seb jews was simple and plain. It was moot usefully dierneem- Med of • great deal of stree,, Aeons phraseology and swam asedeatios. He was sorry that the opening of angry mime 'my sad ultimata. hapirearioa remained unelused. DM they believe that, if the Jews were admitted iota the house. they would aloes the suet reposed in thee * eater blasphemy maw* the religion of the.. - b ashes they were surrounded, sad easiest those Wee sews limit he*? Let so men say that two millions a Regiishme• Si• ladiffaitat to the interests of Christian,. There is net • sky is the world in which Christianity is more prised, er awe revered ; sad fr.m the summit of that majestis temple width B gland hair dedicated to the same albs bemeas Jew who contributed so ementially to the dimemistatiem of the mlistion of amity through the world, over the wet im passe of greataew, and grandeur, and power, where so natty el the glories of Reiland an assembled, the ems appro priately sewers. It is the memorial of • great sin ; but als the symbot of • eieseureleis wary. (Load sheen.) It is We type of that relietria with which wealth's are Mae; the cease oe ehrietlaulty, and the aim at e= we identified. They we highly and tidily the memo. (Chem.) The victory of the ese is the triumph el the caber. And, as for the Mistresses& of the Miry, end the wasurnmaq in of that triumph, I I* thatly pray, is that whievement sad is that ithesseaaties I lama trustfully cookie. (Load sheen.) 0017LBURN wee not surprised that -be has. meres kw for Damperve• (Itr. Shell) should have sympathised with the Jew, imeasis se they now amain the pleas of the Rama eathello. of • arm. day; bet he was sowerwhat Mallaidled umt Maid& lard (Lard J. Russell) should have arehetly eseladad the Jews by his b 11 from holdip some amt el draattoss is the ensrary. Wiewithatending all that bed bees said, be (Mr. Owallears) adhered to the opioion he had forwely gemmed, awl was prepared to peon tnie measure, believing that it would area the character of par- Ilazeent, affect its op glens sad habeas*, sad loosen the hold it bad upon the aft reirwis of the Chastise public. It had bees lesineaud that as the belief ads. Jew was founded oa a par ties et the scriptures, he was ant so aroma after all front the Culottes ; and one how. member had gine es far as te eiry that he considered the Jew to be as imperfect Christian. Tlds was • istortrous proposides for there was a Wiry wide adenines between the ma who hollered Mt the 8 'slew had epos wed is the world, and the man whe believed that that Saviour wee as impostor. (Hear.) The boo. la-mher tor Lisksard had contended that the ez dna* of the Jews SOe parkisment wee accidental. This was a misalte. They bed bees efesteally excluded from the rvisn of Jaws 1. dews as the plasm day ; and :he principle of the entwititeties was, that they should not be admitted to the legielature of the wintry. It was the genera, minim to hied up every sot by some religious ceretway. When the Qamen was called to the throne, the minutiae of both houses attended in Westminster Abbey, and the mac., of the church were perfoemed. At the avesmibliag of the house every day c tee ma prayers were read in which the members • ore expected to Jae. This was a dation, indication of what was the inset of the eonstitation-that the comma pr eyes should he sieved up by ell through One Mediator. Now could the Jew jots I. that prayer ? Could be, who diehelieved in the maker of the Christie, faith, join in Christian worship? (Hew ) Beppnse a Jew hi be elected to the Asir, could Mire be asything more palatal dm for the chap.in to be Mining up prayers is width the Speaker could net see seleseionny join ? And, °apposite; the other home of per lament to be thrown open for the admission of Israelite% what • humiliating sight would it be is see • Jewish rabbi 'Wis./ side by side with a bishop, sad dimming the sear dastical affairs set the sew ry. (H-ar, Mar) Charity was doubt'. se s aris' lan duty, but self-proteetion was incumbent sign every Wristlet. menhir. He holism' that their ad wades would dawn the boa • in the eyes of the coantry, and create a distrust la the d lberatioes of palletises% particularly when matters aiming the general interests of Christie unity came nada discussion. He also believed that there was a strong feeling ha the Pastry against the prime measure, pariailarly mooing masses who were led to b Mare that the legislature w e Christian. As he felt moat deeply the important:is of not want mg the ecclesiastical from the civil government of the souritry, he had, in that respect, • strong motive superaddet to the reti e _oss grounds upon which he opposed this bill, sad which bawd his to h pe that, although its fete in that house was eldly foresees, it truth! n. 4 meet with the same mown of Aiwar in the other house of pa:litigant. Mr. ROEBUCK hoped the house would news his dRi entering into • Mammon of the tell on its third reeding; but, is doing that he was only 6 'Wales the example set him by Ms. gentlemen on the other side. If it had Kees • mums Ma democratic charade , r introduced by the hoe. somber kr Mosinee for an alteration lit the emetitatien of that house he thought that it would have been sew wet by the obis*: Mt on the part of those has. gestbaten who discussed the present measure, that it had already, dada, the pretent ass. Men, ciesupied the attendee of the hoses. Now. • M evenings ago the Secretary of State for the Rums Dr =t is combatting the motion of the bon. member fee trew s untended that that bows accu rately reprwatel the I t idnfe of ti e s ptMgleas. If he tee .mat. th ire e y te ltl e ti dhee dared be Wire mei-irides thatthe bill ought to pre, end he m imed it to be the Shen' feeling of the people that it should pus. (Rear.) In 1828, when the right hon. gentleman sat is authority en the right hand of the Speaker, he argued exactly as Ire did to-night revealing the Roman cabala. If they struck out the word " Jew" and substituted " catho- Be," sad instead of the word "Christian" put in that of "pretesteat," they would get weedy the argamest of the right how. gentleman -(hear, hear)-re-steted, re-insisted apes ; sad if the same thin were to happen that happened in 1829, they would double's have the 14/a• Serak. (Rear, hear.) The right baseurable gentleman thee Read ea admirable ream to depart fru. his tee m, and to admit the Roma catholic, to eater podia. sent. Whee, therefore, he told Wes of the danger of ad. nista( • few Jews, his (Mr. Boebsek's) memory naturally brea Ide bask to the year 1828, wires he told the. • Ns itesper be apprehended from the admiralow not of a few, l is at t og 100, Rowan esthetics. If the right boa. nailed his ordain to the muttered, and wee esalded new le say thet he was so ineeentiag party te the abeiriou of Rana catholic., be could give hiss credit ho 1111 apprehends. of danger boa Ike animas of Jew.. lea each wee sot his cowls. la 1829 he saw reales he Mak, see • few Jews, hat a largo dpi ef Rona asbellek who, he new sepal, had gives • em. fkareater *that Muse and te the drank of the 'vestry. Did the_ fight bee. geodes* suppose tbat the *- thins el half • deem taMide-4. would we the weed at thee-wean usabrktiaaiss the beaus Did be es Mt& esehriss Instated the bone free beteg umebeyrlaa bed? Or ow sot that redraw ea attempt to east a veil before the eyes of the bigoted earl feast* I. osier to suite their bete ? The right has. realesas said that this bill was ten osly daagereas, as MeV to sachristiester the hew, bet se edieillieLtr og eeebeWO le take another oath. When the right Ism atoned _his views at lhe BMW es= itil e Y we• otillged to towiliate L is t b y ' pride% gall Wes. te ask= the bigelay of his ems *Pm§ by kfteillariae, ea be mid. fee the pupae of a safe sew& the Mb admiabelered te the Rama whelk% Wilms Is ids said tbe bill whisk be pond is Mak *erre the abee as/ (beeeratla Ass, Mai impaled ea disesaiese the arwiliti as see set le see the aathority derived bee uselelpsl soe te eke, er attack the property of the *week What bed bees the renk *lasi...lag the seam earb telleammesthdies ? He Wirral Mete tees bedesell. sisaesadis whose eramissaa was priebedby Re bad sees Rum Wham es well as weemeriale-mest progeny, as thembb-leineee, amide& that • member Mt bowel wen 410 te skivers presesedletaibadea ef die Ferny el the eharek. (Rear, bear ,) The whale vela., tberdtm. that oath was, that one SIMIS• iereaber, earl be base. ...sly, felt hie easasisara teethed, sad hit the belie this sash a sabjed was about te be dadied. He Wined the Jews to be se be*at sad sista, is their feligilla. and es epright sea is their dealings, as say Chris thee. (Rest, bear.) The right which they were Wrest * ender es the Jewish peep. was • right width. Pm ti• fees ells, th ey emits to be. a • • If they were be be her retiiof kr. the es. ef lay with Woes who R ldee them stet. Thiry were Ist ad reepsel• qq theexmsise a thy nein. They we* iaettuetsd, floa,gl eared the ossuary qualliutles as regarded MOM were sables. of the rube. As boa. gesilemos deed, that they had bees diem Bates bad the moisten el may Ma. wheat he sew usual him. The hither dame = lm am* dleitgaithed emu who ever eat is that house-the father ell the t Solicitor-OmM Was ea Mies ; gad wwli it be said that his hoc and learned frigid bad se eight to seat is that bootee bream bisynadktbee woes alba ? The Jews their were guided &priori t thia whims. Aright hoe. gentleman sup ped the horrible etreaseeleaes of a Jew si. deg in the chair. Eat the eateries who &Mid the d" sun ty of oar Saviour is as marked a magnet se the Jew might sit is It, Mesa, bow.) Ile believed he was speskiar a i te n the promisee a some Ishitariaas, (Haw.) A Jew wee y sheriff of load*. Or was at present as ildtithea al Ludo", 1164 sight be lard wee —e matt Inpatient office, with which the °See of vie, etosiesidor was sometime connected. Whet atieehief, thus, sooldseiss from admlttleg the Jews to parlieseat ? Mr. NAPIER said it sow appeared that Were waa to be me differeses mad* hereafter between them who acknow ledged Christianity sad those who repudiated it. (Hear, hear.) Thlibill pretested we feature which was not to be found in that of list year. The noble lord had struck out that poetic& of the oath which related to the supremacy of the sovereign. Oa what pruned that was dens he could sot possibly andermand. If then ware so other vein to wits with his own, and so one to which be could Warms himself with say chance of SIMIAN but that of heaves, he would oppose the bill, because it tended to abolish all distiaseioe between those who upheld Christianity sad those who disregarded it, sad, if earri.d, destroyed the last badge of ChriirLanity. Mr. W. P. WOOD said that while the hon. member pre tested against the lIISOSIITO as one by which they wee par*" with the last bad ge of Christmaity, he ow the other hand, hailed it as one by which they won relativist, tne lase badge's( an anti-Christian and persecuting aylrit (Cheers.) As he had before said, it was as a Christian, no lee* than sea politisise, that he supported this measure. Mr. PLIIMPTRE said that although be did net stand there Is fangs the hos. and learned neember's (Mr. Weed's) Christianity, he appeared to his to take a Ti?" questionable way of showing his kin for the within of his religion, by supporting a bill which would admit into that boom those who regarded him es a deceiver and an imposter. On behalf of that portion of the community he protested against this warm as ow which, if it retained the expressions of samisen Us en earthly sovereign, was insonsiosot with true allegiance te the King of Maga sad Lord of lords. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the right hon. gentleman I the mentter for the Uakeenity of Cambridge suggested that I lfthis bill pistol Kamm 'Whelks weld take 'drearier of he Wander:Mt e>< esrethee brae of oath to evade that ices which the hass row imposed spas them. Is the first pine, the rW _hes. pats man seemed to forget that the big did net WM& Ue peeskies which the hones inflicted upon Roam Wham who omitted to take the Roman catholic OM subject ing a them for such an offence Is tie L a t ili thek mak s to pecuniary fines; and, in the mend plage g seppesind that these penalties aid not exist, it was imperial& hi suppose that any persons profess:ng the Roma. ca belie kith, Wild raiding so an act of parli meat that there was as oath which all Rosin catholic' were bound to take, wadi retort to the subterfuge of taking an oath which was sot intended for them—(hear, hear)—se aridly, at all mats, with persons capable of rich 'quivers tioa, no security could be attained by the imposition of any oath whatsoever. (Hear, hear) As to the arguments which had that evening been directed against the admission nfJews into the house, they differed is slightly, if at all, from thew which had bees already repeatedly answered, that be coo &dared it qatte ansecemary to go into them. It had boos urged there ea • former occasion, that the ineradicable of Jews lain parliament would be dangerous is our religiose, would be subversive of Christianity. Is his spleen It was preesely because they were a Chehalis' assembly, bemuse they acknowledged the obligations el Cirialsaity, that they ought to do away with these religions eikqueliflemons which were SO wholly w eed tithe spirk of Christianity. (Beer, he He net, of aware, answer for what might be the fate of the mown in seethes place ; but he would call epos the Hews of Neste^ set to oompromise its character tor magsasimity, be them= justice, by rejecting the claims of the Jews bemuse they wen not a powerful body, after admitting the dam at the Roman catholic. and of protestant dissenters because these wen powerful Indies. The bowie divided. The numbers wen—For the third reading .. 272 For the amendment 206-4111 The bill wee then read • third thee, and rased amidst the 'outlaw of the how. !SILVER COINAGE. Thh bill was reed a third time sad pared. COUNTY CEBB (IRELAND). This bill w-nt throsib emasaitta. COLLECTION OF RATES (DUBLIN) BILL. This bill wee mod a second time. To be committed oa Monday. NEWOATE GAOL (DUBLIN) BILL. This bill wu read a second time. To be committed on Monday. STOCK IN TRADE BILL. On the motion for the second reeding of this bill, Sir R. H. INOLIS expressed a hope that this was the last time this hill "mold be introduced. Sir G. GREY said that he had stated on a former occasion that there was a necessity for such a bill so the present, hat he was prepared to weirr the house that this was the last time the bill would be introduced. Mr. DISRAELI was glsd to hear that jasier principles of rating than Moo which had ohtsined heretofore were in Toga,. That was all they asked on his aide the hones; they wiehtd the question to be censider,d, and he was quit* satis fied then was a desire to coins to an equitable adjestmeat. The bill was then reed a woad time. SITES FOR SCHOOLS BILL. Tbu but w;;;ZA • .; 04 tins. AMERICAN EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN. Sir R. H. INGLIS called this attention of the house to the aoudad ot the government of the United S.ates, in pte • paring an expeditim to the Arctic Seas, with the object for which her Majesty's government has already sent forth. ape ditions tram this country, namely, to discover and relieve Sir John Franklin and the abips and crews under his sm elted. The SPEAKER read the notice, but no further remarks were made. DISSOLUTION OF RAILWAY COMPANIES. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL obtained leave to bring in a bill to facilitate the ebsadenment of railways, and the dis solution of railway timpani's, is certain eases. ABUSES OF THE PALACE COURT. Laid DUDLEY STUART, in moving for leave to heists in a bill fur giving a person sued in the Palms Court, West minster, a right of election to be sued in the County Court of the district in which he vides, said that he wished to remedy one of the greatest grievances under which the in habitants sf this ir etropolis laboured .Ai he understood that the Attorney-General did not oppose the elution, he would simply move six leave to bring in a bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that be would sot object to the introduction of the bill!. The ntheopoly, how ever, of which the noble lord complained was a difficulty in the way of any measure of the sort. Leave was given to bring in the MIL SOLICITORS' COSTS. Mr. W. LOCKHART moved far an account of sums paid to solleiton is London for drawing bills, end for other paha. mentary business relating to Scotland, for each year from 1841 to 1818, b,th inclusive; oisiagn siting payments, if any, to solemn ofrEibibergh; also the estimated espouse fir 1849.—Agreed to. NEW BILLS. Sir W. SOMERVILLE obtained leave to being in a bill to continue certain acts b r regulating turnpike road. in Ire land ; and as, a bill to continue as set of the second sad third years of her pow at Majesty, for the better prevention and punishment os easaults in Ireland. Mr. FREWEN nbtained leave to bring ia a bill to abridge the holding of benteeles in plurality. RECEIVERS OF THE COURTS IN IRELAND. Mr. OSBORNE moved for a 'sleet commi.the to inquire ieto the state of the law as retirees the appointment co Re ceivers of the Courts of Chancery end Equity Exchequer in Ireland, tad the effect of the present laws sad regulations of the said courts in the management of estates under their mintroL Afinot to- THE AUSTRALIAN BILL. Mr. HAWES brought in the Audrabaa Bill, sad up pointed Monday text or its second reading. The house adjourned at a quarter after 12 o'clock. PRINTERS' ALMSHOUSES. Yesterday els foundatiou stale of these alwalleases was laid by lord Virossat Mahon, M.P., at Womb *eat two miles frees Tottenham, vetigsoes to tiet sal PetissreW Asyhun, and many eight ants o hs erebliest whom plan bas been anspted is W. Webb, end the header, Mr. Roberts, of Caradeniewn. The win be in the Tudor style of ershitasture, and will is= r with red brides and dark sobered mortsr, barns nosilos aseassiieas, Ike. no IFPNITL enemeneed by the delivery of as aside sad Twe eddress by Mr. Daunt, in whisk =1;. ) save a lea of the ardsres If. of the plain, sad his lordship as a demendeat at the Philip who bed *nested s he WiII4IIIOWIR prindag press eel* the Otaahope press." His Loaname them said be felt the greatest pleasure is i ammew them that day to lay the foendatioe stoats I tsn i n a l i nstitution whisk be *meted would nist long stet its benders should have passed away. Whoa the stately works were completed, which were to supersede the Navas 113V1f111s beneath whirls he dna stood, he hoped it might sees be Haled with isantas who wassid speed the nuander of their days in pane and traaquillity. His lordship OM• eluded midst bled and prolonged cheerios. Mr. Denim, kering read a hag list of sabtairtions, in widish were the names of W. Clowes, lin , for 40 guineas (making 100 guinars), wilt several when for 101.104 la. ending Mr. It. Taylor, rte , expressed a hope that snidest world be raised to pay for the fmnbilag—ria., 1,7761., so es to leave the sum of 13501., now in hand, to be appropriated as an endowment fund. The bead having strach up the " National Anthem," in the midst of which his lordship, an, retired, the proceedings at this mast interesting eereeeoay eked TEI SOIREE. The asserabisite at ths;;;i4;, held is leaser of the occa sion .t the London Tavern ia the weal*, onside& of stoat 600 ladies and gentiensem, at yids& Tailor, Esq , pre sided. Aka partaking el t.., sake, Ike., the proceedlap cowaseseed by the in•redsettow atl eredawate, llowed by thanks to Lord Maim. It was aeaweeeed that the ri b ee riptioas of the day, inelediag 101. 10a. hem Lord llaboa, amounted to nearly 0001. Tirs GRAND CALZDONIAII BALL.—IMet night the grand Caledonian fancy dress ball took plies at Almaska limossa) for the benefit of them two excellent eha rills,' the Caledonian Avylum and Scottish Hospital. As a•ual, this 00149111 1 1 ball took priority of all similar gather ings in this " the greet metropolis." Above eight hundred washers of the leading Scottish familia read the ecese of foritity. THE EXPR" SS, TUESDAY _EVENING, JUNE 12. 1849 Zit, 6mM. order and pram, end rtigoed more tranquilly and more justly than ever Pontiff did. The menaces of id' Naples, and other plwers, however, io dtstria erdtlie Romans to add to the number of their native OUTGOING MAILS. Make kr leNkh Perth muerte' sae tee t aged state ertll be eras woe the wide, of the 15th Jam The WM file ibethe. eseledthe aernithe. (lemur Ittare, *bre, sod Iseletting kale let 11 4.21 41=1. hiraiih‘beeyages, Mem Oresede, Chili. end Pete, ml. be mob up ea Se eiseethe Of the 1' th Jew. Itte mei Ihr VW. Op is Lisboa, kadebe, Cali; and Gtb:altar, la be ashy es dr useski of the Mb dime. Ibe melees ums., Y. Wes , . brands, 5 ,77 1 . Ad" 0101 a. tedle, iteer-Keeg, sad adr, see 4.utheetrtos, wll - meth up as drab ethre. The mai, of. Minimills.. to the Mediterreaten, Egypt, Oeybe, Lade, aitteima be made up an th e nth June. Time swift Make, the Breglls, sad &WOOS *pee, wine mak we lie ~ft oldie 4th of July. governors a man of energy and liberalism, Mama. The on'y crime that the French can lay to the charge of the Romans is their having elected this min. As well might the Romans denounce the French for having placed at the head of Their government the ph,nner of the Strasbourg and B tulogne expedition,. It was against this republic, this free and self-con stituted government, which demanded no better than to come to terms with its sovereign. to almost any terms, provided the It imitate were liberated from the tyranny of the mocks and high priesthood—it was against such a state, freed by its people, and riven in so ynat a cause, that the President of the Fs each re public sent his armies; and at their head, it must be confessed, one of the greatest brutes that ever dis graced the name of Frenchman and of officer. This man, OUDINOT—O, fit instrument for a tuk of barbarous imbecility—received written orders, which have be it published, and which, thouth issuing from the rninioterial office of an enlightened nation, are devoid c.f grammar, reason, right, and sense. They enjoined him to take military po-s,s4on of the city o' Rome. So many cliff. not political motives were aorg-ed to lain for accomplishing this unwarrant able and sanguinary act, teat a man must have been devoid of all principle to have undertaken it. In fact M. OUDINOT could have but ot e motive—the mise rable one of earning some little military fame by the conquest of a naturally peaceable and nu military people. A French envoy, charged with fall powers for treating, was in this general's camp; and be—even he—the agent of that very government which despatched this selfleh and alterable expedition—he, blushing at the coercion of the Romans and the forcible assault of their city, con cludes a treaty with thew. But this would not ihti fy the Vandal OUDINOT, who bad his marshal's listen to gain in the sack and slaughter of the helpless Romans Since the days of 011A14.E23 V., Rome hes not s.en war. The priests that governed it emasculated as well as spolia'ed its people. None of them were tau,tht the pnlession of arms, nor indeed was any profession allowed them, save that of the pimp or ot the mendicant. But the first call of liborty, the old trump t note that had echoed centuries ago, had still power enough to awaken a @plat in the Romens. They armed, and at least had the satisfaction of beating ignominiously the cowardly tyrant of Naples, and his blood-thirsty, yet fight eschewing. soldier& But the French army. equipped as a French army is, with its guns and engineers, and tradition el experience e f distinction what could the Romans do against such a force ? Some thousands have been slain, same pa laces destroyed and sacked. French shots have gone though the Vatican and crippled St. Ewer's dome. At this our aristocracy are delighted. Fur the last five months these lovers of marble and canvas have be en mourning ever the Roman title d'eeuvre of art falling amongst republicans, but had not one word ot sympathy for the Rename. Now even their little sym pathy for rirtu is gone, and we shall have an ode from t'e joint laureateship of the Times and Lord BROUGHAM, addressed to the modern BRENNUS, General OUDINOT. But who would look for one generous f. cling in arietvcrecy-ridden England ? The French, however, cannot but be aroutird by the mingled treason and tyranny of their government. Fur, in crushing th e Humane, LOUIS NApoLEON has b frayed and bolo d the National Assricbly, as well es the na tional voice which elected him to the presidential chair, nut to sanction such has act. as these. Never did rulers or country crouch so meanly More great and powerful foes, as France and Louie NAPOLEON have done. Never did ruler and country compeosate for their pusillanimity before the powerful, by bullying, and cruelty, and oppression to the weak. T. compliment Russia, and insult MAZZINI, to abandon Italy to Austria, and show valour by supporting Denmark in concert with Rue-ia against little Schleswig—to sneak teal' that is big awl di spate, and bully all that is small and free—such is the policy of the French government, such the conduct by which a BONAPANTZ a'1314 at recovering an imperial crown. It is come satisfaction to see our government re pudiate all cognisance or eancton of such nefarious proceedings. Lord PALMERSTON flung over the French government to their true opine in this busi ness, Austria, Naples, and the Nuncio. It will open the eyes of the French pe.ple, to see the villainy of their government and President thus treated with the silent contumely they deserve in the British par lament. Won WATTS AT LONDOIN MIMS mkta. mg . misorn. we mom —7l.mair A Ws. ma S. Atlinsaa. IWY past 7. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 12. MIL COBDEN'S motion in favour of inserting an arbitration clause in all future treaties wi h foreign states stands for ti-eight. As the sdertion of a great principle in the policy of the country it. importance cannot be over-is - lasted. It is the prin ciple of moral force as opposed to physical violence — of reason as opposed to passion—of humanity as op posed to reckless waste of life—of civilieation u op posed to a continuance in the ways of barbarism. As a national acknowledgment and adoption of an h a principle its value is obvious. It is saint as a public abjuration ce . the ancient ways of lawless dealing be tween nations, and is intended to be a silvan repu diation in foreign policy of The old familiar plan, That they should take who have the plod, And they should keep who att. It is tendered as it would be received ss a final renun ciation of the tight of the strong to bully the weak, and of the powerful to browbeat the feeble or the un prepared. There is not a minor state in Europe whose honour and independence would not be ren dered immeasurably more secure by the general adop tion of a system of idernational arbitration ; and upon the security of the minor states, the permanent peace of the continent must at all times mainly depend. If Fence, then, be the standing policy of all wise comm mweelths, it is maniteetly desirable that an example shoulibe set to those around us, of the man ner in which the seeds of quarrel may be p'ucked up by the roots, ere they have time to grow and ripen. So long as one great power refines to acknowledge any other law than that of its own wayward or capricious will, so long will every other of its equals claim the IMMO immoral irresponsibility to public opinion in its widest and noblest sense. For Just pu.plees no' ' country can desire any en h immunity. For rapa cious or vain-glorious rods, no country ought to be su?posed to possess it. Lswboreness has too Jong been the insolent privile;e of a few preeminew states; but how have even the people of these states. to say nothing of those, the weaker ones, whom they made alternately the vic'ims of their protection or their eirnity—been ber.efi'ed thereby ? To put a curb in the mouth of dom'neering might—a bridle on tits neck of military power —is one of the me et uni venial and abiding interests of the people of all lands ; and if the arbitration system had no other merit than that it gives note of warning end time to prepare again.', if not to avert, the threatened danger—it wool be entitled to the supp)rt of every man whose heart is in the people's cause. Nor is this toe least of its excellencies t) these who, like ourselves, have the honour to be subjects of a " first-rate power." What benefit is it to us that br suddenly taking advantage of a defenceless neigh hour, we could clutch one of hie fortreeses, or impress his best ships of the line ? What satisfaction can it I afford us to know that durirg the parliamentary recess our government may irretrievably commit us in a deadly struggle with Rasta, or with France, and to reflect that when our national honourl has been stun.r, or the properties and lives of I many of our fellow-citixens haeCt. poseibly been sacrificed, pirliam. nt may be asked whether it is not 1 too late to offer to negotiate? It is all very well for secretaries of state and prime ministers to like to have such tremendous r.owers entru-ted to them. It flatter., no doubt, the vanity of official men to think that every time they take up the pen they may, i. they think fit, strike awe into the hearts of men ; or if they be, as doubtless many of them are, humane and circumspect, or temporising and timid men, it may perhaps administer in no slight degree to their indivi dual self-complacency to come forward year after year with unlighted torch in hand, and to be able to b iss• that they have not set tee world in a bra-. But what is all this to 'is? We live clos3 to the powder magazine—we want to deep soundly in our belle, in stead of being continually startled, during the hours of darkness, by sounds so very much resembling the striking of flint and steel in a tinder-box. Why not have the comfortable assumes that, at least, nobody -an get into the petilons quarters adjacent until the world bas bad time to awake? This is Mr. C.1...-BDEN% question. Will it be said by way of answer that things ge• on very well as they are; that in this country at least, ar.d among our haughty rivals also, peace has now been kept fur a long period , and th at we ought to be satisfied with adhering to the system of mediations, protocols, and spec•al missions, whereby the inesti mable blessings of international amity have heretofore been secured? It is, indeed, quite true that no acing collision has for many years occuried between the Five Powers; but it is ludicrously untrue to say tbs.' their abstinence from their termer btversge—the blood of each others' people—is in any sense attri butable to the magic arts of diplomacy. Exhaus tion after the fearful struggles of 1812 to 1815 rendered them absolutely unable to resume "the ' glorious pursuits of warfare" for a considerable tame ; and ever since 1830 the consciousness of domes. tic in stability and discontent has kept the ambition of Austria and Prussia quiet; while the governments of Russis, France, and England, have re.pectively sought compensation in Onassis', Algiers, and His. doetan, for the forbearance thee have shown to wards one another within the limits of Europe. B.' as for any real disposition to lay aside the thoughts a d habits, and practice sof war, on the pare of the go vernm•nts in question • so long as we behold them maintaining undiminished gigantic armaments by ma and land, armaments confessedly useless for say slirr purpose than that of mutual des•ruction—how as we believe them to be sincere? Ministers will no doubt scout arbitration in par liament, as they set their merry andrew to jeer at it in the press. They will not attend seriously to any such surgestion. It is a knowledge of this which impels lovers of peace and economy to enter upon that only way to muiiterial conviction, agitation, at least that agitation which is the wholesome stirring and awakening of public opinion. To that, mit grows and is formed, ministers will incline, and the merry andrews themselves will come to make their bow in all seriousness. That the people are stirring, that there exists something more then indifference or mockery on the subleet, the great meeting last night at Exeter Hall is sufficient proof. And a noble sight it was to see thousands (herring the sentiments of humanity and peace, without abating their syropathies for freedom, and for the liberal cause in peril throughout the woid. For, as Mr. BIIOUT said, though arbitra tion is recommend. d between great states like Eng land, France, and America, rill no one thinks of pro posing it between the lion and the lamb, the master and the slave, the tyrant and the oppressed. Now as the retrograde and absolutist party, in our press rind parliament, continue to offer up daily vows foe the spoons of tyranny, for the humbling and the routirg of the enslaved :—when all their sympathies are for the Austrian in Italy, for the Russian in Hungary. foe the Prussian treading out German freedom, and the French disembowelling the Roman—it is but too natural that writers and politicians like these should scout arbitration, when they turn their backs on the English principles of justice, freedom, and even Christian feeling. Marna Louis NAP°Leon has made a prettymese of it. The lint feat of his government in arms is to assault and cannonade, to give up to elsughter end destruction, the old capital of the world, time-honoured Rome, and in the very moment when the Romans themeelvee, for the first time during centuries, had assumed an attitude worthy of their ancient name. Deserted by their Pontiff, who was spirited away by interested and intriguing diplomatists, the Romans praeleim , d a republic, and elected to be its chiefs their moat honourable and respected citizens, who faithfully executed their task, preserved H rlaity sod Ws Royal Higbaue were aboospasiod by the Pride• of Wales, the Princess &lei, the Prison, Aloe, and the Primers. Bekaa. Is attendance es the royal party were Lieut.-Col. the Hos. C. B. Phipps, Col. Bouverie, and Mr. Birch. _ _ _ _ — Hi. HTyal Highness the Prime Albert went yesterday main to dine at the Merchant Tailors'. The Prince waa attended by the Marquis of Aberooro, Lord George Lennox, Col. Welds. and Col. Hoeverie. . . The Quota honoured the Fronds Play with ber presence last evening. Her Maks, wu attended by the Countess or Haut, Hon. Lucy Herr, the Earl of Listowel, and Lieut.- Colonel the Hon. C. B. Pulpy'. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl al ?limo, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston. Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ba chequer, Sir Francis Baring, the Right Hon. H. Lt hot:where, Lord Campbell, and the Earl of Carlisle. The council •at two hours. The Earl and Countess Grey had a dinner party on Saturday at their residence in Belarave-equare. DEPARTURE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE HIONST Or TEM NITILIKLANDS.—Twtorday Engrains bin Royal Hiehners, attended by Vim-Admiral Luau, Lieut.- Colonel Rigol de Be,yuin, and Lieut. Van &ward. left Mivart's Hotel for Shama.' (en hie return to the Magus), sad imunedutely embarked on board the Netherlands steam •hip of war the Cycieps. Hu Royal Higanoss was received by his Ezaelleney Coast Szhimmelpennittek, Baron Btra• tennis, and Mr. May, Conenl-Gateral. w►o also accompanied his Royal Highness aa far ae Gravesend. THE PEACE MOVEMENT. GREAT PUBLIC MEETING. A public meeting was held last evening in Exeter hall, in support of the motion to be brought forward to-day in the Houses of Commons. by Mr. Cobden, for the adoption of international arbitration as a substitute for war. There was a very crowded attendance, including • number of ladiee, the great ball being completely filled. The chai• was taken , _ according to previous arrangement, by Mr. Hadley, M.P., who sei I, You are aware that at Brussels, last autumn, a meeting was Wild wherein an attempt was made to unite all thou individuals of different countries who thought a war an evil which, on all grounds, ought to be averted. A similar congress is to be bold at Paris in August. (Hear, bear.) And I trust that every one who can wand it will do so; for, in the pre:eat circumstances of Europe, I can ponceive nothing so important as for persons of different cow/tries to meet in the great metropolis of France, and show that whether Frenchmen, Englishmen, Belgians, Russians, or Germans, they are determined to em brace in one arm of fellowship the whole human nu. (Ap olause.) I rejoice that we have to-day been honoured with a notice in a piper which carries great power with it in this winery, as to what our intentions are tomorrow night, in order to promote the destruction of war, by appealing to ar bitration and to common s we. (Hear, hear.) A column in the Times (loud blues) is worth a great deal to any cause, and for this reason, because people read the rinses more t• an their bibles ; and I leer many persons will have had their attention less directed to this subject by the principles of the bible, than by the column and a quarter which we in have erjoyed to-day the Times. The arguments in fumy of pesos may be founded upon religion; for my part, I think that the strongut foundation en which they can rest. (Hear.) ' It is impossible to witness such • meeting as this with- I end feeling that the question is no longer in the clouds,' but that it has become a practical question. The preaene. of h psn as t . n „i d s tp l a . re a ched ed e 1 St. Stephen's se:su.)i,n bm ; and,the whole I h ym so many of my hon. friends around me, members of parlia meworse:iptiinsw,hpoi:Fidiethimapeatbil Mr. RICHARDS, the secretary, then read the following report: The Peace Congress Committee have much pleasure in laying before this meeting the following brief summary of its proceedings. Acting upon the spirit of the resolutions adopted at the Brussels Congress, the committee have insti tuted a series of operations to bring under the notice of the people and government of this country some practical substi tute tor the war system. The cordial supper. and sympathy of Mr. Cobden having been secured to this movement he was requested to submit to parliament a motion recommending the f amaion of international treaties of arbitration, by which disputed questions between governments should be settled without any appeal to arms. This motion he will bring forward in the House of Commons to-morrow night. More than 150 public meetings have been held in anions parts of the country, comprising nearly all the principal towns in England and Scotland, for the purpose of sustain•ng Me. Cobden, by a strong expression of public sentiment in favour of the contemplated measure, and upwards of one thousand petitions have been sent up in its support. At the following meetings the chair was taken by the respective mayors of the togas Liverpool, Leeds, Halifax, Hudderdiild, Newcastle-on- Tyne, Worcester, Leicester, Nottingham, Wakefield, Brad ford, Doncaster, Southampton, Bridport, and Falmouth. Petitions from the town council of Eiinbugh have also been presented. A resolution was adopted at the conference of the friends of peace (held in the Hell of Commerce last October), to raise a special fund of 5,0001. to carry on the operations of the peace congress committee during the year. leis resolution has bean liberally met by contributions amounting up to the present time to about 3,5001. Arrange ments are now in progress for holding a congress of the friends of peewits Paris in the month of August. A com mittee of e rgameationeompriaing several of the most eminent and influential monis France, will superintend the arrange _____ THE COURT. meats for this assembly, at which it is expected that limner ow delegations will represent various European countries, and the United States of America. INVESTITURE OF THE BATH. Mr. BRIGHT, M.P. The Queen held an investiture of the moat honour- spoke, se follows:—it li was received with loud cheers. He d occurred to me, whilst our chair able Order of the Bath, yesterday afternoon, at 3 o'clock. man has bees sleuthing, that if a ranger from some distant The Knights Grand Crosses having been robed in their land were p laced for a moment upon this platform, to look mantles, and wearing their collars, passed through the Pie• upon tnis great assembly, he would come to the conclusion tare Gallery into the green drawing-room, where they that some great question of national importance was stirring were coned over by the Bath King of Arms , when the fol. the minds of the people, and had drawn together so large a Cambridge, Field. Mat shal the Dike of this moment looking upon this meeting as pleasant towns' kninbta answered :—Field- Marshal his Royal High. meeting as Ole. There is, however, a sparty at nese the Duke of Wellinwton, Viscount Strangford, Lord Heytesbury, Admi- hallucination of a considerable number of people ; and there „ collective wisdom" of this nation—(laughter)—men who r a 8,, , E4.. r d c o ,fri ni t m. O men. ' the Hon. Si r Willi am are of those who go to make up what is facetiously called the Lumley, General Sir J. Willoughby Gordo., Bart 'VW count Palmerston, General Lord Aylmer, Lieut.-denersi believe that we are people amusing ourselves with visionary ir J. Law Lushington, Lieut.-General Sir Andrew F. Bar and impracticable theories. Bat let it be bores in mind that have said and thought precisely the same of al other mud, Limit. General Sir Howard D ,uglas, Bait., Major- these great organs of the press, and these men in pietism at, General Sir George Pollock, Sir Arthur Avon, Captain Sir Ithwand Lyons, Bad., R.N. the Earl of El to- great questions, on several other occasions. (Hear, bear.) beregb, Lieutenant-General Lord Fitzroy deny that. Bat if the evil his existed for so long a time, I . H They say that there has always been war. Well. we don't nomerset, Lieutenant General B.r John Macdonald, and certainly we cannot be accused of an undue precipitancy, if, Lieut.-General Sir James Caldwell. The officers of the after centuries' duration of this plague, we now hope to do Order wore their mantles, amine, and Nedra. There wire present the Dean of Westminster ; Geneelogicti Walter something to put a step to it. It reminds me of people who soy, ...rile poor ye have always with you ;' and allege Ashton Blum, Esq.- Bath King of Arms, Algernon °remits, that se a reason why it ie hopeless to endeavour to remedy Esq.; Register anAteetetary. Capt. Michael Seymour R N ; Gentleman Usher, Albert Wiliam Wood. E•q. (Lanatieer the evils of poverty. But crime is at least as old as war, and dims. ill as old as war ; but no one supposes it to be Herald.) The Queen, accompanied by Field-Marshal His Royal Highness the Prime Albert, was conducted to a chair fanciful that all should meet together, and co-operate to of state in the thremereen, where the chapter was caste and crime, if possible, and to diminish the pressure Her Majesty, se sovereign, and Prince Albert, as Great Master and the suffering which arise from disease. (Hear, hear.) of the Order of the Beth, war the mantle and c he erell of the Bath. The Queen, having been conducted to dby The try remedies for thou misfortunes and ev il s which afflict humanity ; and shy should we be held up to ridicule the Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberlain the Kanglus who here, in the face of day, before this wet me. Grated Crosses, attended by the *dicers of the Order, were tropolis, and with our opinions going forth to the ushered to the royal presentee. world, come fore and and propound a scheme, not The ceremony of the investiture then commenced hy the by which war shall be rendered for ever impoeslble, inerruction of the Right Hoe. Sir G. Grey , Be rt. her but shall be rendered much less prible, and much less Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Depart- .'estructiye of human happineutlum it is now and has been ? meat, who was received at the door of the chapter roan by Let any one look over Europe—not at this moment, when Lieut.-General Sir John Macdonald and Lieut-General Sir strife is everywhere prevailing or imminent—but as it was James Caldwell, the two Junior Knights Grand Crosses two years ago, before this disturbance bad broken out—and you present, and advanced between them. preceded by the King may make a calculation that the Christian nations of Europe of Arms and the Gentleman Usher of the Order (the former hare been spending not much, if anything , ll= than 200 bearing the ens i g ns o y th e b a th Sri a cr i mson ve l ve t cus hi on ). millions of pounds Mandy; per annum, not in war, but in When near the Queen Sir CfleTVO knelt, and the sword of warlike preparadons, during a period of profound mire. state, borne by . Sir William Marlins, Gentleman Usher, Meer. bier.) We have bad lately • very important dome having been delivered to bar Majesty by the Lord Chamber- mat frees the President of the French Republic. We lain, the Queen was gracioudy pleased to confer the honour learn that that country has now on foot, if I mistake not, of knighthood upon the right hon. b a ronet th e rewith. Her 450,0C10 armed men, with 93,000 horses, and I know not how Majesty. • by his Royal Highs 's, Prince Albert, many hundred pieces of artillery. (Hear.) Prussia has Great Master of the Order, then inves.ed Sir George Grey 380,000 men now under arse. Adding to those two the with the riband and badge of • Civil Knight Grand Cross entree of soldiers maintained by Great Britain, you will dote Bath. Sir George, rising, h a d sh e h onou r o f kissing find that them three kingdom alone have SOW armies th e sovereign's h an d, and, having ma g m a from her Majesty amounting to considerably err then one million of men. W stir of the order, retired. Austria and Rune have armies whke, united, are, I believe, Ljo is k.Henend the Right M oo . Sir Edward M e k ong , considerably_more numerous than the armies of thus three i gonwaandor o f bee Majesty's Ewen i n ba se d, was i ntro _ kingdoms . Then we have smaller andesof theanzaller states, denied, supported by Sir John Macdonsld and Sir James and. in ell arohohilit7 the Christian nations of Enrol* have , ()Bidwell. We Edward kneeling near the sovereign, her at this moment, more than two and shelf millions of soldiers, Majesty, assisted by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, put men drawn entirely from the pursuits of industry—(beta)-- the Abend and badge of a Mflitary Behest Grand Cross of the whole of what they might produce lost entirely to the the Bath over the Lieut.-General's right shoulder. Sir cradle to which they belong, tad to the world—and cow /Award, rising, had the honor to kiss the Queen's hand, sumiag an masons expenditure drawn from the industry of and. having :raved from her Majesty the star of the order, the people of these various countries—(btar, hear)—aad withdrew. wherever they are, whether in peace or in war, earring an Captain Sir Charles Hoeing R.N.. was intruluced be. influence adverse to those benign principles and to that teems Bath King of Arms and the Gentleman Usher of the state of things amongst mankind which Christianity was Order, and, keeeling, received the honour of knighthood intended to produce. We do not suppose that the resolution from hie sovereige; was afterwards invested by the Queen to be submitted to the Hoene of Commons to-morrow night, with the rim' of • Military Knight Commusder el the if carried, will put an end to war for ever. We de not sup- Bath. Sir Clarks, having Mead bands, retired. pose that the introduction of an arbitration clause into The investiture being esembaded, the Knight" Grand treaties as maks quarrels between nations casual a nature Creme retired from the presser el the sovereign. that they never can lead to war. We do not supple, for Tee Queen save andieene at the court to the Marquis of example, that there ate not clam in which an arbitr ation Anglesey. The Ileswerable Corps of Gsatlemendit-Anna would be no more possible than it is between two man raw lined the Tbroneress daring the investiture. The sou au beyond the bards of reason, and unable to listen to OM Stranded by the Miareel of the Robes; the Countess of anything that may he addressed to them . We do not say Desert, Lady In Wafting ; the Lord Seward ; the Lord that a nation trampled on, either by its government et by • Chamberlain; the blaster of the Hone ; the Groom of the foreign nation, may not, by force of the heel which is epee Stole to PrineeAlhert; the Captain of the Honourable Corte them, rise and assert, even by this dreadful method, its right of Gentlemeneat-Arms; the Captain of the Yeoman Guard; to be free. (Cheers.) We know perfectly well that 'ra tite Marquise( Anglesey, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Tree- tuition is but goad as arbitration, and that where arbitration SUM of the Household ; the ViceeChamberlain ; the Corer is imposible, that which we. propose may not be practicable. troller Of the Honseheld ' the Earl of Listowel, Lord n You cannot well arbitratee between master and lave—( hear, Waiting ; Sir Matthew *mitt, Lieutenant of the Honour. h ear but as all mina.' are not in that position towards able Corps of Gentlemen-at-Amu • Sir George Lee, Lisa- ear other, but many ot them in the position of equals before taunt of the Yeoman Gaud ; Lo rd George Lennox. Lord the world, no faX as ,bey are conceyned, at least, we are able in Waiting to Prince Albert; Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom to pro ve that the proposition which is about to be submitted in Waiting; Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waning to Prince to parliament, which we support at this meeting, which Albert; Mr. D. Harman, Standatd,h eams of t h e H onoura ble people of Bouiland have shown themselves so much in favour Corps of Gentlemen-at-aims; the Groom of the Robes ; of, will be of immense advantage in preserving the peace of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. C. B. Pbippe, Equerry in Weitieg ; the world. (Hear, hear.) What we want to do in this Col. Bourne, Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert; Capt. country is to change public opinion, so that on all occasions Carling, Adjutant of the Honowohie C o r t i, of G en tlemen- it will look for peace, and love peace, and regard war as the at-arms; Col. Beatinek, Field Officer in Brigade Waiting ; greeted possible of human calamities. And not only should Sir Benjamin Smith. C 8., Messrs. Forbes and Cameron, wei endeavour to teach the people this, but to teach it to the Pages of 110•011 I in Waiting. government. (Cheers.) Last year a parliamentary mm pages usual guard of Yeomen of the Guard lined the Gram: mittees sat on the navy estimates; and a whole bevy of Hall. under the command of Sir Seymour Sadler, the &Am misdeals were examined, and very curious testimony urea in Waiting. them gave. lam quite sure they expected a Waterloo next -- week and • Trafalgar the week after, (Laughter.) They u The Queen and Prince Albert w ent early yesterday hat ecnially marked down where the next great battle at Ha '''e to the Z ologiefil Ounce!! in th e Regent's-putc. would be fought. firle said it would be near to the Linn's. end-some said a little higher up the Channel-(laughter)-• and of con. e@ Great Brit oia was to sweep the seas as in past times. One admiral of very great auth .rity gave it as his strong opinion that the people of France (this was before the late 'lmola ion) were only waiting for an opportunity to, make Owe Bri•ain into a French pr niece. (Laughter.) N, goti etion at some peeled of the war brings f eace • and we propene that the negotiation should lei tri-d first. (Cheers.) For bete in mind, that • negotiation alter several battles have been won and lost is not a fair negotiation ; there are the conquered and the imequeror who are parks to it, and justice is not done to the ultimate settle ment. But upon our system, when you have the ne gotiation and the arbitration Rot, the penile. have not yet tried their strength ; they are equal with each wine • they are cool and mere dispassionate than they can be :rue a conflict; and the ends of jus ice are much ot ore likely to be observed. (Cheers.) Ido net see why we should not make lome progress in this diree•ion. Pe ode do no• fieht duels now so Muni as they used to do. but men are very much men still. In °erten classes of society a word i. followed ei p r u s l o bt n l isekoopfri not the other, cwh u which mo e immediately by a blow ; but amongst the great moreh er putr bulk of the people you find • calmer tons, dregar df o o w r duelling - ilia for humanthe p e rsons put it d elai: o ni w ag:inl n is . :7 ( d H "Wp e nu a e r l,c , beer.) So lone as the law was against duel lrei:canopinioncreate e opinionon oitp, opinion e f w . a uh d th, : be ni dm e ftihnki this in he world. all nut ins pretending to civilisation and to Christianity bow Ito the decision Man arbitretien which .ball he freely chosen by the oontendi••g and disputing nations. (Aept.u...) We have had some casts lately in which there was a rink of war. You recollect that miaeroble quenel in the Pacific Ocean, which was called the Pritchard quarrel, the Tahiti dispute, which was within a day or two's discus.ina of plunging us into • war with Fr once. (Hear, herr.) Does env men on earth believe that that question cou'd not have been arbi tested upon without the smallest doffieu:ts ? Neither nation had any real interest in the question. (Hear, hear.) Suppose that we had a government fully imbued with then eentiments, end • toreien secretary, anxious not only to prevent war but to prevent anything that should hazard war • and that ell our treaties with tanks nations contained this particular clause, which is about to be submitted to parliament-the whole course of our government with d to these questions would he different from what it is at present. Instead of preparing for war, beceuse they believe war to he the natural state of men and notions, they would always be looking in the die ction of peace. Our great armies and fleets would not 'oily net be necessary, but there would not even be a pretence for them. It would be the same with them as with the partners in • husinene who have an arbitration clause ; they do not each keep an attorney to take care that t• ey shall go to law and ruin each other with costs-(laughter)-but they know per fectly well that if any dispute aria s It will b referred to fair and upright men, who will decide between them ; and with that decision, as upright and honour.ble men them selves, they feel that they may be content. (Hear, hear.) Suppose that we bad bad a treaty with the United Butts ten years ego. The question of the Maine boundary was then in dinuoe ;it d to great danger of • war ; but at lerog•h Lord A.hbutton was sent over, he was met by Mr. Webster on the part of the United States, they got together, and they nettled it. (Hear, hear.) I was, the other cloy at the British Museum, where everybody ought to so as often as he can. Down some steps, in • room underneath, there are some owlebested monuments from • city hitherto almost unknown, of which we have but an account so vague as to be almost fabulous-the ancient city of Nineveh There are large atone slab., with carving sod sculpture • which toll us what the people of Nineveh did some 3,000 or 4,000 years ago. There is the high wall of the city ; there are ai end men on the tip of it; there are military engines dragged or pushed up against it ; there is the euornsnus hat erieg-ram breaking out the stones of this wall and battering it down; there is monarch, minensanoler, soldier, slave, prisoner, executioner, men beheaded, men trampled on, men imp oled-such is their history. And oven now, 1800 years after Christianity bas comet lilts' the world, we are much in the same state-shame to us and to all Christie* people! (Hear, hear.) And in this country, which bouts more than any other of its intelligence and its Christianity, we are paying about 48 or 47 millions sterlieg per annum either as a penalty for ware that are past or in preparation for wars that are to come. I have been ' , quested to move and I do it with great pleasure-the first resolution. It is as follows : That In the judgment of this meeting the custom of baring re course team. for the wttleicent of international di,llllll. s -assuming, as It does, the absurd prinetole that right can be decide,) by mignt is a relic of barite iam, which in a di...grace to the eiriansitm • f the age, *bit a reprooch ti the pi armed Christianity of Europe. That It I. therefore the solemn date of all nations, and ever ally of such as occupy the most prominent place in intelligence and influence, to seek DOM mean more jus t, rational, humane, a• Ch istian, to adju.t their cliff renter, t an by appealing to the sanguinary arbitra ment of the sword. That a timely Werenee of disputed questions to Use umpleage of competent and disinterested adjudicatnrs, has already been found, in many instances, a successful method of bliMiing their satisfactory and pacific settlement That the deliberate legislative mown* ion of this principle by the nations, as the last resort in cause of dispute, would latest it with great additional authority; and that this meeting therefore would, in the strongest terms, Colima Es ell proval of the melon to be submitted to the llowe of (Sammons to. morrow evening by Mr. Cobden. I believe honestly, and I speak with some knowledge of the opihione of the great mass of my countrymen, that, whatever may be the opinions of papers who write for fac tions or for reaction ; whatever opinien may be expressed by parliament tomorrow night-the vast mass of the educated, of the moral, of the religious feeling of this country goes heartily with this resolution, and desires p allotment to adopt it. (Cheers ) Mr. BROTIIERTON, M.P. ' seconded the resolution, and congratulated the meeting on the growing aversion which was apparent in the people of this country to the practice of war. He trusted that that aversion would continue to in crease, and that it would be manifested ere long by all the nations of the world. (Hear, hear.) He was old enough to remember the commencement of the French war in 1793, and he could sea since that period a great change in publics opinion on the su b ject of war. They lied seen the awful con sequences, the calamities, and the ruin brought on nations to consequence of the practice, and they had 1 anted the lesson that it was desirable to put an mod to it. It was admitted that the American and French war cost upwards of one thousand million, of money, and in volved the tier flee of a million of human beings; and yet Lord John Russell, is the House of Commons, • few nights since, said that in his opinion these two wars were unnecessary. (Hear, hear.) Now, he could tell them that the prayers offered up during throe wars described them as "just and necessary " wars. Y. t now, in 1849, they were told, on the high authority of the Prime Minister, that they were in reality unnecessary. (Hear, bear.) Wu it not obvious thee, as regarded there wars at least, arbitra tions might have been of vast importance before extremities had been resorted to? (Hear, hear.) They all admitted that war was unchristian and calamitous, and the best thing they could do to check the appetite for war which still pre vailed too much, was to aid in disseminating the true stint of Christianity. Quarrels frequently originated in trifles, and it was the characteristic of enlightened and disciplined minds to practise forbearance and avoid collision, where the uncultivated mind would have perhaps courted it. An anecdote, which was very much in point, was related of Lord Chesterfield, who on a certain occasion was jostled into the kennel by a person who struck against him, at the same time saying, "I n give way to puppies " Lore Chess terfield immediately replied, " But I always do," and passed on. f Laughter.) He was assured that if nations acted on the principle of passive TelliStenee, and to some extent gave way to the feelings and prejudices of other countries, they would exercise a greater influence in the preservation of peace and order than b the adoption of any other course. Rev. J. BURNETT supported the resolution and ex pressed much satisfaction at seeing so m my volunteers for the army of peace makers on the present occasion. W beside was told that arbitration was impracticable , it followed, of course, that war was the only engine which could be used with eflisiency in maintaining the honour of a nation and weed ing the justice of its cause. Now, let them just pause a, moment and follow him while he endeavoured to dimes* how war 'fleeted these objects, by examining some of Its do. tails aid inquiring why it was entitled to a place so mush higher than arbitration. (Hear.) He would take the cavalry of an army, and he would suppon a thing which had sot seldom occurred, namely, that the soldiers on one side were mounted on inferior horses, on posies perhaps, and that their antagonists bestrode powerful, fullenized horses, was R not apparent that the decision of the justice or the merit•of then sonnet would then be left between horses and rpoies (cheers and laughter)-or, in other words, that nation vindicated its honour by taking the precaution of rowing better hones than the country it was at war wit's. (Reef, hear.) But again, one man of cavalry InigTA b e better swordsmen than their opponents, and the nati.onal hewn, then became a matter depending on emperiority in fencing. (Laughter.) Suppose he took the utiliser. One corps ought be got up hastily and without salleisot practice, and the other having plenty of practical skill, it was quite clear that it would have the power of pro jecting bullets by mums of gunpowder. snore aecavately than their enemies; bet he could by tea means perceive what that superiority had to do with the jostiew of the quarrel. They might go still higher, sad fled a genersl in command, whose great military knowl•edge and skill to the movement et troops enabled hint IM'oring the greatest amount of force on the points most likely to sLow of • favourable result to his operations. eel, he might be orponed to a commander of much interior ability , but surely suc cess in such a cue was not the aeraequeues of an appeal to conscience, or to right frelillfish*! , was due merely to superior adroitness in the wielding of the messes entrusted to the charge of the more abler general. (Hear, hear.) People might laugh at the Orel of arbitration, tut Ia his opinion the warlike plan was infloitell more ludicrous. The resolution was them adopted. The CHAIRMAN at this stage of the procudinp was obliged to leave the. meeting for the purpose of attending to his Parlistnearary duties, and his place was supplied by G. W. Alesaatle,e Heel. Mr : B. MIP.LL proposed the second resolution, which was as foll .wa : That tbisraeeting approves and adopts the Mowing petilloa to the Home at er,attoon4, in support et the motion to be forward by Kr.Co'Jden tomorrow evening for international arbtrration. To t:ne honourable the Common& of Greet Brktain and Ire land in Parliament assembled. The petKion of the un dersigned Sheweth—That in the judgment of 'your petitioners the ordinary method adopted by nation% of settling their die. puma by en appeal to the sword, is so obviously at variance with the first principles of Platice and humanity, and so utterly repugnant to the tinkit and precepts of the gospel, as to furnish a enfficisnt t o Odemootioo of the practice apart from all coostdProtton of the conarquenr es to Whicb it leads. That the whole btatory of the world proves that war, se far from estialsevarily adjusting interne ionsl differences, serve , only to embitter and perpetuate them, by exciting on i the one hand emotions of triumph, sane, afford nourish • aunt and Kept to the impala* of an unprincipled ambition] A