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Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. irbt 2 1 1 2) rog+ LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1855. PPSTSCRIPT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FDIDAY. The Bishop of LONDON moved an address on the subject of the inadequate provision for burial in the metropolis. The act of 1852, closing the old burial grounds before others were provided, increased the evil, which demanded an immediate remedy. Earl GRANVILLE said that the subject was under the most serious attention of the Government, upon which the Bishop of London withdrew his motion. Adjourned at a quarter past seven. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. On the motion that the house adjourn till Monday, Sir W. MOLESWORTH rose to contradict the accu sations brought against him of having changed his opinions. He had been dared to read his speech at Leeds at the table of the house. He did read two or three extracts, in which he charged Russia with endeavouring to embroil France and England, in the hope that she might in the fray carry off the prize, and protested against a Russian occupation of Constantinople. THE WAR. The adjourned debate was then resumed by Mr. SCOTT, who found fault with the silence of the Government, and thought that much mischief had been done by the absence of due interference from the House of Commons. He hoped that some Ministers would give the candid opinion of the whole Cabinet on the objects of the war, an opinion of which the house was ignorant at present. Sir F. BARING explained that his views in bringing forward his amendment were to prevent any doubt on the meaning of the rejection of the original motion. He objected to Mr. Lowe's second amend ment, as committing the house to a particular line of conduct on a single point, and leaving the rest untouched. Any dictation by the house of the terms of peace would be in direct variance with our agree ment with France, according to which all terms of agreement were to be decided in common. What would be said if France decided upon any particular point without communicating with England? A vote on neither of the amendments would show the direct opinion of the members of the house, and the debate, with all its length and importance, would end in a manner which looked like trifling with the country. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, reviewing the speeches of the debate, said that the Government were ex posed to so contradictory a series of accusations that most of them would fall upon other heads. He denied, as Mr. Cobden had declared, that the public feeling in favour of the war was due to the passions of the populace, and denounced his inconsistency in making such a charge. Adverting to the ex .Ministers, who had helped to plunge them into war, and now embarrassed them in their attempts to carry it on, he thought the allusion of Sir J. Graham to the early unpopularity of former wars highly injudicious, and instanced each of these wars to show the reason of their unpopularity. Even assuming that no war could remain long popular with this country, was it on such principles that a Ministry ought to sacrifice the honour of the nation'' He asked what wo uld . be the effect of such an assertion on the enemy, who was told only to wait sad hold her own, until THE PRESS. the tide of public opinion turned in England. He Shen, in vehement terms, arraigned the conduct of Russia, which took her out of the category of other nations, and was characterised throughout by. fraud and unscrupulous defiance of law and honour. Three words would sum up her principles—con quest, aggression, aggrandisement. He surveyed the conquests of Russia during the last century, and de manded if a power thoroughly imbued with such principles would forego them because, under a tem porary pressure, she acknowledged the independence and integrity of Turkey. Her feelings we could neither vindicate nor subdue; our only course was to obtain ample material securities, which were- not afforded by the Russian proposals. Sir F. THEsioEu recalled the attention of the house to the real subject before it—the question of the conduct of the negotiations. These, he thought, bad been conducted in a manner most unsatisfactory, arising from the unfor tunate choice of the negotiator, who had committed himself to opinions which unfitted him for the task of conducting affairs so delicate. In support of this assertion he instanced the weakness of Lord John Russell's concessions to Russia on former occasions. His views and feelings towards Russia likewise dis qualified our envoy for his mission. Adverting to the four points, he agreed in the opinion of Lord John Russell, in that the fourth point presented vast diffi culties, but contended that its consideration was ad. journed by the personal embarrassments of the envoy on the matters it contained. He submitted that he had made out his charge, and that the failure of his negotiations was inevitable from the commencement. Mr, LLOYD DAVIES recognised the necessity of carrying on the war with vigour, and would so far abstain from embarrassing the government. Mr. BENTnicit saw no alternative but to fight out otir battle with energy, acknowledging that the house was the real author of the war. Mr. CARDWELL, after a personal defence of his party, scrutinised the several amendments, and deprecated the fettering the hands of the Executive. He would support Sir Francis Baring's amendment, as a simple declaration of the intention of the house to support the Crown under the resent circum stances. Mr. W•LPOLE denounced the ambiguous conduct and language of the Ministers, and called upon them to declare the objects for which the war was protracted. He contended that the second Russian proposal offered a solution of all difficulties, and ought not to have been rejected. He declared the several propositions o&red by several members to be extravagant and unmeaning. He implored the Premier to speak plainly, for, unless he did away with the effect of the speech of the Attorney-General, he saw no prospect of peace for ten years to come. He vindicated the Conservatives from the charge of acting from party motives, the absence of which was proved by their forbearance at the beginning of the contest. . . . Mr. HORSMAN said that it was the traditionary policy of Russia we had to guard against, lot her I immediate greatness. Mr. Drintaw reverted to the circumstances of his original motion, under which be had deemed it necessary to express his opinion that the behaviour of Ministers was so ambiguous as to require a definite censure—an ambiguity which had since been admitted by speakers on all sides of the house. He denied that his motion—which was intended as a vote of censure for a specific act—should be considered as a vote of want of confidence, or ought to have carried with it the displacement of the Ministry, and he could not understand why those who agreed with it should have voted against it. Passing by the amendment of Sir F. Baring as no longer of conse quence, he came to the one of real importance, that of Mr. Lowe, which was a complete and perfect proposition that we should enforce the reduction of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. This was the amendment adopted by Lord Palmerston. The ques tion before them, therefore, was neither uncertain nor obscure. He was opposed to the rroposition, not merely as brought forward now in a hap-hazard fashion, but as one essentially bad and inefficient in itself. Our great object was to destroy the preponderance of Russia as towards Turkey. Now, of the three points from which Russia would attack Turkey, that of the Black Sea was the least to be feared. Again, Turkey was to have but tour ships of the line in ie Black Sea, but she might have as many as she pleased in the Bosphorus. Russia might have but four, but she might have as many as she pleased at Nikolaieff whence she might float them in a day or two to Sebastopol. Such were the conditions, the refusal of which carried with it the continuance of the war. He pointed out the territorial arrangements which might effectually check the progress of Russia with out humiliating her. Another important point— omitted from the protocols —was the stipulation that the dismantled fortresses on the eastern coast of the Black Sea should not be restored. He concluded by urging that if Turkey was to be saved, it must be by wore deAuite action than that pursued by our Feeent SATURDAY, rulers—by systems more matured, and of more de cided purpose. Lord PALMERSTON contrasted Mr. Disraeli's accu sations against the Government, that they would conclude an ignominious peace with his language now, when he denounced them for demanding too hard terms from Russia. He reiterated his opinion that it was inexpedient for the house to assume to itself the conduct of negotiations, especially when carried on in concert with an ally. He thought that the house would do well to adopt the amendment of Sir F. Baring, as the simplest mode of expressing its opinion. Adverting to the debate, it had, he said, been carried on with calmness by all but the advocates of peace, at any price who seemed more fitted by their violence to be advocates of war at all hazards, and who has least of all to declaim against submission to popular feeling. He ridiculed some of their arguments, and exposed others. He next came to his ex-colleagues, whom he charged with overlooking the constant aggressions and injustice of Russia. He argued against the suggestions of Mr. Disraeli, contending that it was in the Black Sea that Russia could strike her readiest blow. The Russian proposals for the settlement of the "third point," were, he argued, utterly illusory and untenable. The vote now demanded, involved, not the question between the Ministry and the Opposition, which had been settled before the recess, but the decision of the house whether peace was to be made on Russia's own terms, or the Crown sup ported in the energetic prosecution of the war. Sir J. GRAHAM having given some brief expla nations, The amendments proposed by Mr. Lowe and Mr. J. G. thillimore, was put and negatived with out a division. The resolution of Sir F. Airing was then put iu its turn. Mr. WALPOLE briefly declared his intention of voting for the motion. Mr. GLADSTONE also consented, with reluctance, to accept the motion. The resolutions were. then car ried unanimously. The house adjourned at a quarter past two o'clock. THE BALTIC FLEET. A telegraphic despach from Dantsic states that her Majesty's ship Bulldog had arrived with mails from the fleet. The British and French fleets were on the 4th instant close to Cronstadt. The Russian ships were nearly all dismantled in harbour ; only three steameis were serviceable. Admiral Saunders Dunda.s has been in the Merlin to get a nearer view of the forti fications and to satisfy himself as to the propnety cf an attack; it is said that he thinks it impracticable. New works have been added since last year. Sixteen Russian merchantmen, most of them loaded with timber, have been captured and de stroyed near Cronstadt, and others run ashore and burned. The French reserve camp of Maslak consists of 45,000 men. 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