The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-13 00:00:00

LATEST N EWS. The following teltgrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office PARIS, JULY 13. The Moniteur of to-clay publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results, as compared with the June account : DECREASE. Cash Current accounts 37 millions. 18 1 " INCREASE. Advances . Bills discounted not yet due . Bank notes Treasury balance . 14 " . 54 1-5 " . 43 1 " 1 1 " CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. LONDON, JULY 13. The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 5 p.m. yesterday. Mails left for London at 10 p.m. The Ripon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, left Malta at 2 p.m. on tho 9th, and may therefore be expected to arrive at Southampton about the 19th inst. The Alhambra, from Corfu, arrived at Malta on the 7th inst. COMMERCIAL. CALCUTTA, JUNE 4. Shirtings dull. Mule twist dull and declining. Raw silk 1 lower. Indigo unchanged. Copper quiet. Exchange on London, 2s. 0-Id. Govern ment Securities—fours, 1 higher ; fives, 11 higher. Freights dull and declining. SHANGHAI, MAY 17. Trade improving. Large speculative inquiry for grey shirtings. Tea dull. Silk, No. 3, Tsatlee, dull, and unchanged. Settlements in fortnight, 2,000 bales. Export to date, 64,500 bales. Ex change on London, halfpenny lower. Exchange on India, 1 higher. Freights unchanged. CANTON, MAY 22. Trade almost stopped. Grey shirtings 64, cat ties 7 higher. Water twist advancing tendency. Tea quiet. Total export to date, 78,373,000 lbs. Exchange unaltered. The Candia arrived at Suez on the 30 th June With 161 passengers. OUTWARD MAILS. The Valetta (from Marseilles sth, with Bombay mail) arrived at Malta 6 p.m., and left for Alexan andria 10 p,m. on ith inst. The Indus (from Southampton 27th June) reached Malta at 1 a.m. on the Bth, and left at 6 a.m. for Alexandria. The Salsette, with London mail of 12th to 18th May, arrived at Point de Galle, en route to Aus tralia, on 11th June—the day she was due. FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 12. The manoeuvres which will take place this year at the Camp of Chalons are prinaipally intended to decide upon the expediency of transforming all the heavy cavalry of the French army into light cavalry. The Emperor, after the last campaign in Italy, entertained the idea of effecting this transforma tion, which was, however, opposed by Marshal Bandon, the War Minister. _ _ _ To arrive at a decision, it has therefore been resolved to try the experiment at the Camp of Chalons ; and on his return from the baths of Aix-la-Chapelle, Marshal Randon will accompany the Emperor to the camp for that purpose. The practical experience which may be off.rcd by these experiments has induced several foreign Courts to ask permission of the French Govern ment to send military delegates. It is believed that several German sovereigns will also be present, to judge from the preparations which are being made for the reception of the illus trious guests. BouisE, July 12.—The market has been well maintained, but with little business done. English Consols have arrived with an improvement. The following are the last quotations : 4t per per Cents ... 97 25 , Credit Foncier 875 Do end month.... Belgian 41 97 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 951 Roman Bank Shares 2805 —! Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 697 50 ! Spanish Threes — Do. Account — i Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1368 75 .. 1370 Northern New ditto BB2 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 895 .. 895 - Geneva 385 .. 381 - Southern 505 :: 507 50 Western Eastern Sardinian —.— Austrian Lombard NAPLES. The following is the text of the amnesty lately granted by the King of Naples : " Art. 1. Penal proceedings are abolished as re gards all persons accused of political offences, and consequently any ulterior action against those in confinement or absent for facts anterior to the 25th June is prohibited. "_ ch W _Art. 2. All p r in c ipal or accessory punishment, remains unfinished for such offence, includ ing perpetual exile from the kingdom, even for those on who m it had been inflicted in commutation of otner penalties, is also remitted. " Art 3. Those persons will have the benefit of the amnesty, who harvsebse default for political offences, a s, andlready equally condemned by withthose who, p from measures of precaution founded on poli tical motives, had l e ft the kingdom, will have the power of returning to it. " Art. 4. If, however, political offenders have to answer for offences committed against the common law, justice will take its coarse against them, but only for such offencEs; and we r eserve to ourselves, under any circumstances, to accorda di minution of punishment in any particular case we think proper. " Art. 5. The above extensions do not derogate from the rights established by law for actionscivil or reparations, and for the recovery of judicial ex penses as far as regards only the parties civilly concerned. As to those which belong to the State and the general administration of the finances, no further proceedings or ulterior execution will take place. " Art. 6. Our Ministers of Justice, Public Works, Interior, Finance, and Foreign Affairs are charged, each as far as he is concerned, with the execution " FRANCIS II." of the pr esen t decree. AMERICA. The Ha m b urg and American Compan y' SOUTHAMPTON, Hammonia., Capt a i n S chwensen, from F itslsnteAaYm. New York, er on the 30th ult., has arrived here. She brings 184,940 dollars in specie for England: 14,000 dolla rs f or Hamburg, 133 passengers, and 1,500 tons of cargo. The Hammonia's news has been anticipated. The United States steamer Illinois, Captain Griffin, with dates from New York to the 30th ult., arrived off the Needles at 11 a.m. this morning. VOYAGE OF HIS ROYAL _FILGILIVESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY A T . rt Ca ptain The Coastguard screw steamship Hawke: F 6 :11. isi 00 N . William Ci ispin, arrived in the Sound this morn in Queenstown on Saturday, July the 7th, at %. She under canvass, and at half-post 6 o'clock, on Tuesday,'' n' 'e 10th, 25 miles south of the Scilly Islands, met and saluted the screw steampship Hero, 91 , Capt. George H. Seymour, C. 8., with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Th e Hero was attended by her escort, the screw steam frig a t e Ariadne, 26, Captain Edward W. Vansittart, and both were proceeding very fast under steam and canvass for Canada. About half. past 8 o'clock the Hawke spoke Admiral Fre mantle's flagship Royal Albert, 121, Cap ain Henry J. Lacon, which with the rest of the Channel Squadron, had just parted from the Hero, The squadron was under easy sail, bearing west. -~.. ivided ider F. .3re she oast of [on. F. ordered Violet, ing her r to her e Royal nbroke, mander ,ckyard. request [. F. von icke has 10, Capt. n Mtn:L odi the rince of M. von ;hip Im (err, in days. k.. Cum ani Pool iriz., the , and the g smacks lighness nmander ith from Las some n. foreign was again ads, with Lined was ay at the " a, for the met ; G. g. Slade, mberland Henry mt engi- As on sale kinds, L Mon Jay, adition of 8,990 qrs. somewhat nce to the ruled no- )ut the in- )osed of at kt cheaper. at the late on former Flour. 2,450 1,150 garlS. 1,770 brig. r in these vertheless, a. d. s. d. 4 85 2 54 5 6 40 5 2 4 10 5 4 5 0 6 2 do of hops, ounts from ;y is called per cwt. I prices are n an active pward ten' more active btained for Ivo Ceylon quotations rates being ded rather in the rates P.Y.C,, on ,hs, 525. 6d. rich realised request, a nd Beans un- Wheat in >rmer terms) ale request, sans steady. American Fool of the rfectly euc. al of "11 nse success• 1 splendour• cotton wa o Port Curtis, v renders it )out 18,000 tion tak e$ F. Goldsolia talk of start' ace Chary Buckmaste r the eminen t 1 her for the e capital of er cent. is to ru, and 4 Per n England tion betwee n ber of Der y overnment -- " e Legislative il of State an the exports; amenchnen or four dar er ye Chamb er t the smelt 'eve the lav cl the debatt ed • an d thi s nt 'of the litv Council auc, • POLITICAL COWARDICE. (From the London Review, July 14.) In private life there is scarcely to be found a more objectionable and mischievous character than the amiable man of good intentions, who loves his own ease better than high principle, who desires in all PRIVATE BUSINESS. emergencies to "make things pleasant," and who is The Scottish Drainage and Improvement Company, cursed with the inability to say " No." His moral Wimbledon and Dorking Railway, Laud Loan and Im cowardice continually leads him into difficulties, provement Company, and Hayling's Railway bills were from which he can escape only by pecuniary or perso . read a third time and passed. nal sacrifice. He adjourns the unpleasantness wh ich he cannot hope to avoid. He encourages aggression TIIE BIBLE IN INDIA. by his weakness, and in his weakness he succumbs to The Duke of MARLBOROUGH presented petitions in it. His children become undutiful, his servants favour of the use of the Bible in India. ungrateful, and his friends , ev en if the y MARRIAGES IN SCOTLAND. affect to love him, despise him in their The LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice that he would beat ts. He is the prey of beggars and swindlers, to• morrow lay on the table a bill to amend the law of mar and of all the sharp-sighted knaves who learn riage in Scotland. that to threaten is to subdue him. By dint of CHURCH PROPERTY DISTRIBUTION. being continually pleasant to everybody, he ends by making an atmospher e of un p leasantness all Lord RAVENSWORTH gave notice that to - m orrow r in the absence of the Archbishop of York, he would move around him. He dies without securin g that peace for the committal of this bill. and ease which were the objects of his life, and is STATE OF PUBLIC BUSINESS. dismissed into oblivion, condoned but despised, The Earl of DERBY gave notice that on this day week with the contemptuous epitaph, that he was "no he should call the attention of their lordships to the state of one's enemy but his own." public business. His remarks would not be of a p art y It will be a bad day for England if our states- - character, neither should he at tempt to cast any blame on man shin shall permanently assume a character such her Majesty's Government, but he should confine himself as this, and if our leading public men shall become entirely to the conduct of the business in their lordships' the political cowards which some of them are. Of house. 14te years there has been too decided a tendency to DISTRIBUTION OF INDIAN BOOTY. this unworthy good nature—too strong a desire to The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH sail he had given "make things pleasant," and to forget, despise, or notice previously of his intention to put a question relat adjourn the consideration of those high and en ing to the booty captured by the forces in India. He nobling principles of conduct which have made us wanted to know the reason why . the booty a great and powerful nation, especially when their captured by Sir G. Whilock's forces in Bundlecund had assertion threatened to hasten the easy jog-trot of not yet been distributed among the captors. The political hacks, and to cost much exertion to men delay in distributing prize money was calculated in office, or much money to the State. to produce much dissatisfaction in the army. The To tide over the evil day appears to be the highest property was captured in 1858, and he was unaware object of such men. To conciliate opposition suits them better than to conquer or overbear it , espe- of any order, in council, if such existed, for its distribution. The soldier who had risked his cially if the conquest be attended with any personal life in the services of the country and to sacrifice; and to yield all demands, however de grading, which it is inconvenient to resist with no secure booty of this kind, deserved to have it with the o ther than a barren remonstrance against the least possible delay, either to send to his family or enjoy at wrong, is the highest effort of virtue which they once. He believed the booty in this case was £130,000 in appear to be capable of. It was in this way that bullion, £300,000 in jewels, and £900,000 in money. This our statesmen made default, when the late Czar ought to have been distributed long ago, and he should Nicholas threatened to march his armies across like to know the cause of its not being so. the Pruth for the conquest and humiliation of The Duke of ARGYLL said the reason of the delay was Turkey. A bold message from the Prime Mini- that no report had yet been received from the Government ster of Great Britain, at the very commencement of India on the subject, and the Government could not of those difficulties, notifying that such a step would Proceed without it. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said the answ er have been a declaration of war against this coup- of the noble duke made the matter worse rather try, would infallibly have prevented all the horrors, than improved it. The Government had had in bloodshed, and bootless glory of the Crimean cam its possession £1,139,000 since the 3d of June, and steps paign. But our responsible statesmen were timid, ought to have been taken to dispose of it long a g o. and allowed the critical mome n t t o p ass b y . The consequence was one of the most use less and un- Lord MONTEAGLE coxdemned the delay in distribut- observing satisfactory wars recorded i n modern history—a in funds in the possession of the Governme nt, that on frequent occasions he had had t o c all the attention war in which we neither saved Tu rke y , nor seri- of their lordships to the subject. The Government here, ously checked Russia — a war in which our all y notwithstanding the neglect of the Government of India, gained all the credit , and w e all the hard blows, and which was brought t o a termination against could not have failed to know that it was in possession of a our will, at a moment when our blood had just large sum of money, with which it had to do something. been sufficiently roused to enable us to do some- The Duke of ARGYLL, in explanation, said he did not thing effectual for the future peace of the world. impute any neglect to the Governor of India. It was A curt and decisive negative to the demand impossible that he could know what were the difficulties of the Emperor of the French, when he with which this subject was surrounded. 'Whatever was called upon the Ministers of Great Britain to alter the cause of the delay in India, the captors might rely the criminal jurisprudence of their country in the upon the Home Government proceeding with its distribu matter of the trials consequent upon the wicked tion at the earliest possible moment. attempt of Orsini on the Emperor's life, would have SAVOY AND NICE. saved the Palmerston administration of 1858 from The Marquis of NORMAN BY said the noble marquis an ignominious defeat, and raised not only the opposite had a very important notice on the paper moral status of British statesmanship, but the for that evening- - viz., to call the attention of prestige of the country throughout the world. But the house to the correspondence relating to Savoy s uch answer was not given, and the Anglo-French and Nice lately communicated to Parliament by alliance has ever since exhibited symptoms of cool- command of her Majesty. He thought it would be im ness and dilapidation ; not so much from the fact possible to discuss the matter properly that even that the ruler of the French was uareasonable, but in from the worse fact that the responsible chief of the and he therefore hoped he would postpone proceeding with it for a short time. British Ministry was much too good-natured to The Marquis of CLA.NRICARDE said his desire was to say "No ;" and far too anxious to " make things have the subject considered very dispassionately, and if it pleasant " to a powerful neighbour, to perform a was thought inconvenient to prscecd with the question he disagreeable duty. should not object to postpone it for a few days. He would, The same sort of amiable but mischievous weakness therefore, not bring forward the question until Monday is to be seen in the conflict of powers that has un next. :., fortimately broken out between t he Lords and THE JEWS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Commons on the vital subject of taxation. As Upon the order of the day being read for the committal usual, our excellent Prim e Minister desires to of h make things comfortable. The House of Lords is tis bill ,LordL y LYNDHURST said that when the bill first came told that it has done wrong in attempt in g t o r e - up from th e other House of Parliament it was not his in impose the excise duti es u p on p a p er, after th e tendon tohave taken charge of it. The amendment which House of Commons has determined to abolish them. he was about to propose having been inserted, he had con- It is softly admonished not to interfere with the rented to take charge of the bill. Of course their lordships' power of the purse; and politely informed that its intention had been that a resolution of the House of Com breach of privilege, and usurpation of an authority ni not belonging to it by the recognized practice of theshould have the force of a standing order; but the ns Speaker was of opinion, on the contrary, that it must be Constitution, is to be endured for this time only, renewed every session, as a resolution founded on an act of and must not be repeated,—otherwise the house of Parliament could not be controverted into a standing order. Commons will have the unpleasant duty of remon- The object of this bill was to avoid the inconvenience of strating again—perhaps a little more sharply than renewing the act every session. He would, with their lord before, but certainly not to the inconvenient extent a an open quarrel and a counter course of action. ships' permission, read the bill, which consisted of only four or five lines. as it would steed with the „ amendment in. There could be no ranker political poltroonery on bested. It was to the effect that, "Whenever the Tr,,..,,r the part of the House of Commons than this. Such Commons shall order than any resolution framed pursuant a tampering with a sacred principle, though it may to said act shall have the force of a standing order, any give the Administration a lease of office until member professing the Jewish religion may thenceforth be February, 1861, must of necessity create new and sworn in pursuance of the standing order, so long as the g reater difficulties—either for this Administration or its successors—and will indubitably foment a same shall continue in force." The effect of the bill was, therefore, nothing more than to enable the House of Cora great and very serious quarrel, out of what might mproenvesntto the e nv n e e r e t e s a e iresolutionnecessity e of passing lnto the e standingresoluti resolution d a e t r, th s e o to c a o s m - otherwise have been a small one. The country itself has a more earnest spirit, and sees that Ministers and the House of Commons will mencement of every session. me T n h t, e a b n i d ll w th a e s n or w d e e n r t ed th t r o o b u e gh reported co m n i on Monday i tte e wilthdaythneeaxmt.end both be stultified, unless means be found to give practical effect to the resolutions carried by the aid THE NAVAL DISCIPLINE BILL. of the too-willing Opposition on Friday last. To This bill was committed pro forma, to be recommitted on collect, on the authority of the House of Lords, a Monday next. tax abolished by the House of Commons, whether the tax be abolished by a great or a small majority, or be in itself considerable or inconsiderable in amount, is a beginning of strife for which no man can foretell the close. Better to stop such an evil at its outlet, when it is but a little stream, than allow it to swell into a flood. Most people admit the question of the abstract right of the House of Lords to refuse its consent to the repeal of the paper duty, or any other tax ; but, after the exer cise of that right, the functions of the House of Commons again come into operation, to assert the prior and paramount right of the popular branch of the Legislature, and to reaffirm its first deter mination. There are many abstract and theoreti cal rights which wisdom and common sense will not exercise. It is a man's right, if it so please him, to cut off his nose ; but none, except fools or maniacs, would exercise such a power. It is the theo retical right of the sovereign of these realms to reject measures passed by the Lords and Commons, and to make successive appeals to the country to elect a Parliament subservient enough to give effect to the Royal will; but what king or queen would be insane enough to stake the tranquillity of the coun try and the popularity of the monarchy on such an un workable principle .? lied this country unhappily , such a sovereign to rule over it, a civil war, and perhaps the destruction of the monarchy, would be the result if the chief of the State unluckily hap pened to be as obstinate as he was unwise. In the present state of Europe, we should deprecate and deplore any dislocation of the British Ministry that might tempt the despotic Powers of the continent to combine for the extinction of the nascent liberties of Italy, or for the mutual aggrandisement of the confederates. For this reason, among many others equally cogent, but not perhaps so pressing, it is to be hoped that Lord Palmerston, and the colleagues who agree with him as to the inexpediency of resisting the House of Lords, by acts as well as by words, will recon sider their determination, and exhibit the moral and political courage which the occasion demands. Mr. Gladstone and Lord John Russell owe it to their own honour and reputation, and to their chance of future usefulness to the country, either to convert Lord Palmerston to their bolder and sounder views, or to leave the Administration. Courage is the best peacemaker, and if a majority of the House of Commons do not see their duty to resist the encroachment at the present time, the day will assuredly come when they will either have to fight a still fiercer battle, or resign their place as the governing power of the nation. INDEMNITY BILL. This bill was read a third time. LOCAL TAXATION RETURNS BILL. After an observation from Lord DUCIE this bill was read a second time. RAILWAY CHEAP TRAINS BILL. This bill passed through committee. AUGMENTATION OF SMALL BENEFICES (IRELAND) BILL. This bill passed through committee. THE ANSTRUTHER UNION HARBOUR BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. THE UNIVERSITIES .AND COLLEGE ESTATES THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, July 13.—Wind this day at noon—North; fight breeze, and very fine weather. PLYMOUTH, July 12.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Hawke. Sailed—Chinoto, screw steamer, for Syria. SOUTHAMPTON, July 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrived— Shannon, steamer, from the West Indies. Sailed—Mas silia, steamer, for Alexandria. Liv EnrooL, July 12.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—City of Washington, screw steamer, from New York. CARDIFF, July 12.—Wind NE.—Sailed—Homeward Bound for Callao. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Wind N.B. A rr ived, July 12—Tenora, s teamer, from London. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning, Wind calm ; tide, first hours' ebb ; weather very light Arrived, July 13—Rosa, from Dunkirk. DEAL, Friday Morning, Wind N.N.E. Arrived—Frisko, from Bremen for NOW York. ri,enfussd /FRANCE AND NAPLES._The Government has to " denationalise" the two French vessels lately Fran ce for Garibaldi. The obvious conclusion is that reforms cei,neans to support the Neapolitan Government in the p iedrooi lt' t nd concessions it offers to its people, and to . force Naples. to accept, as sincere and real, the declarations of THE' SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1860. registrar-general, it would be more economical to retain the services of the former during his lifetime. Besides, the house ought to be cautious in removing any check in deal ing with so large an amount of money as was entrusted to the care of the Bankruptcy Court. Mr. E. JAMES and Mr. IVILLIAms advocated the imme diate abolition of the office. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said ha had thought it more advisable to retain the services of a legal officer than to dismiss him, and give him his salary for doing nothing. If they sent this officer away without giving him his full salary they would be doing what was never done before. Mr. lIENLEY thought that the Attorney-General ought to inform the house what were the duties of the ac countant, as the office was described as a sinecure. Mr. CONINGH AM strongly objected to the principle of compensating officials with full salaries. Mr. HUNT thought that the accountant might be placed in some other office, the duties of which he could discharge without receiving any additional remuneration, and that the chief registrar should discharge the duties which now devolved on the accountant without an augmen tation being made to his salary. (Hear, hear.) After some further conversation, Mr. CROSSLEY suggested that the house should The ATTORNEY-GENERAL considered that would be the most desirable course to make progress with the bill. He denounced the suggestion of depriving the ac countant of his office without compensation, which he said emanated from the other side of the house, as a measure that would justify the more extravagant and democratical propositions. Mr. HENLEY strongly objected to the terms of the right hon. and learned gentleman as applied to members of his (Mr. Henley's) side of the house, and he would not allow the imputation cast by him (the Attorney-General) to remain uncontradicted. His party never advocated the doctrine of not compensating officers. He advised those hon. members who were desirous of making progress with the bill to endeavour to keep the hon. and learned gentleman quiet. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) The house then divided, when the numbers were — For the amendment Against Majority The clause was then agreed to. The clauses to 92 inclusive were agreed to. On clause 93, Mr. BOUVERIE moved an amendment to the effect that the official assignee should pay oNer all the money to the bankruptcy fund previous to the appointment of a trade assignee. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL expressed his approval of the amendment. The clause as amended was then agreed to, as were clauses 94 and 95. On clause 96, • Sir F. GOLDSMID objected to the clause which has re ference to the appointment of an official assignee. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the clause was framed in comformity with the wishes of the commercial community. After some conversation, the amendment was withdrawn, and the clause, with some verbal amendments, was agreed finition of paper, the matter had been referred to the Board of Inland Revenue, and he was not able to give any definite reply at present. INDIAN FINANCE. Mr. VANSITTAItT asked the Secretary of State for India when he proposed to make the annual financial state ment relating to India ; and whether it was his intention to proceed this session with the bill to provide for the trans fer and management of East India Stock at and by the Bank of England, and for the application of unclaimed dividends on the said stock. Sir C. WOOD—It is my intention to make a statement on the subject of the finances of India, but in the present state of public business it is impossible to say when. It is my intention to proceed with the bill for the transfer of the management of East India Stock. LAWS OF JERSEY COMMISSION. :n reply to Mr. HADFIELD, Sir G. C. LEWIS said the report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the laws of Jersey was made on the 26th June, and would be laid on the table as speedily as possible. POST-OFFICE REPORT. Sir G. BO WYER asked the Secretary to the Treasury when a Postmaster-General would be appointed, and when the report on the Post-office would be laid upon the table ? Lord PALMERSTON said that the duties of the Post master-General were at present performed by the noble duke who held the office of Privy Seal. That arrangement had been made in the uncertainty whether Lord Elgin would proceed to China or whether upon his arrival at Ceylon. he would find that his services would not be required, and that he might return. Unfortunately the Chinese question was not settled, and it would be the duty of the Government to fill up the appointment permanently. DISQUALIFID CANDIDATES BILL. Mr. GRIFFIFH asked the hon. member for Youghal whether as Government had given up the Corrupt Prac tices Bill he would proceed with the Disqual fled Candi dates Bill this session ? Mr. BUTT said when the order of the day was read be would state his reason for proceeding with the bill, and he did not despair of obtaining the hon. member's valuable assistance in passing it. THE DISTURBANCES IN SYRIA. Sir C. NAPIER, who had a notice on the paper to ask several questions respecting the disturbances in Syria, said he would, for the purpose of putting himself in order, move that the house do now adjourn. This was not the first time, he observed, that outrages had occurred in Syria of a character similar to those which had recently taken place I there. He asked the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether any steps were likely to be taken for the protection of our countrymen there. He was afraid that sending a squadron to the coast would not have much effect in restoring order in the interior. In 1840 the Christians were attacked by the Druses, and the Turks encouraged them, and he was afraid that the Turks encouraged the dis turbances which had recently taken plane there. Sir J. FERGUSSON said he had given notice that even ing of his intention to ask a question on this subject, but as it bad been brought forward he would ask the question now. The house would have seen with great regret and pain the accounts in the newspapers of the shocking events which had recently taken place in Syria, and his object in rising now, when their information was so imperfect, was to beg the house to suspend its judgment till they had more accu rate information, for he believed great injustice would be done, and perhaps permanent evil inflicted on a portion of the inhabitants of the country, if the house ran away with the idea that one party alone was to blame. He begged to IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CIIA.NCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The clauses up to 128 were agreed to, with the excep tion of clauses 102, 105, and 115. The house suspended sitting at four o'clock. The house resumed at six o'clock. THE GALWAY CONTRACT. Mr. CORRY asked the Secretary to the Treasury whe ther the assignment of the Galway contract had been pur chased by the Montreal and Ocean Steam Packet Company if so, on what terms the purchase had been effected, and what modifications of the conditions of the contract had been sanctioned by the Government. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—In reply to the right hon. gentleman's question he would, in the irst instance, take notice of a question which the hon. member for Liverpool (Mr. Horsfall) had put upon the paper, and in doing so it would not be necessary, as the hon. ientleman would see, to enter into many details on the sub ject. It was true that an arrangement was made between the Montreal and Ocean Steam Packet Company on the one side, and the Galway Packet Company on the other, for the assignment of the Government contract to the former company ; but that arrangement was of necessity subject to the consent of the Government. An application was accordingly made two or three days ago to the Go vernment for that consent, the copy of the assignment being at the same time placed in their hands. At the same time an intimation was made to the Government that the answer must be immediate, as the matter would not bear time for consideration. Under these circumstances the Go vernment really were precluded from fully considering the question on its merits, and had no hesitation therefore in replying, without at all intimating what would have been the result if full time had been given for consideration, that they would not sanction the assignment. (Hear.) Certain gentlemen who held office in Canada, and had given the Go vernment to understand that the question was then press ing, were to have quitted England on the previous evening, and the answer given by the Government was considered by them a definite reply. That day, however, indeed within the last few minutes he had learned that one of those gentlemen rmal xxot quitted Eni,ialta, , the General of uanada ; and he had just sent in a letter, rev questing that a more full consideration might be given t. the subject. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) had had no opportunity of communicating with his colleagues since, and all he could do therefore was to mention the fact that such a letter had been received. With regard to the other portion of the question, he need hardly say that the advertisement quoted, which intimated that the Govern ment contract had been transferred to the Montreal and Ocean Steam Packet Company, was incorrect, such transfer not having been sanctioned or authorised by her Majesty's Government, and the advertisement must therefore be un derstood as only intended to convey that an arrangement had been made between the parties so far as they were in a position to do so. As to the pledge given to Mr. Inman, that no transfer should take place without allowing him to show cause against such transference, it was true that such a pledge had been 'given, which the Government would take care should be adhered to. (Hear.) In reply to Mr. BAXTER, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER added that with regard to the four new steamers which were to have been provided, and on the faith of which provision the subsidy was promised, they could niit have been placed upon the station if the transfer took place, but other steam ers would have been provided by the Canada Company, which of course would have been subject to inspection and approval. The Government had no official knowledge of the conditions under which the Canada Company under took the service, but the sum for which the contract had been sold was stated in the assignment, viz., £35,000 a year for the seven years. (Hear, hear.) STEAM COAL. Mr. RIDLEY asked the 'Secretary to the Admiralty whether any reports had been received of the experiments ordered to be made by the Admiralty, at Woolwich or other dockyards, on the mixture of Welsh and north country steam coal for the use of the Royal Navy, and if so whether he would lay such reports upon the table of the house, Lord C. PAGET replied in the affirmative, and added that the reports would be laid upon the table. MALT DUTY CREDIT. Mr. HODGKINSON asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer when he proposed to bring in the bill to shorten the term of credit for malt duty ; whether he intended to pro vide by such bill that a discount on the duty should be allowed, as on the last occasion of reducing the term of credit ; and whether he proposed by such bill, or by any other bill, to modify any of the existing excise restrictions under which the malt trade were now obliged to conduct their business. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that it was intended to proceed with the proposal long since announced to the house respecting the shortening the time of credit for the payment of malt duty ; but as the question did not greatly press, it had given way to other more press ing business. The Government, however, would endea vour to proceed with it on as early a day as was compatible with the claims of other measures. His hon. friend was aware that there was another proposal which would have been brought forward earlier in the session, but had been postponed once or twice in deference to the wishes of gen tlemen who took an interest in the question, viz., for the remission of the duty that still existed on the import of foreign malt, and supposing that proposition to be adopted, it would be the duty of the Government to submit a legisla tive measure to give effect to it. With regard to the main point of his hon. friend's question, he had to state that it was not intended to propose that there should be any dis count on the duty. A discount was allowed last year en the ground that no notice had been given to the parties of the in tention to shorten the annual credit, but as full notice had been given in the present instance no such proposal would be made. With reference to the restrictions under which the malt trade had to conduct its business, what he believed his hon. friend referred to was, the allowance of drawback on duty-paid malt. (Hear, hear.) Upon that point he had to say that in the event of its being determined to authorise the importdof a clause i wouldmalt,gnb such an allowance would be made, an be introduced troduced into the bill for fore that purpose. NATIONAL DEFENCE REPORT. Mr. S. HERBERT, in reply to Mr. Haniey, stated that 2,500 copies of the report of the committee had been printed, and 500 had been distributed. THE PAPER DUTY. Mr. CRAUFURD asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer whether the defin ition of "paper" g i ven i n the judg ment delivered by the Court of Exchequer on the 20th of April, 1859, in the case of the Attorney -General v. Barry, mentioned in the third report of the Commissioners of In land Revenue, was to be taken as the present definition of the taxable article " paper ;" and whether it was the inten tion of the Government to extend the excise duty and sur vey to all articles falling under that definition. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was not aware that anything had occurred to alter the present state of the law so far as it depended upon the construction given by the courts with respect to the difficult question of what constituted the taxable article of paper. With regard to the question whether Government intended to extend the survey and excise duty to all articles falling within the de- offer these observations, because it was with great pleasure that two years since he spent some time with some of these very Druses who were said to have taken part in these distur bances. He thought the house would commit a great mistake if they believed that these disturbances had a religious ori• giu; he believed that in fact rdligion had very little to do with them. It was well known that these two races, the Druses and the Maronites, divided the district between them. There were some smaller tribes, but these two were the dominant races. There had always been a deep-seated hostility be tween them, and, it must be remembered—and while he was there about two years ago it was well known there—that efforts were being made by French and Russian agents to promote disturbances in the mountain. In fact, he be came, from living among these people for a short time, so sensible of the imminent danger with which they were threatened that ho made a communication to the noble lord who was then Secretary for Foreign Affairs on the subject, and he was sure that the Government must have received information from the intelligent gentleman who was our consul-general at Beyrout, that great injustice would be done to these people if they were left to the tender mercies of the Turks. These wore a flourishing people. Every traveller was struck with the miserable appearance of the Turkish villages; but when he arrived at Lebanon, he found the greatest prosperity, and the evidence of wealth among the inhabitants, and on inquiry he found that the reason was that the Turks had no immediate authority, but that the people were self-governed. Now, if Turkish pachas were sent down there, under the pretence of establishing tranquillity, they would enrich themselves at the expense of the inhabitants ; they would establish tranquillity, but at the expense of desolation. Another danger was imminent, and that was that the French might take the opportunity of establishin2 - a position in the East, and he had seen with great satisfaction statements in the papers, and the Uovern m.ent might have received similar information, that the French Government would not interfere beyond protecting the interests of the French subjects. But could we depend on such assurances ? Had we not received similar assur ances with regard to countries nearer :home, and had we not reason to believe that these disturbances had been ac tually fomented by French agents to promote Frence in fluence ? This was an important question involving mat ters of such interest that he trusted the house would pardon him for calling attention to it He believed that it involved interests of vast magnitude. Mr. D. GRIFFITH said, frem a personal acquaintance with those regions, he could corroborate what had been said by the hon. baronet. He thought her Majesty's Go vernment should proceed with great caution. Lord J. RUSSELL said he quite agreed with the hon. baronet that we should be very cautious in imputing blame to one of these parties more than the other. The Druses and the Maronite Christians had, it was well known, been long divided by sentiments of deep-seated hostility, which from time to time broke out into war and contention. Un fortunately, an occasion of this kind had happened lately. With regard to the immediate cause, one party laid the blame upon the other, and the other replied that they were attacked first ; but whatever might be the causes, and whatever the measures which it was desirable to adopt, he thought the house would have no hesitation in coming to the conclusion that the European powers were bound to do their utmost to put a stop to the massacres. (Hear.) The Government were informed first that one village and then another was attacked, and great slaughter ensued ; and the British consul informed them that he believed not less than 20,000 persons were wandering about the mountains, in the greatest distress. The hon. and gallant officer said that our sending ships to the seacoast would not save those who were in the mountains. Undoubtedly that was true; but when the Turks were reproached with regard to the appa rent indifference they had shown, and the little impression they had made, there was this to be said, that during the winter there had been reports very current, indeed, that in Bosnia, Servia, and Bulgaria there would be a rising in the course of the spring, and the Porte naturally caused troops to be sent there ; and he was informed by the Turkish am bassador here that there were 400 of the regular troops in Syria at the time of this outbreak. Of course it was not to be expected that 15,000 or 20,000 armed men could be put down by so small a number of regular troops, but still he was afraid the statement was not without foundation, that the Turks showed very little desire indeed to put down these disturbances. 'Well, it appeared to her Majesty's Government that it was desirable to order ships of war to the coast, not only for the protection of British subjects on the coast, but that the pachas sent there should have the means of sending troops into the interior and to the relief of Damascus, where there:were great apprehensions of an attack by the Druses. When representations were made at Constantinople to send forces to put an end to these massacres in the mountains, the Turkish Government said it was necessary to keep all the troops on the coast to pre vent disturbances there. Therefore it would be a great sup port to the Turkish authorities in preventing the attack on Damascus if they were enabled by the presence of foreign ships of war to be quite at ease with regard to Sidon, Bey rout, and other places, and thus armed forces might be transported to the interior. To show the effect which might be produced by a very small force, he might state that an English gentleman, who was cruising near Tyre, had a message sent to him that an attack on the place was ex pected, and he was requested to place his guns in position. He said his guns were of small calibre. However, it turned out that he did approach the harbour, and he placed his small guns in a position to command tae entrance to the town, and it afterwards appeared that there were two spies of the Druses in the town, and they went to the camp of the Druses and said an English ship of war was on the coast to prevent an attack on the town. The result waS the place was saved. With regard to the greater subject to which the hon. baronet had adverted, it was a subject of large extent, and he could not enter into it now. He did not believe that those jealousies and those wishes to obtain influence which certainly had actuated European powers in former days would be so detrimental as to prevent a settle ment of this question. He quite agreed that the Turks ought not to be allowed to extend their power, which was used not so much to establish order as to establish rapacity, corruption, and venality. He thought that power should not be extended among these people, but that efforts should be made to secure that these very hostile tribes should live in peace. Mr. GREGORY said he wished to call the attention of the noble lord to the fact that there was a gentleman, a ser vant of her Majesty, who was extremely well known in Sy-Ha, a man of consumm ate ability, and who spoke the language like a native (Mr. Wood), who, he thought, if he were sent there might be able to exert great influence over the minds of the sheiks, and he would be able to give her Majesty's Government most desirable information. When he was consul at Damascus he exercised an influence which Europeans had seldom attained. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY said he believed the Turks were bound by treaty executed is 1846 not to enter the country, THE NELSON MONUMENT. On the motion that the house go into committee of supply, AdmiralWALCOT called attention to the non-completion of the Nelson monument in Trafalgar-square. He alluded to the great services of Nelson, and to the policy of erecting statues of persons who had so distinguished themselves. He asked what department of Government it was that had the charge of this monument, and wlnich had so grossly neglected its duty in not getting it completed. Mr. COWPER said the incomplete state of the Nelson column was not to be attributed to any want of veneration for the character of Lord Nels"n, or for the profession of which the gallant admiral was an ornament. On the con trary, it had arisen from a desire that the lions which were to adorn the base of that column should be worthy of the position in which they would be placed, and should be worthy, likewise, to represent the British lion. (Laughter.) He believed that an artist had now been selected, in the person of Sir E. Landseer, who, from his well-known ac quaintance with animals in general—(a laugh) —and his equally well-known patriotic feelings, might be safely trusted to exert himself for the purpose of producing a worthy effigy of the national quadruped. (Cheers.) SICILY. Sir R. PEEL rose to move for an address for copies or extracts of papers relating to the threatened annexation of Sicily to Piedmont, and to any information received by her Majesty's Government as to the probable demands of France consequent upon the event of that annexation taking place ; also for any papers showing that her Majesty's Government have within the last few weeks intimated to the Government of Turin that the continued aggressive policy of that Govern • meat would not be viewed with indifference by Great Britain. The hon. baronet trusted that the house would not think there was anything inopportune in calling attention on the present occasion to the threatened annexation of Sicily, and the probable demands of France. He also hoped that they would agree with him in his wish that her Majesty's Go vernment might have intimated to the court of Turin its apprehensions with regard to its aggressive attempts. He was bound in all fairness to say that the words he had just read were literally taken from an inquiry which was made in 1848 by Lord Aberdeen with reference to the affairs of Sardinia; but he thought that that inquiry was ten times more applicable to the present situation. In drawing at tention to the threatened annexation of Sicily, and to the probable demands of France, he (the hon. baronet) consi dered that it was impossible not to pause and cast a glance over the progress of events which were occurring on the sunny shores of the Mediterranean ; for they were events not only calculated in themselves to excite the deepest in terest, but they were likely to give rise to the gravest com plications in the status of European affairs, as well as deeply to concern the commercial and political interests of this country. They concerned our commercial interests, be cause as we could not withdraw from all commercial inter course with the continent, we could not remain indifferent spectators of the fate of European nations ; and what was occurring was of infinitely more importance from a mari time and political point of view than questions which had been the subject of so much discussion within the last few seeks, such as the cession of Nice, the sale of the Savoy ards, and the outrage upon the neutrality and independence of Switzerland. (Hear, hear.) For what was the Medi terranean ? It was, as it had always been, the great high way of the trade and traffic of Europe. Dr. Johnson had well said that the Mediterranean ought to be the aim of every one. Upon its shores the greatest empires—Assyria, Persia, Greece, Rome, Carthage—had risen; and from its shores we had received all our religion, almost all our laws, almost all our arts, and almost everything that raised us above the savage and the slave. (Cheers.) But if the Mediterranean had always been of such importance to us, what was' it now) He believed that the maintenance of our commercial and political interests upon it was at this moment an object of scarcely less moment to us than the maintenance of our maritime supremacy in St-George's Channel and the Irish Sea. (Hear, hear.) And this was no new opinion ; but it was common to almost every statesman of modern times. In 1810, when a discussion took place as to the granting a subsidy to Sicily, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (then Mr. Perceval) made use of words which he would take leave to read, for they were much more strongly applicable at the pre• sent moment than they were even at the time they were uttered. The right hon. gentleman said, "that his govern ment and every other government of this country, that men in fact of all parties had always held that our connection with Sicily was of great value to us in a political point of view as well as regarded our commercial interests in Malta and the Mediterranean." (Hear, hear.) And then the right hon. gentleman went on to say that " there was no differ ence of opinion as to the importance of preserving the in dependence of Sicily from the grasp of Bonaparte." (Hear.) Now did we not know from the experience of the last few months that Sardinia was nothing but a tool in the hands of the Emperor of the French—(hear)—and that by oppos ing by every means in our power the influence which France was seeking to gain, both in that portion of Sicily to which the hon. baronet opposite had alluded as well as in Sicily, we should be doing great good to the political in fluence which we were entitled to exercise in that part of the world ? (Hear, hear.) He (Sir R. Peel) wished the noble lord, therefore, to give a frank exposition of the policy which he was prepared to pursue. He did not want to be told hereafter that he was too late—that the thing was done and that the annexation had taken place, as they were told with regard to Nice and the poor Savoyard 3. (Hear, hear.) He wished to warn the noble lord not to be too late ; and to take care not to be able hereafter to say that he had been de ceived by Lord Cowley, outwitted by M. Thouvenel and Count Cavour, or duped by the franchise and cordiality of the Emperor of the French. (Cheers.) The noble lord told him the other day not to pay any attention to newspapers, but only to listen to what he (Lord J. Russell) said, and then he would know the truth. (Laughter.) Well, that was exactly what he wanted to know. (Hear, hear.) He did not think the noble lord could accuse the opposition, or any hon. gentleman that took an interest in foreign affairs, with being over anxious for the discussion. Things in Europe ut this moment were of infinitely greater importance than the ordinary run of parliamentary business. For what was the state of Europe ? There was no fusion or cohesion in Italy ; and he had letters from the banks of the Rhine and from the towns in the Prussian provinces of that river, which assured him that there was a general feeling of mistrust and apprehension—in fact, they were all in fear of a common enemy. In Germany there was an attempt which, he hoped would one day be effected, also as against a common enemy. In Switzerland there were 176,000 brave fellows ready to rally round the standard of their country, should it be raised for the protection and vindica tion of their rights and interests. Take even this country. At present we were arming for nothing but the unsettled state of foreign affairs. We were contributing more this year for our maritime defences than we had done for fifty years previously. There was a talk of fortifying not only our ports, but our metropolis ; and we had even called out the volunteers. We had thus called into activity a force which had not been employed for half a century. He had the more pleasure in referring to this subject on the present occasion, because some observations which he had made some time since had given offence. He was-glad, therefore,. to take this opportunity of bearing his most willing tribute of admiration to the zeal, the discipline, and the efficiency which characterised that magnificent display—for he could call it nothing else—which our Sovereign had lately in augurated in Hyde-park. (Loud cheers.) He hoped, please God, that their services would never be required ; but if they were, he firmly believed that they would not be un worthy to defend the interests and the institutions of this country. (Cheers.) Considering all that was going on, he thought the noble lord had no right to complain of his now asking for some expression of opinion upon passing events. They were of infinitely greater importance than the events of 1848. He recollected the visit of Lord Minto en route to Italy. He should always have an agreeable souve nir of the kindness with which the noble lord had received hi* on that occasion ; but from a political point of view the noble lord's mission was nothing but a revolutionary fiasco. (Hear.) The noble lord went to Rome ;he coquetted with the Italian patriots; he visited Ciceroacchio; he compli mented Pio Nono, and he almost patted Ferdinand 11. on the back ; but he deceived the Sicilian patriots, and com promised the British Government. (Hear, hear.) Those occurrences formed the subject of no fewer than 15 sepa rate debates; but though what was now going on was of ten times greater importance, it has scarcely as yet been dis cussed. In 1848 the present Prime Minister was Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and the noble viscount did not com plain of being called upon to address the house for the al most incredible number of more than a hundred times. He (the hon. baronet) considered, therefore, that on the pre sent occasion the house had shown the greatest possible forbearance, and they had a right now to call upon the noble lord (Lord J. Russell) to state his views. As to the noble lord's spirit and capacity when he pleased—( a laugh) —there could be no doubt. He (the hon. baronet) had just been reading the despatches that had been laid on the fable, and he honoured the noble lord for them. (Cheers.) He i. took a pride in saying that those despatches were woortfhythoe an English Minister ; and as an English House of Commons he begged to thank the n e v o a l e rle i had defended member r d in the name of Switzerland for the way in which , the interests of that republic. If the ?ultra:lord would only (the hon. baro go in the same course, he would findi e liey as any gentleman net) as generous a supporter of his li on this occasion to glance in that house. It was onlypsor the shores of the Me . dit u er m r . a v n ersal at the progress of events on d Garibaldi, and his succes y and to allude to the achievements of Garibaldi sympathyhad accomparne • at Manchester, Glas e d in this country. might judge from Inetings eat a d miration• gow, and other places, had elicited great (Hear , hear ) progress an d success had shown what the energy, perseverance, and personal prestige of one men could accomplish. When they heard that an army of 20,000 of well equipped soldiers had laid down their arms before a body of 2,000 ill equipped men, with a bad com missariat, and that Garibaldi had obtained possession not only of the ports, the harbour, and the treasure of the Go - vernment, but also of the capital, he could not help saying that the powers of Europe could not remain indifferent spec tutors of his proceedings. He attached very little weight to the fact of twenty thousand men laying down their arms to two thousand, because they had witnessed the effects of panic in other cases. Thus, in 1848, the army of Radetsky ran away from before the unarmed population of Milan, his a few weeks after it marched back from the Mincio to the Ticino, and annihilated the whole insurgent army. He (Sir R. Peel) did not wish to diminish the splendour of Gari baldi's campaign. He could almost liken him to Miltiades, who with a handful of men on the plains of Marathon gained immortal renown against the hordes of Asia. (Hear.) Bu t we must not be dazzled by his military successes ; we must look at the political consequences which they involve. G ari baldi having been named dictator at Palermo, there were cries not only of " Viva l'ltalia I" but of " Viva Vittorio Emmanuele." He (the hon. baronet) supposed it was all arranged between the Governments of France and Turin, and that Garibaldi had allowed the people to cry esti " Long live Victor Emmanuel, King of Sicily !" Could this be that Victor Emmanuel who at so much a head, like sheep in the shambles or slaves in the market, bad sold 20,000 of the most devoted of his subjects ? Was this the kind of man that should be selected to be King of Sicily ? What a warning voice ought not that cry to be " Victor Emmanuel, King of I Sicily I" Why, if he could barter and sell the interests of Ia brave and devoted race, who for centuries had been the rock and mainstay of that very royal house of Savoy, what would he not sanction towards his subjects of Sicily, if he became their King ? (Cheers.) We had in this country a strong feeling of patriotism—and he knew - what the feeling was—but if he were a Sicilian patriot he would prefer almost anything, he would almost consent to continue for some time longer in the dungeons of Castellamare, rather than bow before such a false god of patriotism. They called him "Il Re galantuomo ;" and if the house wanted a translation of that term, they might ask the citizens of Nice, or the moun taineers of the Alps. He deeply deplored the fact that the salvation of Italy was to be worked out between political treason on the one hard, and a mill! ary despotism on the other. He could not see hew the interests of Italy could profit by such a junction. They wanted Victor Emmanuel to be King of Sicily ; and he would therefore show what its - condition was when a Prince of the house of Savoy was so vereign of the island. By the treaty of Utrecht Sardinia was ceded to Austria, and Sicily to the Duke of Savoy. In 1714 Victor Amadeus 11. was crowned King of Sicily. He went to his new kingdom, proclaimed a parliament, and promised all kinds of liberties, after which he went away, and soon began to intrigue, as it seemed all the Savoy Princes did. In 1718 he intrigued with the Spaniards to drive out the Austrians from the Milanese territory. The Spaniards did so, but then they turned round on their allies and drove them also from Sicily. The domination of the Spanish Bourbons thus began in 1736 ; and it was now in its very last agony. He made no allusion to the time when Sicily was in the hands of England, in 1806, and when we held it against the whole force of France until we gave it up at the peace. lie would now refer to the mission of Lord Minto, which took place in the years 1847 and 1848. He even recommended, upon the advice of the Prime Mi nister, who was then Minister of Foreign Affairs, the separation of Sicily from Naples. He allowed Admiral Parker to encourage the feeling of Sardinian independence, and to take such steps as he thought advisable with a view of making that independence complete. He even recom mended the offer of the throne of Sicily being made to the Duke of Genoa. Lord Palmerston wrote to Mr. Aber crombie on the Bth of May, 1818, in the following terms : " With reference to the offer of the Crown of Sicily to the Duke of Genoa, you will state to Sardinia that it is of course for the Duke of Genoa to say whether or not he will accept this flattering offer, but it may be satisfactory for him to know that if he should do so he would at the proper time Le acknowledged by her Majesty's Government." In the year 1848 the Government of this country were prepared to seethe separation of Sicily from the kingdom of Naples, and to see the crown of Sicily pass into the hands of a prince of the house of Savoy. Would the noble lord (Lord J. Russell) recommend the same policy now as was recommended in. 1848 ? The noble lord had to show that he held the same views that Were shown in the despatches which had been laid. on the table with reference to Savoy. The noble lord had made use of some very curious expressions. He had said repeatedly, e We wish well to this dynasty of the Two Si cilies." He (Sir R. Peel) wanted to know whether the noble lord's policy had changed since 1848. On the 22d of June the noble lord wrote to Mr. Elliott, " Her Majesty is sincerely desirous to see the dynasty and throne of the Two Sicilies maintained and consolidated." But that was not the policy of 1848. That was not the policy which had been. approved by that house on several occasions. Mr. Elliott wrote to say, " The Sicilian Government continues to maintain its power by a vislation of law." The noble lord in reply said, " Her Majesty's Government"—(this time , not her Majesty)—" Her Majesty's Government is desirous, to see the present dynasty maintained upon the throne of Naples." Then Mr. Elliott on the 19th of July said. —" The King's Government is based upon a total denial of justice ;" whereupon the noble lord wrote in reply, " I admit that the commonest rules of justice are not ob served." Well, that required some interference, if they were to interfere. Then the noble lord went on to say, on the 16th of January, 1860 :—" We wish well to the. Neapolitan dynasty, but we recommend to them a repre sentative constitution." The noble lord offered them nes details, and really at a time when they were discussing the £6 and £lO qualification in that house the noble lord might have suggested some scheme of that sort to the Government of the Two Sicilies. (Laughter.) He recommended them, however, free discussion, popular assemblies, and public opinion. The noble lord, however, need not have gone so far as Naples to recommend this. Nothing had occasioned. him (Sir R. Peel) greater surprise than to find that ther e were nations which, having once tasted of constitutional liberty, were content to submit themselves to the rule of a single despot. The noble lord had recommended free dis cussion, popular assemblies, and public opinion to the Ge -1 vemment of Naples ; but if he had wished to recommend them, he need only step across the Channel, and address them to the Emperor of the French. But they were all of them laying aside all political considerations, almost all of them in favour of the heroic proceedings of Garibaldi. Not so the noble lord. The noble lord was not in any way in favour of Garibaldi ; he had done all he could to stop him. Let them hope there had been no mistake about the policy the noble lord had pursued. The hon. member for Dundalk on the 4th of May asked the noble lord a question respect ing Naples. The noble lord had said in reply that the Ministry of the King of the Two Sicilies from time to time communicated with them on terms which showed they had great reliance on the friendship of her Majesty's Government. Upon one occasion there was a representation that General Garibaldi was going to Sicily with armed vessels. The Government of the Two Sicilies implored her Majesty's Government to endeavour to stop his progress, and the noble lord said he lost no time in applying to the Sardinian. Government asking if they had some authority over Garibaldi not to allow him to proceed. He (Sir R. Peel) hoped the noble lord had no desire to see the union of Sicily to the kingdom of Sardinia, which was intriguing under the cover of Garibaldi. Meanwhile all sorts of promises had been made ; constitutions and all manner of good things were to be showered upon the Sicilians, if they would only give way. He (Sir R. Peel) should suppose that the Sicilian patriots would not accept them now, as they had been so often disappointed. In 1818 a constitution was offered to Sicily. It was afterwards denied them ;Iwhen things looked. better it was withdrawn; a general was sent to Messina and bombarded it ; and Poerio and others had passed years of their lives in the dungeons of the state because they were faithful I o the constitutional doctrines of their country. In. 1821 another constitution was granted, and was immediately withdrawn. He hoped that the Sicilian patriots would not be deceived by these promises, and that something might be done to secure to Sicily the freedom she deserved to enjoy. The Prime Minister had used an expression which he thought was one of the best that had yet been employed on this question. He was asked what course they proposed to take with regard to any revolution that might be ex pected to arise at Naples. In answer to the question, the noble lord, on Tuesday, June 12, made a very remarkable reply. He said that governments whose subjects revolted against them were liable to forget that in order to remove the authors of these revolutionary movements the first necessary step was the removal of themselves. In that re mark he (Sir R. Peel) entirely participated, and would only say, in conclusion, he did not profess to see for the existing difficulties in Sicily. He hopediha Majesty's Government would not allow the union of Sicily Power islaud. were with the crown of Sardinia. They had a lready enough upon any soluttia their hands ; the state of Europe was ,efficiently eeltif dangers would result more than that, they knew that greet and working those re result from the influence of France, allowed to obtain a permanent footing in of England H. if "n th th a a t t wanted to see the power and laaresourcestPower and dilly sources duly exercised abroad, maintained. He wanted to see Th e y knew very well t h a t whatever was the extensions of our wealth , whateve r the growth of our revenue, prosperity could our commercial only succeed i n a degree comm ensurate with the ma i ntenance of our polit i ca l power in Europe. He hoped, therefore, that her Majesty's Government would take every stop to secure that political influence. If they abated one iota of the po litical power of the country, they immediately narrowed and dwarfed its prestige amongst foreign nations ; but if on the other hand they maintained it unabated and un diminished, growing with the growth of the nation, and strengthening with its strength, the house would look with_ confidence at the course and progress of events in Europe, and England would still continue to hold that place among the nations of Europe which, during the last half cetetury of our time, had thrown such a magnificent illustration over the annals of our country's existence. (Cheers.) Lord J. RUSSELL—I cannot deny—indeed I freely admit—the ability, sincerity, and generosity of the hon. gentleman who has just spoken. (Hear.) I trill readily admit likewise that I have to thank not only hin r and others who share his political views, but also hon. mei ninro ao site for the forbearance which they have a hoy ,en m a pp vary I have not; to difficult period of foreign policy. (Hear) r BILL. This bill passed throngh committee and was reported to he house. _ THE LAW AND EQUITY BILL. The bill was read a third time and passed. THE PHCENIX••PARK BILL. This bill passed through committee. TENISON'S CHARITY BILL. This bill passed through committee. THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUPPLEMENTAL BILL. This bill passed through committee. HARBOUR OF REFUGE AT HOLYHEAD. The Earl of MAYO then moved for a select committee to inquire into the state and efficiency or otherwise of the new refuge harbour at Holyhead, and the cause or causes of the number of wrecks that occurred there during the last year . Also to inquire into the plan as now sanctioned by the Ad miralty for the construction of a packet harbour for the accommodation of the large class of steamers about to be employed for the Irish mail service. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Milford Haven Railway and Docks Bill, and the Waveney Valley Railway Bill were considered and agreed to. The Monkland Railway Bill was considered, and ordered for third reading ; and the Atheney and Ennis Junction Railway Bill was read a second time. BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY BILL. On the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL the house went into committee, resuming at clause 78, which was agreed to. Clauses 79 to 81 inclusive were also agreed to with some verbal amendments. On clause 82, Lord HENLEY moved an amendment to the effect that there should be certain prohibitions imposed on solicitors acting as official assignees carrying on business in bank ruptcy and insolvency. Mr. E. JAMES considered such prohibitions Were neces sary, and that it would not be desirable to have a solicitor acting in regard to an estate in bankruptcy or insolvency when his partner was an official assignee. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he would make provision in the bill to carry out the views of the noble lord (Henley). After some discussion, the amendment was withdrawn, and the clause was agreed to. On clause 83, - The AT TO RNEY- GEN E RAL, in reply to Sir F. KELLY, stated that it was no t i n t en d e d t o a bolish the office of messengers d ur i ng th e lif et i me o f th e gen tlemen who filled these offic es a t present. Mr. HENL EY an d M r. E. JAMES considered t h a t th e clause was not suffi c i en tl y clear, and was calculate d t o create a double jurisdiction.—that of bailiff as well as mes- senger. The clause was then agreed to. On clause 84, Mr. MURRAY moved an amendment to the effect that the office of " Accountant in Bankruptcy" should be abolished. The expense of the accountant's remuneration, together with the costs of his clerks, amounted last year to £7,127, and the duties of accountant consisted merely of keep ing a pa ss -book between theßank of E n gland and the assignee. The bill proposed to do away with the office, but not until the death of the present occupier, while he was anxious for the immediate abolition of an Ace that was costly and useless, and for the transfer of the duties to the registrar general of the Court of Bankruptcy. Mr. BOUVERIE said that as they would have to corn pensate the present accountant-general and to pay the - and he thought it was hard to blame them under such cir- cumstances. Lord PALMERSTON said the hon. baronet was mis taken. There was no authority to exclude the Turks from Lebanon in the same manner as from the Principalities. But there wa. an arrangement some years ago by which no Turkish administrative authority was to be established in Lebanon, but the people were left to govern themselves. For a long time endeavours were made by the Turks to get off their engagement, but they were held to it, and that arrangement was still in existence, but it did not exclude them from appointing a pacha to represent their authority. The motion that the house be adjourned was then put and negatived. 'hat the the o be t." the 3 :- ne arge ;ame tand bject f the ry in ~ as t per may, grant 3 who mais- ;lause court Ld not Liz) the N r..