The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-06 00:00:00

4 x d O'CL 0 0 16 i 3 i 3 0 1° PAEx.— Sunday 1 : 0 ` . / A, and Si , ' 0 k, makia —The it ° he .`" Hen -r• lot London le, Dr the in 3l ;s ication wl 1 gentlel n ?, mateur 0 , $ f Drury', fi 0 o n the 2? 0 ill this tlra owing in be alt.:— « t e t depar In board via9 iu ; board in , t, the ve nEe' 'p. _-----, ;KV 'GENOA ro o'Cr ,oo sterday clo se e Surat varei were with ° 10,000 bal es ' m, 6ld. toicl.3! DO Su t , lhare IViar' e letter than 011 the Livelr,l chalonar from 72 tong, eg li o , April hot Y e ~ 25th ineterpe 614 market la , per rgo P JAI9. :r foot, too, to 160, Pa co 1-32 d Pe r f 4 4,1 .shalb ever oof a to 53 sc/ '. a nd the 1 it an ayeregeoi n 7dto9d,To Of o°ll ei elize a verA i gg , om 's4cl .1 ,4 foot, avellg„,„ Of La Gu',/,;„i, to 11dP er ' 00 'ld have boo, from dard, 19h ahou f t 9 per Kt ) arce. - o „, I e e t d quality stee' .2s 6d p et st 12 1 7ded at for at 8 1 . 1 ° ')r t hird 4 commen ce ~t h 'acturer s b o at )ra lly With is of buye r° fo r ruling" e egOrei Siljg tate of ing dist rN t i s , ge d to b e appears to l uotati °e e i s like l l,. o l wilicll3° es Of f aeig : I 3 per Ce ll , is , 3 50 per co w , p pitto D itto I"' firmer b e r s 3 chara e ' f ieffield, elicb The Fre y 0 , Id the o'li ire gene ra ll NG rilic° nsin.- (lon e ' [, 2 li§ i t 24 i 3-16 1-16 fr h. b 2Jun°. d I, 1 Si IS D.A.I• 19 i 9 lb 1 I 'a 5 41 4i Slims It E id A R (TIT'S DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAIL WA YS . Closing Prices this day e: - . tt•GU . „„ 7 , rottng. 800. and &sta. Junct Belfast & Ft/01)-111er.. girnting. ;Vi lve rh .t Stour Valley ..... Birkesiid. LanosL. & Cheshire Junct,....., - )0. Chola]. & Birk. £5O and £25 o,,ns £20...... Rlyth & Tyr] origin& £25 (issd. at 245 43ristol and T.txoter... Caledonian... ..... .rarm. and Cardigan Cheater & Holyhea( - t. Cork and Bandon... Cork, Black, & Pas, Cornwall Do. A Do. B (*lie T Junction.,.. DubquAßolfantJnne. Dan. P. ei Ab,„ Jne, 'diet Avglian Ee.atorn Counties Rast. "rniou. A St) Do, B. Stovt iDo., New A. (East Kent East Lanusshire EdiuLurgh do Glaago Mint,. and Peebles Edin. Prtb & T ► ur .q.. 'orth & Clyde Jim Furness De. Extension... IGlaszow & S. W«,at, • 'Great N. of Scotlncl. Great Northern . "Do., A. Stock....: Do., B. Stock ,Gt. Sth. &West.(lre 'great Western..,., Do. Stour Val, Ra Gm'. Stk.. Irish South-Easter.. Lancagter k earns). ~ .Do Thirds.. ... ...,. I Do.'Nev Thirds.. Lancash.anrlYorkpl Mat. 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ALW 'Stockton c Darli I - ,Ntucitton & Flr.rtiep iThT Valo .. ~,, Do. Pref., No, i`hamea liay. P.& R I Ulverstone do LanoF !Vale of LAO), Waterfd. & Kilkunn , iWaterforldtLimor !West Cornwall. . West End of Londor and Crystal Palace . Do. A . Do. B 'West London- !Wimbledn & CroydcT 25i 26. 4 - 4i 8i 9 16} - 17, 15 - 16 12f - 13, 87 - 8') ost GO Isi • 16 ••• ''''' ••• 16.1 17 91 10 33 - 35 23 - 25 76 - 78 60 - 62 27i -28 i 88 - 92 7 - 8 95 - 96 79 -- 81 1125 127 102 1 04 61t 624, 67 -- 70 5 4 - 6 41) 54 6* 884 - 89 7 71 101 103 1001 - 101 Ad # P d A p, I 94 - 95 j ... - - i‘ 3 741 - 75 13 - 45 ••• ..... .c 13. 53 - 55 3i - 34i 35?, 78 - 79 - 51 - 15; - 16 55 ?;6 85 t• G - 5.11 51 - - 104 2G - 28 'O3 105 75 - 77 45 14 15 71 - 72 71. 73 ' 4 2 'V$ 9 7 -6 87 19 -- 20 4i --- 5 6i 6 - 8 1 21 6 sn) 7 "tntiverpciiiidt:. sti re Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. 1 1 iu Sh. at par till ' 6 4 'Ardennes .......... • I3eigian EaAn. Juni , fleziers to Gra;ss , Bombay, Barodx, Central India,Seri Do. Demerara Dutch Rheniph Eastern of France Do. New 8a 8 par 2 P 7 —74 c 2 4} 4ii 11 - li 11 - :42 -42 i East Indian, g. 5 p. 23 - 23-, 221 - 23} Do. Eyt.ciiiinn D0.4ip.c.8nd5.,'57 Do. do. do.. '59. drt.. Gee'ong y Melbonine guar. 5 per c nt.. Do., Lon. allot., do. 10d. Tk of CanadaA it 11 9 el 14 —. le 'Do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till 'B. Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do, Gt. Central of Franc r Gt. Indian Peninsul Groat Luxembottr. Constituted Share- Do. Obli ga tiorv... ') , Do. re-is. forftd. Sh. Gt.W43Bternof Cana(' a Shares Do. New Do. ads., payahl e's 7, with option till '55.. Do. do., '52, p.'56... Do. do., '76, p. '60... Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toront^ Do. 6 por cent. Lake Cong.. tt Baal , Lime and Turnhout Lucca :ix Fist. 5 p. c.p Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Moditorm Madrap, guar. 4 i p.c Do. New 0., sp. c o. 4 p. c. Exten Maria Antonia . . Do. do. 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Bck. of India, A.ustralis, Sr Chin,. ...4 100 50 City 63 -. 65 100 25 Colrn , al 100 20 Commercial of Loud 20 411 Ping.S.cot.&.kuP.Cht. 15f 164 161 20 all Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 174 184 20 5 Oitto New 3 2ti 50 20 C•endon and Corm' • - •• • 33 1 3 > 1 100 50 Lmt. &E. Bnkg. Cm p. par 2p 50 10 London Joint Stock. . 100 10 London and Paris 4 -- 2 d 100 20 Loud. Sr Westmiustel 100 35 N'ational Pro.of Eng 20 10 Dn. New 50 22 lational of Ireland 20 a ll :f ew sc, u th Wales.... 41 43 1121 25 all Oriental Bank )f Corporatian 4l 43 20 5 Ottoman Bank lp6 5i 10€ 50 Royal 25 all zrnth A , istralia 25 all rJnion of Anstr dia 69 71 D.. 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At. - it. 1011 , O Prtii.2t,Dun.-ip.o. 69 - 71 20 all Forne•ts 3t. 1.(0 ?..7 ; tzt. W. (4.F. WO 14reat Nortlin. sp. c 116 tlB 116 St. 100 7)o, sp. a. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem. 108 - 110 St. 100 in. 41 p. - 103 103 126 76 Do. 5 P.C. Scrip, Red it 5 p. c. *0 al! It. N. of Scot. I .ligt, Pro 9i - 101 St. lOrt S. W. (Ireland' ... 20 11 Do. 4per C. Pny 50 6 -it. W.(S. t a.Eopc 6 - St. 100 - ) 0 . con. red. 4 p. c .,„ 95 - 97 St. 100 110, eon. red. 4p. a 88 - 90 Inn Do. irrea. 4p. C. 89 - 91 91 St. 400 Do. sp. c. red. prof 98 - 100 98 100 10 j all Do. do. do. 8 I all Do. Bina. Pref. - 10 :0 I all Do.Onester Bp. c.P.S l6 - 17} 10 all Do. do. sp. c. d 0... 10 - 101 St lit. Do. Bina. Gua. Stk 73 - 75 153 all Do. Ches. Gua. Sh l9t - 201 13 3 / 4 all Do. do do ...... 9/F - 10 lil al Do. do. do l4i - 154 1.6 no. &York. F. £2' - :t. 10: to. 6p. C. St.,ck 36 138 `,on. & Britth. (4.5 p, . - 11011 .10. Prof., 5 p. c. S. . q 110 0 ' l / 4 ). 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Cent. ,New Pr pm 55 all South Devon l4l - 151 15i .0 11 Do. fixed, 41 per cent all 'S. Eastern (Readin. Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 231 -9.3 i .1x per cont.... 98 - 100 t. 100 Do. Fixed 4i p e sh. 9 - 10 t. 100 S Wales Gna.4 p. a. 50 all . 4A P. a•-• !O all 'S,Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. jqtock./tl,)ar. , 5 p c. - 5 15 Do. do. ( 1 ') it - 2ip 21 all 'Stock. & l tart'. g. c. till July 1,'56 ..„ 6 4A Nll'ratelid.&Kilk. 6 pc , 2f - 2i i MINRS. 1 % VI tgar, •••.• . •,• ••• 1 all 1.m.-.0.0 Austria. Gold ••• IN Ang l o C a lifornian ..• - n 7 I knstrp Ii au 1 A 1 all kustralian Cordillera, 1 all I v o Mari - ••• 21010 all BB B li a .e3i d tna e is n lr : . G iir d roo . n D n. u .st. c . h .. y o..c o .a f . 0.; 14 35 261 11razilianImp.(isa n at C 5 pm.) - 31 33 30 all Do. Comes ST Cuia - LO ,15 Do, St. Johr Del Re• 25 - 27 1 ; Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica.....: k iP 40 all Cobre Copper ...... • 63 - 65 63 5 1 Colonial G01d....... ••• - ••; St.. all Copper Min. of En,., 30 - 3 ' l - 27 25 all Do. Prof. 74 p. oen 25 1€ rlopiapo l7 - 19 •2 14 Fortuna - id 20 all genual l4 -16 1 all Gt.NuggetVeinßoz• 4 - 41 all great l'ohrooth - 1 4 5 all Gt Wheal Vor United 1 d 1 all Liberty ' I 3 all Linares 7t d 7 11 5 11 Lnftitanian - 1 all Mariqui ta.. ...... A - t 1 all New Granada k 1 all Nrouvean Monde... • '0 al' Pontqi . Si) & Lo. Min ll 12 5 1 Port Philip all .),,nartz Rock - 50 all Rhytnney Iron 2l - 23 15 all Dn. New 6 - 8 30 134 aantiago clilhn. 2i 31 .Os. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 21 - 3 1 all •lonttw A ustral ian 1 all Do. Scrip I - 1 1 Do. 10 per cent Pref 40 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 21 21 10 9 N D croft „ 41 28, ill iJnit•ed Mexican . 3i - 4 1 all , Taller - # 1 all West Mariposa 12s Worthing Mining of nstralla f--;11 Vulrk , • ,• • • „ • MIzitIELLANEO I7 B. 25 19 Australian Agricult. 29 - 31 31 30i IC all kiis'a . aln. Royal Mail . - lv all Berlin Water Workr. b 4 - 64 'SO r 0 Hilt . American Land - -- 100 ; 1 2 Canada l4O -- 145 141 40 4 1. I , .0 c1.(40.ir.c.-Targy7nly 110 111.., 1114. St. 1 100 Do. 6p. c. Feb & Aug 1094 - 110: St. 100 Do. 6p.c. Mar Sept 1094 - 110 . 1 o a-• ;lysta' Pa iace 3 - 31 5 all Do. Preference 5l - 5 4 5 4 n 20 41 i 341 Eas tern rr cez t tt t r, ce : s s T TT al St eam ..., I lo a n : p : g f r a F s . r' o . i m e r 7 f; h u . o e 2 ••• ••• St s l . l a a oo l l i l 94 - 96 96 Tr. •• 5 all Gen. Iron Sc Collior 15 14 ° 4eu, Steata Navigat. *** .•• 18 L il l Loud.e iScrew 4Gen. Omnibus 3 31 31 2i.! 10 Magdalena St. N avig - • .. 10 all Nfediteran. Elec. T e l. .8 - 10 1 . 0 9 Aexicau&S.Americn. 6 5/ 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ..• 10 1 NTetherlands Land._ 1E 10 all Do. Do. - 41 4 5 2 Do.BpeP iss at 1 d in 2i 100 80 New B. & N.S. Land 18 -l2 1 all N. P. Australasian 4 _ /0 35 Nrth. EuropoStaam ... 131 1 all !)riontal Gas ll - ;4 1 2s. Do. "New Shares" 4 ip aall Peel Er. Ld. & n - 3 2 Pm 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 66} 6 50 10 Do. New - 131 14 100 60 `loyal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest - 11 1 Ditto New - $l3 25 all South Austrill.Land 37 39 al: Submar. Tel. Scrip - 1 0 al 1) • ile,rigtoreri „ 1 1 f , rristit , 1,. Co.U.Can PO I 2ii; Van Diet:nen'. 1./0 36 16 1... V.Go.6p.c.Jan&,,Tulv t.ss r • St. forapans. London It l West. L. &N. W. 'aledon... E. lin. & (4t.Nrt - E. Count. Caldonian. Cit. Westn Yk. New. /3erw. Y. & NM Do Do S. Easte e, Peto & Co Norfolk Do L.& N. Vir & KO& titekton & nrtrlingt. Midland.. En. Coun. Count. Do. ..... L.&N.W. Do.. Gt Northn [anemia& Yorksh. T. Brnssey M. Meitian Stockt. Oar lingt Ito (4tlV , 3stn. Business rester THE SUN; LONDON., TUESDAY EVENING MAY 6. 1856. THE MILITAIIY BOARD OF INQUIRY. (This Day.) ALARMING ILLNESS OF COL. TULLOCH. The Board re-assembled at the usual hour. The Judge-Advocate-General inquired of Dr. Balfour, Col. Tulloch's medical adviser, if he could inform the Court whether Col. Tullocla would be able to attend to day ? Dr. Balfour said that after leaving the Court yesterday Cal. Tulloch bad been obliged to have further medical advice, and be produced a certificate from Sir James C'arke and Dr. Martin stating that Col. Tulloch was suf fering so severely from illness, brought on by severe mental and bodily exertion and anxiety, that his attend ance before the Board was altogether impossible. Toe Board, having consulted for a few minutes, asked General Airey what ho proposed to do General Airey said that, whilst he expressed his sin cere regret at the indisposition of Col. Tulloch, he must say that his absence placed him (General Airey) is a position of great difficulty, because, after the adjourn ment of the Court yesterday, he compared the MS. minutes of Col. Gordon's evidence with that in the printed report, and had di , covered some serious omis sions, and he should hardly like to go into such a ques tion unless Col. Tulloch himself were present. Gen. Peel said that the absence of Col. Tulloch ought not to prevent the progress of the inquiry, since the Go vernment, in the appointing this Commission, did not anticipate the presence of the Commissioners before the Board. Gen. Airey submitted that if Col. Tulloch could not attend, Sir J. M'Neil, the other Commissioner, might be able to do SO 'I The Judge Advocate-General said that he understood Dr. Balfour to say, that he yesterday informed Sir J. M'Neil of the state of Col. Tulloch's health, so that that gentleman could have been present if he had pleased. A fter some further conversation Gen. Airey consented to pr , c-3ed. The Board again conferred for a short time, when The Judge-Advocate-General addressed Gen. Airey, saying that the Board had come to the conclusion, that if he (General Airey) intended to continue the course he pursued yesterday of impugning the conduct of the Com missioners in the preparation of their report that it would be improper to proceed without him. General Airey disclaimed all intention of impugning personally the conduct of the Commissioners, but at the same time said it would be impossible for him to con duct his case in any other way. The Judge-Advocate-General said that the Board thought his course of proceeding yesterday somewhat personal. General Airey disclaimed any personal feeling of hos tility against the Commissioners ; but it was impossible for him to conduct his case without impugning the cor rectness of the evidence as published. Alter some further conversation on the subject, Gen. Airey called Major Keane, of the Royal Engineers—He went to the Crimea to construct huts for the army, and under stood he was to have a certain number of Sappers to go out with him. That arrangement was not carried out, and he was unable to say why a Delays in con structing the huts arose from various causes— the difficulty of landing materials, the want of wharfage ground, and, after that, the want of transport of the materials to the camp. He though the statement in the Commissioners' report with refer ence to the difficulties attending the want of materials, and of providing shelter for the troops as well as the state of the men, not an exaggerated one. He thought canvass shelter could not have been constructed ade quately for the wants of the army in the Crimea. Can vass from a night's dew often shrunk so as to draw the tent pegs, add to have constructed canvass shelter for the horses elaborate framework would have been re quired. Canvass had been spsken of for its facility of transport, stnd to u.;ei it an extra quantity of scantling and spars would have been required, the difficulty of transport of which would more than have counter balanced the lightness of the canvass. In having to allow for the shrinking of canvass its stability was greatly endangered in stormy weather. Canvass shelter would not have answered in the Crimea. He ex plained the difficulties he had to encounter in getting men to assist in constructing shelter. The crews of the ships in harbour were fully employed in attending to their own duties. By the Judge-Advocate-General—He was ordered by the Adjutant-General to proceed to the Crimea, and Col. Mapson informed him he was to have a number of sap pers, who were carpenters, to go with him. They did not go, and he experienced great difficulties in the Crimea from the want of them. The horses could not have been sheltered by the erection of side walls from the want of stones,. General Airey then read a report from the Assistant engineer stationed at B daklava to show that no analogy existed between providing temporary shelter for the baggage animals of the sappers and miners there, and that kr the cavalry. Admiral Sir D. Dundee was next called, and examined by General Airey—He said that the fleet under his command in the Black' Sea was fully employed during that period. The fleet was divided into three divisions. He was before Sebastopol, Adiniral Lyons at Bala klava, and the other division at Eupatoria. He landed 2,400 seamen and 2,000 marines to assist the army. Every ship landed all the spare canvass and material she could spare. The spare set of sails on board each ship could certainly not have been sent ashore. Con sistently with the safety of the fleet, every man and all the spare canvass that could be spared were sent on chore during that portion of the winter of 1854 that he was in command of the fleet. Every man in the fleet readily and cheerfully did his utmost to assist the army. The gallant admiral was examined by the Judge-Ad vocate-General on the points Sir E. Lyons was examined by Colonel Tunnel, viz., the quantity of spare canvas on board different size Government vessels, and the difficulty of getting carpenters from Constantinople, to which he gave similar answers as Sir Edmund Lyons. Mr. Boyd, storekeeper at Balaklava, was examined by General Airey. He hail command of the quarter master-general's stores, and issued them under the direc tion of Mr. Archer, assistant-commissary-general. He described the state of the harbour from the over-crowd ing of vessels, and the stores lying about on the wharfs from the want of storehouses in which to deposit them. The bales and packages were frequently broken open in the morning, having been plundered during the night of their contents by the Maltese. Stores were issued as speedily as possible, and no objection was made to their issue from any irregularities in the orders. He often issued stores without orders. The quartermasters of regiments were daily at his stores, and saw what was there, and anything they required they had. During the winter when he had a supply of great coats, sheepskins, rugs, blankets, and o th er warm cloth ing, the men had a full supply. They preferred sheep skins to the great coats, and would not have rugs or itt n . onsffiyppc the ot r eareit till stores juMiln e, blankets. The w i t ness was examined into the details of his me de of issuin g th e stores to the army, and with regard to the issue o f th e b oots and shoes. He said the men were allowed t o fi t t h emselves. The general effect and impression of his ev id ence was that the army was at all times abund an tl y supplied with necessaries and had every comfort. In fa c t, th ey had only to ask and have. d g a e la t d ia v v o a ca o t n e - t G h e e n i e 2 ra th l— D ir ec e ., t a o n ok d continued charge •f E CoßmymiSssiir W.owen—He was not examined by the oners. R atJ Balaclava followi ng . T here was often want of transport t e o to convey the sti.res to th e camp. Captain of the Admiralty, in charge of the Transport Service attended, and was examined by the given to th e captains of the trans• have been injudicious on the part o f Judge Advocate - General as to th e t ransport contracts, andan ports.personts e u ilt suit o would f t instructionso l sails, a v etaken fro m th a transports their se• send taut instructions were issued to them to supply the army with all the sails and canvass they could spare. The terms of the contract did not require the transports to supply spare canvass to the army. The c h ar ter party required that a curtai n num b er of sails s hould be on boa r d each transport, and a G overnment offi Col. Chapm an, of the Ro yal Engi.neers, was exami ne d by General Airey , relative t o the evidence given by hi m before the C rimean Commissioners, in providing tempo ctehr inspected the vessels previeses t o th e i r sailing to see the were on board. rary shelter for the baggage mules at Balaklava, and ar t walls over which to stretch th e canvas. Such said, in provid in g that shelter, t hey had the advant age foafcdil"it.ies did not exist on the plateau. lie was of opi nion sailcloth would not have answered for shelter inn the t h e c avalry on the plateau without strong frame work on which to nail it. His evidence appeared to be correct in substance in the printed report, but he compared it with a copy he made of it before signing i t. He obtained his supplies regu!.arly, but he thought he did not get his issue of blanketem till the 10th Jan. Gen. Air , y, in the course of a co,sversation relative to the transports not delivering their cargoes on the wt arf at Balaklava, said he believed it arose from a defect in the contracts. In the usual contracts for a vessel to take a cargo to any given place, no provision was suede for landing, because plenty of labourers could be pro cured to do so, but in this instance it appeared not to have occurred to the persons who made the contracts that the cargoes were to be delivered where labourers were scarce. e-General, said he could not proceed further General Airey, in reply to an inquiry from the Judge- Advocate-General , or Sir J. l'N 1 as ho wished to examine one of them his evidence without the attendance of Col. Tulloch a 1. ei , attendancedofe C Ato T c u ate-General said it was not likely ' with h re he called more ll evi h dence. He should prefer the The Ju g - Sir W. Rowan said he did not think the Board could of the ' compel the attendance of either Commissioners. 1 \ it was arranged that the Court should Co.. Tulloch could attend again for at least a week. - Ultimately , cats with the Commissioners. They would then decide what course they would pursue. adjourn till Thursday, to enable the Board to comt..ani % The Court then adjourned till Thursday. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YEsTERDAy). The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. There WrtS an unusual atteniance of ladies i❑ the gal leries, and the space between the -throne and the wool sack wa3 also very much ern vded by the sons of peers. INDIA. The Earl of ALBEMARLE gave notice of his inten tion to move, of er the recess, for certain return: in reference to the salaries and pensions issued to the civil servants in the presidencies of Bombay and Madras. He also called attention to a report upon the practice of torture in connection with the Loom Tax in the Madras presidency. not clearly understand them, inasmuch as they were never clearly stated by her Majesty's Ministers—he denied that they were fully accomplished by this treaty. He should therefore advise their lordships to substitute an amend ment, and instead of "joy and satisfaction," he would omit that paragraph, and say— " We have learned that your Majesty has been enabled to re-establish peace on condi tions which have appeared to your Majesty and your allies adequately to effect the great objects of the war." Whether he should press that amendment to a division or not must depend on what should be the feelings he might per ceive to exist in the hou e in the course of the de bate. He had no wish to take a course hostile to her Majesty's Government, but a strong wish to re cord his own decided opinion. They were not met to discuss a question which depended upon the votes of the house, but they were invited by the Government to consider a treaty which they could not alter, but which her Majesty, by her own undoubted prerogative, had signed, with her foreign allies. Now, it was necessary for him to remind the house what were the objects of this war. He. would quote upon that subject the authority of her Majesty's Ministers. On the 24th February, 1854, the Foreign Secretary said, "It might be very desirable and very just to take from Russia, and to restore to the coun tries from which they were taken, various territories which Russia had taken from other countries ; it might be very just and desirable to make Russia pay for the cost of the war ; but it is impossible we shert!d take any resolution for any of these objects without knowing with what skill and success the war will bo conducted, or what will be the posi tion and circumstances of the Emperor of Russia at its conclusion." That was an evident truism ; but what he (the Earl of Mslmeabury) hail to remark upon it was, that, in accordance with the observations of the Foreign Secretary, this treaty hail been framed in consequence of events of the war which, to say the least of them, were very unfavourable to the allies and to ourselves. The noble earl (the Foreign Secretary) at the same time said that it was intended "to check the aggressive power of Russia, and to take solid guarantees that Europe should not again be deprived of the great blessings of peace." He (the Earl of Malmesbury) would prove that such guaran tees were not given by the document now presented to the house. On the 31st March, 1.354, the Foreign Secretary said, " I trust that, at the conclusion of this contest, we shall find Austria and Prussia by our side in the establish ment of peace on a solid and secure foundation, but that peace will neither be solid nor secure unless the territorial extension and immoderate influence of Russia are repressed for ever." It would be for him (the Earl of Malmesbury) to show that this had not been done. Lord J. Russell, on the 12th December, 1854, said, " I believe no peace will be safe for Turkey or honourable to this country which left Sebastopol in the same menacing position in which it bas of late years been." (Cheers. He understood that cheer, but he would show that, if not literally, Sebastopol had politi cally been left in the same poeitiou as before the war. Lord Palmerston said on the 19th Dec., 1854, "It would not be for the interest or honour of this country to end this great war with small and ineffectual results; we ought to have a result adequate to the sacrifices we had made." Now he (the noble earl) would consider what this treaty was and how far those results had been obtained. The first _wo articles, the preamble, were followed by two very im portant articles. In the first line of them was mentioned "the citadel of Kars." He (the Earl of 51altnesbury) bed been taunted in another place by the Prime Minister with having shrunk from bringing forward that subject, because he was afraid of being defeated on it. But it was for the convenience of their lordships, and the propriety of de bate, he had been obliged to withdraw his notice of Friday last, since the treaty was to be discussed this evening. He did not wish to avoid the debate, for he thought it the duty of the Opposition, when they thought Go vernment were in the wrong, to point it out, without reference to the numbers of a division. (Cheers.) Now the third article of this treaty said that the Emperor of Rus sia agreed " to restore to the Sultan the town and citadel of Kars and other parts of the Ottoman empire of which the Russian troops are in possession." Ou the other hand, her Majesty and the allies agreed to restore the towns and ports of Sebastopol, B alaklava, Eupatoria, Kertch, Yeni kale, Kinbourn, and others. Could any one, with common understanding, say that Kars was an equivalent for all these ? Sebastopol, the scene of all our disasters and of all our glories, of our hopes and disappointments, our misfor tunes and victories, the goal for which wo had contended for nearly two years, was to be exchanged for Kars ! Would anybody say then that the loss of Kars had not in fluenced these negotiations? The very juxtaposition of these two articles proved that it had done so; and it appeared ' that the noble lord now on the woolsack, the second plenipotentiary ( Lord Cowley) had protested against their juxtaposition, but that his protest was repressed ; and so it remained, to show that tho belligerent powers made an exchange. Tho treaty said that Russia was to have "no maritime military arsenals" on the Black Sea— hut there was no definition or explanation of that term. It was to be inferred that there were to be no docks where men-of-war could be built and armed. Bat the treaty would not prevent Russia from keeping up the northern forts of Sebastopol in all their impregnable strength—from girding the neighbouring hills with ramparts, and raising the Malakhoff again. so that it never could ne wrested flow Russia any snore. (Hear.) lie assumed that those fortresses might be rebuilt ; else, let the noble earl the Foreign Se cretary say they might not. Sebastopol was not all we gave in exchange for Kars, but also Belaklava, Kamiesh, which the French had fortified, Kertch, Eupatoria, and other places, which the allies had strengthened giatiifor Russia. Aud what became of those forts along the Circassian coast which the Russians had been obliged to abandon, giving liberty at length to the noble Circassian race ? The Prime Minister had stated that Russia was to resume them, and might rebuild or garrison them. In plain English, then, we had deserted the Circassians. (Hear.) We had left them to a dreadful and certain fate, after having sought their assistance and to a great extent benefitted by it. (" Hear, hear," from Lord Panmure ) Notwithstanding that cheer of the noble lord the Secretary for War—who surely was not the best authority about hostilities in Asia Minor—(a laugh) —the allies had benefited by the assistance of the Circassians ; for in 1854, when the Russian general had gained two victories over the Turks, and was entering Anatolia, it was the inroad made by Schamyl in the direc tion of Tiflis that obliged bine to retreat. No wonder our Ministers had deserted the Circassians if they had already forgotten what that bravo people (lid for us. (Cheers ) But if the Circassians had not been able or willing to assist us, as we wished, what was the cause of their backwardness ? How could we be excused for abandon ing their interest in the treaty after having excited them to aid us in the war ? Lord Palmeiston said, on the 26th June, 1855, that "there were no relations existing between her Majesty's Government and the Circassian chiefs, except those arising out of their co-operation in the attack on Anapa." No, but Schamyl had saved our allies, the Turks, from an invasion. (Cheers.) It appeared, too, from the answer given by Lord Palmerston to Mr. Baillie's question, that Col. Lloyd had been employed, at a salary of 2,0001. a year, to go into Circassia, to open communications with that people, and ascertain on what terms and to what extent their assistance could be obtained. Was not that asking them to join us as our allies ? And yet, b:!cause we had forgotten the advantage they gave us, and because the assistance they could render us did not come up to what we had expected, very much in consequence of the blunders of our own administration, their interests were now to be abandoned. The noble earl, the Foreign Secretary, was de feated when he attempted to protest against the restoration of those forts. The noble earl would stand in history here after in the category of those politicians who had deserted the cause of a country's liberty, when they had an opportunity of defendin g Ho knew the generous spirit of the noble earl, and could not believe but that it had been his wish and desire to save the Circassian people from perdition ; but he must have been overruled by cir cumstances which perhaps he would not dare to tell. Well, great stress would be laid on the neutralisation of the Black Sea. He confessed that, as he said when the - Vienna con ferences were going on, he thought the most desirable man ner of settling the question was the neutralisation of the Black Sea, and making it a purely commercial sea. (Cheers.) But were we quite safe in the agreement we had made about this ? Was there no arriere-pensje in these negoti ations? He was not entirely satisfied with the answers given to the noble earl in the conferences. It was clear that Turkey and Russia were respectively to maintain only six ships of war, of a certain size, in the Black Sea. The Russian plenipotentiaries then claimed groat credit for making what they called a concession. But it was not a concession made on their side alone. The Turks, who had a right to navigate that sea, made an equal concession, and therefore Russia could not claim any praise for that. The noble earl's suspicions appeared to have been roused on a subject of vast importance, and he asked whether the transports which Russia might build, and retain ad libitum, were to be armed ? He did not wonder at the jealousy of his noble friend, but he should like to know bow that matter was settled, for Count Orloff answered that the transports in the Black Sea would be furnished with armaments suit able to the occasion. Lord Clarendon, said the protocol, VMS not satisfied with that answer, and requested an ad journment of the question, which adjournment must have been sine die, for the matter did not appear to have been alluded to again in the protocols. Ho should like to know from his noble friend how the matter ended, for if those transports which Russia was to be allowed to have ad libitum., were to lie in Sebastopol, and be furnished with suitable armaments, which might mean one gun or fifty, accordingla as the ships were of 100 or 1,000 tons, they might isle from Sebastopol and lattice a descent on any part of the Turkish coast. He (Lord Malmesbury) could not say that the objects of the war were accompli hed if Sebastopol was to be made as strong as ever, and a fleet of transports was to be maintained by i Russia sufficiently armed to defend any troops they might carry. , It was impossible for him to say that the objects of the treaty were accomplished, unless this question was settled. Then there was another question with regard to which the Russian plenipotentiaries seem to have been ex ceedingly expert. His noble friend asked a question with regard to Nicolaieff, and it was answered that Nicolaieff not being in the Black Sea, but a long way up a Russian river, its maritime and military arsenals might be retained, but still as a great favour to his noble friend, Count Or loff promised that no larger ships than those agreed on should be built there, and stated that he was ready to send two line-of-battle ships which were there down through the Bosphorus to the Baltic. His noble friend asked that that promise should be entered on the pro tocol. Was it so entered? As far as it went it was satis factory, for no doubt Count Orloff was a man of honour and meant what he said, and he said what his master meant. But it was no insult even to an Emperor when the fate of nations was at stake, to ask that the treaty should contain a solid guarantee for the performance of the pro mise. He did not want to rake up old grievances, and as we wore now at peace with Russia, he did not wish to say a word calculated to mako any Russian think that he did not rejoice at our being at peace with that country ; for he did rejoice. But there had been public events which ought to have acted as warnings to the noble earl to have obtained something more solid than a promise from Count Orloff, who was but mortal and whose mas ter was only mortal also. He would quote from the work of Sir John M`Neill, on the Progress of Russia in the East, what occurred in 1814.—(The noble earl then read an extract from the work in question, which pointed out the proceedings of the Russian general in the war with Persia, in which be agreed to certain terms with regard' to the restoration to Persia of territory which had been taken in the course of the war, and which was made the basis of a treaty, to which the British minister at Teheran, confiding in the good faith of Russia, assented. Nevertheless, Lord Cathcart, then ambassador at St. Petersburg, pressed in vain on the Emperor to fulfil the pledge given in the treaty, but was unable to obtain the re storationd faith o f c G o o f n o t e o e f r o l o o f f t of or g t r h o e u E ra to l .1) eroer, d b i c u t t n i o f t t h d o o T u b b o t t t h h p e a g s o s o e away from this earthly scene, there was net a line in the treaty to prevent the building of any ships at Nicolaieff, or to prevent them being brought down into the Black Sea. If, therefore, the object of the war was completely to prevent Russia from attempts in future of thatnature which we went to war to prevent, it should have been declared that Nice laieff should no longer be an arsenal, and the fortress of Se bastopol entirely rased and kept down. There was one part of the treaty which was most important, but to which he was almost afraid to draw their lordships' attention, for it would be difficult to explain his meaning unless they had maps, Oneof the cessions made by Russia was that of partof Bessarabia. The house would recollect that when Austria proposed a basis for negotiation, a lino was drawn which divided Bessarabia into two parts, from Kichenau in the north-west to the Seleyk Lake on the borders of the Black Sea. The length of the district was about 250 miles, and the lino as nearly as possible bisected Bessarabia. But when this question was discussed at the conferences in Paris, to his great surprise he found that the Russian plenipoten tiaries suggested the ceding of something like a fourth of the quantity of territory which Austria promised should be given back to Turkey. That was of course at once stifled ; but, to cut the matt er s h or t, C oun t W a lewski, al though he could not consent to the sacrifice asked of the allies by the proposition of Baron Brunow, said there was such a thing as a principle of compensation, and if Russia gave up some other part of Bessarabia for what was kept back, as proposed, the proposition would be ac ceded to. What did their lordships suppose was the come pensation that was given in return for all that was con ceded ? It bore the same proportion to the whole as his (Lord Malmesbury's) thumb nail did to the whole of his arm. That was about the proportion which the territory Russia proposed to give up bore to the whole of that which had been agreed to by Russia when proposed by Austria. In fact, we had given her back a li ne o f t err it ory 250 m il es i n length and 40 or 50 wide ; but it was one of essential con sequence, for the line as proposed by Austria gave Turkey both banks of the Danube; it gave to the Bessarabians belonging to Turkey a passage through Austria, and it passed by the Russian magazines at Kichenau, which were driven back upon the Dniester. All that was given up in exchange for a line of half the distance which gave up one of the two banks of the Danube and the Pruth, and left some 120 miles of the Pruth, belonging half to Russia and half to Turkey. There must have been some very strong reasons for such a change in the distribution of territory as that. Why was this important boundary barrier against Russian aggression lost to the allies ? Rumours wore rife that the Russian plenipotentiaries asserted that we were not in the position then that we were when Austria made her propositions, for they had now got Kars, the key of Anatolia, and had one foot in Asia Minor, and if over we were to have attempted to take it again it would have cost us as much trouble as it did to take Sebastopol. They were aware of the advantages of the position they had gained, and had a right therefore to better terms. It was hinted at in the protocols that the restoration of Kars must be considered in the negotiations when the question of the frontier came on. It appeared that his noble friend gave way, and he obtained exactly half of what had been promised by the French and Austrian Governments when the original propositions were laid before the English Ca binet, and yet he (Lord Malinesbury) was asked to assent to an expression of joy and satisfaction, and to say that such a result fulfilled all the objects of the war. He was afraid the objects of the war were not considered at Paris, but the objects of the peace. His noble friend seemed to have forgotten that ono of the main objects of the war was the possession of Bessa rabia. In plain English, what the first article meant was, " Here is Kars, what will you give us for it ?" It was a fashion lately with the Government and their supporters to say that Kars was of very little consequence, and had no weight in the operations of the war. When one road the protocols and the result of the negotiations it was im possible not to see that there was some pressure which obliged the noble earl and the other plenipotentiaries of the allies to give up points to which it was inteuded to keep. He would not go into the gossip which had circa kited iu this country on the subject, but he would say what he believed was the advantage Russia had, and that was that having got Kars it lot us part of Bessarabia, and we in consequence of that circumstance gave up every advantage which might otherwise have been miintained. He was not about to go into the whole question of the campaign of Kars, but would confine himself to the loss of that city, which he charged to the want of fore sight and neglect by the Government, and he would maintain that the loss of Kars had prevented the attainment of such a treaty as this c tuntry wished, and which he knew his noble friend wished to carry out. The campai g n which ended with the loss of that city mi g ht b e divided into two epochs—the first was the 10 months from the time at which Gen. Williams was first sent out and that at which he left Erzeroum to go and defend Kars, during any part of which Kars ought to have been saved, not by sending an army there, for that was not necessary, or by sending any English troops or contingents, but by sending provisions amid ammunition. What he would say would be borne out by General Williams himself, for he had said as much in his despatches, and by Dr. Sandwith, who had said as much in his book. He would not encumber the question now with the second epoch, when Kars was invested and when it would have been necessary to have relieved it by weans of an army; but he would confine him self to the period when it only needed provisions and am munition, and when there were good soldiers well command ed within its walls. At the that) when he (Lord M shnesbury) saw that war was inevitable he asked himself who was to conduct this great war for this country. That great wan who used to occupy that chair (pointing to the place generally occupied in his latter d a y s by th e Duke of Wel lington) was no more, and he left no successor. It was only to Providence they could trust to raise up a statesman and a general to direct the country in this great calamity. He did not think that it had pleased the Almighty to favour the country with such a blessing. Looking to the immense extent likely to be covered by the war, from Finland to Asia Minor, he could not say that the Government had been able to bring it all within their view. From the first Asia Minor was neglected, and our efforts were en tirely directed to other psrts. He did not say this was wrong—he was no soldier, and could not venture on an opi nion on military strategy ; but still he thought the Govern ment held Asia Minor too cheap. It might have been a pen dant to the operations in the Crimea, and if that had been done in time Kars would have been saved. Warnings on that point were not wanting, for in the war of 1829, which was followed by the treaty of Adrianople, it was far more the victories of Diebitsch in Asia Minor than those of the Russians in European Turkey which gave him the advantages he obtained Early in 1851 attention was directed to that part of the question by a noble friend of his (Lord Ellenborough), who urged the necessity of a cam paign in Asia ; but it was not until after the Turks had been defeated, and on the 2d of August in that year, that his noble friend (Lord Clarendon) sent out an agent who was certainly well chosen—Gen. Williams—to Asia MMor. After opening corumnnications with Lord Stratford and Lord Raglan, Gen. Williams went to Erzeroum, where he examinee into the state of the Turkish army, and then he went on to Kars, and proceeded to put the town into a bettor state of defence than had been done oven by Gen. Guyon and the other officers with him in the previous sifting. On the 2d August, 1854, his noble friend directed Lord Stratford to send General Williams to the Turkish army as commissioner of the Queen. Lord Stratford wrote an answer on the Isth, stating that he apprehended there would be no difficulty in making the necessary arrangements for sending General Williams properly authorised ; but on the 3d of October, six weeks afterwards, he wrote that " Reechid Pacha had requested to be informed officially of the name of the Queen's commissioner." So that six weeks after he had received his noble friend's letter Reschid Pacha, the Prime Minister, or the Vizier of the Sultan, did not know the name of the Queen's commissioner. In the meantime Gen. Williamshad gone on to Erzeroum. He was well re ceived. His scarlet uniform had secured him a good re ception. But when ho began to meddle with the affairs of the Turkish army he was asked to show his authority, and lie had none to show. It was most extraordinary that on the 3d December, he had still no authority, and it was said by the Turkish generals that he was a mere colonel, without any special character. During this time Kars and Anatolia might have been victualled. On the 2d of September his noble friend had written, stating that it was desirable that General Williams should be given high rank in the Turkish army. That was asked for by Lord Stratford on the 15th of November, or soveu weeks after the date of Lord Clarendon's letter. Delays continued. M. Pisani went repeatedly to the Porto ask ing for this authority, and he was told that it had been sent; but General Williams. in a letter, stated that he had received an such authority, and that he could do no thing ; if ho had it he could do anything, but yet he 'sever obtained any authority till the 23d of January, 1855. Tho third authority that General Williams asked was to be made director of supplies, for on that hinged the safety of Kars. He asked, on the 29th of January, Lord Stratford to obtain it for him. Lord Stratford did not do se, but he lost four or five weeks by referring the application to the Foreign-office. Of course, by return of post the noble earl wrote to say that he was to get the office for General Williams if he could. By the time that letter was re ceived the 20th of March had arrived, and then General Williams again complained that he had not got the autho rity in question, and that he might do anything if he had it. Nothing, however, was done, and he was never made director of supplies, and was left entirely to his own energy and resources. April passed away, and on the 10th May there was only °Lie week's provisions in Kane. The English officers at Kars wrote to Gen. Williams, at Erze roam, for provisions. The Russians were then within a month's march of Kars; for it was on the 9th of June that the place war invested. Gen. Williams was still at Erze roum, and not having obtained the necessary authority, he could send no provisions; but seeing that the Russians awe advancing upon Kars, he left Erzerontn in what he described as an isolated position. Nevertheless, he took the matter into his own hands, and got supplies into Kars by the exercise of that wouderful energy which was de scribed by Dr. Sand with. Four months' provisions were got into Kars, and by that means Kars was for the time saved as well as Erzeroum and Anatolia, and probably the whole of Asia Minor. For if the Russians had attacked Kars only a week sooner it would have fallen, and they would have had the whole summer to march upon the Bosphorus. Those were not his (Lord Malmesbury's) sentiments alone. Let the house listen to what Dr. Sandwith said.—(The noble earl then read an extract from the work of Dr. Sandwith, in which he described the great exertions made by Gen. Williams to obtain supplies, and the lamentable condition to which the garrison was reduced.) How the food was economised their lordships knew, and that the garrison, officers, and men, were reduced to eat dogs. No wen came out of this war with such a reputation as Gon. Williams. Ho was not eloquent enough to do justice to his merits; he would only say that his name was engr i tr o n f in the history of his country. When he Malmesbury) made this accusation against the th a n e s " o fi li e g a e r d l (Clarendon) and against his ambassador, to do when he read this book, their lordshaisp w (The noble lie w ould expect him to quote some extracts to bear him t " c omplaining of earl then read Colonel William want of support in the duties be wa'ss plegrrsming,insufficient authority, absence of supplies in money, food, and ammuni tion, and of the neglect of Lord Stratford in in not answering for any man accus tomed communications.) It was impossible torned to the amenities of civilised life to understand the reason of this extraordinary neglect on the part of the am bassador, and the re could be two men only in the world who could ex-plain the cause—viz., Lord Stratford himself and th e noble lord opposite. lie would make no guesses a t it, but leave it to the noble lord himself to explain. It was clear Lord Stratford was open to blame ; and as according t o his constitu tional view the arnbessador was responsible to the Foreign Minister, and the Foreign Minister bad not recalled him, the noble lord (Clarendon) was responsible to Parliament. The whole Cabinet must have concurred in the despatch of the noble earl's blaming Lord Stratford ; nevertheless, Lord Palmerston, so late as May 3, in the House of Commons, defended Lord Stratford, declaring that ho was ready to take his share of the responsibility that might attach to those who had not thought fit to re call him. He (the Earl of Mahnesbury) had withdrawn his motion the other night in reference to the fall of Kars, and of course tie present was not the time or the place to move one like it ; but his impression wile, if any thing, stronger than before, that the Government were Most blameable for not having attended to the position of Asia Minor, and the importance of defending the Turkish possessions there. But their conduct had been marked by vacillation throughout, and that vacillation was crowned when they saw the Foreign Minister writing a despatch condemnatory of any ambassador, and the Prime Minister getting up in the House of Commons and completely exo aerating the seine person. He would not further (let: in their lordships but to congratulate them upon the peace, which, however, ho was happy to say, found England stronger than she was when she began the war. He thought the terms of the address as proposed were exaggerated, and not such as their lordships could justly concur in; but THE IRISH MILITIA. The Earl of CLANCARTY expressed a wish that the noble lord at the head of the War Department would give ample notice of his intention, if he bad such, to disembody the Irish militia. Lord PANM.T.TRE said it was the intention of the Go vernment to commence the di-embodiment of the Iri h Militia as soon as it was possible. It was quite evident that the Government were bound to take such a step in regard to the interests of the public service of the coun try. He proposed to proceed with the disembodi ment as cautiously as possible, so as to occasion as little inconvenience as pos,ible, and sr. 1,4 Tie to throw any great body of unemployed men at once upon the country THE TREATY OF PEACE. The Earl of ELLESMERE then rose to submit tilt following resolutions to the consideration of - the house : " That an humble address be presented to her Ma jesty, to return to her Majesty the sincere acknowledg ments of that house for the important communication which her Majesty has been graciously pleased to make to that house, of the general treaty concluded at Paris, on the 30th of March, between her Majesty, the Em peror of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Russia, the King of Sardi nia, and the Sultan, by which peace has been re-esta blished between her Majesty, the Emperor of the French, the King of Sardinia, awl the Sultan, on the one hand, and the Emperor of Russia on the other. " To assure her Majesty that while we should have deemed it our duty cheerfully to aff )rd her Majesty the fullest support, if it had unfortunately been found neces sary to continue the war, we have learned with joy and satisfaction that her Majesty has been enabled to re establish peace on conditions honourable to her Ma jesty's Crown, and which so fully accomplishes the great object for which the war was undertaken: "To express to her Majesty the great satisfaction which we feel, that while those alliances which have so mainly contributed to the vigorous and succ:ssful prosecution of the war have been equally effective in the consolidation of peace, the powers which have not taken any active part in the war have combined with the belligerents, and have given by their sanction and accession additional firmness to the arrangements by which the repose of Europe is in futuas to be protected from disturbance. "To state to her Majesty we rejoice that, notwith standing the great exertions which the late war has ren dered necessary, the resources of the empire have remained unimpaired. " To express a hope that the peace which is now con cluded may, under the favour of Divine Providence, long continue to shed its blessings over Europe, and that harmony amongst Government, and friendly intercourse amongst nations, may steadily promote the progress of civilisation, and secure the welfare and happiness of mankind." The noble earl having briefly noticed the main incidents of the war, proceeded to contend that the Treaty came fairly up to the mark of the objects for which we went ta war, and that it fulfilled everything which they had a reason to expect. By a steady adherence and con curre❑ce with our faithful ally —by firmness without menaces, by conciliation without weakness, by the demonstration of great strength with out its actual application, he believed we had arrived at a result which ought to be considered satisfactory to the Parliament and the country. It was the practice of some of our public writers to find fault with the terms of the treaty. He could not see any ground for such an impression, although it had been said that England hail been made the dupe of more subtle statesmen of other countries than his noble friend the Secretary of Foreign Affairs was. He could see nothing in the terms of the document to justify any sun sentiment, nor was there any evidence of any attempt having been made to impose upon the unsus pecting innocence of his noble friend. The noble earl then proceeded to allude to the manner in which the Emperor Alexander hal acted with respect to the pia - sent treaty. When the name of Count Orloff was first mentioned as about to take a part in the negotia tions for peace, he believed that those best acquainted with men and things at St. Petersburg drew a favour able augury from it. It was in itself a favourable inti mation of the character and intentions of the Czar, who, from no fault of his own, found the dawn of Lis reign artoe— " Not in the sunshine or the smile of Heaven, But wrapt in whirlwinds and begirt with woes." He hoped that he might live to repair by the arts of peace the ravages of war in his vast eominions, and he hailed the prospect that Russia, under his able and strong hand, might yet present a spectacle which Eu rope could look on without jealousy and alarm, but with sympathy and satisfaction ; and he trusted that the exertions of that sovereign would now be di rected to the development of the internal resources of his dominions. With respect to our Indian possessions we had nothing to fear from Russia, for if anything in that direction was ever attempted it would be-met with a power and resistance such as never before had been known. The noble earl then, with evident emotion, passed a glowing eulogium upon Miss Nightingale and the late Lord Raglan, and having apologised for wandering from the subject of the motion, concluded by moving tee above resolutions. Lord GLENELG, in seconding the motion, said he joined with his noble friend in expressing his delight that the period had arrived when they 0041 thank her Majesty for the communication of this treaty. He was one of those who two years ago cordially approved of the declaration of war, and he rejoiced to be among the foremost to welcome the return to peace. There were some evils which were greater than the evils of war, and great as were the blessings cf peace, there were other blessings still greater. The question was whether, ge nerally speaking, the objects of the war bed been satis fied, and whether this treaty fulfilled the objects of the war. If they looked to the state of Europe two years ago, and to its state at this moment, they would find grounds sufficient to congratulate her Majesty that the objects of the war had been satisfied honourably, and yet without contempt of the rights and feelings of other nations. (Hear.) Lo .king at Europe two years ago Russia possessed a preponderating influence over a great portion of it. Germany felt the weight of that influence, and there was not a state on the continent that did nut more or less feel it. Russia was gradually absorbing Sweden ; the Principalities were in her grasp ; the Bal tic was covered with her fleet ; the Black Sea was bor dered with her fortresses. Turkey was already con demned by the sentence which her power enabled her to pronounce. That was the state of Europe at that pe riod ; but what was its state now ? Turkey was awa kened from her trance, and indicated the possession of life and vigour ; the Principalities were rescued ; the Danube was free ; the Euxine was free ; the Ottoman empire was free. But there was more than this. The conspicuous characteristic of this treaty was the modera tion of the two belligerents who commenced the war. When the war commenced, France and England an nounced to the world that they had no desire of aggran disement. There were some nations who were disposed to regard that declaration with scepticism, because such declarations had beforetime been the prelude to conquest and spoliation ; but on this occasion that pledge had been honestly redeemed, and he said that that feature was the most satisfactory characteristic of the treaty. But there was incorporated in that treaty a most impor tant document, by which the Sultan had guaranteed civil and religious freedom to Christians in Turkey. For the first time the Sultan had recognised the rights of conscience and the rights of man. All honour and praise were due to him ; and honour and praise were due to that eminent man by whose exertions and unwearied efforts, in a great measure, this object had been accom plished—he meant Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. He thought also that great honour was due to those sove reigns of Europe who had ratified the treaty, and thus given their assent to the principles and the policy on which it was founded, who had thus introduced Tun key into the system of European policy. He ventured to say that this was a treaty that must command the approba tion of their lordships and the country. The Earl of MALXIESBURY said he had thought the house would have heard something more about the provi sions of the treaty which they were invited to discuss. The two noble lords had made very eloquent speeches; but with out any discourtesy to them, ho might ask whether the house knew any more of the treaty now than before those speeches were made? He should be unwilling to make any severe remarks on this occasion, but ho could not help ob serving that her Majesty's Government would have acted with more fairness, and More in conformity with the cus tom of Parliament, if at the time, or immediately after the time when they laid this treaty on the table, they had also laid upon the table the address which they intended to move. It was not till Frida y evening that he, (Lord Malmesbury) got a copy of that add ress , so t h at if h e had wished to move any amendment to it with effect, and with the support of the whole body of his party, it would have been impossible for him to do so. It might certainly have so happened that the rea son for that delay was that the address was framed in a manner perfectly unexceptional, that it was what his friend Baron Brunow used to call erne adresse inodore, perfectly devoid of salt or savour, and which could nob be objected to by any party. But such was not the case, and he was sorry to say that h er Majesty's Mi n i s t ers , carr i e d away by the feeling of the moment, had made use of lan guage so exaggerated that he for one could not concur in the wording of the address. Her Majesty's Ministers had instructed the noble earl who began the conversation to night to recommend the house to assure her Majesty that they "had learned with joy and satisfaction that her Ma jesty had been enabled to conclude peace on conditions honourable to her Majesty's cro ac, and which fully accern plished the great objects for which the war was undertaken." Now, he could not concur in that. He believed the noble earl who moved the add ress, and who was en elegant writer, would, if the address had been also written by him have made the " joy" the climax to the " satisfaction," instead of allowing the "satisfaction" to come after the " joy." But waiving such criticisms, he could not agree in using these words, for he thought the treaty was not such described; and farther, as would w fa o r u a l w as he he a u r r u a d n e t r s t t h o o othe feelings jteheetof the war —for he d as it seemed to be the wish of the house to pass i 1 kedia not intend to offer any opposition. The Earl of CLARENDON—My lords, before I proceeel to offer some observations upon the strong and unmitigated censure which the noble lord has thought proper to cast upon me iu the course of that speech which, he said, it was his duty to make, in order to brinifto the knowledge of the country that which they might well have already known I will take the liberty of expressing my satisfaction and gratitude at the able and eloquent speeches we have heard from my two noble friends, the mover and seconder of the address. (Hear.) It is most satisfactory to me that two noble lords who considered that the war in which we were engaged was a wise, just, and righteous war, and who were second to none in advocating the vigorous prosecution of that war in order that we might arrive at an honourabl e peace, and who considered that no peace would be honour able that did not fulfil the objects of the war, it was most satisfactory to me to have those two noble lords asking your lordships to concur in an address approving of the tteaty of Paris, and thereby implying that the pease has been concluded on honourable terms. (Hear.) My lords, I am most grateful to those noble lords for the opiuions— opinions far too favourablte—which they have expressed towards myself, as to the manner iu which I have per formed the duty with which her Majesty was pleased to entrust me, in conducting the negotiations as one of the plenipotentiaries on behalf of this country. (Hear.) But, my lords, I must be permitted to take the earliest opportunity of saying that any commendations that may be awarded to me for the part I took at the Conferences apply equally to my noble friend and colleague her Ma jesty's ambassador at Paris. (Hear.) And in consequence of what fell from the noble lord opposite, who said that my noble friend Lord Cowley was not seen ii the proto cols, and that I had completely superseded him— The Earl of MALMESBURY—I said my noble friend's name was immediately superseded after he made the excel lent observation as to the juxta-position of the two arti cles. No one knows better how to appreciate my noble friend's (Lord Cowley's) diplomatic services than I do, and I hope always, both in public and in private, to bear testi mony to their value. (Cheers.) The Earl of CLARENDON was glad to hear the noble earl's explanation. It was certainly true that his noble friend's name appeared in the protocols less frequently than his own, but that was on account of his official position, which gave him the precedence ; but he could say that he had, throughout the negotiations, received from his noble friend's experience the greatest aid and support. He was also anxious to relieve the noble earl's mind from the idea that the fall of Kars had a prejudicial effect on the negotia tions. That misapprehension seemed to be so strongly im pressed on the mind of the noble earl, that he (the Earl of Clarendon) supposed that his information was, notwith standing the secrecy of the Conferences, so confirmatory, that he had made it the subject of a motion in their lordships' house, but which, warned by the impending defeat of a similar motion in another place, he had pru dently withdrawn. It was true that Kars was alluded to by the Russian representatives as an important event which gave them some title to a favourable consideration iu the negotiations ; but, at the same time, Count Orloff said that the conditions of peace having been agreed to at Vienna, after that event became known, they should be honourably fulfilled. At the first meeting of the Pleni potentiaries it was agreed that the protocols should con tain decisions and such opinions as would elucidate them, but that everything calculated to wound naSional suscepti bilities, in case of peace being agreed to, .should be ex cluded from them. If the noble lord would have the good , ness to look at the conditions agreed to at Vienna, and compare them with the treaty, he would find that the'fall of Kars in no way influenced the negotiations. whey had not originated with the plenipotentiaries, but heed been proposed to them, and they were determined not to , accept less, but they could not in honour demand more. He would appeal to their lordships whether these conditions h eel not been expressed in clear and binding language ? Such baing the case, he regretted that the noble earl opposite sh onld have brought forward the subject on that evening, but he (the Earl of Clarendon) himself was in some manner to blame, as be had been the cause of the noble earl's caw -st ing that speech so long about with him. (Laughter.) Co 1. Williams, if he had been an ordinary man, would have con fined himself to his instructions, which were to report on occurrences, for he bad not been sent out with a mili tary coin wand. But Col. Williams was not an ordinary man, and he therefore exceeded his instructions, and took upon himself an authority with which he had not Leen in vested, in order to carry out those objects which he thought necessary. It was quite true that in the early months he did not receive from our ambassador at the Porte that as sistance which it was desirable that he should have received. That was a great error on the part of Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, but it was most unjust to assume that, because he did not reply to Col. Williams's letters, he did nothing else. He had several other matters of great importance to attend to, and, considering the political intrigues against which he had to contend, he was deserving of credit for having done so much, rather than condemnation for zot having done everything. (Hoar, hear.) With regard So the pi °piety of recalling him, such an act would have been most imprudent ; it would not have saved Ears, while it would have deprived the Government of the services of the only competent man they could get to occupy the positiotm)f their ambassador at Constantinople. The Go vernment had strongly disapproved of the conduct of Lord. Stratford de Redcliffe for neglecting Col. Williams. But whatever might have been the failings of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, they proceeded from the indomitable nature of his character, and his worst enemies would admit that his experience of the country—his energy— his talents— aud the influence he had gained during a long and hon ourable career in the East—had been always used for the good of Turkey. It was to .his experience that they wore indebted for that Hatti-Scheriff which constituted the Magna Charts of the Christian subjects in Turkey— a do• current which put an end to religious domination in that country, and which would have the effect of bringing to. gether all ranks and classes, and cause a greater intercourse bAween Turks and Christians, which wits one of the ob jects of the war. Such, however, as Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was, it was to the noble lord opposite that he was indebted for a seat in their lordships' house ; but since he (Lord Clarendon) came down to the house, he understood that Lord Stratford de Radcliffe had some reason to cora ' plain of the noble earl, who had been at one time not in disposed to recall Lord Cowley, and send him (Lord Strat ford do Radcliffe) to Paris. to promote the harmony and cement the alliance with France. The Earl of MALMES.BURY never heard of such a proposition before. The Earl of CLARENDON would then say no more on that subject. He was not now prepared to follow the noble earl through all the topics on which he had touched, but he would ask their lordships whether—stripping the subject of all party politics—any charge could be brought against her Majesty's Government with respect to Kars that did not equally apply to France? When he (Lord Clarendon) was in Paris with the Queen he pointed out what might have been the dangers of not relieving Kars, and he found the French Government fully alive to the matter; but men of eminence, and military men, were of opinion that Sebastopol should be first taken, and that a diminution of our force before that fortress, for the purpose of relieving Kars, might cause a failure at Se b .stopol. (Hear.) The fall of Kars, though a great dis aster, had, however, no prejudicial effect on the nego tiations. With respect to Nicolaieff, it was but an act of justice that Russia should use it as a place for building those ships which, by the treaty, she was allowed to have in the Black Sea; but the protocols—which were, as moral obligations, as binding as the treaty—provided that neither at Nicolaieff, or Kherson, or the Sea of Azoff, or any of the northern rivers, should over be constructed or maintain any vessels exceeding in number or size those prescribed by the treaty. Another point to which the noble earl alluded was the rectification of the Bessarabiau frontier. The noble; earl attributed to him (the Earl of Clarendon) and to hie noble friend Lord Cowley, that they bad submitted themselves to some mysterious influence on this subject. It was quite true that the Russian Plenipe tiaries had brought forward a proposition to some extent at variance with the conditions whioh had been agreed to at Vienna, but that proposition had been at once ;ejected. But it appeared that the line of frontier proposed in the Austrian conditions was by no means satisfactory. It appeared that there was great doubt as to the existence of a chain of mountains which were laid down on some maps and not on others. It was thought that it would be alto gether a bad frontier, one likely to produce doubts and disputes, and that it would also include certain Bulgarian colonies in which Russia had taken great interest, and which the British consul at Galatz stated were in a most prosperous condition, enjoying the benefits of local go vernment, and freedom from conscription. The plenipo tentiaries thought that to insist on a line of frontier which was not a good one would be mere chicane, and therefore they agreed on a line so clear that it could not lead to doubt, which would give to Turkey both sides of the Danube, and give . Moldavia 200 from the Pruth, and would remove all apprehensions that the Russians would build iotilla and carry them downwards to sea. Towards the east the frontier was traced from Lake Boana Sole, of which one side only had before belonged to Moldavia, down to the sea. The navigation of the Danube was to be freed from all impediments, and its regulation woulttle administered by a river commission appointed by the European Powers, on the same principle as that which regulated the 'Rhine. He hoped that their lordships would concur iu thinking that in that object the Plenipotentiaries had been successful. Now, with respect to the forts on the eastern c oasts of the Black Sea. N o t having gained any military successes in that country we were certainly not in a condition to impose terms upon Russia with respect to Georgia and Mingrelia, and those other places situated in Asia Minor. Indeed it would have been difficult to know what conditions to impose. He could not restore these provinces to Turkey, becavise they would not have submitted to be so restored. The measure would have been a mere mockery, as the sympa thies of all the chieftains were in favour of Russia, who had behaved to them with great kindness. Next, with re gard e I h t a w d a s b e remarkable v e t na h at n t t h o e n only the p period ,giauirsilutgo which s s t i h a e . Schamyl against Russia had been during the two years of the late war. (Hear.) The Circassians had never shown the slightest wish to join the cause of the allies. On one soli tary occasion a chieftain told the captain of as English man-of-war that 10,000 men should be ready by a particu lar day, but when the day arrived not a single man was forthcoming. Besides, the Circassians had said that they would resist by force the destruction of the fortresses on the seaward. He (the Earl of Clarendon) had a letter from Gen. Williams, dated the 13th of April, 1855, stating that. Schamyl was only to be found when an invading army was near Tiflis ' and that during the last year that much vaunted chieftain had made no attempt to keep the Bus- Bien arniy in check. In a sulosequent letter, dated in Aug., 1855, Gen. Williams said that he had heard nothing of the movements of Schamyl. All this showed that there was no very great desire on the part of the Circassians to aid the cause of Turkey and of the allies. Not being in a pa sitien to annul the territorial provisions of the treaty of Adrianople, he confined himself to that which was a real grievance to Turkey—to prevent those encroachments on the frontier line which had been a constant cause of quarrel. A mixed commission would be appointed for the complete rectification of the frontier line ; but not being able to annul the treaty of Adrianople, he could not, as CountOrloff sad require the destruchtiicohn w of e f r o e r u tr s e e s d se fe sw r li t i h el: had been built at great expense, w put poses of blockade against smuggling, atil w hi c h were required for the shelter of the troops which must be sent there. These forts were in reality merely for internal pur poses ; but as the condition of the population had much improved there would soon be no necessity for any blocked • and no clanger could arise, as all the ports would be thrown open, and foreign consuls would be received to reside at them. He (the Earl of Clarendon) had now answered some of the objections which had been urged to the treaty by his noble friend, and, of course, be should be prepared to give any further information which might be required. He felt that ho had another duty to perform—namely. that he should in justice and gratitude bear unfeigned tees tiniony to the honourable conduct, perfect good faith, anti straightforward proceedings of the Emperor of the French (Hear.) 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