The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

HOUSE 01, LORDS.

Temuroar.—Wineu the House re-sseembled, at four
o'clock, there ••• an unusually large decadence, owiag
to the feet that Hie Royal Higher.. the Pride of
Waba had intimated his intention of taking his seat
as • peer of the realm. In the galleries were tier Royal
Highness the Lychees of Cambridge, the Princess Hag
of Cambridge, and • large member of pearemes. His
Royal Highoms the Prince of Wales entered the house
from the Princes' Chamber oboe* after four o'clock.
He was preceded by an equerry bearing a cornet upon
an embroidered cushion. by Sir Augustus Clifford,
tither of the Black Rod, sad by Sir Chas. Young, in
his robes im Garter Kingat-Arma He was also accom-
panied by the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke
of Ne wooed*, the Duke of A rgy le, Earl
Granville, Earl Derby, Lord King.dewn, Earl
Spencer, Lord Willoughby d'Ereehy, hereditary Great
Chamberlain, and Lord Edward Howard, who repre-
sented the infant Duke of Norfolk, hereditary Earl
MarshalL His Royal Highessa wore the searlet and
guilds robes of • duke over the uniform of a colonel in
the army, and he deo wore the George Cross ribbon of
the Order of the Garter. As be mitered! the House the
peers rose in • body. His Royal Highness bowed his
mikaowledgmenta, and, idvanciag to the Woolsack,
placed his patent in the hands of the Lord Chancellor.
oaths were euheepiently adminietered In his Royal
Highner by Sir J. Shaw Lefevre. After signing the
rule he wan conducted to the chair on the right of the
Throne which is eppropriated on State occasions to the
l'rince of Wales. Hie' Royal Ilighisem having seated
himself, covered, again roes, and was concluded to the
weekauk, where he shook bands cordially with the
Lord Chancellor, and then retired be the peers' en-
trance, to the right of the throne. Th, oaths were
subsequeutly administered to the new Archbishop. of
Canterbury and York, and the sitting win again ma.
pended.—Their Lordships' resumed at 5 o'clock.
The Royal Speech having been read by the Lord
Chancellor, and spin by the Clerk at the table,
Lord lhadtryrcee to move an address in reply whieh was
as usual a mere echo of the speech itasU. He sax
gratulated His Royal H gimes@ the Prince of Wales,
and the country, upon his approaching marriage with
the Prinores Alexandra, and expressed • hope that it
would tend in • great meseure to diaaipate the grief into
which the Royal Family bed been thrown by the death of
the Prince Casson, Ho ex premed hia entire concurrence
with the home and foreign policy of Government, and
alter adverting to the lam their Lordships bad contained
in the death of, the Marquis of Lansdowne, ecnicieded
by moving an address in reply to the Royal Speech.—
Lord Onutard seconded the addresa —Lord Darby ecm•
traded the circumstances under übteb the House DOW
ammabled with theee which marked the opening of
Parliament lad year. lad year we bad to lament the
recent death of a great end goad Prince, but now,
instead of using the language of emeddenee with re.
femme to one of the deepest calamities which mold
abet the Sovereign, mad whist, still bowed her down,
we had to congratulate heron the scent which, in every
point of view, was and mint te a Ol•tille of consolation
.41.i:sliding 'to Her Warty m wall 114 to the country
y. His Royal Highasse the Prime of Wales,
the imertere of bit &miasma, the stability of
his manner, and the dot, indinliest, ned dimeetiou be
had di.o.yed, bed already woe the Wadies bad regard
of all with whom be had bees brought into esamet.
H. regretted that the Goveranient had not felt them-
*elves portliest In unities with the &operce of the
Frew* in sloshing to obtain • semation of hostilities
in America ; bet, before be osasessd the come bikes
by the Government, it was but fair that he should my
that they were in pomession of mush better information
than he was as to whether any interferers.* oa their
Part would have been a Judi:doge step. de differed
from the opinioe wheels bed been expressed by meaty
of his political fries& that the time had arrived for
niongaising the Southern States. Thum were wily two
mass in which • reecurettios cm the part of • neutral
could be Justified, via, where *ere WY DO
trr ir struggle going on, at was the ems when the
South Smeneas Stable, with* had revolted from Spain,
ramr_. lowl, sr ebstre It was desirable I. the in-
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7_ "'___,..._emeeeitv that the great powers should tater-
" 4" "www. t. Premet the longer coallassunoe of a
desolating leerier.; but In that came gogoguitios was
always followed by emee g ithin. (nether. He deplored
the diaeresis 'listing Is the North, and said it was esti-
mated that in the mairehicturing districts the loge of
wages this year would not be leas than C 6,0011,000. Re
ilea adverted to the forage wetes ihttedeeed into the
Royal Speech. They were Wombed papers in reference
to this affairs of Italy, Greece, aid Desieurk. A por-
tion of the paper, is relation to noinuark had already
beta prsdeeed, tied be coafessed that they ware sot of
such • talon as ke made him to sawstasulgia Lard
Reseed spelt the Mousse, hi diplomas,. For Ney

years he had bad the happiness to be the colleague of
the oisble lord in the Government of the late Lord
Melbourne. Lord Melbourne wu • men of Mal
shresduess and eoasnion seine, and whenever a subject
of embarrusissent which he did not know how to dis-
pose of rams before him. his favourite receipt 'atm.
"Can't you let it alone—it will do very well if jr
will only let it alone." The noble lonfe (Lord itcmso.o
readiness to undertake any duties* wee proverbial, but
in SOWS ports of his foreign diplomacy, especially in
reference to Denmark and Rome, be would have meted
more jodieionaly if he bad followed the preupta of
Lord Melbourne. If the noble earl had emit-savoured to
And out a position that would produce the greeted
amount of eniberrasruent and complication lie could Scot
have beer happier then in offering an asylum to the
Pope at Malta, under the protection of a Protestant
Sovereign. With regard to the constitution of the new
kingdom of Greece, he thought the Government in
the first instance had deceived the Greeks into • belief
that if Prince Alfred were elected be would be allowed
to accept the throne. Turning to the contemplated
*melon of the Lotion blonds, he strongly deprecated
any such measure as opposed to the interacts, not only
of &gland, but of Europe, and as one of the most
roioidal and imprudent steps which the Govern-
ment Gould take.—Earl Rumen, in reply to
the remarks of the noble earl, jultilled the policy
of non-intervention which Government had poreitad
in reference to the American war. He thought
her Majesty's Government had taken the siert
conecc in their power to pursue. At the same
time he expressed a strops opinion that it would be
Impossible for the union of the Northern sad Southern
states tcc be again establithed, With regard to the
Schleswig Holstein difficulty, be urged that the part
taken by the Government in the matter had prevented
• rupture between Germany and Denmark. As to the
affairs of Rome, he admitted that an asylum had been
offered to the Pope in Her Majesty's dominions, but
the offer wee made solely in consequence of • question
pat by the Pope himself, whether, in the event of •
rebellion, is the Italian provinces, there would be any
objection to concede to him the hospitality of Great
Britain. With regard to the kingdom of Greece Her
Majesty's Government wire first to propose a joint
declaration that the three protecting Powers should be
incapable of accepting the throne. It warn only
beaus. Ruda declined the declaration, no
far as the Duke of Leuctlitenberg was con- ,
method, that Her Majesty's Government did I
not at once avow, that Prince Alfred, if elected, would
Dot accept the throne. He differed entirely from the
facts and inferences 'of Lord Derby in reference to
the proposed cession of the lonian Islands to Greece by
the treaty of IRIS. These islands were constituted •
free and independent Republic under the protection of
Great Bnthin, but they formed no portion of the
dominion' of Great Britain. He thought the Govern'
nosed were bound to consult the welfare of the people
of the !mien Isleadsi the protectorate against the
wishes of the population, the sole parpose of having
=on of. fortress in the Mediterranean. If these
fairly and deliberately declared • wish for union
with Greece, they were entitled to obtain it.-
-Lord Malmeshury and Carnarvon expressed regret at
the conduct of Government in reference to the affair. of
America and the lonian Islands, and Lords Grey and
Woodhouse defended the course Use Ministry had
, mmened.—The address was then agreed to.
FILIDAY.—The chief, and indeed only subject under
dim-sumo, was the recommendation of the late volun-
teer counnasion with respect to the appropriation of a
sum of money to defray a portion of the expenses of
the corps. Lord de Grey stated that • measure was
to be proposed substantially carrying out the ream-
nsendation of the oottonittee, • circumstance which gave
the majority of the noble Lords great satisfaction.