The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

FILID.tY.
The Home sat but for a few minutes.

Hi JLSI 01: CoMMoNS-THURSDAY.

The Address to Iler Majesty was moved by
Mr. TimiTIOS, who, with ease anil fluency, pawed in
review the several topics adverted to in the Royal
Speech.
The motion was seconded by Mr. Ilerettorr, who con-
do. eliservations chiedy to the co -rend and
deans ial topics. his prognostication* as to the expan-
sion of our trade and the extension of our Tar,
notwithstanding the dark and portentioue clouds which
hung in the political horizon, were highly encouraging.
lord limmEnarox obaerveil that the House hal
seldom met when greater or more imiertant quest.
were pending than at present. Pawing lightly over the
earliest paragraphs of the Royal Speech, he adverted to
the state of foreign polities, anal remarked that although
it was most ilesiraiile for the interests of Austria herself
that she should not lawless her Italian provinces, it
must be recollected that she powwowed them by virtue of
the general treaty of 1811 S, which was her title-deal,
which ought to be respected, and those who femininely
dist war on that account incurred a heavy responsibility.
But although Austria was entitled to hold the Italian
provinces thus secured to her, she slid not stand upon
the Mille ground of right alien she went beyond the
treaty, anal occapied provinces not belonging to her.
Ile hoped that such an exceptional state of things modil
ease, that the Papal States would be evacuated by the
Flinch as well as Cie .I.ustrian troops, and that the
r. f. inn of abuse* in those States would re iiiii ve the only
lite!ekt for their occupation. Ile therefore earnestly
d .precateil the w.ir respecting which so many rUMUUIII
were .I.ltrmul. Ile then noticed briefly the subjects
touched upon in the sacctsling pararraplis, comm.:tiding
the 1111:11AllrrIl adopted by the Goveniment towards
Menus.,. observing that the Spanish .tinerican States
sere prone to "hey no lava but those of 'moduli and
caprice. With regard to the reform of the representa-
tion, he siocluded, lie said, that the passage in the
Speech meant that Her Majesty's Government haul a
Hill 'imparts' which they would intrusluce without
delay, and he thought this the proper course ; that it
was a question which properly belonged to the
reqonsible Government of the country.
The CitaNeet.ton id the Exeitequen, in replying to
lord Palineriton, juatified the consluct of the Govern-
ment in Fetal. to the difference between France and
Portugal, and, with respect to the subject of Reform,
oliaerveil that Lord Palmerston WWI quite right in sup.
losing that a measure WAS prepared, but lie would be
disappoints...l if he supposed that it with' be brought
forward before the urgent birdies.o of the country was
put in proper train. As to the state of relsti ~,, s
between foreign POWerg. Ile luta DO wish, he aiah, to
conceal f , the House the opinion of the Government
that the state iif affairs abroad was critical ; but it was
not a state that made them believe that the maintenance
of peace was timeless. Her Majesty's Government hail
taken that course which they dean I moat conducive to
the preserval of peace ; they hail communicated to
France and Austria their views as to their relative jesi-
bona in Italy. The cause of this uneasy state of things
arose from the occupation of t 'entre! Italy by the armee*
of foreign Powers and the mutiml jetllllll*ie/1 of France
and Austria. The Itritish Goverement hail preeseil not
only upon those twit Powers, hut upon the Courts of
Turin, Berlin, and st. Petersburg the expediency of
measures to remove the CUUSCII of public discontent, mot
their coliviction that this beneficial result could not he
obtained by attempting to subvert the order of things
established by treaty, but by the influence of those
Powers being used to improve the condition of things in
Central Italy itself. Although he admitted that the
condition of affairs was, as III) had said, critical, he did
not admit that a European war was probable. Ile
strongly urged the policy of maintaining the alliance
with Prance —a policy. he observed, which had been
puraued. in past times of inir history and advocated by
some of our wisest statesmen. . .

laird J. Rumert.e. thought the unsatisfactory state-
nient of Mr. Disraeli was not a little alarming. Ile had
always, lie said, taken • deep interest in the affairs of
Italy, and been an advocate of civil and religious liberty
all over the world ; but he did not believe that this
object could be pmilloteel by such an aggremion as was
now apprehended, which would shake men's confidence
in the treaties upon which the peace of Europe was
founded. Ile insisted upon the evils which necessarily
accompanied the interference of France and Austria in
Central Italy, the jealousies of these two great limbers,
and the imposition upon the people of those provinc,,,
of the very worst form of govere tttttttttt full of abuses
and of every kind of corruption. Could we wonder, lie
asked, that the people of Central Italy. thus governed,
by means of a foreign force, were impatient and discon•
tented? lie was convinced that, if the foreign forte was
withdrawn, and provisions was made, as it easily could
be, by the Catholic Powers of Europe, for the pers
security of the Pope, and if the people of Bologna and
Romagna were allowed to frame laws for themselves,
the difficulties of the Italian question would be entirely
solved. On the subject of the promised Reform Hill,
he *maiden-4 the declaration of Mr. Disraeli as vague,
and profeaacel Ida inability to discover any excuse for
delaying the measure.
Sir J, PAKiNt;r4)• marls • few remarks in reply to
Lord J. Russell, and the motion was agreed to.
The Howie adjourned at a gustier to 8 o'clock.