The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-23 00:00:00

CASE OF CAPTAIN MELVILLE WHITE.

Colonel FRENCH asked the Under Secretary for Foreign
Affairs whether he had received the awaid made in the
case of Captain Melvide White'.
Mr. LA 1" A ItD—We have received a despatch from her
Majesty's charip, d'affaires at Hamburg, stating that the
senate had given their sward, and that it was nufavottraLle
to Captain Melville White. The award has not been re-
ceived, but at is expected in a few dept.

CHINA.

Upon the motion for going into ,apply.

Mr. LIDDELL move7l • "declarasWyresclutioo, to the
effect that, is the opinion of the house. further interference
on the part of this ocruntry in the civil war in China was
impolitic sad unnecessary. After reviewing the policy
which the English government had of late years adopted
with regard to Coins, the hon. gentleman contended that
all our attempts to uphold tho Mantchu dynasty as against
the Taepinp Lad been Inuit 'Norio'', to our character, in-
fluence, and interests is Has east. He sought in vain for
any ressonubla ground of interference in Chinese affairs ;
for our trod., with that ciluntre had not only not fah:o off,
but had rather augmented. It was not bin intention to ask
the house to pass a alumni upon the government, although
ha considered their policy ea runeous in very many respects ;
but he wished them simply to jam him in the attempt to
diasuade ministers from continuing in a course which was
unprecedented in the past, and which he hoped would bud
no favour in the future.

LAY.k KU repudiated as absurd the idea that there
was any intention to estn,blid, a British protectorate in
China, but a loiitted that Sir Frederick Bruce, our minister
there, had made mistakes, and is wine instances exceeded
his iustractions. With regard to the Chios,e policy of the
government, it was inspired by the desire to avoid all inter-
ference in the civil war so long as it did not approach
sithiu toe 3.1 miles' radius of the treats ports ; and held

that that policy had beeu sucoessful. The proihfir were, the
vast augmentation that had taken place in the number of
ships employed in the trade, and in the amount of exports
and imports. Moreover, Ecglish subjects' could now travel
with safety through the country ; and a telegraph had been
eatabliahed ic counetion with the city of Pekin. He be-
lieved they.' WAS not a respectable merchant in China who
would sot be horrified at the thought of our policy being
reversed, and argued that her Majesty's government was
rather entitled to credit than deserving of blame for the
course they had pursued.
Mr. W. E. FORSTER said that the question really be-
fore the house was whether the government were to be
*auctioned in continuing their interference for the purpose
of petting down the Tacping rebellion, and that question
the Under Secretary had uot attempted to answer. Ide com-
plained of their policy that it bad not only not been right
with regard to Chins, but not fair towards the house ; and coo-
&mired our recent operation. against t he Tarpinge ea a species
of buccaneer log. Capt. Shiner.' Osborn, however, had acted
nobly in returning home. He had resorted all temptations,
and thus marred ministers from consequences such as they
would have rued for year' to come. Kith regard to pro-
tecting the treaty porta and our treaty rights, he should
like to kunw whether the capture of Boochow, which was
accomplmbed chiefly through the assistance of British
officers, wee oecemary. In looking back upon the history
of the past, it was impossible to deny that we had had a
good deal to do in creating the anarchy now prevailing in
China. The end of this policy would, he feared, be to
throw another Chinese war on our hands and oblige us to
effect the conquest of the country.
Mr. FERBA ND said he agreed with him hoe. friend, the
member foe Bradford, that the heed of the goverment
us* feel ram psis as Wirt had talus Assn QM Wald

when be considered how be wee identified with the policy
Chick recolB3B had led to wet mikeierimi real% in
China. The no
lord, in eloquent and is langempe,
protested against the atrocities perpetrated by Russia epos
Poked, and by Amish 'and Prussia err Denmark ; but be
(Mr. Fermi) credred whether in ,be whir, of Europe der.
ing the Let BS year atrocities had been perpetrated
by mdlit.ry authorities equal to three which had beau
perpetrated in Chia under the authority of the British
government. The bombardment of Booderborg had been
spokes of in severe language, but were there no bombard-
ments of Chiosee cities of a much wore character! He had
*eon the lettere of private soldiers in China, saying that they
felt degraded and disgraced at Irving to Asir against the
Chinese. From 1834 to 1839 the noble lard had wormed
the opium trade in China, which led to war and rebellion.
Our conduct in Chinn was unjust, cruel, and dishonourable.
The boo. gentleman thee road extracts from the speeches
of Sir R. Peel and the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the
debate on China in the year 1840, both of whom strongly
condemned the policy of the noble lord, The boa, member
was proceeding to read other extracts, when
An Holt. Mimi= moved that the house be routed, which
being done, and there bein2 only 33 member, present, the
boom adjourned at a QUl:ter-pest 8 o'clock.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
•
EQUITY COURTS.—Aran. 22.
(Paces Vico.Chancellor Sir R. T. &ladenley.)
BIM Till INTIM noncom SOCIIII.-111E ANOLO-AIW

In this ass the question Wars the court was whether
the Anglo-Australian Company wen edified to be ad-
mitted so creditors at the British Provident Society under
thorns oircurostanoss. The two canipsaiss amalgamated is
. . , . •

1868, the British Provident entering--
into a covainnt to in-
demnify the Anglo•Anstralian from all debts, liabilitir, and
engagements, including the engagements on life kowtow.
The Britieh Provident is now being wound up, and • creditor
of the Auglo-Australian brought an action and recovered
judgment against that company, which now sought to be
admitted as • creditor in respect of the debt, but which
was resisted by the official manager of the British NO-
vident.

11;;Vioe-Cbancellor said the question was settled by the
case of " Warwick v. itichardsoe," ia the °mut of Ex-
chequer, in which it wan held that a covenant to indemnify
created the relation of debtor and creditor between the in.
demeifying end the iodemnified party. It was admitted
that the daglo-Australiaa would have had a claim if they
bad paid the debt, but it was cumatanded that se they had not
paid it they bad no claim. They had, however, waived
their assets to the Britiali Provident, and the British Provi-
dent could not escape in that way. Th• claim must be
allowed.

Wood.)
BLOSAX V. sus M IROPOLITA24 CAI AVM CAIIIAGI CON-

(Before

elar (warm.)
This was a snit to set aside a trawler to the plaintiff of
shares in the above company on the ground that the
same was made in fraud. It appeared that the plaintiff,
having become assignee of one Captain Jordan of shares in
the company, applied to the seiretary of the company, one
Wm. Hemming, to register the aseignment. This was done,
but shortly after Hemming gave the plaintiff notion that the
shares were not Jordan's, and the registration of assignment
was consequently void. Soon after this, however, it was
represented to an agent of the plaintiff that they might
be set right, and the ageat, without instructions,
accepted a transfer of shares : Hemming antedating a
transfer to Jordan so as to make it appear that Jordan
had the shares when the assignment to the plaintiff was
made. It appeared that at the time when this was dose
a heavy call had bees made on the shares, and thus the
pretended benefit to the plaintiff was in fact a lees. Under
these circumstances he repudiated the transfer sad filed this
bill.
The Vioe-Chancellor considered that the plaintiff had
made out his awe, and set the transfer aside accordingly.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
APRIL 22.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
HOWARD P. HOWARD.

This was • suit to establish the validity of a will, par.
porting to have been executed on the 25th September, 186 J,
by the late Charles Howard, the manager of a cotton'.
mill at Manchester. It was propounded by the plaintiff as
widow and executrix, to whom the deceased bequeathed the
whole of his property, consisting of about 400/., and
opposed by the defendants, the mother Lod brother, on the
pound of undue influence sod control, and th►t he wee of
unsound mind. The plaintiff was monied to the deceased
in June, 1863, and he died from typhus fever on the day
after the will was executed.

Mr. Hopwood sod Mr. Marriott were counsel for the
plaintiff ; sod Mr. T. Jame (or the defendants.
After some evidence bad been given,
Mr. Joceeseid be felt be would not be justified in offering
any further opposition.
a.
The Judge then pronounced for the will, and
condemned the dile ots in coats.