The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TBURSDAY, JUNE 21.
Their Lordships assembled at 6 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The followlag bill, were read a second tine and Goa-
Mailed :—Basiaptoke, Stockbridge, ud Laboonah Corner
Bead; Bombay Baroda, and Central India Railway (No.
2): Bildpert Riede; Endue% and Broadwineor Roads;
Carlisle sad Billoth Bay Railway sad Hoek; Elonrereat and
Dewsbury Road; Grand Sam, Canal (No. 2); Great
Wester. and Brantford Railway; Bonitos Road; Leek
Improvement; Lighteill and Birdlip Road; Metropolitan
Railway; Oaford, Worcester, and Wolverhamptos Rail-
way (Isoprountents end Branehts); Rhyruity Railway ;
Bondi Staffordshire Railway ; Stroud, Catoseroir, and Min-
elainharapton Road; Stroud and Chaltirl Road; West
Somerset Mineral Railway ; Weymouth Water • Bills.
Tail following were read a third time and passed
bury, Witney, Re., Road; Electric Telegraph Company ;
Lyme Recta Roads; Newtown and Gummy Railway ;
Hasamoad's Estate ; Bills.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Earl GRANVILLE observed that, in reply cad uake
pet the tuber day by a noble lord opposite, be stated
the reams why the governmeat had net accepted the offer
made to them for the coosolidatio• of all the public offices
under sae roof, sad be wished now to add that in rej eting
it there was net the slightest wish to east any slur upon the
parties who made it on the ground of the insufficiency of
• their securities. In the interview which took placer between
the Chief Commimioser of Works au those parties not a
word was said about securities; but his right bon. friend
Mated that the gorernmut, upon mature consideratioa, had
use to the eloalituon that the plan proposed would not
efeet may saviag of expense, and, therefore, ought set to
sautimeed.
The Rail of )lALMESBURY thought the Chief Com-
missioner of Works forgot the itoportaat eonsidnetion of
. lime. The plan proposed he thought a desirable one, taw
Mesh as it Seed the limit of cost and the time within which
the works would be completed, viz , five years—aduatages
which bad certainly been wanting in the banditti of the
SSW kOSSIIS of palm:tent.
After a few words from the Earl of ELLunioaotrog,
euggesdag that the whole of the roof of the new offices
Mesta be belle at °se t me, sad a remark from Lord
111100011/01 se to the iaccanvenienee of carrying on the lees-
ledge sad legal basin's* of the Howe of Lords in the same
elember, the subject dropped.
THE HANGO MASSACRE.

The Bari of MALMFABURY—I rise to draw the atten-
tion of her lispetes goverment, and to ask from them la-
dormatios ingeneet to a subject which toes Alm the sable
mind of thilitentry, sad I doubt not of the whale had.
Ifssd Zeitspe, with feelings of honer acd dismay. Ton
lordships will readily understand that I allude to the Mir
sane oa the coast of Rana, near Hangs, of a boat's onst,
with the officers is emend, Winging to her Maimire
dip Cossack. (Hear, hear.) It will hardly be easswary
few me, me lords, to go *to the detail" at this
ems' and uojestifiable eat, for your lordship" will d.
ready have reel the despatch of Captain Fauns%
of the Cossack, to Admiral Dann% who sent ale
boat whose grew were made the victims of this weans
outrage to land certain Russian primers at their Ma
request at Hugo. and In which those detai'm are fully stand.
(Hear, ha-) It will be sufficient, therefore, for ma Ile
remind year lordships that the boat contained Resin
prisoners who were seat antler a flag of truce, and eon
landed by the lisatenant of the Commack, • surgeon, and
este or two petty officers, who had charge of the prisoners,
who bad beta allowed thiamin' to select the part of the
Rambo nest at wink they lathed to be landed. It
apposes that when they were put on shore at the wharf at
Bingo, no one was seen ; bat soddenly the boat's crew and
the liberated prisoners also were attacked by a large
one* force, who Ind upon them and massacred
all, with the 'sceptics of one, a man named
Jo* Brown, who, though badly wounded, managed to
*tape is the boat. An erdine to this mane account, the
officer is emend, Lieut. One's*, was shot down while is
the act of waving the Asset trace over his head, and while
one of the Russian preens was andsiain to the attaches
party the eirmmtaness under which, and the object for
which, the landiag bad taken pima ; and it farther appears
thet when the atrocity bad been coesummatsd, the Russian
soldiers mat down into the boat, and threw overboard not
only the bodies of the dead, but those also who were
wounded. Such is the monist gives by Capt. Faathawe to
Admiral Donde, upon the authority of the man Brown.
Whim Admiral Deaden was first made acquainted with
than fees, he naturally imagined that there bad been some
meth Indiscretion, or that some amnion is displaying the
!leg of truce, or mate fault on the part of the lieutenant in
command of the boat had taken place, and would be made
the seem for the perpetration of this wanton violation
of all national sad of all barren raw—(hear, hear)—and
neerdiagly be wrote to Captain Fasahawe, putting to hint
a number of questions categorically, all of which being
answered satisfactorily, Admiral Donde became conviseed
that no blame whatsoever applied either to Captain Fan.
sbawe, to the officer is command of the boat, or to any of '
the crew. (Hear, hear.) It is, however, but fair to add, I
that not many hours ago an assent has reached
Landes, and which appears in the second *dittos of a
martin' paper, giving the Russian version of this
melancholy affair. That account states that the whole
of the boat's crew were not killed, but that nine of the
men and two of the officers were taken minutes, three or .
four of whom are wounded, and the rest they say wen
killed In redstiog the Russian troops who attacked them
when they landed. Not a word more to stated
fa this account, but I have thought it fair to
state to your lordships what Is the Russian version
of the story so far as we know it. (Hear, hear.) Bat,
eves seeming that this version is come', and that sine,
sr rather eleven men including the two officers, were taken
prisoners, though it mitigates in some degree the horrible
enmity which, according to our Oita venom, had been per-
petrated, still it is nowise ezrepates the Russian soldiers,
sad more especially the olden who emended them, from
the complete sad wanton breach df the law t:f nations which
they have committed. (Hear, bear.) The killing even of
on ma, or math Ins, theta/in even of a single man pri-
mer, while under the safeguard of a deg of truce, is an in-
fresh* of the law hastens and of the law of honer-
able warfare, as taken tram the ancient code of the
Middle Ages, foe the purpose of restraining man's
arises when not espied In utast eonfliot, and
which is adopted by every eidlesd nation. • lag of trues
has been always honoured and bold sacred—ia every age
and by every nation—it is necessary foe the Interests of
humanity, and for the protection of the soldiers themselves
—and I seareely know of an Mean of its having been
violated. (Hear, hear.) I believe it you bees history
throughout you will sot and a parallel either In easiest or
modem times to this erosion set. (Loud oboes.) My
beds, it is not to much for the purpose of denim( your
lordships' attention to what bas herpes* that I have rime
an this casein as to ask her Moiety's goverment what
nano they *toad to plum anew the elremesteme f
(Bess, hear.) It appease to me to be the interim, not
shy of the goverment of this sonatry bat of
every pennant In the world, to take notice hatch sa sot
—end certaisly it Is the interest of every meniga in
Bann, as it Is the tattiest of eve" alter and of every
@Misr of every army to Europe, to demand that it should
be embed, sad the perpetrators of it visited with snap
pnbitioaat, is order that that sense of honour sad of
humane which is Whereat in every man's Went may be
uphold in the ware of civilised nations. (Cheers.) Bow
this Is to be dose—how punishment is to follow this violent
of the emend law of satins, I with to know from her
Majesty's garment. It is sot to me *suggest the ems,
bat Ism mere ber Majesty's government will not think me
stet pima in makfag then remain, and inquiring of my
sable Mead opposite, the President of the Coned, what
sauna they late* to pursue ? (Cheers.)
The lad ee CLARIINDON—My lords, although the
pestles put by my aoble fried has been addressed to my
mega hien, the Preheat of the Conch, I se, palms,
la a better nation to newer, sad, with the permission of
year betiskin, I will do so. (Hear, hear) My noble
friend bona assesetely stated all the facts of the saw, and the
mares is which this stroehy was mead Into effitet,
and he be. nest properly charaebrised It. (Hear,
bear) It is aa *lrene se horrible and 'almost,
so utterly at mem with the usages of war sad the en
time of rinsed anis* that we are sompilleil 110 baboon
that the percoratore of it gams have acted epos lb.
immerses a with the approval of their smirk* (1.,.)
I shish it only reameniale to suppose In the lest insinnet
till we have further inersaation, that Ova weir the sae% MI
I say this the mere, because it does appear that it meet have
UP the ewe at of MIN Issetberind saboedinate, far
I see in Captain Paaebawe'e derma that the perm
Me dines* the ism sad gave the seders to fire
did am appear to be ea ellen. (Hier, ben., Os
negivire *females of the magsetioe I lest nod •
amen " eineesiag tbe
ipapas dotaill4 the aeon
118/••te Minster' at Copenhagen.,
faserming kits to repeat the Dist* in
lothltltl"•• " the Danish Moist', at -137.1"11. Petanbargt of
whin rd bah.if ef Helen subjoin mad DAM
Mau* II lageolbis speia we —(kear, him)

requesting hi= to Wag the matter to the sodas ettbe Rm•
siaa government, sad to vat* that. her Mejestrtititette►
meat waited with extreme anxiety to I* what steps it*
had takes, or intended to take, to malt *air sesseaf
sanecessaey and brutal mitre hats)—sowattairri
which might possibly hove ia pose eat .of ties
tangs islands of the Booth MOIR ahtitidedifirlat
degree of carpels*, bat vslikt was 561 to to impeded in
civilised Harem and which, if net amply punished, would die-
mead severe reprisals. Utast these eireurostaaces, my noble
Mead will see that it Is not until we know what stops the
Russian governineut intend to take in the matter that we
car state what coarse it may become her Melody's govern-
ment to adopt. (Hear, hear.)
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH observed that the
Admiral in ramenand of the British fleet would, in all pro-
bability, astiog upon his own discretion, demand an ex-
planation from the Russian authorities on the spot, and he
suggested that the communication from the government to
our minister at Copenhagen should go through Admiral
Donde.. -

The Earl of CLARENDON—The government will corn
matieste t. Admiral Dundee the steps whisk have bees
takes, but I know of ao other mesas of wattaivaisetiag
with the Rossi= government Inept through the pettish
eatbstreder.

The But of ELLEN BOROUGH considered that Admiral
Dundee baying received Captain Panshawe's explanation
would have immediately sant In a flag of truce to the officer
highest in authority oa the spot—probably to the Russian
Lord High Admiral—stating the facts and calling for expla-
nation, and for that reason be thought it ',Foetid have been
pradent not to eater into any eorrespondence with the
Danish government until it was known whether Admiral
Dead's bad taken that step, and what bad been the result.
Earl GRANVILLE intimated that Admiral Dandes had
given no intimation of any intention to take the souse
ruggested by the noble sail—but be did not think any
great inconvenience would arise if a communication were
made by oar admiral upon the subject, se well as by the
Danish minister at Bt. Petersburg.

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