The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-27 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

RIC-LAIII.—(TH/B DAY.)
A very limited supply of nigh& wheat was on We is
tacley s market, calamine sad by laud carriage ; but the
general quality of the maples wee floe. For both rid aid
white parcels there was a fair inquiry ; but, compared with
Monday. no ohaoge took place in the quotatioes.
We were tolerably well, but not to my heavily. supplied
with foreign wheat. Good sod Hee qualities sold to a mo-
decals extent, at late curreocies. All other kinds were very
inactive, on former terms.
Flastiug cargoes of grain off Falmooth sad Qeeenstown
realised previous quotations. The demand, however, was
by no asses active.
There was a fair sal* for barley, at late rates. For the
time of year the supply wee tolerably good. •
Salt—the supply of which was good—changed hands
slowly. Factors, however, were arm le their demands.
Good sound oats commanded full prises; but low and
heated pan& wire very
Ws had lam business doing in beans, although the supply
was wary moderate.
Pees moved off slowly, on former terms. The show at
samples we, small.
The dour trade wan steady, at previous rates.
We base no new festers to bodes in the seed trade. The
traneactioes. morally, wits au a vary moderate scale. In
cakes, aert to Dothiag was doles.
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Taeir Lordships met at live cielosk.
THE OONFERENCE.-00NDUCT OF THE PIII7S-
BIANS IN JUTLAND.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH inquired how far the
eugaptneute entered into by the belligemots under the
armistice lately concluded had been faithfully fulfilled. acid
in doing so spoke in terms of strong condemnation of the
conduct of the German powers, whom he charged with
having deliberately broken their solemn obligatiom This
result, he said, ouuld not have happened bad the influence
of England bees now what it come was, and he believed
that the exercise of mere moral opinion was powerless
in producing any beneficial effects, and that to
do good we must be prepared to vindicate our
Mein by force. My lords (said the noble earl),
I cannot help feeling at the same time that there is another
difficulty beyond that wbich has gram out of the conduct
of her Majesty's government. There is another difficulty
of the greatest magnitude which has materially affected
the indoeoce of this country with forma, powers
I cannot but think there is • strop( impression
Cu the continent, and especially in Germany—an
bananas which it would be contrary to constitutional
principle to admit has any real foundation—but which
certainly does exist on the continent, and is gradually per-
vading society in this country, that is all public questions
relating to Gerinaoy her Majesty's ministers have as much
difficulty in carrying out • own,' English policy as was ex.
peewees/I is former times, as beaten teaches us in the nips
of the t no test sovereigns of the house of Mesmer. When
George 111. came to the throne, and lint met his parlia-
ment, be declared in his own words that, born and educated
in this country. he gloried in the name of Briton. By that
decLiratiou he won the hearts and obtained the confideme
of his people. lie at once relieved his government
from that unpopularity and weakness which LA
attached to the governments of ins predecesis.i.,
from the persuasion that they were swayed by Germau psi -
tialitim The people believed him to he an Englishman
sad nothing but an Englishman—to be one of themselves—
.o feel as they did—to be identified in all respecta with the
English people. That feeling inspired the loyalty which
enabled him to go through without danger the difficulties
el the revolution with which he had to contend. I do
think that in Mia question of Denmark her Majesty's
ministers will so not as to show to Germany and the whole
world that the policy ad feeling, of George 111.—those
truly English feelings which regarded otly Lsglish objects
—still animate the government of this country, and that
they will succeed is overcoming that ins pension which is now
extendiug itself on the continent and overspreadier this
country, and in restoring to diplomacy the authority and
influence which it has now lost. I will ask the noble earl
whether the proceedings of the Prussians in Jutland, since
the armistice his commenced, have been conformable
with the engagements mitered into in the conference
(Loud cheers.)
Lord RUS4SELL said the whole fact, of the Cali had not
been ascertained with sufficient certainty for any final de-
Oilioll to be loomed on them. He understood the Prussian
=mut. having received evnlence that the ceptures of
ships and cargoes amounted in value to 90,6001.,
ordered Marshal Wrangel to make a levy of an equal sum in
the Danish provisos of Jutland. The Delhi lord also gave
some details wit* the contributions demanded in provisions.
He defended the policy of the government in declining to
plunge England into war either for Poland or Denmark,
quot tug the useless sacrifices made in pert wars as a warning
against engaging in hostilities except in direct defame of
the honour or interests of the nation. When (mid
the noble lord) I nails the statement to this boas* that I
would nut advm this country to go to war to re-setsbgsh
Poland. I conciliated that the negotiation, so far as it could
influence Rum., was at as end, and that there was potties
further to du in the existing state of Ones than to resolve
whether you would go to war or not. I cousidered that of
all the wild, imprudent, and extravagant wars ever waged,
a war to *Mishnah Poland would have been the most wild
and ex travagaut, when there was neither a government in
Poland nor had even an insurrection raised its heed with
any elf ect ; when the country to be restored was so
vast iu its enact that its lass would amount to
nothing le,s than the dismemberment of the Rumba
empire ; sod when everybody that bad the conduct of
affairs in that empire was prepared, as he was bound, to
resist to the last the dismemberment of Russia. In such a
ease, I say, it would have been war for the sake of • mare
shadow ; and however much the Poles by their bravery sad
generosity may have deserved oar sympathy, to have pm
to war to their behalf would have been most uujusti-
Sable. (Charm.) What was I to do? I have always
smoldered that if you do not mean to go to
war for a nation in a state of insurrection,
there is nothing you can do that is more
immoral, more perfidious, or more destructive of confidence,
than to bold nut hopes which you do not intend to fulfil.
(Loud cheers from both sides of the house.) I was there-
fore placed in this position—l must either speak in favour
of the Poles and go to war in their favour, or I must tall
them plainly that that was not the intention of her
Majesty's government. Well, the latter was the course I
took. I proclaimed here, and in so doing I proclaimed to
the world, that it was not oar intention to go to war
for Poland; and from that moment no Pole bad
the least right or reason to say that he relied
upon British support, or that be was betrayed by want of
that support. I cannot but think it is • source of satiate°.
tics to me, iu the first place, that I did not advise • war
for Poland ; and in the next, that I did not hold out to the
Poles a hops that we were about to do that for them which
we did not intend to do, (Hear.) The noble earl may
think that we should have gone to war for Poland ; or he
may think—though I can hardly believe it—that though
not intending to do so, we should have endeavoured to im-
pose upon the Russian government, and thereby to induce it
to make sacrifices, under the idea that we were about to
rush into the held with oo definite object in view, and thus
sacrifice the lives of men as brave and as geoerous as mar
lived, 1 wished to do neither the one Wog nor the other.
It is a serious matter, and not lightly to be taken in hand,
this question of going to war. Tbe noble earl ham
referred to George 111., a most patriotic sovereign,
with every feeling of his heart prompting him to
defend the honour of his crown and the welfare
at his country ; but as for his policy it is not
to be forgotten in this hems that when be entered into •
war for the purpose of subduing an insurrection in America,
which the Americans were justified in raising, a noble lord,
a member of the cabion, mid that the Americans were a
prod of towards, that this country could easily get the
• better of them. and suppress the rebellion. lu the course
of that war we spent 100,000,0001. of money, and we lost 13
'clones. So, too, when the revolution took place in Frame,
we went to war for the purpose of changing back the repub-
lic to a monarchy, and in that enterprise we
650,000.00 W., and oceans of blood were died in the
I consider thew two wan to have been two of the most
unwise and most unjustifiable that the maths ever sennggisiggeedd
fa. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl has referred to asotjaar
matter which I think might have been spared. ((han.)
He has referred to the advice which her Majesty's minister
taverna to her Majesty. All I ma say upon this subject, and
I say it with perfect truth, is that however much her Majesty,
like other persons, may have been influenced by private
affection—connected as she ham been by marriage w ith uprises
who derived his birth through Germany—and however
mach she is connected by the alliance of her daughters
with German families, her Majesty's great object has been
to maintain intact the honour, the high reputation, and the
interests of this country. (Cheers.) However much her
Majesty may have desired that every step, whether on the
subject of Germany or Denmark, or anywhere else, should
be carefully weighed, there has been no occasion
upon which, when her advisers have deliberated,
and have given her the result of their deliberatioos,
her Majesty has not willingly followed their counsel
and adopted the resolution which they had come to.
(Cheers.) Therefore, my lords, having stated this, I weed
hardly soy that which follows—lf the interests of the
country hove been deserted, if there has been any stain
upon its honour, if there has hems any abandonment of
these great interests which we are bound to observe, if
there has beau any abandonment of the interests
of Europe. which we an hound to look to, it
is upon the head of her Majesty's advisers that
censure must fall. (Loud cheers and counter Mears.)
Let that eyesore be as heavy as it may, it cannot be trans.
toned to any other quarter. We take it all upon ourselves ;
and for my part I am perfectly willing to be responsible.
(Loud cheer..
Lord BROUGHAM had never known so unanimous and
so strong a feeling amongst all classed, parties, and reeks in
this country upon an question of foreign or domestic
policy as that which prevailed in favour of Denmark
and against the Prussian government. (Hear, hear )
The fends and cruelties of that government had not
brought it the least glory. It had pillaged and oppressed
the weak ; it bad gained a certain accession of territory ;
and it had second considerable booty ; but as to glory, it
bad earned none. (Hear, hear.)
Earl GREY must deny that his noble friend could find
say junificition for his policy with respect to Poland in
anything that had passed in 18.31. (Cheers.) Speaking only
from recollection•-he could not trust his memory after so
longen interval upon matters of detail— bat be could say
upon a most perfect recollection of the facts, that the whole
tone and effect of the correspondence with Russia at that
time was totally different from what the noble earl had
stated. He perfectly speed with the noble earl both in
the policy of not pluming this country into war, and of
openly declaring that her Majeny's goveromoot intended to
avoid that coin.. But being determined not to go to war,
it was moat impolitic and unjust to the character and repo
titans of this country that her Majesty's government
alsouLl have engaged to the irritating correapoudence
which dier thought tit to ester upon. (Cheers.)
What was the use of bringing forward impracticable pro-
penis. ...Min; emu Ruins to agree to them, and holding
irritating bemuses on the iniquity of her conduct? He
would allow that these deapstches might have made very
good schoolboys themes; but they were hardly worthy of
statesmen sitting in • cabinet ; and he could not see what
was the advantage of laying these scolding de-
spatches before parliament. (Hear, hear.) While
he perfectly agreed that we ought not lightly
to enter scan war, be could not admit that we ought
always to remain indifferent spectators of wrongdoing, or
that we ought to repudiate our common duty of dalsodiag
the weak *reheat the strong because other powers streak
from it. When, however, her Majesty's government de-
aided that the case was not one for interferon..., he thought
is was not for the credit, the character, or the dignity of
this country so adds., midis( despatches, like as laps-

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