The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-07 00:00:00

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.

The LORD t'IIANCLI.LOR haul:kg rratl the speech hum
the t►cwe,

Lord I
is teems .1 the highest eulogy upon the puhlic and
rivate cover of the late Paine. Consort, upon the
goner vri...at hi. death had evoked, and the synipathv
enlaced to the u twu awl ite colonies fur the loam :mamma
)'y the syteen /tattoo; bried• alluded to the virtues stet
politiesl pia.itiee of the late Lori Herbert and Sir J.
Graham, be lamest to the consideration of the cueduct of
the Swoosh government in the affair of the Trent, nlerred
in rogretulaton terms to the loyalty of the Caliente)
prorritia-. nod ceecluded, after a abort review of the re-
f onnig topic. of the royal speech, by °arr-cons the .pm-
lthy which was felt by their lordships for the terrible
lerwee,strent +hob her Majesty had met agone.
Laid SHPLEURNE snoods' the adel.ess, remarking,
in the mom of his speech, that it was touch to I,n re-fretted
the United States us the Treat affair hot net imitated the
(maniple them by England. nailer sualegote. circum.
seam..., in the cam of the Chesapeake. Such a comae
would h conciliated the feeliap of thi. mantra towards
the t toad States, and have smoothed the way au the settle-
meet for future difficulties which might occur. The
emalwa .4 the Emperor of the French on the occasion was
worthy, es th od, of our thanks awl admiration.
lord .ELBY , having paid ea chsinent tribute to the
inctwiri of the lute Prioce Cocoon, who bad not passed
away without leafing hi. mark on the ago in which be lived,
ratrularty dwelt upon the edereet wheat Mel been shame,
sad the Isom...at rasp undergone by hat royal Ingham in
public agora The noble mel thee proceeded to the
diecusmo of the Treat outenge, and declared his ap-
proval .4 the polo y
_adopted by her Ilapety's poem.
meet. While he dad sot call on the pererement to
thrognim the Soalliere States, he thought they were
boated to offer extatioass as to the etlimency or DOM
elided the hlo of the Southern porta Cordially
sgrestag with laird Shelburne is hie appreciation of the
ptlicy of the Emptier of the Preach, whose condemnation
of tir sartre ..f the eamainemers bad been mat timely,
he c stelated the comtry as the umaintity of the
Can ell.. •,• to amintais their allegiance, sad proceeded
Si' tee 'eme .tangly the conduct et the American
rererem,nt. whine suneeder of the primer* bore rather
the app ctntwe yieleheg to force Shea a graoeful
cameo-. n In regard to Mexico, be hoped to beer that
the ems...ninon between the three istemesing power. coo-
lest thee, solely to carry out the objects for which we bed
hart t. mooed to inteders. After touching on the other
tepea .4 the speech, be adverted to the new }Ascetics"!
Xiaute. which would to some isetances indict injustice,
and *loch he regretted wee not h. be submitted to their
lordships for dowries, 4.4 it world be senledied in a tom-
Mary • -te. ..nd therefore could eel,' be datum.' by the
ether house.
Led ..E.AN VILLE, having thanked Lord Derby for hie
eloquent eulogy en the late Pneas Consort, which embodied
the ferlmai of the Isom, explained that them was no desire
to sop pen diacneseeme the Edneasioaal Miaute -in fact,
that he honed( wee prepared to make a thatannent on the
subject to the boom out Thursday week.
After • few reamerk. from Lord I.I7TaI.TOX as the new
Eshandronal Mired*.
Earl It rItSELL nrmarked that the snide earl opposite !
bad said. that every owe who had held a high position in her 1
Naivety's controls met he aware that the opinion awl ad-
Moe given by the Mr Prim Consort to the queen had
bee* of the molest Measles" both to our sovereige sad
the country. He wished from his own experience tocoufirm
that eseue.e. The view. expressed by the late Prince, the
temper sok which he brought them to bear, the impar-
tiality with which he mewed every subject, ware of
great use to the government of the country. He
aught sae more. Those who have watched the
position el affairs during the past few years mast
have merited the beneficial changes from former reigns.
In them reigns greet diatirctems were mole by the sove-
reign heiress parties. and the mosequence of those destine-
troy was that the favour shows to owe tarty was a source
of hingeless to the other. Now, he happened to know
frau the late Prises himself what were hi. vies.. and the
me.• .1 nor Sovereign in this point. He stated to MO not
many utauths ago, that it was a common elusion that there
rose only one cormacia on which the sovereign of the
country should ezereme a decoded power—and that was in
the apieirdment of a prim minister of the crown. He
street en to my, that, is Lis opinion, there was out an OnCii-
Sine on shuts the sovereign could esertim a coutrul or
rowan,. a decision—tent one party having resigned Irma
being tumble to curry en the go vertuneet. there sat at all
• eime other party is whew' the power remained, sod
who would be moat likely to obtain the confidence
of the country, hut, he said. whether the minister was at
one party or the other, he thought the sovereign ought le
communicate in the must coottlential and the most m-
esmerist manner her views with respect to the various me-
sum to be brought forward, mad with respect to the various
*Teem that might happen, and that whether that Wander
belonged to one petty or the other the utmost confidence
should literati betweee the sovereign and the minister, who
game forward as the osteneilde of that power.
(Hear, hear.) Ile (Earl Russell)fully agreed in that epittion,
sad there haul sot been in England one party exclusively
poseeted of tower and another with the disadvantages
Wing hem ex.dusion, but all parties had daring the last
twenty.ears been united is rendering homage to
the woe:sign. (Hear, bear.) Thom Z. years had
sot lie-.n bet, awl the country sow reaped
the lerirbt of them. On the subject of the blockade .4 the
Souther. wow, he thought their Invlships would be
more ...tidied with the paws which would Le laid on the
tame this with his comments. On that subject he had
only ins observation to make. The declaration of Pans
ass to the effect that for a blockade to he effectual there
must bee sufficient strength in the blockading party to pre-
Vest aciaes to the pert. The general testimony was at tint
that there were sulticiad ship. to prevent serer to the
ports in North America ; but, notwithetandum this. it must
be ..afeseed that the blockade had nut been regular, and
that there were Missies of vessels going in and out. On
kis ewe part, and co the part of the government, be must
express le:a earliest wish that we should he able to preserve
the usutrality which her Majesty had hitherto id...treed.
Be could out bat think that before maim months
it wwild be overt:deed whether the t'uital State. would
be able to the task they had set themselves, of remetruct-
Lig the union, awl if they were not able to say so, he was
convinced it would be far better that the United States
tlimmelves, in its government, its Congress, sad it.
should he persuaded of the Motility of their efforts,
sheuki themselves enter into a treaty remgemies the inde-
pendence of the Southern states. (Hear, bear.) It was net
better that the prop eeitiott should come front them on the
failure of their own efforts, than that it should come from
the ieteiventiou of any foreign power. (Hear, heard if
the future should induce them to acknowledge the toile-
peteleete of the Southern State., he should expect that
sits "lily could the United States rest iu amity,
but that they would rest satisfied that the powers
of Europe had respected the Uuiun in which
liberty had been for yeess estataluthed, end had not at-
tempted to interfere with the coodwa of the ear, but if
they sh 'old he convinced that it was by foreign Mt:rt.-nom
and foreign force that the Southern States, which had bees
driaeu tut. rehelli.u, had been able to establish their nide-
prudence, then depend upon it there would ever he a rank.
Log (erelong agaitist the cuutdry so interfering. With re.
gaud to Mexico he would truly say a word or two. The noble
earl was fully aware Lew it ilkult a question that was. Tie
Injustice perpetrated agsinet foreignent was well know., and
every one was convinced that • time would corns when it
mould lie impassible to hear it any longer. Eughied,
Isom. and Spate had joined iu a cotiveutioe to obtain jus-
tice, awl they had agreed that au influence ba used
to prevent the Mexicans from deciding freely on their owe
form of govenmeent, end by that conveother England would
but she Mid asked for teparetiou, and would nut rest
eareleol rid she had got it.
The Eerl of CA lUN .11: Vt taf sabl that Pre-Ml.lst Davis
stated ii. his me....ge to the Southern rongrem that he hol
furnished the Eerie,. goo. rnnieute with evidence that the
blockade hail leen lutetrupt.,l sod Woken on seven.' ecett•
Moe.. He hoped that the eloeumeut• thus referred to
would lie laid on the table with the other papers.
Lord ISO:010W N ...id there way one subject to which
lie aided to call the attentiou of their lordship., uumelr,
the mode in which the dispute with Aminoa had teen
satilteL He was not pielared to ey that the
government could have itteisted mere than the
surretekr of the lei...nets, but Le did sot think it was a rase
ire which the surrender bad been node under those circuit..
steams %kith would justify their lordships in use mg that it
mitiatartety. He would not have intruded on then
lierlehips' pat mace if it were not to give his full adheaioa,
se tar it had any weight, to the excellent despatch that
proceeded trio the law °Miters of the crown in answer to
that -4 Mr. SewarL lie admitted that the surren-
der would have been iatisfectory if it had proceeded
on the grommets laid down in the cheratch
of the Law °dicers of the crown, but the government of
Amen.. rtlpteliated these ground., and insisted upon totally
differeet priaciples. The principles laid down in the .see.
petit .4 the Lair officers of the crown deserved the fell ap-
pellate.° uf the hems, and he could not bat congritulate
the. governemet sal the country on Myles °brained in moth
as leo...neat cried the assistance of much a law oltoer r hie
Immo., friend then SolicitouGeseran who broegl.t to every
cam to which be applied himself all the weight and maths-
Sty that belong to groat utility, the met profound know.
I.dge, and the very bigh•l4 CIISTSCIOT, permal awl proles-
semi (Heard le edemas to the lose which the cons-
try had sustained by the death of the Prince COMMA, he
would 'v say that, hawing bees associated with him far
tweet,. year iu matters of bemires., he brought to matters
f IL-. laird .1! thee tioahties of mind for which he had
lees distinroshed m ether departments. No man mew
mandated buster. with more singular malteds for beim%