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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 19.

MR. LINDSAY'S Motion having suffered a fifth
and final expurgation, made its appearance in the
House last night, in spite of an appeal from the
Member for Hull, founded on the canards of the
Liverpool Exchange, which came to life so conve-
niently in the afternoon. Reduced to a single
paragraph, the Motion suggested merely that the
Seceded States had entitled themselves to the
serious and immediate attention of her MAJESTY'S
Government, with the view of terminating hostili-
ties by an offer of mediation. The expression of rea-
diness to support her Ms.irsry in "any measures"
she might adopt to put an end to the civil war in
America had dropped out of the Resolution alto-
gether ; but it is simple justice to the mover to
remark that the animus of the first draft of his
Resolution survived in the last. For the end of
all the lengthy and rambling survey of the
political constitution and geography of the
United States, the causes of the civil
war, and the consequences of its continuance,
in which Mr. LINDSAY disported himself, and
aired his information, showed that justice and
mercy were both with the South, and that the
wise men of the North were tacitly waiting for
England and some other European Power to help
her by moral force, "or otherwise," out of a
dreadful scrape. This was the sum and substance
Of Mr. LINDSAY'S interminable farrago of cheap

statistics and private letters, received " only this
" morning." The rest of it wu nothing but s
deooction of SPINCI, flavoured with extracts from
the New York Herald. Mr. LINDSAY, in order, as
he said, to avoid irritation, favoured the House
with a statement of the rights and wrongs of the
North and South, such u Mr. MASON of Vir-

ginia might endorse ; yet all he demanded
her Dissserv's Government Irma to present

Weahingtou an offer of mediation, breed upon the

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determination and ability of the Seceded States
to support their independence, and at
Richmond an offer of mediation based upon
the military insufficiency of the United States.
It was the most opportune moment for obtaining
the opinion of the House of Commons on the
whole American question, when the stormy petrels
were not only brooding on the deep, but actually
coming up the Mersey and the Thames. Nothing,
he said, could increase the exasperation of the
Northern States against England, so that nothing
was gained by silence on this side of the Atlantic,
while private letters from the other aide besought
England to rush in between the combatants, and
divert to herself their mutual blows. If, how-
ever, this offer of mediation between the irrecon-
cilable combatants should be declined, then re-
cognition of the Seceded States and an injunction
to the Union to put an end to the war would
follow. Neither Mr. Lninaiy, who extolled the
civil and military capacities of the South, nor
Lord ADOLPHUS VANS TZAIPLICY, who went in for
moral and something more than moral interne-
tion, nor Mr. Warming, who dilated on the pre-
Andante of Greece, Belgium, and the Spanish
colonies, and Portugal two hundred years ago,
informed the House on what terms short of per-
fect separation of the Seceded States, that is, of
the very disunion against which the United States
are up in arms, the proposed mediators should nego-
tiate, or what rectification of frontiers in favour of
the revolted States, which at present have none,
should be secured by the mediators who are so anxi-
ously expected by the North. Only, by way of making
the proposed mediation more palatable to one at
least of the contending parties, Mr. LINDSAY;
whose singleness of purpose is sadly undiploma-
tic, avowed his belief that whether in regard of
the commercial or political interests of England,
the American Union as it had heretofore existed
was too large. The Member for Sunderland's
frankness is engaging, no doubt ; but, as Mr. W. E.
Irony= powerfully and convincingly argued,
an offer of mediation with such a purpose and
such a commentary, was equivalent to a declara-
tion of war. All the speakers for the recognition
and establishment of the Southern Confederacy,
—for that is the only meaning of mediation—were
profuse in expressions of sympathy for the
suffering and distress which the civil war among
our kinsmen across the ocean has brought home
to the hearths of thousands of the sturdiest and
bravest of our own fellow-countrymen. This
sympathy, we are persuaded, was heartfelt and
sincere, but it would have taken a more practical
turn had it been accompanied with some precise
indications of the relief which an act of mediation,
resulting in the recognition of the Southern
Confederacy, or an act of intervention resulting in
war, would be likely to afford to capital and
labour in Lancashire. Mr. P. Tevios, in a speech
marred only by the generous infirmity of a style
somewhat too impassioned for his audience,
answered Mr. LINDSAY'S well-worn fallacies on
the subject of slavery and tariffs, with a boldness
and a fervour that raised the tone of
the debate, but his most effective passage
was that in which he compared the sufferings
which the civil war had laid upon us already with
those which forcible intervention to put an end to
it would entail upon our industry and commerce
for years to come. Mr. W. E. FORSTER, with his
usual clearsightedness and sobriety of judgment,
discerned the growing danger of such vexatious
Resolutions. Declining to give utterance, as an
English Member of Parliament, to loose opinions
on the policy of the American Government,
he asked how peace between the North, fighting
for union, and the South for disunion, was attain-
able through a friendly mediation of which the
sole object was separation. And he warned the
supporters of the Resolution that "if they wished
" the war to be prosecuted in a vigorous manner
" they could not attain their end in a more in-
" genious way than by an offer of mediation
" such as that contemplated by the Motion."
" No less than 300,000 men," he added, "are
" wanted by President LINCOLN ; and if we want

300,000 men to be found, all we have to do is
to send out intelligence by the next mail that
" England, in concert with other Powers, threatens
" the North with interference. If we wish
"to work up the North to the same pitch of
" frenzy as the South, let us offer them foreign
" interference." The truth of these emphatic
warnings was strikingly confirmed, before the House
had adjourned for the night, by the telegraphic in-
te"igence which we publish this morning. It ap-
pears that the Mayor of New York has issued
a proclamation to the effect that the services of
all loyal citizens are demanded, sot only to put
down the rebellion, but also repel with becoming
sy:rit the first approach of foreign intervention,
obscurely threatened, which cannot be admitted
without national disgrace. Another of Mr. W.
E. FORSTER'S warnings is already, almost to the
letter, justified. " Three months after inter-
ference the negroes would be so many
" sepoys in the Northers army." And here
by the last telegrams we hear of the New York
Times urging " that in case of foreign intervention
"Southern negro regiments should be raised."
So that the too zealous friends of the South, and
the i'l-disguised advocates of a good fat maritime
war, are not so much aiding and abetting slave-
holders as sowing the seeds of a servile massacre.
Her Marzsrr's Government, however, we rejoice
to be able once more to assure our
readers, are not mystified by Mr. WHITESIDE'S
international law, nor duped by Mr. LINDSAY'S
horror of blockades. In language more than
usually calm and judicious the Finer Misurrza
declared last night, in substance, that the time for
mediat4on had not yet come, and that mediation
to be free from danger must be asked for by
those who accepted it, and removed from all
taint of prejudice and partiality in those who
offered it.

M. Tuouvirsix. ut OITORD. —On Monday last
this distinguished natesmen, Minister for Fo Attain in
France, visited Oxford in company with IL and
lady, the Marquis of Chatmurenard and another patients%
and were conducted over the university by the Ben. Dr.
Plnairitre, pro Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Acland, end Mr. Alder-
man Spins in the absence of the mayor. After spending a
long day in seeing the principal objects of interest, the party
left by the lest mein for Leamington, expressing themselves
highly delighted with their rink—Oxford Chronicle.
Donate TO K GALLAir.—The series of enter-
tsionnets to distinguished foreigners, in relation to the
International Exhibition, will henceforth be remembered
as having included one of a particularly interesting elm-
rather, which took pleas last evening in honour of the
great Belgian artist, IL (Whit. A dinner on a very grand
mole wee given to this gentleman at Rooms.
The Earl Granville aosupthd the post of chairman, an
once which at all times he fills with remarkable gnus,
but for which, when a krge proportion of the company
preeent ie composed of foreigners, he is more eimiey
fitted. On the preeset merits he was well suP
in hie duties of setertainer, es well es of
_pFeeidmistrit
Cherie' Loth Eastlake, P.M.A. Sir Edwin Latimer,
RA.; Mr. Clerks:ft Stanfield, B.A. ; Mr. R. IL Ward,
MA. ; Mr. W. P. Frith, ILL ; Solomon Hart,
; Mr. Muslim B.A. ; Mr. W. Odder Ida/shall, R.A. ;
Mr. David Roble* HA. ; Mr. Thomas Feed, A.R.A. ;
Bann Marosisslll. A.B. A. ; Mr. Frederick Ta 14:resident
of the Wailer Oder Society ; Mr. Loeb Sir F.
Gohlemid, M.P. ; Alderman Salmons. M.P. ; . Timms
Bering. M.P. ; Mr. Constantine Inside', Mr. Henry
Schroeder, and Mr. Joseph Arden.

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OSBORNP Juvr 18.
The Queen accompanied by Princes. Helena,
drove one yesterday. Colonel the lion. A. Harding° at-
tended.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Grey, went to
Tunbridge Wells, and visited Queen Marie Amelia and the
Duke and Duchess of Montpensier.
The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of her
Majesty.

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The Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur cruised in the
royal yacht Victoria and Albert on Wednesday.

Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this day at
Osborne.

An address was transmitted to the Viceroy of Egypt,
through the Hon. Chubs A. Murray, yesterday, from the
Evangelical Alliance, thanking his highness for his deter
'mination to sot upon the principles of just and benevolent
toleration in the country under his nil, ; and for the inter-
position reeently made under his highness's authority on
behalf of a native Christian who was suffering severely
from a fanatical outbreak in the City of Siyut for having
undertakes to defend a native woman, herself also perse-
cuted on account of religion.
The address was signed by Sir C. E. Eardley (chairman),
William Cardin, M.A., and James Davies (secretaries),
and Hermann Sohmsttoa (Foreign Secretary of the
Evangelical Alliance), and by Lord Stratford de Radcliffe,
Lord Caltborpe, Lord Radatock, Lord Shaftesbury, the
Hoe. A. Kinnaird, the Hon. W. Ashley, the Bishop of Lon-
don, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of Oxford, the
Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Gibraltar, the Bishop of
Labuss, the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, the Dean of
Ripon, and numerous others of the clergy and laity.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday
to the Governor of Malts.