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THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY :EYENING, JUNE 20, 1

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to passim*. but it was of so Tow to liana them with re-
seletieas Ilke that before the house.
After nee brief remarks from Mr. Marisa, Mr. MA-
• Mr. MAIII3T, Mr. M.M1.2011, Mr. HADFIELD, sad
Mr. Carittenazi, Mr. Locus Hugo replied. and
the house
divided—For the reselnuini, 43 'pipet it, 26—mjoeity 17.
ARMY COMMISSIONS.
Mr. HEADLAM moved that this house resolve heel( into
neranattere Se =Uder of as humble address totter Dia-
birral=be dra the will lie graciously pleased to direct
se ha swede in the rules of the military envies to
tits idlest that the regulation value of the commission of
M the army dying or having died in active service
Inks the pe t war may be paid to their representatives
and bsmei part of their personal estate, and to assure her
Mow Shot this house will make good the same. The
Immo vine aware tbet according to the present state of Wags,
if a mon died Is the Nevin, the whole of the money which be
had paid for his oosatiesios was gone. Thus It often hap-
pened that when an officer of reek died, the mustily was
Nasally his ,nsisniary debtor. Clearly this was neither just
nor right. Is the ease of a liesk-colonal, the account paid
for his onsminioa was 4,60 W.„ and if an officer of that rank
was killed, it frequently would happen that he bad sot
received from the country so much as be had paid for his
commission. As as Instance of the injustice of this state
of things, let the house madder the cue of • man ordered
to leave the service, receiving the value of his COrillitission.
From the very facts of the case, each a man mut have sow
milted some action rendering him unworthy of retaining his
position as an *Meer of her Majesty ; but, if such a man had
fallen doing his duty, he would have thereby lost that which
a ass who had done wrong was allowed to gain. If the
benefit which be asked were granted by the house, it would,
he believed, act most benefisially in the service. In the
unmet system men were obliged to pay large sums for life
insurance, in order weever the risk of weer commission-
messy. If the proposal which he made acceded to,
this canes of eines* would be removed.
Mr. OT WAY seconded the mo ion.
The motion was supported by Cul. DIMES, Lord A.
PAGET, Cul. NORTE, and Mr. Atha. It was opposed by
Mr. P. Pen..
Lord PALMERSTON said the motion of his hos.
and leaned friend was only a part of a large
and difficult question. It was obvious that it
connected itself with a question which had been
muck discussed in the house and elsewhere, and that
was whether the purchase and sale of commissions ought
to be continued. It was a question of great difficulty,
and it was impossible—even if it was incited in he
sense ia which many people wished it to be decided— t
to
carry at once, or at any very early period, that onidon
into effect. His hon. and learned friend had laboured
all through his speech under a misapprehension as to
what the system was, fa he argued that the public was
a debtor to officers for the sums they gave for their com-
missions, and if they died is the service, the state came
iato possession of the money. That was a mistake ; none
of the money same to the state, but it was given to the
other officer from whom the commission was purchased,
and the state had no gain in the matter when the pur-
chaser died. To be sure the officer who got the commission
was so far a gainer that he got a step without
Pei chug, which he would otherwise have bad to pay for,
It was a fallacy, therefore, to say that the state was • ciebtor
in a pecuniary sense to an officer for the value of a commission
which he may have bought. The motion of his hon. and
learned friend went to this, that in the present war only,
when any officer died, the state was to pay to his ?option-
, thane the value of any commission he may have purchased.
He was st • loss to know how his hon. friend could soya-
,. rate the first pasta his resolution from the second, for he
did not know from what fond the state was to pay the re-
presentatives of an officer the money he had paid for his
011uirnaiesion. The money was paid, but it was not received
by the government, and it was only out of the public funds
that it could be paid to the claimants, and therefore the two
parts of the resolution must go together. The ma-
Oen of his boa friend required a
mgood deal of
nasideration, and his hon. friend ust see that
tale resolution must go far beyond what was
sow proposed. It would be an arrangement which he (Lord
Palasenton) thought the country would aot object to, and
the house would make good, that in case of an officer being
killed in salon, he might, before going on service where he
might be killed, take hie choice—ember that his family I
should receive the pensions given by the regulations, or ,
allow his representatives to receive tress the public the ' ,
value of the commissions for which he bad paid. (Hear,
hear.) There might be many cases in which it would be t
advantageous to the family to receive the sum paid for the t
commissions, and in other Cases it would he advantageous
fur them to receive the pensions; and whatever additional I
expense was incurred he believed the public would closer-
fully pay, and that house as cheerfully sanction the regula-
hear)—and that not merely for the presest
war. (Hear, bear.) He did not admit such $ distinction 1
as was implied in the motion of his hon. friend. •
Our troops now engage 4 on service deserved all that their
country could give them in the shape of rewards, but there
was nothing so peculiar in this service as to make it a case
different to that is which our troop, were engaged in all
parts of the world. Any regulation of this eon malt cm- '
ice the servim of our troops in all paste of the world, and
thy eircumatatices upon which officers might fall I. the ,
ozonise of their duty. Then came the other case of those
who died, bet nut in action. Toe house ought to mostior
the effect of emanate, the regulation to a case of that sett.
The regulation ought to emend to the ease of alerts who ,
MI, in action, let We service be wheresoever it might; bat
W it was *acceded to the cases of oilcan dying while merely
is the service, what difiersece was there between war and
pan? Could you draw a distinction between diseases which '
miginteravinato the life of officers in different puts of the
world? The case of an officer who died of fever in the Crimea,
was the same as that of an officer dying of fever in the West
Indies and the Cape, and you could not draw a distinction
between thole Came and that of an offio. r dying at bolas ; so
that it would come to be a flatter of all offloers dying while
on full pay in the wrens. With regard to the first part of
the resolution, the government would willingly adopt such I
a regulation as he bad mentiond, namely, that in the case
of ell officers killed in actin, a choice should be gives to
their families to native the pensions established by the
regulations, or the value of any ootamiesiosis they may have
bought, or the sum which they would have been entitled to if
they bad been mild before their death. (Hear,bear.) The rea- '
son why it should be confined to tatters killed is action was,
that any other officer bad an opportunity ti sell out, and
his family wield have the value of his commission. He did
not admit the ground on which this qeestion bad been
argued by his nob e freed (Lord A. Paget), and his hon.
and learned friend (Mr. Headians), for they argued
the quietism of the purchase of a sounaisaion,
as the ground of its bong a commercial speculation
He had compared the annuity which might have been pur-
chased by the sum paid for a eosmis-lon with the income
derived from that oommission ; but even is that comparison
the nahle lord had brought it to 3141. a year, as compared
with 3271., without taking into account the pension to the
widow, which ought to be coosidered in the calculation.
But he (Lord Palliaerstoa) quite denied that we should look
at the motives which induced a man to enter the army or
navy, as the ease motives from which he would make as
investment in railway shares, or in the Three per Cents., or
is a mortgage, or any ether mode of pails/ interest tor his
money. The motives which would induce an officer
to enter the service were the desire of distinction,
the desire of an honoerable condition in life, and of that
reputation and consideration which belonged to the military
service. (Hear.) He hoped, then, that his hos. and
learned friend would be satisfied to leave the question is
the bands of the government, with a view to such an ar-
rmigenseet as that which he (Lord Palmerston) had pointed
out ; and when the hoe. and learned gentleman kinked at
rwrteliwtliive arrastagwehmitthresciit:Zenentielnewdliica:dthcos rover?.
meat was very ready to establish, he trusted the hon. and
learned gentlemen would find that they answered his views.
Mr. HBADLAM said that after the discussion which had
passed, be thought he ought not to press his motion.
(Chem.) He understood the proposal of the noble lord to
be this, that every officer hencef. rib should have the option
of declaring whether ho would take the. bent fit to be given
to his family, in case of his death, under the-new warrant,
or whether be would ban for ba family the regulation
annuity. After such a great concession on the part of the
goverameai, if he understood it rightly, be would not
persist in his motion.
Mr. OT WAY tint not press for a division, hut wished to
have a clear understatiolog LAI the suhj et. He did not so
tinily apprehend what had been said by the noble lord.
Had the noble lord in any way conceded the principle ot
the maim, and would he allow greater advantages to the
widows anti orphans or repress n•Ilti•VI of officers who fell
in action than they atneent eajthat oyed
Lorg pg.LKIWZTON what he meant Miami
esia woe this: that be thought it would be right fora reso-
ld's ft Ito mods by which, as it wee rightly stated by hie
hammllitatmod Mind, it should be optimal with the Asir
M &Wreaths is his lifetime whether, In the event of his
*Whig la Wisp, the family should receive the allowances
se
_ldlisteirer, they were, now given by the regale.
iissnior, In lieu of that, they shout receive the
nine IM blimithmi-siee—that was, the twenties value of
as.., met the sum be might have actually invested is it
Elation was thee withdrawn; and the Click pro,
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20.

PARLIAMENTARY HECTORING.

Miramar; having agreed to place themselves
under the protection of their Tory rivals, for the
purpose of evading Administrative Reform, they
have contrived to obtain a majority of seven to one.
What impression this manoeuvre and its immediate
success may have upon the mind of the country, it
were premature, perhaps, to any. There are many
earnest acd determined spirits on whom such a
declaration of parliamentary defiance will act only as
a new stimulus, and whose energies will only be the
more actively called forth as the necessity for greater
and deeper changes than were at first contemplated
is forced upon national reflection. As against the
claim of the middle classes to • jut share in
the administrative government of the State, all
the oligarchic factions have shown their readiness to
combine. The pretences alleged by each of them
varies, indeed, according to their respective antece-
dents and actual positions. Mr. Dina= spurns
the popular demand as imposture, while he patheti-
cally reminds us of a bantling of his own, of wondrous
promise, which wu smothered in its official cradle,
when he and his friends were driven from power.
With equally parental fondness Mr. GLartsrose tells
us of the still-birth of the scheme, whose early
obsequies have been elaborately performed by Sir S.
NORTRCOTR and Sir C. TREVELTAN ; but whist,
had the breath of life been ever breathed
into it, would, we are assured, have proved
a very Hercules, capable of strangling all
the slippery and insidious jobs whose folds
now encircle the public interest. On the part of the
Whigs, Lord PALMERSTON avers that the favourite
I of the people is a foundling of low and disreputable
origin ; but that they are nurturing to maturity an
offspring of right honourable parentage, whose dress
is still, indeed, the old buff and blue livery, but
whose usefulness in after•years will be felt and ac-
knowledged. All concur in supercilious repudiation
of the child of the people ; its features indicate ple-
beian sympathies ; and every aristocrat in the House,
with two exceptions, voted accordingly on Monday
night that it should be turned out of doors.
Of the many long and tedious speeches delivered
on the occasion, it cannot be expected that we should
speak in much detail. Those of Mr. DISRAELI and
Lord PALMERSTON call, however, for some degree of
separate notice. The aim of the DERBTITE leader
appears to have been to are the opportunity for
throwing another flying bridge across the chasm
that still separates the Tory seceders of 1846 from
the great bulk of their party. Of late there has
been nothing but an interchange of compliments
between the two ex-Chancellors of the Exchequer.
Experience has convinced them both how much they
stand in need of each other, and we must do them
the justice to say that neither of them has of late
been wanting in profuse offers of political
hospitality. A delicate controversy, indeed, is still
waged between them as to which is to be
considered the host and which the guest; but
where the tendency to embraoe is so obvious,
it is but natural to expect that the objects of
mutual affection will advance to meet each other
half way. There is more difficulty in finding floating
espies which may serve as pontoons and planks for
Ilte rank and file to cross. Resistance to Admiois-
grades Reform, in its real and practical sense, has
been seized upon eagerly for this purpose ; and, as
we have said, both of the Conservative orators have
striven to daub it over with their own peculiar
colouring. Mr. GiAncrotez boasts that he designed
to make the civil nerviest a separate and exclusive pro-
Amiss : Mr. DISRAELI, while affecting claims to prior
Morovery, extols the invention, and accepts its
development as a pledge. Mr. GLADSTONE bouts
that Lord ABERDEEN'S Cabinet was more ari►tocratic
than any which had gone before it, and naively reminds
is that it was by it that the far-famed Civil Service
project was contemplated; • tolerably strong proof,
were any wanting, of the oligarchic tendency of the
plan. Mr. DISRAELI hardly takes the trouble to
deny the exclusive character of the scheme ; and di*-
, ides altogether to enter into the question whether
'the esumereial and manufacturing community ought
to have any representation at all in the various de-
pertinent' of its executive government. Thus
I the approaching chiefs of the severed sections of
Toryism seek to conciliate each other's followers by
peeketiog a new plot for the more effectual exclusion
of the plebeians. Sprung from the people themselves,
they are equally willing, as the condition of personal
elevation, to invent new bolts and bars for the defence
of oligarchy from within. Competitive examination
may or may not be resorted to; but the gist of the
fraud which is now sought to be palmed upon us by
Peelitea and Derbyites joined is this, that while
nominations to subordinate offices are to be retained
in the hands of Government as before, no appoint-
ments whatever are in future to be made from with-
out, no matter what the claim of merit, or desert, skill
or experience in the working ways of the world may
be. We have left ourselves but little space to notice
the strange harangue delivered by the Patna
Mirturrea on Monday night. Tired of playing the
buffoon, Lord PALMERSTON now assumes the tone
and swagger of a bravo, anti flings about him coarse
epithets and vulgar phrases in the hope of damag-
ing thane who have ventured to tell the truth re-
garding him, and of deterring others from imitating
their example. This septuagenarian hectoring will
sot do. The time is past when questions of personal
veracity and of public moment could be set-
tled by a resort to foul language. Lord PAL-
MERSTON may elicit cheers from his official vassals
by brandishing the terse ."false" and "fals►
hood" round his mnatorial heed ; but the memory
of an insulted people cannot be bullied to sleep
*well. The middle slams renumber too painfully

ithe penpwerleg. ribaldry and trifling with which.l
tediplaist ,uses tnet, day after dry and war*
after VA, in the Rouse of Commons: MO. LAiAiID
was not the first person to take notice of the 'matter. ;
and wore be blab or weak enough to retract eery
syllable of repos& be has uttered on the subject, a
hundred tongues es elognent as his would cry est
that the arcuntip ie but too true. What *Rd, these,
win the EizElMproisiii to by this species
of Tab; bravidelu-iDap News.

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FIVIJOURNAL DE ST. PETERSBOURG" THE
• ON TIIRTIENNA CONFERENCES.
I. •
• We have received the Journal de St. Pelersbourg
of the 12th, containing the article in reply to Count
Walest ski's circular, noticed in a telegraphic despatch
given by the Daily Nem of Monday. The artic3
in question occupies six columns.
From the opening observations of Count Wa-
lewski's circular, the inference is drawn by the Bt.
Petersburg journal, that throughout the period in
which the late Emperor Nicholas was striving to ar-
rive at a general peace, the Allied governments were
intent only upon the more vigorous prosecution of
the war, and it is suggested that this fact explains
the delay until March in the opening of the Con-
ferences, and the hesitation—not to say extreme re-
pugnance—with which Baron de Bourqueney and
Lord Westmoreland gave ear to the preliminary ne-
gotiations.
The Journal proceeds to examine the reference, in
Count Walewski's circular, to the independence of the
Principalities, contrasting the deplorable situation of
those provinces previous to the treaty of Adrianople
with their condition under the provisional administra-
tion of Count kisseleff. Russia's object is declared
to be achieved when the free regime of the
Principalities obtains the sanction of public European
law, by the collective guarantee of all the great
powers. " Such is the result in which our plenipo-
tentiaries had an honourable share. In approving
the acts which they have signed, the Imperial Cabinet
regards this question as terminated."
On the second point, the navigation of the Danube.
the Russian Plenipotentiaries were also at one with
the representatives of the Allied Powers. It was the
Russian administration ,says the Jourrsat,which opened
to the freedom of commerce one of the most magnifi-
cent markets in the world; and it then proceeds to
contend that the facts show that Russia did not abuial
her privilege—at any rate, it was not necessary to
spill the blood of France and England to overcomes
the few existing obstacles.
The Journal, passing to the consideration of the
Fourth Point, expresses regret that the Third—which
possessed such a grave interest to all Christians--was
postponed, because " we longed to satisfy ourselves
that the intentions of the Russian Cabinet co-
incided with those of France and England." It is then
remarked:
If we are to judge by the remarks contained in the circu-
lar of May 23 (Count Walewski's) there existed a certain di
vergence of view between the French Cabinet and ours. Al
Paris the political question predominates ; in other words
the fourth guarantee is specially considered in relation tc
the influence which the great Powers exercise in the East
At St. Petersburg the religions sentiment, the national
4entiment of the country, outweighs the considerations be-
longing only to the domain of panties. Under the influ-
ence of this conviction, the principal object whiob the
Russian plenipotentiaries were directed to keep in view, was
to arrive at a peace by which the liberty of worship, and
the amelioration of the condition of the Christian popula-
tions, subject to the domination of the Ottoman Empire
should be placed for the future under the safeguard of
collective Act, sanctioned by European law.
If the efforts of all the Powers tended towards the sal
end, nothing would be more easy than to clothe this i
with the forms deemed necessary to secure for the Sultan
the merit of a spontaneous Sovereign will manifested in P.
your of his Christian subjects. In this respect
wish as ouch as France and England to arrange
for the Sultan the opportunity of giving himself
up, to use the words of the circular of May 22
to the most generous inspirations." The intention of the
Russian Cabinet assuredly is not "to in Turkey all
useful reforms, or to exci e the populations against their
sovereign." It is with toes@ that we reproduce this
expression from Count Walewski's despatch, conscious o
the importance which all governments attach to making
this doctrine respected not only is Turkey, but everywhere
eke.

We arrive at the revision of the treaty of 1841. That
which surprises us at first is, that the French Cabinet
bee completely paned over in silence the results already
obtained in determining this amicably. In our opinion the
most useful guarantee for assuring the repose of the Levant
is not to be sought. It is found. The Plenipotentiaries,
reunited in conference on April 19, established it unani-
mously under the form of an engagement, conceived in these
terms If a conflict arises between the Sublime Pc
and one of the high contracting parties. the two States.
fore resorting to the employwnt of foroe, shall put
other Powers in the way of preventing such an extremity
pacifiz. means."

This stipulation, to tell the truth, ought to put an end t..
all further diseuuion. The foresight of the Cabinets would
be unable to go beyond the pledgee of security contained
this engagement. The principle of perfect reciprocity
racterising this stipulation renders it equally reassuring
h ble for all the contracting powers. After this gua.
mates given to the preservation of the Ramps= eqe
Orism, Is it necessary to prolong the calamities of war,
order to seek for ampler material precautions ? It is upon
this rock that the negotiations at Vienna spilt. We feel
more regret than surprise. The human mind cannot
create impossibilities. It risks failure in its enterprises wr
it attempts to go beyond. This truth applies to the xr
vial g tees with which it has been sought, more
once at other peel xis, to surround political transactions.
In a similar spirit the St. Petersburg Journal
alludes to the circumstances under which the Fourth
Point was rejected, expressing the sentiment that
is neither to the interest of Russia nor of the Allies
that hostilities should continue, and that this
safer guarantee for peace than any question of
bees in the Black Sea. It is urged that Russia
a direct interest in the maintenance of peace in
Levant, and the rise of hostilities is attributed to t
existence of " a predominant influence at Constani,
nople, which judged the moment favourable for rege-
nerating the Ottoman Empire by a warlike start.
The Russian plenipotentiaries went as far as "
could when, at the Conference, they proposed
(lately, the opening or the closing of the
Sea. The limitation of the number of Ru.
noels is declared to be inadmissible; bat the Jr
nal says that the time is not come for discussing I
point with proper calmness.
After again putting the question, whether upon
conditions already agreed to peace might not at
be concluded, the article closes as follows :
Thus the blame of the rupture falls upon the Western
Powers. Their unwillingness hes put an end to the negotia•
hone. It is not the Russian Cabinet which is responsible. -
en one side it has opposed to Freres sad England the
resolution not to agree to demands exceeding the limit
down from the opening of the Conferences, on the other,
has offered to friendly powers the proof of its sincere desii
to contribute loyally to a peace conformed to the sentiment
of the dignity of Russia. Constant in these principles, '
will leave the way open to an honourable reconeiliatic
when the desire of peace shell be more generally felt
France cad in England—when experience shall have
lightened the two countries upon the mistakes of a
without object and a ha:red without c lose. It will be
muted then to resume, with the hope of success, negotia-
tions for assuring to Europe the benefit, too long
looked, of g 1 repose.

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