The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-25 00:00:00

TILE 14',X.PRESS, SA TITRDAN IFVEICING, APRIL 25, 1863.

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TRITSTEES (SCOTLAND) ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
TM LOUD CLIANCELLOR said • vesty modal teessure
was pulsed lad you, entitled " An Act to aitssod the Law
relating to ths Porten and Liabilities of grata itousTi ushiee,"
but • difficulty had arisen in detervoiniug whether certain
persons who would be called gratuitous trustees in England
would come within that class in Scotland. The object of
tbe present 01101• SUI• IVY to get rid of that difficulty.
Tbe bill was real • wooed tints.
OFFICE OF SECRETA ItYT WAR ABOLITION
BILL

This bill pared through committee.
DOCKY AItDS PItOTECTION
BILL. ACT AMENDMENT
The bill passed through committee.
Their lordihips adjourned at a quarter to 7 o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.--FRIDAY, Arlin. 24.
The Smuts took the chair at 4 o'oleek.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Anginal Masser Bill and Sowerhy-bridge Local Baud
Bill were read ss *lid time ad pseud.
THE ROYAL PROCESSION THROUGH THE CITY.
The LORD MAYOR gave nestles that be should ask for
• return of the troops employed in the City sod metropoli-
tan districts for the preservation of order during the royal
procession On the 7th of Minh, specifying bow they were

&stranded.
POLICE AMALGAMATION BILL.
Colonel FRENCH gave notice that as Monday he should
ask the Home Secretary whether, liaviag obtained leave to
brio; is u • public, measure a bill for the amalpination of
the City and Metropolitan police, which, as it related to
matter of police sad proposed to deal with the powers
of corporations and with constables tinder local eats, could,
muter the rules of the hot" be cosaidered only as a
private bill, he intended to proceed further with the pro-
posed measure.
RIGHTS OF MERCHANT SHIPS.
Lord A. CHURCHILL wished to ask the Solicitor-Ge-
oeral whether merchant ships, in the prosecution of •
youp Datums menu.' pooh, would be legally justified in
defending themselves. by the use of arms, from capture by
the cruisers of the Federal States of America.
The SOLICITOR-OENEILLL—I have no hesitation is
stating that merchant vessels noder the oircumstannes which
the question supposes would certainly sot be justified in do
fondle; themselves from capture by the use of arms. The
question was determiud in the celebrated ow of the
Swedish convoy, in which it was held, after quoting pre-
vious authorities, that not only were
do
they justified in
doing so, but even if they attempted toso, even with
ship@ of war in ocavoy, they would expose the/cadres not
only to capture but just condemnation.
SY A L L- PDX.
Lord NAAS wilted to ask the Secretery of State for the
Home Department whether the attention of the yournment
had ben drawn to the tureen of small-pox in tie metro-
polis ; and whether it was hie inteetios to promo during
thea...lit erasion any measure for the promotion of nod-
nat
Mr. LOWE said the misfortune with regard to the quo-
tion of vaccination was that when there was no alarm about
smell-pox so trouble was taken on the subject, and it wee
only whom disuse appeared io ell its horror that applica.
time were made for legislation which must be very tardy.
and insufficient to meet the evil that surrounded them. The
subject had engrained the attention of the authorities. In
England there was a measure for compulsory vaccination.
The mune of the peat spread of the disease, however,
was to be found in the weed of the local authorities, who
were not sufficiently active in carryiag eat the provisions of
the *satin law. There was no set, he was sorry to say, for
Scotland, but the subject was under considiestion, though
no decision had been come to.
TILE PRINCE ALBERT MEMORIAL.
Mr. CONINOHAM gave notice that on the report of the
vote is supply for the pant towards the memorial to the
late Prince Albert he should move the further poetpooemest
of the vote until such time es information was dtarded to
show the housethat the sum demanded was adequate ter the
execution of it. (Oh, oh.) Unless the Fiat Lord of the
Treasury gave a eatiefactoty explanabon fixing a limit
beyond which the vote should notle earried, he would take
the noes of the home epos it.
THE POLICE AMALGAMATION BILL

Mr. HENLEY gars mass got • th• milks for the
soma roadbig at this bill, be lima ammtlint be road •
mood ties that illay six moods. (Ks r, bora

Mr. DENMAN said he could omens the statement of
bis right hon. bisect the Horne Secretary as to the state of
feeling to Scotland ; for he happened to be trevelling in the
country at the time, and haviog reed every wool of the
evidence, he talked about it to everybody he met is the
tress. l i laugh.) Heounid not find a Nagle Scotahmen
who believed Jesse M'Lwgblae to be guilty, and one nun
odd, not that the woman ought not to be, but that she
should not be hanged, and another said that it would mite
three regiment. of soldier. to hang her. He hoped the Lord.
Advooate would inform the house whether it ins the law of
Scotland that a person who bail once been examined ea a
witness in a crimes) case could not be tried iu oonwition
with it. if that were so, it was a most *renditions state of

the law. (Hear.)
The LORDADVOCATE said he could not refuse to re-
spond to the &penal that had been mode to him, as to how
far a pence who had given evidence could be tried with re-
ference to the same charge. His opinion was, that un-
doubtedly be could not be so tried, and such was the law of
Scotland. Nor was he prepared to admit that this
was neoseetril a bad state of the law. It was ex-
tremely de that witnesses should give their tes-
timony without fear of consequence's. W hen the judge saw
there were suspicious circumstances spinet the witness the
usual course we. for him to assure the witness that nothing
he could say would be brought against him, and that be
meld not be tried for the matter in bend. Although in the
present one this caution was sot taken, yet if the witness
Fleming had been arraigned at the bar, and this objection
had been takes, he (the Lord Advocate) was clearly of
opinion that be could not have been tried. With respect
to the course he (the Lord Advocate) had taken in this in-
quiry, that might have been smartened by his hon.
friend in a very simpl manner. In this case he
had taken the coarse which be ordinarily took when his
right hon. friend the Home Secretary directed an inquiry.
The result of the inquiry was not to criminate Fleming, but,
sa his right boa. Irked had mid, the result wee to show—
first, that there were material circumstance which were
not before the jury ; and secoodly, that there were sub-
stantial doable on parts of the can which had not bees laid
before the jury. Os them grounds it wee resolved not to
pardon the culprit, but at the -came time sot to inflict the
extreme penalty of the law. No doubt these were always
cams of peat anxiety, and he had great double whether any
good moss from discussing them is that house. (Hear,
hear.) The responsibility of a Home Seernary was so pave
that be should be left with that reepomibthty,
sad neither have objections on the on hand, nor popular
discussions in that house on the other. He should not be
controlled by the fear of its being said that be had overridden
the minion of • jury or the opines of • judge. He
thought his right hon. friend could eat have come to any
other conclusion than he bad come to. (Cheers.)
The subject shortly afterward, dropped.
THE SEIZURE OF THE ALEXANDRA.
Mr. HOBEFALL, in eating attentin to the cam of the
'enure of the Alexandra at Liverpool, denied at the oaten
to Mahe that ha bad no wish to promote any general dis-
cussion either en the Forties Eatintment Act or on the pro.
nut state of affairs in America. U, however, the bon.
member for Rochdale (Mr. Cobden), who had • notice on the
paper, it it right to do so, be bed so right to take ex-
ception to is ; but he vectored to expos the hope that the
home maid got allow itself to be carried away by any
pond diatonic on a peers' principle from the individual
ore of bardeldp which it wee his duty to submit to them.
The charge was, he understood, that the Alexandra was
furnished and fitted out with the Intent of bang employed
is the envies of the Confederate aping the reeled Mahe ;
but to this the owlets replied with the edema declaration
that they entertained so intentin of theme'. Her Majesty's
'oversewn. profaned to act staidly up= the principle of
' neutrality in the contest now going ou ie Almeria' ; but if
we were to have neutrality, why bad they nos stopped
the alionest of arms to the Federal, as well as
the mane of • ship which they +u.,-seed of being in
the genies of the Confederate? The fact wee that at this
minneat we were not only supplying thte. Federate,
also the
rodthriNme eeethelifeoer cafe,
emigration tiOWOUDoll7;latu from
Limped dm* the present year was ooesiderably greater
OM 11 had been during the correspoading period in
a par ones 1853. Now be did Dot object
to eingeants going to the United States ; but
rem* we had • right to know by whom they
wise emit, led he was told that the merge of • large
pinks Ini these persons was paid for in America. He
sogpoted, therefore, that it was the duty of the govern-
ment to lave the Foreign Enlistment Act amended so that
the shipment of arras should be prevented as well as the
dispatch of vessels fitted out for warlike purposes. In
conclusion, the hoc. member complained that the owners of
the Alexandra had not been permitted to see the evidence
upon which the ship had bean mand,and called upon the
government to afford facilities for enabling those gentlemen
to free themselves from • charge that was utterly un-
founded and had entailed upon them a greet hardship and
isj
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that even if the forms
of the home allowed the hon. gentleman to make hie mo-
tion, there could be but one answer on the part of the go-
veraineot, sad that answer he would not delay one moment
giving. Without entering into the details of the quai-
-1 hoe, be would my that it must be presumed that the Alex-
' aodra had been mind on sufficient grounds by the govero-
meet and on sufficient information. The usual proceedings
wereta caused being takes In ormiequeseos of that ensure,
and the boo, gentleman asked the government to lay on the
table of the boom the data and materials which had induced
the government to act as they bad dose. Nothing would
tend moors to subvert the adminithratiou of justice than for
the house to lend itself, pending proceedings in soy of
their worts of justice, to furnish—for that would be the
effect of laying the papers on the table of the house—the
peewee amused with the data on which the
penmen proceeded. The hom gentleman bad.
however, alluded to another case. He stated that not
only were arms furnished from Liverpool to the Federal
government, but that remain, under the name of emi-
grants, were also supplied. Now, was that the case or VII
it not ? The Foreign Enlistment certainly provided for
such &case if it arose ; and if the hon. member, or those
who gave him the information, supplied evidence to the
government or to the officers who an for the executive at
Liverpool showitig that such was the fact, he
would undertake that the law should be strictly
enforced. Information• would be laid before the
keel justices, and warrants obtained for the arrest of the
parties, end the vessel on board of which they were to be
conveyed would be seised. In the absence of such infor-
mation it was unfair to charge the government with exer-
cising in the one case undos severity, and in the other with
failing to pot the law into executioo. He trusted the hon.
member would not persist with the motion, which amis.
tautly with the rules of the house could sot be put from the
chair.
Mr. WRITE:3IDR said be thought that the motion of the
boa member for Liverpool was one of • very serious cha-
racter, and he did not think that the right boo. gentlemen
who hod just spoken had answered the point of that state-
ment. For his part he bed never heard a more simple or
intelligible case put before the house. If depo-
otiose were made against the meanest criminal in the
land be had • right to be furnished with copies of the
information. (Hear, hear.) Was this new principle about
to be introduced by her Majesty's government, that when a
crime was charged &phut • party be was to be told that he
would lame the enure of the actuation at • future time?
Mr. COLLIER said that the question before the house
nett sotto be considered solely in • national point of view.
' The bones should remember that though they were mend
new, they might on day be belEgareata. and 'ay rale or
principle laid down now might that be usrd sgaiost them.
It appeared to him that if one foreign power made me of •
antral territory for the purpose of enabling them to con-
duct hostilities against another power, the latter would have
• right to complain of such • proceeding, independently
alithini of the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act.
Tied was the ground on which we acted in the year 1793.
At NM time the French ambassador used the ports of
America to 114 one privateers to prey on the commerce of
this country. We remonstrated with the American go-
vernment ea the ground that such a proceeding was a
breach of nentridity, and the government of Washington
acknowledged the justice of the remoostrame, and
Mopped the fitting out of privateers in their
ports. We remonstrated with the American go-
vernment on two grounds first, because they allowed
the export of arms and ammunition from their ports to
France ; end, secoodly, because they permitted the equip-
, mond vwls of war in their ports. They distioetly
re-
pediated their obligation to prevent the shipment of arms
and armannition —(mar, hear)—but they as distinctly
Waited their obligation to prevent the fitting out of vemels
of leer. That was a distinction of very peat importance.
If the Americans had been guilty of any breech of inter-
, manual law, let us make that a groan of remonstrance
spin them, and insist upon oar rights ; but let us not
make the existence of such grounds of complaint a pretext
ter miming to enforce our own laws. He believed and
lapel that mane would be maintained. He believed that
the great bulk not only of our countrymen, but of the
Amnon people also, desired it (Cheers.) They bad,
no
doubt, used imMting language, and pro-
' body had done irritating acts • but he would
remind the hones that these irritating expressions
I we mere represented the feelings of the Americans at large
I then skein expreenne in that bean nprimetsd the teei-
ng el Eagles& (" Haar, hear," and laughter.) He hoped
and behaved thet peen would be maintained ; but, if war
meet ma, let us endeavour so to demean ourselves that
the opinion of the whole civilised world might be in our
bent. Let us at any rate be able to satisfy our ow. coo-
esimese that we had left nothing online mosetectly with
ewe beam to avert so great • enmity. (Cheers.)
fit H. CAIRNS mid, if sothiog mere bad been done
than the law e the country warraiited, why was it that for
upwards of • fortnight the owners of the Alexandra were
left in lOW* icroomace of the mime which was laid to their
charge. He complained that the Attorney-General had
not offend one word of explanation cm this paid, demanded
to know why, after the machinery of the law had been put
in tonne by the Americas omen], a copy of the evidence
bad ad bees famished the partiesamerise4 and ridiculed the
notice esned on the OVUM as indicating no offence which
was esetaind in the act.
Mr. COBDEN drew atteatien to the motives of national
mildatered, and to the obligations of implied international
eagagements, by which the British government was called
tinnier • vigilant sad rigid enforcement of those provisions
of the Fordo Enlistment Act, which forbade the funni-
ng of ships of war to a belligerent power to be employed
spied anther power, with which this country was at
pace. The her. member dewed that there was oo
sionstac i the world that parted one-parter the interest

that England had at Make is maintaining the system of
interoatimal law, of which the Foreign Enlistment Act was
the basis. He contended that we were u meek boned
to sa honourable reciprocity towards the UMW
84•61118 as if we had treaty espgements with them.
What would have become of our ogoee s. if the little dark
cloud that hosiers, Brasil the other day had ushered is a
war? According to the theory of the hon. and learned gen-
tleman. the Americans would be entitled to build ships and
mod them out to carder is the name of the Brazilian '
government, with the penitiarnios of the lira:Dian
governmeut, to cruise against our oommeroe. But he would
Dot put it oo the ground that this might possibly happen
by oar adopting the alternative which the boa. and loathed
geotleman had so unwisely referred to; sod he thought
the boo. and learned gentleman ought to thank him for
giving him the opportunity of retracting or qualifying it
but what might happen, and what would happen if we did
not ou this °cession observe the same neutrality towards
America which America bad observed towards us ? Could
we maintain the Foreign Enlistment Ace in Amato or else•
where, mime we maintained it bomurably ourselves ? They
had not only In America, bat in Franco, a moat stringent
foreign enlistment law. A friend of his wrote to him
stating that according to the French oode if a person there
fitted out a ship of war for a foreign power, or did anything
that incurred the Athol war. he was liable to transports-

—Were there any meow by which our government
could prevent the Biting out end sending forth such ships
as the Alabama, the Florida, and the Japan ? All there ships
were built in this eountry, maimed in this country, and
armed and equipped in this country. No nation would
suffer so much es this ration from Ude system if war ware
to break out. He believed that there was always afloat
on salt water property to the amount of from 100 to 120
millious sterling, uwsed by British merchants. The pro-
perty of British merchants at stake on the ocean was more
than that of all the rust of thir world put together. Thre►
fourth, of the tea that came from China came to this

country and four-fifths of the silk, and of the tallow and
hemp which wee exported from Russia the greatest part
came to this country, and one-half of a the cotton in the
world. He wasted public opinion to be raised on the side
of law in this country. Every oes who built a ship of war
for either of the contseeling parties essmaitted • crime, and
subjected himself to weal coseinasesse. The Alabama was
built for the Confidante goverment; and was manned here
surreptitiously, and eras were sent to bar. Earl Russell
said the Alabama escaped under the pretext of going
on a pleasure trip. In another despatch he said
she had violated the law, and that he had sent
orders for her to be stopped at Nunn. But
if she could be stopped at Nassau, why not stop her else-
where? Why not woe • proclamation that those vessels
which bad escaped from our ports should not be admitted
into any of the ports or any of our islands? That would
have a misdeal to stop the seeding out such vessels by
making it not pay. That was our duty is reference to our
obligataone for the put and oar interest for the future.
They had pawed their Foreign Enlistment Act many years
sem That law was passed to prevent a war between two
nations becoming • general war. It was a benign law ; and
were they now going to roll back the axis of the moral
world by whimaily repealing that law and violating our
avowed neutrality ? He could not help thinking that that
house would feel that in doing so it would be unworthy of
itself and of the country, and would moreover be com-
mitting a cruel and general wrong apes hurmaity.
Mr. BOWMAN, speaking in regard to the conduct of
her Majesty's governmest, said his opinion was that they
had with perfect m y sodeavoured to carry out the
policy of • dent and undeviating neutrality. There was
no doubt that we were bound to enforce the Foreign
Enlistment Act by a regard to oar whined character
he could not, therefore. be the apologist
who men
who were guilty of illegal proceedings, that tended
to embarrass our relations with other countries.
The right hoe. gentleman then proceeded to review
the progress of the American struggle from the commence-
ment to the present time, and observed that seoessioo was
DOW an accomplisbed fact, proved by the triumph in alms,
the wisdom and calmness in council, and the spirit of •
people determined, as one man, to die for their imispee-
demos. The war on the part of the North was now not only
waged against freedom, but cimliatiou ; for great as was
the crime of slavery, there was yet • crime of deeper,
blacker dye ; sad it was to be found in the proclamation of
President Lincoln, which invited the negro to achieve his f PM.
dom by a carnival of crime. The right hon. gentleman con-
tinued :—The government of the North having played their
last desperate card and it having been followed by failure
and disgrace, they profess now to still cherish
the delusion that the Union is to ha recovered by war.
But let me ask this simple question. When you have half-
a-million of men in arms on ow side to compel en union,
and on the other sworn to resist it to death,
what becomes of the spectacle of eke great republic founded
on the free choke at ea united people •. Why the attempt
to cement that union with blood km broke. down the whole
internal government el the wantry. The free republic has
been metamorphosed into a military tyranny—the Pre-
sident is a more irresponsible despot than the Czar
of Russia—hherty of
are person of motion, of speech,
at writing, and of thoo;ht, all goes—the
press is coerced and gagged—the state pitmen me filled
with political off eedere—end, as it used so be in Italy—The
editor of a paper who dares to preach peace hes his pro-
perty destroyed, and a politics lyieg for signature recom-
mending to the government arktratioa is seized by the
yahoo and torn to puma Meer, hoer.) Is fact at this
menses the consolidation of the United States is at an end.
And what is their financial positiou ? In three years they
have created a debt half as large as that of England, and
of double the rate of interest. The interest oe the debt
at this moonlit is greater than the whole revenue of the
Union was before the war, and in three wan
hews they will have the largest debt in Europe
sod the lowest credit. (Leughter, and beer, hear.) Thew
army is in process of dissolution. By their own depart-
gametal amount; by the returns of their own officials, the
number of deserters during the war has exceeded 130.000.
Their tern of enlistment expires on the Ist of Jute, and en-
listment is not likely to be renewed by soldiers whose pay
is very much In arrear. The Irish and Germans—who are
the fighting portion of the army—have either been killed
or have disappeared, acid the negroes—for whom emancipa-
tion my hos. friend is so desirous and who were thelast hope
of the North—have failed, for at the first volley these sable
warriors threw down thew musketa and runaway. (Laughter.)
Such then is the political, the financial, and the military
000ditiou of the Union which has been brought to ruin by
the errors of its administratioe, and I have reviewed the
situation of their drain, because it enables us to judge of
those leaders who appear to be imlinedto mown their errors
by the belief that the best escape from intestine troubles
would be a foreign war, and that a war with England would
answer that purpose most effectually.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the discussion bad
wandered very far indeed, and if he endeavoured to bring it
back in some degree nearer to the point, be felt be should
labour under the disadvantage which everyone experienced
who endeavoured to return to a dispiesiosate frame of
mind after bearing as matiou not altogether of that charac-
ter. (Hear, hear.) He heartily agreed with the desire for
the maintenance of peace which had been expremed by his
right hoe. friend, and it was with pleasure he heard that his
wishes were so strong for peace, although he owned be
entertained some degree of doubt whether his speech
had that pacific tendency which he, doubtless,
desired it to have. He could only hope for the best. He
had heard, with considerable satisfaction, from his boo.
friend the member for Belfast (Sir H. Cairns) that, in his
ruin, there was no question about the policy of the
Enlistment Act and the duty of enforcing it. He
should be very glad indeed if he could feel sure that
such was the universal opinion of that house. (Hear,
hear.) He thought it would be a great support to the
government if that were generally understood throughout
the country, for there could be no doubt whatever that
it was the duty of the govei °meat, while this was the
law, to enforce that law. There could be no doubt that
those persons, whether they were merchants in high
position or low, or whatever else they might be,
who did not feel the obligation to observe this law
in their commercial and other dealings, were forgetful
of the duty which they as citizens owed to their coantry.
(Hear, hear.) Could it be canniest with their duty as
subjects, as chinos, and as Christian men, to disregard
the obligation so doubly laid on them both by the law
of the country and the command of the Queen, and, he
might add, by the jeopardy in which important puhlio
interests might be placed by their wanton sod systematic
disregard of those obligations? (Hear, hear.) He heard
with astonishment nut long ago that there was supposed
to be some inconsistency between the conduct of the
government in acting upon information they had received
as so the violation of this law, sod the sentimeets which
he (the Solicitor-General) was the humble organ of express-
ieg in that house as to the attitude which the government
would and must maintain in discussions with the Coded
States as to the extent and character of its interodioual
obligations. inconsisteocies ! It would be in the recollec-
tion of everybody who was premed at the debate to which
he referred that, on behalf of the government, he stated
their anxiety and determination to enforce this law in all
came in which sufficient information supported by sufficient
evidence could be brought before them. (Hear, hear.) He
stated, and he now repeated, that without that evidence,
and without pursuing the same means they used in other
cams, they could not and would not act ; sod be agreed
with his boo. friend opposite that the kw were not to be
stretched to mess the demands of any foreign power.
(Hear, bear.) Important as it was in maintain our own
laws—just and important as was the policy of the law of
Foreign Enlistment—it was of more importance to preserve
our liberties and maintain our constitution unim-
paired. (Hear, bear.) They Ind said that the
would keep their obligations is meortknos with
the laws, and to that profelake they had adhered.
Now with regard to the particular cam which bad created
this discussion, he was afraid his hon. and learned friend
the Attorney-Geeseal was not understood by the house.
(Laughter., This case of the Alexandra was pending in a
eoart of law, sad was about to be tried. The government
would have to prodans their widens, and the parties who
were concerted for the defence would have to make the de-
New. It was imposeible, without senbarreseieg and de-
feating the proceedings which they had taken upon them-
selves the reirponsihility of instituting, to disclose prema-
turely the infirmities they bad received. Everything had
been done is this case according to the usual come
of law. The cause of seizure was not stated is
fall in the notice of appraisenient, nor was there
anything in the ma of parliament which made it
neosmary to do so. Then agaio, the set of pertinent did
not prescribe any sworn information, and there was no
analogy with a criminal procedure. The prosecution took
place under the Customs Aet. The government required

gat belt own Were ties and satisfaction swore depoei-
Nook bud MU* sever bees the enstoin in such came to
give these eel thore wee nothing in the act of parliament
to ankle the party to receive them.
Sir F. HOLLY sand whether ler Majoisy's government
bad adopted any maths of facilitating sad prate/nag panel
eommunkatiose between this wintry and ports tritium and
near to the Gulf of Mexico ; and to cannier attention of the
house to the difficulties now attending such communica-
tions. There being an sat of parliament under which it
was competent to the Post-of ee authorities to
compel soy need of this country to take on
board • mail lag sealed with the Post office
seal ; if • venal about to mil to the Gulf of
Mexico was charged with the conveyance of one of these
mails, a letter, perhaps fabricated for the purpose, might
easily be introduced into the Latter beg, the vend mi;ht
be boarded, the beg opera, and the letter found ; and the
consequence might be that the vessel would be captured
and possibly condemned. Whet was the answer of the noble
earl to this question I It was such an answer as that
the owners of these vowels lost all confidence
that they were under the pecnotion of the British
government. It was open to two objections. First, it
implied the degrading avowal on the part of the minister of
the Crown, that he thought fit to depart from the usual
course, lawfully and ordinarily adopted on the part of his
government ; be found himself called upon to release from
the obligations of the law • venal about to premed to a
foreign poet, simply because he found it im-
possible to carry out these obligations. Further, it rendered
it difficult to connive bow the correspondence between
British merchants and the Gulf of Mexico and the West
India islands could be carried on. He hoped that • full and
satisfactory newer would be offered by the government
to thiscpestion.
Mr. MILKES said be did sot think the speak of the
right hoe. gentleman the member for Stroud, which was so
insulting to a great and friendly people, and he believed
most offensive to a great portion of the members of the
honee—(hear, hear)--ought to be allowed to pain an.
answered end unchallenged. But it that late hour he would
only generally protest against the socuracy of his facts sad
the logic of his conclusion. (Hear, bear.) The hoe. end
learned gentleman who had just saedown asked what they
were to do. He would say that what they had to do was to
abstain from making such speeches as that delivered by the
right hon. member for Stroud? It was not to be supposed
that the people of North America—a spirited =tin,
irascible like tlmonelvee, would submit not only to such
words, but to such acts as had takes place. The MOW
States could build their own ships in their own poets, but
the Confederate States had no porta, except what we chose
to give them. It was from our ports that vessels honed to
born the ships of the Federal States. And the offset of
our conduct was to give • navy to those who had sot. It
was not • real neutrality if we allowed theses:tips to be built.
The government should exercise the ninon vigilance in this
matter, and give • wide and libeled isterpreiatios to the
=ions of the Foreign Enlistment Aot. He
the wise men on the other aide of
the Atlantic would regard the government as the exponent
of the people of this country, and would not be led sway by
such ebullitioee as %Writhe right bon. member forStrouo.
Lord PALMERSTON said the bon. and learned member
oppolite has asked what security there is for mercantile
communications with Mexico, mid fur communications by
letter. In the Ent place, with regard to merchant vessels,
the brat security, and I think • sufficient one, is, that the
American government will, no doubt, observe the law of na-
tions, and that if their cruisers seize on merchant-
men without sufficient cause, they are liable for
d in their courts ; there is no resew
tmill
believe that their courts will not act justly in
oases of that wort With regard to tags of letters carried by
merchantmen, if they ere captured on suspicion of being for
illegal it will be seen by the order which my noble
friend in another 'Nee that the American government
prescribe what is to be done in regard to bags so found. They
are not to be opened ; the seals are not to be broken ; they
are to be delivered to the consul of the country to which
they belonged when the vowel came into port ; that consul
was bound in honour to open the bags himself. And if there
should be in those bags anything contrary to the good faith
of n nations, and containing matter against the govern-
ment of the country, be is then bound to
give that to the government ; but the letters
in the begs are to be forwarded by him to the destinatios
to which they are directed. I apprehend there is no neon-
oily at present for any further proceeding on the part of her
Majesty's government than to call the attention of the go-
vernment of the United States to the circumstances, and to
express a hope that they will act according to international
law, and in accordance with the rule which they have them-
selves laid down. (Hear, hear.)
_ '

The subject then dropped, end the hones went into com-
mittee of supply.
THE MEMORIAL TO THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.
The vote of 150,C)3i. for the memorial to the Ws Priam
Caesar' was 'greed to.
WAYS AID MEANS.—REPORT.
The report of the resolutioss on the tea duties, sugar
duties, and income tax were brought up and agreed to,
sad leave give to introduce a bill founded threw.
THE POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS BILL.
Tbe CHANCELLOR of the P.KCHEQIIER moved that
the Lords' amendments to this bill be agreed to, sad is
doing so the right hon. gentleman stated that he wished to
correct a statement that the trustees of the St. Marties-
lane Savings Bank had dwindled down to three. Instead of
being three, there were now seven trustees of that saying
bank.

—i.ei motion was agreed to.
TILLEGRAPHS BILL.
The amendments to this bill were °moldered and greed
to, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time on
woodsy.

CUSTOMS BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave
to brie; in this bill, and stated that he inteeded to move
the sewed reading, sad to take the committee on Thursday.

NEW WRIT.
Oa the Motion of Colonel Tarwa, a new wnt waa
ordered for the county of Antrim, in the room of Guaira
Upton, now Lord Templeton.
The home adjourned at 20 minutes to 1 o'clock.

lab) intelligence.

HOUSE OF LORDS. —Aram 24.
APPEALS.

THI DUCHISS DI 80ILA AHD PRIM BOROHISN, APPIILLARTS.
T. £IIBROBE Usti PRILLUTS, CHARMS SORNBT NOM
SCOTT-BCM HURRAY, TIN DUNA DI BMA, JANE ROUST
HOPI SCOTT, IDWARD SILLABUB, LOID MOM SEINALD
ITTIALAN HOWARD, lARD EDWARD HOWARD, CHARM
STAN/RD TALBOT HOWARD, VISCOUNT CANTONS, AID MS

DITCHRNI OF NORFOLK, IitIPONDINTS.
This ie ea appeal from a decree of the Court
of Chancery. The principal question to be decided is
whether the dispositioe made by John, late Earl of Shrews-
bury, of his real and personal estate by his will and the
codicils thereto was valid arid effectual, and whether the
power of the earl to make such dispreitiou was destroyed
or controlled by a settlement made on the 'marriage at his
daughter, Lady Catherine Gsrendabee Talbot, with the
appellant, Prince Maroc Antoci* Bombe's. The Duchess
di Sores the daughter and only servicieg child of Prin-
cess Bombes*, and she seeks to establish a title to
either a moiety specifically of the real and per-
soma estate of the earl, or to a charge upon
such real and personal estate of a sum equal to half the
value of such real and persoeal estate ; and further, in the
one case to throw upon the other half of such real and
personal estate the whole of the earn debts and pecuniary
; and in the other case, to have the amount
claimed by her estimated as if there were not env delta or
pemsiery legacies of the earl. The appellant.' =Se is
founded oe an Italian instrument of the 7th of March, 1835.
The facts and evidence ere very voluminous, and as the ap-
pellants ow was only parOy opened, we postpone our
report.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—Aran. 24.
Sittinp i Hamm —(Batere Lad Chief Jostles Eris, and
Justices Wines sad Keating.)

THE SOUTHAMPTON DOCK COMPAST V. HILL-THE SULTAN'S

The defendant in this cam was a merchant at South-
ampton, and in the spring of lest year he had sent over to
him the Sultan's jewelled minor, and also a stereoscope mod
stand also wit with jewels. Them articles were intended to
be shown in the Intcreatioeal Exhalation, where they after-
wards attracted much 1104k41. The package was landed in
the Southampton Docks. &widths company, in consideration
of the value of the articles, 7,200 f., and the care required in
handling them, claimed to charge for their dues an ad
valorem rate of 24 7s. 6d. per LOOM At the trial a verdict
was entered fur the plaiatiffs for the amount claimed; but
the question now nand for the court was whether the
company was entitled to charge at this rate, and this de-
pended upon the construction of the company's act and the
schedules annexed to it.
Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. T. Jones, appeared for the
plaintiffs ; and Mr. M. Smith, Q.C., for the defsodant
The Lord Chief Justice mid that it was quite fair that
the services of the company should be rewarded with
reference In some degree to the value of the article dealt
with. The articles in this ems were of peat value, and the
company bad charm d reasonably according to the value ;
but the only question for the court was whether the ocen-
peey's act, the 6th William IV.. cap. 149, permitted such
charge. It said that the company might charge BUMS not
exceeding those set forth In the schedule, but this article
was an exceptional one, and was not mentioned io the sche-
dule. The act further maid that the company might charge
for articles sot in the schedule such rates as should be equal
to the ratefixedfor any article of a "similar nature,
value, and quality ;" but there was nothing which an=
an ad valorem charge. Although be thought this a very
reasonable charge, he was compelled to give judgment
against the company, because he amid find nothing in the
act which would support the is making the dimand.
Rule absolute to enter a eared for the isimmiwat.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
Ann. 24.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.) •
HAWK' V. BRADDICL.
After our report left yesterday,
Dr. Spioks announced that be wsa not in a position to
contest the will say farther; sad
The jury, therefore, fated far the deleadast.