The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-08 00:00:00

THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Sir W. GALLWEY Raked the Mat Commissioner of
Works whether certain arcades and galleries, until lately is
the posseisios of the Heesiegtoe Royal Horticultural
loriety, had, or were about to become property at the state

00WYER said the arcades which were to be Fre-
ehand by the government in pursuance of • vote of the
boom were the subject of • deed of conveyance, which was
not vet Melly executed. They were the property of the
pubis. who sold them to the government. These •nedee
sever wore the property of the Horticultural Society, and
were not included in the lame of the society, but were •
portion of the International Exhibition building.

THE DANISH QUESTION AND THE CONDUCT OF
HE GOVERNEF-NT.

The adjourned debate was mourned by
Mr. LAYARD, who said it was his °Mos to justify the
deportment to which be belonged, sod to viodiento the oho.
mei*. of a statesman to whom the country owed • debt of
gratitude. Tee attack upon the government, he observed,
bad been mainly, almost exclusively, directed against Earl
Bossall. who, he should be able to show, bad been greatly
==led sal wrongfully accused by mesas of garbled
fakified extracts from the deepatehes. The coos.
be mid, bad never been fairly put before the house and the
country, red he briefly narrated the incidents which preceded
the treaty of 1852, which was not • guarantee, but a treaty
of recognition of title. This treaty hod been condemned
en principle ; but, if founded upon • bad principle,
it. sole object was in the interest of peace. The
marred objection to this treaty was that it was not ratified
by the Germanic Diet : but among those who had applauded
the treaty most were M. von Eismark and M. von Boast,
sow Its most prominent antagonists. He proceeded to
dotal the transactions subsequent to the treaty, and to
justify the acts of Lord Russell niece the differsome arms
betoken the German powers sod Denmark, initiating that
erverfthing done and written by Earl Russell at their rem.
menoement hod been with the entire concurrence of France.
The proposals made by him at the beginning, which bad
bees accepted by all the powers hot Denmark, would
have put es end to those differences ; sad it was •
greet calamity that she bad rejected them. He viodieatoi
the apposed threat of Lord Falmerotou in July last year
from the construction put upon the word* by the other
side: The lemmings of Lord Russell bad been likewise en.
fairly strived into menses, and be read various extracts
from the earl's dmostehes to show that them documents
bad been miseppreheoded and misquoted. important pas-
sim. bevies Mon left oat in the citations made by the
intim of the earl, and he complained of these at-
tempts to mislead the house. He pursued the
history of the tramectioes from the carrying out of
the execution sad the witrance of the Priam of
Augutenbarg upon tbe field, and showed the nouns
takes by Lord Russell as difficulties thickened, bed
pointed out other instep= of suppromice by his meallaute
of evidence in the Goer spodence esiestial to his vindica-
tion from the charge of fulmioatisg biumals. He showed
that there was m little foundation for the assertion that
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