The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-11 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—Fame:, Allover 10.
The Loan Cuaxoniton tool his mat at 0 o'clock.
EXCHEQUER BILLS (7,000,00 W.) BILL.
Lard SIONTIJOLI passed MIS comments apes the gene-
p ral fi
teatmelcialon. policy pursued by the government daring the
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After comae farther dkineeks, the motion wee amid to,
end the bill west through eenualtbre.
LIMITED LIABILITY BILL.
Oa the report signoras,"
Earl GRANVILLE anasermted that the third reading of
the bill would be takes taro new at 12 o'clock.
The report was then agreed to, and the house adjourned
at half-pest 9.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Fm DAY, Arorn 10.
The Bruins took the *hair at half-put three.
PROPOSED ITALIAN LEGION.
Mr. BOWYER rose to make a few obesnadons is »-
foresee to Ws subject. and in order that be Might not be
irregular, he would aoudads with a motion for adjournment.
TM formation of as Italian legion wu is many respects
highly detinble. It would be able to sender good service
to this esuatty ; it would be eoesposed of nee sztzeaseli Bt

Yi hoperFirre, disciplined ; and it would attract to an
honourable prohmion a number of nfuttese, who, following
no particular occupation, swarmed in different parts of Italy,
and constituted mon or lees an element of danger to the
poises of the country. When the Italian legion ceased to
perform the military service for which it was intended, what
was to become of it ? If it were disbanded, the members of
it, accustomed to military discipline, would return to their
own country, and become the nucleus, probably, of future
disturbances. This was, he thought, a matter for grave
consideration, especially when it was remembered that •
noble lord, holding a high position in this country, had re
costly made • statement which was calculated to be highly
prejudicial to the peace of Italy.
The SPEAR/SR said the hoe. and learned member was
rather irregular. Propoeing as he did, to move the adjourn-
ment of the house, he had • right to speak, but he had no
right to refer to a former debate in the manner that he was
doing.

Mr. BOWYER said he was not referring to a former de-
bate,but to opinions which had been publicly expressed. The
bon. member then proceeded to criticise the statement of the
noble lord the member for London, with reference to the
condition of Italy, contending that that country was
not in so bad • state as the noble lord had represented,
contrasting the proceedings of the governments there with
the course which the English government had pursued in
the lonian islands, and urging the necessity in the Papal
States of strong measures of police in order to check the
secret societies which were the bane of Italy. The form of
punishment practised in Italy was, he observed, mild.
Torture was not practised, and death was inflieted
by. guillotine or beheading, which was not •
creel punishment. (Laughter.) It was said that
if the Austrian and French troops were with-
drawn from the Roman States the authority of the
Pope would be denied. That, he believed, wee an entirely
mistaken view. There was no sovereign in Barer wee
popular than the Pope was at the presedminnizeit. Owing
to the circumstances of Europe, it was leepmethie at
to make any organic change in Italy, but be denied thateiiltlt
ecclesiastical government was opposed to reform. It was
asserted by some that the establishment of railroads through-
out the country was opposed by the College of Cardinals;
but the real reason why each works were not undertaken
was to be found in the confusion which naturally arose from
the present state of affairs in Europe. Ilis own experience
was against the alleged prevalence of brigandage
in the Papal States, which he believed to have
been suppressed by the French and Austrian troops. The
mission of Lord Minto had done more to prevent the esta-
blishment of constitutional government in Italy than any
other mum. The hon. member concluded by moving that
the house at its rising do adjourn to Monday next.
Lord PALMERSTON said, of course the hon. and
learned gentleman would withdraw his motion, as the future
meeting of the house must depend on the proceedings of
de other hones in the course of the evening. The hon.
gentleman wanted to knew what arrangements her Ma-
jesty's government intended to make to pretest the Italian
legit& from hemming, after the termination of the war,
dangerous to Italy. Tbis legion would consist of four or
tire thousand men. The hen, gentleman admitted that it
was likely to distinguish itself en any scene of operations to
which it might be sent; but he seemed to appr.hend
that when these few thousand men were dis-
banded they would be exceedingly dangerous to the
peace of the country. Now, in the brat pleas' it seemed to
him (Lord Palmerston) that when these men had acquired
habits of order and discipline they would be all the lea
likely to be turbulent. In the next place, be would remind
the hon. gentleman that during the last war in Italy, those
Italiankevereigne whom he took so much under his protection
as the friends of order and the enemies of revolution, namely
the Pope and the King of Naples, sent large forces to make
war in favour of disorder—to tarn the Austrian, the
" stranger," out of the country, and to establish a united
Italy ; and when that war—a war which was accompanied
with the most violent declamation against Austrian domina-
tion in Italy, and in which the sovereigns whom he had
mentioned took just as great • part as the Kiog of Sir-
dinia, whom the bon.and learned gentleman had visited with
his censiere,when that war sworn, the great Italian armies
fell back into the midst elate semmunity, and he had u
heard that the zany thin eat men who were disbanded
created any great amnesties In Italy. He had no doubt that
when the Italian Legion returned to their homes they
would prove much better citizens in consequence of the disci-
pline which they had acquired in service. The hon. mem-
ber had made some other remarks, on which he could not
refraio from commenting. Hit must say that he thought
any real friend of the present system of government, either
in Rome or in Naples, would confer a much greater favour
on the governments of those countries which he meant to
patronise by holding his tongue ("hear, bear," and
laughter)—than by attempting to defend that which every
men knew did not admit of justification. (Rear, hear.)
He feared that the hon. and learned gentleman had com-
municated with one set only of persons, and those not per- 1
sons likely to give him uabiamed information. He (Lord
Palmerton) could insure the hoc. gentleman that he had
been utterly deceived as to the real state of the case. The
bon. gentleman said there was no cruelty in cutting people's
heads off; that of course must be a for the world in
general to judge of. (Laughter.) No charge of having
gone to the length of actual executions had been made
against the Italian states, but everyone knew that a vast
amount of cruelty might be perpetrated without killing
those who were the victims of it. The reference which the
hon. gentleman had made to Lord Miuto's mission was es
unjust as his defence of the Roman government. Lord
Minto went to Italy for the purpose of advising thou govern-
ments who were disposed to take that advice, to &demise
slowly, but steadily and firmly, in the stamen of administra-
tive improvement, avoiding any rash steps which would im-
peril the muse of rational liberty. Lord Minto did net
encourage underhanded any class of persona whom
he disowned officially ; his transactions were open
and aboveboard, and there was not one single
act of his which would not bear the strictest
scrutiny. With regard to Mr. Freeborn, the Beath consul
at Rome, he was only stating the plainest fact when he said
that that gentleman bad proved of the greatest use to the
papal government. When the republic was put an and Is,
and the French troops bad jest entered Rome, there wed in
that city a vast number of persons who bad defended the
plate most gallantly. What was to be done with dung
persons? It they had remained at Rome, they would
either have fallen the victims of revenge, or :hey would
have been the victims of each other. The British coned
and the agar= of the other governments, with the 'ppm-
Patios ads penal mathorities, gave passports to these per-
sons, and so Added Rome of what would otherwise have
been a owes et great internal difficulty. With regard le
the present sloes of Rome, althoualt unwilling to be drawn
Wee dhimedes upon the affairs of other government,, he
thoughtit right to state that there were certain things which
were edidelly resemmended by the governments of Eng-
land, Priam &aria, Prussia, and Austria, to the govern-
ment el Bane le tar back u 1832, which, if acted upon,
wield haw pegiestod a multitude of the disasters which
I had since eggarred. (Hear.) Oise of those recommenda-
tions was in favour of the secularisation of the administrie-
ties government. (Hear.) It was quite plain that, is
dome any country, it the administrative of Me
et the peace, of the tribunals, and di laid
were under the sway of the perhilleede
tiginestirg net go on well. (Cheers.) If that were loft
of gnisolitoods, as he believed it was—(elseerembitia ism
ythe fact with regard to the Raga
ouths custom, bleated paw et Malt be
not eats; et celibacy, while gangs% Iboora
That east= cut off the pdalibeed from the rest at the
world, and rendered them apposigly unfit for adalablaw
lag the affairs of a people. The boa. gentlemen bad relerrag
to the ease of the lonian Islands se • jarring= he the
mad= et the papal goverment, but to then Meads there
bed bees =Waal revolt, =Wow pat dows. se all re-
volts mast Is, with the strong Wed. Had the papal 's-
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