The Press.
London, England, 1858-05-29 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The house reassembled yesterday after the Whic•
suutide holidays.

THE "CARLISLE PATRIOT."

After some explanations from Mr. CLIVE, the order
of the day was agreed to for summoning to the bar
the proprietor and publisher of the Carlisle Patriot,
to answer fur some accusations which had been
thrown out in that journal against the member for
Hereford, as chairman of a committee on the Carlisle
and Howick Railway.
Mr. W. Wilkes, having accordingly appeared at the
bar, answered some interrogatories, and being
ordered to withdraw,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved reso-
lutions declaring that Mr. Clive had been falsely
and scandalously accused ; that the accusation
amounted to a breach of privilege; and ordering
that Mr. Wilkes should be committed to the custody
of the Sergeant at-Arms.
The resolutions were agreed to.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.

On the motion for going into committee of supply,
Lord J. Russxu said that before going into com-
mittee upon the army estimates he would beg to
bring before the house the question of cur foreign
relations. This course was one which he would not
have been disposed to take on the present occasion
hat' it not been that he had seen reports in the news-
papers of what appeared to him to be a most extra-
ordinary speech of Cie Chancellor of the Exchequer.
is Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that there were
various parts of that speech to which lie must call
the attention of the house. If it had merely been a
speech expressing exultation at the result of a late
debate in that house, brought on upon the motion of
the right lion. member for Oxford, certainly neither
he (Lord J. Russell) nor any one else had any right
to find fault with the right hon. gentleman fur any,
even excessive, expressions of exultation. But there
were other matters touched on in that speech which
deeply concerned the relations of this house to the I
Government, and the relations of this Government
to the Governments of other countries. ( Hear, hear.)
The right hon. gentleman appeared to have endea-
voured to show that, during the three months in
which the Government had ,hell office, they had
brought forward such measures with regard to public
affairs at home, and likewise with regard to India,
as entitled them to command the confidence of the
house. It appeared to him (Lord J. Russell) neces-
sary to examine a little the grounds on which the right
hon. gentleman had put forward that statement;
and it would be impossible to examine those grounds
without considering the relations of the Government
of this country to foreign Governments, because the
very first statement made by the right hon. gentle.
man was, "that it might be very well now for us to
think lightly of the perils we had passed through—
even to forget them—but when he told them, and
told them seriously, that the question of peace and
war, when they acceded to office, was not one of months
or weeks, but one of hours—they would see bow by the
exertions of the Government peace had been main-
tained, and the honourof the country upheld." ( Hear.)
He asked how it was that our relaCons were such
that there was a question of peace or war, which was
a question not of weeks or of days, but of hours ?
(Hear, hear.) He had inquired, but he could not
learn from any member of the late Government, what
the question was. When the late Government was
in office there was no war iteminent, and no question
of importance existing beyond the one which was
supposed to affect the relations between this country
and that great country with which we have hail a
firm and cordial alliance, which alliance he hoped
would lung continue—( Hear, hear)—and the only
question upon which a misunderstanding could arise
was with reletence to the right, of asylum and the
Conspiracy Bill ; but lie did not believe that the
Emperor of the French, whn of all persons who ever
sat upon the throne of France was the sincerest
!acrid of the alliance between the two countries,
would, because we ref used to alter our laws, break off
friendly relations with us. (Hear, hear.) The
right hon. gentleman should have said what he
meant, for he (Lord J. 'IMMO implied from the
right hon. gentleman's speech that there was lead
ioonruy for pew now tbsu under the late Govern-